I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

But just as he passed in front of Lu Ban, the walking corpse suddenly turned around, his expression ferocious, and lunged at him with a scalpel in his hand!

"hiss--"

Unable to hold his breath, Bai Qiquan felt Pang Zhen holding his hand even tighter beside him.

What follows is a breathtaking fight. The shaky camera work, though seemingly chaotic, accurately portrays the crucial struggle between the two. In the end, Lu Ban smashes the dean's head with a single blow.

As the camera zoomed in on the corpse lying on the ground, Bai Qiquan discovered that what was flowing out of the dean's skull was actually gray cement slurry.

At the same time, Lu Ban took off running and headed up to the fifth floor.

He hid from the dean, who had reappeared from who-knows-where, and entered room 502.

Here, Lu Ban found some records.

As the words were written, the image gradually turned yellow.

Bai Qiquan saw the young hospital director and a foreigner, and witnessed how they met and how they set up the hospital. Without a doubt, these people had touched upon the forbidden and evil ritual in pursuit of resurrection and had already succumbed to it.

All the confusion has been resolved. Now, only one question remains: what exactly is at the end of the fifth-floor corridor?

At this moment, Bai Qiquan, just like Lu Ban in the film, had no choice but to walk into that room.

Then he saw it: inside the container, a grayish-white creature resembling cement, writhing with countless eyes and mouths, a grotesque and blasphemous monster.

An eerie song began to play, echoing throughout the movie theater and sending chills down your spine. Just listening to it made you feel uneasy; the discordant melody stimulated your eardrums, making you want to cover your ears.

The container shattered, and the cement-like monster began to spread, expand, and devour everything.

Lu Ban tried to escape, but the cement spread too fast, and he was almost submerged, becoming one of those monsters with cement filling their heads.

Bai Qiquan was a little nervous. Although according to the rules of movies, the protagonist would not die, this movie had not followed the usual pattern so far, and he felt that the protagonist might die in the end.

At that moment, he saw Lu Ban sneak into the elevator, where there was a little girl.

"This mirror can reflect strange things; it is... it is the passage connecting two worlds..."

In the movie, Lu Ban seemed to understand something, got into the elevator, and closed the door.

The big screen went dark, and in the darkness, Bai Qiquan heard an extremely gentle voice, like a mother telling a story to her child, telling her own story in a gentle and detailed way.

She spoke of her love for the child, her life in the hospital, and her poor health, all while filled with anticipation for a new life in that ward always bathed in golden sunlight.

But Bai Qiquan had by then fully understood what role she represented in the story and what she was nurturing.

He tried to make a sound, but felt a hoarseness in his throat.

Beside him, his more emotional girlfriend, Pang Zhen, had already begun to sob. The sound of sniffling filled the movie theater. The mother's loving confession now felt like sharp knives, stabbing into the hearts of the audience one by one.

Finally, at the moment of delivery, as the dean's maniacal laughter rang out, and as the camera panned to the emaciated pregnant woman and the cement-like gray monster, a cry rang out.

At the same time, Lu Ban contacted the outside world and activated the explosives.

Rumble rumble rumble—

Amidst the cries of newborns, the sinful hospital collapsed with a deafening roar.

Bai Qiquan even forgot that he was watching a horror movie at this moment.

He felt a complex mix of emotions brewing within him, including fear, regret, and relief.

He was terrified because of the film's immersive atmosphere.

He lamented that good people ultimately did not get a good ending, while the punishment of evil people was always a step too late.

He was relieved because it was just a movie, and reality was at least not so dark.

At the end of the film, in the first rays of sunlight and amidst the cries of newborns, Lu Ban stands atop the ruins of the hospital, leaving only a blurry silhouette.

Chapter 165 He didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.

After the movie ended, many audience members remained seated, listening to the end credits song.

The ending theme song is also called "Crying," and it's a song of utter despair sung by a gentle girl in the softest of tones.

If you only listen to the lyrics of this song, you will only feel that it is sad and beautiful. But after watching the movie and learning about the background of the song, the song becomes more meaningful. It is full of a mother's infinite love for her unborn child. Even though the child has died, she is still full of affection and hopes to exchange her own life for his health.

Bai Qiquan doesn't like sentimental movies. He finds most of them awkward and believes that resonance is something that can't be forced. He's just a college student who grew up peacefully with his family still alive and well, so he can't understand the sadness of separation and death.

But this movie is different. In just over ninety minutes, he seems to have personally experienced all the strange events in the hospital. Even when the mother whose name he doesn't know is telling her story, Bai Qi feels as if he is experiencing it all himself.

He didn't understand, but he was deeply shocked.

It can only be attributed to the director's excellent filming and the actors' strong delivery of lines.

Many actors nowadays lack basic acting skills; they speak in a strained voice, without any sense of intonation or rhythm. They sound worse than machines when they read lines.

This is why some movies and TV series, even though they are spoken in Mandarin, still need to be dubbed.

The movie ended, and somewhat disappointingly, there were no post-credits scenes.

The problem arose when the audience began to leave.

Many people cannot stand up.

Some people are so frightened that their whole body tenses up and their nerves become highly strained, resulting in their legs going numb; others are so frightened that they become dizzy and their legs go weak.

So, it's not really that everyone wanted to hear the end credits song or was deeply moved.

It's due to physiological reasons.

After a while, someone stood up, grabbed a chair, and headed towards the exit.

Bai Qiquan and his girlfriend waited for a while until they calmed down before heading outside.

The mall was already closed, and the dim lighting made the once bustling shops seem somewhat eerie. People leaving the movie theater split into two groups, blocking the exit.

One group went to the restroom, because almost no one dared to go to the restroom alone during the movie, which resulted in a large number of people, especially girls, going to the restroom after the movie ended.

Another group, somewhat amusingly, were those who dared not cross through shopping malls that were already closed.

"Do we really have to walk this way? Is there any other way?"

"I'm a little scared, do we have to take the elevator downstairs later?"

"Could you please ask the property management to turn on a light? It's so dark, what if someone slips and falls?"

Bai Qiquan found it rather amusing that a group of young people in their twenties were afraid to walk through the dimly lit mall to take the elevator.

At that moment, a voice emerged.

"How can someone so old be so frightened?"

He was a fairly tall guy who came to see a movie with his friends. When he saw a group of people blocking the entrance to the cinema, he called out.

"Then you go first."

The person next to him chimed in.

"Let's go then."

The boy and his friend walked forward and entered the mall, which wasn't actually very dark.

Seeing the two people walk away, the other audience members seemed relieved and prepared to leave.

Just then, a startled cry came from ahead, which jolted everyone awake.

Then we saw the two boys who had been so brave just moments before running back in a panic, scrambling and stumbling, showing none of their previous courage.

"It seems...it seems there really is something..."

The boy, who had previously been fearless, pointed to the corner ahead with a trembling voice.

Everyone gasped.

"How about we go back and find the security guard?"

Someone made a suggestion.

As people returned from the restroom, more and more people gathered at the entrance of the movie theater. Some even took out their phones to film videos and upload them to Weibo or the short video account of Tomorrow Online.

Bai Qiquan thought about it. Although he wasn't too scared, his girlfriend obviously didn't want to take the elevator downstairs at this time.

Moreover, after what happened with those two boys, people who were already somewhat uneasy and hesitant were even more reluctant to go downstairs.

Some things are better believed than not!

Helpless, he could only turn around and go back to the movie theater.

There are no midnight screenings here; the staff are preparing to pack up.

Bai Qiquan found a staff member and asked.

"Could you lend us a high-powered flashlight?"

"What do you need a flashlight for? There should be lights outside."

The staff were puzzled.

"Everyone...everyone was scared by the movie and didn't dare to go downstairs."

Bai Qiquan explained awkwardly.

The staff member gave him a strange look, then glanced at the other spectators gathered outside.

"Just a moment."

He went to the storage room and took out a flashlight.

"Let me take you downstairs."

Finally, a very dedicated staff member took the lead and managed to lead the group of trembling moviegoers out of the mall.

"Can you go home by yourselves? I'll take you downstairs, but I'm not responsible for taking you home."

He even joked.

This experience was naturally filmed and uploaded online.

The staff member found it a bit strange. When he returned to the cinema, his colleagues had almost finished packing up, leaving him as the last one to leave. After thinking about it, he became curious about just how scary the movie was, that these viewers were too afraid to even go downstairs.

He went to the employees' rest area, pulled up the video, and prepared to watch it before going home.

……

That evening, topics related to "Crying" quietly gained traction on Weibo.