If Jiang Yi Ruofei is not a seasoned actor, then he must be in a relationship with that woman.
Ye Xiang, Zhang Nianzhou, Du Yan, and others searched everywhere for the woman's trace, according to Jiang Yi's information, her name is Han Ruoyue.
There's no way to make a phone call here, so we can only go find her.
Jiang Yi, unable to find her, began shouting at the top of his lungs, "Ruoyue, Ruoyue! Where are you?"
Ye Xiang was startled! This was a truly haunted wilderness. If he shouted like that, what if he actually summoned a ghost?
However, from his perspective, he couldn't find a reason to argue with Jiang Yi.
"What bad luck, this woman!" Zhang Nianzhou, already realizing that the lines no longer matched the script, said angrily, "I've had eight lifetimes of bad luck, and yet..."
Ye Xiang firmly squeezed his hand and signaled him. Right now, he was Zhang Nianzhou, and he had to remember that identity. He couldn't think of himself as an actor forced to play a horror movie role from the real world!
"Mr. Jiang!" He walked over and grabbed Jiang Yi, saying, "Mr. Jiang, please..."
At that moment, he noticed that the redemption tickets in his mind were decreasing again. From 177, they had dropped to 167. This chilled him, but to continue walking, no one knew what the consequences would be.
"But Ruoyue, she..." Jiang Yi said urgently, "She doesn't know where she went..."
"Hey, look!" Suddenly, the Sichuan man Zhang Dekun pointed to a certain place and said, "That is..."
As soon as those words came out, both Ye Xiang and Jiang Yi looked over. They saw a shoe wedged between two rocks in front of them. Jiang Yi rushed over, grabbed the shoe, and said, "This...this is Ruoyue's shoe!"
This further confirmed that something dangerous had happened to this woman!
Ye Xiang suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and his whole body trembled.
He was usually a courageous person, watching horror movies with ease. But now he was really in a horror movie! Just thinking about the scenes from many classic horror movies, like Sadako crawling out of the television or Kayako haunting the haunted house, these terrifying ghostly images made Ye Xiang unable to take another step.
Ye Xiang was just an ordinary office worker, he had never had any supernatural experiences, and he had never believed in ghosts in the world. But now, seeing that shoe, his mind was filled with horrifying scenes. It was already commendable that he could remain calm and not run away. The others had also changed their faces, except for the young man with a duckbill hat, Liu An, whose expression was unclear.
Not only that, but the number of redemption tickets was also continuously decreasing. If the redemption tickets became negative in the end, even if he managed to survive and leave this horror movie, it would still end in death!
"Hey, look!"
Zhang Dekun crouched down and carefully looked behind the rock with the shoe. Ye Xiang and others immediately gathered around to take a look. They saw that the soil behind it had an obvious inward depression, extending towards the depths of the distant woods. Ye Xiang immediately had a mental image of a terrifying ghost dragging Han Ruoyue's body into the woods.
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He continued to look and discovered clear five finger marks left on the ground next to the drag mark!
"Something's wrong!" Zhang Dekun said hastily, "We need to go find her! Mr. Xia, you go back to the bus and tell the others, try to find more people to help! In these deep mountains, there might be wild animals or criminals dragging her in!"
At this point, Ye Xiang started to feel that Zhang Dekun might be an experienced actor. It seemed that even seasoned actors could play minor roles.
"But...you..."
"I'll accompany Mr. Jiang to search!" Zhang Dekun said firmly, "You go back and find people to help!"
Jiang Yi quickly held Zhang Dekun's hand and said, "Thank you, thank you!"
Then, the two immediately rushed into the depths of the woods!
Ye Xiang was stunned, but soon understood. Both of them must be seasoned actors, and they must have accumulated a lot of redemption tickets from playing horror movie roles before. That's why they could continue to venture deeper. But it wasn't the same for Ye Xiang. Looking at the dark depths of the woods, thinking of the countless ghostly figures on the poster, he couldn't take another step.
There was no other choice...they had to go back! At least according to the first scene of the script, the bus was safe. But by doing so, he wasted a lot of redemption tickets.
"Let's...let's go back!" Before Ye Xiang could speak, Zhang Nianzhou said, "I don't want to stay here anymore!" And Du Yan and Liu An remained silent. After a while, Du Yan sighed and said, "Let's...go."
Ye Xiang turned around and walked towards the original location of the bus. Liu An followed behind them, not saying a word. At this point, Ye Xiang was picking up his pace, afraid that a ghost would emerge from the woods behind them.
As their steps quickened, they eventually started to run. It was frustrating for Ye Xiang because even though they were returning to the bus, the redemption tickets were still being deducted. By the time the bus appeared in front of them, the redemption tickets had been deducted to 148.
At this moment, there were some people standing outside the bus, and Ye Xiang guessed that they were hesitating whether to escape like them.
"Oh, look, someone's coming!"
When they saw Ye Xiang and the others approaching, they all shouted. When Ye Xiang ran back, one of the men, who was smoking a cigarette, asked in a Shandong accent, "Why did you guys come back? Couldn't find the way down the mountain?"
"Well, wait a moment..."
Ye Xiang went onto the bus and saw the driver repairing the equipment. It had to be said that he played his role very professionally. Although he knew the bus couldn't be repaired, he still tried to fix it.
"Miss Tour Guide!" After running onto the bus, he immediately spoke to the tour guide, "It's like this..."
He explained the situation in detail. The tour guide's face changed after listening and asked anxiously, "Han Miss is missing? That's a big deal! Did she make any phone calls?"
"No signal on the phone!" Ye Xiang shook his head and said, "Probably because of the mountainous area...uh, Jiang Yi and Zhang Dekun went to look for her. He asked us to come back and find more people to help."
However, the other passengers didn't react much, as if they couldn't be bothered with this matter. But it was understandable, as these people knew there were ghosts outside, and who would venture into a haunted place to save someone?
Ye Xiang thought about it and realized that he had completed his mission. He couldn't leave for the time being, so he sat back in his original seat with Zhang Nianzhou. After looking at Luo Haosheng and Kang Xueyan, the male and female leads, the male lead spoke, "Why did you come back? Weren't you supposed to go down the mountain?"
It's worth mentioning that if it was due to the actions of other actors and they said lines or did actions that were not in the script, the redemption tickets would generally not be deducted. Of course, it was a general rule and not absolute. If someone used this to intentionally deviate from the script and save redemption tickets, it would be a major bug. So, there was a certain degree to it. Saying a few improvised lines or actions that didn't significantly affect the plot was fine, but if it caused a major change in the plot, it would be different.
"This remote mountain area might have wild animals, so we don't dare to wander outside anymore," Ye Xiang shook his head and said, "Let's stay here and wait until the driver finishes repairing the bus."
He was frustrated at this point. If his phone had signal, he could go online. He had looked closely at the tourist map before, but it was too vague to determine which province or county in China this mountain was supposed to be. This area was all mountainous, rarely visited by people, and now it was nighttime, truly an excellent location for shooting a horror movie!
If he could go online and understand the specific location here, he might be able to check if there were any ghost legends or trace their origins, which could help develop a new strategy. But now, he had no idea why the ghosts appeared. If the ghosts were here for revenge, and he had done something outrageous in his role, he wouldn't even know what it was!