Chapter 468: The Renegade and

"Lone Warrior" becoming the number one in viewership for the singing category at this year's Spring Festival Gala is something many people are no longer surprised by.

For Luo Mo, isn't this just a basic operation?

On the contrary, if his stage viewership didn't take first place and the word-of-mouth wasn't that explosive, people would pop up to say he had exhausted his talent.

However, the female-vocal cover version is so popular—what the hell is this?

This left many Singers in the industry stunned.

You have to know, as mentioned before, the playback algorithm of Little Rotten Station is different from other video platforms; it is very "stingy" with data.

【Xiuya】's female-vocal cover version broke 5 million views in a single afternoon; this data is simply too terrifying!

How should I put it? For many new Animations on Little Rotten Station, some don't even necessarily reach the ten-million level after the entire series has finished airing.

It is precisely because of this that when "Fog Hill of Five Elements" was released on Little Rotten Station, its 3-episode view count breaking 100 million shocked everyone.

"Is the creation of this song really that amazing?" many people thought in their hearts.

How should I put it? The emotional incitement of this song is indeed top-tier.

After 【Xiuya】's cover became popular, it even climbed into the top ten of the Weibo Hot Search list.

Luo Mo also took the time to listen to it and felt it was no worse than the most popular versions on Earth.

"It sounds very satisfying." This was Luo Mo's evaluation.

For the vast majority of listeners, the Requirement isn't high—satisfaction is all that matters!

Luo Mo feels this approach is very smart, bringing one's own advantages into full play rather than trying every possible way to patch up one's own shortcomings.

Her cover version makes one feel blood boiling after listening to it just once.

If listening with headphones, many people might even get a tingling sensation on their scalp!

The most important thing is that this is a female voice.

That sense of coolness, that sense of courage, becomes even more intense!

This will make many viewers have a thought: "I love this big sister."

Luo Mo feels that breaking 5 million views might just be the beginning.

"15 million as a baseline, I guess." He estimated in his heart.

Before closing Little Rotten Station, Luo Mo also took a look at the comment 【Xiuya】 left in his video's comment section.

"Huh, she even helped advertise my 'Monkey King: Hero is Back'." Luo Mo smiled.

At the same time, he knows very clearly that after having one explosive cover version, soon more people will follow suit and start jumping on the bandwagon.

In this way, there will be more and more versions, and the popularity of this song will also get higher and higher.

Besides this, many video edits will also follow up rapidly.

For example, the video related to firefighters produced by Bo Ge for "Lone Warrior".

In Luo Mo's view, this song is too suitable for Huaxia people to perform secondary creation.

This country is always so magical; it is always well protected by many heroes.

In fact, looking at the situation on Earth in recent years, many countries have already given up resistance and chosen to "coexist with the virus." Yet Huaxia still maintains a zero-tolerance attitude, still persists, resists tenaciously, and fears no sacrifice.

Our motherland is, in itself, the Lone Warrior on this planet.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, many viewers had already flocked to cinemas in broad daylight to watch movies.

The pre-sale box office for "Monkey King: Hero is Back" is very good, and the occupancy rate is also very high.

Even though many cinemas are unwilling to give this movie prime evening time and have scheduled almost all daytime sessions, it has basically achieved a super high occupancy rate, completely no worse than the other few blockbusters.

As for the evening sessions, it is truly hard to get a ticket.

By seven o'clock in the evening, Bo Ge finally finished his firefighter version video of "Lone Warrior".

After checking it once, he clicked upload, then started hurriedly changing clothes; he didn't even have time to wash his greasy hair, just casually put on a hat, and planned to go out.

He had an appointment with his high school classmate to watch "Monkey King: Hero is Back" tonight, to support Luo Mo together, and support Master Huang Lun.

The ticket bought was for 7:35, but that cinema was a bit far from his house.

"The evening screenings are too few!" Bo Ge couldn't help complaining.

After complaining, he couldn't help but smile again.

"I reckon the ones most annoyed should be the kids."

During the New Year, there are only two animated movies, and the number of screenings is also low.

Now it's great, there's also a group of big brothers and big sisters competing with them for tickets!

You have to know, people of our age, if we can't get tickets, we complain a few times at most, then go to social media platforms to shout a few times.

But the kids?

——They will actually cry!

Fortunately, during the New Year, the city isn't that congested, and Bo Ge even arrived at the cinema early.

His high school classmate is named Liu Fei; because his weight has always been stable at over 180 jin and has never dropped, and while shouting about losing weight he can still over-perform and break 200, people gave him the nickname 【Liufei】.

Hmm, this nickname has the same name and surname as the eldest son of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, on Earth. Yes, Liu Bang had a son named Liu Fei.......

"Gou Ge, I've been waiting for you for half a day." Liu Fei handed him a movie ticket, and at the same time, an iced cola.

"Damn fatty, why the hell are you calling me Gou Ge too." Bo Ge was a bit unhappy.

"You can call me fatty, but can you not add the word 'damn' in front of it?" Liu Fei glared at him.

With this glare, he actually noticed something slightly different about Bo Ge.

"Why are your eyes so swollen?" Liu Fei was confused.

Bo Ge's eyes were already small to begin with, and now they were swollen very badly, so small that it looked like his eyes were closed, and he walked as if he were sleepwalking.

"You're acting like a dad?" Bo Ge didn't say it.

Liu Fei was immediately curious, leaned over, and asked, "You didn't just cry, did you?"

"You definitely cried, and it was a big cry, a painful cry, a bawling cry!" Liu Fei was very certain.

He patted Bo Ge on the shoulder and said, "Tell Dad why you cried, and Dad will stand up for you."

Bo Ge opened his mouth; he originally didn't want to say it, but in the end, he felt there was nothing shameful about it, so he said, "It was from editing the video. I looked up too much information, watched too many documentaries, and then searched for too many related videos. The mashup didn't take much time, but I cried for half an hour!"

"What the hell? Is it that tear-jerking?" Liu Fei mocked, "But back when we were in school, you were like this. Whenever the school organized a movie screening, you would cry so miserably."

At this moment, the two had already checked their tickets and entered. After finding their seats and sitting down, the lights in the Cinema hadn't been turned off yet because many people were still checking their tickets to enter.

Since they were idle anyway, Liu Fei said, "You uploaded that mashup video, right? Let me take a look now."

Upon hearing this, Bo Ge's eyes lit up and he said, "Yes, yes, yes, watch it now!"

He had infinite confidence in the video he had edited; he felt it was the most high-energy, most Burning, yet most tear-jerking video he had edited this year.

He was looking forward to the social death moment of this fat man, Liu Fei, in the Cinema!

Liu Fei opened Little Rotten Station and clicked on the video. The prelude to "Lone Warrior" began to play, and he turned the volume down to the lowest setting.

"Don't turn it down, I brought headphones." Bo Ge started handing headphones to his good friend.

Only with high volume is the effect good!

Liu Fei looked at him in surprise, then obediently put on the headphones, while muttering, "Firefighting?"

He didn't take it too seriously and continued watching.

Just listening to the prelude of "Lone Warrior," one scene after another flashed by.

That was a Burning forest.

That was a Burning mountain range.

That was a Burning building.

These scenes, comparable to special-effects blockbusters, were all real footage.

Liu Fei suddenly recalled many news stories he had seen.

Abroad, there are often big news stories about wildfires burning for months without being extinguished.

The fire was too big, as if human power could not resist it.

He didn't have time to think deeply because Luo Mo's Singing had already started, and the images in the video had begun to change.

Fire trucks were parked there, and firefighters were running at top speed.

A house in the countryside was burning, and a firefighter started walking toward it. Before he even reached the vicinity, it suddenly exploded, blowing his entire body away!

Liu Fei felt pain just looking at it, and his body felt numb.

Luo Mo's first line of Singing rang out at just the right moment.

"【They—are all brave.】"

Liu Fei knew very well that this was Bo Ge's standard performance; he was very skilled at such precise timing in mashups.

The following scenes showed firefighters charging into one fire after another, regardless of their own safety.

Soon, Bo Ge also saw a middle-aged firefighter shouting:

"In firefighting battles, there will eventually be sacrifices!"

"The firefighting battle is not completely over yet!"

"We must inherit the captain's last wish!"

His voice was hoarse, and his face was covered in black ash.

On the side, a young man shouted, "Brothers, charge!"

The immediate next scene made one feel terrified just looking at it!

Do you know, if the fire is very fierce, when a group of firefighters charges to the front to extinguish the fire, there will be specialized firefighting personnel behind them aiming water hoses at their bodies.

His task is to extinguish the flames on his teammates' bodies!

Liu Fei watched helplessly as the legs of one firefighter after another were burning, their bodies were burning!

And the people standing behind them were trying their best to extinguish it, putting all their effort into extinguishing it for them!

And when the Singing reached the line, "【Who says those covered in mud are not heroes】," the scene switched to the firefighters eating to satisfy their hunger and replenish their energy during a gap in time.

The hands holding the chopsticks were all trembling.

Their bodies were so dirty, one could no longer even see their skin color.

Next, he clearly saw a young firefighter who kept swallowing steamed buns, eating 11 buns in one breath at an extremely fast speed.

He had seen this video on the internet before; it had been on the Hot Search.

Originally, this kind of wolfing down food, looking like a starving ghost reincarnated, would be very funny.

But looking at his appearance at this moment, you couldn't laugh at all.

What's more... he was only 19 years old this year!

Nineteen years old, still a child, and he was already protecting us.

The chorus of "Lone Warrior" began to play.

In the video, new scenes of big fires began to appear, flashing by rapidly.

There were tunnels burning.

There was gas exploding.

There were buildings being destroyed by fire.

Everyone was running out, constantly running out.

But there were always those fully armed... Reverse Travelers!

Accompanied by their Back Shadow, Luo Mo's Singing began to carry through.

"【Love You, walking alone in the dark alley,"

.......】"

One Back Shadow after another, one person after another facing the firelight!

At the climax of the chorus, Bo Ge even edited in footage of firefighters taking their oath.

The sound of the sonorous and high-spirited oath, paired with the singing, gave Liu Fei goosebumps all over.

Firefighters in uniform, one by one, raised their fists to their ears and roared:

"I swear! To go through fire and water, to serve the people with all my heart! To fear no hardship! To fear no sacrifice! To contribute everything I have to safeguard the lives and property of the people!"

When the oath ended, it was followed by continuous footage.

Some were saving people in a flood.

Some were hanging from ropes to rescue those attempting suicide.

Some were struggling to rescue people during a landslide.

What shocked him the most was that there were even people hanging from ropes, carrying stretchers on sheer cliffs!

Only then did Liu Fei realize: "I almost forgot, firefighters aren't just responsible for putting out fires!"

Isn't this footage of them fearing no death the best echo of the oath from before?

In the video, smoke and dust began to fill the air.

In this scene, there was no firelight, only endless smoke.

The smoke and dust were so thick, so thick that it felt like there was no sun in the sky; the entire screen was gray, and not a sliver of sunlight could be seen.

And the Back Shadow of the firefighters just kept moving forward like this.

"【Who says that only those standing in the light are heroes!】"

As soon as this line of the song came out, Bo Ge's eyes began to turn red.

And as the song reached the B section, the content in the video could be described in two words—tragic!

It was all big scenes inside, all that kind of suffocating, despair-inducing massive fire.

He saw firefighters rushing out with their feet covered in flames, desperately patting them out themselves!

He saw someone carrying a Burning gas canister and rushing outward, disregarding that it could explode at any moment.

The glove he had wetted was quickly dried by the fire; he put the gas canister on the ground, shook his hand twice, and then immediately picked it up again and rushed outward.

He saw that in a Factory, a firefighter had just set up a water hose when the Factory exploded, and he hurriedly trotted away.

Then, two seconds later, once the flames that had surged out due to the explosion receded, as if the tongues of fire had swallowed themselves back in, he trotted forward again without hesitation and set up the water hose once more!

In the face of these disasters, Liu Fei realized one thing—equipment is not omnipotent.

Even if firefighters are fully armed, they will still get hurt, or even lose their lives!

But........

But!

In the footage, he only saw them constantly moving forward, constantly moving forward!

If the fire advanced an inch, they would not retreat.

If the fire retreated an inch, they would move forward.

Even when the equipment on their bodies was damaged, they continued to carry out their mission.

The singing echoed.

"【Will you go? Are you worthy? Of this tattered cape!】"

In the last thirty seconds of the video, the footage evolved from the process of firefighting to the results of firefighting.

This time, what Liu Fei saw was no longer one Back Shadow after another.

But heroes, one after another, holding ordinary people and walking out of the fire scene!

All of them were carrying the unconscious people horizontally in their arms!

Even though the fire scene was right behind them, this kind of image gave people an endless sense of security!

They always put others first.

And what about them?

Someone was catching a rope at a window, and the fire had already burned onto his body.

The rope hadn't been hooked yet, but the flames were too fierce; he could only leap out just like that, then hit the wall, and fall toward the floor below while holding onto the unstable rope.

In the flames, someone's hands were already charred, yet he was still desperately turning a valve.

The flames in front would swoop over from time to time; he would tilt his head slightly, and if his shoulder caught fire, he would pat it out with his hand, then continue desperately turning the valve.

One turn, ten turns, a hundred turns, a thousand turns!

After the mission ended, there was also a young face unwilling to face the camera, turning his head away and saying with a choked voice: "I've saved people so many times, I never thought there would be a day I'd save........ go to retrieve our own people."

The scene cut, and it was another young man with a face covered in black and red, holding mineral water high and frantically pouring it over his face, washing his eyes.

He had just come out of a fire scene full of pepper oil, and he couldn't even open his eyes.

The scene switched again; it was a deputy squad leader of the firefighters curling up and rolling out of the fire scene, and when he turned back to call for his teammates, there was no response.

For four consecutive days, he hadn't slept well for a single day, crying to the camera and saying that he had the same dream every night, dreaming of his 18-year-old comrade-in-arms calling for help:

"Deputy squad leader, pull me up."

The footage could still cut; a 27-year-old firefighter surnamed Yang from GX Province, while carrying a 2-year-old girl to safety, stepped into empty air on the 5th floor because the smoke was too thick and the situation too urgent, falling while holding the girl tightly in his arms, never letting go until the very last moment.

When his teammates found him, he had already sacrificed himself, but his teammates tried hard to pry open his hands that were holding the girl, yet... they couldn't pry them open no matter what!

Have you ever seen a photo of a group of firefighters sleeping directly On the Road after disaster relief?

The footage could actually keep cutting indefinitely; there is simply too much real material in reality.

At the very end of the entire "Lone Warrior", it replayed those massive fires from the very beginning of the video that made one feel despair just by looking at them.

Forests, mountain ranges, grasslands...

How could this kind of fire possibly be extinguished?

Even if you extinguish it temporarily, it might suddenly start Burning again somewhere else!

Yet even so, it seems there is no fire in Huaxia that cannot be extinguished!

If much of the content in this entire video wasn't filmed in reality, would you dare believe it's true?

"【Will you go?】"

"【I will!】"

"【Will you fight?】"

"【I will!】"

These eight words rang out once again in the song, making one's blood boil and body go numb.

Who would these people be—whose children, whose partners, whose fathers?

As long as the alarm sounds, no matter how severe the disaster, there wouldn't be the slightest hesitation, right?

They will faithfully fulfill every sentence and every word they swore before becoming a Glory firefighter!

A line of subtitles appeared within the video.

Bo Ge placed the copy that Luo Mo gave him at the very end of the video.

"【Between the fire and the common people, there is only us. Even if we can't hold on, we must hold on!】"

As the song ended, Liu Fei did not know when he had started, but he was already streaming with tears, unable to stop them at all.

Many cinema-goers walking up the stairs to find their seats could not help but fix their eyes on him as they passed by.

Why was he crying so fiercely, so intensely, as if he couldn't even catch his breath?

A little girl's voice brought Liu Fei, who had been immersed in it, back to reality.

"Mommy, why is this big brother crying?"

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(End of this chapter)