Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 254 Drogo's Arrangements Are Clear

“Let’s take advantage of the virtue!”

Tens of thousands of spectators in the Twin Towers City Arena shouted the name of the Saint.

In the last round of the Sing My Song finals, Astrid took the stage and gave a perfect performance.

Pleasant melody, gorgeous lyrics, elegant stage presence, almost flawless singing skills, and even the image and background are so outstanding.

When she sang the last song, she was so confident that she didn’t seem like a contestant, but more like a well-known superstar enjoying the stage.

Although the final voting results have not yet come out, everyone knows that she will definitely be the champion.

If not, there must be something fishy going on. The Saint Lady cheering group in uniform would probably have directly dismantled the stage.

However, when it comes to celebrities, some people like them while others hate them, and Astrid is no exception.

There were some people in the audience who were not interested in her.

For example, Lowry and his roommates.

Lowry simply didn't like this style.

As for my roommate, his current situation is a bit delicate.

"Why is this woman the last to perform? Where's my Carina? She sings much better than her. The champion should be Carina. Not only does she sing well, she's also cute, hehe..."

My roommate became a fan of Karina and fell into this state.

"What the hell is Astrid singing? I can't understand her. She's not as good as Carina at all. What a shady job!"

My roommate used his skills to pull me down.

Lori looked at the audience area next to him with concern. This place can now be considered the home court of the Saint.

"Provocation" on home ground is very risky.

Lori had already noticed the big brothers over there, and their expressions looked a little unfriendly.

"Hey," Lori pulled her roommate aside, "Stop talking. Karina is just a guest performer and can't win the championship."

"So what? Shouldn't the rules be bent a bit to give more talented people more opportunities?"

My roommate continued to output.

Lowry felt that it might be difficult to leave after the show.

"Why don't we go first?"

"why?"

For personal safety.

The fan conflicts here are not just wars of words across the Internet.

"Anyway, the rest of the time is just for award presentations and acceptance speeches, and without Karina, we might as well leave early. When the show officially ends, there will definitely be a huge crowd outside."

"Hey, that makes sense."

Lowry didn't make up an excuse casually. Any large-scale gathering that gathers tens of thousands of people will definitely result in a complete disaster in terms of traffic conditions at the end.

Not many people can afford teleportation, and the public transportation system in the Twin Towers City is not well developed. The square outside the arena is crowded with carriages, and it will be impossible to walk out.

Lowry and his roommates slipped out of the arena early. There were still a few people scattered around the exit, who probably had the same idea as them.

"The tickets are so expensive, I always feel like I'll save a few silver coins if I come out early." My roommate said as we walked.

"Okay, if you don't leave early, you might end up losing more than just a few silver coins," Lori explained. "When you were scolding the Saint, several of her fans targeted us. If there weren't so many of them, they might have rushed over and beaten us."

Although both of them are mages from the Repin Academy, as the mage schools become more and more specialized, not all mages have actual combat capabilities.

They are the kind that cannot be beaten at all.

Lowry is now working in education, and his roommate's daily routine is to sit in the laboratory.

"They still dare to beat people? Do you think they can be reasonable?"

"You actually tried to reason with fans like that." Lowry rolled his eyes.

With the development of the entertainment industry, many people have discovered that fans include both normal and abnormal types.

When communicating with the abnormal ones, you will feel powerless as if you cannot communicate in the same language.

After saying this, Lowry realized that he seemed to be communicating with a fan who was not normal.

My roommate’s mind was full of Karina. “Do you think Karina will like me?”

"What?"

"You don't know, in a previous rune elective class, she and I were in the same group, and I had to complete the group project by myself. She praised me for being so good and even gave me milk tea." The roommate said with a smile on his face.

"Wait, you mean, she only used a cup of milk tea and a few compliments to let you take charge of the group project?"

“It’s two cups of milk tea.”

Lowry fell silent.

He felt that his roommate might be beyond help.

"Look, it's Carina!"

Lori said patiently, "You are hallucinating, where did Karina come from on this street?"

"In the magic camera!" said my roommate, pointing to the window of a shop on the roadside.

Lori followed the direction he pointed and looked over.

It really is.

During the live broadcast of the final award ceremony, Karina received the "Most Popular Guest Stage Award".

What the hell is this name?

Lori was very suspicious that the program team had arranged some side awards for every singer who appeared in the finals.

My roommate stared at the magic camera and couldn't move.

Lori had no choice but to follow him and finish watching.

"Oh, she's so pretty in the Demon Vision too..."

Before my roommate could finish his praise, the screen suddenly went black.

"What's wrong? Where's the picture?"

Next, there is a red circle with a cross inside it, symbolizing infinity, slightly to the left.

"Don't look at the magic camera!"

Lori immediately realized what was happening and rushed forward, pushing his roommate away.

"It's the Mammonites, they're here again!"

When the last incident happened, he was in the school cafeteria, watching the show with everyone.

The memory of that dangerous and chaotic period still often appears in the form of nightmares.

He picked up a stone from the ground, cast a magic weapon spell on it to increase its power, and prepared to throw it over to smash the magic camera in the window.

This is one of the few spells he knows that can increase damage.

However, the sound coming from the magic camera made him hesitate.

"The lost lambs, the church is deceiving you. This group of evil god believers, who are plagued by sins, use steam engines as a medium to bring you curses, disasters, diseases and pain..."

The content of the conversation was different from the last time, and after hearing it, he did not become irritable or lose his temper.

This time they seemed to really want to say something.

Out of curiosity, Lori turned his head and looked at the magic vision machine. Curiosity is an important quality of a wizard. A strong curiosity can bring about a desire for knowledge, allowing them to work tirelessly on the road of exploring the mysteries of magic.

Curiosity killed the mage!
Out of curiosity, they always do things that others cannot understand.

Lori wanted to hear what the cult had to say.

However, he did not put down the magic stone in his hand. Once he found that something was wrong, he immediately smashed the magic camera.

At this time, the roommate who had just been pushed to the ground also realized what had happened and got up quickly.

"Lori! Why are you still looking at it! You can't?"

His roommates were worried that Lowry had fallen under another illusion.

"Shh..."

Lori made a hushed gesture.

"They are exposing the church's dirty laundry."

"What?" After hearing this, his roommate made a simple trade-off between the possibility of being in the illusion and hearing the church's dirty laundry. The latter won out at the speed of light, so he also came over.

In the picture, a strange man wearing a bird-beak mask and a black windbreaker stands in front of a huge Mammon logo background and tells the story of the church's conspiracy to cast a curse on the steam engine.

"Curse and divine arts. Same kind of magic, different applications. Machinery without the blessing of the church brings incurable diseases to the user. These followers of the evil god do not want to bring you salvation, but only want to monopolize your resources!"

Lowry began to admire the narrator a little. No matter what his purpose was, he really dared to call the goddess of magic an evil god.

I don't know whether he is fearless or just a complete lunatic who has no fear.

To be honest, even though he was a magic user, he didn't have much of a favorable impression of the church that worshipped the Goddess of Magic.

There have been many scandals about the church circulating on the streets, and most of the pastors in the churches are not as noble as their doctrines say, but are greedy and profit-seeking.

But I've never heard of anything as serious as cursing the user through a steam engine, or cursing on a large scale.

This is more than just greed.

Lowry had seen the miserable conditions of the patients in the slums. They were in so much pain that they either chose to end their lives or wait for death in struggle and torture.

The church has also organized fundraising activities for these patients. If the patients themselves were created by them, that would be extremely hypocritical.

Also, where did everyone's donations go? The church seems to have never announced the exact destination of the donations.

Doctor Bird's Beak released the evidence of the church's crimes.

First it looks like a steam engine in a factory from an unusual angle, with a huge risk.

A team of people, wrapped tightly and with faces that cannot be seen, cast curses one by one.

However, it is impossible to confirm from their appearance that they are members of the church.

This makes sense, if it was really done by the church, they wouldn't have worn their identities directly on their bodies.

If he was really wearing the church's standard robe, Lowry would think it was a frame-up.

Who would report their family members first when doing something bad?

Other people on the street also noticed what was playing on the magic video player, and more people gathered outside the window to watch.

After playing the secretly filmed footage, Doctor Beak demonstrated the composition of the curse.

It was a very rare spell structure, but Lowry happened to know it. In the teaching books he wrote, he would usually mix in some interesting and trivia in addition to the main content.

Therefore, he studied many unconventional spells.

Including the church's magic.

The spell structure shown in the video is a very standard divine spell configuration, and only church members can use such spells.

Just like after swearing an oath to serve the Goddess of Magic, the Goddess of Magic will give special approval and allow the use of this type of spell.

So it was really the church that did it?

After dismantling the curse, Doctor Bird's Beak did not draw a conclusion directly, but instead threw the question to the audience.

"Lost lambs, now Mammon has pointed the way for you, go and discover the truth. Do not let the evil god and his greedy lackeys continue to bring disaster. We do not need such a god to save us, we do not need such a god!"

As his tone becomes more and more excited, many other scenes are interspersed.

There are patients in agony in the dilapidated house, little white mice that die quickly after being cursed, and the church is painted in a dark and dangerous tone.

The rapid cutting and jumping of the scenes makes the viewers involuntarily nervous.

Afterwards, the Mammon logo appeared again, the brief black screen ended, and the screen returned to the Feilin Good Song Award Ceremony which had not yet ended.

The host is excitedly announcing the top three.

However, the spectators outside the window didn't care at all about the ranking of the top three.

Now there are more important issues to worry about.

It’s a difficult question to ask.

The crowd of onlookers standing on the street were silent. This uncomfortable silence lasted for nearly five minutes. Finally, someone spoke up and said, "Is what this person said true?"

"How can it be true?" another person retorted, "This person is from the Mammon sect. They are mentally ill and they even hurt us last time. How could they be so kind as to tell us that it is dangerous?"

"But they hate the church just as much. Maybe we can get some secrets hidden by the church."

"It's definitely a false accusation. The church is not short of money, has a high status, and has many believers. Why would they do such a thing?"

"Then have you ever thought about where the church gets all this money? Yes, they do have a Papal State, but churches everywhere are too rich. Can they have so much money just from donations from believers?"

"The church has not announced the exact amount of donations. How can you be sure that there is not that much money?"

“Isn’t it more problematic that the amount of donations has not been announced?”

"That's right! Not only did they not disclose the amount, they didn't even disclose what they used it for. How could they do things this way? Maybe they used our money to gamble with women!"

The crowd immediately broke into a quarrel.

Long-standing dissatisfaction with the church found an outlet at this moment, and opponents and supporters of the church argued endlessly.

The roommate glanced at Lowry. He knew that Lowry had studied a lot of messy spells, and his eyes were asking whether the curse was a divine spell.

Lori didn't answer, but just nodded slightly.

If he were to speak it out and be heard by someone with ulterior motives, and then discover that it was not the church that did it, wouldn’t he be held accountable?

However, he dared to bet his future educational career and was sure that the curse was a divine structure.

Regardless of whether this was done by church personnel, at least it is certain that it must have been someone from the church who served the goddess of magic.

Lowry squeezed out of the crowd and took out his cell phone. He was sure that such a big topic would be discussed like crazy on the Internet.

When I opened Weibo, I saw that terms like church, steam engine, Mammon sect, and whether curse is a divine spell were already on the hot search list.

It squeezed out all the content related to Feilin’s good songs.

The church is the only designated true top force in the Feilin Continent.

Under the relevant entries, there are already people with strong execution ability who have gone to find the steam engine that caused the illness but has not yet been blessed and purified by the church for verification.

A bunch of pictures were sent out to confirm that there really was a curse.

There were also wizards who had some knowledge of divine magic, and they began to analyze the possibility that the curse was divine magic.

As for the church in question.

The church has not spoken out.

They are now in a hurry to have a meeting.

(End of this chapter)