Chapter 65

“Ghost!”

“Mom, scared to death!”

“Ahhhhhhh!”

“Damn, the ghost didn’t even appear, why am I so scared?”

“Me too, scared to death, this is even scarier than seeing a ghost in other horror movies!”

“That scene just now was too scary, what did Xiaomei see?”

“The screenwriter understands human psychology; the unknown is the most terrifying. If you know the true face of the ghost, it’s not that scary.”

“I feel a chill down my back!”

“Should we leave? This movie isn’t right…”

“……”

Under the influence of the empathy talent, many audience members felt their hair stand on end at that moment.

A chill rose in their hearts.

But the movie continued.

PS: *The Ring* has been modified to a certain extent, and some details are different from the original version.

On the big screen.

The scene changed.

Li Wei, a reporter played by Yang Mi, was doing a program about the mysterious USB drive.

She discovered that the story Wang Xiaomei told earlier was circulating everywhere in the school, and the versions were mostly the same: after plugging in the USB drive, a video would play, and a terrifying woman would appear.

Then those who watched it would die seven days later.

Because the incident was spreading widely in the school.

Li Wei decided to find the source of the panic.

Afterward, Li Wei took her son Zhang Yang to Qian Jing’s house to attend the funeral of her niece, Qian Jing; she was Qian Jing’s aunt.

Out of professional intuition, she felt Qian Jing’s death was very strange and full of oddities.

Suddenly, a colleague called to tell her that the source of the horror USB story was indeed from the school Qian Jing attended.

So, she immediately questioned Qian Jing’s classmates.

“Not just Qian Jing, but Zhao Fei, Liu Yan… they all died today too.”

“I remember they went to Liancheng to play a week ago. Liu Yan told me they seemed to have encountered some strange things.”

“Wang Xiaomei also went crazy.”

Li Wei learned from the classmates that there were three students, including Qian Jing, who had watched the video on the USB drive.

And all three of them died bizarrely on the seventh day. 04

And no clues could be found.

On the day Qian Jing died, the classmate who was with her, Wang Xiaomei, also suddenly went crazy.

It was said that she could no longer go to places with computers or TVs.

Li Wei continued to investigate and found that the three students, including Qian Jing, had died in exactly the same way.

And from Qian Jing’s photos, she discovered that those who watched the horror USB drive had their facial features become blurry and distorted.

Li Wei, who didn’t believe in ghosts and gods, decided to continue investigating the truth of the horror USB drive.

After much searching, she finally found the hotel where Qian Jing and the others had stayed and watched the horror USB drive.

And on the table in the room where Qian Jing and the others had stayed, she found a white USB drive.

Then.

Li Wei started watching the horror USB drive alone in the dimly lit hotel room.

She plugged the USB into the smart TV.

“Zzzzz…” the sound of static noise rang out.

The previous plot had already foreshadowed that this USB drive was problematic.

So…

At this moment.

In front of the screen.

Gulp.

The audience watched this scene; some swallowed hard, some were extremely nervous, and some simply closed their eyes in fear.

“Don’t watch it.”

“This female lead is really brave.”

“She’s an atheist reporter, it’s understandable. She hasn’t seen the truth, so she won’t believe it.”

“Scalp tingling.”

“Got goosebumps all over.”

“The protagonist isn’t scared, but I’m scared to death.”

“We should be able to see what the video on the USB drive is soon.”

“Don’t dare to watch, mom.”

“So scary.”

“……”

The audience whispered, trying to alleviate the fear in their hearts by talking.

Under the influence of the empathy talent, the fear in their hearts doubled.

And A-Mu and A-Dai shook their heads.

“That’s it?”

“Where is it scary?”

“……”

And in the movie.

The images in the video were first static noise like a TV malfunction, then, in the black and white screen, in the dim night sky, a full moon hung high, and a woman was combing her hair in front of a mirror.

Then there were tadpole-like characters, with terrifying content such as volcanic eruptions, mass suicides, earthquakes, etc.

A large eye with the word “Zhen” printed on it also appeared.

Finally, the screen froze on an ancient well.

Then the screen became distorted, and the screen darkened.

After the video finished playing, Li Wei was still shaken.

“Slap!”

But suddenly, she saw a terrifying white shadow with black hair covering its face standing behind her in the reflection of the TV!

She turned her head abruptly, but there was nothing there.

Li Wei finally felt scared and wanted to leave immediately.

Just then.

The phone in her bag rang with an eerie ringtone.

“In the blue sky and the Milky Way, there is a little white boat, floating, floating…”

Li Wei answered the phone in fear.

There was only static on the phone.

Li Wei was shocked and hung up in a panic.

She panicked.

She was scared.

“The legend is true…”

Li Wei said to herself with a pale face, despairingly starting to believe the rumor.

Knowing she only had 7 days left.

……

In the hall.

The audience gasped for air, and even A-Mu and A-Dai were no better off; their expressions became nervous.

“My mom! Scared to death! When the ghost appeared in the reflection just now, it almost sent me away!”

“After watching the video, I didn’t see a ghost, so I let out a sigh of relief, but then, I never expected to see a ghost in the reflection of the TV after the video ended. I almost lost my soul!”

“Damn! Don’t talk about it, I still feel scared thinking about that part.”

“Caught off guard.”

“And the video on the USB drive, it was also very eerie!”

“And that phone ringtone, when it rang, it scared me again.”

“In the blue sky and the Milky Way, there is a little white boat… this is probably the boat of death.”

“……”

The audience felt scared and worried for the female lead, Li Wei.

At the same time, A-Mu and A-Dai were also talking.

A-Dai said: “Locked room, ghost shadow, ringtone… there’s a flavor of desperate escape. This movie is interesting.”

A-Mu nodded: “Indeed, I underestimated those two little girls. Have you noticed that the plot development so far is very smooth, layered with foreshadowing, and interlocking? Such a script, let alone a rookie screenwriter, even a gold-medal screenwriter might not be able to write it.”

“It’s actually okay, just… quite scary.”

A-Dai: “…Didn’t you just say ‘that’s it’?”

A-Mu widened his eyes: “Who said that? How can you slander someone’s innocence out of thin air? Can a film critic being scared by a ghost movie be called fear?”

Their state of mind was different from before.

Previously, they thought *The Ring* was a bad movie, but after seeing this, they found it wasn’t a bad movie, and there were many commendable points in the movie.

*The Ring* is known as one of the three major horror movies of Japan, so it naturally has some methods.

First, its horror medium. In the original version, it was videotapes and TVs, which were common things in Japan in the 90s, closely related to everyone’s life, so it naturally made people feel scared.

And after the girl got the script, she optimized it, changing the horror medium to a USB drive, TV, and mobile phone. She also very (xin) thoughtfully (kuang) created the phone ringtone *Little White Boat*, which was also something closely related to life, giving people a sense of “familiar intimacy.”

Secondly, the environment. Basically, the places where Sadako appears are in locked rooms, which can bring deeper fear.

Even in daily life, being home alone at night is scary, let alone in this kind of environment with ghosts.

Finally, it’s the overall atmosphere of the movie. From the opening of the movie to now, it has been in a suppressed and terrifying atmosphere, and the overall color tone of the movie is also grayish, giving people a psychological sense of suffocation.

Even in broad daylight, it was the same.

These characteristics, plus the girl’s own empathy talent, can be said to… have almost maxed out the horror of the movie.

……

Li Wei knew she only had seven days to live.

She found her ex-husband Zhang Zhang Haoyu (played by Zhang Yunfei), hoping he could help her.

The ex-husband didn’t believe Li Wei’s words.

However, when he took a photo of Li Wei with his phone on the spot to verify it, he found that Li Wei’s face in the photo had become blurry and distorted.

“How could this be?”

“This isn’t scientific!”

“Impossible!”

As an atheist, his thinking was hit hard.

He was terrified and took more than ten shots, all of which were like this.

He even took a group photo of himself and Li Wei.

In the photo, he was normal, which meant the phone was fine, but Li Wei’s features were distorted and her face was blurry… this ghost-like appearance was just like a ghost!

No, she, or rather, was a ghost!