01.
The reason why Emperor Yulan did not allow Princess Lydia to go to the Demon Realm was simple, he was worried about his daughter going there.
That is the devil world.
That's where the demons live.
That's where the war just broke out.
No matter how scumbag and unreliable Emperor Yulan is, as a father, he still has the most basic worries about his daughter. It's true that he likes to watch Mozu movies and anime, but of course he won't think that Mozu are good people just because he watched a few movies.
In the human world, when Lydia was filming, there were a few imperial mages guarding outside, who were sent by Emperor Yulan to protect her daughter. Those imperial mages were actually ordered to protect the princess, so they came directly to the filming scene at first. Because they caused a lot of pressure on the human actors, so Hill pushed them away.
The way to drive away is very simple - encourage Princess Lydia.
"If you are not guarding outside, I will report that you have carried out 'close protection' a bit too 'close'." Hill said kindly, and then added: "Her Royal Highness Princess Lydia also agreed."
Lydia next to her nodded silently, feeling that she had learned a trick.
Vera next to Lydia gasped, feeling that Her Royal Highness is getting worse the more she learns.
So those imperial mages quickly slipped away, and they stayed outside the shooting site the whole time, so Hill couldn't control it anymore, let them go. Sometimes Hill is even very comfortable ordering them to do this and that, with a feeling of completely treating this as his own home... The imperial mages are quite depressed.
Let's not mention this, let's talk about Lydia not being allowed to go to the Demon World.
The crew was overshadowed by Emperor Yulan.
In fact, Emperor Yulan didn't agree with Lydia to make a movie, but Lydia cut it first and then played it. After Theodore approached her, she agreed directly, and notified her father after passing the audition. Emperor Yulan was naturally very angry, but Lydia persisted. In fact, she has been a stubborn person since she was a child, but she usually has no other ideas.
The father and daughter made a big fuss in the court, and finally Emperor Yulan succumbed and sent several imperial mages to protect her, and then reluctantly let her go. He is not a good emperor, but he is a father who loves his daughter. There are always many identities in a person's life, and even the worst person has merit in a certain identity. But some redeeming qualities don't mean he's not a bad guy. Like I smoke, drink, play disco and promiscuously but I'm a good girl, isn't that bullshit. You should look at the problem from multiple perspectives, but you should not evade the problem.
Moreover, Emperor Yulan was a little entangled in the fact that his daughter liked Mozu movies. Although he is often stupid, he is not really stupid. After being the emperor for so many years, he still has the most basic eyesight. Emperor Yulan can naturally see that there are some deceptive things in the movies and animations of the demons.
He himself doesn't care too much, he feels that he can't be seduced... At most, he just wants a siren as a lover. Well, that's not a big deal... is it
But if his child is bewitched, it will be a bit painful, close to the demons... Hey, it would be better to be bullied by the Church of Light, who are the same kind after all.
But what Emperor Yulan didn't understand is that human beings are the most cruel to human beings. Human beings have hearts, but many times they are more vicious than unintentional animals. Animals do certain things by nature, but humans are different.
This mentality is like watching a small movie. I know it’s not good but it doesn’t matter. It turns out that my child is also watching it, but my child also knows that he is watching a small movie, so he is not easy to criticize and stop it. But the problem is that the child now Actually going to make a small movie... This example is a bit too vivid, and it's a bit too much, but it's basically the same.
The role played by Princess Lydia is an important role, and it is impossible for Hill to change the script on a large scale because of an actor, even if the other party is a princess... um... In fact, if the other party is an emperor, Hill will also change it (Khan), After all, he also made movies with various unscrupulous purposes.
02.
Magnolia City. Baron Baker's mansion. night.
"What, His Majesty does not allow the princess to go to the lower realm?" Joan and Baker frowned directly after hearing the news.
"Yes." Lydia's personal maid, Vera, came over and reported the situation, and said so.
"This is troublesome." Joan and Baker frowned deeper. He didn't cover up too much in front of Vera, because generally speaking, personal servants and masters are both honored and hurt, and they have always been of one mind.
Joan Baker is not wrong to think like this.
But I didn't expect Vera to show a rather proud smile: "It should have been like this long ago. The trouble is your business, and Her Royal Highness should have gotten out of this game with the common people long ago." She said arrogantly As above words.
Joan Baker stopped frowning, he raised it.
Theodore over there showed a sad face after knowing that Lydia could not continue filming. After hearing Vera's words full of words, he retorted, "It's not a game, we are serious about making a movie. .”
"For a noble person like Her Royal Highness, it is a gift to see your movie." Seeing that this commoner dared to refute her, Vera said with a sneer, "Besides, commoner, I advise you to be self-aware. ’ Her implication was obvious that Theodore and the Princess were too involved. However, she only saw that Theodore appeared in front of the princess a little too much, and she didn't see more things.
Hearing such heartbreaking words, Theodore's face turned pale.
The night was dark, and Joan and Baker over there lit the candle with a match. The small flame suddenly became bigger, and the flame danced, releasing a hazy light. Joan and Baker extinguished the match, and said in a misty light: "Do you think it's appropriate to talk about my subordinates in front of me?"
"What's inappropriate?" Vera still maintained that haughty tone, "You're just a little baron who spends money to buy a title."
Joan and Beck Wu smiled.
But Theodore blushed—you can insult me, but you can't insult someone you respect, this is Theodore's consistent character. So Theodore asked directly in an almost outrageous attitude: "Then what are you? You are just a servant!"
Vera continued with pride, "I am by Her Royal Highness's side..."
"So what? In the final analysis, you are still a servant who can only rely on the authority of the princess." Theodore interrupted her directly, and he approached her, his expression was quite severe, and his eyes seemed to be burning with flames: "As a servant, you don't want to help your master but make enemies for her everywhere..."
"You people are not worthy of being the princess' enemies!" Vera felt insulted, and she also raised her voice. Her voice was very sharp, and that voice was a bit like a shrew cursing.
"Is it up to you? Do you think it's up to you?" Theodore's voice was higher than hers, "Can you make the decision for the princess? Or should you be the princess? Are you trying to rebel?"
This big hat was directly placed on Vera's head, and Vera's face turned pale when Theodore said it. She is not a fool, and now she can see what is wrong with herself.
"Even though I am a commoner, today if I become hostile to the princess because of you, more people will become hostile to the princess. Such a beautiful princess will be hated and hated because of you—this is what you, a loyal servant, will do. Is it something?" Theodore's voice was high, and his eyes were quite sharp, like a sword.
Vera's face turned even paler, and she insisted: "My lord, Your Highness the Princess doesn't care about you bastards..."
"You say it again?" Theodore directly grasped the sword at his waist.
"You, you... bold!"
"Do you know that I am bold at this time?" Theodore sneered, "When you made enemies for the princess, why didn't you think that a pariah like me might do something bad to the princess?"
"You, you..." Vera's lips began to tremble.
"Innocence, arrogance, ridiculousness, and no brains." Theodore said word by word, "The biggest failure of Her Royal Highness is finding a servant like you."
Vera's face was quite pale, and her face was hot. What Theodore said was merciless. She actually understood what she had done just now. She was stupid, but she wasn't particularly bad, just stupid. After Odo said this, she also came to her senses. She really shouldn’t make enemies for the princess. It’s just that the royal family’s behavior has become more frequent, and she gradually got used to it...
"You can get lost." Theodore said coldly after seeing Vera's expression that he understood that the other party had lost.
"After all, she is the maid of Her Royal Highness." Joan and Baker next to her said, "There must be the most basic etiquette, Theodore."
"Okay." Theodore nodded, and he said in a polite manner, "Please go away."
Vera took a few steps back, and then walked away in a daze.
After Vera left, the grim expression on Theodore's face disappeared, and turned into a youthful attitude. Joan and Baker looked at Theodore's appearance and wanted to laugh: "I thought you would be powerful To put it bluntly, don’t bully the young and the poor.” The scene just now fits the theme of the movie they are shooting.
Hearing the ridicule in the other party's words, Theodore continued to say angrily: "Master Baker, she is talking bad about you! Why are you so calm!"
"What she said is just the truth. I was just a baron bought with gold coins." Joan Baker shrugged, "So don't be angry."
"Oh." Theodore sighed. He was bored for a while, "Did I be too irrational just now? Master Baker."
"Yes." Joan and Baker's words have always been merciless, both to others and themselves, "for a moment I thought you were possessed by the protagonist of the movie."
Theodore pressed his forehead against the wall, staring blankly. He didn't know what to think or what to think at this moment.
"But it's okay, do what you want to do, say what you want to say, that's fine." Joan Baker suddenly said words that didn't fit his style at all: "Now is different from the past, even if you may suffer because of it." Die, but at the very least, I lived a chic life."
Theodore was stunned for a moment and then raised his head, "Master Baker..."
"Huh?" Joan and Baker questioned.
Theodore said boldly, "It feels very out of your style." Then he thought to himself that he had been too bold today, so it doesn't matter to do it again.
"I just came up with this idea recently." Joan and Baker looked at his courtyard from the window. The autumn was already deep, and the autumn moon outside showed a full golden color, but it didn't feel warm. It was still The unique coldness of moonlight. The courtyard is filled with the tranquility and indifference of autumn night. In the corner of the courtyard, there is a guard covered with a blanket. He is struggling with sleepiness, yawning and curling up. Joan and Baker's eyes stayed in the courtyard for a while, and then they finished the second half of the sentence, "Do it well."
"Okay." After all, Theodore was still a teenager at heart, and he became happy after being encouraged like this. He remembered the words Tyrion said in "A Song of Ice and Fire": Never forget who you are, because the world will never forget. You have to turn resistance into strength, so that there is no weakness, arm yourself with it, and no one can use it to hurt you.
'"Speaking of which, Master Baker, why do you have such an idea? It's because..."
"The reason for my change is the same as yours." Joan and Baker looked back, and he rang the bell to summon the maid, saying so. .
Ah, is it all because I met His Highness Greenwald! Theodore suddenly realized.
"But speaking of it, even though I said that about Vera, it still can't solve any problems..." Theodore thought of this problem again. And he didn't know if Lydia would blame him for this, he didn't think so.
"Princess Lydia is not allowed to go to the lower world to shoot, this is indeed a big problem." Joan Baker said, he is also quite distressed by this matter.
Change the script? Change actors? Negotiate with Emperor Yulan? No matter which choice you choose, there will be many problems involved.
"Let's report to His Highness Greenwald first." Theodore suggested, "Maybe Your Highness has a solution."
"Maybe." Joan Baker said so, but he didn't expect too much about it, and he didn't think Hill was omnipotent.
In addition to Joan and Baker, Olivia also found out about this very quickly. Her first reaction was also worrying, and then she told the old Jackson about it, and the old Jackson frowned when he heard it. , this is of course a troublesome matter, and according to his understanding of Emperor Yulan, this matter is really difficult...
During this period of filming, Olivia and Lydia have established a good friendship. After thinking for a while, the old Jackson said to Olivia: "You tell Her Royal Highness to tell her to pass these words to Your Majesty." Then, he said: "Currently, the lower world will definitely not dare to do any harm to the princess of a country. It's a matter, and the current relationship between the lower realm and the Yulan Empire is good, there is no reason to attack the princess, the imperial mage can also accompany the princess, the possibility of Her Royal Highness being in danger is very small, and Olivia, you yourself have to go to the lower realm Filming, so this is also a guarantee. Besides, His Highness Greenwald said that the prince of the Demon Race, judging from his ability to easily mobilize multiple fire elemental spirits, his status in the Demon World should be very high and he holds a lot of real power, so Your Majesty does not need to worry too much about this."
It was precisely because Old Jackson knew this that he was relieved to let Olivia go to the Demon Realm to shoot.
After hearing this, Olivia felt that my father was still my father, and his analytical ability was too strong. She ran to talk to Lydia, who nodded frequently after hearing this, and then ran to talk to Emperor Yulan. Emperor Yulan nodded frequently when he heard it, but in the end he said: "I understand what you said makes sense, but I still feel a little dangerous. What if they catch you and threaten me? You don't have to go anyway. , don’t participate in this kind of game, next time.”
Lydia felt cold after hearing this.
Is it because of the meaning of the words themselves? Or is it because he was once again refused to go to the lower realm
Emperor Yulan put on a posture of "I think what you say makes sense but I just don't listen"-this old Jackson is already familiar with it, after all, he has been suffering from such a situation for the past few decades. torment. Some of his advice in the past was much more reasonable than this, but it still ended up like this in the end.
That's why old Jackson felt that this matter was suspended from the very beginning.
Olivia was naturally very anxious about this: "Then Dad, do you think His Highness Greenwald has a solution?"
Looking at the night outside, Old Jackson said after a long time: "He must have a way... But if he intervenes in this matter..." He didn't say anything later.
02.
When Hill got the news, he was setting up movie scenes in the Demon Realm.
That scene is specifically in the crater of an extinct volcano that Hill had carefully selected, where the protagonist is about to start a battle with the magic dragon.
"So why is it a volcano?" asked Gormon, who played the villainous dragon this time - by then he will completely change into the villain's shape, changing his face and body, so that everyone will not bring himself into Arman from "He is a Dragon".
"It's always like this in the stories and legends. It is said that the fire dragon lives near the volcano or something, absorbing the aura of the world..." Hill said casually.
"... Living near a volcano is so uncomfortable, and the smell of sulfur is so strong, where did this legend come from?" Gormon asked.
"Maybe it's to enhance the evil atmosphere or something. It is said that the devil kings still live in cold and damp caves or gloomy palaces, and they eat weird things... Well, the last point seems to be right. "In the past, the food of the demons was really worrying. Hill blushed a bit after saying this.
Hill planned the scene like this: Let the protagonist fight the dragon. At first the protagonist is a little bit defeated by the dragon—the usual routine is like this, then the protagonist uses a very bluffing technique to make the volcano erupt, and then There are a bunch of special effects, and the protagonist takes advantage of the chaos to kill the dragon. This battle reflects the wit and strength of the protagonist. In the end, the protagonist stands high in the sky and speaks some domineering lines, with the scene of a volcano erupting behind him. It is absolutely cool when you think about it carefully, and it will probably make the audience very excited.
As for how to shoot this volcanic eruption, of course we can’t really make a volcanic eruption. Hill plans to drop a few liches into it, and let them use a few large-scale fire magic to simulate the eruption of the volcano, plus some post-production special effects. The effect is absolutely explosive.
Hill commanded Gormon to bald the remaining trees on the extinct volcano with dragon breath. The blood eagle flew in the sky. Hill looked up, and the blood eagle flapped its wings and landed on his raised wrist. , firmly hooked his arm with his claws.
The blood eagle's wings were still fluttering, sweeping across the flames on the tree, and sprinkled burning sparks and sawdust into the air. The sparks landed on Hill's skin, leaving tiny black spots that tingled slightly. But only a little.
Hill didn't take this to heart, but stroked the blood eagle's feathers to calm it down, and then untied the envelope on its paws.
After scanning the contents of the letter, Hill frowned.
A lich next to him looked at Hill's cold expression and fell silent.
Gormon was also deliberating and didn't know how to ask the question, so he looked at Monroe for help. Monroe received Gormon's request for help, and said directly: "What's wrong?"
Both the Lich and the Gormond breathed a sigh of relief at his question.
The mountain wind blew the flames, and the flames flickered. In the dark night, Hill's eyes were dim, and after a while he said: "Emperor Yulan does not allow Lydia to come to the Demon Realm." He threw the letter into the air, and the letter changed inch by inch. Turned into black ash, blown into the wind, and Hill asked, "What do you think?"
"Lydia lied to us." Monroe said, "At the beginning, she said that she could meet various shooting requirements."
"We can't blame her, after all, she also wanted to come to the Demon Realm to shoot." Hill said.
Monroe raised his eyebrows: "You want to excuse her?"
Hill shook his head, "No. It's just a matter of fact."
"Then my opinion is that since she agreed to our request at the beginning, what happened now should be within her expectations, and she should solve it. She didn't solve it. This is her problem." Monroe Said, the wind whipped his silver hair, the sky was overcast and cloudy, and his dark red eyes matched the lonely and desolate scenery, "But this might not be an opportunity."
"I understand." Hill looked at the cloudy sky, with cold blue lightning swimming above, and it was going to rain.
This is the last rain of autumn in the Demon Realm.
Finally, the thunder finally sounded, and the rain poured down, but the wildfire on the mountain was still burning fiercely, and it turned black in the rain-this is a typical flame of the dragon.
The rain fell on Hill, who dispersed the rain without magic. Monroe glanced at him who was drenched in the rain, then took off his cloak and put it on him.
"It's raining," Monroe said.
"Yes, it's raining," Hill said, and he didn't thank him, but he tied the cloak tighter.
It's raining.
The devil is about to do something bad.
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