Chapter 723: The

After the singing of the National Flag Guard as they walked through the gate tunnel was broadcast, many viewers felt that this natural reverberation was simply invincible.

"This is cheating!"

"It's soldiers again, and military songs again!"

"My eyes suddenly turned red!"

"Is this a recruitment advertisement?"

This year's Spring Festival Gala is truly too powerful; many viewers have already lost count of how many times they've gotten goosebumps or felt their scalps tingle.

What are you doing? You just know how to make my body react!

I'm trembling twice over; are you very happy?

The chorus of this song, The Motherland Will Not Forget, was repeated twice inside the gate tunnel in this special format.

"【The mountains know me!】"

"【The rivers know me!】"

"【The motherland will not forget, will not forget me!】"

What you hear is not just the singing of the National Flag Guard, but perhaps also the echoes of history.

At the Spring Festival Gala venue, Meng Jin's performance was also very moving.

The current accompaniment conditions at the Spring Festival Gala are also excellent.

The sound equipment and other gear are all the most high-end and luxurious.

But so what?

These pieces of equipment might be worth millions or tens of millions, but how can they compare to this century-old echo?

You must know that at the Spring Festival Gala on Blue Star every year, there are some special guests in the audience.

When Luo Mo sang "Loyalty and Patriotism" at the gala, these special guests thought very highly of this young man before them.

Now, he has written such a moving military song, and their favorability toward him can be said to have skyrocketed.

Luo Mo didn't deliberately try to curry favor with them; he just felt that the Spring Festival Gala he was responsible for should have a song like this.

But Luo Mo indeed needs them.

He needs their favor, and he also needs their support.

Especially when filming certain special-themed TV series and movies!

There are many things Luo Mo can get done by throwing money at them; as long as he is willing to spend, he can get them done.

However, things like airplanes, tanks, cannons... that is a different matter entirely.

Besides that, Luo Mo is very clear that the Spring Festival Gala is aimed at the people of the whole country.

Many soldiers are also watching.

Some of them cannot even go home for the New Year or reunite with their families.

But on this special day, they also have to spend New Year's Eve.

"I must write a song for these most adorable people." This was Luo Mo's original intention.

On New Year's Eve, Ten Thousand Lights shine.

Many retired soldiers who have served in the military sat beside their families, listening to this song, feeling incredibly moved, unable to stop their eyes from turning red, or even crying until their faces were covered in tears.

"Comrades-in-arms, are you all doing well?"

"Yes, the motherland will not forget us."

"She has recorded our names in the archives!"

Backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, Luo Mo listened to the entire song very earnestly.

He had learned this song during his military training.

It was just that at the time, he learned it as just a song, as just one part of the military training.

He didn't understand why, when the instructors sang this song together, the feeling they produced was completely different from that of his group of students.

Later, he gradually understood.

He has seen many live versions of this song.

He has also seen it paired with many situations.

For example, when the remains of martyrs are returned to the country.

One national flag after another draped over small boxes, with soldiers holding them so solemnly—it makes one feel incredibly distressed.

These national flags are each numbered, and each has been raised high and bathed in the Morning Sun of the motherland.

I wonder if, with such red flags draped over them, they, who have been away from their homeland for so long, feel warm?

As for the live chorus versions, Luo Mo has seen one by the 【Chinese Academy of Sciences Old Scientists Choir】.

A group of old people stood on stage singing this song; they were full of vigor, and their emotions were overflowing.

The most devastating part was that, as this group of old people sang, photos appeared on the big screen, and the names of those who had passed away appeared one by one.

Luo Mo originally thought this was tear-jerking enough, until he saw a bullet comment.

"When we sing this song in the future, Mr. Yuanlongping's photo will appear on the big screen, right?"

In an instant, he was filled with mixed feelings, feeling that some things are impossible to describe.

"【The mountains know me.】"

"【The rivers know me.】"

For some people, these two lines of lyrics are not metaphorical, but realistic.

……..

Backstage at the Spring Festival Gala, Ning Dan watched the real-time ratings climb, speechless for a long time.

On the Blue Star Spring Festival Gala, there hadn't been a newly composed military song for seven whole years.

The last time one appeared, strictly speaking, it wasn't even a new song, but an old one with rewritten lyrics and a new arrangement.

Not many General Directors of the Spring Festival Gala dared to touch this subject matter.

They feared the audience wouldn't resonate with it, and they feared doing a poor job and having to take responsibility.

In reality, even if a General Director dared to do it, not many Lyricists or composers dared to write it.

If you went to the music scene to find a Lyricist or composer to write a military song, would anyone dare to take the order?

Or rather, did anyone think they were capable of it?

"Luo Mo is always like this, daring to be the first," Ning Dan thought to herself.

Moreover, judging by the ratings and Live Broadcast data, the audience was very receptive.

Honestly, this year's Spring Festival Gala, the footage of the National Flag Guard passing through the gate tunnel was more stunning than the version on Earth.

Because here on Blue Star, both the camera work and the lighting effects were better.

After all, one was a raw shot, and the other was for a program.

At the very end of the song, the singing had already finished, but the footsteps of the National Flag Guard remained.

They were about to walk out of the gate tunnel.

The image in the frame became somewhat blurred at this moment.

Because the light inside the gate tunnel was relatively dim, while outside the gate tunnel, the light was much brighter.

You could see their Back Shadow becoming a bit unclear; after special processing, you could even see phantom images.

Shadows appeared one after another at this moment.

They were like heroic spirits, surrounding that... Five-Star Red Flag!

In the bullet comments, no one knew who started it, but the two characters for "Salute" were typed out.

In an instant, it completely flooded the screen.

The screen was covered with nothing but "Salute."

By the time everything ended, the bullet comments in the Live Broadcast were still immersed in the previous segment.

Many people, after typing the two characters "Salute," began to type out one name after another.

Those were the people they felt should not be forgotten.

On the other side, Luo Mo had already left the waiting room and headed to the stage entrance to make final preparations before going on stage.

It would be his turn to perform on stage very soon.

The audience watching the Live Broadcast saw the National Flag Guard disappear from the screen.

The camera kept pushing forward.

From the gate tunnel of the Forbidden City, it arrived at a red door.

The door was pushed open.

"Creak—"

And the moment the door was pushed, the scene underwent a very natural transition and connection.

From a realistic scene, it switched into an Animation.

On a table, a letter was placed.

A hand reached toward this letter.

Many viewers watching this cartoon arm became instantly excited.

"It's a Rabbit!"

"Holy crap, is this 'Year Hare Affair'!?"

"If nothing goes wrong, high-energy ahead!"

"Those without tissues, please evacuate!"

The moment this Rabbit's hand touched the letter, time seemed to flow backward, returning to that icy, snow-covered battlefield.

In a mountain cave, a group of Rabbits gathered together, hiding from the artillery fire outside.

One Rabbit walked out holding an apple and said, "Dear comrades, this is the only apple sent up by the logistics team."

"Let's all divide it up and eat it."

This scene was adapted from the textbook text "Yigeapingguo" from Earth.

"It's an apple!"

"Crunch! So delicious!"

"Mmm, so fragrant, crunch! Here you go!"

The lead Rabbit from the very beginning took the apple, looked at it, and froze for a moment.

After so many people had taken a turn, only a small piece had been bitten off the apple.

Everyone wanted their fellow soldiers to eat a little more.

There was a reason why Luo Mo arranged this segment after "The Motherland Will Not Forget."

Because he wasn't satisfied with the melody of this song at first, so he found Caojin to compose it.

One year, Caojin went to experience life with troops in the deep mountains, and he specifically brought some good cigarettes from the city to distribute to everyone.

A few days later, when he left, a soldier stuffed a pack of cigarettes with plain packaging into his hand, telling him to smoke them on the way back.

On the journey home, he opened the pack of cigarettes and discovered that inside were all the good cigarettes he had distributed earlier.

The soldiers living in hardship in the deep mountains had left him the good things he had brought from the city, completely untouched.

After returning to the city, Luo Mo quickly finished composing the music.

Therefore, Luo Mo felt that the two had common ground.

In the Animation, the leading Rabbit held an apple, thought for a moment, and said, "Then... then I'll give it to the wounded soldier to eat."

He walked toward the wounded soldier, but he could no longer wake him up.

He walked to the side and began to write a letter.

The audience understood at this moment why the Animation started with a letter.

The preceding content was actually establishing the historical background of this letter, telling everyone in what kind of environment this letter was written.

"That Year, Those Rabbits" has a characteristic, which is that the voice acting is done in an especially cute way.

At this moment, a very cute voice began to recount the content of the letter.

"Dear, I hope this letter finds you well." He first offered his Blessing.

"How have you been lately?"

"You must be facing all sorts of difficulties, right?"

"I am too." In the cute voice, there was a bit of small frustration.

"Recently in this tunnel, we've been out of food for several days."

"Heh, but it's okay, before the next round of artillery fire arrives, Eagle Sauce and the others shouldn't be able to charge up yet."

"Taking advantage of this time, I'll quickly write a letter to you, dear, to chat~" The voice was truly too soft, cute, and adorable.

"Dear, you tell me, when will we not have to fight wars anymore?"

"Before, we fought against the Foot-Basin Chicken."

"We fought against the Baldy."

"Now we are fighting against Eagle Sauce again."

"Every time, it's others forcing you to go head-to-head with them."

"If you don't fight, they will bully you!" The voice acting, carrying a child's tone, had a bit of small grievance again.

"I also really want to live some peaceful days."

"But if you don't show some courage, relying solely on begging won't trade for peaceful days!"

——Strike one punch to avoid a hundred punches!

If we don't fight this battle, our descendants will have to fight it!

Just then, this Rabbit sighed.

"Sigh, I heard from a few dears who returned from studying abroad that Eagle Sauce's home is actually very wealthy, with many, many high-rise buildings, many, many Factories, and many, many cars."

"You say, by your generation, will there be su—ch tall high-rise buildings and su—ch many cars?"

"Hehe, thinking too much." He was even a little embarrassed.

"I'm actually thinking, once the war outside Zhonghuajia is over, I can go home and farm with the other dears."

"Striving to... striving to..."

"Every family farming! Eating our fill at every meal! Having new clothes to wear for the New Year!" He became more excited as he spoke.

"Best of all, to be able to eat meat at every meal." Speaking of this, the Rabbit even started craving it.

"Dear, I'm writing this letter to you without any other meaning."

"I just want to know, by your era, will you be able to eat your fill and dress warmly, and will you be able to live your own lives safely and steadily?"

"Will you be able to walk out with your heads held high, without being laughed at as the Sick Man of East Asia?"

"Will you be able to realize our Great Power Dream?"

"If in the future there are so many educated dears, Zhonghuajia will surely develop even faster, right?"

"Ah, Eagle Sauce's artillery is firing in a volley, let's chat here for now."

"If... if I can't return to Zhonghuajia, please be sure to remember me."

"Remember me, who struggled for the Great Power Dream."

This is the reason for placing the Animation after "The Motherland Will Not Forget"!

Just listening in the sound of artillery fire, the Rabbit wrote the letter quickly.

"Life does not cease, the charge does not stop."

"Forward! Forward! Forward!"

Amidst the artillery fire, in the end, only a vast expanse of white snow remained.

In the white snow, lines of text emerged; it was a short poem.

"【In the late autumn of 1950,

Not yet accustomed to the humid and hot weather of the south,

You took a thin cotton-padded jacket and rushed to the cold north,

You saw your elderly mother trembling as she came to see you off,

With a few more strands of white hair,

I saw you tightly holding her hand,

Saying to her:

'Wait for me to come home'.】"

The subtitles faded, and new small characters emerged again.

"【In the twelfth lunar month of the second year,

Heavy snow buried the soldiers preparing for a counterattack,

The snowflakes exploding beside you froze the tears on your cheeks,

I know what tears represent,

When the enemy's heavy firepower presses down so hard that everyone cannot lift their heads,

You say to your comrade-in-arms:

"Take my place in going home."】"

You must know, 1.8 million shells, 22 days later Berlin was taken by the Soviet army.

1.9 million shells, yet the United Nations Command could not take a single hillside in Chaoxian.

The subtitles dissipated again, and a few lines of small text appeared.

"【Many years later, we no longer rely on millet plus rifles,

We are no longer hungry for three meals a day, nor are we in rags,

We have airplanes, we have our own great power heavy equipment,

Your comrade-in-arms who returned alive,

Will still dream of you standing all alone in the heavy snow, keeping watch.】"

Yes, they still haven't gone home.

"【This year, a new spring,

The heavy snow in the northern land is also gradually melting,

And green grass and small flowers have grown on the hillside of Shangganling.

You see your comrade-in-arms in a crisp military uniform, tears streaming down his face,

Yet he has unfolded a smile,

I seem to hear you saying:

"Take me home."】"

The scene shifts, turning into rows of boxes covered with red flags.

The remains of martyrs are going home!

They are placed neatly on the airplane.

The next moment, one after another, ethereal Rabbits appear from the boxes covered with red flags, rubbing their eyes, as if they had slept a very, very long sleep.

The airplane has already begun to descend, already below the clouds.

One after another, the ethereal Rabbits look out the airplane window.

Amidst a soothing accompaniment, a few large characters appear.

"【Where is this?】"

They can no longer recognize it.

The changes are too great.

The seas have changed into mulberry fields.

New large characters begin to emerge.

"【Here... here is the motherland!】"

Amidst the soothing music, one after another, the ethereal Rabbits begin to rub their eyes.

"【Is this really the motherland?】"

They see so many high-rise buildings, see so many Factories, see so many cars.

The land of the motherland is writing a reply letter to you all.

Dear ones, you have not thought too much.

We really have so many high-rise buildings, really have so many Factories, really have so many cars.

Dear ones, now everyone can eat their fill.

New clothes are not only for the New Year, oh!

Eating meat at every meal is nothing extraordinary!

Dear ones, now no one looks down on us; invisible wars are still being fought, dear ones, just like what you said in your letter, there are always people forcing us to stand tough.

Oh right, many years ago, while the Blue Star International Space Station was still in the preparation period, we kept wanting to apply to join the plan.

Eagle Sauce refused us on the grounds of preventing the proliferation of aerospace technology.

Thank you for the grace of not accepting us back then, which ultimately forced us into the shape they fear the most.

Dear ones, we are really developing better and better, oh.

In the Animation, the red flag appears, fluttering in the wind.

Large characters appear again, as if these ethereal shadows are communicating in silence.

"【Do you see the national flag?】"

"【It really is our motherland!】"

At this moment, a close-up of a Back Shadow is given to the Rabbit on the plane.

He is lying with his whole body against the window to look, his face almost pressed against it.

I can't get enough of looking, today this great landscape, no matter how I look, I can't get enough!

When the ethereal Rabbit suddenly turns around, he is already streaming with tears.

Silent large characters emerge, expressing his inner voice:

"【It really is... too good.】"

(End of this chapter)