Chapter 7 Placement
Liu Lan went to study the lines for interpretation in high spirits. Jiang Qi shook his head, saying that he didn't understand today's migrant workers, and went on to read the script.
In order to get the 500 yuan reward from the mission, and also to increase the star of the card, he had to study the script thoroughly, especially all the parts where Old John appeared, and prescribe the right medicine to find a way to increase the star of the card.
Jiang Qi went upstairs and spent an hour reading all six character scripts of "Mask Club" and a host manual.
The core of the story is actually very simple. The Mask Club is a place similar to Pawn Shop No. 8. The club accepts all transactions, but it needs to be done with the most precious things of the traders.
There is a twist behind what Liu Lan said, and he should be referring to the fact that Mina is also one of the characters.
Yes, Mina is also a character, whose real name is a haggard woman with short hair.
John was addicted to drugs and alcohol, and his health was too poor to survive. Under such circumstances, Mina received an invitation to the club for the first time. Mina learned in the club that all of John's misery came from his former boss - the villain who was killed by John and did not deserve his name.
John's former boss came to the club many years ago and exchanged his conscience for a promotion and salary increase. Later, his boss had to bear the main responsibility before the company's new drug development failed. He came to the club again and used his family ties to frame John and let him take the blame for himself. After John was released from prison, he started a business. His former boss knew that John and Mina had been collecting evidence over the years and wanted to overturn the case. He was afraid that John would find out something when he became famous. He came to the club for the third time and exchanged his talent and happiness for John's. The new company suffered a major blow.
The essence of the Mask Club is this. People who have made a transaction can come in again at any time to make transactions. Non-stop transactions will continue to amplify people's greed and eventually lead to destruction.
Mina, who entered the club for the first time, wanted to save John and cheer him up. After evaluation, the club believed that the most precious thing about Mina was the precious emotions between her and John, but emotions were not enough to exchange for these, so Mina added her appearance and family background, and exchanged her beauty, love and money for John's. new life.
Mina lost her love and memory for John, and lost love forever. She became an ordinary-looking woman who was expelled from the family by her father, and lived a miserable life.
When Jiang Qi read Mina's book, he didn't realize in the first scene that this miserable woman who seemed to have been abandoned by the world was Mina. Mina's role in the first two scenes was more to explain the Mask Club to other players. After all, this time Among the seven guests, except for the former boss who is destined to die, the only one who knows the Mask Club is Mina.
At the end of Minaben's first act, the desperate woman once again receives an invitation to the Mask Club. She knew she had been here before, but she couldn't remember what she had done here. With nothing, she finally chose to come to this place of deal with the devil again.
Mina is not a pure love-minded Bai Fumei as Jiang Qi initially thought. On the contrary, her childhood was even as miserable as John's.
In her memory, her mother died young and all her beautiful childhood memories came from her mother. Her father favored sons over daughters, and all his thoughts were on his several illegitimate children and the sons born by his stepmother. Although she had no worries about food and clothing and no one really abused her since she was a child, she never received any emotional reward. "
When Mina was a teenager, she was debauched, drank, took drugs, and raced. No one cared about her when she needed the advice of her elders the most. Her father even gave her a lot of money to indulge her, as if he just wanted her to die like this. Later, Mina woke up on her own, but no one still cared about her. With her good family background, she went to a prestigious school, worked in a large company, and had many boyfriends until she met John, who she felt was very similar to her.
Mina worked so hard to save the fallen John not only because she loved him, but also because she felt that she was saving her fallen self. She saw too many similarities with herself in John. While she was trying her best to save John, she was also trying her best to save herself.
The remaining four people all have separate story lines, and there is not much overlap with each other. Their routines are similar, and they are all people at the end of their rope with little hope.
After reading the entire book, Jiang Qi had a slight change in his view of the emotional book.
It’s still outrageous, but it’s quite interesting when it’s outrageous.
Jiang Qi thinks the most interesting part of this book is the final mechanism. After all the truth is revealed, the six players need to face choices. John's options are more diverse. He can exchange what he wants, and the club will evaluate what else he can exchange for. He can also choose to return what Mina exchanged to the club. The club allows him to choose two things from love, appearance and family background to return to Mina.
After reading all the stories, Jiang Qi probably understood why Liu Lan said that this one was meaningless without interpretation.
All the highlights and reversals in this book are basically concentrated in the mechanism of players going through trials and recalling previously forgotten things. No matter how colorful the text on the card is, it is delicate and rich, but there is no strong impact of a real person performing a paragraph in front of the player.
As long as the sound and lighting are in place and the acting is not so embarrassing, even if you don't show much face and hide behind the curtain and act with voice, the effect will be better than just reading the text.
As the mainstay of the drama club, a professional handler of flowers, trees and passers-by, and occasionally a part-time job as an amateur scene manager of lighting props, Jiang Qi said that he still has to rely on him for the acting part.
It's time to show off the high-end acting skills I've learned in the drama club over the years.
Just when Jiang Qi was full of ambition and ready to show off his talents, Old John came down from upstairs carrying cleaning tools and said: "The cleaning is done."
"Can you get off work?"
As the boss who provided food and accommodation but no wages, Jiang Qi symbolically checked Old John's work results.
Very amazing.
Old John is worthy of being a professional cleaner with decades of service. He completed the deep cleaning of the entire store in less than three hours. Not only did he make the store as clean as new, but he also cleaned the store that was originally full of sundries and express cartons. My son’s utility room was tidied up. Such an impressive success stunned Jiang Qi, who was exhausted from dealing with school inspections and cleaning dormitories in college.
Another person who was stunned was Liu Lan. From her surprised expression, Jiang Qi could tell that the sanitary environment in their dormitory was probably shocking.
"Lanlan, we have to leave first." Jiang Qi also wanted to take Old John to buy a change of clothes. If it was later, the cheap shops on the street would be closed.
"Oh, okay." Lan Lan was sitting at the front desk eating noodles. Her mouth was full of noodles and she nodded vaguely. She swallowed a big mouthful of noodles and shouted to Jiang Qi who took one foot out of the store, "Tomorrow afternoon Come early and we will perform the performance."
"knew."