Chapter 1

Before today, Ye Xiang could never have imagined that in just a fleeting moment, his life would undergo a complete and dramatic transformation.

At this moment, Ye Xiang found himself inside a gloomy wooden house.

And in this wooden house, he discovered that he was left with only his head!

In front of him, he saw his headless body, bound high up. Then, from the darkness, a chainsaw suddenly extended, started, and began sawing through his body!

Why... Is this a nightmare? But if it's a nightmare, why is it so vivid?

This unimaginable horror almost drove Ye Xiang mad. He truly hoped that everything before his eyes was an illusion, but the scene continued to unfold.

His body was continuously being sawed apart, his arms falling off first, followed by a gush of blood splashing onto his face. The warm blood gave him a real sense of touch!

This isn't a dream, nor an illusion!

The immense terror overwhelmed his mind, and then the chainsaw from behind began to saw his body in half! In the following moments, as the blood spurted out, many organs began to spill out: the heart, lungs, kidneys, intestines... all began to fall onto his head, and the blood soon soaked his head completely...

However... he couldn't even scream!

In the end, the body was completely dismembered, and Ye Xiang, looking at the scattered pieces of his own body, was on the verge of breaking down!

During this process, a flood of information surged into his mind. This information did not exist in his memory, but now it was being input into his mind as if by data.

At first, he couldn't believe the content of this information, but now he had no choice but to believe it. He shouted in his heart: I believe, I believe! Whatever I do, just don't do this anymore, don't do this anymore...

In the darkness, the chainsaw reappeared, and this time it was aimed at his head!

In that instant, his vision went black!

When he regained his sight, he found himself sitting in a bus!

This... What is going on? His body had returned to its original, unharmed state!

Looking out the window, he saw a very remote mountainous landscape. In the darkness, the scenery was clearly moving backward, as if the bus was speeding, but it felt as if time had stopped. There was no light inside the bus, but he could see that there were many people sitting inside.

However, he couldn't speak or move at all!

His memory drifted back ten minutes.

Ye Xiang was an ordinary office worker, working as an accountant in a company, living a regular 9-to-5 life.

Today, he worked overtime until around eight o'clock. Most people in the company had already left. Because the elevator was under maintenance recently, he took the stairs. As he descended, the surroundings gradually became dark.

When he reached about the third floor, he noticed a piece of paper on the ground. A piece of paper wasn't unusual, but perhaps because he was bored, Ye Xiang bent down and picked it up.

The paper turned out to be a movie poster! On the poster was a bus, with a dark background and countless ghostly figures visible. The poster had four blood-red words: "The Horror Bus," and below it was a detailed cast list. Initially, Ye Xiang thought it was a promotional poster for a new horror movie, but then he saw that a space in the cast list suddenly opened up, and his name, "Ye Xiang," appeared!

Then, he felt a powerful force pulling him, and the surroundings changed instantly. In a moment, he found himself in the terrifying wooden house, seeing his head severed and his body dismembered! After that, he appeared inside the bus.

He then began to organize the information in his mind.

He was now in the world of the horror movie "The Horror Bus" on the poster! Picking up the poster meant he had to shoot a series of real horror movies for the "Hell Cinema." In these horror movies, he would encounter real ghosts and curses, and as an actor, he would have to face all the terror according to the script and find a way to survive until the end of the movie.

For the actors selected, there was no other choice; they had to complete the movie, or they would die!

The first scene of the movie began.

Ye Xiang could now move. He was to play a character named Xia Yun. The movie was about six university classmates, including the male lead Luo Haosheng and the female lead Kang Xueyan, who went on a trip and boarded this tourist bus. The movie had just started, and according to the script, many terrifying things would happen next: the bus would break down, and they would be trapped in the remote mountains. Since they were in the mountains, there was no signal, and with the night deepening, they decided to spend the night on the bus and wait until the next day to find someone to tow the bus.

The movie revolved around the bus that stopped in the mountains at midnight...

At night, most people were asleep, but the male lead, Luo Haosheng, was awakened from a nightmare. In his nightmare, the blood-covered driver was shaking his body! When he woke up, he saw that the driver was indeed dead in the driver's seat! At that moment, it was exactly midnight, marking the end of the first scene. The script for the subsequent scenes had not been revealed, so Ye Xiang didn't know what would happen next.

At this moment, he looked at the driver's seat and felt great sympathy for the actor playing the driver. From his important position as the driver, he must be a seasoned actor; otherwise, if he were a newcomer, sitting in the driver's seat without knowing how to drive or panicking would mean the end of the scene.

Ye Xiang took a deep breath. He couldn't imagine such a thing happening, but the information in his mind was not a fantasy. The scene of his body being sawed apart was not an illusion but a demonstration by the cinema that this was not a human force. They could separate his head from his body and still keep him alive, and even restore his body to its original state! Therefore, no matter how unbelievable it was, he had to follow the rules given by the cinema and continue acting! Otherwise, the terrifying scene of his body being dismembered would happen again, and this time, it would be real death!

He had become an actor in this real horror movie, and the script for the first scene was already in his mind, with every line and action firmly remembered, even the punctuation marks.

Next, he found that he could move.

Of course, he didn't dare to scream. The terrifying scene had completely shattered his soul, and even the most psychologically strong person would break down seeing their own body being dismembered while still conscious. He should have felt nauseous, but he only felt a tightness in his chest.

The people around him were also actors in this movie.

In front of him, the male and female leads, Luo Haosheng and Kang Xueyan, were sitting. The cinema had already transmitted this basic information into his mind. He remembered that the first two names on the cast list of the movie poster were "Yang He" and "Tang Hailan." Could these be their real names?

At this moment, the male lead, Luo Haosheng, spoke, of course, reciting his lines.

"Xueyan, this might be our last trip before graduation."

Ye Xiang clearly remembered every line of the script in his mind, including the lines of others! The line spoken by Luo Haosheng was the first line of the entire movie!

Ye Xiang immediately began to adjust his emotions. The intense fear of death made him calm down, and he had to enter the performance state immediately! He had no doubt about the terror of the cinema and knew he had to continue acting to avoid death!

"Yes," the female lead, Kang Xueyan, replied, "This might be our graduation trip."

The plot had begun. The two actors in front spoke their lines calmly, without any sense of recitation, leading Ye Xiang to believe that they were not first-time actors in such real horror movies!

Next to Ye Xiang sat a young man with a flat head. His character was named Zhang Nianzhou, a supporting role in the movie, and a close friend of Xia Yun (the character Ye Xiang was playing). The other two university students were sitting in the seats next to them, a young man with a mustache and a beautiful curly-haired woman. Their character names were Du Yan and Jiang Youlin.

At this moment, it was clear that Zhang Nianzhou and Du Yan were extremely pale and terrified, indicating that they were also new actors, while Jiang Youlin seemed more composed. Could she be a seasoned actor?

"These past two days haven't been very fun," Zhang Nianzhou said, his voice clearly nervous and lacking any emotion, as if he were reading from a book. This confirmed to Ye Xiang that Zhang Nianzhou was also a new actor. Had he also experienced the same terror?

According to the plot, the bus would soon break down. Now, everyone was undoubtedly very tense because they would encounter real ghosts here!

Thinking about this, everyone was extremely terrified. If not for the clear lines in their minds, they would be too scared to speak.

At this moment, Xia Yun said his first line in the script: "Yeah, I wonder how long it will take to reach the hotel at the foot of the mountain! Sigh, we're going back tomorrow! I feel like we haven't had enough fun!"

Regardless, the first priority now was to survive. Since the curse was real, he had to focus on following the script in his mind. Of course, he read the lines without any emotion, but the curse of the horror movie did not require high acting skills. Or rather, acting was not a necessary condition for survival.

At this moment, Zhang Nianzhou spoke again: "Xia Yun, you still haven't had enough fun?"

It was a normal conversation, but Zhang Nianzhou said it with a mournful face, his voice like reading a college entrance exam failure notice. Compared to him, Ye Xiang had better psychological resilience.

He understood that the other person, like him, had become an actor in this real horror movie and knew they would encounter real ghosts. Anyone would be terrified, and not breaking down on the spot was already good. Now, they were forced to recite their lines under the threat of death, but it was impossible for them to act naturally.

"Yes... how to put it? It's not quite the same as what the travel guide described," Ye Xiang's tone became more stable. He realized that fear wouldn't solve the problem. To survive, he had to follow the rules. Fortunately, their path to survival was not blocked, and knowing the upcoming plot was a significant advantage! First, he had to survive this so-called real horror movie, and then consider other things!

At this moment, Jiang Youlin, sitting across from him, also spoke. Ye Xiang, who had the script clearly in his mind, knew what she would say.

Surprisingly, her voice was very pleasant.

"Xueyan, you and Haosheng, are you getting close to a good thing?"

After Jiang Youlin's line, the female lead, Kang Xueyan, turned around and smiled, saying, "Hehe, we... are not in a hurry. Haosheng wants to finish his studies first."

At this moment, Kang Xueyan turned completely, allowing Ye Xiang to see her face clearly. She was indeed a very beautiful woman. Could it be that her appearance qualified her to be the movie's female lead? The male lead, Luo Haosheng, also smiled and said, "Our parents have already met. I think we can have the wedding soon after graduation."

Kang Xueyan's smile grew, and her acting was very natural, confirming to Ye Xiang that she was definitely not a new actor! No one could smile after seeing their own body!

Xia Yun was just a supporting role, and the next dialogue focused on the male and female leads, Luo Haosheng and Kang Xueyan. He didn't need to do anything but look out the bus window, rapidly thinking of a strategy. Honestly, he only had the script for the first scene, so he knew the upcoming terrifying and bizarre events and who would die first. But this information alone was not valuable. The script also noted in red that they must stay on the bus even after it broke down, not even leaving their seats.

He knew the dialogue of the male and female leads, so he didn't listen to it. Instead, he analyzed the current situation. In ten minutes, the bus would break down. They would temporarily camp on the bus due to the remote location and late hour. However, at the end of the first scene, the driver would die first!

Of course, Ye Xiang didn't think he would survive in the script. Through observation, he clearly saw that he, Zhang Nianzhou, and Du Yan had no distinct characteristics, typical extras who would be forgotten even if they died. Although they were classmates of the leads, their fate as extras was inevitable. Luo Haosheng and Kang Xueyan would have a chance to live longer, but he was different!

So, if the script set him to die, would he definitely die, with no way to change it?

Actually, no. Even in this real horror movie, there was a chance to survive. This rule was clearly stated in his mind from the beginning.

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