In order to realize Tim Burton's whimsical romantic vision, the crew's special effects team took great pains to find a suitable cliff in the middle of the western side of the forest, with a feldstone breaking from the main body, like a sharp sword into the sky. Behind it, a pine tree fell, just in time for the backdrop. The terrain here is high and raised, and you can look out at the forest sea in the distance from the top of the cliff, and the trees are verdant and thick, like a green velvet carpet, covering the earth. Overlooking the woodland, the reckless sky, stretching to the horizon. The gusts of wind blow, the green waves roll, and the forest waves make a sound, feeling the wonder and magnificence.

On the left is a high cliff, but on the right is very gentle, which is very conducive to the development of the crew's equipment, which also provides a guarantee for safety measures during filming. Before the official start of filming, the staff was carefully checking whether the steel cables on Lin Mingyang and Christine were reliable.

Lin Mingyang is no stranger to these devices, because it is not the first time that he has been hoisted in the air by a steel cable and then flown around in front of the camera. But Christine tried this kind of performance for the first time, and her pursed lips could tell how nervous she was at this moment.

At this time, all her eyes were focused on the steel rope tied to her, and in order to distract her, Lin Mingyang opened his mouth and asked, "Have you ever had the experience of standing on the top of a tall building before?" ”

Christine shook her head, her eyes slightly removed from the tightrope in the staff's hands, and her hands covered her chest: "I know it's easy to tell you, but my heart is still beating hard!" ”

"That's normal!" Lin Mingyang raised his hand to let the staff fasten the hook on his body, and nodded: "I was also nervous when I first dropped Weiya, but after you get used to it, you will find that this thing is not as terrifying as you imagined." ”

"I hope so!" Christine barely squeezed out a smile at the corner of her mouth, but she was still nervous in her heart.

Seeing that his comfort had little effect, Lin Mingyang would inevitably feel a little frustrated in his heart, "You really don't need to worry, we won't be dropped in mid-air this time, these steel cables are just used to ensure our safety and provide us with some balance support when necessary." ”

Just as they were talking, the staff had completed the final security check, and the irrelevant personnel around them were quickly evacuated, and the photographer behind the camera made an OK gesture to Lin Mingyang, Lin Mingyang gently hugged Christine, because of the uncontrollable nervousness, the girl hugged his neck tightly. The faint fragrance that emanated from Christine's hairline penetrated Lin Mingyang's nostrils, and he took a greedy sip.

The two were already in mid-air, Christine closed her eyes a little frightened, although they were close at hand, Lin Mingyang's small movements were not noticed by her. They soon landed on the top of the large tree that had been secured, and the camera suspended from a long pole was already in place, and the camera was directly in front of the two.

Lin Mingyang held the tree with one hand and half-hugged Christine with the other, and he whispered in the girl's ear, "We can start!" ”

Christine tried to open her eyes, and then the endless Lin Hai at the bottom of the curious cliff took a look, and she found that standing in the sky and looking at the top of the cliff just now were completely different feelings, and her mouth subconsciously said: "It's beautiful!" ”

This is not a line written in the script, but Lin Mingyang cleverly changed the original dialogue and picked up Christine's heartfelt sigh. He put his head to Christine's ear, and Christine actually blushed a little, and then she quickly came to her senses, put away the subtle feeling in her heart, and immediately entered the state of performance.

There were no retakes, and this set of shots passed perfectly the first time, and even a fastidious director like Tim Burton didn't find anything wrong with it. In order to build this set, the crew spent two days of hard work. In the end, less than half an hour after shooting, everyone was relieved to see Uncle Ti's familiar face with a satisfied smile.

――――The filming of "Twilight" has just ended before Christmas, and the post-production and editing of special effects is estimated to take a long time, and the official release of the film is estimated to wait until next year. After a small gathering with his family at Christmas, Lin Mingyang hurried back to school, even if he missed the final exam of the course, then he didn't want to get the credits smoothly.

"Twilight 2: New Moon" still occupies the top of the New York Times bestseller list, but the peak of the novel's sales has passed, and the overall trend has been flattening. The recent rebound in sales is only due to the continued media attention to the filming of "Twilight", which has invisibly driven the sales of the novel. But with the end of "Twilight" shooting, the novel's popularity has also cooled, and the publisher has reached its target sales target in North America, and now they are busy preparing for the novel's overseas release.

With the decrease in the attention of the topic, and Lin Mingyang deliberately kept a low profile at school, the news about him in the newspaper suddenly decreased a lot in the week after Christmas. Without external interference, Lin Mingyang just concentrated on studying, and recently he went to the library every day, in addition to consulting professional-related books, he can also use Harvard's massive collection of books to enrich his knowledge.

Harvard University has nearly 100 libraries, large and small, divided into different categories. Each museum has its own irreplaceable characteristics, which fully demonstrates Harvard's decentralized system. Different libraries have different collections, cater to different scholars, focus on different areas, and are funded from different sources. In many libraries, there are comfortable sofas in the reading room. When the reader is tired, he leans on the sofa for a while, and then continues to work hard, and there are often students who forget to study and forget the time. If you stay in an inconspicuous corner of the museum, it is not uncommon for you to be locked up after the museum is closed.

Lin Mingyang frequents the Widener Library, and he likes it because the main entrance of the library has a row of Romanesque columned corridors, and there are more than 20 steps in front of the door. Every time you enter the library, it's like a spiritual climbing ritual.

After lunch time that day, Lin Mingyang walked out of the library, hungry and hurried to eat, just walked the steps in front of the library, there was a guy in front of him who was in a hurry as he slipped when he went down the steps, and a large stack of borrowed books in his hand scattered all over the ground, one of which happened to fall at Lin Mingyang's feet.

Lin Mingyang kindly helped the man pick up the book, and when he patted the dust on the book, his eyes were attracted by the gilded title on the cover: "The "Mummy" of Early Human Civilization - Ancient Egyptian Culture Truth-seeking", looking at this name, eighty percent is a book related to Egyptian mummies.

Before thinking about it, Lin Mingyang walked forward quickly, ready to return the book to the boy. He patted the other party's shoulder from behind, but he didn't expect to turn around with a familiar face.

"Klin?" Lin Mingyang cried out in some surprise, "Why are you?" ”

“felix？” Klin's reaction was much more exaggerated than Lin Mingyang's, not only did he have a loud voice, but he also had a big mouth. He shouted so loudly that he immediately attracted the attention of the pedestrians around him. Lin Mingyang was worried that he would do something more out of the ordinary, so he hurriedly pulled him aside.

"I didn't expect to meet you here!" Clint was so excited that he was a little incoherent, and if it weren't for the large stack of books in his hand, he would probably be dancing by now.

"Klin, we sleep in the same bedroom every night, do you need to be so excited to see me?" Lin Mingyang was a little unimpressed by his reaction.

"It's different, my classmates are asking me about you..."Kling smiled, and then he found the book Lin Mingyang was holding in his hand, followed by an exaggerated exclamation.

"Oh my God, you actually borrowed the same book as me, and you like mummies too?"

Klin's series of questions made Lin Mingyang smile bitterly, and when the other party finished speaking, he explained: "This is the book you borrowed, I just picked it up for you just now!" ”

"That's right!" Kling smiled at him with an embarrassed expression.

Looking at the large stack of books that Kling was holding in his hand, a strange thought suddenly popped up in Lin Mingyang's mind, and he asked with some hesitation: "These books you borrowed... It can't all be about mummies, right? ”

Klin's eyes widened in surprise, his expression had confirmed Lin Mingyang's judgment. "How do you know?"

"Guess what!" Lin Mingyang replied decisively.

He had no interest in mummies, but on the way to the restaurant together, Kling was still enthusiastic about the classification of mummies from the legends of the Egyptian pharaohs, and even the sumptuous lunch that Lin Mingyang invited him to enjoy for free could not stop him from talking about what he knew about mummies.

"They first applied melted pine resin to the deceased's face to protect the facial image and prevent it from drying too quickly." There was a boy at the table next to him who was smearing butter on his bread slices, and when he heard Klin's description, he threw away the food in his hand in disgust, glared viciously at this side, and angrily took the plate to find a seat away from this side.

Kling was completely immersed in the topic he was talking about, not caring at all about the feelings of the people around him, "The second step is that they will process the brain." The craftsman inserts a chisel through the left nostril, mashes the ethmoid bone, turns the skull with a tool to destroy the cerebral marrow, uses a very thin long-handled spoon to reach through the nostril and scoops out the brain, and finally stuffs some medicines and spices into the empty skull. Cerebral plasma is generally not preserved. ”

At this point, a girl who was scooping ketchup with a spoon in a jar left with a plate, and Lin Mingyang looked at Kling dumbfounded, but he didn't notice the problem at all.

"The third step is to remove the internal organs. The stomach, intestines, liver, and lungs were removed through an incision on the left side of the belly. Later, there is palm oil as a cleaning solution to wash the chest and abdominal cavity. These organs are sometimes neatly wrapped in a mass of pine resin and placed in the belly of the mummy, sometimes divided into small jars with lids, and then placed in the abdomen. ”

One of the last boys left around their table was cutting steaks, and after hearing Clint's description, he couldn't sit down and went to the other end of the restaurant with his plate. Fortunately, it was past lunch time at this time, and there were not many people in the restaurant, and the people sitting around Lin Mingyang and Klin had run out, and the two of them sitting there did not seem too abrupt.

"Step 4..."Klin was about to continue, Lin Mingyang put down the tableware angrily, and said to him very seriously: "Klin, this is a restaurant, not a library, you don't always talk about mummy-related topics, it will affect people's appetite very much!" ”

Lin Mingyang's reminder made Klin suddenly wake up, he covered his mouth apologetically, and then looked around. He noticed that those sitting in the distance were staring at him with a hostile gaze. Clint shrunk his neck in fright, deliberately pretending not to see, and lowered his head and began to eat his lunch.

Stopping Klin's noise, Lin Mingyang finally finished his lunch quietly. If he was already holding his stomach in the restaurant, as soon as he walked out, Klin couldn't help but prepare to pull Lin Mingyang to continue discussing the topic of mummies.

"Clin, why do you like mummies so much?" Annoyed, Lin Mingyang interrupted Klin's tirade, "Don't you think that thing is disgusting or terrifying?" ”

"Actually, I didn't like mummies very much at first, but since I watched the movie "The Mummy: Tomb Robbery" when I was 13 years old, I have been crazy about mummies." Kling glanced at Lin Mingyang with some embarrassment, and then said in a slur manner: "I lied to you from the beginning... Actually, my favorite Hollywood actor is actually the actor in "The Mummy", Brandon Fraser! ”

Looking at Klin's embarrassed expression, Lin Mingyang suddenly laughed: "Since you like mummies so much, why don't you study archaeology?" ”

"I thought so too, but my dad didn't agree, he insisted that I study finance, and I can make a lot of money in this major in the future!" "Actually, I don't like finance at all, because my math grades are terrible!" ”

The frustration on Klin's face made Lin Mingyang put away the joking expression on his face, and he looked at Klin very sincerely: "I suggest you recommend the movie "Three Fools" to your father to see, the French letter in the film, that is, the character played by Billy Olsen, I believe it should be able to give your father some inspiration." You should stick to your hobbies, if you give in at this time, even if you become the elite of Wall Street and make a lot of money, you will not feel happy! ”

(To be continued)