Chapter 12 Stage
North-central Farajo, Floz.
In the afternoon, outside of Florence, the banquet in the Palace of the Goddess of Beauty was still going on. This party, which originated from the audience banquet of the new emperor during the Bourbon King period, had entered its second day, and the most important and grand moment was about to come.
At this moment, in the Palace of the Goddess of Beauty, countless upper-class dignitaries from all over Florence were gathered together. They were scattered in groups in various places in the Palace of the Goddess of Beauty, chatting and socializing in the gardens, squares, and halls. There were many more people than yesterday, and the open space in the Palace of the Goddess of Beauty that was specially used to park carriages was becoming more and more full.
The small gathering on the first day was just a prelude and warm-up for the audience banquet. The real climax was on the dusk and evening of the second day. More people gathered, making the entire Meishen Palace seem particularly noisy. At this time, gentlemen, ladies and ladies could be seen gathering in almost every corner of the Meishen Palace, except for one place.
Standing in the Colorful Dome Hall of the Palace of Beauty, Adele, dressed in a luxurious gown, looked up at the huge closed door of the opera hall in front of her, with a hint of wonder in her eyes. At this moment, she was using the information channel to have a conversation in her mind with Dorothy in the distance.
"It's been a while since we last saw each other, and this place is closed. The banquet is about to start. Why are you closing the main hall at this time?" Adele asked Dorothy in her heart with curiosity, and she answered quickly.
"According to the servants in the Palace of Beauty, this is the final decoration of the singing hall to welcome the performance at dusk. It is said that this is the most important part of the audience banquet tradition, and it has not changed for several years since the time of Charles."
"It doesn't have to be traditional... If that's the case, they should have finished decorating earlier. It's almost dusk now. How can they finish decorating?" Adele responded after listening to Dorothy's words, and Dorothy also spoke with interest.
"Who knows... maybe the decoration is part of the audience tradition, or maybe if they had decorated earlier, some things would have been exposed too early."
"Oh... you sound like you already know something."
Listening to Dorothy's words, Adele said curiously, and just when Dorothy was about to respond, the door that was originally tightly closed suddenly made a sound, and then slowly opened with a roar.
"Oh...it seems that they have almost finished decorating. In that case, let's go in and see the result." Dorothy said this from Adele's perspective, seeing the door slowly opening due to the mechanism. Listening to Dorothy's words, Adele first looked inside the opened door curiously, and then waited until the door was completely opened before following the other party participants in.
Stepping into the concert hall again, Adele looked around curiously. She seemed to see many more festive decorations such as colorful strips, banners, tapestries, etc. There were also many dining tables arranged beside the stage and on the stands, all of which were filled with a variety of delicious foods and expensive wines.
"It looks like these decorations are all normal, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with them." Adele said as she looked around in the concert hall, and Dorothy quickly responded in her heart.
"Maybe you could go to the stage and try it out."
"The stands..." Listening to Dorothy's words, Adele whispered as she left the scene, climbed up a staircase at the edge of the concert hall, and reached the first floor of the concert hall. From here she could see more things from a bird's-eye view, and she immediately discovered the problem at a glance.
"This is the stage... This is... Seven-Step Blooming Lotus!"
Looking at the circular stage in the center of the concert hall below, Adele said in her heart with a look of surprise. At this moment, the originally messy pattern on the stage has disappeared, and instead, there is a clear and complete pattern.
On the circular stage of the concert hall, the patterns on the neatly arranged floorboards were linked together, eventually forming a whole. A huge lotus pattern with seven petals was reflected on the stage. It was exactly the Seven-Step Lotus that Adele was familiar with, an important symbol of the Path of Desire.
"Those floors... the floors on the stage were pieced together in a new way, and then formed this seven-step blooming lotus... So this is one of the three hidden lotus flowers?"
Looking at the pattern that had just appeared on the circular stage below, Adele said in amazement in her heart, and Dorothy quickly responded.
"Yes... This first hidden lotus is essentially a puzzle. Don't you think the pattern on the floor of the stage is very messy and discontinuous? This stage was built under the supervision of King Charles, who is known as an artist. This is where he performs on stage. Would he allow such a stage without aesthetics to exist?
"So, one of the answers is that the stage was not originally in its original state, but had been modified. And looking at the discontinuity on the floor tiles, we can probably guess that the modification method was to disrupt the original integrated stage pattern into a puzzle."
Dorothy said this to Adele. Listening to her words, Adele couldn't help but look solemn and frowned slightly, then continued.
"After the jigsaw puzzle of the singing hall was restored, it turned out to be a pattern of seven-step blossoming lotus, which means the first hidden stage is here... But now that the pattern has been restored, it means that it has been found by someone else before. Could it be... that group of people behind the scenes!"
"It can only be them. Obviously, they have already conducted several rounds of exploration in the Palace of the Goddess of Beauty, and have found at least one stage. Now they have specially put it together, and it is obvious that they are preparing to use it when dusk comes..."
Dorothy said this, and Adele listened to Dorothy's words while glancing at other places in the concert hall. Then she saw that countless security personnel had already guarded and surrounded the assembled stage, not allowing others to go up to it. Seeing this scene, Adele said in confusion in her heart.
"What on earth are these guys trying to do? They put the stage together at this time. Are they planning to perform?"
"As for the purpose of those guys... Actually, I have some clues now." Dorothy responded to Adele. Hearing her words, Adele showed a look of surprise.
"Have you guessed what their purpose is?"
"Well, for this, you can go to the gate of the Yiguan Square now and see what's going on there, and then you'll know."
"At the door..."
Dorothy continued to respond to Adele. After listening to Dorothy's words, Adele's face flashed with confusion again. Then she suddenly found that the surrounding environment had become more noisy at some point. The guests who had gathered in the concert hall did not know what news they heard, and all rushed outside.
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