Old Sam's Bar in Mono Town.

Zhou Chen, Erken, and Bodyguard No. 3 were in front of the bar, and after inviting the famous local pine nut wine to Lao Fulin, they were listening to him tell some stories about witches.

"I've lived here for sixty-three years, and if you count my ancestors, it's been more than a hundred years, and there's nothing in Mono that I don't know. ”

The white man with half-white hair, unshaven beard, and a sturdy figure took a big sip of wine and said proudly.

"Old Fulin, can you tell me about witches, the more detailed the better. Elken asked with interest.

"The legend of the witch is no secret in the town, and there are still people in the town who have seen it. ”

"Do you mean that the witch exists, is it the old lady at the mouth of the alley?" Zhou Chen thought of the old lady from before and immediately asked.

"Oh, you're talking about Mrs. Ford, she, huh. Old Fulin smiled vaguely and did not elaborate.

"Hey, old Fulin, are you using old stories to trick outsiders into drinking?"

Zhou Chen and the others were about to ask, when a sturdy middle-aged man in his fifties walked to the bar.

It is not far from the famous ghost town of Bodi in the United States, and there are often people who go out of town to explore the mountains and come here.

"Corey, you're also a lot older, you should know how to be polite, how can you know about witches at your age, you weren't born at that time!"

Old Fulin glared at the visitor with dissatisfaction and reprimanded, and turned his head to Zhou Chen and the others unconvinced: "I really saw a witch, and that was when I was a child...... , for more than fifty years. ”

"Have you seen it?" Zhou Chen said suspiciously.

"No, my dad saw it, and I heard him talk about it a lot when I was a kid. Old Forlin, under Corey's mocking gaze, finally changed his tune.

Zhou Chen was a little speechless, this old man made up stories for a few glasses of wine!

"Old Fulin, do you want to tell the story of the mentally ill witch who spent forty years searching for the gold hidden by the miners and did not find it more than seventy years ago, even at that time, you were not born. ”

Corey on the side immediately smiled and mended the knife after drinking a glass of wine sent by Zhou Chen.

Zhou Chen was very satisfied when he saw this, these people revealed their secrets to each other, and he could hear some real stories.

Old Fulin immediately blushed, and got up in embarrassment to leave.

Zhou Chen saw this situation and hurriedly persuaded: "Old Fulin, it doesn't matter if you haven't seen it, I never expect to shoot a real witch, and I don't want to shoot it, it's too terrifying, let's just make a documentary, just want to shoot some traces of the witch's existence." ”

"Well, I know a lot of things, hehe. Old Fulin smiled again.

"Tell me about it. ？”

"I don't want to deceive you, no one knows if witches exist, but there are many legends of witches. Seeing that Zhou Chen was open-minded, Lao Fulin bought him a large glass of wine, and immediately said honestly.

"For example?"

"Have you seen the cemetery next to the road outside town?" said Old Flynn.

"Well, I did. ”

"There are a lot of children's tombstones, right?" Old Fulin took a sip of wine, squinted his eyes and began to recall, "Legend has it that Alyssa the witch hates children. ”

Zhou Chen frowned, "Is Alyssa the former name of Mono Town, is she a person, and she killed those children?"

"This ...... It's been so long ago that I don't know, and at the time of the gold rush, it had been 150 years since it had passed, and I couldn't be sure. But it is true that many children have died for no reason, and some have even disappeared, which is related to the legendary witch Elisa. ”

Zhou Chen and the others did not interrupt Lao Fulin, and listened carefully.

He took another sip and continued: "But more than seventy years ago, when my father was about 20 years old, something did happen, and he often said it later, that when I was a child, the people in the town used it to scare us disobedient children.

At that time, a man who came here to look for the gold miners who had secretly hidden the gold, and after searching for forty years but not finding it, he came down from the abandoned town of Bodi to the north.

He tells everyone that there is always a woman's voice guiding him to find the child for her, and then disemboweling and brutally killing Dicha. No one knows if he's telling the truth or not, but it's true that children die in the town, and those cemeteries are, and it's the most reliable thing I know of about Alyssa, the witch. ”

It seems that witches like children, and the same is true of Blair, the witch in the original movie.

"Are these true?" Zhou Chen asked suspiciously.

"This is what my father told me when he was alive. But now many people don't believe it, especially Corey's generation, who think it's a story made up by old people to scare them. In fact, no one can confirm whether this is true or not, and the people of the past are now dead, and I have forgotten many things."

Zhou Chen was relieved when he heard Lao Fulin say this.

A legend is better than a true story, and a dead ghost is the best ghost.

Next, Zhou Chen heard some legends from others, some of which he could find on the Internet before, and some of which few people knew.

It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the evening that Zhou Chen planned to end tonight's news investigation.

However, before he was finished, he proposed to old Fulin and Corey to hire them as guides, and guide them to several places with witch legends, such as the mountains in the north of the valley, so that he could choose and set up the shooting scenes.

The income of the residents in the town is generally not high, so it is natural to be very happy to have such extra money.

Zhou Chen hired these two people for forty dollars a day.

Both parties were overjoyed, and agreed to meet in front of the hotel at eight o'clock the next morning, and then parted.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Zhou Chen and the others were divided into two groups.

Zhou Chen took people to the valley to the north to "explore" to find a suitable scene for filming in the future.

Zhang Kejia led the three actors of the crew, started filming with equipment, and went to the town to interview local residents and the extras arranged before.

The interviewees were all real local residents, but some of them were specially selected to arrange their lines.

In this way, when the three actors interviewed the local residents, they would believe in the story of the witch more, and their performances would be more realistic when some weird scenes appeared later.

The questions in the interviews with all three actors are very simple, they all ask whether they have ever seen a witch, or have they heard of a witch, are these things real, and so on.

Some old people who have heard of it are like old Fu Lin, and some young people are more like legends.

Many children in the town have heard of it, because the tradition of using witches to scare disobedient children has been preserved.

This may also be the reason why local witch stories have been passed down from generation to generation.

The three actors, Joe, Ellie and Green, had already felt a little weird about the documentary yesterday, and they were even more worried as they interviewed the townspeople.

You must know that what Zhou Chen told them was only to shoot a documentary, and there was no script at all, so they were all free to play.

Only after they finish filming according to the requirements, and after Zhou Chen checks it, they feel that something is not good, or there is a special scene, will they give some guidance and arrange some lines. Let them dedicate a few more shots.

Now I heard more than one person in the town talk about witches, and even provided some abandoned mines and houses for them to explore.

Coupled with the child's grave they had seen in the cemetery before, they felt more and more that the witch's story was confusing, as if it were real.

Ellie, Joe, and Green are also getting more and more worried.

If it weren't for Zhou Chen and so many other people accompanying them to shoot together, they would all plan to leave without money.

The three actors and others interviewed the residents in the town, and they felt more and more that the witch's story was real, and Zhou Chen and others, who went to the depths of the valley and went to the mountains to the north to explore and investigate, saw those abandoned mine pits and abandoned old houses, and felt even more intensely.

It's really the birthplace of natural horror stories, and it's too suitable for making this kind of pseudo-documentary-style movie.

Zhou Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he looked at this dilapidated small mine pit left over from the gold rush and the dilapidated old houses nearby that were minor repairs.