Chapter 392 Spirit and Faith

Bai Xiaonian’s death was undoubtedly the first climax of “The Sound of Wind”, and it made everyone hold their breath, not daring to miss even a single minute of the plot.

As the climax passed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

However, no one made any sound. Everyone stared at the big screen intently, because everyone was eager to know who the old ghost was and what happened to the other four people.

After Bai Xiaonian was eliminated, Takeda immediately locked on and interrogated the second person - Li Ningyu.

Li Ningyu is an excellent student at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania in the United States, with a high professional level and expertise.

So Takeda also insulted Li Ningyu to the utmost, measuring the size of various parts of her body, trying to break down her psychological defenses.

Although Li Ningyu was on the verge of collapse, she still did not reveal a single flaw, which temporarily eliminated her suspicion.

Although this nude scene lasted only three or four minutes, it caused a commotion among the audience for the first time.

"Fuck! She's completely naked."

"So perverted!"

"Wasn't it embarrassing for Fatty Fan when he was taking the photo, with so many people watching?"

"Fuck, they measured down there too, and they took a long time to measure it. What on earth is the screenwriter trying to do?"

"This should be a stand-in, not Fatty Fan himself, right?"

"Director, you're an idiot. What's the matter with just showing half of her butt? Why don't you give her a close-up of her from the front? This is not artistic at all!"

"This person is really perverted, and those boxes of tools are enough to make my scalp tingle."

"It seems like Liu Ye's hands are constantly moving, and Fatty Fan's hands are also constantly resisting. Are they really going to do this?"

"This is too cruel! When will Takeda die?"

"I see now that Liu Ye wants to strangle him to death for treating Fatty Fan like this."

Ordinary audiences only saw Li Ningyu being insulted, but so far, the three people and their different punishments have step by step shown the sufferings endured by the underground party members of that era.

With Li Ningyu cleared of suspicion, the old ghost must be among the remaining three people, which made the atmosphere even more tense.

Afterwards, Takeda secretly discovered the lame man who was pretending to be a cleaner and trying to get close to Qiu Zhuang and find a breakthrough. So he simply took advantage of the situation and asked him to clean the table to test everyone's expressions.

Although Jin Shenghuo's expression was the most natural, he was still interrogated.

After the interrogation, the timid Jin Shenghuo could no longer bear the torture and ended his life by pointing the gun at himself.

Although he was not punished during the interrogation just now, he knew that if he was really punished, he felt that he would not be able to bear it. At that time, he would have no choice but to plead guilty, which would still be a dead end.

There are only two left, and the atmosphere becomes more tense. What follows is the most exciting, impressive and climax segment of the entire movie.

Gu Xiaomeng and Wu Zhiguo were locked in the same room that was being monitored. The two had already gotten in touch with each other through Wu Zhiguo's singing of "Empty City Scheme" on the balcony, and knew that the other was one of their own.

In this situation, no matter what, one person will be sacrificed, so they must stand on opposite sides and let one of them survive.

Gu Xiaomeng reported Wu Zhiguo and handed half a cigarette with the intelligence code "retreat" written on it to Takeda.

Then Wu Zhiguo was tortured by Takeda, but Wu Zhiguo kept enduring and refused to admit it, even when facing the torture of acupuncture, he remained unyielding.

At the last moment, Gu Xiaomeng finally confessed to Li Ningyu that she was the old ghost and that Wu Zhiguo was framed by her. Then she handed Li Ningyu half a pack of cigarettes of the brand that Wu Zhiguo smoked and asked her to report herself.

Next it was the moment for the two female protagonists to show off their acting skills. Facing the full-fire performance of Mr. Zhou, Fan Xiaopang also gave the most brilliant performance since she entered the industry.

After turning around and saying "Expose you, I'm going to expose you", his expression changed several times, making the audience feel inexplicably distressed.

At this time, Wu Zhiguo was dying. As Takeda identified Gu Xiaomeng as the old ghost, he also eliminated his suspicion on Wu Zhiguo and he was sent to the hospital.

But no one knew that he passed the information in the hospital!

Takeda did not execute Gu Xiaomeng immediately, but wanted to use torture to make her give out information about her superior, Lao Qiang.

If the punishment for Li Ningyu was extremely insulting, then the torture for Gu Xiaomeng was not only extremely insulting, but also extremely cruel and bloody.

A hemp rope soaked in chili water, the coarse hemp hair on it was brushed and turned upside down, and the whole rope was like this.

Gu Xiaomeng was held up by someone and made to ride on a hemp rope with the fur all over it, and was dragged back and forth.

Rope punishment!

Looking at the blood-stained rope in the close-up shot, coupled with the post-production sound of the skin and rope rubbing back and forth, not only did the audience's scalps tingle, but the film critics and guests also gasped.

Although I know this is fake, I still feel chilled by this torture.

Women, in particular, couldn't help but squeeze their legs together.

Later, Takeda threatened Gu Xiaomeng with her family, and Gu Xiaomeng finally agreed to talk to Takeda alone.

However, Gu Xiaomeng did not come here to surrender, but was seeking death.

She kept using words to provoke Takeda, who had a bumpy career, and the latter became angry and started fighting with Gu Xiaomeng.

Wang Tianxiang, who heard the noise outside the door, rushed in and immediately shot Gu Xiaomeng. At this time, Takeda immediately realized that he had been fooled and Gu Xiaomeng just wanted to end his life.

Although Lao Gui was found, the search for him resulted in the death of two intelligence officers in the headquarters, and another Wu Zhiguo lay dying in the hospital.

After everyone discovered that Takeda had falsely transmitted the order to carry out the investigation, they finally decided to let Wang Tianxiang take the blame.

Although Wang Tianxiang cleverly discovered Yibenren's intention, he was still shot dead while escaping.

Finally, a villain, a lackey of the puppet army, died. The audience's suppressed emotions for the entire show were finally released and they were able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Many years later, the war was defeated and Takeda returned to his country as a war criminal. Just when he was happy that he could go home, Wu Zhiguo appeared and killed him.

Afterwards, Wu Zhiguo found Li Ningyu who worked in a factory and told her that he was Lao Qian. He also told her that when he sang "The Empty City Scheme" that night, Gu Xiaomeng and he had already understood each other tacitly.

But both of them decided to sacrifice themselves to protect each other.

On the night when Wu Zhiguo broke into the room, Gu Xiaomeng said that she had a way to send the information out, but Wu Zhiguo didn't know that Gu Xiaomeng had embroidered the information on Li Ningyu's cheongsam and planned to sacrifice herself.

So after knowing that Gu Xiaomeng was able to send the information out, Wu Zhiguo planned to take responsibility for everything.

Li Ning took out the cheongsam that Gu Xiaomeng had sewn for him. The stitching on it was indeed Gu Xiaomeng's last words to Li Ningyu written in Morse code.

At the end of the movie, Mr. Zhou's special voice began to sound:
I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that those who love me don’t know why I die.

I am in purgatory, leaving this record.

I just hope that my family and Sister Yu can forgive my decision at this moment.

But I firmly believe that you will eventually understand my feelings.

My dear ones, I have been so cruel to you.

Because the nation is at the critical moment of survival, we have no choice but to risk our lives to save it in the event of an emergency.

My body will soon perish, but my soul will remain with you.

On the big screen, Li Ningyu was already crying!

All the audience at the scene were moved by these words, and some sentimental audience members kept wiping their eyes with their hands.

Although the movie was over at this time, everyone took a while to come out of the movie and immediately gave a warm round of applause to the movie.

The applause echoed in the closed screening room for nearly three minutes before gradually dying down.

Afterwards, the main creators began to take their leave and the audience also began to leave.

After the premiere, Golden Harvest held a dinner at the Peninsula Hotel not far from Golden Harvest Cinemas.

Liu and Zhou did not steal the show. The protagonists tonight were the crew of "The Sound of Wind", or more precisely, Fan Xiaopang and Mr. Zhou.

Fan Xiaopang seemed to enjoy the feeling of being the center of attention and kept smiling.

After greeting everyone, Liu Zhou and Han Shanping came to the lounge.

"Yes, it is indeed very good. The Sound of Wind is very suitable as a tribute film."

"Boss Han, since you said it's good, I feel relieved. I think the higher-ups will also be satisfied."

"I really didn't expect that you, Golden Harvest, could make such a great tribute film. I think all the major domestic film studios should learn from you."

"Boss Han, it's too early to say this. It would be embarrassing if the movie flopped at the box office after it was released."

"There's no way The Sound of Wind will flop. Even I was fascinated by it, so the audience will definitely like it. And you can tell from the audience's reaction at the premiere that the box office will definitely not be low."

"I hope so."

"I see that you are calculating well, right? When 'The Whistleblower' is about to be released, Golden Harvest will also be preparing to release it. You still say that you have no confidence. I think you are more confident about 'The Whistleblower' than anyone else."

"Haha, you discovered all this."

"Okay, enough joking, Jiahe's listing is ready, is there any problem?"

Han Shanping was also very concerned about the listing of Jiahe Group. After all, he was the one who, against all odds, invested a huge amount of money in Jiahe Group and held 2% of the shares.

The more important significance of this 2% of shares is to strengthen the relationship between China Film and Golden Harvest Group. However, the market value of Golden Harvest Group is over 10 billion yuan, and 2% of the shares is more than 200 million yuan, which is not a small amount.

So Han Shanping certainly hopes that the more than 200 million cash invested can also bring returns.

"Don't worry, Mr. Han, everything is fine. We just need to wait for August 26th and come together to ring the bell."

Han Shanping felt relieved after hearing Liu Zhou's affirmative words. In fact, he also knew that he was worried too much. If there was really a problem, Liu Zhou should be more anxious than himself.

"By the way, the preparations for Interstellar are mostly done. It should take at most a month to finish. When are you going to start filming?"

Liu Zhou pondered for a while and said:
"October, let's take a month off in September. It should have snowed in Mohe by then."

PS: The movie "The Sound of Wind" is really good, and I couldn't help but write a little too much about the plot.

(End of this chapter)