CH 9

DECEMBER 25, 2022 ~ M1ZUSHI

Hei Pi was silent for a moment.

Why did it suddenly become his choice?

Hei Pi, who was clear about his bad luck, felt a headache when he thought of the horror movie that he had just seen on the whole wall, and touched the bridge of his nose embarrassingly.

Just when he was about to push back, Andrei’s voice came from a corner of the screening room again, with a sullen tone, reminding them with a bit of schadenfreude: “There are still three minutes.”

There were only three minutes.

Hei Pi was a little anxious and wanted to discuss with Yuan Yuxue again, when he saw that he was already sitting on the sofa. His body sank softly, Yuan Yuxue was raising his head slightly, revealing a white and slender neck, looking at him very calmly, his eyes were clear and beautiful.

It was an indescribable… trusting look. As if it doesn’t matter what decision he made, Yuan Yuxue would support him.

Maybe he just found the best option?

“I don’t want to disappoint him.”

This idea suddenly came to his mind, overwhelmed the pressure of choosing a movie, and won an overwhelming victory in an instant. There was not much time, and Hei Pi didn’t have time to hesitate. He came to the tape wall again, and with the weak ambient light, he quickly swept the names of the tapes one after another. When he reached the blurred light and dark color blocks, his eyes locked on a tape.

It was a very unremarkable movie title that would make people feel boring at first glance.

“I love my home”.

It was very similar to the topic of the propositional composition that the elementary school students were assigned.

But such a boring movie title became the most surprising existence in this case.

Hei Li’s eyes flashed with joy, he leaned over and took out the tape hidden in the hidden corner of the penultimate row, and glanced at the cover of the tape.

It was a simple drawing. Two adults and a villain were holding hands. The colors fly out of the outline. It looks a little weird at first glance, but as a straight man, Hei Pi couldn’t notice these small details.

Even its text introduction was very friendly:

“I love my parents, and my parents love me too.”

“That’s it.” Hei Pi immediately chose.

Yuan Yuxue saw the name and cover of the tape and did not express any opinion.

Instead, he stared at the tape with Glasses, stunned for a moment, and a hint of patience flashed in his eyes. He said again: “The film in this regard, I…”

However, his voice was just overwhelmed by Andre’s warning.

“The selection of the movie time is over.”

Andrei’s frivolous voice came, with an uncontrollable pleasure: “I wish you all a happy viewing.”

Thinking of the “30-second game failure” rule, Hei Pi Immediately showing his agility as a young man, he quickly ran to the deck to turn on the machine, installed the tape on it and pushed it forward slightly, and looked at the screen a little anxiously –

Fortunately, the game did not seem to be at this point. Embarrassing them, the deck with the tape installed immediately started to operate, and the screen changed from the previous snowflake signal to a pure black picture, and four blood-red characters appeared abruptly.

The bizarre background music of “I Love My Home” followed, and it was a woman humming a song with unclear lyrics.

Hei Pi finally realized hesitantly that this didn’t seem to be the usual kind of warm family film.

Just when he wanted to step back to a safe distance, his eyes suddenly darkened.

When he regained consciousness, Hei Pi was lying on a soft bed. He opened his eyes and saw a slightly old bedroom with water stains on the walls that looked yellow and black after leaking. The furniture was very full, except that the bed occupied nearly 1/3 of the area. What could be observed was the desk, the heavy desktop computer like a TV, some extracurricular books and toys on the bookcase, the closed wardrobe, a computer chair, bedside table and lamp.

It was the most common room configuration.

Hei Pi jumped up from the bed quickly, and out of caution, he didn’t open the door to observe the situation outside. And through the thin wooden door, he could vaguely hear the voice of a woman singing –

A very strange tone, and the lyrics could not be heard clearly.

Hei Pi immediately matched the melody with the tones in his memory.

It’s the theme song at the beginning of the movie!

Combined with the current situation, it was not difficult to analyze, Hei Pi, he was sucked into the film.

It turns out that “watching a movie” meant this, which was too immersive. I didn’t say that I was watching a holographic movie before I started.

Hei Pi scolded.

So how do you get out, spend an hour in the film, or find a way to get out?

Where were Yuan Yuxue and Glasses and how to find them?

There were too many unanswered questions.

While Hei Pi was still thinking, the humming tone suddenly stopped, and the next second, the door was knocked hard twice.

Something was clinging to the door, and the sound seemed to come from the door panel.

“Baby,” came the woman’s sweet voice, “are you up yet? Come and have lunch.”

“…” I hope his parents really love him.

Hei Pi thought resignedly.

It was impossible to hide in the room and not go out. Hei Pi opened the door of the room and saw his “mother” here, looking at him with a smile.

“Mom” wore a white apron – it may seem odd, and kitchen aprons were rarely pure white. The sleeves at hand were rolled up, revealing two hands that were just like bamboo poles, so thin and a little pitiful.

Her figure was also oddly thin, like a skeleton barely wearing clothes and walking, her face was sunken severely, only her facial features were prominent. At this time, she was staring at Hei Pi with those black eyes that burst out, and her tone was still the same softly: “Baby has lost weight these two days, today your mother made your favorite broth, you must make more. Eat some.”

Her eyes were full of love and pity, if it weren’t for her terribly thin external image, she was simply the gentlest kind of mother.

Hei Pi slightly looked away, nodded and said nothing.

Immediately afterwards, he was semi-forced to the dining table and sat on the slightly yellowed dining table stool.

I don’t know how long it has been since the dining table has been cleaned, and I could only vaguely see through the dirt that its true color was the white color that matched the stool. A layer of greasy reflections accumulated on the table, meaning unknown grease spots and some sputtered chili oil, which made Hei Pi feel like there was nowhere to start.

He has always felt that he was not a very particular person, but the poor sanitary conditions on this table still gave him the urge to run away.

… If you think about it, he didn’t really come to eat.

Hei Pi comforted himself.

Through the closed transparent kitchen door, he saw “Mom” standing in front of the range hood. She took out the slowly simmering soup from the pressure cooker and poured it into a huge soup pot.

Mom is here, where was dad?

Hei Pi did not forget that there were three protagonists in the story.

While he was thinking about these things, “Mom” shuttled between the kitchen and the dining table, serving the cooked dishes. The strange thing was that she made a very rich and full table of hot dishes, but there was no green vegetables at all. At first glance, it was full of meat and meat. Sweet and sour pork ribs, braised pork, stir-fried pork slices, mixed chops like pork lungs and hearts…not even a side dish was added.

At the center, of course, was the steaming, white-smoky bowl of broth that “he” was said to love.

“Mom”‘s craftsmanship was actually very good. These dishes were beautifully cooked and fragrant. However, Hei Pi smelled the strange oily smell wafting from the pot of soup, and for some reason he felt nauseated.

The dishes have all been brought to the table, “Mom” took off her apron and sat opposite the Hei Pi.

“Baby.” She spoke suddenly, still in a gentle, soft and slightly sweet tone. Those eyes were locked on him, and her concentration was a little weird, “Why don’t you drink soup?”

Hei Pi paused. Explanation: “Today, my stomach was uncomfortable, and I have no appetite.”

“No appetite?” The woman repeated these three words slowly, the flesh on her face seemed to decrease and sag a little, and her facial features burst out, “You were lying. You used to I like it very much, but you suddenly lost your appetite today.”

She repeatedly asked like a paranoid: “Why don’t you drink the soup made by your mother?” “Why don’t you drink the soup made by your mother?” ” Why not drink the soup made by your mother?” “Soup?”

She spoke faster and faster, her face became more and more hideous, Hei Pi noticed that her face was slowly changing, the flesh was clinging to the skull like a film, and her eyes seemed to fall out. The eye sockets drooped out, and finally the expression was fixed on an extremely terrifying and twisted expression, and he shouted sharply:

“You don’t love mother anymore!” The picture suddenly went black.

Hei Pi returned to the dark screening room. The rapid change of the scene caused a subtle confusion in his consciousness. His eyelids twitched painfully, and then he saw Yuan Yuxue facing him.

Although separated by a mask, Yuan Yuxue’s appearance still made him find a sense of reality in the confusion, as if a ship drifting in the sea had found its own anchor. He subconsciously put his hands on Yuan Yuxue’s shoulders, and his strength was a little too strong.

He clasped the opponent’s shoulders tightly, and because of the large range of motions, he even pulled Yuan Yuxue’s collar slightly to one side, revealing the clear white collarbone.

The soft touch from the feedback brought him back to life. It was at this time that Hei Pi noticed the dazzling white in front of him, and immediately let go of his hands with a warm face.

Yuan Yuxue watched him calmly. Because of the urgency of time, he very quickly explained the situation and the information he had just received to Hei Pi.

“You just entered the movie, and you can see the movie ‘plot’ from the screen.”

“The way to exit was to press the pause button from the outside world – there was a time limit, and it must take effect seven minutes after the movie starts.”

“’Abort’. After the key is pressed, the movie will be cut off, and it cannot exceed 30 seconds, and we need to continue to enter the movie within the time limit.”

And the way to enter the movie-

Yuan Yuxue did not speak anymore, because the time was too late. He got stuck at the last second and pressed the play button.

There was a brief darkness in front of him.

As he guessed, it was not a mechanism to randomly select players to enter the movie. Whoever presses the play button will be pulled into the movie.

At this moment, the woman’s face was still in a twisted state that seemed to be about to melt, accusing sharply, and her eyes were full of resentment.