Sharon left the room, which made Qin Zhibo a little concerned.
If it were the real world, he could put a listening device or something, but this is Mao Lilan's dream, and Qin Zhibo can basically only watch it.
After Sharon left, Yukiko took her son and daughter-in-law with her and sat down in the auditorium in front of the stage.
After waiting for a moment in the seat, the lights in the entire ghost theater suddenly dimmed, except for the lights on the stage that became brighter.
The heavy curtain slowly opened, and a beautiful palace pavilion set stood on the side of the stage.
A room in the palace that lacked decoration was dilapidated and old.
There is a terrace on the right side of the room, overlooking the lake on the other side of the stage.
Above the pink sky are two suns.
Under the sky, there is a light blue lake scene. The deep and quiet lake surface uses some special stage props to make it sparkle with hidden waves.
In this exotic setting, the melodious Tuvan elegy sounded from the speakers in all directions of the theater.
Halfway through the song, when the audience gradually enters the mood, the narration begins to recite the background:
Queen Cassilda meditated in her room;
Mourning her passing blank past.
Her dreams disturbed the waters of Lake Harry;
In the lake lies an ancient prophet.
“What a spectacular background~”
Looking at the exquisite scenery on the stage, Mao Lilan couldn't help but admire it from the bottom of her heart.
Yukiko next to her also echoed: "Such a grand stage can't be seen from our place."
"After all, stage performances with relatively small scenes are popular in Japan."
While the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were discussing stage art, a discordant yawn came from the other side of Mao Lilan.
"Ah-wu"
"The King in Yellow" hasn't officially started yet, and Kudo Shinichi is already extremely impatient.
Regarding his attitude towards art, Kudo Shinichi only remembers the history behind art and does not know how to appreciate the art itself.
If he only occasionally looked at masterpieces of art, such as "Mona Lisa's Smile" and "Sunflowers", he would still be somewhat interested in them without spending too much time.
But something like this.
"It's a pity that I have a wooden head and just don't understand the value of this," Yukiko complained.
Mao Lilan also leaned into his ear and whispered, "Xinyi, it's not easy to get here, can you be more serious?"
Facing the complaints from his mother and Qingmei, Kudo Shinichi drooped his eyelids and said listlessly: "You don't need to take a third-rate stage play like this too seriously."
"If you really have this time, you might as well read more about Shakespeare."
"Oh? Really?" Yukiko tilted her head slightly and said with a smile, "Although this play is written by an unknown playwright, it has been banned several times."
"Legend has it that this play is divided into two acts. The first act is relatively mild, and the second act has the greatest impact on the audience."
"The audience who watched the second act will be greatly shocked mentally and eventually fall into madness, which is why it was banned by the government at that time."
Upon hearing this, Mao Lilan looked a little surprised and said worriedly, "Then let's look at this. No problem."
Before Yukiko could answer, Kudo Shinichi took over, "Don't worry, this thing is like an antique. If there is no mysterious story behind it, it won't sell tickets."
"Besides, if this show really has the power to drive people into madness, the relevant departments will definitely ban the show."
Kudo Shinichi easily refuted Yukiko's "story" with his own materialist dialectics.
However, Yukiko did not give up and still explained: "What is being performed now is a deleted version, and the second act has been deleted. Of course there will be no safety issues."
"But I heard that the playwright who was responsible for the adaptation of the original work "The King in Yellow" became neurotic after completing the adaptation. He told everyone he met the 'King in Yellow' and 'Hasta'
some type of."
"It's fake, just a marketing ploy."
Kudo Shinichi made a categorical judgment, "If this script really has the magic power to distort people's minds, why is the holder of the original script fine?"
"If the original owner knew that this was a harmful monster, would he let people perform it again?"
Yukiko raised a finger to explain, "I heard from Sharon that the original script was donated by an anonymous donor. The only requirement for the donation is that the theater company can put the story on the stage, and there is only one signature."
"Earl Crow."
Strange names make people think more easily, and Kudo Shinichi did the same. He thought about it for a while.
But after thinking about it for a while, he had no clue, so he could only complain lightly: "Crow. Does he think he is Edgar Allan Poe?"
At this moment, the gringo next to Kudo Shinichi turned to look at Kudo, raised his finger, and made a hissing gesture.
The narration part was over, and the gringo asked him to quiet down.
Kudo Shinichi nodded clearly, then turned to look at Maori Ran and Yukiko, making a hissing gesture.
"Shh-"
Mao Lilan and Yukiko put on their half-moon eyes helplessly. Obviously you are the one who speaks the loudest, right?
Qin Zhibo listened to the exchange between the three Kudos completely and missed every word.
"The King in Yellow" is an adaptation based on the original "The King in Yellow". It does not have the second act, so it is a relatively safe version.
But what makes Qin Zhibo a little concerned is that the person who donated "The King in Yellow" was signed "Count Crow".
Qin Zhibo once saw in Senjian Kyousuke's notes in the Dusk Annex that there was a copy of "The King in Yellow" in the Dusk Annex, and it was available forty years ago.
The owner of the Dusk Annex is none other than the wealthy Renya Karasuma, and his family symbol also happens to be a crow.
In the second half of Senjian's notes, where the Xagai Zerg penetrated into Senjian Kyousuke's brain and wrote it, Qin Zhibo also saw some memories of the Xia Gai Zerg.
The first time the Shargai Zerg descended on the earth was somewhere in the Severn Valley in England.
In order to provide a stable living environment for the surviving Zerg tribe, the Xagai Zerg tribe reached a certain deal with the son of the noble who owned this river valley.
The Xagai Zerg helped the sons of nobles kill their fathers, and after the noble sons came to the throne, they used the privileges of hereditary fiefs to protect the survival space of the Xagai Zerg.
At that time, Qin Zhibo guessed that this noble son was probably Renya Karasuma.
The British nobility system has five levels, namely duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron. Earl is the oldest level in the title system.
Crow, count.
Could it be that the donor is Renya Karasuma?
With the end of the prologue, the first act of the entire play officially begins.
As a non-existent person, Qin Zhibo can also see this stage play again with the help of Mao Lilan's perspective.
As a person who has actually watched "The King in Yellow", Qin Zhibo can see the difference between this "The King in Yellow" and the original work.
The first is Fu Hua Dao. The style of the Broadway theater company is more modern and fashionable, but it lacks some whimsical ideas from foreign lands.
Next is the composition of the cast. In addition to the four women and one man seen backstage before the performance, of course there are other actors.
However, the looks of these actors are relatively ordinary, and their roles are not that important. They are far less eye-catching than the image of four women and one man.
Among them, the leading actor of the troupe named "Keith" plays the role of the eldest prince.
Dark-skinned actress who plays the Queen.
Wavy-haired actress who plays the princess.
Asian actress, plays the role of the captain of the palace guard.
Actress Kim Jang-zhi plays the role of the high priest.
This last actress surprised Qin Zhibo the most, because in the original "The King in Yellow", the role of the high priest was quite important.
As a counselor around the great prince, he can use small spells such as invisibility, and has been spreading the word about the arrival of the King in Yellow and the imminent return of the lost city of Carcosa.
But when the King in Yellow actually arrived, the high priest turned around and ran away out of fear, and was killed by the King in Yellow.
This is a character who loves dragons.
However, in the original work, there is a male priest, and the image is still a little timid.
In "The King in Yellow", the male priest turned into a female priest, with a pair of seductive eyes.
The gap between this character image and the original work is quite large, which made Qin Zhibo have some guesses in his mind.
Could it be that she is the one who is going to die soon?
The performance on the stage was carried out in an orderly manner, and almost all the audience in the audience were watching the performance attentively.
Originally, Kudo Shinichi was not interested, but he couldn't leave the meeting in the middle, and he didn't have a mobile phone to play with, so he could only focus on the performance on stage.
As a result, after just a quick glance, I was attracted by the story unconsciously.
The first scene of the first act introduces most of the important characters and further explains the relationships and background of the characters.
For example, the queen is full of worries, the queen's brother wants to usurp the throne, the prince believes in the prophecy of the king in yellow, the princess only thinks about pleasure, and the captain of the guard has a crush on the prince.
There is also the general background of the story. The high priest gave a prophecy of the end of the world. The next queen will be the end of the kings, and the king in yellow will return to create a new dynasty.
The actors on stage performed very seriously and used the short stories that happened in each different scene in an orderly manner to outline the personalities and relationships of different characters.
Kudo Shinichi gradually became fascinated, as did Yukiko and Maori Ran next to him.
Soon, the performance of Act 1, Scene 1 was over.
Qin Zhibo also watched the performance through Mao Lilan's perspective. Except that the actor of the high priest changed a lot, the content of the story remained basically unchanged from the original work.
The first act, scene one of "The King in Yellow" is very mild, and Qin Zhibo guesses there won't be many adaptations.
The most important second act has been completely deleted, so the only major changes can be found in the second scene of the first act.
After waiting for half a minute, Act 1, Scene 2 began.
The setting turned into a gorgeous palace, and the magnificent palace party was presented on the spacious stage.
At the request of the princess in the first scene, a masquerade ball is held in the palace, and princes and foreign envoys from all walks of life are invited to participate.
The actors wore European-style long skirts and gowns and danced gracefully and neatly in the middle of the dance floor.
Mao Lilan was very excited when she saw this scene.
In fact, Mao Lilan has had a princess dream since she was a child, to experience the life of a princess and dance in the middle of the dance floor with her Prince Charming in the spotlight.
Of course, the face of this Prince Charming has been consciously transformed into Kudo Shinichi by Mao Lilan.
However, the dance atmosphere on this stage is somewhat strange.
Everyone wears pale masks with the texture of mutton-fat jade. People with different identities can only rely on clothing and lines to distinguish each other's identities.
As the performance progressed, the stars outside the balcony where the scene was set turned black one by one.
When the envoys calling themselves the "Yellow Seal Brotherhood" entered, all the stars in the "sky" had turned black, like holes in the sky.
With the appearance of Brotherhood members, the plot takes a turn for the worse.
The good scenery on the stage was no longer good, and the brotherhood members began to read a letter from the "Supreme King":
The dead king who hunts the gods;
the sheltered sky;
The bones of the trembling earth god;
resting stars;
But Xuades was as silent as ice;
For they saw the king, appearing with his great power;
The psalm is very long, and it conveys only one meaning, that is, the King in Yellow is about to return, and He will replace the existing king's rule.
The reading of this poem in the palace was naturally regarded as rebellion, and the queen immediately ordered the whole city to arrest the envoys, and not to spare any of them.
In order to see through the true face of the envoy, the climax of the first act of the play also came.
"Your Excellencies! My Lords! Ladies!"
"It's time for the truth to be revealed! It's time to reveal your true identity!"
"Take off your masks and see who is dancing with you!"
The actress who played the Queen shouted loudly and powerfully, and the actors on the stage raised their hands and took off their masks.
The performance of this scene was very spectacular and made the audience excited, including Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan.
However, all the actors have taken off their masks, except the Brotherhood members who have not taken off the pale masks on their faces.
The Queen continued to cross-examine, but she only received the answer "I have no mask" and "I am the truth".
After repeated requests from the Queen, the Brotherhood members compromised.
"If you insist, then please look in that mirror."
"Only it can reveal my true face"
The person playing the role of a member of the fraternity pointed to the center of the stage, where a large golden mirror suddenly appeared.
At this time, violent white smoke suddenly appeared around the stage.
Of course, this was not a fire, but a stage effect created by dry ice.
Amidst the thick smoke, the messy scenery and unimportant actors were quickly removed from the stage, leaving only four actresses posing in various poses in the mist covering the ground.
The princess played by Wavy Hair almost suffered a nervous breakdown and was lying in front of the mirror.
The queen played by Deep Skin covered her head with her hands and stood in the center of the stage in disbelief.
There are also the high priest played by Jin Changzhi and the captain of the guard played by Asians, respectively on both sides.
All four actresses turned their backs to the audience, made exaggerated poses, and looked in the mirror.
In the mirror, a yellow figure floats in the center of the mirror.
Yellow tatters run through the mirror's golden frame and span the entire stage backdrop.
Strange ripples rippled on the windless robe, and the hidden figure was a head wearing a pale mask and a slightly floating hood.
"Did you see that?"
"I am the truth, I am the King in Yellow!"
The actors' roars came from the speakers, and then the thick fog filled the stage again.
When the thick fog dissipated, the king in yellow in the mirror had disappeared.
The audience was in an uproar, and they were all shocked by this magical stage performance.
However, the next scene is even more shocking.
As the mechanical structure operates, the two steel wires pull the figure behind the mirror up slowly.
The King in Yellow is literally floating in mid-air.
It's just that the bright red flowers on the chest are a bit dazzling against the yellow robe.