Chapter 428
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Chapter 428: Approaching Threat
After Long Taotian’s troops retreated, the commotion in the northern mountain forest grew louder and closer.
Along the way, one towering tree after another continuously fell.
Accompanied by the rhythmic, dull thudding sounds, the colossal figure of a Mammoth, like a small mountain, appeared in the northern mountain forest!
“There’s a camp.”
On the Mammoth’s broad back, Hill’s clear, cold voice rang out.
Hearing the commotion, Harold quickly rode his Ice Bear and caught up.
Hill also unhurriedly stood up, then leapt down.
The layers of animal fur coats on her body seemed not to hinder her agile movements at all.
Hill landed steadily on the ground after leaping from the Mammoth’s back.
As leaders of the two major tribes in the Bitter Cold Land, Hill and Harold led a portion of their tribal warriors and slowly walked into the camp.
The empty camp caused Hill to frown slightly.
She then reached out and pulled down the animal hide covering her face, exposing her nose.
Taking a deep breath, as if sensing some special scent lingering in the air, a flicker of thought crossed Hill’s ice-blue eyes.
Her gaze swept around again, finally settling on the extinguished fire pit in the camp.
Taking two steps forward, she stretched out a hand, bringing her palm infinitely close to the fire pit.
After feeling it for a moment, her clear, cold voice rang out again.
“Although this fire pit has already been extinguished, a trace of warmth still remains. This camp was occupied not long ago.”
Harold casually responded, then shifted his gaze to the large patches of dried bloodstains.
“But these bloodstains have been dry for a long time. So, it’s not the same group of people?”
At this point, Harold’s voice paused, then he looked back at the northern sky.
“This location is probably not safe. We should go further south.”
“You don’t need to remind me, Harold.”
Hill retorted coldly.
“There should have been a tribe living here originally, but they were likely massacred later.”
As she spoke, Hill’s gaze thoughtfully swept towards the south.
“In other words, there’s a more powerful tribe nearby. And what we need to do now is find that tribe, take their food, and occupy their camp.”
Just as Hill was speaking, a tribal warrior under her command quickly ran over.
“Leader, a large number of footprints have been found over there.”
“Then send a team to follow the footprints and investigate, and the rest of the people, let’s rest in this ready-made camp for a few days.”
Hill paused slightly, then her tone became noticeably grave.
“I hope the food they stockpiled is enough for us to survive the Day of Calamity…”
At this moment, Luo Ji was unaware that a threat had already descended upon the northern mountain forest.
After hearing the system notification of a defensive victory and receiving a Bronze Treasure Chest as a reward, he was basically relaxed and diligently conducting auditions for opera actors in a designated venue.
The audition process was quite simple.
First, those who had signed up and came for the audition were asked to register for their desired roles one by one.
Then, different roles were grouped together, and they performed scene by scene.
However, this entire process was inevitably boring.
After all, Luo Ji had already watched Beauty and the Beast several times in the real world to remember the plot and lines, and he had even memorized the script.
Now, watching these people’s extremely awkward acting, and having to watch it over and over again, it would be strange if he wasn’t bored.
However, this was somewhat unavoidable.
Only he himself knew what kind of effect he wanted to achieve.
Under these circumstances, how could he assign this to others?
People coming for auditions changed group by group, and Luo Ji was not particularly strict when selecting them.
Although this audition was for actors for Beauty and the Beast, it was also for recruiting people for the theatre troupe in general.
According to Luo Ji’s idea, since he was going to do it, he might as well go big.
There would definitely be more operas to perform in the future, and it wouldn’t be possible to use the same few actors repeatedly, right?
With this in mind, Luo Ji basically accepted anyone he found decent.
What was a hundred-plus people to him? Would he, as an emperor, truly lack money?
Thus, the audition efficiency was quite high.
After one round of auditions, the number of reserve actors alone reached 137.
If combined with some support staff and prop masters, the total number of people in the theatre troupe would easily exceed 200.
Luo Ji had no particular opinion on this.
He directly instructed the printing factory to print another batch of the complete script.
137 reserve actors, one copy each.
As for who would star in Beauty and the Beast, apart from the male lead already confirmed as the Wolfman Li Feng, nothing else had been officially decided.
In Beauty and the Beast, the on-stage actors, even including the unnamed extras A, B, C, D, E, F, G, would only amount to 10 or 20 people in total.
As for the important characters with names and lines, one could count them on a few fingers.
Thus, Luo Ji’s intention was very clear: competition!
Anyway, he had already postponed the performance plan until next spring, and he had ample time, so what was there to rush?
As the saying goes, “slow work yields fine products.” First, let these 137 reserve actors choose the roles they wanted to play, then practice diligently for a month.
After a month, whoever performed best would be chosen as the lead.
Then, they would gather for 2 or 3 months of collective rehearsal, after which, by calculating the time, it would be roughly spring.
As for where the theatre troupe would rehearse, this audition venue would suffice.
Luo Ji, with a wave of his hand, assigned this venue to them.
He named it after Mirror City.
Thus, the first theatre troupe within his civilization, the Mirror Opera Troupe, was officially established.
Luo Ji also conveniently unlocked a ‘Opera’ cultural project.
With this, Luo Ji’s schedule for the coming days was set.
Mornings would be spent in his office handling incoming reports and documents, while afternoons would be dedicated to spending 1 to 2 hours guiding the opera rehearsals here.
His days were quite fulfilling. Meanwhile, Lu Yang, who had been appointed less than a month ago, looked at the increasing number of documents on his desk each day.
His life was also more fulfilling than ever before.
