Tokyo: The evil god doesn't want to be the top star

Chapter 293: The speed of hand in years of singleness

"Quick, change the vote from Hirai Shouta to Takahashi Yuu!"

Akimoto Manjiro hesitated for a moment, then pulled Souta in front of him and whispered in a low voice, ignoring the ambiguous looks from others.

"But... the notary office... OK, I understand..."

Under the pressure of the chief director's gaze, assistant director Cao Tai had to take the "voting machine" and press a few buttons.

On the screen, Gao Qiaoyou's votes immediately became 421, and Xia Fan's votes became 445, and the gap was very close...

"Very good...wait..."

Akimoto Manjiro's expression just relaxed for a few seconds, then tensed up again.

Because Xia Fan's votes are still growing at a momentum that is three times higher than Gao Qiaoyou's...

"Quick, adjust it again..."

Seeing that Xia Fan's votes had exceeded 400 and were heading towards 500 without any sign of stopping, while Takahashi You's votes were still approaching 400 at a snail's pace, he secretly nudged Assistant Director Kusata with his elbow.

"But if we want to change the audience tickets, we can't change a lot at once..."

Assistant Director Souta muttered something with a bitter face, and his fingers quickly pressed the "voting machine".

Thanks to his efforts, Xia Fan's vote growth trend slowed down significantly, and the gap between him and Gao Qiaoyou began to narrow to a few dozen votes...

But it still cannot change the fact that Xia Fan continues to lead and is widening the gap.

"What's going on? If we continue like this, we will still lose..."

This was naturally not the result that Manjiro Akimoto wanted.

"I can't help it. I have to change it one vote at a time under the eyes of so many people. My hands are almost cramping."

Assistant Director Souta gave him a helpless look.

In order to ensure the authenticity and statistical accuracy of on-site voting, each voting machine has a fixed signal frequency that cannot be modified.

However, the special "voting machine" in his hand has the authority to adjust the frequency and overwrite the original voting results.

However, Takahashi Yu already had three instructor votes, and it would be too obvious to modify Yayoi Tsuki's vote now, so assistant director Souta could only use his 30-year-old single hand speed limit to painstakingly and conscientiously modify the audience votes one by one...

"How can it be so fast? What kind of car is he driving? Even my thirty years of hard work can't catch up with him..."

But the next second, he discovered in despair that the speed at which he changed his votes was obviously slower than the speed at which Xia Fan's votes increased.

"Souta, why are you so slow? We've almost finished voting..."

Seeing that there were less than 300 votes left to be cast, Akimoto Manjiro was obviously getting anxious.

"Useless guy, let me do it..."

He secretly snatched the voting machine from Cao Tai's hand and quickly pressed it on the inside of his lapel...

However, although he was used to being served for many years, his operating speed was obviously not as fast as that of Assistant Director Sota.

"Damn it, the number of votes is still so far off? If we move a little faster, we can still make it in time..."

"What, it's over?!"

Director Akimoto only tampered with less than a dozen voting data, and all 1400 live votes had already been cast.

"Don't press it, Director General. The notary office is sealing the data."

Assistant Director Souta grabbed Akimoto Manjiro's wrist and shook his head silently.

Once the on-site voting begins, people from the notary office will always be standing by to supervise the counting of votes.

Even if a few companies have connections, they can at most turn a blind eye to the "fluctuations" in the voting process...

But if there are "abnormal fluctuations" after the total number of votes reaches 1400, they will not be able to ignore it in any way.

"I know."

Akimoto Manjiro's eyes dimmed and he was petrified on the spot.

He naturally understood these principles, and he just got a little carried away because of his unwillingness...

"Ahem... the on-site voting time has ended, and our staff are counting the votes..."

On the stage, holding the microphone, Goro Kimura looked at Manjiro Akimoto on the sidelines with some trepidation. But the other party did not make any eye contact with him.

"Jie Jie Jie Jie..."

"It's been so many years... I haven't felt this out of control for a long time..."

"I have always underestimated you...Xia Fan..."

"The audition hasn't ended yet, and the outcome is still unknown... This time, I'm betting on my dignity as an 'idol creator'..."

Staring at Xia Fan on the stage, a ferocious smile appeared on Akimoto Manjiro's lips.

"I'll leave the rest of the recording to you, Souta."

"Wait, chief director?!"

After whispering something to Assistant Director Souta, he turned and left with an expressionless face.

……

"Dear audience, thank you for your patience. The voting results for the second round of performances, the song "Oxygen Bomb", have been announced..."

After a while, Goro Kimura on the stage received a prompt from the program crew in his headphones and turned to look at the big screen.

Just like the last performance, numbers started to appear behind the names of the red and white teams on the big screen...

As everyone watched in a tense manner, the Red Team's votes were fixed at 826...

The White Team, on the other hand, only had 574 votes.

"Then... let us congratulate the Red Team for this victory!!!"

"They will share 15 million bonus tickets!"

With a slightly stiff smile on his face, Goro Kimura announced the score, which was not a small difference, in a trembling voice.

"Won!!!"

"is that a lie?!"

"this is okay too?!"

The people in Xia Fan's team immediately burst into huge cheers.

"Now, let's see who dares to look down on my silky little combo?!"

An Ziyao proudly performed his "universal dance combo" again as a celebratory move.

"Xia Fan... won again?"

Oda slumped back dejectedly, his old body slumped into the chair.

As insiders, they had heard to some extent about the fact that several companies had come to pressure the program production team, demanding that Xia Fan be suppressed as much as possible and be knocked off the top of the popularity list.

Kishi Sho and Takahashi Yu, two five-star trainees selected by J Company and S Company respectively, were defeated by Xia Fan. Such a result was obviously not in line with the will of the capital behind the program.

"We lost?!"

"How can it be……"

"Why?"

Of course, the trainees in Takahashi Yu's team also could not accept this result.

"Asshole, didn't you just add an elbow spin at the end..."

"With those weak moves above, how can they be qualified to defeat us?!"

Takahashi Yu clenched his back teeth and pointed with trembling fingers at the other side of the stage, where the trainees were repeating "Silky Little Combo 1.0-4.0" next to Xia Fan to celebrate.

"Yes, overall, it's obviously us who dance better!"

"We demand a review of the votes and a recount of the scores!"

His teammates also began to protest to the executive director on the sidelines.

(End of this chapter)