Chapter 166: The Story That Didn't End
"A big sandstorm disorients them, but Sophie stumbles upon the marks left by her father, and by following them, they find the mysterious ancient city." The same story came out of Lin Mingyang's mouth, but the audience had been replaced by his three roommates, and the four people in the H33 dormitory sat around the lawn, basking in the warm sunshine of the early morning in this peaceful early winter.
As soon as the person arrived at this green meadow, leaving the hustle and bustle, and being invincible in the breeze, Lin Mingyang's whole person felt relaxed, forgetting everything, relieving everything, and only letting his body crisscross in this nature, scattering his limbs, and letting himself enjoy himself in this quiet surroundings. The relaxation of his body immersed his whole mind in his own story.
"Did they find Sophie's father?" Lin Mingyang only paused for a moment, and Billy Olsen screamed noisily.
"I guess Constance has been killed!" Kling also expressed his opinion.
"And then he was dried into a mummy by the dry climate of the couch, and because he was cursed, he finally came back to life and killed everyone on the expedition?" Green-Nut rolled his eyes, he didn't even have to think about it to know that Kling was going to say that next.
"Please, "The Mummy" is a magical adventure movie, and you said that this plot is directly the bridge of a thriller horror movie!" Billy Olson went out of his way to strike.
"Alright, it's not interesting for us to guess here, let's let Felix reveal the answer for us!" Kling did have the same thoughts as Greene Nat had said, but Billy Olsen's sarcasm made him hold on and looked at Lin Mingyang in the hope of getting some comfort from the storyteller.
"Constance is alive." Lin Mingyang's answer made Klin a little disappointed, but he was soon attracted by Lin Mingyang's eloquent storyline, and the unhappiness in his heart had long been thrown out of the clouds.
In addition to the length of her beard and the vicissitudes of her complexion, Sophie felt that her father, who had been missing in the desert for more than a year, had not changed in the slightest, and the doubts in her heart diluted the joy of the reunion of father and daughter. During the conversation, Sophie was shocked to find that Conston had thought that the time was still a year ago, and Conston wondered why his daughters had just arrived in the ancient city. ”
Sophie told her father that he had been missing in the desert for nearly a year, and that everyone on the expedition could prove it to her. But Constance didn't believe it, and he took out the notebook he had with him, the latest page of which he had written down only yesterday, and the standard on it was indeed a year ago. While both were puzzled, Constance thought of something else, and asked if the expedition had encountered anyone else while searching the ancient city. ”
"After entering the ancient city, Sophie and O'Connor each led an expedition team to search, and while she was talking to her father, the team led by O'Connor sent a signal, they found the entrance to the so-called legendary 'ghost cave' under the abandoned royal palace, and found two dried corpses at the entrance, they still struggled to crawl out before they died, as if something terrible had happened in the cave."
Sophie and her father, Constance, arrived, and judging from the clothes of the deceased, Constance was sure that they were members of his expedition, and judging by the extent to which the bodies had dried, the two men must have been dead for more than a year. Constance himself was very confused by the facts, and he told everyone about the situation he had encountered up to this point. ”
A year ago, after more than a month of arduous trekking, Constance and his expedition finally found this ancient city in the desert that had been dormant for many years. As legend goes, the city may have been extremely prosperous back then, but for some unknown reason, it was suddenly abandoned. Conston was a staunch materialist, and naturally scoffed at the legendary version of the Queen's curse. ”
"There was nothing of value left in the ancient city except for the ruins, and Conston found the 'ghost cave' with his memory, and after making sufficient preparations, he led the members of the expedition into the cave. O'Connor: The two bodies they found at the mouth of the cave were the same people they had left behind to pick them up at the mouth of the cave. ”
"This bottomless cave is supposed to be a natural formation, but traces of artificial carvings can be seen along the way, and the expedition team probably walked down for more than two hours before coming to a large empty cave, in addition to the frescoes and carvings, the members of the expedition team also found a closed stone door, on which were carved with some strange patterns, and the experienced Conston identified and determined that these should be some kind of writing."
"The cautious Constance thought that he should not open the door until he had figured out the meaning of the words, but the rest of the expedition thought it was an underground treasure trove, and they knocked him unconscious while Constance was not looking, and when Constance woke up, all the people were gone, and the strangest thing was that the door was still closed, as if it had never been opened."
"Constance thought at first that they hadn't opened the door, but in vain, he groped his way out of the underground cavern alone, and when he came out, he didn't find the two bodies, they seemed to have been conjured out of thin air."
At this point in the story, the content is beyond the comprehension of normal people, and Kling opened his mouth in surprise, "How can this be, this is incredible!" ”
"This is the sequel story that Felix wrote for The Mummy, okay!" Billy Olsen gave him a disapproving look, "I think it must be some kind of weird magic, or the mysterious power of the curse at work." ”
"I think there must be something like a space-time black hole in the underground cavern, which Constance accidentally passed by and was sent a year later." Green-Nat couldn't help but start speculating about the plot.
They discussed sentence by sentence, and Lin Mingyang just sat on the side and listened with a smile. Of all the speculations, only Green-Nutter's judgment is the closest to Lin's assumption. Now that he has taken over the writing of the script for the sequel to "The Mummy", Lin Mingyang naturally wants to write something new about this story. He has always insisted that real adventure movies should not be mixed with too many supernatural powers, and those things like magic, curses, and souls can only be used as a mysterious gimmick, and the film will deteriorate if it is used too much.
In the sequel created by Lin Mingyang, there will no longer be supernatural magical characters like the evil wizard and the Scorpion King, and the story has only special creatures between real and magical, if explained from a scientific point of view, they can be understood as some extinct or mutated creatures. A true adventure movie is one that makes the audience feel like they're really on an adventure, not a flashy show.
The mysterious elements that appear in the film should not only make everyone curious, but also make people think that these things may really exist in reality. It's not a virtual fantasy like the evil wizard and the Scorpion King who came back to life in the first two episodes of the film, and the audience won't take it seriously at all. Lin Mingyang hopes that the sequel movie can attract the audience with its thrilling and suspenseful plot, rather than just satisfying people's vision with amazing computer special effects.
――――"What secret is hidden behind that door?" ”
It's still the café that Lin Mingyang frequents, or the window seat, but the person sitting opposite him is not Buffie, the producer of Universal Pictures, but Lin Mingyang's agent Ex.
Conston pointed all the questions in his mind to the closed door, and Constance copied the strange inscription on the stone door, which the guide with Sophie recognized as an ancient local script, which roughly meant that anyone who disturbed the queen's sleep would be cursed for eternity.
This translation gave everyone a breath of relief, but Constance was adamant that there were no supernatural powers in this world other than science. Although Constance couldn't explain the strange crossing that happened to him, he was convinced that there would be the answer he wanted behind the door. And the so-called curse is only to intimidate the tomb robbers and not to disturb the peace of the dead. ”
Constance wanted to find out what was going on, and O'Connor was intrigued, and they finally decided to work together to discover the secrets behind the mysterious stone door. They entered the cave with torches, but no other bodies were found along the way, and it was certain that the rest of the expedition that Constance had brought with them did not leave, but all entered the burial chamber behind the stone door. ”
"Behind the stone gate were neatly carved steps, and as they continued to descend, they came across a stone gate that was almost identical to the previous one, and the text on it had been translated by the guide, and they received a warning of 'one step forward, no return'. The local guide was too frightened to go any further, but Constance insisted that it was a bluff and pushed the door open without hesitation. ”
"There is no terrifying picture behind the stone gate, there are no smooth steps inside, but the terrain has begun to flatten, and you should be able to reach the bottom of the cave if you go further. They made their way through a long corridor filled with various mechanisms. However, before them, the group of expedition members brought by Constance had already triggered these traps one step ahead, and dozens of white bones proved that more than half of the team members had lost their lives here. ”
"Earlier, they encountered a terrible insect, and the members of the team who came with them were turned into bones in the blink of an eye. The living ran as fast as they could, but a stone gate blocked their way. ”
Just when everyone was desperate, the group of flesh-devouring insects suddenly stopped three meters away from the stone gate, and then quickly retreated like a tide. Instead of rejoicing in the aftermath of the catastrophe, the people who escaped the death fell into deeper despair. There should be something very terrifying behind the stone gate, that kind of extremely dangerous aura, and the existence of this threat can be clearly felt through the stone gate. ”
"There were no more warnings carved into the smooth stone door, only a monster with tentacles like an octopus, and the accompanying guide was horrified at the sight of the relief, and he curled up in the corner of the wall in confusion, shouting vague words like 'Duyimi' in his mouth. He was supposed to know the monster, but beyond the name, no more useful information could come out of his mouth. ”
The real answer was behind the stone gate, and there was no way back anyway, so Constance finally pushed the stone door open and took a step inside, stepping on the soles of his feet not on hard rock, but on loose and soft sand. According to the calculation of the distance they have traveled all the way, they have come to a position of at least more than 2,000 meters underground at this time, and it is an unbelievable thing that so much sand appears here. ”
"They walked a long way, and there was nothing peculiar about the empty cave behind the stone gate except that it was full of sand, and they did not encounter the terrible monster 'Duyimi' in the mouth of the guide, and just as they let their guard down, a terrible roar came from afar, and then a strong wind full of fishy rotten smell struck, blowing out all the torches in the ranks."
There was a cool breeze in the darkness, and the team members around him were dragged into the dunes one after another by the tentacles that suddenly stretched out from under their feet. The horrific attack came and went as fast as they could, and by the time they re-lit the torches to count the numbers, there were seven fewer people in the group, and Sophie, Conston's girl, and Rachel, O'Connor's wife, were dragged away by the monster. ”
"Everyone chased forward with weapons, and when they came to the center of the cave, they saw clearly the monster that attacked them, the 'Du Yimi' in the mouth of this guide is very similar to the appearance on the relief of the stone gate, but its main body is parasitic on a coffin that emits a light blue shimmer, unable to move, but its tentacles can reach far away."
"When O'Connor and the others arrived, three members of the team had already been sucked into a blur of flesh by this monster, and the weapons in their hands could not kill the monster at all, but more people became the mouths of 'Duimi'. In the desperate situation, O'Connor smashed the parasitic blue coffin of 'Duymi' with an axe, and found that there was indeed a gorgeously dressed woman with a peerless face, who seemed to be under the influence of a demon, and O'Connor actually made a ghost to reach out and touch the other person's face. ”
"The blue coffin was shattered, and the monster 'Duymi' writhed wildly as if it had been fatally hit, and Rachel and Sophie, who had been entangled in its tentacles, were thrown aside by it, and all its tentacles were retracted and smashed towards O'Connor underneath him."
(To be continued)