A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 71 This is Voice Acting

Tokyo, recording studio.

Erii was like a young animal being led out of its den for the first time by its parents, constantly looking around at everything in the recording studio. Everything here was so new and wonderful.

So, most of the anime she loves are dubbed in recording studios like this? That's amazing!
The huge recording studio is a floating structure with rooms within rooms, and the walls on all sides, including the ceiling, are covered with rubber vibration damping pads and spring vibration dampers.

The doors and windows are filled with soundproofing material, and the edges are covered with multiple magnetic sealing strips. The central air conditioning system is a specially customized silent machine. Even so, the fan speed is kept low, and we dare not turn it up high.

In front of the main voice actors, there were four microphones recording the sound, and further ahead was a small projection screen.

It's playing a rough cutout, which is an animation without color, environment, or details, and there's a very clear progress bar and timeline at the bottom.

The voice actors had to look at the almost stick figure-like image and dub it according to the script, plus using their imagination.

It might be a bit difficult for newcomers, but for experienced voice actors, let alone stick figure animations, they can deliver emotionally rich performances even for images with just a few lines.

Of course, there are a limited number of microphones. Apart from the two microphones occupied by the male and female lead voice actors, everyone else needs to take turns using the other two microphones.

After finishing their lines, they should quietly retreat and hand the line to the next person, only stepping forward again when it is their turn again.

Xu Lie, who had been watching the timeline at the bottom of the projection screen, nudged Erii with his elbow, a subtle reminder that it was their turn.

Xu Lie brought Erii out to play today for two reasons. First, it was a prior agreement that he would bring Erii out to play again. Second, Xu Lie himself planned to leave temporarily.

The Dream Thief's potion digests too slowly. Even though he spends the whole day stealing the thoughts and ideas of the Snake Clan members from Genji Heavy Industries, the digestion is still slow.

The slow, tortoise-like efficiency drove Xu Lie to the brink of despair, prompting him to decide to travel to New York to expedite the digestion of the potion.

When asked where she wanted to go, Erii shook her head blankly; she had never strayed far from the Genji Heavy Industries building.

The farthest place I've ever been is the small park Xu Lie took me to when I first met him, where we even ate crepes.

So Erii had absolutely no idea where to go in Tokyo.

Xu Lie decided to think for himself. Knowing that Erii liked anime and games, he took her to visit related places. Their first stop was Akihabara, where Erii bought a lot of figurines she liked.

At the second stop, Xu Lie took Erii to the voice actor recording studio, intending to show her the dubbing process of anime production.

When Erii saw the voice acting work through the thick glass, her eyes almost lit up with gold. So Xu Lie found the anime director in charge of this aspect, hoping to voice two minor characters.

At least let Erii have a taste and experience it.

How could an anime director dare offend the Snake Clan? He immediately agreed.

Erii, who was lightly elbowed by Xu Lie, was a little nervous. She crumpled the paper on which she was writing her lines into a ball and looked at Xu Lie with her bright, deep rose-red eyes, feeling uneasy.

It seems like a silent confession: what if I mess it up?
Xu Lie returned an encouraging look, but a look alone didn't seem enough, so he took Erii's hand.

This reassured Erii, and she quickly calmed down. Feeling the warmth from Xu Lie's hand, she knew that as long as he was holding her hand, Erii would be brave and fearless.

Back then, I was lost and afraid to move forward at the crossroads of the Genji Heavy Industries building, and that's how Xu Lie led me out.

She was very worried that if she, a little monster, went out, she would hurt others, destroy the world, or even be killed by some righteous Ultraman.

However, under Xu Lie's leadership, no unfortunate incidents occurred.

Having witnessed a gentle world and tasted sweet crepes, everything I knew and experienced was wonderful.

Once again, with Xu Lie holding her hand, Erii felt as if she had returned to the day she ran away from home. It seemed that as long as Xu Lie was still there, she could face the world without worrying about anything. When Erii came to her senses, she had unknowingly been led in front of a standing microphone by Xu Lie, who had already begun to deliver his lines: "Look, isn't that Tenma-san and Shimizu-san?"

Erii's transition was exceptionally smooth, without any nervousness or trepidation; her voice betrayed a hint of curiosity: "Could it be... a confession!"

Xu Lie smiled and played along: "Maybe."

"Let's go take a look!"

These are all the lines the two have. After they finish speaking, they immediately leave, handing the microphone to the next voice actor.

Some new voice actors, after finishing their own work, will choose to stay and watch and learn from the voice acting of their seniors to gain experience.

Xu Lie and Erii don't need to do that at all. They're just here to have fun. They can leave as soon as they're done and without making too much noise.

As they left the dubbing studio, the anime director waited outside with a smile as bright as a daisy: "Wow, you two are incredibly talented!"

"I was just listening to your voice acting, and it was perfect. The emotions flowed smoothly. Many voice actors who have just graduated from professional voice acting schools can't even do it as well as you two!"

That's amazing! Xu Lie's voice acting is fine; he still has the eloquence of the Conman from the Sequence 8 era. He's charming as soon as he opens his mouth.

But what about Erii's voice acting?
Do you expect a young girl who hasn't spoken in over ten years to be a match for a graduate of a professional voice acting training school?

The supervisor said this probably because he was afraid of offending a powerful figure from the Snake-Headed Eight Families and not seeing the light of day again.

Fortunately, Erii was unaware that upon hearing the director's praise, she smiled faintly without any attempt to hide it, and even turned her body slightly to face Xu Lie, her eyes full of anticipation.

"Well done, the pairing was really good." Xu Lie didn't criticize her, and together with the supervisor, they coaxed Erii.

I just brought her out to have fun, so as long as she's happy, there's no need to take it so seriously.

Receiving Xu Lie's praise made Erii the happiest, to the point that she smiled so broadly that her teeth were showing.

She had just been holding Xu Lie's hand, completely focused on dubbing, unaware of whether it was good or bad. Now it seems there's absolutely no problem.

I need to remember the name of this anime; I'll have to watch it carefully when it airs next time!
There was no time to admire how white Erii's teeth were when a phone call came in. Upon hearing the ring, the director tactfully bowed and excused himself.

Xu Lie saw that it was Konoe Tou (a high-ranking member of the Sumitomo Group who was being parasitized) calling, and his left eyelid twitched before he answered: "Finger is quite efficient. He has already sent all the code for that to the server room on the first floor of the Sumitomo Building."

"Whenever you have time, come back and use a Deceive the Mentor Spell to eliminate any backdoors that Fingel might have left behind."

The general idea is to have the main body use deception spells to trick the artificial intelligence, thereby gaining complete control and preventing Fingel from doing anything underhanded.

In this way, as long as the server room equipment keeps up, it will be able to compete with Kaguya-hime and Norma in a while.

"I understand, I'll get it done when I get back tonight." Xu Lie glanced out the window; it was still early.

Konoe Toji was quite concerned about this: "Didn't you keep urging us before? So much ahead of schedule, making us clear out the floors and prepare the server room."

"You're not in a rush anymore?"

Xu Lie was truly in no hurry: "What you promise others, you must always finish."

Having promised Erii he would take her out to play, Xu Lie didn't want to break his promise.

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