Huayu 05, our science fiction movie universe

"Next, let's give a warm welcome to the cast of several heavyweight actors from Phase Four of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe."

On the huge stage of the Xinghe Theater, Guo Fan waved his hand, and several well-known actors walked onto the stage.

Among them are Wang Zhiwen as Chen Ang, Jing Tian as Cheng Xin, Liu Ye as Zhang Beihai, and Shu Chang as Qin Yanni...

Then came some younger, newer faces—these were the actors playing new roles in the fourth phase of the cinematic universe.

This also reveals another difference between the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] and the [Marvel Cinematic Universe], namely the selection of new actors.

It's worth noting that in this new phase of Marvel, the new actors chosen are mostly women and people from minority groups, which has led to the Avengers being jokingly referred to as the "Women's Federation."

However, the Galaxy Cinematic Universe is different. Every new actor selected to take the stage is undeniably good-looking.

For example, Peng Yuchang, Zhao Jinmai, and Jiang Peiyao are all very likable.

Then there are also many middle-aged and elderly actors, whose acting skills are also evident to all.

Just looking at this lineup is enough to put one's mind at ease.

The press conference for the fourth phase of the Galaxy Cinematic Universe lasted for most of the day. During the conference, Guo Fan provided a detailed introduction to the relevant content, which also gave the public endless imagination and made them extremely eager for the follow-up content.

At the dinner following the press conference, both established and emerging stars were all smiles and extremely satisfied with being able to join the project.

In the current downturn of the film and television industry, having such a stable series of projects to participate in is already a blessing.

Meanwhile, at the table where Wang Hao was with other bosses and leaders, they also finalized many new projects amidst the clinking of glasses.

For example, there's the new phase of collaboration with Xinghe Pictures on the [Shushan Cinematic Universe], the [Fengshen Animation Universe] which is currently in production, and the newly established film series project "Zheng He's Voyages to the West".

These projects are currently highly sought after, and other companies are rushing to get involved, so naturally, we are no exception.

A celebration party once again thrust Xinghe Group into the eye of the internet storm, with everyone discussing their company's upcoming film and television projects.

At the same time, the market value of several listed companies under its group also surged.

Currently, Galaxy Group's status in China is much higher than Disney's status in Hollywood.

After all, Disney has several competitors in Hollywood, while Galaxy Group is completely dominant in China.

With such an industry standing, the company can naturally conduct its business with ease and confidence.

Moreover, nowadays, many things don't require Wang Hao's urgent supervision. The work of the fourth phase of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] is mainly handled by Guo Fan.

So after the movie "The Three-Body Problem 2" finished its run and dealt with some internal company matters, he took his wife and children on a holiday during the National Day holiday to relax as a family.

With private jets, they can fly directly to Hainan when it gets cold, buy a villa by the sea, and enjoy a leisurely seaside vacation.

In contrast to Wang Hao's leisurely pace, the heads of various departments within the group company, as well as Guo Fan, are quite busy.

Of course, they also receive company shares as rewards; the better the group's business performs, the higher their income and bonuses become.

In addition, they can also realize their ideals and ambitions, so even if it is a little hard and tiring, Guo Fan and others are full of energy.

Moreover, although Wang Hao was on vacation, he was not a hands-off manager. He would often check on the company's business, and after resting well, he returned to the company before the Spring Festival.

On the eve of the 2023 Spring Festival, Xinghe Group held its first annual meeting and New Year's Eve party in many years at the waterfront venue of its newly built Phase II Xinghe Paradise project, with Douyin as the main platform.

At the gala, not only were many employee representatives and leaders of the group company present, but also many celebrity guests who were invited to perform and leaders of relevant departments.

Meanwhile, the gala was also broadcast live on Douyin, attracting countless netizens to watch. It was a lively and impressive event, and for a time, it even overshadowed the upcoming Spring Festival Gala for the Year of the Rabbit.

After the annual meeting, the employees of Xinghe Group welcomed an even longer Spring Festival holiday that all working people would envy.

Of course, the employees of Galaxy Pictures will have to work even harder this Spring Festival, because they also have a film scheduled for release during the Spring Festival.

Because the Galaxy Cinematic Universe has just finished its third phase, no films from that series will be released during this Spring Festival period. Instead, the final film of the second phase of the Shushan Cinematic Universe, "Purple and Green Demon Extermination," will be released.

This film is an adaptation of the story of the Purple and Green Twin Swords slaying the demon corpse Gu Chen in the novel "Shushan". The special effects are quite outstanding, especially the scene of the Purple and Green Twin Swords wielding their sword energy and combining their powers, which left a lasting impression on many viewers, who continued to talk about it even after leaving the theater.

Following the Spring Festival film season, the first film in the fourth phase of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] was officially released during the May Day holiday.

The movie is called "The Chinese Sun," and it is adapted from Liu Cixin's novel of the same name.

Of course, this work has also undergone some adaptations after being incorporated into the StarCraft cinematic universe.

The main character is still Shuiwa, who comes from a rural background. The story takes place after the Three-Body Crisis, but before Shi Qiang presses the button in The Three-Body Problem 2.

In the movie, Shuiwa was born in a poor mountainous area in Northwest China. His dream since childhood was to leave the countryside and no longer drink the bitter water from the mountains.

Fortunately, the national poverty alleviation policy enabled him to attend school and leave the countryside for a big city.

After graduating from vocational high school, Shuiwa became a Spider-Man, living in Big Beijing and living the life he wanted. The only problem was that he needed to clean the glass curtain wall of the space building, which was a very hard job.

During this process, he met Lu Hai, a former university professor who had lost all his capital by going into business and was therefore frustrated and unsuccessful.

One was a high school student from a farming family, and the other was an intellectual who was a former university professor. By chance, the two became friends.

Shuiwa comforted Lu Hai, who was feeling down, while Lu Hai taught Shuiwa new knowledge.

Afterwards, Lu Hai rallied and was noticed by the aerospace department because of his invention. He entered the system and became the technical head of the "China Sun" project.

The "China Sun" project is a reflector with an area of ​​30,000 square kilometers. Positioned in a geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, it reflects sunlight back to Earth, influencing atmospheric circulation, increasing ocean evaporation, and shifting fronts by altering the atmospheric thermal balance. This, in turn, affects and may even control Earth's climate, improving the human living environment. The project has been very successful; the team led by Lu Hai successfully deployed the massive reflector in space and successfully improved the Earth's ecological environment.

However, as time goes by, the bombardment of solar winds on the reflectors greatly reduces the reflectivity of the mirror film, so they have to select suitable people to clean and maintain these mirrors.

At this moment, Lu Hai saw Shuiwa again; the other person was wiping the glass curtain wall outside his office window.

Lu Hai chose Shuiwa, and with his insistence, Shuiwa and sixty other workers became the first batch of space mirror cleaners, and also the ones with the lowest level of education.

After a period of training, they entered the space station via the space elevator, and then every so often, wearing spacesuits, they maintained and cleaned the mirror reflective film of the "Chinese Sun".

The plot of "The Chinese Sun" is quite simple, but the project of building a giant reflective membrane in space is quite grand.

The key point is that this film focuses on the growth of a rural boy named Shuiwa, and through his experiences, it shows the development and changes in China over the years.

Films that start with ordinary people and showcase the enormous changes of the times are truly inspiring when they are made.

It was this film that showed audiences the difference between the Galaxy Cinematic Universe and other cinematic universes.

In terms of concept alone, "The Chinese Sun" surpasses countless superhero movies.

No matter how many superhero movies are made, the so-called street heroes are still heroes, not real ordinary people, and they will not have the narrative perspective of ordinary people.

Of course, a narrative of ordinary people alone is not enough. Following "The Chinese Sun," the appearance of "Candle Dragon" was like a shot in the arm, invigorating the entire summer movie season of 2023.

Just by looking at the title, you can guess that this movie is in the same style as "Kunlun".

Indeed, the movie "Candle Dragon" tells the story of Huang Ji and his friends searching for the ancient artifact "Candle Dragon".

Those who have read the previous episodes of "Kunlun" know that these so-called ancient "artifacts" are actually high-tech "electrical appliances" from aliens, and "Zhulong" is no exception.

According to Huang Ji, thousands of years ago, at least twenty interstellar races lived on this planet in ancient times. Later, due to the "severing of the connection between heaven and earth," they left in haste. Although they erased most of the traces of the super-civilizations according to the rules, they still left some legacies.

Some of these relics were given to Hengwo on the moon by Emperor Zhuanxu, some were destroyed and disappeared over time, and some were buried underground, waiting to be discovered by people.

The "Candle Dragon" is such an ancient "divine artifact" that may not have been damaged.

Because of the button Shi Qiang pressed on the moon, the sun aged rapidly and faced a helium flash problem a hundred years later. The united government on Earth began searching for a solution in the fourth phase of the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe].

At this point, Huang Ji made a suggestion: to find "Zhulong".

The Classic of the Great Wilderness, North, states: "Beyond the Northwest Sea, north of the Red River, lies Zhangwei Mountain."

There is a god, with a human face and a snake's body, red in color, with straight eyes and riding upright. When he closes his eyes, it is dark; when he opens them, it is bright.

It neither eats, nor sleeps, nor rests, yet it seeks refuge from wind and rain. This is Zhu Jiuyin, also known as Zhulong.

This is the description of Zhulong in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. In plain language, it means that there is a deity named Zhulong, who is a thousand miles long. When he opens his eyes, it is daytime; when he closes his eyes, it is nighttime. His breath can create winter and summer, changing the four seasons.

Of course, according to Huang Ji's explanation, this Zhulong is a huge climate regulator.

It is thousands of miles long, and its force field can cover the entire planet. It can control and maintain the ecology and climate of any planet, and modify the planetary environment to make it suitable for various intelligent beings to live in.

To put it more vividly, Zhulong is like a planet-level central air conditioning system.

This is precisely why Huang Ji mentioned it. As the sun ages and expands, the climate problems on Earth will inevitably become extremely serious. Although they also have tools like the "Chinese Sun" to regulate the climate, if the "moving of mountains" is to be carried out, which takes place far away from the sun, then alien technology like the Candle Dragon would be more useful.

Yes, in the movie "Candle Dragon", the protagonists first proposed the "moving mountains" plan.

This also lets many fans who love this cinematic universe know that, due to the solar helium flash crisis and the threat of aliens, humanity is preparing to take Earth on a long voyage.

Of course, accomplishing this feat was extremely difficult, but in fact, they had already considered this option long before Shi Qiang pressed the button on the moon to destroy the Trisolaran fleet.

The reason this plan became one of the options for the Earth United Government was thanks to Dr. Ding Yi's research on macroatoms.

After several iterations and research improvements, an inconspicuous branch emerged from the macro-atomic fusion weapon he developed: heavy nuclear fusion.

Using this technology, they can generate enormous amounts of energy by "burning stones".

This led the Chinese government within the coalition government to devise a solution to the "Three-Body" crisis: the so-called "Mountain Moving" plan.

The plan is to use heavy nuclear fusion technology to build thousands of planetary engines on Earth, thereby propelling the Earth out of the solar system.

This plan was proposed as an alternative, along with the "Wallfacer" plan, and several other plans, including the "Digital Life" plan, were proposed around the same time.

Now, facing the solar helium flash crisis, the importance of the "Mountain Moving Project" has undoubtedly been elevated to several levels.

At this point, the role of the divine artifact "Zhulong" naturally became extremely important.

Having confirmed this, Huang Ji and the others naturally sprang into action, beginning their search for the colossal artifact "Zhulong" on Earth.

At this time, the Classic of Mountains and Seas came into play its proper role.

Through the interpretation of this ancient mythological text, Huang Ji successfully located the "Zhulong".

However, during the operation, another group of villains appeared and fought with Huang Ji and his group who were searching for "Candle Dragon".

This villainous group consists of remnants of the former ETO organization and the Illuminati. In addition, a new force is also involved: the "Digital Life" faction, which opposes the Mountain Moving Project.

They believed that instead of spending vast amounts of manpower and resources building planetary engines to propel Earth across tens or hundreds of light-years, it would be better to build a space expedition fleet and upload the consciousness of most of Earth's population to a virtual dream space. This way, they could travel light, resulting in a much higher success rate and a better user experience. (End of Chapter)