Chapter 965: 963: Deep Layer

Chapter 965: 963: Deep Layer

On the Moon, the director disappeared.

Lorrian couldn’t help but laugh, not out of happiness for joining the [Tenth Disaster] troupe, but as a pure laugh of self-mockery.

He had clearly already touched a godlike power not belonging to this universe, but still had to survive this ignobly, working between rival troupes in exchange for survival time.

This sense of suffocating indignation stirred the already restless chaos within Lorrian, causing tentacles of strange fish to sprout from his chest and back during his laughter, and even his whole face to ulcerate, revealing a brain core resembling the Moon.

"Lorrian."

With a shout from Yi Chen, the chaos instantly receded.

"Haha~ Look at you and me, how we’ve fallen to such a miserable state just to survive."

Yi Chen did not have this dignity-based anxiety, accepting reality calmly and ready to act, "I need you to help me with something."

"I can’t help. I’ve already signed a contract with the director; I’m just assisting the lighting technician to provide moonlight illumination in some special scenes. Any action to help you, even if just using moonlight to obscure the other party’s vision, would be considered a breach of contract.

"What I need is not that kind of help, but rather..."

When Yi Chen expressed his need for assistance, Lorrian squinted slightly and used the Moon Eyes to gaze at the living dead in front of him.

"You want to follow William’s path; in that case, you’ll never catch up to him."

"I’m just taking this opportunity to recover my ego."

"Ego... the inherent nature?"

Lorrian recalled when he first created the Illusion Dream Realm and saw another side of William, who was then Yi Chen, the hatred and malice were indeed very different from the present.

Lorrian nodded, "I think I understand, as long as that situation arises, I’ll do my best to assist."

Seeing that the two have almost finished their discussion, Lene, at some unknown time, quietly came up and gently tugged Yi Chen’s sleeve with her fingers, her expression very nervous.

"Um... can you practice acting with me tonight? I’ve never had such experience before. If I don’t perform well later, I wonder if it will hold you back."

"That’s easy. I’ll write down the basic character settings for Lorrian. Later, you just need to connect to the [Brain in a Vat] for illusion practice, and it will be much faster than me training you alone, and can even pre-embed the ’Witch’ character image in your brain." 𝐫ÂɴòBЁŠ

"Brain in a Vat~ It won’t extract my brain for soaking, will it?" Lene quickly covered her head, her face full of fear.

"It’s someone else’s brain, you just need to connect while lying in the bathtub.

Forget it, I’ll also connect, and rehearse in the Illusion Dream Realm in advance, striving to gain more recognition from the director and troupe with outstanding performances."

...

The night passed.

The next morning, Lene woke up from the bathtub, as if she had experienced a long time. Her entire state and eyes had fundamentally changed.

There was a hint of mischievous charm in her eyes, and even the clothes on her body became more revealing, deliberately exposing her shoulders.

Her steps out of the bathtub left enticing pools of dark footprints, she walked over to Yi Chen, reached out to touch, and gently kissed him.

The reason was simple,

Lene’s acting was really too poor, one night’s training was completely insufficient.

Out of desperation, they could only use the special effects of the Illusion Dream Realm to directly implant the ’Witch’ character into Lene’s brain, to be retrieved after the performance ended.

With four or five hours left until noon, unexpectedly, the director came again.

He immediately noticed the changes in Lene, nodding silently in approval of this method, after all, the character she was to portray still had quite a few scenes, and having no acting experience wasn’t ideal.

"Director, so early? Ready to bring us to the troupe for a trial scene in advance?"

"Yes~ It’s necessary to look at the script in advance. Of course, another reason is to move you there early because the troupe needs to shift to the Deep Layer.

Starting here directly isn’t too appropriate, in case some so-called deities come to cause trouble, it would be very annoying. Since you’ve signed the agreement with me, going straight to the Deep Layer to start filming is ideal."

"What do you mean by Deep Layer?"

"In your words, let’s call it the [Evil Abyss]. The entire lower plane is currently occupied by evil, and where we are going is a relatively deep territory uniquely for our troupe.

Once filming is complete, the movie will premiere from there, and as actors and assistant lighting technicians, you’ll have a chance to attend the new piece’s release party."

"Will it be dangerous? After all, we’re not evil."

"Of course not, you’re with the troupe, as long as our labor contract isn’t terminated, any malice wishing to harm you would be opposing our troupe."

"What if it’s a disaster?"

The director’s complexion changed slightly, "There are indeed extremely evil people among the Ten Disasters, but they shouldn’t conflict with you folks and me unless provoked or you hit their sore spot.

I believe you’re not such fools, so just stick to your jobs and don’t intentionally cause trouble."

"How long will filming take?"

"Cult films like ours usually wrap up within a month, but this script is somewhat different, with plenty of content, so it might take over a month."

"During filming, what about our accommodation and meals?"

"No need to worry... Although malice has eroded the lower plane’s World, the basic infrastructure remains, only the natives are affected or replaced.

Wearing the troupe’s badge will ensure accommodations in the best nearby hotels,

As for food, although it’s available outside, we still hope you eat boxed meals at the troupe. At least it’s safe and secure, ensuring you quickly get into character.

If you get food poisoning outside, affecting the filming progress, I won’t be polite with you."

"Okay."

The director looked at the Rolex on his wrist, "It’s getting late, follow me. You need to adapt more to the world below and the [evil] living there, after all, the film is for them to see."

With that, the director stepped on the Moon’s surface with the sole of his shoe,

Buzz!

A sense of weightlessness arose, and in an instant, everyone fell from the Moon into the real troupe interior,

Everyone here was busy, laying cables, setting the scene, adjusting lighting, sound testing, and so on.

Lorrian was immediately taken away by the lighting technician with a searchlight for a headlamp.

Yi Chen and Lene then received their beautiful scripts, the content was relatively undeveloped, many details demanded the actors’ spontaneous development.

At this moment,

Yi Chen suddenly felt a tremor in the ground, and in his view appeared a pair of size fifty-eight giant shoes, with a large hand reaching to crush his head.

Setting down the script, he looked up.

The visitor was the ’Murderer’ character’s actor, an honest and simple-looking Northern European big man.

"Hello, Mr. Yi! Please take care of me in the upcoming confrontation scenes, try not to kill me, and don’t get killed by me either.

Also, I’m grateful you killed the last ’Miles’ actor, allowing me this role opportunity.

I heard you cut him straight in half, really looking forward to that feeling."