I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 545 - 545 544. Dont stop ah_1

Chapter 545: 544. Don’t stop ah_1 Chapter 545: 544. Don’t stop ah_1 If history were to be recorded by later generations, then this first day of the Lunar New Year would probably be remembered as one with the most complex and profound melancholy for the people nationwide.

On one hand, the widespread blizzards across the country caused transportation difficulties, and many areas also experienced ice and snow disasters. Fortunately, swift actions by all parties involved ensured that no major accidents occurred.

On the other hand, there was Lu Ban’s movie.

At nine o’clock, prime time, with everyone stuck at home bored due to the heavy snow and unable to go out for fun, and hearing that Lu Ban’s blockbuster with grand special effects was available for free on TV, people would inevitably gather their families, sit in front of the television, and wait while cracking sunflower seeds.

The special effects at the beginning were indeed impressive. Aside from those old-fashioned cathode-ray tube TVs that couldn’t display complex special effects, almost every household with a normal TV was gaping in the first dozen minutes of the movie.

Is this really something I can watch for free?

Wouldn’t this cost several hundred per ticket if shown in a theater?

Many people actually hadn’t been to a movie theater in a long time.

Middle-aged people who drag their families along generally only go when their work units organize film viewings, and the task of watching cartoons like Boonie Bears is left to the wife.

For the elderly who usually play chess, cards, or go bird-walking, a visit to a movie theater is a rare occasion.

Many people’s impressions of movies were still fixed on the epic romance of Titanic, yet they didn’t realize they hadn’t set foot in a movie theater in ten or twenty years.

Therefore, when the older generation saw these special effects, they couldn’t help but ask their younger relatives if movies were all this realistic nowadays.

And the slightly more knowledgeable young ones would answer,

“Grandma, no, such special effects are only in Lu Ban’s movies.”

It was indeed the case.

By the mid-section of the movie, when all attempts had failed and they had hit a stalemate, the entire family’s mood had sunk.

Even cracking sunflower seeds felt listless.

Later on, when humanity started to conduct crazy experiments, heading irrevocably toward the abyss, even those who had seen Lu Ban’s movies before could no longer bear it.

Almost everyone watched the latter half of the movie with their eyes glued to the screen, unblinking.

The darker the surroundings, the more one yearns for light.

In this dark movie, everyone was hoping to wait for a final twist.

Until the world had changed beyond recognition, they did not witness the day when human civilization was redeemed.

Only the machine girl, carrying on the legacy of the past, naively unaware of the dangers of the new world.

When the movie finished airing a little after eleven o’clock, people all over the country, and even around the world, in front of TVs, computers, smartphones, and tablets, fell into a long bout of reflection after watching this movie.

Some of them were just common citizens, joyously spending the Spring Festival with their families.

Some were wanderers abroad, who chanced upon the movie during a rare moment of leisure.

Some were trapped by the heavy snow, seeking the last thread of solace.

The snowstorm was like Doomsday, shattering all societal facades and revealing the true emotions and self underneath.

Lu Ban’s movie was the catalyst.

Even after the movie ended, until midnight, there was hardly any discussion. Online searches only yielded questions like “why can’t I play the movie?” and “will it lag on my phone?”

After midnight, discussions about the content slowly emerged online.

[I’m a bit confused, I feel like I didn’t get it, but I was deeply shocked]

[I originally thought this was a disaster movie about humanity fighting against natural calamities and ultimately achieving success. I didn’t expect that humanity would just fail to combat the disaster – are humans really gone just like that???]

[Watching the earlier parts of the story, I thought Lu Ban was going to make a comeback with some brilliant idea to solve the problem, but the ending tells me that Doomsday is unstoppable, and all of humanity’s struggles are just hastening their own destruction?]

[Is this nihilism? When Doomsday comes, everything can only progress towards destruction, and there’s absolutely no chance for a turnaround?]

[I don’t think so, didn’t the robots remain in the end, and didn’t part of humanity survive? This suggests that even in the face of such severe disasters, humans can still survive, right?]

[You all watched the movie for nothing. The core idea of the movie is very simple. That is not giving up hope!]

[Indeed, at the end, humans gave up hope and turned into bugs, while those sick who never gave up hope managed to continue existing. It’s quite ironic.]

[What messed with my mind the most about this movie is that, towards the middle and later parts, I really thought those actions were necessary, that they were the way to save the world! Damn, I was totally engrossed!]

[The commenter above, I suggest you go see a psychologist.]

[If we lose humanity and Sanity, we will destroy ourselves just like the humans did in the movie!]

[Indeed, some places handle disasters without treating people like humans at all. In such places, when it comes to life-or-death moments, who knows what disagreeable things they could do!]

[I’ve had an epiphany. Starting from today, I will treat my family well. I couldn’t get home because of the heavy snow this year, and only then did I realize the worth of my family. I dare not imagine if those disasters truly happened.]

[True, the heavy snow really made people feel the fragility of humanity. After watching the movie, my thoughts about disasters have significantly changed.]

Meanwhile, abroad, the plot of Lu Ban’s movie touched their sensitive nerves.

In social media of a certain country, most opinions about Lu Ban’s movie were critical.

[Lu Ban’s movie is filled with malicious imagination and fabrications. We don’t behave like that at all when dealing with disasters!]

[We highly respect human rights. The things depicted in the movie could never possibly happen!]

[This is simply a malicious political allegory. I can’t believe I used to like Lu Ban’s works!]

[I don’t think the actions in the movie are a big deal, though. In times of crisis, such extreme measures are necessary. As for the ending, that’s all Lu Ban’s writing. I don’t think his ideas are realistic.]

These comments were translated back into China, causing some netizens to burst into laughter.

“Lu Ban hasn’t said anything yet, and people are already taking it personally. What kind of globalism is this, taking the blame? ”

“Hilarious, they say Lu Ban is ‘blackening’ them, but what did he actually do? He filmed a sequence where humans brutally persecute their own kind. What kind of Hellish joke is this?”

“So they think that they might actually do something like this in a Doomsday scenario? Scary!”

That evening, according to incomplete statistics gathered later, the insomnia rate among the audience who watched “Doomsday” had increased significantly compared to usual, with average sleep time reduced and sleep quality significantly worsened.

But the ones truly losing sleep were the self-media studios looking to ride the hype and the content creators in the film section.

If Lu Ban’s movie had been the usual straightforward type that simply scares people, it would have been better.

But now, the movie seems to convey complex ideas. What should they write about?

Everyone was waiting for the first article to set the tone, to see whether to praise or to blacken it inversely.

Finally, at around seven in the morning, a film-related public account posted an article.