My Healing Games

Chapter 225 Actions that even stunt performers dare not attempt lightly
Do you believe in ghosts?

"I don't know if ghosts exist, but I think there shouldn't be any ghosts in this building. It's just that some people are pretending to be ghosts."

Han Fei followed Director Zhang into Spider's room on the 4th floor. They opened the balcony door and carefully checked their surroundings.

"Director Zhang, we were right next to them when they jumped, there were no hands at all!" The props team members looked distressed. If something went wrong because of a prop problem, they would be held responsible.

"Let me see the video." Director Zhang checked the footage, and from any angle, there was no sign of any human presence.

After watching for a while, he noticed that the stunt performers would always turn their heads to the side when they jumped, as if they were glancing at a certain place unintentionally.

Walking to the edge of the balcony, Director Zhang looked downstairs but found nothing unusual.

"This is really weird." Director Zhang called the camera crew back to continue filming, and then took out his phone to contact a new stuntman.

He made several phone calls, but unfortunately, there were no stunt performers in Xinhu who met the requirements. The stunt performers from other provinces who had worked with Director Zhang could not arrive until the evening at the earliest.

"How about we go shoot the next scene first?" Bai Xian also walked in. He heard some discussions in the crew and wanted to calm everyone down and get them into work mode as soon as possible.

“We couldn’t even film during the day, so filming these dangerous scenes at night will be even more difficult.” Director Zhang was a little worried, but there was no other way now: “Let’s film the scene where the nine of you witness the death first. Has Xiaotong calmed down?”

Bai Xian said with some helplessness, "He used to be called a genius, and everyone always praised him. But Han Fei's performance that day had a big impact on him. They're all the same age, and he's been a bit stimulated, so he just wants to improve his acting skills."

“Acting skills aren’t something that can be easily improved. But it’s good that he has this ambition. Tell him to come over quickly. His character isn’t actually that complicated.” Some directors focus on the plot, some like to create grand scenes, but Director Zhang’s films are mostly centered around the actors. He values ​​his actors very much.

While Director Zhang and Bai Xian were talking, Han Fei stood on the balcony, closed his eyes, and pressed the switch in his mind that was related to memories.

His emotions and consciousness slowly settled deep in his mind, and he savored every word in the author's books.

The script was edited later, incorporating the personal feelings of the screenwriter and the psychologist, while the original novel was written by Spider himself.

All the characters, all the plots, and all the stories are the spider's perception of the world.

His books contain his most authentic self.

The meat processing plant next to the family compound has been restored. If you don't look at the large area of ​​abandoned buildings in the distance, the scene Han Fei sees at this moment should be the same as that of a spider.

As Han Fei ran his fingers over the yellowed pages, he tried to immerse himself in the role of the spider, but the events of the previous night suddenly flashed through his mind.

In the real Animal Alley, piles of rotting corpses lay, like a labyrinth from which there was no escape. At every turn, one might encounter a monster with a pig's face and a human body, driven by hunger...

Thinking of this, Han Fei suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head again, as if some nerve had been triggered. He reached out and covered his head.

Disemboweled and mangled, the cruel monster wields a cleaver.

As the sharp knife slashed at the child, a pig's face, driven by hunger, was revealed beneath the shattered mask.

With his bloodshot eyes bulging outwards, Han Fei saw the expression beneath the pig-face mask.

The monster's features were indeed like those of an animal, but Han Fei had only ever seen that ferocious and evil expression on a human face.

"Were those monsters in Animal Alley originally like that? And where did the first monsters come from?"

By opening the book in his hand, Han Fei had unlocked the spider's inner world.

"They wear pig-face masks, and I don't know if it's because they've worn the masks for so long, but even when they take them off, they are still monsters."

“I often see people devouring something, which oozes golden oil, rich and sweet. The old people in the building say it’s called time, but the ghost under the bed says it’s called kindness.”

"When they could no longer find that thing, they began to cut off the flesh from each other's bodies, eating the fattest and most succulent parts with their mouths full of oil, completely disregarding their own deformed bodies."

"Sometimes I feel that this world is easy to understand, but I find myself gradually beginning to see another world."

"These two worlds stand side by side in my eyes, like night and day."

"I gradually lost my sense of belonging. I got lost in the alleyways. I watched as more and more of my fellow travelers put on masks, as if by doing so, they would experience no more pain except for hunger."

"The scales that hold two worlds began to tilt, and my body slowly slid to one side. I don't know if I embraced one world or if one world abandoned me."

Spider's writing is very peculiar, like the delirium of a madman. If Han Fei had not entered the Beast Alley of the Deep World, he would have had a hard time understanding the secrets hidden behind the writing.

"Those pig-faced monsters seem to have been human once! They wore pig-faced masks for a long time, and then they turned into pig-faced monsters themselves!"

Thinking about this, Han Fei realized another problem: "Why are they wearing pig-face masks? Does it mean that in Animal Alley, wearing a mask will prevent them from being attacked? But that doesn't make sense! The book mentions that pig-faced monsters would cut off each other's flesh!"

Han Fei couldn't understand it. He felt that if he had the chance, he should get his hands on a mask.

Picking up the book "Animal Alley," Han Fei had completely immersed himself in the role of Spider, and he began to act alongside Director Zhang and the other actors.

Han Fei, who gave it his all, delivered a performance that can only be described as terrifying. Forgetting lines or getting stuck was simply not an issue for him. All of his scenes were completed in one take, and even the notoriously strict director Zhang couldn't find any fault with them.

The actors he acts with, from young idols to veteran actors, all feel a lot of pressure. It's okay to make a mistake and NG once; you can just laugh it off. But if you make a mistake every time, even the most magnanimous person won't be able to laugh anymore.

The other eight actors used to look down on Han Fei to some extent, but now, as soon as they realize they are acting opposite Han Fei, they immediately seize the time to prepare their emotions and memorize their lines repeatedly.

Because of Han Fei's presence, the entire crew's filming efficiency improved to some extent.

As the sun was about to set, the crew had already brought out the lighting. Just as the wind chimes rang in the writer's room, the third stuntman finally arrived at the filming location.

After personally inspecting all the safety equipment, Director Zhang explained the key points of the action and the desired effect to the actor before having him go to the fourth-floor balcony.

Unlike the previous two times, this time Han Fei and many staff members also came to the fourth floor. Everyone wanted to see for themselves whether there would really be any supernatural events.

After changing her clothes and putting on makeup, Han Fei walked onto the balcony with her back to everyone.

A stuntman replaced Han Fei, dressed in the same clothes as Han Fei, climbed onto the balcony, and began making final preparations.

With all the cameras set up, and after receiving the prompt, the stuntman took a deep breath, his head unconsciously turning to the side as if looking at a certain place, before jumping down to the agreed-upon spot.

There was no problem with the jump, but when exerting force, the stuntman clearly held back a bit.

"what happened?"

Three stunt performers had run into trouble in a row. As it got dark, everyone remembered some legends about the building and various things related to the writer Spider.

"Is he alright? How badly is he injured?" Director Zhang hurriedly looked at the stuntman. The man's injuries weren't serious, but he seemed to have been left with some kind of psychological trauma.

When he looked at the building again, his expression was somewhat frightened: "Director, when I jumped down, I felt like someone grabbed my foot?"

Upon hearing his words, the room fell silent, and everyone looked at Director Zhang.

The three stunt performers came from different places and did not know each other, but they gave the same explanation.

It felt like there was some unseen force preventing Director Zhang from filming the Spider story.

"Director..." Bai Xian stepped forward, "How about we try using virtual technology? Technology is so advanced now, it can definitely make it more realistic than the real thing."

"Even if it's more real than the real thing, it's still not real." Director Zhang sighed softly. Just as he was about to ask the props team for another solution, Han Fei came out.

"Are you trying to persuade me too?"

"No." Han Fei stared silently at the room on the fourth floor and said, "Don't bother finding a stunt double, let me jump."

His voice wasn't loud, but as soon as he said those words, everyone in the room looked at him in shock.

"No way, are you kidding me? Absolutely not!" Director Zhang refused without even thinking.

"My physical strength is better than that of the average stuntman, and I also have some experience in performing dangerous stunts." Han Fei was not lying. During Jin Sheng's management mission, he jumped directly from the fourth floor to the air conditioner unit on the third floor without any safety protection.

If we're talking about filming dangerous action movies, Han Fei is indeed more experienced than most stunt performers, since his performances never require retakes, only successes.

The other actors were also taken aback by Han Fei's words. They finally understood how this young man, who had no company behind him, had gotten to where he was today.

Some actors are unwilling to even read their lines, yet this actor dares to do actions that even stunt performers wouldn't dare to attempt.

What is dedication? This is dedication!
"It's getting dark soon, Director, let me try." Han Fei wanted to know what those three stunt performers had seen. Besides, he needed to go back and play games tonight, and it wouldn't do to keep putting it off.

After testing Han Fei's physical condition, Director Zhang finally agreed, though he was actually quite nervous.

The contract clearly did not require the actor to do such dangerous things, but Han Fei was the first actor to take the initiative to do them. This was the first time in all of Director Zhang's years of making films that he had truly begun to appreciate an actor.

Han Fei had memorized the key points of the action. After checking all the safety devices four times, Han Fei began the scene.

Without using a double, he walked into Spider's room, where everything had been restored, and at this moment he was Spider.

The boundaries of reality have become blurred. As consciousness and soul fall, the spider will kill the part of itself that clings to reality, sending the original personality into the depths of consciousness, and embarking on a death game with other personalities.

Standing on the edge of the balcony, Han Fei slowly stretched out his arms.

Without tension or fear, Han Fei completely immersed himself in the role of the spider.

After receiving a prompt from the director, Han Fei looked toward the target point, but at that moment, his gaze seemed to catch something.

Turning my head slightly, I saw a mirror somewhere on the third floor, and in the mirror, it seemed that another person was about to jump off the building.

His eyes saw it, but Han Fei's heart remained unaffected. He had seen far too many terrifying things, and the scene in the mirror couldn't even stir a ripple in his heart.

He leaped out!

My soul is falling, my consciousness is detaching, my body is being struck by tree branches, and the wind is whistling into my ears.

Even under these circumstances, Han Fei's expression remained the same as that of the writer before him; there was no fear on his face, only a hint of sadness.

The camera captured this perfect moment, leaving everyone on set in disbelief.

He accomplished something that even stunt performers wouldn't dare to attempt easily, and he did it better than any stunt performer.

People even saw the shadow of the spider on him.

Painful, yet not hopeless; eyes full of sorrow, yet seemingly firmly believing in something.

(End of this chapter)