Today is another crazy day.
Cui Hongmei was lying on the sofa, with a cigarette between her fingertips, and asked Xiao Xianrou who was sitting beside her: "Why did you cut your hair?"
Xiao Xianrou didn't lift his head, and continued to play King's Glory: "Handsome, the latest popular style."
"He's handsome, it looks like a toilet seat." Cui Hongmei took a few banknotes from her bag and threw them to him, "Hurry up and send them!"
"Okay, okay." Xiao Xianrou put the banknotes into his trouser pocket with one hand, and kept clicking on the phone with the other hand, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "So old-fashioned hairstyle, friends all Jokes me like a guy from the 70s, I don't even know what you like."
Cui Hongmei looked at him and slowly exhaled.
Superficial, greedy, ignorant.
If he had any advantages, it would be the profile of his bowed face, which looked very much like Ning Qing.
A true lover is out of reach, so at least keep someone like him by your side. She was old, and her memory began to fade. If she didn't do this, if she didn't look at him, she was afraid that she would forget Ning Qing's face sooner or later.
But it wasn't him after all.
Cui Hongmei sighed in her heart. The cigarette between her fingers was about to be brought to her mouth when a knock on the door suddenly sounded in her ear - dong dong dong!
"Who is it?" Cui Hongmei asked, but there was no human voice in response to her, only a hurried knock on the door.
Cui Hongmei looked at Xiao Xianrou and said, "Go and have a look."
"No, I'm not going." Xiao Xianrou refused immediately, holding the phone and holding on to it, a fierce battle sound came from inside, "I'll start the next fight."
Cui Hongmei scolded something that the mud couldn't support on the wall, and went to open the door herself.
She only opened the door a crack, and the other party came in like a loach, closed the door with her backhand, raised her hand to wipe the blood and sweat on her face, and said to her slightly panting, "Ms. Cui, long time no see."
"You, you..." Seeing his ghostly appearance, Cui Hongmei regretted opening the door, looked at the other party for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"
Wen Yu was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "I forgot, we didn't know each other at this time."
"..." Cui Hongmei's eyes flickered even more, what does it mean that the two of us don't know each other at this time? This guy looks like a dog, but he is crazy.
The knocking on the door continued, not like the knocking of one person, but the sound of punching and kicking from many people.
Wen Yu glanced behind her, then said to Cui Hongmei, "It's too late, please lend me something."
"I have no money!" Cui Hongmei reflexively said.
"Please lend me the landlord's mask." Wen Yu reached out and pressed her shoulder.
Cui Hongmei was pushed by him and walked two steps into the room. Suddenly, her shoulders twisted and broke free from his hand. She hurried to the door of the room. She quickly opened the door and closed it quickly. The knocking on the door was interrupted. Once again, it rang again.
Cui Hongmei leaned her back against the door, her face turned pale, and her expression was a little dazed: "There's no one outside..."
No one was there, but the knock on the door kept ringing.
"The masked man." Wen Yu said, "They came to catch me."
Masked man... Cui Hongmei was stunned. She hadn't heard this word for a long, long time. When was the last time
… is the ancestor worship ceremony in Ningjia Village.
Cui Hongmei's face sank: "Why did they come to arrest you?"
"Because you don't want me to save Ningning." Wen Yu said seriously, "Because of the masked person, because of the movie theater of life, you have already lost a husband and a daughter, do you still want to lose your last relative?"
"I only have Aqing as a relative!" Cui Hongmei said coldly, suddenly turning to look at Xiao Xianrou who was sneaking on the phone, and shouting, "What are you calling the police! Play your King's Glory!"
Xiao Xianrou shrank his shoulders in fright, hung up the phone, and went back to his room to play King of Glory.
"...Ning Yuren and Ning Ning are both my piggy banks, not my relatives." Cui Hongmei pulled out a wooden box from the cabinet and stuffed it into Wen Yu's hand, saying firmly, "So to save you, I won't help."
The box was opened, fangs on all sides, ferocious and terrifying - the mask of the landlord who had been covered in dust for a long time.
"Do you know how to use it?"
"I know." Wen Yu said while reaching out to take the mask out of the box, blowing the dust off the mask with a whimper.
Life Cinema, originally called Life Theater.
It can be large or small, and when it becomes small, it is placed in a wooden box and carried by the owners of the past dynasties.
Until the death of a certain landlord, the wooden box was split into four parts, one of which was obtained by the people of Ningjia Village, and a mask of the landlord was carefully created. Although many functions were lost, at least one of the most basic functions was retained—calling the soul. In the same way, recruit the movie theater of life far away.
"The way to activate it is very simple - give enough anger." After Wen Yu finished speaking, she slowly put the mask on her face.
I don't know since when, people around him jokingly called him a "priest", thinking that the place he should stay most is not a clinic, but a church.
When the enemy stands in front of him, he will not lose his mind. When his lover stands in front of him, he will not come forward to kiss. There was a girl in an ambiguous relationship, but the other party finally chose to back down and said: "I'm sorry, I still haven't. Fa with you, you make me feel like... I'm in love with an angel statue in the church."
Sacred, cold, and treats all beings equally.
... She is wrong, he is not an angel, and he is just a mortal. If he loves him deeply, he will go up to kiss him, and if he hates him deeply, he will also roar and punch.
"You can hurt me, but you can't hurt her..." The feelings accumulated in my heart were like a flash flood, and finally overwhelmed all restraint and restraint, Wen Yu roared in a long voice, "Brother!!!"
What responded to this roar was the gust of wind outside the window, which blew all the windows open with a whistling sound, and endless white mist rushed in!
Wen Yu, who was wearing a mask, turned to look, and saw the thick fog rolling outside the window, countless vehicles stopped crookedly, countless pedestrians screamed and ran to the side of the road, and countless windows were opened and their heads stuck out.
"What's the matter, there is such a big fog all of a sudden."
"Look, what is that?"
"Mom, the mask on that uncle's face is so cute."
The biggest difference between using a mask and using a movie ticket is that in a short period of time, the boundaries between the world and the cinema are wiped out.
Today and tonight, ordinary people can also see the Cinema of Life, and they can see the silhouettes of people in the thick fog.
After a little stunned, one of the figures came out of the thick fog - Mr. Rabbit.
He walked to a mother and daughter, bent down and smiled at the little girl: "Do you think the mask on Uncle's face is cute?"
The little girl hugged her mother's leg and nodded shyly to him.
"Want it or not?"
The little girl nodded again.
"Then come in." The rabbit mask suddenly grabbed the little girl's hand and ran towards the cinema with a big laugh, "Uncle promises you that after you go in, you will soon have a cuter mask!"
"Wait! Where are you taking my daughter?" The little girl's mother hurriedly chased after them. The three of them rushed into the thick fog in a straight line. There was a faint sound of the door opening and closing.
"Welcome!!" A dog-face mask jumped in front of a couple and glanced at the movie tickets held in their hands, "Are you going to go to the movies next? I've seen "My Super Handsome Boyfriend" , it doesn't look good at all, why don't you come to us, I promise you..."
He laughed, and the laughter was extraordinarily strange in the fog: "What is being staged is definitely a film that you have never seen before, come on, come on..."
Either forcibly or seduced, the masked people take the outsiders into the cinema one by one.
"You can't go in!" Ning Ning shouted to the couple, but Shi Zhongtang raised his hand to cover her mouth.
"Shh." He hugged her in his arms and snorted softly.
The hand on his mouth slowly moved away, and Ning Ning asked, "...Why do you do this?"
"Is it better to become one of the masked people than to be killed by the masked people?" Shi Zhongtang said apologetically, "I thought about it and I only thought of such a compromise."
"..." Ningning stared at him, really
"Really, I've tried my best." Shi Zhongtang sighed, "I can't stop everyone, let alone watch you get killed by them. This is the only way. Say, if you become a masked person, there is no reason to find a gatekeeper to watch over you."
… that sounds reasonable, but…
"...Then what happened to them?" Ning Ning glanced at the masked people nearby who were pulling in guests, "Don't you just want me to become a masked person? Why do you want to pull other people in?"
"Because... too lonely?"
"what?"
"Can't be seen, can't be heard, relatives gradually get old, and lovers gradually forget themselves."
Shi Zhongtang smiled a little desolately, "It's like replaying my movie 12 times, falling in love with you 12 times, losing you 12 times... Ning Ning, masked people are very lonely, so... "
He slowly looked around, looking around at the masked people who were trying to solicit customers, laughing and laughing, disguising the real expressions under the masks.
"... They won't kill people anymore." Shi Zhongtang muttered, "Instead of killing people, it's better to turn everyone into masked people. When this day comes, there will be no difference between masked people and people. There's not much time left..."
The more Ning Ning listened, the colder her heart became. She stared at Shi Zhongtang for a long time, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "The same rhetoric, another person also said..."
Shi Zhongtang turned back and smiled: "Who is it?"
Ning Ning pursed her trembling lips, and suddenly burst into tears: "The future... leader of the masked man."
In the future, there is a lonely masked man.
No one knows what happened to her, only that after The Phantom of the Theater ended, she became the leader of the Masked People.
In other words, the masked man recognized her idea and recognized her: "We are not monsters, we are also human. If we are human, we will be lonely, and then we want to expand the group. Find a way to turn everyone into masked people, when When this day comes, there will be no difference between masked people and people, and there will be no time distance..."
A battle full of ruins.
Ningning didn't want such a future, so she didn't become the leader of the masked people.
However, the leader was born.