novellhall Chapter 1: Composed Aura +2
Chapter 1: Composed Aura +2
Los Angeles.
3 PM.
The sun made the asphalt road extremely hot!
Chen Xun's cheek was pressed against the ground.
The rough gravel hurt my skin.
He felt like his face was pressed against a frying pan to fry an egg!
A half-finished cup of coffee was thrown from a distance.
It landed right next to his face.
The liquid, which had extra sugar added to it, was splashed all over his face.
A sticky liquid was slowly flowing down his earlobe.
I want to move, but I can't!
Damn it!
After more than ninety days of transmigration, this is the treatment I get?
He plays the corpse of an Asian hoodlum who dies within the first three minutes of the film.
It was better to be free when I was a cow or a horse in my previous life!
The nearby trash cans continued to emit a foul stench of garbage.
Flies were buzzing around my ear.
Not far away, Mark Wilson's lines were so exaggerated they made you want to dig your toes into the ground:
"You dare bully me? You're dead! You're dead!"
Chen Xun silently complained in his heart:
Dude!
Your acting skills are worse than those of the freelance actors at Hengdian World Studios who get paid 80 yuan a day including boxed lunches.
All their emotions are expressed through shouting!
Did you learn the choreography from the old men practicing Tai Chi in the park?
That was a crazy punch!
Are you afraid the audience won't know you have kidney deficiency?
He kept his eyes tightly closed, trying his best to play the role of a proper corpse.
But his mind was racing with calculations:
F1 visa countdown: 91 days.
If we can't get a character with lines before then.
I can't get an actor's guild card.
Then you won't be able to apply for a work visa.
He would have to pack his bags and get out.
Go straight from the USC classroom to Hengdian!
Continue playing the role of "Junior Brother C who gets slapped away by the protagonist" or "Nameless customer Ding in a brothel".
Just thinking about it is suffocating.
"Cut!"
A furious roar exploded through the loudspeaker.
It instantly dispelled the plans in Chen Xun's mind.
"Fuck! Mark, where's your emotion? I want anger, not constipation!"
A burly white man with a baseball cap and a scruffy beard was using a megaphone to relentlessly berate the lead actor.
He is Daniel, the director of this film.
But next second.
His gun barrel, in a fit of rage, suddenly turned around without warning:
"And that one on the ground! Yes, you, the one with the Asian face!"
Chen Xun's heart skipped a beat.
I have a bad feeling.
He instinctively wanted to move.
But the body must not be moved.
Even if the director has already yelled "cut!"
"You fucking died like a piece of frozen meat just taken out of the freezer!"
"Can you give me even a little bit of fear?"
Even the slightest bit of resentment?
"Forget it! I can't see your face anyway!"
"The camera will only capture the back of your head at most!"
……
A suppressed laugh came from all around.
The lighting crew, the stagehands, and even the makeup artist touching up the lead actor's makeup all had smiles on their faces.
Chen Xun felt his cheeks burning.
It wasn't because of the Los Angeles sunshine.
It's not because of this blatant, even blatant, discrimination.
In Hollywood, Asian male actors are probably not much higher up in the food chain than rats on the street.
Classic meme: "Asian guy dies first."
Audition notices often contain the unspoken rule: "No Asian looking."
He understands, he understands everything!
But being roasted over a fire yourself is a completely different experience.
He gritted his teeth and endured it.
A small act of impatience can ruin a great plan, and what he lacks most right now is a grand strategy.
Just then!
Something amazing happened!
Right where Mark Wilson, the lead actor, was standing during his performance.
Two orbs, each the size of a quail egg and emitting a faint gray glow, floated up from the ground.
Chen Xun blinked.
I thought I was hallucinating from being scolded or that the sunlight was too bright.
But the two orbs of light remained steadily suspended there, emitting an alluring glow.
[Detectable pickable attribute: Dialogue-related attribute - Accent +1]
[Detectable pickable attribute: Body type attribute - Exaggerated +1]
Two lines of text, resembling game hints, appeared directly on his retina.
What the hell!
Chen Xun's heart pounded wildly, and his breath caught in his throat for a moment.
Goldfinger!
The benefits for time travelers may be late, but they've finally arrived!
He stared intently at the two orbs of light, his intense desire overwhelming everything else.
He quickly stood up.
He walked up to the director.
Under the guise of apologizing, he walked over to the two orbs of light.
call out!
The two gray orbs of light were absorbed into his body the instant they approached him.
It can be absorbed within a certain range without even touching it!
This is so much more convenient!
A faint warmth spread throughout my body.
His previously somewhat broken Chinglish became surprisingly fluent at this moment!
Their accents are also more local.
[Read the host's current state and set the current state to the initial value 0.]
A semi-transparent attribute panel quietly unfolded before his eyes:
[Acting Skills Attribute Panel]
Dialogue: Lv0 (1/100)
Limbs: Lv0 (1/100)
Emoticons: Lv0 (0/100)
Eyes: Lv0 (0/100)
Tempo: Lv0 (0/100)
Aura: Lv0 (0/100)
……
Chen Xun was overjoyed!
After more than ninety days of confusion and depression, I have finally found an outlet for my emotions!
But why are they all 0?
Have all those years of learning gone to waste?
Chen Xun carefully examined the panel and realized that the panel should be recording his current state as the initial state.
The values added later represent the improvements gained!
Director Daniel is still criticizing him.
It seems they want to vent all their dissatisfaction with the lead actor on him.
Chen Xun seemed not to have heard at all!
His gaze passed over the director and looked to the other side of the set.
A supporting actor with gray hair, playing an old detective, delivered a calm and restrained performance.
He was sitting quietly to the side, resting.
And where he had just been standing.
A gray sphere of light, more solid than the previous two, was floating silently.
[Collectible attribute detected: Aura-type attribute - Calmness +1]
Director Daniel's roar was like a thunderstorm, coming on strong and going away quickly.
After he had vented his anger, he waved his hand, signaling to prepare for the next point.
The film set came alive again, as if the awkward moment had never happened.
Chen Xun returned to the ground and lay prone, playing the role of a corpse.
But his state of mind was different at this moment.
The gray orb of light that fell from the old detective was hovering quietly a few meters away.
It emitted a faint light that only he could see.
Like the alluring women in the red-light district.
"How is it absorbed?"
Chen Xun muttered to himself.
He tried to absorb it directly at this location.
The orb of light did not react at all!
He couldn't very well crawl over there in front of everyone, could he?
I bet he'll be thrown out by the stage manager any second now.
Just then!
Director Daniel waved his hand impatiently:
"Alright, alright, that's barely passable! Production crew, clear the set, get ready for the next shot! Get that body out of here!"
opportunity!
A Latino stagehand walked over and politely gestured to Chen Xun.
Chen Xun immediately "came back to life".
He stood up nimbly.
Pretending to brush off non-existent dust from their bodies.
But his feet "unconsciously" moved toward the sphere of light.
Just as he brushed past the ball of light, a thought struck him.
"absorb!"
call out!
The ball of light entered the body.
A strange feeling welled up inside me.
It was as if he had been suddenly dragged from the bustling city center to a quiet library.
The surrounding noise and the humiliation from just now seemed to be separated by a layer of frosted glass, becoming blurry and distant.
He even subconsciously straightened his back, which he had deliberately hunched over to portray a low-level thug.
Cool!
This feels so much better than picking up those cringeworthy lines and exaggerated actions!
This is the real thing that can improve his attributes!
Chen Xun followed the production crew out of the core filming area and into the temporary rest area on the outskirts.
This place is piled high with equipment boxes.
Some supporting actors and featured actors were sitting in twos and threes waiting for their scenes.
His gaze was like radar.
Start scanning.
The blonde girl who played the screaming passerby lost a [Face-related attribute - terror +1].
absorb!
The burly stuntman who was knocked down by the "protagonist" lost [Physical Attribute - Reaction +1].
absorb!
Even one of the staff members responsible for setting up the clapperboard, because of his clean and efficient technique, actually lost an [emotional attribute - satisfaction +1].
……
This doesn't seem to be needed for the time being.
However, adhering to the principle of ensuring every grain is harvested, Chen Xun accepted it with a smile.
On the properties panel.
The numbers beat slowly but steadily.