Chapter 1045: "Sumiya" - The final season, the final episode!

"Ahem, all departments, prepare—"

On set, Yan Shaohan raised his megaphone and began reminding everyone to get ready.

Xiao He took his place as arranged.

Opposite him, Guo Xinya also walked to her assigned position.

The two exchanged glances and nodded to each other.

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The final sibling showdown is undoubtedly a major highlight of the last season of "Sumi".

This time, the filming location was finally moved from the wilderness to a specially set-up abandoned factory near the film studio.

The overall background layout here is an old factory with steel and debris piled up everywhere. The interior lighting is dim, giving it a somewhat eerie feel, as if it were a modern tomb in another sense.

Yin Qi chose this place as his final resting place, which seems quite fitting.

Actually, Xiao He originally thought that Yin Qi would die in the cemetery.

After all, if you're going to take your sister with you to the grave, choosing a burial site with excellent feng shui is a good idea.

But perhaps because that cemetery also held some of the less-than-pleasant past experiences of these drug people, and was the beginning of his and his sister's journey to become drug people, both of them escaped alive during the search for the meteorite, and no other drug people died there.

Could this be a tacit understanding between the siblings?

Xiao He genuinely felt that the character Yin Qi was somewhat similar to Yan Shao Han—that obsessive attitude towards idol worship was quite reminiscent of him.

Even the final ending doesn't seem like Yin Qi turning against her idol after losing interest; it's more like Yin Qi becoming corrupted after failing to win over her idol, determined to drag her down with her to prove that their relationship is the most special one.

So the final character portrayal is: "Although we fight each other to the death, although we are irreconcilable enemies, it's not that we don't love each other anymore."

This distorted character ultimately created the morbid and fragmented Yin Qi. He is the one who is sunny and tries hard to bring smiles to everyone, but he is also the one who turns his back on people and picks up a butcher's knife to kill.

It was a stubbornness even purer than love, family affection, friendship, and other emotions. It was a kind of loneliness that ordinary people could hardly truly understand. In the long lives of these drug users, their older sister, Yin Lan, occupied most of their lives and emotions, and filled the loneliness brought about by the long period of time.

So, while Yin Lan gradually gets to know other people on this long journey and heads towards another world, Yin Qi chooses to cherish the happiness of being alone with his sister and stays in the same place forever.

Thus, the siblings, who originally shared many experiences, displayed completely different emotional expressions.

Like twins, one is already moving forward, but because their fates in the first half of their lives are intertwined with the other, they have to stop and wait. The one who comes later is obviously in pain because they cannot keep up with the former and cannot accept that their future life will not have the other half.

Thus, what they present is an extremely morbid relationship in the eyes of outsiders, and they may never be able to cross this threshold in their lifetime, destined to be bound by this relationship or perish together.

Therefore, Yin Qi's character can be described in more ways than simply as a "sister complex"...

As an only child with a normal family relationship, Xiao He could not fully understand this mentality, but fortunately, the way this emotion was expressed was not complicated. Although he could not agree with it, he could act it out.

However, Xiao He was still a little nervous when filming this scene.

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Here we must mention Yan Shaohan's dedication to camera angles and key transitions.

Because everyone had already worked together for the first two seasons, after the third season started filming, Yan Shaohan, the big devil, was finally not so fierce anymore, throwing tantrums on set every day, and everyone's life became a little easier.

However, as the original author of the comic, Yan Shaohan is also particularly meticulous about certain details, and there are plenty of nitpicking moments.

However, it must be admitted that Yan Shaohan, as a cartoonist with a directing background, has a unique aesthetic style that is rare in the Chinese entertainment industry. In particular, the multiple transition shots of Yin Qi have amazed many people as early as the first and second seasons.

From a ruthless, sickly character who kills without blinking an eye one second to a sunny, normal younger brother the next second—this kind of transition shot, achieved through on-set directing and manual manipulation, is probably only something Yan Shaohan could pull off.

Then came the important finale of the third season—the famous scene of the siblings' showdown, in which Yan Shaohan had gone completely mad.

Even though they had rehearsed and rehearsed a day in advance, Xiao He, who was already standing on the set, couldn't help but wipe a bead of sweat from his brow every time he thought of Yan Shaohan's demands.

But there's no time for him to think about these issues now.

The moment Yan Shaohan yelled "Action!" and the sound of the clapperboard filled the air, the woman in front of him had already thrown a punch and charged forward!

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Dim daylight streamed in from the top of the damaged factory ceiling, casting dappled, cold shadows on the ground.

The desolate and abandoned site was covered in thick dust, making the whole world look gray and hazy, as if it had a cold and blurry filter. The atmosphere of desolation and danger was at its peak at this moment.

In the instant the camera shifted and focused on the blurry center, the nimble siblings had already exchanged several blows!

At this point, weapons have become meaningless; those with the bodies of medicine-using humans are already the strongest weapons!

There were no fancy tricks, no mercy shown; in the life-or-death struggle, every move was ruthless and swift, with immense force and a powerful gust of wind that could not be ignored!

But the two of them were just too familiar with each other.

Yin Qi dodged Yin Lan's fist by turning his head at just the right moment, and the fist that was about to attack his cheek turned into a palm at an extremely fast speed, and chopped towards Yin Qi's neck!

Yin Qi did not dodge again, but raised his arm to block simply, and at the same time raised his leg to kick to the side at a very fast speed, trying to increase the distance between himself and Yin Lan.

However, Yin Lan easily neutralized this attack.

The two of them were like mirror images, striking each other with similar elbows, parries, and close-quarters combat. Their movements were equally crisp and sharp. The two figures crisscrossed, pulled, and balanced each other at high speed, but because they were so familiar with each other, they couldn't do anything to each other. The life-or-death struggle seemed to have become a joke at this moment.

They are the people who know each other best in the world, and they are also enemies who have to settle their scores here now.

In the quiet space, only the sounds of the two fighting could be heard, along with the dull thuds of fists striking flesh.

At that moment, the tension in the scene was palpable, and the chilling action sequences revealed their extreme restraint and madness.

But such battles are also as calm as still water.

Absolute checks and balances rendered the battle meaningless.

Unless, of course, this balance of power is broken first—

Suddenly, Yin Lan exerted her strength, broke free from the restraint, and delivered a swift punch that slammed into Yin Qi's face.

The immense impact sent Yin Qi flying, sending him crashing directly into the camera lens!

"Smack!"

With a deafening crash as the mirror shattered, the world before our eyes collapsed as well!

In the monitor's view, spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the entire mirror, shattering the hazy mirror surface into countless small fragmented worlds, immediately drawing people's attention from the mirrored world back to reality!

Then, the camera, which had been pointed at the mirror from the beginning, finally slowly lifted up, turning from the blurry mirror world to the real world, and the whole world suddenly became clearer—it turned out that the series of fights just now was actually a reflection of the mirror on the factory floor.

The fight between the siblings was captured in that mirrored world, just like their fate.

Now, the mirror has finally shattered.

—It also signifies that one of them has broken free from all past ties and moved on completely.