"boom!"
Before Shi Zhongtang entered the door, he heard the sound of gun salutes in the cinema one after another.
"What are you playing?" He walked into the doorway.
Looking around, there was a crowd of people.
After the gatekeeper disappeared, the masked people scattered in a hurry. Although some came back one after another, they did not gather together like today.
"Ah, you're back." Rabbit Mask turned his head, "Just in time, I was just about to let someone find you."
He came over and pulled Shi Zhongtang into the auditorium.
Yes, the auditorium.
The carved chairs in the auditorium were pulled away by them, leaving a large space in the middle, a pair of men and women stood in the space, and the rest of the masked people surrounded them, either booing or firing guns or waiting to receive the bride's bouquet. .
Shi Zhongtang whistled: "Wedding?"
He stayed in the movie theater for decades, and it was the first time he saw the wedding between the masked man and the masked man.
He knew the man, wearing a dog-face mask, a very honest and honest guy, as for the woman... a Venetian mask studded with gems, overflowing with radiance and endless luxury and beauty, Shi Zhongtang has never seen this mask before, newcomer
Venetian Mask threw the bouquet in his hand on the ground and said coldly, "Who wants to marry you!"
This accident stopped the sound of gun salutes and roars all around.
"Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, where are you going?" The dog face mask shouted, chasing after her.
The two ran past Shi Zhongtang one after the other and rushed out of the cinema door.
Everyone looked at each other, and one of them said, "Let's go, let's go and see what's going on."
The crowd rushed out, and Shi Zhongtang touched his chin and asked Ms. Cat, "Who is that girl? Why do I feel like I know her."
Mr. Rabbit gave him a sideways look: "You know every pretty girl."
"Your words are sour." Shi Zhongtang suddenly laughed, "Ah, I remember, Ning Ning's makeup artist... So she's not dead."
Ning Ning told him what happened in the crew.
Everyone thought that the makeup artist died and was killed by Mr. Rabbit. Now it seems that she is not dead, she has become a mask person.
As for why everyone thought she was dead... Hehe, didn't everyone think he was dead too? He still committed suicide, but he was still standing here, but it was just a special method used by the movie theater to make people in the world mistakenly believe that he was dead, and to make him disappear from the sight of normal people.
"I wanted to kill her." Mr. Rabbit looked complicated, "How could she know that she was so lucky, she became a masked person before that."
There are several ways to become a masked person. It seems that everyone who can see a masked person eventually becomes a masked person. Of course, there are exceptions, such as...
"Only my luck is so bad!!" Mr. Rabbit kicked the chair next to him, feeling sad and angry, "Only my wife refuses to become a masked person and come in to accompany me!"
Shi Zhongtang was stunned.
He used to wonder how this weak and honest guy, who didn't even dare to scold his wife, suddenly had the guts to kill his wife
"It turns out that you were thinking about this idea..." Shi Zhongtang shook his head and said lightly, "You made a mistake in this idea, let's go, let's go over and see if we can make it back."
The wedding can't go on.
Instead of being lovers, they became enemies.
"I could have lived a good life because of you!" The makeup artist shook off the dog's face mask and turned to roar at him, "It doesn't matter if you don't have a good life yourself, why are you pulling me into the water? "
"I, I..." The dog face mask was speechless.
"And you!" The makeup artist pointed at the other masked people and scolded indiscriminately, "What are you making fun of? What kind of people are with whom? I'm not the same as you, not the same! Deep Blue Company My boss has proposed to me, and the diamond ring is ready, I... don't want to wear such a thing... "
She tore off the mask on her face with all her might, but she couldn't tear it off. She slowly squatted on the ground, hugging herself and sobbing.
"Why are you still standing?" A hand pushed on the back of the dog-face mask, "She needs you."
The dog face mask hurried to the makeup artist and reached out to her.
"Go away!" The makeup artist slapped his hand away, "I don't want to see you!"
The dog face mask turned his head and looked at Shi Zhongtang with help-seeking eyes.
Shi Zhongtang sighed secretly: "How can I help with this kind of thing?"
He walked over, ignoring the makeup artist's struggles, grabbed her hand and forcibly stuffed it into the hand of the dog face mask.
"What are you doing?" the makeup artist screamed.
"He accompanies you back." Shi Zhongtang said.
The makeup artist froze.
"Since you don't want to stay in the movie theater, then you can go back." Shi Zhongtang smiled at her, "No one is stopping you."
"...I don't need him to accompany me!" The makeup artist struggled to get rid of his hand, turned to look at the dog-face mask beside him with hopeful eyes, and said coldly, "I already have a fiancé, please keep your distance from me. !"
After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, for fear that they would regret it, the pace became faster and faster, and finally he simply trotted, as if behind him were a group of mad dogs that had been hungry for seven or eight days, and they would be caught and eaten by them.
Seeing her back gradually disappear, Shi Zhongtang slapped the dog face mask again: "Follow up."
The dog face mask was dejected: "She doesn't want to see me... She thinks that the reason why she became a mask person is all because of me. She hates me to death."
After speaking, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the rabbit mask.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Rabbit Mask was shocked, "I helped you, but you can't avenge your kindness..."
"Help your mother!" The dog face mask smashed his face with a punch.
The two of them huddled together on the ground, and the rest of the masked people either watched indifferently or came up to persuade them to fight.
"Dog thing!" When someone raised his arms and pulled his arms away, the rabbit mask kicked his legs and scolded, "Without me, you don't know how many green hats you have on your head! That whole gold-worshiping girl, beside Kaizi Several, do you really want to be the green hat king?"
"It's none of your business, can't I be the pick-up man?" The dog face mask said amazingly, "As far as my looks and income are concerned, my goddess is willing to let me be the pick-up man because I look up to me!"
"..." Rabbit Mask was dumbfounded and speechless!
"I used to be able to take a plate, but now I can't even see the shadow of the plate!" The dog-face mask broke free, took his hand, and rushed over, "I didn't invite you to provoke you, why are you doing this to me!"
The two scolded and beaten, and finally turned into two dead dogs, both lying flat on the ground, panting.
"It's over, it's over." The dog face mask looked at the ceiling, a tear rolled from the corner of his eyes.
"Yeah, your life as a Pan Man is over." A tall figure walked up to him, shadows covering him, "Now you have to start over."
The dog face mask turned his gaze away.
"What do you think will happen to her when she goes back?" Shi Zhongtang slowly crouched beside him.
Dog Face Mask: "… "
"She has to go through everything you have experienced." Shi Zhongtang smiled, pedestrians walked past him, turning a blind eye, "No one can see her, no one can hear her, her fiance may feel sad at first, but He will have a new girlfriend, he will get married, have children, and gradually he will no longer miss her, remember her, and no longer need her..."
The dog face mask suddenly sat up from the ground and muttered, "I have to go."
When she doesn't need me, I can be away from her, but when she needs me, I must be by her side.
He walked in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to hear Shi Zhongtang's last words.
"In the end, she will find out..." Shi Zhongtang lowered his head and muttered, his hair hanging down to hide the emotions in his eyes, "The only people who can accompany the masked person are the masked person..."
It seems that something has quietly changed.
No one noticed, only Rabbit Mask gave him a deep look if he felt it.
"What was it just now?"
Shi Zhongtang froze for a moment, then turned to look.
"Why only you can see and we can't?"
The rest of the masked people also turned around one after another.
"Look at me, look at me, Ning Jie, look at me!" On the counter in the shopping mall, the same scene was playing on the TVs in the rows, and each scene was of the same person.
- Ning Ning.
"Hero?" She smiled wryly, "I didn't think about being a hero, it's just... I also have a mother who doesn't even want my life for my sake."
"Bad news."
Shi Zhongtang turned his head slowly.
Madam Cat came behind him at some unknown time, and said to him and everyone, "Ningning has gone to the cinema, she has to reset the gatekeeper."
At night, at the entrance of Life Cinema.
"I don't have any tickets, so I won't go in." Ningning took off the sunglasses on her face and said, "But I know you can hear me and answer me a question - what are the selection criteria for gatekeepers?"
The problem of masked people has become more and more serious. She originally thought that she had time to delay the filming of the scene in her hand, but after today's incident, she changed her mind.
There must be a new gatekeeper.
She is not a hero, she has neither the ability nor the courage. After all, she is alone, plus Wen Yu Shi Zhongtang has three, but there are a group of enemies! Or find a new gatekeeper to catch them all!
There is no wind tonight, two lanterns hang down in front of the door, a few moths surround the lanterns, fluttering their wings, and there is no other sound, just when Ning Ning hesitates whether to knock on the door and call someone out. At that time, a lazy voice sounded, like a man like a woman, like an old man and a young man: "I don't want to answer the same question one, two, three or four times."
Ningning breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't come to repeat the old tune, but used this question to test whether it was there or not, and whether she could communicate outside the cinema.
"Don't worry, I remember. The first condition is to ask for voluntary." She said, "If you say voluntary, I have a candidate here... Li Boyue."
He was also the only person who told her to be a gatekeeper.
"Is he hated?" the voice came from behind the door.
Ning Ning was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "He is a very good agent, he is very skilled, long-sleeved and good at dancing. He usually doesn't make enemies with people... Well, because he is so good, it is inevitable that he will be hated by his peers."
"Then he's eligible," said the cinema. "Bring him to me."
Ning Ning held her cell phone, but she couldn't make a call.
Li Boyue pitted her and helped her, and their parents were a little unclear. Maybe they were brothers and sisters. He knew some things about the movie theater in life, but most of it came from Pei Xuan's mouth. Ning Ning guessed that Pei Xuan only told him the advantages of being a gatekeeper, but did not tell him the disadvantages of being a gatekeeper.
If she didn't say anything, Li Boyue would definitely be willing.
buzzing...
The phone suddenly began to vibrate, and the caller ID lighted up—Li Boyue.
It really means that Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here, and Ning Ning answered the phone: "Hello."
"There is no need to let so many people know about the Cinema of Life." Li Boyue's voice sounded a little unhappy, "And your position is the future actress, not the beautiful girl who subdues demons and subdues demons!"
Ning Ning: "Oh..."
"I will find a way to suppress this matter. You should also pay attention to it. If there are reporters interviewing you, don't talk nonsense, or let them come to me directly." Li Boyue said, "Okay, come here first, I'm hung up."
"and many more… "
"What else?"
Ningning hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell him the truth. As for how he chooses, it is his own business: "I want to talk to you about the gatekeeper."
"Now?"
"Now."
"Speak clearly in twenty words."
… Are you a Chinese teacher for the senior high school entrance examination? Ning Ning took a deep breath: "The gatekeeper is for life, and guards the gate of the cinema for life, and other masked people have their own movies, and have the opportunity to change their fate, but the gatekeeper does not!"
"You've exceeded your word count." Li Boyue said slowly, "What else?"
Ningning: "You... don't you feel embarrassed?"
"You didn't see what Pei Xuan looked like on the hospital bed. When he was young, he was a hero. When he got old, he could only live in diapers. He climbed back to the cinema door several times but couldn't get in. The thing he regretted most when he died was giving up his eternal life. Escape from it." Li Boyue sighed, "I don't want to be the second one, I have to leave a way out for myself."
retreat? Ning Ning sensed an ominous aura from his words.
Sure enough, Li Boyue's next sentence was: "So don't ask, I won't be the gatekeeper for the time being."
"... Are you planning to be a gatekeeper when you are old?" Ning Ning asked.
"Of course." Li Boyue smiled, "There are so many delicious and fun things in the world, I can't even enjoy being a gatekeeper. I have to enjoy it before I go in."
He said that he didn't want to be the second Pei Xuan, but in fact they were already very similar, the same organization was exhausted, and everything had already been arranged.
It's a pity that God's will is hard to defy, and no one can predict what accident will happen in the next moment.
The moment he hung up the phone, a voice that sounded like a man, a woman, and an old man rang behind Ning Ning. It asked, "Do you really want to catch all the masked people who ran out?"
"Yes."
"Are you hated?"
Ningning turned her head and looked at the door in front of her with strange eyes. It was strange, had he asked her a similar question before
"I'm just a little actor... I'm usually busy with work, and I don't communicate much with people. Who would hate me?" Ning Ning said more slowly, and finally smiled bitterly, "This is all in the past, and now I'm acting continuously. Several popular dramas have snatched roles from several big names, and now she is the heroine of "The Phantom of the Theater"... As many people like me, as many people hate me. "
The cinema laughed.
Its voice was already weird, and it laughed even more weirdly, like men, women and children laughing together, and the echoing laughter scared away the moths beside the lantern.
"Then," it said with a smile, "you fit the bill too."
Ning Ning was stunned.
"You can choose to give Li Boyue to me, but if he refuses to come..." There was a hint of urgency in its laughter, as well as the bewitching beyond words, "You can also give me yourself."
Ning Ning felt a chill.
As if a moth slammed into a cobweb, the spider could not be seen in the dark, but every spider thread was shaking slightly, and the greedy appetite was transmitted through the spider thread.
"Ningning!"
Ning Ning turned her head and saw Shi Zhongtang rushing towards her, panting and anxious, and shouted to her from a distance, "Quick, get in the car!"
A taxi happened to pass by, Ning Ning stopped the car, and the two got into the car one after the other. Ning Ning asked him with his mouth: "What happened?"
"Quick, leave here first." Shi Zhongtang urged.
"Driver, drive." Ningning said to the driver.
The car started, but before it left the street, there was a thud—it shocked the people in the car, Ning Ning turned to look, and saw that the windshield beside his head had cracks like flowers, spreading in all directions. In the middle is a marble that glows with cold light.
The driver glanced back, almost not scared to pee, immediately stopped the car, got out of the car and scolded: "Which bastard did it? Comrade traffic police, comrade traffic police, come and have a look..."
In addition to the traffic police, other pedestrians and vehicles stopped because of curiosity, and the road suddenly became congested. Ning Ning was about to get out of the car when Shi Zhongtang held her next to her: "Don't go down, let Wen Yu come and pick you up!"
While calling Wen Yu's number, Ning Ning asked with lingering fear, "Do you know who did it?"
"Yes..." Shi Zhongtang said halfway through, and suddenly pushed Ning Ning out of the car.
With a bang, a refrigerator fell from the sky and was recessed into the roof.
There was screaming near the car, the driver's eyes were black, and he raised his head and roared: "Which bastard is that again?? Don't try to run, I will break your leg!!"
run! !
Shi Zhongtang dragged Ning Ning all the way.
"Who are we hiding from?" Ning Ning was pulled by him and asked while running.
Before Shi Zhongtang could answer, a speeding Buick stopped in front of the two of them, and Wen Yu pulled down the window: "Come up."
Ning Ning hurriedly got into the car, almost as soon as he closed the door with his front foot, a marble was shot on the window with his back foot.
She looked back.
A man with a slingshot, a smiling urchin mask.
It's the mask man.
The car started, Ningning turned around, trembling slightly, gritted her teeth and said, "Why did they kill me?"
Buick passes by a bus stop. There are several people waiting at the bus stop, each of whom has a mobile phone in his hand. Fortunately, every mobile phone is playing the same video. is the same person.
"Hero?" Ning Ning smiled wryly in the video, "I never thought about being a hero, it's just... I also have a mother, for my mother who doesn't even want her life."
"Because the masked man doesn't need you as a 'hero'." Inside the car, Shi Zhongtang sighed and slowly turned to look at Ning Ning, "I don't even need a gatekeeper."
Ning Ning looked at him, speechless.
"Ningning, you have to be prepared." Shi Zhongtang said with serious eyes, "From now on, all masked people will come to you, except me... all masked people are your enemies!"
small theater:
Masked people: Masked people are never slaves!
[The screen is cut off. . .]
There were flowers and rain, and three people sat on a swing.
Ningning: It's not easy to talk about a pure love.
Cinema: It's not easy to find a gatekeeper.
Ah Xia: It's not easy to think about the end of this month.
Brother Stone + Wen Yu pushed the swing desperately behind the back: hey hey hey, hey hey hey. . .