After leaving Fu Rong Market, Lei Yue continued to follow the rhythm of his steps without knowing what was going on, all the way back to his home on the eighth floor of the dilapidated apartment building.
He closed the door and was wondering whether to check around to see if anyone had broken into the house and installed surveillance cameras...
Bang! The crow suddenly kicked its wings from his shoulder and flew towards the small balcony. The old glass window of the balcony had been blown open by the wind at some point in the past few days.
"Hey, friend!" Lei Yue saw it was about to leave and couldn't help but want to stop it. He also planned to ask it what happened just now.
But the crow still went its own way, rushed out of the window, and flew away.
Lei Yue ran to the balcony, looked out at the gray sky, and saw the crow flying towards the film and television city again.
It seemed that the crisis was over, the scene was over for the time being, and he could return to the film and television city.
"Huh -" Lei Yue took off his mask and let out a long sigh of relief, "Something happened as soon as I came back, and there are new situations among the villagers every day... It seems that the situation in the village is about to get out of control."
As he walked towards the sacred cabinet, he recalled what happened in the market just now, the graffiti of the shotgun man, the big man, and the crow...
"This friend, it will lead the way and give warnings."
Lei Yue thought about it. In the garbage dump and the market, when this mysterious friend landed on his shoulders and led the way without flying, he had to pay attention to its claws.
Currently, he has discovered two states of its claws:
First, it doesn’t use much force, it seems to be resting, observing, and waiting;
The second is to scratch his flesh hard and violently. At this time, it is warning that there is something that needs attention.
"Is this a small gain from this adventure?" Lei Yue muttered, "I understand a bit of this mute friend's sign language."
And seeing that graffiti, that Shotgunman card...
But the most important thing is to go home.
At this time, Lei Yue came to stand in front of the mahogany sacred cabinet and looked at the three photos of his mother-in-law and parents in the sacred cabinet. They still smiled.
"Family, I'm back. I haven't offered incense to you for a few days. You're not hungry. If you are hungry, just treat it as a weight loss, okay?
"I've been through a lot these days..."
As Lei Yue spoke, he connected the plug, turned on the power, and lit the electronic incense candles for them. "It's not easy to realize the dream of being an actor. It's really not easy. But now, I have a new position for myself... I met someone
My new friend is a beautiful girl."
He smiled and looked at the photo of his mother-in-law's kind face, "Mother-in-law, I didn't lie to you this time, really! Her name is Ayasha, she is a very interesting person, she taught me a lot.
"Well, I hit someone, and I'm a little scared, but I don't regret it... Like Ayasha said, I'm living a better life now than before.
"You should also be happy when you see me getting angry like this. Be happy...
"As for my physical condition."
Lei Yue's voice became softer, and he felt that blood was spurting out from his neck again. His neck bones seemed to be cracking, and his whole head was about to fall out at any time.
This is what doctors call the symptoms of "living dead disease", where patients will have these hallucinations of death, but in fact their bodies are fine and they are just delusions.
However, he really felt that he was dying, and he didn't know how long he could survive. He would either take medicine or die.
Lei Yue didn't want his family to worry, so he didn't say more:
“My health is fine and I eat four meals a day for free.
"In short, I will continue to work hard and act until I can't act anymore."
The words gradually stopped, but Lei Yue still stood in front of the sacred cabinet for a while, then turned and walked away, went back to the bedroom to sort out his clothes, went to the bathroom to take a shower, and washed clothes...
After working at home for a few hours, he was about to leave again, so he went to the sacred cabinet to turn off the incense.
Before going out, Lei Yue looked at the bottle of olanzapine that was brought from the bedroom to the coffee table in the living room for a while, but in the end he didn't pick it up, not even a single pill.
Since the doctors said that the blood spurting from the neck is just a delusion and that in fact it is impossible to die, then why do you have to take medicine?
…
After Lei Yue returned to the film and television city, he went to the modern street studio arranged by Sister Hua to start work, and stayed with the crew until late at night.
He had already taken the time to apply for a formal actor's work permit, which made it much easier to get in and out.
When I returned to that Mai Kee store, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening.
At this time, Lei Yue was sitting on a dining chair by the street window of Mai Kee, closing his eyes and concentrating, holding the pistol hidden in his pocket with his right hand.
No police came, but the graffiti of the shotgun man was always lingering in front of his eyes, especially the graffiti of playing cards, which gave him an indescribable visual impact at that time.
【SHOTGUN MAN,SHOTGUN MAN】
During this period of time, in order to hide himself, Lei Yue neither searched for firearms knowledge on the Internet nor searched for keywords such as "gunman" and "Jack the Ripper".
He couldn't find anyone to help him without being followed. You know, even black Internet cafes are monitored now.
Now he had a reason to search. He had seen that graffiti in the market during the day, so it was normal for him to search online or not.
However, the risk of doing so is still very high...
"Shotgun Man, Jack the Ripper." Lei Yue murmured in his heart, "If you want to use your own IP to search the Internet, you have to take advantage of this opportunity, otherwise it will only attract more and more attention."
At this time, his cell phone rang an alarm clock, and it was still 10 minutes before midnight.
If you want to search, don't search now. Searching in the early morning is too suspicious.
Lei Yue put away his messy thoughts, opened his eyes and stood up, dragging his tattered body towards the kitchen, "It's time for supper."
In this early morning, as the diners left, the residents of Mak Kee had already returned to their places one by one.
Sometimes Ayasha spends the night at Mak Kee, and sometimes she doesn't.
When she was here, she would always take the lead to get the supper, but tonight she was nowhere to be seen.
Lei Yue waited at the door of the kitchen for a while, and then went to the back alley with the clerk. He brought back several small bags of food that he distributed in white plastic bags. They were all Maiji products, but they looked like outside food.
shop.
He did check this matter online. It is the legitimate rights and interests of consumers to bring outside food into the store, and it is illegal to prohibit it.
Most Mak Kee's don't care about this, and some people online even deliberately bring Ken Kee's food to Mak Kee to eat; some Mak Kee's will stare at it and even get into conflicts with customers because of it.
Manager Liang of this Mak Kee store is a good person. He turned a blind eye to what he did and only expressed his intention to be careful and take good care of me.
"Handsome guy, tonight's supper." Lei Yue walked to the table of the white-haired man in a military coat and put down a small bag of food with French fries and chicken nuggets.
"Oh, oh..." The old man in military uniform woke up from his doze, grabbed the fries and started eating them without washing his hands, "There are so many tonight."
"Maybe someone ordered the meal but didn't come to pick it up in the end." Lei Yue said with a smile that all the stray cats in the alley shared the meal.
He then walked towards the old woman in yellow and said, "Beauty, it's yours."
The old lady may have some mental problems. She keeps talking about something all day long, and now she is thinking: "Go home...the house..."
Seeing him put down a small bag of food, the old woman raised her head and smiled at him, her mouth full of missing and yellow teeth.
Lei Yue also smiled and continued to distribute supper to other long-term residents.
Mak Kee feels like a hotel every night, but there are only a few long-term residents.
Ayasha didn't care whether these people were hungry or full, but he felt...
Although they didn't even know each other's names, everyone didn't dislike each other.
And there was so much food that I couldn’t finish it all, so it was good to share it, especially for these two homeless old people.
"Done." Lei Yue walked around the store, took the remaining bag of large portions, returned to the street window where he always lived, and started eating too, "Let's eat."
He looked at the street outside, then looked at his phone. There was no "Ayasha" in the contacts or communication app, and no one had mentioned adding friends yet.
Lei Yue was eating French fries and looking at his circle of friends. Suddenly, someone came in from the door of the store.
He turned around and saw that it was Ayasha. She was wearing the loose baseball uniform and jeans again, holding a yellow skateboard, with two other skateboards and a brown backpack hanging behind her back. The clothes matched her hair.
gorgeous.
As soon as Ayasha entered the store, she looked towards this corner, nodded slightly to greet him, and seemed to take a few more glances.
Are you looking at the late night snack? Lei Yue held up a bag of food and said, "The harvest is very rich tonight, I left you an apple pie."
There is no cover on his rotten face, but his facial muscles are natural and not acted.
"Hmm." Ayasha walked over, sat down on a chair across from her, and took the apple pie from the bag. "Did you play the role of a corpse for another day?" she asked.
"You guessed it, but at least there is a scene of struggling and rolling." Lei Yue showed a self-deprecating expression, "I am the most suitable person to play a dead body."
He clutched his neck, which still felt like bleeding. Every hour was getting worse than the hour before...
The more blood flows, the closer the breath of death comes.
Seeing Lingsha notice him covering his neck and staring at her, Lei Yue seemed to be joking and said: "My neck is spurting blood, I'm about to die, but you can't see it."
"Oh..." Ayasa was eating the apple pie, not knowing what she was thinking, and regardless of whether he understood or not, she said: "Playing a dead body is not a problem, 'Harold' still plays dead bodies all day long."
That was really an act. Lei Yue immediately grinned and became more energetic, "If I had the skills that Harlow could inherit, I could pretend to be dead with peace of mind."
Ayasha also smiled when she heard this, her eyes flashed brightly, "That's true."
They know that they understand each other. "Harold" is the protagonist of the classic CULT film "Harold and Maude" from decades ago.
Harlow is a young man who can inherit a large fortune, but he is not interested in the upper class society. Instead, he is deviant and obsessed with black things such as funerals, suicide and death. He uses staged suicides all day long to scare relatives and friends, and casually tease them.
With death.
"Do you like watching CULT movies?" Lei Yue asked, adding something in his mind: I like it too...
Today, many people know about the drama "Every Day I Come Home to My Wife Pretending to Be Dead", but very few people know about "Harold and Maude".
However, he was not surprised at all that the colorful-haired girl opposite would like this kind of movie.
Rebellion, anarchy, black humor...
"Yeah." Ayasha responded. She didn't know what she was thinking about. She looked at the neon street outside and said a classic line from "Harold and Maude":
"Many people don't mind dying. In fact, they don't really die. They just withdraw from life and go away..."
Lei Yue suddenly fell silent, and several photos on the sacred cabinet flashed before his eyes.
Ayasha also said nothing and just ate apple pie.
After a long silence, Lei Yue saw her suddenly looking over, and she kept looking at him until he shrugged a little awkwardly and asked, "What?"
"That being said, I don't want you to quit so soon... I just don't want to." Ayasha finally said.
Lei Yue's heart felt warm, and he covered his neck with his hands even tighter, "I'll hold on, try my best."
"I want to take you somewhere." Lingsha said, looking him up and down, hesitating a little, "I don't know if you can do it. But, looking at you, you're almost dead. I don't want to take you with me."
You can’t even go.”
"If you have something to say, just say it." Lei Yue was puzzled, "Like you, I don't like nonsense."
"I know some people who make underground movies, and they have a job." Ayasha continued, "Thriller type, handheld shooting, there are only a few people on the crew, and you need a scary-looking actor to be the lead."
Lei Yue raised his brows in excitement, stopped eating French fries, and felt that the bleeding on his neck had stopped, "Are there any underground movies in the film and television city?"
The so-called "underground films" refer to ultra-low-cost films, experimental films, B-level films, and CULT films, which are often offbeat, grotesque, black and bloody, and go against the mainstream and commercial market "underground."
But precisely because of this, there have been too many classics in underground movies, which challenged people's ideas at the time and changed the way movies were played. "Harold and Maude" is one of them.
However, he only knows that there are underground film ecosystems abroad, but not much about them in China...
"It was distributed online and overseas, not in theaters." Ayasha replied, "The budget seems to be only tens of thousands of dollars. It was fun to shoot. It doesn't matter if the distribution fails, so I don't have much pay."
"Oh." Lei Yue nodded understandingly, "The salary doesn't matter, just take care of the food. Starring...starring..."
Starring, is this the purpose of that blackbird friend who brought me to Maiji?
Not only did she meet Ayasha as a new friend, she also gave me such an opportunity.
Although it is said to be "shooting for fun", underground movies are shot for fun, and the better you play, the more classic they become.
The more Lei Yue thought about this, he couldn't help but feel a little excited, and his heart began to beat faster.
"When will the filming of this job start? Will there be an audition?" he asked, wondering if he should do any homework to prepare.
"I'll just take you over and show them a look. If it's suitable, we can start work tonight."
When Ayasha said this, her usually casual tone became a little more serious, "Those people are also some bad choices, they are old black sheep, and the way they do things may not be suitable for you now."
"If you are interested, I will take you there." She made up her mind.
Bang bang, Lei Yue could hear his own heartbeat. During the day, he said that the dream of becoming an actor was not easy, but now, for the first time, this dream has such substance.
Ayasa is worried that I won’t adapt? No, when it comes to making underground films, you need those black sheep who can break the rules to make a good film...
He looked at the colorful-haired girl opposite and asked, "Are you on the crew too?"
"I just happen to know those people." Ayasa shrugged, "But if you go, I will go and have fun too. You have talent, you shouldn't waste it like this."
"Thank you." Lei Yue's voice was very soft, but he really thanked this crow for introducing him to the negative choice friends who had helped him a lot these days.
He nodded heavily, "I'm interested, very interested."
"Okay, let's go. Let's go now before you're dead." Ayasha stood up, finished the apple pie in one big bite, and walked out of the store, revealing a black thorn tattoo on her right wrist.
Do we need to take night scenes so late and shoot all night? Lei Yue suddenly thought.
After a busy day, he was quite tired just now, but now he is in high spirits. There is no problem in staying up all night. He can ask Sister Hua for leave tomorrow to catch up on his sleep during the day.
"Here we come!" He quickly cleared the table a few times, picked up his backpack, and brought a bag of food with him.
Lei Yue caught up with Lingsha and walked out of Mai Kee. The streets outside were filled with neon lights and colorful lights.