I am a director in Ark. If I am not banned, I will be considered successful.

As for Christen's doubts, Chen Qi waved his hand, then handed a script in his hand to Christen and just chuckled:

"This is the second part of the script, and the twist is here. This movie will only become interesting if the truth is revealed bit by bit."

"...Then I'll look forward to it. But what I can be sure of now is that this movie will be a success, even if I don't see the end."

Christen took the script from Chen Qi and smiled at him and said:

"At least, judging from Saria's performance after reading the script, even if this is just a love movie, it must be of high quality... but I'm afraid it won't impress me."

"Oh? Miss Christen, so confident in yourself?"

Chen Qi raised his eyebrows slightly upon hearing this, and deliberately said in a teasing tone: "Ms. Saria was also so confident before reading my script, huh?"

"...So she really cried." From Chen Qi's words, Christen finally understood that Saria's previous strange reactions seemed to be hiding her crying, but she didn't think in that direction because she didn't believe that Saria would cry.

Now that Chen Qi has verified this, Christen couldn't help but sigh: "...I may not know her very well. However, I have reservations about my previous views."

"I am also someone who has persisted all the way through, Director Chen Qi. My parents were the first to attempt to explore the secrets of the starry sky. They were originally admired by many people, but they died just because of a flight experiment. Since then, my family's situation has plummeted."

"I have seen the ups and downs of life... Saria has no resistance to stories like this because she has rarely come into contact with works of this kind."

"So, I'm not worried about anything, Director Chen Qi. I will memorize the lines, so please start filming as soon as possible. There are still many things I need to deal with at Rhine Life, and I'm looking forward to seeing you sooner. In the story, how do you go to the moon?"

After saying that, Christen turned and left the scene. Only after Christen left did Nian Yuxi and others, who had been silently watching all this not far away, slowly approach.

"...She doesn't seem to be touched and has been very rational." Xi was a little dissatisfied with Kristen's reaction. She thought she had a cold personality, but she didn't expect that Kristen would have nothing to say about such a plot except the dry "touched".

"Because they don't have enough scenes now. Before, it was always Alina and I who were acting, and they haven't had the 'immersive experience' yet."

However, Christensen's words made Chen Qi feel that his level was challenged. For actors who doubt authenticity and experience, Chen Qi has liked to use a method since "The Godfather" - that is immersive acting.

"Nian, I'll leave the rest of the filming to you. We're going to use a lot of long takes later on, so there can be no mistakes in the filming."

"Oh oh oh! Is it here? My favorite long shot!" Nian was also excited when he heard that, but Chen Qi didn't pay too much attention to Nian this time, because Xi's task was more important.

"Xi, I need you to design a series of scroll contents based on this section of the script... Basically, it would be a jump shot where a period of time passes in the blink of an eye. This will make it easier for us to shoot the whole thing in one take without editing."

"……I see."

Xi also took the script of "Going to the Moon" from Chen Qi's hand. After flipping through it, she raised her head with slightly frowned eyebrows and asked Chen Qi:

"...Chen Qi, in this plot, why did this 'Joey' (John's nickname in the play) appear at the same time as John? Aren't they the same person?"

"Also, why is there no trace of Xiaoxi in this section about the youth?... What did you do to her?"

"… Let me keep this as a secret and reveal it to everyone later."

However, facing Xi's aggressiveness, Chen Qi had no way to give them a satisfactory answer at the moment - you know, they had already cried a little sadly just by watching him and Alina's performance and the separation of John and Xiaoxi. If they knew what Chen Qi "did" later, Chen Qi might be beaten so badly that he couldn't get out of bed... in every sense of the word.

Especially since Chen Qi had already found an opportunity to test himself during this period, the gap between him and Tallulah after his physical enhancement... I can only say that Tallulah seemed to be emotional and indignant about the tragedy destined in Chen Qi's "Go to the Moon" script, so Chen Qi had a slight disadvantage...

Therefore, it’s better not to tell them about the subsequent plot, otherwise Chen Qi will be severely punished by Tallulah... His self-esteem has been severely damaged.

Chapter 188: The name is Going to the Moon, but the protagonist doesn’t even want to go?

In the scroll, Chen Qi and his group rested for about a week. As scientific researchers, Saria and Kristen both had special abilities in memory, so after sufficient preparation, Chen Qi started the next performance.

However, this time, before the next scene began, Chen Qi specifically reminded Saria and Kristen that the difficulty of filming would increase as their roles increased.

"Since you two have memorized your lines, and your performance opportunities will be greatly improved in the future, I will now inform you of the 'rules' of our crew's acting."

"Many of the leading actors in our crew are not professional actors, but starting from "The Godfather", all the leading actors who accept our invitation to participate can be nominated at the Victoria Film Festival, mainly because our crew uses the 'real reaction' shooting method."

"So, we may start filming the next part at any time. Before I stop, please remember the lines and act freely. This way, our filming efficiency will be greatly improved."

"I have no objection." When Saria heard this, her eyes sparkled. Of course, she knew that what Chen Qi was doing now was actually catering to her ideas and helping Christen to express his true feelings in the process of acting.

Although Saria is not interested in movies, she still knows that starting from "The Godfather", the leading actors of Chen Qi's works such as "Darkest Hour" and "Brave Heart" are not professional actors, but they have dominated the nominations of the Victoria Film Festival with their acting skills.

If it is true as Director Chen Qi said, that these people's performances are a true reflection... perhaps it will help her plan.

"If the filming can be completed faster, then I can accept it." Kristen nodded. Although she was dedicated, she had little interest in shooting romance films. She mainly wanted to see how Chen Qi planned to go to the moon.

After all, Christen also has related plans of her own... Although she is indeed very tough and wants to witness the secrets of the starry sky herself, this does not prevent her from wanting to see whether a "behemoth" like Chen Qi, who is likely to have known some secrets of the starry sky, has the same views as her about the way humans can travel to the starry sky.

When Chen Qi saw that Saria and Kristen had no objections, he turned his gaze to Alina who was not far away. After receiving Alina's silent approval, he said to everyone:

"Since everyone has no objection, let's get started! Muirseth and Vina are ready to enter the scene at any time. Xi, Nian, the scene and filming are left to you!"

"So get ready, transition, set, start shooting!"

……

Saria and Christen, who have visited all the important memories of John and collected important information, will now change John's memory through guidance and suggestion from some memory fragments to inspire John to go to the moon and achieve this goal.

The two returned to John's memory that was closest to reality, and Saria also explained why they did not directly modify John's memory.

"Everything about you now is just a copy. If you agree, we can do whatever we want with everything, just like painting."

"As for you... you are just a calculation method used to record 'Johnny'. Enough to reflect his preferences, but only a part of it."

"All we can do is paint a logically coherent work on this canvas. Then, we will pass on the ideals you registered to your childhood, and this machine will create a new life for you, a life of striving for your ideals."

"Finally, we will write the results into the memory of the real Johnny. So even if we fulfill the real Johnny's wish, you are now just a 'read' program. We can restart it over and over again, and even--"

"Enough." In the end, it was the character played by Christensen who interrupted Saria, and Saria's words caused many people who were watching the filming on the other side of the picture to talk about it.

"Sareya's words are a bit sharp. Although it doesn't seem like something she would say, I guess she does think so, right?"

On the side, Muirseth, who had no part to play for the time being, was also watching the filming of "To the Moon" with Xi, Nian and others. As for this part of the plot, Muirseth had already understood it.

"To put it simply, this machine turns emotions into data, then adds some programs to the data to deduce another result, and then overwrites the original data to achieve the purpose of changing memory, right?"

"If it can be done, it would be great. It is indeed a machine suitable for end-of-life projects... But if it becomes popular, I'm afraid it will be used as a weapon to forcibly read memories or tamper with memories?" Muirseth quickly thought of other wonderful uses for this machine. Therefore, she knew that it would be impossible to replicate the ideal situation in "To the Moon" where it was only used in end-of-life projects on the Terra continent.

However, compared to scientific researchers like Muirseth, the people in the art troupe were obviously more concerned about the development of the plot, and they all had different thoughts about Saria's slightly harsh words.

"The memory has been modified... If a person's memory is changed, are you still yourself?" Xi couldn't help but sigh. She was quite moved by the story of John and Xiaoxi in the plot. Obviously, she really didn't often come into contact with this kind of subject matter. She has always been like an immortal, oblivious to worldly affairs.

She didn't want this memory to be rewritten. After all, no matter what John's motivation was for contacting Xiaoxi in the beginning, John seemed unable to understand Xiaoxi in the end...but their experience was real.

But changing the experiences of the two of them just for an ideal of "going to the moon" that arose for unknown reasons is at least not the result that Xi wanted.

"Well, the person is going to die anyway, so this kind of project is definitely only used for end-of-life care. And the method of change is not forced intervention, but a gentle method. This is not bad, right?"

Nian shrugged her shoulders. Although she also felt that such behavior was not good, she still felt that John's personal wishes were the most important.

"He wasn't forced to change his memory, was he? When a man is about to die, his words are good. Since his life is not perfect, isn't it good to experience a different perfect life that is false but logically feasible?"

"Relax, my little sister. There are eight out of ten things in life that are not satisfactory. Just let it go. The most important thing is the present, isn't it?"

"...You are really heartless."

However, Nian's guidance was obviously effective, and Xi came out of her slightly depressed mood at the beginning. At this moment, Tallulah seemed to have discovered something, and quickly interrupted the conversation between the two girls, pointing to the screen where Xi was drawing and said:

"Something seems to be wrong with the plot... John's memory hasn't changed."

As soon as the words fell, everyone turned their eyes to the big screen. Now, after thinking that they had collected enough memories and successfully implanted the desire to "go to the moon" in John's childhood, Saria and Christen, who thought that everything was solved as usual, also confirmed whether John's experience had changed.

To this end, Xi had already prepared the corresponding paintings and had drawn portraits of John, played by Chen Qi, in several stages. The two girls could enter the corresponding world by simply going to any scroll.

In the plot, Saria and Kristen traveled through time many times, until they finally returned to the beginning, where they met John's memory.

"Oh? Are you two from that agency? What a coincidence! I was just about to call you."

"..."X2

Everything returned to the beginning. Facing the old John who had not changed at all, the two doctors immediately found something wrong.

"How is it possible? His desire can't even work on its own, how is it possible that there is no change at all?" The character played by Saria doesn't seem to understand what is happening. They clearly implanted the relevant desires, but the desire to "go to the moon" has no effect on John's life?

Soon, Saria and Christen took action. They began to go back to John's early memories, stimulating him since childhood and making him desire to go to the moon.

To this end, the two girls made a lot of efforts. Christen directly used the machine to turn the first movie that John, played by Chen Qi, and Xiaoxi, played by Alina, watched into a science fiction movie related to the moon, so that John would have the idea of ​​going to the moon.

"What is this...Isn't this different from what they said?" John, played by Chen Qi, discovered that the content of the movie had changed at some point, and immediately looked at Alina beside him and asked:

"Oh, okay... Creek, do you mind?"

“…No, I like this.”

However, Creek, played by Alina, seemed happier when she saw the moon-themed movie than John remembered before.

However, all this... was of no avail in the end. Nothing changed. Returning to the original time, Chen Qi's reaction did not change at all.

When John was a child, Saria pretended to be a person who was extremely knowledgeable about the starry sky. In front of Chen Qi, she gave a long, shameful and embarrassing speech, hoping that John, played by Chen Qi, would have the idea of ​​going to the moon.

She first explained the concept of the starry sky to all the children, telling them that the starry sky has endless space for exploration, and they will go on adventures like heroes. She also seemed to have accidentally chosen Chen Qi and asked him if he planned to go to the moon.

"But I don't want to go to the moon at all."

"Then you'll be lucky enough to be...wait, what did you say? You don't want to go?"

"Why would I want to go?" John, played by Chen Qi, also had a distressed look on his face. He replied to the stunned Saria, "I am living happily in Terra."

Saria was not discouraged and made many speculations about the moon. For example, when Terra goes to the starry sky in the future, the first thing to explore is the moon. She also made many more speculations. The conversation ended only when everyone left.

However, the final result could not be changed. Facing such difficulties, Saria and Christen did not despair, but instead tried every possible means to make John, played by Chen Qi, want to go to the moon!

Christen was a little anxious about this part of the plot. Although she had read the script and knew what would happen next, she was still worried because John's idea of ​​going to the moon was not mentioned until the end of the script.

Christen was also worried that he might not be able to see the moon, so he worked extremely hard in this shuttle show, even more enthusiastic than Saria.

They went to John's old age, when he was worried about having no money to build a house, and sold him a trip to the moon.

They went back to their youth, and when Chen Qi accompanied Alina to ask about the treatment of multifunctional syndrome, they lied that the Rhine Life Star Observation Department could provide the best medical care.

Later on, they even started to use puns, such as "little pony" and "honeymoon"... They tried every possible means... but in the end, all failed.

"I think we should take a picture of the commander-in-chief's expression of wanting to be angry but helpless after returning in vain. It will definitely sell well in Rhine Life."

However, no one cares about Muirseth's joke now. Everyone who doesn't know the subsequent plot has the same questions as Christen in the plot.

"Johnny's registered wish to go to the moon was successfully transferred, but... after the transfer, he actually no longer had any desire to go to the moon."

And there is no doubt that everyone can guess that if there is anything that makes John change his mind, Xiaoxi is definitely the number one suspect.

And if John wanted to go to the moon, the stream would definitely be the key point.

It’s just that... Christen and others who don’t know the subsequent plot don’t understand what Xiaoxi did that made John forget even the implanted idea of ​​“going to the moon” after meeting her?

Chapter 189: The truth is revealed, and the tearful scene is about to come

"I always feel that John and Creek's story isn't that simple. But their memories have been explored, so there shouldn't be anything worth hiding, right?"

"...Not necessarily. If it is the influence of some Originium skills, maybe there is a way to affect the memory." Muirseth also guessed so. Unconsciously, she also began to think about how to break the situation. At this moment, she couldn't help but worry:

"It would be great if we had someone with such Originium skills. Unfortunately, I can't help the General and Saria with this. Even Rhine Life doesn't have such Originium skills, right?"

However, no one was very clear about the situation of Rhine Life, so no one responded to Muirseth's words. Instead, Tallulah patted the young man beside her and asked in a low voice:

"Speaking of which... it seems like it's been a long shot all along. How long has it been going on?"

"... If you count, it's been several hours. After all, they made a lot of discussions and decisions, and they were all filmed in one go. Most of it will be edited out."

"But in this situation, they seem to have forgotten that they are acting, right? Thanks to the power of me, their little sister, they really feel like they can travel through time and space."

Nian couldn't help but sigh, his sister's power is really useful in filming movies. It can simulate the effect of time travel, and there is no need to call "cut" in advance, re-set the scene, and call "start" again.

This effect is really suitable for helping actors get into the role. In the case of Christen and Saria, they were undoubtedly so into the role that they even quietly forgot that they were acting.

"Wait, you see, they seem to have come up with a solution."

But Frost Star's words drew everyone's attention back. The time in the play had already reached dusk. After being busy for a long time, Saria and Kristen were at a loss. Finally, Saria got a breakthrough from the company in the plot.

"To be precise, he concealed the case." Saria looked at the information in her hand and said to Christen, who was overjoyed at the progress:

"Apparently, when he was younger, he was taking a lot of potentiating beta blockers."

"Coincidentally, this drug has a side effect on our memory."

"Beta blocker?" When the girls heard this new term, they all turned their eyes to Muirseth. Muirseth was of course familiar with this kind of medical knowledge and explained:

"A drug used to treat cardiovascular disease can also treat qi deficiency, palpitations, shortness of breath and other problems."

"However... taking too much will indeed cause gaps in the patient's memory."

"If that's the case, then the place where John's memory is broken must be the key point?" Although Tallulah didn't know anything about potions, she knew very well that the starting point that could completely restore the story of John and Xiaoxi was in this missing memory.

As expected, Saria and Christen took this as a starting point and took action. In order to successfully enter this memory, they had to find some corresponding stimuli.

Fortunately, they had smelled a smell similar to that of a rotting corpse in John's memory before, and they found the corpse of the squirrel that they accidentally hit and killed while driving at the beginning of the story. Through this smell, they successfully entered John's childhood.

But now, John's life is slipping away faster and the electrocardiogram shows that his heart rate is becoming increasingly unstable. They must hurry up.