Chapter 785: What is Called Chinese-Style Science Fiction?

The drama has reached this point and is starting to become more and more interesting.

Many in the audience are also beginning to feel that this "The Wandering Earth" cannot be called a traditional commercial Science Fiction blockbuster.

It is capable of bringing people contemplation and shock.

Quite a few people are already pondering in their hearts: "Is the space station abandoning Earth in this situation right, or is it wrong?"

Huo Yuan and Cao Tong are also exchanging whispers, the two of them holding different views.

At the same time, if the space station abandoning Earth and no longer flying in formation was truly authorized by the United Government, this can actually reflect from the side just how terrible the situation on Earth is, and just how dangerous everything is!

The appearance of this kind of plot can make the audience feel more tension, and they will also be more concerned about the protagonist team.

Clearly, this grasp of emotion is something Luo Mo has done very well.

Actually, in the plot on Earth, some details are also hidden.

After Han Zi'ang died, Liu Qi and the others found a car that could still be driven; as soon as they got in, the scientific researcher in the car, Li Yiyi, resisted as if he had gone mad, as if he viewed them as enemies.

This kind of reaction is very strange.

One theory is that they had previously encountered an attack by rebel forces, which is why their emotions were so intense after seeing them.

Such details actually make the movie appear more realistic.

Earth is so big, and there are so many humans; will they really twist into a single rope?

Just imagine it; the possibility is not high.

Furthermore, will everyone be willing to participate in the 【Wandering Earth Project】?

The sun going bad and the end of the world—that is a matter for decades later.

Isn't there a saying that goes like this—after I die, let the flood come!

The 2,500-year wandering plan is truly too long, far too long.

……..

……..

At this moment, the scene switches from the space station back to Earth.

The plot playing next is a part that did not exist in the 【Theatrical Version】 on Earth.

Yes, it is the content in the 【Leap Special Edition】.

The rescue team's Wang Lei gave the doll he made to Han Duoduo; his wife and child are no longer in this world, and he never had the chance to give this doll to his daughter.

Perhaps it is because Han Duoduo is about the same age as his own daughter.

This kind of plot setup will also make the final ending of the character Wang Lei more convincing, and it will not make the subsequent content appear abrupt.

Although Han Duoduo likes this kind of doll very much, she still harbors resentment over Han Zi'ang's death.

Wang Lei gave her a bullet.

The car is driving rapidly on Earth.

As time passes, Wang Lei says: "We are about to reach the terminator line; once we cross it, it will be eternal night."

Amidst the heavy background music, everyone looks out the window.

The scene outside is very chaotic!

Everyone is wearing 3D Glasses, looking at the chaotic scene before them, feeling only that the special effects are done truly too well.

Just at this moment, a sound rings out again on the transport vehicle.

There is Chinese, there is Japanese, there is English, there is Korean……..

It is one team after another informing others that they have already repaired Planetary Engine number XX!

This makes the audience intuitively feel a kind of power:

——Earth is saving itself!

The people on Earth do not know about the space station's mutiny, and do not know that they have already been abandoned.

Everyone is fighting a desperate battle for the future, for hope, and for survival!

The protagonist group is merely a Perspective of the movie.

They are just one of countless rescue personnel.

This is yet another kind of 【Anti-Individual Heroism】 plot.

The scientific researcher Li Yiyi states: "Everyone, ninety percent of the Planetary Engines have been restarted!"

This news is undoubtedly heartening!

Arriving at a supply station, the vehicle needs supplies; it can be filled up in about five minutes.

Wang Lei and Liu Qi are outside the vehicle and see a whale frozen in ice.

Through this whale, the two open up a conversation.

Wang Lei says to him: "Once the mission is complete, you and your dad can be reunited."

Liu Qi says: "When I was little, someone told me... he is a star in the sky, and as long as I look up, I can see him."

This connects to the content at the very beginning of the movie.

"Later I found out, it was all a lie," Liu Qi says.

"In Beijing, you can't see the stars at all."

This makes the audience in Beijing instantly feel—what a great roast!

Never mind your time back then, we can't see them now either!

Liu Qi looks up at the sky and says: "Actually, in my heart, that star ceased to exist long ago."

All he wants to do now is fulfill his grandfather's instructions and take Duoduo home!

Amidst the conversation, the two suddenly see a bright light before them; a pillar of light shoots up into the sky, incomparably blinding, yet so magnificent!

"The engine has restarted!" Liu Qi says, unable to believe it.

"Saturated Rescue." Wang Lei uttered a professional term and said, "There are teams ahead of us."

The so-called Saturated Rescue, intuitively manifested in the movie, is that with thousands of engines shut down, there were over seventy thousand Igniters being transported, and a massive number of rescue teams were dispatched.

Look, this is Huaxia-style Science Fiction!

You must know, Huaxia is one of the countries in the world most adept at "Saturated Rescue."

In past natural disasters, it was like this.

Now, it is the same.

The audience once again did not wait for the protagonist group's divine intervention.

In fact, the protagonist group didn't even reach the designated location!

But everyone once again felt it—the power of all humanity!

Hearing this term, Huo Yuan thought of the natural disasters Huaxia had experienced time and time again in the past.

Suddenly, his whole body trembled!

"Wang Lei's rescue team is the CN171-11 rescue team!" he said to Cao Tong.

Cao Tong didn't react at first, wondering, "Yeah, what about it?"

"Eleven years ago, during the Huaxia earthquake, I saw a news report that a rescue team's aircraft model was the Mi-171, and everyone on board sacrificed their lives!" Huo Yuan said.

Once these words were spoken, Cao Tong also reacted: "I remember this incident too!"

Only then did the two understand that there were perhaps many details in the movie they hadn't discovered.

And these details, without exception, told the audience that this is how it is in the face of natural disasters.

There is no protagonist halo, no individual heroism; they are all just one member among thousands upon thousands of rescue teams.

No gods, no aliens, no superpowers... only thousands upon thousands of ordinary people!

Huo Yuan felt that Luo Mo was truly bold.

Many commercial Science Fiction films don't really express these things.

Because this would make the film lose a portion of its commercial appeal, and the risk factor would be higher!

But Luo Mo insisted on doing it this way.

"Perhaps, because he is filming a Huaxia Science Fiction movie?" Huo Yuan thought to himself.

In the movie, Li Yiyi said excitedly: "This is the last batch of Steering Engines, they have all been restarted!"

Everyone felt that they had succeeded.

The audience also let out a long sigh of relief.

However, the data did not recover, and the distance between Earth and Jupiter was still shrinking!

The scene switched smoothly to the space station side.

The voice of the artificial intelligence MOSS rang out: "0.42 seconds after the activation of Emergency Plan No. 3, MOSS had already deduced all outcomes."

The cold electronic voice resounded through the main control room.

Many audience members' hearts sank to the bottom in an instant.

"Ah! What is this!"

"Doesn't that mean everything was in vain, that all the sacrifices had no meaning?"

"Damn, no wonder they wanted to abandon Earth!"

"What are they going to do now?"

The artificial intelligence MOSS stated: "This is a rescue destined to be futile; the evacuation of the space station marks the failure of the rescue operation."

"In three hours, Earth will breach the Rigid Roche Limit of Jupiter and enter an irreversible disintegration process."

"MOSS will conduct a global broadcast."

"Fifteen, fourteen, thirteen..."

"The Wandering Earth project has failed; the Navigator project is renamed the Seed Project." It first notified everyone inside the space station.

The audience's emotions were completely immersed.

"What the hell! Damn!"

"Seed Project? The space station is the last seed of humanity?"

"Damn it, then what have I been watching for so long?"

"Oh my god!!!"

After this content was finished, the artificial intelligence MOSS of the Navigator Space Station began to connect to Earth's communications and began to notify the people on Earth.

"This is the Navigator Space Station, now conducting a final notification to the world."

"In the past thirty-six hours, humanity has experienced the greatest survival crisis in history."

"Under the struggle and sacrifice of 1.5 million rescue personnel from countries around the world, 71% of the Propulsion Engines and 100% of the Steering Engines have been restarted at full power."

"But regrettably, the current gravitational pull of Jupiter has exceeded the total Output power of all engines."

"Earth has missed its final chance to escape."

"For the continuation of human civilization, MOSS will activate the Seed Project."

Amidst its voice, the screen constantly switched between rescue teams of various countries; some were shocked, some were dejected, some had vacant pupils...

The atmosphere in the Cinema also gradually became heavy, starting to become very distressing and oppressive.

The artificial intelligence MOSS continued: "The Navigator Space Station has cryogenically stored 300,000 human embryos and the seeds of one hundred million basic crops, stores the DNA maps of all known global flora and fauna, and possesses a digital database of all human civilization to ensure the reconstruction of a complete human civilization on a new immigrant planet."

"You are all heroes of Earth; we will keep you in our hearts and be proud of you."

"We will carry all of your hopes and fly toward a new home 2,500 years from now."

"All things have a beginning and an end; in the final seven days before Earth falls into Jupiter, everyone, go home."

The cold artificial intelligence voice continued: "Hug your parents, kiss your loved ones and children."

"Reunite with your family, and have a proper Farewell."

"I wish everyone good luck."

"Broadcast complete, goodbye."

Throughout the entire broadcast, the movie kept cutting between different scenes.

Some people were breaking down, shouting: "We're all going to die! We're all going to die!"

There were children wailing and crying, unable to find their mom and dad.

Some people were hugging each other tightly, unwilling to be separated...

Han Duoduo said to Liu Qi: "Hukou, I want to go home."

Her voice was already laced with a sobbing tone.

An engineer broke down and said: "Where are there still 7 days! In less than a day, the atmosphere will be sucked dry, and everyone will be suffocated to death!"

"Where are there still seven days!"

Huo Yuan and Cao Tong watched this scene, their hearts also rising and falling, feeling somewhat nervous.

They were very eager to know the direction the movie would take next.

Inside the Navigator Space Station, MOSS urged Liu Peiqiang to enter the backup Sleep Pod.

Liu Peiqiang sat there with a grave expression and said: "MOSS, I still have emergency communication authorization, code 571162310501."

"Let me have one last conversation with my son," he said.

In the scene, Liu Qi, played by Luo Mo, was looking up at the sky.

Perhaps from childhood to adulthood, he had always looked at the sky like this.

Because that man had said that he would turn into a star.

As long as he looked up, he would be able to see it.

Seventeen years had passed in the blink of an eye, and he had already developed this habit.

However, he had never seen that star.

The artificial intelligence MOSS told Liu Peiqiang: "Liu Qi is not in the designated area, unable to connect; Han Zi'ang is not in the designated vehicle, unable to connect; Wang Lei is not in the designated vehicle, unable to connect; the signal for transport vehicle No. 373 has been lost, signal interrupted in the Shanghai region."

Liu Qi continued to look at the sky.

He said in his heart: "I can no longer remember what you look like; now Jupiter is right in front of me, when will you come back?"

Liu Qi, too, missed his father.

He lowered his head and began to recall all the things he had shared with his father.

He remembered at the beginning of the movie, when he was still small, his father told him that Jupiter was like a big balloon, 90% of which was hydrogen.

At this thought, he seemed to know what he should do!

Passionate background music swelled, and Liu Qi rushed in, questioning Li Yiyi: "If Jupiter's surface mixes with Earth's atmosphere, is there a possibility of ignition!"

The dejected Li Yiyi stood up instantly and began to calculate.

"Currently, Jupiter has captured at least 30 billion liters of oxygen; the explosion could create a shockwave of over Mach 1000!"

"The kinetic energy produced... is enough to push the Earth!"

Liu Qi shouted from outside: "To ignite the mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, all it takes is a match; we are just missing a match!"

"No, no, no, the distance between Earth and Jupiter is over 70,000 kilometers; the range of an intercontinental missile simply cannot reach it!" Li Yiyi calculated.

Liu Qi turned his head to look into the distance and said in a deep voice: "Li Yiyi, how about this match?"

Everyone outside the vehicle turned their heads with him.

Amidst the increasingly passionate background music, Li Yiyi asked in confusion from inside the vehicle: "Which one!"

He looked outside the vehicle, following everyone's gaze, toward the engine in the distance!

Li Yiyi fixed his eyes on him and shouted: "I can modify the engine's program to make it... jet higher!"

Liu Qi called out to Wang Lei's rescue team.

"Come on! Let's ignite Jupiter!"

It was burning! It ignited in an instant!

Many audience members in the Cinema began to feel their blood boiling with excitement.

In the rescue team, someone said: "Doing this is equivalent to mutual destruction."

Wang Lei stated: "Mutual destruction is better than sitting and waiting for death; is there anyone who wants to quit?"

In the end, no one quit; instead, they gazed at that massive engine in the distance!

It seemed that at this moment, the protagonist finally found the meaning of his existence and fulfilled his role.

Everyone boarded their vehicles and began calling the Navigator Space Station.

But the space station's communications were blocked.

The scientific researcher Li Yiyi began to instruct everyone on how to proceed with the operation.

Everyone's plan was clear; they just needed to follow the steps.

Someone on the side said: "Are you joking? Properly installing an Igniter requires at least 12 months of professional training."

Li Yiyi retorted: "If you're so good, why don't you do it?"

The person immediately shut up.

"Once all steps are completed, everyone must immediately return to the Underground City; remember, that will be a very, very, very... big wave!"

After Li Yiyi finished speaking, Wang Lei began calling the surrounding rescue teams that were evacuating.

All the vehicles were driving outward, only their vehicle was like a Reverse Traveler.

"Attention all rescue teams, we need your support, please slow down and stop."

He repeated this constantly, but the rescue teams, whose hearts were already dead, did not stop.

Wang Lei couldn't help but say, "It seems we can only rely on ourselves."

These Reverse Travelers began to take action.

During the process, Wang Lei also encountered other rescue teams; he wanted to provide support, but the other parties completely ignored him.

The mission Han Duoduo received was to continue contacting reinforcements.

Yes, it was still that same philosophy.

There is no individual heroism, no one person saving the world; we must unite all forces that can be united!

This is Chinese-style Science Fiction!

In such a tense atmosphere, there were still some humorous moments.

Liu Qi said to Tim, who was flipping through the manual, "It's fully automatic, what the hell are you flipping through it for!"

"If it's fully automatic, why is it written so thick!?" Tim retorted in his Beijing accent.

The film had reached its final climax; the protagonist group was very nervous, and the audience was also watching very nervously.

Han Duoduo continued broadcasting, constantly requesting support.

The scene shifted to the other rescue teams.

Some heard it and directly turned off the broadcast.

Others were communicating: "Even the space station has run away, what kind of rescue is there left!"

Still others simply... took their guns and committed suicide!

Before committing suicide, they softly said in Japanese: "I really want to eat a bowl of white rice; it would be even better if there were miso soup."

On the protagonist group's side, Lao Liu shouted to the rescue team: "Next, we have to rely on manual pushing; the program Li Yiyi wrote doesn't include the firing pin!"

The rescue team looked at the behemoth in front of them and couldn't help but complain: "You call this thing... a pin?"

Damn it, is it the Sea-Stabilizing Needle?

Even if they were wearing Exoskeleton Armor, this was an impossible task.

Han Duoduo said anxiously: "No rescue team is responding!"

Three tough men wearing armor began to push the "Sea-Stabilizing Needle" with all their might.

Li Yiyi also ran into trouble on his end, stuck at 99%.

The engineer Lao He was finally able to hold his head high: "Without hardware support, you can't crack a damn thing!"

—He was acting like an Ox, he was finally acting like an Ox!

Huo Yuan liked these details very much; he liked seeing characters suffer setbacks at first, only to have their shining moments later.

He also liked seeing the growth of the characters.

Everyone was throwing caution to the wind, disregarding their own lives.

On Han Duoduo's side, she finally made contact with Liu Peiqiang.

She told him they wanted to ignite Jupiter.

The audience all thought this was the shining moment of a comeback against the odds, the wisdom of the protagonist group, and a desperate attempt to turn the tide.

But the anti-trope pattern appeared nonetheless.

The artificial intelligence MOSS said coldly from the side: "Seven hours ago, Israeli experts had already proposed this plan; the success rate is 0."

Do you think you are very smart?

Do you think you are very advanced?

Others had already thought of it long ago, and even calculated the results for you!

At this moment, all the audience members were completely dumbfounded!

(End of this chapter)