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If you think about it carefully, like sleeping pills, the function of the mysterious sachet is not so directional, but the premise that it can only be used when abnormal conditions occur is basically tied to Xiao Xiaoxiao. After all, everyone around him is a normal person, only Xiao Xiaoxiao is shrouded in mysteries, and strange things happen from time to time.
Oh, right, now we have to add Wang Lengqiu to the list of abnormal people. There are many strange things about this guy...
As Han Zhou was thinking this, he saw a piece of paper pop out of the brocade bag and land steadily in the palm of his hand.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 383 True Value
Let time go back a little.
"Everyone, believe me, our movie will definitely achieve good box office. Even though it has a low cost, it is not uncommon to see small-scale movies that achieve great success in film history, and our movie will be one of them! Also, I have an idea for the sequel to the movie, and everyone can sign up in advance. Veteran actors will be exempted from auditions then..."
The heavy rain outside showed no sign of stopping. The sound of rain was noisy, but it was soon drowned out by the director's endless speech. He had already begun to envision the shooting plan for his next movie.
The assistant didn't hear a word of these words. He was worried about whether the car outside was parked properly. The entire crew had only this one barely usable car. If it broke down due to the rain, with the tight financial situation of the crew, they might not even be able to afford to rent a car. They might have to carry the equipment and walk more than ten kilometers back to the studio.
I hope what the director said is true, otherwise I can only sell him out and pay everyone...
The assistant was worried. Seeing that the director had almost finished speaking, he was about to lead the applause, but suddenly he saw an extremely horrifying scene——
Accompanied by a flash of lightning and thunder, a vague black shadow suddenly appeared at the window behind the director!
The assistant can guarantee that although this black shadow is blurry, it is definitely a human shadow!
Other people in the crew also noticed this scene and were immediately shocked. Those who were a little less courageous even screamed out loud.
Only the director, who had his back to the window, knew nothing about this. He was very dissatisfied with the crowd's reaction and frowned, "What do you all mean by this? Do you think the movie I made can't sell, or do you suspect that I'm just making empty promises to you?"
"Director, you..."
Xiao Liu pointed cautiously behind the director, intending to kindly remind him, but he became even more unhappy and scolded, "How many times have I told you that I'm timid? I told you not to raise your head to me! I know the arrangements for the rest of the process, so you don't need to remind me!"
Xiao Liu lowered his head quickly, backed away and said, "No, Director, I mean there's something behind you..."
"Something?" The director sneered. "What is it? It's the middle of the night. Is there a ghost?"
The air was dead silent, with only the noisy sound of heavy rain to be heard.
Seeing that no one spoke and just retreated silently, the director's expression gradually became stiff, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he suddenly remembered the "glowing head in the rain" he saw when he went to the bathroom tonight.
He swallowed his saliva, and for a moment he didn't have the courage to look back. He could only slowly approach the crowd and said in a trembling voice: "I'm timid, please don't scare me..."
An actress was about to cry, stammering, "Director, director, this is really, really not a special effect you made specifically for reshooting the scene..."
"What special effects?"
The director's heart was pounding. He didn't even dare look back. The more scared everyone seemed, the more terrified he became.
Seeing no one answering, he became anxious and angry, and hurriedly urged, "Xiao Liu, look at what's behind me!"
"Director, I can't see..."
"why?"
"Didn't you tell me not to look up..." Xiao Liu said weakly.
The director almost vomited blood: "I allow you to look up now, look at what's behind me!"
"oh oh."
Xiao Liu then looked up. The horrible makeup made the director's already pounding heart tremble even more violently: "What's going on? What's behind me?"
Xiao Liu swallowed his saliva and said seriously: "Director, I think that looks like a person..."
The director's breathing stagnated, and he almost cried. He asked in a trembling voice, "What does it mean to be like a person?"
"Because it's just a shadow."
"shadow?"
"Yes, it was outside the window at first, but then it went through the wall and into the house."
Shadows that pass through walls...
The director was startled at first, and then suddenly thought of a serious problem -
"So...where is it now?"
"Of course it's behind you." Xiao Liu stood on tiptoe to take a closer look and answered honestly, "It's almost touching you."
The director was struck by lightning. He mechanically turned his stiff neck and looked behind him.
He saw a vague human-shaped black shadow, which was less than a few centimeters away from him.
"Ghost!"
The horror film director was terrified. Countless horrifying images from horror movies suddenly emerged in his mind, and he ran away immediately.
As he moved, the black shadow behind him, which was moving slowly, seemed to be stimulated and sped up to follow him.
Seeing this, the crew members didn't dare to stay in the hall any longer and scattered in panic.
As a top undergraduate student, the director knows one thing very well - when being chased by a wolf, you don't have to run faster than the wolf, you just have to run faster than your companions.
Therefore, he immediately fled to the second floor. There were people all downstairs, and the target was so big. If the black shadow had a little bit of brains, he should know where to catch people. The second floor was much safer than the first floor...
The director secretly congratulated himself on his wit, lowered his head and glanced downstairs, and his eyes suddenly burst out -
The black shadow actually rushed straight upstairs!
"Fuck, there are so many people downstairs and you don't care, why are you chasing me!"
The director wanted to cry but had no tears. He ran as fast as he could and tried to increase his speed. But how could a human being compare to a ghost? The speed of the shadow was so fast that it was almost unbelievable. It was about to stick to his back in an instant.
At the critical moment, the director's adrenaline surged. He threw himself forward and rolled into the corridor, pushed open the door of the room closest to the stairs, and without even bothering to lock it, he rolled and crawled under the bed, not daring to breathe.
He had just tried to close the door, but because he was in a hurry, he didn't use enough force, so the door was not closed, and there was a gap as thick as a thumb left.
The pale light outside the corridor poured into the room through the crack in the door, forming a bright line that just extended to the bed.
"Can't see me, can't see me, can't see me..."
The director broke out in a cold sweat and prayed silently in his heart, hoping that the black shadow would wander around in another room and not find him.
Time passed minute by minute, and the corridor outside was silent, as if there was no one there. But he did not dare to be careless at all. He covered his mouth and hid under the bed without moving.
He secretly swore that if he could leave safely this time, he would ask his friend to compensate for the mental damages. There was obviously something wrong with this villa. But he soon realized that this standard sentence pattern of "If I can do this, I must do this when I go back" was a typical flag-setting in the movie, so he quickly discarded the idea.
I don't know if it was really because of the initiative to raise the flag, but the next second, there was a creaking sound, and the door was suddenly pushed open. With the light from outside the corridor, I could clearly see an elongated shadow stopped at the door.
The director's whole body was stiff and his breathing almost stopped.
"Don't come in, don't come in... Ghost Brother, Ghost Sister, Ghost Dad will do! If it doesn't work, let's make a deal. I'll help you make a documentary, and you'll let me live, okay..."
He kept talking nonsense in his mind to ease the fear in his heart, but unfortunately the shadow outside the door obviously couldn't hear his inner monologue and slowly walked into the room.
The position where it stood just blocked the gap in the door, completely blocking out all light coming from the door, and the room was pitch dark.
The director's heart sank. He could see a blurry black shadow moving back and forth in the room, as if looking for something.
It was obvious that the person the other party was looking for was him.
"It's okay, don't be afraid. The movies say ghosts don't bend over. I'm under the bed, and it can't see me..."
He tried his best to comfort himself, but still couldn't stop the dark shadow from coming to the bedside.
The light in the room seemed to be completely swallowed up, and not a single ray of light remained.
The director held his breath and even had to put a finger in his mouth to control his chattering teeth.
Fortunately, the dark shadow did not stay by the bed for too long. It seemed that it searched the bed in vain and turned to leave.
The director secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the next second, the black shadow turned around again, and a terrifying and hideous ghost face suddenly appeared in front of him.
……
Han Zhou looked at the note in his hand in confusion. If this was a hint from the mysterious sachet, it would be a little too difficult to understand.
"Before today, I hated dreaming."
"What about after today?"
“I’ll try to like it as much as I can.”
This looks like a meaningless conversation with very little content, so little that it is impossible to extract any useful information.
He had a headache. The mysterious treasure bag was the most ineffective product. Whether it could be used successfully depended on luck. Even if it was used successfully, the information given was difficult to understand and could hardly help him solve the dilemma at hand.
If this thing could be rated, I would give it a bad review...
Han Zhou complained in his heart and wanted to throw the note away, but then he thought that this thing might be useful in the future, so he decided to try to put it back into the brocade bag.
As a mall item, the mysterious treasure bag can be taken back to the inventory. If this thing can help to carry things and reduce the weight, it would be of some use.
He was pondering how to squeeze out the value of the brocade bag, when suddenly his expression changed slightly. He pulled open the bag with force and held it above his head to look inside.
It was not until now that he noticed that there was a line of small words inside the brocade bag.
"Take half a sleeping pill and consume half of your current points, and you will arrive at the place you want to go."
"Take another half of the sleeping pill and consume half of the current amount of points again, and you will be back to the starting position."
"Note that when you return to the initial position, all memories since leaving the initial position will disappear, and the traces of the impact on reality during this period will also be corrected. If you need to keep it, please use the 'anchor freeze device' in time during this period."
Han Zhou never imagined that there would be words inside the mysterious brocade bag, and judging from the content described in these words, it was undoubtedly the way to find Xiao Xiaoxiao.
It really couldn't be blamed on his carelessness, because the words were too small, and the color of the words was exactly the same as the color of the sachet, so normal people couldn't see them at all.
And who would have thought that the truly useful part of this so-called "mysterious treasure bag" is not the note inside it, but the treasure bag itself?
I’m afraid no normal person can think of this, right?
Han Zhou had already anticipated that this was probably the correct way to open the "mysterious sachet", and the text on the sachet was consistent with the consistent statement style of the status bar.
In other words, the truly useful information is always on the secret bag, not on the words on the pieces of paper.
If he guessed correctly, he probably missed some really useful information when he successfully used the secret bag several times before.
As for why the status bar was so boring and even had a misleading note to mislead him, he really couldn't understand it.
But there is no time to think about this right now. The most urgent task is to find Xiao Xiaoxiao as soon as possible. Since the status bar gives the method, he just needs to follow it.
Seeing that everyone was still struggling to figure out how to find Xiao Xiaoxiao, he coughed dryly, focused everyone's attention on himself, and said, "Don't worry, I already know how to find Xiaoxiao."