Chapter 103 The Gap (4000 words)(1/2)
Qiao Xiu's proposal put the fraudster in hesitation.
"Isn't it a well-deserved deal? Pruker."
Without waiting for the fraudster to refuse, an elf slowly walked down the stairs on the second floor, and her gray-purple skin told Qiao Xiu that her race was a very rare branch of the elves...the dark elf.
This race that originally lived underground is much rarer than the forest elves.
But Qiao Xiu always felt that there was a special sense of incongruity on her body, a sense of blurriness covered with a layer of confusion.
Unfortunately, Qiao Xiu's bloodline sensing seemed to have failed in this dark elf, and she could not see her true face through perception.
“We shouldn’t do that.”
The fraudster who was called Prok murmured to himself.
"Your broken store has few customers all year round, and you have adopted so many orphans. You can't let them eat any kind of gravel-filled black bread every day, and there is no such shoddy food in Nolan."
The dark elf walked to the table and picked up the bag of gold coins that Qiao Xiu placed on the table. He weighed it and threw it to the fraudster.
Under the persuasion of the dark elf, he finally agreed to Qiao Xiu's proposal.
After convinced Prok, the Dark Elf did not stay too much, and happened to pass by Qiao Xiu when he left the hotel.
"I always feel like I've seen this elf somewhere."
Xili looked at the dark elf leaving behind and felt inexplicably familiar.
"I've seen it, I've seen it in the Demon Realm. It might be my sister or my sister's spy. The worst thing is the elder brother...or... the other three dukes?"
Qiao Xiu was sure that he had seen this dark elf in the Demon Realm, but he had no idea where he was.
In other words, she has been observing herself secretly since she was in the demon world.
In the entire demon world, the only one who is most likely to send someone to do this is Qiao Xiu's elder sister Sethili. After all, Qiao Xiu's elder sister is the monitor.
As for which third prince’s elder brother, Noggs, and fourth sister, Fuya, Qiao Xiu rarely contacted these two.
"Do you want to catch her and ask?"
Xili's principles of doing things completely follow the principle of not being timid, just being quarrel.
"There is no chance. I can't feel her breath anymore, and there is no need."
The dark elf's ability to conceal aura was stronger than the elf beside Farosi Flower. Shortly after she walked out of the hotel, she completely disappeared from Qiao Xiu's perception.
"Anyway, do the important thing now."
Qiao Xiu didn't expect that someone in the Demon World would expand his power to the city of Nolan.
The surveillance of the dark elf must have involved the struggle for the rights of the demon world.
Could it be that the brothers and sisters of the third prince suspected that Qiao Xiu would attract reinforcements in the human world and be prepared to counterattack the demon world and forcefully seize the throne?
Speaking of what happened recently, Qiao Xiu often rubbed the hearthstone with the Archbishop of the Holy Cult Army and the female knight, but was twisted and sent back by the dark elf...
But the problem is not big. Qiao Xiu is no longer the weak third prince in the past.
"Please go upstairs, I'll take you to see the room."
Some fraudster seemed to be deliberately avoiding the topic of Dark Elf. After he wrote down a note in the shabby account book, he stood up from his position and walked in front to lead the way.
"How long have you been in this city?"
Qiao Xiu followed him. He was deliberately avoiding the topic of dark elves, so Qiao Xiu could only obtain some information from the side.
“…”
The character of this fraudster is completely opposite to his racial title. He seems not very talkative and knows that he will reveal some unnecessary information if he says too much. So when facing Qiao Xiu's question, he just silently led the way forward without answering.
Qiao Xiu could only temporarily end the topic and looked at the hotel. The hotel used the circumferential staircase commonly found in some libraries, with four floors. Although the reception hall was not large, the internal space was much more abundant than Qiao Xiu imagined.
The entire hotel exudes an old and old atmosphere, and some parts of the floor creak when they step on it. If any nobleman comes, he will complain, "This is no different from the farmer's barn!"
In addition to the fraudster store manager, there are also several non-human children in this hotel. They hid behind a wall and poked their heads, staring at Joshu and Xiri curiously.
"You adopted those half-dragons and gray cats?"
Qiao Xiu waved at them, and they shrank back as if they were frightened, looking very scared of humans.
"Their parents brought them here in foster care and never came back," he said.
Squirrel Street is one of the few places in the world that can accept inhuman races... but this is the only street. Except for some curious spellcasters, outsiders will not get close to it.
It would be fine if it looks similar to humans. For example, elves and dwarves are races that most humans can accept, such as half-dragon people, which is completely impossible. Grey cat people can be kept as pets.
“Life has always been so hard, but there will always be a turnaround.”
When he took out the key and opened the door of a room for Qiao Xiu as a display, Qiao Xiu's words paused his movements for a moment.
"The turning point... it's impossible..." His attitude towards humans was as cautious as those children of non-human races, and he just showed it in another way.
"How can you know if you don't try it? Mr. Planck, in the future, your hotel may welcome a group of humans and... a group of banshees. Can this hotel stay in banshees?"
Qiao Xiu did not forget his special photographer ladies, who had been on standby in the castle of the Bones for a long time.
"Banshees and…humans?"
He gritted his teeth and knew that this was not a good job, but he had already accepted Qiao Xiu's money, so he had to compromise and nodded.
"Don't worry, I won't let them hurt the children you adopted."
Qiao Xiu knew what he was really worried about, and this comfort didn't seem to have any effect.
After he handed the remaining room keys to Qiao Xiu, he left directly.
"You really plan to decorate this place as a movie scene?"
Xili walked into the room and looked around, feeling that it was somewhat similar to the scene described in the script.
"Is there anything wrong?"
"What's wrong is that the people from that troupe can accept it?"
Xiri poked the bed sheet with her magic wand. Although it looked a little old, the whole room was quite clean. It seemed that the people in the hotel had done the cleaning carefully.
The only thing that made Xiri think that she shouldn't have appeared was that there were a few mushrooms growing on the wall.
In the eyes of some races, such fungi are decorations like flowers, but in the eyes of humans, this means, "This ghost place is so moldy that mushrooms grow. How can people live?"
"If you can't accept it, let them leave the set. I'm not forcing them. Nolan is not just a troupe of Black Swan."
Qiao Xiu was not asking the troupe to participate in the filming of this movie. Qiao Xiu was the director, and the next process was called "Authing".
Whether they can endure hardship is the first step to test them. What Qiao Xiu needs is the actors, not the delicate nobles.
All Qiao Xiu had to do was write a letter to tell Mrs. Xize that it would be enough to ask her Black Swan Theater Troupe to come and audition, of course...the premise is that after hearing about "Squirrel Street", the Black Swan Theater Troupe was willing to go to this street.
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Fallosi Mansion, this luxurious mansion has a special venue for rehearsal for the troupe, and a private practice venue specially prepared for Fallosi Flowers.
Gallorie stretched her body in an empty room in a dance dress.
No matter how famous the Flower of Farosi is in various countries, she has not forgotten to practice these basic crafts every day.
In addition to acting skills, there is also part of the performance of stage plays supported by dance. As an excellent stage play actor, graceful dance postures are indispensable.
She is still young and her physical development has not yet ended, so she dared not relax for a moment.
After all, the Farosi are not like Osta girls. When they were young, they could have a tall and sexy figure even without practicing.
Jia Loli finished the whole day of practice. The elf servant behind her showed her figure and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on her forehead. At the same time, she used the magic unique to the elves to help her recover her physical strength.
"Miss, are we really not going back to China?"
She has begun to miss Fallosi's cultural scenery and the natural atmosphere close to the big forest.
Although the city of Nolan also has many advantages, as long as the Chaos Demon is there, all the advantages will become disadvantages in the eyes of this elf girl.
"I will not return to China until I finish filming a movie, and my mother thinks so too."
Galorie walked to the door of the room and opened the door. This entire area was provided for the Black Swan Troupe to practice. There were many iron clothes hangers outside, and there were a lot of dazzling costumes hanging on it.
Gallorie's petite figure was covered by these clothes, so that the actors in other Black Swan Theater troupes did not notice her appearance and continued to talk to themselves.
“Mrs. Xizer said it is possible that we will be in the next movie.”
"Duchess really found the producer of that movie? That's right... We are the world's top troupe, and it's very easy to convince the producer as the Duchess."
Several members of the Black Swan Theater who had already finished their day contact with each other like Galorie sat together and discussed.
The news that the next movie will be the actor by the Black Swan Theater, I don’t know when it has quietly spread throughout the troupe.
Galorie is not worried that her identity as the heroine will be snatched away. She will always be the most eye-catching black swan in this troupe.
"Do you think we'll go to the castle to shoot? Or is it a solemn place like the Vancena Palace in Fallosi? Maybe we can see Belle and the Demon Prince."
"Maybe it's Nolan's Crystal Palace. If I could dance with the prince in that dance dress like Belle, I don't like that devil prince very much."
"What! Don't you want to touch those pair of meatballs?"
Galorie listened silently to the conversation between the girls she had performed with for many years, and her heart was completely unchanged.
The members of the Black Swan Theater are basically aristocrats and civilians. When Mrs. Nishize and several other founders were selected, they selected the best students in the Fallosi Academy of Art, and of course, they also included many related little aristocrats.
To be continued...