Chapter 256: Another New Drama

While the construction of the village base is steadily advancing, the Bredero Theater Company's Magic Shadow Company in Ascatra City has released the latest Magic Shadow disc.

This time, the six-person council that learned to be obedient reviewed this magic shadow drama, so as not to have prohibited content in it and destroy the good situation of Anmu's stability and harmony.

The name of this magic shadow drama is "The Orphan of the Golden Capital", which tells the story of a wandering orphan in the city of Ascatla, the capital of gold coins

The protagonist, Oliver Thester, is an orphan born in a workhouse run by the Church of Los Angeles, in this orphanage in the name of the Lord of the Morning Sun, which claims to use believers to offer gold coins for charity, the priests are full of their own pockets, and the orphans are starving and tortured.

The priest often beats the orphans on the grounds of depravity, and even the protagonist Oliver wants to ask for an extra bowl of porridge with the priest who comes to inspect the diocese, but is accused of being "greedy" and "lazy".

The orphanage is just a façade for the church in Los Angeles, making believers think that their donations are taken from the people and used by the people.

When the abused orphans die, they are secretly buried in the backyard of the orphanage, where the ghosts of children linger at night, complaining about grievances.

However, the way the priests of Los Angeles dealt with it was to summon divine power to purify and completely wipe out these unjust souls!

In the eyes of the good camp, the undead are all evil, and it is a righteous act to be obliterated by divine power!

After escaping from the cannibal-like orphanage, Oliver became a servant boy of a down-and-out aristocratic family with a glorious history, but because of the absurd laziness of the male owner and the profligacy of the mistress and the profligacy of the mistress, they recruited Oliver only because the orphan did not need a commission and could work for food.

Oliver was so humiliated and beaten that he escaped, but he didn't expect to strayed into the shadow thief's den.

Fagin, the minor leader of the Shadow Thieves' den, has gone to great lengths to train Oliver to be a pickpocket for him to drive.

Oliver was following his fellow thieves "Clever Ghost" and Bates out on the streets when he was arrested by Amber guards after he was mistaken for stealing a handkerchief from a merchant named Brownlow......

This drama is Luo Feng's splicing of Dickens's "The Orphan of the Fog" and Zhang Leping's "The Wanderings of Sanmao", and the theme of the story abandons the "benevolence" and "kindness and good retribution" of "The Orphan of the Fog", and is more inclined to the depiction of the living conditions of the poor people of Feilun under the oppression of imperialism and feudalism in "The Wanderings of Sanmao".

The show retains Nancy, a female thief from "The Orphan of the Fog", who, like Oliver, was born as an orphan living in a Los Sanda orphanage who lost her parents, and was sold to villains and criminals from a young age. It was she who saw little Oliver, who was similar to her own background, and resolutely stood up to protect him.

Nancy has a tragic fate, but has a clear water quality, she hovers between good and evil, but her humanity has never been extinguished, and it is with her help that Oliver is able to escape from the shadow thief's den.

After leaving the Shadow Thieves Guild, Oliver did not experience a series of fairy-tale coincidences like "Orphans of the Fog", and finally found out his life and inherited a huge inheritance, continuing the story of "Sanmao Wanderings".

Oliver, a wandering child, is so rich that the outside world thinks that the floor tiles are paved with gold, and this temple of gods is densely lined with "the first good city" like a "leased area", and starts a wandering journey with black humor in the midst of irony.

The ending of the story is open-ended, Oliver does not get a happy ending, nor does he get a tragic ending, his wandering continues, I don't know how long it will last.

This "Orphan of Jindu" was banned in the six-member council review by a four-to-two vote.

The representatives of the temple district, the nobles, the masked mages, and the shadow thieves voted against it.

The support of the representatives of the merchants and the common people could not save the way, and the play became the first production of the Bradero Theater Company to be banned from Am.

Before Am's official ban decree was announced, the Shadow Disc of "Orphan of the Golden Capital" had already been sold to the Shadow Merchant, and Luo Feng had long expected that this drama would definitely be banned, so he sold the Shadow Disc in stock half and gave it away at an ultra-low price below the cost in advance.

In order to support the underground black theater, Luo Feng also sent a large number of pocket versions of the "Light and Shadow Magic Box" that can be projected on a small screen.

In the continent of Faerun, there is a law that will not be written on the code, and that is: "As long as you don't get caught, it's not illegal." Thanks to the medieval level of criminal investigation ability, far fewer criminals on the continent of Faeron were caught than uncaught.

Regardless of what the council, nobles, and priests think, the Shadow Merchants know that this show will definitely be as popular with the common people as the previous "Temple of Losanda Temple" and make a lot of money, not to mention that this time the price of the magic crystal disc is lower than the cost price, and the disc comes with a pocket version of the "Light and Shadow Magic Box".

This kind of trade is risky, but can the risk be higher than going to the dark region to sell elven slaves, and to go to the bottomless abyss to sell souls?

Because the risk is a little bigger, you don't want to be a person who makes money and trades, and you don't deserve to be a businessman at all!

The underground cinema of Ascatra was also built, just below the temple area, and it was reached through a secret door through the sewers.

The ruined Blind Cult base in the sewers, the Mind Flayer Camp and the laboratory of the evil wizard Merkris are now underground theaters invested by the Bradero Theatre Company, where people can watch movies for free.

The ban decree of the Amm Six Council did not work at all, almost everyone in the citizens of Ascatra City watched this "Orphan of the Golden Capital", and even some nobles secretly watched it with the "magic box of light and shadow" in their private homes, after all, the gimmick of banning films has a greater appeal to the audience.

Helen, the electant of Eros, also quietly watched this drama, she was moved, tears couldn't stop flowing, she thought the drama was very good, and after watching it, she was very worried, and she also liked the cute and educated orphan protagonist who was born in the play but still maintained a good heart.

But she also thinks that this drama should not blaspheme the Lord of Dawn, Luoshanda, and satirize the noble and elegant nobles, and her contradictory mood makes her unable to evaluate this drama again.

Even, some members of the Shadow Thieves Guild quietly watched the show, and these thieves fell silent after watching it, and the experience of the protagonist Oliver made them empathize, and many people joined the Shadow Thieves Guild like Oliver, but they did not meet a patron like Nancy.

Civilians began to think after watching "The Orphan of Jindu".

Why?

Why is it that in the richest city of the richest country in the continent of Faeron, there are still countless people struggling in poverty, why is the temple area adjacent to the slum, separated by a river that is not wide, standing on the bell tower of the temple, you can clearly see every corner of the slum, but the gods can't see it as if they are blind.