Chapter 994: 992: Box Office and the Meeting
Yi Chen wouldn’t let such a suspicious presence, likely the "Disaster," slip away. He immediately stood up to search, but both he and Yellow Skin lost track of the aura.
He could only search room by room in different cinemas,
but when Yi Chen stepped into Cinema No. 1, some strange effect directly sucked him into the movie scene. His mind quickly calmed down instinctively, leaning aside to watch his own performance in the film, forgetting the task of finding zombies.
Unknowingly, the two-and-a-half-hour film finished playing,
as the final twist occurred, the reborn young man became the new Miles,
Audience members, who regularly watched low-quality films, instantly experienced a brain climax, each one hysterically excited, either stripping naked and dancing crazily or dismantling armrests to mimic the movie’s hacking method, or even taking the opportunity for others to beat them.
When the cast list appeared, everyone also shouted Yi Chen’s name loudly.
Once Yi Chen regained his senses, he was surrounded again by a crowd of excited audience members, more frenzied than before, with everyone, regardless of gender or age, hoping to invite Yi Chen to their home for games.
With no alternative, he could only transform into the concept of Death to escape from the crowd, never again seeing the zombie.
The film’s reputation soared,within a week, almost all cinemas were fully booked,
as box office receipts climbed, the entire crew benefited, and each audience’s resonance with the massacre during the viewing was collected in film reels at different theaters.
Every three days, these emotion-filled reels would be transferred to the crew’s base and shared collectively the following day.
This sharing method was quite crude,
immersing all collected reels in a tank full of blood, where the massacre emotions stored in the reels had the trait of ’easily dissolving in blood,’ quickly dyeing the entire tank black.
Stripped of emotions, the reels were retrieved, dried, and reused.
The blackened blood tank was long-awaited as the ’box office,’ gained in the form of drinking, to achieve the most direct elevation in malice directly related to Murderer.
Yi Chen and Lene, as crew members, naturally had shares too,
since this time’s dual success in reputation and box office was largely due to Yi Chen’s involvement, including the director proposing Yi Chen should receive more shares of the ’black water box office.’
However, Yi Chen maintained his principle, allowing everyone to divide equally.
After downing the black water box office, Yi Chen’s uncovered areas immediately protruded with black blood vessels, muscles tightened and trembled, sweat seeping from pores constantly.
Even a strong aura of killing intent was exhaled,
"Very good! This feeling is like experiencing a seven-day seven-night slaughter training... truly useful.
No wonder the disaster’s status is unshakable; it continues consolidating its total malice in this way.
I guess other disasters should have similar ’money-gathering’ methods."
The rest of the crew also immersed themselves; their hard work filming was for this moment. Yi Chen quickly detached from this murderous malice, tilting his head toward Lene.
Initially, he thought she wouldn’t drink, but unexpectedly the bowl in Lene’s hands was already empty.
Moreover, she didn’t seem to have any impulse to kill, but her aura noticeably increased.
It seems this box office black water flowed into Lene’s body and was forcibly digested by [Life Gate], transforming into pure life energy to nourish her body. ṛΆNỗΒÊＳ
It might also be that Lene truly absorbed this Murderer’s ’emotions.’
Seeing Yi Chen looking at her, Lene smiled and blinked.
After the crew finished drinking, one by one they immediately revealed their true selves, wanting to vent well in the circle-raising area or shaking heads wildly with heavy metal music.
The director was the quietest one, or rather, something quite important made him uninterested in fun, so he immediately approached Yi Chen.
"It’s the first time we’ve had such a high box office; it might continue! This time we are truly thankful to Mr. Yi; additionally, there’s something to inform you."
"What is it?"
"A notification came from the skyscraper, requiring all disasters to attend the ’Disaster Meeting’ at the center before midnight tonight, mandatory unless in special circumstances.
Since Miles is dead here, for a single character to appear and withstand the pressure, currently it’s likely only Mr. Yi can.
The meeting won’t be troublesome, nor will it affect you; afterward, just need to deliver the decision contents to us. Do you want to go? If Mr. Yi is unavailable, I’ll..."
"I can."
"Great!" The director shivered at the thought of sitting in a room with that group of monsters.
"Can I bring one more person?"
"Only crew members can be brought, as you represent the ’Tenth Disaster.’
"Anything else to note?"
The director appeared helpless, "I haven’t participated in such a meeting either; you might ask [Manager], he seems to have a good relationship with you. If you can go with Manager, it’s best.
If Manager doesn’t want to, then come to the crew an hour earlier tonight; I’ll send you to the cinema closest to the skyscraper."
"Alright."
Yi Chen didn’t have much else, turned and left the crew, intending to consolidate his current state with the remaining time; tonight’s meeting seemed extremely important to him.
As soon as he returned to the hotel, before mentioning it to Manager, the other party proactively said:
"Join me tonight; there are many rules you need to note for your first meeting.
I’ll try to explain some necessary rules to you on the way, but at the meeting site, seating will follow seat numbers, and I’ll no longer be beside you.
If some unforeseen situation occurs, you’ll need to handle it yourself.
"Thank you, Manager."
Night fell.
Yi Chen decided to bring Lene along, and the two arrived at the hotel lobby an hour early to wait, but Manager was nowhere to be seen.
It wasn’t until twenty minutes remaining that Manager appeared again, changed into a checkered suit.
Manager’s fashion was quite strange, not just the checkered attire, even the top hat, gloves, socks, and shoes he wore were checkered patterns.
His face was even painted with checkered patterns.
These checkers seemed to represent the hotel’s windows, signifying that even if Manager leaves the hotel building, he remains in the hotel.
Upon opening the door, outside the hotel was no longer the outskirts of the city where the crew was based.
At the end of the street directly opposite was that towering skyscraper, surpassing the world’s Limit, serving as the center of the City of Evil, regulating, influencing, and dominating the entire Evil Circle.
The strongest disaster of rank [1] resides in this building.
As Yi Chen gradually approached this skyscraper, a lighthouse beam from above the Plane illuminated them, falling on him, Lene, and Manager as if preemptively verifying their identities.
Feeling the lighthouse beam, he froze slightly.
"Lorrian, huh..."