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Chapter 31 Tentacles

The car broke down in the mountains.The driver said, the destination is not far away, let's walk there.

This area is a stretch of mountainous area with inconvenient transportation and hundreds of mountain villages dotted here and there.The mountain villages are isolated from the rest of the world, separated by mountains, with little communication with each other. It takes at least ten hours to walk from the village to the national highway.

There are four people in a car, all of whom are poverty alleviation cadres, and they come to register the population of the mountain village.One of them said: Can we walk there? It takes more than two hours to drive.

The driver assures me that I know the shortcut and I can get there in an hour.

They did not enter the wild woods.The road was rugged and wet, and the direction was difficult to distinguish. When it was dark, there was no human habitation.Everyone blames the driver.The driver said, obviously the village is here, why is it gone?

Going further, one person suddenly said, "There is a house in front!" Everyone looked at it, and there was indeed a big lake in front of them, and the shadows of buildings could be seen on the surface of the lake rippling with moonlight.They stepped up and ran over, only to see many brick houses extending from the lake and built against the mountains.It was pitch black and silent, with no lights at all.

They entered the largest two-storey building.The house is very quiet, it is an office.Turning on the light, they found a woman inside.The woman was horrified and asked why they had come in.She also said, everyone here is dead, so run away too.

They were about to ask, but the woman ran away.The surroundings were pitch black, and they didn't dare to wander around, so they made do to spend the night in the building.

The next morning, they were woken up by the loud noise of the market outside.People from the village gathered around to see them.Like all mountain villages, this village is closed and backward, but everyone in the village is healthy and normal. Where are there dead people?

The village committee arranged accommodation for them, and showed them their household registrations, and the day passed like this.Before going to bed at night, the woman appeared in front of them again.She urged them to escape quickly. She said that none of the people she saw during the day were real people, and the real people had already died.If you don't believe me, go to the village now, there is no one in the house.

Having said this, the big stick stopped and took a sip of water.

Xiao Dongli couldn't help but said: "This is not science fiction, isn't it still a late-night talk? What about alien spaceships, and the setting of the future world, wouldn't it just be a fuss around an old village?"

Ling Lingjiu said with a good temper: "Brother, just for the special effects of a spaceship, you can throw millions of dollars into it and you won't hear the sound. We don't use any of these wasteful things that cost money. They can be as cheap as possible. It was done in the shed, and it was determined not to be on location.”

"Brother Jiu, it's no wonder none of your movies score more than five," Xiao Dongli was disappointed.

Cheng Tianlu was not disappointed. He had no expectations for Brother Qi's pattern, so he asked casually, "Is the big villain an alien monster? We need special effects."

Brother Qi: "No, you've been hiding in the bottom of the water, and then take some reflections."

Cheng Tianlu and Xiao Dongli: "..."

The big stick continued to tell the story.

They had the courage to go in the dark and go to see each house.The house is clean, there are fresh dishes in the kitchen, and the children's textbooks and bags are all there.As for people, none of them.The whole village is empty.

The next day, the villagers came back again.The poverty alleviation cadres soon discovered that something was wrong. The behavior of the villagers was normal, but as long as they did not communicate with them, the actions and words of the villagers were almost exactly the same as the day before.At night, these people all disappeared.

The woman said, have you seen them, they are memories, not real.The monster at the bottom of the lake killed their bodies but left their minds.It survives by sucking consciousness!

Xiao Dongli interrupted again: "Screenwriter, this is so nonsense, what the hell is consciousness, can you eat enough? Science fiction, at least there must be a scientific principle."

The big stick explained in an orderly manner: "The most powerful organ in the human body is the brain. Of course, the thoughts and memories produced by the brain have energy. Now we know the deceased and the saints, it is all because of memory and thought, which is more powerful than the body and buildings. existed much longer."

Cheng Tianlu thinks this is a magic stick theory, but bad movies don't follow logic, so he said: "Xiao Er, don't interrupt, continue, big stick."

"Well, she took them down to the basement, and the whole ceiling was full, full of brains. She said it was too much work to keep a body, so it only left their brains. It was a big jellyfish, in They have lived in the lake for a long time, and when they are about to die, they will stick to the rocks and take the form of a polyp. The polyp has thousands of tentacles, like transparent buds, elongating and elongating all the way. You see, The tentacles of the polyps are attached to the brains, and they want to keep the brains alive, remembering, and thinking, but there is no real body that can execute the orders of the brains, and the brains are all living in the illusion under anesthesia.

"They smashed open the wall, exposing the water pipes, and the pipes were full of tentacles, densely packed all over the building. They were frightened and fled. The tentacles extended from the pipes and crawled towards them.

"They were hiding in the building, running away slowly. Someone suddenly remembered and asked the woman, what are you? Why are you not anesthetized?"

Xiao Dongli patted his thigh: "I know, women are jellyfish, attracting you into the urn and trapping them all in this big food cup!" Before he knew it, he had already substituted into the story, regardless of logic and common sense.

The big stick said: "No, guess again."

"She came from another planet to save the earth! By the way, she is an alien, which saves big scenes and makeup fees."

The big stick smiled: "Neither. The woman said that I am a real illusion, a figure imagined by one of the heads here."

"Huh?" Cheng Tianlu and Xiao Dongli were very surprised, Cheng Tianlu said: "Take the philosophical route."

"She said that the person who imagined me has a stronger consciousness than all the villagers. Even if there is only one head left, he still wants to resist and doesn't want to become food for jellyfish. So he created me and asked me to destroy this place! The fugitives were terrified, what about us, have we been anesthetized, why can we communicate with consciousness, take what the villagers give us, and eat the food they cook?

"The woman said, do you know which organ consumes the most energy in the human body? The brain! To feed so many brains, food is also needed. You were brought here by the driver. It's brain...fodder!"

Xiao Dongli and Cheng Tianlu couldn't hold back, and laughed loudly, "Go on, how does this sister lead them out of the trough?"

"The woman said, I'm here to destroy this place. The body of the jellyfish keeps growing underwater, and there are not enough brains here for it to eat, so its tentacles will grow all the way along the water veins, to other villages, to other villages. In the city, until everyone’s brains are eaten. So I have to blow up this building, these brains are gone, the jellyfish will have no food, and they can’t harm other villages!”

When Cheng Tianlu heard this, he understood that Brother Qi and Da Bangzi made up a mysterious and strange talk, with the purpose of blowing up the building.Why is Brother Qi so addicted to blowing up things?Cheng Tianlu was noncommittal about the script. Anyway, B-level movies don't care about depth, as long as they are enough to stimulate blood and gore.

Sure enough, Brother Qi and Big Stick didn't care about the rationality of the story at all, and started discussing the scene of massacre.Brother Qi: "Just the tentacles chasing back and forth, it's quite monotonous. Otherwise, these people ran into a room full of corpses, which were the feed of jellyfish before. The corpses began to germinate, and the tentacles controlled the corpses." .”

The big stick continued: "The rotting corpses stood up and fought with them hand-to-hand, chasing and chasing them. It's interesting! Brother Jiu, does this count as being haunted or spirited? Did you violate the red line?"

Ling Lingjiu laughed: "It doesn't count. Aren't we making a science fiction film? This is a forward-looking application of the combination of brain science and unknown biology, and it can pass the review!"

Cheng Tianlu shook his head secretly, and sighed in his heart: "It's really not easy for this group of horror filmmakers."

He has no interest in zombie monsters at all, and his eyes slipped to Ge Ge'er every few seconds.Just looking at Brother Qi's face, he would not have thought that what he was talking about was murder and fraud. Instead, he was like a focused and serious child who met a river and thought about how to build a stone bridge to cross the river.In Cheng Tianlu's view, understanding a murderer may be easier than understanding why a person imagines a murderer.

Where is Qi Geer's other shore, and what is his river?

Just as he was engrossed in his thoughts, Qi Geer's toad mirror looked over, and the two looked at each other.Cheng Tianlu suddenly fell into the river, feeling that the current was submerged and he couldn't breathe.The air stagnates, and a transparent silence envelops the two of them, shutting out the world.

Ling Lingjiu "coughed" and said with a smile: "Master Lu, you can contribute as well. The script consultant can't just sit and watch the play."

"Hey," Cheng Tianlu slacked off confidently, "I'm just here to watch the show, so I can rub your Mingqian Longjing along the way."

"It's okay to watch a theater and drink tea, but you keep staring at people..."

Cheng Tianlu always blushed, and interrupted him: "It's fine if you don't let me drink, I'll treat everyone to drink Coke."

Ling Lingjiu smiled sweetly: "That's good."

Ling Lingjiu privately said to Brother Qi: "The editor-in-chief is really interesting. He looks like a man who has gone through a lot of troubles. He looks so sophisticated on the surface, but he is still innocent and enthusiastic in his heart, so cute."

Brother Qi smiled and said nothing.

Ling Lingjiu said again: "Oh, you are very lucky. The blind man tripped over gold when he was walking at night."

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't pretend! What I'm talking about is that you have found a treasure. The person you like, they also like you, golden shit luck. Aren't you also lost, it's good to find a partner."

Brother Qi was taken aback by these words.Looking for a companion?For him, this is even more unimaginable than flying immortals outside the sky.

Ling Lingjiu looked at him: "People can't throw all their emotions into illusions, hide in the building with ghost tentacles, wait for people from outside to come in, kill one by one, and leave them alive, what's the point? Buddy, If you find an opportunity, go out by yourself."

"What nonsense!"

Ling Lingjiu giggled: "That's right, it's bullshit. Have some tea, you're really dishonest."

The author says:

The aliens in "Arrival" are mistized, which is also quite good.

There is really not a single Chinese-language science fiction film that can be played. Maybe the culture is too involved in the world, and it is difficult to have a high-concept setting with a big brain.Hong Kong used to have a mature film industry, but it didn't produce any big hits, and Tsui Hark's was just messing around.Ni Kuang was the most popular writer of sci-fi in the early days. The Wesley series set up a bunch of suspense, and then attributed them all to aliens. There is no science, but they are still ghost stories, just replacing gods and ghosts with aliens.However, Ni Kuang's imagination is really rich, and it is still much better than many online articles.