Ningning returned to the cinema.
Although it was reserved by Director Chen as a publicity venue, it was only used on the day of the premiere, so it was still used to entertain guests in normal times.
After seeing the venue, Director Chen had already left. After he left, the cinema began to show a youth literary film.
The movie was probably bad, so when Ning Ning came in, the huge audience was dotted with a few audience members in twos and threes. The number was already poor. When Ning Ning came in, one of them got up and left and passed Ning Ning. . Ningning gave him the way, then took out his phone and sent a text message: "I'm here."
The audience raised an arm and shook it twice.
Ning Ning walked over and sat down beside him.
Qu Yan gave her a friendly smile, and was about to speak when the Boss Qu beside him said lightly, "Okay, you can go back."
"Okay." Qu Yan listened to his words very much, and immediately got up to give up his seat, "Then I'll go back first, you guys can talk slowly."
After he left, a seat was vacated between Ning Ning and Boss Qu, but both of them sat in their current seats and did not move, neither would get up, nor would anyone sit over.
"The original fare evasion punishment was not only used to punish the fare evaders." Ning Ning stared at the opposite screen and said, "At the same time, it was also used to punish the gatekeeper."
The gatekeeper accepted a bribe from Zhao Da, allowing Zhao Da to watch more than a dozen plays without a ticket. There were no less than a hundred characters involved in the play, and Zhao Da did not have to pay any price.
This move seems to have angered the theater of life, so in the initial ticket evasion, Zhao Da was the ticket evader, and the gatekeeper was forced to be the punisher. In the play, they turned against each other and tried their best to kill the opponent.
"The gatekeeper is usually protected by the Life Cinema. No one can hurt him or kill him except the cinema itself. Only in the movie "Fee Evasion"..." Ning Ning turned to look at Boss Qu, "The gatekeeper is not protected. Yes, it can be killed by others."
Zhao Da successfully killed the alcoholic gatekeeper. After all, gatekeepers are also human. If there is no cinema to take care of them, they will be fierce and cunning as human beings. The alcoholic gatekeeper unfortunately lost, but Zhao Da is not much better. , The new gatekeeper doesn't drink alcohol, doesn't eat his clothes, Zhao Da can't enter the theater, until one day, when he went to the neighbor's house to steal wine, he took a life theater ticket on the table...
"That's all?" Boss Qu said lightly.
Ning Ning was stunned.
"You came here to find me, just to tell me this?" Boss Qu sat in the auditorium and sneered while looking at the screen, "I already knew about this, it's not like you haven't seen it, there are still a few more things about the cinema. The old man in ancient costume is here."
Most of those who dress like ancient ladies, down-and-out scholars, and ninth-rank officials are not role-playing, but acting in their true colors. What era are they wearing? The story of the times.
Ning Ning was silent for a while and said, "I know you are still doing this. You hate others, and others hate you. If you want to kill others, others can kill you."
"Then you go." Boss Qu turned his head and smiled at her, "I guess they don't know about it yet, you go tell them."
Ningning got stuck immediately.
"...Why don't you listen to me no matter how I persuade?" She couldn't help raising her hand to wipe the tears from her face, "Is it because I'm not really Ning'er?"
She looked at him and asked sadly, "You don't think of me as a daughter anymore? Not the first daughter, nor the second one?"
Death could not shake Boss Qu, Huairou kept him silent for a long time, and finally shook his head.
"It's not good for me to be my daughter anyway. I can't give you something to eat, something to drink, something to wear, something to wear, and a husband who obeys you. Just don't call me dad anymore." Qu The boss smiled helplessly, "Don't try to persuade me, after all... you're not really Ning'er."
These words made Ning Ning feel cold.
She looked at the seat separated from each other, and suddenly realized that they were no longer intimate, and there was not a seat between them, but a person.
At this time, on the screen, the male protagonist was unfortunately shot. Because he was holding on to the female protagonist, he held his breath and did not die. He crossed half of China. After seeing the female protagonist, he made an ouch, and the wound began to spurt blood. This magical plot caused a burst of laughter in the audience.
Boss Qu did not smile.
"And I'm really not afraid of death." He looked up at the screen, light and shadow swayed on his mask, like the reflection of a flame, "I was burned to the last breath in that fire. This breath is reserved for the Chen family, no matter what the outcome is, I just want to take this breath."
It seems that he is really not afraid of death, so he violated the rules of the cinema.
Before the movie was over, Boss Qu got up and left. Behind him, Ning Ning sat in the audience in a daze. After a while, he lowered his head and opened the folder on his lap.
The rules of the cinema of life are not static. Like a human being, like a sophisticated machine, it will self-examine and introspect. Once it finds a loophole in itself, it will patch and correct it.
Coincidentally, it seems that every time a patch is applied, a gatekeeper is replaced.
The converse is also possible. Every time the gatekeeper has an undeserved desire and does something he should not do, the movie theater will hang a red lantern.
"Do you know that there are red lanterns hanging at the entrance of the cinema, that's the warning it gave you." Ning Ning murmured, "If you continue like this, it will change the gatekeeper."
As for which rule Qu Boss intends to violate? I'm afraid it's... can't kill the fare evader.
A month passed quickly.
Also in this movie theater.
Celebrities gathered, and the seats were full. Looking around, even the aisles were full of people. The staff had to recheck the tickets one by one, and then take out the ticket evaders who had sneaked in.
The backstage was hectic.
"Where's my headgear? Where's my headgear?" "Quick, help me to see if my eyebrows are drawn crooked?" "Are you all ready? I'm going to the stage."
Ning Ning is also in the background.
Because it is a stage play, not a movie, the makeup is extremely exaggerated, and the rich and gorgeous colors are spread on the face, like wearing a Venetian mask.
"Nine times out of ten he will attack you on stage." Ning Ning said to Chen Shuanghe, "You have to be careful and protect yourself. If you find something wrong, go to the auditorium."
He said to Shi Zhongtang, "You protect him."
Chen Shuanghe and Shi Zhongtang looked at each other, and Shi Zhongtang asked her with a smile, "What's wrong? It's like Tuo Gu... Did Boss Qu tell you something?"
Ning Ning nodded and shook his head again.
"I tried to persuade him, but he couldn't." Ning Ning sighed and looked in the direction of Boss Qu, "There is a chance that something will happen to this performance."
Boss Qu glanced at her from a distance and went to the stage with Qu Yan.
Amidst the applause, the curtains opened to both sides, revealing the court behind them.
The courtroom was extremely dark. There was no one on the judge's bench, the plaintiff's bench, or the witness's bench. There was only a white-haired man sitting on the defendant's bench. It was Qu Yan disguised as an old man. Shackled and hunched over in a chair.
A gavel sounded, followed by a majestic voice: "Zhu Yan, why did you kill Romeo?"
"Romeo?" Qu Yan repeated, slowly raising his head.
"You first took his property by despicable means, smeared his reputation, and turned him from a man into a rat crossing the street," said the majestic voice, "and then you killed him like a Like a mouse, why?"
"Why?" Qu Yan slowly stood up from his seat, looked up at the judge's bench, raised his hand and roared, "Because he killed my daughter!!"
"Nonsense! Your daughter died in a car accident!"
"If it wasn't for him to elope with my daughter, and if it wasn't for a car accident on the way, how could my daughter die?" Qu Yan shouted angrily, "He only saved himself, but not my daughter! My lovely , poor Juliet..."
A sigh sounded behind him: "Dad."
Qu Yan quickly turned around and saw Ning Ning in a white wedding dress standing behind him, holding a blood-red bouquet in his hand. The blood not only stained the bouquet, but also the wedding dress on her body.
"Juliet!" Qu Yan stretched out her hand to her, but Ning Ning held a bouquet of flowers, bowed her head and walked away from him. She did not go to the backstage, but walked all the way to the stage. Amidst the audience's exclamations, she walked to the audience. Sealy.
Director Chen was also sitting in the auditorium, and his lips were slightly raised because of the amazement of the crowd. Li Shanzhu, who was beside him, complimented him: "Director Chen, this promotion has been successful again... eh?"
Ning Ning passed the "ghost seat" prepared for her, glanced lightly, did not sit down, but walked towards the door with her feet raised.
Director Chen stood up from the audience: "Where are you going?"
Ning Ning glanced back at him, then simply picked up her skirt and started running.
"oops."
"Excuse me."
Accidentally collided with someone on the road, Ning Ning apologized and hesitated for a moment. On the opposite side stood Ning Yuren and Ning Ning when she was a girl.
Ning Ning watched them for a while, and suddenly found that Director Chen was chasing from the opposite side, and hurriedly turned around and ran away.
"Ah, Jade, you are here."
"Please call me Miss Ning, thank you."
Director Chen didn't chase after him. Ning Ning ran out of the door smoothly. After struggling to get rid of the reporters at the door, she got into a taxi, and then she was free to answer Chen Shuanghe's call.
"Where are you going?" Chen Shuanghe asked.
"My role is over, it's useless to stay." Ning Ning took a deep breath and said to him, "I'm going to the next place."
"Where."
"Life Cinema."
There are cinemas of life in every era, and this era is no exception. Ningning walked in cautiously, for fear that as soon as she came in, she would return to reality. Fortunately, the situation of "Fee Evasion" was special, she was relieved and looked up at the darkness in front of her. screen.
Thirty days was enough for her to do a lot of things, such as reading through the folders that Teacher Li gave her.
The predecessors have left a lot of information about the cinema of life, and the most valuable one is...
"I want to see your master." Ning Ning said.
According to the records of the predecessors, the cinema is not an ownerless thing. In many strange novels, in the notes of many predecessors, in addition to masks, masked people, gatekeepers, and a landlord in the theater of life.
There are very few records about the landlord. According to the records, the landlord does not seem to be a single person. If you change the era, you will be replaced by another person. If you are in troubled times, sometimes it will be replaced four or five times. It can be seen that the landlords are all flesh and blood. , 80% are mortals.
Ning Ning waited for a long time, the cinema was silent, no one spoke, all the masked people were lurking in the darkness, watching her silently through their masks.
"If you don't have a master now..." Ningning clenched her fists tightly, her voice was slightly hoarse because of her nervousness, "I am willing to accept your test..."
Take the risk and have to.
Who can stop the gatekeeper, who can order the gatekeeper, except the cinema itself, there is only the landlord.
According to the information at hand, since the end of the Republic of China to the present, the records about the landlord have never appeared again. Does this mean that... the previous landlord has died? Is the movie theater of life now a no-man's thing
"If I pass the test..." Ningning looked at the opposite screen like a gambler. Besides, she has no better way, there is no other way to solve all problems from the source, "Please, let I am your master."
As soon as the voice fell, a beam of light suddenly fell from the cinema, shining straight on Ning Ning. The sudden light made Ning Ning narrow her eyes and involuntarily took two steps back. As a result, wherever she retreated, the beam of light followed her.
Pop, pop, pop. A masked man slowly applauded, and the masked man beside him seemed to be infected by him, and also applauded together. Amidst their repeated applause, a man's voice sounded in the darkness.
Ning Ning had heard that voice, and it sounded on the night of the masked man's carnival. : "Are you willing to risk your whole life to accept my test?"