CH 8

DECEMBER 24, 2022 ~ M1ZUSHI

It looked like a fierce ghost was embedded in this wall.

It’s hard for players not to be captured by such a powerful picture. After looking at that, they grimaced for a few seconds, then quickly withdrew their eyes.

The projection room was large. In addition to the entire tape wall, there were huge display screens installed on both sides of the room. The smooth LED screens mirrored each other. When the three players entered the screening room, their figures also appeared in the “mirror”. The mirror faces were opposite each other, layer upon layer, as if extending into countless small worlds. The countless figures reflected on the screen could also be seen shaking with every movement.

In contrast, the tape holder connected to the large screen looked old and backward, full of incompatible meanings.

There were two rows of soft brown sofas facing the light screen, as well as some round soft single deck. The tea table in front of them even had wine bottles, drinks and fruit plates, which looks no different from the equipment in the ordinary projection room. However, this kind of “normality” had a strange contrast with the ghost on the tape wall, which silently oppressed the players’ inner defense.

Andre did not go in.

He stood at the door of the screening room, his hand on the door handle, and his smile became more brilliant.

Unlike the strict attitude that urged the players to start the game quickly, Andre was almost generous this time, saying very generously: “I’ll give you fifteen minutes to choose the movies you want to see. I hope you can choose some interesting movies. Don’t… choose anything too boring.”

The word “boring” was pressed on Andre’s tongue and was meaningfully tossed around by him, with a sense of fascination.

Hei Pi thought to himself: “Boredom is good. I like boring movies. It’s the best thing if that can make me sleep in peace for an hour.”.

He just knew that it was impossible.

Andre closed the door again, and the weak light in the projection room was immediately squeezed out, and the darkness was everywhere. Hei Pi thought of the grimace shaped by the tape wall, raised his eyebrows slightly, and was about to find the light source to be reassured. A screen was lit on, and the screen fluorescence barely lit up a corner of the projection room.

Glasses stood in front of the screen, and the hand had just been pulled back from the start button.

Because the tape had not been put in, the screen displayed black and white snowflakes without signal.

At that moment, Yuan Yuxue lit up the screen on the other side, and the light was barely bright enough to reach the tape wall.

Glasses that had just come to open another machine stopped slightly. He lifted them without saying anything, but looked at Yuan Yuxue coldly.

Yuan Yuxue noticed his sight and looked back with a little doubt: “?”

It happened that he was wearing a mask, but he could not see his face. He only showed a pair of black eyes, which were reflected by the weak light, and looked heavy and cold.

The two men seemed to be confronting each other.

From the beginning of the copy, Glasses was the person who most repelled Yuan Yuxue and once made a mockery. Up to now, he seemed to have no change to Yuan Yuxue. The two people have drawn the same game, and the atmosphere of living in the same room seemed strange and difficult to settle down.

There was a moment of silence.

Only Hei Pi was careless, and he was very straight and didn’t notice the ambivalence at all.

In fact, he was a little familiar with himself. If he had not suffered from this in the copy, he could have done more. At this time, when he was in the closed room with other players, he could not help showing his nature.

“Why are you standing there? It takes only ten minutes to pick up tapes.” He asked Yuan Yuxue and Glasses to come over and squints at the film classification on the tape wall.

“Oh, there are too many horror films in it -“

Hei Pi complained.

Back to Back, White Meat in the Bathtub, 404 Bus Running Record, Tombs in Desolate Mountain Village… Although Hei Pi has never seen any of them, it does not prevent him from guessing the content of the film from the title.

Who can stand it.

Hei Pi curled his mouth and said, “Have you all seen Sadako? I also suspect that if you put this thing on, there will be ghosts crawling out of the film. Anyway, we’d better choose some warm comedies to watch…”

I don’t know if he was unlucky. There were horror movies everywhere he saw. Hei Pi simply stopped looking and said with a smile, “Yuan Yuxue, do you want to pick and choose?”

He was not familiar with Yuan Yuxue and Glasses. However, the game just now has greatly improved his liking for Yuan Yuxue. He thinks that the newcomer has a good brain and seems to have the ability to remember everything. It was estimated that he can eliminate this kind of thing faster than he can.

Yuan Yuxue was also very cooperative.

He came over, the fine and long ciliary feathers quivered slowly and searched quickly.

The light had little effect on him. Hei Pi had to work hard to see the words on the tape clearly. But Yuan Yuxue’s eyes scanned from top to bottom. Facing tens of thousands of film tapes, he soon found the one that attracted his attention.

The tape was placed very high, and it was generally difficult to see clearly at their line of sight height. Yuan Yuxue pointed at it gently, and with his eyes narrowed, he saw exactly which plate Yuan Yuxue was pointing to.

“Looking up at the starry sky?” Hei Pi read it out.

Yuan Yuxue nodded.

“Good name, it doesn’t look like a horror movie.” Hei Pi said a cold joke, “I just don’t know whether it was a space science and education film, a literary film, or a food teaching film.”

No one picked on him. Glasses were too lazy to reason, and Yuan Yuxue’s was the root of ignorance of human beings.

Hei Pi didn’t care either. He felt his chin and looked at the Starry Sky, which was about three meters or four meters. He sighed, “It’s so hard to get it. It’s true that all good things are hidden.”

Yuan Yuxue did not find it difficult to get it. He was watching the available borrowing points on the tape wall, and when he was ready to climb up and take off the disk, he was lightly patted on the shoulder by Hei Pi.

” Yuan Yuxue.” The young male college student smiled warmly at him, and his white teeth showed, “You step on my shoulder to get it?”

Yuan Yuxue: “…”

“?”

Hei Pi had already squatted down He patted his shoulder and said seriously, “Don’t worry, I’m strong enough not to fall to you, just stand up.”

Glasses stared at the scene coldly and suddenly said, “You want him to choose?”

This sentence was ironic.

Hei Pi paused. “Yeah, what’s wrong?”

“I don’t agree.” Glasses said, “Don’t you see that he is……”

Yuan Yuxue did not respond, but Hei Pi felt that there was a evil fire in his heart. He said in an impatient tone, “OK, take care of yourself.”

Glasses still looked cold. He continued to say, “It’s the player targeted by NPC.”

“So what? Which of our players is not targeted by NPC?” Hei Pi  continued to say to Yuan Yuxue, “Come on up.”

Yuan Yu paused for a moment, without any expression. His eyelashes closed and were pressed like a layer of crow blue shadow.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Yuan Yuxue took off his shoes and stepped on the black leather shoulder.

Hei Pi was always careless. He was used to playing with his brothers. He often went crazy until curfew time and steps on the wall to enter the dormitory. To tell the truth, even if Yuan Yuxue stepped on with his shoes, he would’ve felt nothing, but his attention was attracted to his opponent’s ankle in a thin layer of white socks.

Although it was a bit offensive, Hei Pi ‘s first reaction was that… Yuanxueyue really had no taste.

If you want to say yes, it was the cold aroma that you can smell when you get close to it.

Yuan Yuxue’s ankles were a little whiter than the white socks he wore. In order to stabilize his figure, Hei Pi helped him catch Yuan Yuxue’s legs. His first thought was how thin his legs were.

It’s not like his brothers, who were dead and heavy one by one. It’s a little weird. According to Yuan Yuxue’s height, either the young man was light in bone or he doesn’t have much flesh on his body.

Hei Pi thought both were possible.

In addition, the touch from the feedback of the palm was too soft, just like the skin of a girl. When he realized that he was thinking about some messy things, Hei Pi shook his head violently, threw out the strange ideas in his mind, and asks him: “Do you want me to stand up again?”

Yuan Yuxue reached out for the tape and said, “No, it’s just fine.”

As soon as he got the volume “Looking Up at the Starry Sky”, Yuan Yuxue held the tape wall and came down from Hei Pi’s shoulder.

Hei Pi stood up again and patted himself on the shoulder subconsciously. It seemed that Yuan Yuxue’s breath was still there, which made Hei Pi stunned.

He felt a little crazy, otherwise he would feel some… subtle regret.

Long and flexible fingers opened the outer package of the tape. Yuan Yuxue was stunned for a moment with the disk of “Looking Up at the Starry Sky”.

“…”

It was neither a literary film nor a science and education film. On the outer package was a very explicit bloody picture with a line of small white characters:

“Star ship Ace-2 came to a strange planet, and the hungry alien finally waited until the day of a full meal.”

That bloody picture was exactly the picture of a human being torn in two by an alien and sprayed with plasma.

Hei Pi also saw the picture on the outer package and fell into silence for a moment.

I don’t know why Glasses have such good eyesight. When he saw them, he sneered and asked slowly: “It seems that you think it was better to be chased by aliens than by female ghosts.”

During their brief negotiation just now, Glasses also selected the film they selected. At this time, they pushed the tape out and said coldly, “Use mine.”

The cover of the tape he pushed out was a field documentary, which was full of large animals. The introduction was vague:

“People and animals should live in harmony.”

Hei Pi was more or less upset and retorted, “I don’t think it’s better to be chased by predators than by female ghosts.”

Glasses pursed their lips and hid their emotions by pushing Glasses: “… Anyway, I don’t want to use Look at the Starry Sky.”

“Then I won’t agree with your animal world.”

Glasses said patiently, “This is better than those plasma tablets and horror films.”

Hei Pi sneered, “I’m sorry. I have animal phobia, so I can’t see it.”

When the next round of dispute was about to break out, Yuan Yuxue suddenly said, “You choose.”

He was talking to Hei Pi.

Hei Pi was stunned.

“Since both of our films have been rejected, you can choose them.” Yuan Yuxue explained it carefully again.

He had no sense of others’ malice, and wouldn’t have negative emotions because of being targeted. This was the simplest and straightforward logic of robots.

Select the scheme that can run smoothly from the contradiction.

Glasses closed slightly, showing a thoughtful expression.

This sounded like a step back solution. He vetoed others’ plans, and his own plans were also vetoed, so he could not argue out the results. It seems fair to let the person who didn’t put forward the decision – it seemed that something was wrong.

In this kind of mistake, Glasses still reluctantly said: “Then you choose.”