Disaster Artist

Chapter 4 "Gaze"

After 12 hours of intense work, Colin collapsed on the bed with eyes blank, and it took more than ten minutes before he slowly got up.

The relationship between an off-duty migrant worker and his bed is like a mobile phone with 1% battery capacity and a power socket.

[I just got off work and my fingers are overheated. I won’t call tonight.Gu Gu Gu]

He posted in the Apocalypse of Dawn group that he would not go to another world to do evil tonight.

Just find some dream movies to watch.

Colin lay back on the bed and put on his virtual glasses.After flipping through a few pages of apps, he opened the Dream Corner.

Among the three major dream platforms, Golden Apple is the trump card of Eden Entertainment. The materials are novel and high-quality, and the cost is expensive.Red Flash focuses on being completely free, with loose censorship, and covers all the most popular themes at the moment. It is large in volume but highly homogeneous.

Dream Corner is mainly based on a paid model, but the price is low. Most of them are the works of small studios and personal dream photographers, focusing on gold panning in the snow.

The combined traffic of Golden Apple and Dream Corner is less than one-tenth of that of Red Flash, but Colin Block will not choose the latter.

His own work is closely related to Red Flash. He is responsible for the promotion of the works of several small studios and spends all day thinking about business passwords.Covers, tags, and copywriting must all be used to attract traffic.

He opened a membership, so the advertisement was only 1 minute long.

Colin reached out toward the ceiling and pulled at the popular recommendations.Most of them are about color and violence, which is the same everywhere.

"Red Graffiti" is a prison escape theme, and the memory material comes from a serious criminal equipped with an R-class controlled prosthetic body.It seems quite exciting.

But, 16 credits?Then why didn't he go see the golden apples.

He refreshed the interface wordlessly, and a newcomer's recommended work appeared in the corner of the homepage, "Gaze".

A level 1 account with less than 50 views. You can tell at a glance that the push was purchased by the author himself.Low-traffic push has a clear price tag, and creators can pay money directly to Dream Corner in the background.

Colin knew this very well. He had published works here before, but later he recognized the reality in time and changed the track.

There is only one big black eye on the cover of the simple work, but it is quite exquisitely done.

【gaze

Posted by: 囸梦Lv.1
Genre: Fantasy; super short story

Source of material: Ordinary people’s dreams

Introduction: You visited a nostalgic art museum alone in the evening and met a special guest.
Preview: No (very short story)

Note: Light horror and thriller elements; it is recommended to use immersive mode to watch
Price: 1]

Rare dream material can be yours for just one dollar.Colin decided to test the poison himself.

The light horror elements, combined with the name cover, are nothing more than scary elements with eyes.He has even seen mental illness dreams, so he doesn't have to worry about this.

He turned on the immersion mode and pulled out the data cable to connect to the interface on the back of his head.The audio-visual effects are significantly improved in immersion mode, and other senses can be simulated to a certain extent.Of course, it is definitely not as good as the virtual cabin.

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Colin raised his head slightly, and in front of him was a tall statue.

She wore pure black long gloves, and her forearms blended into the black curtain behind her.

A long skirt made of white sheets wrapped around her legs, and the rough fabric had a plaster-like texture.

She tilted her slender neck to one side, with passionate emotions hidden under her deliberately serious eyes.

That elegant and beautiful posture reminds people of Venus with a broken arm at a glance. No, the "fallen" Venus.

He noticed the sign below the statue:
【Isabella ("Dream in Paris")】

He looked away from Isabella and walked a few meters to the right.

Colin can feel "himself" moving, but he cannot actually control it. He can only experience it from a first-person perspective.

In front of him is still a tall statue, an actor looking back, with outstanding temperament.

His face was heavily smeared with white powder, and the corners of his eyes were painted with red rouge. There was indescribable sadness in his eyes as he looked back.

It was a sense of tragedy as the drama came to an end, as if it was about to tear people apart.

[Cheng Dieyi ("Farewell My Concubine")]

It's the Film Art Museum.The purpose of making such a tall statue and matching the dark environment is to restore the atmosphere of the cinema screen of the last century.

Continuing to move forward, he saw a prisoner wearing a pillory, staring at a young female detective.

[Hannibal and Clarice ("Silence of the Lambs")]

Looking up, there is a giant holographic image suspended on the dome of the art museum. The deep black sphere is surrounded by a blazing white gold halo, a dazzling river of light. [Black Hole Gargantua ("Interstellar")]

The classic tango dance song "One Step Away" was playing in the empty corridor.

As a 1-dollar dream movie, the scenes are pretty good.The models used have passed the copyright protection period, and the author knows how to save money.

But the special guest introduced has not been seen yet.

He noticed the vague sense of sight behind him and turned around, but saw no other tourists.

Continuing forward, his eyes swept over the crazy clown in the purple suit, the old man holding a cricket cage on the dragon chair, and the fighting hand holding soap leaning against the exhausted office worker.

Sight, more.

He turned his head frequently, but there were only still statues on both sides of the corridor.

This subtle sense of sight is difficult to create intentionally, and is a real experience extracted by the author.Colin thought silently.

The oppressive feeling in his sight became stronger and stronger as time passed, and his pace became faster and faster. The unknown pressure drove him to the exit at the end of the corridor.

The bright tango dance ended quietly.He heard the faint sound of water, extremely faint.

He was about to run, breathing rapidly in the dull air, as statues in thousands of poses passed by him.

Tiny sounds of water came from all directions.Overlapping like rising tides.

A soothing female voice sounded in the cloister, like a meandering river, neither happy nor sad.

The sudden intrusion of a human voice made Colin shudder and he quickly adjusted his lying position.

He stood at the end of the corridor, panting.He discovered the source of the sound, an artificial curtain of water pouring down from the dome.

There must be something strange hidden behind this, and he was ready to be frightened.

The water curtain becomes dense, with a light mist emitting from the surface, giving you a refreshing feeling.

The soft beam of light hit the water curtain, and the picture was blurry, but became clear after a few seconds.

On the screen, a young man stopped in front of the tall statue and looked at Isabella, who was like a goddess of beauty.

The man admired the statues one by one, looking up at the projection of the black hole above his head.

The picture played on the water screen has a large number of frames removed, giving it a unique texture, and some moments are like freeze frames.

Colin was a little fussy.The man on the water screen is "himself", but in the opposite direction.

The man walked quickly, looking behind him in panic from time to time.I seemed to see something on the flashing screen.

The statues on both sides of the cloister have undergone some changes.It's their shadows, the huge shadows they cast on the wall that flow and spread.

The man stopped in front of the water curtain at the end of the corridor and faced Colin behind the water curtain.

He saw that behind him, white eyes opened in the deep and quiet black shadows.

He turned his head violently, but everything was normal in the art museum.

On the water screen, with the appearance of those eyes, all the statues of the girl, the actor, the doctor, the detective, the clown, the emperor, the office worker, the godfather, the gangster, the farmer, and the pianist were injected with an abnormal vitality.

The female voice's aria ended abruptly at its highest pitch, leaving only the cascading sound of waves.

At this moment, all eyes were staring at the person in the painting, and also at Colin.That sense of solemnity is as solid as a rock.

He raised his head, and the man on the water curtain also raised his head.The black tide overflows the dome and flows towards the spectacular holographic model.

In the center of the black hole Gargantua, a huge eye slowly opened, staring at the humans who were looking up at him.

Outside the water curtain, everything in the art museum was as usual, but Colin could feel countless eyes staring at him, including the heavy gazes in the black hole above his head.

On both sides of the water curtain, two completely different worlds reflect each other.

His limbs were extremely stiff, and feelings of admiration and madness swept through his brain.The whole world seemed to be filled with only the eyes staring into him.

He raised his right hand tremblingly, and the tip of his index finger touched the surface of the water curtain extremely slowly.

One second, two seconds, three seconds. Time becomes extremely long, with no end in sight.

Until the moment when the fingertips touch the water, everything disappears, like a dream and a shadow.

　There is a little yellow civet downstairs that is very close to me. I saw a little swelling in its flanks two days ago. I didn’t know if it was inflammation or some other reason, so I mentioned it in the rescue group.The next day, a kind-hearted aunt took it to the pet hospital for treatment, and the eggs were saved at the same time.When the kitten was discharged from the hospital, my friendship with him remained unbreakable.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)