As expected by Claire, after Grand Theater on Wendy announced the suspension of performances, Randolph also quickly issued an announcement and also suspended the performances.
After such a long period of intense work, the masters have reached their limit, especially the scriptwriters. The ink in their stomachs is almost dry. In the past, writing a good-quality script took several months of careful polishing. Now it only takes a few days. Who can bear it? If there are not so many colleagues who can help, it will not last that long.
So after Claire informed them of suspending the performance, these masters went to Randolph to apply for a few days of rest. Randolph also nodded and approved it. He was the person in charge. He had long seen that his side would collapse sooner or later if things continued like this, but he was afraid of stopping Claire's side to pursue the victory, so he had to bite the bullet and resist. Now that the other side had suspended the performance first, he was relieved.
The only ones who were disappointed were the tourists from Nafu City, but they soon turned their attention to Nafu City's other consumer goods and started buying and playing like crazy. Claire has built an amusement park in the East District a long time ago, as well as the commercial consumption area in the East District, which is fully enough to support the consumption of these people.
Moreover, the new Magic Airship of Isaac has also been released, adding another income and expenditure item. Last time, there were a hundred Gold Coins a day and a large number of people put Gold Coins into Claire's pockets.
In short, these days, Nafu City's economy has reached a climax, and because of Wendy's battles with those masters, Nafu City's reputation has further increased. There are constantly new tourists coming to Nafu City every day, and Regan is too busy to keep their feet on the ground, constantly coming up with various new entertainment projects, new services and products, so as to prevent those tourists from coming away disappointed.
Unknowingly, Nafu City has now surpassed most medium-sized cities. Although it is not as large as some big cities, it has surpassed many big cities in terms of economy. Claire's tax revenue in this month has reached four to five million Gold Coins, which is several times higher than before.
Randolph dare not say that he is better than Claire in terms of intelligence, so the strategy in Nafu City is always defensive, lest Claire sees any fatal loopholes when he makes a move, and then gives himself a fatal blow.
But in the next few days, there was no new news on Claire's side. He knew that Claire's side would not give up so easily, but it did not affect his ability to take a good rest in the past few days. After all, only by replenishing his energy can he better deal with the various methods that followed.
One early morning, Randolph got up from the hotel bed, washed briefly, and then walked out of the room. Today, as usual, he will still go to the South District to watch the rehearsals of the masters. Although Claire has suspended the performance, there is no guarantee when he will resume the performance, so he still cannot relax.
"Good morning! Mr. Steve!" Randolph smiled and greeted the hotel owner.
Steve was talking and laughing with other guests. When he heard Randolph's greeting, his smile couldn't help but stiffen, and he no longer greeted Randolph with the usual smile.
Randolph felt a little strange, but he didn't care and continued, "I'm going out! May the Lord protect you!"
Randolph didn't go very far when he felt the discomfort like thorns on his back. He felt that the pedestrians on the road were looking at him with strange eyes.
Randolph stopped, turned back suddenly, and met those eyes staring at him, with some disdain, disgust, and fear in those eyes.
"Wow wow wow!" A child cried out when he saw Randolph turning around.
The pedestrians who were suddenly stunned were also awakened by the cry. They all withdrew their gazes, stared at the ground, and left quickly.
Randolph Originally wanted to stop one of them and ask for the reason, but those people saw him as if they were seeing the god of plague and were not willing to talk to him at all.
Randolph There is only one thought in my mind right now: something big has happened!
It must be that Claire who took action again, otherwise it would be impossible for these people to have such a big change in their attitude towards me. They would have greeted me in a friendly manner yesterday!
When he thought of this, an anxious look appeared on Randolph's face, and he no longer walked so leisurely. He spread his legs and trotted towards the theater in the South District.
Randolph just ran outside the theater. Before he entered, several priests rushed out of the theater. After seeing Randolph, they ran over quickly as if they had seen the backbone.
"Your Majesty Bishop, something serious has happened!"
"Master Bishop! You are finally here!"
"We were going to find you!"
"Your Majesty the Bishop..."
The priests looked anxious and rushed to Randolph's side. They rushed to talk and annoyed Randolph who was already a little impatient!
A big wave of your hand! He said, "Quiet! Talk one by one!"
After hearing the roar, the priests also became quiet. They no longer competed to speak, but looked at each other.
Randolph frowned upon seeing this, "Now I ask you to speak, but you can't speak out?"
Then he pointed to a priest and said, "Tell me, what happened? You are so panicked."
The pastor swallowed, and sorted out what he wanted to say. After about ten seconds, he said, "The thing is like this, when I first got up today..."
Randolph glared over, "Why don't you start from when you were born and focus on the key points!"
Randolph is a little irritable now. When he thinks that this is Claire's countermeasure against him, and that these priests look like headless flies, his temper cannot be as calm as usual.
The scolded pastor shrank his head in fear, and then he simply said, "Someone is spreading news that is not good for our church again..."
Randolph's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, he slowly raised his head and looked over, asking, "What did you say!"
"Someone is spreading negative news that is not good for our church." The pastor repeated it again and continued, "Most of it is about the corruption and bribery of pastors in many cities. There are also some pastors who are not true to their appearance, do not follow the rules of the church, go to pornographic places, and more seriously, they rape women and pay to kill people..."
Listening to the priest's description, Randolph's eyes widened and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
He knew more or less about these things. The church's restraint on pastors was not very strong. Many pastors in remote areas acted completely on their own initiative, so it was normal for some scum to appear among the pastors. However, because the church did a particularly good job in handling matters, some news broke out and was suppressed before it spread. Not only that, even in some big cities, bishop-level clergy would take the lead in corruption, collect money or do things that did not comply with canons and laws, and this was regarded as normal to them.
But it's one thing to be able to do it, but it's another thing to be exposed. What's more, there are things that can't be done in these leaked news, and the circumstances are extremely serious, such as: rape, hiring murderers, seizing farmers' land...