Chapter 342

"Okay, now that everyone is here, we can start the meeting."

Cadoc walked away from the automatically opened sensor door and found a seat to sit down - this conference room was no different from the Chaldea conference room they were familiar with. Cadoc could even remember the scene when Marisbili had just died accidentally and all the Chaldea members rushed to the conference room to gather amid the alarm.

At that time, there were still more than 300 people in Chaldea - not to mention that they are now sparsely seated, the fact that most meetings in Chaldea are now held directly in the control room is enough to prove how huge Chaldea's conference room is - even if there are many heroes present now, this place seems very empty.

"Let's start with a summary of the background of this anomaly." Kirshtalia showed the slides he had prepared for the meeting in his short free time on the big screen. "Because this was discussed yesterday, even if the members are only gathering today, they only need to understand the conclusions we reached."

"First, this peculiarity was born in a dream."

"Secondly, this anomaly is not a dream anomaly like Alice's anomaly, which limits the size of the scene. Instead, it is based on a stage play that changes the scenery, which is closer to the essence of this world. We can reach this place by thinking about coming to the "Humanity Continuation Guarantee Agency Phoenix Chaldea" in our minds, which proves this point."

“Third, this singularity has a ‘dream come true’ element to some extent – ​​because everyone in this singularity is judged to be the protagonist on this stage, so all wishes that do not violate the background of the story can be achieved, but this also brings the characteristic that this singularity cannot disappear.”

"Because the story on this stage has no end." Holmes, who was sitting in the back row, said, "I know your next plan - so, where do you plan to start?"

"First, we must determine the 'origin' of life, and then we can determine the 'end' of death." The magician, who had experienced many deaths, understood death, and gained the ability to face death, looked at the people gathered in 221B and said his answer, "First, we must determine the origin of this anomaly 'story' from the gravel-like past."

"That is to say, the first thing we need to determine is the beginning of the play." Andersen turned the quill in his hand and looked in the direction of Shakespeare. "But before we start writing the story, shouldn't we determine what kind of play we are going to create this time?"

"There are zombies and natural disasters in this anomaly - should it be classified as a disaster drama?" Mary Shelley held a cup of coffee in her hand and joined the discussion about creation. "If we want to end this anomaly, we only have one choice for the ending, that is, the natural disaster disappears, and there is a way to eliminate and purify the zombie virus..."

"Which appeared first, the zombies or the natural disaster?" asked Dumas.

"The zombies appeared first." Watson, who entered this special point with the magicians, gave his reasons. "If a natural disaster came first, the crazy scientists' laboratories might not be able to continue operating. Of course, there are also cases where the natural disaster is too serious, and some researchers think that humans will die if they don't evolve, so they came up with an 'evolution experiment'... Well, the result is of course a failure."

"The product of the failed experiment is the zombies." William summarized for Watson, adding some additional content that was overlooked by some of the writers who were a little too excited. "Also, the world tree genealogy where this anomaly was born is a world genealogy full of drama troupes - perhaps it would be more effective to write the script with them as key characters."

"One more thing to add, the four bases in this anomaly are all theater troupes in the world of Mankai Theater - Mankai Theater, Baihua Theater, GOD Theater, and KICS, which is not recorded in our database." Kirshtalia cleared his throat and displayed the member lists of different troupes on different screens. "Considering the characteristics of Mankai Theater, perhaps customizing roles based on these actors and completing an unprecedented joint performance is the best solution to end this anomaly."

"That is to say, all the actors from the four bases will be incorporated into it. A total of ..." Watson stroked his chin and fell into deep thought, but was interrupted by Sherlock.

"No, we should not only include actors in the story." Sherlock interrupted Watson's thoughts and drew everyone's attention to himself while holding a cigarette. "I'm afraid we need to include all the members who are regarded as important characters by the world consciousness of this world into the script."

"That includes the new scriptwriters of the first generation of Mankai and God's Theater, as well as the logistics staff of the Mankai Theater." Mo Lili quickly counted the number of actors they had to use, "Forty-six people in total, and we may need to add a parrot. Members who are not professional actors can use extras to get away with it, so the total number of non-extras we need to create is-"

"Thirty-eight people." Moriarty continued to speak in accordance with his younger self's words, not caring that Molly, who was not a Ruler this time, was almost furious beside him, "We can refer to the script model of the Mankai performance - that is, to divide the actors into different role camps..."

"Why not let Robert and I write about the mad scientists who created the zombies?" Mary Shelley, who wrote the story of Frankenstein, suggested. "We can separate the story and the characters, and let each of us take charge of a part. This way, the script creation process will be much faster. Don't you think the author of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very suitable for writing about mad scientists?"

"I think Robert probably has no chance of resistance." Andersen agreed to Mary Shelley's proposal with a snort of laughter, "But I am a fairy tale writer - you'd better not have too high expectations of me."

Stevenson silently moved to Mary Shelley's side, holding his writing book, to show that he had no intention of delaying the manuscript or running away.

"The fairy tale writers should sit alone," Dumas said with a big laugh. "You can come over when we need you to add luster to this script."

"...I've changed my mind." Andersen said angrily, "Louis! Oscar! And the two Germans over there! The damn fairy tale writers are sitting alone at a table! Since the origin of the zombies is left to Robert and the others, the origin of the disaster will be left to us to write! You stupid Frenchmen! I don't think you know what the power of the fairies can do--"

Wilde went behind Andersen and covered his mouth, physically silencing him.

"Hans is right. There is really nothing good in the French." The Grimm brothers smiled and took Andersen from Wilde's hands, while finalizing the content of Andersen's furious speech. "Leave the content of natural disasters to us. After all, it is still too difficult to create natural disasters by humans. But it is just right to leave it to the elves and fairies in fairy tales who can create the rotation of the four seasons."

"Dumas, keep your father's mouth shut - don't let us hear any more of that idiotic 'fairy tale writers at a table alone' speech."

"Does he have straw growing in his head?!"

"Ahem!" The writer who had created a scarecrow who wanted a brain and was about to meet Carol choked on his coffee the moment he heard this.

"Gentlemen, when you attack the arrogant French, can you please not hurt your own people?" Carol spoke up to defend the poor innocent people. "Baum just choked on his coffee. When you said that Dumas's head was full of straw, I think at least the lovely scarecrow he created is innocent."

"...Louis, I think sometimes you should say less." Mary Shelley glanced at the pale-faced Baum beside Carol with pity, "Lyman is almost suffocating - although as heroes, we will not die from suffocation, but the fainting reaction still exists."

"I don't like him, Mrs. Shelley," Carroll replied calmly to Mary Shelley. "Who makes him an American?"

"You're right." Mary Shelley nodded, obviously not intending to continue to care about Baum's life or death - although they would not die at all.

"Okay, friends, can we all calm down?" Watson, who had not participated in the writers' group meeting since the beginning because of Holmes' request, sighed helplessly and spoke to stabilize the situation, "Ladies and gentlemen, old men, ladies, young masters, young ladies - now that the origins of natural disasters and zombies have been determined, who is responsible for them, should we choose a protagonist from the actors to drive the story forward?"

"In fact, the absolute first protagonist should still be decided from the Mankai Troupe." Olgamari took out a laser pointer from under the podium and pointed at the screen showing the list of Mankai Troupe members. "However, considering the role arrangement of Mankai's performance, our first and second protagonists this time need to be selected from the summer group and the winter group."

"My opinion is to directly select the leaders of the Winter Team and the Summer Team, just like the first protagonist of the Mankai performance is the leader of the Spring Team, and the second protagonist is the leader of the Autumn Team." Kirshtalia sat on the chair and shook the pen in his hand, looking at the information of the Summer Team and the Winter Team on the screen. "Considering the scripts that the two teams have performed in the past, I recommend that the Winter Team be the protagonist group in the part of the plot that deals with natural disasters, and the Summer Team is more suitable to deal with zombies."

"I agree to let the Winter Group handle natural disasters." Jacob Green nodded in approval of Kirshtalia's opinion. "Although the Spring Group has performed The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, the Winter Group is good at serious dramas that are suitable for natural disasters. Even if the origin of our natural disasters is brought about by fairies and elves, they have also performed dramas with non-human beings..."

"Although I originally wanted Xia Gumi to play the role of an elf or a fairy...but if the protagonists can laugh without worry while being chased by zombies..." William Green and his brother exchanged glances, "It can reduce the sense of danger to a certain extent and pave the way for the final solution -"

"Perhaps we can consider handing over the role of the elves to KICS?"