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Chapter 370 A Great Movie

Over the years, Liu Jiasheng has watched many movies produced by [Xuan Shi Entertainment].

Some are so bad they're nauseating, some are so imaginative they're astonishing, and some have breathtaking special effects.
However, he has always maintained the objective stance of a professional film critic when watching films, and even when he encounters a masterpiece, he only offers rational praise.

This time, however, he seemed to be bewitched, his eyes glued to the movie screen, afraid of missing a single shot.
This doesn't seem to be a movie...

It seems to be a kind of enjoyment!
……

The air conditioner in the screening room was whirring loudly.

Cool and comfortable.

On the screen, the pink motorcycle was swaying its rear end and drifting at a tricky angle...

Drifting and swaying.

Unbeknownst to him, the motorcycle gently swayed into Liu Jiasheng's heart, rippling through his soul.

as if!

At that moment, the whole world consisted only of that adorable motorcycle.

His breathing began to become heavier.

Just as he felt himself completely immersed, enjoying the moment when the movie made him cry...

The next second, the camera suddenly zoomed in for a close-up—

The fuel tank cap of the motorcycle that the female protagonist transformed from had the [Lingjiang Motorcycle] logo prominently displayed, and it even froze for a few seconds...

Fuck!
Just as the emotion reached this point, it was abruptly cut off. This feeling of being stuck in limbo was suffocating.

Just as Liu Jiasheng was about to start cursing...

Because the motorcycle is "transforming"!
"Insufficient power... Manual charging required!"

The female protagonist's voice came from the car stereo, accompanied by a mechanical, stammering breathing sound.

The male protagonist, Ah Jie, frantically reached for the charging port, only to accidentally touch a button, causing the entire car to suddenly vibrate with a "buzz"!
The hydraulic system exploded, the seat cushion sprang up, and the metal shell unfolded layer by layer like flower petals—

"I didn't tell you to touch there, you idiot!" The female lead's mechanical voice suddenly rose.

In Liu Jiasheng's wide-eyed gaze, two mechanical legs "clicked" out from under the motorcycle seat and firmly planted themselves on the ground.

The handle, which was originally there, was now pressed tightly against the male protagonist's face...

In the screening room.

“This position…” his wife, Zhang Ying, suddenly clutched her stomach, “The baby is kicking me!”

On screen, the female lead has partially regained her human form, but her lower body is still that of a motorcycle chassis.

She grabbed the male lead by the collar with one hand, and with the other hand, she transformed into a Gatling gun, spraying bullets at the pursuers: "What are you looking at! Never seen a dual-form vehicle before!"

Bullet casings clanged and clattered on the ground in front of the male protagonist's crotch.

But the best part is yet to come—

After the villainous mech was defeated, the alleyway in the pouring rain suddenly fell silent.

The female protagonist emitted blue smoke due to energy overload, and her mechanical joints made a "clicking" sound.

"Are you...are you alright?" The male protagonist reached out his hand, his voice trembling.

"Warning! Cooling system malfunction—" The female protagonist's pupils turned red, and she suddenly slammed the male protagonist against the wall. "Immediately activate the cooling system!"

"Wait, wait! Why are you taking off my clothes to cool me down... Ugh!"

On the screen!
All that could be heard were the clanging of metal, the tearing of fabric, and the protagonist's tearful cry: "Cooling down is fine! Why did you take my belt off?!"

"Optimal heat dissipation conductor detected." The female protagonist's mechanical voice was serious. "Human body temperature is 36.5℃, contact area needs to reach over 80%—"

"This movie actually passed censorship?!"

Liu Jiasheng's pupils contracted, his mind went blank, filled with doubt, but his eyes were fixed on the screen.

Damn it, these eyes are so hard to look away from!
What happened next caused an uproar in the entire theater.

When the villainous mechs launched their counterattack, all that could be seen was a downpour—

The male protagonist, shirtless, is tied to the female protagonist's back with a string, and the two of them, one man and one machine, spin and maneuver in the alleyway.

Each shot's recoil sent the protagonist's back slamming against the metal armor, a thrilling and exhilarating experience. The occasional, anthropomorphic breathing sounds, in particular, made the heart race and blood boil!
The screening room was completely silent. The male moviegoers were completely absorbed in the screen, their focus far exceeding that of any of Zhou Yang's previous films.

The female viewers blushed and were so shy they didn't know what to do.

The movie seems quite serious...

But it seems...

The battle is a little bit unconventional!
To die To die!

When the fierce battle finally came to an end, the entire screening room was still immersed in the visual feast brought by the film...

Not far away, someone was staring at the screen and muttered involuntarily, "This movie is so... so exciting!"

……

As the lights on the screen gradually dimmed, and the plot transitioned from intense at the beginning to a more subdued state...

Liu Jiasheng then subconsciously pushed up his glasses, pulling himself out of the movie.

Was this movie good?

Beside him, his fiancée Zhang Ying's gentle voice rang out.

Liu Jiasheng was startled, then nodded, somewhat guiltily adjusting his glasses: "It's alright..."

"Are motorcycles cool?"

"good!"

"Does this girl have a good figure?"

"It's alright, it's alright... Why are you asking this? What's wrong with your eyes? As a film critic, I can't miss any details..."

“Oh…” Zhang Ying drawled out, then gave Liu Jiasheng a meaningful look: “You haven’t been this serious about Zhou Yang’s other movies…”

Liu Jiasheng coughed lightly, trying his best to maintain the expression of a professional film critic, his fingers unconsciously tightening their grip on his notebook.

however……

The image of that pink motorcycle lingered in his mind, and he even felt an inexplicable urge to buy the same model!

He was already imagining himself riding it around the world!
As I thought about it, I wondered if this movie would release any kind of merchandise, such as cute girl figurines or similar mechanical models...

Actually, buying one from the past...

What the hell am I thinking?!

This dangerous thought jolted him awake!
He suddenly realized that Zhou Yang's films always managed to precisely target the preferences of different audience groups.

And this movie, Transformers, happened to strike a chord with a secret desire in his subconscious that he was unaware of!
Or rather, this movie is most likely aimed at otaku...

wrong!

Not just otaku...

and also……

Girls.

……

Cherry blossoms fluttered down, accompanied by melodious and romantic music.

On the screen.

Ajay clumsily placed a wildflower wreath on the original Ironheart. The mechanical girl tilted her head, her metal joints making a soft "click" sound, and she shyly lowered her head, mimicking the mannerisms of a human girl.

That adorable appearance is both cute and heartwarming...

Director An Xiaoshi portrays the details of love vividly, as if she wants to pour all the most beautiful emotions in the world into this on-screen couple.

The mechanical girl clumsily learns to pray like a human and cautiously tries to cook. Through repeated failures and improvements, she gradually transforms into the perfect lover.

They went through life-or-death chases together, stood embracing each other on the most beautiful mountain peak, and looked down at the lights of thousands of homes from the top of the city's skyscrapers.

Amidst laughter, two lonely hearts drew closer and closer, finally pouring out their hearts to each other in an atmosphere of ultimate romance, and vowing never to be apart.

……

One beautiful scene after another unfolded on the screen, captivating the girls and drawing them into this meticulously crafted, beautiful, and romantic love story...

No one ever imagined that cold machinery and passionate love could collide and create such a captivating spark in a movie.

But for some reason, Liu Jiasheng thought of the girls who walked out of the screening room with tears in their eyes.

The most beautiful tragedies and the most poignant regrets are often hidden within the most beautiful things.

……

When the cherry blossoms fell for the third time on the shoulders of the original Ironheart, the mechanical heart in her chest suddenly skipped a beat.

A-Jie didn't notice that the sparks she generated while charging were getting dimmer, nor did he notice that she had secretly replaced the circuitry under the bionic skin that was gradually cracking.

Until one rainy night, he caught her standing in the downpour, letting the rain pour into the open circuit board—the red warning "Energy Core has only 30 days of life left" flashed like a curse.

The cruelest romance is equipping mechanical life with emotional modules, yet being unable to rewrite their expiration date.

In the movie, she started recording things like crazy...

They used a robotic arm to measure the curvature of his palm lines, backed up every word he uttered in his sleep with a database, and even secretly disassembled their own hearing sensors to forge a ring, as if they wanted to record everything, the most beautiful things, but...

She is a robot with a set end date; with each beat of her mechanical heart, she gets one step closer to her end.

He knew she would eventually turn into scrap metal, yet he stubbornly taught her to laugh and cry, and engraved "forever" on the circuit board.

They fought the program frantically, embracing, arguing, and biting each other during the apocalyptic countdown, until she wiped away his tears with trembling metal fingers just before she shut down the computer for the last time...

The corroded mechanical core had already foreshadowed its inevitable fate.

She continued to lose piece after piece of her memory...

Her memory modules began to crumble piece by piece, and the humanity she had painstakingly acquired gradually dissipated, eventually degenerating into the numb execution machine she was at the beginning—automatically executing the preset ultimate obsolescence program.

Meanwhile, the pursuing forces from Bosaitan descended upon Earth once again.

This is not just a cleanup operation targeting the malfunctioning mechs, but also concerns the near-exhaustion of the home planet's energy reserves—

Just as in the Transformers universe, Bosten is on the verge of destruction due to energy shortages.

Her initial mission upon arriving on Earth was to mark the energy coordinates of this blue planet, and after completing her mission, she was completely destroyed...

……

Artillery fire tore through the night sky as the steel torrent of [Bosaitan] swept over the city ruins.

Humanity's defenses crumbled like paper, and A-Jie lay covered in blood amidst the ruins, watching helplessly as his pursuers' energy cannons were aimed at his chest.

Just as the beam of death pierced through, a rusted mechanical skeleton suddenly sprang up from the ruins—

She should have been completely destroyed, but she used the last intact piece of armor to block a fatal blow!
Sparks flew from the circuit board. The memory module had long been cleared, but the deep-seated code at the core was awakened at this moment.

Her broken metal fingers traced Ah Jie's bloodied cheek, the voice transmitter hoarsely repeating chaotic commands, except for the program that stubbornly kept running the phrase "I will always love you".

Amidst a hail of bullets, she dragged her half-broken mechanical spine and forcefully shoved the energy core into A-Jie's palm, only to be reduced to a shower of iron filings by the enemy's concentrated fire.

As A-Jie knelt and roared, the mechanical heart in his palm suddenly glowed blue, and the deleted memory data reassembled like sparks in the smoke...

In the end, Ajay, clutching the mechanical heart left behind by the original Iron Heart, activated the reversal program amidst the raging flames of war.

Blue light spread like stars, severing the energy transmission channels of Bosaitan.

Earth's coordinates were permanently erased from the enemy's system, and the invaders' fleet was reduced to cosmic dust in the energy backlash.

As the smoke cleared, the rising sun shone on the still-beating mechanical heart amidst the ruins, its metallic surface reflecting the hope of rebirth in A-Jie's tears.

(End of this chapter)