Chapter 654: Dragon's Pool and Tiger's Den (End)

It seems Li Ang really eats this set. As long as one pretends to be slightly weak, one can get his extra "preferential treatment"~

Seeing that the atmosphere was already in place, and after several rounds of hard investment, finally getting a little bit of return, the Princess simply put aside her worry about the anomalous event for the time being, pretended to be a little nervous, and asked with a helpless voice:

"Li Ang, are you sure nothing will happen?"

"Rest assured."

After knocking on the mirror of the box and calling out the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang that had been temporarily stuffed inside, Li Ang, while instructing it to find the location of the anomaly holder, stared closely at the group of puppets on the stage, and comforted her warmly without turning his head:

"I just had... a friend check, and the state of the audience's souls is normal. There has been no situation of being controlled or anything like that. Simply watching the drama should be safe.

And from the time the news broke until now, the Morning Star Troupe has performed more than a dozen times. If there were going to be a problem, it would have happened long ago, it wouldn't wait until now to..."

"Pat, pat, pat-pat-pat..."

Before Li Ang could finish his words, strange sounds came from the direction of the stage. A large number of wooden beads the size of teardrops fell uncontrollably from the heroine puppet's face, smashing onto the stage floor with a pattering sound.

And in the view of all the audience, the heroine, who should have been smiling and agreeing to Elijah's invitation in the tavern and starting a beautiful twelve days, suddenly began to cry strangely.

On Agatha's beautiful face, although a playful and charming smile was blooming, large, desperate, and painful tears were flowing uncontrollably from her bright eyes...

"..."

No... it's like if I don't come, things don't happen, but as soon as I arrive, things follow, right?

Looking at the group of puppets on the stage that had suddenly stopped performing and began to tremble, Li Ang was truly a bit unable to hold it together. The audience below who noticed the abnormality also began to clamor because of the heroine's sudden tears.

"Why is she crying? Did something happen at the actor's home?"

"Oh my, truly, it's rare to come and watch a play, and it ended up being ruined."

"Is this the level of the Morning Star Troupe's lead? Tsk tsk tsk, after our Andrei was boycotted, Morning Star's plays are indeed unwatchable."

"Bastard, I traveled so far specially to come... Is this how you treat us? ***! Refund!"

"Everyone! Everyone, please listen to me!"

Amidst the clamor of the audience who were either curious, regretful, or angry, the person in charge of the Central Cross Theater hurriedly ran out from backstage, pushed away the actors blocking the way, rushed to the sound receiver, and while bowing repeatedly to the stage, apologized with a face full of sweat:

"The actor playing Agatha today had something happen at home, so her emotions might not be very stable, affecting everyone's viewing. I am truly very sorry.

Everyone, rest assured, our theater will definitely be responsible to the end. After the show ends, the ticket money for this play will be refunded in full, and there will be small gifts for guests who traveled from afar... Quick! Apologize to everyone!"

Upon hearing the theater manager's words, the audience's anger finally calmed down slightly.

However, for some reason, even after repeated hints from the theater manager, the female actor playing Agatha had no reaction, but instead continued to maintain her original posture, crying large tears while smiling at the audience below the stage.

"What exactly is wrong with her?"

"She ruined the performance and still has the face to smile? Is this the quality of Morning Star's actors?"

"Not just Morning Star, right? Master Wang Erde hasn't seen any new works with sincerity in recent years either."

"Indeed... Master Wang Erde's new works in these two years are not interesting at all. Even if there are slightly good ones, with these actors, I fear they can't perform anything either."

"..."

"This... I am sorry, she might be too self-blaming, so for a moment... for a moment she was a bit stunned..."

After biting the bullet and helping the female actor explain a few words, looking at the audience below who began to express dissatisfaction one after another, the somewhat bloated troupe manager wiped his sweat with a handkerchief while accompanying with a smiling face and begging for mercy:

"Everyone, the stage needs to be rearranged later, and the actors need to prepare again. This... during the preparation period, why don't we invite Master Wang Erde to come out and chat with everyone for a few words?"...

This anomaly holder should be him, no mistake.

Looking at Master Wang Erde, who was invited to the front of the stage and began to interact with the audience, Li Ang looked at the glass of the couple's box and indeed received an affirmative answer from the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang.

Then the anomaly holder this time is locked as the drama master Wang Erde. The specific ability is related to puppets, drama, manipulation, etc., and there is currently no record of hurting people...

After obtaining relatively complete intelligence, Li Ang did not continue to linger, but pushed open the door of the couple's box, pulled the Princess, and ran quickly toward the exit passage.

Although it seems safe for now, in the face of a completely unknown anomalous situation, for the sake of safety, it is better to send the Princess out, and then let her bring people over to organize the audience to evacuate as soon as possible.

And it is best for him to stay a little further away, in a place where he can monitor the situation on the scene but will not be affected in the first instance, and set up a sniper rifle to prevent that master from suddenly going berserk...

"Nonsense, there is absolutely nothing wrong with my script!"

Just as Li Ang and the Princess were about to enter the exit passage, Master Wang Erde on the stage side seemed to have been angered by the comments of some audience members and shouted angrily at the audience below:

"Nothing is wrong? It's the actors who are no good! The script I wrote is the best! But with their level, they simply cannot show the essence inside! Nor can they perform the complex and profound emotions of the characters! If Andrei were still here..."

"Not necessarily, right?"

Just as Master Wang Erde's angry shout fell, a middle-aged man in the front row seats facing the main stage, whose profession was estimated to be a drama critic, sneered and retorted:

"As a performance technique that needs to show a story spanning days, years, or even decades within two or three hours, drama is originally an art of trade-offs.

Therefore, learning how to balance the distribution of structure and emotion and adjusting the difficulty of the script according to the level of the actors is originally something a playwright should master.

Forgive me for being blunt, if your play is worthless without sufficiently outstanding actors performing it, then is there a possibility... that the old-fashioned content you wrote is originally worthless stuff?"

"..."

Finished!

Hearing the "friendly exchange" coming from the stage side, even if the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang was not at hand and he could not see the soul state of Master Wang Erde, just by relying on this sharp and mean evaluation of the middle-aged man, Li Ang could also know—

Something big is coming!

Sure enough, after hearing the middle-aged man's words, Master Wang Erde, who looked relatively stable in mental state just now, was directly "detonated" on the spot. His bloodshot eyes widened suddenly, and he gritted his teeth and raised his hand toward the audience below.

"Worthless? I will let you know immediately just how stupid your evaluation just now was!!!"

Accompanied by Master Wang Erde's angry shout, all three thousand-plus audience members in the entire Central Cross Theater, including Li Ang and the Princess who had already rushed into the exit passage, could not help but tremble all over in unison.

Following that, in the terrified expressions of more than three thousand audience members, they not only lost control of their bodies, but their skin and flesh also lost their human appearance, beginning to uncontrollably woodify rapidly.

And one after another, completely transparent silk threads quietly hung down from the blue sky of the port city, accurately tying onto every joint of these three thousand-plus puppets...

"This time it should be about right."

After taking a deep breath of the fresh and fishy sea breeze, looking at the quiet and beautiful seaside small city in front of him, as well as the three thousand-plus "residents" living peacefully in the small city, a satisfied smile finally appeared on Master Wang Erde's tired face, and the right hand he had just raised toward the audience below finally swung down heavily.

"'Twelve Days of Traveling Together,' Act One, Scene One, start!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 655 =====