"Brother!!" An angry voice suddenly sounded, and it came through the white fog like a sharp blade.
Ning Ning turned around, it was Wen Yu.
Wen Yu rushed over, the brothers who hadn't seen each other for decades, met with a punch.
"What did you promise me?" Wen Yu said angrily, "You said you wouldn't let her down!"
"...What do you know?" Shi Zhongtang turned his head back, grabbed his neck, and dragged him in front of him. He said angrily, "Look at me! Check it out! Don't be there! To put it bluntly, if you become like me, you are not as good as me!!"
The white fog was hazy, and from a distance, only shadows could be seen.
Now that it is close, I can see clearly the mask on his face and the frosty whiteness of his temples.
Wen Yu was stunned: "Brother... What's wrong with your hair?"
Shi Zhongtang pushed him away, reached out to grab Ning Ning's hand, and dragged her to run towards the cinema.
"Brother Stone, why are you so old?"
Shi Zhongtang's footsteps suddenly stopped.
He couldn't help raising his hand and grabbed a handful of hair, it was half black, half white, etc... He turned his right hand over and gradually widened his eyes, only to see lines and wrinkles appearing on the back of his hand, like an old Tree rings that increase year by year.
"...Aah!" Shi Zhongtang lowered his head and howled. The shrill howl gradually turned into laughter. He laughed and turned back to Ning Ning and said, "Yes, I'm old, so what?"
He dragged Ning Ning into the depths of the thick fog, laughing as he walked: "Don't worry, the mask on my face won't fall off, you don't need to see my ugly face with loose teeth!"
Ning Ning staggered behind him, confused and looked at his back in disbelief.
Impatient, inferior, angry, unwilling... She had never seen Shi Zhongtang like this.
"How do you get old?" she murmured, "Isn't the masked man immortal..."
"Very disappointed?" Shi Zhongtang said without looking back, "It's useless to be disappointed, if you can live a hundred years, just stay with me for a hundred years, if you can live a hundred days, just stay with me for a hundred days, you can only Live with me for one day, live with me for one day, and die... This is what you promised me!"
Every word became a shackle, and Shi Zhongtang's hand became a cold and heavy chain, tightly clasped on Ning Ning's wrist, dragging her forward.
"Brother!" Wen Yu chased after him again.
Shi Zhongtang scolded lowly, threw Ning Ning behind him, and said to Wen Yu, "What else do you want to do?"
Wen Yu stared at him for a moment, then sighed, "I'm sorry."
Shi Zhongtang raised his eyebrows.
"...I didn't notice your physical condition before, and I said a lot of hurtful things to you. I'm sorry." Wen Yu stepped forward and looked at him with concern, "What's wrong with your body? Can I help you? ?"
Shi Zhongtang took a step back and smiled sarcastically: "Ha, what are you expecting? Are you expecting me not to be a masked person?"
Wen Yu's steps came to a halt.
"'Your body is not old, but your heart is already old', you are half right. In fact, my heart is old, and my body is also old. If I don't go back to the cinema quickly, I will get older and older. , and finally changed back to my true age." Shi Zhongtang sneered, "Except for this, you are all right, you are absolutely right."
Wen Yu looked at him silently.
"I'm the kind of person you said." Shi Zhongtang stepped back into the depths of the thick fog and said with a smile, "I can't live a life like stagnant water, I have to find something to do, but in a ghostly place like the Cinema of Life, giving I don't have many choices, I can't pursue my career and I can't pursue my dream..."
Turning his face slightly, he looked at Ning Ning behind him, and said softly, "I can only pursue you."
bang.
Wen Yu took advantage of the moment when he turned his face to the side, and rushed over like a leopard, in the screams of Ning Ning, he fell to the ground, punched the opponent in the face, and roared: "Enough! Stop talking. It's gone!"
"Haha! What are you afraid of, afraid of hurting your little aunt Ning?" Shi Zhongtang lay on her back, suddenly turned to look at Ning Ning, and said softly, "Ning Ning, this guy really should be a film critic, you know. What does he think of us? He said that I kept watching "The Man in the Picture", not to see you, but to see myself, an old guy who doesn't accept the old, trying to play the younger self, He saw it, but you didn't see it, you fell in love with me in the play..."
"No..." Wen Yu conditioned reflex to look at Ning Ning's expression.
Shi Zhongtang said so much in order to lure him into making this move, and immediately put all his strength into it, and in turn overturned Wen Yu to the ground, punching him mercilessly.
"I'm sick of seeing your high-sounding look!"
"You think you are Jesus Christ? Are all mankind waiting for you to save?"
"Live for others all your life, and die for others in the end?"
"Hehe, saint, do you want me to give you a ride?"
Shi Zhongtang beat and scolded happily, and finally grabbed Wen Yu by the collar, lifted him from the ground, stared at the bruised face in front of him, he said coldly, "...Why don't you fight back?"
The reason why he was able to fight so happily was not because he was stronger than Wen Yu, but because Wen Yu stopped resisting halfway through and let his fists hit his face like raindrops.
"... Calm down?" With her bruised right eye narrowed into a slit, Wen Yu said to him, "Then come back."
Shi Zhongtang frowned, raised his fist, and finally put it down slowly.
"...You're really a saint." He released his fingers, threw the person on the ground, stood up straight, and said sarcastically, "It's such a time, and you're still thinking about me."
He raised his foot and walked towards Ning Ning, suddenly stopped and looked back.
"Brother..." Wen Yu was so hurt that she couldn't get up, she held his trouser legs with her fingers and pleaded, "Don't drag her back to hell..."
Shi Zhongtang looked at him for a while with a complicated look, then pulled out his legs and walked to Ning Ning step by step.
"I thought you were going to run away." He smiled.
Ning Ning crossed her arms and slowly looked up at him with a very strange expression: "Let's go."
She moved forward—towards the cinema.
Shi Zhongtang froze for a moment, then raised his heels and asked with a smile, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Ningning: "…"
She didn't answer, just kept walking forward. On the other hand, Shi Zhongtang, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, the ups and downs of her chest became bigger and bigger, seeing the two lanterns in front of her swaying in the wind, she walked up the stairs one step at a time, and slowly reached out to push the door, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. .
"Wait!" Shi Zhongtang reached out and pulled the man back.
Ningning raised her head to look at him, and asked sarcastically, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
Shi Zhongtang: "..."
"Let go." Ning Ning said coldly, "I want to go in."
After a moment of silence, Shi Zhongtang smiled: "You just can't wait to be a masked person?"
"I'm not going to be a masked man."
"Haha, this joke is really funny."
"Facts speak louder than words! It's not the first time I've been in a movie theater. After so many shows, I haven't become a masked person..."
"Bah, when it's not a near-death experience, that's when there are still tickets..."
After a pause, Shi Zhongtang stared at Ning Ning and said, "...You did it on purpose? Are you planning to evade the ticket?"
"Otherwise?" Ning Ning said coldly, as far as they were talking, two normal people were dragged in by the masked people, "I am not your opponent, nor the opponents of other masked people, you want to kill them. Me, I can't resist, if you fight Wen Yu in front of me, I can't stop you... I can only do what I can do and what I'm good at. "
"You mean fare evasion?" Shi Zhongtang sneered, "It's not like you haven't seen the end of fare evasion."
"I know." Ning Ning laughed, "So what?"
She suddenly grabbed his face like a madman. With a mask blocking it, she naturally couldn't catch his face, but instead her nails collapsed and it hurt. .
"Fee evasion will change my fate!" Ning Ning stared at him with fiery eyes, before tears fell, she laughed first, laughing like a winner, "You or another masked person will turn me into a failure in life. I may be a third-rate actress all my life, and I can't even be an actor... It doesn't matter, it's best not to even enter the cinema, and it's best not to even act in "The Man in the Picture"."
Shi Zhongtang looked at her silently.
"...Without "The Man in the Picture", there would be no you and me today." Ning Ning said in a low voice, his expression shrouded in shadows, "Perhaps there would be no such thing as today..."
"...Impossible." Shi Zhongtang finally found his voice and said firmly, "I will force you to act."
Ning Ning sneered: "If I don't want to act, I will dilate my nostrils. When you watch the audition, the director will choose me or not."
"Others will play worse than you."
"You want to put laxatives in other people's tea? You can do it. If you have the ability, you can put medicine in the tea of actresses across the country. How about it? Can you do it?"
"… "
"I know you can't do it." Ning Ning pretended to have a relaxed smile, "Actually, it doesn't matter who plays "The Man in the Picture", you just look at yourself anyway, okay... let it go!"
With this hysterical shout, Ning Ning used all his strength to break away Shi Zhongtang's hand, and then rushed towards the door without hesitation.
But hit a chest.
Shi Zhongtang rushed over at a rapid pace, pressed his back against the gate, his chest against her, lowered his head very low, and said softly, "No..."
"Step aside!"
"Not just anyone can..."
"Go away!"
"… "
The masked man with white temples slowly raised his head and smiled to please, but tears flowed down, crystal clear, soaking the jade mask.
"I'm sorry." He wanted to raise his hand to rip off his hateful white hair, but his raised hand fell quickly, continued to stretch out, blocking the door behind him, crying to her, "I'm sorry, I've become an old man Bad-tempered monster...but...please...don't abandon me..."
Having said that, he lowered his head hopelessly, pressing the choking sound to the bottom of his heart, only his shoulders trembled slightly.
"... What." Ning Ning looked at him for a while, the winner's smile faded from her face little by little, she stretched out her arms to hug him, both sides were hurt, tears fell, "I don't like you because of your age, of course. I won't dislike you just because you have white hair..."
Shi Zhongtang raised his head slightly, and a little light appeared in his dark eyes again, like a black lake, the dark clouds dispersed, and a beam of moonlight fell on the lake.
"It's almost twelve o'clock, why are you still here?"
A strange voice suddenly sounded.
Ningning turned her head and saw a hand pushing towards her, a masked man standing behind her and said, "I'll help you."
The next second, the masked man was knocked to the ground by a punch.
The other party was stunned for a moment, then furious: "Shi Zhongtang, what are you doing?"
"You go first." Shi Zhongtang punched him again, causing him to bend over and cough, unable to utter a complete sentence, "I'll come later."
Although this one was speechless, it was almost twelve o'clock, and the movie tonight was about to start. The masked people came back one after another. Seeing this scene, one of them screamed: "Come on, come on! Ning Ning wants to Run away, she's looking for a gatekeeper to catch us!"
Shi Zhongtang hurried over: "Why don't you go quickly?"
Ning Ning looked at him hesitantly.
"Let's go with Wen Yu." Shi Zhongtang said, "He knows where to find the gatekeeper."
"...Okay." Ningning had to turn around and run, after a few steps, she turned back and shouted, "Alright, I must come back."
"Definitely."
After running two more steps, he stopped again, and turned back and shouted, "Are you really lying to me?"
"Why did you stop again! Hey, let's do it, if you lie, I will be fined and laid off, and I will be a single dog for the rest of my life."
To actually make such a poisonous oath, it seems that even if he crawls, he will crawl back.
Ning Ning finally did not look back this time.
When he found Wen Yu, he had already got up from the ground and was limping in the direction the two of them left earlier. When he met Ning Ning, he was stunned: "Where's my brother?"
Ning Ning rushed over and put his arm on his shoulder: "Hurry up, he will come later."
"What's the matter?" Wen Yu just finished asking when she heard a commotion beside her and behind her. Looking back, black shadows chased them in the thick fog, shouting: "I saw her, I I saw her." "Why is there one more person?" "Catch them back together, or kill them together."
The two hurriedly stepped forward and ran, running forward, the masked man, ran to the left, the masked man, ran to the right, the masked man, and back, there were even more masked men.
As if all the masked people were chasing them, they were aggressive and murderous, and surrounded the two of them, especially in a battle of trapped beasts.
It was clear that the winning ticket was in hand, but suddenly it receded like a tide.
The two of them stood there blankly, and the sweat on their heads was too late to wipe off.
"...Why did they suddenly disperse?" Ning Ning asked suspiciously, suddenly stunned, turned quickly to look in the direction of the cinema, and said in a trembling voice, "You liar."
Twelve o'clock, Life Cinema.
With a creak, the door suddenly opened, and a man walked in.
The cinema was in a mess, and most of the masked people had already run out, leaving only a small number of masked people and ordinary people who were controlled by them.
Amidst the crying of ordinary people, the theme song began to play. Accompanied by the sad and soft serenade, Shi Zhongtang walked to the screen step by step, raised his head and smiled.
"I, Shi Zhongtang, an incompetent brother, a boyfriend who just got laid off, a guy who doesn't count, and a guy I hate myself." He said with a smile, "I volunteered to be a gatekeeper."