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Chapter 246 Do you want to truly live?

Chapter 246 Do you want to truly live?
"you……"

"And how much blood will be shed to survive?"

Just at this time……

The recording became softer and softer.

It briefly turned into a deathly silence.

Next!

"Click!"
As if some mechanism had been triggered, a flash of blood appeared on the screen, followed by the words "Saw".

The sudden appearance of the blood-red words startled even Pete!
The atmosphere is just...

"I said turn the air conditioning off! I didn't ask you to turn it down even lower! Damn it! Are you trying to freeze me to death?"

"Sorry, sorry, the air conditioning seems to be broken. We're working on it..."

"..."

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"anyone there?"

"Damn it, where am I?"

Is anyone there? Speak up!

"Damn it!"

"Ahhhh!"

The movie was still playing.

The blood-red words on the screen gradually faded.

In the darkness, the sounds of struggling, choking, suffocation, and angry roars, accompanied by cries of panic and despair, pierced the darkness!
Accompanied by sound!

suddenly!

One by one, the lights came on!

From darkness to light.

In the screening room, Pete felt his eyes were a little uncomfortable. He closed his eyes briefly, then slowly opened them again.

Once his eyes adjusted to the light, he stared at the screen.

He saw a basement.

The filthy basement walls were covered with mottled bloodstains, and rusty chains and discarded medical tools were piled up in the corner.

The camera slowly zooms in, and as it follows, Pitt sees two young men with shackles on their feet, and...

A motionless corpse lying in a pool of blood.

I heard heavy breathing nearby.

On the screen, a blond young man was frantically pulling at his shackles, the chains striking the ground with a crisp metallic sound...

But the camera slowly pans across the corpse lying in a pool of blood...

The "corpse" wearing a brown trench coat lay motionless on the ground, holding a revolver in its hand.

The blood in the pool of blood was still slowly spreading, but its color was not red; instead, it was a dark red, almost black, viscous, and abnormal state.

The movie continues...

On screen, Adam's panting created an eerie echo in the confined space.

His stiff fingers touched a hard object in his pocket. In a close-up shot, it was a cassette tape labeled "PLAY ME" that was oozing dark red stains, as if it had been soaked in congealed blood.

"Throw it over here!"

Gordon's roar echoed in the confined space.

Adam swung his arm sharply, causing the chain to snap taut. Metal fragments fell from the rusty chain as it was pulled, and the tape eventually fell to the ground.

On screen, Dr. Gordon staggers as he picks up the blood-stained cassette tape.

The camera zooms in on his trembling fingers as he inserts the Walkman, and the sound of the tape spinning, mixed with electrical static, suddenly explodes. Gordon puts the tape recorder to his ear.

Off-screen, Pete heard the voice from the recording machine again. The voice, processed by a voice changer, was like a rusty blade, scraping into his eardrums word by word...

"Hello, Dr. Gordon, you've spent your whole life announcing other people's death dates..."

"Today, you will experience this process firsthand."

"The rules are simple: kill Adam within six hours, or look at the corpse at your feet."

"The poison flowing in his veins is corroding your hope."

"Pay attention to those X marks; they'll tell you how to end the suffering with that .38 revolver..."

"But if you hesitate..."

"The blood of Alice and Diana will soak this basement in your place—"

"..."

The movie was still playing, and as Pitt watched this part, he gradually became more interested!

In 2004, traditional horror films had become formulaic.

In fact, not only the audience, but even Pitt himself has gradually become somewhat aesthetically fatigued after watching so many movies.

However, the unfolding of "Saw" gave Pitt a sense of novelty he had never experienced before.

It doesn't seem to create the sense of urgency of a "monster chase," but rather seems to be pioneering a unique film genre: escape rooms.

Of course, Pitt had seen similar escape room movies, but in those early films, the characters mostly encountered monsters, were chased, and then passively evaded and fought back. Escape was the only rule, and the entire movie's plot revolved around running away...

And this movie...

It's not just an escape game; it also seems to incorporate elements of confined spaces and moral dilemmas!
This made Pete gradually look forward to the rest of the story...

……

On screen, Adam suddenly lunges at the rusty water tank, as if he has found something.

"Gordon! There's something at the bottom of the tank!"

He roared as he plunged his arm into the murky sewage, the sound of the taut chains scraping against the ground was somewhat grating.

Although this film had a low budget and the cinematography was so-so, it was shot with great attention to detail! The camera used an upward angle from inside the water tank, showing close-ups of Adam's distorted reflection shimmering on the surface of the sewage...

"It's a saw!"

When Adam lifted the rusty hacksaw, black material resembling skin flakes was still hanging between the saw teeth.

Dr. Gordon suddenly snatched the saw, his excitement bordering on madness: "This can cut through chains!"

………………

In the screening room, the air conditioning gradually stopped working.

However, the lingering cool air from the air conditioner carried a faint smell of rust.

In a confined space.

The clanging of chains, the dripping of sewage, and the rapid breathing created an eerie, three-dimensional surround sound effect within the unique sound system of the screening room.

Combined with the small, enclosed space of the screening room, it once made the audience feel as if they were actually there...

They were watching the screen!

When Adam lifted the hacksaw with black dander hanging between its teeth from the sewage, the audience in the theater felt a sense of hope for "escape".

My tense nerves finally began to relax a little.

They watched as two huddled bodies were chained to the drainpipe, like struggling wild beasts.

They saw two men frantically sawing at the iron chain...

The sparks from the saw blade rubbing against the iron chain seemed to almost burst through the screen and into the theater.

The creaking sound of the saw chain was so clear...

Gradually, a sense of tension began to creep in again!
however……

What is the most desperate thing in the world?
It gives you hope, casts your emotions high, and then suddenly throws you down from that height.

On the screen!
The saw did not cut through the chain as expected.

Not only did it fail to cut the chain, but the saw blade also sparked as it scraped against the chain...

"Crack!"

The saw teeth flew off, and Gordon's hand was ripped open by the recoil.

The audience was stunned.

And at this moment...

Suddenly, the tape recorder on the screen started playing automatically, and the voice changer's cold laughter, mixed with chilling mechanical sounds, echoed in the ears of everyone in the screening room.

"You think...escape will be that easy?"

The short line of text instantly plunged the mood of all the viewers in the screening room into despair, and a sense of hopelessness surged back.

The camera gave the saw a close-up.

The serrations are exactly 1 millimeter thicker than the chain!

Clearly, this is a carefully crafted but futile hope.

Before 2004, all Hollywood movies followed the same formula.

That is, in almost all escape room movies, the tools are invariably useful and are crucial to escape...

But this movie breaks that rule.

They had never seen such a "pseudo-puzzle" trap before.

..............................

"These serrated teeth...they're definitely not meant for sawing chains!"

"But..."

The camera suddenly pans down!

The rusty saw slowly moved down to Gordon's leg.

He pressed down slightly, leaving a startling mark!
Gordon's voice trembled, filled with despair and terror: "It's used to saw off legs!"

The moment those words appeared on the screen...

I don't know if it's because the actor who played Gordon was so good, or because the movie's atmosphere and emotional delivery were really well done...

Pete felt goosebumps rise on his skin, and then he felt another chill creeping in from all directions...

He suddenly stared at the air conditioner next to him, about to curse, but found that the air conditioner seemed to have been turned off a long time ago.

The voice changer's voice pierced the despairing silence at that very moment.

"Actually, it doesn't have to be so complicated. You can survive by just killing him..."

"Can humans endure losing limbs or losing their humanity?"

"You don't have much time left!"

"..."

The sound originated from that corpse...

There was also a small tape recorder on the body.

When everyone looked at the corpse...

Everyone noticed that the body lying in the pool of blood was spreading rapidly...

Accompanied by close-up shots.

A faint, indescribable stench of blood seemed to linger in the screening room…

Then, a close-up shot of the wall was given!
time……