Chapter 357

The waves kicked up by walking through the sea seemed about to burst through the screen!

This immersive sensation made the entire audience gasp in astonishment!

As if the "Gipsy Danger" was right in front of them!

Some viewers even felt a sense of oppression and suffocation,

A blessing for those with megalophobia!

The shot of the monster's appearance was likewise carefully designed.

In the originally turbulent sea, a massive creature suddenly surfaced!

The despair on the fishermen's faces as they stared up at the 96-meter-tall Knifehead was plain to see.

Fortunately, Gipsy Danger arrived in time, its reassuring nuclear-powered engine flickering with a red glow.

On the left, a 96-meter-tall Knifehead; on the right, an 80-meter-tall mech—the tiny fishing boat sandwiched between them was nothing but an ant.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Massive armored fists slammed squarely into the monster's head, the force of the "Sunflower Triple Strike" maxed out!

Using its palm-mounted plasma cannon, Gipsy Danger temporarily drove the monster back.

But this Knifehead was a Category 3 monster—clearly not so easy to deal with.

When it emerged from the sea to launch a sneak attack, the entire audience couldn't help but gasp. The giant Knifehead stabbed the mech and tore off its left arm.

As if that weren't enough, the deadliest part was that the Knifehead actually knew where the pilot was!

It ripped open the cockpit and bit Raleigh's brother, Yancy.

"Raleigh, listen to me…"

"Nooooo!!!"

Because the two were drift-compatible9

Seeing this scene, the entire audience was numb.

"What?"

Such a cool mech, taken out right after its debut?

And it even lost a pilot?

Everyone had thought Yancy was also one of the main characters, but it turned out he was just a background extra—collecting his lunchbox right at the start.

Hu Ge wrapped his role just like that; his Hollywood experience card expired.

At the critical moment, protagonist Raleigh gritted his teeth and bore the extreme load of piloting the mech alone, using the remaining right hand's charged palm cannon to one-shot the Knifehead.

At the same time, the powerful electromagnetic burst also cut off the signal, and the command room assumed the mech had been destroyed and both pilots had perished.

Even the audience felt Gipsy Danger's chances were slim.

A film where the protagonist dies 14 minutes in—the audience had never seen anything like it; everyone sat with their hands on their heads, staring blankly at the screen.

The opening battles of other films are simple and light, like training levels set up just to showcase the protagonist's abilities.

But the opening battle of "Pacific Rim" was brutal,

Just like Miyazaki's old-devil Souls-like games—right after stepping out the door, he throws a Boss-level monster at you, brutally kills the protagonist first, to let the player know just how cruel the game is.

Alaska, on an icy, snow-covered coastline, a civilian father and son were treasure hunting.

Suddenly, the detector screamed wildly—some dark shadow in the sea seemed to be approaching.

In the next shot, two enormous mech legs slowly walked toward the shore.

The contrast between the father and son beside the mech made the mech look incomprehensibly huge!

Never before had there been a mech so realistic, so full of texture!

The audience was once again deeply shocked by this scene!

Appearing amid the wind and snow, the battle-damaged steel giant slowly collapsed!

The impact of this scene was no less than the great battle with the monster just now!

Fifteen minutes of continuous shocks for the audience, sending their adrenaline soaring!

Even the harshest critics could no longer make calm, rational analyses,

What's there to analyze! Just enjoy it first!

"Truly a Xu Can film! Oh my ga!!"

Die-hard fan-critic William stared, dumbfounded.

【Pacific-Rim

Pacific Rim!

The main feature has only just begun!

……

Gipsy Danger's pyrrhic victory signaled a full-scale upgrade of the monsters.

They were evolving at an unbelievable speed—Category 3 monsters gradually evolving into Category 4s with comprehensively enhanced intelligence and combat power,

The once-triumphant Jaeger pilots suffered defeat after defeat, retreating step by step.

Over five years, coastal nations suffered heavy losses, cities were invaded, and humanity once again faced an existential crisis.

Because the losses were too great and the cost of building Jaegers too high, the finances of various countries gradually couldn't bear it.

So the Jaeger program was halted, the Jaeger bases were shut down, and funding was cut off.

A new defense plan began to be implemented.

Maria, Rose, Wall of Sina… no.

The Coastal Wall Defense Plan was launched.

Five years on, Raleigh, once a Jaeger pilot at the height of glory, had now become an ordinary wall-construction worker.

Xu Can once again displayed a kind of world-weariness here, different from John Wick's.

The experience of his brother's death lingered in his consciousness, as if a part of him had died along with it.

He went through life like a walking corpse.

In the news, the Australian kaiju broke through the giant wall and stormed into the city of Sydney.

The Sydney Opera House, repeatedly destroyed in movies, was once again torn down by the kaiju.

The Opera House, the Golden Gate Bridge, London's Big Ben… these landmark buildings were regular fixtures in disaster films.

Assuming one transmigrated into a disaster movie one day, one had better stay far away from these places.

At the critical moment, naturally a hero would appear.

The more agile, more fully armed, and more powerful 5th-generation Jaeger "Striker Eureka" arrived in the nick of time, defeating the kaiju and saving the city.

The Jaeger pilots were a father-and-son duo; the son, Chuck Hansen, was in high spirits.

"The Jaeger program failed before because there were too many useless pilots."

"This is Striker Eureka's 10th kill! A new record in history!"

After the Jaeger program was shut down, all Jaegers and pilots had to head to Hong Kong Island, the world's only remaining Jaeger base.

Just then, a helicopter appeared.

Marshal Stacker Pentecost, in charge of the Jaeger program, came before the protagonist Raleigh.

"The five-year term has arrived; respectfully invite the Dragon King to return to his post."

The coworkers beside him were all dumbfounded—my coworker is actually a big shot?

Marshal Pentecost invited Raleigh to come out of retirement, to stop the kaiju at the last line of defense.

The protagonist had lost his partner and was also haunted by his brother's death; he refused the proposal.

Of course, if the protagonist really refused, there wouldn't be much of a movie to speak of.

In the end, he was still persuaded by the Marshal's trash talk and rejoined the Jaeger program.

Hong Kong Island base, the last line of defense of the Jaeger program.

When the helicopter landed on the helipad, a slender silhouette holding an umbrella quietly welcomed the Marshal and the protagonist Raleigh.

Just seeing the silhouette, the audience was already getting excited.

Cutting to the front-facing shot, Scarlett Johansson's beauty couldn't help but make the entire audience's eyes light up.

"You're quite pretty in the movie."

Xu Can whispered into Black Widow's ear.

"Am I not pretty normally?"

A woman's point of focus was often very strange.

"Pretty, but I prefer how you look in the bedroom."