Josiah just sat there and watched the entire real-life version of "Beauty and the Devil".
This space was constructed from the impressions of the audience. There were many parts of this space that did not conform to reality, but some parts felt no different from reality.
The scene where Belle and the Devil Prince played.
One second, Josiah was sitting in the castle, and the next second, the scene changed to a snow-covered garden outside the castle.
Belle and the Devil Prince were running in the garden, and Josiah had to find a place to sit down in the snow.
The cold feeling of the snow passed through Josiah's fingertips into his mind. It was a pity that the snow looked soft, but when Josiah touched it, it was as hard as ice.
As Josiah counted the time until the end of the movie, he heard another eerie laughter.
The girl covered in a black robe focused all her attention on Belle and the Devil Prince. Even though Josiah was sitting not far from her, she treated Josiah like air.
But she would laugh strangely from time to time. It was the laughter of a little girl, but the sound of gears jamming made Josiah's hair stand on end.
"Is it really that funny?"
Josiah asked her. She was covered in a black robe, and Josiah could only see a small part of her arm that was exposed.
She looked to be around ten or twelve years old, but her arms were branded with some complicated patterns that looked like inscriptions.
When she heard Josiah's voice, her laughter stopped for a while, and then she laughed again.
The more Josiah listened, the stranger he felt. It was as if the person sitting next to him was not a real person, but a doll that would laugh when a switch was pressed.
The performance of "Beauty and the Devil" continued. When the movie came to an end, the scene changed to the cliff behind the castle, and her laughter finally stopped.
The scene of the Demon Prince dying in Belle's arms made it hard for anyone to laugh.
Josiah had watched the original version of "Beauty and the Devil" several times, so even if this scene was presented in front of Josiah, Josiah could still watch it expressionlessly.
On the other hand, the little girl's laughter had gradually turned into a sobbing sound. Then, she covered her chest with her hands.
"Are you … okay?"
Josiah felt that she was overreacting. "Beauty and the Devil" was not a deliberately funny movie. She did not stop laughing during the whole movie, but this time, it was as if she was suffering from angina, and her crying sounded sad.
She ignored Josiah's concern. In the next second, her figure suddenly became blurred, and then she disappeared in front of Josiah.
Was this the end of the movie?
Josiah glanced at Belle, who was crying while hugging the Devil Prince's corpse in the distance. The movie was not over yet.
But the girl's departure meant that Josiah could return to the consciousness of the World Tree.
The words "Holy Tree's consciousness" appeared in Josiah's mind, and sure enough, the surroundings gradually became blurred. In the blink of an eye, Josiah had returned to the consciousness of the Holy Tree with two cats and one bird.
"Hmm … Let's get to work first."
Josiah had developed the habit of slacking a long time ago, so Josiah did not mind watching a movie before starting work.
But now, Josiah began to focus on the construction of the new Magic Net.
… …
On the outskirts of the stronghold.
"Heart Lock, are you finally awake?"
The leader of the black-robed men saw the short figure gradually waking up from her coma and immediately walked up to her.
"Can you still move?" the black-robed man asked softly.
"My bodily functions are normal."
Heart Lock replied in a strange voice. But when she tried to stand up again, a huge torrent of emotions surged into her mind.
This emotion known as sadness spread wantonly in her mind … In this sadness that bordered on despair, she could not even stand properly. Her entire body fell to the ground as tears fell incessantly into the snow.
"Lady Heart Lock?"
The black-robed man panicked because of her sudden collapse.
"There's no damage anywhere on my body …"
She clutched her chest as a feeling of pain surged into her heart. This feeling of suffocation made her unable to think for more than ten minutes.
Not long after, she gradually recovered from the sadness, and then sat in the snow to adjust her consciousness.
"If you feel hungry, inside that stronghold …"
The black-robed man seemed to think that she was in pain because she had not eaten her fill.
"Stronghold?"
Heart Lock raised her head and looked at the tall wall not far away. Her eyes were filled with tears, so her vision was still a little blurry.
"There are enough humans there to serve as your food, Lady Heart Lock." The black-robed man said with an agitated voice.
She only hesitated for a moment before looking at the leaf of the World Tree in her hand.
In the space she had just entered, she had tasted a snack known as Joy. Not only was it far more delicious than the emotions she had absorbed from a single human, the amount was also terrifying.
But at the end, the surging sadness made her feel extremely pained!
But those joyful emotions made her very infatuated, and she even felt like she was addicted.
"Not interested." She replied with a cold voice.
"Lady Heart Lock."
The black-robed man became a little anxious. Just as he was about to say something, she stretched out her arm that was covered in inscriptions. Due to her height, she could only touch the man's abdomen.
In the next second, the black-robed man clutched his head and knelt in the snow. His expression became extremely distorted.
She silently found a withered tree, then sat in the snow, and once again injected mana into the leaves of the World Tree.
This time, the scenery she saw was not the magnificent stronghold but a garden.
"Woof!"
The sound of an animal attracted her attention. She turned around and saw a dog wagging its tail at her.
Her eyes were once again dyed with color. When she reached out her hand to touch the furry creature, it directly ran away, all the way to the side of an old man and turned around.
This scene once again made her feel a completely different emotion from Joy. It was very warm.
Unfortunately, Josiah was also pulled into this space. The second before he arrived, Josiah was still thinking about how to write a piece of code.
But the next second, he was in the garden. Judging from the scene of the old man and the dog being intimate, this should be the movie "The Loyal Dog Hachi".
This gradually rising passion for work, the feeling of being suddenly cut off when inspiration was surging … Josiah had the urge to beat someone up.
Josiah looked around and quickly saw the black-robed girl.
"How many movies do you watch in a day? You just finished "Beauty and the Devil", and now you're watching "The Loyal Dog Hachi"? Don't you need to rest?! "
She still did not reply to Josiah.
"..."
Josiah helplessly rubbed his eyebrows. This time, Josiah was not in the mood to watch the movie with her and immediately left the space.
When Josh opened his eyes again, Ciri had already set up a barbecue grill not far from him and was roasting some meat.
"I brought these ingredients from the Hearthstone tavern!" Hiri said.
"Yes … I can see that." Josiah tiredly walked to Hiri's side and looked at the large piece of meat on Hiri's barbecue grill.
There were no creatures here that could be barbecued.
"What strange bug did you run into again?" Hiri also saw that Josiah's expression was slightly frightening.
"No … I just ran into a troublesome virus." Josiah looked up at the silvery white leaves of the World Tree and thought about the method the girl used to invade the holy tree's consciousness.
When she entered, Josiah felt it. When the name "The Loyal Dog Hachi" appeared in Josiah's mind, Josiah directly appeared in the space of the movie.
"So the choice of the movie is in my hands?" Josiah recalled when she was watching "Beauty and the Devil" and laughed crazily, and the final scene was completely consumed by sorrow.
Josiah could roughly confirm that she was the "immersed" type of audience.
"Hiri, we might have to make a trip back to Noland first." Josiah said.
"The server is done so quickly?"
"How could that be? It's just that before building the server, I was planning to shoot a horror movie."
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