Chapter 2122 Movies Beautify Reality

Little Taotie opened the short Mermaid video she’d filmed before. "Let’s watch a movie for a bit."

At those words, the noisy crowd fell quiet.

The members of the Special Department were puzzled. In a situation like this, who would be in the mood to watch a movie?

Little Taotie cast the screen onto the big display.

When they saw the familiar Little Mermaid Tao Tao, everyone quieted down.

It all felt as if it had been foretold long ago.

When outsiders exist, there are bound to be events that exceed all predictions.

Shen Cang let out a low sigh. "In the thirty years before Spiritual Energy recovery, the newly recruited Superpower Users in the Special Department were 300% more than in the past."

Xiao Guo asked softly, "Boss, you’d already expected the world to fall into chaos?"

Shen Cang did not deny it.

He looked out the window and murmured, "Every era has a certain number of elites and geniuses. When, in a certain era, the number of Superpower Users and geniuses exceeds the limit, something major is bound to happen."

An age where heroes arise in droves always heralds something.

As if it were an unchanging law that has existed since time immemorial.

In fact, the higher-ups were already aware. When, in a certain year, the number of Superpower Users surpassed past years by half again, they were already worried and had prepared to some extent. They merely assumed there would be too many natural and man-made disasters, but they never imagined planetary vortices would appear.

The movie kept playing, but most people were in no mood to watch.

They stayed silent, lips pressed tight, faces heavy, brows knotted. Every face looked shrouded in shadow, devoid of life.

They were facing an unknown difficulty they had never encountered before. Compared to any war, this was far more terrifying; compared to natural and man-made disasters, far more perilous. One misstep, and the entire planet would be buried with them. Every vortex was like the entrance to a black hole—no one knew what kind of creature would break through from it in the next instant.

Those lizard monsters or dinosaur-like creatures might only be animals from another world. But the appearance of a spaceship meant that the planet invading Blue Star was not some Jurassic-era world without highly intelligent beings.

It was very likely a developed planet with highly intelligent humans.

Blue Star was just as unknown to them, so they didn’t rashly venture in. Instead, they sent those animals first to Blue Star to probe the way.

Once Blue Star showed signs of collapse, would they pour out in full force to launch an all-out attack on Blue Star?

The more you thought about it, the more horrifying it became. The light in some people’s eyes gradually dimmed, even taking on a look of despair.

Suddenly, a massive explosion appeared on the big screen, horns blared, and those going into battle were not only humans, but all high-intelligence beings on the planet.

Those unknown deep-sea creatures—Mermaids, the Dragon race... those beings once judged as not of our kind—all joined the human ranks, marching to war alongside humans.

"I’ve watched this movie many times. Every time, I was moved by the plot. But now... I can’t describe what I’m feeling." Xiao Guo whispered.

"When it was just a film, we were all merely spectators, just enjoying a feast of fantasy. When the plot of the movie is reflected in reality, it makes you feel like you can’t breathe."

"A movie is, after all, only a movie. The global cooperation against an external enemy in the film—that’s just wishful thinking. Look at things now: Country H doesn’t seem to take it seriously, the other countries are merely watching from the sidelines. Only our Hua Country is treating these vortices with the gravity they deserve."

"Only when some place is completely overrun, or when a true threat appears, will those onlookers start to take it seriously. And the way they’ll ’take it seriously’ will probably be just hiding in the back, letting others charge in front, then swooping in at the end to pick up the spoils."

"Movies, in the end, are beautified versions of reality."

Everyone argued, cursing other countries for doing nothing, but they didn’t notice that the previously deathly atmosphere had, thanks to this venting of negative energy, thinned out quite a bit.