This crew has a lot of money, they asked Li Tao for 150 extras at once, just for a scene involving a siege of mutated corpses.
Li Tao only added Ji Ning, who is always looking to scrape by, to the list at Ye Tong's insistence.
"Everyone listen to the command, when I say start, you all run forward, make your facial expressions as fierce as possible, the fiercer the better..."
An assistant director with a loudspeaker stood on the wall not far away, shouting.
A crowd of people wearing beggar clothes was below the wall, looking somewhat spectacular from afar.
The assistant director hurriedly finished speaking and quickly left the wall.
Standing in the crowd, Ye Tong grabbed Ji Ning, looking at the camera installed on the wall with eyes filled with yearning, whispered, "Sister Ning, as soon as you hear 'start', run forward, as fast as possible, try to push your face near the camera on the wall."
Ji Ning glanced at the black machine hanging high on the wall, then glanced at Ye Tong, asking: "What's the point?"
"To show your face..."
Before finishing the sentence, the nearby loudspeaker sounded.
"Everyone get ready, 3, 2, 1, start—"
With that command, 150 extras went crazy and ran forward, with various actions, and some extras even grabbed the clothes of the extras ahead, just to climb onto the wall first and get a second or two on camera.
Ye Tong took advantage of her agile body, with a B5 physical level, and ran very fast. She soon found an opportunity to climb onto the soft ladder hanging beside the wall, but as she climbed halfway, her ankle suddenly felt heavy.
Damn, someone was pulling her foot from below...
Ye Tong stared at the camera not far away, gritting her teeth and trying to climb further up, but the person pulling her foot was very strong and even climbed onto the soft ladder, as if trying to step on her to climb up.
Ye Tong was furious, at this moment she couldn't turn back, unwillingly staring at the camera not far away, hoping it could capture her face right now, even for one second.
"Damn, pulling pretty tight."
A voice came from behind Ye Tong, with an unfamiliar accent, definitely one of the extras who recently came to Anhe Film and Television Base.
This person was very arrogant, as he climbed over Ye Tong, he deliberately tried to step on her head, if she hadn't dodged quickly, his foot would have stepped on her face.
When the man saw he couldn't step on her, he stepped toward Ye Tong's hand holding the soft chair, this time Ye Tong didn't dodge, she couldn't, if she let go she would definitely fall.
The man's steps were even harder than before and excessively ground down. Ye Tong's palms, already red from the rope, immediately broke through the skin, making her almost cry out in pain.
Tears instantly welled up in her eyes, not just from the pain, but more from the anger.
What kind of person is this? So uncivilized!
Just as that extra thought he could hog the camera, suddenly everything went black before his eyes, his shoulder felt like it was hit by a stone falling from the sky, his fingers instantly loosened, and he fell in a strange angle straight down.
Thankfully, there was padding below, so he didn't hurt himself in the fall, but the shoulder pain was very real.
On the soft ladder, Ye Tong's view suddenly widened, seeing the familiar figure standing steadily not far above her head, one foot hooked onto the soft ladder, half her body outside the ladder, somehow managing to maintain her balance.
"Sister Ning..."
"Come up!"
Ji Ning made room in the middle of the soft ladder, just enough for Ye Tong to climb up.
Ye Tong suppressed the surge of emotion and quickly climbed up, reaching the same height as Ji Ning, wanting her to go up first, but Ji Ning actually let go of her hands and jumped straight down.
"Ning..."
Ye Tong was shocked, her vision suddenly blurred.
In her ears was Ji Ning's cold voice: "Hurry up and climb."
Ye Tong clenched her teeth and used all her strength to climb upwards, at this point she could barely see what was ahead, climbing by instinct, in the blur saw a black shadow, pushed her face toward it.
"Cut—"
The scene was complete.
With the help of the staff, Ye Tong climbed onto the top of the wall, she quickly turned around to look down, wanting to find Ji Ning in the dense crowd, but couldn't find her.
Beside her, the staff joked: "How is it? Spectacular, right? Doesn't it feel like you're overlooking the world, they are all your subjects?"
Ye Tong pressed her lips tightly and cast him a glance, saying nothing, quickly ran down the stairs.
No idea if Sister Ning is okay?
Jumping from that height, would she have sprained her ankle?
"Sister Ning... Sister Ning..."
After getting down from the wall, Ye Tong searched for her in the crowd, until she saw that familiar figure, suddenly felt mixed emotions.
Ji Ning was squatting with her hands in her sleeves beside a box full of box lunches, earnestly waiting for meal time.
This foodie king...
"Sister Ning, I was looking everywhere for you." Ye Tong walked over quickly, her tone carrying a hint of Bai Xiaotang-style coquetry.
Ji Ning turned to glance at her, "Your hands okay?"
Ye Tong habitually hid her hands behind her back, showing a smile, "Fine, it will be better in a while, I have thick skin."
Ji Ning said nothing, turned her head back to focus on the box lunch box.
Ye Tong slowly leaned closer, mimicking Ji Ning's posture squatting next to her, trying to imitate Bai Xiaotang's coquetry, but was unceremoniously pushed away, "Say what you need to say, don't lean so close."
Ye Tong: "..."
Boohoo... Sister Ning is treating me differently...
***
"Everyone, gather—"
The two who were about to eat on the ground suddenly heard the familiar loudspeaker voice of the assistant director.
Ye Tong immediately put down the box lunch, stood up to go over, but Ji Ning beside her continued gnawing on ribs, showing no intention of getting up.
"Sister Ning, the assistant director is calling us to gather."
"Yeah, go ahead." Ji Ning continued gnawing on ribs, her body unmoved.
Ye Tong sighed and went alone.
In Sister Ning's eyes, maybe eating is the biggest thing, no one better interfere with her meal.
As always, the assistant director stood on the wall, looking down at the extras with his loudspeaker.
Once nearly everyone arrived, he put the loudspeaker to his mouth and said, "Who was the first to climb this soft ladder just now?"
Saying this, the assistant director kicked the rope on the soft ladder.
Looking at that swaying soft ladder, Ye Tong's heart skipped a beat, wasn't this the ladder that she and Sister Ning climbed?
Just as she hesitated whether to confess, that extremely rude voice sounded not far from her.
This was the person who had stomped on her hand trying to snag the spotlight.
Ye Tong shot a look full of daggers at that extra.
The assistant director's eyes lit up, a delighted look on his face, beckoning him, "Come, you come up. The director wants to see you."
Ye Tong was instantly filled with regret, wishing she could travel back a few seconds ago.
But opportunity knocked only once, that rude guy had already claimed it, if she raised her hand now, it would seem like she was deliberately stealing the scene, which was despised among extras.
When Ji Ning finished the last grain of rice in her box lunch, she saw Ye Tong return with a dejected look.
Just like on the first day of her period, coupled with menstrual pain.
What happened?
Didn't snag the spotlight again?
But it didn't seem like the director started shooting just now?
Three question marks popped up in Ji Ning's mind.
"Sister Ning, you go ahead and eat."
Ye Tong pushed her barely eaten lunch box in front of Ji Ning.
She took an apple from her bag and bit into it fiercely, like biting into someone's flesh.
Seems like her scene got stolen.
Ji Ning poured the contents of Ye Tong's lunch into her own, eating heartily.
Until Ji Ning finished her meal, still feeling unsatisfied, Ye Tong was still gnawing on the apple, just taking small bites out of the remaining core, her eyes empty staring into space.
Ji Ning wiped her mouth and asked, "What role did you get stolen from?"