Life is tough, so Honglong resorts to performing?

Chapter 67 The Devil's Standards
What does it feel like to face the five-colored evil dragons head-on, with their undisguised and naked dragon might?
Lena, who experienced it firsthand, said it was a very complicated feeling. It wasn't like a mouse being targeted by a cat, or the malice of being targeted by a natural enemy. It was more like a natural disaster or apocalypse coming for you.

Like a tornado uprooting mountains and felling trees, suddenly glancing at you and charging towards you; like a giant wave sweeping across the world, suddenly spotting you and grinning maliciously at you—that feeling of being targeted by heaven and earth, of being hated by the world…

Lena thought the description was ridiculous, but it was indeed her true feeling.

Fear gripped her throat, clouded her reason, and made her forget her original mission.

Compared to her, the cameraman on the other side was not so calm.

This was outside his original mission scope.

"Let me go, my boss is..."

The smell of sulfur and the rising smoke made Loren frown.

He broke the contract before I even asked him?

How interesting, this idiot's rank is even lower than I imagined.

Is it because they are insignificant ants, or is it...?

This soul was inherently inclined towards depravity and evil, so to the demons of purgatory, this guy was like second-hand junk, worthless and not worth investing too much energy in.

On the contrary, that woman over there might be worth more money?
At least in the devil's eyes, it is valuable.

Loren recalled the omnipotent group member who had told him about the devils' bizarre rules of the entertainment industry, which were truly eye-opening.

The least valuable souls are those that make money the fastest in the industry, namely, those rapidly rising new stars.

They fully cooperated with the devils' actions, accepting all the distorted ideas and transformations from the very beginning.

In the eyes of the devils, this is just a junior who hasn't even shed his skin yet, the kind who will try to steal their jobs after joining.

It's annoying no matter how you look at it, but it's really useful and is the main source of income for those devils.

The second category consists of those young people who, after joining the company, are inexplicably left out.

Most of them come from good families, and they come either to pursue their dreams or for money; there is also a part of nobility and kindness in their souls.

Such people should be ignored and left out of the loop, so that they will become jealous.

Watching those guys who started out worse than them, even less attractive, rise to prominence...

If one can withstand this cold treatment without becoming jealous, then that soul enters the third tier—those are the objects of the devil's special attention, rare gems among souls…

Of course, there are also exceptional individuals who come from slums but possess hearts of gold, who stumble into the entertainment industry, attempting to bring beauty to the world…

That time, because of that soul, it seems that the Nine Hells had a major falling out with the Federation's higher-ups. It's said that a layer of the plane was shattered and it took decades to repair.

It seems that in the end, a wicked rule was established that the devils could only tempt truly noble souls nine times.

In short, although the devils run an entertainment company and do the most profitable business, they never forget their original profession.

The soul is everything in the lower planes.

The nobler the soul, the rarer it is when it falls into depravity.

"Is there anything you want to say?"

Loren ignored the cameraman, muting and silencing him, and then began questioning the young woman who had hit her head with the order slip.

Based on Loren's observation of her, she should be a second-tier existence, which means that her contract has traps, but is also more relaxed.

"Oh, wow, the view from the sky is quite beautiful?"

She seemed to wake from a dream, looked around, and after holding it in for a long time, finally uttered a sentence that left Loren speechless.

His intelligence is unknown. No wonder Maurice valued him and made him perform being captured. He's just a fool.
"Why did you choose the devil's company and take on the devil's mission? Didn't you know that your soul would be taken away if you breached the contract?" Loren was helpless and decided to try to get some information out of him.

Foolish people are often much harder to deal with than smart people.

Among them, there might even be situations where you are very strong in combat and I have to obey you, but these two things are unrelated and unconnected.

Even if you hold his life and fortune in your hands.

"To become famous, to become a star, to appear on the silver screen, the Lord's company has the widest range of resources, so choose them."

The woman replied as if waking from a dream, adding that...

"As for contracts, as long as you don't breach them, you'll be fine, right? Many celebrities haven't had any problems."

She said it so matter-of-factly that Loren was speechless.

Nothing? You mean they're just a bunch of pretty faces, and their sudden promotions were a freebie with a phone top-up, right?

One by one, they were exposed and then lied that they had demon blood in their ancestors, so they became demon warlocks.

It's actually obvious at a glance that it's a standard sorcerer's method: having a high-ranking demon as the leader and granting him abilities. Only someone like you... would believe that, right?
It must be said that at this moment, Loren truly realized the difference in class.

Even the young children in the downtown area wouldn't believe that power and money come for free.

Adults in the Midtown area, or even higher up, actually believed that the devils' pact was ruthless and that they could get through it peacefully.

What can be said? Has the development and division of the Federation really reached such an absurd point?
Even though Loren felt that the woman in his grasp was actually an isolated case, a rare exception.

But the fact that the environment can nurture such an oddity speaks volumes.

Loren couldn't help but marvel at the diversity of life.

The world is so big that you and I actually live under the same sky.

Have you thought about what you're going to say when you get back?

Loren asked the woman.

"Just tell them you saw through me and even caught me for questioning?"

Lena tentatively replied.

"Hehe, hehe."

Loren sneered. For the first time, as a red dragon, he felt his blood pressure was getting out of control.

“I signed a contract, and I cannot lie against the Lord’s will.”

Seemingly sensing the disdain in Loren's sneer, Lena quickly added, which made Loren's blood pressure rise even higher.

How dare you sign a contract when you don't even know how to play word games with the devil?
Zhao Zilong charged in and out of Changban seven times, do you think you have the guts to borrow those skills from me?!
“We don’t need to deceive him, we just need to tell part of the truth.”

"You wouldn't want to lose your job or have your dream of becoming a star shattered, would you?"

Loren explained to the man as he flew.

He believed that with the devils' ability to see into people's hearts, they probably wouldn't have expected that this fool, who could be in a museum, would actually use rhetoric and deception.

With her as a cover, my future work might be a little easier.

Hmm, I hope so.

As Loren explained, he also thought with a touch of pessimism.

(End of this chapter)