Immortal in Horror Game: She is the Fortune Teller!-Chapter 156 - 155: Gorgeous Cage 2 (Competition Entry)
Josh’s mouth twitched slightly: "...Your face shouldn’t go to waste, it’s a good thing."
Rob: "That doesn’t sound like a compliment..."
In the end, both of them still signed up.
Josh and Yuze stood at the street corner, and she couldn’t help but frown slightly: "Captain, do you feel..."
Yuze nodded slightly without a change in expression.
Josh’s peripheral vision always caught someone seemingly hiding in the crowd, staring at them.
Yuze: "Don’t turn your head, it’s players from other teams. It seems like several teams have formed an alliance, planning to eliminate our team first."
This kind of thing was quite common. When faced with a stronger team in a dungeon, several weaker teams usually band together to eliminate the strongest one first.
Josh nodded.
Rob came back after registering, handed Josh a participant card, and said mysteriously, "Guess who I just saw at the registration place?"
Josh raised an eyebrow: "Who?"
"It’s those guys from the Eden Garden! Both the first and second teams are here! And Turbo is here too!"
Yuze raised an eyebrow slightly: "Oh! An all-too-familiar scene."
Rob said indignantly, "I bet it’s another one of those disgusting three-protect-one, two-protect-one tactics."
Josh was puzzled: "What kind of tactic is that?"
Yuze explained: "It’s Eden’s usual method. To let their first team obtain more game resources and grow quickly, they make other teams from the guild join in and eliminate other teams through alliances. When only their guild’s teams are left, the other small teams give up entirely, allowing the first team to win smoothly."
Josh’s mouth twitched: "So that’s how Angel’s Wings team got to be second on the leaderboard?"
Yuze nodded.
Josh found it absurd: "Why would others be willing to cooperate like that?"
Thinking of the disgusting ways of the Eden Garden Guild, a look of disgust flashed in Rob’s eyes: "Because it’s a noble guild. Large noble families force the smaller affiliated ones to send people as stepping stones. In return, these families get rewards and opportunities for promotions and titles."
Josh remained silent, having heard a bit about the ways of the nobles.
In the virtual world, there’s no clear passage of time.
The competition is at 8 PM.
This virtual world is divided by online entertainment activities into major sections: life sharing area, singer area, games area, and some other sections.
Each section is further divided into ordinary civilian areas and VIP areas.
Generally, those who tip in various live streams and game activities automatically enter the VIP area, while those who freeload in the virtual world can only move around the ordinary civilian area.
The audiovisual entertainment in the VIP area feels more like the decadent world of the rich, whereas the ordinary civilian area is more or less like the real world.
Josh and the others found a relatively quiet white noise rest area and waited until 8 PM.
The event competition stage is set in the singer area.
Most of the buildings in the singer area are cyber-styled, featuring electronic architecture and hip-hop music elements.
A lot of people were already at the venue, and the audience filled the lower area densely. The large screen on the stage showed that nearly 200 million people were watching!
Josh was shocked by the number; it seemed the legendary "rice" was very popular.
Three judging seats were set in front of the stage, presumably for the event’s judges.
Besides, there was a floating electronic screen that only showed a bit of a scene.
In the scene, a man seemed to sit on a luxurious vintage chair, elegantly crossing his legs, wearing a luxurious retro black uniform adorned with various gold chains and gemstones.
Both of his hands wore elegant white gloves with gemstones embedded on the back.
The camera focused on his hands, his left hand extending out of the frame, possibly supporting his body at an angle, while his right hand lazily swirled a wine glass.
Josh’s attention was captured by the scene on the screen.
The man’s belt had a gemstone as big as a pigeon egg embedded in it!
Moreover, the buttons on his front, the embellishments on his clothes, the brooch, and the embellishments on his gloves were all made of high-quality gemstones!
On Federation Planet, you can’t afford gemstones, but here, could you...
Just take them?
The Mermaid King’s gemstones could be taken back to reality, so this instance must be the same.
Yuze, seeing her look so ready for battle, slightly raised an eyebrow: "All fired up?"
Josh’s eyes sparkled: "I must win!"
The virtual world has no physical form, and her body data should be modeled after her real-life appearance.
She had long, slender limbs, a small head, with a well-proportioned head-to-shoulder ratio, perfect for dancing.
Her voice was also special, somewhat between a young girl’s and a mature woman’s, crisp and loud when happy, soft and somewhat husky when tired.
With these conditions, getting first place shouldn’t be hard, as long as other teams don’t interfere.
Yuze’s gaze returned to the stage.
The first one to go up was Susanna.
She seemed to have known that Josh was here, and smugly raised an eyebrow at her.
Susanna wore a sexy spaghetti strap outfit, with her hair dyed in a pink-blue gradient, perfectly matching the cyber style background.
She shyly walked on stage: "Hello everyone, I’m Little Susu, and I’m performing a song and dance for you."
Susanna seemed a bit out of her depth, possibly experiencing being stared at by so many for the first time. She bit her lip, looking a bit pitiful: "This is my first time, I wasn’t prepared, please forgive any mistakes."
Josh smiled and issued a comment in the notes: [Going on stage unprepared, do you look down on our God R?]
Putting "look down upon" and "God R" together was quite the explosive existence in the entire online virtual world.
Soon, Susanna was overwhelmed with criticism. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Although her voice was melodious and she sang and danced with a graceful elegance, she was still overwhelmed.
Susanna’s expression grew increasingly strange. Although she was singing and dancing, her eyes showed rising fear, and she ended up pathetically falling to the ground.
Josh: "..." She never used to have such poor endurance before.
Yuze and Rob exchanged glances, witnessing shock in each other’s eyes.
Josh, someone who hadn’t even figured out what the dungeon monsters were, inadvertently managed a ’killing with a borrowed knife,’ unintentionally helping Susanna trigger the monsters of this instance.
Apparently, Susanna hadn’t beaten the monster, which was why she suddenly fell.
The second person on stage was Lulu. She performed a girl group-style song and dance, exuding confidence and allure, quickly earning cheers and over 200,000 votes by the end.
When it was Turbo’s turn, her masculine appearance quickly drew attacks from the audience.
But she seemed unfazed, performing a rock-style song, and managed to infect quite a few audience members with her stage presence, earning some votes.
Finally, it was Rob’s turn.
He seemed a bit nervous, his face slightly pale.
Yuze patted him on the shoulder: "It’s fine, go ahead."
Rob swallowed, glanced at Yuze, then mustered up the courage to walk onto the stage.
Josh noticed he was in a strange state and asked curiously, "What’s wrong with him?"
Yuze’s eyes flickered: "He’s scared of performing on stage, he’ll get over it."
