"I'm fine." Mallory barely smiled a bitter smile.
'Bang!'
A football-sized hailstorm smashed on the top of the stone pillar beside the two, sending those small hailstones from earlier flying everywhere.
Claudia looked at the hailstones were almost scared silly.
Such a large hailstorm, if smashed on their bodies, simply can not imagine.
The 'thud' on Mallory's body still didn't stop, and a few of them were particularly muffled.
"Are you really all right?" Claudia shouted to Mallory again.
"Yes, don't worry." Mallory's voice was very slightly lower.
Claudia tried to turn over to look, but Mallory held her down.
After a few minutes, the hail stopped.
"Okay, it's okay to turn over." Claudia spoke to Mallory.
Mallory didn't respond.
"What's wrong with you?" Claudia realized that something was not quite right.
Mallory still didn't respond.
Claudia struggled to arch her back, unzipped the front of her body, got out of her dress, and then looked back at Mallory.
He was staring vacantly at the sky with blood pouring out of the corners of his mouth.
Not only that, the hat was also full of blood.
On the platform beside him, several pieces of hail, the size of a bowl in diameter, had fallen, seemingly from his back.
"Don't scare me! What's wrong with you?" Claudia felt bad.
"Is it ... dark yet?" Mallory finally responded, and he lifted his hands very feebly, his eyes still looking vacant.
Claudia grabbed his hand in a hurry.
"I ... can't ... see ... you." Mallory looked a little puzzled.
"Stop talking and get some rest, just slow down!" Claudia pushed away a few large hailstones and flattened Mallory on top of the stone pillar.
"So much I want to ... sleep ...," Mallory closed her eyes.
"Don't sleep!" Claudia had a very bad feeling that if he slept like this, he might never wake up again.
"I ... can't die."
After Mallory said this, he didn't move a muscle.
Claudia reached out and probed Mallory's breathing, breathless.
She was tempted to shake him awake, get him to talk, and hold on.
But would it make sense to do so?
In that previous world, talking to someone who was badly injured and keeping him from passing out from his injuries was a way to wait for help that would arrive soon.
The problem is, there's no waiting for help here!
The special help she called in her wristwatch was for her only, and by the strict rules of Film City, she couldn't have used it on Mallory's rescue at all.
Unless ...
...
I don't know how much time had passed.
Mallory felt like she had been dreaming.
Dreaming of various scenes of purgatory.
There was blood everywhere.
Broken and shattered limbs.
The smell of blood.
He even dreamed that he came to a pool of blood.
Hunger and thirst made him even ignore the smell of the blood, lying on the edge of the pool of blood and drank furiously.
"Who am I?"
"Where am I?"
Mallory snapped awake.
The mouth was still full of blood.
Opening his eyes, his vision was a little blurry.
There was a human face in the shadows, but you couldn't really see it.
"You're awake?" It was Claudia's voice, very distant.
"Are you awake?" Claudia's voice with a crying tone.
Mallory was jerked back to reality from his nightmare.
He also finally knew who he was and where he was.
This damned Stonehenge!
Then he got a vague look at Claudia's white arm.
And the wound on it that was bitten open.
The taste of blood in his mouth ...
"What are you doing?" Mallory yelled.
"It's okay, I've called for special help to come." Claudia's voice was a little weak.
"You're crazy!" Mallory had mixed feelings.
"I'm not crazy, I'm just using the rules." Claudia smiled miserably.
Mallory tried to get up, but he was still very weak and could not move his body.
And his eyes were still blurry, as if in a dream.
After a while, Mallory drifted back to sleep.
...
Unconsciousness, drowsiness.
The smell of blood.
Mallory tried to deny it, but he couldn't escape the dream, he couldn't help himself.
Occasionally there was a moment when he seemed to be awake, aware that he was on top of a stone pillar.
But the next moment, it fell back into darkness.
Purgatory, the pool of blood.
...
"Wake up! Wake up, will you?"
This time, Mallory was awakened by Claudia slapping her face.
And the familiar rumbling sound.
A black helicopter hovered over Stonehenge.
Mallory still couldn't see clearly, and everything before her was blurry.
"You're saved, it's time for the promotion show, they're coming to get you." Claudia's relieved voice.
"And you?" Mallory asked to Claudia.
"My sentence ends around noon, so I guess I'll be gone by the time you get back." Claudia answered Mallory.
"Is this going to be a separation?" Mallory sighed.
"Hmm."
"Take care of yourself, you can't be too kind-hearted as a director, you can't be too nice to actors, you should suppress them, you must follow the rules, or they may use them to turn against you at any time." Mallory confided a few words to Claudia.
"Don't worry about me, I have it in mind. You also have to remember to try to get on good terms with the new director and also try not to mess with the insiders at Film City again, not everyone you can fight." Claudia also handed Mallory a few words of advice.
"If you have the opportunity to see your father again, give him a chance to explain, I believe he loves you, when he left, perhaps there are some unavoidable hardships." Mallory thoughtfully spoke a few more words to Claudia.
"Okay." Claudia reddened her eyes, bit her lip and nodded.
"It's been fun having you with me these past few days, so sad to see you." Mallory couldn't see clearly, just squeezed Claudia's hand hard.
"Don't be poor!" Claudia's face is not good.
"The forest flowers are too hasty for spring. I can't help the cold rain that comes in the morning and the wind that comes in the evening. The carmine tears, stay drunk with each other, how many times to repeat. The actual "I'm not going to be able to get a lot of money, but I'm going to be able to get a lot of money." Mallory recited a poem of sentimental parting.
"Don't read it! Do you think I am Miao Cuihua?" Claudia scolded a few words, but tears flowed out indisputably.
Once we leave, I am afraid we will never see each other again.
The journey ahead is dangerous, most likely there will be no more life away, only death.
The helicopter waited for a while to find the situation is not right, landed next to the stone pillar, probe out the metal plate and mechanical claws, with mechanical claws to Mallory grabbed to the metal plate.
Mallory was moved, the back of his head and back injuries pain he bared his teeth, but he has held back not to scream.
"Don't forget the promise you made to me! The day you become a movie star! Don't forget to come to me!" Claudia shouted to Mallory a few times.
"I will! And don't forget your promise to me! Make sure you let me touch it!" Mallory returned Claudia's words for a few moments before being grabbed by the helicopter into the cabin and the hatch closed.
"Did I promise such a thing?" Claudia was a little flabbergasted.
"You scoundrel!"
"No! You scum!"
Claudia cursed at the helicopter that flew away.
She cursed and cried.