Chapter 21: The Most Insane Filming in History! (Third Update! Please Follow to Read!)

Morning sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the rental room.

Shen Long stared at the script with bloodshot eyes.

All night long yesterday, he had been revising the script.

The insane advertisement had shattered his mental state.

But thinking that he would soon be filming a movie, he finally gritted his teeth and seriously figured out ways to integrate all these damn advertisements into the plot.

By eight o'clock in the morning, Shen Long felt that all the talent he had in his entire life had been completely exhausted.

Outside the room.

A clamor arose.

Putting down the script, Shen Long opened the door.

Then, he saw van after van parked at the entrance.

He saw Zhou Yang step down from a van, and upon looking at Shen Long, a smile appeared on his face: "Director Shen, this is Mr. Deng from 【Suzuki Auto Repair Shop】... Mr. Deng, this is the famous Director Shen in our entertainment circle, the director of our film..."

Shen Long was stunned, instinctively looking at a youth covered in grease, then reached out and shook his hand.

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

After the two sides shook hands, Zhou Yang said with a smile: "From now on, all vehicles used by our crew will be Mr. Deng's vans! Mr. Deng has arranged a small fleet for us! We must not betray Mr. Deng's support; we must film the movie with confidence, with power, with professionalism, with technology... especially we must film the performance of Mr. Deng's vans!"

Shen Long looked at the vans, then looked at Mr. Deng.

At this moment...

He felt his mental state collapse again.

Film with power?

Film with technology?

Vans?

How can my vans...

A gust of wind blew, and Shen Long felt himself scattered in the wind.

It's over, it's over!

Completely doomed!

"Director Shen, your talent has been witnessed by all of us these past few days!"

Shen Long looked at Zhou Yang, who wore that familiar expression of praise, and patted his shoulder.

Shen Long shivered!

He recalled the first time they met, when Zhou Yang had used that same expression of praise, making him feel that he was awesome!

But at this moment...

Shen Long felt his emotions about to collapse!

I have no talent!

I don't have any!

I have nothing!

Just then, from a distance, the sound of another van approached, and then Shen Long watched the advertisement vehicle of 【Continental Clothing】 drive over.

A middle-aged man stepped out of the car, opened the door, and immediately took out sets of props costumes.

There were Sun Wukong costumes, Superman costumes, and besides those, there were also sets of brand-new suits...

After the middle-aged man got down, he looked at Zhou Yang.

"These days, we have prepared all of these for you!"

"Alright! Thanks, Boss Xu..."

"..."

Shen Long stared blankly at this scene...

Immediately, he saw Zhou Yang looking at him with a smile: "Director Shen, let's start filming today!"

"Huh? Now?"

"Yes!"

"Jianfeng, put on the Superman costume!" Zhou Yang looked at Chen Jianfeng, who had just stepped out of the van looking somewhat dazed, and flashed a smile.

"Huh?"

"I remember, the first scene is: 【Superman was swept by a tornado in America to China, encountered a space-time turbulence, and finally descended into the Journey to the West world, where he met Sun Wukong, right?】"

"Yes..." Chen Jianfeng nodded stupidly.

"Good, first stop! To the sand quarry..." Zhou Yang nodded, then immediately took out his phone: "Hello, Boss Ding? Yes, yes, yes, lend us the sand quarry for a bit, we are preparing to shoot a time-travel scene in the desert with sand filling the sky, yes, yes, yes!"

"..."

A long procession of vans advanced towards the distance, in the direction of the sand quarry.

Shen Long, looking like a fool, had a complete blank in his mind.

Just then, he saw the cameraman Zhang Yunyi beside him with a complex expression, as if he had been holding it back for a long time, finally spitting out a sentence.

"Director Shen, are you sure we are filming a movie?"

"..." Shen Long jolted.

He looked down at the script.

He wanted to answer something...

But in the end, he found he could not spit out anything.

He finally gritted his teeth and nodded.

The first scene is indeed in the desert...

But...

But...

Damn, this isn't how it's supposed to be filmed!

Cinematographer Zhang Yunyi, shouldering the camera, looked at the script over and over again, bewildered...

He held it in for a long time before finally squeezing out another sentence: "We, is it possible, Director Shen, I don't mean to question, but, is it possible we'll make a terrible film? Will we, die a miserable death?"

Director Shen Longhu's body trembled violently.

Yet he still gritted his teeth and shook his head, striving to maintain an air of calm: "Back then in Hong Island, they could film a waterfall with just a piece of plastic film... There has never been a bad shot in this world..."

After he finished speaking...

He didn't know if cinematographer Zhang Yunyi believed him.

Anyway...

He himself didn't believe it.

Prop master Liu Fang sat silently in the corner of the van, staring out the window at the scenery.

For some reason...

He felt as though his life was over.

Forget it!

Let's film!

Let's film!

Just then, Shen Long's gaze turned to Zhou Yang in the front passenger seat.

"Director Zhou, our martial arts director..."

"Oh, none..."

"Huh?"

"I suddenly remembered a particularly impactful editing technique that can make a single action, paired with sound effects, produce a shocking effect! No worse than those Hong Kong films!"

"..."

Three days passed in a flash.

July 1st.

Amidst a grand ceremony, the film "Love Ferris Wheel" officially held its kickoff press conference.

At the press conference, the crowd was immense; almost every well-known media outlet in the entertainment industry had arrived.

An Xiaoshi and Zhang Jingya attended this press conference.

However, they had little opportunity to appear before the cameras; instead, Zheng Yichen, Chen Liang, and several other lead actors filled the screen with their presence.

After the press conference ended, at the luncheon venue, the two girls ironically became the main attraction...

They were watched by pairs of lecherous eyes and constantly toasted.

After drinking a bit of wine, An Xiaoshi looked at those smiling faces and finally took advantage of a lull to leave the luncheon venue with Zhang Jingya.

They didn't like such occasions!

After returning to the hotel, An Xiaoshi and Zhang Jingya checked whether there were cameras and other such devices in the room before finally lying down on the bed.

An Xiaoshi stared at the ceiling.

"Besides investing, it seems we have no control or freedom at all..."

An Xiaoshi murmured to herself.

Zhang Jingya also stared blankly at the ceiling: "Once this film is finished, it'll be over!"

"Have you ever thought this film might fail at the box office?"

An Xiaoshi suddenly asked such a question.

"Hm?" Zhang Jingya was stunned: "How is that possible, with so many stars... Don't think wild thoughts..."

An Xiaoshi remained silent.

Actually...

At this very moment, a strong sense of unease had already surged in her heart.

These past few days, she checked the production team's accounts and discovered that a large sum in the production team's accounts didn't add up...

Also, the money for procurement was clearly exaggerated; a single button cost ten yuan!

Can you believe it?

If this continues, the production team's investment will quickly go over budget; by then...

I wonder how Zhou Yang's production team is doing with filming.

It seems they've already started filming?

She shook her head.

Finally, she made a phone call to Zhou Yang.

On the other end of the line.

"Filming is going very smoothly!"

"We've already filmed one-fifth of it!"

"One-fifth? That fast? You've only been filming for two days, right?"

"Strictly speaking, it's already almost the third day!"

"No good, the progress is still a bit slow!"

"..."

Hearing this, An Xiaoshi was completely stunned!

Is this movie being shot on a rocket?

Filming so fast!

She found it utterly incomprehensible.

So...

She made another call to a crew member in Zhou Yang's production team.

On the other end of the line, there seemed to be the sound of howling wind.

After the person on the other end heard her inquiry...

The person wore a bitterly suffering expression.

"I don't even know what we're filming..."

"It seems like we've been rolling around all day..."

"Yesterday, we spent the whole day rolling around on the battlefield..."

"Today, we're rolling around in the mud pit of an auto repair shop..."

"This blower is blowing so hard I can't even open my eyes..."

"..."

"I don't know..."

"I feel like I'm an idiot!"

"Everyone in this production team seems to have gone mad..."

"..."