Goddess Wanhua Mirror

In all fairness, the old Duke is still very satisfied with his son's overall performance. He is outstanding in martial arts, brave and strong, and not stupid. He has practiced in the border fortress for many years and is deeply loved by knights and soldiers. He can already be said to be a qualified heir. up.

The only problem lies in the gamble!

Maybe it was because he was in the border fortress all day long with rough men in the barracks. Jacob had been infected with the bad habit of gambling since about three years ago. Every time he came back from the border, he would go to the gold and silver cave to relax.

The Duke has always believed that the heir has a little problem, and he is not perfect, but he still hopes that his son can quit gambling and change to other hobbies. Even lust is better than this.

Just as he was thinking about how to help his son quit gambling, a melodious music accompaniment suddenly sounded in the theater hall, followed by a thick male voice coming from all directions in the hall, which startled the Duke, who was exposed to "stereo" for the first time.

"How did you make this sound? By magic props?"

The current Skyline Opera House has the entire Yanmu City or the world's first stereo system. Although it is still far from being comparable to the IMAX on the earth, it is already quite shocking to the natives of the other world here.

For those viewers who have watched the trailers many times, they are already very familiar with the opening remarks and music, and they can even recite every word backwards. It is the full version, with a soundtrack composed of a variety of musical instruments. With the narrator's extremely magnetic voice gradually becoming passionate, the hearts of the audience can't help beating along with the drums.

The narration of the main drama, first of all, clarifies the world view and background setting that are only a few words in the trailer. The story takes place in a fictional country called "Kingdom of Rufa". In ragged clothes, he is a prisoner in a cage, but a young, handsome and dignified acting captain. He is standing at the bow of the ship and looking into the distance. The first line he speaks is a very classic FLAG.

"After running this business route, I will return to Paris to get married!"

As an extremely classic masterpiece-level "shuangwen", the story frame and rhythm of "The Count of Monte Cristo" are top-notch. In the beginning, the good guy is wronged and humiliated, and then by chance, it is a blessing in disguise and begins to counterattack and crush the enemy.

This kind of routine of wanting to promote before suppressing.In the eyes of people on earth, this may already be unbearably vulgar, just like "jumping off a cliff to find treasure", but it is the first time for audiences from other worlds to experience it. It is a "ship new" version that everyone has never seen before!

The whole story is divided into five acts by Luther, and the first two-thirds of the first act are mainly about the beginning of the suffering of the protagonist Edmund.She was framed and imprisoned by a treacherous villain, and her beautiful fiancee was taken over by the enemy.The tragedies that came one after another pushed the protagonist into the abyss with lightning speed, and then rebounded when the audience's emotions were about to be unbearable, so that the key figure who saved Edmund - the scholar Faria, and The "Toilet Probe" is an extremely joyful way to debut.

In the original "The Count of Monte Cristo", Faria's identity is an Italian priest, but in another world, it is unimaginable for a priest to be imprisoned, so Luther changed him to I became a scholar, and in a sense, it was also a tribute to my cheap master.

After that, the plot went up all the way. Edmund spent 14 years in the dark prison, learning a lot of arts and martial arts from the erudite Faria, and learned about the treasures of the caves on the unnamed island.

During this period, Hume, the god of robbers, appeared in Edmund's dream. First, he turned into the image of an old woman and told Edmund the truth about his wrongful imprisonment. The three villains who framed him all made oaths with Hume in exchange for them Hume needed more power to deal with Edmund, but the three of them tried to be clever and breach the contract after the matter was accomplished, so Hume decided to punish them by God.

And the reason why he came to Edmund was because he felt that simply killing these turtle grandsons with lightning would be too cheap for them.So he decided to change his mind and help Edmund, who was framed by them, to avenge himself.The reason why Faria dug the tunnel and ran to him was because Hume secretly used divine power to influence him.

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With the continuous advancement of the plot, most of the audience in the theater have been completely immersed in it, but there are also a small number of people who are frowning, and Katie in disguise is one of them.

Everyone else came to watch the show, but she came to investigate and steal the teacher.She thought that with her intelligence and years of experience in acting, she would be able to imitate Hugo even if she couldn't get Hugo from Serves, but she was actually dumbfounded when she saw it.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, and experts watch the way.Aside from the excellent script and novel soundtrack, what really makes Katie, an insider in the industry, feel unbelievable is actually the fantastic stage effect of the whole play, and the exquisite level of Fuhuadao completely surpasses the traditional In the drama, many scene arrangements are even more amazing.

You must know that even a powerful troupe like the Feixia Song and Dance Troupe should try to keep the stage layout as simple as possible. It's not that they can't do it, but that time doesn't allow it.Because many dramas will have more than one scene, once a switch needs to be made, try to complete it within 1 minute after the curtain is closed, otherwise it will affect the viewing experience of the audience if it is delayed for too long.

The Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe made a trick in this regard. There are four scene switchings in the whole first act. Every time the curtain is closed, a device called a projector in the information will be used to play moving silhouettes on the curtain. The narrator continued to tell the story to the audience vividly.

In this way, from the perspective of the audience, the whole performance is still coherent, and there is no feeling of being cut off due to the scene switching. At the same time, it can also buy more time for the backstage staff to arrange the scene.

After watching the entire first scene, the most famous scene that shocked the vast majority of audiences was the final prison break.The crew really built a gruesome mass grave on the stage, and two jailers buried Edmund's body bag hastily under lightning, thunder and pouring rain.

When the two jailers exited the scene cursing, the originally eerie soundtrack began to change, and a beam of light fell from the sky, illuminating the shallow grave.Accompanied by a deafening thunder explosion, a strong arm suddenly emerged from the mud, and then the protagonist who was covered in mud struggled to climb out of the grave, tearing up his tattered prison uniform, screaming in the torrential rain , as if venting the resentment accumulated in 14 years of unjust imprisonment, until this screaming was replaced by a heartfelt laughter.

Looking at Edmond on the stage with his arms open and bathed in the rain, the actor obviously didn't say a single line, but the character's emotions at the moment have been well conveyed to every audience in the audience.

In this scene, Lu De directly copied the famous scene in "The Shawshank Redemption", even the soundtrack is exactly the same, as the end of the first act.

In this way, the first act is over, and the 10-minute plot allows the audience in the different world to understand for the first time what is meant by "no peeing in the whole process".Before entering the theater, many viewers learned that the whole drama often lasts up to [-] minutes, and they were worried that they would fall asleep after watching half of it.

Looking at it now, as long as the next four acts can still maintain the same level as the first act, there is no way anyone in the audience can fall asleep!

At this time, in the box on the second floor, August was staring at the curtain because he was thinking about something.

He had nothing to do today, but when he learned that the city lord's family suddenly came to watch a play at the "Ten Thousand Years Second" Tianji Opera House, he followed along with the mentality of joining in the fun. He never thought about it but found surprises one after another. .

First, at the backstage, he met a very stunning beautiful girl, which made him never forget, and then unexpectedly discovered that the new drama of the Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe was really something different, which made him fascinated by watching it.

But halfway through, August suddenly discovered a problem, that is, Hume, the god of robbers, appeared in the play, and it seems that if the plot is not reversed later, he is still a very positive character.

August has been the bishop of Yanwood City for 11 years, and he knows all kinds of local people, both black and white, three religions and nine streams. Naturally, he knows the existence of the "Black Hand Brotherhood" and knows that they believe in the God of Thieves in private. Hume, relying on the so-called "divine wine", harvested the beliefs and wallets of those believers.

In his heart, August had never looked down upon these shady rats, but he turned a blind eye to what these monsters did.After all, the other party has never broken his "filial piety" in the past 11 years, and he also got a share of the dirty money he earned.

But at least on the bright side, August still has to maintain a positive persona who hates evil, and maintains a strange posture of "fighting at the head of the bed and close at the end of the bed" with the evil forces.

"Strange, is this song and dance troupe sponsored by those guys? Or is it just a coincidence?"

Also harboring such doubts was Jed who was in the box next to August.Although Hume, the god of robbers, has a large group of believers, and all the thieves and thieves all over the world will get involved to some extent, but after all, he is not a serious god, just like the group of people playing "Original God" on the earth, everyone is in private. It's done secretly, and I don't dare to publicize it in public.

Jed thought of Hugo, who had won wildly in his casino a few days ago, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

"interesting!"

Soon, after a short break, the second act officially started, and the thousands of spectators in the hall became silent instantly, all of them staring at the stage curtain intently, eager to see the next plot.

At this time, in the corner of the box on the second floor, there is a staff room that is not open to the audience. The girls who followed Lu De to Yanmu City are all watching the wonderful performance on the stage with great interest.

Hume leaned on a corner of the box, and in the hall as far as he could see, a considerable number of spectators had unknowingly produced a light group of faith dedicated to her, the God of Thieves.It's just that the individual light clusters are all very small, generally only the size of a grain of rice, and look like fireflies that are about to die.But even so, it was a scene Hume hadn't seen for a long time.

Hume couldn't help feeling secretly in his heart that a certain brat was indeed fulfilling his original promise step by step, helping him to revive his source of belief, and helping her defeat the fake that threatened his orthodox status, and in the future, he would get rid of her God of War's curse made Thief God become a god again.

Indeed!The arrival of that day may be far away, and it is by no means a short-term goal, but the other party has shown her hope, which makes Hume not help but ask himself, what should he do to repay the other party's kindness? What about Daen?

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Based on the excellent quality of the original "The Count of Monte Cristo", the premiere of "The King of the Grotto", which was only localized, was naturally a great success. It can be said that everything was within Lude's expectations.

The total duration of three and a half hours allowed more than 1000 audience members to experience for the first time in their lives what a real "audio-visual feast" is.

When the ending came to an end, the protagonist got his revenge, and all the bad guys paid their due price for their evil deeds. A near-perfect finale was presented before the audience. Some senior drama fans sat there and began to feel lost.

Because they found that after seeing such a novel and excellent super masterpiece, the traditional dramas of the past can no longer satisfy them, as if their body and mind have become the shape of "The Cave King".

Among the jubilant crowd, Katie sat despondently on the seat, only feeling shivering all over, but in the warm room, her whole body was sweating and her hands and feet were cold. The appearance of "King of the Caves" made her feel scared. She felt a kind of power, a power she had never seen before, like a new king wearing a laurel crown, and all subjects in the same country, whether willing or not, Changes must be made in the near future to determine whether they can continue to survive in this industry.

She didn't know how to describe this sense of fear, but if Luther were sitting in front of her at this moment, he would tell her with a smile.

"The power you feel comes from change!"

In essence, "The Cave King" is an attempt by Lude. He is constantly integrating the knowledge he brought from another world into the local area, and then using this power to improve an industry and change the world.

And it turned out that Lude succeeded again, and the natives of the different world, like the people on Earth, liked him very much!

Under the leadership of the head of the group Serves, more than 120 people from the entire Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe took the stage and bowed to the applause of the audience.At this time, Serves felt like Edmund who had avenged her revenge in the play. The dissatisfaction of the past ten years disappeared in an instant, and her eyes were full of tears at some point, but the smile on her face was more brilliant.

The only thing Serves regrets is that "Faria" who helped her complete this grand revenge, did not stand on the stage to accept the applause with her, but stayed behind the scenes quietly.

Serves has always known that the other party helped her so much, not because he felt sorry for her, or because he was plotting against her body like many men did.He had other goals for helping himself, but Serves didn't care anymore, she only knew now that it was time to repay the favor to the other party with all her heart.

After the performance, the general audience left one after another, ready to wait for the next morning to go crazy with their relatives and friends, so that everyone in the city can experience the excitement of their desire to run two laps on the city wall at this moment.And some of the big shots who were watching the show in the box came to the backstage, wanting to meet Servis and the others with various purposes.

The family of Duke Crude, the city lord, was the first to come. Today's new drama was a surprise for him. They liked it very much, so they went backstage to express their congratulations face to face. The Duchess even picked a piece of jewelry on the spot. Give it to Servis, this thing is equivalent to a "talisman" to a certain extent, enough to make most young people feel afraid.

Then came some wealthy businessmen from other places, expressing their desire to provide temporary accommodation for the Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe and invite them to perform in other cities.If possible, they would also like to purchase some new technologies that appeared during the performance, especially the projector. As soon as that thing was unveiled, many businessmen were amazed and realized that this thing contained a lot of business opportunities.

For these businessmen who are entangled like dog skin and plaster, Servis mainly prevaricates, and performances can be considered, but the projector is not the property of their Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe. She, Servis, just borrows it and cannot be the master of business.

On the second day after the premiere, heated discussions about "The Cave King" quickly spread throughout the city. Everyone who had seen it was raving about it, and even the official forces came out to endorse it. Even the castellan's family agreed after watching it.

As a result, all the aristocrats and small rich people in the city who have some spare money on hand have developed a strong interest in this new play, which directly makes it difficult to find tickets for the performance. It was stolen by the "yellow tauren" forty silver, which is less than half a gold coin.

Seeing the popularity of this new drama, the No. [-] Teana Opera House in Yanmu City couldn't sit still. They had been maintaining cooperation with Katie's Feixia Opera House before. It was because of Katie's box office appeal. What's more, the owner of the theater can't stop earning money just because he has "friendship" with Katie a few times. He proactively contacted Servis and invited them to perform at the even bigger Teana Opera House. The share is fine. discuss.

It's a pity that the olive branch offered by the boss was declined by Serves. The reason was that the Skyline Opera House had made a special stage renovation for the performance of "The King of the Grotto", so only here could achieve the performance they needed, and there was no way to do it all at once. Change to the stage of the Teana Opera House.

However, Sevis, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately came up with another plan, which could still perform the popular drama "King of the Grotto" on their stage even if the Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe did not perform at the Teana Opera House.

Out of curiosity, the owner of the Tianlai Opera House followed Servis to the No. 150 Hall of the Skyline Opera House, which is much smaller than the main hall, with only [-] seats and no boxes.

As soon as the boss came over, he found that there were other colleagues in the city here, and everyone was waiting to see the "good thing" that Servis said.

"What the hell? Is it a new stage special effect?"

"It's more exciting than that. You find a place to sit down first, and I'll let the staff start the machine."

With curiosity and uneasiness in their hearts, the bosses each found a place to sit down, and the whole hall went dark instantly, making everyone nervous when they suddenly fell into darkness.Immediately afterwards, a beam of light shot out from the last row of the hall, shining on the white curtain erected in front of the stage.

Everyone was surprised to see that a live performance appeared on the white curtain, which was the "King of the Cave", which is currently popular in the whole city.Although the photo is slightly lacking compared to the stage play, it still makes people feel very shocked.

"Master Servis, what, what is this?"

"This, it's called a 'video'! First use a camera to record the real picture, and then play it through a projector. In this way, even if our Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe didn't go to your theater, we can still perform, and even... Even if you don’t have a theater, it’s okay.”

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Undoubtedly, "The Cave King" successfully set off a frenzy in the literary and art circles of Yanmu City, and quickly showed a posture of going out of the circle.

The Tianji Opera House has two performances every day, and the venues are all sold out. Some enthusiastic audience members even expressed at the box office that they are willing to buy standing tickets at the original price, as long as they allow him to enter the theater.

But even so, the audience capacity of the Tianji Opera House is still in short supply. Some audience members have already learned the queuing tactics without a teacher, and waited at the entrance of the Opera House a few hours in advance, just to be able to be the first time the ticket office opens. , Go in and grab a ticket.

Faced with this situation, some audience members couldn’t help complaining why the Rainbow Song and Dance Troupe couldn’t perform at the larger Teana Opera House, but the answer they got was that the stage over there was not good. As a new play, "King of the Caves" uses a lot of new technologies, and only the stage of the Tianji Opera House in Yanmu City needs to be specially upgraded. If you go to the Tianlai Opera House, there is no guarantee that you can have such cool stage special effects up.

However, the staff immediately told these audiences a good news, that is, they are cooperating with other small and medium-sized theaters in the city, and they are preparing to show the "video version" of "King of the Grotto" there. The visual effect is definitely not as good as that of the Skyline Opera House. Live performances, but you can still watch them, and the ticket price will drop accordingly.

Lu De's publicity strategy is to get more people to watch the play. Skyline Opera House alone is definitely not enough, and it has been forced to raise the ticket price to triple silver, which also makes some people who want to watch the play lose their money. The shy commoners in the middle class feel daunted.So in order to expand the communication channels, Lu De decided to sell the projector as a commodity.

As the original source of the Skyline Opera House, Lu De believes that it is necessary to maintain the "high-end positioning" here, with a special stage and live performances, the best viewing experience and service, and the next level is those small and medium-sized theaters that cooperate with them , Lourdes provided them with projectors and "memory crystals (video tapes)" in the form of lease. The viewing experience is definitely not as good as the Skyline Opera House, but the ticket price is low, and only one silver coin is enough.

For the operators of these small and medium-sized theaters, Lu De played with them a little bit, that is, the lease method did not use ticket sharing, but chose a time-limited buyout.It costs 150 gold coins to lend out for a month. During this period, how many shows you play every day, the Skyline Opera House will not ask.

The advantage of this is that it can force these operators to put more money.

After hearing this condition, all the operators immediately made a calculation in their hearts.With the current popularity of "King of the Cave", there is absolutely no need to worry about the attendance rate for at least the next three weeks. Most of these opera houses are small venues with two to three hundred seats. If the ticket price is set at one silver coin, one performance There are two to three gold income.I can make a steady profit without losing money by playing three games a day. What if I am gritting my teeth and let him play four or five games?

And the projector has an advantage, that is, it does not need to rest like a real actor, and it can be driven on a continuous axis. Lude also promised them that they will provide free warranty service during the loan period of the machine.

So the operators who understood this account signed the lease contract without saying a word, and then happily took the projector away.

Lude believes that in the next month, these ten or so theaters will definitely play "King of the Grotto" frantically.But if this happens, those small song and dance troupes that can only perform in low-end theaters will feel uncomfortable, and their income may fall off a cliff.

Most of these small troupes have no family background, and belong to the "sunlight family" who work every day and eat all day.Lu De didn't want to cut off their livelihood because of his own reasons, so while contacting the theater owner, he also asked Granny Marilyn to invite all the troupe owners of these small theaters to meet, saying that he also I am willing to cooperate with them and provide them with a simplified version of the projector without stereo equipment, and let them play "The Cave King" as a mobile broadcasting team in the rural areas around Yanmu City.

The viewing environment of open-air theaters is definitely not comparable to that of theaters, so there is still room for further reduction in ticket prices.

At the beginning, Lu De was worried that the cooperation terms he offered would make the artists of these small troupes feel insulted, but in the end, these small troupe owners were very happy and praised the "boss's atmosphere" one after another.

For these small group owners, nothing is as important as eating. After all, the vast majority of practitioners who choose to work in this industry have never been out of pursuit of art, but simply because of their livelihood.Now that Lude is willing to reward them with a bite of food, and the food may be even better than before, they are naturally grateful to Dade.

So under the operation of Lu De, the small theaters in the city soon began to show "The King of the Cave". The Skyline Opera House shared a lot of pressure.

And the mobile broadcasting team soon became active in the rural areas around Yanmu City, serving the middle and lower classes of civilians.

Only the Teana Opera House remained unmoved. As the largest and most luxurious opera house in Yanmu City, they were in an awkward position.

On the one hand, the Rainbow Opera House has clearly rejected their invitation on the grounds of "hardware is not good enough", and the boss really can't save face, renting projectors like those small and medium-sized theaters.As for Katie, who was once his hope, since she came back from watching the premiere of "King of the Cave" that day, she fell into a state of desperation and autism.

In the end, in desperation, Tianlai Opera House could only stubbornly maintain a lofty posture that even they themselves felt embarrassed, facing the dismal attendance rate that plummeted to less than [-]%.

This wave of movie viewing that swept across the city made "The Cave King" a national topic, and everyone talked about this drama after dinner.

And "The Thief Hume", as one of the important supporting roles that appeared many times in the whole drama and played a key role in promoting it, has become well known by everyone through this trend.In particular, the line "Even if the sky falls, the contract must be fulfilled" uttered by Hume in the play was also regarded as a famous line by many audiences, and it was widely circulated in Yanmu City.

Many people don't realize that they seem to have changed their view of Thief God Hume subtly.Those who didn't know before, after watching this drama, the image of Thief God in their minds has become the image in the play, while those who know think that this kind of God of Thieves seems to be better.

These changes in thinking will produce traces of beliefs that people are not aware of, and finally aggregate into a tower, converging into an impact that is powerful enough to change certain cognitions.

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He has been a priest for more than three years, he has the fire of origin in his body, and there are so many goddesses around him for him to conduct in-depth and detailed research, but until today, Lude still has not fully understood what the essence of faith is.

There are still many unsolved mysteries about this kind of energy generated based on mortal thinking, but after all, some laws that can be used have been explored.

Regarding the god position, when Lu De added the "abundance" god position to Aina, he found that as long as it was in his main parish and most of the believers believed that Evelina had it, then Aina could have it. This kind of influence is also limited to their own territory, because in other parts of the world, everyone recognizes the Mother Earth more, and they have never even heard of Evelina.

If it is not recognized, it will not be possible to obtain the corresponding beliefs from these people.So in a sense, the current position of abundance is shared by Aina and the Mother Earth Goddess, and the Mother Earth Goddess occupies a larger share, and Aina just poached a corner.

Based on this discovery, Lude once made a kind of erection, that is, as long as there is a sufficiently closed environment and a group of people are kept in captivity, making them believe that there is an all-knowing and omnipotent only god in this world, then a god can really be born. Such a god.

However, a theory is a theory after all, and this assumption has a very fatal flaw, that is, the population base of believers.

If the population in this captive environment is very limited, say only one or two thousand people, no matter how pious these people are, the power of faith they can provide cannot support an omniscient and omnipotent god, so once the believers find out one day, they The god of belief is not omnipotent, and then the belief will collapse, and the god will be finished.

And Lude then came up with a new idea based on this setup. If one day, suddenly, more than ten times the number of outsiders were inserted into this closed belief ecosystem, these outsiders also believed in the circle. God, but the teachings are in great conflict with the aborigines.