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Chapter 207 This is the way we came!
when……

The moment Chung Kin-ming read out "Sun Wukong vs. Superman 2"!
The entire screening room seemed to be muted instantly, and the whole venue fell silent.

Everyone stared blankly at Zhong Jianming, and also at Zhou Yang standing behind him...

They could never have dreamed of it!

Zhou Yang, that madman, not only mocks everyone, but even mocks himself!
They even thought they were seeing things!

Several people shook their heads violently.

Next!

Suddenly, the large screen behind us lit up, and then a clip from "Monkey King vs. Superman 2" was displayed on the screen.

The clip shows a chaotic battlefield, a chaotic auto repair shop, and a somewhat blurry camera.

Cheap wigs, cheap fight scenes, unbelievably rough camera work, and inconsistent close-ups and even rougher film sound recordings...

Everything looked so cheap.

When the rough cut of "Monkey King vs. Superman 2" was shown, the theater erupted in deafening laughter. Some people slapped their thighs and shouted, "This is supposed to be a movie?!" Some even whistled and heckled, while others laughed so hard they were doubled over, pointing at the cheap-looking Superman cape on the screen and yelling, "Zhou Yang, is that Superman cape made from a garbage bag? Hahaha!"

The screen then dimmed slightly, and after a moment, it switched to a new set of data.

That's the data list for "Monkey King vs. Superman 2".

Total box office revenue: 2.1 million! [As of March 1st]

Movie DVD sales: 8.7 million! [As of March 1st]

The film has 11.2 million reviews on [Movie House] as of March 1st.

……

When the box office, DVD sales, number of reviews, and other data were listed, everyone's laughter stopped abruptly!

A film critic wearing a baseball cap put down his phone, staring in shock at the 870 million DVD sales figures, exclaiming incredulously, "Damn, this awful movie... how could so many people buy it?"

A moment later, the air in the screening room seemed to be sucked out, leaving only the flickering blue light of the screen and the hum of the air conditioner.

At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that the film's production cost was only 20,000!

Just as everyone was in a daze...

"Based on the votes of 130,000 netizens..." Zhong Jianming adjusted his reading glasses, glanced down, and said, "This film is so bad it's refreshingly unique, so bad it's unforgettable, haha!"

A few seconds of deathly silence followed.

Suddenly, a deafening roar of laughter erupted from the crowd!

"I can vouch for it! My little nephew watched it three times and really enjoyed it. He even discussed whether Sun Wukong or Superman was more powerful, haha!"

"Yes, I have one too. We still have the DVD of this movie at home, haha. I even watched it a few days ago, haha..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, this movie is so brutal! I was totally hooked after watching it. I was cursing it the whole time, but, incredibly, I actually finished it! Hahaha!"

"..."

bursts of laughter...

The sounds of laughter and applause rose and fell throughout the venue, diluting the tense atmosphere in the screening room.

........................

"Who won the award? Why can't I see it? I can't get into the live video stream, and damn it, the text and image live streams on the homepage are also down!"

"It seems Zhou Yang won an award! I saw the news at the scene!"

"Holy crap, Zhou Yang won an award? How is that possible?!"

"He actually won an award, and he presented it to his own 'Monkey King vs. Superman 2'?"

"Damn it, Zhou Yang, that mad dog, even bites himself!"

"Damn it, what's wrong with the website? It's one thing to not let people watch the live stream, but now even the text-based live stream is down, and only the comment section is lagging terribly!"

"[Movie Home] You son of a bitch, can't you at least fix your servers? Is it that hard to buy a decent server? You motherfucker!"

"Grass……"

The screening room was noisy, but the other side of the "Movie House" was in complete turmoil!

The numbers on the server monitoring screen at [Movie Home] were jumping wildly—the number of online users surged from 15 to 35 in an instant, and the real-time comment refresh rate caused the backend code to groan in despair.

Technician Xiao Wang stared at the suddenly reddening CPU usage curve, grabbed his walkie-talkie, and exclaimed in shock, "Quickly switch to the backup server! The forum is completely frozen like a PowerPoint presentation!"

With his roar!

All the technical staff switched to the latest large server immediately, and finally stabilized the control panel!

But the forum's homepage was instantly flooded with comments: "Holy crap! Zhou Yang, this mad dog, even bites himself?!" posted by user "Movie Judge" garnered over 700 million likes in less than a minute!

Immediately afterwards, the technical staff at RealPlayer were shocked to see the data and discovered that the latency was as high as 47 seconds, the buffering interface crashed and froze, and was "shaking terribly"!
In the live text and image chat rooms outside, everyone was asking "Who won the award?", which once again overwhelmed the server!
The post by user "Worker's Son" titled "Hahahaha, the trending topic on the homepage #ZhouYangIKillMyself#" went viral instantly!

The page kept refreshing, displaying a series of 404 errors. After a series of adjustments, the server finally returned to normal, but the webpage was still extremely laggy and slow...

Many users spent a long time posting, only to find they couldn't click "send"!
The camera on the RealPlayer live stream page was so choppy and distorted that even with a limit of 5 users, the signal was still intermittent due to technical limitations.

Standing above the Feihe Cinema, Yang Bo was so nervous that his throat became hoarse from shouting. A torrent of data was coming in, but they couldn't handle it!
"Hurry up!"

"Hold on!"

"The number of users has exceeded 35!"

"40 million!"

"45 million!"

"Holy crap, could it break 50? Damn!"

"..."

The moment when [Movie House] reached 48 online users!
Looking at the congested server, Yang Bo finally took a deep breath and gritted his teeth!
"Turn off image live streaming, only keep text live streaming!"

"Can……"

"closure!"…………………………

[Wandou Film Network] is also broadcasting the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony live!

The Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony had only been going on for a little over ten minutes when traffic on Wandou Movie Network suddenly exploded!

but……

All the staff members stared at the page in shock!

This traffic didn't come from the Hong Kong Film Awards; on the contrary, it all came from the Cinema House!

Besides the official pinned post about the Hong Kong Film Awards!

The following trending posts and hot search topics are all live streams from the pages of #GoldenBroomAward# and #ZhouYang#!
"Sorry, it's too slow over there, could I borrow your space for a moment..."

"Thank you, may I use this space for a moment?"

"By the way, who won the award over there? Holy crap, Zhou Yang? Damn it, is Zhou Yang crazy?!"

"Quick, quick, Zhou Yang is about to give his acceptance speech! Can anyone send me a screenshot of him?"

"quick!"

"..."

Countless posts instantly flooded the entire Wandou Movie website. At the same time, screenshots of announcements popping up on the text live stream page of Movie Home stating "Due to traffic overload, image service is temporarily unavailable" also appeared one after another, stunning the staff of Wandou Movie!

Not only [Wandou Movie Network], but also [Movie Fans' Home], [Movie Bar] and other websites were all flooded with negative comments!
The personal website of Zhou Yang, 【Zhou Yang's Home】, has been completely paralyzed. It was originally a fan-built website, and the server was not large to begin with, so it simply could not handle the crazy traffic.

Meanwhile, in a dormitory at a university in Beijing, six male students were crammed in front of a 512K broadband connection, refreshing a webpage.

After refreshing for a long time, it has finally been restored!
..............................

In the screening room.

Applause and laughter mingled together.

The spotlight suddenly shone on Zhou Yang.

He was looking down, slightly adjusting his glasses. The lenses reflected the blue light of the screen as he smiled and walked to the center of the stage, looking down at the people below.

"Thank you to the judges for awarding this prize to my debut work."

On camera, everyone saw Zhou Yang bow his head and gently stroke the Golden Broom trophy. As he did so, the laughter from the audience gradually subsided.

"Perhaps, for everyone, making such a film is probably the biggest stain on their life..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the big screen flashed again the cheap headgear and rough graphics of "Monkey King vs. Superman 2", as well as old photos of props being modified in the [Xuan Shi Entertainment] warehouse.

On the screen, under dim lighting, a group of people are squatting on the ground sewing a Superman cape, with instant noodle boxes and scattered script drafts beside them...

Seeing this scene, some male viewers who had previously criticized Zhou Yang suddenly felt a surge of emotion, their Adam's apple bobbing.

When they looked at the stage again, they saw Zhou Yang smiling.

It seemed like nostalgia, self-mockery, and also a heartfelt expression.

"but!"

"For me..."

He suddenly turned around and looked at the screen.

After a brief silence, the intro to the background music "Snail" gradually intensifies, and the lyrics "I want to climb up step by step" are faintly heard.

As the music played, Zhou Yang closed his eyes!
“That’s the way I came.”

His voice wasn't loud, but in the huge hall, it was very clear and very gentle, like a gentle breeze.

In the audience, everyone stared blankly at Zhou Yang under the spotlight.

"Of course, this isn't the way I came alone..."

"But..."

"An ordinary person who tightens screws in a factory, is eventually fired, feels hopeless, crawls out of the water, and yearns for a different life..."

"A penniless director who is about to change careers..."

"A photographer who was kicked out of the film crew..."

"A makeup artist who was disliked on set and hadn't even received her salary..."

"And an actor who worked on the set for a month, only to be kicked out like a joke in the end..."

"Then, under the guise of 'dreams,' a group of disillusioned people living at the bottom of society spent 2 yuan borrowed from others to make a 'bad movie,' taking their first step toward realizing their dreams..."

"It's rough, the plot is cheap, everything about it is in its most primitive state. To save money, we even used every means at our disposal..."

"When the movie was released, we heard countless criticisms and insults, and we also got our first 'bad movie'..."

"But we know that nothing in this world is achieved overnight, and no one is born perfect..."

"No audience, no teachers, no resources..."

"The films made by fledgling directors amidst the turbulent times are naturally not going to be anything special..."

"We have not backed down, nor have we been disappointed, and we will not deny any criticism or guidance, nor will we force ourselves to say anything..."

"We treat this 'bad movie' as a stepping stone, and the criticism as nourishment for progress..."

"Step by step forward, step by step correcting myself, step by step climbing upward, step by step getting closer and closer to the sky of my dreams..."

After Zhou Yang finished speaking, he silently raised the gleaming golden broom!

Just at this time……

The screen behind.

It's a group photo of a group of young, inexperienced people.

That was the wrap party for "Monkey King vs. Superman 2"...

(End of this chapter)