I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 537 - 537 536.Blizzard_1

Chapter 537: 536.Blizzard_1 Chapter 537: 536.Blizzard_1 “I’m really stupid, really.”

Qin Tiantian murmured to herself, looking at the empty ice cream cup.

“I only knew that Lu Ban was good at making horror movies, but I never expected he could turn a disaster movie into something like this!”

Watching the movie that had finished playing on TV, Qin Tiantian felt a mix of emotions, almost crying but without tears.

“It’s already so cold, and yet you still hurt me like this!”

She curled up under the blanket, with only Laika snuggling beside her to provide comfort.

Lu Ban felt that Qin Tiantian’s reaction was a bit off.

According to his predictions and experiments, after watching this movie, the viewer should first feel despair, doubt everything around them, and experience strong unease and fear.

These are the feelings brought on by the reality of doomsday and shattered hopes.

Later, as time goes on and the line between reality and illusion starts to blur, the audience would realize that it’s just a movie and not the actual reality, becoming relieved that they live in a world without doomsday, thereby cherishing and protecting this world.

And to cherish the world usually starts with treating others well.

After watching the movie, everyone would become more harmonious and loving, treating the world kindly, making the entire world more united.

If this movie was shown on a large scale, then humanity would drop their hatred and disdain, discrimination and selfishness, and join hands towards a better tomorrow; world peace would be just around the corner.

He just made such a small contribution.

That’s what Lu Ban thought.

The reason he let Qin Tiantian watch at his house was for this purpose.

By making this girl’s character a bit better, Lu Ban would have done a good deed, better than building a seven-level pagoda.

However, after watching the movie, Tiantian was listless for a while, then she sat up.

“I’m hungry.”

She said casually, scrolling through her phone for takeout.

“Ordering takeout in such cold weather, you’re making the delivery guys suffer.”

Lu Ban felt it was a bit strange and decided to observe Qin Tiantian.

“Damn right, it’s precisely because it’s so cold that I need to order, look how hard those delivery guys are working, coming out even today, isn’t it just to get orders? If we don’t order takeout to increase their orders now, how can we live up to the delivery guys’ hard work?”

Qin Tiantian argued with justice.

Lu Ban thought about it, and it seemed to make sense.

Qin Tiantian directly ordered a portion of hotpot.

Some delivery hotpots even come with a noodle-pulling performance service, which Lu Ban had never experienced.

After waiting a while, the delivery guy brought the food and they started to set up the hotpot in the living room.

“By the way, isn’t Feng Yu out of the country?”

Qin Tiantian suddenly asked while waiting for the pot to heat up.

“Yeah, she said she’s going to Massachusetts for business recently, and around the time the movie comes out, I should pretty much go see her.”

Lu Ban still remembered that he owed Feng Yu a favor.

“Hmm.”

Qin Tiantian exclaimed as the soup in the hotpot began to bubble, she briefly swished a slice of meat in it, dipped it in the sauce, and ate it.

“This broth is quite good too.”

Lu Ban pointed at the clear broth.

“Eat the meat, why aren’t you eating the meat? What’s hotpot without meat, sigh, let me tell you, when I eat alone, I always go for the spicy broth, extra spicy and numbing, eating until I’m sweating all over, that’s the real thrill.”

Qin Tiantian ate another slice of meat.

“What did you think of the movie just now?”

Lu Ban asked.

“Movie, what movie?”

Qin Tiantian retorted.

“It’s what you just saw.”

Lu Ban reminded her with a sentence.

“I just watched a movie?”

Qin Tiantian frowned.

Lu Ban also frowned.

“No, you haven’t seen the movie.”

Lu Ban decided to give up.

It seemed that Qin Tiantian had selectively tossed her memory somewhere, so that she would not be influenced by the movie.

That kind of skill is not something the average person can achieve.

Only those who are heartless and missing a screw in their head could possibly manage it.

Because just forgetting the movie is not enough, one must also forget the fact that they’ve forgotten the movie.

Otherwise, they would always end up remembering it.

This was also why Qin Tiantian could listen to Lu Ban and Feng Yu talk about things related to the Foreign Domain without being influenced by any pollution.

Or, to put it another way, knowledge of the Foreign Domain is pollution; once one acquires that knowledge, they would be polluted.

And Qin Tiantian could perfectly let it go in one ear and out the other, empty her brain, and listened as if she hadn’t heard anything.

This comedic character-like setting resulted in her being virtually immune to pollution from the Foreign Domain.

Trying out the experiment with Qin Tiantian seemed to have failed.

Lu Ban watched Qin Tiantian, who was eating hotpot and singing songs, and couldn’t decide whether the silly child was lucky or unfortunate.

As the deep snow fell, they ate hotpot, and time passed.

This year’s climate was very abnormal; whether due to volcanic eruptions or some other reason, winter was exceptionally cold.

Approaching the Spring Festival, Jiangcheng had already accumulated thick snow, to the point that even people from the south were tired of seeing it.

It was not just Jiangcheng; the lowest temperatures in various regions of the world had broken records. Suddenly, production and daily life were having certain problems.

Lu Ban even found it difficult to buy groceries and even thought of going out to search for food after everything had melted and gone down the drain.

Even the southernmost islands, where one could wear short sleeves in winter, were now cloaked in falling snow, and the whole planet had turned into a silver-dressed world of absolute silence.

There were people on the internet claiming that the greenhouse effect and global warming were hoaxes; if it were truly global warming, how could there be such cold winters.

New Year’s Eve.

Feng Yu hadn’t come back yet; Lu Ban made a few simple dishes for the New Year’s Eve dinner and ate with Qin Tiantian and the dog.

The wind and snow outside knocked against the windows, seeming to grow stronger, the lights outside were flickering, as if they might go out at any moment.

“With such heavy snow, we won’t go out tomorrow.”

Qin Tiantian even felt that she might have to sleep over tonight – she definitely didn’t want to spend the festival alone at home. At least there was a dog here, right?

“We can’t stay in; what about the premiere?”

Lu Ban looked at the New Year’s TV programs that were not funny at all, finding the sarcastic comments online much more amusing.

The first round of “Doomsday” was scheduled to premiere at nine o’clock the next morning. The presale box office for this movie had already exceeded eight hundred million, with an estimated domestic box office of at least five billion and up, and fully booked premieres worldwide. The audience for disaster movies was bigger than for the previous “Peaceful Days in Spring” and was about the same as the fantasy epic “Magic Tide.” Therefore, many in the industry preliminarily estimated that this movie’s box office would be at least in the top ten in film history.

In Times Square in North America, the advertisement for “Doomsday” played over and over again, with promotion efforts sparing no expense. One could see the related introductions almost everywhere, of which only a small part was paid for, the rest being heat generated by people looking to ride the popularity wave.

People believed unreservedly that “Doomsday” would make history, and they, the witnesses to a new era.

However, some people were worried that the weather would cause projection difficulties and affect the attendance rate; some places had already closed cinemas and other public venues several days in advance to prevent accidents.

But when midnight arrived and the New Year’s bell chimed after the countdown, the silent night was devoid of fireworks and firecrackers; only the howling wind and snow could be heard. As “Unforgettable Tonight” began to play, Lu Ban received a message on his phone.

“Release postponed, movie theaters unable to operate?”

Lu Ban looked at the message and slightly furrowed his brow.