Chapter 643

Could it be...

The camera understands the audience.

A-Ming and the other three turned their heads to look, and their eyes widened instantly; there was no one in the bathtub at all.

Then he turned back to look at the restroom door.

The man in glasses had disappeared.

The group rushed to the living room, only to find the man in glasses lying on the floor, already dead.

His eyes were wide open, and his state of death was extremely miserable.

Clearly, he had been scared to death.

"Hiss..."

The audience realized the severity of the situation, each one gasping in cold air.

"Reversal, reversal, and another reversal... my god!" A-Mu and A-Dai looked at each other, seeing fear on each other's faces, but also deep shock in their eyes.

They had originally thought this was just the usual old-fashioned spirit-calling game plot in horror movies, but they didn't expect the twins to play it with such flair.

Various reversals made people feel terrified and afraid, while also keeping them hooked.

"Basically a horror point every two minutes, it's too dense." A-Dai's voice trembled.

"This is going to scare people to death without mercy." A-Mu's voice was also trembling.

At this moment, they no longer said things like the plot was old-fashioned or that You Mingyue had lost her touch.

Instead, they were completely immersed in the movie.

They didn't see the two young girls sitting in the row behind them nod.

The girls were indeed quite surprised.

One of the great highlights of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" is that there is basically a horror point every two minutes, keeping the audience's nerves taut until the very end of the movie.

Even in broad daylight, it's like this.

This is the brilliance of the pinnacle of Chinese horror films.

She thought it would take a while longer for the audience to discover it, but she didn't expect them to find it so early.

After the man in glasses died.

A-Ming's sister appeared—the character played by Chen Yao in the film. Because the original character had an English name that wasn't suitable for transliteration, the girl renamed her Xiao Mei, full name Wang Xiaomei.

And Xiao Mei's boyfriend, Jack, kept his original name.

The audience didn't feel it was out of place; after all, this film was shot in Xiangjiang, and that's the naming style there.

Plus, everyone has watched plenty of Hong Kong films growing up.

The main thing is whether the plot is exciting or not.

At least so far, the film is above standard.

At this moment.

In an office, Xiao Mei, Jack, and A-Ming were discussing the bizarre death of the man in glasses.

"That 'Trash' (the man in glasses' name)—how could a normal person call themselves Trash? Can't he pick a different nickname? He has to be attention-seeking, afraid others won't know he's trash."

The audience burst into laughter.

Official roasting is the most lethal.

"Sis, there's no need to curse him like that; the person is already dead. His mother was a cleaner, and he was raised by trash, so he called himself Trash," A-Ming explained.

Xiao Mei remained silent. At this moment, Jack said: "Alright, say less. Your sister is so angry because she cares about you. Do you know that someone dying in Xiangjiang is a big deal? Did you take your medicine last night? You must have."

At first glance, this sentence seems to have a grammatical error.

But after savoring it carefully, many audience members suddenly laughed.

This sentence is a subtle insult.

Jack's implication was telling A-Ming that they took the wrong medicine last night.

"Hahahaha."

"The lines written by You Mingyue are superb."

"A genius."

"My brain had to take a turn to understand that this is a roundabout way of cursing someone."

"The bamboo shoots have all been stolen."

"..."

They just didn't know that this would likely be the only time they could laugh happily in the entire film.

After A-Ming left, Xiao Mei also left Jack's office; it turned out she was not only Jack's girlfriend but also his subordinate.

Just as she sat back at her desk, a colleague delivered a letter to her.

Xiao Mei opened the letter with confusion.

Only to see that there was no letter in the envelope, just a USB drive.

And that USB drive looked incredibly familiar to the audience.

"Holy crap!"

"No way!"

"It wouldn't be that terrifying thing, would it?"

"Oh my god! How did it appear in Xiangjiang?"

"Crazy!! One fierce ghost is scary enough, and now another one comes??"

"Has Sadako's business scope expanded?"

"Xiao Mei is in danger!!!"

"I'm fired up!! This is the rhythm of Sadako battling the blue-clothed female ghost!!"

"..."

The audience could no longer sit still, eyes widening and exclaiming out loud.

The fear once dominated by "The Ring" resurfaced in their hearts.

The USB drive Xiao Mei received on screen was nothing else but the terrifying USB drive made from Sadako's resentment in You Mingyue's magical adaptation of "The Ring."

It's no wonder the audience had such a big reaction.

On the big screen.

Xiao Mei didn't know what it was and plugged the USB drive into the computer.

Colleagues nearby also gathered around, curiously staring at the computer.

They saw the computer flickering with static.

An eye with the character "Zhen" written on it flashed by.

Then a dry well appeared.

Suddenly.

A hand crawled onto the edge of the well, as if some terrifying, filthy thing was about to crawl out of the dry well.

Xiao Mei and her colleagues were scared pale.

The audience wasn't much better, each with their hearts in their throats.

Is Sadako about to crawl out?

"Regarding the matter of me watching 'The Ring' in 'Old Corpse in the Mountain Village'!!!"

The next second.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out this was all a prank by Xiao Mei's male best friend, Zhi Yu. (In the original version, he's called Fa Mao).

"Scared me to death, it was just a prank; I thought Sadako really came."

"What kind of dream crossover is this? Scared the heck out of me."

"Good, good."

"If it were me, I'd beat this male best friend up; he's too bad."

"Rather than saying the male best friend is bad, it's better to say the screenwriter is bad; this pot has to be carried by the Gu King ladies."

"The female lead is interesting; she has a boyfriend and a male best friend... tsk tsk tsk, there might be a problem here."

"Be confident, remove the 'might.' I don't believe there is such a thing as pure male-female friendship in this world."

"..."