Destined
[I can't even breathe after watching this! 】
[This protagonist is really special... She's not good at all, but I actually kind of hope she succeeds...]
[What a sinister story. Which dream builder wrote it? I must watch it after it ends!!]
The sharp nails cut through the air, bringing with them the sound of wind, and pierced directly into the man's neck, causing blood to splatter!
“Ugh…! Who!”
The director struggled instantly and knocked over the glassware on the table. A cup of unmixed purple-red reagent fell over and spilled on the heroine's trouser legs.
The effect of the potion was obvious. The scales on the heroine's legs grew uncontrollably in an instant, and her whole body began to fall over, with her legs about to turn into a fish tail.
Jiang Xindong's heart trembled, and he thought of something, and said incredulously: "It can't be what I think?"
The heroine had not anticipated this development. She let out a low growl filled with resentment and gripped the director's neck even harder, making it impossible for him to make a sound.
Even though the heroine transformed into a fish tail, humans were still no match for the brave and warlike mermaids, and the director's movements gradually became weaker.
Bang, clang...
The noise of his struggle echoed muffledly throughout the floor. In the last moment of life, his fingers finally reached the prepared reagent on the table and he poured it back with force!
"ah!"
The heroine was splashed on the face and screamed in pain. She immediately closed her eyes, but the reagent still corroded her skin instantly. Blood flowed down her neck, which looked particularly terrifying.
[?! Oh my god…]
[Wait, this...! ]
Because of the pain and anger, the heroine's strength suddenly increased, and the neck under her palm made a slight "crack" sound. The director's body twitched and he died completely.
She was panting and collapsed to the ground holding the corpse, her legs completely turned into fish tails.
The reagent was still sizzling on the heroine's skin, and a large part of it was absorbed into her wet long hair.
The heroine grabbed her hair and cut it hard with her fingernails, and her originally long hair was reduced to just ear-length length.
Her messy hair covered her face as she dragged the corpse, looking for a place to hide it. Then her eyes fell on the aquarium in the laboratory, where there was a valve that could be opened.
The heroine struggled to lift the director's body and stuffed it in through the valve. The heavy object fell into the water with a splash.
Because of the gravity of the fall, something that was originally in the water was lifted up.
The heroine's pupils suddenly shrank and she looked at the glass stiffly.
——On the other side of the glass, a pair of eyes were looking at her.
Those were not the eyes of a living person, but from a dead person. The eyeballs were swollen and stiff, like fish in the ocean, without any emotions.
The corpse had blond hair, green eyes, a scar on the bridge of his nose, and was wearing...
Exactly the same as the director she had just killed.
In other words, "he" is the director just now!
And in this aquarium, there were countless identical corpses floating, all with their heads bent limply. Some were still fresh, with blood oozing from their noses; some had already begun to rot, with their flesh and blood floating in the water like tattered cotton wool.
She was so shocked that she couldn't make any expression for a moment, and when the corpses in the aquarium sank again and the other side became dark, the glass became like a mirror.
The heroine and the audience can clearly see her current appearance from it——
The area from his face to his shoulders was full of pits and blood, and his cheekbones were vaguely visible. The edges of the wounds had turned black due to the corrosive liquid.
Her black curly hair was very short, and one of her eyes was eroded from the eyeball to the eyelid, but the other eye was still clear, like a sea-blue gem inlaid on a rotten cake.
Simply put, it is exactly the same as the disfigured red-tailed mermaid from before.
The previous storm of question marks in the barrage actually had a vague guess, but when this explosive scene hit everyone's eyes, their brains went blank for a moment, and Jiang Xindong's heart rate soared.
[If I understand correctly...the disfigured mermaid is herself! ? ]
[Oh my god!! It turns out that the title “Reincarnation” was not just mentioned now, but it was foreshadowed long ago!!]
[Ahhh, this is horrifying, she killed herself?!]
The heroine suddenly crawled like crazy to a place with slightly brighter light and looked down at her tail.
She originally had a gorgeous and dazzling fish tail, with sparkling blue scales and golden lines if you looked closely.
But now, because of the medicine, it looked dull and faded, and even its color changed to purple-red.
——Now it is completely indisputable that she is the disfigured red-tailed mermaid.
She thought she could change her fate by traveling through time and space, but she just fell into reincarnation again?! How could she accept this!
The heroine's lips trembled for a while, then she looked up at the bloodstains left by the dragged corpse behind her, knowing that she had to deal with them. She seemed to feel extremely nauseous and disgusted, and she covered her face and roared.
Her vocal cords were damaged now, so she could not speak and could only make broken screams. As she screamed, she actually started to laugh in despair. Her laughter got louder and louder, and her shoulders shrugged, but tears were clearly flowing from her only remaining eye.
The camera angle moves upwards, as if the indifferent god of fate is looking down at this scene.
The atmosphere of the film was brought to a climax at this moment. The dim blue light, the snow-white laboratory, the red fish tail, the hoarse voice of crying and laughing, all these elements combined together have a kind of grotesque beauty.
If it were an actor, this scene would definitely be a highlight, and the commentators would be so shocked that they would be speechless.
Jiang Xindong suspected that this scene was not adjusted by AI, but the dream builder performed it himself and then synchronized the parameters, otherwise it would not be so tense.
Jiang Xindong thought about it, and then: "..."
Fortunately, I did it in the Dream Space, otherwise the invigilator would have been scared to death.
Oh no, the examinee is crazy! .jpg
That kind of madness and extreme despair was simply a kind of spiritual pollution, and she even felt as if her heart was being squeezed.
The heroine's crying gradually subsided, and at this moment, footsteps were heard outside the door.
"This floor is full of valuable experimental items. Every time they are opened, they have to go through layers of approval. They don't come here often..."
The lover's voice sounded again, still so clean and gentle, but the heroine was on the verge of collapse.
What happened next had happened once before, but this time the audience watched it from the perspective of the "disfigured mermaid", and Jiang Xindong felt mixed emotions.
The heroine tried her best to control herself from making any sound and wanted to move out, but because the fish tail was damaged by the potion, it caused slight muscle twitches and slapped the ground, thus still attracting the attention of the "original heroine".
She didn't want to be helped and kept expressing her refusal, but events still developed as she knew they would.
Who wanted to kill whom first?
It doesn’t matter anymore. There is only one infinite pattern. Even if the heroine in the Red Tail version doesn’t make trouble, the heroine in the original version will still have the intention to kill.
She uttered those words as she fell backwards into the liquid.
"You...will...know......"
This time, the audience has understood the meaning.
[Help, this is too depressing and hopeless. I know my fate, but I still have to keep going.]
[This is "predestined fate", the dream builder has chosen the topic very well! ]
[I don’t dare to watch any more! ]
[…So this is Mobius, an infinite loop, running on overlapping roads every time… I admire it so much, it’s so exciting, it gave me goose bumps, the dream builder’s imagination is so big!!]
[So the source of the pollution in the sea is actually the heroine herself. She was splashed with the drug, and her blood became corrosive, which was then amplified by the machine and conducted into the sea again and again.]
[It’s terrifying to think about it, will the heroine die? If she dies, will this cycle end? ]
The light was dim in the depths of the liquid, and the heroine was not dead.
She saw the valve leading to the sea. If she opened it, she could leave the White Tower Research Institute.
Do you want to leave?
The heroine floated quietly in the darkness for a while, suddenly grabbed the glass wall and looked up.
Without saying a word, the audience understood her thoughts at the moment:
After the original heroine entered the machine, there was no one in the laboratory and no one wanted to kill her.
So, can she try to change her fate one more time?
Jiang Xindong murmured and repeated the sentence in the specific description: "'But people never lack the courage to break their fate'..."
However, can the courage in this film really point to a better ending?
The heroine's fish tail swayed rapidly and floated out of the liquid.
This time, she chose to adjust the time of the upstream journey to an earlier time, before "herself" came ashore and entered the research institute.
But when she pressed the pointer, because her mood was more desperate and gloomy this time, she looked more carefully and noticed a detail that she didn't notice last time - there was a corner of a piece of paper sticking out from under the dashboard of the time machine. She pulled it out and flattened it, and there was a warning written on it.
[Don't use it, it will make you lose your memory! ]
The words in this sentence were small, but the exclamation mark at the end was very strong. Because of the water vapor, the handwriting was blurred and difficult to distinguish.
Jiang Xindong's heart skipped a beat, and the barrage of comments also felt like something was wrong.
Who is this "you" addressed to? Who is the note written to?
But how could the heroine, who was determined to change her fate, listen to such advice?
She crumpled the note and held it in her palm.
As she crawled, the heroine's appearance changed miraculously: the signs of corrosion faded, her skin became smooth and beautiful again, her cloudy eyes cleared, her severed hair grew, and her fish tail returned to its original pearly blue color.
Jiang Xindong hissed, "If she climbs faster, can she still touch the tail of the original heroine?"
Fortunately, this weird scene did not happen, but when the perspective takes in the entire interior of the machine, the picture is still extremely evil.
The dream builder must have understood lens aesthetics very well. The white barrel-shaped inner passage of the time machine is in the shape of an "8". The two heroines, one new and one old, are located at both ends. Except for the length of their hair, they look exactly the same. Their long fish tails are curved and dragging, like the snake of fate connected head to tail. But they will never bite each other's tails.
It was night when the heroine opened the machine door again.
There was no one in the lab. The heroine tried to open her mouth and found that her voice had returned. She whispered to herself: "I seem to have forgotten something..."
But I can't remember what it was.
It seemed that the last time she killed someone, her legs turned into a fish tail, left her depressed. The first thing the heroine did was to smash open the cabinet in the laboratory and find herself a waterproof suit in the laboratory and put it on.
The waterproof suit also came with a gas mask, and after thinking about it, she put it on as well.
The heroine doesn’t remember it, but the comments all remember it.
[Ahhh fuck, this outfit, isn't it the masked man who killed the heroine at the beginning? ! It's actually her! ]
[So the part she forgot after losing her memory was the part where she was being hunted in the beginning…]
[Despair, another reincarnation. ]
[I want to rush into the screen, grab the heroine and tell her the truth QAQ]
[You should listen to the note. If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences! ]
[I have a suspicion, could that note also be written by the heroine herself? ? ]
The heroine's eyes were completely different from before. She had experienced two reincarnations and was very tired.
Since you are the source of all pollution, just kill yourself.
That way the cycle would stop, her mind was broken and she didn't want to live anymore.
She still remembered the protagonist's residence. She walked out of the laboratory and climbed up the spiral staircase, taking down the fire axe on the wall on the way.
Arriving at the dormitory, the heroine entered the password and quietly hid under the hero's bed, waiting for "herself" to appear.
So, the audience once again saw the scene at the beginning when the heroine just entered the research institute from a voyeuristic perspective.
[That is to say, when the original heroine entered the dormitory, the ultimate heroine was already hiding under the bed and watching. Just thinking about it makes me shudder.]
[I thought the interaction between the male and female protagonists was one of the few heartwarming moments in the entire film. I was wrong. I was so wrong (smile).]
[Dream Builder, you are a devil, I killed myself, what a weird experience! ]
The hero left, and the heroine in the first version curiously entered the hall, while the heroine in the ultimate version held the axe tightly and followed her silently.
While your attention is attracted by the marine life, chop it down hard!
The axe was aimed directly at his life, full of determination and ruthlessness, but unfortunately "himself" noticed it and the two of them wrestled with each other.
The sea water rose, and because of the waterproof suit, the heroine's legs did not turn into a fish tail, and her movements became slow. Seeing that the researchers were also about to be attracted by the noise, they had to evacuate.
She ran out injured, with the researchers chasing after her. In a hurry, the heroine chose to return to the only place she was familiar with - the laboratory where the hero had taken her, where machine No. 1 had a valve that led to the ocean.
Just now, during the chaotic fight, the heroine hit her head. When she entered the laboratory and calmed down a little, a look of realization appeared in her eyes under the gas mask, as if some of her memory had recovered, and her pupils dilated and shrank in fear.
She half-knelt on the ground and banged her head hard, but her memory was fleeting.
"What should I do? What should I do? Who am I...what should I do? I remember it, but I can't remember it..."
The footsteps are already outside the door, and there is no time to delay any longer.
The heroine was sweating profusely and only had time to tear off a piece of note paper and write a sentence on it:
[Don't use it, it will make you lose your memory! ]
It turned out to be written by the heroine herself!
Jiang Xindong said in his heart.
She hid it behind the dashboard of the time machine, adjusted the time to send it to the future, and then, without caring about anything else, jumped into the liquid in machine No. 1.
As the heroine sank, she took off her waterproof mask and clothes and held them in her arms. Her legs quickly turned into a fish tail and she swam towards the gate.
Beyond the gate is the sea.
The sea was not calm at this moment, but a storm was brewing. The sea water appeared dark blue under the sky, and thunder was rumbling on the sea.
“Crash!——”
The heroine emerged from the water, breathing deeply and shaking off the water droplets from her hair.
The white tower was left behind. From the beginning to now, the heroine finally left the tower and returned to the ocean.
[Is the reincarnation...over? ]
[I felt relieved when I saw him leaving the tower. Can someone tell me whether the cycle of reincarnation has ended? ]
[No matter what, now that we are out of the tower, the heroine should stop worrying about pollution! ]
But being away from the White Tower seemed to have made her memory of it fade away. The heroine dived into the water again, looking at the strange objects in her arms with confusion. Seeing that they were hindering her movements, she let go.
The camera briefly cut downwards, and Jiang Xindong couldn't help but curse in Chinese: "Fuck!"
There were countless identical masks and waterproof suits hanging in that reef, connecting to the canyon on the seabed.
It's repeated again, another cycle -
Thunder rumbled above the sea, and the heroine's expression became more and more relaxed as she swam, without any shadows. At this moment, debris from a ship fell in front of her, and she looked up curiously.
Some human ships were damaged by the storm.
Jiang Xindong finally remembered the existence of the male protagonist at this moment, and the previous clip came to his mind: Yes, because he let the female protagonist run away, the male protagonist was exiled to the sea!
[So that's how it is... These five words are the most common words I said while watching this movie. It turns out that the love between the hero and heroine is also a part of reincarnation. ]
[I thought escaping the White Tower was victory, but it turned out not to be QAQ]
[No wonder this movie is called "Mobius Sea" instead of "Mobius Experiment Tower", because reincarnation will be performed in the entire sea...]
The shipwreck occurred on the hero's ship. The heroine surfaced. The place where the shipwreck occurred should be very far away. The debris floated over with the ocean current, but there was no one.
Oh no, there is someone too... There is a human male holding a wooden board, his forehead is covered in blood, and his breath is weak.
[The feeling of never being able to escape is the most terrifying, breathe oxygen. 】
[I feel so complicated, don't save the hero, don't fall in love at first sight! - I didn't expect that I would be able to give such advice in my lifetime! ]
[Sure enough... this is the person we are destined to meet. I am speechless. Did the male protagonist also lose his memory? Time went backwards, and his ship must have also flown backwards, and his memory was erased. ]
Just as the first comment said, the scene where a man and a fish meet is indeed as romantic as a fairy tale. The desperate human struggling to survive and the mermaid princess who came forward to watch curiously met their eyes in the storm, with the dark blue sea and sky behind them.
The heroine tilted her head, not knowing whether she felt he looked familiar or fell in love with him at first sight.
In short, she rescued the hero, kissed him and made him hold the pearl that allows people to breathe underwater.
The man woke up in the huge shell, touched the healing seaweed on his forehead, looked at the mermaid in front of him, his eyes flashed with surprise, and he stammered:
"Y-you saved me?"
The heroine met his eyes, her expression instantly confused, yet familiar, and she blurted out: "Davi Ricci..."
She was stunned for a moment after she said that, as if she didn't know why she said "I will definitely see you again". She frowned, smiled again, and nodded vigorously.
The lighting dimmed, and the music list and actor AI source list scrolled out, announcing the end of the movie.
Jiang Xindong's eyes had gone dark and the movie was over, but her spirit body ball of light remained where it was, staring blankly ahead, as if her mind was still trapped in that depressing sea.
Not only did the number of barrages not decrease, but it increased explosively.
How should we evaluate this new style of work?
Jiang Xindong felt that there were thousands of thoughts and words in his mind, but he couldn't organize an opening remark.
She didn't have to say anything to give her evaluation, as the recorder next to her faithfully fed back the data she gave.
——She has participated in the public review of the Exiled Galaxy and even the mainstream galaxy for so many years, but she has never had such a violent heartbeat for a work, nor has she ever screamed so passionately for it.
After three hours, the audience selection process is over, and then the examiners will review it, and then the final result will come out.
On Star.net, three hours is not enough to reflect the true situation of each film, but the reputation of the works of several popular candidates has begun to ferment.
Forum posts quickly appeared, with the title: [Open a special post for the membership exam works, wait for the final results together, and by the way, show off your best works! ]
Main Building: [As the title says, "Mobius Sea", "Starship Falling from the Sky", "Diamond Dagger", "After Divorcing the Son of God"... Fans from all walks of life please enter in an orderly manner! ]
1L: [Occupying the post, haven't seen it yet, waiting for a repo. ]
2L: [+1, just looking at the title, I am more interested in the last one, it is easy to understand. ]
3L: [Strong recommendation from the front row, go watch Director Shang!! I am a member of the public jury, so I didn’t know who the author was before watching it, but I recognized Director Shang’s style within ten minutes of watching it, the horror style is so easy to recognize! Ahhhh this movie is so explosive, I decided to watch it again, otherwise I won’t understand a lot of details! ]
4L: [These four names are really weird when put together. The last one is too abrupt, isn't it? I remember it was Guan Gaoyang? In fact, apart from the movie, I am more curious about the mental strength of these four people. Director Shang is not to mention that he has always been very mysterious. Hua Feitian hasn't been tested for a long time since she was fourteen years old. Her current level must have greatly improved.]
5L: […Speechless, someone is so disdainful of Director Shang, and ended up naming his film a copy of “After Marrying the Evil God”. He must be in Group C, and this title is clearly a funeral procession for a wife-chasing plot.]
6L: ["Starship Drops" is very healing and touching. I highly recommend it. This is the best family film I have seen this year! ]
7L: [What are you talking about on the fifth floor? This format is monopolized by your company? Before Shang Jingyan, there were countless titles like "After XX with So-and-so"! ]
8L: [Speaking of which, this year is really rare, two of the popular candidates do not have a love storyline. However, Director Shang's films have more love elements, with a male and female protagonist. In Hua Feitian's films, love is only a background, with two female protagonists, one big and one small, each with a handsome guy they like, and then they exchange contact information at the end, hahaha. Moreover, the first one must be in "Mobius Ocean" and "The Star Ship". ]
9L: [I was also quite surprised. I thought Huahua would... But this is good! Thank God she didn't hold back and gave in to her boyfriend Gao. "Starship Falls" is really good, everyone should go and watch it! ]
10L: [I think Director Shang’s film this time is the most brain-burning and terrifying one since her debut. I am dying of holding back and want to spoil the plot. I beg you all to go and watch it. The next post [Link: If you have seen “Ocean of Mobius”, please come in. The last words of the heroine rekindled my hope. I urgently need an analysis together] can discuss the plot. There are many foreshadowings waiting to be explored.]
11L: [I checked and it seems that "Diamond Dagger" has the lowest discussion rate. Noel's performance can only be said to be mediocre. There is no hope for the first place, and even the second and third places are quite dangerous. Speaking of which, the work of the studio I joined before was called "The Return of the Princess", which was unexpectedly wonderful, and it was not about love. I didn't know that the dream builder was Luo Zhiyu until I came out. He is not very famous. I bet on a dark horse! ]
12L: [I watched it, and to be honest, as a fan I was a little disappointed, it was just a story of chasing his wife to the crematorium. The male protagonists in each of Noel's works have their own shadows... And to be honest, why do I feel that his female protagonist this time is a bit like Director Shang (laughing and crying).]
13L: [Ninth floor, isn’t the nickname Gao Boyfriend too ugly? ? You Tian fans really can’t stand it :) I still like Guan Gaoyang. ]
14L: [So funny, when other people are mentioned, what is the topic? It's their work, but when your family is mentioned, what is the topic? It's gossip. Gao's boyfriend fits his identity very well.]
As expected, Hua Feitian's fans and Guan Gaoyang's fans started fighting. Since the former far outnumbered the latter, they won a crushing victory and the argument filled an entire page. The original poster had to show up and ban several accounts before returning the thread to the original discussion.
By this time, the time had almost passed. At the last second of the countdown, the Dream Building Association's official website refreshed and released the final result -
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