"I still can't trust you."
The dancers on the stage stopped. There have been too many accidents today. I thought that changing people would be able to return to normal, but Ning Yuren started talking to himself.
"If you don't want us to participate in the Nuo dance, you can tell us directly." Ning Yuren said, "But you didn't say anything, but instead led us all the way into the village."
It is not only Ning Ning who can see the masked person, but also Ning Yuren.
The day they first came to the village, the car broke down on the road, and they were arguing about whether to go back or move on, when Ning Qing appeared, he could have warned them, or turned back and told them to stop when they followed him, leave this village...
But he didn't say a word of reminder.
He led them into the village step by step.
"You want us to participate in the Nuo dance. Is this candidate Ning Ning or me?" Ning Yuren was silent for a moment, and then came to the answer, "...It's Ning Ning."
"Who are you talking to?" a dancer asked. Although the others didn't speak, they all looked around, their nervous limbs stiff and their hairs standing on end.
Not only them, but the audience under the stage also chatted indiscriminately. Some people deliberately spoke loudly, as if this could expel the fear in their hearts.
Ning Yuren didn't answer the other party's question, she still looked at Ning Qing and said, "I have the opportunity to replace Ning Ning later, the village chief agreed, but you don't agree... When we found her in the well, she put a wearing your mask."
When Ning Ning was found, she was already exhausted and couldn't open her eyes because of weakness. Ning Yuren wanted to use this as an excuse to borrow a car to take her to the big hospital in the county, but because of this mask, where was she? can't go.
The masks that have been missing for decades, the Ning family who have been missing for decades, the people in the village are afraid of losing any of them.
Even by coercive means, she should be kept.
"It's fate." The village chief even made an excuse for the actions of himself and others, "Some people's fate is predestined, for example Ning Ning, as soon as we do ancestor worship, she will come back and lose her mask. After so long, she found it as soon as she came back, what is this fate? She was born and destined to return to the village to be the landlord. "
"This is really a joke." Ning Yuren hugged Ning Ning tightly, like a mother holding a newborn baby without any resistance, "My daughter was born in October of my pregnancy, and I worked hard to raise her so big. If you say 'she should be like this', you will take her away from me..."
"Let go!"
"Do not!"
People from the village rushed up, tore her off Ningning, and locked her in an attic with Cui Hongmei.
The phone was taken away on the way, her voice couldn't get out, and the outside voice couldn't get in. It's been a long time, and the door has finally been opened again. It was not him who was released.
"...Is that Ning Qing?" A dancer swallowed and said with some trepidation, "Are you... talking to Ning Qing?"
It's good that he didn't say this. As soon as he said it, the number of people on the stage was immediately reduced by half, and the remaining half also retreated to the edge of the stage, their eyes wandering, and as soon as there was a slight disturbance on the stage, they would turn around and dance. Get off the stage.
"Ning Yuren, don't act like a fool there!" The village chief rushed over with a cane, and said angrily, "Think I don't know what you are doing? You are acting!!"
After he finished speaking, he waved the cane in his hand and caught up with the dancers who had jumped off the stage before: "Go up, go up! How old are you, you can still be fooled like this! She is an actress, and acting is for her. It's a common meal, there is no Ning Qing here, it's all rotten to bones..."
Before he could finish speaking, his jaw suddenly hurt.
"Ouch!" The village chief raised his hand and felt that he had lost a large beard. Just like that night, an invisible hand was loosened in front of his eyes, and the white beards fell to the ground one by one. A layer of snow was laid.
This kind of thing visible to the naked eye is more convincing than any words.
With the village chief as the center, a large circle was immediately vacated around him, and everyone looked at him like a frightened bird.
The village chief was sweating on his back. He slowly raised his head to look at Ning Yuren, but found that Ning Yuren was looking behind him and said, "Ning Ning, you can see clearly, can you hear it clearly?"
She said so much, not to act for the people in the village, nor to intimidate the village chief so that he could stop worshipping ancestors, she said it to Ning Ning, lest Ning Ning be kept in the dark.
"Of course people in the village can't be trusted, but he..." Ning Yuren looked at Ning Qing, "I can't trust him either. He's your grandfather, but he's also a masked man."
Ning Qing didn't refute her from beginning to end, but at this moment she just turned around and smiled at her, and then continued to walk towards Ning Ning.
"Even if it is your relative, after becoming a masked person, it will become untrustworthy." Ning Yuren's voice followed behind him, bitter and helpless, "He doesn't necessarily want to harm you, he just feels It's for your own good, but sometimes it's 'good' you don't want to…”
Ning Qing stepped in front of Ning Ning.
"Look, I said it." He looked down at her and sighed, "No matter what I said or did, she would doubt me... Because I'm a masked person. That's why I can't find her, only Find your reason."
Ning Ning held Wen Yu in her arms and looked at him with complicated eyes.
Ning Qing told her that Ning Yuren would react this way, but she still didn't believe it, even if she became a masked person, her relatives would still be relatives, who knows...
But I can't blame Ning Yuren for having such an idea.
After the gatekeeper disappeared, what did the group of masked people who escaped from the movie theater of life do
Stalking, infiltrating, monitoring, and monopolizing are all commonplace, and they even kill people, inflicting fear on their lover and even jailing them. Isn't that why Wen Yu went to the cinema to find the answer
As Ning Yuren said, masked people don't want to harm people. What they follow, monitor, and try to monopolize are often their closest and most loved people, but they haven't thought about it, or deliberately don't think about whether the other party will be able to do it again. Accept them, whether you can ignore the gazes of others and live with them.
"What are you thinking about?" Ning Qing suddenly asked.
Behind him, the drums resumed, and the dancers on the stage suddenly jumped up, like beasts, leaping from the stage into the auditorium, startled with screams.
The third act, "Killing Ghosts".
The village was built, and life was getting better and better. The refugees got married and had children on new land and started a new life, but all of this seemed to have nothing to do with the people in the theater.
Not all masked people can accept the status quo, and not all masked people can have no regrets. Some people regret it, and some people try to escape from the theater and return to their loved ones.
"I'm thinking... You are a little different from other masked people." Ning Ning looked at Ning Qing and said, "All the masked people I know, I mean those masked people who escaped from the movie theater of life, they all came back to him in the end. people around…”
The masked man is not selfless, and Ning Qing also admitted this.
"...In this regard, I'm no different from other masked people." He laughed, "I also have someone I want to meet."
"Where is that person?" Ning Ning asked.
"It's right here." Ning Qing replied.
In the auditorium, the masked people found their relatives, one of them grabbed the other's hand and didn't let go, suddenly a hand stretched out behind him, grabbed his shoulder, and pushed him to the ground with force.
A snow-white mask.
It's a ghost killer.
With a whip in his hand, he casually slapped the masked man on the masked man. The masked man rolled all over the floor, but he remained stubborn. He stretched out his hand to hold the ankle of his loved one, trying to get some love and comfort from the other party. .
This action seemed to anger the ghost killer. He put away his whip and walked over, and took off the mask on the other side's face. The moment he saw the sun, the other party covered his face with his hands, as if his face under his fingers was being burnt to pieces by the sun.
The ghost killer stood beside him with a mask in hand.
Nearby, the masked people lowered their bodies and surrounded him like ghosts, crying or screaming, begging or cursing.
"Who are you referring to?" Ning Ning asked.
Ning Qing shook his head: "There's no time, are you ready?"
After killing the ghost, a figure sneaked onto the stage. It was the man who played the human sacrifice. Ning Yuren stepped forward to meet him and hugged him gently in her arms. After a while, she reached out and pushed him away, staggering. Taking a few steps back, he looked at the bloody dagger in his hand, and then looked down at his bleeding stomach.
"If you don't die, your flesh will be separated," said the human sacrifice, "so I kill you like a ghost."
Kill the ghost - the ghost in the heart.
The person who sent the relatives, friends, husband and children of the villagers into the theater, and then never released them again, became a disease and a ghost in the hearts of the masked people and the villagers over time.
The ghost killer carrying a large number of masks returned to the stage, the mask in his hand fell to the ground, he leaned over and picked up Ning Yuren on the ground, and after a while, picked up the dagger beside her: "I'm sorry, I It's a trick, I shouldn't leave your side."
After speaking, he raised his dagger horizontally and fell on top of her.
Kill the ghost - the strongest ghost.
As the gatekeeper of the theater, as the nemesis of all masked people, the only one who can kill him is himself.
"Snapped."
"Clap clap."
"Clap clap clap!!"
The applause gradually sounded like a wave, a person stood up from the audience, looked at the two people on the stage with anticipation, and kept mumbling: "Come on, come on..."
The applause rang for a long time, and gradually became sparse. Looking at the empty stage, watching Ning Yuren and the ghost killer, who both climbed up from the ground, everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at the village chief with angry eyes: "What's the matter! Why didn't it show up!!"