Chapter 33 Escape from Death
Others only heard the sound, but Wang Baoqiang and Li Yixiang, who were walking at the front, saw with their own eyes a stone bigger than their heads, suddenly falling from less than one meter in front of them. .
The stone rolled again after it hit the ground, and stopped only twenty centimeters away from Baoqiang's feet!
The air and time seemed to have stagnated at this moment. Li Yixiang looked above his head with his mouth wide open, and Wang Baoqiang stared at his feet with wide eyes. They were all frozen on the spot like clay and wood sculptures.
"屮~"
At this moment, a voice suddenly shouted from behind: "Why are you standing there, run away!"
Then the two of them were pulled hard by their arms, and they stumbled back involuntarily.
After five or six steps back, Li Yixiang reacted first and quickly turned around and ran away.
However, Baoqiang was confused and held hostage by the man. It was not until he got on the elevator that he slowly came back to his senses. He grabbed the other man's wrist with his backhand and said in a trembling voice: "Kun, Brother Kun, that was just now..."
"It's all over."
Xu Kun raised his hand and pointed at the gradually expanding light above, and said, "Look, it won't happen soon..."
Before he finished speaking, the elevator suddenly trembled. Although the amplitude was not large, it still made the shocked people raise their hearts to their throats again.
In the chaos, no one knew who was reciting Amitabha. Baoqiang was busy praying silently for the Buddha's blessing. At the same time, he held Xu Kun's wrist tightly and refused to let go despite any words.
Fortunately, there was still no danger this time.
After an unusually long half minute, the elevator successfully broke through the ground.
Wang Baoqiang was like a conjoined twin, following Xu Kun onto the solid ground. Suddenly, he felt that everything below his waist was made of cotton. If Xu Kun hadn't pulled him in time, he would have fallen flat on the spot.
He was doing well, but the recorder and radio player collapsed on the elevator, with a large amount of wetness in his crotch. In the end, he was dragged down by two people.
Li Yang's face was also pale. He had stayed in the mine for the longest time, so he knew all the situations best. If nothing unexpected happened, the abnormal vibration on the elevator just now should be caused by the large-scale collapse of the mine below.
In other words, the seven people who went down to the well to take the photo this time were just a hair away from being buried underground forever!
At this moment, someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder.
Li Yang looked up and saw Xu Kun grinning broadly and saying, "Director Li, you really paid for those three animals in vain."
Infected by his smile, Li Yang squeezed out a wry smile and said in a bitter voice, "Thank you for being able to laugh."
"What if that's not the case? If a person dies, his eggs will fall into the sky, and he will not die for tens of millions of years."
Xu Kun said, asking for his cigarettes from the stage manager, and giving them to everyone who was limp on the ground one by one.
At this time, an ignorant voice sounded weakly behind him: "Brother Xu, what's wrong with you?"
Xu Kun turned his head and saw Zhou Qiqi carrying a fluffy pink schoolbag and looking at everyone with a puzzled expression.
"Have a holiday?"
Seeing the little girl nodding obediently, Xu Kun laughed and said: "Then you are in for a treat. We have just escaped from death, so we must have a good meal at noon to relieve our shock."
After saying that, he patted Li Yang on the shoulder again and asked: "Director Li, do you think so?"
Li Yang could only smile bitterly in return.
At this time, deputy director Lao Zhao came up and whispered: "Director Li, is it really collapsed down there?"
Li Yang nodded: "Ninety-nine percent of it collapsed, and the area of the collapse is not small."
"collapse?!"
Li Yang did not lower his voice deliberately, and the child Zhou Qiqi was shocked. Only then did he realize that Xu Kun was not joking, but had really just escaped death.
"Is filming so dangerous?"
The little girl's voice was slightly trembling, and she kept looking deeper into the mine. She was obviously imagining what would happen if she was buried down there.
"Then..."
In front of the little fan girl, Xu Kun wanted to say a few random words, but after looking at the scene notes that were curled up on the ground with tears streaming down his face, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips.
People are so frightened that they probably don't dare to go down the well again afterwards. It's really not appropriate for me to talk nonsense about art above all else.
Assistant Director Zhao also looked at the mine with fear, and then hesitantly said: "Director Li, what about our next filming?"
Hearing this, Li Yang's face became even more ugly, but he still said resolutely: "It's the Chinese New Year soon, and many mines will be on holiday. Let's contact another one to continue shooting!"
"Still shooting?!" The reporter, who had just stopped crying, suddenly sat up and said excitedly: "Whoever wants to go can go. Anyway, I can't go down anymore. It's not worth risking my life for a thousand dollars." of!"
With the leader in charge, another staff member immediately followed.
So the only ones who were willing to go down to take pictures were Li Yang and his royal cameraman.
As for the three leading actors...
Bao Qiang opened his mouth in a murmur, and then looked at Xu Kun as if asking for help: "Brother Kun, what should we do?"
"You make up your own mind."
The cigarette in Xu Kun's hand seemed to be alive, moving back and forth between his fingers. Although he wanted to have a cigarette afterward, his only little crush was beside him, so he still had to talk about gentlemanly demeanor.
He definitely wants to continue filming, and only the last few highlights are left. His luck will not be so bad that he will encounter two mining disasters in a row.
But it's one thing for Xu Kun to want to film, but he doesn't want his own choices to affect Bao Qiang's choices.
This is risking one's life after all!
But Baoqiang has also seen Xu Kun's choice from Xu Kun's state, and then thought of Xu Kun's words in the restaurant private room: I am not looking for death, but I am not afraid of death.
Brother Kun did what he said, but what about himself?
Baoqiang took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "I want to continue filming!"
But after he finished speaking, he was as deflated as a rubber ball, and muttered: "But you have to let me wait for two days before going down the well."
"Yes, it will take some time to contact the new mine."
Li Yang nodded and his expression softened a lot. There were not many scenes in the mine anymore. He and the cameraman shared their share, and they could barely support the work of others.
Li Yixiang took a long drag on his cigarette and said decisively: "I don't have any objection. Things must have a beginning and an end."
"That's it!"
Xu Kun laughed, pulled Li Yixiang and Wang Baoqiang up from the ground one by one, and said to Li Yang: "I think Baoqiang's current state is just right for filming the scene of running away from the massage parlor - Director Li, what do you think?"
The easiest way to get rid of fear is to focus on something else.
After Li Yang heard this, he also got up and carefully observed Bao Qiang's situation, and found that the frightened appearance seemed to be from another life. A slight modification could indeed be integrated into the plot.
So he waved his hand: "Load the things into the car and let's go back to the county to shoot!"
I saw the crew getting busy in an orderly manner under the command of Li Yang.
Zhou Qiqi felt that all of this was so unbelievable. She tugged at the corner of Xu Kun's clothes and whispered: "Brother Xu, do you really want to continue filming? What if we encounter danger again..."
"Bah, bah, bah! Tong Yan Wuji, the strong wind blows away!"
Xu Kun quickly interrupted her: "We have never done anything harmful to the world, how could we do it twice in a row... Bah, bah, bah, you girl almost led me into the ditch."
"But is it worth it?"
Zhou Qiqi still couldn't understand everyone's choice.
Xu Kun thought for a while, pointed to the adobe house not far away and said: "Have you seen those shacks? There were about twenty miners living in them. They had to take a vacation a few days in advance because they had to make time for us to film. - Think about it, what would have happened if we hadn't come and the mine had continued working as usual?"
Zhou Qiqi's face turned pale and she said, "Will someone be buried underneath?"
"That's for sure."
Xu Kun was not coaxing her. The crew encountered a landslide when they were halfway there, so they still had time to escape. But if the miners encountered this landslide while working in the innermost part, they might not have time to escape from the mine.
"Although this is just a mistake, the purpose of making this movie is to warn and help more miners. Maybe this is God's will."
As Xu Kun said that, he stretched out his black hand to the little girl's shoulder, as if he wanted to pour something spiritual into her head.
The little girl was obviously frightened. When she left the set at noon, she was still in a daze.
She hasn't been to the set since then, probably because she was stopped by her family.
It wasn't until two years later, when Zhou Qiqi went to the capital to take the art exam, that Xu Kun heard from her parents that ever since she returned home that day, the little girl seemed to have some misunderstanding about the acting profession. Every time she went to an acting training class in the provincial capital, , it’s like going on a martyrdom pilgrimage.
(End of chapter)