Chapter 85: Mecha vs. Monster
Before arriving in China, Don Murphy was reluctant to believe that Jiang Heng could shoot mechas that were so textured and looked so real.

The reason, of course, is that China was too backward at that time. How could a country where even its automobile industry was still in its infancy and the streets were filled with imported cars and joint venture cars, possibly make a good mecha movie?

Although film is just an art, it also needs soil to be born.

For example, Americans definitely cannot film Chinese martial arts stories and mythological stories well.

But science fiction, space, and mecha are the subjects that Americans are good at!

Now a Chinese person has overtaken me and I can't catch up no matter how hard I try. I can't tell you how angry I feel.

We can only hope that Pacific Rim will be of poor quality and the so-called IMAX effects will be garbage.

Unexpectedly, what he saw was a shot with full visual effects and extremely realistic details. Don Murphy didn't know how to describe his feelings at the moment.

Especially the shot of the Ranger slowly stepping into the Alaskan waters on a rainy night is so cool.

He was thinking about how to advise Michael Bay to surpass "Pacific Rim".

On the screen, in the sea, a huge fishing boat encountered a monster and didn't know how to escape.

The nearly 80-meter-tall Wanderer came riding on the waves, stretched out its huge iron hands and lifted the fishing boat out of the water, leaving the audience in the venue stunned.

“It’s really exciting!”

“How did you take this photo?”

"It's so real. Is there really such a mecha in the world?"

“Maybe in the United States!”

"Impossible, if there was one, I would have taken it out to scare people long ago!"

For Chinese people in 2001, the United States is truly an extremely powerful entity, which is also one of the reasons why many people like Hollywood movies.

Therefore, for quite a number of Chinese people, watching Jiang Heng’s special effects blockbusters will give them an extremely dreamy feeling.

It's the kind of movie where you think it won't be that good, but the result is far beyond your imagination, and there's a strange sense of pleasure in the process of watching the movie.

Among the thousands of people in the audience, there are some such people.

Before I came, I was very pessimistic about everything, and sat in the cinema thinking “Fuck it”!
Especially when he saw the Ranger using the "plasma cannon" to blast the monster's intestines and stomach, he had to use "fuck" several times in a row to express his excitement.

"This is so cool, the movements are so realistic!"

"Are they happy too early?"

"Not finishing off the enemy after the fight is sheer stupidity!"

As the audience was discussing, the monster jumped out of the sea, slapped the Wanderer on the head, and used the huge "spike" on its head to stab into the chest of the Wanderer's mecha.

The hero charged up the plasma cannon again, but it was too late. The monster bit the limbs of the "Wanderer" mecha fiercely and tore off the mecha's left hand, like a giant beast eating a man.

What’s even more terrible is that they actually ripped open the cockpit and carried the pilot played by Xie Tingfeng out.

Inside the theater, the audience looked at the big screen with serious expressions, wanting to see how the hero would save the situation.

The only thing that can solve the current dilemma is naturally the plasma cannon.

It's a pity that it accumulates power too slowly. During this period, the monster keeps biting the hard mecha. The male protagonist, who is connected by neural networks, wails in pain, as if the broken mecha is wailing.

Fortunately, the plasma cannon was finally fired, and both the Wanderer and the monster disappeared.

When the audience was worried about the fate of the male protagonist, the camera turned and showed an old man leading a child, walking on the beach in the snow to look for treasure.

"Oh, my God!" It was the old man on the screen who exclaimed as he looked into the distance.

The camera turned and a scene appeared that countless movie fans will never forget.

A pair of huge iron legs appeared in the sea, filling the entire big screen.

The camera looks up and sees this steel giant returning from the waves in the wind and snow, struggling with one arm, but he collapses to the ground the moment he reaches the shore, as if foreshadowing the end of an era.

It is so tall that when its knees are lowered, any small part on it is much taller than a human on the ground.

Yet he was so weak that the mud and sand splashed up when he landed was more than ten meters high, which shows how badly he fell.

The strongest mecha, the Wanderer, was seriously injured.

Its driver, covered in wounds, ran out dejectedly and fell headfirst into the snow.

The camera zooms up, and the human being next to the wanderer's body looks so small, which makes the audience feel sad.

What follows is a transitional plot in which the monsters evolve faster and faster, but humans’ mechas are not enough.

The major coastal cities around the Pacific Rim were frequently destroyed by monsters, and a large number of mechas were damaged in the battles. The countries finally decided to abandon the Mecha Hunter Plan and rebuild the coastal defense walls.

The black general who had been in charge of the Mech Hunters was unwilling to give up and argued with the American representative, who promised him that he could lead the remaining Mech Hunters to Hong Kong for the last battle. The sponsorship only lasted for the last eight months, until the coastal defense wall was completed.

When it came to choosing the general who would be in charge of the Mecha Hunter project, Columbia recommended Samuel Jackson. Jiang Heng naturally had no objection. After all, he had seen him in many Avengers movies, so he was at least familiar with him.

On the screen, the plot progresses and the male protagonist goes to Sitka, Alaska, participates in the construction of the coastal protection wall, and becomes a down-and-out welder.

But I learned from TV that this thing is like paper to monsters.

It took the workers years to build, but the monster only took an hour to demolish it.

The male protagonist was shocked, the audience was silent, and a turning point occurred.

On TV, Australia's Eureka Raider mecha, with its strong maneuverability, heavy blows from its copper fists, and missiles from its chest, easily killed a level 4 monster.

Because it happened during the day, the fight was extremely clear, and it was the first time that the audience clearly saw the image of a tall and strange monster.

I watched it being knocked down and falling to the ground, revealing its huge teeth and tongue.

"Fuck, this Eureka Raider is so maneuverable!"

"Yes, if the Wanderer's plasma cannon had this firing rate, Xie Tingfeng would not have died!"

"The attack is very smooth!"

I heard the pilot of the Eureka Raider on TV say that the termination of the Mecha Hunter program was entirely the fault of this unqualified pilot.

When the male protagonist left in frustration, a helicopter slowly landed in front of the construction site. It turned out to be a black general who came to ask the male protagonist to return to the team.

I definitely refused at first, but I eventually returned.

Amid the exciting soundtrack, a helicopter flew across the bay and arrived at the Mech Hunter training base.

At this time, a man wearing a long black coat and holding a huge black umbrella walked towards us.

The camera turned again, and a woman walked over and gently raised the umbrella. It was Gao Yuanyuan, with short hair and a cold face.

The passionate background music, the continuous rain, the black umbrella and clothing, and the large helicopter slowly landing in front of her, all indicate that this woman is no ordinary person!

　Today was a mix of work and writing, and I was almost always busy. I can't hold on any longer. I owe you a chapter, but I'll definitely make it up on the weekend!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)