Chapter 52 052. I didn't threaten you, did I?

  Jiangcheng Industrial Headquarters, the lights are sparse.

  As a company whose main business is real estate, Jiangcheng Industrial has no culture of working overtime. After get off work, except for a few departments, most of the employees have left.

  Located in the chairman's lounge on the high floor, Song Yunyan was sitting on the sofa, with her secretary Li Zijian standing beside her, and Lu jian was sitting diagonally opposite. A projection screen was hung on the wall of the lounge, ready to play Lu jian's video.

   "This video is about twelve minutes long, not too long."

  Lu Jian casually explained.

  Secretary Li Zijian picked up the remote control and pressed play.

   "Is this another horror theme?"

  Song Yunyan asked curiously, she saw that the camera was similar to surveillance, as if she was in a car.

   "I don't think it's very scary, just like Indiana Jones, adventure theme!"

   Lu jian immediately replied.

   "?"

  Song Yunyan was stunned.

  She turned her gaze to the projection screen.

  Twelve minutes later, the video ends.

  The expressions of the first two viewers of this video, Song Yunyan and Li Zijian, are completely different.

   "Zi Jian, please tell me your impressions."

  Song Yunyan rubbed her temples and asked the secretary to speak.

  When Li Zijian heard this, his expression was a little joyful.

"The production of this video is quite good. It has a horrifying atmosphere and the special effects are also very realistic. At the beginning, the monster appeared and disappeared, which made people feel nervous. Later, the appearance of the fish completely forced the audience's emotions to the edge of the cliff. And in the last paragraph, when the protagonist escapes from birth and sees his teammates smiling, there is really an illusion that his heartbeat is half a beat slower."

  He analyzed it for a while, probably because he wanted to show his appreciation ability in front of Song Yunyan.

   After all, the boss, who usually doesn't have any entertainment activities, suddenly became interested in this kind of video. It couldn't be because Lu Lian is handsome, he must want to invest in this field and make more flowers.

   Now asking for your own opinion must also be to see how well the people under you know about this field.

   Fortunately, I let myself be careful when I was looking for Lu Jian in the middle of the night, and then I took a little tutoring on the creation and analysis of horror movies, so I don't show my timidity now.

"By the way, the idea of the plant growing out of the body is really good, and the special effects are very real. It makes me feel itchy all over. The seemingly inconspicuous plant suddenly becomes a predator. People have a sense of insecurity that is broken every day, I like this style very much!"

  Listening to Li Zijian's analysis, Lu Jian nodded.

   Actually, he didn't think that much.

   I simply edited the shots that I thought would be attractive.

  I didn't seriously design and think about breaking the daily insecurities.

"The white humanoid monster, I think, is also very good. It looks like a human, but in fact it looks different from a human. This should be called the uncanny valley effect, so when its mouth is opened and its tongue sticks out, It makes your scalp tingle."

  Li Zijian was eloquent, which made Lu Jian feel embarrassed.

   "As for the shortcomings, whether it is the grassland, the mutated humanoid monsters, or the fish flying in the sky, they are all too surreal. For Chinese people, those ghosts may be more frightening."

   "Then the eating and broadcasting scene in the middle is somewhat different in style from the rest of the video. Although it looks very attractive, I don't think it matches well."

  Finally, the secretary also pointed out the shortcomings of Lu Jian's video.

"Thank you for the critique,I learned so much from this."

  Lu Jian nodded in agreement, which made Li Zijian's expression brighter again.

   "You go out first."

  Song Yunyan didn't comment, and only let Li Zijian leave, and she and Lu Jian were alone.

   After Li Zijian carefully closed the door and left, Song Yunyan remained silent.

  In the lounge with the lights on, Lu Jian saw that Song Yunyan's hands were trembling slightly.

  This charming chairman has never seen such a big storm, but he still feels scared when faced with what Lu Jian's video shows.

  That's not to say that these things look scary or that Lu jian's editing techniques are unique and superb, but that these images remind her of that night twenty years ago.

   "Where did you film these things? The dead in this video were eaten like this?"

  Song Yunyan didn't ask Lu jian about the authenticity of these videos, because she knew very well that this must be Lu jian's personal experience.

  What she is most curious about now is where these things exist.

When I think of the fact that there are plants that can grow between flesh and blood and turn humans into plants, I think of those monsters that look like humans and have terrible mouthparts that may attack me in the night, and I think of those huge, wandering creatures. Seeing the fish in mid-air devouring human limbs, Song Yunyan felt a tremor from the bottom of her heart.

   That's the fear of the unknown.

   "You can rest assured that this is not something from this world."

  Lu Jian did not explain the abandoned capital and the quiet place in detail. For someone like Song Yunyan who has been in contact with related things, she should be able to imagine some more, and the more she knows, the more dangerous it may be for her.

   "As for the dead, I regret not being able to save them."

   "Not of this world."

  Song Yunyan chewed the word repeatedly, she looked at Lu Jian, and felt that this young man couldn't see through it at all.

   "Don't you feel scared when you face these monsters?"

   "How should I put it? In fact, when encountering such a thing, there is no time to feel fear. If you don't move, you will die directly."

  Lu jian said naturally.

   "The reason why you shoot these videos is also because of what happened 'over there'?"

   Song Yunyan asked again in confirmation.

   "Of course, that's why I came to you, Ms. Song."

  Lu Jian paused, then continued.

   "You are afraid of the content of the video and the monsters in it, right?"

  Song Yunyan nodded hesitantly.

  "The reason why you are afraid is because these are unknown things, or mutations of things that exist in reality, which will make you feel that you have come to a strange place, which will generate natural fear."

  Lu jian imitated the example and edited what Li Zijian said just now.

   "These things, when shown to other people, will also have a similar sense of horror, and the reason why I made the video is to let people know about these things in advance."

"Think about it, from ancient times to the present, human imagination has created many monsters, such as ghosts and monsters, but while these things bring fear to people, they also make some people accept their existence, thus weakening fear."

   "So, I think that as long as these hopeful images can be broadcast to the world, although it may bring fear for a while, after a long time, people will gradually accept these abnormal things and eventually eliminate fear."

   "The best way to eliminate fear is to face it. If similar monsters appear in the human world in the future, then humans who are prepared in advance will not fall into panic."

  Lu Jian said it so well that even he almost believed it.

  "You mean, those things could appear in this world?"

   Song Yunyan only captured this point.

  Reminiscent of the fact that the videos that Lu jian shot before were all in his own room and the Jiangcheng Grand Theater, it shows that there must be some weird things in this world.

  Perhaps, these mysterious and weird things are slowly recovering.

  In this case, money and power are difficult to contend with in front of such monsters. On the contrary, people with extraordinary power like Lu Jian may be the real thighs.

  Since this is the case, there is nothing wrong with spending some money to buy peace of mind and have a good relationship with Lu jian.

   Having personally experienced these things, Song Yunyan had an idea.

   "OK, I will invest in you"

  While answering, she looked at Lu jian, only to find that something was wriggling under the skin on the inside of Lu jian's arm.

  It's like the new shoots that are about to break out of the ground in the video.

  Song Yunyan felt her heart and lungs stopped.

   Noticing Song Yunyan's gaze, Lu Jian looked at his arm.

  He lifted up, saw the restless bump, and gently smoothed it out.

   "Please don't worry about it, Ms. Song, it's just a small problem. If you come out to mess around, you will always have to pay it back."

  Lu Jian showed a smile, which made Song Yunyan shiver uncontrollably.

   It's hard to describe whether those monsters are terrifying or the young man in front of him is more terrifying.

   "I didn't scare you, threatened you?"

   Lu jian politely confirmed Song Yunyan's investment.

"No no."

  Song Yunyan felt that her right hand seemed to be trembling more violently. She held it down with her left hand and shook her head again and again.

   "Then, happy cooperation."

  Lu Jian stretched out his right hand, and the wriggling thing under the skin flashed past.

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        (end of this chapter)