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January 1st, New Year's Day.

On the first day of the new year, the entire city was still immersed in the festive atmosphere of the New Year's Eve celebrations.

Red lanterns hung outside the tea restaurants along the street, and gold stickers that read "Happy New Year" were pasted on the glass windows. Colorful flags were strung between the buildings, making a crisp rustling sound in the cold winter wind.

Pedestrians, bundled up in thick coats, breathed out white puffs of air as they came and went, their faces bearing the relaxed and smiling expressions unique to holidays. Even Central, usually a place where "time is money" and the pace of life is incredibly fast, quietly slowed down its bustling rhythm on this rare holiday.

At 5 p.m. in Mong Kok, a young man wearing a blue down jacket stood listlessly in front of a Western restaurant.

His name is Ah Wai, and he is a junior employee at a real estate company in Hong Kong Island. He specially invited his girlfriend out on a date during the New Year's Day holiday.

After waiting for about two minutes, my girlfriend Xiaoli walked over from the street corner.

She was wearing a beige wool coat, a light pink scarf, and her hair was down over her shoulders. She was clutching a small bag. When she saw Ah Wei standing at the door waiting for her, she quickened her pace slightly.

"Have you been waiting long?" Xiaoli walked up to him shyly, her breath dissipating into a cloud of mist under the streetlight.

"No, I just got here too." Ah Wei smiled, turned and pushed open the restaurant door. "Come on in, it's cold outside."

The restaurant wasn't large, but it was decorated warmly. Several reproductions of Italian street scenes hung on the walls, the tablecloths were red and white checkered, and each table had a glass vase with a pale yellow carnation in it.

Ah Wei had booked a window seat in advance, and the two of them ate and chatted, talking about everything from the fireworks over Victoria Harbour on New Year's Eve to the trivial matters at their respective companies, and then from the trivial matters to their New Year's plans.

Xiaoli said she wanted to change jobs because the boss of her current trading company was too mean. Awei admitted that he had also considered changing jobs. Last year, he heard from a friend that Jiahe Real Estate was hiring and the pay was good, but the requirements were a bit high.

After hearing this, Xiaoli gently encouraged him, saying that it wouldn't hurt to give it a try, what if he got in?

The two had only been dating for a short time and were in the throes of new love, wanting to be together every single second. So, after the meal, they were reluctant to part ways.

"It's still early," Ah Wei glanced at his watch. "How about... we go see a movie?"

Xiaoli thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I recently heard that Jurassic Park 3 has been released. I've seen the first and second movies, but I haven't seen the third one yet."

"That's it!"

The two hit it off immediately and followed the flow of people toward the nearby Golden Harvest Cinema.

This cinema was just renovated last month, with brand-new dark stone cladding on the exterior walls. A huge poster stands in front of the entrance—Jurassic Park 3. A giant dragon silhouette is coiled in the center of the image, with the words "Legend is just the beginning" prominently displayed below.

However, the two were dumbfounded when they entered the hall.

There was a long queue in front of the ticket window, including students in school uniforms, couples holding hands, and families of three with children... it seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

Ah Wei queued for nearly thirty minutes before finally managing to get to the ticket window, only to be met by the ticket seller's shrug: "All the good seats are gone. These two corner tickets are all left. Want them?"

"This one will do."

Seeing the long line of people behind him, Ah Wei didn't dare to hesitate. He decisively bought the last two tickets, then went to the counter and bought a bucket of popcorn and two cups of cola. He handed the cola cup to Xiao Li and said, "Let's go, it's about to start."

The two checked their tickets, walked through the corridor, pushed open the heavy soundproof door, and entered the screening room.

The lights in the hall had been dimmed, trailers for other movies were playing on the big screen, and the brand-new sound system was blaring, making the seats tremble slightly.

Ah Wei and Xiao Li walked to a corner seat in the dark and sat down. They looked around and saw that the huge theater was almost full.

"There are so many people," Xiaoli whispered as she leaned closer.

"That's normal. This is the finale of Jurassic Park. The first two movies alone have grossed $1.7 billion worldwide. Everyone is definitely looking forward to it."

Xiaoli nodded and leaned back in her chair.

Two or three minutes later, the trailer for "Edward Scissorhands" ended, and the screen went dark.

Then, a familiar, deep, and lingering melody began to play. The iconic theme music from Jurassic Park, like an ancient call, pulled every audience member back to the world where dinosaurs roamed.

Golden Harvest Media's gold logo shone brightly on the screen, followed by several lines of large text: Jurassic Park 3.

The very first scene features Dr. Aaron Grant, an old friend whom everyone has not seen for a long time.

He was still wearing that signature old shirt, squatting in front of the garden of a typical American villa, playing with a child.

After a while, Dr. Ellie came out of the house and invited the two of them in for dinner.

That's right. After the adventures in the first movie, Grant no longer resists children, and he and Ellie even have a child together.

"Dr. Grant, Dr. Ellie, you two have such a wonderful relationship," the wealthy businessman who came to visit exclaimed with a smile.

Grant grinned and rolled up his sleeves. "Studying dinosaurs is much more interesting than studying marriage."

"Oh, really?" Ellie raised an eyebrow. "Then you'll be sleeping in a tent tonight."

"Hey, hey, hey, just kidding, just kidding," Grant quickly begged for forgiveness.

The audience let out a low cheer as they saw familiar movie characters reappear.

As the familiar characters reunited on screen, a warm murmur and laughter erupted in the theater.

What viewers don't know is that the original plot of the third season wasn't like this at all; this version was actually the result of Lu Chen's "drastic modification".

In its previous life, although the Jurassic Park trilogy made a fortune and had an unprecedented influence worldwide, the latter two films actually had some obvious problems.

The third film, in particular, underwent a major script rewrite just before filming began, and at the start of production, there wasn't even a complete script. This resulted in the plot degenerating into a low-brow survival game with a "check-in" format. More importantly, the entire film was less than 90 minutes long, and the ending was extremely rushed due to budget constraints.

Therefore, when Lu Chen was giving Huang Xizhao the script outline for the trilogy, he personally made many revisions to the latter two parts, removing many problematic plots. For example, he changed the two saintly paleontologists in the second part.

In the third installment, Lu Chen made even more sweeping changes—removing some of the low-brow scenes involving the two wealthy businessmen searching for their lost children, continuing Dr. Aaron Grant and Dr. Ellie Seidler as a couple, and not prematurely removing the Tyrannosaurus Rex just to make it a supporting character for the Spinosaurus…

The redesign was quite successful, directly making Jurassic Park 3 more popular than its predecessor, with a global box office of $9000 million in its opening weekend.

Returning to the screen, at the dinner table, the wealthy businessman made his request for visiting—to ask Grant to go to sea to find his missing child. Grant, now a father himself, couldn't bear to refuse a desperate father and resolutely chose to once again enter the dinosaurs' territory.

The story quickly progresses as the helicopter lands on a temporary helipad on Sona Island in a downpour, and the Grants, the wealthy businessman, and three bodyguards form a seven-person team that sets foot on this forgotten island.

Soon, the first encounter with dinosaurs began.

In a muddy pool in an open area, a Spinosaurus, over ten meters long, was drinking water. Its distinctive sail-like spines stood erect on its back, resembling a slowly moving flag in the morning light. Rainwater slid down its rough skin, dripping into the mud and rippling in concentric circles.

Grant gestured for everyone to stop.

However, a sharp bird cry shattered the silence. An unidentified pterosaur took flight from the canopy, soaring overhead. The Spinosaurus raised its head, its eye sockets behind its skull slowly rotating, detecting the movement behind the bushes.

What followed was a thrilling escape. Unlike the Tyrannosaurus Rex Grant had encountered before, the Spinosaurus had powerful, thick forelimbs with three curved claws, and it ran at an astonishing speed. Trees snapped in its path, and the ground trembled beneath its hooves.

The dinosaur chase scenes in this film are more intense than the previous two, and the editing is more skillful. The audience's hearts are on the edge of their seats the whole time until the team takes refuge in an abandoned control center. The heavy blast door closes, shutting out the Spinosaurus's ramming sound.

"call--"

A collective sigh of relief filled the theater.

Before they could even catch their breath, the plot took an even more dramatic turn.

As the film progresses, the wealthy man's bodyguards are brutally killed one by one by various dinosaur claws. Ah Wei and Xiao Li even find themselves unconsciously embracing, and even the popcorn bucket is unknowingly deformed from his grip.

Finally, amidst gasps of breath, the film reached its climax.

Grant and Ellie meet up with the wealthy father and son on the top floor of the abandoned research center, and the four of them struggle to evacuate to the southern tip of the island—where a helicopter is waiting for its last takeoff window.

However, the Spinosaurus had already caught up with the scent, its massive body smashing open the iron gate, the mournful sound of twisting metal echoing throughout the empty facility.

Just when things were at their most critical, a deeper, more resonant, and more penetrating roar came from afar.

Tyrannosaurus Rex.

At Lu Chen's request, the iconic female Tyrannosaurus Rex was not taken offline prematurely, but instead appeared in sight at a crucial moment, attracted by both the human's cries for help and the Spinosaurus's aura.

Next, the most expensive special effects shot in film history was born—the Spinosaurus crouched low, its back sails towering, emitting a hoarse hiss; the Tyrannosaurus Rex lowered its center of gravity, its tail tip swaying slowly, its deep roar like rolling thunder from the ground.

Then, the two giant beasts collided with a deafening roar.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex locked its signature bite around the Spinosaurus's neck, while the Spinosaurus retaliated with the claws of its forelimbs. The two massive bodies tore at each other in the ruins of the abandoned building, with rubble and steel bars flying everywhere under their weight.

There was no more breathing in or out in the theater; everyone was glued to the screen.

Ultimately, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, with its thicker skull and greater bite force, pinned the Spinosaurus against a load-bearing pillar of an abandoned laboratory building.

With a deafening roar, the entire building collapsed, trapping the Spinosaurus in the crumbling steel frame and concrete, letting out a final, unwilling growl.

As the sun set, the Tyrannosaurus Rex slowly raised its head, gazing at the helicopter rising on the distant horizon, and let out a long, resonant cry that echoed throughout the entire island.

The scene then darkens as the helicopter carrying the Grants and their son, along with the wealthy father and son, skims across the sea and disappears into the twilight.

In the distance, the outline of Sona Island gradually blurred in the sea fog, like a giant beast sinking into the deep sea.

The music started again—that gentle, evocative theme melody reappeared, lingering in the theater for a long time.

As the credits rolled, the audience began to stand up, some whispering about the dinosaur battle, others excitedly wanting to buy tickets for another show.

Ah Wei remained leaning back in his chair, and it took him a while to finally exhale the breath he had been holding in.

He turned to look at Xiaoli and found that she was still sitting in her seat, her iced cola completely melted.

"How is it?" he asked.

Xiaoli turned her head, her face bearing the lingering, satisfied expression typical of someone who has just finished watching a great movie: "It was simply... simply amazing!"

Ah Wei smiled, picked up the empty Coke cup next to the seat, and stood up: "If you like it, I'll take you to see it again tomorrow. Let's go, I'll take you home now."

"Um!"

The two followed the flow of people out of the theater, through the corridor, and pushed open the door, returning to the January nightscape of Hong Kong Island.

The night wind carried a salty, damp feeling, and the neon lights on the street blurred into indistinct clusters of light in the mist.

A distant, clamorous sound seemed to drift in, like someone shouting, but before it could be heard, it was blown away by the winter night wind into a muffled white noise.

Xiaoli shrank her neck and snuggled closer to Awei.

"Ah Wei, look, is something wrong over there?"

"Nothing's wrong," Ah Wei said, putting his arm around her shoulder and smiling. "It's New Year's Day, it's lively."

He pulled Xiaoli along, past the figures of people coming and going, towards the warm light source of the oden stall across the street.