Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 17

They were going back to the island to continue filming tomorrow, leaving them with one last free afternoon.

Yan Xianchuan was a little curious about what the actress had been up to in private, most people wouldn’t choose such a flashy way to travel.

But thinking about the countless troubles that would come her way if she broke through this thin veil, Yan Xianchuan immediately backed down.

At this moment, she was both blind and deaf, knowing nothing, discovering nothing.

In the afternoon, Su Hong came to see Lu Mingqiu. Yan Xianchuan opened the door. She had met the actress’s manager a few times. After opening the door, she said, “She’s upstairs.”

Then she sat back on the sofa and watched the projection screen.

“I have a responsibility and an obligation to stop you! Masked Man!” A woman in a black bodysuit, wearing an eyemask, with a curvaceous figure, floated in the air, her dark blue cape billowing in the wind, a grayish-black storm brewing in her hands.

“The nightmare of this city will end today, die!”

She said, throwing the whirlwind in her hand, in a few blinks, two tornadoes formed, broken stones, cracked glass were all sucked in, rushing towards a man with four mechanical limbs opposite.

Su Hong looked at the content on the projection screen with a strange expression. It was a superhero movie that Lu Mingqiu had starred in, the protagonist, Ella Esley, a rich girl, whose parents died in a street explosion, she survived, feeling disappointed in the chaotic city, she decided to save it with her own hands.

By day, she was the city’s rose, flitting through various banquets, by night, she was a superhero in uniform fighting crime.

The electric light illuminated her blue eyes, her unyielding will danced within them, “I will use my own hands to declare that this city will soon welcome true freedom!”

The Masked Man laughed, a piece of his mask, broken at the edge, fell to the ground, the bloodstains were blown away by the wind.

“Do you think defeating me means defeating darkness? You’re too naive, Night Owl, as long as people exist, there will be power, there will be corruption, you can never save it.”

“I will.” Night Owl’s high heels stepped on the half-piece of mask, with a crisp cracking sound, she looked down at him, “And you won’t see that day.”

Su Hong went upstairs and pushed open the study door, “She’s downstairs watching ‘Night Owl’.”

Lu Mingqiu pointed to the chair opposite, “I know, this is the fourth superhero movie she’s watched.”

“Is she hinting at something?” Su Hong said, “Did she discover something, and she’s using this method to test you?”

“I can’t be certain,” Lu Mingqiu said, “but she shouldn’t make any moves during filming.”

Her fingers tapped twice on the table, “Tell the people in the company’s publicity department to create hype, just say that the two of us are actually just hyping, make it big.”

“Give her a reason to stay in Nanjin City.” Lu Mingqiu said, “Put her under my nose.”

“Wouldn’t that be too risky?” Su Hong hesitated, “What if she’s a chaebol’s person…”

“She’s just an ordinary person, she’s no threat to me. After the filming is over, I’ll add a mental imprint to her, that will be foolproof.” Lu Mingqiu said in a deep voice.

If she’s truly an undercover agent, it means my identity’s been compromised, our organization is no longer secure, and the consequences are unthinkable. So I have to take a chance. I believe the other party won’t act rashly either.

After all, she was a big fish.

Su Hong nodded, “Your decision.” She took out a blue potion from her bag and placed it on the table, “Just shipped from Night City, the latest developed healing potion, it should help your body recover.”

Lu Mingqiu extended her arm, the sharp needle pierced her skin, the cool liquid was injected into her veins. She extended her other hand into the drawer, took out a hemostatic spray, and sprayed it on the skin where blood beads were oozing.

“The potion will take effect within an hour, you should get some sleep during this time.” Su Hong said as she stood up, “I’ll come to pick you up tomorrow.”

“Okay, thank you for your hard work, be careful on the road.” Lu Mingqiu rubbed her forehead and watched her leave.

Su Hong went downstairs and saw that Yan Xianchuan had already changed to a different movie, not a superhero movie, but a modern film that Lu Mingqiu had starred in, a love story during the Great Purge.

It was called a love story, but the film actually showed more of the plight of people who were helpless and struggling to survive at that time. Her lover in the film died from radiation, and her numb face couldn’t even squeeze out a tear, in this era, personal sorrow was far less than the pain of the world.

Su Hong admired Lu Mingqiu from the bottom of her heart. She was from the Bolovov family, she was beautiful, although she was an illegitimate child, she was soon taken back to the main house, if she had followed the normal plot development, she should have married a core member of another family and enjoyed a luxurious life.

But she didn’t, she chose a difficult path, a path of forgetting life and death, a path of betraying her class.

Su Hong was the person Lu Mingqiu saved during her first mission, a “voluntary test subject” who was about to be dissected and lying on the operating table.

She still remembered how the indifferent experimenter fell to the ground in terror, his head hit the edge of the operating table, when she was confused and terrified, Lu Mingqiu appeared, with an ordinary face, comforting her, saying not to be afraid, you’re safe now.

They trained together, physical fitness, firearms, martial arts, Lu Mingqiu never complained. Her hands were covered with wounds and calluses, later they were all erased with medicine, because she had to go on screen, she had to have a perfect appearance.

She worked very hard, she was the best at everything, she maintained a friendly and kind appearance all day long, Su Hong knew she couldn’t do it, but Lu Mingqiu did it day after day, because of this, the effect of her psionic abilities was the best.

She glanced at Yan Xianchuan, the other party only gave her the back of her head, she didn’t want to talk to her.

This was an unstable factor, but Su Hong believed in all of Lu Mingqiu’s decisions, she believed that she would be able to control the situation.

Lu Mingqiu was indeed a very good actress, her title of actress was well-deserved.

Good actors are scary, because you don’t know whether the words they say, the expressions and actions they make, are genuine or fake, you can’t guess their true thoughts, you can’t see through their hearts.

Yan Xianchuan’s thoughts wandered for a while, suddenly she felt like she didn’t have the right to say that the other party was scary. After all, she was a top performer from an escape game where everyone was an acting master.

The movie was still very good, she watched movies for the whole afternoon, all starring Lu Mingqiu, there wasn’t a single bad one.

The plot, the music, the filming techniques, all were excellent, for Yan Xianchuan, who hadn’t watched any entertainment works for a long time, it was like a person who had been drinking water for three days and suddenly saw a pot of braised pork in front of them.

Very impressive, her marriage partner.

Yan Xianchuan admired excellent people, especially since the other party was indeed well-deserved.

Now she was even more curious about what Lu Mingqiu was doing secretly at night.