Immortal in Horror Game: She is the Fortune Teller!-Chapter 157 - 156: Gorgeous Cage 3 (Josh’s Stunning Singing and Dancing Debut)
Josh didn’t think too much and focused on watching Rob’s performance.
He didn’t sing and dance, just sang a song awkwardly, not too abrupt, with a mediocre response, earning over 300,000 reward points.
It was Josh’s turn.
She took a deep breath, recalling her days with the sect, where her singing and dancing would always mesmerize her master and senior brothers and sisters, who jokingly said she chose the wrong sect and should have gone to the Sound Cultivation Sect.
They said she had extraordinary talent, and might have ascended early if she were in the Sound Cultivation Sect.
Trusting her sect’s perception, her performance wouldn’t be bad.
Josh walked onto the stage, facing the audience.
Seeing the stage from the bottom and standing on it were two completely different feelings.
She stood on the stage, the lights were too dazzling, she couldn’t see the audience below clearly.
That’s fine, it made her less likely to be nervous.
Josh took a deep breath, preparing to sing a recently popular Federation song "wit sjayw".
She struck a pose for the dance, softening one hand up, the other behind her back, her face slightly raised, allowing the dreamy lights to shine on her face.
Someone in the audience recognized her.
"That’s Tian Caiji! Damn, Tian Caiji is here too!"
"Ahhhhh, I was wondering who’s so good-looking! This face, I’m literally crying!"
"So looking forward to it! I’m recording, I’m recording now!"
"Boohoo, Tian Caiji hasn’t streamed in a while, right? So she was preparing for this competition!"
Josh slowly opened her eyes, with the colorful soft lighting effect casting a faint crystal-like sheen in her eyes.
She looked like an angel descending from heaven, glowing in the light, so beautiful it made hearts waver.
Josh swung her body and limbs while slowly parting her lips to sing the first note.
As her ethereal and crisp voice emerged, the whole place instantly went quiet.
Josh performed the whole song in one go, elegantly bowed to everyone, but didn’t hear any applause for a long time.
Whispers started to spread among the crowd.
"Is this... Tian Caiji?"
"Not commenting on her singing yet, but that dance..."
Rob was dumbfounded, "Isn’t she pretty? Why does her dance look like... like..."
Yuze quietly added beside him, "Like a sleazy walking stick insect."
Rob looked at him in horror, "If she hears you say that, she’d probably kill you, right?"
Yuze remained expressionless, "She should have killed me before she went on stage."
Barrage: [My child... singing... dancing... nope, these stage lights are really pretty, huh.]
[Yeah, the outfit is nice too.]
[The weather’s pretty nice today too.]
[Officials hemming and hawing.]
[Our own silly child, just flatter a bit, okay?]
[Flatter... let me think... flatter... ah! I’d better give some reward points.]
[I’ll give rewards too.]
[Silently choosing to give reward points.]
[Can’t find a single thing to compliment.]
[Extra extra! Heard a Federation superstar is also watching the live stream and wants to sue her for infringing copyrights!]
Meanwhile, on the third floor of the No.1 Mansion of the Mysterious Guild.
Joyce received a call from the opposing lawyer: "Hello, we’re going to sue your guild participant Josh. She performed this song publicly without permission and even received points..."
The other side spewed a bunch of emotional complaints, essentially that Josh made money singing this song and sang it so terribly, it discredited the song and the original superstar.
Joyce relayed this to Ma Qi.
Ma Qi waved it off, "Have someone compare the original tune with Josh’s singing and send them the comparison results."
Joyce nodded and quickly had someone start working on it.
When the test results came out, even Joyce couldn’t help but laugh.
He sent the results to the opposing lawyer’s email: "Sorry, these are entirely two different songs. Please don’t slander our participant."
The other lawyer was furious, "What two songs?! She just sang off-key!"
Joyce slowly asked, "Then take a look at the comparison results. Do any of the audio tracks overlap?"
The other lawyer looked at it for a long time. Indeed, there weren’t any; it was either raised too high or completely off track.
His expression turned grim, still unwilling to give up: "But...but she copied the lyrics!" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
Joyce’s smile deepened, "She got forty sentences wrong out of forty-eight and mumbled through eight. Do these lyrics match your client’s song? The plagiarism rate is only 5%, right?"
The lawyer listened repeatedly to Josh’s singing clips, nearly driven insane, and had to give up in frustration.
In the game copy.
Josh raised an eyebrow, seeing no reaction from the audience for a long time, she had to pick up the microphone and remind, "I’m done singing."
The audience seemed to have been hit with a silence spell, taking a long time to respond.
In the corner, Yuze and Rob started clapping first, their applause standing out starkly amidst the silent masses.
Josh gave a slight smile, touched her nose, and sincerely looked at the three judges.
The judges finally snapped out of their shock: "You this..."
"You!"
"You damn..."
Several "you"s were uttered in succession, yet none of the judges could come up with a word to scold her.
Suddenly, a deep, sexy man’s chuckle rang from the center of the stage: "Very nice, the most unique stage performance I’ve ever seen."
It was the voice of the mysterious man from the electronic floating screen.
The three judges quickly picked up their mics in agreement, "Yes, yes, yes."
"Indeed special, I’m still nearly unable to recover from the shock!"
"This really was the most unique performance of the night."
Since Master Rice spoke, everyone could only agree, and even many of Rice’s fans in the audience started giving Josh reward votes.
Soon, she took the first place in tonight’s preliminaries with an exceptionally high score of 650,000 points.
Susanna’s face looked terrible, "What the heck! Are these people’s eyes blind?!"
Josh contentedly stepped down from the stage.
Rob beside her was stunned, "Little Tactician..."
Josh looked at him calmly, "Nothing, just a steady performance."
Rob wanted to say something, but Yuze, holding back laughter, stopped him: "That’s great."
He saw Josh’s calm expression and couldn’t help but say, "With such a powerful skill, why didn’t you use it before?"
Josh slightly frowned, "I don’t like to show off these things."
Yuze pressed his lips, his slender eyes leaking a bit of laughter.
Truly...
An adorable Little Tactician.
The preliminaries ended, leaving fifty or so people; the semi-finals would be tomorrow night.
They decided to log out first.
Josh exited the virtual world, and the moment she opened her eyes, a pungent smell hit her head-on.
She heard cursing, seemingly from far away.
Josh glanced around the environment.
She seemed to be in a shabby room, with noise coming from outside, mixed with car sounds, conversations, cursing, etc.
The walls of the room appeared stained with yellow spots, likely due to years of water leakage.
The room was small, with only a bed, a simple gaming pod, and a wardrobe.
The trash can in the corner was cluttered with garbage, with flies buzzing around.
