Boss Qu followed her gaze.
Just now, he was just chasing after Chen Shuanghe, and when he looked away from Chen Shuanghe, he realized that there were so many people and so many parents near the gate.
Some people kept shouting their children's names at the door, some unscrewed the mineral water bottle in their hands, poured it from head to toe, and then rushed inside regardless of others' stop.
"Ningning!" Ning Yuren struggled in Director Chen's arms, "Let go of me, I'm going to save Ningning!"
"Wait for the fire brigade to come!" Chen Dao refused to let go, "You are a national treasure actress, you can't take risks! You must stay here!"
Ning Yuren couldn't get rid of it, turned his head and shouted at him angrily: "Aren't you in a hurry at all? Your son is also inside!"
Chen Dao was stunned for a moment, then shrugged and laughed indifferently, as if to say: I am a director at the national treasure level, how can I take risks for a mere Chen Shuanghe
"...Why should I take the risk?" Boss Qu said to himself, "They are all children from other families. What does their life or death have to do with me? There... there is no my daughter... "
He turned around and chased after Chen Shuanghe, but after only two steps, he suddenly turned and rushed through the gate.
The rushing heat wave made him take a few steps back. Most of the people had already escaped, and only a few people remained inside. Coughing, crying, and calling for help, Boss Qu followed the cry of one of the children. , and then lifted a girl from the ground, her face was blackened, Boss Qu reached out and wiped it twice, but it couldn't be wiped clean, so he hurriedly asked, "Are you Ningning?"
The girl was frightened by the situation in front of her. There was no one on the other side, but something lifted her from the ground and reached out to wipe her face.
"Wow—" The girl flattened her mouth and cried, "Mom!!"
Boss Qu gave a low scolding, left her and walked a few steps, turned around and picked her up again, walked to the door in three or two steps, and threw her out the door.
The girl threw herself on the ground, and the fat woman who had been pestering Chen Shuanghe before rushed over, hugged her and cried, "Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, if you're okay... ouch!"
Another girl was thrown from the inside and hit her right on top.
After that, people were thrown out one after another, but no one could see who was saving them, not even a little black residue on the ground, which was the remnants of the burned film.
"Cough cough." Boss Qu coughed. He had forgotten how many times he had come in. Damn it, where is Ning Ning? He put his arms around a little girl and covered her face with a wet cloth in the other hand. He walked to a seat not far away. There was an intermittent coughing sound from under the seat. The voice was soft and probably a child.
Without waiting for him to arrive, one hand fished the person out from under the seat ahead of time and held him in his arms.
It was Shi Zhongtang, who was also saving people.
Boss Qu stared at the girl in his arms and asked, "Is this Ningning?"
The girl had already fainted, Shi Zhongtang looked at her face, continued to let her faint in his chest, turned to Boss Qu and said, "No."
Boss Qu was extremely disappointed. After sending the person in his hand out, he looked down at his right hand. Three fingers were missing. Only the unburned tape was attached to the palm of his hand and fell down one by one.
"What the hell am I doing?" he murmured, "My hands are obviously not used for these things..."
"Ningning!"
Boss Qu turned his head and saw that Ning Yuren rushed to his side, helped the girl he just rescued, and cried, "No, it's not Ningning..."
She looked around at a loss, many people had been rescued, but there was no Ningning inside.
Ning Yuren wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand, got up slowly, and walked towards the gate. Halfway through, she was hugged by Director Chen.
"Let go!" Ning Yuren screamed, "Don't tell me about national treasures or movies, I just want my daughter! I'd rather die in it with her!"
Director Chen knew that he couldn't convince her, so he didn't say a word and just held her.
"...I hate you." Ning Yuren couldn't get rid of it, turned his head slowly, and looked at him with resentment, "If Ningning died, I would never play your role, and there would be no me where there is you, I won't help you with the bad things you've done, I hate you, and I will hate you forever!"
Hate you forever and ever!
This hatred never ends!
"No, I don't hate you." Ning Yuren murmured again, lowered his head and sobbed, "If only I hadn't brought her to watch this show, if only I hadn't let go of her hand... ah !! I hate it!! Why, I can’t even protect my daughter!!”
Boss Qu stared at Ning Yuren for a moment, suddenly figured out something, smiled desolately, turned around and walked towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Shi Zhongtang shouted from behind, "The fire brigade is coming soon!"
He shouted slowly, Boss Qu's back had disappeared into the sea of flames, Shi Zhongtang sighed helplessly, and was about to follow a piece in when suddenly a girl's cry came from behind: "Mom!"
Turning his head to look, he saw Ning Ning, who was a girl, rushing into Ning Yuren's arms.
"Ning Ning." Ning Yuren knelt on the ground, hugged her and kept crying, and after a while, she looked up at the middle-aged man standing opposite, "Thank you, thank you so much, I only have this one Daughter, she is my life!"
"No thanks, no thanks." The middle-aged man hurriedly waved his hand, and the fat woman standing beside him hugged the girl named Xiaolin and smiled at Ning Yuren: "The natural disaster is ruthless, people are affectionate, and my children are also being attacked by others. There are still many good people in this world... Ah, the fire brigade is here!"
The crowd hurried to clear the way, and firefighters rushed into the fire.
Soon, more than a dozen people were rescued from the inside. Except for one who died on the spot, the remaining three were taken to the hospital with serious injuries and minor injuries. Because he knows that there is absolutely no way anyone can be saved.
The movie theater, which was still magnificent just now, is now only full of darkness and wreckage.
Shi Zhongtang found a floor of film in the wreckage.
The film was almost finished, and in the black ashes lay a snow-white mask with a few cracks burned.
"I didn't find her." Boss Qu's voice suddenly came from behind the mask, a little weak.
"She's all right." Shi Zhongtang leaned down slowly, "Someone rescued her."
Boss Qu heaved a sigh of relief and smiled again: "Why didn't anyone save Ning'er? Is it true that good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil?"
Shi Zhongtang was silent, not knowing how to answer him.
"Shi Zhongtang." Boss Qu was also silent for a moment, and then said lightly, "Congratulations, I'm about to die, and your wish can be fulfilled."
Shi Zhongtang froze for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "I just want you to lose, I don't want you to die."
"It doesn't matter." Boss Qu said, "I'll make a will here. I'll give Ningning to you. You have to treat her kindly and tell her... Forget it, don't tell her anything."
"It's about this time." Shi Zhongtang advised, "What do you want me to convey?"
The mask didn't make a sound for a long time, just when Shi Zhongtang thought he was dead, he said slowly: "...There is a shop selling masks across from the cinema. Go buy one and tell her..."
His voice was getting lower and lower, and Shi Zhongtang could only hear clearly when he leaned on the ground and put his ear to it.
"Okay." Boss Qu said, "Let's go, I don't want you to die for me."
Shi Zhongtang got up with a wry smile, and just walked a few steps, suddenly a voice came from behind: "Wait."
He turned his head and looked at the mask on the ground.
There was smoke on the mask, and Boss Qu's voice was quieter and farther than the smoke, he said, "If I were to choose again, I would not choose to be the gatekeeper, so Ning'er may still be saved... Be careful. I don't know why, but the Cinema of Life sometimes deliberately misleads us into a path that is... the opposite of what we really want..."
Inside the Cinema of Life.
Ning Ning was arguing with the man, or more precisely, she was arguing alone, and the man ignored it at all. Ning Ning said nothing, just when she was about to give up, the man suddenly said: "Congratulations, first. You passed a test."
Ningning was stunned: "What did I just do? Or what did I say? How did I pass the test?"
"It's the first test." The man corrected, "You have satisfied the first premise of being a landlord—you have to be a living person."
Ning Ning frowned, not understanding what he meant: "I have always been alive."
The man smiled and didn't explain it to her, but said, "The next test is the most important test - I want a new gatekeeper."
A new gatekeeper.
"So... what about the old gatekeeper?" Ningning asked.
The man smiled and asked, "What do you think?"
Ning Ning stared at the screen in the dark for a while, then suddenly took out her mobile phone and made a call while walking towards the door.
The phone rang for a long time and finally got through.
"Why are you so noisy over there?" Ning Ning frowned, "What happened?"
Human voices, police cars, ambulances, and Chen Shuanghe's voice were mixed in the crowd, and it was difficult to hear clearly. He said, "The theater has just caught fire."
"It's on fire? Are you okay?" Ning Ning hurriedly asked, "Is anyone injured?"
Chen Shuanghe hesitated: "Most people are fine, but a small number of people have an accident..."
Ning Ning paused and looked at the man in front of him.
As the sun went down, the setting sun was like blood, Shi Zhongtang walked slowly across the street, stood in front of her, took out a mask from behind and handed it to her.
Ning Ning looked down at the mask.
Inexpensive, ten dollars a piece, a snow-white mask.
"We won." Shi Zhongtang said, "As punishment, he became like this."
Ning Ning hung up the phone and slowly reached out to take the mask.
"He's very angry." Shi Zhongtang continued to recite Boss Qu's words, "He said that next time he changes back to the masked man, he will never be softer. If the two of us stop him again, he will kill us both together."
Ning Ning was stunned: "Did he really say that?"
"Yes." After Shi Zhongtang finished speaking, he couldn't help but add, "Maybe it's just talking..."
The two were silent for a moment, and finally Shi Zhongtang spoke first and said, "Let's go, let's go to the screening room... Let's hang him up together."
He took Ning Ning's hand involuntarily, dragged her all the way to the screening room, found a place among the masks on the wall, and asked Ning Ning to hang the mask by hand.
Ning Ning turned her back to Shi Zhongtang, and Shi Zhongtang couldn't see her expression at the moment.
"He's still alive, isn't he?" Ningning asked.
"Yeah." Shi Zhongtang lied, "He can see you and hear you, but he can't speak."
"Then can I come over and talk to him often in the future?" Ningning finished speaking, and slumped her shoulders in frustration, "Oh, I forgot, I have no tickets in my hand... Can you talk to him more?"
"Okay." Shi Zhongtang hugged her from behind, "I will often come to accompany him and tell him more jokes to the old man."
The two cuddled with each other until Ning Ning's body gradually changed, from Zhao Yufen back to her original body.
"I'm much better." Ning Ning sniffed and said, "Let's go down."
The two walked out of the screening room, and Ning Ning looked at the scene in front of her and was stunned.
The auditorium was empty, the popcorn box, the finished pyrotechnic sticks were thrown all over the place, and there were a few colorful balloons flying in the air. Everything was there, but one thing was missing...
"Where's the masked man?" Ning Ning turned to look at Shi Zhongtang.
"Let's all go." Shi Zhongtang said lightly, "After all, there is no gatekeeper anymore."
Ning Ning was taken aback, she hurriedly walked out of the gate of the cinema, the rain had stopped outside, and there were already pedestrians on the road, it seemed that they were coming back from supper, a group of people walked past Ning Ning talking and laughing, one of them turned his head Glancing at Ningning, there was a crying mask on his face.
Ning Ning took a step back in shock and bumped into a solid chest.
She looked up and saw Shi Zhongtang, who was also wearing a mask. He lowered his head and smiled at her, saying, "No one can stop us anymore."
The crying face masked man in front glanced at them, then turned around quickly, followed the pedestrian away, Ning Ning looked at them from behind, they were afraid they didn't even know that there was another person beside them.
The moonlight, the laughing crowd, the figure shaking on the ground... and the extra shadow that followed behind, all explained one thing.
Between the cinema of life and reality - the last line has been lost.