Chapter 8: Time Loop (Asking for Recommendation Votes)
“Hey (hey)~”
“What's the matter with your head? Yeah~”
“Hey (hey)~”
“What's the matter with your mind and your sign? An-a oh-oh-oh~”
Familiar with music, like an invisible hand, pulled Roland out of the dream.
Although he had another night of dreaming, and it still came to an abrupt end at the most critical moment, at this moment, he did not indulge in illusion, but got up energetically and looked at the bedroom in front of him.
Last night, the comic book he held at the bedside was gone.
Instead, it was the alarm clock he threw into his study.
Pressing the pause button, he hurriedly got up, and with a nervous heart, Roland rushed into the study.
When he saw that the comic books he had moved back to his bedroom were now neatly arranged on the shelves......
An excited smile clinging to the face.
This should be his third New Year's Day.
He's like—
Entered a time loop.
The term time loop is not unfamiliar to Roland, who has watched thousands of movies and made nearly a thousand commentary videos: the classic movie "Groundhog Day" in 93 is the theme of time loop, the beginning of live-action movies, and then "Lola Run", "Source Code", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Horror Cruise", "Happy Death Day" just replaced the elements; This kind of theme has a wide impact on filmmakers and audiences. You know, even Christopher Nolan's pre-debut practice work "Doodlebug" is interpreting a permanent cycle that cannot be measured by time.
In addition, this setting also appears in Dian Niang's novels.
Roland's favorite author, Zhan Heitu, and the protagonist Guo Xiu, have such ability.
Of course, no matter what type of work it is, those protagonists will live the same day over and over again, and Roland feels that this is the case he is encountering now.
As for why it happened?
I guess it was the hammer that broke his waist before crossing and exerted a kind of magic on him, right?
As for his mood at the moment?
pinched his thigh, and the sudden pain couldn't suppress the smile on the corner of his mouth.
He sat upright and acted rightly, and the question of 'palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty glasses' could be answered even more correctly, and he had no shame in his heart that he had even accepted such a surreal thing as he had crossed it, even if there was an extra time loop now, could it be that he could still be scared to death?
Besides, at this moment, it's too late for him to be happy!
After reading so many works of time loops, Roland certainly understands how powerful this ability is!
In Dian Niang's novel "Legend of Tomorrow", Guo Xiu, who has the ability to loop time, finally went to play on T17 planet.
In the movie "Source Code", although Jack Gyllenhaal, the mystery man who once played with Heath Ledger the Clown with a broken back, did not have the E.D.I.T.H, which was derived from the two formations, he relied on an eight-minute infinite loop to regain his life, harvest love, and at the same time, he also easily dealt with terrorists and saved Chicago.
In "Edge of Tomorrow", although the omnipotent Ethan Hunter has become a vegetable cook, in this first-person shooter game, he cheated and got 300 lives, and finally cleared the level with blood, unlocked the second week, and also received a reward called the heroine.
As for "Groundhog Day", the originator of the time-loop live-action movie?
The radio host hadn't been lost in Tokyo with his widow sister at the time, and he was the closest protagonist to Roland because of his unsatisfactory life, but even so, this guy full of negative energy still learned a bunch of skills in the time loop, and became the most popular guy in the town, and finally succeeded in attacking the heroine and hugged the beauty.
I was a little excited when I thought that I was still a little kid who was troubled by inheritance tax and guardianship on December 31, and as soon as January 1 passed, he became the guy who could cast the Divine Sword and Thunder True Technique and explode the Seven Deadly Sins just by using the shazam slogan.
Afraid that you won't be able to dig out the treasure in your head?
With the superpower of time loop, he can learn the same knowledge as in the movie!
Even if he doesn't have the bonus of the black technology system, can't solve the Riemann conjecture, can't get controlled nuclear fusion, can't go to the moon, can't go to Mars, but he can always learn something else, right? There is such a big outlet as the Internet in front, and now start learning "From Deleting the Library to Running Away", and be a pig on the tuyere, it's no problem at all, right?
A treasure in your head, need money to dig up?
Sorry, but with the time loop, he can dig by hand, too!
"It's developed, it's developed, there's a time loop, what more bicycles!"
"Back to the old business? Entering the filming industry? ”
"Have you ever seen a guy who became the richest man filming?"
"Jack Ma, who has retired, is my target, okay?"
"After you have money, don't you pull the lineup of "Gong Shou Dao" casually?"
Roland hammered the table excitedly, he felt that his previous breakfast analysis, there was no problem.
It's right not to start at this age.
As for the refresh every other day in the time loop, the situation of rewinding and restarting?
He didn't have to worry about that.
When he was commenting on those movies, he directly pointed out the bugs in the time loop works to his fans-
No matter what type of work it is, as long as the protagonist is trapped in the time loop, they all have muscle memory, and the time loop can help them continue to improve, and there are no negative effects such as tiredness and aging, otherwise, the male protagonist in "Groundhog Day" will never learn the piano, and the fourth part of "Mission Impossible" will also be the swan song of the series.
Now, in fact, he only needs to think about one thing.
It's about figuring out how you can get out of the time loop before you start learning.
Life imprisonment was unacceptable to him.
Being stuck on the same day, even if you can try to do different things, after a long time, you will be sleepy.
What's more, wealth does not return to their hometown, such as a night walk in clothes.
The reason why people are willing to struggle is not because they want to live a better life on the basis of living?
And those things that embellish themselves are not envied by others in the end?
Desireless, desireless, that's a saint, but Roland, no!
If the improvements in the time loop were just for his own amusement, he'd rather not have this thing!
Thinking of this, Roland took a deep breath.
Leaving aside the excitement in his heart, staring at the paper and pen on the table, he had to think about how to break the time loop he was in.
If he'd been the first to encounter Time Loop, he'd probably have no clue.
But with the support of countless works, his thoughts are running fast.
"Happy Death Day" tells the story of the heroine who was killed on her birthday, and then resurrected back to her birthday, and when she found her murderer, she broke through the time loop."
"In "Lola Run", the heroine Lola keeps dying and starting over, she runs faster and faster every time, just to send life-saving money to her boyfriend, and in the end, she also has a good ending."
"Edge of Tomorrow and Source Code are even more obvious."
"These two movies are like playing games, as long as you complete the goal, you can leave the time loop."
"A typical feature of the time loop is that when a certain condition is not met on the character's body, the loop will start again, and the previous memories and efforts will be retained, and as long as the goal is completed, the loop can be exited......"
"If that's the case, the condition that drives me to cycle should be what I lack the most."
"What am I missing?"
"Lack of start-up capital?"
"No...... right"
"The time loop does not retain foreign objects, so money will definitely not be a condition for the cycle to be opened."
"And what am I missing?"
"Knowledge?"
"No, knowledge is an unquantifiable thing, it can't be a judgment target, even if I learn "From Deleting the Library to Running Away", it doesn't prove that I have fully mastered this thing, and I can write all kinds of software ...... in the future."
"If I get rid of these illusory things, what else have I wanted lately?"
"Elizabeth?"
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
"If the time loop can make her grow, then I'm afraid I'll have to die in it."
"Since this target will not be a real object, nor an undefinable skill, nor a living person, then all that has plagued me these days is dreams......"
Roland, who was muttering to himself, said this, and immediately realized that something was wrong.
The analytic voice came to an abrupt end.
Ben was still excited about being caught in a time loop, but now he was confused.
With the accumulation of experience in his previous life, of course he can easily prove the answer, but-
The condition for exiting the cycle turned out to be to replace Macaulay Culkin and become the protagonist of Home Alone?
Hold the grass –
Let him get rid of the protagonist who has already been decided?
No matter how you think about this kind of thing, it's impossible!