Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 178 In Rome
This conference hall, with sixteen granite pillars, resembles the Pantheon, the pinnacle of domed architecture of the Roman Empire.
In addition to the magnificent lighting installations, the designer has carefully painted gorgeous images of gods on the majestic circular dome. Together with the life-size Roman sculptures in the hall, at this moment, under the illumination of the lights, it is as if the gods have come alive, gazing at the people in the venue with compassion.
At this time, the music had stopped, and the women who had been active in the hall had already left. The men attending the meeting gathered together with champagne in their hands, and their eyes were turned to the platform in the venue.
Dozens of figures wearing black hooded robes and with unclear faces and figures appeared in the corners around the hall. They stood quietly behind the sixteen granite pillars, like sculptures, but the white calves and colorful high-heeled shoes deliberately exposed under the knee-length robes subtly reminded everyone in the hall that they were different from the statues.
The representatives of David's friends from elementary school, middle school, and college have finished speaking. Now it is Tommy Hawke's turn as the representative of the CS gang to talk about David, his good brother in his eyes.
"Thank you friends for giving such high praise to David, the idiot. Are you sure he is a real friend and not an actor he hired? Well, just kidding. David Schaeffer is undoubtedly a true leader and our dearest friend." Tommy held the microphone sanctimoniously, stood on the high platform of the venue, and said to the audience with a sly smile:
"I knew he would be a future leader of America when I first became friends with him at St. Vincent."
When he mentioned the name, several men in the CS group in the front row laughed loudly. Kevin said with great joy: "Every time I think about the incident between him and Chris, I laugh so hard."
"Yeah, I'm surprised that incident didn't stop David from going into politics," Chris said seriously.
Tommy laughed on the stage and talked about David's embarrassing moments in summer camp: "When David was in St. Vincent's summer camp, he served as the country's interior minister. However, he always felt that the position of interior minister could not bring out his potential, and the position of finance minister was the most suitable for him because he was poor enough."
"It's just that the position of Chancellor of the Treasury belonged to another good friend of David, Chris. David found Chris and said to him, I think we can have a fair election and canvass votes from the citizens of Kingston. In the end, the one with the highest number of votes will be the Chancellor of the Treasury and control the financial power of the country, and the one with the lowest number of votes will be the Interior Minister and be responsible for helping Prime Minister Tommy Hawke fix the unstable table leg in his office. Uh, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Tommy Hawke."
"Chris couldn't stand it anymore and finally agreed. So, the two guys excitedly formed their own campaign teams and planned campaign rallies. You may not know that Kingston is actually not as big as today's venue. There is only one open space called a square in the entire capital. As expected, David and Chris's first campaign rallies were arranged there, and they were held at the same time. The two sanctimonious guys performed actions such as shaking hands with citizens, kissing children, and giving speeches. St. Vincent is a tropical country with changeable weather. It happened that when they were halfway through the rally, it rained heavily. Chris is from California, and California often encounters such temporary rainfall, which makes him experienced. He immediately took his team and rushed into a nearby building to avoid the rain like a wild dog. David is different. David is from Georgia on the East Coast. He is very pragmatic. According to the plan, he continued to interact with citizens in the rain and gave exciting campaign speeches in the rain. He felt that he would definitely defeat Chris, who gave up on voters halfway because of the rain. Until he finished his performance, he accidentally overheard the conversation between two Kingston citizens."
"The conversation was brief. One citizen said to his companion, 'A heavy rain will let us know who to vote for.' His companion said, 'That's right, we can't vote for an idiot who doesn't know how to hide from the rain.'"
The crowd below immediately burst into laughter.
After Tommy finished telling the joke, he pointed to the aisle next to him and introduced to the audience: "Everyone, let us welcome the absolute protagonist of tonight, our dearest friend, David Shaffer!"
As Tommy finished speaking, David, looking affable and fat, stepped onto the stage. He hugged and shook hands with Tommy, then took the microphone from Tommy. He watched Tommy leave the stage before turning around and looking at everyone:
"Thank you all for coming to my bachelor party. Thank you, Tommy Hawke. Fuck you! Tommy! Don't think I don't know that you, instigated by those bastards from the CS gang, deliberately snatched the jokes I prepared to warm up the crowd. You want to force me to be brief so that you bastards have more time to chat with girls? Dream on. I will treat tonight as a simulation of attending a congressional hearing. Don't expect me to shut up before four hours."
"First of all, I have to state that I am definitely not a leader. Tommy is. He is the best candidate for the future president of the United States. As we all know, the president of the United States is a position that only the most shameless guy in America can be qualified for. So far, I have not found a second presidential candidate who can compete with Tommy."
"And I have met the president, really. It was a summer when I was a child. I rode bicycles with two classmates to go home from school. On the way, we heard a cry for help. It turned out that an old man fell into the lake and was about to drown. The three of us finally rescued him, and then we found out that the guy was our President Mr. Nixon. He was very grateful to the three of us and told us that no matter what we asked for, he could help us realize it. He was the President of the United States. One of my classmates said, I want 10,000 yuan, Mr. President. Mr. Nixon immediately gave him 10,000 yuan. The second classmate said, I want a sports car to pick up girls. Mr. Nixon immediately gave him the latest luxury sports car."
"It was my turn. I, David Schaeffer, said to him, give me a fucking wheelchair that can perfectly support my body, Mr. President! The Mr. President was confused. He said to me, David, you are not disabled or sick, why do you need a wheelchair? I said to him, you know what? Mr. President, if my father who resisted the Vietnam War knew that I saved you, he would make me disabled."
Seeing David Shaffer's performance, Tommy applauded vigorously.
David took the microphone and said with a smile: "I am very grateful to everyone for coming from afar to attend my party. Thank you Tommy for paying for this party exclusively. In return, Tommy, if I really become president one day, I will do my best to avoid falling into the river and let your children have the opportunity to save me, so that you don't break their legs. You're welcome."
"Finally, after tonight, I will bid farewell to my carefree single years. Perhaps there will be a better and sweeter future waiting for me, but that is not important. The most important thing is that we must live in the present and enjoy life while we can." David Shaffer took a deep breath, held the microphone with both hands, and shouted fiercely, "I declare that David's party night has officially begun! Where is my commemorative kiss!"
As he roared, music and electronic fireworks instantly filled the entire venue hall.
At this time, the women, all wearing knee-length black hooded robes, whose faces and figures could not be seen at all, walked towards the platform where David was with light steps.
The men in the venue all looked at these mysterious women. Although their figures and appearances could not be seen clearly, the smooth and white calves deliberately exposed under the tightly wrapped robes and the various high heels actually increased their appeal.
"Point the damn cameras at him!" Stephen shouted to the photographers in the crowd, "Record these precious moments for me, and let his wife see David's charm!"
David dragged his fat body on the stage, twisting his body to the music, while the women lined up to climb onto the stage like models on a fashion show. The first woman walked up to David and pulled off her robe, revealing a gorgeous evening gown and dazzling blonde hair, winning exclamations from all the men in the audience!
Amid the envious gazes of all the men, the woman took the initiative to move closer to David, turned David's face, and gave him a sweet kiss.
Then she hugged David, posed in a charming manner, and looked towards the camera.
Several flashes lit up, quickly capturing this beautiful moment.
The first woman left gracefully, and the second woman came over with great charm. Like the first woman, she took off her robe, revealing her sexy outfit, and left a kiss on David's face.
This is the popular game of asking strangers to kiss at bachelorette parties in America today. On the day before the wedding, people want to get as many kisses and blessings from the opposite sex as possible. At the same time, these photos can also prove to their significant other that they are not a charmless waste, but that they chose her among countless women just because they love her.
However, generally speaking, the stranger kissing game for young men can only be a small-scale kissing game, where they would find a few barmaids, open-minded friends of the opposite sex, etc. It would never be as grand as David Shaffer's tonight, where dozens of women were lining up to kiss him.
The dozens of women in front were just models provided by the hotel and unknown 18th-tier actresses. They were not well-known, and the men at the venue had already seen their looks before. So most of the time, although the men looked at them with envy, their expressions were still calm.
It wasn't until the famous Hollywood actresses that Stephen arranged for CS and the others began to appear on stage that the venue reached a climax one after another.
Starting with Lisa Burnett, who starred in the phenomenal sitcom "The Cosby Show", to Melissa Brennan, the third-generation Jennifer Horton, who was also voted the most beautiful Horton by many male audiences, and then Laura Dern, the blonde girl next door Andy who accompanied the protagonist in "Blue Velvet".
These actresses who appeared on the stage were completely different from the young actresses who had kissed the men on stage before. When chatting at the venue, those actresses also had to introduce the TV series and movies they had filmed, so that the men could try hard to recall her performance in them.
But at this moment, these actresses do not need any introduction. When they take off their robes and reveal their appearance, men can remember who she is at the first moment.
This is the difference between actresses and female stars. In particular, these female stars have never appeared at the venue before. This is why the men are stunned. They have already thought that the girls who appeared tonight are amazing enough. Models, high-class girls, actresses, each of them is attractive to men, but now, it seems that those women are no longer worth mentioning...
When Diane Lane took off her robe, stood on the podium and hugged David with a smile, the shock and exclamations of the whole audience reached its peak. Not only the men present, but even the band, the models, and the young actors all had expressions of disbelief.
That's Diane Lane, one of the four dream girls in the eyes of American teenagers. Which man here didn't do something inappropriate with her poster when he was a teenager?
Her appearance even made Stephen's French twin models who appeared later ignored. After all, no matter how beautiful and stunning they were, they were just ordinary women from France and had no reputation in the United States.
It wasn't until Michelle Pfeiffer, who was the last to appear, that she barely overshadowed Diane Lane.
Michelle Pfeiffer, the heroine of "Scarface". "Scarface" is not one of those movies starring Diane Lane where young people play house and fall in love. It is an X-rated movie, and it was the top ten X-rated movie in the United States box office that year. Countless teenagers tried every means to sneak into the cinema just to see this movie.
In the movie, she is the woman of a gangster boss, who charms the protagonist Al Pacino so much that he kills the gangster boss who promoted him for her.
She doesn't need much acting skills, she just needs to be pretty enough. She only needs to wear a low-cut V-neck dress, sit there quietly holding a cigarette, and glance at you with a provocative look that implies loneliness and desire. Not to mention the protagonist Tony played by Al Pacino, even any male audience will feel the desire and impulse to kill his boss and then pin this gangster's sister-in-law under him.
Unlike other women, Michelle Pfeiffer did not kiss and leave. Instead, she lit a cigar, handed it to David's mouth, then gave him a light kiss on the face. She turned around and looked at the audience generously with David.
This action tells everyone that other men should stay away from her tonight, because her male partner is David Shaffer, and she is the heroine of the party tonight.
Inside the venue, the men with slower brains were still dazzled by these female stars, while the men with quick brains had already begun to turn their attention to the young man, Tommy Hawke, who was mentioned by David Shaffer as the one who would bear the expenses.
Tommy had heard Stephen tell the story of Michelle Pfeiffer. This woman was from California. Her mother was a housewife and her father was an air-conditioning repairman. After graduating from high school, she worked as a salesperson in a supermarket. Later, she attended a community college and joined a sorority there. The sorority brought her into a new world. She originally studied a shorthand clerk course, but then she decided to pursue a career in show business. She participated in the Miss Orange beauty pageant, Miss Los Angeles beauty pageant, Miss California beauty pageant and other beauty pageants. Her best result was sixth place in the Miss California beauty pageant.
Although her performance in the competition was not satisfactory, she witnessed the dirty things behind the California beauty pageant, which was that no matter how beautiful a woman was, she could not make it without an agent or a backer. For this reason, she found an agent who used to be a pimp to help her get ahead. Although this agent did not sound very good, he was the only person she could find who was willing to help her at that time.
The agent took her to various Hollywood crews and recommended her to directors and producers in plain words: "Miss Pfeiffer is willing to give everything for this job. She doesn't mind playing a slut or other roles that are not friendly to women, and she doesn't mind making money in Hollywood by selling her appearance or body."
A woman who graduated from a community college and was not majoring in acting had to work harder than those professional actors if she wanted to gain a foothold in Hollywood. She was praised by many directors and producers for her bold and open-minded style. Finally, she got the opportunity to become famous. Film producer Martin Bregman saw her sincerity and asked the director of "Scarface" to arrange for her to play the leading role.
There was also a small episode at that time. The director of "Scarface" refused because he felt that Michelle Pfeiffer was not worthy of the role and he had a more suitable candidate.
Vanity Fair magazine had previously published Martin's reaction after hearing the director's refusal. It said that he didn't care about other people's eyes. At the cocktail party, he hugged Michelle Pfeiffer, put his hand on her chest, and calmly looked at the director who refused to carry out his orders:
"I'm hugging her now, Brian, just like in the script, gangster Roberts hugs his sexy wife. The only question you need to think about seriously now is, are you sure you are Hollywood Tony? If not, either do what I say, or you don't have to do it at all."
However, although the movie "Scarface" was a hit and made her the gangster's sister-in-law in the minds of many American men, Martin did not continue to allocate resources to her. After all, there were more women in Hollywood waiting for him to help. After losing Martin's help, Michelle Pfeiffer was no longer without work, but her resources were too poor. She then filmed many bad movies that one could tell would not sell well just by looking at the scripts.
So much so that even after several years, when people see her, she is still labeled as the beautiful gangster sister-in-law in "Scarface".
In order to maintain her glamorous image in Hollywood and to avoid being unable to afford luxury goods when attending various dinners, she had to work part-time to earn some income. Last year, it was revealed by the media that she was serving the married Hollywood actor John Malkovich for a fee.
However, because both families were in the same circle, Michelle's husband was an unknown actor who was doing even worse than her, and John Malkovich's wife was an unknown actress , so in the end both sides agreed to speak out and politely stated that what the media said was a complete lie, Michelle and John were just discussing the script, and the other halves of both parties chose to believe their loved ones.
Of course, the story after they announced their trust in each other was that John Malkovich was filed for divorce by his wife, who took away part of John's property, and Michelle Pfeiffer's husband immediately moved out of their residence and began to live separately.
But this does not affect Michelle Pfeiffer's appearance here and her continued part-time job to make money. In the eyes of this actress who came from a lower class background, she doesn't care whether it is more artistic to take off clothes in a movie or to take off clothes in a guest room. She only cares that both things can make her money.
In this way, the bachelor party started with cheerful tunes. People first danced, then drank, then danced again, and drank again, venting their vigorous energy...
"Crack~" Tommy was sitting in front of the railing on the second floor, watching with a smile as Paige took out a powerful electric baton in the hall and pressed the switch on a young man who had been dissuaded by Paige once before but had not listened at all. The young man took off his shirt, revealing his muscles, and was persuading two beautiful girls. Then the guy shook a few times, collapsed to the ground, and Paige carried him out of the hall as if he was dragging garbage, passing through men and women who had not noticed this scene at all.
"Mr. Page must really love Martin. He clearly bought a large electric baton, but never had the heart to use it on Martin." Seeing this scene, Tommy smiled, took a sip of tonic water, and gave his comment.
He didn't care what habits those bastards had in their own territory or in their own rooms, but playing with crack, weed and the like in public was not okay. Just look at the water stains on the crotch of that idiot Dennis's pants at this moment, and you will know what the consequences will be if you don't listen to Mr. Page at the meeting.
Basically, the more the federal government bans something, the more Americans want to try it, calling it a fashion trend, whether it's crack or marijuana.
Tommy didn't intend to let everyone become Puritans with him. The main reason was that the nature of those bastards having fun in the hall was different from having fun in their own homes. For example, if Dennis secretly smoked a , there would be no problem. Even if someone noticed and called the police, the police would only investigate Dennis and the people in the room.
But if people get too excited in the hall and the police come, they will ask everyone present to cooperate, causing the party to end early.
The protagonist David is already drunk. He is now stripped down to his underwear and is standing in front of a statue of David. He is holding an ice file that bartenders use to grind ice balls, and is frantically filing the underside of the statue, trying to grind the whole thing off.
The other members of the CS gang were not much better. Dennis was now lying on a sofa, trying to unbutton his pants to check if his thing had been completely electrocuted by Mr. Page.
A bunch of men and women gathered around Kevin and Frank, making bets with them, betting on who could drink a whole bottle of whiskey in one breath, then walk across the hall without stumbling, and kiss his female companion at the opposite end.
Pam plugged in the electrical wires and turned on the switch. Two light bulbs suddenly lit up on the chest of the poor black saxophonist in the band. This action earned him screams from his female companions.
However, the saxophonist could no longer close his eyes while playing the instrument. He stared at the two glowing light bulbs on his chest nervously, fearing that if he was not careful he would be electrocuted and suffer urinary incontinence like Dennis.
Chris is the god in the eyes of all men. Thanks to him, at least ten simple and fearless girls have lost all their clothes during the poker game, giving everyone a feast for the eyes.
Stephen, accompanied by the twins, blindfolded himself and played a game in which he guessed whether the other was the older sister or the younger sister by touching their bodies.
Therefore, Tommy had to be the guardian of this party to ensure that everyone had a good time and did not get into trouble.
"I'm ready to go, if you keep your word." Diane Lane walked up the stairs, sat next to Tommy, wiped the sweat from her forehead and shoulders, and asked.
She had just danced for a long time and even enjoyed being approached and drank with by everyone. In the end, she even lay flat on her back and was lifted up by everyone to walk around the venue. She rejected countless men's ill-intentioned invitations before she realized that her male companion tonight seemed to be missing. After observing for a long time, she finally found him from the second floor.
It was as if the gods painted on the dome were looking down from high above, smiling at the crazy and unruly people in the conference hall.
Tommy turned his head to glance at her, then continued to look at the venue and said calmly, "Of course, the hotel provides a special car service."
"What are you doing?" After getting a positive answer, Diane Lane stood up and walked towards the stairs without delay. When she reached the stairs, she looked back at Tommy and found that he was still looking at the hall intently, so she couldn't help asking.
"Three million." Tommy said a number.
"What?" Diane Lane frowned slightly and asked in confusion.
Tommy looked at her and said with a smile, "I was calculating that if I sell the photos of these women tonight in a package, maybe Penthouse can get a price of about three million. In that case, my loss can be reduced a lot."
"..." Diane Lane felt that the words from the young man's mouth were like a bucket of ice water, which instantly sobered her up. She walked back and glared at Tommy: "If you do that, you will ruin everyone tonight, including your own reputation."
"It is they who will destroy them, not me. Besides, I am just making a random calculation and not really going to do it. Don't worry, miss, I am a man of my word. Even though..." Tommy said to the other party with a calm look.
Before Tommy could finish, he saw Mr. Page walking over quickly and handing him the phone in his hand: "Sir, this is Miss Sophia O'Connor calling. She said it's very important."
"Sophia, this is Tommy." Tommy took the phone and asked.
Sophia said nervously on the other end of the phone: "Tommy, Mark just called me and said his agency is in trouble."
"What trouble?" Tommy frowned slightly.
Sophia said on the other end of the phone: "Someone sent a threatening letter to his company, asking him to be careful."
"What did he do?" Tommy was slightly stunned when he heard Sophia's words.
In his impression, Mark is a cautious person who rarely offends others.
Sophia said, "His agency hired a special producer for Vanessa. They carefully selected several songs from the product lists of various music copyright companies and were ready to enter the production stage. But someone contacted him and hoped that Martin could transfer the two songs they had already bought. Martin did not agree, so he called the police. However, the police said that the return address was fake and the other party did not take any substantive actions. The police will investigate, but it will be useless."
Tommy looked at Paige next to him, thought for a moment, and said to Sophia on the other end of the phone, "Got it, help me book a flight for tonight, and then have my black bodyguard, Mr. Martin Hart, pick me up at the airport."
After hanging up the phone, he said to Paige, "Pack up and let's go home. It's a pity that the vacation is over after only eight days."
Then he looked at Diane Lane: "Miss, if we meet on a plane passing by, do we need to pay extra?"
