Chapter 420 The Origin of Virtual Games
Chapter 420 The Origin of Virtual Games
After the first post-credits Easter egg of "Transcendence", the shock given to the audience has not yet ended. When the subtitles scroll to the 2/3 stage, the second Easter egg begins again.
This easter egg opens on a dark night, with an inconspicuous car parked in front of Dr. Ma Zhao’s house in Shanghai.
Shi Qiang, looking tired, got out of the car, looked at the house in front of him, rubbed his temples, greeted his colleagues on duty at the door, then reached out to open the door and walked in.
The room was naturally empty, except for a life support capsule in the bedroom which was still powered on with a green light flashing, trying to keep the elderly person inside alive.
Shi Qiang hurriedly walked forward to check and saw that the old man was Dr. Ma. However, he was now haggard and pale, and it was obvious that he was dead.
Fortunately, Shi Qiang checked the life support module panel and saw the record showing that Dr. Ma had just passed away not long ago.
This made him breathe a sigh of relief, and he quickly took out the dream helmet he carried with him, plugged a part of the interface into the life-support capsule, and then, under the protection of his colleagues, he put on the helmet, lay down casually on the carpet, and immediately fell asleep.
In the pure white dream room, as soon as Shi Qiang entered, he saw Dr. Ma smiling at him.
"You are here as expected, Captain Shi."
"Doctor!" Shi Qiang also called out, then looked around and asked, "Did you know I was coming?"
"Of course," Dr. Ma nodded. "Although I may be dead when you see me, you participated in the source code project, and with Captain Zhang Ying's hint, you should be able to remember this technology."
"What do you want to tell me?" Shi Qiang asked immediately.
Just as Dr. Ma said, he had guessed on the way back to Shanghai that the doctor must have something to tell him, so he deliberately left the information in his own body, and also left it in his own dream to prevent others from knowing it.
Dr. Ma nodded and said:
"As for the crystal wall I left for you, it contains purified life spiritual data. You can think of it as a seed that has not been contaminated by acquired data information. It is a new, blank, and safer digital life."
"Is she your daughter?" Shi Qiang asked.
Ma Zhao shook his head.
“It can be considered as the last trace of Ali left in this world. It is also a little help she provided for the research of digital life, and it is also compensation for the mistakes she made.
That thing needs to be used together with the ancient bronze sacred tree that I showed you before. There is a groove on the tree. The two work together, and combined with the dream-entering technology, a piece of 'virtual pure land' can be opened up in the network data world.
Of course, you can also call it "the underworld", "the sacred mountain", "the blessed land", or even "heaven" or "the Garden of Eden", whatever you want to call it.
Anyway, it is a virtual world that provides shelter and living space for digital life, and it can also serve as the basis for building a giant dream world.
This can be regarded as an extension of my previous research direction. The giant virtual dream space is also a solution I developed to solve the survival problem of digital life.
Establish a large virtual dream world, allowing humans to enter this giant public dream through dream-entering devices, experience another life, start a new life, and at the same time communicate and interact with the digital life inside and visit their deceased relatives.
The life energy and spiritual energy released by living people when they fall asleep will also be deposited in the virtual dream world for those digital lives to absorb, thereby delaying the time of them losing themselves.
"Just like in a large-scale virtual online game, those digital lives are NPCs?"
Shi Qiang gave his own understanding and then shook his head.
"No, no, this is more like China's divine realm and underworld, where living people offer sacrifices and burn incense to allow the souls of their ancestors to live forever."
Dr. Ma was stunned when he heard this.
“Is this also what you saw in online novels?
There are some similarities indeed. On the surface, they are similar, but the giant virtual dream space can be used to do more things.”
Shi Qiang nodded, "Yes, I'll make a note of it."
Dr. Ma added:
"There is also the mysterious existence that has brought modern basic physical science to a standstill. When Ali's abilities evolved to their most powerful, she briefly sensed that something was 'observing' her.
Her mental power touched some strange fluctuations, but that power was much more subtle, countless times smaller than the smallest particle level she could penetrate."
"You mean, that thing is in a more microscopic material realm. Is this... possible?"
"Nothing is impossible."
Dr. Ma replied.
"Who would have thought that Dr. Chen's biotechnology would be so powerful that a cloned body worth 2000 million US dollars would actually have such exaggerated superpowers.
In a more microscopic world, it is not impossible that there is a 'God' who limits the development of human technology."
"Even if such a being really exists, it definitely cannot be God!" Shi Qiang said with certainty.
The screen went black, and the second Easter egg ended.
This time, in the dark theater, the audience began to discuss quietly.
The amount of information contained in the easter egg just now is quite a lot, especially the information about subconscious therapy devices, giant virtual dreams, digital life, the Internet and the creations of ancient civilizations. Combined with some previous movies in the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", it undoubtedly forms an extremely clear black technology development tree.
The fruit of this tree points to a technology that only exists in science fiction works and can upload human consciousness to a virtual network world.
The sci-fi movie of this type that leaves the deepest impression on everyone is "The Matrix", followed by "Tron", and the less popular old movies "The Matrix" and "Tron".
Now it seems that the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] will involve similar themes, and in the future China will also have its own science fiction blockbusters with virtual games as the theme.
Moreover, if this technology is further developed, the virtual world that gathers the consciousness of all mankind will even be able to touch the "Alaya-vijnana" and "Gaia's Will", which is similar to "Neon Genesis Evangelion".
But before these science fiction movie fans could imagine the future, after the end credits ended, the third Easter egg of "Transcendence" finally began.
This time, the movie Easter egg scene is more relaxed and lively than the previous two. What comes into view is the endless African savannah, with bright sunshine and green grass.
An off-road vehicle was speeding across the prairie. Not far away, groups of wild animals were running freely and happily, which made people feel happy, as they had just watched "Transcendence".
As the camera zooms in, the person driving the SUV is Liu Peiqiang, played by Wu Jing, who plays the role of "Cold Front", and Han Duoduo, played by Wang Zhi, who sits in the passenger seat. At this time, Wu Jing holds the steering wheel with one hand and puts the phone to her ear with the other.
Captain Zhang Ying's voice came from the other end of the phone. Liu Peiqiang looked happy. He was obviously very happy.
"Okay, okay, okay! I will definitely come back drunk when I get back!"
After hanging up the phone, Liu Peiqiang said to Han Duoduo, who was sitting in the passenger seat, with a smile on his face:
"One of my comrades woke up from a coma and is no longer in danger of death. He said he would wait for me to come back to celebrate."
Han Duoduo also showed a happy smile on her face, "That's great."
Just as the two of them started talking, Uncle Da's funny face popped out from the gap between the two seats, blocking them.
"Boy, I'm warning you, don't even think about hooking up with my daughter, I'm keeping a close eye on you!"
The movie "Transcendence" ended here. The lights in the screening room came on. The audience was silent for a very short time, then stood up and gave the work the warmest applause.
The applause lasted for about 10 minutes. Seeing this, director Zhang Yang also showed a happy smile on his face.
He is a young filmmaker who likes science fiction and special effects technology. He is happy and proud to be able to direct such a science fiction blockbuster personally and to be liked by the audience.
The film's main creative staff were equally happy as he was.
Ning Li, Li Binbin, Wan Qian, Wang Jingchun, Wang Zhiwen, when these people followed director Zhang Yang onto the stage, the movie fans and audience also applauded.
Several main actors waved at everyone with smiles on their faces, and the applause lasted for a long time before it stopped.
After that, there are the scheduled interview sessions and communication sessions between the creative team and the audience.
However, this time, the main target of everyone's questions was not the leading actors Ning Li, Li Binbin, and Wan Qian, but the supporting actor Wang Zhiwen standing next to them.
"Teacher Wang Zhiwen," a young male audience member stood up and took the microphone, "I really like the role of Dr. Chen Ang that you played in the movie."
Wang Zhiwen smiled and nodded, expressing his gratitude for the audience's love.
"But I would like to ask, how did you grasp the role of Dr. Chen Ang? What is the difference between him and Ding Yuanying, whom you played before?"
"Dr. Chen is an important character specially designed by Director Wang Hao for this movie universe."
Wang Zhiwen had met Wang Hao just before the premiere, so while answering, he pointed at Wang Hao who was sitting in the front row of the audience.
When Wang Hao was called upon by him, he also stood up and waved and greeted the audience behind him with a smile, which caused excited cheers.
As a veteran actor, Wang Zhiwen is 57 this year, almost 60. Although he was popular in the 90s, his starring roles in "Black Ice", "The Way of Heaven" and "Blue Porcelain" left a deep impression on people, and his unique dialogue skills are even talked about by some senior film and television fans.
But because of his rebellious personality, he was not able to thrive in the circle like Chen Daoming and others.
Especially in the past two years, as he has grown older, there have been fewer good projects looking for him to film.
Therefore, he attaches great importance to joining the Galaxy Cinematic Universe and playing such an important and charismatic role as Dr. Chen Ang.
“When Director Wang approached me to play this role, he told me that he wanted me to play this role after watching me play Ding Yuanying.
I personally think that Ding Yuanying and Dr. Chen Ang have certain similarities, but they are also fundamentally different..."
The film discussion session at the end of "Transcendence" did not last long. After a few media reporters and audience members were randomly selected to answer some questions, the entire premiere ended.
However, after the premiere, there was a corresponding dinner and cocktail party. Of course, reporters were not eligible to attend this dinner. Only big stars, directors, investors and senior executives of film and television companies were allowed to enter the banquet venue.
Wang Hao was naturally among them. Although Zhang Yang and others were the protagonists of this premiere banquet, with Wang Hao present, everyone's attention was more focused on him.
This is not only because Wang Hao is the chairman of Galaxy Group, but also because Zhang Yang is Wang Hao's college classmate, roommate and good buddy.
Although Zhang Yang was the director of "Transcendence", everyone believes that Wang Hao's identity as producer accounts for at least half of the credit for the film's success.
Therefore, the more successful Zhang Yang becomes, the more popular the movie "Transcendence" becomes, and the more Wang Hao becomes popular.
Since he can train and promote a Zhang Yang, he can naturally also train a Li Yang and a Zhao Yang.
Holding the big IP of "Galaxy Cinematic Universe", possessing huge capital and strong ability to create stars, this is what makes Wang Hao so popular. Who doesn't want to be the next successful person?
In contrast, other directors, producers, supervisors or film and television company owners do not have this ability, nor do they have the guaranteed creative ability that can be provided by the film industry.
You should know that even great directors like Zhang Yimou, Feng Dapao, and Chen Shishi, as well as Huayi, Huaying, Warner, Light Media, Wanda, and even those big entertainment companies in Hollywood, have stumbled and their works were not accepted and recognized by the audience, resulting in huge losses.
Only Wang Hao, only Galaxy Group, and only his [Galaxy Cinematic Universe], no matter who directs it, no matter who plays the leading role, the reputation and box office profits of every work are above the passing line. This is terrifying.
If you count them carefully, none of Wang Hao's company's film and television works, whether they are the main creation or indirect investment, have lost money.
This is like a person in a casino. He may not win the jackpot every time, but at least he will not lose and may even make a small profit.
To outsiders, this is the Purple Star descending to the earth, and he has some good fortune on him.
So whenever they had the chance, they would naturally gather around Wang Hao, and Wang Hao would nod and smile and respond politely to these people in the circle who gathered around him.
Although his position in the domestic film and television industry is now very stable, he almost surpasses traditional film and television companies such as Huayi, Bona, Guangguang, and Orange Sky, and is on par with entertainment upstarts from the capital circle such as Wanda, LeTV, Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent.
But strength is strength, and cultivation is cultivation.
Don't be arrogant when you are in power, and don't be discouraged when you lose power. This is the demeanor that a successful person should show.
From this point of view, new-era directors like Wang Hao are undoubtedly better than their predecessors like Feng Dapao and Chen Shishi, and have more personal charm.
However, during this process, he was not able to remain calm all the time.
For example, when someone came up to him with a wine glass to toast him, Wang Hao couldn't help but show a slightly embarrassed expression on his face.
(End of this chapter)