The movies played in Linxi are scattered and fragmented.
So much so that even the old emperor, who had been staring at Lin Xi, didn't realize that there was a very advanced movie concept hidden in the movies Lin Xi spread.
Cinematic universe!
Broadcasting a continuous story in episodes is called a series.
It's not that unusual to use movie screens to play continuous stories.
Before the advent of television and television, various feature-length films were not uncommon.
However, different stories, different protagonists, and even different cores and backgrounds collectively form a complete world view, and the stories are related to each other and ultimately drive each other. This belongs to the category of the movie universe.
Lin Xi hides himself in different movies.
Appearing briefly with different images but the same name.
He is like a mysterious symbol, hidden behind every story that is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
In "Love and Peace", he is the grandfather who guides the protagonist's life process.
In "The Deer Hunter", he is the mountain god who guides the way in the forest.
In "The Tea Picking Girl", he is also a kind old man who tells the tea picking girl A Qian the truth.
His role in all stories is both abrupt and necessary.
He implicitly bears a huge weight in the entire story, but he doesn't appear much, so that people who have seen it don't have an intuitive impression of him at the first moment.
This is also in the early days.
If the film industry becomes more and more mature, then a character like Lin Xi who suddenly appears and disappears suddenly, directly changing the direction of the plot, but without a specific explanation, is a "soldier from heaven", which is a taboo in plot development.
Of course, there are also some who play the Godly Soldier well and have become classics. Although they are few and far between, they are not unheard of.
One of the more famous examples of this type of gameplay is the girl in yellow shirt in The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer.
Although the appearance is very sudden, and the reason for the appearance is a little far-fetched, but he just pulled out a plot about Yang Guo's descendants, played with emotions, and it was like a side story of the Condor Heroes... and it stood up.
This is due to the fact that The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer and The Legend of the Condor Heroes are both part of the Condor Trilogy and have a continuous relationship with each other.
Although it is regarded as a divine weapon, it can also be regarded as having the previous work as a foreshadowing.
Shoddy movies are in short supply in this era.
In a short period of time, the movies shot by Lin Xi not only became popular throughout the Xia Kingdom, but were also brought to the world by businessmen.
The people of the Xia Kingdom were so blind that they couldn't see through Lin Xi's tricks.
Those foreigners have never been exposed to such advanced entertainment methods, and they are generally blind to the appearance of Xia people, and they do not understand the social customs recorded in the movies, as well as various human ways and worldly rules.
On the contrary, it is easier to extract the real "core" from the complex content.
Gradually, some people in some remote and primitive areas began to worship the person and symbol that kept appearing in the story... Lin.
They believe that Lin is omniscient and omnipotent.
Because he can appear mysteriously when anyone is confused or loses direction, and then provide guidance.
Those ignorant people who still lived in barbaric times did not believe that the stories presented in the pictures were fiction.
They insisted that this was the divine revelation of the Supreme God.
This trend slowly spread back to Xia Kingdom after a long time.
Ten years of electricity!
The prosperity of Xia Kingdom has taken a further step.
Electric wires have been pulled over larger cities.
All kinds of electrical appliances have begun to spread into all aspects of people's lives.
Some kind of power accumulated in the old emperor has expanded to the extreme.
He seemed to see the door, right in front of him, slowly opening a gap, revealing the divine light behind it.
At this time, the old emperor's lies could no longer be concealed from others.
Many of the predictions he made back then did not come true.
However, there is no doubt about his strength.
The old emperor, who gave up the prophecy and gave up the two miraculous skills of longevity halfway through, is now extremely old.
Except for the electric arcs that are directly revealed from time to time and jump on his body, he is just an old thing that is about to decay.
There is a turbulent undercurrent in the Xia Kingdom.
Countless careerists want to wait for the death of the old emperor, and then... tear apart this extremely wealthy country and take greater profits for themselves.
The princes are also gearing up and waiting for the opportunity.
They each represent the interests of different groups, and may be able to complete the transition from feudal monarchs to capital plutocrats.
In the dark hall.
The old emperor slumped on the dragon chair, barely opening his cloudy eyes, staring at the dancing candlelight.
He knew his time was running out.
The lifespan that was originally extended by using the longevity magic has now been returned with the abandonment of the magic.
He couldn't wait a hundred years.
But he also thinks that he is different from Cai Yuan.
Cai Yuan is just the ancestor of the steam engine.
And he... is not only the ancestor of electricity, but also the ancestor of electrical appliances.
In the eyes of the world, most of the electrical appliances in the world were invented by him.
Even movies, as well as the equipment used to shoot and play movies... under the old emperor's powerful propaganda, have quietly become his creations.
No one will complain about Lin Xi.
Even Lin Xi himself... can't.
But he hasn't started yet, he's still waiting.
He has to wait until the last moment of his life before making another attempt.
Because only at the last moment can he make a desperate move.
The old emperor had witnessed Cai Yuan's tragedy long ago and was never willing to repeat the same mistake.
"Longer...I want to live longer. Every extra second will make my accumulation richer."
"Someone's coming!"
"Come quickly! Go and serve longevity soup to me!" The old emperor seemed to want to say such words, but what he actually spit out was a series of coughs.
The eunuchs and maids outside the palace lowered their heads one after another. They did not look at the old emperor.
They have already been quietly bribed.
Being mean to the attendants around you will lead to such results.
Everything has pros and cons.
Just like those emperors who relied heavily on eunuchs and chamberlains, they certainly gained the reputation of being fatuous and were deceived by the eunuchs.
But the eunuch also became their protective umbrella.
In a real power struggle, there is no emperor who is supreme and cannot be shaken...and cannot be bullied.
Suddenly, it seemed as if a wisp of smoke drifted into the old emperor's palace.
The candle flame flickered.
The eunuchs and maids who were waiting outside to collect the old emperor's body began to fall to the ground.
The old emperor's eyes showed fear.
The beating arc of electricity kept jumping on his body.
The current is so powerful that it can even penetrate the dome of the hall.
But...the weak and aging body cannot support this powerful force and let them act according to their will.