My ‘Healing’ Game
Chapter 224: Stunts Even Stunt Performers Dare Not Attempt Easily

Chapter 224: Chapter 224: Stunts Even Stunt Performers Dare Not Attempt Easily

"Do you think there are ghosts in the world?"

"I don’t know if there are ghosts in the world, but I think there shouldn’t be any ghosts in this building, just some people pretending to be spirits."

Han Fei followed Director Zhang into the Spider’s room on the fourth floor, and they pushed open the balcony door, carefully checking the surroundings.

"Director Zhang, we were right beside them when they jumped, and there were no hands at all!" The props team members said with a pained expression, knowing they would be held responsible if it was an issue with the props.

"Let me see the video." Director Zhang checked the filming footage, and from every angle, there were no signs of the alleged hands.

He watched for a long while and noticed that the stunt actors had a side-turning motion while jumping, as if they had glanced unintentionally at a certain place.

Moving to the edge of the balcony, Director Zhang looked down, only to find nothing unusual.

"This is really strange." He called the camera team to continue shooting in this location, taking out his cell phone to contact new stunt actors.

He made several calls, but unfortunately, Xinhu had no suitable stunt actors available, and those from other provinces who had worked with Director Zhang wouldn’t arrive until the evening.

"Should we move on to the next scene first?" Bai Xian also walked in, having heard some discussions within the crew and wanting to stabilize everyone’s mood to resume work quickly.

"Daytime shooting wasn’t successful, and shooting more dangerous scenes at night will be even more difficult," Director Zhang was worried, but there was no other choice for now. "Let’s go shoot the scene where the nine of you witness the death first. Has Little Tong adjusted his emotions yet?"

Bai Xian was somewhat helpless. "He used to always be called a genius, and everyone always pampered him. The result was that Han Fei’s acting had a significant impact on him. They’re peers, and now he’s a bit stimulated, so he just wants to break through in acting."

"Acting isn’t so easy to break through, but it’s good that he’s willing. Have him come over quickly, his character isn’t that complex." Some directors care about the plot, others like big scenes, but Director Zhang’s films mostly focus on actors, valuing them highly.

While Director Zhang and Bai Xian were talking, Han Fei stood on the balcony, closed his eyes, and pressed the switch in his Brain Sea related to memory.

His own emotions and consciousness gradually settled in the depths of his Brain Sea, carefully savoring every sentence in Writer’s books.

The script was processed the day after tomorrow, adding personal emotions from the playwright and the psychologist, while the original novel was written by Spider himself.

All the characters, all the plotlines, all the stories were Spider’s cognizance of the world.

In his book, lied the most genuine version of himself.

The Meat Factory next to the family quarters had been restored, and if one didn’t look at the abandoned buildings in the distance, the scene Han Fei saw would be the same as what Spider saw.

Touching the yellowed pages of the book with his fingers, Han Fei wanted to get into the character of Spider, but suddenly, the events of the previous night surged into his mind.

In the real Beast Alley, bodies piled up, giving off a stench, like an eternal maze one could never escape; at every turn, one could encounter monsters with pig faces and human bodies, driven by hunger...

At this thought, a sudden pain struck Han Fei’s Brain Sea, and as if a nerve had been touched, he reached up to cover his head.

Ripping open bodies, shredding them to pieces, the cruel Monster swung the Bone Chopper in its hand.

As the sharp knife hacked toward the child, beneath the shattered mask, a pig face dominated by hunger was revealed.

The blood-red eyeballs bulged outward, and Han Fei saw the expression beneath the Pig-faced Mask.

The features of the Monster were indeed animal-like, but that fierce and wicked expression was something Han Fei had only seen on human faces.

"Were the monsters in Beast Alley originally like this? Where did the first monsters come from?"

Flipping open the book in his hands, Han Fei opened the Spider’s heart.

"They wore the Pig-faced Masks, now I wonder if it’s because they’ve worn the masks so long that even if they took them off, they still remain monsters."

"I often see people devouring something, from which golden grease flowed, rich and sweet. The elderly inside the building called it ’time,’ yet the Ghost under the bed said it was ’goodwill.’"

"When they could no longer find that thing, they began to carve the flesh from each other, greedily eating the fattiest parts without caring about their already deformed bodies."

"I sometimes feel this world is easy to understand, yet I find myself gradually beginning to see another world."

"These two worlds are juxtaposed in my eyes, as if night and day."

"I gradually do not know where I belong, I am lost in the alleys, I see more and more people around me also putting on masks, as if by doing so, they would have no pain other than hunger."

"The scale that carries two worlds began to tilt, and my body is slowly sliding to one side, not knowing whether I embraced a world or if a world abandoned me."

The writing of the Spider was quite unique, akin to the delusions of a Madman, and had Han Fei not entered the Beast Alley of the Deep World, he would have found it hard to understand the secrets hidden behind the words.

"Those Pig-faced Monsters seem to have once been human! They wore the Pig-faced Masks for so long that they themselves turned into Pig-faced Monsters!"

Thinking about this, Han Fei discovered another question, "Why would they wear the Pig-faced Masks? Could it be that in Beast Alley, wearing a mask means you won’t be attacked? But that’s not true either! The book mentions that the Pig-faced Monsters would carve flesh off each other!"

Han Fei couldn’t understand, he felt that he should get a mask when he had the chance.

Picking up the book "Beast Alley," Han Fei had completely entered the Spider’s role, and he began to cooperate with Director Zhang and other actors in the scenes.

With his full Physical Strength, Han Fei’s Acting could be described as horrifying, with no issues like forgetting lines or stumbling, he got his part right in one go, and even the notoriously strict Director Zhang could find no fault.

The actors playing opposite him, from fresh faces to seasoned veterans, all felt great pressure, a mistake causing an NG was okay once and could be laughed off, but repeated NGs due to oneself wasn’t something even the most forgiving person could smile at.

The other eight actors, who had somewhat underestimated Han Fei before, now whenever they found out they were acting with him, immediately took the time to cultivate their emotions and rehearsed the lines over again.

Because of Han Fei’s presence, the overall shooting efficiency of the crew had definitely improved.

The sun was about to set, and the film crew had already taken out the lighting lamps, when the sound of wind chimes echoed in the Writer’s room, the third stunt actor finally arrived at the filming location.

Director Zhang personally checked all the safety devices and then explained the action essentials and desired effects to the actor, before having the actor go up to the fourth-floor balcony.

Unlike the previous times, this time Han Fei and many crew members also came to the fourth floor, everyone wanted to see firsthand if there would really be any supernatural events.

After changing clothes and applying makeup, when Han Fei walked onto the balcony, his back to everyone,

the stunt actor replaced Han Fei. He wore the same clothes as Han Fei, climbed up to the balcony, and began making final preparations.

All the camera positions were set up, and after receiving a signal, the stunt actor took a deep breath, his head unconsciously twisted to the side, as if he was looking at something; then he jumped toward the pre-discussed spot.

There were no problems with the take-off, but when he exerted force, the stunt actor clearly restrained his power.

"What’s the matter?"

With the third stunt actor encountering issues and nightfall approaching, everyone started to recall the legends about this building and the various issues related to the Writer Spider.

"Is he alright? Are the injuries severe?" Director Zhang hurriedly looked toward the stunt actor, who was not seriously injured but seemed to have sustained some psychological trauma.

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

Hearing him say this, the room went silent, and everyone turned to look at Director Zhang.

The three stunt actors were from different places and didn’t know each other, but they all gave the same statement.

It felt as though there was a force trying to prevent Director Zhang from filming Spider’s story.

"Director..." Bai Xian came out, "How about we try using virtual technology? Technology is very advanced nowadays, and it can definitely be done more realistically than reality."

"More real than reality, but that’s not real." Director Zhang sighed softly, just about to discuss alternative approaches with the props team, when Han Fei came out.

"Do you also want to persuade me?"

"No." Han Fei silently stared at the fourth-floor room and said, "Stop looking for body doubles, let me jump."

His voice was low, but as soon as he spoke these words, everyone in the room shockingly looked at him.

"No way, what are you joking about? Absolutely not!" Director Zhang refused without a second thought.

"My physical strength is better than that of ordinary stunt actors, and I have some experience in doing dangerous actions." Han Fei was not lying—in Jin Sheng’s Manager mission, he had jumped directly from the fourth floor to the air conditioning unit on the third floor without any safety gear.

If it really came down to filming dangerous action movies, Han Fei indeed had more experience than the majority of stunt actors, after all, his Acting had no NG, only success.

The other actors nearby were also startled by Han Fei’s words; only now did they understand how this young man without any company backing had made it to this point.

Some actors were even reluctant to recite their lines, yet this actor dared to attempt actions that even stunt actors would not easily try.

What is dedication? This is dedication!

"It’s nearly dark, Director, let me give it a try." Han Fei wanted to find out what those three stunt actors had seen, and besides, he still needed to go home and play games later that evening; dragging it out was not an option.

After assessing Han Fei’s physical condition, Director Zhang reluctantly agreed, he was inwardly quite nervous.

The contract clearly did not require the actors to undertake such dangerous tasks, but Han Fei was the first actor to volunteer to do so; after so many years of filming, it was the first time Director Zhang felt genuine admiration for an actor from the bottom of his heart.

Han Fei had already memorized the action essentials. After checking all the safety devices four times, he began the scene.

Without using a stunt double, he walked in Spider’s room, everything had been restored, at this moment he was Spider.

The boundaries of reality had blurred, as consciousness and soul plunged, Spider would personally kill the old self who remained in reality, sending his primary Personality deep into the consciousness, launching a deadly game with the other Personalities.

Standing at the edge of the balcony, Han Fei slowly spread his arms,

Without nervousness, without panic, Han Fei had completely become Spider.

After receiving the director’s signal, Han Fei looked toward the target point, but just then, his gaze seemed to capture something.

Turning his head slightly, there was a mirror placed on the third floor, and it seemed another person was about to jump from the building in the reflection.

His eyes saw it, but Han Fei’s heart was not affected; he had seen too many horrifying things before, the scene in the mirror could not even stir a slight ripple in his heart.

He leapt out!

The soul in plunge, the consciousness detaching, his body hit by branches, the sound of wind rushing into his ears,

Yet even in such a situation, Han Fei’s expression was still the same as the Writer’s—no fear was visible on his face, just a hint of sadness.

The camera captured this perfect moment, Han Fei had amazed everyone on the set.

He had accomplished tasks that stunt actors dared not easily attempt, and he had done it better than any of them.

People even saw in him the once presence of Spider.

It was painful, yet not hopeless; his eyes were full of sadness, yet it seemed he firmly believed in something.