207 Shocking Stage
The surging sea water caused huge waves of ten stories high, getting higher and stronger in the storm, as if it had lifted the entire sea basin and tried to pour all the sea water down. The rising sea water directly covered the head of the Statue of Liberty, and then roared down in an unstoppable posture, like a galloping flood passing through the streets and alleys of New York City in the lightning and thunder, raising a huge wave that was higher than one, and it smashed down unreasonably. It almost submerged half of the entire city in the blink of an eye. The three-story sea water turned New York City into a water city in the aquarium.`
It is as magnificent as New York City, like a canoe in the storm, and its destruction in an instant left no reaction time. It was swallowed by the sea water of the Atlantic Ocean. The tall buildings and steel forests evolved into Atlantis under the miracle of nature.
Silent, everything was silent, and it was dead... There was no sound in the entire Chinese theater's screening hall, and even the sound of breathing completely disappeared. Everyone stared at the big screen in a daze, and their heads stopped working completely. No one was the exception, just staring at the big screen with wide eyes and then caught off guard.
When a huge wave hit the face, the realistic visual effect made the audience burst into screams, "Ah!" The short and hasty shouts revealed the inner horror, but the sound only had time to overflow from the corner of his mouth, and the air in his lungs was completely drained. Then the shouting came to an abrupt end with the tense muscles all over his body, and the screening room fell into silence again.
Javier only felt that countless lions roared by in his heart, and witnessed the fall of China, India, and Britain with his own eyes, but all of this was not as good as the shock brought by watching New York become a city underwater. When the surging flood directly swallowed the entire city, everyone fled and hid in the New York Public Library. However, this building that had existed for nearly a century could not resist the destruction of nature. The fierce water flow ruthlessly broke through the shackles of wooden window frames and completely destroyed the basement.`
Real and terrifying, strong and grand, fierce and domineering. Seeing the New York Public Library that he would inevitably report every day being swallowed by waves, Javier felt like a member of the disaster, fleeing in a panic in a daze, and his life was scattered. The tiny of life was like the hands of a demon. He grabbed his throat hard, and his life was hanging on the line.
Jack's son Sam, with his classmates Lauren and Brian, went to New York to participate in the encyclopedia knowledge competition, but was accidentally trapped in New York. He and a group of strangers hid in the public library under the pressure of the flood, hoping to take refuge here for a short time.
Due to the impact of the storm, the cell phone signal was completely disordered, so Sam came to the basement, found a public phone, and tried to contact his father. The young and thin Sam was submerged in the flood, and the flood was still rising, moving upwards along his chest, as if his life would dissipate under the impact of nature at any time.
In an anxious mood, Jack could only explain quickly. "Sam, Sam, forget what I said before and go south. It's too late. The storm will become worse and worse. There will be huge blizzards. There is a wind eye in the center, just like a hurricane, but the air will be very cold, and you will be frozen to death in a few seconds."
The rising water level almost flooded Sam. Lauren, who was standing at the entrance of the stairs, brought the only light with a flashlight, but the misty water vapor from all directions made the light weaker and weaker. Lauren was anxious and kept calling out the name "Sam", as if he had grasped the last trace of life.
"Then...what should we do?" Sam's lips had turned blue and purple, his voice trembled in the frozen and bone-bloated water temperature. The darkness swarmed around him made the atmosphere more and more depressing. The surging tide sounded like a secret room, pumping the air away bit by bit.
"Listen to me, son." Jack explained nervously. "Don't go outside! Find everything that can be burned and try to persevere. I will come to find you, do you understand?" When Jack said this, his wife Lucy, who was standing next to him, was already filled with tears, and his eyes were clearly written with miscellaneous and struggle, "I will come to find you!"
Sam tried to say a few more words, but the tide rose rapidly and drowned him in a blink of an eye. Jack's voice and Lauren's voice echoed in the library, but Sam's answer could no longer be heard. Suddenly, the light of the flashlight went out, which made all the vitality in the entire screening room seem to have disappeared, and the silence was as if it was dead.
Lucy stood there at a loss, watching Jack fall into a hunch, as if all his life disappeared with the silence on the phone. Jack hugged his wife and hugged her tightly, "He will be fine." He was convinced, and he was also convinced himself, "He will be fine!"
Standing at the stairs, Lauren looked at the basement completely flooded by the flood, and her eyes began to turn red. She didn't even dare to make any sound, fearing that her voice would miss any movement from Sam. In a second, it seemed like a century, all the audience in the screening room were in pain.
Suddenly, Sam emerged from the bottom of the water and breathed heavily. Javier couldn't help but start to breathe heavily. The palm of his hand holding the armrest was loosened, but he found that his fingers could not be straightened at all, because he used too much force, causing the muscles to be stiff.
The flood had completely submerged the first floor above the ground, and everyone had to hide on the second floor to avoid the danger of being submerged. The entire New York City had become Venice - the sea water broke through the embankment of Venice, and a giant cargo ship slowly passed by the entrance of the New York Public Library. The slow and solemn gliding, with almost no sound, brought an unparalleled shock.
Because this means that they have been trapped in their place, like an isolated island in the ocean, trapped in the library in isolation. There is no food, no heating, no electricity, and even no blankets or clothes for heating... The insignificance of human beings and the fragility of life are magnified to the extreme at this moment. Fear is like an octopus, firmly holding the heart of every audience, and is airtight.
"Take them home." A whisper sounded softly in the cinema, and the vague sound was like a sigh, but it clearly came into everyone's ears. Looking at Jack, who was ready to die, even though he knew that going out would be like suicide in such weather, he decided to go to New York, look for Sam, and take Sam home. Everyone in the screening room was mixed with emotions, and the surging emotions made tears fill their eyes unconsciously.
The parade that lasted for four days and the website activity that lasted for more than two months, "Take them home", completely exuded power at this moment. The fate of Sam, Lauren and Brian touched the hearts of every audience member in the screening room, and that kind of ubiquitous despair swept across.
Joshua adjusted his position in a little embarrassed manner because his muscles were too tense just now, which made his lower body numb and his gentle movements seemed to be painful. But even so, Joshua didn't care too much, because all his emotions were firmly grasped by the plot.
From the arrival of disaster to the end of the world, the plot progressed quickly and meticulously within an hour, leaving almost no breathing space. The disaster completely covered the northern hemisphere step by step. The fear and worry burst out with adrenaline, which made all the audience in the cinema concentrate.
The brief plot just now completed an excellent connection and transformation. The freighter slowly sailed into New York City seemed to have stopped time and stopped disaster, winning a short breathing time, but it deeply made everyone understand that this was just waiting for the arrival of a greater disaster in the future. At the same time, the story was cut into the protagonist mode, and the Jedi was born under the background of the apocalypse, Jack set foot on the road to search for Sam, officially entering the theme of "Take them home", completing the transformation from disaster to humanity.
Joshua has to admit that the first half of the movie is very successful, not only one after another but also linked, the fast pace of progression is even more immersive, and the realistic and magnificent visual effects are even more amazing. The complementary theory and reality have avoided the plot loopholes to the greatest extent. Although there will inevitably be some mistakes after careful study, this is undoubtedly a victory for a commercial movie; however, it is still the second half that really determines the overall quality of the movie, and Joshua began to look forward to it vaguely.
"What advice do you have, professor?" Jack came to the president and reported to senior officials in charge of the entire US government. This storm will last for seven to ten days, and then the entire northern hemisphere will enter the Ice Age. The president asked with a sad and helpless look on his face.
Jack's eyes flashed with determination, then he picked up a marker pen and drew a red line on the map of the United States on the wall. This red line cruelly and decisively divided the entire United States into two halves of the north and south. "Evacuate all the people south of this line." This sentence made everyone fall into silence. Everyone in the screening room was completely shocked, and they looked at the red line on the big screen with dumbfounded eyes, bright and dazzling.
"What should people north of that line do?"
Jack's slightly red eyes were shining with tears, because New York was just north of that line, and he pursed his lips gently, "Sorry, it's too late for them now. If they go out, the storm will kill them. Now, their greatest chance of survival is to stay in the house, pass as safely as possible, and then... pray."
Javier himself did not notice that his hands were involuntarily crossed and began to pray. The tragic, the cruel, the hard, the pain... the huge force easily defeated all his defenses: in the face of the disaster of nature, the power of human beings was as small as an ant.
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