The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 208 "Signal" Premiere (6000 words)
On July 2015, 7, in a community in Jiangcheng.

The sound of Wang Yiqing opening the door startled Wang Ma, who was leaning on the sofa and applying body oil. Looking at the entrance, she wondered, "The chess player didn't come out? Why did you get the key today... Qingqing?"

"Didn't you say you're going to have dinner with your classmates tonight? It's over so soon? There's still some meatball soup left, do you want to eat it? Don't eat a good meal at home, go out to eat every day, you just do it, wait until you get stomach problems You will know how powerful it is." Wang Ma complained while changing channels with the remote control.

Wang Yiqing kicked the slippers and sat on the sofa, and said casually: "Suddenly I didn't want to eat, so I came back, just in time to lose weight."

"You have to eat three meals a day to lose weight. Irregular diet is unhealthy. You wait for me to give you hot meatballs..." Wang Ma got up and went to the kitchen to start heating up the meal.

Wang Yiqing coped perfunctorily with her mother's nagging, picked up the remote control and dialed Mango TV, took out her mobile phone and checked Weibo while waiting for the long advertisement.

Wang Ma put the beef ball soup on the table: "Hurry up and get the chopsticks, and you want me to feed it to your mouth? No wonder you can't find a boyfriend if you're so lazy."

"I'm only a freshman, okay? Some people say that my daughter is not allowed to fall in love in high school, and I'm a superman when I arrive in college?" Wang Yiqing walked quickly to the kitchen to get chopsticks, and trotted. Back to the living room.

Just as Wang Ma was about to teach her a lesson, she saw her daughter puffing and puffing while holding up a ten thousand character, while staring at the commercial on TV, as if she was waiting for someone to appear on the TV, she couldn't help showing suspicion: "You What's going on today? I usually go to the bedroom as soon as I get home. I'm either playing with the computer or the mobile phone. I don't even take a look at the TV. I even want to eat in the bedroom. Today is the sun coming out from the west. ? Have you started watching 'Footwraps for Middle-Aged Women'?"

"Middle-aged women's foot wrap" is a vocabulary Wang Yiqing used to mock the TV series her mother watched.

Wang Yiqing muttered in embarrassment: "It's not that I don't watch TV dramas, it's just that the dramas broadcast on TV stations generally don't suit my taste."

"It's so strange, TV stations are starting to broadcast TV series that suit your taste?" Wang Ma looked at the commercials of Mango TV and wondered: "Isn't this Mango TV? "Wife's Lie" suits your taste? Didn't you just say it the day before yesterday?" Has this drama been clichéd and bloody? Has your appetite changed so quickly?" This TV series is also one that Wang Ma has been chasing every day these days.

"I didn't come to see "My Wife's Lies". This drama is not only clichéd but also filled with water. The plot has no logic at all. If you want to learn "The Temptation of Going Home", it is just a mere imitation."

"You can draw conclusions without seeing it?"

"You don't need to watch it, there are so many commentary videos on the Internet, even if I haven't watched a single episode, I know what bloody drama he is acting in."

"Aren't all TV shows like this? If they are all like you, which TV show can catch your eye? Let me tell you, don't grab the remote control from me. "Wife's Lies" was at a critical moment yesterday. You want to watch what you like to watch on your computer at home, didn’t you say that there are all kinds of dramas on the computer? There are foreign ones.”

Wang Yiqing took a sip of the soup, put down the bowl contentedly, and said with a grin, "I won't fight with you. Didn't you watch Mango TV? I also watch Mango TV."

Wang Ma was puzzled: "Don't you not like watching "Wife's Lies"?"

"Today is not "The Wife's Lies"."

"Nonsense, "Wife's Lies" only lasted about 50 episodes yesterday, and I watched more than [-] episodes of the complete episodes written on TV..." Wang Ma was interrupted by Mango TV's notice before she could finish her sentence.

A greasy male voice sounded: "The next broadcast is "Signal"... Mango Weekly Theater will be broadcast under the title of An Muxi Yogurt..."

Wang Ma was surprised and disappointed: "Isn't "Wife's Lie" not finished yet? Why is there a new drama?"

"Haven't you heard of the weekly theater? From today on, every Saturday will be changed to a weekly theater. It's "Signal", two episodes a week, hehe." Wang Yiqing gloated a little.

She is a prospective second-year student at Jiangcheng University, and it is already summer vacation. She was going to attend the party called by the high school monitor today, but she was still on her way. She made an excuse to come back early—in fact, she didn’t want to go, because she didn’t get along with the class monitor when she was in high school.

Wang Yiqing was originally a fan of Luochen, but she began to like Luochen in junior high school, and even had a crazy obsession in the third year of junior high school, which almost affected her studies.

When I entered a key high school, on the one hand, the academic pressure was relatively heavy, on the other hand, Luo Chen returned to China, without stage performances, and the actor's performance was so-so, the chicken blood began to fade, and the enthusiasm changed from strong to weak, but he still did not lose his fans. It's just that as Luochen made one tepid and not good-looking movie after another, his love gradually diminished.

The turning point was "Fatal Identity". When "Fatal Identity" was released, she was still in her third year of high school, so she didn't watch it in time. The computer was disconnected from the Internet, and even the mobile phone was a feature phone, so she couldn't find resources. It was just that her classmates liked it. She couldn't speak, which made her feel itchy. After the college entrance examination, she immediately found a movie on the Internet and watched it. She also felt very amazing. She didn't expect that domestic movies could be made with such creativity.

In this way, Wang Yiqing not only started to love Luo Chen again, but also began to pay attention to the film director Chen Jingxing. She found Chen Jingxing's debut film "Comet" and found that this movie was also very suitable for her taste, and it was more creative than "Fatal Identity". She is still old, and Chen Jingxing, a young and overly handsome director, is also very handsome, so she has become half of Chen Jingxing's fan - the reason why she is half a fan is that Chen Jingxing, as a director, is not good at variety shows or on the red carpet. If you don't participate in promotional activities, there is really no way to become a fan, so you can only pay attention to his works.

After "Signal", she became a die-hard fan of Chen Jingxing's movie, the kind who greeted everyone she met, and fought with the keyboard when encountering belittling comments.

"Source Code" made her a supporter or career fan of DreamWorks. It feels strange to support a company, but this is very common in the fan circle. Mango TV has a group of fans, and the fans are Mango. Satellite TV pays close attention to the ratings of Mango Channel every day. Many people have a faint feeling of admiration in their hearts. Directors or companies like Chen Jingxing or DreamWorks, whose productions are all high-quality movies, will naturally attract career fans.

Wang Yiqing ignored her mother's disappointment, picked up her phone and entered the q group again before the commercial was over - this was her joining a Chen Jingxing fan group.

[It's about to start! 】

[I'm so nervous, if this show really doesn't work, someone will start to get angry again]

[Let them be sour. Even if this movie fails, it should have a minimum score of 7. I don't believe that DreamWorks can still make really bad movies. Even if it is 7 points, the average score of Jingshen's works should be at least 8.2 points. Alright, let’s hang others up]

[Let them be sour, anyway, with Sun Li and Deng Chao, the ratings will not be bad]

[It’s also very dangerous. Mango TV chose the weekly broadcast. I checked that Mango’s weekly broadcast theater has not been able to work. I’m afraid that "Signal" will be cheated by Mango]

【Anyway, I'm normal. Jingshen is not a director, but a screenwriter. If the script is good and the director didn't make it, it's not the screenwriter's fault.】

[Is there really only 25 episodes?There are fewer 25-episode star dramas this year than giant pandas]

[This just shows that DreamWorks didn’t fill in the water. To be honest, even if there are only 25 episodes, I’m not very optimistic about it. The movie "Signal" is only two hours long. It feels just right in all aspects, including the rhythm. The story is very complete. I really can’t do it. How can such a story be made into a TV series with dozens of episodes? 】

[Didn't it mean that TV series and movies are not the same story?It’s just using the same sci-fi setting. Watching the trailer, it feels like a crime-solving drama. A few more cases will be enough.】

Wang Yiqing chatted with the group of friends in full swing, "Jing Shen" is the nickname that their fans gave Chen Jingxing, a bit like calling Cameron "Ka Shen" or Peter Jackson "Peter the Great".

Chen Jingxing is much more popular than other directors because of his high production, good reputation, great brains, movies that suit the aesthetics of young people, and good looks. To put it bluntly, he is a bit like Nolan from Chen Jingxing's previous life. It is a brand, and because it is a local director in Huaguo, the fans are more and more fanatical.

Such a topical director who is praised by a group of fans will naturally have black spots. Chen Jingxing can't control his fans or the behavior of fans, and usually the director's fans have a sense of superiority, because they are all self-proclaimed fans, and the number of viewers. It's not bad, it's not an ordinary audience, so if you punch foreign directors online and trample on Huaguo directors, you're short of saying that "Jing Shen" is the number one director in Huaguo or even the world.

Movie fans are so crazy, the so-called fans pay for idols, it will naturally attract black people, and Chen Jingxing's black people are much more than "Nuo Shen" in the previous life, after all, he is the director of Huaguo, and there are more movie fans than Nolan many.

In particular, "Source Code" created a record in film history. The number of fans of Chen Jingxing, including the number of extreme fans, has greatly increased. Naturally, sunspots have also rebounded greatly. Fortunately, the quality of the film is excellent. Both domestic and foreign achievements have national films, so it has not yet reached the level of Wu Jing's degree of triggering PTSD.

In fact, since the filming of the "Signal" TV series, many people on the Internet have looked down on this work, thinking that it is a work of the capital to make money after seeing the success of the film. In particular, Sun Li and Deng Chao were invited at a high price. It seems that DreamWorks doesn't have much confidence in the quality, and Chen Jingxing has never conducted public relations. Anyway, Sun Li and his wife have no worries about selling the copyright. When the audience in front of the TV sees it, they will naturally have a fair evaluation.

When "Signal" was sold by Mango TV at a high price and announced the restart of the weekly theater, it triggered a backlash from those who disliked Chen Jingxing, who were suppressed by the performance and reputation of "Source Code", not only bad-mouthing the quality of the TV series but also singing Declining ratings, after all, Mango TV’s weekly theater is indeed a big pit, otherwise it would not have been canceled in less than a year after its launch.

Although Chen Jingxing's fans are fighting bravely with the doomsayers on the Internet, they are also drumming in their hearts. They are worried about the quality. On the one hand, the works of DreamWorks or "Jingshen" - including the works of screenwriters - have an average score of 8.6 on Douban , none of the works scored lower than 8.5 points. These are the important data bases they tout. If the big words are blown out, once this drama pulls the hips, it will definitely attract the ridicule of black people. This is DreamWorks or Chen Jingxing. For the first time in Waterloo, the "undefeated golden body" is about to be broken.

On the other hand, the weekly theater is really worrying. Everyone thinks that Huaguo audiences have not developed the habit of following up weekly dramas. Even if "Signal" is of excellent quality, it may be difficult to get good ratings. Do you think It's been a week since the last episode was aired, maybe even the plot has been forgotten, how can there be more enthusiasm for chasing it?

【here we go! 】

Wang Yiqing hurriedly put down her phone and started watching TV after a group friend replied.

Wang Ma was doing stretching exercises on the side. This is her secret recipe for health preservation. It is very suitable for watching TV dramas. She glanced at her daughter who was sitting upright as if watching cartoons when she was a child. She was also a little curious. Since she was in junior high school, she rarely Seeing her daughter's focus and enthusiasm for TV, she, who was still disappointed in her heart, became a little interested in the upcoming TV series. Let's see what TV series are worth interrupting. "The Wife's Lie" occupies Saturday Prime time—I have to say that she was still thinking about the follow-up plot of yesterday's "Wife's Lies" where the scumbag slapped Xiao San in the face, and her enthusiasm for the drama was greatly hit.

After Mango TV routinely skipped the title, the lens with a yellow background moved down from the empty sky to a playground on a campus—an empty lens with a very cinematic feel.

Not only Wang Yiqing, but even Wang Ma felt that the picture was a bit strange, she raised her right arm and said, "I feel that the tone of this TV series is different from other dramas, it's a bit like...like..."

"Movies!" Wang Yiqing replied intently. As a fan of Chen Jingxing, she has watched many film and television dramas at home and abroad, and the number of readings is not bad. terminology, but it can also be seen at a glance that the scenes of the TV series are very similar to movies, and it even feels like watching some high-quality American TV series.

In the lively and noisy playground, a little girl in school uniform sat quietly with a racket in her hand. When she was bored looking around, she saw a boy drawing circles on the ground.The girl walked towards the boy friendly, but the shy and lonely little boy walked away awkwardly.

It was raining when school was over, and the students rushed to leave with umbrellas. The girl stood at the door to shelter from the rain, and the awkward boy stood there holding an umbrella. He wanted to share the umbrella, but was a little shy. Seeing the girl turn around and smile , ran away with his head down.

The boy turned his head and noticed a long-haired woman in red high-heeled shoes walking towards the school. When he turned his head again, he saw that the woman had picked up the girl standing at the door.

The boy returned to someone's house, but suddenly saw the news that the girl was kidnapped on TV.When he arrived at the school the next day, the gate of the school was surrounded by reporters and the police, and the whole school was full of panic. Seeing this scene of pushing and shoving, he thought of his brother being arrested by the police, and felt a little nervous. In a trance, he didn't have the courage to say that he had witnessed the kidnapping process.

The case has made new progress. According to news reports, the suspect has been identified as Xu Jun, a male student at Shancheng Medical University based on fingerprints and threatening letters, but the murderer has not been found.The boy was very puzzled, the suspect is obviously a woman.He went to the police station, and thought of the situation when his brother was arrested. He collected himself and grabbed the passing policemen at the stairs, saying that the suspect was a woman, but no one was willing to stop and listen to what the boy said.

The girl was still torn apart, and the boy could see the girl's mother waiting at the school gate with her daughter's portrait on her back every day.He always felt that the police could find out the truth and give the girl's mother an explanation.Year after year, time passed, the boy has grown up, the girl's mother is still insisting, and the kidnapping case has become an unsolved case.

Paired with sad music, the persistence of the girl's mother, the boy's sense of powerlessness and guilt, and the empathy for the girl's tragic experience quickly aroused Wang Yiqing's emotions. Wang Ma, who was a little dissatisfied with the plot, was completely substituted by this plot.

The poetic scene tells the story of this straightforward story, but it is unexpectedly easy to empathize with people, and the suppressed emotions are extremely contagious. Wang Yiqing has no intention of going to the Q group. She already has a vague premonition that the tone of this drama Seems a lot heavier than the movie version.

The boy is also the male protagonist named Qin Hai, a policeman who has just graduated from the police academy and joined the public security, but because of his childhood experience, he is full of distrust of the police profession, and his work attitude is not serious. He is played by Sun Li who works for him. He Xiuying, captain of the criminal police squadron, criticized.

Qin Hai walked out of the office and stood in the corridor of the police station. In his mind, he came to the police station to report the kidnapping of the girl Ma Xiaojing. The camera rotated 180 degrees, and the picture became dim again. Transformation occurs, a little boy stands in the position where the male protagonist was just now, and through this extremely smooth long shot with special effects, the protagonist came to the police station 18 years ago and wanted to tell the police that the kidnapped suspect of Ma Xiaojing was a woman scenario.

It was the first time for Wang's mother to see such a scene transition in a TV series. She couldn't help being a little confused and questioned her daughter, but Wang Yiqing was already engrossed in front of the TV screen, ignoring her own mother's doubts.

The boy stood helplessly in the corridor, no one listened to his explanation, he ran down the stairs in frustration to go home, but just bumped into the detective Li Shi'an played by Deng Chao, and left a note - the crooked writing on it "The murderer is a woman".

"Isn't this Deng Chao?" Wang Ma, who had seen He Xiuying, the captain of the criminal police squadron played by Sun Li, exclaimed in surprise again: "So Deng Chao is playing the criminal policeman Qin Hai played when he was a child? Then he and Qin Haihe It's been 18 years since Sun Li!"

When Li Shian had a dispute with the leader during the investigation of Ma Xiaojing’s kidnapping case and felt depressed, he saw He Xiuying, played by Sun Li, who was obviously younger in police uniform, walked into the office to comfort Li Shian—the younger version of Sun Li not only used makeup, And it also used some special effects to finally achieve such an effect that basically has no sense of disobedience.

This smooth plot directly clarifies the relationship between the protagonist trio. Even Wang Ma basically understands the relationship between time and characters--Li Shian played by Deng Chao is an old criminal policeman, and He Xiuying played by Sun Li is in the 18 years ago, she was the young policewoman who liked Li Shi'an, and she was also the captain of the third criminal police squadron 18 years later. The protagonist Qin Hai was a primary school student 18 years ago, and 18 years later, he was the subordinate of the squadron leader He Xiuying.

After get off work, Li Shi'an drove to the backyard of a seemingly abandoned Tongzi building, and came to a sewer well. He struggled to open the manhole cover, and a hanged male corpse appeared in the camera.

Wang Ma and Wang Yiqing exclaimed together. The gloomy background and slightly shaking scenes in this plot create a pseudo-documentary feel, coupled with music, it is quite thrilling and suspenseful.

Li Shi'an didn't seem surprised. He took the walkie-talkie to his lips and began to describe the state and identity of the deceased. A man's voice sounded, and Qin Hai followed the sound to find a walkie-talkie from among the discarded garbage.

This plot uses the alternate flashing method of montage, making Qin Hai discover that the abandoned walkie-talkie and Li Shian picking up the walkie-talkie happened almost at the same time.

So when Li Shi'an's voice came from the walkie-talkie Qin Hai was holding, it was very shocking, especially for people like Wang Ma who had never seen the movie "Signal".

"Didn't Deng Chao be 18 years ago? How did he get in touch with Qin Hai?" Wang Ma still used to call the old detective Li Shi'an by the actor's name.

Although Wang Yiqing was also excited by this scene, she was not surprised. After all, it is the TV series version of "Signal", and of course it has the same sci-fi setting.

"This walkie-talkie can travel through time and space, mom, just look down slowly, it's absolutely wonderful!"

Li Shi'an on the other end of the walkie-talkie told Qin Hai that Xu Jun, who was identified by the police as killing Ma Xiaojing and disappeared and could not be found, was not the murderer. His body was hung in an abandoned kiln in the backyard of a tube building. The real suspect Killing him and cutting off his thumb, blaming him for all the crimes, and being attacked before he finished speaking - this high-energy plot once again made Wang Ma exclaimed.

Qin Hai was baffled and terrified by the unfinished words from the walkie-talkie. He didn't know who was on the other side of the walkie-talkie. He thought he was out of his mind because the walkie-talkie had no batteries.

But Ma Xiaojing's murder case has always been a knot in his heart. After careful consideration, in order to prove that he has no problem with his mind, he went to the address told by the mysterious person on the walkie-talkie to visit the abandoned tube building.

Because the tube building 18 years later was more dilapidated than what Li Shian saw, and it was night, and the sense of horror and suspense was heavier, so Wang Yiqing clenched her fists and held her breath in fear.

There are two wells in the backyard. Qin Hai removed the first manhole cover, but found nothing. This made the mother and daughter in front of the TV relax a little. After thinking about it, Qin Hai removed the manhole cover of the second well. , A skeleton really appeared under the light of the flashlight.

While Wang Ma and Wang Yiqing gasped, the first episode ended, and a sad and pleasant melody sounded. Wang Yiqing was dumbfounded: "Is there such a cut-off episode?"

Wang Ma also stroked her chest, before recovering from the skeleton's fright: "No wonder you insist on watching this TV series, it's really exciting, who filmed it?"

(End of this chapter)