Trembling At A High Altitude

"This is an additional question." Pretty Boy hesitated, not wanting to answer.

"Do you understand about the guild? Or should I ask you some questions about that?" Li Teng whispered to Sunglasses Woman.

"I haven't joined a guild, haven't made enemies with any guild members, and don't know much about it." Sunglasses Woman shook her head.

"Let's just answer the previous question." Pretty Boy thought for a moment before speaking again.

"The performance in Hell Mode also involves eight people, all eight are those undergoing punishment, and the final outcomes are only of two kinds. In one scenario, of the eight actors, only one survives and seven die; the other is where all eight actors are killed, which is why it's called Hell Mode."

"At least, those are the only outcomes I know of; there aren't any better ones."

"Betting one's entire net worth and life on the chances that the other's account balance is less than a hundred points is too risky! I advise all newcomers not to play with self-detonation for no reason. It's the kind that harms others without benefiting oneself," Pretty Boy glanced at Li Teng.

"When a newcomer is pushed into a desperate situation, they might have no choice but to resort to self-detonation!" Gao Fei snorted.

"So what you're saying is, in the scene just now, if I wasn't the ghost and the Old Witch... the grandmother was the ghost, had I killed her on the bus before she could break the seal, because she's a guild member, I wouldn't be directly fined a thousand points. Instead, I'd be forced to participate in the performance of Hell Mode once, and the grandmother would be fined a hundred points, right?" Li Teng seized the opportunity to ask another question.

"No, the filming just now wasn't a confrontational performance. You and she were both actors of the same film crew, not part of opposing factions in the midst of a confrontation. So, the rules I mentioned before don't apply. In the scenario just now, if she was the ghost and you weren't, your killing her on the bus would have only one result. You'd be fined a thousand points and immediately eliminated, sealed with wax."

"Two opposing factions in the midst of a confrontation, for example, would be during a World War II scene, where one actor belongs to the Axis Powers and the other to the Allies, and the relationship between those two characters is completely hostile. That would be called a confrontational performance," Pretty Boy shook his head.

"When a newcomer is being hunted by a guild member and trapped, if it's a confrontational performance, they might have that glimmer of hope to stop the story and die together with the opponent through self-detonation, right?" Li Teng almost understood.

"If your guild member opponent's account has less than a hundred points, you might try this method to stop the story. As for dying together? Hmph, not necessarily. If you dare to do this, it will be either seven deaths with one survivor or eight deaths with no survivors in Hell Mode. The opponent will only lose a hundred points. If their account has more than a hundred points, what you exchange with your life is only those hundred points," Pretty Boy explained.

"Even if the opponent's account doesn't have a hundred points and they are temporarily sealed in wax, if they have made some contribution to the guild and the guild deems the cost to be small, they may also allocate a few points from the guild funds to save them. So, I advise you not to entertain this thought lightly. You won't like Hell Mode," Pretty Boy would not have told Li Teng these details if Gao Fei hadn't actively asked about the protection of newcomers.

But now that he had said it, it didn't matter anymore.

"Why do I feel like Hell Mode is specially designed for you?" Sunglasses Woman teased Li Teng a bit.

"I was indeed unlucky in the first round, but this time fortune has turned in my favor," Li Teng certainly didn't want to end up in Hell Mode.

"Indeed, you had a stroke of dumb luck," Glasses Man sighed.

He had thought Li Teng was as good as dead, always worried that Li Teng would turn things around with his high IQ.

The outcome was utterly unexpected.

After Gao Fei finished asking questions to Pretty Boy, it was Li Teng's turn to question Sunglasses Woman.

"After an actor is promoted from an extra to a higher level, do they gain the right to choose scripts and film crews? From what level do they have this right?" Li Teng asked Sunglasses Woman.

"I only know that when the lowest-level extras are promoted to Minor Special Contract Extras, they gain the right to choose film crews, but not scripts. After each performance, you can check the next available film crews on a terminal or a connected device such as a smartphone."

"The film crew you are currently a part of will also appear in the list. As a Minor Special Contract Extra like me, I have one additional choice: another new film crew appears. By clicking on the details, you can view the information of the new film crew members. If I don't want to join this new film crew or stay in the current one, I can refresh once for free to look for another film crew. Actors of a higher level than me should be able to refresh more times," Sunglasses Woman replied to Li Teng.

"The Old Witch must have found me this way, right? Refreshed several times, found our film crew, and discovered I was here…" Li Teng almost understood how it happened.

"It's indeed beneficial to get promoted to Minor Special Contract Extra as soon as possible. If you can't get along in one film crew, you can always switch to another," Sunglasses Woman added a few more words.

The director paid one point to Sunglasses Woman for her answer.

Next, it was the girl's turn to ask Pretty Boy.

"I want to know why we ended up on those pillars? Is our original world still there?" The girl posed a question to Pretty Boy.

The first time she acted, she was a bit excited because becoming an actor was her dream.

But after going through the filming of two scenes, she started to think about quitting.

It was clear this was not the kind of acting she wanted to do.

There was hardly any storyline, and she could die at any time.

"This question is too difficult, I can't answer it," Pretty Boy shook his head.

This was an fundamental question, and some of the higher-level, very experienced actors that Pretty Boy knew didn't have an answer to it.

Of course, they might know, but for some reasons, they wouldn't tell an actor of low status like him.

"Is there any way to contact family members outside?" The girl had to ask another question.

"No," Pretty Boy answered the girl with certainty.

The question-and-answer session ended, and it was time for additional business.

There was no additional business to handle, so, they skipped this part.

Then, the group had to go to the airport, where a helicopter forcibly sent them back to their respective pillars.

"Come here, I've got something to tell you," Sunglasses Woman stood up and spoke to Li Teng, then walked to a deserted street corner in the distance.

"What's up? Why the secrecy?" Li Teng furrowed his brow but still followed her.