Chapter 371 Thriller

United States, small town of Carmel, twelve o'clock in the morning.

In front of a small cinema on the street at night, today's plays and show times are written in chalk on a small blackboard. Couples cuddle up and go in and out in pairs. Taxis run over the uneven stone pavement and splash on the street. The water splashes and the raised car windows reflect the gentle light in the roadside restaurant.

The door of the taxi parked on the roadside was opened, and the woman got out of it, stuffed a banknote through the lowered window, and then waited patiently by the car until she found the change inside and accepted it. He stuffed each coin and small bill into the small leather bag in his hand and waited for the taxi to pull away from the roadside, revealing the movie theater across the street.

The woman flipped her hair and looked around. Apart from the street lights on the road, she only saw lovers and lovers. Occasionally, a drunken man in beach clothes was wandering by on the street carrying a bottle of wine and leaning on the wire. The pole was drunk like crazy, and the couples sitting at the sidewalk tables in the restaurant were pointing at him and laughing, drinking alcoholic drinks with the same forked stick in their mouths.

The woman stood for a while, watching the night scene for more than ten seconds, and finally smiled softly and walked to the cinema across the street.

She didn't forget that she was going to watch a movie tonight.

This movie theater on the street is very small. It is as small as the roadside stalls of the past era that sold unscrupulous discs. Cinemas like this are usually squeezed out of the market by 3D and imax in big cities. Yes, but it is different in this small town. The small town atmosphere that believes in the supremacy of art will always leave some space for the culture that was once the most beautiful.

And the theater in front of the woman is indeed in a retro style. Interested guests like her will even put on their own white fox fur and the hottest red lipstick, as if they have stepped out of a black and white Metropolis poster. The girls also make passers-by turn around frequently.

She carried her purse and walked into the cinema. The waiter at the door saluted her. With a skillful smile, she took out a banknote from her purse and put it in the waiter's tray, then walked towards the ticket hall of the theater. In the warm yellow light. But at this time, there were not many people in the lobby of the cinema, and the movie had already started. Maybe it would be too late to come back at this time?

But women don't care, after all, the real protagonist is always late to the scene.

The cinema is also decorated in line with the modern era of the last century, with shiny chandeliers, black and white movie posters, a ticket seller with a modern girl with big waves standing behind the retro counter, and the vinyl record in the lobby plays the old song "Two_Little_Girls_from_Little_Rock" ”, still wearing lipstick on his mouth, looking at the woman approaching with a smile.

Cinemas do not prohibit buying tickets while watching a movie. In the past when transportation was not developed, people would always be late. Because the movie industry was booming during the American economic crisis, it was not easy to spend your spare money to buy a movie ticket. , so the theater’s rules are relatively tolerant.

This cinema is no exception. It allows mid-entry. Even knowledgeable people will find that there is a passage in the alley next to the cinema for children to step on the trash can. You can't buy movies from the passage. Children with tickets can sneak around to the back lot and watch a movie for free, which is very period and humane - but it is worth mentioning that when playing dramas above R16, this channel is locked of.

The woman walked to the counter and glanced at the registration target on the small blackboard next to her. The conductor introduced the ceremonial audience kindly: "Do you need to buy a ticket? There are still many reserved seats for tonight's show. But all the movies have already opened, and you need to enter from the back. I personally recommend watching "Roman Holiday" or "Gone with the Wind" tonight. These two movies only open for ten minutes. If you enter now, you can still get a relatively complete viewing. experience.”

Yes, that’s right, this cinema also follows the retro style in its film schedule. There are no popular movies of the season, no CG and special effects, and some are just film movies that make a subtle clicking sound when played. Every line and every noise on the screen is full of the atmosphere of the era, and they are all classics.

The audience has often seen these movies, but the thought of nostalgia can make them put on their suits and hats and walk into this theater every time, and fly with the thoughts of everyone in the theater to the once golden movie. era.

The blackboard next to the woman says that the plays in the cinema today are "Roman Holiday", "Gone with the Wind" and the older "Butterfly Dream" and "The Temptress", but the woman's eyes fell directly to the bottom. There is only one scene in the column, a movie called "Bloodline".

It was a niche film shot in 1980. Even at that time, the number of films scheduled was very small. However, the owner of this theater got the first edition of the tape released at that time out of interest, so this film can probably only be released in Saw this little place.

"Blood Town at 8 o'clock, thank you." The woman handed over a banknote.

"But this movie has been playing for an hour, and it's almost halfway through." The conductor reminded after hesitatingly as he took the banknote.

"The second time." The woman said with a smile, "There aren't many people inside, are there?"

"Not many, only three or four spectators." The ticket seller immediately showed a knowing smile, no longer worried, and placed the movie tickets on the counter.

The woman took the change and the movie ticket and walked into the venue. The waiter put down the red rope in front of the movie hall B for her and gently opened the door. From behind the door came the original sound and dim sound of the movie. In the bright light, she lowered her head and walked in, and the door behind her was closed.

The cinema is not big, it can even be said to be very small. It is reminiscent of a VIP theater in a big city. It is dark inside and the only light source is the light projected by the movie projector onto the white screen.

The picture above the curtain is of a highway with wilderness on both sides. A red old-fashioned convertible sports car is speeding on the road, passing through one piece of scenery after another.

The woman found her seat in the dim light and sat down. She specially bought a seat in the back row, but judging from today's event.

There seemed to be only four people in this unpopular movie. One of them was still asleep in his seat, looking at the ceiling and not snoring at all. The other few people were watching the movie quietly. Their side faces were slightly illuminated by the white light, and they seemed to be very involved. He didn't notice the woman who came in later.

No one noticed her, and she didn't go to see anyone. The movie in the cinema was always playing, and the red convertible sports car was running on the road. There were mountains in the distance, behind the mountains was the blue sky, and under the blue sky was the white town.

They are all empty shots with no focus, as if the director is expressing his desolate emotion that no one can understand. Only the sound of tires rolling across the road can be heard. The man and woman sitting in the convertible don’t even have faces, only two faces. The back of the head.

The man driving the car leaned on the side of the car with his left hand, holding the steering wheel with one hand and looking into the distance, while the woman with wavy blond hair lowered her head and didn't know what she was playing. The strong wind blew on them and raised their heads. After losing my hair, I passed through mountains and wilderness, white clouds and blue sky. There were no lines throughout the whole process, only refreshing scenery.

The name of the movie is "Blood Town", as its name suggests, it is a thriller, but now it seems that it is completely a promotional film and a tourism film, but their audience did not complain at all, they just stayed silent. He looked at these empty shots and looked at the backs of the men and women on the red convertible sports car.

So do women.

After finishing her makeup, she held the bag in front of her with both hands and stared at the sports cars and roads in the movie without saying a word. The light shone on her face without showing any expression.

In the flickering light, looking from behind, the woman's hands are not holding the small bag, but are reaching into the small bag that is turned sideways, and she is gently holding a black hand in her nail polish-covered hands. handle.

That's a pistol.

She was watching old movies with a ladylike smile on her face, but she was holding a life-threatening weapon in her hand.

There are four people in the cinema, one is sleeping and three are watching the movie intently. If a woman takes out a pistol from her bag, who will she hit?

The next moment, the woman gave her answer.

No one could have predicted her violent outburst. From the perspective of others, this woman came in to watch a movie for a while and then suddenly stood up. She naturally took out the pistol from her bag and aimed it from high to low. The spectator lying on his back in the corner, sleeping with his hat on his face, pulled the trigger of the pistol in his hand.

There were three gunshots. In the fierce gunshots, scarlet bullets shot down diagonally and exploded on the chest of the spectator!

The other three spectators watching the movie in the cinema shrank their necks in shock. For the first time, they reacted as they should when watching a thriller. They turned around in horror to find the modern girl who had fired the gun. Her beautiful face was not as bright as before. The smile is only cold and serious and heavy.

The spectator who was hit by a bullet in the venue didn't even have a chance to wake up. His chest was stained with blood and he was lying quietly on his seat. The hat on his face slowly slipped off, revealing the face of a young man. With stunnedness and shock.

"Confirmed. Hit!" The woman pointed the gun at the man and said calmly.

She lifted up her wavy blond hair with one hand, hiding a black headset underneath.

The door of the cinema was instantly knocked open, and various crowds rushed into the small cinema. These people included couples in couple's costumes, waiters in restaurants, uncles in beach clothes and taxi drivers, from women to women. Weaving through the aisles in the back row, everyone is a character that can be seen on the road, holding a submachine gun and aiming at everyone in the venue.

Outside the door, the conductor behind the ticket counter lay on the ground in horror with his hands on the back of his head. All the waiters squatted in the corner and held their heads in their hands. The originally lively street scene outside the cinema also fell into dead silence at some point.

The faces of passers-by and chefs on the street were now uniformly solemn and indifferent. They were hiding behind the railings and downturned tables, wearing headsets in their ears and holding standard firearms in their hands, aiming at the door of the street cinema. Even the taxi drivers in a row of taxis on the roadside were all holding weapons and using the car doors as cover to respond to the scene at any time.

Helicopters roared across the sky, and every roof along the road was filled with men and women in black trench coats, holding infrared binoculars and sniper rifles to control the scene. The warning bells to block the road could only be heard three blocks away. The neighborhoods behind the blockade were strictly guarded.

The whole process is about what happens when the woman walks into the movie theater, and the woman's shooting signals the beginning and end of the action.

The instructor of the Kassel College's special mission quickly walked into the cinema. The silver Beretta he held in his hand was neatly unloaded. He passed directly by the woman in the aisle and put the gun against the scene. The young man next to him who was shot in the cheek looked closely at the details of the man's face.

"It is confirmed that he is a fugitive of mixed race. He is basically the same as the suspect captured in the surveillance video." Ten seconds later, the instructor held down the headset and said coldly, "The operation was successful. We will immediately begin to collect the body and clean up the irrelevant personnel at the scene."

Just as the other three spectators in the movie were about to say something, the modern girl holding a pistol immediately opened fire. Three bullets accurately hit the chests of the three spectators. As the blood began to bloom, the three of them fell to the ground.

"Take them to the psychology department and follow the normal procedures," the instructor said.

The uncle in beach clothes led a few people into the aisle, carried a few spectators who had been hit by Frigga's bullets and fell into coma, and walked out, while everyone else pointed their guns at the chairs and looked up. man against the ceiling.

"Are you sure it's him?" The woman who started everything and ended everything couldn't help but say. Even if she shot the man, she couldn't help but look at him a few more times. It seemed that the man would wake up from his deep sleep immediately. come over.

"It's definitely him. The Enforcement Department has recorded an 'A' class mixed-race fugitive. He is related to dozens of mysterious power cases. He especially likes to commit crimes in movie theaters. In the past six months, the Enforcement Department has been chasing him in big cities, but nothing happened. Harvest, there was intelligence recently that he appeared in the town of Carmel, and now it seems that the intelligence is true, we have caught him." The instructor said coldly, looking at the sleeping young man in front of him, with the contact lenses on his pupils. The real-time images uploaded in the mobile phone are compared with Norma's far away at the headquarters.

"Is it that simple?" The woman raised her eyebrows and couldn't help but look at the man one more time.

"Mandy Gonzalez, you are indeed an excellent intern. I guess no one I have ever taken as an intern is better than you as a lurker and undercover agent. You played your role perfectly, and it is you who It was her acting skills that allowed us to complete this operation so smoothly."

The instructor raised his finger and turned it around. Immediately, three specialists came over carrying a box. After injecting a powerful sedative into the sleeping young man's neck, they wrapped him tightly with handcuffs and a straitjacket. Then he was carried on a stretcher and walked outside the cinema. There was already a collection vehicle embedded with steel plates waiting at the door.

"Thank you for the compliment." Mandy put down the gun and scratched her curly blond hair, "It just feels too easy. I had to fight to the death to complete the last mission."

"Not every task is that difficult." The instructor put away the Beretta, turned to look at Mandy high up and nodded.

"I hope so." Mandy finally relaxed her tense tone and slumped down in her seat.

All the gun specialists escorted the prisoner to the custody vehicle, and now only Mandy and the instructor were left in the theater.

"Even though he was an 'A' grade hybrid, he was just one person. We were the whole team. He never dreamed that we would clear out the entire block and replace it with our people. He stepped in from the beginning This neighborhood has fallen into our trap since then, and what we are doing next is just to minimize the difficulty and loss of arrest." The instructor ejected the bullet from the Beretta and put it back into the magazine.

"Damn it, I thought it was going to be another tough battle today, but I didn't expect him to lose his car so easily. It's such an embarrassment to an 'A' class hybrid!" Mandy sat on the chair and brushed her chest. He couldn't help but curse.

"It seems that letting you fulfill the role of special agent is the right choice. No wonder the 'S' class praised you for your calmness and decisiveness in actual combat in the last mission report." The instructor looked at Mandy and nodded with satisfaction. "I will give you full marks for your internship. When you return to school, your credits will probably be enough to graduate, right? Are you interested in continuing to work in the execution department?"

"No, no, I just performed better on the spot." Mandy immediately put on a bitter face.

Before going to the small town of Carmel to perform the mission, she never imagined that she would be fooled by her past performance. Originally, she thought that the execution department would only assign a logistics task to her, a senior intern, but she did not expect that Being so valued, he was thrown into the most dangerous secret service position in the mission!

Fortunately, the dangerous hybrid this time was a pig. She pretended to be sleeping there and was waiting to attack whom. She stood up and fired three bullets at him, ending the mission.

"Don't think so much. Afterwards, the torture department will ask him to tell you exactly what crime he committed. The more serious his crime, the better your evaluation will be. You are the biggest contributor this time." When the instructor passed by Mandy, he smiled and patted her on the shoulder, "Sit down for a while and calm down before you come out. It's normal to be a little nervous. After all, you have been in such a small space with a dangerous hybrid for a long time, and you have psychological pressure. That’s understandable.”

After saying that, the instructor left the theater, leaving Mandy sitting alone. The hall was filled with the footsteps of the commissioners and the sound of guns repelling bullets.

Mandy sat in her position for a while, scratched her blond hair that was specially permed into wavy curls, and stood up to leave.

When she walked to the aisle, she turned to take another look at the curtain. The movie above was still playing, still showing the scene of a convertible, the backs of men and women, and the blue sky in the wilderness.

This scene has been playing for at least a few minutes, and the movie has not progressed at all! Was this the entire scene for the past hour?

"If you think about it, this movie is really scary." Mandy muttered and prepared to leave.

But at this time, a song suddenly sounded in the theater. Mandy paused for a moment and looked back at the curtain strangely. She saw that the man and woman in the convertible started to make new movements for the first time, no longer carrying their backs. To the audience.

"The weather is great today!"

In the convertible, the woman with golden waves lying on her back suddenly raised her hands, stretched her body, and spoke, and English lines appeared under the curtain.

After driving for such a long time, your first line is to say that the weather is great? Are the director and screenwriter out of their minds? No wonder this kind of movie can only be shown in small cinemas like this.

Mandy rolled her eyes, but inexplicably she felt that this woman's voice was familiar. She didn't know where she had heard it before. This made her stand for a while longer, looking at the movie with her hands folded and wondering how long they had been running. The car will reach the small town in the distance.

There’s a small town story in the movie’s title, so it must take place in a small town, right? The acting in this movie is usually outrageous before reaching the small town.

"Commissioner Gonzalez, prepare to retreat. The police are taking over the scene." The instructor shouted from outside the theater.

"Coming, coming!" Mandy shouted.

But at this moment, she suddenly stopped.

Because the moment she spoke, she suddenly remembered why the blonde woman's voice in the movie was so familiar.

That's her own voice

People are often not so sensitive to their own voices, just like when a woman in the movie spoke, Mandy didn't recognize her right away.

It was at this time that the scene in the movie finally jumped.

Mandy slowly turned back and took another look. Her pupils suddenly dilated, her adrenaline surged, and she had the reaction she should have when watching a thriller.

Because it was at this glance that I was completely convinced that this movie was just as it was introduced, a thriller.

In the red convertible in the movie, the woman with wavy blond hair raised her hands to cover the sun, looked up at the direction of the camera and smiled.

Under the camera, the face shown on the curtain was exactly the same as Mandy's.

The face was looking at the camera, smiling, looking at Mandy herself, smiling.

"We're about to reach a small town!" she said, pointing in the distance, and Mandy, who was feeling cold all over in the theater, saw that the place pointed by the other person was not a small town, but herself standing in front of her seat. .

ps①: Two in one.

ps②: I went to Chun Coffee today, which is why I updated so late.