Trembling At A High Altitude

Guo's mother's face was steel-blue, and she did not make any sounds again, having fallen for the trap set by the script this time. She had confused the concepts of 'ghost acting' and 'being a ghost,' not realizing that their crew was not directly acting but performing as another crew filming a ghost film, a play within a play, leading her into the maze!

But wasn't Li Teng's luck just too good?

He actually drew the only real Ghost Sign!

It's so unfair! Why?

It was she who drew first, and she had the chance to draw three times, yet she did not draw "You are the ghost."

Li Teng was the last to draw, which in fact wasn't a draw, but a pick of the only sign left by everyone else, and yet it turned out to be a winning pick!

Not only that, but he also made her draw a fake ghost sign "You play the ghost," making her believe she was the only ghost among the eight people.

If it weren't for this misunderstanding, she wouldn't have voluntarily revealed her sign, thus attracting a real ghost!

At least her mortality rate wouldn't have been one hundred percent.

...

Sunglasses Woman rebuked Li Teng for a long time. After Li Teng explained, Sunglasses Woman realized she really had no ground to stand on.

Li Teng had never said he lost to the Old Witch or that he would be made into a wax statue or anything like that; all of this was their imagination, their misunderstanding.

As a result, they falsely garnered her sympathy and that roast chicken.

Unable to do otherwise, she just had to let go of Li Teng.

It wasn't that she let go of Li Teng, but Li Teng was the one who first freed her hand that was preparing to pull his ear.

"We won! Grandmother was right, if one has continuous bad luck for a while, the god of luck is about to arrive, believe that the heavens are fair," Gao Fei came over to congratulate Li Teng.

The grandmother he mentioned referred to that elegant old lady who had been turned into a wax statue.

"It indeed was luck this time, the last sign, to be the real Ghost Sign," Li Teng nodded.

The first performance, his luck had been terribly bad, running into his enemy Guo Zhipeng, and encountering such misfortunes as being hit by a car.

This second performance, finally, his luck turned.

The last draw, still resulting in a top pick.

...

Shooting of the scene for "Death Crew" officially ended tonight.

After the shooting ended, the actors would have a post-performance discussion for some time.

The first time Li Teng filmed, the post-performance discussion consisted of six parts.

If there are no pure newcomers in the crew, then it's only five parts now.

The first part is a performance summary, a ten-minute period where actors can freely speak, discuss, and summarize the performance, with the film director also participating in it.

The messy arguments earlier conveniently used up these ten minutes, so the first part is skipped, moving directly to the second part.

Actors who died in this scene would be made into wax statues.

The person selected... was of course Guo's mother.

The whole process wasn't much different from the previous scene where Guo Zhipeng was encased in wax, so there wasn't much to say about it.

The third part was the distribution of points, announcing the number of points each person received in this scene.

Extras who did not receive a lunch box all got ten points.

Pretty Boy and Sunglasses Woman, being a level higher, received twice the reward, which was twenty points.

The fourth part was a Q&A session, with only extras level and bit-part level present, so the two bit-parts, Pretty Boy and Sunglasses Woman, took turns answering questions from others.

The order was still the seating order.

"Earlier, you mentioned something about the guild to me, could you explain what the Actors' Guild is all about?" Glasses Man asked Pretty Boy with a sycophantic face, obviously a question the two had agreed upon in advance.

This was a long question and could help Pretty Boy earn a few more points.

The director very much approved of this question, having assigned it a reward of three points in advance.

"The Actors' Guild is an organization allowed to be established by the official permission of Film and Television City."

"Only bit-part level and higher actors have the qualifications to establish an Actors' Guild."

"Establishing an Actors' Guild requires spending five thousand points."

Pretty Boy started explaining.

"Five thousand points? The person who established the guild must be crazy; wouldn't it be better to just use those five thousand points to lower the column to the ground?" the female office worker couldn't help but interject.

"Not everyone wants to go back," Pretty Boy shook his head.

"Don't want to go back? Like staying here? Are they out of their minds?" the female office worker muttered quietly a few more times.

"You'll understand later; you won't get it if I explain it now. Establishing an Actors' Guild requires spending five thousand points, these five thousand points don't have to be provided by the president alone but can be jointly funded by multiple actors, becoming shareholders of the guild, with debts recorded on the guild's books, to be slowly repaid by the guild's income," Pretty Boy continued.

"Joining a guild isn't such an easy matter; generally, you need someone to introduce you. After joining, you need to pay a guild fee, generally charged according to actor level. Each extra has to pay two points per performance to the guild; the fee doubles for the next higher level, basically about twenty percent of each performance's reward," Pretty Boy continued explaining.

PS: The next two chapters are background explanatory texts; those not interested can skip ahead and directly read Chapter 47.