Chapter 383: The Center of the Earth

Chapter 383: The Center of the Earth

Chapter 383: The Center of the Earth

Whoosh~bang!
Brilliant fireworks exploded in the sky above the outskirts of Shangjing, heralding the arrival of the new year and bringing a hint of the New Year atmosphere to the deserted Oriental Galaxy Film City Industrial Park.

As a newcomer who has only been working in the industrial park company under the Galaxy Group's [Asset Management Business Group] for half a year and just graduated from a well-known 985 university with a major in business management, Li Sinian did not go home this Spring Festival.

On the one hand, his hometown is in Guizhou. Although the Spring Festival holiday for Galaxy Group is not short, it is really troublesome to travel back and forth, and it is not easy to get tickets during the New Year.

On the other hand, the Galaxy Group offers triple wages for those on duty during the New Year holidays, and you can also take a day off after the holiday. This is a very good deal for Li Sinian, who just graduated from school and is short of money.

And since his girlfriend is a native of Beijing, he won’t be lonely here during the Spring Festival.

On the night of New Year's Eve, Li Sinian had a New Year's Eve dinner with his girlfriend and her family. After chatting for a while, he became a little restless.

There is no other reason. The elders want to watch the Spring Festival Gala. However, since last year, that is, in 12, Uncle Benshan announced his farewell to the Spring Festival Gala stage, this scheduled program for the New Year has not been so attractive.

Li Sinian reached out and touched his girlfriend Liu Yun's arm, signaled with his eyes, and the young couple made up an excuse and left home.

"I have to stay at home tonight to celebrate the New Year, so I can't spend the night at your place." Liu Yun held Li Sinian's hand and followed him down the stairs like a little wife.

The Galaxy Group arranges dormitories for every employee, including new recruits and even interns. Not only are the prices cheaper than renting houses outside, but different room types are also allocated based on the employees' personal family situations. Employees can also apply for adjustments if they get married or have children.

After Li Sinian joined the company, he was assigned a single dormitory with one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom and a small balcony. Liu Yun had also been to his place. Sometimes when she worked overtime late and didn't want to go home, it was normal for her to stay at Li Sinian's place.

"What are you thinking about all day long?" Li Sinian glanced at his girlfriend and joked, "Didn't I feed you enough yesterday at noon?"

Liu Yunxiu punched him, and Li Sinian took out the new flagship phone launched by OPPO not long ago from the pocket of his down jacket. It was endorsed by Leonardo and was said to be the world's thinnest smartphone Find5.

"The company gave out movie tickets as a New Year's benefit. I asked for two. And the movie happens to premiere tonight, so why don't we go watch a movie?"

Li Sinian showed his girlfriend the account information of his own Tao Piao.com, and the movie displayed on it was "Gravity".

"Going to the movies on New Year's Eve?" Liu Yun pouted, a little dissatisfied. "Who would do this? Don't want the cinema to be deserted. And this seems to be a science fiction movie, can it be good?"

As a girl, Liu Yun is not very interested in science fiction. She prefers music and is also following a Korean idol boy band.

"It must be good," Li Sinian said proudly, "This is a science fiction film directed by our chairman. The movie Inception that I showed you before was also directed by him. This is his new movie."

Unlike his girlfriend, Li Sinian is a real science fiction fan, otherwise he would not have stayed in Beijing after graduation and chose to join the Galaxy Group.

The young couple walked out of the corridor while talking. When they came outside, they found that even on New Year's Eve, there were still many people on the streets.

Everybody was wearing new clothes and had bright smiles on their faces. With the red lanterns hung on the surrounding streets and the posted wedding characters and couplets, the atmosphere was particularly festive at the end of the year.

"There are still so many people outside on New Year's Eve." Liu Yun couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the scene.

Li Sinian smiled and said, "Maybe they are just like us. The Spring Festival Gala is getting less and less interesting. Instead of sitting in front of the TV, why not do some other entertainment?"

"So we're going to the movies?"

Liu Yun got into the car, fastened her seat belt, and started the engine.

"Which theater are you going to? Can you still buy tickets now?"

Li Sinian opened the Tao Piao Piao APP on his phone and said, "Let me take a look..."

"The cinema near your home is sold out, but there are still some tickets for the midnight show."

"Nothing will work at midnight."

"Then let's go to this Wanda Cinema. Although it's a bit far, there are still seats available."

Li Sinian turned on the navigation on his mobile phone, and Liu Yun drove the car. Fortunately, it was New Year's Eve, so there were not many cars on the road, and the two arrived at their destination quickly.

They parked the car in the underground parking lot, went to the cinema, scanned the code from the ticket machine to get the tickets, and soon they walked into the screening room.

"Hey, there were quite a few people watching this movie on New Year's Eve!"

There were about 10 minutes left before the movie started, but Liu Yun saw that the seats in the screening room were almost full.

"Well, the attendance rate is estimated to be 80%."

Li Sinian nodded, and seeing that most of the people who came to watch Gravity were young people like them, he smiled and said:

"I guess he feels the same as us, that the Spring Festival Gala is boring."

The two found their seats, sat down, put on their 3D glasses, and after waiting for a while, the movie officially began.

As usual, it was a planet collision animation from the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" series, followed by a title scene of astronauts boarding the plane and the Shenzhou rocket launching.

At this stage, introductions to the leading actors of several movies, as well as information about related producers, were also released one by one.

After the opening introduction, the movie got into the main topic, and the blue earth was directly "shot" in 3D form on the faces of Liu Yun, Li Sinian and others.

"Wow!"

All the audience couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The blue ocean, the white cloud cyclones, and the land, everything is so real and so clear.

Such a sudden scene in this dark screening room even gave Li Sinian and the others an illusion, as if they were really in space, gazing at the earth from afar.

Accompanied by a voice-over introduction, the male protagonist Zhang Hongyi played by Zhang Hanyu and Cheng Xin played by Jing Tian also appeared on the big screen.

The two men were wearing new space suits with the Chinese flag on them. They were performing maintenance on a satellite and chatting casually. Against the backdrop of space, everything seemed so quiet and peaceful, as if this was just an ordinary mission.

However, the turning point soon came. "Shenzhou, this is Jiuquan."

The voice of the ground command center sounded in the communication channel.

"Shenzhou received, please speak."

“Just received a report from the Space Force Command that a North American satellite made an error in its orbit change and collided with another Russian satellite, creating a large amount of debris that is orbiting at a speed of 20,000 miles per hour.

The orbit of the debris does not overlap with yours at the moment, but we still recommend that you end your space operations ahead of schedule and return to the spacecraft. We will notify you of any subsequent progress."

"Received, Command Center."

Captain Zhang Hongyi responded and then gave the order to call it a day.

"Will there be danger, Captain?" Cheng Xin, played by Jing Tian, ​​asked worriedly.

"That's hard to say," Zhang Hongyi explained within the scope of his own knowledge. "Theoretically, the orbital range of outer space is very wide. Even if there are debris, the probability of collision with us is extremely low."

As he spoke, he paused.

"Unless someone calculated the orbital data specifically for this, it's no better than your chance of winning the lottery."

"Then I feel relieved." Cheng Xin smiled, "After all, I haven't won the lottery yet."

Zhang Hongyi did not laugh. Even after the communication channel was changed, the tone of his voice still sounded serious.

"We can't let our guard down. The international situation is not stable. We are also shouldering a heavy responsibility when we go up to the sky this time. We can't guarantee that some people won't get the news and do something."

After hearing this, Cheng Xin was silent for a moment, then raised her head, looked at the blue planet above her head, and said with a rather compassionate expression:
"The universe is so vast and beautiful, why can't we put aside our prejudices, unite and work together to develop outward instead of being trapped in internal strife?"

“It’s not the universe that is beautiful, it’s our Earth that is beautiful!”

Captain Zhang Hongyi directly refuted: "This is not heaven. There are many dangers in space. Silence, cold, radiation, vacuum and other problems always exist. This is your first time in space. Don't be fooled by its appearance. You must always maintain awe of it."

Zhang Hongyi kept talking and lecturing to newcomers like Cheng Xin.

As an old astronaut who has carried out countless space missions, he was naturally not happy with the top management for letting a newcomer like Cheng Xin who had not received much training go into space.

However, the country's aerospace industry is gradually developing, the construction of Tiangong-2 space station has been completed, and the construction of Tiangong-3 space station is about to begin. At this time, talents from all walks of life are needed to participate in it.

For example, Cheng Xin, who is a PhD in aviation equipment research and development, is a high-end academic talent. Naturally, she passed the layers of screening and entered space.

While the two were talking, another companion, Zhang Beihai, played by Liu Huohua, had already begun to greet them and prepare to carry out the mission of returning to the warehouse.

Unlike Cheng Xin, this officer who transferred from the navy to the space department is a reserve officer of the space force that China is about to establish. His main purpose of going to space this time is to experience the real situation in space so as to improve the deployment and strategic research of the space force.

The three people floating around the spacecraft and the satellite were floating slowly towards the space capsule door. However, at this moment, the voice from the ground command center sounded again.

The camera here is directed to the interior of the Chinese ground command center. In the modern command hall, red and yellow lights have begun to flash frequently, and the rapid sound of "beep beep" has pushed the tense atmosphere of the movie to a higher level.

The subordinates reported the current situation to the leaders of the aerospace department in the hall. With the help of the demonstration animation on the huge display, the audience realized that the shattered satellite fragments had hit other satellites in orbit, triggering a series of chain reactions and producing more new satellite debris, forming a more dangerous space junk storm.

Everything seemed to be just a pure coincidence, but a certain military officer named Zhang, played by Director Zhang, frowned and asked, "Is it really a coincidence?"

Upon hearing this, the technician carefully checked the data and finally nodded, saying that according to calculations, this development was indeed just an accident.

After all, given the vast area of ​​outer space, the probability of causing a chain reaction through precise calculations that would affect Chinese spacecraft is not much greater than stirring up waves at the seaside that would affect ships on the other side of the ocean.

Just as the ground command center was urgently reporting, tense and rapid music sounded at the same time, and the picture returned to space.

Cheng Xin and the captain have increased their speed, but being in space and in a state of weightlessness, many actions are not as easy to accomplish as on the ground.

Just when a few people completed the separation of the space capsule and the satellite, danger arrived as expected.

The audience followed the actor's line of sight and suddenly a few small dots appeared against the dark and deep background of the space orbit.

Then in the next second, countless satellite debris, large and small, came towards the audience in the theater through the movie screen like a storm.

Many viewers were shocked by the realistic 3D effects, and the disaster faced by Cheng Xin and others had just begun.

Those satellite debris fragments looked light, but when they hit Wang Hao and his crew's space capsule and spacecraft, they could easily tear off a piece or even smash them to pieces.

These fragments then burst forth, and continued to attack other larger capsule components, thereby creating more new, smaller fragments.

"what!"

Suddenly faced with such a crisis, Cheng Xin, the little girl who was going to space for the first time, was the first to scream. Although she was lucky not to be hit by the debris storm, she was still tumbling in the space because of the safety rope on her body.

This kind of rolling is different from the one on the ground. It is more like rolling in the sea with no support and making irregular 360° rotations in all directions.

The fast-moving surroundings, coupled with Cheng Xin's clear heavy breathing in the speakers, made the audience in the theater seem to fall into fear at that moment.

As Cheng Xin unbuckled the buckle around her waist, she was immediately thrown out, getting farther and farther away from the remaining wreckage of the space capsule, like a drop in the ocean. When a person is floating in the lonely and vast space, the feeling of fear becomes more prominent.

Liu Yun, who was watching a movie, almost subconsciously held her boyfriend's right hand, and her breathing was in sync with Jing Tian's in the movie.

There has never been a movie that can give the audience such an immersive feeling, and there has never been a movie that can make the audience have such a real sense of horror.

This is a new era of illusion magic created by the collaboration of many elements including 3D, light and shadow, music, and plot.

(End of this chapter)