The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Thanks to the brainstorming of [Beast Senior] and others, the mineshafts riddled with holes by Skull Miners have been transformed into greenhouse tunnels for crop cultivation, completely solving the technical problem that "magic-accelerated growth doesn't easily yield bountiful fruits."

And what most concerned Luo Yan before, [One Mouthful of Chemical Pool], has finally turned his wild ideas into something useful.

This guy has set up the first genuine chemical factory in Great Graveyard in Beifeng City, producing the increasingly demanded picric acid explosives and fertilizers through "safe and reliable methods," finally no longer just a potentially explosive small workshop.

Everything is growing prosperously.

Thanks to these players being so reassuring, Luo Yan was able to devote more energy to the corruption of Thunder City.

Thunder City's Queen's District, Queen's Grand Theater, is the most luxurious theater in the entire Campbell Duchy and even the northeast coast of the Vortex Sea.

Two hundred years ago, the wealthy of Thunder City built this theater as a birthday gift to the then drama-loving Queen... much like how the Andes Family now presents "Erin's Eye" to the vanity-craving Duke Edward.

There is a saying that the street in Queen's District is named after this theater, even though most people today have long forgotten the old tale.

In the box on the theater's top floor, Andes and Luo Yan sat side by side on two sofas, looking at the dark theater below the stands.

What's about to unfold on stage isn't any troupe's performance, yet to Luo Yan sitting here, it isn't any different from a play.

"...I actually don't understand, if your family needs funds, you can just directly tell me, why raise funds in this manner?" Andes asked, with a puzzled expression, looking at Mr. Colin sitting on the adjacent sofa.

He wasn't doubting the strength of the Colin family but felt that sharing profits with unnecessary people was redundant.

If the Colin family planned to sell this one-tenth of shares, the Andes Family could entirely buy them up, even set the deal when discussing the share proportion... like having the Andes Family pay a bit more to take another ten percent stake or something.

Yet Colin didn't do this.

Not only did he avoid this, but he also asked the Andes Family's bank not to participate, giving this almost free money opportunity to others.

Since Thunder City has had banks, he had never heard such a strange request.

Did this esteemed Mr. Colin also get misguided by Princess?

Andes even entertained this disrespectful thought in his mind, though he didn't speak it out.

Seeing through Andes's confusion, Luo Yan only smiled lightly without directly answering this question, but instead, he asked a rhetorical question.

"Mr. Andes, do you know why I chose here for the public bidding venue?"

"To accommodate more audiences?" Andes asked, puzzled.

"It's to accommodate more actors."

Luo Yan gently swirled the wine glass in his hand, admiring the eager actors on the stage through that blood-red wine, with their impatient faces.

Everyone but him is on stage.

Including Yang Andes sitting beside him.

"I would like to invite you to watch a performance."

"This play is called 'Madness.'"