Chapter 831 Distortion
"Oh, it's great!"
At the end of the performance, the director came to Duanmu Ai excitedly and praised her performance.
"In my opinion, you have perfectly restored the angel in history!"
"Really?"
"Of course."
The director nodded vigorously.
"There have been too many dramas and movies praising the angel over the years, but I think they have gone in the wrong direction. Except for the first documentary, which is more or less restored, other works have focused too much on describing the kindness of the angel. I am not saying that it is wrong to do so, but showing this side too much, doesn't it mean that we humans are as weak as babies who need their mothers to take care of us?"
Speaking of this, the director spread his hands helplessly.
"I have also read many memoirs written by people who fought with the angel, and even interviewed several of them. According to them, the angel is not the kind of saint who will help you up hand in hand. She will look at you and ask you to make a choice. Whether you are willing to stand up is your own business. If you are unwilling to persist, then she will abandon you, but in my opinion, this is not cold-blooded, but an act of respecting human autonomy by the angel. She can light a torch, but whether to really muster up the courage to leave the darkness and return to the light depends on us humans ourselves!"
"…………………………"
Thank you for saying so much, but in fact, I just thought those guys were annoying at the time.
Duanmu Ai silently rolled her eyes in her heart. It was not as great as the director said. It was simply because she had too many things to do at that time. There were so many cyber lunatics to kill and so many electronic demons to fight. How could she have time to be a caring mother? Of course, if you were a beautiful girl, I might have some patience. I don't care about you as a grown man. You can think whatever you want. Whether you live or die is your own problem. It has nothing to do with me... I am not your mother.
However, this can be interpreted... Hey, all the over-interpretations in the world probably come from this.
If you think about it carefully, it is also true. Whether it is reading tips, ancient Chinese experience, or memoirs of great men, the person has been dead for hundreds of years. How can you know what the other person is thinking when you edit textbooks?
Are you the roundworm in his stomach?
Duanmu Ai had seen a lot of similar things before. The most adapted work based on her deeds is a memoir called "Three Sisters and Angels". In short, the plot is similar to this stage play. Duanmu Ai killed a deserted city at that time, killed the cyber madman and electronic demon inside, and then rescued three little girls, and then brought them up. The three little girls were also very competitive and became the leaders under Duanmu Ai.
Basically, when this memoir comes out, it will say that the angel saw the courage and faith of mankind in the three sisters.
In fact, it's all bullshit. Why did Duanmu Ai bring them?
The reason is very simple. They are cute and obedient.
If you change to three female ghosts, she won't bother to care. If it's three men, she will just throw it to others to deal with.
So, human history is full of over-interpretation... Not everyone is like Sima Qian.
Like what Duanmu Ai said to the heroine just now, the translation actually means "I have nothing to do with your love or death". God knows where the director came up with this.
But it doesn't matter. I can act however I want. It has nothing to do with me. What you think is your business, and it has nothing to do with me.
For Duanmu Ai, this is not difficult. After all, it is just a role that is less than ten minutes on stage. However, for other actors, it seems that the situation is not so simple.
"It's amazing!"
After the rehearsal, Li Shi found Duanmu Ai and looked at her with admiration.
"Really?"
"Of course, everyone said that they didn't expect you to be so amazing, so the pressure is on them instead."
"Amazing? I think you are better at acting, after all, I haven't learned any acting."
"That's not the case."
Kujikawa Li Shi shook her head.
"The teacher said that the essence of acting skills is to show the temperament of the character. As long as people can feel that sense of existence, it is a successful performance. From this point of view, the angel you play has been completely completed, but we are still in the middle of imitating the character with our acting skills..."
This is also natural, after all, I play myself.
"But now everyone is relieved. When I first heard the director say that, even I was worried about whether Miss Duanmu could play this role well. Now it seems that we have to work hard, otherwise you will steal the limelight!"
"Well... then you should do your best."
What else can Duanmu Ai say about this? That's all he can say.
Just when Duanmu Ai and others were rehearsing smoothly, things were not going well for the Phantom Thieves.
"————!"
Amamiya Lian suddenly opened her eyes, pulled back the quilt, gasped for breath, and was covered in cold sweat.
"What on earth... is that?"
Ren Amamiya stretched out her hand, pressed her forehead, and gritted her teeth. Ever since he entered that strange place that day, he had been having nightmares. Sometimes Amamiya Ren would dream that she was in class, and then she just wandered off for a while, and when she looked back, she saw that all the classmates around her had turned into corpses.
Or when I was walking on the road, the asphalt road under my feet suddenly turned into a road made of corpses, and the buildings next to it turned into strange and terrifying existences composed of bones and flesh.
These dreams were so real that Ren Amamiya would wake up from nightmares every day during this period and was mentally exhausted.
He thought it was his reaction to seeing that weird world, but...it seemed like the situation was different?
Anyway, let's go to school.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Ren Amamiya picked up his schoolbag and walked out of the coffee shop, heading towards the school.
He was also groggy along the way. The noise of the students around him was like a chainsaw, which overwhelmed Ren Amamiya's brain. He always felt that among these noisy conversations, a weak voice was calling him. name, but when he turned his head and looked around, everything was normal... Huh?
When he walked to the school gate, when Ren Amamiya raised his head again, he was suddenly shocked - what he saw in front of him was not the school he was familiar with, but the dilapidated ruins!
Dense white bones formed the floor, and countless corpses condensed into a wall of flesh and blood. The corpses condensed together were raising their heads at this moment, and the black holes with no eyeballs stared at him - ——!
"————!"
Ren Amamiya subconsciously took a step back. When he came to his senses and looked forward again, he saw that the strange and terrifying world had turned back into a familiar school.
What was that just now?
Is it just an illusion?
Retracting his thoughts, Ren Amamiya shook his head and walked into the school.
However, as soon as he opened the door to the class, he heard the roar from Sakamoto Ryuji.
"What did you say?!"
Hearing this voice, Amamiya Ren was startled. He looked up and saw Sakamoto Ryuji clenching his fists and roaring at Takamaki Anzu.
"I said, it's almost time for you to graduate from childish games! What's the point of getting angry with others like this every day!"
Takamaki Anzu obviously didn't care about Sakamoto Ryuuji's anger, and just stared at him angrily.
"You have to take care of others just chatting in class. Do you want to take care of everything now?"
"I just don't want to hear them say bad things about the Phantom Thieves!"
"What other people think is their business. You don't even let others say anything. What's the difference between this and Kamoshida?"
"What did you say!!"
Hearing Takamaki's words, Sakamoto Ryuji's eyes suddenly turned red. He stretched out his hand, grabbed Takamaki's neck, and lifted her up.
"Say it again! I'm not that bastard!"
“Woo——Ah………………!!”
Takamaki Anzu obviously did not expect that Sakamoto Ryuji would actually attack her, and she struggled desperately for a while. Others were also stunned by this scene and did not know what to say.
"Hey, Ryuuji!"
Fortunately, Ren Amamiya didn't stay still. When he saw this scene, he rushed over and held Sakamoto Ryuuji's hand. And Sakamoto Ryuji also turned his head and glared at him fiercely.
"What are you going to do? Do you want me to kill you too?!"
At this time, Sakamoto Ryuji seemed to have gone crazy, his eyes were red and his face was ferocious. Seeing this scene, Ren Amamiya was also shocked. Then he gritted his teeth and punched Sakamoto Ryuji in the face!
"boom!"
Ryuuji Sakamoto was knocked to the ground by Ren Amamiya, and Anzu Takamaki also fell to the ground at this time.
"Are you OK?"
"Ahem, cough...it's okay."
Facing Ren Amamiya's question, Takamaki coughed a few times, stretched out her hand to touch her neck, and looked at Ryuji Sakamoto with a look of disbelief on his face.
"What happened to him?"
"I……………"
At this moment, Sakamoto Ryuji also came back to his senses. He looked at Anzu Takamaki sitting on the ground in surprise, dumbfounded.
At this moment, others also reacted.
"Go and call the teacher!"
Needless to say what happened next.
The school criticized Sakamoto Ryuji a lot and suspended him from school. This was not surprising. After all, he almost killed someone in public in the class. It was good that he didn't drop out of school directly.
"Feel sorry……………"
After school, Ren Amamiya found Ryuji Sakamoto, who also looked disappointed.
"What's wrong with you? Although I know you have a bad temper, I won't do it directly?"
"I...I don't know either."
Faced with Ren Amamiya's inquiry, Sakamoto Ryuuji shook his head in confusion.
“During this period, I haven’t been sleeping well, and I always feel like someone is talking in my ear. I look for it but can’t find it. I feel like I’m getting more and more irritable... Could I be sick? "
"I don't think so, because I feel the same way."
"Huh? Does this happen to you too?"
"That's right, and sometimes I get dazzled when I look at things, as if those things are not what they are originally..."
"Ah, I've encountered it too!"
Hearing Ren Amamiya's words, Sakamoto Ryuuji also slapped his thigh hard.
"I went to eat ramen once before, and when the boss brought it to me, I saw that the ramen was actually filled with internal organs and blood clots! I was so disgusted that I vomited on the spot, and was kicked out by the boss. But I turned around and asked again. Look, that bowl of noodles is normal, I thought I was abnormal."
"…………"
Hearing this, Ren Amamiya was silent for a moment.
"All of this happened after we came out of that world."
"Are you saying there's something wrong with that world?"
At this moment, Sakamoto Ryuji also looked serious.
"I'm not sure. We should ask Yusuke. Since we have all encountered problems, he should also have encountered them..."
While talking, Ren Amamiya dialed Kitagawa Yusuke's number, but no one answered.
"what happened?"
Hearing the "beep" sound from the other end of the phone, both of them felt uneasy. Soon, Ren Amamiya made a decision.
"Go directly to him."
After Madarame's incident, Kitagawa lived in the school dormitory, but when the two arrived at the dormitory, they were told that he had moved to an apartment outside.
But when the two came to the apartment...
"That guy will live here?"
Looking at the dilapidated apartment in front of them, Ren Amamiya and Ryuji Sakamoto were both stunned. At this moment, a resident came out, and Ren Amamiya hurriedly stepped forward to ask.
"Sorry, is there a person named Kitagawa Yusuke living here?"
"You are………"
"We are his friends."
"That's it."
After carefully looking at Ren Amamiya and Ryuji Sakamoto, the resident nodded.
"You are talking about that handsome young man, right? Well, he does live here, but he doesn't go out often. Having said that, you should also remind him that he is a grown man and his house stinks. We live upstairs. I can smell the stench all the way down..."
"???"
Hearing the resident's complaints, the two looked at each other in confusion, but they still thanked the resident and entered the apartment.
"Is that guy a slob?"
As they walked up the stairs, Sakamoto Ryuuji asked doubtfully, while Amamiya Ren shook his head.
"I don't know, I just remember..."
While talking, the two came to the door of the apartment rented by Kitagawa Yusuke, and then Ren Amamiya stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
"Yusuke, are you there?"
"…………"
No one answered.
"Speaking of which, this place really stinks..."
Sakamoto Ryuji covered his nose and waved his hand. As he said, just standing outside the door, you could smell a strong stench coming from inside. Ren Amamiya also frowned, then stretched out his hand and put it on the doorknob - then, the door opened with a sound.
"He didn't even lock the door?"
"Let's go in and take a look."
The two looked at each other and then walked into the room.
The entire apartment was dark, and all the windows were covered with newspapers. Only a faint light penetrated through the gaps, illuminating the dim apartment in front of him. Ren Amamiya tried to turn on the light, but it didn't light up.
"Hey, Yusuke!"
Sakamoto Ryuji shouted loudly, but no one answered, only dead silence.
Isn't he at home?
The two of them walked into the room cautiously and headed inside. There are canvases everywhere on the surrounding walls. This is not surprising, but what makes people feel weird is the paintings on these canvases. On the pure white canvas, all kinds of weird and turbid colors are mixed together to form completely incomprehensible patterns. Just walking among them, it seems that the world around you has gone crazy. Just looking at these paintings makes you feel... It feels like everything is on the verge of collapse...
"Squeak."
Walking to the door of the bedroom, Ren Amamiya opened the door, and then they saw Yusuke Kitagawa sitting in front of the canvas with his back to them, holding a paintbrush in his hand.
"Huh, you're at home, why don't you answer the phone?"
Seeing Kitagawa Yusuke's back, Sakamoto Ryuji breathed a sigh of relief, but Kitagawa Yusuke just turned his back to them and said nothing.
"Hello? Yusuke, are you okay? Listen to me. Lian and I encountered some strange things after that day... How is your situation?"
"I am fine."
Kitagawa Yusuke finally spoke now.
“In fact, I’m better than I’ve ever been because I finally understand my calling.”
"……………mission?"
"That's right."
Kitagawa Yusuke nodded.
"This world will be destroyed, this world will eventually be destroyed, and we will also be destroyed, yes, this is everything. No matter how hard we struggle, it is useless, because this is the truth of this world! Destruction, destruction, destruction haha Hahahaha! Yes, everything will perish, nothing will be left!"
"………………"
Seeing Kitagawa Yusuke laughing crazily, Amamiya Ren and Sakamoto Ryuji felt chilled. Sakamoto Ryuji stepped forward, pressed Kitagawa Yusuke's shoulders, and turned him around.
"Hey, what's wrong with you? Listen to me... dig!!!"
However, before Sakamoto Ryuji finished speaking, he screamed, and Amamiya Ren also widened his eyes in surprise, looking at Kitagawa Yusuke in disbelief. Kitagawa Yusuke in front of them had completely lost his eyes, leaving only the bloody, black eye sockets staring at them.
"It's useless! Everything will perish, and we will perish too!"
After saying this, Kitagawa Yusuke suddenly reached out, grabbed the paintbrush, and then poked his eye sockets hard!
"Puff!"
The two hard paintbrushes pierced into Kitagawa Yusuke's eye sockets, and then he dropped his hands, fell on the chair, and turned into a corpse.
Seeing this scene, both of them were stunned.
"What the hell is going on!!"