Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 250 The finals begin

Lowry was wrapped in a crowd and pushed all the way into the arena.

He didn't expect so many people would come to watch the finals of Feilin's Good Song.

Looking up at the largest arena on this continent, it has a total of 50,000 seats. The last time it was full was at the World Sports Conference eight years ago.

After that, any event held here would be considered good if it had 20,000 to 30,000 spectators.

Even the yo-yo competition didn’t fill those 50,000 seats.

No musical performance had ever been held in this arena, and for musicals or operas, a few thousand spectators at the same time was the limit.

So this final can definitely be described as unprecedented.

Because the stage will not use the space in the middle of the arena, there are an additional 10,000 seats there.

However, there were 60,000 tickets available, but they were totally unavailable.

Zhuoge Group has developed a way to buy tickets online. Each real-name authenticated account can buy one ticket on the platform.

Then verify your account at a station in the city to collect your ticket.

The original basic ticket price was not expensive, so Lowry tried to buy it.

At that time, the page froze for a moment, and then a message popped up saying "Sold Out".

At one point, Lowry was a little suspicious that the tickets had not been released at all.

Because this ticket is tradable, the bound account can be changed until the start of the final, as long as it is real-name.

Unwilling to give up, Lowry went to check the transaction price.

This sight made him begin to doubt people’s current economic level.

How can it be so expensive?

Even though he has become a well-known teaching content author in the forum, he has now taken on a big job to write an operating manual for the spell language.

He still felt that the price was too high to accept.

Are there so many rich people in the city?

Having said that, writing that spell language manual is a really difficult task.

It feels like a spell when used, but it doesn't feel like a spell at all, which is weird, and it takes a long time to learn.

Lowry was struggling with whether to give up the chance to watch the show live and convinced himself that it would be better to watch the live broadcast on the Magic Video Machine without having to squeeze in.

It’s still time to bleed a lot of money and buy second-hand tickets at a high price.

His roommate saved him.

His roommate used his and his family's real-name accounts to grab two tickets and sold the second one to him at the original price.

Now that he had checked in and entered the venue, Lowry finally asked the question that had been lingering in his mind.

"Why did you buy an extra ticket and sell that one to me at the original price?"

"What reason do I need? Because you are my best friend." The roommate answered, but the pain that flashed across his face betrayed him. This was not a real reason.

At least not all of the reasons.

"Really? You didn't even let me call you dad. Before, when I asked you to bring me food from the cafeteria, you told me to call you dad first, otherwise it would be a no-no."

Lowry wondered if their brotherhood was going sour, and his roommate wanted to develop some "super friendship" with him.

"Okay, I admit, I originally wanted to invite Chloe to come and watch."

"Chloe? You had a crush on that girl, and she rejected you?"

"Not only did she refuse, she even bought two tickets herself and invited a man from the Shaper School to watch it."

"Oh, that's a really unfortunate story."

Lowry decided to comfort his good roommate. Other people's misfortunes are often more effective than direct comfort.

"I heard that someone in our college invited a girl to a concert. The girl went, and during the audience interaction session, the girl was called up on stage. She said she came alone. Hahaha, can you imagine how embarrassing that scene was, hahaha..."

"I can imagine."

"right!"

“Because that’s me too.”

……

Now it's Lowry's turn to be embarrassed.

"Oh man, I didn't mean to do that, I didn't know it was you."

The two fell into silence, and whatever they said now seemed very awkward.

After entering the venue, the crowd began to split up and look for their respective areas.

Unlike common concerts, the audience divisions for this final were determined based on the contestants they supported.

Fans supporting different finalists will be divided into different stands, separated by stands for passers-by.

The fans here are really too martial.

There have been numerous documented incidents of fan clashes since the show began.

The largest ones even involve thousands of people.

I heard that there was a bizarre situation where dozens of people chased and beat hundreds of people.

Everyone thought it was fake news until the garrison issued a statement on this.

In the eyes of these fans, the best way to reduce the number of votes for the opposing player is to directly deal with the people who voted.

In order to ensure that there would be no riots in the stands during the live broadcast of the final, one-fifth of the city's garrison was transferred here to maintain law and order.

Lowry and his roommate found their own seats in the neutral audience area.

However, it is very close to the fan stand area of ​​Saint Astrid.

The Saint has the largest number of fans at present.

She is also the biggest favorite to win.

Whether it is the support from the audience or the evaluation from professional music critics, the Saint uses her powerful strength to unify the views of these two usually opposing groups.

Her fans were dressed neatly in white clothes, and had carefully designed slogans and actions for support, and the first round of Saint Girl works were adapted into support songs.

There was even a super-large banner that covered the entire fan stand.

It's like coming to fight.

Lowry noticed that there was a small package on each seat.

"what is this?"

"As for the souvenirs, it's written in the description that comes with the ticket. Every audience member will get a souvenir package to take away."

"Really? That's pretty thoughtful."

Hearing this, Lori opened the package.

There was quite a bit of stuff in there, two posters, one for the finalists and another for all the contestants.

A rune stone, which looks like it should be used for on-site voting. I didn't expect that this thing can be taken away.

A set of commemorative coins uses the style of gold coins, but the goddess portrait is changed to that of the contestant.

Lowry judged that it was probably not pure gold.

Many years ago, gold, silver and copper coins referred to the material, and later it gradually became a coating, and later there was no coating at all, just color.

There is also a short staff with a magic circle engraved on it.

Lori didn't quite understand what this magic circle was used for.

As a student of the Repin Academy, although I cannot claim to have mastered all the schools of magic, I can generally tell the effects of most types of magic at a glance.

But I couldn't understand the short stick in front of me at all.

It seems to be an illumination spell, but why does an illumination spell require such a complicated array?
When I see a new magic that I have never seen before, I want to figure out what it does. Maybe it's an occupational disease.

Before Lowry could figure it out, the lights in the venue suddenly dimmed and the final was about to begin.

There was no host to open the show. The four mentors performed the opening performance.

The four mentors performed on the same stage and sang a medley of songs that were very popular in previous shows but did not make it to the finals.

The lead singer of Underground Abandoned, Xiao De, was full of emotion, Gerda sang very well, Ms. Rowling played with perfect expression, and as for the fourth mentor, the fourth mentor was also there.

Lowry now understood the purpose of the ridiculously complicated lighting array on the short staff.

When the music starts, the staff glows all over, changing colors as the songs change, and sometimes flashing to the rhythm of the song.

What shocked him even more was that no matter whether it was changing colors or flashing, all 60,000 fluorescent sticks in the venue kept the same frequency, in unison. The audience raised their sticks one after another and swayed along with the music.

At this moment, a shot overlooking the entire arena was given on the big screen of the live broadcast.

The wave-like light effect lit up the entire stand.

The dreamlike scene excited all the audience.

However, the only drawback was that Lowry realized that because their position was too far away from the stage, all they could actually see was the live broadcast on the big screen.

It seems that there is not much difference from watching the Magic TV at home. The sofa at home is more comfortable than the stool here.

Fortunately, the sound effects in the arena are excellent, giving people enough auditory shock, coupled with the warm atmosphere, which is enough to make people ignore other shortcomings and not feel that they are wasting money.

After the mentors finished their opening remarks, the host came on stage. There was no nonsense, not even any commercials. A few opening words created the tense atmosphere of the finals, and a brief introduction to the contestants that everyone was already very familiar with was given. Then the first round of performances officially began.

The first to appear was Aunt Susan.

No one expected that an ordinary lady from a small mountain village would defeat many professional singers from theater troupes and make it all the way to the finals.

Although she was embroiled in controversy after it was revealed that she was the mother of Drogo's assistant.

There are conspiracy theorists who claim that she was chosen to make it to the finals, and although there is no evidence, they believe this.

However, this controversy did not cause much waves.

No one really thought that the mother of an assistant could be valued so much by the boss.

As attention waned, these conspiracy theorists gradually faded away.

When Aunt Susan finished her singing, the audience gave her a round of applause that lasted half a minute.

Lori was also happy to hear this, but he did not vote for Susan.

It’s not that she sings badly, but that people are a little tired of her.

Susan's unique singing style will make the audience like it after she sings it once or twice, but after listening to it many times, they don't think it's anything special.

The first round of competition was coming to an end, and Lowry's favorite was a young man from the southern continent.

He was very relaxed on the stage, his singing was very rhythmic, and he even gave an improvisation in the final. He introduced the members of the accompaniment band one by one, and each performer followed with a solo.

It feels like he is not here to compete, but more like to have fun.

The singing style is also very different from that of other contestants. It's like it came out of the Tom and Jerry crew, but with lyrics added.

Unfortunately, his singing style is a bit niche and did not win much applause from the audience. I'm sure the final number of votes will not be too optimistic.

While people were still feeling sorry for this young man from the South, a huge cheer broke out in the arena.

The audience in the nearby fan stands stood up and shouted the name of the next contestant.

"Saint, Saint!"

“Good luck!”

The Saint's popularity is far ahead of other contestants.

On the one hand, she is indeed very strong.

On the other hand, there is the contrast brought about by the identity of a saint.

The audience did not expect that an important figure in the church would stand on the stage and sing such a song for them.

In the past, people thought that singing like this in church was forbidden.

It turns out that the church is quite "lively".

Meanwhile, backstage.

Carina looked at Astrid's radiant appearance on the stage, her eyes full of envy.

She also wanted to be like this saint and receive cheers from tens of thousands of spectators.

Maybe one day, she can hold a concert of her own in the Grand Arena.

In the big picture that Drogo painted for her, she could not only hold concerts in the Twin Towers City, but also hold concerts in various places on the mainland, and even sing all the way to other continents.

Karina didn't believe she had that ability.

She felt that becoming famous in the Twin Towers City was the highest achievement he could achieve.

Now is not the time to fantasize about future achievements.

Karina shook her head to clear herself up.

She starts to overthink when she's nervous.

According to the plan, the Saint is the last contestant in the first round. After her performance, the votes will be counted and there will be a break, which is also the time for the guest performers.

And she was the first one.

Just after the saint finished singing.

It’s a very stressful position.

The audience will definitely compare her to the Saint, and the performance of this championship candidate is really outstanding.

In comparison, she is just a player who was eliminated in the first round. Although there are new songs provided by Mr. Drogo, will the audience also like the new songs she likes?
With a heart full of fear and anxiety, the voice of the executive director came through the headphones.

"Get ready. Repeat. Get ready."

On the stage, the saint simply bowed, waved to her supporters in the stands on all sides, and then walked off the stage.

The host comes on stage and introduces the guests who will perform in the middle segment.

Karina closed her eyes and stood in the lift, which took her directly to the center of the stage.

"Countdown, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, enter!"

Following the director's instructions, Karina slowly ascended onto the stage in the elevator.

The bright light on the stage made it difficult for her to open her eyes.

It was impossible to see the situation below the stage clearly. The tens of thousands of spectators formed a dark mass, like a dark cloud that could bring down a thunderstorm at any time.

Things have come to this point, there is no way back, and even Karina herself didn't expect that she would miraculously calm down at this moment.

She heard someone calling her name, which gave her a boost of confidence.

There are still people who like and support her.

The regular beeping of a metronome sounded in the headphones.

After four notes, the prelude began, and Karina held the microphone to her lips and began to sing calmly.

"I opened my eyes and found that everything was going as planned,"

“My life has never looked so good.”

"I took a few steps and looked around, and I was amazed,"

“I started to see the little things that make life beautiful.”

The warm singing filled the entire arena.

The fluorescent sea of ​​stars sways to the rhythm.

Karina suddenly felt like crying, she knew that her singing had been recognized by the audience.

The new song brought a big surprise to the audience. It is a catchy song that even if you don’t like it, you will hate it.

Many people pressed the voting rune stone out of habit, only to find that there was no response.

Some people even shouted in the audience, "Give the little girl a chance, she should participate in the next round of the finals."

After the song, Karina bowed deeply and said goodbye to the audience reluctantly.

After stepping off the stage, Carina wanted to tell Mr. Drogo the good news. He was right. The audience would like such a song.

But when I arrived outside the director's office, I saw Drogo with a serious face.

What happened? Did she sing badly?

Then Drogo was seen hurrying out and activating the teleport on the spot.

It’s certainly not that there’s something wrong with Carina’s performance.

On the contrary, it was very good and pushed the ratings to a new peak.

But Drogo doesn't have time to worry about ratings for now.

Just now, he received a message from Doudou.

The Mammon Order took action.

(End of this chapter)