The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 252 The Elegy of Civilization

Chen Yang prepared the morning meeting courseware for Monday, stretched his stiff neck and back muscles, and walked out of the bedroom to see his wife and son leaning on the sofa and staring at the TV.

"Lele, have you finished your homework?"

His son, who has just entered the second grade, hummed perfunctorily. Every night at seven o'clock is his exclusive "animation show". In addition to the low academic pressure in elementary school, his son's grades have always been among the best in the class.

As the post-85s, Chen Yang and his wife are also relatively open-minded in their educational philosophy. Although they still strictly control their children's TV watching time, the "animation schedule" every night is still unshakable since they never went to kindergarten.

Chen Yang glanced at the TV and found that it was an advertisement of CCTV Children's Channel. He asked his wife in surprise, "What's so interesting about the advertisement? Why don't you watch your TV series in the bedroom?"

There are two TV sets at home, the living room is big, and the master bedroom of the two has a small TV set. Usually, it seems that it’s time for his son’s “animation show”. After eight o'clock, the animation has already finished.

Today is Sunday, and dinner was eaten at six o'clock. Usually on weekends, my son is watching cartoons in the living room, and he and his wife go back to the bedroom to watch the small TV or play with their mobile phones.

The daughter-in-law replied with a natural expression: "It is said on the Internet that it is best for parents to accompany their children to watch cartoons. Parents and children should be accompanied. Children watch cartoons alone. Whether it is happy or sad emotions, there is no one to share and share with them." Support is not enough..."

"Mom also likes to watch cartoons!" Son Lele shouted happily and somewhat proudly, interrupting his mother's official routine.

Chen Yang looked at the shyness on his daughter-in-law's face and couldn't help but teased: "Didn't you say last time that the current cartoons are too childish to be assimilated so quickly?"

Without waiting for his wife to refute, the son jumped out first, with a look of displeasure on his face: "It's not childish!"

Chen Yang laughed and shook his son's head, looking at the frowning face, he was overjoyed: "Children of your generation are so miserable compared to us when we were young, and you can only come into contact with cartoons of this level. It’s still like a treasure. The cartoons I watched when I was young were all imported from Japan and the United States. When will I find them on the Internet and let you see the world, such as monsters, beautiful girls..."

"Cough cough..."

Chen Yang's "show off" was interrupted by his daughter-in-law's cough, and the child's mother's eyes stabbed coldly into Chen Yang's chest.

"Well, anyway, children of your generation are not blessed..." Chen Yang stopped talking in embarrassment.

Chen Yang and his daughter-in-law agreed on an educational philosophy that children should not be exposed to smartphones early, and should spend less time surfing the Internet. They should do more outdoor sports and watch cartoons on CCTV. After all, some things on the Internet are really not suitable for children.

Strange to say, although Chen Yang felt that the current cartoons were too far from the Dongying American cartoons he had watched since he was a child, and they were too naive, but it really made him show his children many cartoons he watched when he was young, but I feel that this is not appropriate, that is not appropriate, this is not suitable for children, and that is a bit too much.

After thinking about it for a long time, I still feel that CCTV's animation is pure enough, without bad content, and more suitable for my children.

People will always live in the way they once hated.

Now that the wife is going to watch cartoons with the child, Chen Yang also feels that what the wife said makes sense, the child really needs company, and suppresses the urge to take out the mobile phone to surf, and prepares to enjoy this rare parent-child joy.

"Is "The Flying Pig" good, little piggy?" Chen Yang teased his son.

""The Flying Pig" is over!" Lele looked at his father with contempt: "I'm not a little pig, I'm the captain now!"

Chen Yang was taken aback. He usually goes home at least after eight o'clock, and the cartoons have already finished, but he doesn't know what animations are broadcasting on CCTV.

The wife smiled and said, "These days it's "Space Battleship", an episode is quite long, more than 30 minutes, it's hard for your son to sit still..."

"It's started, it's started!" Lele hurriedly stopped the adult's conversation.

Seeing the first round of silvery full moon rising from the calm sea, Chen Yang felt a little familiar: "Hey, it's not that..."

After Yinhui portrayed DreamWorks and its English name, Chen Yang suddenly said: "DreamWorks! Yes, isn't this the company that made "Source Code"? Now it's starting to make cartoons?"

After Chen Yang had a child, coupled with increasing work pressure and busier work, he was no longer a surfer and Internet addict in college, so he really didn't know about DreamWorks' involvement in the animation field.

But "Source Code" he and his wife went to the cinema together, it was very hot, the news was bombarded, there were also friends and colleagues posting movie tickets in Moments, and Chen Yang, who hadn't been to the cinema for many years since he had a child, also Joined in the fun with my daughter-in-law.

This movie did give them a very pleasant viewing experience. Later, when they were taking a break at noon or fishing at work, they also watched both "Signal" and "Fatal Identity" on the recommendation of colleagues, so they were very impressed with the opening title of DreamWorks. The logo animation is still somewhat familiar, but I didn't react for a while.

At the beginning, there is a "wallpaper-level" picture of fleets of different shapes, extremely design and sci-fi sense, flying in space under the blessing of nuclear fusion engines like a small sun.

After CCTV purchased "Battleship", it added a pre-story synopsis before each episode. In the pre-story synopsis narrated by the familiar voice of the hostess of the Children's Channel, the human orphan, Homeland, finally defeated the weird radiation The source of life, dragging his broken body to the beautiful Saturn.

Enough nuclear fusion fuel has been collected in Saturn's atmosphere, and we have also encountered a gentle gaseous life in Saturn's atmosphere that is many times larger than a blue whale.

Then the Homeland landed on Titan. With the help of the intelligent brain that has mutated into a nearly artificial intelligence and the knowledge carried from the earth, the Homeland already has the ability to repair the spacecraft and farm the fields.

Homestead is going to use the metal resources on Titan to set up industrial production lines, build robots, repair Homeland, and build more spaceships and frigates.

Homeland sent two teenagers with robots to explore the entire Titan, but suddenly lost signal contact with the spacecraft. Others went to the rescue and found that they were attacked and hijacked by a special Zerg life on Titan. , the robots were damaged, and the whereabouts of the two teenagers are unknown.

This strange black Zerg usually lives in methane lakes. Unlike life on Earth that uses light to split water for photosynthesis, life on Titan uses light to decompose methane to obtain energy, which is a more peculiar photosynthesis reaction. , Liquid methane is the source of life for them just like water.

There was a battle between the Homeland and the Zerg of Titan. These Zerg were as hard as alloys in appearance and were difficult to deal with. After untold hardships, they rescued their companions and finally used a hydrogen bomb stored in the spacecraft to blow up a methane lake. So a terrifying balance is struck with the Zerg.

In such a balance of terror, the Homeland developed insignificantly. After farming and violent soldiers, it finally wiped out the brutal Zerg life. With the longing for the four new homes of Tianyuan, it assembled a huge fleet and sailed to the outer reaches of the solar system. When it passed Pluto, the tombstone of human civilization was erected.

Chen Yang was dumbfounded when he watched this brief synopsis of the previous story with the flickering scenes. Are all the cartoons up to this level now?
Not to mention that this exquisite picture is completely different from the 3D modeling of "Flying Pigman" that he had glanced at a few times, but the imaginative and extremely grand story structure has already exceeded his expectations. Animated traditional impression.

Seeing Chen Yang's expression, his wife sneered and said, "How is it? I watched it with your son a few days ago, and I think it's really good. I feel that I have gained a lot, and many mothers in my circle of friends also said that this animation is beautiful."

Chen Yang had to admit that this animation really aroused his interest, just from the short summary of various high-energy pictures, which was like a revolving door, already made him amazed at the setting, background and story of this animation , He has never seen such "stars and oceans" content in adult film and television dramas.

After the previous summary, the title of the theme of this episode appeared on the screen - the elegy of civilization.

Each episode of "Battleship" has its own title, or name, for example, the first episode is called "Orphans of Humanity".

In this episode, the fleet with the Homeland as the core flew out of the Kuiper belt of the sun. With the golden finger of the brain, the teenagers on the Homestead, from a spaceship to a fleet of violent soldiers, are confident from top to bottom. Full of optimism, they felt that nothing could threaten them, so they decided to go into hibernation and wait until they reached the end of Tianyuan [-] before waking up.

However, under this optimistic mood, the brain of Homeland received a burst of weak and regular radio waves.

It can be deduced that the source of the signal is not far from the homeland, but the source of emission has never been found, which makes the teenagers a little nervous.

Under Zhinao's suggestion, Homeland turned on the radio silent mode, turned off all visible light emission, and turned on the observation equipment to the maximum power.

While searching for the strange signal source, the intense information decoding work began.

This plot is actually a bit like a dark forest, and it focuses on the chain of suspicion. When two lonely intelligent beings or even civilizations meet in the boundless dark universe, this chain of suspicion will arise.

Although audiences on this plane have never heard of the "law of the dark forest", they can understand the concept of the chain of suspicion under the explanations of the spaceship brain and the young captain. suspenseful atmosphere.

Although there are no gorgeous and high-energy scenes, Chen Yang and his wife are immersed in the weird and suspenseful atmosphere created by the plot, and even empathize with the protagonist's nervousness.

The smart brain and the teenagers finally deciphered the information, began to analyze the other party's social model, and constantly presupposed the moral model of both parties and the next code of action.

This episode is quite hard-core, with a feeling of cosmic psychology. Lele is a little confused, but Chen Yang and his wife feel that their knowledge has increased, and they have adjusted from lazily leaning on the back of the sofa to leaning forward with their upper body.

In the tense chain of suspicion, the other party launched an attack first, and then Homeland clearly learned that the unknown civilization that attacked them had stealth technology.

I am in the open, and the enemy is in the dark. Although the human fleet has produced and stocked enough nuclear weapons and missiles, they can only flee in embarrassment. They are constantly pursued by the opponent's weapons and suffer heavy losses.

Homeland figured out to launch a large number of probes to calculate the enemy's position through the triggered trajectory, but it still couldn't turn the tide of the battle.

In the nick of time, a teenager thought of a way to find the enemy's civilization, and cracked the opponent's stealth technology through the gravitational lens phenomenon.

If the plots of the first few episodes of "Battleship" are full of big scenes, just like Jin Yong's novels, everyone shows their magical powers, then facing the crisis of hostile civilization that can be invisible this time is like Gu Long's novels, grasping the flaws and killing with one blow.

By observing the gravitational lens effect, the Homestead fleet was able to fight back from a desperate situation.

Then the Homeland landed on the spacecraft of the enemy civilization and found the surviving intelligent life like octopus.

In the mouth of the alien octopus, a picture scroll of civilization unfolds slowly.

This civilization is called the Laika Stars. They were born in a water world. The surface of their home planet is the ocean, and there is no land higher than the ocean.

Laika is also a kind of mollusk in the sea. They can communicate through the color change of their skin. Skin and color are their language. They can recognize more than 100 colors, so they gradually construct a complex language system and evolve For intelligent life.

After becoming intelligent life and establishing civilization, they also invented nuclear weapons, but unlike humans, they broke out nuclear wars on an unprecedented scale. Ocean planets have endless nuclear fusion fuel, and nuclear fusion weapons have become conventional weapons.

The super-weapon with an equivalent breakthrough limit destroyed the atmosphere, causing the solar wind to attack the surface of the planet, causing the atmosphere to fall into irreversible attenuation, and at the same time, the sea water was continuously lost and escaped into space.

The planet fell into the process of irreversible destruction, and the Laikas built spaceships in desperation and left their home planet in batches, wandering around, hoping that one of them could find a suitable planet to rebuild civilization.

This "Civilization Elegy" is a bit old-fashioned, and it is nothing more than advocating the idea of ​​environmental protection and cherishing the ecological environment. However, Mo's production team adopted a very novel method to show this elegy.

That is, in the story of recalling the history of the Laika people, instead of continuing to use 3D animation pictures, it adopts a hand-painted style based on the combination of ink style and shadow puppetry based on red, blue, white and black.

Supplemented by smooth and artistic storyboards, the rise and fall of Lycra civilization is shown to the audience in front of the TV in a very novel and cool form.

In fact, this episode of ink silhouette style "Elegy of Civilization", which is mainly in red, blue, white and black, has aroused strong repercussions after it was updated on the Internet, but this time it was broadcast on CCTV, which caused a lot of reactions like The interest of viewers like Chen Yang who have never followed this animation before.

There is no doubt that this hand-drawn animation inserted in the 3D animation of "Battleship" tells the history of the rise and fall of a foreign civilization, which has brought a strong aesthetic impact to the audience including Chen Yang, and the "Elegy of Civilization" With the addition of this novel and cool hand-painted animation, it also brings a strong emotional resonance.

If the audience was gnashing their teeth at the Lycra civilization, which did not talk about martial arts and only sneaked, but after the "Elegy of Civilization", they could feel the sorrow hidden in its history and bring the audience to think.

After the animation ended, both Chen Yang and his wife fell into a brief silence. They were obviously shocked by the animation, but Lele was still a little puzzled by the animation. and stimulation.

"This episode is not as good as yesterday!" Lele complained as she looked at her mother.

Children are so cheerful.

"You're still young..." Chen Yang and his wife looked at each other, and the wife said gently to her son, "There are some things you don't understand now."

"This animation is interesting..." Chen Yang murmured as he watched the preview of the next episode.

He has completely abandoned his conditioned contempt for animation. Perhaps it is precisely because of the stereotyped influence on CCTV animation that he has been more shocked.

The wife obviously did her homework: "I checked before, DreamWorks has made two animations besides this animation, and they will be broadcast on CCTV one after another. Unfortunately, tomorrow is Monday, and only our mother and I can catch up on TV. , you can't see it."

Chen Yang didn't care about his wife's teasing: "I can watch it online, well, I'll search the Internet now, and finish the first few episodes of this animation first." After finishing speaking, he got up and walked to the bedroom.

"I want to watch it too! I want to watch it too!" Lele yelled as soon as she heard that her father wanted to watch animation on the computer.

Chen Yang escaped his wife's eyes and made an excuse: "Oh, haven't you watched this animation? There are no plots that are not suitable for children, and you can learn some scientific knowledge. I promise that I will not find other messes for him on the Internet. cartoons."

The wife looked at her son's pitiful eyes and sighed: "Okay, I can only watch it for an hour at most. The computer screen is more harmful to the child's eyes than the TV..."

Before the words were finished, both father and son rushed into the bedroom.

"I want to watch the next episode. I heard from my classmates that "Space Super Battleship" has already finished broadcasting on the Internet!"

"Dad wants to watch the first few episodes first. I haven't watched it before. Don't you want Dad to make up the previous plot?"

"Rock-paper-scissors! Whoever wins depends on who..."

(End of this chapter)