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Chapter 34 The final battle of wits! Break Pan! (4)

Vader quickly pulled out his pistol from under the pillow, changed into a mess and put on a body suit. He walked out of the door.

After pushing the door open with some irritability, the servant with a panic looked scared and cried: "Captain Vida! The young master was taken away by Major Ridley! He said he wanted you to run into the maze beside the mill within three minutes, otherwise..."

He grabbed the hesitant servant in front of him, and Vader shouted ferociously: "Otherwise, what will happen?"

"Otherwise, he would have killed the young master..." The fat servant was also a little panicked at this time. She looked at Vader with an extremely ugly face and said quickly.

"Fuck! Damn Ridley! Where did I offend him? Do I want to threaten me with my son's life?" Hearing the servant's words, Vader's face turned gloomy as water. He threw the servant away and loaded the pistol, the angry Vader shot her casually. Then he took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, and hurriedly ran towards the maze beside the mill.

Vader almost regarded his son as more important than his life! While running towards the mill, he kept thinking about why Ridley did this? Is it because of the daytime conflict? Is it because of anger? Or is it because of the bastard that he called Ophelia? It shouldn't be! Just because Ophelia, he is like this with himself? In terms of relationship, they are offensive and defensive alliances! No, it won't be like this! Ridley, Ridley, you must give me an explanation later, otherwise I won't let you have a good time! Vader ran and said intimately.

"Ridley, you must give me a reasonable explanation! Otherwise, I will think I misread you!" At the same time, Ophelia said angrily with an incomprehensible look on her face.

"Dear Princess Mona, I think what Mr. Pan said is clear enough. I don't need to explain!" Chen Shibo looked at Ophelia with a puzzled look and said.

Ophelia had calmed down at this time. After experiencing so much with Chen Shibo, she still trusted him very much! Now that she saw Chen Shibo's appearance again and again, her heart gradually relaxed. But she still didn't understand what Chen Shibo meant. She frowned and asked, "What does Pan Shen mean?"

"The meaning of Pan Shen is very simple. In order to open the temple gate, a drop of blood is needed. Well, a drop of innocent blood is needed. Shen Pan, do you think I understand it correctly?" Chen Shibo said to Ophelia, but stared at Shen Pan.

Pan Shen stared at the baby in Chen Shibo's arms with a burning gaze, and said greedily: "Yes, that's what I mean. Ahha! What else is there to compare..."

"What else is more suitable than Captain Vader?" Chen Shibo interrupted Pan Shen's words and said directly.

"Captain Vida?!" Pan Shen and Ophelia were stunned for a moment, staring at Chen Shibo in a daze.

"Yes! Captain Vader!" Chen Shibo simply repeated.

"But I want..." Pan Shen said anxiously.

But he was still properly interrupted by Chen Shibo: "I think only Captain Vader is the most suitable sacrifice!"

Pan Shen, who was interrupted by Chen Shibo, looked extremely ugly. He said gloomy: "Maybe, Knight Ridley, you should give me an explanation! Yes, I really want to know your reason! Yes, a reason to insist on using Captain Vader to sacrifice!"

"Is this reason still something I can repeat to you? Okay, okay, actually, do you know it? Do you have to ask me, a poor, unspeakable person, to explain your reasons in a bad way?" Chen Shibo stared at Pan Shen in surprise and said.

Neither Pan nor Ophelia spoke. Chen Shibo laughed.

"I think babies are innocent no matter when they have arrived in this world, they don't know anything, and they don't know what death is like. If we insist on depriving it of hope of survival, then is that a cruel thing? What do you think? Lord Pan Shen?" Chen Shibo said exaggeratedly.

Chen Shibo said this, meaningful. As a surviving baby, Pan must have more feelings. You must know that he is the only surviving son of the god of agriculture, Satunus! The other sons were eaten by Satunus at birth! In such a sharp contrast, Chen Shibo easily aroused the deep resonance of Pan Shibo! At the same time, Pan Shen also had an inexplicable hostility towards the baby's father, Captain Vida!

Pan Shen stared at the baby in Chen Shibo's arms with a flashing eyes. The same sympathy made him feel a little more hatred for the baby the more he looked at the baby.

"If you really want to sacrifice, there is only Captain Vader. No matter what, he is the most suitable candidate! Oh my God! Do you want the baby in my arms to sacrifice? A newborn, ignorant baby to sacrifice? Then it would be better for his father to bear it on his behalf! After all, he is his father, and he should fight against all the sins and dangers for his son!" The smell of inciting in Chen Shibo's words became stronger.

"Enough! I have to say, Knight Ridley, you know me so much. Originally, I planned to let Captain Vader sacrifice. Haha, yes. Only in this way can his great fatherly love be reflected!" Pan Shen said with some nerves.

Chen Shibo smiled confidently. Regarding using Captain Vader to top the tank, Chen Shibo was the last idea. For Ophelia, she did not allow her beloved mother and her beloved brother to suffer a little grievance and injury. Then, excluding Carmen and the baby, there is only the unlucky Captain Vader! Moreover, choosing Captain Vader can be said to be a result of strong hints in the Nightmare Space!

First of all, Captain Vader ended up dead in the original plot, which is inevitable. Vader was tyrannical and wanted to kill innocent people. Almost based on his preferences, he could shoot Ferrero, a doctor who had different political views, or almost brutally to torture the captives who fell into his hands with various tools. In the entire maze of Pan Shen, Captain Vader was just a small microcosm during World War II, silently alluding to the entire cruel right-wing camp with his own cruel behavior! It would be unreasonable for such a cruel person to survive to the end.

Then, it seemed a bit reluctant to use the blood of the newborn baby in Pan Shen's last main task. Why did Ophelia make such a difficult decision at the end? It seemed that the plot was a bit far-fetched. However, after careful analysis, Chen Shibo concluded that this was actually inevitable!

In the whole plot, there are two main lines of the development of things! The first main line is the struggle between the Mills defenders against the guerrillas! The second main line is the plot of Ophelia's adventure to complete the three main tasks given by God Pan!

Each Ophelia's main mission alludes to the guerrillas' resistance to the right-wing camp in reality!

The first task is most obvious, that is, Ophelia needs to retrieve the golden key from the belly of the giant toad. The dry and decadent fig tree represents the suffering Spanish people. The toad symbolizes the cruel and ugly fascism, entrenched in the roots of the tree, absorbing nutrients, and devouring the source of life of the big tree. Ophelia needs courage and wisdom in the face of crisis to retrieve the key from the toad's belly and destroy the monster, just like guerrillas fighting against fascists who are stronger than them. At the same time, the play tells two parallel stories, emphasizing this connection, that is, the maid Mercedes stole the medicine from the warehouse and sent it to the guerrillas as supplies. Like Ophelia, they pull teeth from the tiger's mouth.

The second task is to require Ophelia to go deep into the cellar of the man-eating monster. The table is filled with delicious and tempting food. These temptations are fatal dangers. If you touch one of them, you will have tragic consequences. Children like Ophelia who have not seen fruit for a long time are like a thirsty traveler who is desperate when seeing Qingquan. She finally can't resist the temptation of the fresh red ti. In the end, the elf died to protect her, and she almost couldn't return to the real world. What this story wants to tell is that as a person with secular concepts and normal desires, being attracted to temptation is not unforgivable, as long as you wake up from your dream, you will know how to repent. So God Pan will give Ophelia a chance to make up for it.

In this mission, the magical chalk also appeared. I think everyone hopes that there is such a chalk that can find coolness in the hot sand, fragrance among the thorny flowers, and a soft hotbed when sleepy. It runs towards the home they want to arrive with those desire for freedom and prayers in the dark night.

The last task is also the most important thing, which is that Ophelia needs to offer his brother's blood to God Pan to open the door to the underground kingdom. At first Ophelia just thought that it would be enough to bring his brother out, but later when she knew that she needed to kill his brother in exchange for her happiness, she resolutely gave up the opportunity and stayed in this cruel and cold world. This is also the self-sacrifice spirit of the guerrillas when they were captured and faced with torture, as well as the moral bottom line of human nature, that is, human life is above everything else, and cannot be because of any seemingly justified.

The desire to be deprived of. Although the fate of persistence may be ridiculed, humiliated, or even the sickle of the god of death. But like a maid who was still gritted her teeth and refused to reveal the truth after being questioned, she finally fled from the camp and was rescued by the guerrillas who were driven to the death by the pursuers. If she had revealed her true feelings at the time, she might have died under the captain's gun. The whole incident also wanted to use this to illustrate that those seemingly unbearable sufferings, as long as they are fearless and strong, will always let the thunder dispel the haze and bring the baptism of heavy rain to the dry earth.

Only at this time did Chen Shibo fully understand the hidden intentions of the main line and branch of the whole matter!

The entire Pan Shen’s maze is actually the whole process of a revolutionary! It’s just that it’s too obscure:

Looking back at the progress of the story of the whole film, through those strange magical and bloody reality, we can clearly see a structure of a nearly complete left-wing revolutionary thought. At the beginning, the little girl fills her eyes with the statue and "opens her eyes to the world", which seems to be an indication of the beginning of the Enlightenment. From Rousseau to Marx, their theories about revolution can all find the root of the many assumptions of Enlightenment thought. Next, according to the guidance of God Pan, Ophelia goes to a decaying fig tree to find a key. The key leads to the dagger that can kill God Pan.

In the Bible, the fig tree is an image with rich meaning. After wise, Adam and Eve covered their shame with fig leaves, which connects the tree with the metaphor of civilization. Jesus once cursed a fig tree full of green leaves but did not bear fruit, causing the tree to wither even its roots. Many Bible interpreters believe that the fig tree here is alluding to Israel. Christ's curse is prophesy that Israel is about to perish and that the Israelites will spread all over the world. In the film, we might as well think that the dead fig tree represents Spain in 1944, or the entire European civilization. As a revolutionary, Ophelia must find out the key to defeating the enemy and building a new world from the declining European civilization.

Next, Pan asked the captain's newborn baby to be brought into the maze to complete Ophelia's "father-seeking" and "returning home". Here, we can easily associate this newborn with a new human society. The ideal of the revolution is to establish a new society. The father - the ruler of the old world, hopes that he will inherit his legacy; the sister (Mercedes) - the rebel of the old world, hopes to bring him to a new world. Finally, the sister's allies - the guerrillas will get it.

He took this child and shot him to break his connection with his father. This is almost a replica of the real history of Spain. Juan Carlos was brought by the dictator Franco since middle school and was appointed as the heir. But he had a completely different political stance from Franco. When he succeeded to the throne, he began a comprehensive democratization reform and brought Spain into a whole new society. King Juan Carlos was the newborn who broke with the dictator's father.

Pan asked to open the door to return home with a few drops of blood from the baby, but Ophelia firmly refused. She was unwilling to let the next generation leave a drop of blood, but she paid the price of her life. Perhaps many readers would think that if the little girl was a little "flexible", for example, let the baby give out a few drops of blood, or obediently return the baby to the captain, she would not lose her life. In fact, her stubbornness was to complete the destination of a revolutionary. Revolution was to use sword and blood to open the door to heaven, which included both the blood of the "enemy" and her own passion!

Ophelia, who gave her blood, completed a process similar to the suffering of Christ, and finally returned to the side of the "Father". This is a standard Bible Revelation scene. In the temple of God, God the Father is high among them, and the Son of God sits beside him, and will rule the world for several years. The revolutionary Ophelia became the ruler of the Christian millennium kingdom. If we understand the origins of various radical political ideals (such as utopia) in the history of European thought and the Bible Revelation, we can understand this transformation even more. The perfect ideal kingdom pursued by revolutionaries throughout the ages originally originated from the millennium kingdom in Revelation.

Looking at this process, from the enlightenment of thought (replenishing eyes), to the actions of revolution (finding the keys, taking a short sword), to the bloody sacrifice (death), building a new society (fighting for babies), and finally realizing an ideal kingdom (returning home), Ophelia almost completed a complete revolution in her magic and real world. The only thing missing here is to eliminate the enemy of the revolution. As a moderate left, the little girl asked her to complete this task, which seemed to be inconsistent with her political stance. In the play, the director asked her guerrilla friends to complete it for her. In reality, Spain's later democratization was achieved in a peaceful way, and Franco's party members were almost not punished. The left and the right eliminated the deep hatred of half a century in the gradual reform.

Now, with his own intervention, many of the original plots did not happen. But the essence is still the same! Chen Shibo has enough confidence in whether Pan Shen should use Captain Vader in the end. This confidence comes from that the entire plot development has been completely different because of Chen Shibo's intervention...

"Okay, Princess Mona, your last main task is to open the gate of the temple with Captain Vader's blood! We have five minutes left, otherwise you will never be able to return to the underworld or to your father's side!" Pan Shen said seriously.

"Okay, God Pan, I think my knight Ridley is happy to serve me in this mission!" Ophelia said with a narrowed eye. Ophelia did not have much resistance to Vader's life and death. Her biological father was the poor tailor (this is the case now. When she returns to the underworld, she will become Pluto!), rather than the cruel Captain Vader!

"I am happy to serve you, your respected princess!" Chen Shibo said in a deep voice. To kill Vader, Chen Shibo had the impulse when he watched the Nightmare Blessing! He hated tyranny! He hated cruel fascism! As a person who is familiar with history, he hated the dictator during World War II more than ordinary people! Helplessly, his current identity is a "dictator", although it is set in the Nightmare Space.

And just now, Captain Vida, who was running out of breath, appeared in front of the three of them. The rapid running made him breathe quickly. Before he could speak, Chen Shibo quickly took out his pistol and pulled the trigger on his head! So he no longer had the chance to speak. (The fastest direct example of the death of the dragon supporting role! I will build a dragon supporting building later, and everyone can actively describe the characters they imagined!)

Ophelia and Pan Shen stared at Chen Shibo with a dull face. Just killed Captain Vader like this? Isn’t it necessary to have a just judgment or moral condemnation process? This is also dead too quickly!

"Dear Mr. Pan Shen, I think the third main mission has been completed, right?!" Chen Shibo said calmly at Pan Shen.

"Yes, it's done..." Pan Shen said with a stuttering. Chen Shibo's shot was too decisive and straightforward! Until now, he still couldn't understand. According to his original script, the development of things should not be like this!
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