That's a Wrap

The facts proved that not only was the money enough, it was more than enough.

Because the crew's budget was limited, Lin Chuan fully exercised his initiative.

The props came from all sorts of places.

For example, the black cloak draped over Ren Hang, who played the Spoon Killer Demon.

It was actually a Senior Female Student's bedsheet that Lin Chuan had bought at great expense, then dyed black with black ink.

The Spoon Killer Demon's pale, eerie complexion was created by Lin Chuan buying a bag of flour and smearing it all over Ren Hang's face.

And what few people noticed was this.

Under the Spoon Killer Demon's black cloak, he was actually wearing a pair of high heels.

Although Ren Hang was over 1.8 meters tall, he still wasn't intimidating enough.

So Lin Chuan had a flash of inspiration and bought a pair of sky-high heels from a Senior Female Student for Ren Hang to wear.

The moment he put them on, the effect came through. He had presence now.

And Ren Hang's awkward gait added a subtle hint of comedy to the character amid all the horror.

The bedsheet had been borrowed, the black ink cost one yuan, the flour twenty yuan, and the toy gun thirty-five yuan.

So far, they had spent a total of fifty-six yuan.

They had 706.5 yuan left.

Lin Chuan tapped the clapperboard and gave the order.

"Action!"

After saying that, he began operating the camera.

Because the crew's conditions were limited.

Lin Chuan alone served as the director, screenwriter, stagehand, cameraman, prop master, makeup artist, sound engineer, and narrator.

The fat guy played by Xiao Hei and the Spoon Killer Demon played by Ren Hang began their performance.

The Spoon Killer Demon swung his spoon and repeatedly struck Little Fatty.

Little Fatty's miserable howls echoed through every corner of the room.

Lin Chuan divided the Spoon Killer Demon's story into five stages.

First: The first encounter with the Spoon Killer Demon.

The fat guy played by Xiao Hei encountered an eerie Man in Black.

This Man in Black had a pale face and dressed like the Grim Reaper from Western mythology.

Except the Man in Black's weapon was not a scythe, but a spoon.

The Man in Black used the spoon to strike every part of Little Fatty's body, tormenting him beyond endurance.

Second: Seeking help and being ignored.

Little Fatty sought help everywhere, but people misunderstood him because the reason he was being victimized was too ridiculous.

What kind of normal person got chased and beaten by a lunatic holding a spoon?

Little Fatty called the police, only to be treated as someone making a false report.

When he went to the hospital for a consultation, the doctor mistook him for a lunatic.

Even when his girlfriend made him a cake, the spoon in her hand startled him.

Little Fatty accidentally caught sight of a mysterious symbol on the Man in Black's arm.

Third: Investigating the mystery of the Spoon Killer Demon.

Little Fatty traveled far and wide, from Greece to Ancient Egypt, from Thailand to Myanmar.

At last, he learned the secret of the Spoon Killer Demon's origins from an old Witch.

It stemmed from an ancient curse.

Once it latched onto someone, it would not rest until they died.

Fourth: Rising up to resist.

Knowing that survival was hopeless, Little Fatty simply picked up a weapon and fought back.

He bought a chainsaw and tried to cut up the Spoon Killer Demon, only to accidentally injure himself.

He bought guns and ammunition, and in the end, he even used rockets.

Yet the Man in Black remained completely unharmed.

He rammed the Man in Black with a car, but it still had no effect.

Fifth: Numbness.

After exhausting every possible method while the Man in Black remained unscathed, Little Fatty was utterly worn out in body and mind.

He accepted the Spoon Killer Demon's daily strikes upon his body.

He grew accustomed to the clanging that kept him awake every night.

He even put on the same black cloak as the Spoon Killer Demon and painted his own face white.

Then he randomly struck passersby on the street.

And got beaten up by them.

No matter what he did, the Spoon Killer Demon's spoon would always keep striking his body without pause.

Then one day, the Spoon Killer Demon's spoon broke.

Little Fatty was ecstatic. He laughed until tears streamed down his face.

"Hahaha! Out of tricks now, huh? So even you have a day like this! Hahaha!"

Little Fatty even felt a little smug.

The Man in Black tilted his head to look at him. Then he lifted his cloak, selected one spoon from a whole pile of them, and continued striking Little Fatty.

Little Fatty's heart turned to ashes.

The plot was simple and uncomplicated, and the few of them got into character quickly.

In just two hours, filming was already more than halfway complete.

Lin Chuan also called over the Senior Female Student and asked her to make a guest appearance as Little Fatty's girlfriend.

That morning, the three of them ate some instant noodles before continuing filming.

Lin Chuan rented a car for the scene where Little Fatty drove into the Man in Black.

To prevent any accidents, Lin Chuan set the car to its lowest speed, and they filmed it in slow motion.

They could just speed it up later.

By five in the afternoon, all of the Spoon Killer Demon scenes had been filmed.

The script included scenes of Little Fatty traveling around the country in search of the Spoon Killer Demon's origins.

Because technology was so advanced, Lin Chuan directly handed the special effects work to Xiao Hei and had him composite the effects.

By around six o'clock, all the special effects had been completed.

The subtitles and dubbing for Spoon Killer Demon were ready as well. All that remained was uploading it.

Lin Chuan registered a new account on Bika Net and clicked upload.

Bika Net was currently the largest danmu video website in the country.

It had over ten million daily active users.

Lin Chuan noticed that Bika Net had launched a co-creation feature.

So he added Ren Hang, Xiao Hei, and the Senior Female Student's accounts to the creative team.

The video review would still take some time.

Lin Chuan set the computer aside and called his two roommates out for a meal.

Sitting on plastic stools at a barbecue stand, Ren Hang repeatedly refreshed Lin Chuan's Bika Net profile page.

Once the video passed review, Ren Hang happily started watching it.

After all, this was the first major role he had ever played.

Watching his own performance in the video, Ren Hang became more satisfied the longer he watched.

After finishing it, Ren Hang sighed sincerely.

"Brother Chuan, this video might actually blow up a little!"

When he had read the script, Ren Hang had only felt that the plot was painfully cringe.

But after filming was done and he watched the final cut, Ren Hang felt that the short film's quality was actually quite high.

Especially the actor playing the Spoon Killer Demon. How was he so good at acting?

Xiao Hei poured cold water on his excitement.

"Let's wait a few days and see. Don't set your expectations too high. We'll still have to see the market response.

Maybe we think it's great, but some people will think, what kind of garbage is this?"

Lin Chuan smiled. Of his two roommates, Ren Hang was an extrovert.

Every emotion showed on his face, and his moods came quickly and passed quickly too.

When he read the script, he thought it was painfully cringe. Now that filming was done and he had seen the final cut, he was already dreaming of becoming famous overnight.

As for Xiao Hei, he was somewhat pessimistic and always noticed the bad side of things first.

With their personalities balancing each other out, they were a perfect match.

Lin Chuan also took out his phone, checked the view count, and made a few adjustments.

He raised his glass. "Man proposes, Heaven disposes!

Summer vacation starts tomorrow. This is our last meal of the semester.

Come on, cheers!"

"Cheers!"

"Cheers."

While the group clinked glasses.

Someone had just finished watching a movie.

"Fuck, what kind of garbage was that?"

Wang Dong slammed his hand on the table in anger, expressing his fury at having wasted precious time.

He had just finished a supposedly classic horror movie recommended by a friend.

His friend had even told him not to fast-forward, or it would affect the viewing experience.

And so, more than an hour had been wasted.

Wang Dong had countless complaints about that movie.

The killer might as well have had the words I AM THE KILLER written across his face, yet the others still couldn't figure it out.

They even insisted on splitting up, only to be picked off one by one by the killer.

Served them right!

Idiots didn't deserve to live.

Wang Dong had been holding a spoon, preparing to scoop out some watermelon.

Eating watermelon with a spoon in summer was supposed to be such a pleasant thing.

But after watching that awful movie, Wang Dong was so angry that he no longer had any appetite for watermelon!

After thinking about it, Wang Dong began searching the website for the latest horror movies.

It wasn't that Wang Dong was a masochist or had some strange fetish.

He simply wanted to find a good movie to cleanse his eyes.

Otherwise, he was afraid that thinking about the infuriating plot of that movie tonight would make him too angry to sleep.

After refreshing Bika Net several times.

A short film titled Spoon Killer Demon caught Wang Dong's eye.

Only a little over ten minutes? That's kind of short.

Wang Dong muttered.

Then he checked the viewer count.

Huh?

It had only been uploaded for ten minutes.

More than nine hundred people were watching?