Trembling At A High Altitude

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The young girl was a bit scared and hurriedly moved closer to the body of the white-collar woman.

The white-collar woman put her arm around the girl's waist, and also looked around with a slightly panicked expression.

Although there were quite a few fellow travelers, among these travelers was a ghost!

"Hahahaha…" Guo's mother started laughing loudly when she saw everyone's reactions.

Being a ghost is really exhilarating!

Kill whom you want, torture whom you wish to torture, avenge grudges, and retaliate resentments.

The higher the actor's rank, the more privileges one has, and the easier it is to earn points.

Crushing these rookie extras was simply a piece of cake.

After passing through a small grove, the scenery on both sides of the street became even more desolate.

Finally, they reached the bus stop.

An old bus stop, just like one that had been neglected in the wilderness for a long time.

Rust spots covered the metal bars on the bench under the bus shelter, some of which looked eerily like ancient blood stains.

After reaching the bus stop, the white-collar woman and the girl hugged each other, looking around nervously.

The faces of Glasses Man and Gao Fei also turned somewhat pale.

Li Teng placed the high stool down, sat on it with both hands supporting him, and appeared quite composed.

Pretty Boy, panting heavily, placed down Guo's mother's high stool and then gestured to her with a please-go-ahead hand sign, still catching his breath.

Guo's mother coldly glanced at Li Teng, then turned around and was about to sit on the high stool placed by Pretty Boy with a grandiose and authoritative posture.

Then, a chilling wind blew through.

"Ahhh!!!"

Li Teng seemed to have seen something horrifying, suddenly screamed loudly with a tremendously piercing voice, which sounded extremely loud in the eerily quiet bus station, startling everyone unexpectedly.

The girl and the white-collar woman, spooked by Li Teng's scream though not knowing why, also shrieked together.

Pretty Boy, who was supporting Guo's mother, was so frightened that his whole body shuddered, and his hands involuntarily weakened in their grip.

Just as she was about to sit on the high stool, Guo's mother, caught off guard by Li Teng's scream, unwittingly loosened her grip and her foot slipped. Combined with Pretty Boy also losing his strength, she suddenly fell from the high stool.

Her mouth hit the top of the high stool, instantly breaking her two front teeth, causing Guo's mother to cover her mouth and scream loudly in pain.

Li Teng, watching the scene, burst into loud laughter.

Then, he even took out a few cashews from his pocket that he hadn't finished eating earlier and began snacking on them.

"Ow! Ow!" Guo's mother, helped up by Pretty Boy, screamed and cursed simultaneously.

Gao Fei, Sunglasses Woman, and others, after understanding what happened, all had rich expressions on their faces.

The deliberately created ominous atmosphere on the set vanished in an instant.

As the scene was still being shot and no actors had died or suffered major disabilities, the director would not stop filming to treat injuries prematurely. Guo's mother, with her broken front teeth and in pain, had to endure it for now.

"I protest! Someone has violated the rules by intentionally attacking another person!" Pretty Boy shouted at the drone hovering in the air.

After a moment, Pretty Boy obediently fell silent.

Obviously, the protest was ineffective.

During the performance, it's absolutely forbidden to attack other actors or staff arranged by the production team for non-plot reasons. If such incidents occur, the director would immediately intervene verbally. If the actors do not comply, they would be fined 1000 points and disqualified on the spot.

Just now, Li Teng had not attacked Guo's mother intentionally; he had just screamed in a manner fitting the scene's eerie atmosphere to portray the horror of the film, so there was no intentional attack on others.

Others were also startled, but they were fine, at most shuddering a bit.

Guo's mother, while climbing a high stool, got so scared that she broke her teeth and could only resign herself to bad luck.

Pretty Boy suddenly protested to the director during the filming, essentially questioning the director's authority, and was likely to be warned. If he dared to protest again after that, he would be directly eliminated.

"Playing tricks on me, huh? You've angered me, watch how I torment you later!" Guo's mother cursed and threatened Li Teng, enduring the pain.

"I'm so scared," Li Teng said with a smile on his face, as he continued eating cashews.

"Acting! You'll be crying and begging me later!" Guo's mother was so angry that her teeth itched. At this moment, she also felt more puzzled; had Li Teng moved this high stool over here just so she would break her front teeth? Did he calculate that she would also move a high stool over?

Impossible, right? How could anyone plan something so far-fetched?

"Why does he move stools, shout, and eat cashews without the director stopping him?" Glasses Man grumbled, quietly asking Pretty Boy for an explanation.

"If improvising doesn't affect the key plot and the acting enhances the atmosphere of the film, it's not against the rules, and the director won't stop it," Pretty Boy replied irritably to Glasses Man. He had just protested to cover up his own fright that caused Guo's mother to get hurt.

Glasses Man pondered for a while; he also wanted to improvise within the rules like Li Teng, to play tricks on Li Teng and Gao Fei, but he couldn't figure out how to do so.

Li Teng, that scheming boy, has too high an IQ! He plays tricks so seamlessly that you can't even complain. Such a person is too insidious, too despicable!

Forget it, why think so much? No matter how scheming he is, no matter how deceptive, he is bound to die tonight, and now he's just struggling in vain.

Glasses Man figured that Li Teng was merely using some tricks to tease Guo's mother and save face in front of the film crew. As for the big picture, a person gets killed by a ghost, Li Teng will be killed by Guo's mother, without any suspense.

Thinking this, Glasses Man couldn't help but feel entirely relaxed, his thoughts clear.

Even if he was framed by Li Teng for eating three plates of snacks, it seemed unimportant now.

Being alive is so good!

Who would want to be a wax figure, standing still without moving?

Moreover, up until now, no one knows whether Actors retain conscious awareness after they turn into wax figures.

If the actor still has conscious awareness while in a wax figure state, it would be such a painful ordeal.

To wish for life is futile, to beg for death is impossible!

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After a brief interlude, a bus slowly made its way from the distant street corner.

The old bus even made creaking metallic friction sounds as it drove.

'Bus...'

'Bang!'

With a noise, the bus stopped in front of everyone.

The interior light was very dim, and the driver was a person wearing a black hooded garment, head bowed, face indiscernible. The driver was a staff member of the Film and Television City, and actors were not allowed to talk to the driver or have any other form of interaction unless required by the plot.

The director informed everyone through earphones about the order to board the bus, and everyone boarded one by one as directed.

Li Teng even brought his high stool onto the bus, setting it beside the door.

The director still didn't stop him.

Seeing that Li Teng had brought his stool onto the bus and wasn't stopped, Guo's mother gritted her teeth and had Pretty Boy help her also bring her high stool onto the bus, placing it next to Li Teng's stool.

If you have a Demon-Subduing Stool, so do I. I have a Demon-Exorcising Stool. Who's afraid of whom?

No matter what, she could not lose in terms of momentum.

Everyone was puzzled as to why Li Teng and Guo's mother each brought a high stool onto the bus.

While others might have magical confrontations, were they planning to have a stool duel?

"Why did you bring the stool onto the bus? Does it have a special meaning?" A girl finally couldn't hold back and quietly asked Li Teng after settling in on the bus.

Everyone else perked up their ears to hear Li Teng's answer, as they themselves were too embarrassed to ask.

Guo's mother also listened intently; though she didn't believe Li Teng would seriously answer the question, listening wouldn't hurt.