Chapter 54

     “It’s nice to have a memorial service atmosphere,” Ji Mingxu raised his water glass, put on a sad expression, and said emotionally: “Tonight, we gather here to mourn the death of all of us last time, and Atong who just left us unfortunately.”

     “There’s really nothing you can’t say, in that case…” Lu Xiu stood up and clinked glasses with him: “This is for the past.”

     Director Song curled her lips slightly, revealing two dimples on her cheeks: “To rebirth.”

     Shi Xi also stood up, and the thin glasses chain shook lightly, flickering in the candlelight: “To not cycle again.”

     Do you have to cooperate so well? Are you all professional supporting roles? ! Although Liu Ziyu and Qiao Qing were stunned, they were still brought into the inexplicable atmosphere of the memorial service by these crazy players, and they couldn’t help but stand up and clinked glasses with them.

     Qiao Qing: “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve experienced attending my own memorial service in a haunted house in the wilderness.”

     Liu Ziyu’s face was dark: “And I don’t want to have it again.”

     Ji Mingxu put down the water cup and laughed: “Then you must have never experienced sharing ghost stories in a haunted house in the wilderness?”

     Qiao Qing and Liu Ziyu were alert at the same time and waved their hands in panic.

     “No, we don’t want to experience it.”

     Ji Mingxu instigated: “The atmosphere is so good, don’t you think it’s a pity not to experience it? Telling ghost stories in a haunted house is a classic.”

     Lu Xiu curled his lips: “To add, it’s a classic suicide show.”

     “Ahem,” Ji Mingxu cleared his throat: “Let me tell you about a strange thing I encountered while filming.”

     Hearing this opening remark, Liu Ziyu and Qiao Qing felt a chill down their spines.

     Knowing that it was a suicide show, they still started it directly! There was no fear at all!

     “One year, I went to the plateau to film. After the tour bus chartered by the crew entered the plateau, the higher the altitude, the lower the temperature and the scarcer the oxygen. We almost slept in the bus.” Ji Mingxu clasped his hands on the table and really talked about his experience seriously.

     Before getting to the point, Qiao Qing’s palms were already cold: “Teacher Ji really went to the plateau to film a play.”

     Liu Ziyu took a breath of cold air: “So this is a true story?”

     “Of course, I’m not Director Song, how can I write a script in a short time.”

     Ji Mingxu looked at Liu Ziyu deeply, and continued: “When I was half asleep in the car, I suddenly heard a very strange song. I struggled to open my eyes and found that the windows of the bus were all misty, and I could vaguely see some strange shadows outside. I was so sleepy that I didn’t know I was scared. I wiped the mist off the window with my hand and found that the bus was actually parked on the road. There was a sea of clouds in the distance, and the nearby was also surrounded by fog.”

     “I saw a group of people in ancient costumes driving a carriage, passing by the bus. However, I couldn’t see their faces, I could only see the huge banners they held in their hands, I couldn’t remember what was embroidered on them, I just remember that when I was looking at them, someone noticed me, looked back at me, I saw a pair of blue eyes without pupils… and then I fainted. “

     Qiao Qing asked him nervously: “What happened next?”

     “When I woke up, I was no longer in the car, but sleeping on the bed in the plateau hotel. My assistant told me that I had a very serious altitude reaction, and I had a low fever in the middle. It was quite dangerous to get sick in the plateau. Fortunately, the crew brought a doctor to help me reduce the fever in time. “Ji Mingxu recalled: “I asked about the strange things I encountered on the road, but no one remembered, and they all said that I was confused by the fever. “

     This kind of true and false strange talk is the most heartbreaking, because no one knows whether it is true or false.

     It is really exciting to share strange talks in this environment, and the atmosphere in the cabin has become subtle again.

     Everyone was stunned, but Ji Mingxu ate noodles as if nothing had happened, and even called Shi Xi’s name: “I have finished my story, Xiao Shi, it’s your turn.”

     “The story I want to tell also happened when I was filming,” Shi Xi lowered her voice slightly: “My team and I went to a remote village to shoot a supernatural micro-film and lived in an old wooden building…”

     As soon as this opening remark came out, everyone’s face changed.

     “Teacher Xiao Shi, I was wrong, I was wrong, please don’t say it anymore,” Ji Mingxu, who proposed to share the ghost story, also timidly said: “This is the scariest ghost story I have ever heard.”

     Everyone present is the protagonist of this ghost story, how can it not be scary!

     Lu Xiu shook the water in the cup and chuckled, “Teacher Ji, I rarely see you admit defeat.”

     “Don’t ask, it’s embarrassing to ask,” Ji Mingxu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, “Let’s eat quickly, the noodles are all clumping.”

     After dinner, Director Song handed them the script: “There is a convenient printer in the study. I asked Qiao Qiao to print it out. Time is too tight, so I only changed the big framework. I will change it while shooting. The leading actors are Xiao Ji and Xiao Shi, the main supporting roles are Xiao Liu and Qiao Qiao, the director is me, and the photographer is Xiao Lu.”

     The script is very thin, Shi Xi finished reading it quickly, the big director’s shot is different, even if there is only a framework, it is fascinating.

     Ji Mingxu finished reading it and clapped his hands in admiration: “Director Song, you are worthy of being able to write such an exciting script in such a short time.”

     Lu Xiu also nodded: “It’s a very interesting script.”

     Qiao Qing was delighted: “I can actually realize my dream in a variety show, even if I am scared by NPCs, it’s worth it.”

     Liu Ziyu frowned, he couldn’t be happy, and he was a little scared because he had to play a demon. Playing a demon in this atmosphere was a bit creepy, and he believed that he didn’t have the psychological quality of a professional NPC.

     Director Song took a sip of water and said slowly: “Although it’s rushed, the sense of ceremony cannot be missed. Before the official shooting, we still have to hold a small opening ceremony. When I was printing the script, I found a pack of incense sticks, which just happened to be used.”

     “Okay,” Ji Mingxu joked: “Last time everyone died, maybe there was no opening ceremony.”

     Director Song patted his head: “You have a big imagination.”

     Director Song tied a red ribbon to the camera, asked them to put the leftover ingredients on the table, lit a stick of incense and worshiped.

     “This is the most rudimentary opening ceremony I have ever held,” Director Song put incense on a cabbage and said to the actors, “But now we can start working.”

     “I have a question,” Qiao Qing, who also played the role of the evil ghost, raised his hand and said embarrassedly, “Our small crew doesn’t have a makeup artist, so they can’t make me look like an evil ghost, but I don’t have the kind of amazing acting skills that don’t rely on makeup.”

     Director Song nodded, “This is indeed the first problem we encountered. I plan to use special effects to solve this problem after the filming is completed, and the effect may be worse.”

     As soon as Director Song finished speaking, Shi Xi received a new task issued by the system.

 

     【New task: Help the small crew solve the special effects makeup problem;

     Reward: Disguise talent +10%;

     Punishment: Everything you eat tastes like green vegetable noodles (one week). 】

 

     System, sometimes you should be a good system! This punishment is outrageous!

     “Now we can only rely on post-production.” Lu Xiu said. Shi Xi raised her hand: “I can do the evil ghost makeup, I’m very fast.”

     Qiao Qing cheered: “Great, Teacher Xiao Shi’s sunset atmosphere makeup is very popular. It would be best if we can do a beautiful female ghost makeup that is popular this time!”

     Liu Ziyu curled his lips in disdain: “Special effects makeup is not as easy to do as daily makeup. The special effects makeup artists in the crew are all professionally trained. Teacher Shi, are you sure you can do it? We are so tight on time, we don’t have time to practice with you.”

     Shi Xi smiled: “I’ll try.”

     If she succeeds, it will save a lot of trouble in the later stage, and the effect will be better. Director Song made a decision: “Xiao Shi, since you are sure, let’s try it first.”

     The suitcase prepared by the crew contains a small team’s makeup box, which contains a full range of makeup tools, wigs and plasma for filming.

     Shi Xi put cosmetics on the table. Liu Ziyu, who was waiting for her to put on makeup, still didn’t trust her: “Teacher Shi, are you really going to do this? If you mess it up, I’ll have to take off all my makeup…”

     Shi Xi just said: “Close your eyes.”

     Liu Ziyu inexplicably sensed a commanding tone, telling him to shut up. When he closed his eyes, he subconsciously closed his mouth as well.

     The others were memorizing their lines, glancing secretly at Shi Xi’s progress.

     Liu Ziyu kept his eyes closed. After a while, he heard a series of intakes of breath.

     After a while, he heard Ji Mingxu exclaim “Fuck!”.

     Even Director Song and Lu Xiu were amazed.

     Director Song: “Xiao Shi, are you interested in being the styling director for my next movie?”

     “I don’t plan to change my career for the time being.” Shi Xi replied.

     Liu Ziyu frowned when he heard it. Shi Xi did have a makeup look that went viral, but after all, she was just an amateur makeup artist. Did everyone exaggerate so much?

     Shi Xi was very fast, without any unnecessary movements. After helping Liu Ziyu put on the wig, she announced: “It’s done.”

     How good can you make up in such a short time? This time he must win back, Liu Ziyu thought, and opened his eyes.

     A mirror was handed to Liu Ziyu. He saw a pale face, sinister eyebrows, and scarred people in the mirror, and screamed: “Ghost!!!”

     He jumped up with a bang, and the chair fell to the ground with a “bang”, which scared him again and almost sent him away on the spot!

     Ji Mingxu comforted him: “Xiao Liu, calm down, you only see yourself with evil ghost makeup.”

     “…”

     Not only did Liu Ziyu fail to win back, he also lost miserably-he was now completely afraid to look in the mirror.

     Thinking of Shi Xi’s casual words “I’ll try” before putting on makeup, Liu Ziyu almost cried out.

     Shi Xi quickly put on the devil makeup for Qiao Qing. With Liu Ziyu’s experience, Qiao Qing refused to look in the mirror: “I trust Xiao Shi’s skills very much. There is no need to look in the mirror. I really don’t need to.”

     Ji Mingxu commented: “Your makeup will definitely be popular.”

     Director Song was also very satisfied: “The effect is very good. Xiao Shi’s skills are really amazing.”

     The first problem encountered by the mini crew was perfectly solved. Director Song said: “I will give you another ten minutes to prepare. If you don’t understand anything, ask me as soon as possible. Shooting will start on time in ten minutes. Xiao Shi will take the time to memorize the lines.”

     Shi Xi nodded: “Okay.”

     While studying the script, Shi Xi suddenly felt a little cold behind her. She looked back. The room was quiet and the photography teachers hiding in every corner had almost no presence.

     Shi Xi turned her head to continue reading the script. Behind her, the incense stick stuck in the cabbage flickered, and the rising smoke suddenly turned in a direction and floated under the table.