After the filming was completed, I awakened my superpowers.

Chapter 80 Director Chen: Sheng Yixia, if you can do it, go ahead
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A full two hours later.

Sheng Yixia finally sent Director Chen back to the hotel, and said with some reluctance: "Director Chen, do you want me to take you upstairs?"

Director Chen was so frightened by this that he became very energetic. He quickly waved his hand to indicate that it was not necessary: ​​"Yixia, it's getting late. You should go back and have a rest."

Then, he quickened his pace towards the elevator as if he was avoiding the plague, for fear that if he was a step slow, Sheng Yixia would drag him into talking about the plot and character issues all night long.

Sheng Yixia watched Director Chen enter the hotel, his back hunched and haggard due to excessive fatigue.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart that life is not easy for everyone.

Even though he is a famous director in the online movie circle, he works so hard. He is really a dedicated director.

pity.

Director Chen doesn’t have any extraordinary abilities like mind reading, otherwise, he would definitely roar in anger, “I’ve never been so tired before. I’m so tired, isn’t it because of you, you bastard?”
Sheng Yixia, whose several suggestions for making a good film had all been adopted by Director Chen, finally took a taxi home contentedly.

As soon as you get home.

Sheng Yingjun flew over and meowed at Sheng Yixia, cursing at her, as if blaming her for locking him up at home all these days and coming back so late every day.

"Alright, alright." Sheng Yixia reached out and stroked it hard a few times. "I'm doing this to earn money to support you. Besides, it's dangerous outside right now. I'm afraid if I let you out, you'll get caught!"

"Do you understand?"

Sheng Yixia gestured to him vividly.

Yingjun, who had seen similar videos, understood it immediately. He stopped being stubborn and started to beg Sheng Yixia for cat food.

The automatic cat food machine will only refresh the cat food at a fixed time and place, and the cat is tired of it.

Sheng Yixia walked around the house and found that it was clean and tidy without any broken items, so she opened a can to reward it and tidied up the automatic cat litter box.

That’s right, after doing everything himself in the beginning, Sheng Yixia had already become impatient with the poop scooper.

I bought an automatic cat litter box and an automatic cat food machine for Sheng Yingjun. Although they are expensive, Sheng Yixia doesn't need them.

When Sheng Yixia came out after taking a bath, Yingjun had licked the whole can clean and was lying on the cat mat on the sofa, licking his paws and washing his face. I have to admit that cats are very clean creatures.

After taking an E-level evolution potion recently, Sheng Yixia felt that his physical condition and energy had greatly improved. Even his spiritual power had increased slightly. The rapid improvement made him a little overly energetic.

At this point he was not sleepy at all.

Lying on the sofa with nothing to do, it would not be a good idea to disturb anyone at this time. After thinking it over, he directly called Tank. After all, the other party was an energetic power-side extraordinary person and he would not die if he got less sleep.

"Hello, what's wrong? What's the situation?" Tank answered the phone quickly. His hoarse voice was a little tense, and he sounded a little nervous.

"Nothing." Sheng Yixia said, "I just want to ask Brother Tank, what happened to Chen Qiang last time? Is she the captain of the Thorn Vine Team who escaped?"

Although he was 90% sure.

But for this kind of thing, he still needs a definite answer.

"..." Tank was silent for a few seconds before he said in a slightly tired voice, "She kept her mouth shut, but under the influence of truth serum and hypnosis, she still revealed a lot of information. But that information is confidential. The only thing I can reveal to you is that, yes, she is the captain of the Thorn Vine Squad, the fish that slipped through the net."

Upon hearing this.

Sheng Yixia felt relieved and suddenly felt extremely fortunate.

Fortunately, I was alert enough that day. After I realized that something was wrong, I immediately turned the tank over, even if it meant exposing myself to the tank, Sister Fei and others.

After all, based on his current understanding of the National Non-Government Bureau, as long as you do not break the law, the National Non-Government Bureau will still allow the existence of civilian supernatural beings, and will not forcibly conscript you into the army, nor will they send people to keep a close eye on you.

Of course, if the situation is extremely critical or a huge danger occurs, most of the time, extraordinary people from the public will be recruited.

But in that situation, Sheng Yixia would definitely not refuse. After all, he knew that if the nest is destroyed, all the eggs will be broken.

Just when Sheng Yixia was silent.

Tank added: "Regarding your mission to capture the thorn vine, Sister Fei has already reported it to the branch director. Once the branch director approves it, you can receive the reward. The reward should be very generous!"

There was some envy in his voice.

"In addition, Sister Fei and the branch director have also agreed not to record your extraordinary information and personal information for the time being. We will make further plans after we have eliminated the other members of the dark forces."

"Thank you, Brother Tank, for your help." Sheng Yixia expressed her sincere gratitude.

He could tell that the National Non-Government Bureau was protecting him.

After all, Chen Qiang's incident happened suddenly and was not done very secretly. Once his information was entered into the system of the National Non-Government Affairs Bureau, there might be spies inside who had not yet been cleaned up.

If he is not careful, he might be discovered by Chen Qiang's accomplices, which would bring him unnecessary danger and trouble.

"It's just a small matter." Tank said, "What else do you want?"

After a brief pause, Sheng Yixia asked directly: "Brother Tank, I should be able to use my points to exchange some low-sequence evolution potions for my parents, right? By the way, are there any contraindications for middle-aged and elderly people to take this?"

Tank thought for a while and said, "My unit usually doesn't recommend that ordinary people take evolution potions, but considering that it is inevitable that extraordinary people will exchange evolution potions for their families, I would like to remind you to take small amounts and take them at regular intervals. The total amount should not exceed two F-level evolution potions, so that they can have a strengthening effect."

"If I take an excessive amount, will it awaken my extraordinary self?" Sheng Yixia asked nervously again.

"The evolution potion is mainly composed of the extraordinary substances in the crystal core. If you take more, the extraordinary substances will gradually accumulate in your body. When you break the critical point, there is a chance that you will awaken the extraordinary." Tank paused and said, "But everything has its pros and cons. Awakening the extraordinary is actually not a good thing for most people."

"Please give me some advice, Brother Tank." Sheng Yixia perked up, but also felt a little confused.

"Have you noticed that after you awakened to your supernatural powers, you have encountered more supernatural events?" Tank said in a deep voice.

"Ah, this..." Sheng Yixia was a little shocked. Looking back, it seemed to be true. Before he had the system, he had never encountered any extraordinary events. But after he had the system, especially after getting the Divine Mind Card, he began to encounter a series of extraordinary events.

Tank waited for Sheng Yixia to digest the information before saying, "There are two main reasons for this. The first is that once you become extraordinary, it is easier for you to discover extraordinary people, or be noticed by them, and then be actively or passively involved in extraordinary events."

"Just like when you met HS016 or Chen Qiang, they were all extraordinary events caused by your extraordinary abilities. Otherwise, as an ordinary person, you would most likely have missed the extraordinary events, and Chen Qiang would not have taken the initiative to follow you!"

That sounds reasonable.

Sheng Yixia nodded secretly after hearing this. This is just like the reason why people who practice martial arts are more likely to fight on impulse. People with martial arts skills will be bolder and once they encounter something, they will instinctively think about using violence.

Ordinary people, on the other hand, will subconsciously and actively avoid such risks.

"In addition, extraordinary matter tends to attract each other, which then causes collisions or cooperation. I'm not sure about the principle behind this, but a lot of facts have proven that it's easy for extraordinary people to meet each other accidentally. Some people who were originally unrelated and might never meet in their lives will meet each other inexplicably after becoming extraordinary, just like your chance encounter with Chen Qiang. If it weren't for this chance encounter, there would be no subsequent events at all."

This sounded a bit mysterious, and Sheng Yixia frowned, unable to figure it out for a moment.

"You don't have to figure it out, just know these two principles. If you don't want your parents to be involved in the disputes in the supernatural world, it's best not to let them awaken their supernatural powers for the time being." Tank warned earnestly, "The supernatural world is deeper than you think."

Sheng Yixia pondered for a moment and said gratefully, "Thank you, Brother Tank."

"If you're alright, I'll hang up now. I still have a report to write." Tank said tiredly, "I'll have a chance to work with you in a couple of days."

"receive."

Sheng Yixia hung up the phone, his expression becoming more solemn.

Originally, he was thinking about whether he should tell his parents about the existence of extraordinary things in this world so that they would be alert and prepared. But after listening to Tank's analysis, he felt that it would be safer not to know about such things.

Because once you know about Chaofan, if you encounter some inexplicable things in life, you will think of Chaofan, and then your reactions and response plans may be biased, which may attract the attention of Chaofan.

Even if you don't attract extraordinary attention, you may still become suspicious and scare yourself.

This is not a joke. For example, if someone is convinced that ghosts exist in this world, he will have wild thoughts and become very frightened at the slightest disturbance in daily life, gradually developing neurasthenia and other diseases.

Besides, the waters of the extraordinary world are so deep, it seems that we must hurry up and become stronger, so that we can better control the fate of ourselves and our families.

Bring some steamed buns to the crew tomorrow. Everyone has been very tired these days. It’s time to replenish their energy so that they can keep working hard and make a better film to ensure that he can draw the role card.

Afterwards, Sheng Yixia forced herself to sleep for a while.

Early in the morning.

Sheng Yixia carried a few bunches of chilled steamed buns and went to the crew. She handed the buns to the crew member and asked him to find a place to chill them and then steam them for everyone at mealtime.

The crew members, including Director Chen, were quite happy about this.

They have more or less heard that Sheng Yixia’s steamed buns are particularly delicious, and have begun to secretly look forward to their lunch snack.

But expectations are expectations.

The crew, from the male and female protagonists to the director and screenwriter, still unconsciously walked around Sheng Yixia. Once Sheng Yixia came over, they would suddenly become very busy, or slap their heads and say they forgot something important, or pick up their phones and keep calling "Hello, hello, hello".

"hehe."

Sheng Yixia just sneered at this and didn't take it seriously. After you eat my steamed buns at noon, you will be full of fighting spirit again, forget all these miscellaneous troubles, and then choose to forgive me.

as predicted.

By the afternoon, the morale of the entire crew was high and the shooting progress was accelerated again.

Sheng Yixia, who had no scenes to film today, saw that no one wanted to pay attention to him, so he simply strolled over to the martial arts instructor to watch him train a supporting actor in Chinese martial arts.

Although this martial arts instructor has silver hair and is old, he is still energetic and in good health.

His surname is Zhao. He is a famous martial arts director who was hired by the crew at a high salary. He has directed many big screen productions.

Sheng Yixia came over with great interest and asked politely, "Master Zhao, can I learn a few moves from you?"

He just watched for a while and felt that the martial arts director was very professional and of a very high level.

The martial arts instructor took one look at him and knew that he was the second male lead in the crew, so he nodded and said, "Okay, but I have to teach him. Watch more and ask less."

"Thank you, Master Zhao."

Sheng Yixia thanked him and watched and learned from the side.

Although he did not have any direct fighting scenes in this play, many principles in martial arts scenes are applicable. Now that he has caught up with the trip, he is willing to learn more. As the saying goes, it is always good to have many skills, and who knows, they may come in handy someday.

It's no wonder that, apart from her slow improvement in acting skills, Sheng Yixia is quite fast in learning other things and can dance some moves very well very quickly.

Of course, he only mastered a little bit, which is far from being a master.

But even so, the martial arts instructor praised him repeatedly: "Young man, you have a unique skeleton, and you are a good material for martial arts training."

In fact, Sheng Yixia knew his own business. He had a strong memory and could remember most of it after reading it once. His physical fitness was also greatly improved in all aspects because of the effects of cards and evolution potions.

Even the more complicated force-generating techniques were learned faster thanks to the Qinggong card, and imitating those movements came naturally.

As for acting, this kind of thing is really abstract.

Unless you can find a movie specifically about actors and pull out an acting card or something from it, it will be really difficult to make a leap forward in a short period of time.

After being praised by the martial arts instructor, Sheng Yixia studied even harder.

Especially for this shoot, it only required a few steps and movements back and forth, and it was not complicated. Sheng Yixia quickly became more and more proficient.

Such rapid progress.

While making the martial arts instructor stare at him sideways, the supporting actor also seemed to have been hit. He became dazed and his movements began to become distorted.

The martial arts instructor couldn't help but frown and scolded: "Don't be distracted, focus!"

More than an hour passed.

The assistant director called the supporting actor over to film the scene, and the martial arts instructor also went over to rehearse.

Sheng Yixia also stopped practicing and went over to watch the fun.

This scene is located in the early and middle stages of the entire film. A martial arts master of the Republic of China cannot bear to see the villain warlords oppressing the good people, plundering the people's wealth, and making the people live in dire straits.

So, relying on his skills and courage, he decided to assassinate the villain warlord in the street.

And that martial arts master was the legendary master of hidden power. He pounced into the warlord's guards like a tiger into a flock of sheep. With a palm and a punch, he was able to use hidden power to shock the opponents to death.

But as powerful as he was, he was killed by the warlord's guard leader, the bad guy played by Gu Yonghan, with gorgeous gun fighting skills when he only advanced to within ten meters of the warlord!

Yes, it’s gun fighting!
To be precise, it is a skill similar to gun fighting. You draw your gun and show off, and then a series of "bang bang bang" shots are dazzling.

Therefore, the role of this scene in the film is mainly to highlight the cruelty and strength of the warlord, as well as the power of the guards around him.

If Sheng Yixia hadn't valued the magician's character card more, he might have been interested in the role of the guard leader. If he drew a card related to gun fighting, he could go to the National Non-Government Affairs Bureau to receive some training and get a gun license or something.

This was also his childhood dream. Which boy didn’t like playing with guns when he was a child?
but.

During the actual filming, the male supporting actor seemed to be in very bad condition. Except for the first take which was barely acceptable, he had to NG many times afterwards, which made Director Chen very angry. He threw the script and camera and said, "What are you doing? Your movements are so stiff and slow, and you look like a sleepwalker. How can you show the power of a martial arts master like a tiger among a flock of sheep?"

This supporting actor is considered a pretty good action actor, I don’t know why he performed so badly today.

His scolding made the supporting actor tremble in fear, and his performance afterwards was even worse.

Director Chen suddenly became even angrier.

In fact, if he was shooting other films normally, one of these shots would have been barely acceptable, and with a little more work in post-production, it would have been acceptable.

But for some reason, when he saw Sheng Yixia watching the fun on the side, he felt a lot of pressure.

Director Chen couldn't help wondering if Sheng Yixia would jump out and point his finger at his nose and yell, "Mr. Chen, do you know how to act? I'm better than you at directing this scene."

Or he might look at her with deep meaning and say earnestly, "Director Chen, you are only in your forties, the prime of your life, striving to be the best. Don't you have such low expectations for yourself?"

"Is there still any pursuit for the big screen? Has the dream of winning the Best Director Award been shattered?"

Damn it.

When these images flashed through Director Chen's mind, he couldn't help but shudder.

He rubbed the goose bumps on his arms violently and cursed in his heart, "Sheng Yixia, that bastard, is even more annoying than the producer and supervisor."

He cares so much about the quality of the film that people who don't know him would think he is the biggest investor.

This also made Director Chen feel unprecedented pressure. He couldn't relax at all and didn't dare to be careless.

At this time.

The silver-haired martial arts instructor saw that the male supporting actor was almost crying after being scolded, so he kindly advised: "Director Chen, stop scolding him first, let him rest before filming. If you continue like this, it will only get worse and worse."

"Rest? If he rests, what will happen to our film?" Director Chen was even more furious, as angry as a lion. "With so many of us here, are we just going to wait for him to rest and adjust his condition?"

"Besides, when will he be able to adjust? An hour? Or a whole day?"

The thermos in his hand kept hitting the back of the chair, making a creaking sound, venting his dissatisfaction and pressure in his heart.

See this scene.

Sheng Yixia couldn't help but feel that he looked familiar.

Think about it carefully.

Uh……

Isn't this the same thing that happened when I got mad at the domineering director?
Haha~
Are these directors from the same professional background? Even the way they curse is similar~
Sheng Yixia was so amused by what he saw that the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up subconsciously.

This scene.

Naturally, this caught the attention of Director Chen, who had been keeping an eye on him. This immediately made Director Chen's anger soar even higher. He pointed at Sheng Yixia and cursed, "Sheng Yixia, why are you so happy? Are you gloating over other people's misfortunes, or are you being sarcastic?"

"?" Sheng Yixia, who was eating watermelon, suddenly felt like he was on fire. He immediately shut his mouth tightly with a blank expression.

But his avoidance seemed to arouse Director Chen's anger: "What's with that expression on your face? I'm asking you a question. Who are you showing this dumbfounded look to?"

"By the way, aren't you quite capable? You can climb over walls and throw cards. You're quite skilled. Why don't you try to act it out?"

He was really pissed off by Sheng Yixia.

This bastard really enjoys watching the fun and never minds the trouble. Last night, while having supper, he kept giving himself chicken soup for the soul.

What are you talking about? Director Chen, you must work hard. Whether our movie will be a big hit depends entirely on you.

You are the sky, the light, and the pillar of the crew!
Damn, doesn’t even his wife have as high expectations for Lao Chen as he does?
Ah this...

Sheng Yixia, who was watching the show, was suddenly called by Director Chen. She pointed at her nose in surprise and said, "Director Chen, are you asking me to play the assassin who attacks the warlord in the street?"

"Why, can you do it? If you can't, just say something." The more Director Chen thought about this idea, the better it seemed. Didn't this guy always say that he wanted to make this online movie a success?

If he backs down at this critical juncture, or gives up, or does a poor job.

Then Old Chen will feel relieved.

At least, when Sheng Yixia comes to give him some chicken soup for the soul again, he will have a reason to spray him back with some leftover chicken soup.

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(End of this chapter)