I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

"I've finished the first half. What do you think of the result?"

"Okay, huh?"

Qin Tiantian instinctively agreed, how could she not take advantage of such a good deal? But then she thought, speaking of Lu Ban's movies, aren't they all horror movies?

To say nothing of the distant past, there was that recent online movie that Qin Tiantian couldn't bear to watch any longer than halfway through. The immersive and empathetic horror was simply torture to watch alone.

Of course, Qin Tiantian recommended the movie to all her relatives and friends afterwards; she was always the most enthusiastic about this kind of thing!

Is your new movie scary?

"It's not scary, it's mainly suspenseful, and it might be a bit mind-bending."

Lu Ban was very serious.

"oh oh!"

Qin Tiantian didn't completely trust Lu Ban either. She knew very well that this man's concept of terror was slightly different from that of ordinary people. She prepared herself mentally, sat down in the chair, and pressed the play button.

The movie begins differently from "Hyakunin Isshu". Lu Ban is working in front of his computer when he receives a package. He opens the package while answering a phone call. Inside are several cassette tapes.

Compared to the previous videos where the characters were immediately in danger and the pace was fast, this movie has a more relaxed pace. From the opening clips, you can see Lu Ban's profession, work situation, and even get a glimpse of his personality. Then, the phone conversation explains the background of the story and the commission, while the scene shows Lu Ban opening the package and taking out the cassette tape, which provides the main plot without being boring.

In the movie, Lu Ban takes out one of the cassette tapes, puts it into the tape recorder, and presses the play button.

The shot only focuses on the recorder and the hand, creating a mysterious and eerie feeling.

"Today we're doing the initial planning work for the demolition..."

As soon as the voice from the tape recorder came out, Qin Tiantian immediately felt a little guilty and her scalp tingled. This incredibly realistic narrative style immediately reminded her of some less-than-ideal scenes from other movies.

She sat up straight, ready to cover her eyes at any moment, and carefully observed the scene.

Chapter 157 Magnetic Tape

In the slightly hoarse voice of the narrator, Qin Tiantian saw a construction site. The narrator seemed to be the person in charge of the site, and he was overseeing the demolition work of the hospital.

"Is this the hospital that was demolished before? Did you go there to film on location?"

Qin Tiantian asked curiously.

"That's it."

Lu Ban responded. He didn't just go to find the location; he actually destroyed it.

"You can't even get a clear picture of these people's faces; your photography skills are terrible."

Qin Tiantian even made a joke.

In the scene recreation on this cassette tape, the camera often uses a first-person perspective or a view from behind to the front, as well as various angles of peeking out from the ruins, making it difficult to see what the actors actually look like, and giving the feeling that someone is spying on those characters.

The initial demolition was proceeding normally, but when the workers started the excavator to demolish the hospital building, something unexpected happened.

Qin Tiantian clearly saw what appeared to be a little girl standing in front of the excavator's shovel through the window of the abandoned hospital!

"hiss--"

She felt a little flustered and took a breath, because the girl had only flashed by, so Qin Tiantian didn't know if she had really seen her.

But when the site manager led the workers into the hospital building to search, Qin Tiantian saw a white figure quickly run past in the stairwell behind them as they walked through the corridor.

"!!!"

Qin Tiantian suddenly felt a chill run down her spine, not to mention that from the moment she started walking into that abandoned hospital building with these workers, she felt the smell of dust and medicine.

In the next scene, Qin Tiantian saw the construction site manager driving and making a phone call. From the call, she learned that he had successfully demolished the building and was on the highway home.

At this moment, the site manager put down his phone, turned around, and saw a nurse in white coat in the passenger seat. The nurse had a bluish-black face, no whites in her eyes, and looked ferocious and terrifying.

The site manager slipped on the steering wheel, and the entire vehicle hurtled towards the guardrail and crashed.

Qin Tiantian was startled by the explosion of the car accident. Seeing the burning car, she felt a wave of heat hitting her, but she didn't feel hot. Instead, she felt a chill down her spine.

"Was that revenge? The ghosts in the hospital are retaliating against him for demolishing the building?"

She asked Lu Ban, but found that he didn't respond. She didn't know when, but he seemed to have left the room.

"?"

Qin Tiantian subconsciously wanted to pause, but the narration started again.

His voice had changed; it was as if he were a different person.

The second site manager continued the demolition work. While sorting through the buildings that had been demolished, they discovered that the cement pillars inside were hollow, and the shape of those hollow pillars looked just like a person!

A person was buried alive inside a concrete pillar!

Qin Tiantian curled up her legs, huddled in the chair, and trembled.

She also saw that when the workers were inspecting the building, the elevator, which had no power, suddenly started up on its own and injured people. She also saw a worker who was inspecting the building suddenly jump off the fifth floor as if he had been possessed.

In the end, only the site manager was sitting in the duty room, taking notes with a pen. It seemed that what he was recording was the content of the tape.

Suddenly, he looked up and saw that the lights were on in the room at the end of the corridor on the fifth floor of the dark hospital main building.

As if possessed, the construction site manager stood up and slowly walked towards the hospital building.

The dilapidated hospital building had a nauseating smell. Qin Tiantian tensed up, gripping her arm tightly, trying to look away from the screen, yet unable to suppress her curiosity.

She saw the construction site foreman walking through the dimly lit hospital with a flashlight. With each step, the flashlight illuminated a dark spot, revealing what was hidden there: broken medicine bottles, soiled sheets and clothes. The appearance of each item made her feel a jolt of fear, making it impossible to relax.

Finally, the site manager arrived at the fifth floor, at the room at the end of the corridor. The room had no windows, the door was ajar, and the light was on inside. The site manager, his eyes bloodshot, pushed open the door, and as the light filled the entire screen, the tape abruptly stopped.

From Lu Ban's subsequent lines, we can see that this construction site manager eventually disappeared.

"Did he go into that house and then disappear?"

Qin Tiantian couldn't help but ask.

The reality of the situation gave her time to think. From this recording, it was clear that there was indeed something wrong with the hospital, and it might even be haunted. After the initial shock, Qin Tiantian was left with doubts and suspense.

She saw that after listening to the first recording, Lu Ban in the movie conducted some interviews and investigations, connecting the clues of the whole incident.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Ban listened to the second recording.

This is a nurse's confession. During her night patrol, she saw an elderly man from the intensive care unit appear in a room at the end of the corridor and wave at her. This part of the story is even more terrifying, especially when the old man, who was like a puppet, waved at the nurse. Qin Tiantian got goosebumps all over.

After watching the recording, Qin Tiantian's curiosity was completely piqued.

What's in the room at the end of the corridor?

By now, she understood the core appeal of the film: the room at the end of the corridor. Both the worker's disappearance and the strange phenomena witnessed by the nurse were related to the room at the end of the fifth-floor corridor.

This is similar to the suspense that a mystery movie tells the audience at the beginning: Who is the murderer? In this situation, Qin Tiantian's attention was completely focused on various details, trying to find the answer in the room at the end of the fifth-floor corridor before the plot.

The third recording also came from a nurse.

The nurse was on the night shift, and in her somewhat nagging and mercenary confessions, Qin Tiantian seemed to smell the disinfectant and medicine.

The nurse was woken up, but her companion looked a bit strange. Qin Tiantian immediately thought of the old man who had waved like a puppet earlier.

"Could it be that this nurse has already..."

She saw the nurse walking with a light, airy gait, and from a first-person perspective, it seemed strangely eerie.

At night, all the hospital lights were turned off, and the corridors were pitch black, with only the elevator lights illuminating the way.

The two entered the elevator. The oppressive, enclosed space made Qin Tiantian feel instinctively uncomfortable. She saw the nurse in the first-person perspective looking around uneasily. Soon, the camera focused on the mirror in the elevator.

The mirror shows the nurse's own reflection from a first-person perspective; apart from that, no one else can be seen in the elevator.

The camera shakiened for a moment, turning to the nurse who was leading the way, and then back to the camera.

Without a doubt, there was no reflection of her in the mirror!

Moreover, Qin Tiantian noticed that the nurse was standing on tiptoe, and Qin Tiantian remembered that only dead people walked like that!

What happens next in Chapter 158?

After noticing the anomaly in the mirror, Qin Tiantian felt her heart pound. This scene was very evocative, like she was in an elevator and realized that the person she was riding with had no shadow.

Unlike directly scaring you, it lets the audience discover the eeriness themselves, making them feel more immersed.

Furthermore, the nurse, who seemed like a ghost, didn't suddenly turn around to scare people; she remained unchanged. In this seemingly calm but actually turbulent environment of the gradually ascending elevator, one could only feel more anxious, worried, and afraid.

It's like being beheaded in a market. You close your eyes, the knife falls, your head rolls off, and it's over in an instant. You probably don't even feel anything.

But now, it's like being placed on the guillotine, with your neck stuck in the wooden board, feeling like the guillotine is about to fall at any second, but no matter how long you wait, the guillotine doesn't fall, leaving you in a state of constant fear and dread.

Many people find relief from being scared when watching horror scenes. What's most frightening is when the audience is kept in suspense, placed in a dark and eerie environment where something is about to happen, but the final blow never comes.

In this situation, the audience will be constantly afraid and terrified. What are they afraid of? They are afraid of the terrifying final moment, whether imagined or unimaginable. Therefore, in Lu Ban's previous theory of horror in another world, there is a similar statement: the unknown is the most terrifying.

Once that final, horrifying moment occurs, the horror of this part of the story reaches its peak for the audience, and their emotions begin to subside.

In a sense, the jump scare, a horror movie trope where something suddenly appears to scare the audience, is essential. After all, if the audience is kept on edge and in a state of high tension all the time, it can lead to sensory numbness and even cause them to fall asleep due to excessive tension. Stimulating the audience from time to time with this kind of jump scare is simple and effective.

Qin Tiantian didn't understand so many horror theories. She just felt really scared, especially since the nurse had her back to her and she couldn't see her face. She was afraid that the nurse would suddenly turn around and reveal a ferocious look, scaring her.

While being tormented by this atmosphere, suddenly, the elevator arrival announcement sounded, making Qin Tiantian feel as if she had been hit, and she shivered.

My tense nerves reached their peak instantly because of this sudden sound, and then relaxed. On the one hand, the elevator door opened, and I no longer had to share a room with this nurse who I didn't know. On the other hand, this sudden sound was a kind of jump scare, which allowed me to release my previous fear.

However, when Qin Tiantian arrived at the fifth-floor corridor, she didn't feel much better.

It was dark and quiet here, with only the room at the end of the corridor lit up.

She saw the shadowless little nurse float forward, and the camera followed behind.

That sense of unknown fear surged into my heart once again.

Qin Tiantian clenched her toes, curled up into a ball, and sat on Lu Ban's chair.

She opened her eyes wide and watched the young nurse walk into the room. The camera, from the first-person perspective, dared not move forward as the narrator's voice grew timid and awe-inspiring.

However, the viewpoint inevitably ended up looking towards that room.

Qin Tiantian moved a little closer, hoping to see what was in the room.

The nurse simply waved slowly from inside the door to outside, like a marionette.

Ding--

The sound of the elevator arriving at the floor rang out again, startling both the main viewer and Qin Tiantian.