Chapter 786: History Records: The Wandering Earth Project

This *The Wandering Earth* truly carries anti-trope and anti-individual heroism to the very end.

Everyone thought it was the critical moment of the grand finale, and everyone thought the protagonist group was finally about to unleash their might.

But who would have thought, it was actually negated by the Drama again.

Liu Qi repeatedly boasted to his younger sister Han Duoduo, saying: "Your brother is a genius!"

But in reality?

His plan had already been thought of by the experts from Israel 7 hours ago, and after precise calculations, the success rate was 0; it was fundamentally impossible to solve any problems!

In other words, they were actually doing useless work, a bit like... a deathbed struggle?

This atmosphere of despair made the audience even more nervous, and even more fixated on the Drama.

"There must be a way! There must be a way!"

Liu Peiqiang began to urgently contact the United Government.

He began to request the United Government to issue an order, letting everyone go to reinforce Sulawesi.

The United Government stated that at the final moment before the Earth-Jupiter collision, to ask everyone to give up their last time to reunite with loved ones to do something meaningless—this kind of order, we cannot issue.

However, as an individual, I will connect this rescue team to the global broadcast; the rest is each person's individual choice.

The meaning is very clear: the United Government will not force everyone to go, but if they are willing to go, the United Government will not stop them.

On the ground, Han Duoduo successfully connected the broadcast.

Her plea for support in the movie, after being broadcast on Earth, had a polarized reaction on the internet.

Some people felt it was too awkward, making my toes curl just listening to it, and she was crying and whimpering—truly useless, damn it.

This kind of sentimental speech that reads like a school essay is truly uncomfortable to listen to!

But some people felt it was very realistic, because she is just an ordinary middle school student.

Just imagine, when you were in middle school, if you were suddenly pulled up, let alone making this kind of rescue request to save the world, if you had to stand in front of the whole school to give a speech, to what extent could you do it?

Luo Mo made modifications to this rescue request.

The core of this speech actually lies in two words—Hope.

Looking back at the beginning of the movie, Han Duoduo was still wearing her school uniform in class, and the theme of the lesson was hope.

She was even chewing bubble gum while looking at the class monitor's speech with disdain.

In the end, when sending the global rescue request, she repeated that sentence of the class monitor.

The journey on the surface made her understand, and also made her grow.

The original film used this form to embody this point.

And the detail Luo Mo added was that on the blackboard of that class, the word 【Hope】 was written densely in the languages of various countries, and the teacher seemed to have taught everyone how to read 【Hope】 in each language.

There was actually a setting earlier in the movie that personnel from all countries could hear simultaneous interpretation.

The plot Luo Mo added here is that amidst the tension and sentimentality, there is also humor.

Han Duoduo is clearly not a top student; she began to use very clumsy pronunciation, in multiple languages, stumbling as she said the word 【Hope】.

"Hope. (English.)"

"L'espoir. (French.)"

"Hoffnung. (German.)"

"..."

Every time she struggled to say a word, the screen would cut to the rescue team of that country.

Some people were left between laughter and tears, and were even amused by this middle school student's tearful pronunciation; even the simultaneous interpretation couldn't translate it!

Then, the people driving the vehicles would abruptly turn their cars!

Ding Xiaoyu, playing Han Duoduo, perfectly displayed her acting skills and emotional immersion.

She kept saying one country's language after another, stumbling through them, sometimes repeating them, so nervous that she forgot she had actually already said the 【Hope】 for that country earlier.

Yet, this clumsiness at this moment often brings better emotional delivery!

We must save her!

We must also save the Earth!

In vehicle after vehicle, the rescue teams of various countries communicated.

The driver from Kimchi Country yelled at his teammates: "The Earth is destroyed! We won't be able to see anyone in the future! Let's go back!"

Another foreigner said: "We might not be able to get home at all within seven days."

The driver, while forcefully turning the steering wheel, said with a determined look: "Then why should we go back?"

One car, two cars, three cars...

The movie camera first gave a close-up, then gave a panoramic view from high above.

At first, in the flow of traffic, only a few cars chose to turn around.

Then, there were more and more cars!

Car after car chose to go against the flow in the sea of vehicles, making every audience member wearing 3D Glasses and watching this scene feel incredibly moved!

"So intense, holy crap!"

"Seeing the vehicles turn at this moment, I inexplicably want to cry!"

"I Finally Understand what a community with a shared future for mankind is!"

"Everyone is saving themselves, everyone is working hard!"

"Damn! So blood-pumping!"

Huo Yuan and Cao Tong exchanged glances, once again marveling at how grand the scope of Luo Mo's movie is.

In the face of a global disaster, we affirmed the efforts of all countries, rather than just promoting our own greatness!

However, is that all there is to the hidden intentions of this plot?

That is not the case.

Over on Liu Qi's side, he was struggling to remove the foreign object that was stuck, nearly being crushed to death.

Over on Lao Liu's side, he was still manually operating the hardware.

Li Yiyi did not know the situation inside and was still urging them on.

But Lao Liu could not get in from the front and had to take off his helmet.

Moreover, the radiation here was too severe, and Lao Liu's condition was clearly very poor.

This person, who had seemed extremely afraid of death and timid as a mouse since the beginning of the movie, just said in a faint, dying voice: "Life and death are as usual."

He completed the final operation, and Li Yiyi gave him a thumbs up: "Lao He, success!"

He grinned, returned a thumbs up, and then, amidst his laughter, let his hand drop powerlessly.

Now, all that was left was the "firing pin" on Wang Lei's side.

But this "stabilizing needle" was truly too massive; with the strength of just a few of them, even wearing Exoskeleton Armor, it was impossible to push!

Fortunately, at this moment, the rescue teams from various countries finally arrived.

The crowd surged forward, united as one!

Huo Yuan did not notice the details inside this time, but the knowledgeable Cao Tong pointed at the big screen and said softly to Huo Yuan: "The order in which the rescue teams from various countries arrived here seems to be the same order in which various countries provided support to us during our previous earthquakes."

"Really!?" Huo Yuan was shocked.

He did not expect that such a small detail was hidden here.

"If I remember correctly, it should be correct," Cao Tong said.

Such a small detail is actually telling everyone: in the face of disaster, we remember the help we received!

It is so detailed, this was done so detailed!

At the same time, from the perspective of natural disasters, the consistent mindset of the Huaxia people is that as long as there is a glimmer of hope, one must make a one-hundred-percent effort. When one side is in trouble, all sides provide support. Do not abandon, do not give up!

Huo Yuan could not help but tremble all over, getting layers of goosebumps, because he remembered a line from Let the Bullets Fly.

"【At that time and that moment, it is exactly like this time and this moment!】"

……..

……..

Amidst the shouting of slogans, the multinational rescue teams finally pushed the "stabilizing needle" in.

Li Yiyi shouted over there: "Team Leader Wang! You must keep holding on!"

"Liu Qi, prepare to ignite, hurry and retreat!" He began to say to Liu Qi's side again.

Watching the scenes in the movie, many audience members felt both blood-boiling and joyful.

The gates were constantly closing, and Liu Qi was driving the vehicle, racing out in a heart-pounding manner.

After breaking away, he shouted: "Li Yiyi, ignite!"

Over at the Navigator Space Station, Liu Peiqiang stared intently at the flame ignited by this "match," watching how far it was from Jupiter.

"Eight thousand kilometers, seven thousand..."

Li Yiyi was also shouting loudly: "Six thousand kilometers left, about to reach the detonation zone!"

The light beam from the engine shot straight into the sky; such special effects made the audience feel it was incredibly cool!

However, this pillar of flame was still five thousand kilometers away from Jupiter!

The broadcast voice of the artificial intelligence came through: "Sulawesi Engine No. 3, Singapore Engine No. 1, Jakarta Engine No. 4, none of the three flames have reached the detonation point."

Three pillars of light shot into the sky, but there was still a long distance to the massive Jupiter.

But this was equivalent to telling the audience again that the same thing was actually not just being operated by the protagonist group at Sulawesi.

There were two other groups of people making the same effort!

Yes, in the face of a natural disaster, how could there only be such a small group of people giving their all?

The young couple sitting in front of Huo Yuan were communicating again.

The girl asked her boyfriend: "Can't we wait until Earth is a bit closer to Jupiter to try?"

"Didn't they say earlier, that some value or other... sigh, I didn't remember it either, but anyway, one value has already reached its limit; if it gets any closer, Earth is finished."

"Oh, I see." The girlfriend snuggled against him, looking at the screen with a nervous expression, worried about what to do next.

Inside the space station, Liu Peiqiang stood up, his expression grave.

He turned his head to look at the screen, where the information displayed: "300,000 tons of fuel remaining."

Liu Peiqiang began to contact the United Government.

"United Government, the Navigator Space Station has 300,000 tons of fuel left, requesting to impact the engine flame!"

The United Government immediately replied in French: "Liu, the core of the Wandering Earth Project is to let more people survive, the core of the Seed Project is to let human civilization continue, we need some time..."

His words became increasingly urgent.

"We don't have time!" Liu Peiqiang interrupted.

Before he could finish speaking, the communication was cut off.

The voice of the artificial intelligence MOSS sounded: "As the execution program for the Seed Project, MOSS does not allow the sacrifice of the Navigator Space Station to occur."

Liu Peiqiang turned his head in astonishment, looking at this artificial intelligence glowing with red light.

The next moment, he abruptly and manually shut down all fire-fighting programs.

This was another detail that flashed by.

Then, he took out the bottle of liquor that the fighting nation's Lao Ma had gifted him earlier.

"Do you know why it wasn't allowed to bring liquor into space before?" He looked sideways at MOSS and said.

The next moment, he threw the bottle, and a great fire began to burn in the central control room!

Eerily, the artificial intelligence covered by the flames actually autonomously emitted a voice:

"To let humanity maintain rationality forever is indeed an extravagant hope."

As soon as this line was spoken, it sent a chill through many of the audience members in the Cinema.

"Has it given birth to its own thoughts!?" many audience members thought to themselves.

The movie did not provide a definitive answer.

But this line from MOSS was indeed thought-provoking.

Liu Peiqiang stood amidst the raging fire and activated the manual operating system.

Then, he sat into the cockpit and pasted a photo of his family of three onto it.

He turned the direction of the space station to face Jupiter head-on.

The communication from the United Government also resumed at this moment.

"Liu, this is the United Government."

"We have decided to choose hope; no matter where the final result leads human history, we will respect and accept it." A French voice rang out.

"Good luck to you."

"Good luck to Earth."

Liu Peiqiang looked at the photo of his family of three and said with a smile, "Earth... will definitely survive."

He began to detach the hibernation pods.

He activated the escape system for the hibernation pods.

"United Government, notify all personnel on the ground to take emergency shelter."

Liu Peiqiang let out a long sigh and began to pilot the space station.

"Advance three!"

After the space station began to accelerate, his voice rang out on the ground, opening communication with Liu Qi and the others.

"China CN171-11 Rescue Team, this is the space station, I am Liu Peiqiang."

"The space station has 300,000 tons of fuel, and the blast diameter can reach 5,000 kilometers."

"Igniting the space station will ignite Jupiter."

Liu Qi stood outside, looked up at the massive Jupiter, and roared, "Liu Peiqiang! What are you doing!"

Here, Luo Mo also made modifications; he did not shout the original lines, but instead repeated this sentence in different tones, continuously questioning Liu Peiqiang.

Liu Peiqiang continued with his subsequent arrangements, then said, "Liu Qi."

Liu Qi, who had long known what he was going to do, refused to accept it and kept shouting, "Liu Peiqiang, shut up! Shut up!"

"Liu Qi, Liu Qi... son!" Liu Peiqiang said.

Only after hearing Liu Qi's exhausted voice did he say, "I'm sorry."

"Dad is going to carry out a mission again."

A simple sentence, yet it suddenly made the audience in the Cinema want to cry.

This is Huaxia-style Science Fiction.

A simple "Dad is going to carry out a mission again" can resonate with countless people.

Because in reality, there are far, far too many such people.

We have seen far, far too much news and have had far, far too many moving moments!

We know all too well what this sentence represents.

In this situation, Liu Qi was no longer like a hedgehog as he was on ordinary days.

He began to say with a hint of grievance, "You said that when I could see Jupiter, you would come back. You lied, you lied, you lied..."

His voice carried a sobbing tone; there was grievance, there was resentment toward his father, and there was also longing for his father.

Listening to his words, Liu Peiqiang's voice could not help but choke up.

Tears fell, but they floated in the air.

"I left when you were four, and now you are already an adult."

"Dad told you before, Dad is in the sky; as long as you look up, you can see Dad."

After he finished this sentence, he began the manual acceleration.

Danger alarms came from the space station, but he ignored them and continued to advance.

The audience, wearing 3D Glasses, saw the incredibly shocking light beam of the engine.

And that incomparably huge Jupiter.

Compared to it, even the space station seemed a bit tiny.

Liu Peiqiang's voice came again.

"This time, you will definitely... be able to see me."

Responding to him was Liu Qi, who was lying on the ground, with that unstoppable sobbing sound.

Liu Peiqiang's voice became gentler and gentler, just like when he and Liu Qi were saying Farewell on Earth, looking exactly like the return to the opening of the film.

"Come, son," he said softly.

Tears floated inside the cabin, reflecting the intense light of the light beam.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

Amidst the soothing and tender background music, Liu Peiqiang recalled every scene of himself and Liu Qi on Earth.

The space station, after detaching from the hibernation pods, under Liu Peiqiang's solo piloting, crashed into the light beam at this moment and was completely destroyed.

Leaving behind only a gentle: "Look up."

On Earth, Liu Qi looked up at the sky.

He saw a dazzling star flickering beneath Jupiter!

This time, he saw that star.

Son, this time, Dad isn't lying to you.

…….

…….

Jupiter was ignited by Liu Peiqiang.

Li Yiyi began organizing everyone to evacuate.

The subsequent shockwave would make the surface very unsafe, and everyone had to retreat into the Underground City.

Liu Qi and the others were the furthest away from the Underground City.

He had to drive back to the Underground City at top speed.

But during this process, the backup elevator collapsed.

Wang Lei protected Han Duoduo, who was waiting for Liu Qi there.

But he himself was pinned down.

In the Blue Star version, the earlier interactions between Wang Lei and Han Duoduo were actually foreshadowing for this moment of risking his life to save her.

He truly regarded Han Duoduo as his daughter.

At the same time, it also allowed the character of Wang Lei to be fulfilled.

He hadn't saved anyone before.

This time, he saved the little girl he regarded as a treasure.

Because the elevator was broken, everyone could not enter the Underground City and had to adopt another plan, hiding under the Planetary Engine.

The camera gave Wang Lei a close-up.

In his palm, there was a bullet.

That was the bullet he had previously given to Han Duoduo, because Han Duoduo held a grudge against him due to the death of Han Zi'ang, did not understand Wang Lei's actions, and wanted to shoot him dead.

At this moment, the bullet returned to Wang Lei's hand.

This small detail perhaps represented something.

Han Duoduo returned the bullet to him.

The faint-breathing Wang Lei said for the last time: "Attention, all members of CN171-11."

"This is an order."

"Live, live on…….."

Wang Lei died.

Stunning special effects appeared before the audience; Jupiter was burning again, and the shockwave descended from the sky.

The spectacular special effects made the audience feel that the budget was burning crazily!

It was worthy of a film with an initial investment of 500 million and an additional 200 million later.

Li Yiyi looked at the data and said: "We... finally succeeded."

After Liu Qi protected Han Duoduo, his consciousness was already fading.

At this very moment, one after another, the extinguished Planetary Engines were ignited one by one!

Beside the massive Jupiter, Earth slowly sailed away.

Epic, magnificent background music began to play, and the scene shifted to Liu Qi's personal Perspective.

His eyelids were drooping, and he could barely keep his eyes open.

He vaguely saw the engine in front of him being ignited once more.

"Earth……… is alive."

Amidst this sound, Liu Qi closed his eyes completely at ease and fell into a coma.

In the darkness, stirring background music played.

In fact, the background music of The Wandering Earth was done exceptionally well; many parts were particularly Burning, especially this final segment.

Accompanied by the explosive background music, the voice-over sounded again.

"The Sun, located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, accounts for 99.68% of the total mass of the Solar System."

Amidst the voice-over, a few words appeared on the dark screen—Three Years Later.

The screen lit up again, showing a long take.

The camera was aimed at Liu Qi's Back Shadow.

The camera followed his Back Shadow like this, walking inside the Underground City.

Amidst the stirring background music, the voice-over continued.

"Now, the Sun's core is aging rapidly and expanding continuously; Earth will be swallowed."

"For survival, humanity has formulated an unprecedented, magnificent plan to drive the entire Earth to escape to a new home 4.2 light-years away."

During the process of Liu Qi walking, many scenes appeared.

Some were peaceful.

Some were incredibly lively.

There were also people marching on the streets, shouting: "Give me back the sunlight!"

The voice-over continued to narrate.

"The plan is divided into 5 stages."

"The first stage: humanity will exhaust all resources to build 10,000 Planetary Engines to drive Earth forward, and 10,000 Underground Cities to shelter human habitation."

Wearing his medal, Liu Qi walked along and encountered many old acquaintances; quite a few people had begun calling him Brother Qi.

"In the second phase, the Steering Engines encircling the equator were ignited one after another, forcing Earth to stop its rotation. The cessation of Earth's rotation caused monstrous tsunamis to sweep across the globe, and the global population plummeted by nearly half."

In this single continuous shot, Liu Qi passed by the rescue team; this time he greeted them in a friendly manner, and the rescue team returned the gesture.

Then, he reunited with the chatterbox and pretentious Li Yiyi.

Amidst the stirring background music, the narrator continued:

"In the third phase, Earth will utilize the Sun and Jupiter to complete its final acceleration sprint and officially embark on its wandering journey."

"In the fourth phase, after Earth leaves the Solar System, the Planetary Engines will operate at full power, taking five hundred years to accelerate to five-thousandths of the speed of light, followed by a coasting period of thirteen hundred years."

The audience listened to the narration during the end credits, surprisingly finding it quite fascinating.

"Subsequently, the engines will reverse their direction, and another seven hundred years will be spent on deceleration."

The elevator doors opened, and Liu Qi, accompanied by Li Yiyi, arrived on the surface once again.

They got into a vehicle, where Han Duoduo had already been waiting.

"In the fifth phase, Earth will park into the target star system, arrive at its new home, and become a new planet of the target star system."

Amidst the sound of the narration and the background music, Liu Qi sat in the driver's seat and inserted his own vehicle card.

An electronic voice rang out.

"Liu Qi, Junior Pilot."

"The Beijing Third District Traffic Commission reminds you: there are countless roads, but safety is the priority; if driving is not done according to regulations, your loved ones will shed two lines of tears."

With this sound, he started his vehicle.

The audience couldn't help but feel a Surprise: "Ah! Liu Qi has become an official pilot!"

As his vehicle drove across the surface, the narrator's voice rose again.

"This project will last for one hundred generations."

"Although we do not know what kind of home the new sun 4.2 light-years away will bring."

"But from today on, the courage and perseverance of humanity will be forever engraved beneath the starry sky."

The camera began to rise gradually as the vehicle drove, starting to overlook from a high vantage point, and it kept rising higher and higher.

The final shot was truly Ox.

In this gradually rising shot, everyone first saw the Planetary Engines, then continued to rise, until everyone saw Earth traveling through the starry sky once again.

It was as if everything had returned to the beginning of the movie, with everything echoing from start to finish.

The stirring background music and such an ending gave people a magical sense of anticipation.

As if everything were still continuing! Everything had not yet ended!

Advance, advance, advance!

The narrator continued:

"This long cosmic journey, where despair and hope coexist, will last for two thousand five hundred years."

"Historically known as—"

"The Wandering Earth Project!"

The next moment, amidst the ink-wash-like black and white visuals, the audience wearing 3D Glasses saw Earth, with its long trailing special effect, streak rapidly before their eyes to the sound of this explosive Electronic Music titled "Starting a New Journey"!

The Chinese Science Fiction film "The Wandering Earth", The End!

(PS: The final single continuous shot, the BGM, and the final scene of Earth traveling are really great; those interested can go watch it again. Requesting monthly tickets.)

(End of this chapter)