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Chapter 68 068. "The King in Yellow"

The Gucheng Hotel at night is wrapped in red mist.

In the banquet hall, people were drinking and laughing.

Located in the middle is naturally Li Qing's table.

Next to him sat the mayor, police chief and other government department heads of the old city. There was a dazzling array of food on the table, but everyone's attention was focused on Li Qing, observing his words for fear of neglecting him.

Li Qing played with the bone china wine glass in his hand. It was said that it was aged for thirty years, but in his opinion, it was just ordinary wine. Li Qing drank the wine casually, looking like a drunkard who didn't care about the wine. .

The performances on the stage continued, nothing more than some juggling, singing and dancing, tacky, mediocre, and lackluster.

"I heard that Tang Xiaomeng will sing a new song tonight. Is it true?"

"It is said that her singing really lingered for three days, with an endless aftertaste."

"He is also handsome. No wonder Chief Li is attracted to him."

"It is said to be the final project before the New Year, and the music is also newly written."

There were low conversations from other tables, and many people were looking forward to Tang Xiaomeng's visit.

But before that, Xia Yi's play must be staged first.

No one is interested in this drama.

After all, Xia Yi's previous choreography was all about the third child singing praises, and when everyone watched it, most of them were echoing and praising Li Qing.

Xia Yi sat next to Li Qing and watched the show with an indifferent expression. He did not drink or eat.

"What kind of drama is Mr. Xia preparing for this time? Can you tell me a little bit about it first?"

Someone asked, but Xia Yi only shook his head.

"You will know when you see it. Some things are meaningless if you know them in advance."

When the people on the side heard this, they just smiled and said nothing, thinking that Xia Yi was being mysterious.

But when the host finished announcing the show and the dark black curtain opened, the scene suddenly became quiet.

The actors appeared one by one and began to interpret the plot.

Anyone who knows a little bit about the popular culture of the old city will know that it is adapted from the work "The King in Yellow" by the famous writer Kiriyama.

The book itself is quite exciting, and Xia Yi's adaptation of the story is also very impressive, and everyone quickly became immersed in it.

I'm just a little confused as to why Xia Yi would stage an adapted work with a tragic ending on this occasion.

Li Qing glanced at Xia Yi.

"Mr. Xia, your play is quite interesting."

Xia Yi remained silent.

With the performance of the drama, all the audience are immersed in it.

They seem to have become the characters in the play, acting for their own desires, gradually coming into contact with those indescribable and irrational things, breaking away from the shackles of human beings bit by bit, and moving towards the inhuman realm.

This is no longer just a fantasy in the mind.

A wealthy businessman suddenly stood up. He grinned. Then he put his hand into his mouth and started to pull. Within a moment, he tore his tongue out, as excited as a child.

A woman screamed, picked up the chopsticks on the table, inserted them into her fingernails, opened the flesh and blood, kept spinning, her shoulders trembled, and she let out a horrifying laugh.

The soldiers standing next to the banquet hall noticed something was wrong, but when they tried to stop these people, they found that they could not move.

Bang——

A soldier took out his gun and shot himself three times in the legs. Then he tried to commit suicide with the gun, but the bullet only passed through his jaw and exited from the eye socket.

Suddenly, the entire banquet hall felt like a spiritual plague had spread. Everyone began to go crazy, killing each other, and hurting themselves and those around them in unimaginable ways.

On the stage, the performance continues.

All the actors were immersed in the plot and were not affected by the scene at all. When the plot progressed to the point where a person was stabbed through the heart by a friend's sword because of the fight for treasure, the actor actually pierced the opponent's heart with a long sword. heart.

Blood spurted out and landed on the guests in the front row, but they still continued to harm each other happily, as if this was a grand banquet, and the only theme was to turn the entire banquet hall into a sea of ​​blood.

An atmosphere of madness, ferocity, weirdness, and full of indescribable terror spread throughout the venue.

A few strangers noticed something was wrong, but the most they could do was control themselves from falling into the madness, unable to move, and staring at the stage.

Li Qing felt dizzy, as if someone was stirring with red-hot iron tongs.

He looked aside.

Xia Yi was calm and composed, and even picked up tea that he had never drunk before.

"When this play is over, the New Year in the old city will arrive."

he said.

"You betrayed me?"

Li Qing's expression changed slightly and he clenched his fists slightly.

"Do you remember Teacher Wen from Jiangcheng University?"

Xia Yi said solemnly, the veins on the back of his hand were bulging, and there seemed to be some insects squirming in the veins. He pressed gently to calm the restlessness.

"Do you remember Jia Zixian, Xiang Jingqi, Peng Qianming, Jiang Mengli?"

He read out the names one by one, but Li Qing looked confused. He couldn't think of where he had heard these names.

"You can't even remember the names of the people you executed."

Xia Yi's voice sounded calm, not as full of passionate emotions as his words.

"They are my classmates, division commanders, and friends. They are people who ran to resist you. Your army caught them and executed them, and no one even took away their bodies."

"You want revenge?"

Li Qing finally understood Xia Yi's thoughts.

"You don't understand our ideals."

Xia Yi sighed. For a warlord like Li Qing, hatred, wealth, and desire are the fundamental driving forces that drive a person's actions. He will never be able to understand those shining ideals.

For this reason, Xia Yi did not hesitate to get his hands dirty, climbed in the darkest places, deceived the people closest to him, and was not understood by everyone.

"You are so arrogant that you think you can control everything, and you even dare to put your enemies next to you."

"Is there a possibility that I can really control everything?"

Li Qing suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and said in a deep voice.

"You could actually kill me now instead of saying those nonsense lines about a trial."

"The reason why you didn't take action is not that you didn't want to, but that you couldn't."

"I guess all the killer moves are this drama. Only when the show is over, everyone sitting here will die, right?"

"After all, this is The King in Yellow, a drama where all the characters don't die until the finale."

Hearing Li Qing's words, Xia Yi frowned slightly. The skin on his neck was crawling, and the solidified blood like branches was constantly eating away at his body. Obviously, in this banquet hall, even Xia Yi himself could Very greatly affected.

He saw that Li Qing's trembling and struggling suddenly stopped, as if he was not affected at all.

He saw Li Qing stand up.

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