Xu Leyan finally named Min Di, a small coastal city. In the past, many people there had worshipped a deity called the Sea Lord. Though called a deity, he actually held no official post and was more like an evil god with a somewhat decent reputation. The main filming locations for Evil had been a Sea Lord Temple and its surroundings in a town under Min Di's jurisdiction.
The list of extras for Evil was still in the announcements group, and records could be found. After the Anomalous Affairs Bureau's clerical staff looked into it, they told Qi Gu that the extra who had played the person whose luck was borrowed had subsequently died of a strange illness. In the second version of Evil's footage, the birth details written on the coffin lid matched that extra's exactly.
According to what the extra's family told the clerical staff, he had been quite happy when he was chosen for a role with several scenes. He had told many other extras working bit parts at the film studio complex about it, even saying that when the movie came out, he would treat everyone to see him at the cinema.
He had not known that what he was filming was not really Evil, only part of a publicity stunt that would never be shown in cinemas.
In the end, Qi Gu used a spell to slow the corpses' transformation, allowing Xu Leyan and the others to go home and say a final farewell to their families.
Once the four ghosts walked out of the private dining room, controlling their seemingly normal corpses, only Lin Hanzhi and Qi Gu remained.
The rotten stench in the room quickly dissipated with the four ghosts' departure.
Qi Gu and Lin Hanzhi ordered food and huddled together at