Chapter 109: Entering the Troupe

Sadako Yamamura, one of the most classic ghosts in the history of cinema. Known for her classic horror image of crawling off the TV screen with her long hair scattered. However, unlike the image of the mysterious ghost in the movie, in the original novel, Sadako and the protagonist's world is called the "Ring Realm", which is a virtual world in the real world world with binary code, and the purpose of predicting the future development of the world world is achieved by completely replicating the factors of the real world world.

However, due to a mutation, Sadako Yamamura, as an error code, a "virus" in a program appeared. She has all the characteristics of a virus, reproducing autologous (intersex), constantly killing normal people through videotapes (normal procedures) to replicate herself, and the virus is constantly multiplying in the "ring". In order to stop the spread of the virus, researchers from the outside world had to temporarily shut down the "Ring" system.

But before that, a virtual intelligence with extremely high intelligence within the "Ring Realm", Ryuji Takayama, the real male protagonist of the Midnight Bell series, he had an epiphany about the world he was in through the Sadako virus he was infected with before he died, and before he died, he broke the wall between virtual and reality, and sent a distress signal to the outside world.

The researchers who controlled the ring took note of Ryuji's call for help from the real world, and copied Ryuji's genes through a transcoding program, and cultivated them into a fertilized egg and placed them in the wife of one of the infertile researchers. As a result, Takayama Ryuji died in the ring realm and was reborn in the real world realm. But no one expected that because Ryuji had been infected with Sadako's virus, in the process of transcoding, Sadako's virus also changed from a virtual program to a code in the genes, and really appeared in the real world.

The last part of the Midnight Bell novel is about Takayama Ryuji's real-life clone "Ah Xin", who is determined to return to the "Ring Realm" and find a way to really eliminate Sadako when the real world is infected by the Ring virus on a large scale.

The world view in the Midnight Bell novel is a virtual reality science fiction novel with a similar theme to "The Matrix", and the first few parts may still have some horror and suspenseful atmosphere, but in the second half of the story line, it has completely become a cyberpunk science fantasy story. But the series of movies it adapted has changed the theme of the whole story. The theme has also changed from virtual reality to the story of the grievances of legendary superpowers, returning to the mysticism of traditional Japanese horror films. And the scene where Sadako crawls out of the TV is the director's original expression.

When Su Jing bought the card, he paid special attention to it. It is noted that it is the fourth part of the movie version of Midnight Bell, or "Midnight Bell: Prequel", which tells the story of the movie version of Sadako before she became a monster. The whole story is not particularly thrilling, but has become a romance-based feature film.

Su Jing stood in the dark, carefully looking at Sadako Yamamura in the center of the crowd. She wears a very traditional long skirt with a thin white sweater on the upper body. The long hair that hung down to the waist was like a mirror, tied up by a white headband.

"The dead white dove lies on the crown of thorns, the broken blade rests aside—the whirlwind blows out the candles, and the heartbreak cries—"

It is the singing section of Miss White Lily in "Macbeth", Sadako Yamamura's voice is low and high, and once she starts performing, she is fully immersed in the lines and the situation of the characters. Very aura, Su Jing nodded secretly, she has talent in this area, as long as she stands on the stage, she can enter that role. Considering that she didn't have much training, this can already be called a gift and talent. To be able to enter another role without hesitation requires not only to express desire, but also to be able to touch the depths of another mind, to forget oneself for a while, and to become another person completely.

"From the highest tower came a shout, the shadow of the crow inducing her soul - the birds of the omen blackened the sky, and she felt death coming—"

It can be seen that the people on the stage are all watching her performance in silence, and there are two women talking to each other. The man sitting in the first row of the audience did not move, and Su Jing continued to walk down step by step, his black figure sneaking in the dark shadows, like a crow flying in the dark night.

"Heaven is bleeding, and her snow-white garment shines in the wind, and flies down like a white dove—"

It's so beautiful. Su Jing applauded, and this applause shocked everyone. The man sitting in the front row turned around and shouted, "I'm sorry, today is not the day of the show, if you want to see the show, please ...... ...... day after tomorrow"

It may be that Su Jing's temperament is too ethereal, standing there motionless like a ghost wrapped in black, the man is not sure of his identity for a while, and his voice is also a little lowered.

"I'm a sound engineer here." Su Jing took the initiative to open his mouth to relieve him, and he raised the advertisement in his hand, "But there is some boredom in the reception room." So I just went out and took a look around and got acquainted with the workplace in the future. ”

"Twenty more minutes of rest!" The man in the hat waved his hand, and the crowd in the stands cheered, and many people looked at Su Jing and whispered. And the man walked up to Su Jing, shook hands with him, and introduced himself: "Yusaku Shigemori." Director. ”

"Su Jing. Unemployed, but I don't think it will last long. ”

On the way to Yusaku Shigemori's office, the director frequently asked Su Jing about the fact that the man who had been immersed in acting for a long time was about thirty years old, a little nervous, and spoke faster than the average person.

"Mr. Su, your name is really rare, Chinese?"

"Yes. I studied abroad here, was an engineering student, and joined a drama club in college, so I was interested in this area. He has some experience in stage sound processing. ”

"Hmm......" Chongsen seemed to be a little speechless and stopped, "Mr. Su, I don't mean that I have an opinion on your motherland, but...... You haven't attended...... Let's exercise. He made a somewhat strange gesture.

Although his words were vague, Su Jing still understood what he meant. In the sixties, Japan was in the midst of the turmoil that would inevitably occur in the midst of rapid economic prosperity, and with a vigorous revolution taking place on the mainland across the strait, the students of the island nation were also infected, and marched in the streets every day with slogans such as the portrait of the chairman and calling for the defeat of the capitalists and bureaucrats. In addition to the student movement, all sorts of strange and irregular religious groups have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, full of liars and living gods. The Japanese Red Army, a well-known terrorist organization in later generations, also began to give birth to its first sprouts around this time.

As an international student, Su Jing is suspected of having something to do with these messy things. He shook his head, saying he had nothing to do with the radicals.

"Ah, that's good." Shigemori was visibly relaxed, "Our former sound engineer resigned after a lawsuit over these things. ”

Once in his office, the two sides took their seats. Chongsen asked him a few questions about the equipment, and Su Jing answered them one by one. He said before that he had participated in a drama club in college, which was not false, and there were not enough people at that time, so everyone had to be used as an all-rounder. Lu Mengyao, the president at the time, knew that Su Jing's brain was spinning relatively fast and learning things quickly, so he let him take on the sound effects and props.

Su Jing is the kind of character who either doesn't do it, or does the best she can. He bought two books for himself and taught himself, and quickly got the hang of them. It's not a particularly difficult job, but rather it's more about your own stage experience than your knowledge of operation.

After finishing the Q&A, Chongsen took Su Jing to the recording studio and asked him to operate it on the spot. Su Jing didn't make any mistakes in this process, but even if there were any mistakes, his growing mental ability was enough to affect the judgment of this mortal.

After about half an hour of school examination, Shigemori was extremely satisfied with Su Jing's performance and recruited him as a member of the Flying Theater Troupe on the spot. After that, he took Su Jing to the performance stage and introduced his colleagues to him one by one.

"This is Okubo, the funny comedian of our troupe." This is the short young man who did a parody on stage before, and the baby-faced partner with him is Iino, who doesn't like to talk and is very good at mime. Another small, square-faced man with an unattractive appearance is Kitajima, who is in charge of narration, and although he doesn't look very good, he has quite a set of lines.

Among the actresses, there is also a beautiful girl who can be compared to Sadako, a shy girl called Keiko Kato, because the name is too traditional, so the director gave her the stage name "Yunako Ryunomiya", but whenever others call her by this stage name, she always shows a shy expression of embarrassment.

"Sadako Yamamura, a newcomer to our troupe, can only be regarded as an extra. But she is very talented and will definitely become a famous actress! ”

In the director's praise, Sadako Yamamura bowed slightly to Su Jing a little stiffly, and after withdrawing from the performance state, her movements were a little hand and foot not foot. It should be a little inferior, obviously with a beautiful face and a tall figure, but her movements are shrunk. Su Jing naturally didn't care about such a trivial matter, and returned the salute with a somewhat exaggerated posture.

"This beautiful man from a foreign country, Mr. Su Jing, is the new sound engineer of our Flying Theater Company! If you don't have a boyfriend yet, you have to move faster! It's rare to see such a sought-after item! ”

In Shigemori's bold laughter, Su Jing officially became a member of the Flying Theater Troupe and began his first step in contacting Sadako Yamamura.