Chapter 17: Acting as an Extra Again

The bamboo leaves swayed, emitting waves of sound like the sea.

In the dense sea of bamboo, messy footsteps rang out, and two figures, one tall and one short, were constantly tugging at each other.

"Let me try, just try it and you'll know!"

"No."

"It'll be fine, my technique is good, I definitely won't let you down."

"Do you still want your face?"

"What I want is money!"

"Fine, fine, fine, why are you so annoying."

Yuan Bin was so pestered he couldn't stand it anymore, and he slapped away the hand holding him: "But you must listen to my commands. You're going to steal an extra's job, do you still want your face?"

"How much money can that thing sell for?"

Li Luo chuckled, his face showing not a hint of embarrassment: "I've always listened to your commands, haven't I? Besides, having someone with my skills on set, isn't that saving you trouble!"

"Enough, stop the nonsense."

The headache-stricken martial arts director pointed at the large truck not far away, and said irritably: "Hurry up and go change your clothes!"

Li Luo was all smiles: "How much a day?"

Sighing helplessly, Yuan Bin very decisively made a gesture.

"That's too little, right?"

Li Luo argued on reasonable grounds, trying to fight for more benefits: "How about adding a bit more? You also know my sword technique is good."

"Can you show your face?"

The other party's one sentence choked him completely.

However, Li Luo still didn't give up. After more soft pestering, he successfully negotiated for one hundred yuan. Only then did he happily let go of Yuan Bin, who was in a rush to go to the bathroom, and strolled toward the place where extras changed clothes.

In the drama *Xiao Ao Jiang Hu*, there were many scenes set in the bamboo forest.

The production team had already been filming here for a week.

And they still had to continue.

After finishing his own scenes, once the scene here changed, they would immediately begin filming the Great Battle at Green Bamboo Alley.

Li Luo, having some free time, didn't want to rest just like that.

He decisively found Yuan Bin to seek a job as a stuntman. Anyway, the Great Battle at Green Bamboo Alley also required a large number of extras; standing in the back and waving a sword around randomly, the audience wouldn't be able to tell.

Unlike other actors, he didn't even know where his next job would be.

Between wanting face and wanting money.

He chose to want money.

"Brother Luo."

"Good morning, Brother Luo."

Amidst the messy shouts, Li Luo nodded and smiled at the group of extras, heading straight for Lin Can.

Involving scenes like this large-scale brawl, the production team's stuntmen all needed to go on set.

The vast majority of extras would only wave their weapons around randomly.

Those of them who had real martial arts skills had to stand on the front lines of besieging the protagonist, cooperating with the other party to perform various fighting movements, so that the picture presented on television would look good.

"Why aren't you sleeping in the hotel? What are you doing here?"

Seeing Li Luo appear, Lin Can raised his hand and yawned. He had been drinking until past one last night and still hadn't recovered.

With every movement, his body rattled.

This guy was currently dressed as a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect.

Not only was his hair tied into a bun, but he also had a coir raincoat wrapped around his waist, though this thing was less of a coir raincoat and more of a grass skirt.

It looked truly somewhat comical.

"Coming to change clothes."

Li Luo really didn't want to jump around wrapped in a grass skirt, so he grabbed a black square scarf from the side and quickly wrapped it around his head.

Next, there would be three parties besieging Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying.

One of the parties only needed to be dressed in black.

It could be considered the most effortless.

"Ah?"

Under Lin Can's dumbfounded expression, Li Luo grabbed a pair of wide black cloth pants and put them over his jeans. In just a moment's effort, he transformed from Lin Pingzhi into an ordinary extra.

"Still not right."

After thinking for a moment, he bent down and patted the ground.

He fiercely rubbed his dust-covered hands onto his face, and only then looked triumphantly at Lin Can: "Can you still recognize who I am?"

"I can recognize you."

Lin Can nodded heavily: "You're just a lunatic!"

Li Luo didn't care about the strange looks from others; cold, hard silver was the most important thing.

He grabbed a prop sword at random.

And strolled over to the side of the group of extras, sitting down on the ground.

"Brother Luo?"

"What are you doing?"

"It seems there are no scenes for Lin Pingzhi today, right?"

Seeing him sit down, the group of extras were confused and asked in a jumble.

"The team is short of people."

Li Luo waved the light sword in his hand, spouting nonsense: "Director Yuan saw I was idle with nothing to do, so he let me come over to help with the moves. Hey, I've always been warm-hearted, I really couldn't refuse."

"Don't be nervous!"

Seeing the people around him looking a bit tense, he grinned: "Everyone is the same, I was an extra at Hengdian before."

"Don't you dare treat me like some big shot!"

With a curse, the atmosphere on set immediately livened up.

Hearing that he was also an extra before, the group of extras immediately gathered around, excitedly asking about Li Luo's previous situation.

Being idle was being idle.

With a bout of random chatting, he left the extras stunned.

It was rare to meet someone with the same experience as them, and who had now landed such an important role. For a time, all kinds of envious and admiring gazes fell upon him like raindrops.

It wasn't until Yuan Bin returned from the bathroom that he dispersed the group of extras.

Looking at the other party's unkind gaze.

Li Luo chuckled and quickly dodged away, swinging the long sword in his hand.

"Linghu Chong."

"Come out and die!!!"

Under the director's command, the three parties standing in the bamboo forest made noise towards the elegantly styled small courtyard in front. Li Luo, who had a semi-transparent black cloth blindfolded over his eyes, also wantonly shook the sword in his hand.

This kind of job, where you don't have to be watched by the camera and don't have to test any acting skills, didn't have any pressure.

It was just one word.

Play!

Walking back and forth a few times.

Shouting until his throat was dry, this scene finally ended.

Zhang Zhizhong, seeing Li Luo dressed as a black-clad man and acting wildly, was first blank-faced. After hearing Yuan Bin's explanation, he was left between laughter and tears. After giving the kid a kick, he was too lazy to say anything else.

After lunch, Linghu Chong, played by Li Erpeng, finally appeared and started spouting nonsense at everyone.

The long lines of dialogue were tossed about for half an hour before they were finally read smoothly.

"You're talking nonsense!"

Following a roar from the leader.

All the extras waved their swords and blades, shouting and charging towards the small courtyard where Linghu Chong was.

Lin Can and Du Yun, dressed as Qingcheng Sect disciples, jumped into the small stream surrounding the courtyard. A group of ducks that had been put in beforehand were frightened and flapped their wings everywhere, leaving the scene in chaos.

Several machines were all put to use, and the cameraman focused on recording this magnificent scene.

In the frame of one of the cameras.

Li Luo, carrying a long sword, leaped up and easily jumped over the stream.

The whole person then charged forward like a fierce tiger. He flew up and kicked, directly collapsing the bamboo fence surrounding the small courtyard, and the black-clad men following behind swarmed in!

After rushing into the courtyard, the large group of people finally stopped their footsteps.

"This take was not bad."

"But we need to catch the ducks back, set up the fence, and do it again."

Zhang Zhizhong stood directly on a chair, holding a megaphone and pointing at the middle of the crowd: "This time, you kid, hide a bit further back. If you charge this far forward again, I'll punish you by running twenty laps around the set!"

"Hahaha~"

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Li Luo helplessly took off his blindfold. ===== CHAPTER 18 =====