B-level director

Chapter 32 Alien

"A large number of alien themes were shot in American movies, starting in the 50s. It was the period when the Cold War was in full swing, and people's fear of unknown enemies, opposing ideologies, and another ethnic group was transformed into alien creatures. This is also the peak of the world's immigration wave , the word Alien originally referred to aliens, and later became a general term for alien creatures.

"Globalization has accelerated since the 80s. As world exchanges become more intertwined, economies and businesses become more intertwined, and cultures penetrate each other, the psychology of fear of outsiders and rejection of others is also growing on the other side. Today, globalization has fallen apart, high walls have been erected, and the fear of aliens is ubiquitous.

"In the 1979 classic science fiction film "Alien", the most terrifying imagination is that the alien is hidden deep in the human body, and then it will burst out of the chest. So does the alien exist in the vast universe, or is it in the depths of the human heart?"

Cheng Tianlu looked away from the screen and looked out the window.The magazine is doing a special topic on "Globalization Collapse", and a film reporter reported a plan to discuss this issue from the perspective of science fiction movies.

He naturally agreed, and with a little selfishness, he hoped that Brother Qi would be included as well, so that those B-level movies would have a chance to communicate with the public.

The sun is shining outside the window.The magazine office is a three-story independent building, and his office is at the end of the corridor on the third floor, facing a one-way street.Several tassel trees were planted beside the road, full of white flowers, commonly known as June Snow.This kind of tree is very rare in Beijing. Although the day is opposite, every time I see a tree full of white heads, I will be stunned for a while all day long.

Today his eyes were attracted by something else.A banner was hung between the tassel trees, and upon closer inspection, it actually drew a giant, big-eyed alien.His heart skipped a beat, why is he always surrounded by aliens recently?

A line of words "AlienRun ran away with me to the universe!" was printed on the banner.Xiao Dongli happened to bring coffee and asked, "Where is Sazi?"

"Xiao Er, eloping to the universe is what kind of gang cut?"

Xiao Dongli took a look, "Hey, it's a gimmick marathon made by Internet companies. All the contestants have to dress up as aliens. They can wear headgear or paper shells. In short, the weirder the merrier. Now there are many marathons with various tricks. After that, there are Avengers Run, Oyster Run, Midnight Ghost Run, and all kinds of ghosts and monsters.”

"Can anyone sign up?"

"what?"

The word "elope with me" makes Tianlu feel swaying and itchy all day long.His little thoughts, from a cloud of mist, gradually became full of nose and eyes, and sooner or later they would burst out of his chest.

He knew that the sensible thing to do was to stay away from Brother Qi, treat him as a water monster at the bottom of the lake, or a strange story in a mountain village, and keep him out of his life.But don’t go see Brother Qi, but Brother Qi turns into various forms to harass him, the alien under the tassel tree, the zombie on the notebook, the alien detector in his pocket...

He brought the alien detector back again, and he still keeps it with him all the time.Cheng Tianlu took out the detector, flipped it in his palm for a while, and finally sent a message to Brother Qi: Have dinner together tonight?

This is the first time the two have had dinner.After going home all day long, I took a shower, put on the most comfortable shirt, rinsed my mouth three times with mouthwash, and wiped the screen of my phone and the dial of my watch.After doing this, he felt nervous, and the first love date was nothing more than that.But this is Brother Qi, the two of them hang shoulders and backs every day, swaying around in their underwear, and they have tried rushing to the bathroom in the morning to pee in the toilet together.Nervous ass?

Brother Qi today is different from usual.Brother Qi no longer wears sunglasses, but wears a loose plaid shirt and jeans, like a code farmer who just got off work in a nearby IT company.Just because he was dressed so ordinary, he looked even more handsome.Under the bright yellow light of the restaurant, the difference in the pair of heterochromatic pupils was obvious.Cheng Tianlu suddenly understood why the second-year comics painted this eye disease as a personal charm. The figure was in the two eyes, one was deeply settled, and the other was floating. When Qi Geer looked at him intently, the light-colored eyes were also There is a sense of alienation, so he can't help but want to explore and tear apart the barrier.The two of them only spoke innocuous words.Brother Qi ate a bullfrog with chopsticks, "Huh, it's too spicy."

"Dip in some vinegar to relieve the spiciness."

"Which one is vinegar and which one is soy sauce?" Geer Qi turned the seasoning bottle on the table and studied it carefully.

Cheng Tianlu smiled: "You will know when you open it and smell it." Brother Qi is really an idiot in life, a public enemy of daily necessities.Cheng Tianlu felt pity in his heart, and reached out to take the seasoning bottle to help him identify it.The fingers of the two touched, Ge'er Qi's hand trembled, and the dark sauce spilled on Cheng Tianlu's palm.

Brother Qi said, "Don't waste it." He dipped his finger into the sauce on Cheng Tianlu's hand, put it into his mouth and sucked it, "It's vinegar."

Qige'er's lips were stained red with red oil, as if he had sucked blood.Tianlu's heart was beating wildly, his head was dizzy for a while, and he unconsciously put his palm in front of Brother Qi, "Yes, don't waste it, let's lick it too."

Brother Qi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm your puppy!" He picked up a tissue and gently wiped it clean for him.

Brother Qi's movements are so gentle, as if soaked in warm water all day long, his whole body is soft.He knew that his ability to resist had come to an end, and Qi Ge'er could swallow him whole into his mouth as long as he rolled it up, without throwing up his bones.He couldn't help but say, "What do you think of me?"

Brother Qi said honestly: "He's a nice person, warm-hearted and honest, with ideals and principles, and there seems to be nothing wrong with him. But you don't trust your surroundings very much, and you don't feel very safe. You have to explain everything reasonably before you feel Rest assured. Once everything makes sense, you feel bored again, and you have to destroy something, leave a loophole, and occasionally it’s quite childish. To put it bluntly, it’s a schizophrenia.”

Cheng Tianlu smiled helplessly and said, "I'm really speechless when I'm told by you as an authentic psychopath." I didn't expect Brother Qi to say such a series of serious words. Thinking about it carefully, this evaluation is quite correct. "I really don't feel very safe, and I would rather stay alone. I am in my 30s, and I am asked why I don't have a family every day. It is estimated that many people think that I have a hundred girlfriends, or have some ulterior hobbies. "

"You are in good condition, no one wants you."

"What about you, are you crazy playing outside?"

"There's something wrong with me."

Have fun all day long.After laughing for a while, he said, "Do you want to elope with me...together?"

"Ah?" Brother Qi fixed his hands in the air with his fat intestines in between, "What do you mean?"

"Literally. We are going to hold an alien marathon near our magazine office, and we have to dress up to participate. There are so many props and costumes in your group, and we run together?"

"Don't run. I'm out of breath every time I go upstairs, and I'm sure to die suddenly when I run a marathon."

"It's really worthless. If you can't die, if you can't escape, I will carry you."

"Really?"

"Really," Cheng Tianlu was as serious as signing a house purchase contract, "I won't abandon you, and I will carry you everywhere I go."

Brother Qi put the fat sausage in his mouth and chewed it a few times, feeling that it was extremely spicy.The power of chili rises from the stomach and burns.When he went out today, he struggled for a long time, considering whether to take off his sunglasses.Sunglasses have become part of his body since he was injured in his teens, and he rarely takes them off in front of outsiders.The sunglasses protected him, allowing the light not to shine directly into his eyes, and also isolated him from the outside world.

Today he decided not to wear sunglasses, the light in front of him was a few degrees brighter, and every ups and downs and turns of Cheng Tianlu's face were clearly visible.

His outline is clear, and he is a photogenic face. When the light is strong, the correct eyebrows, nose shape, lip peak and chin will be like an orderly arrangement of floating islands, stubbornly highlighted on the background; The lighting is soft, and the details of the lines are more vivid. The forehead, cheekbones, nose peak, philtrum, and lips rise and fall, like soothing light waves, coming with every frown and smile.Eyes can be acted out, but it is almost impossible to completely control the subtle expressions of people.Cheng Tianlu's soft heart flooded over like a golden mountain.

Qi Geer felt a little short of breath.He gulped down the cold beer and said, "It's spicy. Okay."

After the "okay," they never mentioned the elopement again.But as long as there is a gap between the conversations, an unprecedented tension exists between the two of them like a substance.The dishes on the table were all in pieces, but the two of them didn't feel full as if they hadn't eaten.It's already 10:30, and no one knows how to say goodbye.

Brother Qi subconsciously wanted to lift his glasses, but only now did he realize that his protective shield was gone.Brother Qi paused, then lowered his hands and asked, "Is it okay tonight, come to my house?"

Cheng Tianlu almost bit his tongue: "Going to your house? It's so late?" This is skipping a grade, overtaking, or running away. Why does Brother Qi always not follow the law of development and can't guess his direction at all?

Seeing his hesitation, Brother Qi smiled and said, "Forget it's too late, let's pay the bill and go."

"Don't, I'm driving. I'm afraid it's late! Your family should go to sleep. Will going in and out disturb them?"

"It's okay. You are afraid of being disturbed, so sleep in my room and don't leave at night."

Chengtianlu's heartbeat soared to 160 on the smooth and unimpeded Third Ring Road.Sanhuan seemed to have specially opened the way for him, so that he stopped by the wall of the old building before he had time to repent.

This is an ordinary old-fashioned slab building, clean and dilapidated.There are couplets pasted on the door of Brother Qi’s house. Usually the couplets are mellow and joyful, but this one has deep and powerful characters.Brother Qi said, "My old man wrote it."

The door opened, and the two walked into the hallway.Cheng Tianlu's distracted horses immediately died down, and they were brought together in the upbringing of adults.The house is miscellaneous but not messy, the furniture is heavy and old-fashioned, the wood is shiny and bright, and the sofa towels with large flower hollows are meticulously spread.Large bookcases occupy every wall. At a glance, there are at least a thousand volumes. "You don't like reading, you didn't expect your home to be a small library."

"My father has to clean up a batch every month, or the house would have been filled in solid."

Cheng Tianlu approached the bookcase and glanced line by line. There were mostly literary works, and not only Chinese, but also English, German, Japanese, Russian, French, &$*language...

The more Cheng Tianlu read it, the more surprised he was. He couldn't even identify the language of some books, "So your father is an alien! The old man knows too many languages."

"He only knows Chinese, and his English is simple to read. These are the translated versions of his books."

Cheng Tianlu was even more startled, pulled out a Chinese book, and carefully read the author's signature, "Hey, your father is Chang Fengqiu? A contemporary writer Chang Fengqiu?" Anyone who is not illiterate knows this name, but unexpectedly it is Brother Qi's father . "Your father is a master of literature, why are you so uneducated?"

Brother Qi smiled: "If I was born in his head, there is a high probability that I will be like you. But don't all people come from the lower third road?"

"That's true." Cheng Tianlu said with a smile, "But having said that, growing up in a scholarly family, one must have some culture, even if you don't become a talent, you can still be a gentle scum.

Why are you so full of monsters and ghosts? "As he spoke, he opened the novel in his hand, and within a few pages, a large graffiti appeared, drawing a lollipop dripping with green juice. Although the brushwork was immature, the style was unmistakably produced by Brother Qi. The whole book was drawn Brother Qi used it as drawing paper and ruined it to pieces.

Brother Qi said indifferently: "I heard from others that my father's writing is also about ghosts and goblins, and he just turns into a human being, so there is no need to go through a special trial."

Cheng Tianlu shook his head and smiled, and put the book back on the shelf.He read this novel when he was in college. It was about the events of the 70s and [-]s. Demons danced wildly, ghosts and snakes. For writers who grew up in that era, which one in the text was not torn and bloody?In comparison, Qi Geer's scary imaginations are like games.

"It's even more difficult for his works to pass the review. You haven't read his novels, have you?"

"I don't understand. A straw pile writes [-] words, and half my life has passed after reading it."

"Speaking of my father is so poor." The two smiled, unconsciously getting close.At this distance, lifting a finger and moving a footstep will startle the other party, even blink, or even breathe.At this distance, no matter how your eyes look elsewhere, they will always fall on the other person in the end.

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It's all in the room, then the next chapter will be a straight shot