Chapter 426
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Chapter 426: The Male Lead Candidate
Let’s return to Luo Ji.
He had already received the news of Long Taotian’s troop withdrawal and had no intention of pursuing them.
As mentioned before, he was currently busy fostering relations between the human and beastmen races, which was his top priority.
Once achieved, his entire civilization would become at least twice as strong!
With such an important matter at hand, how could he spare the time to deal with the insignificant Long Taotian?
It was best for him that the other party wisely retreated, and he naturally wouldn’t go looking for trouble.
What’s more, he wasn’t idle at the moment.
“Li Ke, how did the task I assigned you earlier go?”
Inside the office, Luo Ji looked at Li Ke, who was standing below him, with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Li Ke’s eyelids twitched, then he bit the bullet and nodded.
“It’s done.”
“Then bring him in. I want to see.”
“Your Majesty, please wait. I will call him in.”
As Li Ke spoke, he led in a wolfman dressed in coarse linen clothes, with grey and white fur all over its body.
“Is this him?”
Luo Ji watched the wolfman, slowly rising from his desk and walking over to examine it from head to toe.
Seeing the visibly nervous wolfman, Luo Ji casually asked.
“What’s your name?”
“Reporting to Your Majesty, my name is Li Feng.”
Luo Ji nodded, then looked at Li Feng, and then turned to look at Li Ke.
To be honest, aside from the fur color, the two wolf-men’s appearances weren’t significantly different in his human eyes.
Without a careful look, it would be hard to tell them apart.
“Among your wolf tribe, is this Li Feng considered good-looking?”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Li Ke nodded.
“This kid is quite popular in the tribe, and he’s pretty clever.”
“Have you told him about the matter?”
“Yes, I have.”
Li Ke nodded again.
“Alright, then recite a few lines for me to hear.”
As he spoke, Luo Ji gestured with his hand.
“Or do you need a few minutes to prepare?”
At the same time, Luo Ji cast an inquiring look at Li Feng.
Li Feng nodded vigorously.
“If possible, that would be for the best.”
“Okay, no problem.”
Luo Ji shrugged casually.
After a few days, Lu Yang’s work efficiency continued to improve.
He could now help Luo Ji with a lot of work, which gave Luo Ji ample time to prepare for this crucial opera.
“You can start whenever you’re ready.”
Undoubtedly, Luo Ji was currently looking for the male lead for his opera, Beauty and the Beast.
Elephantmen were too large and unsuitable. Minotaurs were too simple minded and unsuitable. Foxmen were slightly thin and didn’t fit the image of a fierce monster, making them unsuitable. As for Kobolds, their appearance didn’t even need to be considered.
After this selection process, Luo Ji could only choose a wolfman, as their image was quite fitting.
As for the task of selecting someone from the wolf tribe, Luo Ji naturally assigned it directly to Li Ke.
There were also many requirements: they needed to be good-looking, articulate, clever, and preferably literate.
For Li Ke, who had never done such a thing before, Luo Ji had indeed put him in a difficult position this time, but somehow, the matter was finally settled.
As Luo Ji’s thoughts raced, Li Feng had already begun.
“Hmm? There’s a scent of a stranger here.”
When Li Feng recited this line, he deliberately lowered his voice and added an inhaling motion.
This detail made Luo Ji raise his eyebrows slightly, piquing his interest.
He handed the script to He Liang, his guard captain, instructing him to read the lines of ‘Candleman,’ ‘Clockman,’ and ‘the female lead’s father.’
After all, it would be strange without someone to respond.
He Liang was also forced into this by Luo Ji and could only bite the bullet and say, “Oh, Master, listen to me. He got lost in the forest, and he’s wet and cold, and…”
At this point, Li Feng let out an angry howl, interrupting He Liang.
This howl was incredibly powerful; even the guards beside Luo Ji felt their hearts tighten upon hearing it.
However, it made Luo Ji’s eyes light up.
This Li Feng was even better than he had expected!
Although he was clearly a bit nervous while reciting his lines, he at least did a decent job.
In contrast, He Liang’s recitation was dry and worse than memorizing a text.
He was clearly not cut out for it.
After Li Feng finished reciting his lines in a proper manner and performed a scene, Luo Ji immediately applauded.
When Luo Ji applauded, the others naturally followed suit.
For a moment, Li Feng felt a bit embarrassed.
Although he was very reluctant to do this at first, he now felt unexpectedly good about it.
“Li Ke, how did you do it?”
Luo Ji asked Li Ke with a curious gaze after applauding.
“It was nothing, really.”
Facing Luo Ji’s question, Li Ke didn’t dare not answer, so he simply stated.
“I just told it that if it didn’t practice well, I would break its two wolf legs.”
“…”
Upon hearing this, Li Feng, who had previously felt quite good about himself, immediately shivered.
Luo Ji and the other guards beside him also looked speechless, unable to find words.
Finally, Luo Ji cleared his throat twice and said.
“All in all, my troupe will take this Li Feng. Any problems?”
“No problem, Your Majesty, please dispose of him as you wish.”
Li Ke unhesitatingly sold out Li Feng.
After speaking, Li Ke motioned for Li Feng to stay there obediently, then excused himself.
As the wolf tribe leader, he wasn’t idle these days either.
If one were to ask what he was busy with, it was training soldiers!
More precisely, training his wolfman warriors in battle formations.
Luo Ji, of course, knew about this.
For this matter, Li Ke had even specifically come to him to ask how to train battle formations.
The training of beastmen army formations was something Luo Ji greatly valued.
To make these untamed beastmen cooperate with the training, Luo Ji had used many methods.
Now that Li Ke could realize the importance of formations on his own and proactively propose to conduct battle formation training among the tribal warriors, Luo Ji was naturally delighted. Why wouldn’t he support it?
He directly assigned an experienced instructor from the military camp to Li Ke to assist him with the training.
So, during this period, the battle formation training also kept Li Ke extremely busy.
