Chapter 314 Carnival Celebration
Shen Cheng had seen the return ceremony held for Xiao Qingque in Baiye Country before. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the square and surrounding areas to celebrate together. That grand scene was the first time Shen Cheng had seen it in his two lifetimes.

However, compared with the entertainment celebration held in Yongle City, the return ceremony of Baiye Kingdom was just like a gathering of elementary school students. There was no possibility of the two competing on the same stage.

In order to cater to guests from all over the world, Yongle City had to choose to hold entertainment celebrations during the day.

Early in the morning, all kinds of noises were heard all over the city.

When Shen Cheng opened the window of the hotel, the first thing he saw was hundreds of large and small airships in the sky.

These airships are dressed up as various fish and float slowly in the air. They look like schools of fish swimming in the sea. The scene is extremely spectacular.

In addition to the airships, there were also planes constantly flying through the air, scattering ribbons and candies that fluttered like snowflakes.

In addition to the sky, there are long parades of floats on almost every street on the ground, with different themes ranging from children to adults. Every square in the city is a large entertainment center, and no matter where you go, you will be surrounded by an atmosphere of entertainment and joy.

The most important thing is that on this day of entertainment celebration, except for some special items, all other entertainment projects are free to experience.

Jin Xing was just like a great philanthropist, satisfying guests from all over the world for free on this day.

In Shen Cheng's eyes, the entire Yongle City seemed to have come alive at this moment, turning into a giant beast that seemed to be breathing, emitting a melody woven together by countless sound waves.

Millions of people gathered together to celebrate and practice the concept of entertainment.

After closing the window, Shen Cheng ordered No. 1 and the other two to follow him.

Although he has been ignored by Yongle City in the past few days, as a special envoy of Baiye Kingdom, Shen Cheng is still qualified to participate in the carnival celebration.

The so-called carnival celebration refers to a party that only those who are invited can attend. It is said that the tickets to participate have been sold at a daunting price on the black market, and cannot be bought with money alone.

Not to mention Shen Cheng, even the three members of No. 1 had never participated in one, but they did understand the content of this carnival celebration.

It is said that guests who attend the carnival celebrations will be able to enjoy unforgettable wonderful performances and receive mysterious little gifts carefully prepared for them by Yongle City.

Finally, Jin Xing personally came out to give a speech. After the speech, every guest present had the opportunity to win a mysterious grand prize.

The three members of No. 1 were grateful to Shen Cheng in their hearts. If it weren't for Shen Cheng, they might never have been qualified to participate in the carnival celebration.

The group of four set out from the hotel and took the vehicle prepared by the hotel to the grand theater in the city center.

Although the whole city is celebrating, Yongle City has been hosting entertainment celebrations for many years and has a mature set of plans and processes. It has reserved enough channels in advance to keep traffic smooth and avoid being stuck in a certain place.

The four of them soon arrived at the most famous theater in the city center.

All kinds of luxury cars are parked here, and a large number of security personnel are maintaining traffic and order. The atmosphere seems a bit tense.

Gao Yi has been working very hard these days. He has killed more pigs than anyone else, causing panic among the people of Yongle City. Especially on an important occasion like today, they have to increase security efforts.

Not only at the Grand Theater, the security forces of the entire Yongle City were out in full force and assigned to every area, and patrol officers could be seen everywhere on the streets.

Shen Cheng knew that Gao Yi would definitely make big news today, and Yongle City probably knew it as well. Now it all depended on which of the two sides was better at making things happen.

After showing the invitation letter, Shen Cheng entered the theater with three bodyguards.

Originally, guests were not allowed to bring bodyguards, but thanks to Gao Yi's efforts during this period, Yongle City had to give in and allow each guest to bring in up to three bodyguards.

The number of people on Shen Cheng's side is just right, so there is no need to leave any unlucky guy waiting outside.

The Grand Theater is very large and is divided into three floors: upper, middle and lower. The bottom floor is the stage, the middle floor is ordinary seats, and the top floor is the boxes.

Relying on his title as the special envoy of Baiye Country, Shen Cheng got himself into a small private room, which had a broad view and a good location.

The large theater that could accommodate a thousand spectators at the same time was soon filled with guests from all over the world. These guests were either rich or noble, and their quality was good, at least they were not noisy.

Accompanied by melodious music, a lively opening performance appeared on the stage below.

After the opening performance, a big shot appeared on the podium in the middle of the stage - Duke Jin Yan.

As the second-in-command of Yongle City and the person in charge of internal and external affairs, he is the one who gives the opening speech at every entertainment celebration.

Shen Cheng sat in the box, looking down at Jin Yan who was standing on the podium.

Jin Yan is a cold and serious middle-aged man. He is very tall and wears an extremely gorgeous robe. He exudes the majestic aura of someone who has been in a high position for a long time.

If a crown were placed on his head, no one would doubt that he was a king.

In fact, when Jin Xing was not in charge of things, it made no difference to say that Jin Yan, who held all the power, was a king.

Jin Yan's opening speech was very dull, but no one dared to comment because there was a guest who made noise when Jin Yan was giving a speech, and he was caught and thrown out of the Eternal Empire.

Fortunately, Jin Yan’s speech was not too long, it only took a few minutes, and the content was very ordinary. To sum it up in one sentence, it was that everyone is welcome to come and have fun, eat and drink well.

Shen Cheng was looking at Jin Yan the whole time without blinking.

He even summoned the demon armor in the middle and carefully sensed the energy fluctuations emanating from Jin Yan.

By the time Jin Yan finished his speech and left the stage, Shen Cheng had already judged that the Duke's strength was about the same as that of the strongest Star Ranger Shangguan Zhou, and that he was a person with real abilities who had embarked on the journey of destiny.

No wonder he was made Duke. He is much stronger than the average ace. Even Shen Cheng is not sure of winning against him.

While Shen Cheng was distracted, the following performance had already begun.

First there was dancing, then acrobatics and magic, and then there were circus performances.

Shen Cheng watched for a while and had to say that these performances were world-class and very exciting.

But it is said that there are unforgettable performances in the carnival celebrations. If you only refer to these, it is simply the difference between a seller's show and a buyer's show.

Many guests who came to the carnival for the first time also frowned.

If these were just ordinary performances, they could watch them in their hometowns, so why would they have to travel thousands of miles to watch them?

Only those guests who have participated in carnival celebrations many times will wait patiently for the real show to begin.

After several performances, the stage was cleared, and only a beautiful woman came on stage with graceful steps and a microphone in her hand. It seemed that she was a singer, preparing to perform a singing show.

The old guests who were originally calm became excited, causing a commotion in the originally quiet audience. "This woman doesn't look special."

Number Three muttered something quietly, and then received a warning look from Number One, telling her not to talk nonsense.

The woman on the stage took the microphone and began to sing. There was no accompaniment or performance, just a simple a cappella song.

As soon as she opened her mouth, the three people in No. 1 opened their eyes wide in surprise. The singing of this female singer was like the sound of nature, reaching everyone's ears and making every listener feel extremely surprised.

Such a rare and beautiful voice, like the legendary siren song, would be destroyed by performance and accompaniment.

All the guests could not help but concentrate and listen attentively, gradually becoming intoxicated by the singer's perfect voice. Their consciousness began to empty and their brains immersed in an extremely wonderful state.

Shen Cheng felt something was wrong at the first moment, and immediately used mind magic to protect his brain and consciousness, isolating himself from the beautiful music.

Beside him, three incompetent bodyguards were already immersed in the singing, just like three idiots, sitting there stupidly, with smiles unconsciously appearing on their faces.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on them. Except for Shen Cheng and Jin Yan who was also watching the performance, everyone else in the theater was captivated by the song.

It turns out that this is the so-called unforgettable performance, which is a cheating method based on hypnosis-like abilities.

However, unless the guest is of Shen Cheng's level, ordinary guests, not to mention masters, even aces may fall into the trap.

"Ok?"

Shen Cheng felt something was wrong at this time and immediately summoned the demon armor.

Under the perception of the demon armor, the three members of No. 1 who were intoxicated by the singing actually emitted a special energy fluctuation.

Not only them, but all the guests in the theater who were captivated by the singing were emitting this special energy fluctuation.

This energy fluctuation was different from ordinary energy, and Shen Cheng couldn't tell what it was. He could only sense that they all gathered together to form an extremely huge energy torrent that penetrated the ceiling of the theater.

Shen Cheng enlarged the sensing range of the demon armor and was shocked.

It turns out that it's not just the Grand Theater. Within the sensing range of the Demon Armor, this special energy fluctuation is emanating from the bodies of every tourist in every place, but there are more energy fluctuations at the Grand Theater.

Countless energy fluctuations gathered together to form rivers, all flowing to one place - the Toy City, Jin Xing's residence.

This strange situation made Shen Cheng realize that the purpose of Yongle City holding the entertainment celebration was not simple, perhaps it was to collect this special energy fluctuation.

However, no matter whether it was the guests in the theater or the tourists outside, a steady stream of special energy fluctuations was drawn from their bodies, but they did not show the slightest discomfort.

Shen Cheng frowned and looked in the direction of Jin Yan. Although he couldn't see the person, the huge energy contained in the other person's body was as dazzling as a star.

What is strange is that this special energy fluctuation does not emanate from Jin Yan's body.

The singer's voice gradually became louder and louder, and the emotions of all the guests in the theater also fluctuated accordingly.

They began to behave unruly; some stood on their seats and sang loudly, some danced on the spot, and others ran around with their hands and feet waving.

This is a carnival? It is indeed a carnival.

Number One and Number Two were already hugging each other, and the scene was quite eye-catching.

Number Three approached Shen Cheng with a silly smile on his face, but was kicked away by him.

An unprecedented special energy fluctuation erupted from this group of out-of-control guests, almost filling the entire theater.

Shen Cheng finally understood what these special energy fluctuations were—they were all emotions.

These guests were immersed in the carnival, and the intense emotions born out of their highly active brains were transformed into some special energy, which was then absorbed by Jin Xing's toy city.

Not only the Grand Theater, but even the entire Yongle City, tens of millions of people are immersed in the entertainment celebration. The emotional energy generated by them is so enormous.

Sure enough, there is no free lunch in this world, and Jin Xing, the bloody king, is not a good man either.

He holds an entertainment celebration every three years, offering free admission to attract guests from all over the world, not for charity, but to collect emotional energy.

But what is the purpose of collecting emotional energy?

Shen Cheng remembered one thing. His mind magic also had abilities related to emotions, but they were too abnormal, so he kept them under the box and never used them again.

Faced with this strange situation, Shen Cheng once again used mind magic to try to contact the emotional energy floating in the air.

The moment they touched each other, these emotional energies rushed towards him like a magnet attracted to a magnet and instantly penetrated into his body.

The thought magic seemed to become a little stronger, and then became restless.

Shen Cheng could clearly feel that the mind magic seemed to have suddenly turned into a hungry puppy, constantly urging him to absorb more emotional energy.

"Ok?"

Jin Yan, who was resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and looked in a certain direction of the theater.

In the last second, he seemed to feel that there was a slight gap in the collection of emotional energy, but now it has returned to normal.

After finding nothing wrong, Jin Yan closed his eyes again, thinking about how to deal with the situation in Yongle City where the traitor was colluding with the external enemy.

"so close!"

Shen Cheng stopped the absorption of emotional energy by mind magic in time and was almost discovered by Jin Yan.

Sure enough, as the second-in-command of Yongle City, Jin Yan is very familiar with emotional energy. It is even very likely that he appeared here to supervise in person.

After just a few seconds of absorption, his thought magic was significantly enhanced. If he continued to absorb, he might be able to break through to five-star ability.

Shen Cheng looked up at the emotional energy that was flowing away like a torrent, and his heart was filled with regret.

But a lack of patience can ruin a great plan, and he doesn't want to expose his strength to Jin Yan now.

And now that we already know about emotional energy, there will be plenty of opportunities to absorb it in the future.

(End of this chapter)