Final Thoughts Lycaon and Oedipus

From November 1st to February 1st, three full months, 360,000 words! The longest volume of the book is finally over!

The name of this volume is "Wolf Words", the bright line is "Lycaon", and the hidden line is "Love".

Lycaon was a king in Greek mythology who had a daughter named Callister. Zeus pretended to be Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and approached her and gave birth to a child with her, named Alcas. Out of jealousy, Hera turned Callister into a she-bear, so that Callister could no longer care for her child, and the child was given to Lycaon to be raised.

Zeus planned to test Lycaon's virtue, so he came down to earth, declared himself Zeus and lived in his home. Lycaon wanted to test the power of Zeus and see if he really knew everything, so he killed Arcas and cooked his flesh and gave it to Zeus.

In anger, Zeus turned Lycaon into a bloodthirsty werewolf, resurrected Alcas and succeeded Lycaon as king. Later, when he grew up, he went out hunting, found a huge female bear, and excitedly planned to kill her - but Zeus found out about this, and in order to prevent mother and son from killing each other, he also turned Arcas into a A cub who can get close to a mother bear and elevate them into the heavens, becoming the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

If you know this mythical story, you will understand why I named this volume "Wolf Words".

Its hidden thread, that is, the theme, is the "love" possessed by three similar but different people, Strangler, The Inferior, and Sheath, and the Oedipus-like plot that arises from it. This volume is used to tell the story of These three roles are completed.

Among them, the strangler kills his father before the plot begins, and the inferior kills his father during the plot. Structurally, this also indicates that Sheath will die at the end of this volume.

I originally wanted to create a battle scene here, but I felt that talking nonsense during the battle would look childish. So I plan to use a "snowball fight" style plot to interpret the core of the sheath. This will sacrifice some rhythm and plot tension, but I think this can better tell the story of "why the scabbard deserves to die"... Of course, from another perspective, maybe it should be based on the plot earlier. The story is over.

But in that case, the emotions when the sheath appears will become too high. So much so that Scabbard's demise would make him seem like a complete villain and lose him.

So I thought about it for a long time and decided to deal with it this way.

In fact, according to the original outline, Strangler should die in this volume to form a sharp contrast with the Inferior. But Maomao couldn't bear it in the end and let Strangler survive. You should be able to clearly feel that "the timeline has changed" here.

Just like the name of Chapter 52 in the middle of this volume, "The Poison of Love," and also like what is said in Chapter 108, "Of all things in the world, only love and hope are the most poisonous."

By the way, according to my outline, this sentence should appear in Chapter 104, so it would be exactly twice as many as the first time. I really like this kind of light foreshadowing, but my ability to control the plot is still not very good. The amount of text in the plot completely exceeds the standard. Even if there are many chapters combined in the middle, it cannot be controlled until the 104th chapter...

According to the syllabus, the word count of this volume should be 28,000, which is twice the 14,000 words of a standard volume. But in fact, if I write 80,000 more words, I will still be a little sloppy unconsciously...

Russell has almost reached his peak state and still has two final steps to go.

And the next volume is the last volume of this book.

Including the awakening caused by the rumors Russell himself put out, the confrontation with the church and the dragon... and finally the story of saving the world as a "hero" and giving "possibility". All that remains is the final struggle.

By the way, the movie review about Broken Ball 2 that I mentioned before——

This movie really exceeded my expectations. And I believe that this wide range of touching and shocking should be based on the fact that most viewers do not really understand the movie - that is to say, without understanding the foreshadowing, they can still feel that this is the movie. A good story. This is exactly what I am pursuing, and I hope that my ability to tell stories will touch this edge in my lifetime...

In order to make the audience understand, the director chose a very good technique. That is to repeat important information over and over again.

After realizing this, we only need to look for the most repeated information to capture clues.

The main clue of The Wandering Earth 2 is moss, which is very clear. After all key events, there is a close-up of the camera... combined with the final easter egg, the full story of this story can be shown. Tu Hengyu's car accident was obviously related to Moss - his car accident had nothing to do with whether he could see the road, because they were all autonomous driving. And Chuang's dump truck is also completely controlled by AI... I can see clearly that the dump truck does not have a cab.

And if you want to cut off half of it exactly, leaving only half of Yaya's life, but leaving Tu Hengyu still alive and kicking, you also need extremely precise calculations. There is no doubt that this is controlled by moss. In his conversation with Wu Jing, he also mentioned "I can mobilize all Internet-connected devices." These two plots are not far apart, which means they are part of the same plot group.

Li Xuejian looked thoughtfully at the camera lens, which echoed what he said, "I believe our people can complete the task." But it should be noted here that what he said on the surface seems to be alluding to Andy Lau and Yaya, but in fact the process of Andy Lau entering the password to the last second can be said to be the artistic expression of the director, or it can be said to be completely useless. of.

Because it only takes 1.7 seconds for Yaya to upload to cause an Earth-Moon crisis. And this number is very clever. I saw that many interpretations of UP did not mention it.

Why 1.7 seconds? Because with a space elevator, the limit of the Earth-Moon signal is 1.28 seconds. The remaining 0.42 seconds is actually moss' thinking time, 1.28+0.42 is exactly 1.7 seconds. This joke was clearly played in The Wandering Earth 1, where the so-called "the ultimate answer to the universe is 42".

In other words, a mere 50,000-digit password can be solved in just a moment. And that time was four minutes ago.

And the 97% progress started after the guy clicked the button. In other words, in fact, Tu Hengyu's password input or not did not have any impact. It was because the guy clicked the button. If the server did not start at this time, everyone would die together, so Moss connected to the server. This is a sword-wielding plot.

Then, "Our people will definitely be able to complete the mission, regardless of reality or reality, regardless of survival." This is obviously the foreshadowing of the third part.

From the very abrupt flashback at the end, we can see a detail that did not appear before. One shows the white-haired Li Xuejian with buttons tied to his hands, and the other shows the bald Tu Hengyu driving an exoskeleton mecha.

At the end of Our Ball 1, three years after the plot of Ball 1, Liu Qi and Li Yi went on a mission. That year happened to be the year of the helium flash crisis. We can see very clearly that it can be said that it is calm outside, and there is no momentum at all like the rebels in the original work who can pull up half the people. So we can be sure that the plot here must have been changed.

But from another perspective, it can be said that it has not changed. I think the current Wandering Earth should be the second story.

In 1987, China received its first warning. Quantum computers had not been invented at that time, which meant this was a warning for the future. The year 1987 has a special meaning, because it is the "International Year of Homeless Relocation".

As for crossing time, there is an obvious hint at the end. The infinitely overlapping study room is exactly the same in structure as the infinitely overlapping study room at the end of Interstellar. And we all know that at the end of Interstellar, the action of knocking out dust and delivering information is the same as the knock on the door.

As for knocking on the door—who is that person on the other side of the door?

I think it's a horse sign. Ma Zhao was very obviously conniving with Tu Hengyu's plan from the beginning to the end, especially when uploading Yaya, he was the one who waited for Yaya to finish uploading before rushing in to catch her. And by analyzing the name, we can find that "Miao" is M, which is the same as the first letter of Moss, and everyone can think of what Hengyu means.

Of course, we have another piece of off-the-record information here...that is, the dead Ma Zhao will still appear in Qiu 3, and his ranking is quite high. This means that he plays a key role in Ball 3.

And then back to the "second episode" - it would make sense if the scene where Bald Tu Hengyu opens the mecha is part of the first episode. I specifically looked up photos from the Internet, and the eyes of Hengyu in the bald picture were the same size. But because of the injury in the car accident, Tu Hengyu's eyes should be different sizes. In other words, Tu Hengyu had never experienced a car accident at that time.

I speculate that the plot is roughly like this: it is the content of the original work of The Wandering Earth, that is, the rebels believe that the sun will not die and trigger a world war. Helium flashed when he finally sang "My Sun" - first of all, this plot did not conform to the style of the Spring Festival, and secondly, it was inconsistent with the idea conveyed by Ball 1 Ball 2, that is, the theme of "people can determine the future destiny" of.

This should be the story before history was changed, and the plot of Ball 3 may have a three-tier structure. One line is that MOSS came from the future to the past, sent warning messages and changed the future, reducing the possibility of other plans, changing the future in an attempt to make the Wandering Earth Project lose resistance, thereby changing the "original history"; the second line is the changed past , that is, the part of the plot from 1987 to the beginning of 2000; the third part is the third part, which is the story of Tu Hengyu and Moss coming back from the future and facing choices when changing the past.

Like the interstellar theme, I feel like this could be a Steins;Gate-style story.

If what Li Xuejian said "someone is helping us" and "I believe in our people, regardless of reality or reality, regardless of survival" refers to the future picture Hengyu (and maybe Wu Jing, I remember the official picture said Wu Jing also uploaded it) If so, then according to Tu Hengyu's character, he would most likely choose not to let the dump truck create the past at that point in time, and then change the past to save his wife and Yaya.

But in that case, Yaya would not die and Tu Hengyu would not be uploaded to moss. It may be changed again in the future, and I predict that Ball 3 may make some fuss here. But it’s hard to say how to handle it, it depends on the director!

Well, we talked a bit too much, more than 3,000 words in total...

Finally, take a day off as a routine. Updates resume on the 2nd.

And then there’s the preview of the next volume of “Tower”…

Volume 9: "Meteor".

——The last volume, please vote at the beginning of the month!