"Chase him quickly, don't let the killer get away!"
When they found out the secret book was fake, the people in the ruined temple scattered like birds and beasts.
The dilapidated temple became empty. Lu Anning stood there alone. The moonlight shone through the leaky roof, just covering his figure.
In fact, no one cares who killed Huang Hui and Hou Lesheng, and no one cares whether Lu Anning is just. From the beginning to the end, everyone is chasing the interests symbolized by the peerless secret book.
A cold and almost insignificant soundtrack sounded, and a lonely atmosphere arose spontaneously.
Only one comment floated across the empty screen:
'My dear, times have changed'
This opening joke, when said now, no longer has the same funny flavor as before, but instead sounds like a sigh of a hero’s twilight years.
Lu An Ning looked down at his hands, was silent for a few seconds, and then grasped the sword again.
The background music became brighter at this time, and even the moonlight became brighter.
Lu An Ning walked out with his signature steps. Halfway through, he suddenly thought of something and the music stopped. He turned around and put the "fake secret book" on the ground into his pocket, then continued to walk out.
As he moved, the music that was playing halfway through continued to play at the right time.
"Pfft!" Wei Sijia laughed out loud. This little joke diluted the somewhat sad atmosphere and boosted her mood.
On the other side, An Eleven, who had been cured of the poison, used the honey smeared on the "True Secret Book" and a special bee to track and guide the way, and soon found Guojianglong.
When Guo Jianglong saw An Shiyi chasing him, he knew he was no match for him, but he couldn't give up the secret book, so he could only flee in panic.
As he ran, he finally reached the edge of a cliff.
As one of the classic scenes in martial arts dramas, the audience seems to be accustomed to ignoring the various restrictions of geographical conditions and assumes that the appearance of a cliff is reasonable, without any sense of incongruity.
The sky was getting brighter and the sun was slowly emerging from the horizon opposite the cliff.
This cliff is extremely steep and dangerous. As the climax scene of the finale, Wei Lan spent 100,000 data streams out of the 200,000 data stream budget for "Sword 4" to build this scene. Previously, there were more indoor scenes, and there was no situation that made the audience feel that the scene was simple. Now that it is shown outdoors, the sense of scene is greatly enhanced, adding a sense of texture.
The morning breeze blew over, and An Eleven followed the bee to here. As a result, he saw the bee flying down the cliff without stopping. It looked like a dragon jumping off the cliff.
The audience's curiosity reached its peak at this moment. According to the conventional routine of martial arts dramas, it has become a rule that the protagonist will not die after jumping off a cliff.
"What happened? Did he really jump off the cliff?"
'Impossible, I bet five packs of spicy noodles, it's impossible to jump.'
'I'll bet ten packs on the one in front!'
Although Guo Jianglong is not the protagonist, no audience thinks that he will really die under the cliff with the secret book, causing the plot to be stuck here inexplicably, which is also inconsistent with the character's previous performance.
An Eleven was not an ordinary character. He searched the cliff carefully and finally found a tightly tied rope in a corner, which extended to the bottom of the cliff. As soon as he saw how tight the rope was, he knew there was a heavy object hanging below.
An Shiyi smiled knowingly, confident of victory. The director gave him a close-up, and he looked extremely handsome under the morning sun.
Then, An Eleven took out the fuse from the package, threw it into the sky to send a signal to the organization, and then jumped down the cliff lightly along the rope.
The cliff was filled with fog, and soon An Eleven reached the end of the rope.
Guojianglong was indeed here, however, he was not at the other end of the rope, but standing on a small platform in the depression of the cliff, with a large stone tied to the end of the rope.
Seeing An Eleven coming down, he had been prepared for a long time. He raised his knife and chopped at An Eleven and the rope.
The audience watched the show with great concentration, and this is what makes the show so attractive. In addition to all kinds of unexpected humorous moments, even a bandit like Guo Jianglong, who looks like he would not survive more than ten minutes in an ordinary martial arts drama, has a high IQ.
If you review it carefully, you will find that all the jokes in this drama are achieved through coincidences, rather than the characters deliberately acting stupid.
Guojianglong had an ambush, and An Shiyi was no pushover either. He kicked the cliff and narrowly avoided the fatal knife. With the help of the inertia of the rope, he swung around the edge of the cliff and attacked Guojianglong directly.
Guo Jianglong hurriedly took out his knife to dodge, and his two swords collided with An Shiyi's dagger, creating some sparks.
The editing from the director's perspective in this section is very sharp. In other words, the editing of holographic works is the switching technique of holographic perspectives. The action of An Eleven swinging from the rope is completed from a perspective diagonally below. In this position, time is slowed down, and the arc of his flying clothes can be clearly seen, making this kick look chic and powerful.
Next is a close-up of Guo Jianglong's red knuckles, accompanied by the "ding" sound of weapons colliding. In front of you is the upper bodies of the two people, and the center line of your vision is the weapons of the two people colliding.
This series of intense and handsome perspective changes left the audience dazzled.
This technique of conveying a strong sense of dynamics by adjusting the flow rate of world time and quickly switching perspectives is something they have never seen in other martial arts dramas.
There aren't any fancy moves, but it feels intense and realistic. Compared to other fighting scenes the audience has seen, it inexplicably seems more high-end.
Wei Lan's showmanship actually goes far beyond this. In many of the earlier plots of the drama, she used a lot of skillful camera movements and editing. However, at that time the audience's attention was attracted by the plot. If you are not a professional film critic, you will rarely pay special attention to the technical techniques of the film.
But this time is different. There are not many fighting scenes in regular martial arts dramas. It is rare to see them at this position, and it is the key battle at the end of the plot, which is bound to attract the audience's attention.
Compared with the straightforward narration of other holographic martial arts dramas, this brief confrontation between the two people on the cliff perfectly showed the thrill through Wei Lan's showmanship.
At this moment, no audience member doubted that the drama was not like a martial arts drama except that it was set in the martial arts world. Their attention and emotions had been completely aroused.
Soon, in just a few breaths, the two had already fought several rounds on the platform at the edge of the cliff. The weapons collided with each other, making clanging sounds, and if they were not careful, they would fall off the cliff.
Just at this moment, the already narrow stone platform under their feet suddenly made a "crashing" sound.
"boom!"
"ah--!"
The small stone platform where Guo Jianglong and An Shiyi were standing collapsed with a loud bang. The two people who were still fighting each other had no time to react and fell directly to the bottom of the cliff.
They screamed and stopped at the same time.
The two men held each other tightly in the air. Because of gravity, their figures kept spinning. One moment, An Shiyi was at the bottom, and the next moment, Guo Jianglong was at the bottom.
At this time, the music sounded, with a sad and lingering taste.
I had given up on the show after watching the second season, but now after hearing that the latest series is a hit, old viewers of "Swordsman 1" came back to watch it again. They found the BGM at this time inexplicably familiar.
In fact, this is indeed the soundtrack of "Sword 1", a variation of the soundtrack for Lu Anning's love scene in the first film...
The cliff was very deep. Guo Jianglong grabbed An Shiyi's arm and asked nervously, "Can you swim?!"
An Shiyi, who had just recovered from his panic, nodded subconsciously. When Guo Jianglong heard this, he immediately hugged An Shiyi tightly, as if he had grasped the only hope of survival.
An Shiyi didn't understand: "What are you doing! Let go!"
"Hahahaha..." Whether it was the inexplicable and weird music that fit the situation, or the fact that the dragon crossing the river couldn't swim, it made the audience laugh again.
According to the routine of conventional martial arts dramas, falling off a cliff will not kill people, and such thick fog seems to be paving the way for the flow of water under the cliff.
As a result, at this moment, the perspective changed to a top-down diving perspective.
It seems to be a first-person perspective of the two people falling.
This thrilling and exciting feeling, similar to bungee jumping, instantly satisfies the visual stimulation effect needed for the climax at the end of the film.
The thick fog dissipated as they got closer, and everything at the bottom of the cliff finally appeared in everyone's eyes.
It was not the stream as imagined, but a flat land with many dried and broken human and animal bones nearby.
The audience took a deep breath, and then the scene in front of them turned directly to the top of the cliff.
The perspective can no longer be switched back to An Shiyi and Guojianglong.
The gangsters who caught up with them learned from the killer from Mingyue Tower who also came to pick up An Shiyi that the real secret book had fallen off the cliff.
According to the usual martial arts drama routine, there would probably be a big battle between the black and white forces here, but "Sword" is different from the usual routine again. Without the secret book to fight for, Lu An Ning not only easily proved his innocence, but also "scared off" the other killers in Mingyue Tower.
It seemed that the righteous martial arts world had won a great victory, but it left behind a legend about a peerless secret book, which attracted many opportunists to explore the nearby area.
After this incident, Lu Anning also chose to retire to the mountains.
A few months later, the well-dressed Lu An Ning stood nervously in front of a pretty farm girl.
"Tingting, when are we going to see your father?"
The woman named Tingting sighed, "Brother Lu, my father said that he wanted to marry me to a scholar, not a martial artist. If you can at least take out a book, I can explain it to him..."
This woman had appeared in the second episode and helped Lu An Ning. Everyone thought she was just a passerby, but unexpectedly, she turned out to be the one that the protagonist Lu An Ning proposed to marry.
"Books?" Lu An Ning walked around anxiously for a few times, and suddenly an idea came to him: "How about a piece of cloth with words on it?"
Tingting looked over hesitantly: "Maybe it's okay..."
After this sentence was finished, time quickly jumped to a few years later.
Lu An Ning was chopping wood in the backyard when a little boy of about five or six years old ran into the house. Ting Ting, who had her hair done by a woman, saw him and quickly called out, "Hao'er, finish your book today before going out to play."
The little boy pouted in disappointment, but still took out the book obediently and started flipping through it out of boredom.
Soon, the little boy looked around absentmindedly, and then he saw a piece of cloth in the sewing basket, which seemed to have words on it.
The boy walked closer and pulled out the cloth curiously.
The handwriting on it caught the boy's eye. He took the cloth to the table, found the beginning on the left, and began to read it word by word.
"What...destiny?"
My vision went dark, and the three big words "The End of the Play" appeared.
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