vstars Chapter 91 The Ceremony
Chapter 91 The Ceremony
When Yan Xun regained consciousness, she found herself sitting in an empty movie theater.
At this moment, besides him, Sun Zhao and others were also present in the movie theater. When they saw Yan Xun appear in the movie theater, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong with her?" Yan Xun glanced at Sun Yue, who had fainted in the movie theater seat.
"When the protective aura descended, my body couldn't withstand it and I fainted temporarily," said Ruan Yun, who was sitting next to Sun Yue.
As Yan Xun arrived, a line of large characters finally appeared on the movie screen—
The movie is about to start.
"This segment is always included after the movie's episode ends," Sun Zhao explained when he saw Yan Xun's puzzled expression.
Yan Xun, Sun Zhao, and Gu Jia sat in another row.
"Want some popcorn?" Gu Jia asked.
He ignored Sun Zhao beside him and turned to hand the popcorn to Yan Xun.
Yan Xun was silent for a few seconds. He glanced at the popcorn, then looked at Gu Jia, whose bangs were still covering her eyes. "Why don't I see anyone selling popcorn?"
“They’re available in the mall,” Sun Zhao said.
"The movie has started, so don't talk."
Gu Jia glanced at Sun Zhao, then sat back down in her chair, still clutching her popcorn.
The movie slowly began in front of everyone... The main character of the entire movie is Sun Zhao.
The movie opens with Sun Zhao standing by the roadside, carrying a backpack and looking around anxiously. Fortunately, a car finally pulls up.
Only the headlights of the car ahead provided illumination, and the couple driving the car appeared stiff and lifeless.
Fortunately, they stopped the car, and Sun Zhao knocked on the door and explained his purpose. The generous couple then let Sun Zhao get in, and the camera then showed Yan Xun sitting in the back seat.
He looks to be under 20 years old. The Yan Xun portrayed in the movie looks younger than he actually is, perhaps to match the age of the character in the film.
Then Yan Yu arrived, and Sun Zhao explained why he had come to Wusheng Village.
At this point, a flashback scene is inserted, in which Sun Zhao's mother tells him about her brother, which makes Sun Zhao determined to come to Wusheng Village to explore its mysteries.
Yan Xun propped his head up with one hand and looked up at the movie screen.
The atmosphere of terror in the early stages was indeed well presented. Besides their own group, Meng Zhi and his people also encountered some strange things at the Yan family's residence that night.
A movie that's less than two hours long can't possibly include everything in the edit.
The main perspective is always fixed on Sun Zhao. Although he knows more about the plot, his free time is limited because the main perspective is fixed.
The film doesn't explain what happened between the time Yan Xun disappeared at the Yan family home that night and the time his body was found in the pond.
"Where did you hide?" Ruan Yun, who was sitting in front, turned around and asked. "We searched for a long time but couldn't find it."
“I live in the house next to Xiaoxiao Supermarket,” Yan Xun said.
He pointed to a low-lying tiled house that appeared in the movie, "This is it."
“That’s strange. We definitely went to check it out, but there was nothing in the room.”
"It was probably Yan Yu who did it," Sun Zhao said.
Although Ruan Yun and the others left the instance, they still only had a vague understanding of the truth of the whole movie. Even though they were sitting in the movie theater, they still felt that the movie plot was about the mysterious sacrificial event that happened in Wusheng Village.
When the movie reached the point where everyone was tied to the altar, Meng Zhi was still a little confused.
"I remember my script only mentioned that we were tied up and were going to be executed..."
Soon the scene changed to everyone frantically fighting off the villagers who were being commanded by Yan Yu.
The scene only showed a few people fleeing.
Meng Zhi watched the movie, "Looks like the movie is almost over..."
Before he could finish speaking, a shot appeared on the screen that blinked and then unfolded, followed by footage of Berkan in the hospital.
Someone waved and asked him how much he still remembered.
Then when asked about his names, he finally said, "I am Sun Zhao."
Meng Zhi also noticed something was wrong. In the movie's alternate version, they left together with Sun Zhao in the end, so why was Sun Zhao lying in the hospital again?
The camera then switches to a view overlooking the hospital bed.
The person who appeared on the hospital bed was none other than the owner of Xiaoxiao Supermarket.
Meng Zhi pointed at the screen, speechless for a moment.
Sun Zhao watched for a while, then asked Yan Xun, "So he's the dominant personality?"
"Yes." Yan Xun propped his head up and continued watching the movie.
Then there are several rapidly flashing gray shots, which are the scenes they saw in their dreams: when they were children, after they started working, and in the hospital.
This part of the memory is a hint that all players have in their dreams within the dungeon.
The scene then shifts to a house, presumably where the people investigating the Wusheng Village case are having a meeting. Photos taken at the scene and Baikan's life story appear on a movable screen. The final scene shows the dilapidated Cimu Hall.
Their investigation revealed that the owner of Xiaoxiao Supermarket, Baikan, had multiple personalities, and according to his account, the owner of Xiaoxiao Supermarket had also died, and the remaining personality was named Sun Zhao.
"That connection back then..." Yan Xun looked at the scene in the movie and thought for a moment, "...should have been a hint."
“There are no pigsties in Wusheng Village, but we can hear pig squeals in the live stream footage. If you open the door of Xiaoxiao Supermarket, you will find that Xiaoxiao Supermarket is built on top of the original pigsty.”
Almost everyone received roughly the same three clues from the dream.
"Besides us and Yan Yu, the only other person in Wusheng Village is Xiaoxiao Supermarket owner, a young man."
"He never said his name, which is also a clue that he deliberately hid."
Yan Xun explained his analysis process, "Everyone's birthday is March 1st..."
Meng Zhi was a little confused. "So we are all personalities classified by Bai Kan, killing each other in his world of consciousness?"
"What about Yan Yu?"
"Him too?"
He said he looked around, but there were only a few of them in the movie theater, and Yan Yu was not there.
“He is not,” Yan Xun said after a moment of silence.
"He is a ghost that was truly summoned by Berkan's imagination."
However, in the movie, everyone still concluded that Yan Yu was also a split personality of Bai Kan, only this personality was more special and better able to hide, which is why she never appeared after Bai Kan was arrested.
"If only he had laid the groundwork a little more," Ruan Yun couldn't help but complain. "He just suddenly told everyone that it was all fake, a split personality... Could it be a version specially changed for the release?"
The movie was coming to an end soon.
The end credits rolled, followed by a post-credits scene.
Some young people went to Wusheng Village, laughing and joking, and finally went to the legendary Cimu Hall.
They were laughing and joking, encouraging someone to take a look at the Compassionate Mother's Hall... when suddenly the doors of the Compassionate Mother's Hall opened.
Yan Yu, carrying a lantern, stood in front of the Cimu Hall.
He opened his mouth, looked at the screen and seemed to say something, then the movie screen went black.
The movie has ended.
As the movie theater lights came on, Meng Zhi subconsciously turned around and glanced at Yan Xun…
If he wasn't mistaken, the two words that Yan Yu just said looked exactly like "Yan Xun".