Luo Bao and Luo Lan are watching the live broadcast of the Ark Awards.
The red carpet was star-studded, with handsome men and beautiful women making a dazzling appearance, dazzling and stealing countless films.
During the entire opening ceremony, Luo Bao and Roland's eyes wandered back and forth on the red carpet, as if they wanted to drill their eyes into the screen, but they couldn't find the familiar figure.
"It's strange, why haven't I seen Director Shi yet?" Roland wondered, "'Five-Star Red Flag Under the Plank' is the favorite to win this year's award, is Director Shi late?"
"So what if it's a favorite to win an award?" Luo Bao secretly hated, "The Queen's Dog had such a dazzling box office, but it still failed to win anything. I don't know how many people laughed at it!"
"It's different now! Ever since the assassination of the President of the European Federation, the European government has attached great importance to political correctness in terms of propaganda and public opinion." Roland comforted Luo Bao and said, "'The Five-Starred Red Flag Under the Wooden Board' responds to the theme of the times. I don't know how many people have been inspired to strengthen their determination to fight the Zerg to the end. If the Ark Award doesn't choose it, who else can it choose?"
Luo Baoshen nodded in agreement, but as he stared at the screen where Shi Jing's figure had not yet appeared, he couldn't help but frown deeply, muttering to himself: "I finally got a chance to show off, but I must not make any mistakes..."
Luo Bao and Roland were finally disappointed.
They didn't see Shi Jing on the red carpet until the opening ceremony ended. However, all the actors of "Five-Star Red Flag Under the Plank" were present.
Roland's face turned pale, her voice trembled slightly, and she grabbed Luo Bao's sleeve in panic: "Brother, Director Shi won't have any accidents, right?"
Luo Bao's face turned pale, and he patted Roland. "Don't talk nonsense. There might be a traffic jam on the road. The guide will be here soon."
The fan group was also in an uproar over this matter, and everyone was racking their brains to analyze why Shi Jing did not attend the opening ceremony.
Wang Zhi glared: "Maybe there's a traffic jam on the road."
Lulala: "It can't be a traffic jam, the rest of the crew is here!"
Cutting watermelon for Xiu'er: "Maybe there was some unexpected situation. Director Shi was not in the same car with the actors."
Black Cat Knight: "Is Director Shi not here?"
Even if I stole an electric bike, I wouldn’t be able to type: “What nonsense are you talking about! Director Shi has already received a nomination, why wouldn’t he come? This is the Ark Awards!”
We discussed it for a long time but still couldn't come to a conclusion.
Luo Bao is also full of confusion now.
Where did Shi Jing go on such an important occasion today?
This time at the Ark Awards, "Under the Plank of the Five-Starred Red Flag" led the way and became the biggest winner. Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Music, Best Photography... So far, eight out of the twelve nominees have won.
If it wins Best Director and Best Film later, "Under the Plank" will have won an astonishing 10 out of 12 nominations. Such a dazzling result is rare in the history of the Ark Awards.
After countless people anxiously waited, the moment for the Best Director Award ceremony finally arrived. The director cut the camera to the five candidates, and only the chair belonging to Shi Jing was empty!
Luo Bao's heart was pounding in panic.
At the same time, countless doubts were raised in countries around the world:
"What on earth is going on?"
"Where's Shi Jing?"
"Why isn't Shi Jing here?"
"Shi Jing didn't come???"
On the screen, the host in a dark blue fishtail dress opened the envelope in her hand, paused for a few seconds, pretended to be surprised, and then said loudly: "The winner of the Best Director Award is - Shi Jing!"
She was the first to applaud, and soon the entire venue was filled with warm yet awkward applause.
The absence of the winner is probably the most embarrassing scene in the history of the Ark Awards.
Luo Bao was about to cry.
As a fan who has been following Shi Jing for so many years, he understands best the significance of the Ark Award to Shi Jing!
Shi Jing spent two years struggling and finally won the Ark Award in the third year. However, he is unable to be there to raise the award in person!
Luo Bao couldn't help but feel a little bit optimistic.
Could this be a pre-planned gimmick by the Ark Awards to create suspense? Who knows, Shi Jing might walk onto the stage the next moment and receive the Ark Award amid the cheers of the crowd!
After the applause died down, the female host smiled awkwardly at the camera: "I'm sorry, Director Shi Jing has to miss this year's Ark Awards due to a schedule conflict. He specially entrusted his personal assistant to accept the award on his behalf."
"Please invite Mr. Zhao Guang to come on stage to receive the award."
An unfamiliar young man walked tremblingly onto the stage, with a smile uglier than crying on his face facing the camera. Upon closer inspection, there were indeed tears in his eyes!
Luo Bao was filled with regret and sighed all the time. He frowned and looked critically at the timid young man who came up to the stage.
"Fuck! This coward is so embarrassing!" Luo Bao complained, "Will he get stage fright and forget his words later?"
The host handed the golden trophy in his hand to the young assistant with a smile on his face, but the assistant did not reach out to take it. He waved his hands, took a deep breath, and seemed to want to say something, but was stuck.
The female host's hand holding the trophy just stayed awkwardly in mid-air, neither going up nor down. The camera deliberately gave a close-up of the female host's embarrassed expression.
The female host took back the trophy in disappointment, looked at the young man who was hesitant to speak, and waited for him to speak patiently.
Luo Bao was so disappointed that he said, "Speak! Are you mute?"
The host and the guests below all applauded in unison, trying to encourage the stage-frightened young man with applause.
For some reason, as the applause rang out, the young man's face became even uglier.
Finally, after the applause died down, he whispered in a voice as thin as a mosquito: "Director Shi Jing...refuses to accept the award."
……What?
Luo Bao slapped his ears, suspecting that he had heard it wrong.
Not only him, the whole place fell into deathly silence after hearing these words, and the smile on the host's face completely froze.
The young man's intermittent speech continued.
"Teacher Shi... asked me to tell... the Ark Awards Organizing Committee that he is not eligible to receive the current... Ark Awards." The young man was sweating profusely and his face was pale, but his next words were surprisingly clear and coherent: "Teacher said that as a first-rate director, I will not accept a third-rate award."
In the dead silence, the young assistant bowed deeply to the guests, then ran down the stage as if escaping, walked through the stunned guests, and pushed the door open and left.
Luo Bao was dumbfounded. An electric current crawled from his spine to his cerebral cortex, and his whole body felt an indescribable sense of comfort.
"Shi Jing is so domineering!!!" Roland's eyes were full of stars, and his face flushed with excitement: "Yes, the Ark Prize is shit, we don't care about it!"
Luo Bao finally found his way back to language. He took a deep breath, and his whole body went numb and covered with goose bumps. He screamed excitedly: "Ah! So cool!" He murmured to himself: "It's so cool!"
"It's really cruel to slap you in the face like this."
"It's worthy of the time!"
Le Jing's refusal to accept the Ark Award undoubtedly caused a big uproar and public opinion was in turmoil, but Le Jing ignored it all.
The mouth is on other people's body, they can say whatever they want, it won't hurt him.
All his energy is now devoted to the new movie "I have a dream" and he has no time to take care of anything else.
…
In June of 6020, the human expeditionary force defeated the Zerg army and seized ownership of a resource planet from them.
The war lasted for a year, and this was the first time that humans won on a frontal battlefield.
This victory came just in time. Not only did it sweep away the low morale on the front lines, but when the news reached the rear, it also gave the people in the rear a dose of reassurance.
People of different skin colors and nationalities hugged each other and cheered loudly to celebrate this hard-earned victory.
At the same time, Le Jing received a call, and a mechanical inorganic voice sounded: "We have shown our sincerity, now it's your turn to show your sincerity."
Le Jing said softly: "Not enough, not enough."
What is a mere victory?
For the Zerg, the losses caused by this defeat are almost negligible and will not affect the overall situation.
The Zerg are still too strong now.
Le Jing doesn't want to become a pawn for those brain worms to seize power.
Not to mention how likely the assassination plan proposed by the other party is to be realized. Even if this plan is really realized, the brain worms will only inherit the political legacy left by the queen and become the new masters of the insect planet. From then on, they can wage war against humans without any worries.
"...You know, we don't necessarily have to cooperate with you." The other party said sternly: "Our other human friends will definitely be happy to show their sincerity."
"Then let's end the cooperation." Le Jing shrugged and replied nonchalantly: "I didn't really want to cooperate with you at the beginning. To cooperate with you, as we humans say, is to seek the skin of a tiger."
"Hmph. I hope you won't regret your decision before you die."
Le Jing smiled and said slowly, "Don't scare me. You haven't squeezed out all my usefulness yet, how could you bear to see me die?"
The only answer he got was a busy tone from the other party who had hung up the phone in frustration.
Le Jing held the terminal tightly and smiled with satisfaction.
He has seen victory.
No matter how reluctant the other party was on the phone, in the end the brain worms could not sit idly by and watch humans fail.
Once humans are defeated, the queen will annex all the resources of the human planet, and her strength will increase by leaps and bounds, which is something the brain worms do not want to see.
Moreover, without humans restraining the Queen on the front battlefield, the brain worms' space for activities will be further restricted, allowing the Queen to free up her hands to carry out internal purges.
As long as the queen is alive, the brain worms will have no choice but to join forces with humans.
The death of the queen also marks the end of the cooperative relationship between humans and brain worms.
A child doesn't feel bad when selling his grandfather's land, but it hurts to sell his own land. Therefore, in order to quickly replenish the lost resources, the easiest and most convenient way for the brainworms who have successfully seized power is to steal from humans.
The war does not end with the death of the queen.
But at least until then, humans are in an advantageous position.
Of course, it is easier to deal with a chaotic insect planet where warlords rule independently than to deal with a centralized government that enforces orders.
Of course, these are things that will happen a long, long time in the future, and it’s a bit too far-fetched to think about them now.
The chaos of war and the rapidly changing international situation could not affect Le Jing's pace.
He always knew what his main business was.
The new movie "I have a dream" has been prepared for the most part and will be released in July.
Lejing has tried its best to speed up the pace, but in order to ensure quality, it can only make one or two films a year.
Too slow.
Compared with Lejing's ambition, this speed is too slow.
Le Jing combed his hair back, stretched out his long legs, and leaned them directly on the coffee table, with a rare childish look of depression on his face.
He puffed his cheeks and sighed, "Time waits for no one..."
The doorbell suddenly rang.
Le Jing smoothed his hair, stood up from the sofa, walked through the living room, stood at the entrance, and an ordinary face appeared on the screen.
Oh, it’s his personal bodyguard, special forces soldier Comrade Wang.
He opened the door and said, "Come in." He turned around slowly and wanted to go back to the sofa to rest for a while. Comrade Bing Wang's cold voice sounded behind him: "Teacher Shi Jing, comrades from the Ministry of National Security want to talk to you."
Le Jing paused, turned sideways, and put on his usual cold smile: "What do you want to talk about?"
"The comrades from the Ministry of State Security will tell you later. Now, please come with me." Comrade Bing Wang put one hand in his pocket and said this sincerely.
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