Chapter 005: Deadly Tape - Asking for Money Kills
"Is this really my footage from last night?"
Watching the woman in the video who was exactly like herself saying words that she couldn't have imagined, Sally's heart was shocked.
"Could it be that the man in front of me who was knocked unconscious by himself is telling the truth? God, if this is a nightmare, please wake me up quickly!"
Miss Pseudo-Believer, who had not been in a church for more than ten years, could not help but pray. However, like cowboys, God is too busy to answer the prayers of a hypocrite.
"Why is it that Penny has to run into four geeks at most, but I have to run into you like this, this kind of ......"
Sally shook her head in exasperation, angry that she couldn't find the right adjective.
"What?"
Charlotte didn't care about Sally's anger at all,
"If you use a movie analogy, the current situation should be similar to "Science Ghost Hunt", right? As an actor, shouldn't it be cool to be able to experience the plot of the movie?"
"Cool? I'm getting chills!"
Sally looked at Charlotte coldly,
"I think it's more like 'Kids in the Cornfield' than 'Science Ghost Squad'. ”
"Stephen King's one?"
"You know?"
Sally was surprised that Charlotte knew about the movie she was talking about. The original book of this movie is indeed a novel by Stephen King, but compared to the famous "Carrie the Witch", this novel is quite unremarkable in the great writer's almost equal collection. At least if she hadn't happened to audition for "Kids in the Cornfield 3", she would never have known the name.
- Having said that, although the audition was only for a small role, there has been no news after so long, so I guess it's no show!
If it was usual, Sally would definitely be depressed for a while when she realized the failure of the audition, but this time, in the face of the more shocking and strange reality, she didn't have that mood at all.
"But speaking of which, it seems that in many thriller horror movies, except for the end, guns and other things are useless, right?"
Probably remembering the situation when she was pointed at gunpoint by Sally just now, Charlotte suddenly brought up such a topic that only CUTE movie lovers would discuss. Sally wasn't interested, but she was distracted by him.
"Not necessarily!"
The blonde girl replied nonchalantly,
"In many horror movies, don't you use guns to accidentally injure family and friends and commit suicide?"
"yes! That's what the Constitution allows us to legally use our guns, kill our own families and then kill ourselves, isn't it?"
“......”
Sally could only be speechless about this kind of remarks that would likely lead to the FBI coming to deliver FedEx in the Hoover era.
"However, a lot of times, guns are really useless!"
She couldn't help but think of the scene just now—
It was clear that it was herself who was pointing a gun at the other party, but Sally felt that she was the weaker party, she looked at the man in front of her who had saved herself, and was probably obsessed with herself, but her right hand holding the gun was trembling unconsciously.
This man in front of you is a liar, he has done you the most hated thing, didn't you swear to your mother......?
The girl said this to herself, and her fingers pressed on the trigger of the pistol, but she could not pull it, as if the trigger was a thousand pounds. She couldn't help but think of the situation in front of her eyes again—
"Although I can probably guess why you're so excited. ”
The man's calm voice rang out, pulling Sally back from the memory,
"But I have to tell you, things aren't what you think they are. ”
"Will you still believe you?"
"Believe it or not, but you didn't feel it at all if you didn't do it last night?"
"This ......"
Although there is only underwear left on the body, it really doesn't look like it was put on after taking it off, and there is really nothing unusual about the lower body, but it ......
"Of course, I admit, you really didn't get drunk last night, I drugged you. ”
Charlotte confessed her guilt very calmly, as naturally as if discussing what to eat for breakfast for a while,
"It's hypnotone. It is said that if you take a moderate amount, your susceptibility will increase a lot when you do it, but I don't know if it's true. ”
"You ......"
Sally wanted to pull the trigger in her hand more and more, however, the other party's demeanor that had obviously done something bad, but was still calm and natural, as if she was saving the world, made the girl can't help but want to listen to his words.
"There's a reason I'm doing this – do you remember what I said to you when we first met at the hospital yesterday?"
"What's the nonsense that I'm haunted by ghosts?"
"Yes. But that's not nonsense!"
The man's eyes were met Sally's eyes, as if trying to convince her through his eyes,
"That's true!"
“What!?”
"If you don't believe me, let's take a look at this first!"
Before Sally could say anything, Charlotte shoved a box of videotapes into her hands—
——Time back to the present——
"Even if this tape is real, you want me to believe ......"
Sally paused in the middle of her words, because she didn't know how to describe it, and it took a long time before she continued,
"I don't know if I should take your word for it. By the way, can you tell me where this tape came from?"
"Videotape, it's not ...... you yesterday"
Sally interrupted the other party's answer with a wave of a gesture:
"I know this, I'm not asking about the contents of the tape, but about the tape itself. ”
"This is your own home, I'm just borrowing it. ”
“...... Sure enough!"
As an actor who has just transformed from a model, Sally's acting skills can only be described as miserable, which she knows and doesn't think there is anything bad. However, she also knows that in order to gain a foothold in Hollywood, beauty alone is not enough - there are many beautiful girls who go to the City of Angels every year to pursue their dreams of stardom, and she will definitely not be the most beautiful among them, not to mention that even the most beautiful may not be able to mix up - so she still has to try to improve her acting skills.
Previously, she had purchased a home video recorder to record her performance during practice so that she could study it afterwards. However, she soon found out that it was a very stupid thing to do-
Not because it's useless. On the contrary, by watching the video, she found countless problems in her performance, however, she had no clue how to improve it. Although it is not that she has not taken special acting classes, when it comes to real performance, she feels that she is as stiff as a robot, and she completely returns what she has learned to the teacher.
Therefore, the VCR quickly became the most expensive piece of furniture in Sally's house, although she felt very sorry, but she couldn't deal with it for a while, but she didn't expect it to be used by Charlotte today.
"Where did you get the VCR from?"
In fact, because she had just lost her role and didn't get paid, Sally was still trying to find the VCR and sell it yesterday in exchange for some living expenses. But thanks to her habit of littering things on weekdays, she couldn't find it.
"You threw up yourself last night, and I rummaged through your closet to change it for you. ”
Charlotte answered Sally's question seriously, but with a wicked smile on her face,
"I didn't find any clean clothes for you to change, but I accidentally found this under the pile of dirty laundry—"
He pointed to the video camera, and said,
"The layout of your home is really eye-opening for me and completely refreshes my understanding of women. ”
"Less, less wordy! Can't a woman be sloppy?"
Even Sally, in the face of this kind of ridicule, her face turned red and her confidence was a little lacking.
"I'm okay, you haven't seen my friend Penny, she's in her house, hey......"
——Things gather by like, and people by groups. That's one of the reasons why she and Penny are friends.
Relying on the wonderful performance of selling teammates at critical moments, Sally finally ended this embarrassing topic. Originally, she wanted to condemn the other party's behavior of flipping through her own things, but now she can't say it.
"So, you flipped over to the VCR and then thought of recording the evidence to show me?"
"Yes. ”
"And what if you didn't have that?
"Originally?"
Charlotte tilted her head and thought,
"Let's get out of the way!"
"Huh!?"
This answer was definitely unexpected by Sally, and the other party thought that she did not understand, so he went on to add:
"I originally planned to leave secretly after carefully checking whether you really had the aura left by a ghost. I thought it would be a hassle for you to wake up in the morning, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome!"
As he spoke, he glanced at the gun that Sally still had in her hand.
"It's just a momentary excitement. ”
Sally put away her pistol as she spoke—she did believe Charlotte a little,
"I'm not going to really shoot!"
— or rather, no shooting.
She silently added in her mind.
"So. What's the matter with your so-called slippery? Aren't you a witcher?"
"Witcher?"
Charlotte raised an eyebrow,
"You've watched too many fantasy movies, haven't you!?"
"Huh!?"
"As I said, I'm just curious about your situation and want to see it. ”
Charlotte's words were full of malice, as if she was unpleasant to be pointed at a gun before venting,
"I didn't say I'm going to solve the problem for you, did I?"
"This ......"
When he said this, Sally believed it a little more, but in this way, things were in trouble - the man in front of him should be the only person Sally knew who had this knowledge, and if he didn't help, who would Sally go to help her exorcise the possessed evil spirit she had just seen in the videotape?
Possessed by evil spirits, it's not a good thing just to hear it, especially since the other party has said it before - that is, the time when Sally thought he was talking nonsense in the hospital - and even his own suicide before was probably caused by evil spirits. Thinking back to the footage she had just seen, Sally couldn't help but feel chills all over her body.
"Isn't it because you have this ability to help people like me?"
The girl who is too young and too simple finally decides to know it with affection and reason,
"Doesn't it say that with great power comes great responsibility?"
"Do you believe this kind of words that are specially designed to deceive children?"
The other party looked at Sally with a look of "your IQ is in arrears, please renew it as soon as possible",
"The kid who said this, his adoptive father hung up, his girlfriend almost ran away with someone, and he was so tired every day that he wanted to die, but he could only work part-time in the magazine......"
"Oh yes! ”
Sally, who didn't believe in this nonsense, readily admitted her mistake without waiting for the other party to finish.
"Let's get straight ahead, how can you help me?"
"Help?"
The corners of Charlotte's mouth curled up, like a wolf that has caught a fat sheep,
"It's easy, pay for it!"
Well, I accidentally wrote it again, so I had to write it here**************
PS1: The title of this chapter, the movie "Well-known Videotape", is a horror movie, nothing too special, you can watch it if you want to see it. Actually, I wanted to use another Cameron Diaz movie as the name, but it doesn't quite fit, you can guess what that movie is called? This is question 1 of this chapter;
PS2: The answer to the question in the previous chapter - Castle in "The Secret Book", the actor is Nathan Fillion, who also acted in "Firefly", and it is also written in Vali's book;
PS3: The reason why I don't write the Chinese translation of Castle is because as soon as I write the Chinese name, I think of Sakura;
PS4: "Like cowboys, God is also very busy" - Jay Chou's song, "Cowboys are Busy";
PS5: Penny in "The Big Bang Theory" beats the soy sauce again, and by the way, she brings the four Xie Er. As mentioned earlier, Penny is a real person in this book, a friend of Sally;
PS6: "Science Ghost Hunt" is a very famous movie in the 80s in the United States, suitable for GEEK to watch, in "The Big Bang Theory", Xie Er and others have watched it several times;
PS7: "The Kid in the Cornfield" is a work by Stephen King, which has been adapted into a movie and made several films. The starring role in the second part seems to be the ex-wife of Kashen - not the one who took the golden man - Linda Hamilton. She is also the heroine of Terminator 2;
PS8: In other words, Kashen is really a winner in life, not to mention personal achievements, and the achievements of women who have been engaged in it are not small, in this regard, in recent years, Pete can probably be compared with him!
PS9: "Carrie the Witch" is Stephen King's famous work, the original movie is very famous, and the remake has an average review, but the starring role is Koloe Moretz, who everyone likes very much, but is no longer a little Lori (this is obviously a sign of being disabled recently);
PS10: The legendary seat of the FBI, Hoover, everyone should know! This gentleman hates red, and it is no joke that when he was in power, he would be checked for water meters;
PS11: Who is the unlucky guy who said "with great power, great responsibility" at the end, everyone knows?
PS12: The gray wolf who caught the fat sheep: "I'm the real ending character!"