……

A dimly lit stage.

The closed curtain slowly opened, and the magic spotlights on both sides followed—

A tall, handsome man in an unrestrained island-style costume jumped up from behind the stage several times and jumped all the way up.

The light shone on him alone, illuminating his white teeth and innocent smile.

The male chant of the young voice then sounded:

"The wind of the island led me to the beach.

She said go to sea, boy!

Go to sea, sailor!

There is a treasure in the sea that you have always dreamed of.

There is a girl in the sea that you fell in love with at first sight.

I said no to the winds of the islands.

There's no dream of mine in the sea.

There is no hometown in the sea.

The wind of the island led me to the cliffs.

She said fly, boy!

Fly, warriors!

Heaven has the freedom you chase day and night.

There is the courage in heaven that you have longed for.

I said no to the winds of the islands.

The sky doesn't have my dreams.

The sky is not my hometown.

The wind of the island led me to the mountains.

She said work hard, boy!

Plough it, chief!

The mountains are filled with the tranquility of a paradise.

The mountains are filled with the fragrance of spring planting and autumn storage.

I said no to the winds of the islands.

The mountains are my hometown.

The mountains are not my dream in this life.

The winds of the island led me to the shaman's hut.

The shaman asked me—

Young Prince.

Where are you going? ”

Then.

The chanting stopped.

Only the male protagonist on the stage stared affectionately into the distance and sang loudly:

"I said I was leaving the beautiful and rich island of Pantura, and I said I was leaving the arms of my strict father and mother.

I will go to the hundred cities and thousands of countries on the land, and go through every inch of soil beyond the island.

Island winds and my parents, please don't worry.

By the time the wanderer returned, I had become a well-known poet! ”

The curtain quickly opened.

Several actors dressed as natives of the island poured in.

The two who played the hero's parents hugged him exaggeratedly, and each had a difficult rival dance.

Finally, with the good wishes of everyone and the narrator.

The young island prince Duradin left Pantura and went out on the vast land, alone to learn the art of becoming a bard.

During this period.

He was deceived because of his language barrier, ridiculed for his strange dress, and harassed because of his handsome appearance.

But none of this interrupted his desire to become a great poet.

This scene is almost all a one-man show for the male protagonist.

Except for the narration and the passers-by you meet from time to time.

The entire black-pressed stage relies on the actor alone to attract the audience's attention.

Even Matthew had to admit it.

This guy named Brandon may indeed have a big problem with his personal morality, but his acting skills are really superb.

One person's one-man show is what makes him very lively.

Last second.

The prince he played is also making funny and sharp comments that are in line with the identity of the island's indigenous people but are to the point.

It made the audience laugh.

The next second.

But he vividly interpreted the embarrassment of being deceived by misbelieving in a traitor, and finally encountering a miserable wind and rain while sleeping on the street.

Some of the female audience members even sobbed under their own breath.

This situation was not alleviated until Duradin met the great poet Donald, who had become famous for a long time.

After that, the prince took up residence in Donald's house, and began to diligently learn the art of a poet.

The first act ends with a sneering joke by the great poet Donald.

The second act is in full swing.

When the magic spotlight is advancing.

Matthew took a special look and found that although the spotlights above the theater were made of tracks, they were not highly automated.

On each spotlight sat goblins with numb expressions.

They wore small tank tops with steel wires hanging from their backs, and moved through two densely packed beams above and below.

The magic spotlights are pushed by them.

"Sure enough, even if it's a lack of productivity, you can find a solution with just a lot of thought."

Matthew was amazed at this design of the theater.

But he thought about it again.

If you let yourself come and change a batch of ghosts, you may be able to finish better.

When the mind wanders.

He took the opportunity to observe the demeanor of the audience, including Luo Lan, everyone watched very seriously.

Also.

The entertainment industry in this world is nowhere near as developed as Matthew's previous life.

This level of opera is already the ultimate audio-visual feast for people.

Matthew was okay too.

After the initial freshness.

He can also have the patience to enjoy the actors' hard performances, and the dances that he can't understand but still feel a little charm.

Stage.

The plot proceeds in an orderly manner, and the plot of the second act is as follows:

What the island prince didn't know was.

No sooner had he left the beautiful island than a terrible coup d'état broke out on Pantura.

His second uncle colluded with Naga and stabbed his father to death with a short dagger he had received from Naga.

After that, with the help of Naga, the second uncle changed into his father's appearance, successfully took the position of chief of Pantura, and also usurped his mother, who seemed to be unaware of this.

However, Durodin's second uncle had a very different personality from his father.

The latter is generous and merciful.

The former is cruel and ferocious.

The tribe was soon disturbed by him, and even openly associated with Naga, who was originally a rival of each other, and the tribesmen dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Soon.

The once peaceful island was in chaos.

Then.

The shaman, who lives in seclusion in the high mountains of Pantura, with the help of the island winds, sees through the disguise of Duladin's second uncle.

He turned to the seagull overnight.

Calling for Duradin, who had traveled abroad, to return quickly.

This concludes the second act.

……

"A classic revenge story."

Loraine commented:

"It's not too vulgar, but it's not much better, and it depends on how the third and fourth acts are handled."

As he spoke, he flipped through the program list he got when he entered the venue, and frowned:

"Why are there only four acts? It's too rushed! ”

Seeing his serious look, Matthew smiled and asked:

"From a professional point of view, what do you think of the plot and lines of the first two acts?"

Luo Lan shrugged his shoulders, and didn't comment sharply, but said very seriously:

"I can't analyze it from a professional point of view tonight, I just want to, and I can only be an ordinary audience."

Matthew sensed something unusual in his tone.

Without waiting for him to speak, Luo Lan suddenly whispered:

"If, I mean if, if something strange happens tonight, no matter how weird he is, try to be a silent spectator, okay, Matthew?"

It was the first time Matthew had heard nervousness in Loraine's mouth.

But before that, he also had a hunch.

I just came to Zeshui City to step on a point, and I just happened to bump into Luo Lan, which is too coincidental, right?

When you think of his strange abilities, there is only one answer, Loren is deliberately waiting for him in the "Jungle Dance".

And tonight's good show is probably not limited to the stage.

Matthew then stared at his side face:

"Intellectually, I should have walked away right now, right?"

Lorain smiled reluctantly.

That moment.

Matthew suddenly felt that he was so strange, as if he had become a different person.

"We're friends, aren't we?"

Matthew asked softly:

"Friends should mean trusting each other and not hurting each other."

Loraine's expression looked a little guilty.

He covered his face with his hands and said in a very low voice:

"I won't hurt you, Matthew, that's my promise."

Matthew nodded:

"That's enough for you, so what do I need to do?"

Lorain lowered her hands with some surprise:

"Do you really want to believe me?"

Matthew looked at him with a blank face:

"Or else?"

A hint of joy flashed in Luo Lan's eyes, and he said in a deep voice:

"You just have to keep watching, and tonight, you just have to be a spectator, just like me."

Matthew nodded silently.

on stage.

The third tomb opened, and the plot continued to advance steadily:

……

Three years later.

The seagull finally finds Prince Duradin, who has learned a certain skill, and tells him what happened on Pantura.

After learning that his father was killed and his mother was occupied.

Duradin was furious and wanted to go back to avenge his father.

However, his teacher Donald made an unsatisfactory request at this time-

He believes that Durodin is now at a critical stage of his studies, and he cannot be distracted, let alone travel far.

If Duradin insisted on going back, he would be expelled from his school, forever missing out on the opportunity to become a great poet.

Faced with these two dilemmas, Duradin finally chose to give up everything and return to Pantura to do what he was supposed to do.

The ending is naturally a happy one.

It turned out that Donald made this unreasonable request to test Duradin's mind.

The latter made the right choice, and he, as a teacher, naturally sent him and equipment, and set out with another of his protégés, a poetess with whom Durodin had been secretly in love for the past three years, on his way home to the prince.

On the way.

They were confronted by the powerful Naga under the command of their second uncle, and in the end, the man and woman were defeated and captured on the beach.

On the verge of death.

The hero and heroine express their hearts to each other, and it is a long song and dance drama, and seeing the little girl behind Matthew crying profusely, it really makes people worry about whether she will throw her snot on herself.

It's just that the two didn't die on the beach.

That Naga revealed his identity after defeating the male and female protagonists.

It turned out that he was an old shaman in disguise.

The shaman told Duradin that the second uncle who had been blessed by Naga was very powerful, and if the prince could not even defeat himself, then he would definitely not be the second uncle's opponent.

And to get rid of that scumbag, you have to go to a hidden island and seek the help of a wizard.

The sorcerer hails from the Tooth Peninsula and wields the "Aversion to Victory" that Naga fears even well.

The so-called Victory Aversion Spell is a curse spell that is widely spread in the eastern seas.

In Zeshui City, the Disgust of Victory can be compared to the voodoo method of the western part of the Rainforest, and it is a very terrible method of killing.

Practitioners tend to die in bizarre ways.

However, the learning conditions of the art of aversion are very demanding, and only the most gifted have the opportunity to learn this form of curse from the wizards of the hidden islands.

So the group set out on their way to the hidden island.

Along the way, they fought through all odds and finally found the wizard.

After listening to the prince's story, the sorcerer expressed his willingness to teach the art of disgust.

But he also said that the way of the curse is not so simple, and if you want to get something, you must first give something.

If Duradin wants to avenge his father through the Victory Aversion technique, then he may lose even more.

However, how could Durodin, who was furious at this time, listen?

He begged the sorcerer to teach the method.

The wizard was touched by his sincerity and finally chose to agree.

Thereafter.

The wizard kept the prince in his hut for three days, and the rest were driven out.

Three days later.

Duradin walked out with a pale face.

And the wizard is nowhere to be found.

Durodin, who has learned the art of disgust, returns to the island of Pantura, which is now a matter of things, along with the heroine and the shaman.

The climactic plot of the final scene has finally arrived.

……

Perhaps to make it easier for the audience to go to the toilet, the intermission in acts three and four is longer.

On the way back, Matthew saw a young man in a hurry running into the dressing room, and there was an urging voice from the mean-looking middle-aged lady inside:

"Lawrence, do you want to be whipped again? Change into a stand-in costume! ”

"Yes, Mrs. Jace."

The optimistic voice of a young man came from the corridor of the dressing room.

Matthew shook his hand, and the appearance of Lawrence appeared in his mind, and the unique perception of the Equilibrium Messenger told him that this young man was definitely not simple.

Get back to your seat.

The fourth act has begun.

The speed of the plot is suddenly accelerated-

……

The group and the second uncle collided head-on, and Duladin tried to reveal the identity of the second uncle in front of everyone, but everyone on the island was already unfamiliar with Durodin.

They don't fully believe Durodin's rhetoric.

It wasn't until the old shaman stepped forward and stood with Durodin that some of them were shaken.

But at this critical moment.

Duladin's mother actually took the initiative to speak for her current husband!

She told Duradin not to listen to the old shaman's rumors, that his father was fine and that he had not been killed, and that there had been an accident three years earlier, but that the person who had died was his second uncle.

His mother's betrayal left Duradin heartbroken.

The second uncle saw the opportunity to order the Chieftain's Guard to capture Duradin.

The two sides confronted each other for a while.

The old shaman is old, and Duradin and the heroine are both poets, so their combat power is naturally not enough.

Soon.

They were arrested and thrown into the island's prison.

In prison, Duradin meets several old tribesmen who are loyal to his father, and they are the few people on the island who are willing to believe Durodin's words, but they are all prisoners like the prince, and they are unable to help Durodin.

That same evening.

The second uncle's father came to visit the prison on his own.

He told Duradin that if he stopped talking nonsense, he would resume his status as a prince and be free from the past.

Naturally, Duradin was not convinced.

The other party can even kill his own brother, so what does it mean to kill another nephew?

However, in order to lower the second uncle's vigilance.

Duradin pretended to agree to him.

The latter left contentedly.

Night.

The heroine and Duradin complain to each other.

She asks why Duradin doesn't use aversion to victory?

Durodin was simply silent.

The heroine kept asking.

He replied reluctantly that if he wanted to curse a person to death through the aversion technique, he would have to sacrifice the life of another person, and that person would have to be the most important person in the heart of the caster.

Durodin told the heroine that before today, the most important person in his heart was the mother in his memory, but after today, he became the heroine.

It's as if he couldn't bear to sacrifice his mother's life before.

Now he is not willing to sacrifice the life of the heroine.

After listening to Duradin's painful autobiography.

The heroine fell into a long silence.

Before dawn.

The clever and witty Duradin successfully bluffed the prison guards with the promise of his second uncle, and the male and female protagonists were able to get together and enjoy a night of fish and water in the prison.

It's just that when Durodin wakes up, he finds that the heroine doesn't know where she found a cup of poisoned wine.

She waited quietly for Duladin to wake up, and drank it in front of him.

"Now that I'm dying, use my life to curse that sinister and ugly uncle of yours!"

"Go and take back all that belongs to you, my love, and go, Durodin."

Then she fell.

Grief-stricken, Duradin hugged the heroine's corpse and hurriedly used the disgusting technique taught to him by the wizard.

This scene is an extreme test of the actor's skills.

Matthew admitted.

Brandon did a good job of the previous sections.

However, this part of the performance obviously pulled the crotch.

Even judging from the eyes of a layman, his crying scenes, performances and arias can only be regarded as barely passing.

He just wanted to pull Luo Lanrui to comment a few sentences.

Right now.

The magic spotlight overhead suddenly dimmed!

It was pitch black on stage.

There was a sudden stirring sound from the audience.

"Shh——!h

"Don't make a sound."

An optimistic and cheerful young man's voice suddenly sounded in the audience:

"I know you haven't seen it, have you?"

"Duladin in this scene should be filled with sadness, helplessness, accusation, panic, etc., but our male protagonist, Mr. Brandon, has played the prince as in a model play."

"He wept and was heartbroken; He laughed and rejoiced; He blames himself and has vivid eyebrows; He was proud, and the corners of his eyes were full of flowers. ”

"I'll admit that his acting skills have been perfected."

"But there is no emotion."

Suddenly, the magic spotlight lit up.

In the spotlight.

It's a young man dressed in the exact same costume as the male protagonist!

The crowd was in an uproar.

Despite his careful grooming, some people recognized him as the young man who had been pulled to put out the fire at the door.

"Lawrence, what are you messing around?!!"

An angry voice came from backstage, sometimes mixed with the sound of high heels kicking:

"You fatherless and motherless dead bastard, get out of here!"

The smile on Lawrence's face remained the same.

He looked at the mean-looking middle-aged lady who came from backstage:

"Mrs. Jace, someone as vicious as you must have a mouth full of poisonous insects, right?"

Mrs. Jace wanted to scold again.

But when she opened her mouth, a foreign object suddenly popped out of her mouth.

"Wow!"

She bent down and vomited, and a scorpion, a poisonous snake, and a toad appeared on the ground!

The actors on stage were stunned by the sudden change.

They all hid backstage.

"Wow!"

Mrs. Jace fell to her knees in terror, clutching her throat so hard that a steady stream of poison crawled out of her mouth.

They didn't run around when they landed, but burrowed back into her.

Soon.

Her screams resounded across the stage!

"You're screaming too loudly, Mrs. Jace."

Lawrence snapped his fingers.

Mrs. Jace's voice died out.

Followed by.

Lawrence looked up happily and looked at the audience, who was also shocked:

"The vignette will end soon and our show will continue."

"Next, I will play the leading role and really present the climax of this good show to everyone."

"Thank you all for your support, and by the way, the Lord of the Plague greetings everyone."

said.

He bowed deeply to the audience.

……

(End of chapter)