Durin's Diary

Chapter 382: Great Scholar
Huck brought his family to the cinema today just to watch Du Lin's new movie.

Looking at the crowded theater even though the movie hadn't started yet, His Majesty felt a little regretful - he felt regretful because he had already seen the trailer, and the short two-minute trailer had completely captivated him. The car that could fly in the sky without wheels. Before seeing the trailer, Huck had never imagined that a car could move like this.

It is worthy of what the old director of the art center said, a masterpiece that changed modern people's view of the old era.

Maybe it is really like what was described in the movie directed by Du Lin, that those mountains of scrap metal were once able to fly in the sky in the distant past.

Those ruins and underground spaces filled with ghosts and corpses were once huge shopping malls that sold a huge variety of food, clothing and tools.

The human world in the old era was a paradise on earth that was far more beautiful than the heaven that the gods talk about today.

But having said that, Huck began to wonder again - why all this was destroyed.

Just as I was thinking this, the screen lit up and the projectionist started the countdown.

In an instant, all the noise and quarrels disappeared.

Everyone is waiting to see.

………………

Karl Malone looked at the screen. He and his friends had secretly come to Paris from the Northern Kingdom today just to see the rumored old era world.

The child Dulin said that he saw it in a dream, but Carl didn't believe it. He understood the child from the Elsh family. He must have found some books about the old era and found pictures and content about the era in them.

Then he used his brain, which was perhaps the smartest in the entire Western Continent, to come up with this story.

As the little dragon appeared and disappeared on the screen, a huge underground passage appeared in Carl's eyes.

Before the mages could sigh, the camera began to move, and Carl's mouth never closed again.

He watched the camera move upwards, and saw a crowd of people as dense as ants walking on the street, and those alchemical puppets... Judging from the introduction on the screen, they should be called Old Era Prosthetics, which are fully mechanical with bionic skin, just like complete humans.

In addition to humans and prosthetic bodies, there are also huge buildings, colorful signboards, and various eyeball advertising robots. The advertisements they play are also quite strange, such as the big bird spinning to bring you warmth on winter nights.

Carl didn't understand anything. He watched the camera pan, looked at the naked girl in the holographic projection, and looked at this bizarre old era.

The audience kept shouting in surprise, but when the camera moved again and when Carl saw the traffic in the air, he, like all the audience, exclaimed, "I am such a country bumpkin who has never seen the world."

Until the camera moved up, until the camera moved closer, until a human male with a stubbled face appeared in the camera.

In the following plot, Carl learns that he is a detective. In this era, there are artificial creatures called androids, and such artificial creatures will go out of control from time to time, so he is a member of the police commando team responsible for dealing with and eliminating out-of-control artificial creatures.

"Carl, do you think we can really create humans?" Carl's friend asked in a low voice.

Carl shook his head. It was not that he couldn't do it, but that this was simply not an area that mortals could get involved in.

Then everyone's eyes began to wonder how artificial creatures were 'assembled'.

It was like any other life form, a union of father and mother, only instead of the mother's body, it was systematically accomplished within a giant, transparent glass tank. The audience was buzzing with discussion, some horrified, some frightened, but most simply continued to watch the film.

"Is this the old age without gods? How terrifying." Carl's friend's voice was trembling as he drew the holy emblem of the Twin Mothers on his chest. "I really want to accuse Mr. Durin, but the fact that it passed the Art Center's review means that the bishops have already reviewed it. They didn't say it was a blasphemy against life, which means that perhaps all this really happened in the past."

"Fortunately, we are not artificial humans. You see, they only have four years to live." Carl sighed.

Yes, only four years of life is too short, so short that it doesn’t seem like the lifespan a life should have.

In the movie, Carl looks at these created people who are put to work in mines, on the seabed, in the mountains, and in dangerous areas that natural humans don't want to go to... Even in wars, artificial humans replace natural humans in shedding blood and sacrificing.

"This old era makes me feel a little breathless, Carl. I never thought that the old era would be so terrifying." Carl's other friend lamented like this. She was about to cry when she saw the artificial people on the screen who wanted to resist all this being shot down by the natural guards without hesitation or mercy.

"The way Du Lin filmed it just shows us that without God, we are no different from animals." The former friend has become the biggest Du Lin fan in the box.

"Yes, without God, we have lost our sense of reverence... It's just like in the movies, they are like beasts, creating their own kind, enslaving and ravaging them." At this point, Carl sighed.

As the movie progresses, Carl and other wizards discover that the male protagonist is actually an artificial human, but he has money. He uses the money to buy prosthetic organs and replace those organs in his body that have only a few years of use. Even his brain has been injected with an engineering wonder called nanomachine to complete the construction of an electronic brain, completely escaping the fate of aging.

At this moment, some audience members were cheering.

But the next moment, when everyone noticed that the protagonist's cute and gentle girlfriend Rachel was also an artificial human, almost the entire cinema fell into deathly silence.

Under such circumstances, the hero and the villain meet for the last time.

rainy night.

The villain sat on the balcony, looking at the android factory in the distance in the rain.

The male protagonist stood aside and handed him a cigarette.

"Thank you." The villain who has always been against the hero is as elegant as a gentleman at this moment.

But it was raining heavily and no one could light the cigarette.

Finally, the villain sighed as he looked at the factory in the distance.

"Rick, I once served in the outer rings of the solar system. I witnessed beauty unimaginable to humans of our time. I saw space battleships burning near the constellation of Orion. I watched deadly rays gleam in the darkness near the Tannhauser Gate. I watched a great sage swaddle himself in a thousand-year-old fallen battle flag... And all these moments I witnessed will eventually be lost to time, just as tears disappear in the rain."

After saying these poetic words, the villain's life was cut off. He lowered his head, stopped breathing and crying, and everything ended just like that.

The male protagonist named Rick was silent for a long time, then reached out, picked up the bag of explosives that the villain was going to use to blow up the factory, and left.

In the darkness, the protagonist's monologue was heard.

"I thought that if I replaced my organs and whitened my skin, I could live as a natural person... I was wrong."

(End of this chapter)