Luo Feng led the team members to take a curtain call, only Zhang Daniu did not appear in public, and he was the most powerful in the background to prepare - to put Io's mechanical body in a good-looking pose, so that he would look handsome when he appeared on the stage during the auction.

"Ladies, ladies."

Let Carla and Tang Xiaotian step down first, Luo Feng solemnly announced: "To create the stage play "Titanic", it is still the treasure of 'Io, the lover who looks at him from afar, the immortal man for ten thousand years' that inspired me, it is indeed a historical wonder with a beautiful legend, please enjoy this treasure together." ”

Zhang Daniu pushed a pulley platform to the stage, and on the pulley platform was Io's mechanical body, covered with a black cloth.

Luo Feng bowed to the audience and said goodbye, and walked into the backstage under the reluctant eyes of the noble girls.

Clecia took over the auction, and she invited the audience to elect two representatives to come on stage to unveil "Io, the one who looks at lovers from afar, the one who is immortal for ten thousand years".

Dame Hathaway was undoubtedly elected, one of the most prominent of the noblewomen of Am, along with Madame Barana-Yanulim, the female mayor of Askatra.

It is no coincidence that Her Excellency the Mayor is here at the Five Wine Pot Hotel today, although she has nominally accepted an invitation from the art contractor Quartalis to come to the hotel, but in fact she has come to supervise the tax payment of the income from the auction.

Amm is a "tax-oriented" business country, and the mayors of major cities in the territory have a headache for urban security, and the second problem is to recover taxes. Fourteen percent of Am's residents are halflings and dwarfs, both of whom are major tax evaders and cause huge losses to Am's fiscal revenue every year.

If the number one household of tax evasion is dwarf, then the second largest household is art contractors. The value of an artwork is difficult to assess, and if it is a private transaction, both parties will simultaneously claim that the transaction will be made at a friendly price of 1 gold coin, then there is no need to pay taxes. But the actual turnover may be 10,000 gold coins.

Although the auction was public, the female mayor was still not at ease, she learned from the rumors that this artwork was not ordinary, it was extremely magical, and it would definitely fetch a sky-high price, and if the art contractor interfered with it and colluded with the auctioneer to falsely report the transaction price, then the Ascatra City Hall would suffer losses, which the female mayor would never allow to happen.

So she came in person today, saying that she was cheering, but in fact she was overseer.

The female mayor's eyes are also swollen, as the first strong woman in Am, others seem to her to be like an iron lady made of steel, not to mention tears, even when she bleeds, her face does not change.

Today, however, the aristocratic women of Amm saw a different side of the mayor, and she wept and shouted a man's name for a long time.

The mayoress and the dame took the stage, stood on either side of the sculpture covered with black cloth, and each grabbed a corner of the black cloth and lifted it with force.

"Io, the one who looks at her lover from afar, the one who is immortal for ten thousand years" is presented in front of the noble women of the city of Ascatra who have just experienced loneliness and sorrow, and are still indulging in love.

"...... Uproar"

There was a chorus of uproar.

"It's really exactly like Io in the stage play, his affectionate eyes are vivid......"

"Is this a sculpture? No! This is obviously a living person, could it be that Mr. Braderow is joking with everyone again? He dressed up as Io and pretended to be a sculpture on stage? ”

"Haven't you heard from Miss Clichia? Io is a living statue that can be immortal for thousands of years, and will remain the same forever as it was when it was alive. ”

Dame Hathaway looked at Io in a daze, and she reached out to caress Io's cheek, just as the aged Rose did in the last act of a stage play.

"Eros is on top of Shanny!" Hathaway's fingers touched Io's cheek as if it were burned, and she exclaimed, "This touch...... Just like when I stroked Lyle Carter's cheek at a wedding. ”

The more she looked at Io's face, the more it looked like her dead husband, only Io was younger and more handsome.

In fact, her husband's face in her memory has long been blurred, and Fei Lun has no photographic skills, but there are painters who paint portraits of nobles, and portraits are always a little distorted, and it is more common to look plausible.

This is now called the "empathy effect" in psychology, and what she really loves is the character Io in "Titanic", but it is just a fictional image, and the only object that can express her feelings in reality is Io's sculpture, and her affection has been transferred to the sculpture.

This is the same as the fact that animation nerds sell blood and buy figures, what is the return on investing heavily in the plastic villain industry? Feelings are the most important thing.

Io in the plot of "Titanic" is really a perfect lover, the prince charming in the minds of Ascatra women, and the dream demon Morpheus who meets in a beautiful dream.

She naturally transferred the feeling that the man she once loved the most to Io in her memory, thinking that Io resembled her former husband, both in terms of looking and touching.

It was just a delusion, but Hathaway was completely unaware of it, believing that this was the case.

"I've got to get him!" Dame Hathaway made up her mind.

She suddenly figured it out, what are you going to do with those little wolf dogs with other plans?

If you have Io, you can sit in front of him during the day and look at him quietly, or talk to him, he will look back at her with those affectionate eyes, patiently ask her to talk, and he will not get tired of it all day.

You can hold him at night, pill on his broad chest and let him accompany him through the long nights, even if there is a need, Io can satisfy her, even tirelessly.

What a great companion!

Even when she grew old, like a gray-haired old woman in the final scene of the play, Io would still look at her with affectionate eyes and treat herself as before.

Even if his life is gone, he will be buried with Io, and the immortal will accompany his remains for ten thousand years, how romantic and happy it will be.

However, standing on the stage, Dame Hathaway looked down and found countless pairs of greedy eyes, and every noblewoman in the audience probably had the same idea as her.

Miss Mina, the daughter of the Governor of the Port Authority, was already screaming and shouting, "He is my love!" My dear Io, I am willing to elope with you! ”

The mistress of the Dellin family blatantly lied: "Oh, this art treasure, my antique-loving husband will love it, and I must take a picture of Io and give it to him!" ”

Even the female mayor Lady Bailana, who has always been fair and strict with herself, took the opportunity to use her power for personal gain and quietly touched Io's solid chest muscles, and her hands and feet were very dishonest.

I'm afraid this auction can't be solved with a small amount of money.

There is only one Io, but there are hundreds of women who want to be Io's eternal lovers, and Am's annual tearing drama is about to start.