The perspective follows Teacher Li as he walks along the path in the village. Before he gets close to the Wang family, he hears the sound of firecrackers.
"Teacher Li!"
A child was walking towards them and greeted Teacher Li from afar.
Teacher Li asked: "Liu Wa, what are you doing here?"
"The Wang family is getting married and they've invited everyone in the village to a banquet!"
Teacher Li was a little anxious when he heard this: "Getting married today? Have you seen the bride?"
Liu Wa shook his head: "They said the bride is in the room and they haven't let her out yet."
Seeing this, Xiao Canghai understood a meaning. The Wang family invited the whole village to a banquet, but did not invite Teacher Li. This shows how unwelcome he is in the village.
The scene changes to Teacher Li carefully observing his surroundings, then climbing up the low wall of the Wang family.
In front of the window with the Chinese character for "happiness" pasted on it, Teacher Li muttered to himself:
"There are only six children in the village, and I have taught them fifth-grade knowledge... The salary is paid by the town, 320 yuan a month, which is definitely enough for you in the village. I only graduated from junior high school, and you are a college student, you know more than me... If you become a daughter-in-law of the Wang family, your knowledge will be buried, it is better to come to our school to be a teacher..."
There was no response from the room. Teacher Li looked puzzled, hesitated for a moment, and carefully looked into the room through the dirty window.
The view follows his first-person perspective inside the house.
Because there was a red "囍" blocking the view, only a very small area could be seen. Teacher Li kept moving his view up and down and left and right for a long time, and finally saw a pair of feet tied with thick ropes inside the house.
His eyes suddenly widened: "Were you kidnapped?!"
The feet finally reacted, pushing forward and kicking the post beside the bed.
"I knew it... Even if it's for money, how could anyone be willing to marry me, especially a college student..." Teacher Li seemed to have suddenly figured something out, and the light that had been flickering in his eyes dimmed at this moment.
At this time, the perspective moved to the front yard of the Wang family. There was a jubilant atmosphere. The 'groom' Wang Lao Er had a red silk tied around his waist and was drinking happily with others.
Seeing this contrasting scene, the audience, who had just been excited along with Teacher Li, suddenly realized that the essence of this incident was trafficking.
Teacher Li said to the room, "If it is, you kick it twice, if it is not, you kick it once."
The pair of feet in the room kicked the edge of the bed twice, and one could see some redness where her ankles were tied with ropes.
"You come to the school to be a teacher, the village chief can protect you..." At this point, he suddenly stopped. He was not sure whether the village chief could really protect her: "...You want to go home, right?"
He asked this question softly, but in fact he could already guess the other party's answer.
Sure enough, the feet inside knocked twice.
Then he paused, and then continued knocking, dong dong, dong dong...
She was expressing that she wanted to go home.
The audience then realized that if there were no aliens involved, this was a case of human trafficking.
If the God's perspective is blocked, everyone hopes that the girl can be saved, and now the only person in the village who has the awareness to save her is Teacher Li.
But this is so cruel to Teacher Li. After all, we can see from the previous part how much he wants to change the ignorant status quo of the village. He has placed all his hopes on the education of the next generation, but he doesn't have much time left...
Is all this a test of humanity by aliens?
With this question in mind, everyone turned their attention to Teacher Li.
There was no intense expression on his face, but through Yang Xingyuan's eyes, every viewer could feel the feeling of hope just rising and then being shattered...
All the audience are waiting for Mr. Li’s choice, because if this is a test from aliens, obviously his choice will be crucial and even determine the survival of the people on Earth!
Everyone is expecting Teacher Li to make a righteous choice, but they are not sure, because humans are selfish and cowardly... If Teacher Li backs down, it won't feel like the character has collapsed, at most we can only sigh... The people on Earth are really hopeless...
But when he saw Canghai's smile here, he felt an indescribable sense of awkwardness. The proposition of "human nature" behind this choice made him feel that it did not match the pattern shown in the first half of the movie.
It’s not that human nature is bad, but zooming out from the distant starry sky to human choices makes him feel like an apple growing on a banana tree.
In silence, Teacher Li subconsciously touched his chest, turned around and looked at the front yard, revealing a purple and blue mark remaining on his neck.
Canghai smiled as he looked at the close-ups of these two body parts. His frown relaxed again, and he couldn't help but praise the director's skill in camera language.
The place where Teacher Li touched was the focus of his cancer, showing his current predicament of not having much time left. The purple and blue marks were caused by a previous fight with the student's father in order to save him. This was a medal of fighting against ignorant thoughts.
In fact, this turn has already foreshadowed Teacher Li’s choice.
"I can't call the police for you. The only phone in the village is at the village chief's house, and there are people guarding it all day long." Teacher Li glanced at the busy front yard and said to the inside of the house, "I can only take you to hide in the mountains first, and then find a way to escape when the bus arrives the day after tomorrow."
There were two knocks from inside.
"Get ready. When you hear there's trouble outside, get ready. When I get here, follow me."
“Knock, knock.”
Leading an old cow, Teacher Li came to the corner of the Wang family's yard. He touched the cow's butt reluctantly, and finally made up his mind. He took a chisel and stabbed it hard on its butt.
The old cow mooed loudly and rushed towards the Wang family yard with all four hooves...
Accompanied by a loud scream in the yard, the scene had already moved to a desolate mountain at night.
Teacher Li looked nervously towards the mountain. After a while, Wang Laoer and others with torches came up the mountain.
Seeing Teacher Li trying to remain calm and lie that he was looking for a dog in order to deceive Wang Laoer and others, the audience couldn't help but sweat.
It was not until Wang Lao Er suspiciously put his arm around Teacher Li's shoulder and invited him to go with him, and the perspective switched to the distant view of the hillside at night, that the audience suddenly realized: something is wrong? Why hasn't the alien's humanity test ended yet? Are they going to send her to the car and call the police?
The director's perspective zoomed out to the sky filled with stars. The clouds in the sky changed and it became daytime. The perspective then turned to the ground and froze on the Wang family's yard.
A large section of the earthen wall of the yard was damaged by a cow, and the yard was in a mess, with the red word "囍" trampled in the mud.
This scene was frozen for a full five seconds. When the audience was puzzled, the time in the holographic world suddenly sped up rapidly.
All you can see with the naked eye is that the tables and chairs in the yard have been cleared away, and there are figures walking around. After a few seconds, figures appear around the earthen wall, flashing back and forth, repairing and restoring the earthen wall, letting it dry, and it becomes a new earthen wall.
As time goes by, the color of the newly added soil on the original wall becomes obvious and has gradually merged with the old wall, with only a slight difference in color.
The last few seconds of time slowed down, and the red "囍" characters were once again hung inside and outside the Wang family's courtyard. A banquet was set up in the yard, and the villagers gathered together and started drinking again...
All the audience watching this scene felt as if their heads exploded, and they lost their ability to think for a moment, and even their scalps felt numb and stood up.
Canghaixiao suddenly recalled the details of the previous conversation between the trafficker and the man. The man's original words at that time were: "College student? Another college student?"
Surprising twist! The surprising twist in the second half of the movie is here!
This even made Canghai Xiao want to jump twice in excitement. As expected, there are no apples on the banana tree! The main plot of this movie is not wrong!
“Bang!”
With a loud bang, the door of the new house opened wide, and an alien stood inside with an expressionless face. He was even wearing a white dress, which did not look festive at all.
This is the second time the Wang family has bought a daughter-in-law!
What about Mr. Li? The girl he saved was another girl! Not an alien! How is he now? How is that girl now?
Huge shock, confusion, disbelief... swept through the audience's minds.
The alien had no intention of disguising herself as a human. Under her gaze, Wang Lao Er, who wanted to rush forward to catch her, floated into the air.
"What are the components of your planet's atmosphere?"
Wang Laoer wanted to struggle, but found himself like a mosquito in amber, with only his eyeballs moving in panic.
The villagers nearby screamed because of this supernatural scene, and some even knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the gods and goddess.
The alien turned a deaf ear to him and just said, "Don't say anything else. You can only tell me the correct answer now. Any other wrong information will be blocked by me."
But Wang Laoer had never even attended elementary school, so naturally he couldn't answer the question.
"You've already reached half of the average human lifespan, and yet you don't know anything?"
The alien looked at the others and said, "I'll give you one more chance. This is the simplest test question for 3C civilization. Your highest technology has obviously reached level 5B."
Her eyes suddenly lit up and glowed blue.
The real village in front of me disappeared, as if it was redrawn and modeled, forming a new three-dimensional world composed simply of points, lines and surfaces.
All the villagers living near the Wang family’s yard were trembling in this world.
A pair of eyes emitting blue light - or rather, two blue light balls - appeared in the 'sky' above this group of people.
The blue eyes cast their gaze down, looking at everyone.
Xiao Canghai took a deep breath. From this angle, humans were like mice under a microscope in an experiment.
A mechanical voice asked:
"Briefly describe the thermodynamic principles of matter motion."
“…”
"What is the medium for photosynthesis in plants?"
“…”
"How long does it take for a lunar satellite to orbit the Earth?"
“…”
The blue light dimmed, and the alien's somewhat disappointed voice sounded: "You are indeed a race with no potential. Your information transmission efficiency is too low, and it is impossible to leave information in your genes. It is too slow to develop only through this vibrating vocal organ. It will take more than a thousand years to develop interstellar navigation technology..."
The scene shifts to outside the solar system, where a bright and mysterious light appears and slowly approaches the sun.
"The singularity bomb has been launched. Your star will be destroyed by the singularity bomb in one hour, 28 minutes and 5 seconds Earth time."
After a pause, the alien said:
"I'm sorry, but this is war."
The audience was extremely anxious at this moment: Is that it? Why did you choose these people! Look at other humans! Not all humans are like this. You chose the worst scum. If Teacher Li was still here, this wouldn't happen!
As if realizing that the audience's patience has run out, the scene changes again at this moment, and finally returns to the real world, back to the night when Teacher Li saved people.
“Found it!”
As a man shouted excitedly, Teacher Li, who was traveling with him, suddenly dilated his pupils, clenched his hands tightly under his sleeves, and quickly followed.
As the perspective of the cliff switched, I saw a girl lying on the hillside, her head covered in blood, and under her red coat was a white skirt...
"It's dead." said the two men checking below.
Teacher Li lost control of himself all of a sudden, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground in despair.
The scene shifted to Teacher Li's low little house. He was writing something at his desk, his eyes red and his spirit depressed. During this process, he couldn't help but pull his hair with his hands.
The perspective shifted, and the words "Report Letter" were written at the top of the letter paper.
It was still the small school building next to the classroom, and it was already late autumn.
Wang Laoer, wrapped in a cotton-padded coat and carrying a wine jug, passed by this section of the road and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm in the direction of the school building.
"Bah, you bastard, you reported me! You deserve to die!"
Inside the room, Teacher Li was lying on the hospital bed, pale and dying, surrounded by students. There was also a child named Liuwa who was crying and burning paper money.
"Don't burn it, this is useless superstition..." Teacher Li weakly scolded: "You haven't finished your fifth grade class yet, I've kept the books, you can find a chance to read them, now I'll tell you something for the last time, this is junior high school knowledge, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, but memorize it, remember it, and you will understand it slowly in the future..."
"Wuwuwu... Teacher, please don't die..."
The children began to cry.
"Don't cry, listen to me, recite it quickly!" Teacher Li said firmly: "When an object is not acted upon by an external force, it will remain stationary or in uniform linear motion."
"Wow, wow, wow..." The children were still crying.
"Recite it quickly!" Teacher Li coughed up a mouthful of blood from his throat, and blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, but he looked extremely excited at this moment. His hands were clasped forward like eagle's claws, as if he wanted to grab something, and his hands were covered with blue veins.
"When an object..." the children recited it while crying.
Canghai Xiao, who was watching the movie, became nervous. His heart beat faster involuntarily and he felt like something was blocking his breathing. According to conventional dramatic conflict techniques, Teacher Li might have died in the accident of saving the girl. However, instead, the director let him teach the children his last lesson.
The image of Teacher Li disappeared amid the children's recitation, and the scene returned to reality, the virtual space constructed by the aliens.
Although the aliens have announced that they will destroy the earth, the mechanical sound seems to be a fixed program and has not ended yet:
“How does an object behave when no external forces act on it?”
This question…
All the audience members felt their hearts tighten and their hearts couldn't help but beat rapidly.
At this time, a childish voice sounded:
"When an object is not acted upon by an external force, it will remain at rest or in uniform linear motion..."
"That's correct."
Guo Qian is a person who easily tears up. The death of Teacher Li was one of the tear-jerking moments in the movie. It seemed like Jing Xiaoxuan in another cinema had already cried, but Guo Qian's eyes were only slightly red.
And at this moment, we heard the children, across time, at this time and place, speak out the knowledge that Teacher Li asked them to memorize before he died.
He couldn't control his tears.
He suddenly felt an unprecedented shock in his heart, a feeling of being moved by the creation of human civilization.
On this road, there are countless people like Teacher Li who have taken the lead.
They may not be great figures whose names will be recorded in history, but they use their tiny power to build our civilization. In the tide of history, they have no names or identities, but they are indispensable.
The blue ball of light representing the alien's 'eye' lit up for a moment, and the mechanical sound continued:
"On a three-dimensional plane... snap..."
The mechanical voice suddenly changed the topic and asked about the knowledge of basic low-speed mechanics: "Please explain the relationship between the mass of an object, the external force it is subjected to, and its acceleration."
The three children who attended the banquet said in unison: "The acceleration of an object is proportional to the force it receives..."
"That's correct."
The sound of "correct answer" seemed to strike the audience's hearts.
Finally, after the children answered another basic mechanics question, the mechanical voice gave feedback: "Civilization test passed."
The alien's voice was somewhat fierce: "Turn! Deflect the trajectory of the singularity bomb!"
With the faint sound of string music, in the vast and ethereal space, the singularity bomb close to the sun was pulled by a spring-like blue arc of light, and its trajectory was deflected.
"Ding! Ding!" With two obvious piano accents, the audience watched in shock as the singularity bomb streaked across the edge of the fiery red sun, narrowly brushing past it and leaving a faint red tail flame, like a dancing fluorescent light, dreamy and beautiful.
The scene returned to reality, and the children brought the alien to an unnamed grave.
There was nothing on the stone tombstone, so the child took a piece of chalk and added a crooked "Teacher Li's Tomb" on it.
The alien looked at Teacher Li's grave quietly.
The audience watching the movie suddenly realized that from beginning to end, the male and female protagonists of this movie had never really met each other, but the sense of collision between the two was no less than that of other regular movies. It was really amazing.
Staring at the tombstone, the arrogant and indifferent alien suddenly stretched out her left hand, put two fingers together, and placed them on her forehead. A faint blue light lit up between her eyebrows.
The same action as when she first faced a human.
This obviously representative work made the audience think of the expert's voice when the aliens first appeared.
"This seems... to be a courtesy."
Everything went dark before my eyes, and the end credits appeared.
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