Chapter 345
"...In this case, we have successfully reached the last day."
On the day of the joint performance of Qianqiu Le, after all the audience were safely transported to the giant theater, Kadoc, who was the last one to enter the theater, locked the door and walked towards the stage where the performance was held.
"Today is the last day." Kirshtalia stood at the backstage entrance holding a can of instant coffee, smiling at Kadoc with a sharp look in her eyes that left no room for doubt. "The last group of audience members have all entered safely - now we just have to wait for the actors to go on stage and put an end to this story."
"I heard from Director Olgamari that you had a separate report with Director Marisbury and the others." Kadoc took out a carton of milk from the vending machine diagonally opposite Kirshtalia. "Have you already discovered the more essential parts of this anomaly? All we know now is that this is a place where 'dreams can come true'..."
"I think it's better to talk about that part after we get back." Kirshtalia threw the empty can in the recycling bin and winked at Kadoc. "After all, if the fiction here is completely exposed, its power will no longer be able to perform the miracle of 'dreams come true'."
"At least until the Holy Grail appears, the miracle of 'dreams come true' in this anomaly cannot disappear."
The backstage area, which was designed to be relatively spacious, is now crowded with members who are busy preparing to go on stage. Unlike past full performances that split the script into an upper and lower half to divert the audience and reduce the number of people on stage, the script for this joint performance was not split, but the performance time was extended to accommodate the plot.
This also means that the number of actors waiting in line is far greater than any performance they have held in the past - although most of the extras only appear once and then leave, there are more than just twenty-four actors with regular roles.
"Okay, how long until we go on stage?" After finishing the makeup for the last person, Izumi Tian Su turned around and asked Rurikawa Yuki who was standing next to her.
"There are still fifteen minutes left, and the broadcast should be on." Liu Lichuan Xing put away his sewing bag, stood up and walked towards where the Xia team was. "Zhuchuan and the others should have gone to the waiting room - as the crazy scientist in the first act. Mr. Tsumugi should also lie down with the props... Today is the Qianqiu Music, and we just need to go on stage like every other Qianqiu Music in the past."
The members of Chaldea sat in the first row of seats closest to the stage, and simply used suggestive magic to modify the outside world's perception of them - the red curtain had not yet been opened, but BB, who was assigned by Fujimaru Ritsuka to help with the logistics of electronic equipment, had already begun to announce the audience's instructions for watching the show through the theater broadcast.
"It started from a tiny point, and then expanded to infinity..." Tosaka Rin stroked her chin, and turned to ask Olgamari who was sitting between Lenis and Kirshtalia as if she had thought of something, "Isn't this the origin of 'everything' in the story? That's why they successfully blended magic 'miracles' and technology 'technology' together when they wrote the script..."
"Just like the world tree genealogy we built," Olgamari replied to Tosaka Rin, "no matter how many parallel worlds are split in the future, the origin of this genealogy, the 'root', will always be the same point. Of course, they created the opening of this play based on the ending of the Mankai New Winter Group's founding performance, and the same is true."
The lights in the audience went out one by one, leaving only the spotlights shining on the red velvet curtain - and then the curtain on the stage finally opened.
A high-tech-looking laboratory appeared on the stage. Crazy scientists in white coats walked proudly in their castle. In the center of the stage, on an operating table separated by glass, lay a young man with blue hair, sleeping like Sleeping Beauty.
——Just like the conclusion that Phoenix Chaldea came to about the experiment at Area 51 in the United States based on the Neo-Chaldean exploration report at the anomaly Traum.
Unlike the judgment of New Chaldea, Phoenix Chaldea focused its investigation, or reasoning and speculation, on a dead branch on the operating table in the underground laboratory of Area 51 in Nevada, United States of America. Phoenix Chaldea believed that it was the so-called "Subject: E" who had been subjected to various cruel and inhumane experiments for a hundred years.
——That must be the residue left after a certain existence burned out.
Lancer Melo once said so.
However, even though the adults kept silent about this conjecture, Olgamari still guessed the answer to a certain extent - the "Subject: E" that appeared in the laboratory under the special point Traum was the remnant of Panhumanity's own soul that was thrown into Chaldeas and burned to ashes.
When the writers were creating this play on stage, they turned this part of the speculation into one of the starting points of the play. At the end of "Lament for Angels", the angel Michael can no longer return to heaven because he has stayed in the human world for too long. His soul is about to completely dissipate and he cannot even be born as a human being.
——But it’s not impossible for scum to exist, right?
Andersen determined the origin of all the disasters in the play with a smile.
Crazy scientists got a magical sample - it has life, but it neither ages nor dies.
Crazy scientists who attempt to overturn the laws of nature use this sample as research material, trying to develop a drug that can reverse life and death - however, this time, the heaven that has lost the *angel Michael does not intend to sit idly by and watch his soul dissipate.
Therefore, Metatron, who has a unique connection with God, while searching for Michael, also brought down punishment on the outside world to protect Michael, who was left with only a few remnants - those who do evil to the souls of angels will be punished.
No one noticed that the finished drug produced in the laboratory had changed - from a elixir that could make people immortal to a poison soaked in a foul curse.
The first person to be transformed by the poison was a mouse that died in the experiment; then it was the logistics personnel who were responsible for handling the dead experimental animals; and then - the entire experimental base was destroyed.
The developers of the drug fled in panic from the experimental base that was instantly degenerated into hell, leaving behind even the most important samples.
Then, no one knows how much time has passed - of course, the base is still full of dangerous zombies - a team of six people, like bounty hunters, finally entered the base to explore.
A pink parrot followed the team of six, chattering non-stop with the six people who kept destroying the zombies.
"Shut up, Guiji!" The only female in the team pushed up her goggles and said to the overly active parrot, while confirming the situation with her captain, "LEO, it is said that the 'miracle' that can end the disaster is here? Are we in the right place? The zombies here are crazier than those outside."
"Zombies that haven't bitten people for hundreds of years will become like this." After the last zombie fell, the young man with light blond hair joked to his teammates, "Besides, the more dangerous the place, the higher the profit - isn't that our creed? The coordinates are correct, it should be here, LINK."
"AQUILA." LEO, who was walking in the front, stopped and asked their intelligence officer, "Do you think that the so-called 'miracle' will be a person?"
"Huh?"
It was not known whether the base had fallen into disrepair or whether a procedure had been set from the outset that the most important samples would self-destruct if they left the container - the bounty team had just taken the only prize of this trip out of the glass when the entire base began to fall into dust, and it looked like it would soon become a ruin that would crush them all.
The bounty team that failed to end the disaster was of course considered a mission failure, but the bounty team named SUMMER still had a lot of savings, and barely covered the mission penalty - and then started to run missions all over the world with the ignorant blue-haired young man they brought out from the experimental base who no one knew and no one wanted to take in.
The young man who was kept in the base as an experimental specimen thus embarked on his journey. For the sake of convenience, the members of the bounty team called him M. He had seen many people and many inhuman beings. At midnight, he would always have chaotic dreams that seemed to be his past memories, where pure black demons and pure white angels fought each other, leaving only a blank in his memory.
And finally, on their way to a certain mission, they discovered the man who caused the disaster in the distant past - the mad scientists' past experiments had undoubtedly achieved some kind of wild and shocking success, because hundreds of years of peace had passed until the zombies roamed the land and coexisted with natural disasters.
The battle between the pure black demons and the pure white angels became more intense, and M was slowed down by a sudden headache. The crazy scientists laughed and performed miracles such as regenerating broken limbs and resurrecting the dead in front of the besieged bounty team. The members of the bounty team stopped shooting vigilantly, but when the bullets failed to work, they could not find any other solution for a while.
"Burn, kill, and destroy." The demon's voice became clearer and clearer, tempting the inexperienced experimental specimens, "Only a sufficiently tragic result can make them fear and stay away from the power that does not belong to them. You know how stupid and greedy humans are, ███. "
"Although there is no solution for the time being, it is definitely wrong to hurt others." The angel's voice was anxious and helpless, trying to pull M, who had turned to the devil, back to his side, "Even if it really takes something to solve it, it shouldn't be left to others to do it - ███, that is our innate responsibility."
"Legend has it that there is a 'miracle' that can end the disaster."
The holy light fell in the center of the stage, and the show had come to an end - but this time was different from all the previous times.
The position of the "Holy Grail" held by the protagonist on the stage, which was originally represented by a beam of light, condensed into a true universal wish-granting machine that can realize all wishes.