Chapter 25 3. Murder Movie

The Yucun family was incited by the eloquent Niu Yuan, and they were full of anticipation and ready to watch the movie. "This room can't broadcast. I have a special broadcast room in the basement. Although it sounds a little scary, it's actually nothing. It's dark no matter day or night. It's perfect as a broadcast room. The camera equipment is all set up. And the screen is hanging directly on the basement wall." Hearing that in the basement, everyone was even more curious.The appetites of the young brothers and sisters were instantly lifted, as if they were about to peep into another different world.

Under Niu Yuan's guidance, everyone walked into an empty room next to the guest room.After opening the cabinet, the bottom plate is movable and can be lifted up, and the stairs leading to the basement are below. "I always think it's weird." Yucun laughed. "Is there a feeling of madness? Maybe this house used to live with gamblers." Niu Yuan replied as if joking, and strode down the stairs.Seeing the master's composure, everyone couldn't suspect any conspiracy, even though they were a little nervous, so they followed him and filed down. When I came to the basement, I saw a solid iron door at the end of the steps. The outside was full of bricks. I don't know what it was used for.

In the basement of about six tatami mats, red bricks are used as far as the eye can see. The ceiling, floor and walls are all made of old-fashioned red bricks.One of the walls is covered with a white curtain, which is used to show movies, and the projection equipment and simple tables and chairs are piled up in a mess. Niu Yuan placed the machine on a table like a small tea table and prepared to show it.When everything is ready, everyone is invited to sit down. "Okay, start playing now." As the words fell, he snapped off the light. Immediately, the surroundings were plunged into pitch-black darkness, and the sound of "cracker la la la" came from the air, which was the sound of the playing equipment rotating.On the front screen, the blurry picture flickered slightly.

If you look closely, the background is Ushihara's house.Every corner of Niu Yuan's house has been subtly photographed, and in front of the background, some unfamiliar characters appear one after another, and a peculiar story unfolds. The layman's shooting technology is obviously too immature, and the image is not clear, but it has a strange and miserable atmosphere, which makes the viewers feel like a nightmare in their hearts. The film has neither a soundtrack nor a narration, and the picture is silent.The only sound is when the projector handle is turned.The characters laughing silently, crying silently, talking silently, it is a mime.

The background is the current mansion, but the story seems to take place in the early Meiji period.The hairstyles and costumes of the characters are reminiscent of old Nishiki-e. A beautiful woman with a bun came out of the screen.She is the concubine of the male protagonist in the film, and there are several scenes of the two flirting on the screen.The woman had a childhood sweetheart who sneaked into the house while the man was away.Several scenes of fornication between the two are subtly filmed in the movie. Finally, the master discovered the secret of his concubine, and the man on the screen was furious and heartbroken.The pained, annoyed and sad expression implied that he loved that woman from the bottom of his heart.

But the owner pretended to be ignorant on the surface, and deliberately approached his lover through relationships.The owner is about forty years old, and the lover is five or six years younger than him.Both have wives and children, and both seem to be living happily ever after. A treacherous smile that conceals hatred, and an uneasy expression that cannot see through the other party's true meaning appear alternately on the screen.The woman is still in contact with her lover in secret, but the male owner bought a mansion at the same time, and ordered someone to dig a basement under the house, where everyone is watching a movie at the moment.

From this point on, a terrifying illusion is created in the audience's mind, and the movie and reality are superimposed on each other inconceivably. In the picture, the construction of the basement is almost completed, and there is only a red brick wall that is less than half a square meter in size. For some reason, the owner ordered the workers to finish the project and asked them to leave the construction site immediately. After all the workers had left, the owner himself picked up the shovel and dug the unfinished wall, digging out a mud hole in the blink of an eye.The rare basement in the Meiji period, the red bricks from foreign countries, and the long-haired man who kept digging a mud cave for no known purpose, what an unbelievable sight.

Soon, a cave for only one person was completed. The man stared blankly at the cave, with a sinister smile on his face. He walked out of the basement, put on clean clothes, sat in the living room and waited quietly.The living room was where the moviegoers had their meals.Although there was no western-style furniture, only cushions and ashtrays, it was clearly the same place. At this time, probably by prior appointment, my lover came to visit.The food and wine are served in front of the host and guest in sequence.The format is different, but it is indeed the same dinner as tonight. "Ah, after the meal, he will definitely lead the guests to the basement, just like when Niu Yuan brought us here just now."

What everyone expected was right.After a while, the master got up and took his hated lover to the next room, then opened the same cupboard, lifted the same baseboard, and walked down the same stairs leading to the basement.The on-screen action proceeds in the order of what just happened.Is this deliberate or accidental?Wouldn't it be suspicious of such a coincidence? The indoor scene was probably assisted by a professional lighting engineer, and even the contrast between light and dark was shot very cleverly. Both the host and the guest were drunk and staggered.The host laughed out loud with ill intentions, and the unaware guests also laughed.A close-up of two drunk men appeared on the screen.

The host pointed to the newly dug hole, and the guest mistook it for a passage, walked in, staggered and fell down. Hahaha, wahhaha.On the screen, the face of the lover who fell to the mud appeared. Instantly, the host's expression changed. In fact, he was not drunk at all.He stood up, quickly picked up the red bricks on the side, grabbed the trowel, scooped up the plaster, and started laying bricks to fill the holes in the wall. Inside the wall, the drunk was still giggling in a daze.He stared blankly at the brick wall in front of him, and the red brick wall was being piled up at lightning speed.

The scene of building brick walls lasted for a while, and this terrible work was about to be completed, and only five or six red bricks were left to seal the wall. "Ahaha, genius, what a ridiculous prank. It's a brilliant idea, thanks to you." The camera zoomed in very close and made a close-up of the wall hole, and the scene of the lover falling into the hole with a smile without knowing it clearly appeared in the audience's mind. The hostess outside the hole in the wall finally laid the last red brick.He brushed the dust off his body and sneered at the wall.Then he walked out of the basement, closed the iron door, walked up the stairs with light steps, returned to the living room, picked up the wine bottle on the table and gulped down a big gulp of wine, then stuck out his tongue and licked around his lips, showing a ferocious expression. Another erratic smirk.The camera pans back to the hole in the basement wall again.Under the tightly sealed wall hole, in the dark earth hole, the drunken and delirious lover didn't realize that the rest of his life would be buried here, and kept laughing, but the laughter was chilling. to the bottom of my heart. At this point, the picture suddenly disappears, and the darkness lasts for a while, implying the passage of time in the movie.When the picture was turned on again, it was a close-up of the brick wall in front of the hole again, and the scene of hell in the hole appeared again. The laughter had stopped, and the drunken man was completely awake. There was only fear in his bulging eyeballs. He seemed to be shouting something, his mouth was wide open, and his dying fingers were scratching at random in the void. what.He suddenly realized that the woman's husband was well aware of his filth and devised a vicious revenge plan.He understood that this was a living burial ceremony, and no matter how he roared and struggled, he would never be able to get out.The plaster had long since dried up, and it was beating and struggling inside, but the thick red brick wall remained motionless. Knowing that it was futile, he struggled hard, as if dancing an unbearable mad dance of death.He was like a mouse caught in the net, desperately grabbing the wall and pushing against it out of control. After the camera once again gave a close-up of the rare expression of fear in the world, the picture slowly and slowly turned dark... The frightening movie finally came to an end.It was still dark in the basement, and the viewers were too shocked to open their mouths.There was a dead silence for a few seconds.Soon, Niu Yuan's extremely arrogant voice sounded: "Mr. Tamamura, do you understand the meaning of this movie?" A terrifying premonition welled up in his heart, and Yucun trembled all over, and he didn't even have the strength to answer. "Don't understand? Then let me tell you. Fifty years ago, the tragic man who was sealed in the wall of this basement in the picture was none other than my father. And it was your father who carried out this tragic revenge plan at that time." Koemon. Maybe you don’t know it at all, but you have at least heard that Genjiro Okumura abandoned his adulterous concubine, and then his concubine’s whereabouts are unknown? Everyone believes that Genjiro committed an unforgivable crime. He disappeared on his own, and no one expected him to become a victim of the terrorist revenge. Only one person knew the truth, and he worked hard to find out the secret of the basement. Not only found the body of Genjiro, but also found Genjiro's engraved The last words on the red brick. After that, he decided to devote his life to revenge. You don’t need to say who that person is. That’s Genjiro’s only son, Genzo Okumura, and that’s me!” In the darkness, the sound suddenly disappeared. "Mr. Ushihara, there should be a limit to joking, and you can't go too far when you mess around. You are trying to scare us, so let's make it a joke afterwards. Hahaha, I don't like that." With a trembling voice, Yucun desperately denied it. How could he believe what Niu Yuan said? "You said I was joking?" A ghostly voice came from the darkness, "You know very well that this is not a joke. When you looked at that diamond just now, you were already suspicious—could it be that the person in front of you is A demon called a magician? Yes, if I am the one who killed Tokujiro, of course there will be that diamond. I have dedicated half my life to the cause of vengeance, and my life is only to fulfill the last wish of my late father. Tonight , My goal has finally been achieved. The time to eliminate the Yucun family has come! Mr. Yucun, can you understand my feelings? I am so happy that I am going crazy!" "I don't know anything, and my children have nothing to do with this matter. There is no reason for the hatred of the father's generation to be endured by future generations. You have lost your mind and are completely crazy. We have nothing to do with your revenge. How can you come Torture us?" Yucun protested desperately. "Do you want to know the reason? Then go and check the red brick wall behind the curtain, so that you can fully understand the reason why I am so cruel." As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Yuanzao's footsteps running away, and then he slammed the iron door, and the devil's laughter outside the iron door made people shudder. Ichiro and Erlang rushed towards the door in the dark, eager to pry open the iron door.But the brute force of the two of them alone can't do anything to the solid iron plate. They found the light switch on the wall, but the demon had already cut the power. "No, Dad, we're locked up." "Father, brother, where are you? I'm afraid." "Cheer up, don't be discouraged. Don't be depressed, it's not time to despair." Father, son, brother and sister encouraged each other in the dark. At the same time, outside the iron gate, the devil started the exact same project as Yumon Tamura fifty years ago.The sound of "dong dong" must be the sound of building walls, and the red bricks piled up at the basement door presumably were prepared for this. "It's too dark to do anything. Got any matches?" Hearing Tamamura's question, Ichiro immediately lit the lighter he was carrying. The weak flame ignited the crimson of the red brick basement, and this sea of ​​red flames was even more terrifying than when you couldn't see your fingers. They understand that no matter how impatient they are, they won't be able to get out for a while.As a matter of urgency, we must first look at the wall that Genzo Okumura mentioned before leaving.Perhaps digging out the soil in it can escape smoothly. Thinking of this, Yucun stepped towards the wall with the faint light of fire in Ichiro's hand, and pulled down the hanging curtain. On the red brick wall behind, a lot of plaster had peeled off, and the bricks on the wall were easily removed. So the three men worked together to take down the bricks.As the bricks were taken down one by one, a dark cave leading to the entrance to hell grew bigger. After a while, a two-foot-wide hole appeared in front of my eyes. "Borrow the lighter, I'll take a look." Yucun took Ichiro's lighter and held it up high, and stretched his probe into the dark cave. Seeing this, he couldn't help screaming, and hurriedly retracted his head.His face was full of fear, probably because he was greatly frightened, his pale face was covered with beads of sweat, the three children had never seen such a frightened expression on their father's face. Ichiro and Erlang were taken aback by their father, and couldn't help but take several steps back. Taeko was so frightened that she let out a piercing scream.