Chapter 784: The Scope of

On Earth, a large number of rescue teams began to take action.

Han Zi'ang was from Shanghai, and the group happened to pass through Shanghai.

As the audience watched the ice-encased Oriental Pearl Tower, they felt that this scene was also very shocking.

Along the way, Han Zi'ang was still comforting Han Duoduo: "Don't be afraid, this is Grandpa's home."

"Look at those high-rise buildings; they used to be full of people."

"Back then, no one cared about the sun; everyone cared about a thing called money."

He began to recount his past experiences.

He even spoke of his wife.

In his words, the transport vehicle drove through the glaciers, passing one Shanghai landmark building after another.

Eventually, the transport vehicle could not go any further.

The rescue team set their sights on a high-rise building that was still relatively intact.

They prepared to climb up this building and then cross over it!

The process of climbing through the elevator shaft could be described as perilous.

The 【Igniter】 was very heavy, but it was essential to restart the Planetary Engine!

Due to the earthquake, the entire building was not very stable and was at risk of collapsing at any moment.

Many people successfully reached the roof; inside the elevator shaft remained the 【Igniter】, 【Han Zi'ang】, and a team member named 【Gangzi】.

The pulley could not hold on at this moment, and everyone was struggling to pull the Igniter.

Another chain was being pulled hard by Liu Qi and the others, with Han Zi'ang hanging below.

At this moment, an accident occurred, and Wang Lei decisively cut the rope to prevent Liu Qi and the others from falling as well.

Han Zi'ang began to fall, but fortunately, Gangzi grabbed him just in time.

The elevator began to plummet, and Gangzi, wearing Exoskeleton Armor, used his final strength to save Han Zi'ang.

But he sacrificed himself heroically.

The realistic and cruel side of the entire film began to reveal a corner of itself.

Many people say that The Wandering Earth is a very typical 【anti-Hollywood】 film, full of various anti-trope elements.

According to conventional logic, Gangzi saved Han Zi'ang at all costs, and Han Zi'ang, as a Senior Driver, should play a huge role later on; even if he sacrificed himself at a critical moment, he would certainly have fulfilled his value!

But in reality?

Although Gangzi saved Han Zi'ang, the old man's equipment began to leak oxygen during the violent impact.

Yes, Han Zi'ang died very quickly in the film!

"Hukou, Hukou, are you and Duoduo... safe?" The white-haired, elderly man crawled with difficulty through the gradually collapsing high-rise.

He did not know if the other party could still receive what he was saying, but he kept repeating it.

Struggling to get up, Han Zi'ang could not stand steadily after taking a few steps and sat down on a frozen sofa chair.

Because of the severe lack of oxygen inside his helmet, unable to endure it, he took off his helmet directly.

The cold temperature caused frost to form on his beard instantly.

Han Zi'ang wanted to turn his head, but everything began to become incomparably difficult.

His body was frozen stiff within a few breaths!

In this scene, the veteran actor Luo Chun, who played Han Zi'ang, showed an explosion of acting skills.

His pupils dilated at this moment, and with this difficult turning motion, his gaze looked out the window of the high-rise.

The moment his gaze converged on the window, his eyes lost their focus in an instant!

The light in the old man's eyes vanished instantly!

This kind of terrifying eye acting moved all the audience!

And just at this moment, everyone heard Han Zi'ang's voice; it was his memory.

"On the seventeenth day after Earth stopped rotating, I saved a child."

"Countless hands pushed her in front of me."

In the frozen imagery, everyone saw the frozen river.

The entire river was frozen, and the people inside still maintained the motion of swimming upstream!

So many people, maintaining such a posture, gave people a very strong visual impact!

They were all struggling to survive!

But they were also frozen for eternity!

Han Zi'ang recalled the rescue scene before the water flow was frozen.

He could no longer remember which hands had lifted that girl up.

They were still submerged in the water.

But they persisted—save the child first!

"I don't know who her parents are."

"Every person under that water was her parent." Han Zi'ang's voice spread throughout the Cinema.

"I named her Han Duoduo."

"Child, don't be afraid, from now on... we are a family." The old man's gentle voice echoed in the Cinema.

Good line delivery can always render more character emotion and make the audience even more moved.

A simple "Child, don't be afraid" made the audience instantly recall the earlier line: "Duoduo, don't be afraid, this is Grandpa's home."

Before entering the Underground City, Han Zi'ang was a Shanghai native.

He died in his hometown.

Amidst his words, the entire high-rise completely collapsed, and Wang Lei of the rescue team grabbed the struggling Liu Qi and leaped outward.

In this scene of falling from a great height, the gentle voice of Han Zi'ang sounded once again:

"Liu Qi, as the older brother... you must protect your younger sister well."

"Take Duoduo... home."

In the cinema, some emotional audience members had already begun to cry.

But reality is just like this.

A rescue that gives everything is not necessarily meaningful; this is the cruelty of rescue operations!

It is just like how many people may have seen the news: someone jumps into the sea to commit suicide, and in the end, the person is not saved, and the rescuer dies as well.

And in the face of natural disasters, human strength is sometimes exhausted, and there will be even more meaningless rescues!

This is reality! This is disaster!

Gangzi gave his life to save Han Zi'ang, but the old man still died; for the audience, this was unexpected.

But from a realistic perspective, everything seems so reasonable.

The scene shifted to the space station side.

Liu Peiqiang successfully deactivated the forced hibernation, coughing violently as he sat up from the Sleep Pod.

Warning sounds began to ring out.

"Warning! Illegal awakening!"

"Hibernation status compromised!"

Liu Peiqiang climbed up and looked out the window; he could no longer see Jupiter!

Everything was as he had expected; the space station had chosen to defect!

Liu Peiqiang muttered to himself: "Is it the 【Spaceship Faction】?"

This is content that did not exist in the original film, but it is more consistent with the original work.

The three words 【Spaceship Faction】 should be very easy to understand.

The artificial intelligence's voice sounded: "According to emergency regulations, initiating artificial correction procedures, currently waking up all hibernating personnel of H-7X01 Unit."

"Colonel Makarov."

"Colonel Hamanda."

"Please handle the accidentally awakened personnel—Liu Peiqiang—in accordance with emergency regulations."

What was funny was that after Hamanda took a look, he just weakly lay back down himself.

The previous comrade from the fighting nation, Colonel Makarov from Russia, ran out and questioned what he was doing.

Liu Peiqiang explained: "The space station has run away, communications on Earth will be completely paralyzed soon, and the people on Earth have been abandoned!"

"But my son is still down there," Liu Peiqiang said while operating something.

"Are you crazy for your son? This is a low-power state! This is going to a military tribunal!" Makarov said loudly in Russian.

Liu Peiqiang said without looking back: "Low power is just a cover, go see for yourself!"

"Perhaps MOSS has malfunctioned?" Makarov said.

"It's a defection!" Liu Peiqiang said directly.

The space station is abandoning Earth and defecting!

"What do you intend to do?" the good Russian comrade Makarov said directly.

Seeing this, Huo Yuan and Cao Tong felt more and more that the story was becoming tighter and more interesting.

Here it turned into a dual-line development.

Liu Peiqiang is on the space station, and Liu Qi is on the ground.

This kind of two-line development will make the content more substantial.

In the movie, Liu Peiqiang said: "Lao Ma, you should stop following me."

"You can't do it without me," Makarov said in Russian: "Are you as familiar with the outer structure of the space station as I am? Don't forget, the space station from 100 years ago was invented by us Russians!"

Such small details made Huo Yuan and Cao Tong look at the movie with new eyes again.

"This movie acknowledges all the roles played by other countries before the world disaster!"

"This is the scope!"

These details are also the reason why many people think this movie is very Huaxia-style, but also very 【anti-Hollywood】.

Many science fiction disaster movies from Hollywood, such as the "Doomsday Apostle" series, promote their American individual heroism as much as possible.

Through the form of cultural Output, they promote their own strength!

Others are nothing more than background boards, or even dragging their feet.

Like in "Doomsday Apostle", the Huaxia people are mostly dragging their feet, and there is also a lot of insulting content, with various forms of discrimination.

But looking back at our "The Wandering Earth"?

It is not the same at all.

The subsequent content of the movie is to let you take a good look at the scope of our Huaxia filmmakers!

After Liu Peiqiang and Lao Ma successfully exited the pod, the scene returned to the ground.

Liu Qi and the others parted ways with Wang Lei's rescue team.

They were lucky enough to find a car that was still relatively intact.

It turned out there were still living people in the car.

He informed everyone that their flight rescue team's original mission was to restart the Steering Engine in the equatorial region, but Jupiter's gravity made the atmosphere thinner and thinner, the planes couldn't fly, and he didn't know how many planes could still hold up.

This person also asked: "Aren't you the China rescue team? Why are there foreigners?"

Tim said with a Beijing accent: "Who is a foreigner? My dad is from Beijing, a genuine... Chinese heart!"

Because his speech had such a heavy Beijing accent, many people in the Cinema laughed.

Upon learning that the vehicle could still be driven, Tim was immediately happy, feeling that he could go home.

But that researcher among the survivors immediately said: "You can drive a transport vehicle? The engine in the equatorial region is the most important rescue target; even without stopping, it will take over a dozen hours to drive there."

"There is an Igniter on the vehicle, we must set off now!"

"Lucky, it's fortunate we ran into you."

Liu Qi inserted the vehicle card, and an electronic voice immediately sounded.

"Han Zi'ang, Senior Driver."

"Beijing Third District Traffic Committee reminds you: there are thousands of roads, safety is the first one; driving without following regulations, your loved ones will shed two lines of tears."

The same words, yet they gave the audience a different feeling.

That researcher soon discovered something was wrong.

His ID badge was clearly Liu Qi, not Han Zi'ang!

And according to the navigation, he wasn't heading in the direction he had requested at all!

At this moment, Liu Qi was only thinking about taking Duoduo home.

Everyone got into an argument, even scuffling together, nearly causing the vehicle to have an accident.

In the end, he was thrown off the vehicle.

After being thrown off the vehicle, he still roared: "Bastard! Stupid! Cowardly! Ignorant!"

"Leaving me behind is a loss for all of humanity!"

"Come back!"

Duoduo asked Liu Qi if he would freeze to death like that; how were we any different from Wang Lei by throwing him off halfway?

"Shut up," Liu Qi said.

Wang Lei's voice suddenly began to sound inside the vehicle.

"I am the commander of the CN171-11 rescue team, we are currently executing the mission to rescue the Hangzhou No. 1 engine," he said while panting heavily.

"Magma has already seeped into the Hangzhou Underground City, 350,000 people are trapped, and the Igniter we are transporting is their only hope for survival."

"Is anyone listening?"

"Is anyone listening?"

"Is anyone... listening?"

His hoarse voice kept repeating this sentence.

"If anyone is listening, please... please answer."

Liu Qi glanced at the researcher on the vehicle window mirror and resolutely turned the vehicle around.

"Get in!" Liu Qi shouted.

Such character transformation and character growth were also meant to highlight realism.

After all, the male lead was just a young man with no experience; he needed to grow, he needed to change.

This scene in the movie actually made many in the audience feel their blood boiling!

Everyone felt that next, everyone would work together, the protagonist group would descend like gods, and save Hangzhou!

But the next moment, the movie informed everyone—Hangzhou was gone.

Their rescue did not make it in time!

Dead, 350,000 people, all dead!

In the face of a global catastrophe, this seemed like nothing more than an inconspicuous number.

The rescue team kept losing people, and the Igniter had also failed.

Hangzhou was also gone.

In his view, all the previous sacrifices now seemed to have lost their meaning.

His family members had all died as well.

Wang Lei, looking like he had lost his soul, saw Liu Qi driving the vehicle and stopping in front of them, yet he still said: "All members of the CN171-11 rescue team, attention: the rescue mission has failed, disband on the spot, you... can all go home."

"Boss, where are you going?" a team member asked, watching Wang Lei walk away alone.

In the ice and snow, every step he took was heavy, as if he had no strength left in his body.

Liu Qi sat in the vehicle and pressed the vehicle's horn hard.

The honking sound lasted for a full several seconds.

The Drama at this moment seemed to have undergone a Reversal.

Previously, it was Wang Lei who forced their vehicle to stop and urgently requisitioned the transport vehicle.

Now, it had become Liu Qi honking to call him back.

The youth picked up the microphone and said:

"There is... an Igniter on the vehicle."

"CN171-11 rescue team, please assist us in rescuing—Sulawesi!"

………

The growth of the characters and the Reversal of the Drama made many in the audience feel both moved and stirred.

Such a script design is very clever.

At the same time, it can also highlight the sense of responsibility of the rescue team.

Wang Lei resolutely chose to get on the vehicle.

On the surface, everyone began to set off for Sulawesi.

Meanwhile, on the space station, Liu Peiqiang and Lao Ma had already arrived at the exterior of the space station.

Before exiting the airlock, Liu Peiqiang told him that once they returned to the ground, he still wanted to take his son to Lake Baikal to go fishing.

At this moment, Lao Ma said, "Brother, let me correct you; the ice on Lake Baikal won't turn into liquid for at least another 2,500 years."

Liu Peiqiang continued working as he said, "It's fine, we still have children. The children's children will have children, and one day, the ice will surely turn into water."

This is the mindset of us people of Huaxia.

This is the Inheritance!

During their climb, the docking port of Sector A1 exploded.

Lao Ma analyzed, "I reckon others have also discovered the space station's defection; they must all be thinking of heading to the main control room."

This is actually another instance of "de-individualizing heroism," telling everyone that it is not just Liu Peiqiang alone doing these things, but that others on the space station are also working hard!

A disaster of this kind cannot be solved by an individual; it requires the efforts of everyone!

Even during the process of entering the main control room, it was only because Lao Ma risked his life to assist that Liu Peiqiang was able to succeed.

After being targeted by MOSS, Lao Ma's helmet shattered, and he drifted away into space.

He slowly closed his eyes.

A Russian voice began to spread.

"Liu, I believe in that sentence you said."

"One day, the ice will turn into water."

"When that time comes, we will take the children fishing again."

Huo Yuan felt that the dialogue here, as well as the preceding plot design, were all excellent.

After entering the space station, Liu Peiqiang began attempting to perform all manual operations.

However, in the end, they all displayed—manual operation invalid!

The voice of the artificial intelligence MOSS rang out: "All actions of the space station are legal and have been fully authorized by the United Government."

On the screen, the multinational authorization documents from the United Government appeared.

Liu Peiqiang looked at the screen in disbelief.

The artificial intelligence continued: "MOSS has never defected; it is merely faithfully executing authorized commands!"

Liu Peiqiang turned his head to look at MOSS.

The camera gave MOSS a close-up; a red light flickered at its center.

All the viewers watched the red light and listened to its words, feeling nothing but a tingling sensation on their scalps!

"The space station abandoning Earth was actually authorized by the United Government!"

"Holy crap!"

(End of this chapter)