Chapter 155: Unparalleled

Chapter 155: Unparalleled

Chapter 155: Unparalleled (2)

The spacious screening room was silent, with only the background music and dialogue from the speakers echoing in the huge space.

Everyone present stared at the big screen with bated breath, without blinking, completely captivated by the storyline and immersed in this feast of "The Unparalleled".

At this time on the big screen, Li Wen, who had come into contact with the "painter" William, after several days of hesitation and confusion, finally chose to break up with Ruan Wen, joined the "painter" William's team, and boarded a plane to Hong Kong.

In this way, the entire counterfeit money team was completely formed. They came to a factory located in the deep mountains and forests, turned it into a base, and worked hard to make US dollars that looked most like real money.

As the cheerful background music sounded, Li Wen also demonstrated his value enough to be "recruited" by the painter himself.

Because the patterns on the banknotes would show moiré when scanned by machines, he and Uncle Xin from his team hand-painted the first version of the U.S. dollar bills stroke by stroke.

The audience was all surprised when they saw the enlarged version of the counterfeit banknotes that were almost identical to the real ones.

Is this something that humans can do? Can you draw a fake bill that looks exactly like a U.S. dollar bill just by hand drawing?

Even Wan Qian, who was sitting next to Wang Hao, was surprised. Although she also starred in this movie, she did not have many roles, so she did not know that this part of the plot would exist before.

“Is this really drawn by a human?”

"Of course," Wang Hao answered with a smile while looking at the big screen after hearing her question: "Although this was not painted by Aaron Kwok on the spot, the hand stand-in we found is from CAFA. They do have the technology. After a period of practice, they can paint exactly the same, without any difference."

Just as they were talking in low voices, the "painter" team in the movie started an argument over a bet on whether a painting was real or fake.

At this time, Li Wen also joined in, looking at the painting and said:
“Traditional Chinese painting mounters have a skill that allows them to peel back the layers of an ink painting, and they can peel back three layers depending on the thickness of the rice paper.

The top painters can paint so clearly that even if they peel off three layers, each layer will be almost identical.

This layer of ink is lighter, it should be the bottom layer."

Just after Li Wen finished explaining the situation of this ancient painting, the "painter" William who was sitting next to him suddenly shouted and stood up with three banknotes in his hand.

“Hey, I figured it out!

The watermark on banknotes is a pattern pressed out by a wire roller during the papermaking process, before the paper pulp solidifies.

When the pulp solidifies, the pattern remains in the middle of the paper and becomes a watermark.

If we make the watermark first, then sandwich it with two pieces of paper, and press the three pieces into one, we can create the effect of a banknote watermark."

As William spoke, he overlapped the three banknotes in his hand to demonstrate his idea to them.

Uncle Xin was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately slammed the table and said excitedly:

“What a genius! Even the security thread can be inserted.

Ha, Chinese girl, open the champagne! "

Everyone in the counterfeit money team smiled, happy that they had solved a difficult problem in making counterfeit money.

Next, under the leadership of Uncle Xin, Li Wen began to make electronic plates for printing based on the counterfeit banknotes they drew.

During this process, Uncle Xin's narration and every step of making the electronic version were presented to the audience.

"Do you know what is the most important thing about making electronic versions?"

"precise."

"How accurate does it have to be?"

“One thousandth of a millimeter.”

"enough?"

“One ten-thousandth of a millimeter.”

"That's not enough. We want to give it the original flavor of U.S. dollars."

“Chemical reactions and optical principles can all be measured, but platemaking requires a sense of the original.”

"How strong should the water flow be? How hot should the fire be? All of these require flexibility based on the changes in the materials.

The purpose is to restore the flavor of the pattern image.”

Along with this series of operations, the audience seemed to have become a member of the counterfeit money gang and personally participated in the criminal activities, thus creating a peculiar sense of excitement.

After the electrotype was completed, they traveled to Eastern Europe and bought an intaglio printing machine specifically used for making banknotes from equipment auctioned by the local government.

That left them with only the acid-free paper and color-shifting ink needed to make counterfeit banknotes.

These two things are special materials controlled by the government and ordinary people cannot get them at all.

Fortunately, the "painter" William is not an ordinary person. He discovered that the raw materials that could not be used up in printing money were actually made into an address book by the US Communications Agency.

With this discovery, he took Li Wen with him and successfully bought the acid-free paper.

So, with the sound of exciting music, the gravure printing machine started up, and the acid-free paper entered the machine along the roller. The next second, brand new US dollar bills that were enough to make countless people's eyes red and their breathing heavy were printed out continuously.

It is said that money is a devil that can drive people crazy. Perhaps many people do not believe this, but when they see the banknotes being printed on the big screen as if they were free, a bold idea emerges in everyone's mind.

This doesn't seem that difficult.

However, these banknotes have not yet reached their perfect state, and now "all that's missing is the color-changing ink."

How to deal with this thing?
There is no other way, just one word: grab!

So the shooting murder case that the police told Li Wen at the beginning of the film that happened on a Canadian highway appeared in front of everyone.

Led by "Painter" William, the counterfeit money gang attacked a convoy that specialized in transporting color-changing ink and seized the color-changing ink.

During this process, the cruelty and madness of the "painter" William once again shocked everyone, including the audience in the screening room.

It turns out that making counterfeit money is not as easy as they had imagined before.

Because of this crazy robbery in Canada and the prevalence of counterfeit money around the world after the team obtained color-changing ink, the "Painter" team finally began to be valued by Interpol. In the process, the crazy killing behavior of the "Painter" also aroused Li Wen's disgust and rejection.

However, during a transaction with a local warlord in the Golden Triangle, Li Wen accidentally discovered that the car paint on the roadside was very similar to color-changing ink, and he used this to develop a special pigment that could replace the color-changing ink.

It was also here that the second female lead Wu Xiuqing, played by Wan Qian, finally appeared and met Li Wen.

It's a pity that their meeting was not a good thing, because in the subsequent transaction between the counterfeit money team and the warlord, the warlord was too ambitious and actually wanted to control the "painters" and make them help him make counterfeit money.

Painter William would naturally not agree to such an unreasonable request.

So with his shout of "let go", Li Wen let go of the bomb remote control in his hand.

next second.

boom!
The gusts of air and flames created by the car explosion interrupted the confrontation between the "painter" William and the warlord, and also opened the prelude to the second major scene of the film.

On the big screen, Liam Neeson plays the "painter" William, holding two guns, agile and moving among the hail of bullets. Explosions are his background, blood is his medal, and recklessness and arrogance have become his best annotations.

As a veteran Hollywood star, Liam Neeson has previously played the Ninja Master in "Batman", a character with extremely strong combat power.

Therefore, his performance on the big screen at this time can be said to have brought that identity into the film, and there seemed to be no sense of incongruity. He showed the power of the "painter" to the fullest, and every shot he fired would take away an enemy.

He was clearly just one person, but at this moment he seemed to have transformed into a hero on the battlefield. He could easily fight against a hundred people alone and suppressed all the warlords' subordinates.

The sound of gunfire, explosions and shouts were deafening, adding a touch of blockbuster color to the slightly bland plot above.

What kind of crime movie is it without explosions and gunfights? That's right!

The audience at the scene was delighted and said it was exciting.

Li Wenke, who was actually at the battle scene on the big screen, was in big trouble. He was frightened by the exciting scene and hid in the corner of the house, watching in horror as the "painter" killed everyone.

Although the "painter" was very skilled, he was alone after all and was in the enemy's territory. Faced with the enemy's endless stream of subordinates, he soon found himself in a situation where he could not cope with the situation alone.

Fortunately, since he dared to do this job, "painter" William was not without any preparation.

Soon, several rockets flew out from the dense forests surrounding the warlord's residence and landed among the surrounding militiamen, causing huge flames and disrupting their encirclement formation.

Following closely behind were several members of the counterfeit money gang, driving two jeep armored vehicles with welded iron plates. They rushed into the base like bulls, knocking down countless enemies and houses that blocked the way, and drove all the way to the "Painter" and Li Wen, helping them win the conflict.

And after leaving behind a violent explosion and a field of corpses and debris, he left in a cool manner.

Of course, during the process of leaving, Li Wen was kind enough to save the second female lead Xiuqing, played by Wan Qian.

Afterwards, their team rested in the Golden Triangle for a while, and then returned to Hong Kong to resume their old business.

However, their increasingly arrogant behavior has caused quite a stir. The Canadian police and Interpol are also stepping up their pursuit of them, and have also contacted the Hong Kong police. Joint law enforcement efforts in multiple locations are tightening the hunt for the "painter" team.

It was at this time that Uncle Xin violated industry rules and used counterfeit banknotes he printed himself to buy an antique clock in Canada, and then brought it back to Hong Kong and put it in his antique shop.

Because of their momentary greed and fluke mentality, the Canadian police followed the clues and actually found Uncle Xin.

However, the "painter" had been immersed in this business for a long time after all, and he noticed something was wrong in advance. After discovering that Uncle Xin had violated the rules, he immediately decided to move to another place.

And in the process, he also followed the industry rules and killed Uncle Xin regardless of their years of friendship. He shocked his subordinates with his cold-bloodedness and ruthlessness, and also shocked the audience in front of the big screen.

Perhaps in the previous plot, Liam Neeson relied on his acting skills and the personal charm of "painter" William, which made the audience feel a certain empathy for him and worship him as a hero.

Then as Uncle Xin, the subordinate who had helped him countless times, was killed by him, and as Liao Qizhi used his superb acting skills to show the tragedy and pity of the character, the audience suddenly woke up and suddenly realized.

A criminal is a criminal. No matter how charismatic the "painter" is, he is still a desperado who kills without blinking an eye and is not worthy of admiration or sympathy.

In the movie, with the death of Uncle Xin and the change of the counterfeit money production location, the police also lost the clues they had worked so hard to obtain.

As for the counterfeit money team, after moving to Thailand, they did not stop and continued to engage in illegal activities, and there was a trend of expanding again.

But the net of heaven is vast and long, and nothing can escape it.

After all, Li Wen couldn't let go of his old lover Ruan Wen, especially after he knew that she had married a financial practitioner in Shanghai. He felt like he had lost his soul and was no longer alive.

In order to boost the morale of his subordinates and to make up for the mistake of separating Li Wen and Ruan Wen because of his bringing Li Wen into the gang, "Painter" William was actually kind-hearted and gave part of the stolen money to Ruan Wen's husband Ma Chenggong to manage, asking him to help launder it into normal funds.

It seemed that by doing so, Li Wen and Ruan Wen would be able to establish a new connection again.

The specific effect of this operation is still unknown, but when Ma Chenggong from "Fatal Call" appeared on the big screen again and shook hands with the "painter" William and Li Wen, a series of laughter rang out at the scene, as if Xu Zheng's appearance was inherently funny.

However, it was this kind of emotional operation that brought them disaster.

Following the incident involving a certain Mr. Zhao, the Chinese police arrested Ma Chenggong, and the "painter" gang finally surfaced and was caught by the police.

After obtaining some intelligence information shared by the Chinese police, Interpol and the Canadian police took action again, using fake transactions to set up a dragnet for the "painter" gang.

It's a pity that this arrest operation ultimately failed. Although several members of the counterfeit money gang were killed, the "painter" killed the JC who arrested them and eventually escaped with the remaining subordinates.

However, not long after escaping the pursuit, because he was dissatisfied with the "painter's" cruel and crazy behavior, Li Wen finally joined several other gangs in a fight with the "painter", and temporarily got rid of the painter and went into hiding.

Under such circumstances, Li Wen only needed to continue hiding under an assumed name, and maybe he could really escape legal sanctions.

But the dramatic situation is that when the Canadian police conducted fake transactions with them, they also mixed some of the counterfeit currency they made into the transaction money.

When they fled, they took the transaction funds with them.

As a counterfeit money gang, the industry rule is that they cannot use counterfeit money they make, so when they go out, they use the real money from the Canadian police.

Unexpectedly, it was these counterfeit banknotes sandwiched among the real ones that exposed Li Wen and led to his arrest by the Thai police, which led to the scene at the beginning of the film.

This is truly a tit-for-tat. If Li Wen had not helped the "painter" to make the counterfeit money so real that he himself was careless and did not notice it, he would not have fallen into this trap.

However, when the story developed to this point, some careful viewers of the movie noticed something wrong.

It looked like the movie was almost over, so how come only three quarters of the time had passed?
(End of this chapter)