Chapter 329

"HolyShit!!!"

"Oh my God! What am I seeing?"

"OMG! Is this… a wormhole?"

The entire audience clutched their heads in shock!

In the film, Dr. Brand reached a hand out into the distorted space, as if someone had taken hold of it.

Finally, after passing through the wormhole, the group arrived at an unfamiliar star system!

"We're here."

"There's a troublesome situation here." Dr. Romilly frowned.

Although Zhang Songwen was still unknown at this point, he had not yet risen to fame through "The Knockout."

But his acting, honed over many years, had gradually matured.

Wearing glasses, he was the very picture of a refined scholar—utterly unrecognizable from the image of Gao Qiqiang he would later portray!

"Based on the gravitational data, there is a black hole here—Gargantua. Moreover, the planet transmitting the signal is extremely close to the black hole…"

This was not good news.

If they were captured by the black hole's gravity, being unable to escape would be the least of their worries.

The key was time!

Under the influence of gravity, the closer one got to the black hole, the more time stretched.

Every hour on that planet was equivalent to seven years on Earth.

A round trip of ten or twenty years—who could stand that?

By the time they returned, his daughter would already be old!

When everyone was at a loss, the protagonist Shen Yue proposed a plan.

Fly around the black hole, then enter and exit the planet vertically, searching for Dr. Miller's signal and bringing her back out.

This would burn a bit more fuel, but would only take two years.

Compared to twenty years, two years was already a bargain.

So everyone reached a consensus—only Zhang Songwen's Romilly would stay behind,

while Xu Can and the two foreign astronauts would go down together to carry out the mission.

This too was a relatively novel concept in film history, using science to show the spacetime effects of gravity.

Previous depictions of time travel had always seemed like magic, or fantasy settings.

This time, the change in time was truly wondrous—one hour equals seven years!

But this was a realistic scenario!

Based on scientific speculation, if such a planet truly existed, this outrageous situation would be normal.

The audience's emotions were stirred once again.

Everyone wanted to see what was on the planet, while at the same time worrying for the protagonist, holding their breath in tension.

Every single second was precious!

In this race-against-time tension, the film once again reached a small climax!

The space shuttle departed from the space station, gradually approaching its target.

Then, as the distance to that celestial body grew shorter, the expressions of those aboard the ship grew solemn.

"The true Dark Star… nothing escapes from it, not even light."

"Found it—Miller's planet!"

At this moment, the black hole, which until now had only appeared in a few quick flashes, finally revealed itself in full to the world for the first time!

On the 30-meter-tall IMAX screen, the entire frame was filled with a close-up of the black hole's face!

The massive celestial body, with a strangely shaped ring of light forming around it!

It delivered a soul-shaking impact!

When they had seen the wormhole earlier, the audience in the theater might still have been able to exclaim "HolyShit,"

but the moment everyone saw the black hole up close,

each and every person was utterly stunned!

The enormous black hole Gargantua seemed to be right before their eyes!

Miller's planet was utterly insignificant beside the black hole!

Magnificent!

Shocking!

A shock from the very depths of the heart!

There were no flashy effects, no garish visuals,

yet the sheer full view of the black hole was enough to surpass everything!

In this era when the appearance of a black hole was unknown, the shockwave Xu Can brought had not yet begun to brew, yet it was already enough to leave people dumbfounded!

Their megalophobia was acting up!

Soon, Shen Yue and the others finally reached the orbit of the planet where the signal originated.

The craft pierced through the cloud layer, quickly descending onto an Earth-like planet with an atmosphere and liquid water!

Through exquisite maneuvering, Shen Yue accomplished this impossible task.

When the ship hovered above the boundless ocean, the entire audience could not help but cry out "Wow!

No land—only sea!

But everyone had just seen the black hole, so this water-covered planet was, for the moment, not too great a shock.

Only Xu Can and part of the main crew knew — this was nothing, where could it even be?

The real punch is coming up!

The plane pulled off a stylish drift and came to a steady stop; the hatch opened, and the two foreigners Brand and Dore prepared to go look for the signal.

"What are you waiting for? Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"One hour, seven years!"

Just as the plane touched down on the water and the astronauts went out to find the signal, Hans Zimmer's god-tier background music quietly appeared.

Tick, tick, tick, tick…

At first it didn't draw attention — the ticking wasn't loud, hidden among the dialogue.

But as time went on, the ticking grew clearer and clearer.

Until later, when people realized, they would be deeply shaken by this detail!

Each tick interval was 1.25 seconds — exactly one day on Earth!

The group arrived at this water planet full of hope, only to find that the signal was wreckage.

"The signal is on the other side of the mountain. I'll go look."

But the protagonist Shen Yue discovered something in despair.

"That's not a mountain… that's a wave!"

When he came around to the other side of the ship,

The oppressive force of the music suddenly surged!

Boom!

A wall of waves hundreds of meters tall, like a mountain range, came crashing down with the force of Mount Tai bearing down on one's head!

The impact force of the black hole Gargantua had not yet faded,

And Xu Can used the giant waves to strike the audience's hearts once again!

"Holy F**K!!"

"Oh my god! My heart!"

"Jesus!! What the hell am I seeing?"

The oppressive force of those giant waves was so strong, and once again, leveraging the advantage of the IMAX giant screen, it created an extremely visually impactful effect!

Even some patients with heart disease, seeing this scene, couldn't help but clutch their chests.

Who could have imagined that a hardcore sci-fi film with no fighting and no conflict could almost give people a heart attack?

"Brand, Dore, get back to the ship!"

"We have to find the signal source."

"Now! Come back immediately!"