After a good night's sleep, Gu Jiu felt very energetic when he woke up the next day.
When the two left the room, they found that other players had also gotten up early and were exploring the castle's environment.
No matter how lazy a person is in real life, once they enter the game world, they will not have the idea of sleeping in. When life is not guaranteed, laziness, a bad habit derived from human nature, can easily disappear.
Gu Jiu asked in a low voice: "Aji, have you found where your little paper figurine's studio is?"
After dinner last night, some players quickly went to explore the castle environment. Especially players like Lu Ji who had shooting tasks early in the morning, they had to find out where today's shooting location was in advance to avoid being late for it today.
The reason they didn't go to check was because they had Lu Ji's little paper man to help them.
The little paper man is thin and small, and can hide itself when needed. It is perfect for exploring the environment.
Gu Jiu didn't know to what extent Lu Ji had control over the little paper man. Since Lu Ji said that the little paper man could help explore the castle environment, she was not in a hurry to check it out. After all, the Helan Castle was too big. If she wanted to explore the entire castle, it would probably take more than a day.
Lu Ji said: "The studio is over there in the clock tower. It takes half an hour to get there from here."
Gu Jiu subconsciously looked out the window and saw the clock tower opposite.
The distance between the clock tower and the main body of the castle is very interesting. There are two ways to get to the clock tower. You can go out from the castle gate and cross the castle's open-air garden, or you can go around the indoor passage. It's just a long way and it takes nearly an hour.
The weather today is not good. The sky is gloomy and it looks like it is going to rain.
Gu Jiu said: "It might rain, why don't we go around through the indoor passage." She looked at her cell phone. It was 7:00 in the morning. An hour would be enough.
Although mobile phones have no signal in the game world, they can be used to check the time, so most players will bring their mobile phones in.
Lu Ji had no objection.
After the two arrived at the first floor, they went around the passage on the left to the clock tower.
On the way, they met some players who were in a hurry. Their shooting location was far away, so they needed to speed up to avoid arriving within the specified time and causing bad things to happen.
Walking around the indoor passages, gradually leaving the main part of the castle, the surrounding environment became extremely quiet.
The area of the Helan Castle is very large, but strangely there are no servants in the castle. However, the castle looks like it has been carefully maintained by a lot of manpower and financial resources, which requires a lot of manpower and it is impossible that there are no servants.
Of course, as Fatty said, don’t use normal logic to look at everything in the game world and don’t take it too seriously.
Although there are windows on both sides of the passage, the light here is dim because it is cloudy.
There is a half-person-high painting on the walls on both sides of the passage at regular intervals. The paintings are mainly portraits and landscapes. There are so many portraits, and the characters in them are all strange, including men, women, old and young, good-looking and ugly. Because the paintings are too realistic, people have the illusion that the people in the paintings will jump out of the paintings at any time.
This kind of reality does not refer to the true restoration of the camera's photos, but the reality depicted by the painter stroke by stroke.
"Aji, do you think these people are real?" Gu Jiu suddenly spoke.
Lu Ji took a look and happened to see a portrait of an ugly old man with sparse hair, layers of wrinkles, and age spots all over his face. His facial features looked like they had been twisted and then reassembled. He was indeed very ugly.
She said calmly, "I don't know."
Gu Jiu smiled and said, "If the person in the painting is real, you see how ugly the person is... It's too hurtful to the eyes."
"… "
Gu Jiu waited for a while and found that there was no change in the painting, so she didn't care.
Finally we arrived at the studio on the other side of the clock tower.
The studio is located on the second floor. When you open the door, you will see that the studio is filled with many paintings, but they are all unfinished works, and some are even only sketched out with a few strokes.
Without exception, the content of these paintings is very abstract.
In short, Gu Jiu couldn't tell what was being painted.
Facing the door, there is a blank canvas with pens and paints next to it. You can just go there and start painting.
Lu Ji's eyes swept across the paintings in the studio. She did not rush to pick up the pen. She came to a highly completed painting and looked up at it.
The twisted curves and messy color combinations make your eyes feel dizzy after looking at them for a long time.
Gu Jiu couldn't help but look away and pressed his temple. He found that his head was throbbing and he felt a little uncomfortable.
"Don't look at them." Lu Ji's voice sounded softly, "Leave the studio and don't come in."
Gu Jiu responded and looked at the time. It was five minutes to eight o'clock.
She stepped out of the studio. The door was not closed and she could see Lu Ji standing in front of the blank canvas. He picked up the pen and began to paint on it.
Lu Ji painted for a long time, but Gu Jiu found that there was nothing on the canvas.
She was slightly startled, and at the same time she wondered whether what she was seeing was real or an illusion? Was Lu Ji okay in there
Just as she was about to enter the studio, the heels of her leather boots tightened slightly.
Gu Jiu looked down and found that it was Lu Ji's little paper man who was pressing down on the heel of her leather boots. The little paper man was pressing her boots with one hand and waving the other hand at her, signaling her not to go in.
My anxious heart suddenly calmed down.
The little paper man was folded by Lu Ji himself and represents Lu Ji. As long as the little paper man is there, it proves that Lu Ji should be fine.
**
At exactly eight o'clock, Lu Ji stood in front of the blank canvas.
She looked back as if she had realized something and found that the door behind her had disappeared at some point and the studio had become a sealed space.
It seems that people who enter the studio must complete their work. As for the result after completion... Lu Ji looked at the unfinished works and understood the fate of those who completed the paintings.
Picking up the pen on the table, Lu Ji began to paint on the canvas.
She didn't paint anything deliberately, she just painted casually, filling the entire canvas with color.
When the canvas is about to be filled, the messy colors and lines twist and turn as if they have self-awareness, rearranging themselves and finally becoming an incredibly realistic painting.
When Lu Ji saw the dead girl appearing on the canvas, a smile appeared on his face.
This smile is neither a shallow smile nor a stiff smile, but an interesting and somewhat dark smile.
"How boring." She murmured softly, "I really don't like these disgusting and ugly worlds. Why can't we destroy them all..."
**
Gu Jiu waited outside the studio for several hours.
She stared at the studio without blinking until Lu Ji in front of the canvas finally made some movements, as if he appeared at the door in an instant.
Seeing Gu Jiu in the same posture as when he left in the morning, the girl's pale face softened a little, and she said quietly, "Ajiu."
Gu Jiu was slightly distracted, and said in surprise: "You came out, is everything okay?"
Lu Ji said: "No, let's talk while we walk."
Gu Jiu responded and before leaving, he glanced at the canvas facing the door in the studio and found that the canvas was still blank, as if Lu Ji had not painted on it just now.
On the way back, Lu Ji told her about her experience in the studio.
"At eight o'clock, I started painting. At first I didn't know what I was going to paint. I just randomly smeared paint on the canvas until it gradually took shape. Then I found that the painting had become the appearance of my death."
At this point, her voice paused slightly.
Gu Jiu did not interrupt her and listened quietly.
"This should be the painting of death for Mrs. Helan mentioned in the note. The painter used his own life to paint the painting of death. When the painting was formed, I felt a strange force full of murderous intent locking me. I would die like the person in the painting. Later, I used the Stand Card to escape from that strange power."
“After I use up the stand-in card, my painting becomes an unfinished work.”
Gu Jiu said thoughtfully: "Those who have not completed their works are the ones who are lucky enough to escape death."
"Yes." Lu Ji pursed his lips, "Ajiu, when you perform in the dance hall this afternoon, you must be careful. There will be death traps here."
Each player has only one Stand card, which can only prevent one death.
I don’t know how many days this game mission will take. If I have to go through a death trap every day, the substitute cards will not be enough.
Gu Jiu said: "It seems that I have to make good use of the substitute card."
It was already noon when the two returned to the hall on the first floor of the castle.
There were several players sitting on the sofas in the hall. When they saw Gu Jiu and Lu Ji coming back, their eyes flickered slightly.
After the two sat down, some players came over.
"Ladies, do you have any filming tasks this morning?"
The two players who came over were a man and a woman. The man had a resolute look, a strong physique, and looked very secure; the woman was petite, with a cute round face, and she was not very old.
Gu Jiu took the mango milk handed to him by Lu Ji, took a sip, and looked at the two of them with a smile.
The milk was prepared by Lu Ji. She found that the eldest lady liked drinking dairy products very much and bought a lot of dairy products when shopping in Wujie City.
Seeing that they didn't respond, the two of them introduced themselves sincerely.
The male player is called Lu Haidi, and the female player is called Ruan Yuan. They are a couple and have been promoted to the C-level gaming field for several months.
Gu Jiu introduced himself fluently, "We have just been promoted to the C-level field. This is our first time entering the C-level game world."
The players who pricked up their ears nearby looked a little disrespectful after hearing this. Even if they were players of the same level, their strengths were different because of the different games they had experienced. Although C-level players didn't trust the players in the same game, if there was a powerful player in the same game, they would adjust their attitude and try not to provoke him, or find someone to cling to.
Lu Haidi and Ruan Yuan did not show any strange expressions on their faces. They continued to talk to them about today's shooting tasks and revealed some of their own tasks.
Ruan Yuan's shooting task was in the morning, and she played the role of the castle's gardener.
Lu Haidi’s shooting assignment is in the afternoon, and the time has not yet arrived.
"My shooting task is also in the afternoon." Gu Jiu said, "Aji's shooting task is in the morning. She is a painter, so let her perform in the studio."
During the conversation, Gu Jiu keenly realized that as long as he successfully completed the shooting task, he could tell other players frankly, but for those who have not started yet, it is best not to reveal the content of their task.
"Did Sister Lu encounter any problems in the studio?" Ruan Yuan asked.
Hearing the name "Sister Lu", Lu Ji couldn't help but look at Ruan Yuan, and couldn't help but remember that Gu Jiu had also called her that before.
Ruan Yuan tilted her head and smiled cutely, saying, "Don't be fooled by my round face. I am actually an adult."
So she was embarrassed to call the underage girl "sister".
Lu Ji said calmly: "I drew a picture of my own death at that time."
Lu Haidi and Ruan Yuan gasped, and the other players looked over in surprise. They didn't expect Lu Ji's first day of filming to be so dangerous. But seeing that she appeared here safely, they knew that she must have used props to escape.
Ruan Yuan originally came here with some tentative intentions, but she didn't expect to hear these things. The other party did not hide it from her, so she naturally stopped hiding it and told them that when she was doing the task, her neck was almost cut by a pair of large scissors. Fortunately, she reacted quickly and avoided the deadly scissors.
It can be seen that when each player plays the role on the note, death follows him closely.
For example, the gardener played by Ruan Yuan can avoid it with his own agility, but Lu Ji's Painting of Death is too dangerous to avoid, and can only rely on the Stand Card.
"By the way, we haven't seen any equipment for filming movies here since this morning. I think it's a bit strange to film a movie here."
What Ruan Yuan didn’t say was that perhaps a player would have to die before they could know what the movie was about.
Only when the player dies will it be associated with the name "Death Movie".
After exchanging information with each other, the couple Ruan Yuan and Lu Haidi left.
After that, no players came over to chat with Gu Jiu and Lu Ji. The two didn't care and sat on the sofa in the hall to rest.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, the two went to the ballroom in the castle.
The dance hall was on the first floor of the castle, not far away. When the two arrived at the dance hall, they found that the couple Lu Haidi and Ruan Yuan were also there, as well as two male players.
When they saw each other, they knew that their next filming assignment would be in the dance hall.
Gu Jiu took the initiative to say: "I'm a dancer, what about you?"
Lu Haidi: “I am a performer.”
The remaining two male players saw this and knew that their shooting time was approaching. There was no point in hiding it, so they confessed immediately.
“I’m a singer.”
"I'm the Joker."
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