Chapter 1287: Chapter 1073: Huyan Dabo

Whoosh.

It’s not the sky that’s raining, it’s Lin Yuan typing away!

So diligent!

While typing, Lin Yuan also reviewed the entire content of “The Wandering Earth” in his mind.

Centuries ago.

Scientists discovered abnormal activity inside the Sun.

According to scientific predictions, it would produce a violent explosion called a “helium flash,” expanding into a vast and dim red giant star, completely engulfing the Earth.

The only way for humanity to survive was to embark on interstellar migration!

The only viable destination for humans was Proxima Centauri, 4.3 light-years away.

Thus, the united human government consolidated all resources, building over ten thousand Earth Engines, planning to take the Earth out of the Solar System within 2500 years, a span of 100 generations, to reach the vicinity of Proxima Centauri.

In order for Earth to travel in the direction humans desired, it was first necessary to use the planetary engines to stop the Earth’s rotation.

This process took 42 years and was known as “The Braking Era.”

The Sun no longer rose and set within a day,

Half of the Earth would be in perpetual daylight, while the other half in eternal night.

The Sun became something terrifying.

For children who had never seen the sun, sunrise was a nervous and frightening event.

It was in such an apocalyptic setting that Earth embarked on its journey to a new home 4.3 light-years away.

The children saw a giant comet appear in the sky.

That was the Moon.

To avoid a collision between Earth and the Moon while accelerating, engines were fitted to the Moon as well, propelling it away.

When Earth neared Jupiter, it would utilize the “Gravity Slingshot” effect of Jupiter to accelerate itself out of the Solar System.

The future was no longer boundless; it became fraught with extreme danger.

What humanity could see was no longer the blue seas and skies, but the cold walls of underground cities.

Education changed.

Knowledge was forcibly delineated into hierarchies, and so-called useless subjects truly became useless:

School education focused on science and technology, with arts and philosophy minimized to the least possible, as mankind no longer had the luxury for such pursuits.

This was the busiest era for humanity, with endless work for everyone.

History lessons still existed.

However, the history of the pre-Sun Era became mythic, like tales from the Garden of Eden, to the people.

Love disappeared.

The union between two people became just a way to escape the loneliness of traversing the vast expanse of ice alone.

Marriage fell apart.

Our current ethics and customs became insignificant trivialities.

After the acceleration aided by Jupiter’s gravity, Earth successfully ventured towards the edge of the Solar System, and the centuries-long fear of death was finally alleviated. However, there was no jubilation among humankind; instead, a rebellion erupted.

Because someone compared the solar images and found that parameters like luminosity and pixel arrangement had not changed at all from four centuries ago.

Thus, they exclaimed:

The Sun is not going to explode! We’ve been deceived! Earth has been betrayed! The united government fabricated everything, they want to rule Earth as dictators!

Conspiracy theories are always especially seductive.

Countless “conscientious Earth citizens” angrily took up arms, expelling five thousand officials and scientists of the united government from the Earth Engine control center, leaving them on the icy surface of the sea, allowing the intense cold of minus one hundred degrees to slowly take their lives.

However.

Just as the successful revolutionaries were singing “My Sun,” preparing to revert Earth back to its original orbit, the solar helium flash erupted.

Mercury…

Mars…

Venus…

These three companion planets of Earth had turned into a wisp of light smoke amidst radiation reaching hundreds of millions of degrees.

Fortunately, by this time, Earth had flown far enough away.

…

Those who have read the novel will notice:

The content of the novel and the movie “The Wandering Earth” seem completely different at first glance.

The timespan of the novel is vast, while that of the movie is quite small.

The content that the movie covers only occupies a very small portion of the novel, to the point where many people feel that the movie has only borrowed the original shell of the novel.

However.

The perspectives of three generations of grandparents, grandchildren, and parents presented in the movie, the years in the underground city, the obsession with witnessing a sunrise, and the themes of human persistence and sacrifice, etc.

All of them are kernels provided by the novel.

It is impossible for the duration of the movie to fully present the grand narrative scale of the novel, something that not even Nolan or Spielberg could achieve, so adaptation is inevitable.

When the entire story is revisited.

Lin Yuan wrote the last line of the novel: “Ah, Earth, my wandering Earth…”

The novel of about 23,000 words was completed.

But there was still one more thing Lin Yuan needed to do:

He replaced all mentions of “Earth” in the document with “Blue Star”.

As far as the plot itself was concerned, this had no impact. It was similar to the references to place names in the novel, which Lin Yuan also replaced with certain place names of Blue Star, as long as the expressed meanings were consistent.

At this moment, Lin Yuan suddenly felt a bit sentimental:

Who could have imagined in that era that this short story, which took Big Liu two weeks to complete, costing over two thousand in draft fees and a Galaxy Award bonus of two thousand, would ultimately be turned into a movie with nearly five billion in box office, showing everyone the rise of Celestial Dynasty’s sci-fi!

In this regard, Big Liu is truly a hero of Chinese sci-fi.

The “The Three-Body Problem” series of novels showed the world the rise of Eastern science fiction literature;

And “The Wandering Earth” has shown the world the brilliance of Eastern science fiction cinema.

Of course.

Lin Yuan admits this was not Big Liu’s best science fiction novel, nor even among his best novellas. Before the explosion of its film adaptation, the novel, though it had won the Galaxy Award, was clearly less well-known than other middle and short works like “Village Teacher”. However, the inherent value of the novel is definitely commendable, and it would not shrink in front of science fiction fans from all over the world.

As to why Lin Yuan insisted on choosing this work?

Because Lin Yuan felt that he could also adapt this novel into a movie in the future.

On Blue Star, Lin Yuan could even make up for some of the regrets of the little broken ball, such as making the scenes grander, adjusting some of the criticized plotlines, etc.

…

While Lin Yuan finished writing the novel “The Wandering Earth”.

Over at Tribe, people had already contacted Wei Continent’s science fiction writer, Huyan Dabo.

At that moment.

Huyan Dabo was dining with a friend when he suddenly received a call from a Tribe contact, seeming a bit surprised:

“Tribe is releasing a new work, to compete with Chu Kuang from Qin Continent?”

“Yes!”

The contact from Tribe laughed: “If you agree to this collaboration, you will receive a very substantial reward, and at the same time, you can become famous on all continents of Blue Star just by mentioning Chu Kuang…”

“I refuse.”

“Mr. Huyan Dabo…”

“I am a die-hard fan of Mr. Chu Kuang, I will not compete against my idol in the domain I excel in the most.”

Tribe: “?”

After much anticipation for an outside supporter, it turned out they were a brain-dead fan of Chu Kuang?

Goddamn!

And across from Huyan Dabo, his friend named Chen Le couldn’t contain his smile, slapping his thighs vigorously.