Chapter 18 The Movie Wraps Up

The white mist dissipated, and the surrounding environment became clear once more.

A bewildered Shen Wei and Yang Chen still stood at the entrance of a dilapidated school. However, there were now many busy people around them.

"Cut!"

"The two teachers gave a fantastic performance! Their acting skills are simply divine! *Death Recording* is a perfect wrap!"

As soon as he finished speaking, cheers, applause, and the sound of firecrackers erupted around them.

Shen Wei and Yang Chen exchanged a look of shock, completely bewildered by what was happening.

"Could it be that we haven't escaped the world of Rule Anomalies yet? That the movie *Death Broadcast* hasn't wrapped yet..."

Yang Chen said with a look of horror.

"No, we've already escaped the anomaly. I even have a terrifying guess: we might have traveled through time and changed the future..."

Shen Wei said with a wry smile.

"Thank you so much, you two, for coming to support us! I never expected you to be such good actors. I was blind! Zhang Ziliang’s vision was truly unique. Thank you both so much for completing Director Zhang Ziliang's final work!"

Just as Shen Wei and Yang Chen were utterly confused, a middle-aged man in a gray vest and sunglasses hurried over, grasped their hands tightly, and shook them repeatedly, expressing his gratitude.

Seeing the person before them, Shen Wei and Yang Chen's pupils shrank.

"Vice Director Yu, you're not dead?"

"Vice Director Yu, you're alive again?"

Yang Chen and Shen Wei looked at Vice Director Yu Hai with astonishment.

Hearing their ominous words, Vice Director Yu's smile instantly froze on his face, but being a man who had seen a lot, he quickly recovered.

"Not only are you two good actors, but I didn't expect you to be so humorous. I only played a small role in the movie. My death was insignificant, insignificant..."

Seeing the usually arrogant Vice Director Yu in this state, the chubby cameraman couldn't help but snicker.

"What are you laughing at? I'll dock your salary if you laugh again!"

"Chubby Cameraman, you're not dead either? Where did you run off to back then? I couldn't find you anywhere!"

Shen Wei said with a relieved expression, patting the chubby cameraman on the shoulder.

The chubby cameraman gave a wry smile. "Bro, don't curse people like that. Although I was killed by those terrifying parasitic threads in the script and dragged into the wall, it was all fake. Don't get too immersed in the role, okay?..."

Just then, the bearded Hu Dalei, the beautiful young woman Cui Jiani, the ghost-fire youth Li Haiyang, and the housewife Wei Fang, all appeared vibrantly before Shen Wei. They were celebrating the wrap of the movie and the beginning of their dreams of stardom.

Looking at the scene before him, Shen Wei fell into deep thought.

"Right Hand, what's going on? Could it be that my guess was right?"

Faced with Shen Wei's question, the Evil God Right Hand slowly replied,

"You already have the answer in your heart. Why are you still asking me? This whole movie is like a time loop. You solved the problem at the source, triggering the butterfly effect. Zhang Ziliang and his son won't commit suicide, and the parasitic threads can't break through from their original space into the real world."

"This way, there won't be a blood sacrifice later, because the first part doesn't exist. Without the first part's blood sacrifice, those black and gray parasitic threads won't be released, the children in the school won't be killed, and they won't be parasitized by those threads. There won't be the terrifying game of the Ghost School in the third part, and so on! Everything that happened later won't happen, and no one will die..."

By the time Shen Wei had come back to his senses, Yang Chen had already found the little girl, Ni Xiaoxin, from the second act of the movie, the one who had sacrificed herself to save him.

"I did it! I really did it! I reversed the future! I successfully saved you..."

Yang Chen grabbed the little girl's hand and jumped up and down excitedly.

The little girl blushed and pulled her hand back, muttering to herself, "It's just a movie. Although you were brave, I'm not someone who falls for people so easily..."

Hearing this, Yang Chen was a little embarrassed, his face flushed with bewilderment. After all, he was just a twelve-year-old boy.

"Here, although it was just acting, thank you for protecting me in the movie..."

The little girl stuffed a lollipop into Yang Chen's hand.

"Thank you. Nothing else matters. I'm just glad you're okay..."

Yang Chen said softly as he ate the lollipop.

"Damn it, learning bad habits at such a young age, flirting with little girls is unforgivable..."

Shen Wei looked at Yang Chen and the little girl with envy.

"Fury from a single dog..."

The Evil God Right Hand's words dealt another 10,000 points of critical damage to Shen Wei.

Ignoring the Evil God Right Hand's crazy吐槽, he walked up to Vice Director Yu and asked, "Vice Director Yu, why haven't I seen Zhang Ziliang?"

Hearing Shen Wei's words, Vice Director Yu looked surprised. "You really have a bad memory! Didn't I tell you before? Director Zhang Ziliang died in a car accident. *Death Broadcast* is his last work. Before he died, he said that this movie was to be a gift for two old friends..."

"I only found out later in his will that those two old friends were you and Yang Chen. Director Zhang Ziliang invested in, and wrote the script for this movie himself, and originally wanted to direct it himself, but he had an accident, so I, the assistant director, had to take over..."

Vice Director Yu paused and wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes.

"I used to be just a low-level extra struggling to make a living. I owe my current position entirely to Director Zhang Ziliang's support and appreciation. I remember one of the things Director Zhang Ziliang said to me that left the deepest impression was, 'Be confident. I don't like making friends with weak men.' In order to become Director Zhang Ziliang's friend, I kept striving, kept working hard, and finally became a director like him. But then, he left..."

"Director Zhang Ziliang instructed me to find you two, but you were both too mysterious. I couldn't find any trace of you. Just when I thought I was going to fail Director Zhang's kindness, you two actually came to me and participated in the filming of this movie. To be honest, I'm really touched..."

After speaking, Vice Director Yu once again grasped their hands and shook them frantically, expressing his gratitude.

"What else did Zhang Ziliang say before he died?"

Shen Wei asked with a hint of sadness.

"He also told me to give this to you two: the original film reel. One is the original, and one is a copy. Director Zhang Ziliang told me to give the original to Mr. Shen Wei..."

With that, Vice Director Yu took out two discs from his pocket, handing one to Shen Wei and the other to Yang Chen.

"Director Zhang also said that you like watching this kind of stuff, so this movie includes time travel, invisible monsters and hypnotic contamination, mind control, is set in a school, has both men and women, plays horror games, and has wits and courage against ghost killers, and explosive action fights..."