My name is Le Jing, and I traverse endless worlds, solely in pursuit of freedom, knowledge, and truth.
Republic Era Arc (Completed):
Q: How does a heavy opium addict who gambles, drinks...
Luo Bao knocked on his granddaughter's bedroom door, "Lily, it's time for dinner."
"Wait, I'm watching a video!"
"I'm coming in." Luo Bao pushed open the door. "What video are you watching so obsessed?"
He took a few steps forward and just happened to hear the voice of the video player: "Let the facts speak for themselves and uncover the truth behind history. Hello, audience friends, this is the large-scale historical decryption column "Into the Legend" exclusively sponsored by Baitian Energy and premiered globally by Qijiang Video Network. I am the host Zhao Tao. Speaking of the protagonist of this decryption program, everyone must have heard of his name - Shi Jing."
"Well, am I right? Everyone should know this person, right?"
Luo Bao stopped because of this name.
The scene at that time...
This name left a deep mark on his youth. It is no exaggeration to say that Shi Jing's death changed the trajectory of his life.
"It's a documentary about Mr. Shi Jing!" The granddaughter said excitedly, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time. It's finally out! I wonder if we can find out how Mr. Shi Jing knew the real history this time."
Luo Bao sat down beside her silently, his eyes also looking at the computer screen.
Film and television posters of Shi Jing's works during his lifetime are playing on the screen.
In "The Young Marquis of Fenglangjuxu", the young general holds a spear with high spirits; in "Records of Literary Masters of the Republic of China", the literati use their pens as guns to save the nation; in "The Queen's Dog", the elderly queen sits on the throne with unparalleled splendor; in "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", the elderly Menshak lies in a pool of blood with a smile; in "The Five-Star Red Flag Under the Wooden Board", the prisoners raise their heads high in front of the bayonets...
Familiar scenes flashed in the camera one after another, and Luo Bao's eyes were filled with tears.
Before I knew it, fifty or sixty years had passed. He had also grown from a hot-headed high school student to the gray-haired old man he is now.
He is old enough now to be Shi Jing's grandfather.
The host's explanation sounded slowly:
"When young people today mention Mr. Shi Jing, they regard him as a representative martyr who fought against the Zerg. But in the era of our grandparents, Shi Jing was the most famous director of that era, and all the movies he made were sensational works at the time."
"Among them, The Dawns Here Are Quiet directly led to a worldwide anti-Zerg wave. Wartime films such as The Five-Starred Red Flag Under the Plank, I Have a Dream, and The Last Indian deeply inspired humanity's determination to fight the Zerg and awakened countless people's yearning for freedom. It can be said that in the first six years of the war, Shi Jing was in an absolute dominant position in the world film scene."
"If he had not been brutally murdered by the Zerg later, all directors of that era would have lived in the shadow of the times, and he would have been the uncrowned king of the film industry."
"There are too many mysteries surrounding Shi Jing. The most sensational and puzzling of all are his film and television works that are based on real history."
"The younger generation today may not be able to imagine that sixty years ago, we humans were still a rootless race. The history and culture of the ancient Earth were destroyed by the Zerg, and human civilization lost the most important pages. Where did we come from? What kind of people were our ancestors on Earth? At that time, even the most authoritative historians could not explain it clearly."
"It was precisely because of the weakness of human culture and confusion in thought at that time that the Zerg culture had an opportunity to invade. At that time, the ideological field of mankind was severely eroded by alien culture, and some people were even parasitized by the Zerg and reduced to puppets of the Zerg. High school students should all know that in the European hamburger restaurant incident, the federal president who died at the hands of the Zerg killer was a puppet parasitized by the Zerg."
"It was at that time that Shi Jing and his ancient Earth culture film came out, injecting a shot of adrenaline into the confused people and making countless people feel proud of being human. However, at that time, no one thought that Shi Jing's film was about the lost history of ancient Earth. They all thought that it was a re-creation of Shi Jing's imagination."
The granddaughter asked Luo Bao suspiciously: "Did you really not doubt it at the time?"
Luo Bao nodded: "Really, who would have thought that these movies were based on real history?" He sighed, "I was afraid that only the Zerg knew about this at the time, so..." He sighed and didn't say anything else.
"Later, when the torture video of Shi Jing was widely circulated, the real history repeatedly mentioned in the conversation between Shi Jing and the queen also attracted the attention of many people. Many smart people at the time linked Shi Jing's film with the real history, but at the time, there was no evidence to prove this."
"In the second year after the war, the United Nations government finally cracked the Bug Planet database, and the ancient Earth history that had been lost for thousands of years was revealed to the world. This was a big deal, and everyone was surprised to find that the TV series and movies shot by Shi Jing were all restorations of real history! You can imagine how stunned everyone was at the time."
Luo Bao fell into memories.
He was already 30 years old at the time and had just been promoted to a dad. When the news was broadcast on TV, he was changing his child's diaper. He was so shocked that his hands shook and he almost smeared the diaper covered with feces and urine on his son's face.
The news helped him solve a puzzle that had been bothering him for a long time, while also creating more new puzzles.
The host expressed some of Luo Bao's questions one by one:
“Where did Shi Jing know the true history?
What is the relationship between Shi Jing and the Zerg?
Why did Shi Jing go on this assassination mission that meant he would die? Was Shi Jing a hero of mankind or a spy of the Zerg? In the decades since Shi Jing's death, people have been arguing about these questions, and to this day, no answers have been found. Today, Professor Liu Yinxiu, Dean of the School of Paleogeography at Luodu University, came to the show.
An old, white-haired man slowly walked onto the stage.
Luo Bao shouted in surprise: "It's Brother Liu."
The granddaughter looked at him in surprise, "Grandpa, do you know him?"
"Yes, we have known each other for decades. We went fishing together the day before yesterday." Luo Bao said proudly, "He and I are both fans of Shi Jing."
The granddaughter then suddenly realized.
"Professor Liu is an expert in the study of time and scenery. He has written books such as "Time and Scenery and Me", "Where is the Scenery of the Past Now", and "From the Death of Time and Scenery". Among them, "Where is the Scenery of the Past Now" is included in the must-read list of Chinese language in middle schools and is very popular among teachers and students. Today, we invite Professor Liu to unveil the mystery of time and scenery for us."
"Hello everyone, I'm Liu Yinxiu. I didn't want to come here today, but my grandson said to me, Grandpa, I have a classmate who said that Shi Jing was not a martyr at all, but a spy of the Zerg, and we were all deceived by him." The old man raised his voice, and his voice trembled a little: "I know there are many people who have the same opinion as this little classmate. I don't know since when, the trend of slandering martyrs has become popular among young people!"
"In order to show off their own sobriety, in order to show that they are the only one who is sober while everyone else is drunk, many people slander martyrs, distort history, interpret the deeds of martyrs with the greatest malice, and feel complacent about their own 'not being corrupted by the crowd'. Such people make me sick like maggots in the sewer!"
The granddaughter nodded in agreement. "Those people are idiots! Mr. Shi Jing was tortured so cruelly during his lifetime but he didn't give in. In the end, he used his life to shorten the course of the war, thus allowing the ancestors of those people to survive. If Mr. Shi Jing hadn't died together with the queen, they would be livestock raised by the Zerg now. How could they still sit in an air-conditioned room and argue nonsense?"
Luo Bao took a look at his granddaughter and decided to turn a blind eye to her swearing. When he was young, he swore much more foully than his granddaughter.
"I'm glad you think this way." Luo Bao nodded. "No matter how Shi Jing knew the true history, his contribution to mankind cannot be erased. As for those people's crazy talk..." He snorted disdainfully. "No normal person would listen to what a dog says."
On the screen, Liu Yinxiu's words became more and more excited: "Shi Jing is the benefactor of all of us! In the most difficult times, it was he who helped mankind dispel confusion and strengthen their faith. It was also he who used his life to shorten the course of the war and preserve more sparks for human civilization."
"In the lost history that has been recovered, you can find that there are too many people like Shi Jing in human civilization. Whenever there is a disaster, there will be such people who will turn the tide and use their lives to push the wheel of human civilization forward. I call these people the backbone of mankind."
"What is the relationship between Shi Jing and the Zerg? Of course they are mortal enemies! Why did Shi Jing carry out this assassination mission that is certain to end in death?" Liu Yinxiu took a deep breath, his pale hair trembling slightly, his expression serious, and he said to the camera word by word: "Isn't it for the continuation of human civilization and to save more lives!"
"Who is Shi Jing? How did he know the true history? Is this important?" Liu Yinxiu regained his composure and said in a hoarse voice, "If you really want an answer, then I can give you my answer now."
"Shi Jing is the star of mankind. He has been wandering in the human world and has finally returned to the sky. So he is born with knowledge, knows the past of mankind, and guides the future of mankind."
“He is the light of humanity.”
…
The granddaughter was silent for a while, then complained softly, "So, in the end, it still didn't explain why Shi Jing knew the true history."
Before Luo Bao could enlighten her, she figured it out on her own, "Forget it, I can't find a better answer anyway." She stuck out her tongue, her eyes were cunning and smart, and she looked at her grandfather with a smile: "In fact, I have always felt that Shi Jing is the patron saint of our human race, but now I think that Professor Liu's idea of the light of humanity is not bad either."
She stood up, stretched, patted her grandfather's arm, and urged him, "Grandpa, aren't you going to eat yet? I'm starving!"
"Oh, okay."
Luo Bao withdrew his gaze from the screen and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
You must be watching us from heaven now, right?
From now on, every year of this peaceful and prosperous era is bathed in your glory.
The author has something to say:
I added a chapter to the missing chapter 96, which means I wrote a double chapter today. I wrote 8,000 words!
The extra chapter is my brainwave, Le Jing travels through time and space to become a female Taoist protagonist and urges the whole family to study for the rise of China 23333
We are the rescue team that travels through the universe to protect civilization, White Hole, meow!