The single-person preparation room in the theater will place the costumes required for the performance, the corresponding performance script and memory potions to help memory, a dressing table, a special dressing room and a rehearsal room. From the outside, it's just a small room, and when you walk in, you realize that there is something special. It is said that it is the result of demons using space magic.
The memory of demons is generally better than that of humans. The higher the demons, the stronger their brains. They do not need memory potions, so this bottle of green and sparkling things is specially prepared for human actors. Ye Yingzhi picked up the bottle and looked at it, but didn't drink it. He had always had confidence in his memory, but it was not difficult for him to remember the script.
He picked up the performance costume on the side and put it on, sat in front of the dressing table, two white plastic hands suddenly stretched out from both sides of the mirror hanging on the front wall of the dressing table, and began to pick up all kinds of cosmetics on the dressing table. The face is outlined and smeared.
Ye Yingzhi frowned slightly. However, the movements of the plastic hands are accurate and fast, so it is still within the tolerance range.
After everything was ready, Ye Yingzhi opened the script again in boredom.
The stage play "Devil Comes" is about an old-fashioned hellish love story. Although Ye Yingzhi's role is well paid, he is not the protagonist - this also ensures the gameplay from the side. Generally speaking, the more scenes, the more The greater the possibility of revealing flaws, the higher the corresponding reward, but the high reward of a certain role does not mean that this role corresponds to the protagonist. This provides more room for speculation and avoids revealing too much additional information based on how well each character is paid.
The protagonists of "Devil Comes" are a pair of young demon lovers. The ordinary demon Yuris accidentally met and fell in love with Christine, the daughter of a demon noble, but Christine was framed by his stepmother, fell into the world and lost his memory, and lived like an ordinary human. Hell has strict restrictions and management on demons entering the human world. Generally, demons can only apply for vacations in places like this demon town, but they cannot enter the human world where most human beings live. Yuris was the gardener who tended the gardens for the palace of Adeyas, the monarch of hell. He had a pair of dexterous hands and an artist's abundance of emotion and creativity, but he lacked extraordinary power and power. He couldn't think of how to save Christine for a while, and he couldn't resist the yearning for his lover, so he sneaked into the back garden of the demon monarch by virtue of his identity as a gardener.
There is a Lost Spring in the back garden of the Demon Lord Adeyas. Through the spring water of the Lost Spring, you can see the scene of the world, no matter where you want to see anyone. But it is strictly forbidden to enter here. If others discover his infiltration, Yuris may face extremely severe punishment. However, he misses Christine more than anything else. Ever since he first sneaked into the Lost Fountain and saw the image of his lover in the world, Yuris was addicted and began to sneak in every day just to look at Christine. . Until one day, he met a handsome man in Lost Spring.
In hell, whether a demon is strong can be judged by its appearance. All demons have horns on their heads. Generally speaking, the stronger and more beautiful the horns are, the stronger the demons are; in addition, ordinary demons will have long tails, and the tails of advanced demons will degenerate. Not seen, but will grow bone wings, and the appearance of the tail and bone wings can also judge the ability of the devil.
But the demon that Yuris met on the edge of the Lost Spring, although handsome in appearance, did not have horns, bone wings, tails and other characteristics that demons are used to. He looked no different from ordinary humans, so he judged that the other party was the most pitiful one. This kind of demon—ordinary demons whose powers of change have completely degenerated and disappeared. These demons are often in a situation worse than even the lowest-ranked ones in hell.
He couldn't help feeling sympathy for the other party, and under the drive of distress, he took the initiative to confide his thoughts and love for Christine to the other party, telling the other party that he risked his life to come here, just to see through the lost spring. Look at the world of Christine. The man ignored him, but he didn't interfere with him looking at the Lost Spring. He just sat silently on the other side of the Lost Spring, silently watching the scene in the spring.
One day, Yuris saw from the Lost Spring that Christine was in danger in the world. He couldn't help but go to the world to save his lover. The male demon, who had been silent all the time, helped him open a passage to the world at this time. Going to the world privately is a violation of the hell treaty, but at this time, Yuris couldn't care about so much, so he resolutely rushed to the place where Christine was and rescued her.
But things didn't end there. Christine's stepmother was sent to the Hell Tribunal for murder, but Christine's father did not agree with her being with the ordinary demon Yuris, and made her own decision to engage her with another demon noble youth, and Expose the fact that Yuris ran to the world privately, and Yuris faces the danger of going to prison. Yuris and Christine are unable to fight against Christine's father's power, so they plan to go to the world privately again, and live together in anonymity and disguise as ordinary human beings.
Just before they planned to escape, the palace gardener Yuris, Christine's father and Christine himself suddenly received a special summons, and the palace messenger sent an order from the hell lord Adeyas to let them go together. Palace visit. The three were at a loss, but they did not dare to disobey, so they followed the messenger into the palace tremblingly.
After the appearance of Edyas, one of the co-rulers of hell, Yuris was shocked to discover that this powerful demon monarch with powerful black horns and huge black bone wings that covered the sky, originally It was the silent young demon he met in the Lost Spring!
It turned out that the always indifferent great demon Adeyas had already been moved by Mr. Gardener's sincere and passionate love, so he deliberately decided for him and Christine to marry them. No one dared to object to His Majesty's will, and being able to be referred to by Adeyas as a marriage was a very shameful thing. Christine's father no longer opposed this time, but was very supportive of their marriage. In the end, Yuris and Christine got married and lived happily together.
In Ye Yingzhi's view, this story is simply boring, old-fashioned and stupid, and it is obviously illogical in many places. However, there are not many scenes in the whole story. He only needs to sit quietly in the Lost Spring scene, and then say some lines referring to marriage in the last scene. He doesn't have horns and bone wings himself, so before the final scene he has to go back to the solo prep room and let the plastic hands in the special dressing room help him with a pair of fake horns and wings - thankfully the devil The quality of props and make-up in the theater are very high, and he doesn't have to worry about getting dressed because of these factors.
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On the way back to the hotel alone, Chi Yan suddenly heard a subtle voice mixed in with the sound of the fountain: "… help me, help me."
He paused for a moment and looked left and right. Behind him was the Devil's Theater, next to him was the Angel Fountain, and further ahead was the Devil's Store. As long as he entered the intersection next to the Devil's Store, and walked 100 meters, it was the Devil's Hotel. And his body was empty, and there was no one to speak.
Chi Yan hesitated for a while, and then accelerated the pace of progress—there are many people in Devil Town who make a living by cheating and robbery, and their tricks are endless. Mainly deception, someone pretending to be vulnerable and harmless could kill you the next moment. So he didn't dare to talk to people easily, and he didn't dare to abuse his good intentions when he was alone and the other party seemed to be tricking.
After he walked some distance, the faint cry for help gradually disappeared along with the sound of the fountain water, and could not be heard.
Chi Yan pushed open the heavy and old green door of the hotel, nodded slightly to the old demon who was guarding the front desk, stepped on the creaking wooden stairs to the door of his and Ye Yingzhi's room, and used his electronic device directly. Watch swipe card door. He walked in, turned around and locked the door, then threw himself on the big bed and let out a soft sigh—there are still two and a half hours before Ye Yingzhi's performance will start, he must ensure sufficient physical strength and sufficient energy , if Yingzhi had an accident on stage, he had to find a way to get Ye Yingzhi out of the way.
Thinking like this, Chi Yan used the electronic watch to set the alarm clock, slowly closed his eyes, and fell asleep after a while.
In a dream, he became the most heroic knight in a country, and adored Ye Yingzhi, the most beautiful princess in the kingdom. One day Ye Yingzhi was captured by a powerful demon, and he fought bravely to kill the demon's castle. , rescued Princess Ye. He proposed to his long-cherished princess, who bowed her head shyly and agreed to his request. He was ecstatic, and when he was about to kiss the waist of his beloved Princess Ye Yingzhi, two powerful black horns suddenly grew on Ye Yingzhi's head, and two fangs unique to the devil protruded from his lips. , he chuckled and put his arms around Chi Yan's waist, pressed him to his chest, and said with a smile, "Baby, I'm the real devil."
Just then, the alarm rang and I woke up.
Chi Yan scratched her hair angrily and sat up. He thought that he must have had such a strange dream because he was too nervous after coming to this strange demon town. Ye Yingzhi could neither be a princess nor a demon.
The time was almost up, Chi Yan simply packed up and set off for the Devil's Theater.
The Devil's Theater has two different entrances, one for humans and one for demons. Chi Yan entered through the human channel. When entering the venue with an electronic watch, he found a striking notice on the wall of the channel, which read, "Due to the performance time, there will be no intermission in this show, and the lucky audience will be selected. It will be arranged during the performance, please follow the host's arrangement for the specific situation."
Chi Yan took another look at his electronic watch—he was No. 17, Row 10 on the second floor, number 470, the cheapest seat with the lowest risk. Today, he was performing in a large theater, and the price for the best seat was 800 yuan. Point, he is not very likely to be drawn.
After the audience took their seats, the lights in the venue changed, and the performance began soon.
Chi Yan didn't know what role Ye Yingzhi was playing at this time, so she had been watching everyone on the field very seriously, hoping to find a familiar figure.
In fact, the special dressing room and dressing table of the theater can disguise a demon from the outside as a human with a different face and body. It can also disguise a human as a demon like a fake, and the actors are always on the stage. To drink a potion that confuses and adjusts their native language and voice so that no one can tell whether the actor himself speaks a human language or a demonic language. Therefore, it is basically impossible to recognize one's acquaintances from external factors such as voice and appearance, and infer whether the other party is a human or a demon. However, Chi Yan still believed that as long as Ye Ying was on the field, no matter what he became, he would recognize him.
If the game is too simple, it will quickly lose interest; if the game loses its fairness, it will also make people feel uninteresting. Things in the world are generally like this, and only by maintaining the corresponding difficulty and challenge can people enjoy it. And the devil has never liked too simple games.
Therefore, although the game rules of the Devil's Theater are stipulated by the devils, they do not favor the devils, and they also pose a considerable challenge to the devils. The rules of the game stipulate that when there are multiple human actors on the stage, the demons must accurately identify all the human actors in order to win; otherwise, the human actors are considered successful, and all the humans on the stage can successfully leave the theater and get points.
Humans have also created many coping strategies. In the multiplayer arena, a common strategy is to set a person as a "trump card", and others will try their best to ensure that this person is not discovered by the devil, as long as this person can If it has not been recognized, it doesn't matter even if everyone else is recognized by the devil, in the end, everyone can leave safely.
Generally, the human side will choose the best and most experienced player as the "trump card". But the role of the ace on the stage is usually more important, and it will be the focus of the devil's attention, so when there are a large number of human players, they will choose a role that is not easy to attract attention as a "hermit". The hermit is the secondary insurance of the human team, and it is also the key protection object of everyone on the stage. Depending on the situation on the field, when the human situation is very unfavorable, strategies like "abandoning the trump card and keeping the hermit" or "hermit keeping the trump card" will appear.
Because of this relationship, humans need to know who they should cover and cooperate with, so not only are the demon actors guessing which people are humans, but humans are also looking for their own allies.
The devil only knew that there were five human characters in the show, but he couldn't see the corresponding rewards for each role; while the five humans on stage knew the rewards of each character, especially one character's reward was as high as 15,000 Thousands of points, so they locked the range ahead of time—
There are twenty-five characters in "Devil Comes", but apart from Yuris, Christine and her father, the demon monarch Aideas, other characters are similar to Christine's stepmother, the old gardener who worked with Yuris, Little characters such as Christine's maid, the palace guard's entourage, etc. who tipped off for Yuris. While Christine is a woman, the role of 15,000 points is limited to males, so one of the other three roles mentioned above should be played by humans.
It is indeed worth 15,000 points for a human to play a demon with a lot of roles, and to play directly against the other three demons for a long time. Since this actor dares to take on this role, if he doesn't give up and wants to gamble, it means that he is very confident in himself and should be regarded as the ace in this game.
The story starts from the first encounter and love between the male protagonist Yuris and the female protagonist Christine, and soon the three main characters: Youris, Christine and Christine's father, George, all appeared in the scene, leaving only the Adeyas, the ruler of hell, has not yet appeared.
The actor of Christine's stepmother is a human with a pseudonym called Lengxin. She is an experienced actor. The role of stepmother has relatively high remuneration points, and correspondingly, there are more scenes in the early stage. She has confirmed the identity of each other's human with Ryadov, who plays the demon city hall official, and began to carefully observe the performance on the stage, trying to analyze and speculate on who is the human among Yuris, George and Edeas. — their possible trump card. This will directly affect their subsequent strategies. After all, they want to come here to earn points, and they are not ready to die to the devil, so they need to be cautious and take every step.
Leng Xin made a proud gesture of standing with arms crossed after finishing the main plot of framed Kristin, she was conveying her judgment message to Ryadov - she thought that old George and Yuris were not very similar It's a human, and I can't judge the situation now. I need to wait for Edyas to appear before making further inferences, so let's wait and see.
Soon, the plot of Yuris sneaking into the Lost Fountain was reached.
Chi Yan immediately recognized the man who appeared by the spring - that must be played by Ye Yingzhi. He leaned forward involuntarily, stared intently at the stage, and raised his heart high.
At the same time, the demons are making inferences and judgments.
They first made a simple judgment based on common sense, that is, according to the general law of role distribution, there should be at least one person among human beings who play a relatively major role, and the humans who play this role are generally the most cunning and experienced, so they will try to Find this person first, and then follow the vine to find other humans.
But the demons have less information than humans, they don't know the exact number of humans who play the main character, and they don't know if that character is male or female, so Yuris, Christine, and George Sr. have also been with each other in previous shows. Probing. Their conclusion is similar to Leng Xin, and they still can't decide whether their partner is a real devil or a "fake devil" with extremely superb acting skills, so they are also waiting to see the performance of the actor of Adeyas.
In this show, the demons also have some information that humans don't know: they know that the demon monarch, the ruler of hell, and the great demon Adeas in the story of "Devil Comes" actually have obvious prototypes. The prototype is one of the three real joint rulers of hell now, the monarch of the vast eastern region of hell, the most powerful demon in the legend who emerged from the abyss of hell, His Majesty Aimer.
So they don't think that a human can play this role without revealing flaws, even if it is played by ordinary demons, it is very reluctant. As long as the actor of Edeas appears, they can quickly determine whether the other party is a human or a demon.