Using "Lu Li's legendary experience" and "Lu Li's arrival to watch" as gimmicks, many aristocrats and wealthy businessmen came to the Monterey Theater for this performance.
This is evidenced by the high ticket prices that ordinary people cannot afford.
But they were more interested in Lu Li than the play itself. The request to meet alone reached the ears of the owner of the Montreal Theater, who then brought him to Lu Li and others who had just arrived at the theater.
Unsurprisingly, Lu Li rejected the proposal. The theater owner felt regretful and took them to a private room on the second floor.
The stage covered by dark red curtains and the nearly full first-floor hall had a clear view.
Dean Lawrence did not stay and left with the theater owner.
There are still twenty minutes left before the show starts.
While waiting, there was a noise outside the suite.
"Let me in! Mr. Exorcist must be inside! Please, I have something very important!"
A young man was grabbed by the guard and taken away from the door, struggling and shouting.
The people who were startled walked out of the box.
"What's wrong."
The guards stopped at Lu Li's voice.
"Are you Mr. Exorcist!"
The young man who was not dressed like a civilian prayed to Lu Li: "Please save my brother...he is missing!"
"when."
"Seven years ago..." The young man lowered his head and then raised it suddenly: "I dreamed of him countless times. My brother kept telling me that he was trapped somewhere and hoped that I could save him..."
"Why don't you go?"
asked Caterina. She was wearing a cloak and still couldn't get used to skirts.
"People from other churches say that weird things are tempting me, and my brother is dead... Mr. Exorcist, do you think so too?"
"They should be right."
The young man finally left in despair. He saw the exorcist, but he didn't get the answer he wanted.
"Actually, Mr. Lu Li, you can lie to him and tell a white lie."
Back in the suite, Pusius sat at Lu Li's feet and said.
"He wouldn't do that." Catalina has been with Lu Li for a longer time and knows how direct this guy is.
The performance is about to begin, and as the time approaches, the hall gradually becomes quiet.
The curtain slowly opened.
The grand performance begins.
A handsome young man wearing a black wig and exaggerated, bright stage costumes stood on a wooden boat in the center of the stage.
He plays Lu Li.
But unlike Lu Li, who is restrained and calm, the stage actor is full of sunshine and high-profile, like a prince or a brave man in a fairy tale, full of justice, not afraid of power, and firm in his beliefs.
"Lu Li" used a tone that a normal person would never say, and swore that he would solve the third disaster.
As he embarked on the journey, a female companion wearing a black robe followed him. According to rumors, the person following Lu Li was not the same person, but in the stage play, they were made into one person.
A bitter coincidence.
From the Main Continent to the deserted land, from Lynx Town to Spin City, "Lu Li" experienced many difficulties. Not long after leaving Spin City, he encountered the biggest trouble of the trip: a conflict with his companions.
The conflict finally ended with them parting ways. "Lu Li" continued his journey, and the woman in black robe disappeared.
In the second half of the stage play, "Lu Li" walked alone in the wilderness. His gorgeous costumes were no longer bright. In the end, when the bruised "Lu Li" came to the moment of silence, people finally breathed a sigh of relief for him.
It was a dead dwarf tree, with a figure swaying in the breeze hanging from the largest branch.
"The time of silence, now"
"Lu Li" pulled out his flintlock gun and shouted solemnly at the dead tree in front of him: "I will announce your death!"
Bang!
Thunderous gunshots were heard behind the scenes, and thick smoke rose from the muzzle of the flintlock gun in "Lu Li's" hand.
In the silence, he howled and retreated, and "Lu Li" also fell to the ground helplessly.
"Did you really say that?" Pusius raised his head and asked.
"The closer we get to the time of silence, the longer the time when we can't make any sound." Lu Li replied calmly.
During the conversation, the light on the stage dimmed, and the soil fell from the overhead mechanism, gradually covering the fallen "Lu Li".
The curtain slowly fell. Just when it was about to cover everything, a hand slowly stretched out from the soil.
The show is over.
The patter of applause sounded, and finally it became like thunder. The applause continued and never dispersed, because the protagonist of the story was here.
"Mr. Lu Li, I... ugh..."
Pusius raised his head with a choked sob and cried: "I didn't know you had paid so much..."
Catalina's emotions were much more complicated.
Her experience growing up made her sneer at these beautiful stories. She knew they were false, otherwise why would they never appear around her?
Why didn't the prince come when he was curled up in the sewer with rats? Why didn't a brave man appear when he was bullied by the adults and cried out and begged? Why didn't he scold them when the hunters took away their trophies?
Catalina stayed in the darkness for so long that when the light really appeared, she was unable to look directly at it, and even subconsciously resisted and questioned its existence.
She knew she shouldn't think so.
Knock knock knock
A knock on the door awakened Catalina.
Dean Lawrence and the theater owner arrive.
"I like you and this show."
After being polite, the theater owner made a request: "The actors backstage would like to meet you."
Lu Li did not refuse this time and went backstage to meet the actors.
Everyone was very excited. The person who played the role of the "woman in black robe" was no longer young, but she was cheering like a girl. A middle-aged man with messy hair like a chicken coop murmured, "Did I write it wrong?"
This is what I should write." Such self-talk.
After leaving the backstage, they went straight back to the carriage, and Lu Li and Catalina Pusius separated. They returned to the Apparent Crans University, and Lu Li headed to the city hall to prepare for the afternoon reception party.
When it was about to arrive at the city hall, the carriage slowed down and many people gathered outside the door of the city hall.
The arrival of the carriage caused them to swarm in, but they were blocked by the knights.
"Mr. Lu Li, what do you think of Midnight City?"
"You are people's hope!"
"Mr. Lu Li"
Noisy shouts erupted at the door of the city hall.
"The rest is up to you, Sir Lu Li." Dean Lawrence said with expectation.
Lu Li nodded lightly, stepped out of the carriage, and calmly walked up the steps into the city hall.
The waiting receptionist was vaguely excited and led Lu Li all the way to the guest room upstairs in the city hall.
"Your Excellency Councilor Sophie Sjöström knows that you don't like the excitement, so no one will disturb you." The receptionist stood outside the door and said respectfully: "He also said that if you need help, please feel free to do so."
This was no courtesy, Lu Li's status was enough for them to pay a lot for him.
Just like what he did for this world.
Lu Li's dark eyes lowered slightly as he entered the guest room and said softly.