novelGlobal #238 - Chapter 238 Confrontation between the stage and the audience
#238 - Chapter 238 Confrontation between the stage and the audience
Just then, an untimely voice interrupted Zhu Yuan.
Instantly, everyone's gaze turned in unison towards the same direction, Zhu Yuan included.
Originally, his expression held a hint of displeasure, but upon seeing that the speaker was Li Chenqiu, the smile returned to his face.
"What's wrong?" Zhu Yuan asked gently.
Li Chenqiu stepped out of the crowd, looked directly at Zhu Yuan, and said, "I have a question in my mind that I would like you to answer."
Zhu Yuan didn't respond immediately, but slightly turned his head to look at Zhu Le beside him.
Zhu Le nodded.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuan continued, "Ask away!"
Under the gaze of the crowd, Li Chenqiu pointed to the stone slab behind him and said coldly, "Just now, I passed the tenth group's Divine Marriage selection. Do you think I deserve it?"
Zhu Yuan said calmly, "Naturally."
"Naturally?" Li Chenqiu shook his head, "But I don't think so."
"You..."
Just as Zhu Yuan was about to say something, Li Chenqiu spoke first, directly interrupting him.
"During the selection just now, I encountered a series of perplexing things. Clearly, I didn't use any force, yet my opponent was seriously injured and fell to the ground. Clearly, I was strolling around the field without restraint, yet no one attacked me.
Clearly, I was just standing there casually, yet someone was injured and eliminated because of me. Clearly, I was about to fly out of the field, but I was stopped by a strange force, so..."
Li Chenqiu lowered his eyebrows, and a coldness surged in his eyes: "Why are you acting against me? Why didn't you let me get eliminated?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire place fell silent, and countless gazes wandered back and forth between Li Chenqiu and Zhu Yuan.
Those audience members who were originally a little confused felt their eyes suddenly light up after hearing these words, and the fog in their minds was swept away.
The actors standing in the crowd exchanged glances and began to silently recite their identity backgrounds in their minds, or rather, the identity backgrounds that Zhu Le had arranged for them.
At the moment when the atmosphere on the field dropped to freezing point, it rebounded, and the noisy discussions spread like a plague, rapidly spreading outward from a small area until it swept across the entire football field.
"Was the tenth group just now a group of actors? Really?"
"I don't know, but if we follow what this kid said, then everything that was strange before can be explained!"
"It shouldn't be, right? Divine Marriage is supposed to be fair and just, isn't it?"
"Yeah, the Human-Serpent Tribe shouldn't do this kind of thing, right? What's the difference between this and blasphemy?"
"What if it wasn't the Human-Serpent Tribe who did it?"
...
On the high platform, Zhu Yuan held the microphone and couldn't speak for a long time.
He never expected that Li Chenqiu would say such things on this occasion.
Clearly, he wanted to join the Human-Serpent Tribe. Now someone is secretly helping you. Shouldn't this be something to be happy about? Why say it out loud in public? What's the point?
"Can Divine Marriage be cheated on?"
"Then what was the blood we shed before? A game of house?"
"What about the promised fairness? This can all be manipulated behind the scenes. Why even bother with the selection? Isn't this a waste of time?"
The youths standing under the high platform shouted angrily.
"Chief Zhu, I hope you can give me an explanation, give everyone an explanation," Li Chenqiu said, his eyes growing colder as he saw Zhu Yuan's long silence.
He clearly understood that the person who could do all this must have a very high position in the Human-Serpent Tribe.
Li Chenqiu didn't know why the other party wanted him to pass the Divine Marriage, but he understood that it would definitely not be a good thing. His ability being sealed might be related to the other party!
The top priority now is to quickly remove the Divine Mark and then board the Ghost Ship and leave this place of right and wrong.
Now, he and Xiang Nanzhi are weak and alone and cannot compete with the behemoth that is the Human-Serpent Tribe. Only by using the power of public opinion might they have a chance to break free from the clutches of the devil.
Seeing the scene getting more and more chaotic, Zhu Yuan clenched the microphone and shouted loudly with an unhappy expression, "I hope everyone will not maliciously speculate about the Human-Serpent Tribe. Quiet down and give us a chance to speak!"
Zhu Yuan's voice resounded throughout the venue. Although the noisy discussions still existed, they were much weaker than before.
Zhu Le stepped forward, took the microphone from Zhu Yuan's hand, calmly looked around the audience, and there was not a trace of panic on his face.
He had expected this situation for a long time. Although it was somewhat different from what he had expected, it was not a big problem.
Under the gaze of countless eyes, Zhu Le slowly opened his mouth and said, "The reason why Divine Marriage is called Divine Marriage is because it is the will of the gods. Our Human-Serpent Tribe will never impose our personal will on Divine Marriage and do things that violate the will of the gods."
Speaking of this, Zhu Le's eyes suddenly became firm and devout: "If we violate it, the Human-Serpent Tribe will be doomed!"
As soon as these words came out, the tall building that Li Chenqiu had built in everyone's hearts instantly collapsed, and the suspicion of the Human-Serpent Tribe disappeared.
The gods are the root of the tribe, and everything in the tribe is built on the gods. No one would joke about the gods of their tribe.
This is a deeply ingrained idea, and it is also a reverence from the heart!
"I didn't want to question the Human-Serpent Tribe, I just clearly understand that I was pushed up here. Being able to successfully stand to the end has nothing to do with me personally.
I hope the Human-Serpent Tribe can find out who is standing behind me, give everyone clarity, remove the Divine Mark on my head, and give everyone fairness, that's all."
Li Chenqiu looked at Zhu Le calmly.
The two just looked at each other from a distance.
"It seems that there may really be something fishy about this round of selection!"
"Since Zhu Le can say such a thing, then it must not be the Human-Serpent Tribe who did it."
"But besides the Human-Serpent Tribe, who else can control the Divine Marriage selection?"
"Strange, who is lying, or is there some force hidden behind that we don't know about?"
The crowd swayed constantly in the wind like grass on a wall.
Neither side lied, but there were some differences.
Li Chenqiu told everything honestly, but Zhu Le covered up some things.
He used the will of the gods to cover up his actions and used the so-called personal will to clear the Human-Serpent Tribe, a point that even Li Chenqiu did not notice.
On the high platform, Zhu Le put the microphone to his mouth and said helplessly, "I'm sorry, I can't do it."
Li Chenqiu frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice, "Why can't you do it? Leaving me, a cheater, here, isn't this contrary to the fairness of Divine Marriage?"
Zhu Le shook his head: "Eliminating you is contrary to fairness."
Without waiting for Li Chenqiu to ask further, Zhu Le explained, "Who to eliminate is not up to our Human-Serpent Tribe to decide, but up to the gods to decide. We are just the executors and organizers."