Audiences in this world who are watching "Joker" also encounter the same problem as Zhong Shanze at the beginning. They cannot understand what this voice-over is saying.
It was not until the narrative ended and the answer to the mystery was finally revealed that they were shocked to realize that this was what he meant.
This middle-aged man writing at his desk in a red bungalow is none other than the traitor Ince Zangwill who defected from the church after stealing 0-08.
When the plot discussion team saw this scene, you can imagine that they were shocked: "I didn't expect that such a high-level sealed object as 0-08 would actually appear in the first season."
And with the subsequent introduction of the functions of 0-08, they also began to understand what the beginning of the paragraph, which seemed to be the self-narration of a schizophrenic person, really meant.
The functional effect of 0-08 is to allow the written content to be reflected into reality, but the "plot" written by it cannot be performed 100%.
This is what happened to Zangwill. The originally planned plot was repeatedly changed because of the protagonist Klein, causing the script to have to be revised again and again.
This is why the voice-over at the beginning seems so schizophrenic. Zangwill is revising the plot that has been determined again and again.
When the situation was at its worst, Klein had already discovered the small red western-style building where Zangwill was hiding through Source Castle divination, and began to take action to find it.
In terms of combat power, throughout the entire "Joker", Klein is nothing more than a Sequence Nine weakling, but the problem is that he is an official transcendent.
What Zangwill was afraid of was not that Klein would come to his door, but that his hiding place would be discovered. Urban areas like Genting City were still controlled by the church.
As a traitor on the list, everything would be fine if he was hiding in the shadows. If the church discovered his hiding place, he would have to leave Genting if he wanted to survive.
But fortunately or unfortunately for Klein, he himself did not realize the importance of the small red western-style building to the whole matter.
So even if we start looking for the little red western-style building, it’s not a particularly urgent matter. We’ll look for a few places today and then a few more tomorrow.
This gave Zangwill the opportunity to continue to hide the traces of his arrival in Genting City without the outbreak of conflict.
Klein has been approaching Zangwill's residence, but under the control of 0-08, the search target selected by Klein every time is not the real Zangwill's residence.
Of course, this plan is flawed, that is, as long as other residences are searched, Klein will eventually have a chance to find Zangwill's residence.
But this time is all Zangwill needs, because his plan has reached the final step and was finally successfully launched today.
Klein failed to see through Zangwill's plot, so when the last moment came, he and the captain both died at the hands of the other party, while Zangwill achieved his plan and walked away after successfully advancing.
When Ge Zhaodu watched this plot for the first time, it could be said that he was completely confused. It was not until the answer to the mystery was finally revealed that he vaguely understood the purpose of the voice-over at the beginning.
So I immediately rewind it and watch it again. Only then did I understand the entire plot. I couldn't restrain my inner excitement and wanted to post while banging the keyboard:
"Anointing a God! It's like anointing a god! Not only did he revitalize the foreshadowing that seemed to be cumbersome before, but he also created such an impressive enemy."
Indeed, as Ge Zhaodu said, Zangwill's design is quite clever, enough to make him an enemy that will still be remembered by the audience more than ten years later.
The only thing that disappoints them is that Ince Zangwill's highlight moment is only in this first season of "Joker".
Although he still appeared later, even as the final boss of a volume, as the protagonist's strength grew, at least Zhong Shanze felt that he could never catch up with the sense of oppression in the first season.
Even for the entire "Lord of Mysteries", in terms of the oppression and suffocation of the plot, only the subsequent cat-and-mouse game with Amon can be compared to this plot.
As for the reason, Zhong Shanze feels that Zangwill suffered mainly because his combat effectiveness failed to keep up with the iterative updates of the version.
This leads to some regrets in the structure of the book. The volume in which Zangwill is killed echoes each other in the first volume "Joker", which reduces the beauty of the structure of the whole text.
But Zhong Shanze can also understand this regret. After all, aside from the echoes with the first volume, the volume that killed Zangwill was already very sophisticated. It is indeed a bit picky to ask for it.
Anyway, as far as editors in this world are concerned, there is no way to make up for this regret. After all, if you want to change the plot of Zangwill, there are too many things that need to be changed before and after.
So this regret will still appear in this world. When Zangwill appears again, there will no longer be the suffocating feeling in the first season.
But anyway, this will all happen later, and it will be Qinghai Studio that will be scolded at that time. Zhong Shanze can just sit aside and ignore the matter.
Another viewer who couldn't accept this ending complained on the forum: "The reason why the first season is called "Joker" is actually to tell the audience that the Joker is actually me, right?"
"Klein is a time traveler with such a powerful golden finger in the gray fog space, but he is still acting like a clown and being fooled for a whole season."
"I don't like hearing what you are saying. Think about what sequence Klein is, what sequence Zangwill is, and what other sealed artifacts you have on hand?"
"And Zangwill, who is of such a high level, is still hiding in the dark to plot against Klein. He is calculated mentally and unintentionally. It is normal to lose like this, okay?"
It’s roughly like “the mind calculates without the intention.” It’s really hard to refute, so the netizen who mocked Klein as a clown immediately changed the subject:
"What kind of sealed artifact does Zangwill have on hand? This really made me laugh out loud. How can that 0-08 be as powerful as Klein's gray fog space?"
The netizen who was arguing with him was obviously not very good at grasping the key points. He was actually distracted by him. He gave up the very powerful rebuttal argument of "calculation based on intention but not intention", and instead followed the opponent's rhythm. :
"I don't deny that the gray mist space is indeed very powerful, but you also have to look at Klein. With his current strength, he can't really use the gray mist space. Doesn't that mean there is no such thing?"
