Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 828: Don't Let the Protagonist Get Stuck in the Train Trouble (3k2)

Don't let the protagonist easily get into moral dilemmas like the train problem.

This was a topic raised by Zhou Mo during an experience symposium.

The fact that the train problem has been regarded as a classic philosophical problem for so many years since it was proposed and has spawned countless versions is enough to illustrate how troublesome this problem is.

So many people can't discuss this.
Audiences come to watch your movies, especially commercial films, to relax.

Some directors set a moral dilemma for the protagonist right from the start, and force the protagonist to make a painful choice between two options. Isn't that crazy?
The protagonist feels aggrieved, and the audience feels aggrieved too.

If the audience feels frustrated, what kind of commercial film is that?

Over the years, Zhou Mo is one of the best when it comes to never making the audience feel aggrieved.

Make the audience feel uncomfortable?

impossible.

Ten seconds after Wang Mang finished his lines, the movie immediately gave the audience the answer.

Zhao Shan was completely indifferent to Wang Mang's threat. She just stretched out her right hand towards the sky.

The next second, countless thunders flashed in the sky and the wind howled, as if angrily denouncing Wang Mang for overestimating his own abilities. The clouds in the air surged into a vortex and gathered in Zhao Shan's hands.

At this moment, the space where Zhao Shan and Wang Mang were located turned into a huge hourglass. The clouds and thunder were the sand in the hourglass, and Zhao Shan was at the center of the hourglass. The power between heaven and earth continued to gather in her palm, making her already powerful momentum even more terrifying.

When Wang Mang saw this scene, his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. His intuition... no, no need for intuition, every organ in his body was telling him that Zhao Shan must be planning a big move at this moment.

'She can't be allowed to proceed.'

Of course, Wang Mang would not wait for Zhao Shan to finish his transformation and then foolishly go forward to fight him, as in a turn-based game. The moment Zhao Shan made a move, Wang Mang had already taken action, using all his strength to mobilize the black mist around his body to sweep towards Zhao Shan.

However, the black fog that was able to swallow the thunder before was all sucked into the swirling clouds this time, without even a wave.

After several attacks without any reduction in intensity, Wang Mang was already sweating profusely.

Faced with Zhao Shan's rising momentum, he actually had the idea of ​​escaping. However, before he could make any move, Zhao Shan's ultimate move had already ended.

call--

It was as if leaves were falling off branches, or as if water drops were hitting stone slabs. The rushing air between heaven and earth suddenly stopped at this moment. Then, a huge monster broke through the rolling clouds in the sky and suddenly appeared in Wang Mang's eyes.

At this time... a meteorite from outer space? ! !
Wang Mang looked at the meteorite falling from the sky with flames and thick smoke, and for a moment he felt that the blood in his body had frozen.

Is it possible for human power to achieve such great power?
Wang Mang was horrified. Although he knew there was a gap between himself and Zhao Shan, he never thought the gap would be so big.

Now that he has become the emperor, with millions of soldiers under his command providing him with mana, he still cannot achieve this...

Zhao Shan, why?
Although he was shocked, Wang Mang did not slow down. The moment he saw the meteorite, he turned his gun and shifted the target of attack from Zhao Shan to the meteorite.

It’s not that he didn’t think about escaping, but the energy from Zhao Shan was always firmly locked on him, leaving him no chance of escape.

When disaster strikes, fight extra hard!
Wang Mang desperately squeezed out every bit of strength in his body to resist the pressure from the meteorite.

It’s a pity that his previous attack on Zhao Shan was unsuccessful. Now facing a meteorite more terrifying than Zhao Shan, it is even more impossible to succeed.

The black mist coming from his body was defeated by the power of the meteorite the moment it came into contact with it.

The scene before him reminded him of the time when he looked down upon the mortals. He regarded the mortals as consumables for cultivating his magic power and as ants. But now, in front of the meteorite, he seemed to be no different from an ant.

At the same time, the reason why Zhao Shan summoned the meteorite was revealed.

Wang Mang had millions of soldiers behind him, and his magic power was endless and seemingly limitless, making him impossible to kill. However, he actually had a weakness, as the magic power he could output within a certain period of time was limited.

It's like a power bank, it has enough power but the output power is not good enough.

Therefore, after Zhao Shan figured out Wang Mang's shortcomings, he simply changed his strategy. He no longer fought a war of attrition with Wang Mang, but instead tried to kill him with one blow and send bricks flying with great force.

The power between heaven and earth is far beyond human power to contend with.

Zhao Shan's face looked a little pale. Although she could draw on the power of "heaven", attracting a meteorite from the sky and accurately hitting the enemy was still a very exhausting thing for her.

Fortunately, her attempt was successful.

In the distance, after many failed attempts to stop the enemy, Wang Mang's face showed a mixture of despair and grief.

He doesn't agree!
He had clearly already proclaimed himself emperor, and had put the lives of millions of soldiers at risk, achieving something that even the immortals two hundred years ago could not do. He also used a trick to destroy the imperial seal, causing Zhao Shan to suffer a huge backlash...

Why did Zhao Shan still defeat him? !
Wang Mang stared at the meteorite that was almost in front of him, his eyes bloodshot. Suddenly, he looked at Zhao Shan again, his bloodshot eyes full of madness.

"Princess Qin, I lost. You are indeed stronger than me. But you didn't win either. Didn't you want to protect those ants?
it is good!
Then I will let those ants take this blow with me. I will see if you can bear the resentment of 400,000 lives. Die with me!"

The next second, Wang Mang completely gave up resisting the meteorite. Instead, he mobilized all his magic power and hit the meteorite hard from the side.

After the meteorite was hit, its trajectory obviously deviated, and its landing target changed from a wasteland nearly a hundred miles away from the battlefield to Wang Mang's own military camp.

"you!"

Zhao Shan was horrified and both shocked and angry at Wang Mang's actions.

In order to die with her, Wang Mang even wanted to take 400,000 soldiers with him to be buried with her!
Although Zhao Shan had never led troops personally or handled state affairs personally, she at least knew that the troops under Wang Mang were the foundation of the Xin Dynasty's rule and existence.

Wang Mang wanted to drag 400,000 soldiers with him to be buried with him. He didn't even care about his affairs after his death and wanted to drag her down with him. At this time, Wang Mang was constantly giving his "acceptance speech":
"I eat your salary and share your worries. They are my soldiers, so they should live and die with me..."

"If I can't eat from five tripods while I'm alive, I'll be cooked in five tripods after I die. I've already eaten from nine tripods while I'm alive, and I'll have four hundred thousand soldiers to protect me after I die. I have no regrets..."

Obviously, although Wang Mang's behavior at this time was crazy, his mind was always clear.

The above sentences may sound like a desperate move, but in fact they are constantly stimulating Zhao Shan and forcing her to make a choice.

Either kill him and end up with four hundred thousand mortals.

Either save 400,000 mortals and relax the suppression on him.

Zhao Shan certainly would not let 400,000 soldiers perish together, but at the same time she would not let Wang Mang escape this disaster so easily.

She wanted to leave Wang Mang with an unforgettable memory.

So, she continued to reverse control the meteorite, causing it to shift its trajectory again, so that it would not take away all of the 400,000 troops, but would only affect a portion of them;

At the same time, she took advantage of the fact that Wang Mang had just collided with the meteorite and was seriously injured, and was no longer able to resist her attack, and destroyed many acupoints on his body.

Soon, Wang Mang felt the changes in his body. His body seemed to have turned into a funnel, and the magic power in his body was flowing out through the pores of the funnel at a very fast speed.

He immediately understood Zhao Shan's intention.

Zhao Shan wants to abolish his identity as an "immortal".

For those guys who call themselves immortals, what scares them most is not death, but losing their magic power and becoming an ant like mortals.

Even though they lost their lives, at least they survived.

Without their magic power, it would be painful to kill them.

Zhao Shan wanted Wang Mang to endure this double torture, both physically and mentally.

"You still have some magic power left. You have two choices. Either continue to resist me and become a mortal in your words before you die, or run away now and see if you can save yourself." Zhao Shan pointed out a "clear way" to Wang Mang.

The momentum of attack and defense is often just a matter of thought.

Just a minute ago, Wang Mang was trying to force Zhao Shan to make a "bitter choice" by destroying both sides.

But now, the person who had to bear the bitter fruit became Wang Mang.

Wang Mang's eyes were red, and he hated Zhao Shan's oppression to the extreme.

He didn't want to choose either of the two options.

It seems like there is only one ending: life and death, but in the end there is actually only one result.

dead.

It's like when you are sailing on the sea and there is no water, and there is only sea water around you, so should you drink it or not?

If you don't drink it, you will die from dehydration.

If you drink sea water, you will only become more thirsty and eventually die.

But in the end, Wang Mang gritted his teeth and chose to escape.

Where there is life, there is hope.

Only by staying alive can he have a chance to make a comeback, solve the problem of his magic power, and take revenge on Zhao Shan.

However, Wang Mang's plans undoubtedly failed.

Historically, the Battle of Kunyang took place in 23 AD, and Wang Mang died in 23 AD.

After Wang Mang's defeat in the Battle of Kunyang, he never had the ability to make a comeback. Later, he was killed by the rebels and even his head was cut off and kept in the royal family.

In the movie, this part shows that although Wang Mang escaped from Zhao Shan's attack, not long after, there was no sign of any magical power on Tasheti anymore.

He was reduced completely to being a mortal.

After losing his magical powers, Wang Mang's body, which had been maintained by his magical powers, began to age rapidly. His hair became dry and gray, his skin became loose, and dense wrinkles appeared on his face as if overnight.

The physical changes made Wang Mang almost insane. He desperately searched through ancient books, trying to find a way to restore his body, but to no avail.

His current behavior, which was completely different from the past, made his subordinates lose confidence, and some of them ran away or escaped.

Finally, one day a few months later, Wang Mang's residence was broken into by the rebels.

The Xin Dynasty, a dynasty that flashed across history, came to an end.

In the cinema, when this part of the plot ended, Da Tiantian took a deep breath.

"To be honest, this part looks pretty scary. What it feels like to lose everything overnight... Zhao Shan is really a shrimp and pig heart."

Zhou Mo looked at Da Tiantian strangely: "No, is there anyone who talks about yourself like that? And shrimp meat and pig heart?"

ps: This chapter was written a little slowly. I checked some information and saw that Wang Mang's head was collected by the royal families of all dynasties. Yes, the royal families of all dynasties. The first person that came to my mind was Gul'dan.
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