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"you're right."

Shi Jiayue nodded heavily and waited for her to go to the bathroom to wash up. When she came out, she was much calmer.

Meng Ran and Shi Jiayue went downstairs. They came out quite early. The staff was making breakfast. Meng Ran planned to take a walk around the villa.

Shi Jiayue was very scared, but she still followed Meng Ran out.

During the day, the villa looks peaceful and leisurely, with many flowers, plants and trees. Even though it is early spring and the cold weather is strong, it does not prevent them from growing vigorously. Most of the trees planted here are evergreens, and only a few leaves have fallen off and have not yet grown new ones.

Where can the leaves still have the gloomy atmosphere I feel at night?

Meng Ran looked around. She didn't see the black cat Shi Jiayue mentioned, but she felt that it was really quiet here.

She didn't quite adapt to such an environment. Although Meng Ran was usually a homebody and didn't like to go out, she used to live in an old city, and the neighbors around her were all familiar faces. People from her parents' generation had almost watched her grow up since she was a child.

It's so big that Meng Ran doesn't feel lonely even if he stays at home.

Now, she looked at this villa that seemed to have been abandoned by the whole world. Apart from the members of their crew, there was not even a single living person within a hundred meters around.

I can't help but feel that if someone lives here, no one will be able to hear anything if something happens.

Is this the alienation and nobility of the rich?

She doesn't understand, she still prefers the kind of human fireworks.

Shi Jiayue was also very uncomfortable with it. She took Meng Ran's arm and whispered,

"Why is there no one living here? There are no community security patrols."

Meng Ran didn't know either, so he casually said,

"Maybe they only come to the villa for vacation occasionally."

Shi Jiayue shook her head, she was afraid she would never be able to adapt to such a life.

After walking around for about half an hour, the logistics director sent a message saying that it was time to have breakfast.

So they went back.

After breakfast, Director Zeng called them to a temporary conference room and said he wanted to read the script together.

Wait until the afternoon for the official makeup shoot.

Shi Jiayue couldn't help but ask Director Zeng,

"Are we going to take those kind of evening, dimly lit makeup photos?"

"Yes, yes, after all, this is a ghost movie. If we want to express this atmosphere, it will not be so natural if we modify it later."

Shi Jiayue's face turned pale instantly.

Director Zeng understood immediately,

"Are you scared?"

Meng Ran thought Director Zeng would give a few words of comfort, but he didn’t expect Director Zeng to directly say,

"Keep it like this, and the scenes you want to shoot in the early stages will require you to be afraid."

Meng Ran knew why.

In the early stage, the filming was about the various situations that the second female lead suffered from school bullying. This plot was relatively scattered and would be interspersed with the second female lead's memories.

After all, she was already a female ghost when she appeared.

Shi Jiayue was a little angry.

After being interrupted by Director Zeng, the fearful atmosphere was much lessened.

Director Zeng sat at the main table and looked around, observing everyone's faces.

Unfortunately, except for Shi Jiayue, who was more scared, everyone else looked calm and had a smile on their face, even though this was what Director Zeng wanted from the beginning - he specifically selected bold actors when recruiting actors.

Otherwise, it will be very troublesome if something goes wrong during the shooting process.

But it's not good to not be afraid at all now.

After all, these are a group of new actors. They can't get into the role like the old actors, so they have to show their true colors.

They can't express this kind of fear, otherwise it will be very exaggerated.

Director Zeng thought for a while and came up with an idea.

"I have sent the script to everyone in advance. I think you all have memorized the lines by heart. Before I start reading the script, I want to say one thing. What is the character of the villa we are in now?

Come on, I think you have also discovered that the villa is fine during the day, but once the sun goes down it looks very eerie and scary. And if you walk around, you will find that there is no one in the first four or five villas. Why is this?

?Because this villa is a famous haunted house!"

Meng Ran's face was a little stiff.

She just told Shi Jiayue a story.

But looking at Director Zeng's appearance now, it was obvious that he wanted to tell them a story.

As expected, Shi Jiayue nervously hugged her arm, trembling slightly. Director Zeng looked at everyone's faces and suddenly smiled,

"But what we want to shoot is a ghost movie, and a haunted house is the best. If it's not a haunted house, I won't choose it. A haunted house has a strong sense of reality, and it won't be that troublesome to do special effects in the post-production process. Otherwise, we can complete it in the studio. I've heard that

As the saying goes, ghosts talk at night, and when people listen to ghosts, they also listen."

Director Zeng made a joke,

"But it's broad daylight now, so you don't have to be afraid."

This joke is not funny at all.

Except for Director Zeng who laughed a few words, no one else smiled. They all looked at Director Zeng with cold eyes accusingly. Director Zeng was neither angry nor embarrassed and continued talking.

"Although I didn't inspect it in advance, I still checked the information about this kind of villa. It is said that one summer more than 20 years ago, this villa attracted a family of five to vacation here. As a result, it was extremely hot that summer.

, the villas in this row were all occupied, everyone had the air conditioner turned on, and all the electrical appliances were used, the power was exceeded, and the weather was dry, so one day the villa caught fire. "

"The five members of the family were burned to death inside. Later, the villa owner's relatives inherited the villa and thought it was unlucky, so they wanted to sell the villa. As a result, the people who came to inspect had nightmares after returning and did not dare to buy again.

, or maybe it was very unlucky, and it didn’t go well here or there. It was because this villa brought bad luck to the invitation. As a result, the villa has never been sold, and it has become a famous haunted house.”

"The residents around it may have been affected or scared, and gradually no one came to live there. Of course, there is also a theory that all five members of the family were killed, and there was a brutal murderer.

The criminals fled here, broke into the villa, killed a family of five, and lit a fire to destroy the evidence."

"The notice from the police has not been made public and is suspicious. There is a source saying that the power of the place suddenly increased greatly around the time of the incident, which directly burned out the wires. Various coincidences led to this incident.

The fire was clearly caused intentionally by the murderer, who used this method to get away with it and has not been caught so far. And then——"

He looked at the crowd and said,

"I also heard a saying that murderers have an obsession and will come back to see their own murder scenes. They are very proud of their works and think that the murdered people and the police are a bunch of idiots, and he easily puts them into practice.

People are playing with applause. You think, if we suddenly come to this villa to shoot, will we attract the murderer?"

After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh.

Everyone looked at each other and said nothing.

It is impossible to say that you are not afraid, but if you are, wouldn't it mean that you have fallen into Director Zeng's scheme?

No one spoke for a while.