Chapter 880 "Scale Man" (Part 1)

Qinyi Technology is very retro at some moments, or it can be said that they tend to create the same effect in a simpler way.

This is probably similar to the idea of ​​senior programmers optimizing code - the result is always to be achieved, why is the process so lengthy?

"Scale Man" is full of this invisible arrogance and confidence from the first second.

In the medium shot, the crowd is bustling, and the nearest pedestrian is only from the shoulder to the thigh in the screen frame. The nearness and distance in the human eye are restored 100%, so that someone was slightly startled at this moment. Because they, as viewers, did not wear any 3D glasses, but these passers-by who walked one after another seemed to be right in front of them, and the nearest one could not even feel half a meter away.

Although it was just a tiny detail, it suddenly improved people's perception.

In a sense, the naked eye is always the most real.

The camera zoomed out and followed a couple holding hands to move, and the full picture of the scene was shown in the background.

It was indeed a corner of the mall. There are street lights and public green plants every few meters on the flat streets. On both sides of the road, there are exquisite clothing stores with windows, or dessert and snack shops with long queues at the door. The high-rise buildings standing in the distance are fashionable and majestic. The big screens and advertising light billboards show close-ups of stars' brilliant smiles, which are no different from the prosperous cities in reality.

But the difference is that the city in the picture generally presents a strange sense of technology. For example, under the blue sky, several ring-shaped "belts" are either lingering or interspersed near tall buildings. When the camera moves forward, it is discovered that these are actually water, clear, gurgling, and suspended in the sky.

River in the sky?

Just as I was surprised, a not-so-harsh whistle sounded, and a long train whizzed across the wide water surface, stirring up clear water along the way.

In the close-up shot, the picture seemed to be a little slower, and the water droplets reflected the crystal light under the dazzling sunlight.

The perspective moved again and stopped at the sentry box not far from the river and the electronic screen next to the sentry box.

[Quangui Line 4]

[New Century Business Center North Gate Station]

[This station can be transferred to Line 1 and Line 3]

Subway? !

No, no, no, aerial subway? Water rail? Light rail? ... Quangui!

Lin Rou and others who saw this picture for the first time couldn't help but hold their breath.

Naked eye 3D, the splashing water just now hit people's eyes directly, almost giving the illusion of being thrown.

Using water as a track to build a city's transportation line, what kind of technology is this? And how much sufficient resources are at hand?

Is this an era of highly developed civilization? High-tech future city?

Five seconds.

In just five seconds, "Scale Man" has brought the audience into this mysterious and fantastic world.

"It's so annoying, there are more blood-sucking bugs recently, and my arms are itchy from being bitten..."

The couple was still chatting, and the girl complained about daily trivialities.

The two sat down at an outdoor seat in a restaurant and looked at the menu carefully. Suddenly, the crowd around them became restless, and many people stood up or looked up at the horizon amid the exclamations.

Several long white lines streaked across the clear blue sky. The contrails were not caused by airplanes or cars, but by several powerful and capable mechas.

"Ah, it's the special search and rescue team!"

The boy in the couple looked at him with admiration, and his girlfriend also looked over. Although her fingers were still subconsciously scratching the itch on her elbow, the slight irritation on her face disappeared, replaced by a light smile with a sense of security.

"Wow, so handsome~"

As soon as she finished her smiling voice, the big screen outside the shopping mall across the street changed instantly, from celebrity advertisements to news broadcasts.

"The latest news is that the 'Angry Scale Party' launched a terrorist attack on the suburban hospital. The special search and rescue team will set out immediately to rescue the trapped people."

The news anchor in a suit had a serious face and clear pronunciation, "During this week, please keep away from the suburban hospital and its surrounding areas. If the area is close to your work and life, please call the police hotline as soon as possible to get help..."

The crowd's discussion turned from excitement to disgust.

"Why won't those guys stop?"

The girl in the couple frowned again, scratching her arm with her fingertips, "It's obvious that she can be cured by cooperating with the treatment--"

"Ha, maybe she's a psychopath, thinking that society is unfair and she's miserable or something."

Her boyfriend shook his head, "If you're sick, just get treatment, why are you being antisocial?--Ah, charcoal grilled steak, medium rare, and a glass of orange juice, thank you. What about you, baby?"

"Well, let me think..."

The waiter was still standing next to the two of them waiting with the order machine, and suddenly a scream tore through the lively atmosphere.

The couple was shocked.

"It's her!"

"Don't get close! Be careful of being infected!"

"Where's the phone?! Call the special search and rescue team!"

Shouts rang out one after another, full of panic, and a young girl hugged her arms and ran away desperately, still wearing the work uniform of the milk tea shop.

The weather was sunny and hot, but she was wearing long sleeves and long pants, which made her look out of place among the coolly dressed people around her.

A close-up flashed by, revealing the girl's neck under her flying hair.

There was a cluster of fine, dense, hard scales on it.

"Ah!!!"

The girl in the couple screamed and jumped up from her chair, and the people around her did the same.

"It's, it's the Scale Man——!"

Panic screams immediately resounded throughout the commercial street. The employees of the milk tea shop, known as "Scale Man", stumbled forward, and the dense crowds in the place they passed screamed and fled, and no one dared to stop them.

"Is there anyone left in the special search and rescue team?"

"I, I, I was so close to her just now! Help, you can't infect me!"

"Why aren't the guards here?"

"Isn't this the uniform of Yoyo Milk Tea? It's so disgusting. I just drank their milk tea... Ugh!"

"Did she spit in the side just now? Everyone, please stay away!"

Amidst the commotion, the young girl's expression became more and more painful. She gritted her teeth and ran forward with red eyes. She was speechless and didn't know where she was going.

The camera panned sharply, then zoomed up after a slight freeze, and her figure appeared on the edge of the high rooftop. Her petite figure could not block the sunlight shining above her head and behind her. Most of her body was exposed to the sun, as if she had been put on a hot oil pan, and her skin was burning and painful.

what to do……

The girl trembled, her eyes trembling in her sockets.

Woo——

There was a sound of wind, and the heavy mecha landed lightly at a speed completely inconsistent with its shape. The hatch in the middle opened smoothly, revealing the face of the person.

This is a young man with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes, frizzy hair piled on his head, and he looks like a reckless fool, but his expression is very serious at this time.

"Madam, don't panic! All you have to do now is cooperate with the treatment!"

He did not approach rashly, and although his voice was loud, it did not contain any scolding or hatred, "I am Pan Hong from the special search and rescue team. Don't be afraid, I will take you to a hospital exclusively for human beings! I know that you have not hurt anyone!" "

Pan Hong's words, especially the last one, effectively calmed the girl's emotions. She sobbed and looked over here hesitantly.

"It's okay, it's okay, trust me."

Pan Hong actually jumped out of the mecha and walked towards her wearing only a powered exoskeleton.

Open, sincere, and unguarded.

"Don't be afraid." He said seriously, and suddenly made a few awkward gestures, "Have you seen that billboard? That's Mr. Yan Bing! The governor of our New Century City! The greatest philanthropist and Doctor! He will help you until you recover - there was a ribbon-cutting ceremony for him to establish the Scale Man Rescue Foundation on TV not long ago, did you remember?"

Pan Hong's bright eyes and eager words startled the girl. She followed his words and turned to look. There was a bust of a middle-aged man printed on the huge billboard. The man was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He has some gray hair on his temples, and he looks like a gentle scholar rather than a shrewd and cunning politician.

That is the governor of New Century City and the patron saint of the people, Yan Bing.

Perhaps she was touched by Yan Bing's sincere eyes, or perhaps Pan Hong's friendliness and concern played a role. The girl lowered her head and thought for a moment, then took back her steps towards the rooftop and tentatively walked in Pan Hong's direction.

"My name is... Shu Zhen." She whispered, "I just work in a milk tea shop. I didn't hurt anyone..."

"Yeah, yeah, of course I know!"

Pan Hong nodded quickly and looked a little silly. He stretched out his hand to Shu Zhen. The latter pursed his lips and smiled. He was about to raise his hand, but suddenly remembered something and his movements froze.

She took a step back suddenly, and out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of Yan Bing on the billboard again, with a panicked look on his face.

"What's wrong?" Pan Hong looked at Shu Zhen confused.

"I……"

Cold sweat trickled down from Shu Zhen's forehead. She wanted to open her mouth, but at this moment, a violent "whoosh" sound mixed with a loud roar intervened in the conversation between the two with absolute force.

The camera suddenly raised!

A jet-black heavy motorcycle jumped out from the sky, its body filled with bright red-purple flames, and tongues of flame danced wildly.

A dazzling halo suddenly bloomed behind the heavy motorcycle and the rider. From an absolute upward angle, the audience felt that the roaring wheels of the motorcycle were going to crush their faces mercilessly.

A group of exclamations and obviously suppressed neighs of excitement erupted in the cinema.

"Watch out!"

Pan Hong's figure flashed suddenly, and when the uninvited guest smashed him down with his car, he quickly picked up Shu Zhen and moved it to the other side of the rooftop, even leaving an afterimage for a few milliseconds.

呲——

The drifting sound was sharp and frightening, and the motorcycle wiped out conspicuous white marks on the roof of the rooftop. Fire was flowing down the ground, and it was still drifting wildly even after it made an emergency stop.

Smoke, flames, the camera moves from bottom to top, a long leg hangs out from the side of the ferocious heavy motorcycle, the patent leather tights wrap the tall body of the visitor, and then upward, a slender arm takes off the motorcycle helmet, and the pale hair falls on it. Flying in the wind, under the messy bangs is a handsome and stunning baby face. He has a cold expression, and his white hair and skin contrast sharply with the black clothes and leather gloves.

Pan Hong's expression immediately turned cold, and his eyebrows were raised fiercely.

He stared intently at the guy opposite who seemed to be born from the flames, focusing his gaze on the man's left eye.

There, there is a small diamond-shaped scale.

The same position is placed on the face of the circus clown, which is the colorful tear-stained makeup, for the purpose of being funny and making people laugh.

But on this man's face, the hard scales on one side only made him colder and tougher, like an undoubted mark, sharp and beautiful.

Another scaly man.

Still a dangerous scale man who can freely control supernatural powers.

Pan Hong's muscles and nerves were tense at the same time, but after the man on the motorcycle met him, he raised his hand without saying a word.

A bright flame suddenly ignited from his fingertips, and the flames rushed like a snake. Then the engine roared again, and the other party suddenly rushed towards Pan Hong and Shu Zhen!

"Tsk!"

Pan Hong realized the man's unreserved aggressiveness, and immediately responded by gently pushing Shu Zhen away and retreating back.

"Chi" sounded again, and the white-haired young man and his car suddenly drew a white arc between the two people, and then a wall of fire rose up, and the flames shot up to the sky!

The fast cutting of the storyboard, the wide bird's-eye view and the side shot made people's adrenaline soar. Under the effect of naked-eye 3D, the fierce flames were reflected in the eyes of the audience, and it was almost impossible to help but roar to vent the excitement at the moment.

Then, before everyone could react, the heavy motorcycle hit Pan Hong again, and the momentum was so fierce that the murderous intent was written on his face.

Pan Hong's face turned cold, and he pulled out two cold blue guns from his exoskeleton. The gunshots sounded like heavy rain, but the bullets were swallowed by the flames without any explanation, and at most they only condensed into a few ice cubes in the air.

He seemed to hear a sneer, and his face suddenly showed an angry look. He urged the high-mobility exoskeleton to jump high, and the two pistols "clicked" and transformed into a bright silver spear in his hands.

Another overhead shot, Pan Hong stabbed down with a gun!

The heavy motorcycle roared and rolled diagonally towards the ground. The black car had red flames and white hair. At the speed of the mad rush, it was even about to melt into a ball of abstract colors like an oil painting. The flames jumped violently and disorderly, and it was extremely thrilling to avoid the tip of the gun with a cold glow.

In a flash, the young man leaned forward and pressed hard with both hands. The tail wing of the motorcycle was lifted high and turned 180 degrees in the air. The raging fire rushed straight to Pan Hong's face, blocking his sight and his way.

Another second later, the camera cuts to Shu Zhen's perspective, and a heavy motorcycle rushes out of the wall of fire!

"Ah,——"

Shu Zhen's light cry only rang out the first half of the sentence, and a ghostly black shadow flashed by, and the white-haired young man grabbed her by the waist and put her on the car. The wind was sharp, the engine was roaring, and the picture suddenly slowed down for a second in the breathtaking fast pace, and the split screen slowly moved from the front to the bird's-eye view.

From a high-altitude perspective, the ground is far and narrow, and the scattered pedestrians are as small as ants. The nearly vertical downward picture makes people breathe quickly, their heartbeats speed up, and even their legs go weak.

Outside the screen, even Lin Rou, who was already accustomed to the ice ladder, felt a strong dizziness, and couldn't help leaning back. Only when her back was against the back of the chair did she feel more stable.

Then, the slow-motion playback on the big screen suddenly disappeared, and the white-haired young man held the handle with one hand, buckled the helmet on Shu Zhen's head with the other hand, and rushed down from the high platform with her in his arms!

The camera zoomed out at a very fast speed. The tall buildings reflected the sunlight. A fierce flame jumped across the surface of the building at a 90-degree angle as if it had life. It was dangerous, crazy, and extremely exciting.

"Ah...!"

Someone in the audience finally couldn't hold it anymore, and the low cry was trembling.

Like a switch, the sound of heavy breathing came one after another in the screening room.

"What, damn it!"

The fire wall disappeared, and Pan Hong, who had reacted, rushed to the edge of the rooftop and looked down, gritting his teeth and waving his fist.

Just when he was angry, a quick ring rang. It was the communicator on the mecha.

The scene changed, and the couple who appeared earlier sat back in the outdoor seats. Both of them were still frightened and looked disgusted.

"It's so annoying, why are you running around!"

The girl's face still had the panic just now, and the strength of scratching her arm became stronger, as if venting her anger.

"Someone from the special search team has already gone." The boyfriend also exhaled, "It's really scary. What's wrong with the owner of the Yoyo milk tea shop? I hope he's not deliberately covering up...ah."

His expression suddenly changed, and his whole body was shaking, so much so that the table and the plates and forks on the tabletop jingled.

"What's wrong?"

The girl was still a little irritated, and she lowered her eyes and said "Ah!".

The screen gave a close-up, and the tip of her finger that scratched her arm was stained with blood.

"Oh, why did I scratch myself and bleed."

The girl was secretly depressed, and was about to look for tissues in her bag, but her eyes suddenly froze.

Because a group of hard and hideous scales suddenly appeared on her elbow.

"I, I..."

The girl froze in place, her face pale and full of fear. She subconsciously looked at her boyfriend for help, but he screamed and crawled back.

This incident attracted more passers-by's attention, and screams filled the entire street again.

"There's another one here!!!"

People pointed at the girl and shouted in panic, and the chaos was repeated. Everyone, including the waiters in the restaurant, retreated one after another. Customers who were also sitting outdoors ran faster than anyone else.

In less than five seconds, there was no one around the girl.

"No, don't, I..."

Her eyes were red in an instant, and she looked around helplessly, but she only met a pair of terrified and hateful eyes.

The girl tried to get up from her seat, but as soon as she moved, all the people who were staring at her followed her and retreated in panic, as if they were looking at a bomb wrapped in smelly mud.

"Qiangqiang——"

The girl called her boyfriend with a trembling voice, and the malice surged, shattering her spirit.

"Don't come over first!"

Lu Qiang waved his hands in panic and stammered, "Don't move first, I'll contact the search and rescue team now, it's okay, it's...it's okay! Cooperate with the treatment!"

The girl had never seen her boyfriend's expression of fear mixed with disgust. She opened her mouth and tears fell.

"do not Cry!"

Lu Qiang shouted, "Body fluids are contagious... Don't cry! Please!"

The girl nodded desperately, but she couldn't stop crying. She could only cover the lower half of her face to stop her sobs.

Not long after, Pan Hong landed from the air in a mecha.

"Don't be afraid, I'm from the special search and rescue team, I'm here." He showed his face again and tried his best to comfort the panicked scale man.

"You need to stop the bleeding, come on, give me your hand... Put on this mask, okay? Slow down, no rush, um, I'll take you to isolation and to the hospital."

The mecha was like a high wall with a great sense of security, which largely calmed the unrest nearby. Lu Qiang finally came back to his senses and said incoherently:

"No, it's okay, I'll call your parents, leave it to me, you...you have to cooperate with the treatment, you must cooperate with the treatment, don't run around."

The girl nodded "woohoo", her lower face was completely covered by a mask, and the upper half of her face was covered with transparent protective glasses. The arm with scales and bleeding and the other hand with bloody fingertips were firmly locked in a heavy shackle like a "sleeve" - ​​blood is the most dangerous way of infection, Pan Hong dare not neglect it.

"The guards will be here soon!"

Pan Hong said loudly, "Everyone, don't get close to here for the time being! Restaurant owners, employees and guests, please wait in the store, don't walk around! Repeat, don't walk around at will!"

A rectangular crack opened behind his mecha, and then a container as high as a person stretched out from it.

"Come in, I'll take you to the hospital." Pan Hong's voice was gentle in the speaker.

"Okay, okay..."

The girl walked in tremblingly, and she looked in the direction of her boyfriend again.

The other party had already lowered his head, not daring to look at her again.

The mecha flew away with the container, and the sky was still blue and clear.

Two big words slowly emerged in the center of the screen like a burning flame.

"Scale Man".

5400+, I'm so excited to write.

This script is adapted from the animated film "PROMARE"

Original work: TRIGGER, Kazuki Nakajima

Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi, Masahiko Otsuka (assistant)

Screenwriter: Kazuki Nakajima

Animation production: TRIGGER