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Chapter 811: Chapter 767 He’s Lying

Above the giant screen.

Man stands face to face with a tiger.

Ocean currents surge in darkness.

This tiny lifeboat quietly floats on the sea’s surface, its final destination unknown to all.

Pi begins to fight for survival.

He discovers some food supplies and fresh water in the lifeboat, along with a survival manual that teaches him how to live on the open sea until help arrives.

There is a raft on the boat.

He pushes the raft into the sea and stays on it, keeping his distance from the tiger on the boat—

He attempts to tame the tiger.

But he is not a qualified animal trainer, and his plan to tame the tiger concludes with Parker marking his face with a spray of yellow urine.

Pi knows that the tiger can swim.

When the tiger is desperately hungry, it will surely swim over to eat him, so he has no choice but to try and catch fish from the sea to feed the tiger.

There is not much water.

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When it rains, he collects rainwater for drinking and shares it with the tiger.

A man and a tiger, they survive day by day like this.

The process doesn’t seem long or boring.

The emerald sea, tranquil as a painting when calm.

At night, the stars make the sea mesmerizing and magnificent.

When the ocean rages, waves sweep and churn with towering fury, the boat rocked countless times amidst violent storms.

Flying fish…

Bioluminescent jellyfish…

Schools of dolphins swim by…

And whales roam in groups, stirring up countless waves.

However.

Food and fresh water aren’t always available, and the tiger becomes extremely hungry; it tries to fish in the water and swims toward Pi.

It wants to eat Pi!

Pi jumps from the raft onto the boat and retracts the raft, isolating the tiger in the sea.

Just when the audience thinks the tiger is doomed, Pi suddenly has a change of heart and decides to save the tiger onto the boat.

The next few days.

He tries to tame the tiger little by little by feeding it chunks of fish meat.

This time, he succeeds.

…

This is a fantastical adventure journey; when the tiger is tamed, some audience members can’t restrain their excitement and let out a small cheer!

“It’s so beautiful!”

“This ocean journey is fraught with dangers, but the scenery is truly beautiful, including the glowing jellyfish!”

“Those fish are so pretty!”

“The part with the swordfish cracked me up. A group of swordfish flew by, and the largest one got taken by Pi; the poor meerkat was left to eat the smaller fish.”

“I thought Pi would kill the tiger!”

“After spending so many days together, he couldn’t bear to kill it. He’s wanted to be friends with a tiger since he was a child, and being alone on the ocean, he really needed companionship, even from a tiger.”

“The special effects are really amazing!”

“You watch big-budget films for the effects, so exhilarating. The plot finally got thrilling too; previously, Pi was just being bullied by the tiger, and it made me so anxious that my palms sweated.”

“The tiger is kind of cute, like a cat.”

“They should have shown this part earlier. Luckily I made it through the first thirty minutes of boring flashbacks until about an hour in, when the story became exciting!”

“…”

The audience chats in hushed tones.

An Xu gently raises an eyebrow. Even as a director, he couldn’t find fault with the recent scenes—the beautiful ocean captured perfectly by the camera almost took his breath away.

The budget is definitely burning!

And the segment of Pi interacting with the tiger, all the way to taming it, is also very impressive, sustaining excellent pacing. The atmosphere of despair juxtaposes with several amusing moments without feeling forced.

“It seems pretty good.”

Jiang Zhu speaks up, her feminine longing for beautiful imagery evident when such scenes are displayed, almost making her forget this is about survival at sea.

Stunningly beautiful!

Wonderful images, the seabed’s myriad of strange creatures, the occasional shark fins gliding by, gorgeous yet deadly!

But let’s not forget.

The problem of survival weighs heavily on both Pi and the tiger. After days of drifting, they are nearing their limit—then a storm hits!

…

This storm is too intense!

Its ferocity is comparable even to the day the huge ship capsized!

Pi always does foolish things, like thinking such scenes are awe-inspiring, gifts from God, until he sees the tiger struggling desperately in the waves.

Pi suddenly yells at the sky:

“Why are you scaring him!”

“I have lost my family, I have lost everything!”

“I submit!”

“God!?”

“What else do you want from me!”

Pi completely breaks down; perhaps from that moment, he no longer believes in God, his faith starting to crumble!

…

An Xu’s expression shows he is moved.

Jiang Zhu also has a look of sympathy in her eyes.

The audience’s faces are filled with concern.

Everyone has unwittingly grown fond of the man and the tiger; they like this mode of coexistence.

“It reminds me of ‘The Truman Show’.”

An Xu speaks up. The protagonist in ‘The Truman Show’ also experienced a terrifying storm, the difference being that storm was manipulated by humans.

The difference is:

Truman did not give in!

But Pi shouts out that he submits!

“Truman had no attachments, so he feared nothing, not even losing his life. But Pi has developed an attachment. The tiger has unknowingly become the pillar supporting his existence. Once a person has an attachment, they reveal weaknesses…”

Jiang Zhu shares her thoughts.

This has the characteristic flavor of an art film, always able to provoke contemplation. The scene seems to be a fascinating crossover with ‘The Truman Show’.

…

When the storm calms, the tiger is at death’s door, Pi’s lips are cracked, and his spirit is on the verge of collapse.

“We’re going to die.”

He holds the tiger, which can no longer open its eyes and has severely damaged skin.

However.

Just when they are completely hopeless, they arrive at an island.

This is a magical island.

The island had edible plants and swarms of meerkats that weren’t afraid of people, and there was even a beautiful freshwater pool in the center of the island!

Parker gobbled up the plants!

The tiger feasted on the meerkats to his heart’s content!

After days of drifting, they finally had a place to settle and feel secure. With this island, Parker and the tiger no longer had to worry about survival!

However.

When night fell, Parker saw the tiger scrambling onto the boat, and the meerkats crazily climbing the trees, so he also climbed a tree in fear, along with the meerkats.

At that moment.

He suddenly noticed that the freshwater pool where he had swum during the day was filled with countless fish carcasses.

Furthermore.

He found a tooth in the tree!

A human tooth!

In the distance, the island emitted a faint glow and was long in shape.

The next day.

He decided to leave the island, taking some food with him.

He blew his whistle and called for the tiger.

And the tiger actually followed him off the island.

“What kind of island is this?”

When Parker got to this part of his story, the writer suddenly asked a question.

If it hadn’t been for the sudden shift in the camera angle, everyone might have forgotten that this scene was just a part of Parker’s narration and memory.

“Haven’t you realized yet? This is a carnivorous island!”

“Like a Venus flytrap?”

“Yes, every night the water in the center of the lake turns into sulfuric acid, killing all the life in the water. The entire earth is slowly corroded and digested. That’s why I thought about the fate of those who stay there—lonely, and eventually forgotten, like that tooth left in the tree.”

…

Pi’s incredible odyssey, in reality, wasn’t magical. But combined with his experiences, it seemed to take on a kind of magical hue.

The audience was mesmerized.

However.

An Xu furrowed his brows at some point without anyone noticing.

“Something’s not right…”

He suddenly spoke up.

Jiang Zhu heard him: “What’s not right?”

An Xu didn’t respond, but in his mind, he replayed the scene from that night.

It was a long shot.

Directors are highly sensitive to camera angles, so it puzzled him why the island was long in shape, rather than round. It made the island look like…

A lying person?

A lying person!?

An Xu was startled by his own thought. He didn’t know why such a terrifying association had come to mind. Could it be because the island really resembled a lying person?

Too bad they were in a cinema.

An Xu couldn’t rewind the scene as if it were film to watch it again. He even doubted if he had seen it correctly.

Jiang Zhu didn’t receive a response from An Xu but was also struck by a thought.

“Don’t you feel there’s something off about this island?”

“Like what?”

“Countless meerkats that aren’t afraid of people, a lake that turns into sulfuric acid at night due to some chemical reaction, but is indistinguishable from a normal freshwater lake during the day…”

“A bit.”

An Xu spoke: “But it’s possible if there are no natural predators for the meerkats on the island and if it’s some area of the ocean. Nature is amazing; there are many phenomena that can’t be explained without research.”

“Hmm.”

Jiang Zhu didn’t say more, but she somehow felt uneasy.

Perhaps it was from the moment Parker found a human tooth on the island that she felt there was something disturbing about this island.

“The Cannibal Island, huh…”

She muttered to herself, yet her eyes never left the big screen, each frame compelling her to keep watching. Judging by the time of the movie, it was nearing the end.

Cannibal Island?

An Xu caught Jiang Zhu’s mutter, and a light flashed through his mind, making him more convinced that something was amiss.

Parker.

The Tiger.

Cannibal Island.

Human Tooth.

The sulfuric acid in the lake’s center.

The supplies for survival.

From the start of the drift after the ferry disaster, a number of significant details interconnected by an invisible thread replayed in An Xu’s mind. He suddenly realized there were many strange aspects in this story.

The clue lay with the bananas.

An Xu didn’t believe those bananas could support the weight of a gorilla.

And from this doubt, An Xu thought of the shipwreck.

Could the ferry capsize that easily?

Did Parker really survive over two hundred days at sea just with the existing supplies and a survival manual?

Parker was seventeen years old at the time of the disaster!

Could a seventeen-year-old tame a tiger at sea?

The so-called fantastical voyage — was the fantasy in its incredulous unfolding?

Wait!

This segment about Cannibal Island, why switch suddenly to the conversation between the writer and Parker?

There are no useless shots in a movie!

If there are useless shots, that’s a sign of the director’s incompetence!

An Xu knew the director of this film, Du An.

He was a big-time director from Qi Continent. Although not as skilled as An Xu himself, he still had talent.

A director like that!

In combination with Xian Yu’s script!

Would they produce a meaningless shot?

“He was reminding the audience that the story is being told by Parker, so why did he use that particular shot to remind us? The writer’s expression seemed subtle; he was doubting! That interpretation shouldn’t be wrong; it’s clear he suspected something off about the island. But why would he suspect that?”

An Xu’s mind raced!

Suddenly!

He understood!

Lying!

The writer was suspecting that Parker was lying!!!!!!

Once this idea leaped into his mind, An Xu felt a chill down his spine, and he shivered uncontrollably!

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