That day, while Ding Aiqi was in class at school, she overheard her classmates discussing "The World You Don't Know".
"Have you watched the second season of The Neighborhood? It's so cool, I even want to try sculpting clay."
“I think glassmaking is cooler. You didn’t see that Mount Fuji Cup? It’s so beautiful. I saw the authentic one online, and the worst one costs more than 2,000 yuan, which is half a month’s allowance. And it’s not even as good-looking as the one in the video.”
There weren't many poor children at Ding Aiqi's school, so they all had a lot of pocket money.
They were very interested in the newly released second season of the documentary, as these wealthy young people had never truly experienced such a life.
It's so cool to build a camp that can become a civilized society step by step in the wilderness like this!
The buildings were completed step by step in front of the camera, the animals were leisurely in their enclosures, and there were black bears, leopards, a lake island, snow-capped mountains, deserts, and the sea!
What could be more perfect than this?
In the film, every wine glass the people in this world hold is handmade; the chess pieces they use are made of jade; they catch cuttlefish from the sea to extract ink; and they write calligraphy with pure wolf-hair brushes. They harvest grapes to make wine, grind wheat into flour, bake cakes in earthen ovens, and then spread homemade jam on them.
We trekked through the pale snow-capped mountains, tamed horses on the vast grasslands, collected salt from the shimmering lake, and smelted glass in the desert…
Many scenes in the documentary flash by, but they all eventually converge at the campsite.
The audience watched as the camp was gradually improved, from the dilapidated wooden huts at the beginning to the exquisite pavilions and fences now. The livestock sheds were expanded, and a well was added to the camp. The scene of water flowing out was filmed.
They also saw a herd of elephants bathing under the waterfall, a tiger confronting a black bear, and an incredibly cute baby leopard.
This world is truly baffling. How can there be such a diverse environment?
Of course, these are things that those who are particular about details need to consider. For these students, as long as it looks good, that's all that matters.
If it's just a documentary about pottery making or glassmaking, of course not many people will be interested; if it's just about scenery, very few people will care.
But what if there were a place with infinitely beautiful scenery, where there was no one else and everyone had to rely on themselves for everything?
They even started their own fire!
The opening scene this time still shows a fire being started, but the location is different. At Li Sen's request, Chen Yang filmed himself starting a fire at the foot of a snow-capped mountain.
After the flames rise, the scene shifts back to the first scene of the sun shining on the snow-capped mountain, where the entire mountain seems to be ablaze, leaving viewers utterly awestruck.
The final three seconds of the entire documentary were also incredibly surprising.
It was a picture of a terrifyingly large carp leaping out of the water, and the background was clearly the fishpond shown in the video.
After the images disappeared, the documentary also revealed a surprise.
"Six months later, the game world you don't know will be released along with the third season."
Holy crap! Is this a game trailer?
I was stunned to see this Easter egg missing.
This is actually a game trailer?!
Could it be special effects?
That doesn't make sense either. With such realistic special effects, it would be a waste not to use them in movies, right?
This is truly baffling.
Who knows how much was invested in what this documentary is showing so far?
This large piece of land, used arbitrarily, is not included in the documentary. The documentary also covers deserts, oceans, plateaus, snow-capped mountains, and a variety of animals.
It showcases planting, animal husbandry, construction, oil pressing, tea making, iron casting, glassmaking, baking, pottery making, and so on.
This isn't something you can just glance at in a movie and forget; it's something you truly build from the very basics, bit by bit, starting from scratch.
This is essentially a civilization that developed in one place, and no one has found this place yet. We don't know how much the people who made the documentary paid for it.
But this is... a game promotional video?!
Just building that incredibly complex building would require a lot of professionals and take several months. Building the entire camp took more than a year. Was this all just for publicity?
This is absurd and incomprehensible. Why waste time making promotional videos instead of games? Or is the game just a secondary element?
Is the developer of this game out of their mind?
The two seasons of the documentary show so much, and everything is so real, that it makes you wonder if it was actually filmed by people who actually live like that in the wild.
However, although people appear in the images, they are only shown as a hand or an indistinct silhouette. For example, blacksmithing only shows a hammer, and pottery firing only shows a pair of hands covered in clay and hair.
No one knows how many people are there, nor where they are located. Season 2 of "The World You Don't Know" maintains its extremely mysterious style.
Listening to her classmates' discussion, Ding Aiqi felt a sense of pride, because she was a part of this world, and she even filmed some of the scenes.
If my classmates knew that this was a dream world I entered, they would probably be even more surprised.
However, Ding Aiqi knew that this was an absolutely forbidden secret.
"Hey, have you seen that documentary about boys?" Ding Aiqi's deskmate asked.
Ding Aiqi nodded silently, "I've seen it, it's quite interesting."
"Really?" Ding Aiqi asked, and several other girls around her also became interested.
Don't let Ding Aiqi's unremarkable status in the micro-world fool you; she's the only one who's neither an adult nor a child, putting her in an awkward position. But at school, she's an absolute goddess.
Ding Aiqi is already very beautiful, and her family background, which is vaguely revealed, is also quite terrifying. She is the kind of person that everyone wants to get close to but dares not.
Moreover, within that year, she displayed astonishing academic talent and physical ability, consistently ranking among the top ten in her grade in academic performance, and her physical abilities were among the best of all the girls.
Little did others know that Ding Aiqi was constantly facing setbacks in the micro-world.
Chen Liu, this freak, was working with several other freaks on various difficult problems, which she couldn't understand at all and had no way of keeping up with their thinking.
Fortunately, she was more than ten years older than them and had a broader knowledge base. Although she was not as good as them in math olympiad problems, which required a lot of brainpower, she could still teach these children some other basic things.
In order to ensure that her eldest sister's position would remain secure, she had no choice but to study hard.
As for physical fitness, no one in the micro-realm is physically weak, and this is even more true after acquiring spiritual energy. Not only physical fitness, but also physical qualities are improved in all aspects, and even resistance to germs is much stronger.
Moreover, every day she attends classes and in the evenings she spends time with a group of adults in the micro-world, helping them with chores. She has learned a lot and grown a lot, and is now on a completely different level from her classmates.
But this only added to her charm. In the eyes of her classmates, she was almost the epitome of a cool and aloof goddess. Her words and actions were always different from others, and she possessed a unique temperament that no one else could match.
Not only Ding Aiqi, but people who stay in the micro-world for a long time will be different from those around them. Their views on life, money, and material things are gradually diverging from those of ordinary people.
(End of this chapter)
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