C15 — Strange Tales By The Lakeside
by UntamedSZhuo Yu came back to his senses from the sharp pain in his brain, he covered his chest as if the memories and resentment had condensed into a hideous beast with sharp teeth and claws that was about to break out of his body in the next second.
He kept on trembling, and even though he was strong-willed, he couldn’t help but be infected by the character, just wanting to tear open the chests of those moralistic, human-faced beasts.
The BOSS was a bit shocked by Zhuo Yu’s current appearance, and he wrapped his arms around the memory-suffering man, gently patting the other’s back.
He didn’t expect that his upside-down narration would cause such a strong reaction from Zhuo Yu, who really remembered.
“I’m fine.” Zhuo Yu took a deep breath. “So am I now, a human or a ghost?”
Without hesitation, he took the fork out of the lattice space and quickly cut his finger.
Blood dripped out.
“I’m human.”
In fact, the belief in reincarnation wasn’t only prevalent in Asia. The United States, where he was currently located, had once had sensational cases of reincarnation that stirred up the world, such as when a man named Allen Lee was able to recall that he had gone through sixteen reincarnations as an Egyptian pharaoh, a Hebrew slave, a duke, and even an alien. And a four-year-old boy who routinely told baseball stories from the last century had been identified as the reincarnation of a baseball superstar.
Could ……
Zhuo Yu recalled his identity as “traveler.” In fact, the system didn’t swindle him; perhaps the traveler was really just a traveler. In his last obsession in his previous life, he once thought that it would be great if he only travelled to the Golden Lake. That was why, in this life, he happened to come to the Golden Lake for sightseeing and gradually recalled everything under the supernatural power of the Golden Lake.
[Character Puzzle Unlocked: 100%]
[Side quest: Find out the true identity of the traveler. Achieved. A reward will be issued upon settlement!]
[Current Character Panel Update: Actor Zhuo Yu, playing the character “Zhuo Yu” (A)]
[Zhuo Yu: The true owner of the Golden Lake, after being brutally murdered by the Spring Town church, was also subjected to a transcendence ceremony by a priest, which caused him to be unable to stay in the Golden Lake and enter reincarnation. Returning again, Zhuo Yu recovers his memories with the help of the Golden Lake, and this time he will bring the anger and resentment of his two lives to make the murderer pay the price he deserves.]
[Characteristics: intelligent, strong-willed, superior appearance; possesses an unparalleled amount of film viewing and knowledge; and is not easily frightened. Weaknesses, on the other hand, are paralysis of the lower limbs, being unable to walk normally, and extremely poor locomotive power.]
Zhuo Yu stared at the panel in disbelief.
Actor “Zhuo Yu” was playing the role of “Zhuo Yu.” What kind of statement was that? He didn’t believe that this was a coincidence, and he didn’t believe that anyone else who entered Strange Tales by the Lakeside in the future would play the role of “Zhuo Yu.”.
Because that character’s appearance, features, and personality were almost identical to his own, it was practically tailor-made.
Suddenly he remembered what Asha had said—that “Zhuo Yu” was unique and special.
Zhuo Yu suddenly cast a probing look at Asha, but Asha didn’t notice; he just held Zhuo Yu’s hand with some sadness, like fifty years ago; he gently licked away the bloo-d bead on his fingertips and then pressed the intact half of his face to Zhuo Yu’s palm.
“Are you comforting me?” Zhuo Yu sighed. He thought that Asha was the one who needed comforting more, right? Asha was all alone, full of hatred. He had lived for half a century in this Golden Lake, which was said to be very big, yet it was also as small as a prison cage.
In what mood did he live every day?
“I get it; I’m the character, and the character is me, so you’re mine too.” Zhuo Yu was self-consciously very shameless, and he was tolerant of his behaviour and didn’t want to change it.
He picked up the Boss’s chin with his index finger and smiled. “Asha is mine!”
So no matter whether it was the Spring Town church or the actors, it wouldn’t be that easy to hurt the big wolf dog he had fallen in love with so easily at first sight.
The boss froze then he responded, “I’ve always been yours.”
[Is this still a horror film, please?]
[Silently shed single dog tears.]
[[Come on, Beauty and the Beast is here! ! ! 】
[Hey, you guys are too naive, right? First of all, let me prove myself. I am an actor analyst on the Starfire forum, and in my opinion, Zhuo Yu is not in love with BOSS at all.]
[? Explain.]
[Err, a god is here; his comment is red! He’s an officially certified analyst!]
[I’ve delved deeper into the books that Zhuo Yu has published and found that he has a serious tendency towards mental illness. Firstly, he’s obsessive-compulsive and an extreme perfectionist, and I think it’s because of that that he’s obsessed with solving the mystery and wants to improve the completion of the film. Secondly, it’s not hard to see that Zhuo Yu has his own opinion on horror films, and according to my analysis, his favourite character to write is the type of character that is the boss, and this film can be said to be pitched in the right direction.]
[More! Continue!]
[Wow, there are so many newcomers in this film, yet it actually managed to attract a great god. I thought analysts would only talk about popular stars; I’m squatting here.]
[I personally think that when Zhuo Yu met the BOSS, it was more like seeing the character of his pen come to reality kind of love; the BOSS in his eyes is just a symbol of a perfect image. Would you guys fall in love with the character you wrote about?]
[But the boss should really like Zhuo Yu; he’s a bit pitiful.]
[Pitiful BOSS +1]
[Wait and see, a twisted personality like his will not let the perfect image he loves get hurt; maybe you will meet the first actor who protects the boss.]
In the on-set flat, the officially certified analyst Luo Musheng pushed up his glasses and placed actor Zhuo Yu in his most noteworthy column. It wasn’t because Zhuo Yu was so strong, but because the man was so interesting.
Luo Musheng had a lot more information that he had analysed, but he wasn’t going to share it with the viewers.
[Private Chat Channel]
[Luo Xiaoou: Brother, I applied to go back to the real world; you were right, Zhuo Yu spent astronomical amounts of money every year to cure his legs before he entered the film set; he really had trouble accepting the fact that he’s disabled, which isn’t normal at all because he’s been like this since he was born; a normal person would have long ago learnt to resign themselves to their fate.]
[Luo Musheng: That’s right, it’s because he’s an extreme atypical perfectionist, right?]
[Luo Xiaoou: That’s why his wish when he entered the film set was to recover his legs!]
[Luo Musheng: It’s good information that can be sold for a good price later on, but I’d rather make use of it myself.]
[Luo Xiaoou: It’s not so bad, is it, brother? It’s not like he’s as strong as Flying Scythe and the others.]
[Luo Musheng: Silly sister, you didn’t see the film, I’ve seen the first character ever that’s based on an actor, it is unusual, my intuition tells me that Zhuo Yu must have vital information, it might even be related to the Magistrate, only the Magistrate is qualified to vet a completely unreasonable character and accept the settings, this doesn’t fit the style of that group of old timers].
[Luo Xiaoou: You can’t be thinking of…]
[Luo Musheng: Yes, the rumoured one, Magistrate No. 1, he’s the only one who can do such a thing.]
[Luo Xiaoou: Do what you want; you’ve never made a mistake anyway.]
Luo Musheng stopped chatting confidentially with his sister and moved his eyes to the profile of another team.
Soul Hunter Union.
After a rookie actor completed their first film, they were eligible to form a team, which was commonly known as the actors’ union. There were all sorts of unions, but the simplest and roughest of them all were the Soul Hunters.
Everyone in it exalted personal force value, and the things they exchanged were all related to combat, and they specialised in hunting film bosses to get flame points, which could be considered a typical case of the rich and powerful.
This time, Soul Hunters had sent four team members, and if he wasn’t wrong, it should be those four exorcists.
This was even more abnormal. He had watched “Strange Tales by the Lakeside” before; not to mention that he had never seen the character Zhuo Yu before, he had also never seen the town mayor/cult leader go to find exorcists. Normally, the backup actors would be come as students after the four students died, but the Soul Hunters were directly arranged as new characters.
He had heard that special films didn’t allow normal magistrates to modify settings, but it didn’t say new settings couldn’t be added.
Was there a possibility that the four exorcists who were going to ki-ll Zhuo Yu and the Boss were a kind of antivirus in disguise? Zhuo Yu had an abnormal character and BOSS had the feelings for the actor, wasn’t that a bug?
“It’s so interesting; I didn’t think that after being on set for so long, I’d be able to see two magistrates go against each other.”
Luo Musheng couldn’t help but applaud; he wanted to see how the film ended—would the number one who stood on Zhuo Yu’s side win? Or would the magistrate who sent the Soul Hunters Union win?
Time was up, and Luo Musheng immediately switched the split screen to the side of the new actors.
“Then this exorcism will trouble the four of you.” With the image of a good mayor who was grateful and worried about the townspeople, Marcus grabbed the exorcist’s hand and shook it again and again.
“Please don’t worry; getting rid of demons is originally a priest’s duty.”
The four exorcists dignifiedly and solemnly promised the town mayor before heading to the Golden Lake under Zhou Wu’s leadership.
“Uncle Ma, don’t you find it strange? Why did they set us up with such powerful characters?” One of the members began to speak quietly to the captain as soon as they left: “I’ve never used such a strong character card before.”
The older captain chided him, “Shut up. If you want to live a long life on the set and under the hand of the magistrate, the most important thing is to just do things and not ask too many questions. The crocodile man this time is very strong and has no record of being k-illed, so bring your guard up.”
“Che, he hasn’t been k-illed because the number of screenings is small and the actors weren’t strong; since it’s us, we’ll definitely be able to get the first ki-ll.”
“That’s right, that crocodile man is strong, but he’s just a humanoid monster; can he be as scary as an alien?”
“Hahaha, when the time comes, the boss’s head must be given to me!”
Captain Ma Yuanan glared at this group of recalcitrant people. The uneasiness in his heart still lingered. This wasn’t right. Even a stronger boss he had gone against didn’t make him this nervous. Could it really be that he was getting old?
At the same time, Zhuo Yu also received a notification from the system.
[Pre-quest: Survive until dawn. Achieved.]
[Main quest update: Survive at the hands of the four exorcists.]
Zhuo Yu frowned. There was only one step to go. As long as he figured out what was going on with that Spring Town Church and took revenge on the murderer from back then, he might be able to pass the level. It seemed that the system sincerely didn’t want to make things easy for him.
Since he was on the side of the villain, it was only right that he would do his duty as a villain.
Zhuo Yu caressed the intimidating crocodile mask.
He would represent the evil forces of the Golden Lake against the “innocent” townspeople and the “righteous” priests.
It looked like there was going to be a tough fight.
TN:
Ooh, it’s getting intense.
As always, see ya tomorrow ✌️
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