I was approached by a cat-eared girl.

"not heavy."

"Really?"

"fake."

"Hmph!" Bai Xiaoqi snorted to express her dissatisfaction. This guy just knew how to deliberately annoy her. She practiced yoga every day, and her weight was fluctuating around 90 pounds.

How could it be heavy? He must be saying the opposite of what he means.

"Want to go see a movie?"

Passing by the Parkway Shopping Mall, Chen Shuo stopped and said, "It's been a long time since I've been there, and there's a 3D blockbuster in there too." The LED screen on the rooftop was scrolling through posters of newly released movies.

"where?"

"It's on top of that building, there are movie posters on it, look for yourself."

Bai Xiaoqi, clinging to him, turned her head to look in that direction. Various movie posters were scrolling on the big screen, and the so-called blockbuster had just passed by before reappearing after a while.

The image of "Jurassic World 3" features a large dinosaur icon alongside a row of English text.

"Isn't this that dinosaur movie made by that foreign devil? We've seen it at home before."

"what?"

Chen Shuo was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Where have we seen this? We watched Jurassic World 2, this is the third one."

He paused for a moment, then added, "Why don't we go check it out? These kinds of special effects blockbusters have to be seen in 3D in a movie theater. You can't get the same feeling at home. Let's go in, we're already here."

"Put me down first."

With the mall filled with lights and crowds, Bai Xiaoqi felt she couldn't bury her head in the sand anymore. She twisted her body a few times, jumped off Chen Shuo, and took his arm as they entered the mall.

Chapter 234 Reflect on it

Upon reaching the fifth-floor cinema, they were fortunate enough to purchase tickets. After waiting in the lobby for a while, the two joined the crowd to queue for ticket inspection and entry.

As soon as she entered the 3D theater, Bai Xiaoqi habitually glanced at the huge screen in front of her. Every time she saw it, she couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "What a huge screen..."

"Alright, stop sighing, sit down first."

Before she could finish speaking, Chen Shuo pulled her through rows of seats, saying, "47, 48, 49... this is it."

The two found seats and sat down. Bai Xiaoqi grabbed a handful of popcorn from the bucket in her arms and stuffed it into her mouth, then began to look around.

Chen Shuo frowned as he looked at her bulging cheeks, finding it increasingly difficult to understand the structure of her stomach.

She had previously said that her belly was so full she could barely walk and that she had to be carried by herself, but as soon as they entered the movie theater, she ran to buy a bucket of popcorn, a super large bucket at that.

Do you want some?

"I will not eat."

"Eat, eat..."

Bai Xiaoqi kept stuffing a few kernels of popcorn into his mouth, and Chen Shuo had no choice but to open his mouth and eat them.

At this moment, the lights in the theater went out. Chen Shuo sat up straight, glanced at her again, and said, "The movie is about to start, so don't look around."

"Let me check if the seats are full."

Why are you interested in this?

"If the theater is full, it means the movie is good and everyone buys tickets to watch it. If there are very few people watching, it means the movie is probably not very good."

"......"

Chen Shuo didn't know what to say, he just felt very annoyed. He didn't expect that she now understood market research, judging the quality and competitiveness of a product by the market's front-end reactions, and thus deciding whether to buy it.

"Next time you want to do market research, I suggest you search for movie reviews online beforehand. Don't wait until you buy tickets and come in to do it, because it's useless. Even if the movie is bad, what can we do? We can't get a refund for the tickets."

"That's true."

"Right, so next time you... Okay, put on your 3D glasses, the movie is starting."

The huge screen in front went black for a moment, then quickly lit up again, and a classic dinosaur icon slowly appeared, signaling the start of the movie.

As a major IP with decades of history, regardless of the plot, the special effects show that they have evolved with the times.

They've become so realistic that it's now difficult to distinguish between reality and fantasy; the dinosaurs they've created look just like real ones.

However, it seems that China is out of step with the international community. When it comes to special effects, the results are often disappointing. They make things look like they're playing around, as if they're afraid people won't know they've used special effects.

Of all the science fiction films over the years, Chen Shuo only remembers The Wandering Earth, which had decent special effects, but it was also heavily criticized by fans of the original novel.

Since it's adapted from a novel, it certainly can't be a complete copy of the original work.

Due to time constraints, adapting a film often requires capturing the essence of the original work. Moreover, the purpose of making a movie is to make money, so the wider the audience, the better. In order to cater to viewers who have not read the original work, film companies will directly cut out some of the more complex and lengthy plots.

Add to that a whole host of other factors, such as the censorship process, and the final product will most likely be a heavily modified version of the original series.

Jurassic World 3, on the other hand, does not have this flaw because it has no plot at all, so there is no need for drastic changes. This thing is purely about exploiting nostalgia and making money.

Dinosaurs are dinosaurs, but what's with the locusts? Besides, the movie's logic is very weak and hard to justify.

Every time Chen Shuo saw those plots that defied logic, he would frown and look like an old man on the subway.

If he were to summarize the two-hour-plus movie, aside from the special effects, everything else was terrible.

However, this movie is a popcorn movie, and I only came to see it because of the special effects.

For example, Bai Xiaoqi watched it with great interest. To her, the plot? What was that?

What you see is a giant dinosaur roaring.

She barely even looked at the subtitles, and could still watch it while listening to the gibberish.

When Chen Shuo asked her what the plot was about after the movie ended, her answer was that a giant dinosaur was chasing people.

After thinking about it, Chen Shuo realized that it made sense and was a very accurate summary.

......

It was past 10 p.m. when I came out of the movie theater. The stars were twinkling in the sky, and there weren't many pedestrians on the street.

Bai Xiaoqi's eyes sparkled, still looking somewhat excited. Watching this kind of movie in a theater was different; it felt just like the real thing.

It's really hard to imagine that such a large animal, like a small mountain, ever existed in this world.

"Why did such a large dinosaur become extinct?" she suddenly asked.

Bai Xiaoqi's mind always jumped around very quickly, and she always came up with something on a whim, which Chen Shuo was already used to.

"Because of a meteorite impact." As he spoke, he gestured with his hand, "A meteorite with a diameter of more than ten kilometers hit the earth, causing earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and oxygen problems, and then the dinosaurs disappeared."

"that's it?"

"What do you mean 'that's it'? Do you have your own opinion?"

"No." Bai Xiaoqi shook her head and explained, "I mean, is it possible that there are other reasons?"

A meteorite is a shooting star. Ten kilometers... that's roughly the distance from my current neighborhood to my new neighborhood, not even outside the city limits.

Outside the city are provinces, outside the provinces are countries, outside the countries are continents, and then there is the whole world.

That means the meteorite was very small, like a large rock falling into a river.

At most, it would just splash some water; how could it possibly cause an earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic eruption?

She felt it was somewhat unlikely.

"Of course it's possible. Who can say for sure what happened tens of millions of years ago?"

The meteorite impact theory is just a hypothetical hypothesis; there are many other theories, such as global cooling and infectious diseases, and the existence of such large dinosaurs…”

Bai Xiaoqi chimed in, remarking to herself, "Such a big dinosaur would definitely last a long time. We'd need to build a huge refrigerator to store the dinosaur meat, otherwise it would spoil quickly, which would be such a waste."

"..."

Chen Shuo looked at her with disdain. This girl only thinks about food all day. She ate so much tonight—lamb spine hotpot, milk tea—and even showed off a huge bucket of popcorn at the movie. And now she's still thinking about food...

"It's a pity that if dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct, they would still be the rulers of the world, so there would be no human involvement, and no artificial refrigerators for storing dinosaur meat."

As Chen Shuo strolled slowly to his front door, he took out his keys and opened the door. The moment he stepped inside, he felt something pounce on his leg, startling him so much he almost jumped up. "Holy crap! What the hell is that?"

"It's a walnut." As she spoke, Bai Xiaoqi turned on the living room light.

"..." Chen Shuo steadied himself, looked down under the lamplight, and indeed...

I wasn't quite used to having a cat on the first day, and I forgot that there was a kitten at home that was crying for milk.

But I was very attentive when I first raised the kitten.

Was I already a pervert back then?

He needs to reflect on this carefully.

Chapter 235 Good Intentions Backfired

Bai Xiaoqi has been a bit annoyed these past few days. She's noticed that her little orange cat is acting strangely lately. It really likes having its butt touched by others, and it won't let anyone touch it on its own; it has to go to Chen Shuo to touch it.

She had noticed this happening more than ten times, and she suspected that she had let a wolf into her house; it seemed like the cat was trying to seduce her boyfriend.

What's worse, this wicked cat is getting more and more involved. A few days ago it was just occasional, but these past two days... she doesn't want to recall it, but she always has the feeling that she's been seduced by a nymph.

While Bai Xiaoqi was hanging clothes on the balcony, Walnut came running over again, circling around Chen Shuo's legs, rubbing and nudging them with its head, then raising its tail and sticking its butt out.

Chen Shuo looked down, then pushed it aside with his foot. "Go away from me, or you'll get yelled at again."

"Meow...."

Walnut meowed and came closer again, rubbing its head against his calf, then sticking its butt out high as if worried that Chen Shuo wouldn't be able to touch it.

"Have you eaten too much mutton?"

Chen Shuo was puzzled. He hadn't paid much attention to the cat, so why did it keep asking him to pet its butt every day?

"Meow..."

Chen Shuo couldn't understand what the meow meant, but he took it as an admission that it had indeed eaten too much mutton, which was why it had that lewd smell.

"I can only let you touch me a few times, so know when to stop, okay?"

As he spoke, he peeked at Bai Xiaoqi, who was hanging clothes on the balcony. Seeing that she hadn't noticed him, he hesitated before reaching out and touching her a few times.