I'm not mentally ill, I'm a master of a thousand faces!

Chapter 532, The Privilege of Being the First to Access the World Created by the Director

Li Yun is a southerner in both his past and present lives.

There's a beautiful sentiment associated with the concept of snow.

They all share a simple yet beautiful understanding.

After settling down in the capital, snow became less of a rarity, but it remained something that symbolized beauty.

I am still in the snow.

cold.

Bone-chilling frost.

The kind of cold that freezes even your bones.

This place is absolutely not a place where humans can survive. Looking at the ruins covered in frost and the cold frozen ground, all hope of mortals has been extinguished.

Fortunately, though.

A spacesuit appeared on his body, perfectly timed.

The protective suits kept out the cold, but that was all they did.

That chilling cold still lingers.

Li Yun didn't even know if it was the coldness in his body or the despair he felt when looking at the shocking ruins before him.

This is definitely not an alien planet.

Rather, it is our home, Mother Earth.

There's also a sign for Tiantongyuan in Beijing above it.

"who I am?"

"Yes, who am I? I'm on Earth, but that doesn't seem right, I'm not on Earth."

"I'm on a space station, experiencing Earth right now through a holographic simulation."

"I am the navigator of the space station."

"My name is Liu Peiqiang."

His eyes seemed to be opening and closing.

Body consciousness seemed to have appeared in another place.

The touch on the skin is no longer icy cold, but a refreshing floral fragrance and the scorching warmth of the sun.

The feel of this skin is truly touching.

It's not a cold, impersonal space station either.

That is.

The ground that your feet can firmly plant on.

Earth with four distinct seasons.

It turns out that everything just now was a dream.

My name is Liu Peiqiang. I graduated from the National Defense Air Force Academy and am an excellent pilot. My mentor is Zhang Peng. We are soldiers.

Born in 2024.

She is a typical person born in the 20s.

Yes, this was when I was in college. At that time, the earth was still warm, and the birds were singing and the flowers were blooming.

But at this time...

Someone told me that.

The sun, the mother of life on Earth, will go out in 100 years.

At that time, the entire solar system will become a cold void.

No life can survive here.

really?

When I look at this place filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

When the sun shines on you.

It's hard to believe that the sun will go out a hundred years from now, taking away all life on Earth.

He is still radiating light and warmth.

He brings hope to life with his warm light.

You actually said that he is about to perish at this very moment.

How ridiculous!

Wouldn't that be making a laughing stock?

at first.

Online, nobody believed it because it seemed so absurd, but later, all the countries in the world formed a coalition government.

In preparation for what is about to happen.

That is, the sun will go out a hundred years from now.

At this point, it's not a matter of whether you believe it or not.

Online public opinion, real-world riots, and the revelry of mobs—once these things begin, there's no going back.

The peace is over.

Will the sun really go out?

As for Liu Peiqiang, he didn't understand. He studied aviation in college and attended a military academy, so he didn't understand so many intricacies.

He could easily do that by piloting an airplane soaring through the blue sky.

But he simply cannot comprehend the mysteries of the boundless universe.

But there was one thing Liu Peiqiang believed.

That is loyalty.

Since the country has chosen this direction, I will resolutely carry it out.

Aren't you even a little bit confused?

It's really not.

However, the confusion in Liu Peiqiang's heart was about to engulf him completely; this feeling truly existed within him.

The confusion that exists in my heart.

And unwavering loyalty to the country.

These two are not in conflict.

The extremely cold Earth is not caused by the sun going out.

Rather, it is the Earth gradually moving away from the sun that has caused everything. The propulsion of planetary engines is gradually pushing humans away from Mother Earth.

Stay away from her warmth.

Stay away from this mother who is on her deathbed.

Li Yun felt like he had become the navigator on the cold space station, enveloped in endless loneliness.

Even seeing her son is not something she can do.

Ten years have passed since Earth took off.

Aside from witnessing the death of life, the scarcity of resources, and the gradually cooling Earth, it seems like there's nothing else to witness.

Ah, what a cold place.

The boundless universe is not as beautiful as we imagine.

The place I longed for when I was young.

It doesn't seem to be as wonderful as it seems, because humans are really too small, like a speck of dust here.

wrong.

The Earth here is like dust.

There was only ice ahead.

At this moment, Li Yun felt his mind becoming somewhat blurry.

Hesitation, doubt?

In the original script, Liu Peiqiang was unwavering.

For this reason, he can hibernate in the space capsule for ten years, becoming a solitary navigator.

He was perfect, he was loyal, and he carried out his mission even at the cost of his own life.

We are willing to sacrifice everything.

Such a perfect person could actually make me feel doubtful.

"Liu Peiqiang, you actually have doubts?"

At this moment, Liu Peiqiang was sitting right in front of Li Yun.

Most of his body was in shadow, hidden in darkness, making it impossible to discern his thoughts.

"During the most precious ten years of my son's life, I was in a hibernation pod, in outer space. I wanted to see him, but I could only do it in my dreams. How can I explain this to him?"

"So many people have died because of this. Why can't I question its authenticity? Are those high-ranking scientists never making mistakes? Are they perfect?"

Liu Peiqiang stood in front of Li Yun.

He continued speaking.

After witnessing the beauty of blue skies and white clouds, the world has become like this. How can I even begin to describe it?

I have experienced blue skies and white clouds, I have experienced peace and tranquility, but since my son was born, his life has been covered by coldness and war.

He didn't experience all the good things in life.

All of this began with the activation of the planetary engines.

And so it ended.

in case.

If the scientists are wrong.

So what should we do? If they're wrong, what's the point of what we're doing?

"That guy, Father."

"By the way, I've long forgotten the concept of a father."

At this time, Peng Yuyan was the one testing Liu Qi.

Looking at Li Yun's script, it was a sci-fi story that was strikingly different from the Three-Body Problem universe, yet possessed the same level of sci-fi appeal.

From the time I can remember.

Liu Qi never saw blue skies and white clouds again; he only wandered in the gray and gloomy underground city.

The sky was gray.

The earth is cold.

This is how Liu Qi remembers everything, how sorrowful his memories are.

Memories of blue skies and white clouds.

It was erased from my mind.

Memories of "Eddie Peng" are being replaced, blurred, or even disappeared from the past.

Instead, it was Liu Qi's memory.

To play this role well.

Eddie Peng went to see a psychologist and even accompanied him during this filming.

This is what a psychologist should do.

It's about hypnotizing yourself.

Try to forget the past as much as possible for the time being.

At this point, Wang Chuanjun was dealing with the same issue as the author and Eddie Peng.

They are "forgetting".

They are forgetting.

Forgetting the blue skies, white clouds, and beauty of the past, everything in our memories is gradually covered by coldness.

Because of the Earth they were born on.

It's already the Ice Age.

No, it was a colder cold than the Ice Age.

It is a cold world where no life can survive.

At this moment, Andy Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai were watching all of this unfold before them.

They are also getting to know their scripts, especially Andy Lau, who even played the second lead in The Wandering Earth 2, a very important role.

In the past, when I acted in any play...

He didn't feel that much pressure.

But when he received the script for The Wandering Earth, the pressure overwhelmed him.

What put even more pressure on him was the presence of Peng Yuyan and Wang Chuanjun, two rising stars.

These two actors are a whole generation younger than him.

She is an actor of the same age as Li Yun.

"Unbelievable. I thought that the only junior who could put me under pressure here was Li Yun. I didn't expect that these two kids would also put me under immense pressure."

"Didn't you see? These two kids are following Li Yun's path, and they've grasped at least 70% of his essence." At this moment, Liang Jiahui looked at Peng Yuyan and Wang Chuanjun in front of him.

The path the two are taking now.

Just like Li Yun.

Unlike others who are adding things, they are subtracting from their memories, trying to align themselves with the worldview of The Wandering Earth.

At this moment, Andy Lau could only manage a wry smile.

I have a feeling that I'm really getting old.

Back then, I was the senior who mentored Li Yun.

To this day.

This junior not only became his superior, but also the one in charge of the overall situation.

And his successors.

That's amazing.

It could even be described as a kind of obsessive fanaticism.

He was crazy enough to do anything for the sake of filming.

It looks so much like it.

Liu Dehua had originally planned to have a showdown with Li Yun here.

But now it seems that he won't be able to compete with Li Yun.

Let's focus on how to beat these little guys first, then we can think about other things.

Filming for "The Wandering Earth" has officially begun.

This work, imbued with ultimate romance and taking the Earth on a journey, officially sets sail at this moment.

At this moment, in the eyes of Li Yun, Peng Yuyan, and Wang Chuanjun, what they saw before them was a world frozen in ice.

Cold, oppression, and all sorts of disharmonious things happen here.

In the underground city.

Energy blocks made from cockroaches and dried earthworms made from earthworms make up the diverse array of things in this underground city.

A post-apocalyptic worldview.

The underground city landscape that Li Yun built here at great expense.

This shocked all the actors present.

This included Cheng Shilong and Zhou Xingxing, who were also looking at the magnificent scene before them.

"That's impressive. It must have cost a lot of money to build this place."

"Please don't describe it as having cost a lot of money; this place was clearly built with a huge investment." At this moment, Zhou Xingxing looked at the scene and said with a slight daze, "I had heard before that Li Yun spent a lot of money to build this place and started making preparations for it beforehand, but I didn't expect it to be so magnificent."

"After all, it's a futuristic water world for the new century. This underground city setting certainly lives up to its name."

Neither Cheng Shilong nor Stephen Chow appeared in the first film.

But they are all here watching, partly to integrate into the worldview and experience it together with the characters.

Secondly, it is also an exercise of one's own privileges.

The privilege of being an actor.

Those who are able to be the first to access the director's inner world and the world he creates, just like they are now, are the first audience.

The privilege of being the first to appear here.

They possess it.

Li Yun at this moment.

It felt very strange that half of my consciousness could be used to direct the script in an orderly manner, while the other half could be used to immerse myself in the cold world of The Wandering Earth.

As Liu Peiqiang himself.

Wandering in the endless space.

free.

This shooting method.

It's simply my own strength.

He separated himself from both the director and the actor.

As Liu Peiqiang, I am in this boundless space.

In this solitude, he expressed his longing for his wife and son.

As the director, I guide them from a macro perspective of this world.

Han Zi'ang.

Liu Qi.

Han Duoduo.

The three main characters' perspectives.

The story begins with Liu Qi, played by Eddie Peng.

It started when he longed to come out into the world.

And his adopted sister, Han Duoduo.

Leaving this heavily protected underground city, we arrive in the cold surface world.

The aspirations of young people.

For places that are vague in my memory.

It has been beautified.

But when they arrived in the surface world, that filter shattered, leaving fragments scattered everywhere.

And their journey.

This also coincided with the beginning of Jupiter's crisis.

As Jupiter's crisis begins.

Half of the engine units lost power due to the pull of Jupiter's gravity, starting from here.

The three main characters, all civilians, were also forced to join a rescue team composed of soldiers. The apocalypse does not tolerate idlers. Liu Qi and Han Duoduo both have their own skills that can make them shine in this apocalypse.

the other side.

Outside of the film crew.

Xie Qingya, Li Modu, Liu Shanhe, and Lu Zhengguang—these four people got together.

They represent China Film Group, the Aerospace Force, and August First Film Studio, respectively.

Li Modu. He only represents himself.

They all have some resource entanglements with The Wandering Earth.

Or some kind of relationship.

at this time.

Liu Shanhe looked at these guys who didn't seem to fit together very well.

It's amazing.

It's incredible that someone in this world could connect people from these four different perspectives. These days, only a strange project like The Wandering Earth can do that.

In order to ease the awkwardness of visiting the set, Liu Shanhe took the initiative to express his thoughts.

"Do you really think he can break into Hollywood, a barrier that has stood for centuries in Western industrial manufacturing?"

He didn't dream of overthrowing Cameron.

But he still has high expectations for The Wandering Earth.

To break into Hollywood, or rather, to get a piece of the pie in the Hollywood-dominated film market.

The Wandering Earth is the biggest contributor to this.

Then Li Yun is undoubtedly worthy of the title.

legend.

(End of this chapter)