Trembling At A High Altitude

Hearing what the director said, everyone turned to look at Li Teng.

Things seemed a bit strange, huh?

Li Teng killed Guo's mother?

People can't possibly kill ghosts, right?

Don't you have any idea who the ghost is?

Guo's mother isn't the ghost?

Then who is?

"The roast chicken is a bit on the salty side, I need to go have a cup of coffee," Li Teng said as if he hadn't noticed everyone waiting for him to speak. He stood up and leisurely took his coffee cup to the coffee machine to get a cup of coffee.

The director didn't say anything else and stood there motionless, because she was wearing a mask, nobody knew what expression she had.

Just then, Guo's mother finally came back from around the corner.

Fury written all over her face.

Pretty Boy hurriedly trotted over to meet her.

Just as Pretty Boy was about to ask something, he was pushed away by Guo's mother.

Seeing the director standing in front of the coffee shop, Guo's mother quickened her pace and ran over.

"Director! I protest! Why, when I'm ghost acting, after getting off the last bus, am I still sealed without the ghost's powers? Yet he smashes me to death with a high stool! This seriously violates the rules!" Guo's mother began to loudly protest to the director, her voice trembling the whole time, quite clearly, the scene at the bus stop had left her with a great psychological trauma.

By then she also finally understood why Li Teng wanted to keep a high stool by his side.

It was to crush her to death!

Dammit! And indeed, she had died under his high stool!

"You were ghost acting, but you are not the ghost," the director replied coldly to Guo's mother.

"What do you mean?" Guo's mother was completely puzzled.

The others didn't quite understand either.

But Sunglasses Woman suddenly realized something. She quickly walked over and took Li Teng's two sign holders.

Then she took out the two bamboo slips from Li Teng's sign holders.

Even though Li Teng had shown his slips to everyone before, now that there was a problem, the problem must lie on his slips.

Indeed, everyone had been deceived!

On one of Li Teng's bamboo slips, it read "Your role: Lighting Technician," and on the other, "Get off at the first stop."

This part was indeed correct.

But, beneath "Your role: Lighting Technician," there were three more words.

"You are the ghost."

Sunglasses Woman carefully remembered that when Li Teng revealed his bamboo slips, he had slapped them on the table with a "pop!" But only the upper half of the slip with the words "Your role: Lighting Technician" were showing, and his palm was still covering the three small characters "You are the ghost."

Because the other slips only had characters on the top half, nobody thought there would be additional characters on the bottom half.

So, is there a contradiction between "Your role: Lighting Technician" and "You are the ghost"?

No.

Sunglasses Woman also figured it all out in an instant.

"What's going on? What does it mean that I was ghost acting but not the ghost?" Guo's mother rushed over, grabbed Li Teng's bamboo slips, and after seeing the three small characters under Li Teng's slip, was immensely confused and angry.

The others present were also very puzzled when they saw the bamboo slip.

"It's simple, but a bit complicated to explain. This scenario is different from regular scenarios; it's a play within a play," Sunglasses Woman began to say.

"We eight people were essentially a film crew, but the role we were acting out, the content of this play, was us acting as another film crew! And this crew was filming a ghost film. The members included the lead actor, supporting actors, ghost actors, and also technicians like the lighting operator, photographer, and so on."

"The person acting as the ghost was just another ordinary actor within that crew."

"But the lighting technician was a ghost who had infiltrated that crew! It was also specified on this bamboo strip 'You act as the lighting technician, you are the ghost.' A ghost pretended to be the lighting technician and mixed into that crew, taking on the responsibilities of the lighting technician in that crew, and that ghost was the real ghost."

"It's just that Li Teng did not let us see the lower half of this bamboo strip."

"The director said that among the eight of us, only one was a ghost, but he didn't say there was only one among us acting as a ghost."

"Guo Zhipeng's mother drew 'ghost acting,' but she was not the ghost; she was merely playing an ordinary actor in that crew, an ordinary actor who acted as a ghost."

"Li Teng drew the lighting technician, and in this play we are acting, the lighting technician is the actual ghost within that crew, the ghost who wanted to kill the crew members, so Li Teng is the real ghost."

"One is an actor acting as a ghost, the other is the real ghost posing as a lighting technician."

"This actor acting as a ghost believed she was the ghost, but in reality, she was just an actor. When she took the last bus, she alighted with the lighting technician, unaware that she was actually decamping with the real ghost."

"Although the real ghost's account had no points and couldn't exchange for superpowers, he had a high stool..."

"The actor acting as a ghost had points in her account, she even already possessed superpowers, but because she wasn't a ghost, she couldn't utilize these powers after getting off the bus."

"A ghost without superpowers, and an ordinary actor playing the ghost got into a fight, the ghost without superpowers picked up a high stool and smashed the ordinary actor to death."

"That's pretty much what happened, Li Teng, am I right?"

Sunglasses woman took off her sunglasses, staring down Li Teng.

Even though the filming was taking place in the dead of night, she still habitually wore her sunglasses.

This was the first time she had taken them off in front of everyone.

"Your eyes are beautiful," Li Teng responded, dodging the question.

"Give me back my chicken!" Sunglasses Woman put her sunglasses back on and reached out to grab Li Teng's ear.

"We had an agreement just now! I specifically asked you! 'You're giving me this roast chicken voluntarily, right? It's not like I tricked it out of you! And you're not going to quibble after I eat it, right?' and you said 'Yes, go ahead and eat.' That's why I ate it! Why are you backing out so quickly? Beauty, you should be honest and reasonable, don't you think?" Li Teng caught Sunglasses Woman's wrist as she reached for him.

Glasses Man, who had been enjoying the commotion from the side, really felt like banging his head against the wall when he heard Li Teng say 'you should be honest.'

This guy was actually alive and had wheedled a round of sympathy.

What kind of people are these?

How could someone be so shameless?

How could such a shameless person have the audacity to talk about 'being honest'?

"Really? Then what was all that pretense for when you came here? You're clearly the ghost, you killed someone, so what was that downcast look all about? Who were you performing for?" Sunglasses Woman was relentless. If it weren't for Li Teng's act garnering her sympathy, she wouldn't have bought him that chicken.

"When was I acting? When I was fighting the Old Witch, the cashews that I hadn't finished eating from my pocket spilled everywhere, such a pity. Just thinking about it makes me so heartbroken, truly heartbroken," Li Teng lamented with much sorrow.

"..."

"..."

"Alright, then what about afterwards when you said 'Time is almost up, let's say our farewells.' What did that mean? Were you fishing for our sympathy?" Sunglasses Woman continued to press. She had been on the verge of tears because of his words just now, only to find out she had been deceived!

"The scene was over, time indeed was almost up, everyone goes back to their place—it's wrong to say farewell to you all?" Li Teng looked helpless.

"You also said you were a dying man, that investing in you would be pointless, isn't that just you seeking sympathy?"

"Think back carefully, I never said from the start that I was a dying man, I only said I was someone about to leave. The shoot is over, aren't you leaving too?"

"You..."

"Me..."

"Let go! Stop grabbing my wrist!"

"Stop pulling at me, and I'll let go."

"..."