Chapter 597: Preparation and Publicity
Before leaving the Bay of Wailing and returning to the Western Continent, Alicia had given Dibes an extremely confidential mission without anyone else knowing, and had also greeted Francis, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and asked him to fully cooperate with the blue-haired little man's actions.
Originally, Alicia had arranged this plan just in case, and in fact she sincerely hoped that she would never receive a report that Dibes's plan had been launched and had worked. But sometimes things are always unsatisfactory, and the last thing Lori wants to see finally happens.
However, until winter comes, the Dark Empire will not make any big moves. The other side has just lost the forward base and a large number of fleets, and it will definitely take a lot of time to assemble and reorganize the new troops, and now that Francis has not taken the initiative to call the door under the order of Elicia, it is time to burn incense and worship the Buddha. Therefore, in the short term, Dibes can carry out Alicia's plan very calmly without having to ask her for instructions in a panic, which means that little Lori should probably be able to spend this year's school anniversary in peace.
With the bad news brought by Angel buried deep in her heart, Alicia devoted herself wholeheartedly to the preparation of the school celebration program.
Although most of the students in the class were not very optimistic about the haunted house activity at the beginning, out of trust and expectation for a certain blonde Lori, everyone finally chose to support it.
As for the venue, the negotiation with the mahjong club and the light sound club was handled by Sophia. Since there was no class meeting to hold an event in such a remote and remote place as Houshan, the two ministers were naturally happy to sell the face of this imperial princess with an elegant temperament and dignified manners. The old building was soon taken over by the three-year A class of the Department of Magic.
The costumes should have been left to Cecilia, an avid horse monkey soju cosplay enthusiast, but "it's too boring to simply use puppet costumes to scare people, and we have to use magic to create that kind of real monster that leaves an indelible despair and fear in the hearts of many guests" - after leaving such a high-sounding reason. As a creature that can give birth to all kinds of strange and terrifying creatures with potions, and even hallucinations in the human brain (of course, provided that these are all safe), the strongest alchemy girl in history was arranged by little Lori to another place.
So the ingenious Chasi took over the job. But despite the help of the other girls in the class, these ordinary girls who only know how to cut and sew ordinary clothes don't know how to make ghost puppet costumes that are more cumbersome than the gorgeous clothes of cosplay. But it didn't matter, Alicia, who learned about this, quickly transferred Michelle from the logistics support team.
Yes, it's true that Naturalness doesn't have this talent either, but she has a Heroic Spirit named Medea who has a passion for magical girl cosplay that is on par with Cecilia, and most importantly, a very good tailoring skill......
Although Fabiano was responsible for the most troublesome task of setting up the barrier, it was too complicated for the students. After several successive failures, the aristocratic young man of the Roland Empire had to ask his mentor for help, and then of course received a categorical negative reply from Chrissy, who wanted to use the time when the students would not come to ask questions about the school anniversary.
But let an earth-type mage tinker with the kind of enchantment that can make up the rainstorm...... Chrissy didn't bite off the chocolate bar in her mouth on the spot, and threw a punch to beat Fabiano ten meters away, which was already very face-saving.
In the end, it was Sophia who asked Teacher Marlene from the girls' dormitory to help the top students in the class get the enchantment.
The old building itself was already very dark when it was empty - in fact, Xiao Jing, a ghost girl who lived in an abandoned warehouse nearby, often came to visit the door at night - and how to make it look even more terrifying was naturally simple. Joey, who was appointed by Elicia to be in charge of the set and props, prepared a lot of things according to Lori's request: flickering magic lamps, brown paint that couldn't tell whether it was stains or blood in the dim light, dolls with a gothic horror aesthetic (although he had asked for a mercury lamp, he ended up with crow's feathers on his head), old and rusty furniture, antique pendulum clocks that chimeed the time very loudly, a group of domesticated bats that God knows where to start, and so on. Although these are scattered and they don't feel anything. When combined, just thinking about it makes people feel their scalp tingle.
Although the people in the other classes were very curious about what kind of haunted house the third year A class of the magic department was making, Alicia had already arranged secrecy measures in advance, and they themselves were busy preparing for the show, so in the end, everyone didn't know. Teachers and students within the academy don't know. The reporters outside the academy who were eager to report on the anniversary of the Garden of Hope naturally had no way of knowing, let alone the general public.
This continued until September 25, the day when Alicia was confident that she would be able to complete her preparations ahead of schedule.
In the open space outside the old building, where people come and go, the little blonde queen finds Sophia, who is in charge.
"It's the story and the scenes in the corridors and rooms on each floor. You arrange for the right people to practice on these two days. Alicia said as she handed her friend a thick stack of parchment. "It's all very simple performances and pitiful lines, and it doesn't take long to memorize them. β
"But it's scary enough, isn't it? Sophia, who covered most of her face with a folding fan, stared at the parchment in her hand, which obviously emitted an ominous black mist, and said cautiously, "Are you sure that thing in your hand is not Pandora's box?"
"No, please call it the Gates of Hell. β
An extremely standard and sharp fan to the head.
Holding her head, she looked up at the pitiful Alicia and said weakly, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to make a joke in the tone of the second disease." β
No, no, no, you're not kidding. It's the absurd and bizarre fantasy of the legend that can already affect the superpower version of the real world! Sophia glanced at the stack of parchment twice, swallowed a mouthful of saliva hard, and then stretched out her hand and pinched it in fear: "It's so terrible. Isn't it true that writing a person's name on it doesn't curse a person?"
β...... What do you think of my hard work? Are the enemies of Lao Xu's book all the loving scripts of the past transformed by their own people!?"
Sneered and waved at Alicia, who was puffing out her cute bun face angrily. Sophia opened the parchment with a fixed face: "Then let me have a sneak peek." Let me see. After the guests enter the entrance on the first floor, Yuchasi walks out of the shadows in a maid's costume behind them. The sound of footsteps is sure to startle the guests, and Chasi bows to them with the line 'Welcome to the Demon Pavilion, I'm the guide for this tour'. Well, it seems to be pretty normal at the moment.
Then next. Chasi needs to turn around and close the door at the entrance to lock it out from the outside sun, leaving only the dim light in the hallway, incidentally...... By the way, he said with a pale, blood-stained face mask with a distorted expression that revealed the back of his head, 'Here you will experience the great fear that you will never forget. From the moment I stepped here. You will never be able to return to the sunshine of earthly life.'" As soon as you enter the door, you make a fuss about the maid who was originally full of healing, do you dare to be a little more terrifying!?"
"How dare not. Alysia didn't care about the pink princess's almost crazy complaints, and said with her head held high with pride, "The most important part is still to come." With that face mask, I asked Cecilia to make a simple magic circle. Let its eyes and lips be stimulated by Chassi's voice and move on their own. It looks like it's real. β
"I can already imagine the guests who just walked through the door screaming loudly and running away in fright. Hearing this, Sophia couldn't help but raise her head and look at heaven speechlessly.
Alicia smiled at the corner of her mouth, and then said, "But Sophia, most ordinary people have the same opinion of haunted houses as Chassi. Although we have innovated this, the problem is that others do not know about it, and it is inevitable that there will be an embarrassing cold scene. β
"That's right. Sophia gently shook her fan twice and nodded, "Therefore, it is necessary for us to carry out proper publicity." Are you going to send a few girls to hand out flyers in gorgeous cosplay-like costumes at the entrance of the academy, or are you going to go into battle yourself?"
"I don't have the slightest interest in the head of the regiment without saying a word, and directly taking the lead in pulling his subordinates to form a bunny girl at the school gate and distribute leaflets. Little Lori decisively waved her hand and denied, "Besides, I still have an absolute propaganda weapon in my hand." Why bother so much?"
With a click, Sophia, who suddenly thought of something, was so shocked that even the delicate little folding fan couldn't help but fall to the ground: "Hey." Are you supposed to be ......?"
"Well, that's right. It's the 'should or shouldn't'. β
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On the afternoon of September 25, the vast majority of the people on the Western Continent experienced a short five-minute trip to hell.
In the narrow and dim corridor, he suddenly encountered all kinds of strange and terrifying monsters that fell from the ceiling, and in a panic, he hurriedly fled into the next room, and was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but he was stunned to hear a disgusting chewing sound in the darkness. Trembling as he turned on the magic lamp in the room, he was greeted by some kind of unknown life form that looked like an insect and a mollusk that looked like an insect or a mollusk, gnawing at the severed limbs of humans, and the crimson floor was littered with bloody fragments.
After the monster looked at the more than a dozen compound eyes, the unlucky creature immediately let out a terrible scream and ran out, and after rushing through the corridor full of monsters like crazy, Ya managed to rush through the door at the very end, which looked like an exit.
And when you open the door, it is indeed a very ordinary scene of daily life on the busy street. But just as he let out a sigh and wanted to go into the street, he slammed into something invisible. He took a few steps back before he was desperate to realize that the scene in front of him was actually an illusory existence reflected in a huge mirror, and this everyday scene disappeared immediately, and was replaced by all kinds of nightmarish and irrational things that flickered in the endless darkness and approached him......
The nightmare continues.
It's a first-person view like an FPS. At the suggestion of Alicia, the newly established Birea Imperial Audiovisual Administration played on the crystal screen before the daily routine of three o'clock in the afternoon mainland news program. Different from the previous state of mind to enjoy the stage play, this visual expression with a strong sense of substitution deeply shocked everyone's hearts.
At the same time, it also frightened a lot of children.
But fortunately, in the end, the protagonist, who had never been able to see what he looked like, finally managed to escape, and everyone's heart was put back again. At the end of the film, the advertising slogan voiced by Alicia herself relieves everyone's doubts about "which god came up with this shooting technique". It also aroused their strong interest in the haunted house of the third year A class of the magic department planned by this little queen who would come up with a new trick from time to time in the garden of hope.
Anyway, doesn't it really matter if you insert an ad for an event at the regular school festival before the hourly news on the official national channel......
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"Where's the festival, what about your festival!?" Sophia, who was finally completely crazy, desperately grabbed Alicia's collar and shook it back and forth regardless of her usual virtuous and elegant image, and said loudly, "Don't think that if you are the queen, you can just play some strange shows on the crystal screen belonging to Birea, hey!"
"Mi woo, the whole world is going round and round. Little Lori screamed and struggled to break free from the pink princess's grasp, and gasped hard, "What is a strange show?" The really weird show should be the kind of "beep-" that teaches newlyweds how to have sex properly, right?"
"It's this mouth. It's from this mouth that all kinds of undisciplined words come out of this mouth over and over again, right?" Sophia, who had blue muscles and red cheeks on her head, pinched little Lori's cheeks angrily and pulled hard, "Believe it or not, I'll tear it now!?"
Teary-eyed, shaking his head. A begging look.
"It's useless for you to sell cute. Still, Princess Pink let go of Elicia's pretty little red face, "But only you can do this kind of thing, and it won't make everyone feel weird." There's no need to worry about propaganda now, but when you make such a big fanfare, there will definitely be a lot of people. Can we handle it?"
"It doesn't matter. Alicia rubbed her face and said confidently. "There's absolutely no way we're going to handle it!"
"Give back the glimmer of expectation I had for you just now, how can you repair it!"
Little Lori waved her hand to calm down the best friend in front of her. Cocking his index finger, he explained, "We can't handle all the people who come to visit, but this new haunted house model is enough to impress everyone. And if I set up a bigger haunted house in Mangla shortly after the school anniversary, I think it will attract countless customers. β
Sophia almost collapsed when she heard this, and it took a long time for her to stroke her towering chest and settle down: "OK, I won't say anything else." Brandtlin also opened a similar haunted house, you shouldn't have any problem with it, right?"
β...... Isn't it necessary to negotiate the division of the newly discovered magic crystal mine, so you need to put on such a serious expression?" Alicia covered her forehead and sweated violently for a while, "If you want to open it, you can open it." It's not something I can handle. β
Sophia, who knew that she was too serious, smiled a little awkwardly, bent down to pick up the folding fan on the ground, opened it and shook it softly, and said, "Didn't I get scared last time because I didn't have a joint venture with you on the crystal screen?" Publicity is definitely enough, and all that remains is for the students to practice how to be scary as soon as possible. And finally, what are you going to do with this year's show in the auditorium? Are you still going to have some girl go up and sing?"
"I almost forgot if you didn't say it. Alicia slapped her forehead and suddenly realized, "This kind of show can just fool around, after all, everyone's energy is on the haunted house." I think about it, how about letting Sister Asami confess her love to Akihisa Yoshii in front of the public in the tone of Minami Shimada, and then cause the public anger of the FFF group, resulting in a series of blood-blooded, funny, nonsensical super developments?"
With a crisp, slight metal thud, a delicate, long-roded silver-white musket pressed against the back of Alicia's head in a sweat. The girl with blond curly hair who suddenly appeared from the void with a smile on her face but looked very angry no matter how she looked at it, poked the muzzle of the gun twice on the little Lori's head, and said softly, "Master, don't you think that the daily life of the stupid people in Class F is not unusually happy enough...... I mean, it's embarrassing??,Want to show it to a lot of guests at the very solemn school festival.,What are you going to do?"
"I'm sorry, it was just a joke. In order to ensure that she would not be shot in the head on the spot, Alicia hurriedly raised her hands and waved her hands in a surrender posture to deny, "Please don't be surprised!"
Ba Asami naturally just planned to scare and scare little Lori, and after seeing her soften, she put the musket back: "I heard the conversation between the two." So what should we do with this year's auditorium performance, or should we just give it up?"
"Who said you were going to give up?" Alicia pouted with a slight annoyance, "I'll sing on stage this year!" (To be continued.) )