Chapter 13: Movies

When the glasses took Nataya to the room where Stoy lived, Nataya was even more convinced that the so-called holographic movie must not be a good thing...

The cramped room was littered with bare computer mainframes, and the various signal lights that staggered back and forth seemed a bit psychedelic in the dark room, but that wasn't the reason for Nataya's rejection of holographic films.

When Nataya saw a back in the far corner of the room, it was a stilted back in front of a computer desk with nine screens, staring at various scantily clad men and women, the most conspicuous being the red cockscomb hairstyle.

She wanted to turn around and leave.

If it weren't for the insistence of the glasses, Nataya really wouldn't want to stay here for a minute, and the cockscomb head man would not be reliable no matter how he looks at it.

"Where did you pick up the little beauty, are you going to make a film again?" Cockscomb saw Rasotov walk in with a strange girl, and happily looked Nataya up and down.

"The quality this time is good, it should be the highest ever, what do you want to shoot~" Cockscomb rubbed his hands extremely happily, and he didn't know where to drag out two chairs.

The glasses were a little embarrassed, but he found that Nataya couldn't understand what the cockscomb was saying at all, and thinking about it, she didn't even seem to have seen a holographic movie, and he was suddenly much more relieved.

"Don't give me nonsense, talk nonsense to me again, be careful that I stop your studio's funding!" The glasses made a gesture of waving at the cockscomb head, and the cockscomb head took advantage of the situation to hold his chest and stumbled, "Ah... My boss~~ You promised me that none of the big productions you promised back then were fulfilled~ You're going to kill people and lose your salary~~~"

There is no way to take the cockscomb head with the glasses, so I can only take out an information memory and hand it to the cockscomb head, "You take a look at this first"

When Cockscomb opened the video material, he didn't watch it for a minute, and the ruffian-like smile on his face disappeared. "Oh, oh my God... The props are so real that you can't see any post-production flaws" Cockscomb hungrily segmented the files onto nine screens in front of him, each of which began to enter rapid playback.

"He... What can be seen in this way ... Nataya asked her glasses strangely, because she was struggling to even look at a screen at the moment...

"Don't worry... Stoy is extremely sensitive to visual materials, he once used a month's monitoring of the warehouse, browsed and analyzed the internal theft in three hours... He is an absolute genius at this ... It's a pity that it's not in the right place," Rasotov said with a sigh as he put his right hand on his glasses.

Nataya was still incredulous, and continued to look back at the screens, at this time all the pictures were already playing near the end, and suddenly the cockscomb jumped up and shouted loudly, "These materials are not post-production, these things are alive!" I couldn't do it to this extent in the later stage, and I could even see the same grasshopper repeating itself in four days! ”

"Ahem... Yes... These materials are all real information, and the girl in front of you, whose power armor has taken a picture of the "glasses" begins to introduce the provider of these materials to the cockscomb.

"This is Nana, a federal soldier. This is Stoy, responsible for the content production for all of our promotional work... Before Rasotov could finish speaking, Stoy rushed over and grabbed Nataya's hand.

"Tell me, what kind of movie do you want to make! It's the best material I've ever seen in my life, so dark, so close to death, so real! There is so much time left for such footage to edit a two- to three-hour holographic movie, which will definitely make those who look down on me completely fall at my feet!! ”

Nataya was stunned, now Stoy's eyes are flashing, and his face is engraved with seriousness, which is completely different from the hippie smiling riffraff just now, if it weren't for the red vertical hair, the Stoy that Nataya feels at the moment is completely a promising young man who is extremely eager to succeed...

"Then ... Make a holographic movie that's scary enough... We want to use this to get the people of Latour Mine to take the initiative to cooperate with our retreat, because the things you see should not be far from here... ”

"No problem, delivery tomorrow!" The cockscomb didn't pay attention to the two of them, and returned directly to the screen, quickly entering the working state.

In the afternoon of the next day, the cockscomb head went to the temporary command headquarters with a black eye, raised a storage device at Rasotov, and said loudly: "In the information you gave me, there is a song that sings really well, and I will use it too, let's go, let everyone come and see this special holographic movie!! ~”

Looking at the back of Stoy excitedly rushing to the square, Rasotov shook his head helplessly and said to Nataya, "Let's go, take you to the movies... ”

The Ministry of Migration Mobilization, which had been notified yesterday, had already made the people and pirates at the Latour mine wait under the trapezoidal pyramid early. The survivors of these Latu mines are staring at the holographic screen in the sky.

When the bright lights on the square gradually dimmed, the picture slowly appeared on the huge screen:

"Warning!"

"Under federal law, unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or public display of copyrighted cinematographic works is subject to severe civil or criminal sanctions, and the FBI investigates complaints of copyright infringement."

The glasses waved and slapped Stoy on the back of the head, "What kind of federal copyright did you come from... ”

Then, against the backdrop of a mournful music, a shot gradually pulled up from the ground, allowing everyone to see the scorched earth on the ground first, then a pair of rotten feet gradually recorded, and then the whole body.

Then the camera is still rising, and more corpses appear on the ground, and the camera is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more corpses... A large wasteland, all the way to the skyline, is full of dense rotting corpses...

"Where did this paragraph come from? . . . Nataya's memory doesn't seem to have seen such a scene... There are a pile of zombies on the street corner, but there is no such a vast scene.

"Well, this is art, I used the scene in "Alien Crisis" to slightly render it, but the corpses on the ground are all from your video materials, this is for the grandeur of the opening~"

"Pop" glasses hit the back of the head again. "Said a hundred times, be truthful ... You're playing fake at the beginning! The cockscomb head is also anxious: "Do you know art!" Artistic expression needs foreshadowing, atmosphere, and rendering! ”

At this time, a background baritone came from the holographic screen, "What you see today is the real picture left by sacrificing 430,000 lives of Laupa, and we will show you a nightmare that just happened around you"

At this time, a few big characters typed "Ten Days of Life and Death", and then a huge locust-like insect pierced its front paws out of the picture and cut the subtitles with the title.

"Wow~~~~" The people in the square were startled by the sudden appearance of the huge locust, and even Nataya, who saw this scene, was called back to that desperate night...

Then there are the various escapes from the first-person perspective, from the settlement to the wasteland, from the desert to the gravel beach, the countless times you are almost caught by the jumping worm with its strong hind legs, and the jet xenomorph that shoots out huge bone spurs.

When flying insects began to appear in the sky, everyone in the audience sweated until the camera rushed into the underground river, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The later scene is the protagonist's perspective into the settlement.,The quiet and uninhabited neighborhood is hairy.,And then I find that all the people have turned into zombies.,Overwhelmingly rushing towards the protagonist.。。。 Many young girls are blindfolded in fear.

As the protagonist's perspective enters the mining company, and after getting on the spaceship, the camera zooms up,

Only then did everyone see the full picture of Laupastar:

The blackened land, the huge insect tide, the overwhelming aliens and insect swarms...

Just as this desperate image appeared, a group of energy attack beams broke it all.

Countless starships sprayed with the logo of the Third Fleet appeared in the picture, they fought hard to attack the lair of those disgusting creatures on the ground, and those alien monsters also launched a crazy counterattack, the crowd watched the familiar X-wing continue to fall, and even the huge starship was falling from the sky with explosive fire and smoke in the entanglement...

The scene of the battle faded away, and a portrait of a soldier wearing a mask appeared on the screen.

"This is a real invasion of Laupa, and we hope that all the people of the Laupa mining area who have seen this video will take your families and go to Kannada, where there is the only access to the Federation!"

"The Third Fleet is doing its best to stop the invasion, and it is the fate of soldiers to die in battle, but it makes sense to die!

We are willing to die for our parents, for our wives and children, because they are all here. ”

After a military salute of "snap", the picture darkened, and finally a sentence appeared

"Live and don't let our heroes die in vain"

When the picture freezes here, the song that Nataya hums floats out, "Twinkle and twinkle... This gentle singing voice forms a huge contrast with the tragedy at the end of the whole video, but this singing voice is like a magic force, bringing everyone back to the picture of peace and tranquility again.

The song was played for a long time at the end of the film, and all the people who had just watched the movie had not come back to their senses, until an old man yelled "Listen to them, get out of here!" As long as we're all gone, they won't have to drag those monsters desperately! ”

"Let's go, my son is still in the fleet, hurry up!" "These monsters are terrible... It's terrible" The square buzzed, and everyone was shocked by what they had just seen... If it weren't for the fact that they saw those officials running away with their families and the various messages they kept receiving these days, they would think that it was just a holographic movie and a novel first-person commercial blockbuster.

But all kinds of evidence seem to suggest that this is indeed true ...

"Who is this masked man in the end! This military salute is too crooked! The glasses were slapped out again, but Stoy caught them. Nonsense, you went to a military school, I haven't been a soldier for a day, where do you want me to find extras in the middle of the night, don't pick! The cockscomb looked angrily at Rasotov.

"You... You've done awesome... Nataya didn't react to it herself, this holographic movie editing is so exciting, in just two or three hours, all kinds of nine deaths and life, I feel a hundred times more terrible than what I have experienced.

"Okay, it seems that the migration plan should not be a problem, but where to go is a problem. You're a Union soldier, we're pirates, you can go to Kannada, we can't. ”

The glasses walked in front, and without looking back, he said as he walked to the temporary command center.

"Where to go..." Nataya froze, it wasn't a problem for her at all, and she had never thought of going anywhere other than Kannada. When it comes to the final destination, probably the only place she wants to go is to get out of the Laupa mine alive, and then make a detour to the Char Star District to find Brother Salami, but... Nataya looked at her slender arm and sighed helplessly...

How do you explain this to him... Growing up isn't necessarily all good.

The two of them walked away together with dark circles under their eyes.

Where they had just stood, the air fluctuated almost invisibly, and then calmed again.

"Identity confirmed, Target 2 survived, Target 1 disappeared."