Chapter 9: Granny Wang
Before his death, Han Dong was not a nerd who was dead set on studying and doing research, he still had his own hobbies, he just had less time to apply to his hobbies.
If there is a long waiting period for experiments, Han Dong will watch movies in the lab to pass the time.
Movies were an art in themselves, and in Han Dong's opinion, some of them were very deep, and serious viewing was better for his mind to diverge....
Science fiction is Han Dong's favorite, however horror movies are less watched.
It's not that he's scared, but he's just not interested in these ghostly creatures that science can't explain intuitively.
It's just a fantasy product of people's fears combined with the real species...not very meaningful to watch.
The five words 'domestic horror film', in Han Dong's impression, belonged to the money-capturing rotten film, slag film.
The Jiuzhou film 'Sinister'.
Han Dong vaguely remembers that he once read a brief introduction and review of Sinister when he posted a review on a website.
The newbie director spent seventy thousand low cost to create the horror film, even including the twenty thousand medical expenses for the actor's injury during filming... The actual finished film crushed the domestic multi-million dollar 'thriller' films, and could even confront the horror films of other countries in the world.
It won a lot of awards, but there was a problem on the eve of its release.
I don't know if the film makers were really 'possessed'.]
Han Dong was still curious at the time and tried searching for resources, but found that there were very few resources about Sinister on the internet, making it even more difficult to search for the film than a small movie.
In the process of searching for resources, Han Dong discovered that the original expected release of Sinister was suddenly withdrawn... it seemed to be related to some strange events.
One of the more influential events occurred at a certain Hong Kong International Film Festival.
During the screening of the film, a certain female audience member began running back and forth in the theater during the screening due to the stimulus, which caused some mental problems.
Han Dong believes that this kind of film, shot in the form of a pseudo-documentary, will have a certain degree of empathy with the audience, and that it is most likely that the female audience had seen similar scenes in her childhood, so she was completely absorbed into the film and fell into a 'panic'.
Due to the fact that no movie resources could be found at the time, and the time between experiments had arrived, requiring Han Dong to isolate the bacteria immediately, the film was then forgotten.
"Pity! If I had seen the film, the survival rate would have been greatly increased.
I only remember that the film was shot as a pseudo-documentary...about two college students who go to the countryside to make a documentary about fortune telling and encounter strange events on the way.
Nothing else is known.
Evil spirit-type events...it seems that we really do encounter evil spirits and ghosts that science cannot explain along the way.
For three days, if we can survive, we will become the 'Returners' as the Knights say.
From the information we've received so far, it seems that the mortality rate is extremely high. If you make the wrong decision, you may be on a path of no return.
Get serious and cherish this one life."
It's impossible to say that you're not nervous.
Any living being, when confronted with an unconfrontable unknown object, the primal emotion of fear would spurt out... It was just to say that different people had different resistances and reactions to fear.
Han Dong, who had experienced death once, was able to suppress the terror within to a great extent.
.......
The six-man team.
In addition to the change in dress, the team was equipped with a camera that could be held in one hand, a student ID card, and 500 yuan in cash.
Of course, the wrist-winding devices are also present and have been reset with a countdown timer that corresponds to three days or 72 hours.
As we moved together, we soon reached a courtyard where a number of simple peasant uncles and aunts were gathered.
"Look.
Even foreigners have come to seek the fortune telling of the 'granny wang'...this has earned our village a lot of face."
Han Dong made some inquiries in a Mandarin with a Western accent.
Learning that this was exactly Granny Wang's house, these people were all lining up to tell fortunes... However, Granny Wang was currently not at home, but had gone to the eastern village to 'visit'.
Upon learning this information, the crowd quickly rushed to the eastern village to find the door of the house where Granny Wang was staying.
At this point, the ritual had entered the matching final stage.
A bizarre red paper man was placed in the doorway, and the 'granny Wang' stirred the bowl of symbolic water with her fingers so that a woman with an ugly face could drink it.
Han Dong whispered to the captain, "Edward, there is still half an hour left to request a relationship with Granny Wang.
Out of courtesy, let's just wait until the magic is done before we make contact with the Granny... I need to go to the bathroom, I'll be back soon."
"Okay, you go ahead."
There were many public toilets in the village.
Of course, Han Dong's purpose was not to go to the toilets, but to take advantage of the time before the events officially began, wanting to learn about an extremely important matter that involved himself in advance.
Han Dong arrived at a shop, first confirming the current time through the calendar-November 5, 2015
"Hello, how do you charge for public phones?"
"...Feel free to call, don't pay.
"The boss's wife is the first time she has seen a foreigner in the countryside, so a few cents is fine.
"Thank you."
"You speak this Mandarin better than I do, it's amazing."
Han Dong smiled slightly out of politeness and picked up the handset of the landline.
Zee~~~!
Who knew that just as the earpiece came close to his ear, a sharp sound that gave Han Dong a headache immediately rang out in his mind.
In the event scene, it is forbidden to use communication devices directly or indirectly to contact the outside world.
"Thought so... "Han Dong was helpless for a while.
Actually, he wanted to use the phone to find a loophole in the system.
He wanted to call his lifelong friend to confirm if the current movie world was the same as his - former world, and even if it was different... Han Dong planned to get some horror movie resources from the outside world.
Even if he couldn't use them for the current event, he would definitely be able to use them in the future.
Since this road to contact the outside world was blocked, Han Dong could only use the five hundred yuan granted by the system to purchase some 'potentially useful' items at the grocery store, and put them all into a hiking backpack.
Coincidentally, the ritual ended.
Granny Wang and her old companion said goodbye to the family who had 'successfully exorcised' the evil spirits.
"Hello Granny Wang, we are..."
Hand out your student card and introduce yourself.
A group of international students had come all the way to the countryside to make a documentary, so it was not easy to refuse them... Of course, Mrs. Wang also had some selfish motives, and if she could become famous through the documentary, her business would definitely be better in the future.
Therefore, Mrs. Wang happily agreed to be interviewed and followed by the six people.
Just at this moment, the system sound came again.
"We have established a correct relationship with the important person 'Granny', please follow her by car to the place of the incident.