Chapter 455: Chapter 440: Eloping (1st Update)
Lady Calamity ultimately failed to “persuade” the person in charge of the holographic projection device to restart it, and Jiang Qiao advised her via text to discuss the matter later and to first talk to Juan Canyun’s parents.
Thus, reminded by Jiang Qiao, Lady Calamity managed to control her temper and spared the equipnt operators, but the device’s failure to restart attracted a crowd of reporters instead.
The players from Jumping Nucleus were already the focus of this exchange event, with Juan Canyun being the center of attention among them.
Photos of Juan Canyun crying were ultimately posted online, directly hitting the top of the Weibo hot search list with the malicious headline, “Paper Wife Lost, Player Juan Canyun Breaks Down in Tears.”
The reporters invited to the martial arts exchange eting certainly wouldn’t miss such big news.
So when the news about Juan Canyun in Holy Spirit Venue spread, a swarm of reporters rushed over from all directions.
However, compared to the gathered reporters, the players from Jumping Nucleus found themselves entangled in a perplexing issue.
“What’s going on? Who’s that red-haired girl in front of Tang Wen?”
Stewpot Black, adhering to the principle of asking when in doubt, began to inquire among his teammates, although he already had an answer in mind but was reluctant to confirm it directly.
“Are you kidding? It’s obviously Lady Calamity in her modern outfit,” replied the teammate who was asked.
“But Lady Calamity just touched Tang Wen’s face! And she stepped on the sound system too! Could it be a Lady Calamity cosplayer or sothing?” another teammate speculated.
Because Lady Calamity’s actions had already proven to everyone that she was not just a hologram, but a living, breathing person in reality!
A living Lady Calamity!
“Conflict invited cosplayers to the venue as well, so Holy Spirit’s officials must have invited so too, right?”
The players from Jumping Nucleus seed to unanimously think that the Lady Calamity before them was just a cosplayer—in simple terms, soone dressing up as Lady Calamity in real life to mimic her appearance from the ga.
But the problem was…
“Isn’t this authenticity a bit too high?”
“Right, I even want to go up and get a photo with her.”
The private discussions among the Jumping Nucleus players reached the ears of Lady Calamity, and her gaze directly passed over Juan Canyun, looking at the group of Jumping Nucleus players standing behind him.
“What authenticity?” Lady Calamity directly asked one of the players behind Juan Canyun.
“It’s the character you’re cosplaying, miss. Did you rush here so quickly that you didn’t have ti to change your outfit? But your appearance matches Lady Calamity in the ga to a tee, are you perhaps the face capture model for Lady Calamity’s character? Has Holy Spirit’s production team arrived?”
Among the onlooking Jumping Nucleus staff was Little Feather, who was quite familiar with so of the ga production steps. Modern large-scale gas involve a facial capture modeling technology—transferring an actor’s real face into the ga with 100% authenticity.
This technology has beco very mature in ga production worldwide, so Little Feather thought that this red-haired woman might indeed be the actress for Lady Calamity.
“So Tang Wen’s wish to the planner was to et Lady Calamity’s actress? That’s a pretty good wish… Has Fureya’s actress arrived? What about other characters?” soone asked.
A holographic projection exchange, huh? The production teams from Conflict next door were all attending this exchange eting, so it was quite normal for Holy Spirit’s production team to participate as well.
The ga production team consists of not just modelers, programrs, and other mbers who build the ga itself, but also actors who provide the appearances and movents for important NPC characters, known as ‘motion and facial capture actors.’
Since Lady Calamity’s actress had already arrived at the Holy Spirit venue, perhaps the other NPC actors from Holy Spirit might show up as well.
Lady Calamity did not pay attention to the questions around her, as she knew why she had co to reality!
She directed her gaze towards the parents of Juan Canyun.
“My na is lrose, last na Shunarine. My father and grandfather were among the greatest pirates in what you would perceive as the universe. However, if you understand identities, I co from Norway and am an official worker of the Holy Spirit World.”
Lady Calamity initially wanted to share her family’s illustrious history with Juan Canyun’s parents, but seeing the bewildered expressions on their faces at just hearing her na, she decided to stick to the identity Jiang Qiao had fabricated for her.
“Norway? The country near the Arctic Circle?” both Juan Canyun’s father and mother, being educated, of course knew of Norway.
“Exactly,” Lady Calamity, not knowing where Norway was, casually confessed. Then, looking seriously at Juan Canyun’s parents, she said, “I am here to propose to your offspring. Although your offspring has already agreed, according to your customs parental consent is still needed. Thus, I earnestly ask for your offspring, Juan Canyun, to marry .”
“This… Miss lrose…aren’t you an actress from a ga? Is this also part of a play?” Juan Canyun’s father, having listened to the discussions of the lively nucleus of people, also believed that Lady Calamity might indeed be an actress from the Holy Spirit World.
For instance, Juan Canyun liked a character in a movie, but who has ever heard of the actor who played that character in the movie coming to propose to the audience as the played character?
“This is not an act!” Lady Calamity was pondering how to explain this to Juan Canyun’s parents when a microphone suddenly poked in front of her face.
“Miss lrose, you are seldom heard of among Norwegian actors, but you must know that Tang Wen, the player from the Lively Nucleus, is quite fond of the character Lady Calamity that you portray. Is this eting with Tang Wen arranged by the Holy Spirit World?”
“What portrayal?” Lady Calamity turned her head and realized that she had been surrounded by reporters before she knew it.
The relationship between Lady Calamity and Juan Canyun was indeed huge news! Super huge news! The reporters would not miss this opportunity.
“At the Holy Spirit Convention, the performance seed to depict the marriage of Lady Calamity and Tang Wen’s characters. How do you view the negative impact this officially arranged performance has on Tang Wen’s reputation?”
In the eyes of the reporters, Lady Calamity was just an actress hired by the Holy Spirit World, and the supposed wedding was nothing more than an official show.
“This isn’t any performance!” Lady Calamity’s voice was now filled with rage. She looked at the group of reporters surrounding her, and in anger, she reached for her left hip where she usually kept her pistol.
But Lady Calamity felt nothing. At that mont, Lady Calamity was jolted into realizing she was in reality; in this world, she could not simply shoot these disagreeable people in front of her with a pistol.
A feeling of helplessness that she had never known surged inside of Lady Calamity. She looked up and realized that the pirates under her command weren’t by her side, nor could she sense the presence of her warship, the Laughing Goddess, nor could she feel the power she held as the King of Plunderers.
In this world, Lady Calamity was nothing more than an ordinary girl.
“You…” Lady Calamity wanted to grab one of the reporters by the collar and punch him, but Juan Canyun caught her hand first.
Juan Canyun held Lady Calamity’s hand, and their gazes t…
“Let’s run,” Juan Canyun whispered to Lady Calamity.
“Run? I want to explain to these fools.” Lady Calamity wanted to shout at these idiots that she indeed was Lady Calamity! The great King of Plunderers from the Holy Spirit World! Juan Canyun’s fiancée! Not just an actress! This engagent wasn’t just a show!
But Juan Canyun tightened his grip on Lady Calamity’s hands, feeling the temperature of her hands as he spoke…
“Isn’t it enough that I know who you are? You are here, and being able to touch you is enough for ,” Juan Canyun said with all his strength, sounding sowhat embarrassed.
Lady Calamity stood motionless, stunned for a mont, then Juan Canyun repeated softly ‘we need to run,’ and Lady Calamity slightly nodded her head.
Then Juan Canyun took Lady Calamity by the hand and burst through the circle of reporters, running in a direction they themselves did not know.
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