34 Chapter 33 – Floured Beef Steamed in a Cup 3 (1/2)
Toupai's advice did have a significant effect.
The subsequent contestants all did benefit from his teaching in some way or another, and many of the ones who were sharper and could grasp the concept better were even able to make impromptu adjustments to their performance, taking this competition to a whole new level and value to be appreciated.
It was nearly 10:30, and the official competition events finally came to a close for the night.
The hostess suddenly exhaled a long breath, and then her tone changed into an excited one. ”The competition will end here for tonight. Thank you to all of our judges and teachers, our contestants, as well as all the people who worked to make this happen. In five minutes, after all the staff and judges have exited, we have a surprise mystery gift for all of you. Everyone take a short break, please, and we will see you in a little bit.”
And with that last sentence, every person who had been on microphone disappeared.
The only person remaining in the room was the hostess, who was playing a recording of the video game's theme song…
It was not clear who first noticed something peculiar, but comments started incessantly popping up on the public comment screen: ”Oh gawd, hurry and check out the administrator list…” ”Waaaah! What kind of gift is this AH!... oh god, I'm going to die.”...
All the people who had originally been planning on exiting the YY room at once grew excited, and everyone immediately clicked on the list of administrators.
Only Qiang Qing Ci and the hostess were present at first, but… the number of administrators was continuously increasing.
One, two, three… More and more ”yellow IDs[1]” were entering the YY room.
Jue Mei Sha Yi, Feng Ya Song, Dou Dou Dou Bing, Little T. They represented Wanmei Voice Acting Group…
Si Wu Xie [Thoughts are Pure], Xiao Bai [Little White], Die Die [Fold], Fu Sheng Wu Meng [Dreamless Floating Life], Wwwwk. They represented Liu Nian Zhi Sheng [The Voice of Fleeting Time] Voice Acting Group…
Fei Shao, Bei Dou Xiao Xing [Little Star of the Big Dipper], Wan Wan Rao Rao [Twists and Turns]. They represented Shui Mo [Ink] Music Association…
Ling Long Ti Tou, Jian Jian [Gradually], Little He, 2Yue [2nd Month]. These represented Gu Cha Wu Xiang [Ancient Tea Without Fragrance] Music Association…
Two entertainment circles. And the four most veteran associations in these circles had made their appearance.
Oh my god...
(⊙o⊙)...
When Gu Sheng saw all these names, she nearly fainted. This mystery gift was simply too shocking. Never before had she seen such a big line-up. Even though, because of Qiang Qing Ci, she had met all of these famous names in Wanmei already and would not freak out like she did in the beginning anymore, for the rest of the fans here on YY… these personas were all very mysterious to them.
Most importantly, out of the hundreds of associations out there, these four were at the very top of the pyramid.
And even to the newer members within these topmost associations, the veterans of the association had a god-like status…
None of them accepted new projects from those outside of their association.
Occasionally, they would participate in certain events, but it was usually as a favour for a good friend.
So, for them to be here like this, to suddenly be here in this way, was really too amazing, you know? T.T …
The news spread in an instant, and the number of people in the YY room was increasing rapidly. Many of them who entered the room would cry on the public comment screen: ”I finally managed to get in. Was about to grow wings from being stuck and waiting…” ”My most beloved idol ah, ah, ah, ah! My goddess AAAH! My male god AAAH! … Oh god …”
Five minutes seemed to tick by very slowly.
The comment screen looked like it was going to explode from all the spamming. The staff in charge of maintaining order kept trying to restrain the rate at which comments were allowed to be posted, but they were completely unable to control this explosion of posts that was happening on the screen. In the end, they just gave up…
After all, the official event had ended already. The point of this late night event was to make everyone high with excitement anyways.
”Okay, you've all seen it now, right?” The hostess was giddy as well, completely immersed into the role of being a voice lover. ”Our two biggest voice acting associations and two biggest music associations are the ones who wrote and performed the theme song for this video game and provided the voice acting for the promotional videos. Definitely an awesome benefit here tonight for fans and can also be considered… a belated Valentine's Day present. So everyone, treat this like your god or goddess is giving you a late Valentine's Day celebration. As for me… I'm going to happily go off and be a little fan. Handing over the mike now…”
The hostess handed off the microphone.
”Everyone…. Long time no see.” Liu Nian Zhi Sheng Voice Acting Group's Fu Sheng Wu Meng was the first to speak, in a voice so gentle it seemed like water could be squeezed out of it. ”I'm at the airport right now, using my mobile phone to log into YY. When the performance starts a little later, if there's any sound quality issues, please bear with and forgive me.”
Die Die: ”No worries, Wu Meng Dada. Give us a couple of cat cries and we'll consider that our compensation.”
”Meow… What did you say? I can't really hear you. Meow…” Fu Sheng Wu Meng gave a couple chuckles, soft, gentle, and sweet…
The comment box was immediately filled with comments of ”Sooooo cute!!!!” ”Dada, requesting to marry you!!!!”...
Die Die coughed a couple times. ”Where's that dignity we had all agreed to remember to keep?”
”Meow… What's that you said? Aaah, such bad reception in the airport… Let me hand over the mike.”
Die Die immediately burst out in laughter. She cleared her throat before officially taking over the task of being host of the event. ”Since out of this group of old friends, I'm the only one who has the side job of being an online emcee as well, I'll be the guest host for tonight's late night event... Tonight was not easy to pull together. Besides one or two people who could not make it, basically the whole crew is present. Is that right, Toupai DaRen?”
Toupai was one of the judges tonight so naturally, he was one of the main attractions of the night.
But…
Gu Sheng felt that … everyone seemed to just like teasing him, eh…
Only a single, nonchalant word in reply: ”Mm.”
Toupai was certainly concise…
There was absolutely no hint of the logical, calm manner of speaking he had used a while ago when he was a judge, and he had reverted back to his nature where words were as precious as gold. However, that did not prevent the fans, who were no longer being restrained, from flooding the screen with torrential outpourings of love declarations T.T...
”I suspect it must be because it is the day after Valentine's Day, so everyone is free,” Die Die continued with a charming laugh. ”Is that right, Toupai DaRen? Last night, a lot of people must have been really busy…”
”I suppose.” Toupai seemed to be able to guess where she was heading with her words.
”So… Qiang Qing Ci Dada… yesterday, you must have been very busy too, right? What were you doing?”
T.T...
Gu Sheng immediately became embarrassed…