01.
The premiere of the promotional video for Ice Empire Muelheim is over.
Seeing the expressions on the faces of the ministers, Hill knew that he had achieved his goal.
Hill briefed the shooting concept and some details of the promotional film at the imperial meeting, and everyone nodded frequently.
Seeing that it was almost ready, Hill took Olivia to bid farewell, leaving the rest of the time for the Ice Empress and his ministers.
Hill thought about it when he was filming the promotional video for Mülheim. In the future, he will also make a promotional video of this kind for the Demon World. There will be a set for each race. For ghosts, use "Prelude to the Dead" hahaha. The promotional video tells the history of this race, tells some touching stories, shows the charm of the race, oh, push the handsome men and beautiful women out to see.
Of course, before making a promotional video for the demon race, the territories of these races must be established.
Now that the main race territory of the Demon World has been completed, Hill plans to start large-scale construction and rectification.
After Hill left, the ministers couldn't extricate themselves from the feeling of being immersed in the promotional film. As the power core of the Ice Empire, they can naturally see how much benefits the promotional film can bring. It can bring glory to the nobles, make the soldiers more loyal, and make the civilians more attached to the empire. At the same time, it can also greatly strengthen the Ice Emperor. Claude's personal prestige.
Under such circumstances, it seems that the appearance of the Demon King himself is tolerable.
It took one night for the ministers to realize that in the promotional video of this level, the Ice Empress and the Demon King shake hands—although they don’t know what the handshake specifically means, but they generally understand that this should be a friendly gesture—this, is not attacking the church face? The current Bishop of Winter City, Theresa Shelley, is a very crazy hawk.
Oh, some time ago, Hill asked Olivia to bring a lot of things to the church as gifts, and Teresa spilled all the things outside and burned them on the street. Many nobles felt distressed when they saw it, and then the ministers in front of the king became more aware of Bishop Shelley's "hawks". After all, as the saying goes, it is better to see once than hear for a long time.
At the imperial meeting the next day, the Minister of Finance who had always addressed the church raised the issue of the church
Hill and Ice Emperor Claude had already prepared for this, and Ice Emperor responded according to what they had discussed in advance: "Because of the matter of the Prince of the Yulan Empire, there was a rift between the Yulan Empire and the Demon Race, so the relationship over there has now declined." It has reached the freezing point. Therefore, His Majesty the Demon King intends to establish a long-term trade and cooperation relationship with the Ice Empire under the guidance of His Royal Highness Greenwald, and to provide mutual assistance in materials: they buy a large amount of coal, and then sell us various items crafted by dwarves at low prices, except The well-known part of the Devil's Emporium includes military weapons. Based on that, the handshake is justified."
Now that these few movies have been animated, everyone has tacitly accepted that dwarf craftsmanship is equivalent to being developed.
"Military weapons!" Someone exclaimed directly.
"Military weapons..." The judicial supervisor was a little skeptical: "Would the demons be so kind?"
The Minister of the Exchequer said with a mocking attitude: "Then you must not follow anime movies. The attitude of the demons in anime has always wanted peace."
The Minister of the Exchequer said this with ridicule and irony.
In fact, this is also the attitude of the mainstream leaders of the Ice Empire: those who believe that the demons are really pursuing peace are nobles and commoners who are not in power. Other superiors, including the judicial supervisor who has always been opposed to the church, believe that their own interests are more important than the performance of the demons, and they themselves should take more precautions against the demons. It's a smart move. We can't really believe that the United States wants to maintain world peace after watching a few American blockbusters that maintain world peace. whee.
But what surprised them was that the university scholar Lan Nong was vaguely standing on the side of the demons.
The Grand Master has two sons and a daughter. His daughter fell in love with a bard when he was young and eloped with him. Later, the bard sold her when he ran out of money. When she returned to Cold Winter City, her body was in a mess at this time, and she died of illness after living at home for a month. His eldest son was not raised well when he was young. He was an ignorant gangster who committed too many crimes. The bachelor was very troubled by this, so he opened a trumpet and gave birth to his younger son. The younger son was brought up very well, was a very distinguished youth, and died a heroic battle with the tribe of Dijon. The husband and wife were very sad. His eldest son also changed his past after the death of his younger brother, but he went to the army despite his parents' dissuasion. The Grand Scholar used his relationship to arrange the eldest son in a safe department. However, the eldest son's immediate boss was someone he had bullied before. During a war, the other party placed him in a dangerous unit. Then, the Grand Scholar's eldest son And so died.
Soon after, the grand maester's wife committed suicide.
He was forty-five years old that year.
Then I was alone for more than twenty years.
Now Grand Maester is about to turn seventy, he is really tired, he hates war, he has seen too much death. He has been chasing "Violet Eternal Garden", seeing Violet's despair when she finally found out about the death of the Major, "Why, why was I the only one who survived, this one is strange..." She went to ask the Commander, and then went to the Major Her brother inquired, and then took the train to Shao Zuo's house, and when she arrived at Shao Zuo's house, she was down and out.
The Grand Maester went to the front and asked everyone who knew his son.
In the end, Violet came to the place where the major died in battle, digging up those stones bit by bit.
When the grand scholar arrived at the place where his son died in battle, he knelt there for a long time and could not get up.
It was raining in the sky at that time, and the icy rain poured on Violet's body.
At that time, the sky was bright, the war was over, the flowers were in full bloom, and everything seemed beautiful, but the son couldn’t come back, the two sons couldn’t come back, the wife died, and the family was gone.
The lieutenant officer found Violet, and he said, "You should go back."
Violet asked, "Where are you going? I can only go to the Major."
The lieutenant said: "Back to the company, aren't you our automatic mobile phone doll?"
The Grand Maester knelt on that land for a long time, and then he thought, ah, he has to go back to Winter City, he is a Grand Maester, the Empire still needs him, the Ice Emperor still needs him.
Please don't keep this happening. He was already like this, and he didn't want more people to bear this pain.
There were tears in the corners of his eyes after the episode was over.
02.
The imperial meeting is still going on.
"My preference is that the demons want to sell us military weapons so that we can confront the church," the judicial supervisor said.
"You still hate the Church so much," said the Chancellor softly, "as I hate you."
"Then you can shut your fat mouth and leave the imperial meeting. I don't think His Majesty will have any objection to this." The supervisor of justice said coldly.
"Actually, my mouth isn't very fat or smelly. I'm losing weight recently." The Minister of Finance said, "Have you seen the new diet pills launched by the Mozu Mall recently?"
"I'm sorry, I don't need it." The judicial supervisor curled his lips in distaste, "And don't you worry that it's poison?"
"The demons will not be as brainless as you." The Minister of Finance smiled: "They need to worry about too many things. Both the demon king and that highness are shrewd people, and they will not lose the big because of small things."
"Hehe. That might be a chronic poison." The judicial supervisor didn't think so, but confronting the chancellor had become a habit of his.
"It doesn't matter. I want to enjoy life. It does make me lose a lot of weight," said the chancellor. "I think it's okay to lose a few years of life in exchange for a high-quality life."
"You can lose weight by yourself," said the judicial supervisor.
"I'm lazy. My brain is used to thinking about national affairs, unlike you who have time to ride horses and shoot arrows every day." The chancellor said.
"Have you risen from sanctimonious to full of nonsense, Chancellor of the Exchequer." The judicial supervisor raised his carefully trimmed eyebrows, "I am ashamed to be listed with people like you."
The chancellor took off his hat and made a funny salute, "Then you can leave the imperial council, Judicial Superintendent."
Seeing these two quarreling again, Ice Empress Claude was distracted, Grand Maester was also distracted, no one stopped, the royal steward looked at the two, and had no choice but to speak: "You two are too rude!" The eunuch roared in the style of a scholar: "This is an imperial meeting, do you two have your Majesty in your eyes! Shut up!"
Only then did the two calm down, and this was also the normal process of the imperial meeting.
The Ice Emperor was awakened by the roar of the royal steward, and he said casually: "Oh, maybe they only have each other in their eyes, and they really don't have me."
He just said something casually.
Then he saw that the chubby face of the chancellor of the exchequer was actually flushed.
ice King:? ?
The supervisor of justice coughed, "Your Majesty, please don't make such a joke."
His voice wasn't particularly assertive either.
ice King:! ! !
He seemed to know something strange.
Oh yes, these two did have a relationship when they were young, and later they parted ways because of disagreements, and then they rose all the way, and finally climbed to where they are today. Youdao is that the best ex should exist as if he were dead. The two of them face each other every day, plus they have disagreements, and the diameter of the formerly handsome Chancellor of the Exchequer has increased a lot... oh It is about getting fat, not about the diameter, but about getting fatter. So that leads to this consequence.
Now because of the demon diet pills, the chancellor has really lost a lot of weight, showing a bit of the old days, so... eh.
And let's talk about the promo.
It would make sense if the Ice Empire explained that the handshake was due to trade matters, or told the church directly that the promotional film was made by the demons, and the demons wanted to add it, which has nothing to do with him. There is no melon in the rain. This can also basically pick yourself out.
But for the general public, this scene has far-reaching significance. Although the ministers have a lot of opinions, they also understand that it is Ice Emperor Claude himself who makes the final decision. After all, sometimes the Ice Empress doesn't even consider their thoughts at all. Because of this, everyone desperately tried to BB before Bingdi made a decision. cough.
At present, most of the nobles in power are in a wait-and-see trend. Their proposal to the Ice Emperor is to do business with the demons first, to see how much benefits the demons can bring them, and finally decide how to explain this "handshake"—meaning, Don't release the promotional video yet.
But there are also nobles who have different opinions, that is, the issue of sincerity. They think that perhaps there should be more sincerity in the communication between humans and demons. As His Royal Highness Greenwald said, you have won in the Demon Realm, but you are in trouble on your own land.
This is the main reason for the cult that has sprung up in Mülheim. The trauma after the war, people's physical and emotional injuries... "Violet Evergarden" became so popular that many, many people shed tears for it.
So what I have to admit is that no matter what everyone says on the surface, in fact, they have been affected deep down.
03.
early morning.
Hill's swordsmanship is very good now, and the Paladins have nothing to teach him, unless Monroe himself comes over. But Hill still maintains the behavior of exercising for a while in the morning, exercising his muscles and bones and cheering up his spirits.
A snake crawled across the grass, and Hill thought about it and caught the snake. The snake fluttered and wanted to turn around and bite him. He thought for a while and stretched out his hand to let the snake bite. Then the snake twitched twice and was poisoned to death by his blood.
Hill: ...
Well, he didn't mean to. Really not.
But hey, I have breakfast today.
In fact, snakes rarely attack people actively. If they bite you, there are generally three situations: 1. You scared him; 2. You entered his territory and he warned you but you did not respond; 3. You are ugly. .
Yes, you're ugly... ugly... ugly...
The third point is really poignant.
Today's breakfast includes beef soup in addition to snake soup, and a new dish: sweet and sour pork ribs and quail eggs.
The Demon World restaurant has been introducing various new dishes, some are made according to Hill's recipes, and some are improved original dishes. All dishes have to go through Hill's mouth, oh yes, Hill himself is a taster.
Because the first batch of quail eggs raised by the tauren hatched some time ago, there will be more delicacies about quail and quail eggs. Quail eggs themselves are a good tonic, known as "the best product in eggs" and "ginseng in animals". The quail eggs in the devil world are even more nutritious and delicious.
The method of this sweet and sour pork ribs with quail eggs is very simple. Fry the quail eggs first, then fry the pork ribs, pour water directly after finishing, add cooking wine, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, ginger and garlic, then add quail eggs, use a small Simmer over low heat to let the ribs taste, and then sprinkle a little salt after finishing. Take it out of the pot, sprinkle white sesame seeds, the color and fragrance are complete. Attractive red sauce, rich ribs, smells oily, tastes rich and delicious.
There is not much beef in the beef soup, the soup is clear, and the oil is light. After taking a big sip, the first thing you can taste is the slight flavor of spices, pepper, basil, and white carrots, and the other is the smell of meat. All kinds of flavors stimulate the aroma of the beef itself, and the taste of the whole soup is very refreshing. , This sip is extremely comfortable. Then taste the beef again, soft and rotten, tasty, great.
ah. It's a good life. It's so pleasant.
Hill was spread out in front of the black dwarf elder without any image, and the black dwarf elder thought to himself, is the Lord Demon King implying something like this? Is it cos slime? Could it be that Lord Demon King hinted to me that we should pay more attention to the slime family
Not long after, the slime family received a lot of material assistance from the black dwarves, and the slimes felt a little dazed, and then they also returned a lot of specialties from their territory. After going back and forth, the black dwarves and slimes actually established a deep friendship.
No one knew that it all started with one of Hill's paralyzed Ge You. Ha ha.
After breakfast, Hill first inspected the tauren territory. The tauren don’t like palaces, they prefer wooden buildings. The skeleton construction team cooperated with them to reorganize the territory. Overall, the changes are not particularly big, but the details Much more comfortable.
There is a huge flagpole in front of the great chief's residence. The main body of the flagpole is quite thick wood. The surface of the wood is naturally polished quite smooth. There is a huge ferocious animal tooth bent from both sides on the flagpole. The blood-red flag hangs On the animal teeth, in the center is the symbol of the Demon Race, which looks like an ancient totem, sacred and fearsome.
Hill opened up an underground palace for the succubus, which looks like an ordinary castle on the top, but there is something special underneath. The palace as a whole is black and red, and in front of it is a dark lake. The water is translucent black, which looks chilling, but it is actually the color that Hill dyed to look good. cough.
The succubi are very fond of underground palaces. They used to live in the abyss, and Hill dragged them out of it.
The lakeside wetland has always been rich in vegetation, and the branches hang down on the lake, stained with a lot of moss. There are bird eggs everywhere in the grass, and the demon world is rich in products, and the demons are not exploited by the upper class, so few are hungry. Just like the surrounding demons, if they are really hungry, they will pick up two eggs to eat.
On the whole, without Hill, the level of civilization of human beings is much higher than that of demons, but human beings may not live more comfortably than demons. It is a frightening fact that civilization is one of the causes of deprivation of human beings.
04.
Fallen Angels are currently working on their next album and are also working on Hellfront's album.
Now because of "Iron Man", many people are paying attention to 'Hellfront Rock Band'.
Hill sent the big move directly, and the title song of their album is "It'smylife". BonJovi's "It'mylife" is probably heard by everyone. It is a commercially and critically successful piece of music. good song.
Then the second song is Linkin Park's "NewDivide", which is the theme song of "Transformers 2". Linkin Park is Hill's favorite rock band on earth, and after the suicide of lead singer Chester Bennington, Hill also tattooed the Lincoln Park logo on the inside of his wrist in memory of them. Hill plans to carry many of their songs over as planned, and each song must state that the original singer is Linkin Park.
Chester was sexually abused as a child and became a lifelong nightmare, as well as that of his fans. May there be no pedophiles in heaven, Hill really hates this kind of behavior, absolutely hates it.
The Lich Alighieri has always been with Hill as a special effects artist. This time, Hill asked the Lich Alighieri to use the projection stone to shoot the album of "Hellfront Rock Band". Hill's request is to follow the lyrics. , but also to highlight the 'hell' feeling.
When Hill finally received the shooting samples, he was shocked by the gloomy and mysterious colors. He took a few more sunny shots, and then carried out post-production—but it was still mainly gloomy. The results turned out to be pretty good. Hill planned to train the Lich Alighieri to be the second director of the Demon Realm, otherwise Hill would be exhausted to death by himself.
In addition, Hill also added Yang Kun's "Wrangler" to the first album. This song is relaxed, free, passionate, very clear and pure, full of charm. Hill thought the natives of the Plague Isles would love the song.
However, it seems a bit weird that this song is sung by a tauren, especially the tauren wants to remove the "bull" in the first sentence of "the wind blows over the grass and sees the cattle and sheep", because the lead singer of the tauren thinks the lyrics are inappropriate. elegant. All right, let him go. Hill couldn't laugh or cry.
After dealing with the matter of the album, Hill went to see the progress of the bard Grant's novel. Grant is currently writing the episode where aliens are coming and humans are still in civil war.
There is a scene in the military life where two soldiers are shirtless and fighting each other. A group of people around them are cheering and cheering, and many of them utter vulgar language.
"What you write is a bit too poetic," Hill commented after seeing this: "Fiction is different from poetry. Sometimes you don't have to be so beautiful, you have to be realistic."
Indeed, bards are prone to make such mistakes when they turn to novelists.
Grant humbly accepted, and said, "Maybe I might as well write here that the onlookers say some vulgar language?"
"Yes." Hill nodded.
So Grant began to write: "Your mother is gone" and "I gave you the ashes".
Hill: "..."
Is this bard from Zaun
"You're not a big deal with your vulgarity," Hill commented.
Grant humbly asked for advice.
Hill pointed out, "Suppose you see two shirtless men fighting each other, what do you think is more vulgar?"
Grant said, "Kiss him! Kiss him!"
Hill: "...you are too vulgar."
It's too funny. Overall it was a pleasant day.
It would be great if every day could be this happy... um... But judging by Hill's own level of funnyness, if there are no special circumstances, every day is quite happy.
Interesting people can always meet interesting things and have an interesting world.
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