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Chapter 849: Sky Curtain: Enemy at the Gate (Part )
Like under the eternal dusk, the whole world seemed to be shrouded in a hazy veil of light.

The gray flowers and plants stand silently on the land before our eyes like sculptures that have lost their vitality. The barren land, which should be full of vitality but with all the trees showing a withered color, seems to be telling the vicissitudes of the past.

In the distance, black water flowed slowly in the winding river channel without many ripples, as thick and silent as ink.

Occasionally, strange ripples flash across the water surface, as if foreshadowing unknown dangers and mysteries hidden underwater.

Further away, vast expanses of building ruins lay dormant on the loess land, like an ancient city wall with only ruins left. Surrounded by ruins stretching for dozens of miles, the interior was filled with rows of collapsed houses, ancient towers, and mud and sand eroded by the dusk.

It seems that it had a glorious past, but for some reason it now only exudes an ancient and decaying atmosphere, becoming a lifeless relic of a civilization.

"Is this the world on the other side of the sky?" On the hill, Liu Yifei looked at all this, confused and suspicious.

The audience also looked at them in surprise. Although the environment of this world was presented from Chenglong's main perspective at the beginning, the breadth of elements that could be reflected in the picture was limited due to the valley scene at the beginning.

The vast world in front of him, dominated by Liu Yifei's sight, was a mixture of magnificent, dead silence, and mysterious atmosphere. It was so grand and boundless that it gave people an intuitive feeling of a real alien world.

And because it is obviously the ruins of an ancient city, the alien world at present is full of strong Chinese style, as if telling the audience what the alien world scenes and styles in Chinese science fiction films and television should look like.

Foreign science fiction is either about space or the Milky Way, high technology or the presentation of monsters. Although the imagination is commendable, the cultural heritage is hard to tell when you delve deeper. The magnificent composition of the typical and well-founded Chinese-style alien world in front of you can make people subconsciously feel that the background of the story in the movie has undergone thousands of years of historical changes.

This sense of historical weight is incomparable to Western science fiction. Just as the historical background of the Marvel series of films originated in the early 20th century, the producers may also want to design the origin of the Marvel series' stories a little further back in time to add a little historical thickness and increase the plasticity of the stories or characters.

Too bad they didn't have so many before.

The special effects and imagination of Western science fiction cannot be compared at present, but the infinitely grand and shocking appearances that can be set off by the cultural depth of our country will definitely be more stunning and magnificent than the so-called grand scenes in the West as long as we are willing to explore and produce them.

Many viewers have already had this feeling. They feel that the big scenes in this movie from the beginning to now are more visually impactful than Hollywood's special effects movies. It is hard to say what is so good about it for the time being, but there is something called national cultural self-confidence that is subtly injecting or changing their consciousness and perceptions.

"Hiss~" The scene switched and came to a few meters in front of the sky. Chu Xuan propped himself up from the grass ground with pain. Everything around him was very strange and he had no time to look around. He saw the light on the sky first stopped and then began to move.

Suddenly, a stream of light broke out from the sky, and before Chu Xuan could be too surprised, streams of light broke out from the sky one after another and flew towards him.

"What the hell!"

Chu Xuan stood up and ran away regardless of the pain in his body.

“Lin Yi, Lin Yi!”

Chu Xuan saw Lin Yi with her back to him in front of him and shouted loudly.

Liu Yifei turned around and saw the dense and strange gray-white lights flying in the sky. A rare look of surprise appeared on her cold face.

He took out the "harmonica" and pressed the button, then bent his hand to draw the arrow and put it on the bow, and skillfully made an attacking posture. However, as the arrows were shot one after another, the arrows always penetrated the flowing light but failed to affect it at all.

The situation is bad, but it seems that it can be worse.

Not far away, in a dense forest that looked like it was withered, strange birds were circling in the sky, as if they were gathering to get rid of the outsiders who had entered this world. The terrifying murderous aura made two people look terrified and solemn.

"Run!" Liu Yifei shouted in a low voice.

Run? Of course you have to run. Encountering so many strange birds and weird and inexplicable lights, if you don't run, you will die.

However, it is understandable that you can outrun the alien by moving around, but when facing flying objects, you can only admit defeat.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

There were two consecutive sounds of foul light colliding, and Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei were seen flying back while escaping.

What makes the audience nervous and strange is that in the previous stories, the evil light would penetrate people's bodies and kill them with one strike, but the evil light in front of them just hit the male and female protagonists and did not penetrate their bodies.

Moreover, when the foul light hit the male and female protagonists, an invisible force erupted from their bodies, forming a defensive energy wave when colliding with the foul light. The energy wave was also grayish white, like a drop of water forming ripples on the water surface.

Two circles of gray-white energy ripples blocked the male and female protagonists in mid-air when the foul lights collided, protecting them.

However, due to the relativity of force, the male and female protagonists were subjected to a strong reaction force, so they flew backwards to the ground, both fainted and were knocked unconscious.

An even more bizarre scene appeared. Those foul lights seemed to know that they could not kill the male and female protagonists. After two beams of foul light tested the situation, they withdrew and returned to the air, gathering with the large area of ​​foul light and then stopped in the air.

Dense swarms of strange birds attacked, swooping down from the sky, with murderous intent directed at the male and female protagonists who were lying unconscious on the ground.

This is an intelligent and organized group. The foul light in its original form stands by and watches while the birds controlled by the foul light start to kill.

"Can't the dirty light kill the hero and heroine?"

"There must be something special about the male and female protagonists."

"It seems that the foul light cannot harm the hero and heroine, but these mutant birds can cause harm to them."

Just as the audience was speculating, the birds and the evil light in the sky suddenly froze in time and space.

The beak of one bird was only a few centimeters away from Liu Yifei's forehead, which was extremely dangerous.

The camera turned and Cheng Long, Hui Yinghong and others came over.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief. From the moment the hero and heroine came through the sky, the light on the sky appeared to be still in time and space. They knew that Chenglong was protecting the hero and heroine in the opposite world.

Now we see Chenglong and others appear in time, which also confirms the speculations of many viewers.

"Hurry, take them away, they won't be able to hold on for long." Chenglong said with his eyes completely white. The white eyes meant that he had released the ability to stop time and space.

Hearing this, Kara Hui carried Liu Yifei on her back, Chen Weiting carried Chu Xuan on his back, and they joined the main force and retreated quickly.

At this moment, the sky that was frozen by time and space seemed to have shattered energy, and it was like a barrier was torn apart, exploding into a circle of gray-white energy ripples, allowing the frozen groups of foul light and strange birds to regain their freedom, and in an instant they focused their fire on Chenglong and the others.

The terrain was like a hill, and there was a cave under a huge rock. Chenglong and others entered the cave one after another.

At the moment when the strange bird and the evil light were about to rush in, An Zhijie at the back of the hall pressed down a protruding stone, which was a mechanism button. A stone door quickly closed with a bang.

A strange bird was trapped by the stone gate. It opened its mouth and let out a ferocious "ga ga" sound at An Zhijie. Then a foul light burst out of its body and hit An Zhijie in the face.

An Zhijie was well prepared. He punched with his brass knuckles, pressing the foul light against the stone door. His fist, with veins bulging, rubbed the foul light cruelly until it exploded into several gray-white air currents and dissipated.

An Zhijie then left silently, very cool and cool.

"So cool." One viewer commented on this scene.

The scene switched, and it was another high-altitude shot. Some fans and critics immediately speculated that perhaps another big scene was coming. The main reason was that there was a very obvious pattern in the camera movements in Tang Kee-li's film so far. Every high-altitude shot served the purpose of a large special effects scene.

When it comes to the words "shrouded in clouds and mist", the clouds and mist in my mind are all white, and flowing among the green waters and green mountains, it gives a fairyland-like feeling.

However, from this high-altitude camera, the withered yellow color of the trees makes the mountains look like the dead color of dusk, and the clouds and fog seem to be filled with yellow sand in the dead mountains and rivers as if the atmosphere of this world is polluted.

"How weird." One audience member exclaimed.

The camera fell, breaking through the layers of yellow sand-like fog and going deep into the mountains.

Following the camera, the mountains hidden under the fog appear vaguely.

When the camera completely broke through the fog, the clearly visible scene made the audience couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

"Wow--"

The muddy fog that permeates the mountains and rivers is vast and full of evil.

At the bottom of the mountains shrouded in mist, there is a different world.

Countless peaks wind and rise and fall like giant pythons, some stand tall and majestic, and some are steep and rugged.

Between the mountains, there is a silver rope bridge that spans the air.

And there is not just one silver rope bridge, but layer upon layer of silver rope bridges dotted across the mountains. I don't know the exact number, but there are probably about a hundred or eighty of them, densely packed like countless silver dragons serving as passages connecting the mountains.

Men and women in simple clothes walked on the staggered silver rope bridge with wooden planks on the ground. Although the bridge was shaking, it was relatively stable.

At both ends of the mountain at the same height as all the silver rope bridges, there is a dangerous mountain road carved out by humans.

At first glance, it looks like hundreds of long yellow snakes running through the mountains, with layer upon layer of snakes reaching the bottom of each mountain.

Not only that, there is a cave on the mountain at the same height connecting the Silver Cable Bridge, which serves as the entrance to people’s residence.

Seen from a high altitude, the mountains and ridges in front of us look like a hornet's nest, which is not very friendly for people with trypophobia.

In addition, there is a waterfall falling from the tallest mountain. The sound of the waterfall, whose height cannot be seen from a distance, sounds terrifying. What is even more terrifying is that the water of this waterfall is still black, which makes people feel even more terrifying and mysterious.

But what is abrupt and interesting is that there are semicircular, semi-open wooden pipes that collect water from waterfalls on every level of the mountain. The water flows along the seemingly endless wooden pipes, winding down the wall of the mountain path, providing water for people to drink.

Many women can be seen washing clothes in the spacious area near the staggered cave entrance with their children and wooden buckets using the black water flowing down the pipes.

"Oh my god... this is so spectacular!"

"I'm impressed. This is the most awesome movie or TV scene I've ever seen in my life, bar none!"

"It's absolutely amazing. I'm really at a loss for words."

The audience was amazed once again. They could not have imagined that the living environment of people in the other world would be like this. Not only was it extremely imaginative, but the various details in it were so exquisite and real. Even the word "shocking" was not enough to describe the feeling of seeing this grand scene.

Even the five film critics and five film media looked at each other with admiration on their faces. They were at a loss for words and could only use the word "awesome" to express this visual impact.

"For this scene, I think the level of effect presented is beyond Hollywood."

"The main point is cleverness. If they can't compete with technology, then they can compete with cultural heritage. Such a scene is something they can't even imagine. The difference brought by culture makes their imagination go in a different direction."

Several film critics made brief comments and nodded slightly, agreeing with this statement.

A "ding-ling-ling" sound came from the mountains, like the sound of a blacksmith forging iron.

The camera moves along the source of the sound into a cave and focuses on Chenglong and others.

The "blacksmith" played by Wu Mengda is modifying a weapon. The weapon is a bow, which is the bow used by the heroine Lin Yi. Wu Mengda is modifying this mechanical bow.

Lin Yi is already pretty impressive, so if she can modify her weapons, won't she be even more amazing? ... The audience is looking forward to it and getting excited.

"They're awake." Kara Hui came over.

Chenglong turned around and followed Hui Yinghong, walking around in the cave and came to a "bridal chamber".

Chu Xuan looked around the cave curiously, while Liu Yifei picked up an ancient book and started reading.

Hearing the movement at the door, the two men immediately locked their eyes on the cave entrance and became alert.

"who are you?"

"Where is this?"

Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei came to interrogate him, and Chenglong came over with a smile on his face.

What followed was Chenglong's long explanation, and the fog of mystery between the two worlds was revealed.

It turns out that the alien was not only hunting down Lin Yi, but also Wei Ran. He was hunting down both of them.

Lin Yi and Wei Ran have the same life experience as Cheng Xiong. During the period when the earth was mutated and the sky was falling, the ancestors of the three people were all fused with the evil light and became immortal.

Because there is a substance called foul light in the body, it will be sensed by this group of alien life forms and thus hunted down.

The reason for the hunt is that Cheng Xiong's ancestor was too powerful back then, and the various superpowers he stimulated made him invincible, posing a great threat to alien life forms, so alien life forms issued an order to hunt down this kind of people.

According to the future predicted by Cheng Xiong, only he, Lin Yi and Wei Ran survived, and the rest of the psychics were hunted down and killed over the past few hundred years.

This is true whether in this strange world or in the normal world across the way.

"So this is why my parents died." Liu Yifei murmured to herself.

"Then my dad should be the same." Chu Xuan murmured.

"According to what you said, the fusion of the foul light can stimulate powerful potential, but why don't we have it?" Liu Yifei questioned.

This question was also cleared up after Chenglong's explanation.

Sunlight is a general term given by people. In fact, sunlight is a light source composed of multiple sequence lights, and different sequence lights are composed of different tiny substances.

Just as ultraviolet light of a certain intensity can harm humans, there are also unknown sequences of light in sunlight that can harm these alien life forms.

Therefore, these alien life forms dare not be exposed to sunlight.

Moonlight is the reflected light of sunlight, and moonlight is essentially also sunlight. This means that no matter whether it is day or night, the evil light from the normal world on the other side can only exist in the form of alienated matter.

Once the true form is exposed, death will occur.

The normal life force has an upper limit. Whether it is a human or an animal, if the energy its body can withstand exceeds the upper limit, it will explode.

Therefore, although objects transformed by the foul light look powerful, they are still within the range of being killed by guns and ammunition. It just takes a few more shots.

When the alien creature dies, the moment the foul light of its body is exposed, it will immediately be extinguished under the sunlight and dissipate into several gray-white air currents. This is the situation where several air currents emerge from the body of the alien human or beast at the moment of its death and then disappear.

"Oh~" Many viewers understood. No wonder the alien objects in the normal world, although they look scary, are not invincible. No wonder the foul light in the alien objects in the normal world does not escape from the body. It turns out that this is the case.

Although Lin Yi and Wei Ran are not normal people, their blood, genes and other parts are fused with foul light substances. Therefore, they will also be suppressed by sunlight, or in other words, by the natural environment of the normal world.

Precisely because of this heavy suppression, over the past few hundred years, the power of each generation has become less than that of the previous one. By the time of Lin Yi and Wei Ran's generation, they have become just two ordinary people. Their potential has been deeply suppressed in their bodies and cannot be brought into play.

Only in this other world transformed by alien life can Lin Yi and Wei Ran restart their potential.

This is why Lin Yi and Wei Ran are ordinary people, and their parents are not very powerful in the memory scenes, which is also the reason why they can be easily killed by aliens.

As soon as Lin Yi and Wei Ran arrived in the different world, the potential in their bodies had an environment to be developed. After being attacked by the evil light, their potential was stimulated and they were able to protect themselves.

"So that's how it is." Some viewers suddenly realized and gained a deep understanding of the story setting from the dialogue.

Tracing back to the origins of these settings, a larger worldview is triggered in the dialogue between the two sides, which is also the core worldview of the entire movie.

Alien life is afraid of normal sunlight, so they want to split the solar system into two, and slowly transform the environment of the solar system from small to large.

The transformed solar system exists in the inner universe, and the normal solar system exists in the metaverse.

The current situation is that the inner universe solar system is expanding under the transformation of extraterrestrial life, which will slowly squeeze the living space of the metaverse solar system. When the inner universe completely covers the metaverse, the entire solar system will disappear in the metaverse environment that allows humans to survive normally, and human civilization will perish at that time.

At the same time, this is also a disaster for the human beings in the inner universe. Faced with the huge army of foul light, the human beings here will perish sooner or later.

"Fuck, I think I understand." Some viewers reacted and realized that it was no wonder that in the opening scene, the energy fluctuation that split the universe in the starry sky was like rippling in the water. It turned out that the energy was in the inner universe, and finally exploded in the metaverse when it was illuminated by the sunlight, forming the current sky curtain, the purpose of which was to isolate the sun.

"It looks pretty awesome. Is it soft science fiction or hard science fiction? The logic is very strong." Some viewers commented enthusiastically.

In the eyes of film critics, these settings, including the worldview, are very large, and the extended issues they contain cannot be explained clearly in just one movie.

The producers obviously have big ambitions and want to turn this movie into a series, so they threw out some settings in the first part to pave the way.

In other words, Brilliant Times wants to create a science fiction movie universe, a movie universe about Chinese science fiction characters with super powers.

In front of the audience, all these settings are illustrating one problem, that is, humans in both worlds will be destroyed sooner or later, it is just a matter of time.

In this case, the plot of saving the world is a natural progression.

Some movie fans became interested. It has always been Western movies that saved the world, but now it is the turn of Chinese movies to save the world. It’s exciting to think about it.

"Save the world!!" On the screen, Chu Xuan could no longer sit still and stood up from the bed.

Chu Xuan pointed at Chenglong and then at himself, looking confused.

Chenglong nodded, the meaning was very clear, you and Liu Yifei are shouldering the mission of saving the world.

"Why us? What about you?" Chu Xuan accused.

"I want to protect the people here." Chenglong said.

There are only three people with superpowers in both worlds. Cheng Xiong has to protect the people here, so the rest of the things can only be done by Lin Yi and Wei Ran.

“No.” Chu Xuan said innocently: “You want me, a person who only scored 8 points in math, to save the world. If this news gets out, people all over the country will not agree!”

"Hahaha..." A very serious setting, coupled with a very serious world-destroying crisis, but the sudden lines completely broke the solemn atmosphere, causing the entire audience to burst into laughter and call Wei Ran a funny guy.

"Only 8 points in math? Then I don't agree with you saving the world!" Some viewers made fun of the screen.

"As a member of the national people, I firmly oppose it. Please give me this opportunity!" Some viewers were very happy.

In the picture, Kara Hui shook her head, wondering if Cheng Long had chosen the wrong person. This Wei Ran really seemed like a loser.

Chenglong stepped forward and patted Chu Xuan on the shoulder: "Learning is very important. It can make you wise and help you think more divergently, but it cannot guarantee any direct correlation with a person's future achievements. Be more confident. I am optimistic about you."

This statement does make some sense in reality, and it also allows the audience to more clearly understand the positioning of Cheng Long's character, which is equivalent to a very wise and powerful prophet, completely different from Cheng Long's previous screen image.

Chenglong gave the kung fu part to Liu Yifei and the comedy part to Chu Xuan. This is Chenglong's character setting plan for this transformation.

"Next, we will help you unleash your potential..."

As soon as Chenglong said this, the audience's eyes lit up. The male and female protagonists traveled through time to evolve, which aroused their great expectations for the next plot.

(End of this chapter)