"Wait, you're saying that the crystal fell from outer space?" Chen Chen asked for confirmation.
"Yes, the crystal doesn't look like a product of Earth at first glance, does it?"
Landis shrugged. "After all, we all know that this material doesn't exist on Earth and the crystal is just a storage device. The thing that gives the protagonist superpowers should be the alien plant inside."
Chen Chen's heart sank when he heard this. He suddenly had a bad feeling but he did not interrupt Landis.
Landis continued, "I got the inspiration from an article. I don't know if you've heard of it, but a torture expert who was good at using lie detectors found out by chance that plants could actually receive the will of humans."
"At first, the interrogation expert only wanted to know how long it took for water to travel from the base of the dragon tree to the leaves, so he used a lie detector. You should know that when a person is lying or emotional, the lines on the lie detector will fluctuate rapidly.
"When it's used on plants, the lines will slowly rise because the electrical resistance of the leaves will slowly decrease due to moisture. However, the actual situation is the opposite. The lines on the drawing will initially go down, and then they will jump slightly, just like a person who is afraid of being tested."
Landis explained slowly, "Next, he wanted to continue exploring the emotional response of the plant, such as giving it a huge threat. When he thought of using a match to burn the leaves, the lines on the lie detector began to fluctuate violently. However, he didn't burn the leaves yet, he just wanted to do it. Somehow, the dragon tree seemed to sense this and became extremely frightened."
Chen Chen listened quietly.
"Next, he lit a match and waved it under the leaves of the dragon tree. The lines on the drawing continued to jump up and down. When he put the match back in place, the lines on the drawing slowed down and finally became a straight line.
"However, if he repeated this kind of fake threat many times, the dragon tree wouldn't react. It seemed to know that the experimenter wasn't serious..."
Landis smiled. "It was this experiment that gave me the idea. The alien plant in the plot can secrete a substance, which is the crystal in the movie. They use this method to protect themselves and at the same time, it can also bestow superpowers to humans. It's like a mainframe of a computer and the three protagonists are extensions. Therefore, the three of them can sense each other and the existence of the mainframe."
Chen Chen's heart sank at Landis' words but he still asked, "What's the theory behind it? Why can the alien plant give humans superpowers, and what are the principles behind the three main characters' superpowers? "
Upon hearing this, Landis and Trunk both gave Chen Chen a strange look. Trunk could only explain awkwardly, "I'm sorry, we didn't consider this issue back then."
"It's just like Superman and the Hulk. The audience only looks at superpowers, but who cares about the scientific principles behind superpowers …"
Landis also shrugged helplessly. "We should leave these difficult problems to the scientists."
Chen Chen felt helpless when he heard this, but he knew that the other party was telling the truth.
Superpower is a kind of conventional thing. Even the X gene in "X-Men" only shows that X gene can give people superpowers, but who can explain why X gene can give people superpowers?
However, at this moment, Chen Chen suddenly thought of a possibility.
Perhaps, it was because it was not set up that there were infinite possibilities?
Just like Chronicle and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, everyone knew that the second movie was more sci-fi than the first, but the USB drive only recognized Chronicle and not Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Why was that?
If it was like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, it was directly stated that it was an RNA retrovirus, but in reality, there was no RNA retrovirus that could achieve what was depicted in the movie. Instead, the USB drive deemed it unscientific?
"Strictly speaking, I didn't come up with this story, it was Trunk's idea."
While Chen Chen was deep in thought, Landis looked at Trunk beside him and continued.
"That's right, this movie was inspired by me on the set of Ghostly Chronicles, it was like a daydream of mine. Later, I found Landis and had him turn my idea into reality."
Trunk seemed to be reminiscing about the past, a look of reminiscence appeared on his face. "High school boys get their dream superpowers. Just like muscles, as long as they practice hard, they'll become stronger and stronger. This was my earliest idea."
"And then you guys turned the daydream into a nightmare." Chen Chen teased.
"After all, we didn't want to make a clichéd superhero movie, we wanted to... Go for some depth."
Landis explained, "By limiting the protagonist's personality and family, we achieve the dramatic effect of the movie, turning it into a film with tragic overtones. That's what we wanted to do."
Hearing this, Chen Chen sighed inwardly. "Let me ask one last question, will the person who obtains superpowers be in danger? For example, the ability to affect the human heart, the danger of being possessed by plants, and so on. "
"When we were designing the first movie, we didn't think too much about it. After all, it had nothing to do with the plot. We still focused on the portrayal of the protagonist."
Landis also felt a little helpless. "When it came to the second movie, I did want to make the plants darker and more dangerous. Unfortunately, I was kicked out by the main production company."
Hearing this, Chen Chen felt refreshed. "In other words, in the first movie, you didn't set the plants as a threat?"
"Yes..."
Both of them did not understand why Chen Chen wanted to get to the bottom of this but they still nodded.
"Very well, please wait a moment."
Chen Chen nodded in satisfaction and began to scribble something on the computer.
Ten minutes later, Chen Chen exhaled. "In that case, I'll set the time of the second movie ten years later."
With that, Chen Chen began to describe. "The ending of the first movie was: Andrew's dark side erupted. Cousin Matt endured the pain and stabbed Andrew to death, then went to travel the world. Then, the second movie can unfold like this —"
Both of them did not speak, waiting for Chen Chen to continue.
"Over the past ten years, Matt has traveled all over the world, but he didn't find any clues about the crystal. Moreover, the location where they found the crystal has long been sealed off by the government. Ordinary people can't approach it."
Chen Chen said in a low voice, "So, Matt, who couldn't find any clues for ten years, sneaked into the cave, but after going through a lot of trouble to enter the cave, he found that it had been transformed into a huge underground base by the government..."
"At the same time, he also found that Andrew did not die back then. It turned out that although Andrew was pierced through the abdomen, he was saved by the government and kept in a comatose state to study his body.
"Moreover, the government also cut the crystal into thousands of fist-sized crystals and extracted the alien plant inside. Later, they found that the crystals could only store a part of the plant's power. The real important part was the plant itself.
"However, the plant died soon after leaving the crystal because it couldn't adapt to the environment on Earth. As a result, the government lost the means to mass-produce superpowers.
"This also explains why the government hasn't killed Andrew for ten years."
Chen Chen typed as he spoke. When he was done, he turned the computer screen to the two of them. "After the plant died, the crystal that stored a part of the plant's power became a one-time consumable.
"The government used the divided crystals to create one superpower after another, but the amount of radiation they received was only a few percent of the original three protagonists, so the superpower they obtained was very weak. Even the growth rate was extremely low, far less exaggerated than Andrew and the others.
"In order to obtain stronger power, the only way is to obtain more crystalline..."
Chen Chen took a deep breath, stood up, and concluded. "This is all the settings I've provided for the second movie. Both of you must perfect the second movie according to the settings I've provided.
"At the same time, give our childhood a happy ending..."
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