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Film critic Mo Guangyuan had not looked forward to a movie premiere this much in a long time.

Ordinarily, when a hobby turns into a job, it can make one particularly irritable, offering no relief, and may even lead to depression.

Mo Guangyuan used to be like that.

Until he saw a movie by Lu Ban during one of his reviews.

The feeling was indescribable, as if it was the first day of high school reporting; after being assigned a seat, you eagerly interact with your neighbors, when a girl asks in a soft voice if this is her spot. The morning sun shines on her uniform, making it sparkle—you fall in love at first sight and spend countless nights thereafter tossing and turning because of her.

It felt like first love.

Some say a man’s first love is the hardest to forget, and Mo Guangyuan strongly agrees.

Lu Ban’s movies were his first love.

Prior to this, movies were like beautiful girls to him: he would take an interest, give them a few more glances, but only his first love was something he wanted to cherish in the palm of his hand.

After that, none of Lu Ban’s movies had disappointed Mo Guangyuan, a feeling that was also hard to describe.

It was like, during high school, after making your relationship official with your first love, discovering she shared some of your interests, her private temperament hit all your sweet spots, and even her parents were sensible—and to top it off, she was rich.

The more he watched, the better it got.

Even though he knew all there was to know, there were still surprises in store.

Mo Guangyuan had seen some movies that were thrilling the first time, but on a second viewing, they were as uninspiring as a couple in their forties sleeping in separate rooms.

Therefore, when he saw the promotional trailer for “Doomsday,” Mo Guangyuan looked forward to the chance to review the movie.

Obviously, everyone wanted to review Lu Ban’s films now—they were in high demand, and he would have to be lucky to be chosen.

There was no choice but to satiate himself with trailers.

Unlike some who analyzed “Doomsday” trailers frame by frame to look for clues and understand Lu Ban’s intention, Mo Guangyuan believed that the audiovisual impact presented by the film itself was perfect and that analyzing and interpreting in advance was detrimental to the viewing experience.

Besides, what new twists could Lu Ban possibly introduce in a disaster film?

This time, Mo Guangyuan did not have to worry about being shocked or tormented by the plot, just fully enjoying the awe-inspiring grand scenes was enough.

During the October holiday, on a rest day, he didn’t travel but stayed at home and lay flat.

At noon, nagged by his wife, he slowly got out of bed, brushed his teeth, washed his face, and had lunch.

Lunch was just reheated leftovers from the day before, simple and bland in taste.

While eating and listening to his wife gossip about her workplace, Mo Guangyuan browsed short videos, chuckling at the tacky content.

Suddenly, his hand slipped, and he stumbled upon a slightly familiar video.

Volcanoes erupting, tsunamis encroaching, typhoons sweeping across, earthquakes spreading, Earth on the brink of apocalypse.

A series of disaster scenes appeared, halting Mo Guangyuan’s hand.

He looked at the scenes on his phone, clearly recognizing them as snippets from the “Doomsday” trailer, but this type of editing and some of the scenes—he felt like he had never seen them before?

Whose skilled editing was this?

Mo Guangyuan soon saw in the second trailer, the meeting room in which humanity’s plans to save itself began to surface, accompanied by corresponding scenes.

Such as the distorted light in the midst of a desert depicting the effect of a gravitational lens, a disease that made crystals grow on people’s bodies in some underprivileged areas, and an experimenter wearing a helmet full of wires, lying in bed ready for consciousness uploading.

These were all new scenes, and not edits from other productions but authentic creations by Lu Ban.

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This kind of special effect with a strong sense of reality, Mo Guangyuan only knew Lu Ban could pull off.

“Could this be a new trailer?”

Mo Guangyuan hurriedly tapped on the screen to check the information of the short video.

[The third trailer of “Doomsday” has been released for deliverance.]

The publisher was Silent Media.

This is the official account!

It is indeed the third trailer!

Mo Guangyuan immediately scrolled to the very beginning and replayed it.

He saw that, unlike the first two trailers, this trailer focused more on humanity’s responses to civilization.

There were three different plans, and each one seemed feasible.

Moreover, this trailer also revealed something: this world was different from the one they were living in, with dissimilar degrees and directions of civilization’s development.

For example, the civilization in the movie apparently lacked manned spaceflight technology and ran into a lot of trouble researching wormholes.

For instance, this world seemed to truly have superpowers, as those patients who grew crystals on their bodies also possessed certain abilities, being able to control flames, water flow, and even bend spoons with their minds.

Again, the world in the movie seemed more advanced in computer research and development than ours, to the point where robots were made to look just like humans, and artificial intelligence was quite mature.

“So this is the deliverance trailer, huh…”

While tidying up after washing dishes, Mo Guangyuan murmured.

After finishing the dishes, he lay back on the bed and continued to fiddle with his phone.

After watching the trailer three times, he scrolled through the comments.

[This trailer is impactful, human technology looks so cool!]

[So this isn’t happening in our world, huh? Suddenly, I’m a bit disappointed.]

[I also saw superpowers; in the end, it isn’t going to be some cliché conclusion where a few people awaken Level 5 superpowers and then quell the natural disasters, right?]

[Why do I feel like, in the end, it might be the robots who save the world?]

[There’s even a wormhole; I guess humans organize those with superpowers and robots to travel to the other side of the wormhole to find a suitable planet and ultimately escape the disaster-stricken Earth.]

[I think Lu Ban won’t simply reveal the answer in the trailer; these must be red herrings, they’re red herrings!]

[Setting everything else aside, the film will definitely have ample special effects. I’m going to watch it on the first day of the Lunar New Year!]

“Indeed, following the pattern, the content shown in these trailers definitely won’t be the main substance of the film. I wonder what kind of wild ideas Lu Ban has for saving the world,” Mo Guangyuan said to himself in a murmuring tone.

The endings to disaster movies are always the same, and Mo Guangyuan didn’t think Lu Ban would annoy people during the festive New Year, so how the situation would be resolved became a topic worth discussing.

The film’s promotion had strangely turned into a game of cat-and-mouse between the director and the audience, wondering if anyone could guess the ending before the movie premiere.

At this thought, Mo Guangyuan couldn’t help but look forward to the day Lu Ban’s film would be submitted for review, whether or not he was the reviewer. Surely a colleague would see it and then he could try to get a hint of the ending, right?

But he soon felt that being spoiled would simply ruin a good film; it was better not to hear any spoilers.

Just as Mo Guangyuan was eagerly anticipating and dreaming, Lu Ban’s sample film arrived at the review department.