Horror Movie Set: This extra is too good at playing the tricks.

Chapter 88, The 101st Passerby

Lu Dan, lying on the ground, barely managed to straighten his nearly broken body, his spine creaking in protest.

He looked directly at his clean and tidy self.

Looking in the mirror isn't a pleasant experience, especially when you look radiant in the mirror but look like you've just been pulled out of a septic tank.

"I hope you're not joking," Lu Dan's voice was hoarse. "This savior role doesn't seem like it should be played by a villager like me. Why me?"

Lu Dan, who was in the crevice, did not rush to answer. He took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes from the inside pocket of his leather jacket, elegantly knocked one out, and handed it over.

"Snapped!"

The flame of the windproof lighter shot up, and the blue flame danced between the two of them.

Lu Dan did not refuse, but lowered his head and leaned in to take a deep breath.

The nicotine spread rapidly, and the dizzying, spicy sensation slightly suppressed the excruciating pain throughout the body.

Rift Calamus put away his lighter, remaining silent, his deep eyes looking at him through the smoke with a sense of pity.

The one who answered Lu Dan was Zhang Min, who stood in the shadows on either side.

"The reason is simple."

Two voices rang out at the same time. The clean Zhang Min and the mud-covered Zhang Min raised their heads at the same time, and four eyes locked onto Lu Dan.

"The rest of us, whether it's Ye Jianguo, Chen Hua, Da Lu, or myself, are all outsiders."

"And you, Adan, you are a villager, you are an indigenous person in the script, you are a part of this place, and you are the only transparent villager in the entire Shuangshan Village who did not directly participate in several insane deification movements, and you are not even considered a marginal person."

"In my fragmented memories, through thousands and thousands of reincarnations and restarts, the character Adan is like a texture in the background of a game."

"He might be eaten on the first night of the cycle of reincarnation, or sacrificed the next morning, dying silently and without a trace, his name forgotten, his presence so faint as to be like a wisp of air."

"Perhaps this is why the 'eye' chose you."

"Only absolute transparency can be the safest container, and only absolute mediocrity can conceal the most terrifying divinity."

"That's why the 'eye' sleeps in the yin side of your body, using it as a safe haven."

"Until now that you've taken over this body."

"Your resistance, your scheming, your madness caused this nobody's data to overflow, his presence to surge, and finally, his 'eye' had the possibility of awakening."

Smoke swirled around Lu Dan's fingertips. He was silent for two seconds, then let out a sneer and exhaled a long stream of smoke from his lungs.

"Alright, I got it. This script's character setting is really disrespectful to me."

Big Lu, who had been holding back all along, finally couldn't take it anymore. He pointed at himself emerging from the rift and said, "Since you all know everything and have cleared the game, why don't you just help us take down those two big guys outside?"

Liexi Dalu looked at the fat man on the ground, a complex expression flashing in his eyes.

"We've already helped, we've helped a full 101 times."

Rift Great Lu sighed. "Do you really think your intuition is a gifted talent? Do you really think that every time you suddenly think of something in a dead end, it's just a flash of inspiration?"

"Guess why, whenever you encounter a seemingly inescapable situation, there's always an inexplicable feeling guiding you left or right? Even the images left in the coffins were created by us."

"As for why we can't just take action directly?" He shrugged and pointed to the empty darkness above his head.

"The script doesn't allow it, and the rules are the rules. We rely on past success data and can only provide limited guidance based on your current behavior."

"If Zhang Min on your side doesn't regain all her memories, then our mouths will be sealed shut, and we won't be able to tell the truth at all."

"Time is up."

Chen Hua, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke. She glanced at the time on her wrist, her eyes sharp.

She turned her head and took a deep look at her disheveled self on the ground. Her gaze was strange, as if she were looking in a mirror, or as if she were saying goodbye.

"From now on, it really depends on you guys. Don't die."

After saying that, she didn't hesitate and pulled the group back into the dark crevice.

"Buzz!"

Space trembled, and the rift closed rapidly, completely isolating the several glamorous figures in another time and space.

The kerosene lamp in the main room flickered a few times, then returned to its lifeless state.

The original group of five stood still, with only the sizzling sound of Lu Dan's cigarette burning between his fingers remaining.

……

Chen Hua glanced at his wrist. "Only 10 minutes left."

Her voice was hoarse: "Once the safe house's validity period expires, time will resume. Do we really have to do what they say? Lure the god there, and then let Lu Dan... commit suicide?"

This plan sounds like the ravings of a madman; every step is a dance on a knife's edge, and the slightest slip could lead to utter ruin.

"Although I don't want to admit it, based on my recovered memories, this is the only solution."

Zhang Min's merged pupils gleamed with a cold light. "Eyes need a vessel, spirit needs an outlet, and we need to break this damned yin-yang balance. Without destruction, there can be no construction."

After a brief silence.

A hand slammed heavily on Lu Dan's shoulder.

Ye Jianguo appeared resolute under the dim light: "Since this is the only way, there's nothing to hesitate about."

He looked around at everyone, his tone firm and powerful, instantly dispelling the gloom in the room: "Next, as the head of the investigation team, I will issue the order that everyone do everything in their power to cover Comrade Lu Dan's mission. I will lead the way."

He tightened his grip on the red and black ghost-shaped gauntlets, his eyes resolute: "Don't worry, if someone needs to sacrifice themselves, I, Ye Jianguo, will be the first to go."

Lu Dan took a deep drag on his cigarette, the embers burning all the way to the filter and scalding his fingertips.

He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it out with the toe of his foot until the last spark disappeared.

"OK."

Lu Dan nodded, took out a slingshot from his pocket, bounced it around, and suddenly tossed it to Zhang Min next to him.

Zhang Min hurriedly caught it, asking, "Why are you giving it to me?"

"This thing still has a few bullets left, so it's still pretty useful." Lu Dan smiled, his smile both calm and mad.

"When the time comes, I will first go to the sunny side, and then take the red-robed two-headed god up the mountain."

"Your task is both simple and difficult. Hold off this headless white-robed god at the entrance, delay him as long as you can, and if you can't delay him, retreat and take him to the top of the mountain."

Lu Dan's gaze swept across everyone's faces, and his tone suddenly became very soft: "Remember, it's best not to sacrifice anyone."

"After all, if I'm the only one left to complete this game, the rating will definitely be so low it'll be unbearable."

After saying that, he turned around without hesitation and walked toward the headless, charred corpse that had been brought in.

This is himself, and the key to everything.

Lu Dan squatted down and inserted his hands directly into the charred chest cavity of the corpse.

"Snap!"

A crisp sound of bones breaking rang out as he used both hands to violently tear the corpse's chest in two.

"Splash!"

Black charcoal ash flew everywhere.

Deep within the empty chest cavity, a half-eaten eyeball, emitting a faint, cold light, fell to the ground.

It lay quietly in the ashes, its pupils, though incomplete, coldly watching everyone in the room.

Lu Dan reached out and picked up the half of the "eye," its touch icy cold.

"This is a demigod..." he murmured, clenching his fists tightly and looking up at the colors that were beginning to flow outside the window.

"Time is almost up."