webnovelvip Chapter 193 The Rebellion of Trash, the Collection of Dreams!
Chapter 193 The Rebellion of Trash, the Collection of Dreams!
(Both episodes are a bit abstract, but they're not easy to change. If we make changes, we don't know whether the feedback will be more positive or negative. Let's do less and make fewer mistakes, and stick to the original work.)
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a week has quietly slipped away amidst the anticipation and reminiscence of countless viewers.
Friday night.
Old Tang's live stream was already bustling with activity, and its popularity easily surpassed the top spot in its time slot.
"Good evening, guys!"
Old Tang sat in his gaming chair, taking a satisfying sip of his ice-cold cola. "After last week's epic battle that sent blood pressure soaring, we can probably catch our breath a bit this week. I know Gu Laozei's rhythm all too well; after the climax, there's always the usual antics!"
The live stream chat was flooded with comments like a waterfall:
[Hurry up! Hurry up! It's 8 o'clock!]
I cried my eyes out last week, please don't send any heartbreaking moments this week!
[Selling sunflower seeds, peanuts, and bottled water in the front row!]
[Will Asuka continue to get beaten up this week, hahaha!]
"It's here! Time's up!"
Old Tang skillfully pressed the F5 key, and the screen instantly changed.
The exciting and passionate opening theme song of "Ultraman Dyna" started playing right on time.
After a brief black screen, a line of bold white text appeared in the center of the screen—
Episode 37: The Collection of Dreams
"A collection of dreams? That name sounds a bit magical." Old Tang stroked his chin.
The main feature begins.
The warm sunshine shone on the earth, and a gentle breeze caressed people's faces.
It was clearly an exceptionally peaceful morning.
Accompanied by a light and cheerful tune, the camera naturally pans across the crowd enjoying themselves, focusing on the scattered scraps of paper, plastic bottles, and fast food containers.
Next, the important character of this episode—the owner of the scrap metal recycling station, Nishioka—makes his appearance.
He carried a small briefcase, drove a large pickup truck, and was accompanied by a female assistant in work clothes, traveling between various communities.
He not only charged residents for the transportation of their recyclables, but also turned around and sold a discarded small lamp he had collected to his unsuspecting female assistant.
"Good heavens, this boss is a complete shrewd businessman. He's figured out how to make money as a middleman."
Old Tang was delighted.
Just after Nishioka and his group drove away, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The cigarette packs left on the ground and the old cell phone in the corner seemed to have grown legs and started to move on their own, slowly crawling in the same direction!
Holy crap! They're really pushing it! It looks like the trash has come to life!
[That cigarette pack's movement is pretty flashy!]
[What kind of cyberpunk-esque scene is this?]
The camera then shifts to the command center at TPC's Far East headquarters.
Captain Kibi, holding a large poster, announced to the team members with an extremely serious expression: "The organization has made a decision! Our Victory Team must take the lead! Starting this month, we will strictly implement the environmental protection strategy of reducing waste!"
Standing to the side, Shin Asuka was completely confused. She scratched her head and asked how exactly to do it.
Before the captain could even speak, Miyako, Kawama, and Xing Xingtian took turns lecturing Asuka.
"First, when printing materials, you must make full use of both sides of the paper!"
"Before discarding a document, be sure to remove the paperclip for reuse!"
"Use your own cup whenever possible when drinking coffee; never use disposable paper cups!"
Listening to these complicated rules, Asuka's face clearly showed his "I don't understand but I'm impressed".
However, Gu Nan filmed this seemingly serious environmental theme with a strong sense of contrast and comedic effect.
In the scene, Kibi Kosuke is speaking very seriously on the platform, while Tadashi Kaneshima is secretly munching on a fried chicken leg below.
Mai was so hungry she was swallowing hard, and even the usually serious Koda couldn't help but steal a glance.
Just then, Gong Liang, without any hesitation, took advantage of Zhong Dao's inattention and, with lightning speed, snatched the fried chicken leg from Zhong Dao's hand and began to eat it happily!
[Hahaha! The captain's in a meeting, and you guys' eating!]
[Senior Liang: Here you go!]
[What kind of environmental protection strategy is this? Nobody's listening!]
Using disposable cups is wasteful of resources, but isn't the detergent and water needed to wash those cups also wasteful of resources?
[Humorous: The waste of detergent and water is less than the waste of paper cups, and besides, you don't need detergent after drinking coffee.]
Let's encourage the use of fewer disposable items.
As evening approached, the setting sun bathed the scene in a pale golden hue.
Mr. Nishioka returned home laden with his purchases. Just then, an elderly man wearing a trench coat, respectfully addressed as "Teacher Yanase," approached.
Yanase rummaged through the junk pile for a while, then took a liking to the small table lamp and took it.
In response to her female assistant's protest, Yanase simply retorted coldly, "Don't you know that trash has a life of its own?"
After saying that, Yanase returned to his shack filled with junk.
The moment he turned on the lamp, the moving trash on the city streets began to gather frantically!
A few days later, the situation became extremely strange.
The city is full of inexplicably clustered piles of garbage.
Even more outrageous, this garbage eventually piled up into a small mountain!
Asuka and Chungjima arrived at the scene in their armored vehicles.
Zhong Dao scanned the area with the instrument, adjusted his glasses, and switched to his "student mode": "This is utterly unreasonable! This completely violates the law of entropy increase!"
He explained that everything in the universe moves from order to disorder, just like a room will only get messier if it's not cleaned.
And this pile of garbage, without anyone managing it, actually gathered together into a whole, which completely violates the common sense of physics!
[Zhong Dao, the academic superstar, is here!]
Simply put, the higher the entropy, the more chaotic the object becomes.
[How did the prop team manage to do that?]
To put it simply, while the garbage is managed by someone, it's not piled up by people. How could inanimate garbage possibly accumulate together? This is clearly illogical.
Afterwards, Asuka visited Professor Yanase.
Yanase served Asuka a strangely green health drink and uttered that extremely abstract yet startling prophecy:
"All that discarded and destroyed garbage has finally gathered together, ready to take its revenge on humanity!"
Soon, the garbage mountain not only grew larger and larger, but it even floated directly above the city, turning into a giant garbage island!
TPC executives immediately arrived at the command center.
Old Tang and the audience all thought that the attack order was about to be given.
As a result, Director Fukami and Staff Officer Miyata walked in with great fanfare. Director Fukami even took out a brush and Xuan paper and wrote two large characters in extremely elegant style, bestowing upon this garbage island the name "Dream Island"! (Original work by Mengatamali)
【Director, are you serious?】
【Wait, is this plot really that amazing?】
[Gu Nan? Were you dreaming when you wrote this script?]
[The monster's already barging in, and you're here to give it a name?]
[Director Shen Jian, the naming genius!]
[I'll still write down whatever I dream about~~~]
As "Dream Island," also known as Mengatamali, rapidly expanded, the crisis finally erupted.
Monitoring showed that this garbage collection had begun to emit large amounts of dioxins! This is an extremely dangerous and highly toxic chemical.
At the scene, an extremely comical and ironic scene unfolded.
When Boss Xigang arrived in his big pickup truck, he wasn't afraid at all when he saw the monster in the sky absorbing the surrounding garbage. Instead, he was furious. Because this monster was sucking up all the garbage, he couldn't collect any scrap, cutting off his source of income!
"How dare you steal my business!"
With a roar, Nishioka grabbed a high-pressure water gun and unleashed a torrent of water at the garbage island in the sky!
[Hahaha! The rage of the unscrupulous merchant!]
[Nishioka: Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents! No matter what kind of monster you are, take this water gun!]
This boss is greedy, he'd rather die than live!
[666, these are troublemakers from the Showa era!]
To be honest, this episode has a really "retro" style, it feels like the narrative style of Showa-era Oku.
With danger imminent, Captain Hibiki finally gave the order to attack.
After the birds at the scene helped the crowd take refuge, he decisively drew his flash sword and transformed into Ultraman Dyna!
With the appearance of the Giant of Light, the "Dream Island" in the sky crashed down and transformed into a huge monster made of compressed waste and with an extremely ugly appearance!
The battle has begun.
Dyna rushed forward to try to fight, but his hands were sucked into the flowing "dust leather" on the monster's body and he couldn't get out!
This monster can not only release poison gas, but also suck in any objects it comes into contact with and then turn them into trash bombs that bounce off!
Dyna's shimmering light blade and Solgent Ray were all absorbed by it, and it even suffered a counterattack from the enemy's firepower.
In the sky, the Victory Eagle, which came to provide support, launched an electromagnetic net, which was instantly corroded and broken by the monster's poison gas.
Dyna tried to break through the Ultra Barrier with his hands, but "Dream Island" smashed it open. The massive, garbage-like body pinned Dyna to the ground, and the heat inside his body surged rapidly, ready to self-destruct and perish together with him at any moment!
[This trash monster is surprisingly strong! Its physical and magical resistances are maxed out!]
To be honest, this suit is kind of interesting.
Dyna: This monster is too dirty, we can't fight it!
[Why does this weirdo seem like something Sphia did?]
[Quickly switch forms! It's time for the red powerhouse to enter the fray!]
At the critical moment!
Dyna crossed his arms over his forehead, and a burst of red light flashed!
The powerful Dyna makes a stunning debut!
Facing the monster pressing down on him, the strong Dyna let out a deafening battle roar, displaying unparalleled strength that surpasses all others in the world!
With a sudden upward thrust of his arms, he actually lifted the massive mountain of garbage, weighing tens of thousands of tons, straight up!
"Drink!"
Dyna suddenly used Ultra Ascent to send "Dream Island" soaring into the sky like a shot put!
Immediately afterwards, Dyna gathered extremely hot red energy in his fists and unleashed a violent and unparalleled finishing move, "Strong Crush"!
"Boom—!!!"
"Dream Island" was instantly shattered at an altitude of 10,000 meters!
As the monster exploded, instead of toxic debris falling from the sky, it transformed into countless white, snowflake-like particles of trash that danced in the air.
Accompanied by the ethereal end credits theme, this harmless "debris rain" fell over the city for a full week.
People walked through the swirling debris, holding umbrellas.
As they watched the rain, Boss Nishioka and Professor Yanase exchanged a smile, revealing a genuine sense of relief.
The scene is perfectly captured in this dreamlike atmosphere.
……
Old Tang paused in front of the computer for a few seconds, as if processing the plot of this episode.
"Brothers, this episode really left me with mixed feelings. On the surface, it's an absurd story about trash turning into a monster, and it even intersperses various funny scenes."
Old Tang sat up straight and began his extremely hardcore post-match analysis.
"However! If you look closely, you'll find that director Gu Nan has hidden a profound social satire in this episode!"
"First, let's talk about this core concept. The environmental strategy initially developed in the TPC command center was actually a scathing satire of the rigid, dogmatic, and formalistic environmental practices in reality!"
"The higher-ups issue a document, and the lower-ups just read it verbatim. Everyone talks about environmental protection, but behind the scenes they eat and drink as usual, and they don't even know why they should do this. Fei Niao's confusion precisely represents the true reaction of ordinary people."
The live stream chat was flooded with comments:
Indeed, environmental protection that only involves empty slogans is too hypocritical.
This is what formalism is like in the workplace.
Old Tang tapped the table and continued, "Let's look at the two key figures in this episode: Boss Nishioka and Professor Yanase!"
"I know everyone might think Nishioka is a greedy and unscrupulous businessman. But Director Gu put in a lot of effort when filming this episode! The behind-the-scenes footage just released by the official team reveals that, in order to achieve the most realistic texture, the house full of garbage that Yanase-sensei lived in wasn't a set at all; the crew actually borrowed the home of a real garbage problem expert!"
"Furthermore, Director Gu's use of light and shadow is also extremely skillful! He uses the bright morning sun to illuminate and portray Nishioka, and the dim evening sun to portray Yanase. What does this represent?"
Old Tang's eyes brightened considerably: "This represents two completely different attitudes! Nishioka represents the inevitable profit-driven and materialistic desires that humanity inevitably develops for survival and development; while Yanase is a wise and insightful thinker who has seen through all of this, living a secluded life in the city!"
"Yanase said that trash has a life, but that's actually the manifestation of resentment born from humanity's unrestrained waste!"
[Holy crap! They actually filmed it in a real expert's home?! Chasing Light Pictures is so hardcore!]
[I didn't even notice the contrast between the sunrise and sunset, Lao Tang!]
[Desire breeds garbage; this metaphor is brilliant.]
"In the very end, the rain of debris fell for seven days straight. Like the seven days of Genesis, it was a kind of destruction, but also a kind of rebirth."
Old Tang gave a thumbs up to the camera, saying, "Desire cannot be completely avoided. It can cause pollution, but it can also drive the progress of civilization. Gu Nan uses this episode full of magical romanticism to tell us that environmental protection is not a rigid dogma, but requires us to sincerely balance the relationship between desire and nature."
"This is what makes 'Ultraman Dyna' truly superior! It not only features thrilling battles, but also offers profound reflections on human behavior!"
That's all for today's analysis! See you next week, guys!