The makeup artist's body lay on the ground, eyes wide open.
A shirt slowly came down to cover her.
Chen Shuanghe squatted on the ground and slowly pulled his shirt to her face, covering her dead eyes, and the whispers of everyone came from behind.
"Speaking of which, weren't you here just now?"
"What do you mean, you suspect that I am the murderer?"
"No, no, I just wanted to ask if you saw the murderer."
"I didn't see it... Why are you looking at me like that! I really didn't see it!"
Chen Shuanghe was still half squatting on the ground, he was observing the nearby feet.
After the murder, the people in the crew gathered in groups of three or five, either out of fear or in order to discuss with each other, and their feet were joined together, except for one pair of feet.
Chen Shuanghe straightened up slowly, and his eyes naturally moved from the feet to the other's face.
A bunny mask.
"Run?" In the face of a serial murderer who is on the move, few ordinary people can really keep calm, and the idea of running away almost immediately arises in Chen Shuanghe's mind, and then he dismissed it, "No, he is now Don't necessarily see me, don't necessarily want to kill me when you see me, calm down, I have to calm down..."
Chen Shuanghe is worthy of the title of the best actor. His eyes swept across the face of the other party, and then he looked like he didn't notice anything. He turned around as usual, shouting to let go, squeezed out of the crowd, and then took out Cell phone, called Ning Ning.
"Hey, it's me," he said on the phone. "You can come over now, he..."
Chen Shuanghe suddenly turned his head.
The Rabbit Mask was standing behind him.
"The Phantom of the Theater" crew, in the lounge.
"Despair, paranoia, unwillingness, or delusional desire to change your destiny - there are only so many people who can see the masked person." Ning Ning stared at the familiar face in front of her, "Which one do you belong to?"
"I don't belong to either." Wen Yu laughed, "Ning Ning, I can't see the masked person."
Ning Ning frowned, not believing what he said.
If he really can't see, how can he explain Mr. Rabbit
The phone rang suddenly, interrupting what Ning Ning was going to say next.
Caller ID: Chen Shuanghe.
"Hello?" Ning Ning answered the phone.
"Hey, it's me," he said on the phone. "You can come here now, he... ah!"
"...What happened? Hey, hey, hey!" Ning Ning looked at the phone that was busy for a while, turned his head and said to Wen Yu, "Something happened, let's hurry over there."
The two hurried out of the lounge and walked to the room where the makeup artist's body was parked.
On their way there, the crew rushed in like a flood of refugees.
Ning Ning grabbed one and asked, "What happened in front of you, why do you all seem to be fleeing?"
"There are monsters, there are ghosts..." The other party said incoherently while breaking free from Ning Ning's hand, "There is something invisible that has fought with Chen Shuanghe."
Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, but the other party took the opportunity to break free of her hand and staggered into the refugee tide next to her.
The tide came, not only wrapped around him, but also wrapped around Ning Ning, making Ning Ning involuntarily start to retreat.
The phone rang again.
Caller ID: Chen Shuanghe.
"Hello?" Ning Ning hurriedly answered the phone, "We're here, are you alright?"
"..." The opposite side was silent for a long time, and then a strange male voice sounded, "He's fine."
Ning Ning froze in place.
The voice was so close to her that it even had a trace of echo.
She turned her head slowly.
A man wearing a rabbit mask stood behind her, holding Chen Shuanghe's mobile phone, and said to her, "You have something to do."
"Ah!!" Ning Ning screamed, and in the next second, a hand lifted her neck and threw her whole body behind her.
"Is it him?" Wen Yu stood in front of her, looked straight ahead, and asked in a deep voice, "Where is he? Show me."
Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, it's already like this, he can't continue to disguise... So, is he really invisible to the masked person? Ning Ning said anxiously: "On the right! On the right! He came around to your right, be careful... ah!"
The speed of her reminder is not as fast as Mr. Rabbit's action.
Ning Ning could only helplessly watch Mr. Rabbit rush towards Wen Yu's neck with both hands.
Wen Yu couldn't see the masked man, his eyes were still looking in other directions, but his right hand was lifted up, and a table knife was placed across his neck.
"Ah!!" The screaming person was replaced by Mr. Rabbit.
He pounced so fiercely, and Wen Yu's blocking timing was so perfect that he threw both hands on the knife, cut the opening, and black film flowed out of the wound.
With his fingers connected to his heart, Mr. Rabbit hunched his back and shook his hands. Behind the mask, he kept wailing of wounds, but he didn't give up.
"Continue." Wen Yu said, "Where is he, show me."
"Here." Ning Ning pointed at Mr. Rabbit. Wherever he went, her fingers would follow him like a shadow.
Mr. Rabbit let out an angry growl and lunged at her.
"He's coming towards me... ah!" Ning Ning just finished speaking when the knife was placed in front of her neck.
Mr. Rabbit screamed again. He was injured again, and he was injured in the same position. He couldn't help but take a few steps back and looked at Wen Yu with resentment and suspicion: "... You really can't see me?"
Wen Yu smiled and didn't speak, his eyes were not on him as always.
But Mr. Rabbit refuses to be fooled again! He scolded: "You liar, actor, you can see me, but you still pretend not to see me! I won't fall for you again!"
He scolded and pushed, and when he reached the door, he turned and ran.
Ning Ning waited for a while, but seeing Wen Yu didn't respond, she asked anxiously, "He's going to run away, shouldn't we chase him?"
"Why didn't you say it earlier." Wen Yu responded immediately, "Where did he run to?"
Wen Yu chased after Ning Ning's guidance for a while, but unfortunately Mr. Rabbit injured his hands, not his feet. In addition, there were many eyes and eyes in the annex, so he was lost in the end.
"There's no other way." Wen Yu put the knife back in his pocket, and said with some regret, "Although I couldn't catch him, luckily I seriously injured him, and he couldn't come out and hurt others for a while... let's go... Well, let's go back and see what happened to Chen Shuanghe."
"Yeah." Ning Ning responded, and the two walked up the empty corridor. Halfway through, Ning Ning hesitated and asked the back in front of him, "How did you do it?"
Wen Yu: "Neck."
"… what?"
"Mr. Rabbit is a serial killer. He kills in a very fixed way - strangling the opponent's neck until he suffocates." Wen Yu said with her back to her, "Knowing where he's going to attack, it's easy to deal with him."
"How do you know everything..." Ning Ning murmured to him, "including what he looks like, the way he attacks people..."
Wen Yu's footsteps stopped, and she slowly turned to look at her.
"Seven years later, everyone knows him." Wen Yu looked down at her, "Not only him, but the government has archived every dangerous masked person, not only the portrait, but also the way he is used to killing people. Harm, let alone me, even children can memorize their information."
"... What are you talking about." Ning Ning helped her forehead, "Wait a minute, I'm a little confused right now, you mean..."
She stared at the strange yet familiar face in front of her, and murmured, "Are you... from the future?"
"Yes." Wen Yu admitted frankly, "I came from the future."
"Then you..." Ning Ning hesitated, "is it really Wen Yu?"
There was a hint of sadness and a wry smile on his calm and almost cold face, he nodded: "It's me... Aunt Xiaoning."
"You... have changed a lot." Ning Ning couldn't help raising his hand to touch his face, as if to touch the weathered soul inside through his still young cheeks, "Is the future situation so bad? Like Mr. Rabbit. Masked people... a lot?"
"Well." Wen Yu bent down slightly, spread out her tired soul towards her, and said in a low voice, "A lot, a lot..."
With a plain tone, he showed a bizarre future world like Ning Ning.
Seven years later, masked people are no longer a minority.
Normal people are a minority.
And the number continues to decrease, either killed by masked people or lured into movie theaters by masked people.
"There is a mainstream view in the future that masked people are also people, and they will feel lonely and want to expand the group." Wen Yu said, "It was fine at the beginning, but after a certain event in a certain year happened. , the masked people started the expansion plan. By 2025, where I am, the number of masked people has already exceeded the number of ordinary people, and the number is increasing year by year... In order to reverse this situation, the government and the private sector have carried out a lot of research... "
The opponents are a group of people who are invisible to the naked eye and cannot be scanned by instruments.
What's more, these people are still immortal.
As long as the cinema of life exists for one day, they will not grow old and die. Even if they are smashed into slag by shells, they will just change back into masks and hang them on the wall of the projection room. The mask hanging on it turned into a mask man again.
A totally unfair fight.
It made more ordinary people feel desperate, and even had the idea of "it's better for me to become a masked person than to die like this".
"At the end of the study, we came to a conclusion." Wen Yu said, "The Cinema of Life... We must go back to the year when the whole thing started through the Cinema of Life, and then change everything from the source."
"The source?" Ningning asked, "You mean Mr. Rabbit?"
Wen Yu shook her head: "No... He's just a member of the incident."
Ning Ning was shocked: "Is there anyone else?"
She wanted to ask, but couldn't ask.
Because Wen Yu was looking at her with an indescribable look, that look was both familiar and unfamiliar, intimate and hateful, pitiful and remorseful.
"... Who is it?" After a long while, Ning Ning finally spoke, and asked in a dry voice, "Who else is there among the group of masked people who will be archived in the future?"
Wen Yu took a deep breath and didn't seem to want to answer this question, so she began to look left and said to him: "Through a series of materials, we finally found the source, the source is the year in which "The Phantom of the Theater" was filmed, which was considered a sensation. News, first a makeup artist died unexpectedly, but the murderer has never been found..."
"Who is it?" Ning Ning already had a vague answer in her heart. She interrupted Wen Yu's words and held his hand tightly, her eyes fixed on him.
Wandering eyes fixed on Ning Ning, Wen Yu seemed to be looking at her, and she seemed to be looking at another distant person. After a long time, she spit out two words softly.
"… It's you."
Everything around him seemed to have stopped, Ning Ning stood there like petrified, looked at the person in front of him, and heard him say in a very low, very low voice: "After the "Phantom of the Theater" ended, you became a masked person, and the future generations The evaluation of you is - hell begins with you."
You are the leader of all masked people.
You are the most dangerous masked person on record.
You are my enemy... the enemy of all of us.
"It's just me?" Ning Ning pointed at himself and forced a smile, "Just kidding, someone like me can be the leader of all masked people? The most dangerous masked person? I... I was just caught by Mr. Rabbit. Chase and kill..."
She rambled on explaining for most of the day, and finally sighed and reached out to hug him.
"I don't like hurting others, and I don't want to make friends with Mr. Rabbit. Will I change in the future? I don't know. But there is one thing I can assure you." Ning Ning leaned on Wen Yu's chest, not so much Relying on him and absorbing his warmth, it is better to let this vicissitudes of life and cold soul rely on himself, absorbing the warmth from himself, "...I will never hurt you. Wen Yu, I am not your enemy."