Chapter 56

     Because of the ghost NPC’s disturbance in the first scene, the filmed content cannot be used and needs to be re-filmed.

     “Since we have to re-shoot, we have to solve the problems found in the previous filming,” Director Song pondered for a moment and looked at Liu Ziyu: “Xiao Liu, you need to adjust your emotions and body language.”

     Liu Ziyu was still a little dazed: “Director Song, can you be more specific?”

     “Yes,” Director Song spoke quickly: “In this scene, the two residents did not recognize you as Mr. Liu, so you have to perform the feeling of a completely different evil ghost, so that the audience can’t guess your true identity when they see you, so as to promote the following plot. The shooting conditions are limited, and you can only rely on your acting skills to achieve this feeling.”

     “Director Song, I have never played this kind of role before, do you think I can change it to this?” Liu Ziyu lowered his head even lower, completely hiding his face.

     Director Song shook her head: “Not enough, did you pay attention to the ‘ghost’ chasing you just now? You can imitate his body language.”

     Liu Ziyu raised his head and said with a bitter face: “I was just running at the time, and I took a quick look. I didn’t remember the scary body language of the ‘ghost’, but I was impressed by the terrified expression of the ‘ghost’ when I scared it.”

     “…” Director Song changed the direction and taught him: “The moment you scared the ‘ghost’ away, your emotional expression was really in place. It’s good to be able to perform that feeling.”

     Liu Ziyu was even more bitter: “I can’t remember it.”

     He was also very scared at the time, and his brain was down, so how could he remember it.

     Liu Ziyu changed several acting techniques, but he couldn’t perform the feeling that Director Song wanted, and he gradually became a little anxious.

     Qiao Qing watched from the side, and she was also a little anxious, because she felt that her acting skills were similar to Liu Ziyu’s. If Liu Ziyu couldn’t meet the standard, she would be in trouble too.

     Qiao Qing bit her lower lip and had an idea: “Teacher Xiao Shi, I remember you used your acting skills to stun the NPCs in the escape room variety show. Can you show us a demonstration?”

     Lu Xiu is now playing a photographer who can’t act, and Ji Mingxu’s acting skills are also average. Qiao Qing can only ask Shi Xi for help.

     “Teacher Shi doesn’t have special effects makeup, so it’s even harder to meet Director Song’s standards. Let’s forget it!” Liu Ziyu pleaded with Song Zhenbao a little anxiously: “Director Song, one more take, I will definitely perform better than last time!”

     Although Shi Xi showed a high quality of playing that scared the NPCs, Liu Ziyu still didn’t give up the opportunity to compete with her for the permanent position. He didn’t want to admit or let everyone see from the bottom of his heart that Shi Xi had the ability to teach him.

     Director Song had her own considerations. She asked Shi Xi, “Xiao Shi, can you teach them?”

     Shi Xi said in a faint voice, “You can try.”

     “Then let’s do it this way. Xiao Shi and Xiao Liu will exchange roles. We will reshoot it and use it as a movie feature.” Director Song looked at Liu Ziyu and told him, “Xiao Liu, it’s OK if you and Xiao Ji can recite the lines smoothly. If you can’t remember the lines, you can just read the script. The key is to observe and learn Xiao Shi’s performance method.”

     Liu Ziyu nodded stiffly. He didn’t know why. When he heard Shi Xi say “try”, he had a feeling that he was about to be punished.

     Ji Mingxu and Liu Ziyu, who played the role of the residents, walked out of the study. The lights above their heads suddenly flickered.When the two talked, Liu Ziyu found Shi Xi standing in the shadow of the corridor.

     Liu Ziyu asked in a trembling voice: “Is it Teacher Shi? What are you doing standing there?”

     Shixi emerged from the shadows, her hunched shoulders and bowed head creating a sinister silhouette. A blood-stained chin was the only part of her face visible. She moved with a light, floating gait, her every step radiating vengeful resentment. Without uttering a word, she embodied the very essence of a vengeful spirit.

     She suddenly stopped and raised her head without any warning. Her sinister and cold-blooded eyes locked onto Ji Mingxu and Liu Ziyu through her messy black hair.

     Ji Mingxu and Liu Ziyu suddenly felt that their hearts were tightly grasped by a big hand!

     After Shi Xi showed the bloodstained kitchen knife, the two screamed at the same time, even forgetting to say their lines, and scrambled to flee to the living room. Shi Xi was about to catch up when she suddenly noticed a camera behind her. As an actress, she was very sensitive to the camera, and this intuition was rarely wrong.

     Shi Xi looked back and saw a ragged ghost NPC carrying a camera – he was standing in the shadows, so her face was not clear, but her figure looked like the NPC who had filmed them before.

     This NPC didn’t see the player scaring the “ghost” with his own eyes, so he was probably not convinced and wanted to come back to get back at them.

     Shi Xi blinked and thought: Of course I have to give him enough face.

     Shi Xi didn’t run away, but trembled her slender shoulders and whimpered in fear, like a small animal that was too scared to move, weak, helpless and pitiful.

     Shi Xi’s face was against the light, and the ghost NPC couldn’t see her clearly. Seeing that she was too scared to move, his dignity as the boss of the haunted house was instantly restored.

     The ghost NPC put on his signature scary expression and walked towards Shi Xi with a camera. The prey was so scared that she dared not move. He, the boss of the haunted house, was determined to get the first kill today to wash away the humiliation of being taken away by his colleagues before.

     The ghost NPC came to Shi Xi and saw that she lowered her head and dared not look at him. His heart swelled even more. He laughed eerily, and stretched out his hand holding the seal of the final kill to Shi Xi’s arm, and said in a deep voice: “I caught you… You should finish the final kill!”

     “Woo woo woo… I’m so scared…” Shi Xi was whimpering, but her hand pinched the ghost NPC’s wrist first. She slowly raised her head, and the fear on her face turned into teasing. Her eyebrows against the light were full of murderous spirit, more like a demon than the NPC.

     The boss of the haunted house’s heart stopped for a beat. When he came to his senses, there was another person in front of him.

     Lu Xiu took the seal of completion from the haunted house’s No. 1 brother and stamped him with his backhand: “You’re done.”

     The haunted house’s No. 1 brother was stunned, and his first reaction was to find the camera and cry: “Director, do we have this kind of gameplay this episode?”

     After Ji Mingxu and Liu Ziyu found that Shi Xi and the photographer had not caught up, they ran back and saw Director Song holding a camera to film Shi Xi and Lu Xiu bullying NPCs.

     Liu Ziyu: “…Is this the correct way to open this variety show?”

     Looking at the ghost NPC’s back that fled again, Ji Mingxu held his forehead: “No, believe me, this is not the development that the variety show director expected.”

     Qiao Qing, who had been watching and learning seriously, showed an admiring look: “Thanks to the NPC who just came out to die, let Teacher Xiao show how to play the evil ghost again. She played it more professionally than the NPC!”

     Ji Mingxu touched the tip of his nose awkwardly: “Xiao Shi’s acting is really great. When she looked up, I was really scared and wanted to run away instinctively.”

     Qiao Qing laughed and teased: “It can be seen that Teacher Ji was really scared. When Teacher Liu played the ghost, you knew to run with Teacher Shi according to the script. When it was Teacher Shi’s turn to play the ghost, you ran faster than Teacher Liu, hahaha.”

     Ji Mingxu: “…” It was indeed the case.

     Liu Ziyu was also embarrassed. He had said before that Shi Xi did not wear special effects makeup, and it was even more difficult to meet Director Song’s standards. As a result, she could perform a completely unrecognizable effect without makeup.

     “There was a small incident, so we didn’t finish the scene just now,” Shi Xi handed the kitchen knife back to Liu Ziyu and asked, “Teacher Liu, have you learned it? Do you need me to perform it again?”

     Liu Ziyu’s heart tightened, and he quickly said, “I learned it, I learned it, no need to demonstrate it again.” Please, I really don’t want to be scared again.

     The first scene was shot more tortuously, but Shi Xi’s demonstration was very effective. Liu Ziyu and Ji Mingxu performed much better than the first one.

     “Xiao Shi, your play has driven them all.” Director Song was very satisfied and looked at Liu Ziyu again: “Look, it’s good for you to let Xiao Shi demonstrate, isn’t this an improvement?”

     Liu Ziyu nodded and thanked Shi Xi with a big red face. Apart from anything else, he had to admit that Shi Xi’s acting skills were good.

     Director Song: “Very good, everyone keep this feeling, we will go directly to the next scene.”

     The second scene was in the utility room on the first floor. When they arrived at the utility room, Director Song looked at the scene and said to them: “This scene is about Xiaoshi and Xiaoji hiding in the old closet in the utility room. The evil ghost wandered outside the door and finally entered the utility room.”

     “Xiaolu, go see if you can install a camera in the closet.”

      “Okay.” Lu Xiu went to see the closet, and Shi Xi and Ji Mingxu followed him. They mainly wanted to see what the inside of the closet was made of.

     The closet door is made of louvers, and you can faintly see old clothes hanging inside.

     Lu Xiu opened the closet door, and his ankle was suddenly grabbed by a hand! He looked down and saw a pale hand grabbing his ankle, leaving messy blood on his trouser legs.

     Lu Xiu stepped back, and the hand did not let go. Ji Mingxu suddenly saw the ghost hand stretched out from the closet and exclaimed: “Teacher Shi, our photographer is going to be captured by the closet ghost!”

     The ghost NPC in the closet: “…” Why is this sentence so strange.

     No matter what, crawl out and scare them!

     The ghost NPC was about to appear in the most terrifying way. Just as he stretched his limbs, a hand was placed on his back.

     This hand was cold and hard, as if it had just been taken out of the refrigerator, and it made him shiver all over.

     Are there other colleagues in the closet? No, he was the only one here… Then what is this hand…

     This room is so weird, is there really a ghost?

     The more the ghost NPC thought about it, the more panicked he became. He gritted his teeth and wanted to rush out in one breath.

     The hand on his back moved upwards and grasped his fragile neck. The ghost NPC felt a cold air coming up, and a hoarse and cold voice sounded in his ears: “Where do you want to go?”

     There is really a ghost! ! The ghost NPC opened his mouth wide and wanted to shout for help, but found that he couldn’t make a sound! It’s over! !

     Ji Mingxu tilted his head: “What’s wrong with this NPC? Grabbing a player’s ankle and staying still, is that a new way to scare people?

     Just as he finished speaking, another hand trembled and stretched out from the closet, writing a few bloody letters on the ground.

     Shi Xi took a look and saw that it said SOS.