164. Breaking the Sense of Security

In the latter half of the film, Bai Qiquan used his free left hand to wipe the sweat off his body.

Despite it being a slightly chilly autumn day, and despite being in an air-conditioned movie theater, Bai Qiquan was already drenched in sweat.

They were all scared into it.

The guy with the saw suddenly popped his head out, causing almost everyone in the movie theater to scream in surprise.

Bai Qiquan estimated that if it weren't for the fact that it was in a public place, some girls and some boys might have let out screams that would have hurt the eardrums.

For example, the person next to me.

Pang Zhen was curled up in the chair, her head pressed tightly against the backrest, her eyes squinted, trying to avoid the horrifying images.

However, The Cry is not a movie that relies on scary images to frighten people, or rather, it is not simply a movie that relies on such images to frighten people.

Just Lu Ban's first-person perspective of walking through the hospital corridor with a flashlight was already terrifying. Pang Zhen felt as if she had really entered that abandoned hospital. The air was filled with the smell of medicine and dust, as well as some strange, indescribable odors that sparked her imagination.

In this atmosphere, would you say the visuals are scary? Not really. It's more about creating an atmosphere, laying the groundwork for psychological suggestion.

In addition to the overall audience perception in the movie theater, what truly frightens the audience is their own imagination.

Despite Bai Qiquan's gloating, he himself was not feeling too good.

The thought of someone exploring an abandoned hospital late at night is terrifying, not to mention the doctor who looks like a stitched-up corpse wandering the corridors—it's definitely a chase scene from a horror game.

Soon, Bai Qiquan saw a man dressed as a worker wandering in the corridor. The camera followed him, and Bai Qiquan immediately recognized him as the previously missing construction site manager. Then, when the camera followed this Walking Corpses -like man to a room and saw the large pit dug in the ground and the worker's body in the pit, he could hardly bear it.

Because of the atmosphere earlier, he watched the movie very attentively, so he immediately thought of the Living Stake mentioned in the recording.

"These workers were bricked into the walls; they were sacrifices!"

Bai Qiquan gradually came to understand everything.

This hospital may be some kind of huge sacrificial site, or perhaps it was built for some evil ritual!

His curiosity overcame his fear, and despite the goosebumps all over his body, as if those numb corpses were right in front of him, he continued watching.

Everyone has a different threshold for fear.

Some people would be terrified at the sight of blood, while others could make a V-sign at Kayako. Bai Qiquan was afraid of at this moment was not entirely these scenes, but the atmosphere.

Hospitals that are supposed to heal and save lives actually hide dark secrets, and even use the sacrifice of innocent people as a foundation. In the walls of the wards, workers who died tragically are bound inside, which is quite horrifying to think about.

This is the sense of horror that comes from the contrast.

Why do some people find Amusement Park, deserted schools, and abandoned hospitals scary at night? Because these places are usually associated with sunshine, joy, cheerfulness, and liveliness, and are places that give people a sense of security.

Horror works, by portraying these places as eerie and dangerous locations, completely shatter people's sense of security, thus creating a more intense sense of terror.

This is why Kayako would crawl under the covers. After all, many people used to think that if they were in doubt, they should crawl under the covers and nothing would happen. Kayako broke this notion, which is why she was so terrifying.

While Bai Qiquan was still curious about the hospital's secrets, the sound of the elevator running caught his attention.

bite--

As the elevator arrived, all the audience members shuddered, and some even cried out.

A doctor who wasn't wearing a mask stepped out of the elevator.

Bai Qiquan recognized him as Zhao Gongping, the hospital's director!

He was just like any other doctor in a corridor, walking slowly and unsteadily.

But just as he passed in front of Lu Ban, the Walking Corpses suddenly turned around, his expression ferocious, and lunged at him with a scalpel in his hand!

"Hiss--"

Unable to hold his breath, Bai Qiquan felt Pang Zhen holding his hand even tighter beside him.

What follows is a breathtaking fight. The shaky camera work, though seemingly chaotic, accurately portrays the crucial struggle between the two. In the end, Lu Ban smashes the dean's head with a single blow.

As the camera zoomed in on the corpse lying on the ground, Bai Qiquan discovered that what was flowing out of the dean's skull was actually gray cement slurry.

At the same time, Lu Ban took off running and headed up to the fifth floor.

He hid from the dean, who had reappeared from who-knows-where, and entered Room 502.

Here, Lu Ban found some records.

As the words were written, the image gradually turned yellowish.

Bai Qiquan saw the young hospital director and a foreigner, and witnessed how they met and how they set up the hospital. Without a doubt, these people had touched upon the forbidden and evil ritual in pursuit of resurrection and had already succumbed to it.

All the confusion has been resolved. Now, only one question remains: what exactly is at the End of the Corridor?

At this moment, Bai Qiquan, just like Lu Ban in the film, had no choice but to walk into that room.

Then he saw it: inside the container, a grayish-white creature resembling cement, writhing with countless eyes and mouths, a grotesque and blasphemous monster.

An eerie song began to play, echoing throughout the movie theater and sending chills down your spine. Just listening to it made you feel uneasy; the discordant melody stimulated your eardrums, making you want to cover your ears.

The container shattered, and the cement-like monster began to spread, expand, and devour everything.

Lu Ban tried to escape, but the cement spread too fast, and he was almost submerged, becoming one of those monsters with cement filling their heads.

Bai Qiquan was a little nervous. Although according to the rules of movies, the protagonist would not die, this movie had not followed the usual pattern so far, and he felt that the protagonist might die in the end.

At that moment, he saw Lu Ban sneak into the elevator, where there was a little girl.

"This mirror can reflect strange things; it is... it is the passage connecting two worlds."

In the movie, Lu Ban seemed to understand something, got into the elevator, and closed the door.

The big screen went dark, and in the darkness, Bai Qiquan heard an extremely gentle voice, like a mother telling a story to her child, telling her own story in a gentle and detailed way.

She spoke of her love for the child, her life in the hospital, and her poor health, all while filled with anticipation for a new life in that ward always bathed in golden sunlight.

But Bai Qiquan had by then fully understood what role she represented in the story and what she was nurturing.

He tried to make a sound, but felt a hoarseness in his throat.

Beside him, his more emotional girlfriend, Pang Zhen, had already begun to sob. The sound of sniffling filled the movie theater. The mother's loving confession now felt like sharp knives, stabbing into the hearts of the audience one by one.

Finally, at the moment of delivery, as the dean's maniacal laughter rang out, and as the camera panned to the emaciated pregnant woman and the cement-like gray monster, a cry rang out.

At the same time, Lu Ban contacted the outside world and activated the explosives.

Rumble rumble rumble—

Amidst the cries of newborns, the sinful hospital collapsed with a deafening roar.

Bai Qiquan even forgot that he was watching a horror movie at this moment.

He felt a complex mix of emotions brewing within him, including fear, regret, and relief.

He was terrified by the film's immersive atmosphere.

He lamented that good people ultimately did not get a good ending, while the punishment of evil people was always a step too late.

He was relieved because it was just a movie, and reality was at least not so dark.

At the end of the film, in the first rays of sunlight and amidst the cries of newborns, Lu Ban stands atop the ruins of the hospital, leaving only a blurry silhouette.

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