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Chapter 470: Chapter 448: Silent but Startling When Spoken_1

“Let go of your obsession with popularity, put aside your prejudice about appearance, throw away your understanding of professions, let’s kick off the purest singing duel of this era. Who will be our first-generation Masked Singer among these mysterious guests who hide their true identities behind masks!”

The curtain slowly rises.

An Hong, known as the top music host of Qin Continent appears on stage under stunning lights, and the grand background music leads all the audience’s emotions, “Hello, everyone, I am the host An Hong, here is ‘The Masked Singer’ brought to you by the Literature and Art Association. In this era of appearance-consciousness, let’s play a game that doesn’t require a face!”

This is The Masked Singer!

A game that doesn’t require a face!

No need for a plant, the whole venue directly presents the most primitive frenzy. Among the rustling light boards and glow sticks, countless spectators are screaming, they have been eagerly anticipating this show and now is the time to release it!

At the backstage.

In the contestants’ waiting area, everyone can’t help but look up at the TV on the wall, and of course, Lin Yuan is no exception. Because the backstage is not far from the stage, he can feel the wave of sound rolling in from the TV and the outside world at the same time—

He even felt somewhat excited.

An Hong’s smile was friendly, “I don’t know if this marks the beginning of a new era in the music scene, but I believe this is destined to be a milestone music show in the history of music development. Now let’s introduce our four judges. The first judge is the only person in Qin Continent who has won the ‘King of Singing’ crown three times. He is known as the king of kings with ever-changing styles. He’s also recognised by the Literature and Art Association as one of the three top male singers in Blue Star, Teacher Mao Xuewang! ”

Gulp.

Mao Xuewang…

Lin Yuan swallowed, feeling as if his taste buds were suddenly unlocked,

Tongtong next to him, however, was excited, “So the rumour from the production team is true! Teacher Mao Xuewang is actually the judge of the first episode. He’s a true legend among male singers, one of the three big male singers in Blue Star!”

On the stage.

The 40-year-old Mao Xuewang waved at the audience, the audience became even more excited!

True to its reputation as the strongest music show in history, the first judge is so impressive!

It’s the top dog in the music scene, Mao Xuewang, who has won the King of Singing consecutively for three times!

“The second one…”

An Hong continued introducing.

The second judge is a woman called Liu Xu!

She’s even more impressive than Mao Xuewang, having won the title of ‘Queen of Singing’ four times. She’s also hailed as the strongest pop queen in Qi Continent’s history and holds the record for the highest number of single-song downloads for the year. She’s already fifty this year.

The third judge is Wu Long.

Wu Long is known as the God of BGM!

All the top-level anime film soundtracks in Chu Continent are basically his masterpieces!

However, because Wu Long’s music tends to be commercialized, he has never become a Maestro. But in the hearts of many ordinary people, Wu Long is already a maestro.

The fourth judge…

This time it’s a real Maestro!

However, when Lin Yuan heard this person’s name, the face under his mask revealed a hint of strangeness.

Because Lin Yuan not only had heard of this man, but also considered him in some ways his teacher:

Maestro Yang Zhongming!

Tongtong’s face went red with excitement, almost dancing with joy, “Teacher Yang Zhongming is one of the most invincible Maestros in my eyes. He is the pride of all Qin Continent people. I didn’t expect him to come for the first episode!”

At the scene.

The audience seats were also full of people shouting Yang Zhongming’s name!

It’s hard to imagine that a behind-the-scenes composer can have an even larger reputation than a front-stage star. Only Blue Star can offer such a treatment to composers, right?

Lin Yuan thought so.

After the excitement had subsided, An Hong introduced the rules of the show.

When the audience understood the rules, he officially announced the entrance of the first contestant. However, when everyone saw the first contestant’s appearance, they couldn’t help but laugh.

It is a robot design!

This singer is quite skilled at being weird, even his way of walking onto the stage was mechanical, giving away his strong dancing background.

But what surprised everyone the most was his singing ability, which conquered the whole audience almost as soon as he started!

“So amazing!”

“Who’s he?”

In each dressing room, the singers are discussing with their crew partners. Only in the dressing room where Prince of Lanling is located, it is silent. It’s Tongtong who can’t help but break the silence first, “This singer should be top-tier.”

“No.”

Lin Yuan answered.

Tongtong was taken aback, “You think the robot is a second-tier singer? This level should be barely top-tier. He’s singing very well; most of the second-tier singers don’t have this singing skill.”

Lin Yuan said, “I mean, he’s a King of Singing.”

“King of Singing?” Tongtong laughed, simply disagreeing, but the camera was rolling, so she didn’t dare to question it directly.

After a cough, Tongtong continued the awkward conversation, “Whether he’s a King of Singing or top-tier one, judging from the voice he’s definitely a male singer, but there are quite a few singers with a dance background. Do you think you can guess who he is, Prince of Lanling?”

“No.”

Lin Yuan didn’t even bother.

Tongtong looked speechlessly at the cameramen, and they returned a sympathetic look.

While other dressing rooms are passionately playing guessing games, the room where Prince of Lanling is located was as quiet as a cold wind blowing through a deserted area.

The robot finished singing.

The judges began reviewing.

However, to everyone’s surprise, the judges seemed unsatisfied. Mao Xuewang directly said, “If it wasn’t for the good cooperation from the band, you would have collapsed at the beginning.”

“The song was rearranged.”

Liu Xu beside him smiled and said, “It’s quite a novel idea, but it doesn’t cover the flaws in the first section. Besides, the vibrato at the end is a bit deliberate. You should be a top-tier singer. The reason why you top-tier male singers are not as good as the King of Singing is the lack of naturalness.”

“…”

The third judge started speaking after a brief silence, “If I’m not guessing wrong, you should be a singer from Yan Continent. But I also cannot rule out the possibility of you deliberately learning this singing method, so I’m not sure about your real ability.”

“Interesting.”

Yang Zhongming slightly leaned back, staring at the robot and said, “You’re having fun, aren’t you? Only a King of Singing can sing a top-tier level with a voice style he’s not familiar with. And you have deliberately simulated the Yan people’s singing tone – it’s just that you didn’t mimic it quite well, but I appreciate your challenge to yourself.”

The judges are so strict!

The audience is a bit dumbfounded and the contestants in each dressing room are also a bit bewildered.

The remarks from the four bosses were really straightforward, their tone so relaxed, whether they mentioned A-list singers or even talked about the King of Singing, they remained so chilled out.

However, their conclusions seemed a bit different.

Aside from Yang Zhongming, the other three judges all thought the robot singer was A-list, who exactly is right…

Backstage in the dressing room, Tongtong glanced at the Prince of Lanling, only his and Yang Zhongming’s conclusions were the same.

Several stars from the judges received a chance to speak, it turned out that the judge’s role was not just casting professional votes, but also hinting the audience to guess who the singers might be.

The rhythm is very comfortable!

The four judges are unmatched in their professionalism, briefly pinpointing the problems of the singer’s performance.

And some stars from the judges side in charge of guessing the identities of the singers to boost the atmosphere, at the same time they also interacted and asked questions of the robot.

The two sides matched wits, one side wanting to dig for key information, while the other side hid their identity, several times making the audience laugh out loud.

…

The second singer is a female singer, a very beautiful image of a white swan.

The song she performed turns out to be “Big Fish”.

After hearing the song, even the four judges couldn’t help but smile: “This is the voice of a top female singer.”

Yes, a top female singer!

Unanimously recognized by the four judges!

This swan conquered the whole room as soon as she started singing, the judges did not hesitate to compliment her.

However, during the interaction with the star judges, this white swan was extremely arrogant.

When the judges guessed that the white swan might be a top singer called “Yuan Xi”, the white swan directly snapped back:

“She can’t sing this song.”

This sentence immediately caused an uproar in the scene!

Tongtong covered her mouth in an exaggerated manner: “This top singer is really daring to say that, she directly said that Teacher Yuan Xi can’t sing this song, the personalities of the singers are so intuitive after being masked!”

“Um…”

The white swan seemed to feel that her previous statement wasn’t quite right, and added, “Yuan Xi and I have different styles. There are some songs she can sing which I may not be able to sing, well, um, you know what I mean.”

What a half-hearted fix.

The audience laughed, but did not hate this arrogant swan, only feeling that this woman is truly authentic.

Yang Zhongming tapped his finger on the table and said indifferently, “You do sing better than Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi’s voice is too thin and she doesn’t think of changing, um, I’m not just talking about this song.”

The other three judges laughed.

“Too direct.”

“But indeed it is.”

“I’ve met Yuan Xi a few times, this fellow is very talented but is easily complacent. She becomes complacent once she achieves a little bit of success not knowing that she is only at the bottom amongst top female singers.”

Oh my god!

Such badass judges!

The whole site started to cheer!

But that’s what they want, to be direct!

Should these bosses consider other people’s feelings when they speak? They’re just stating the facts!

However, judges of most music programs would not dare to say it directly even if they think so, only top musicians who judge dare to speak so bluntly, this is one of the attractions of “The Masked Singer”.

In various dressing rooms.

The singers reacted differently.

Some were silent;

Some were shouting “so brave”;

Some were afraid that they would not be able to withstand the judge’s attack when it was their turn to perform, even Yuan Xi who was not present was directly attacked!

So brutal!

However, regarding the judge’s appraisal of Yuan Xi, the singers in several dressing rooms didn’t dare to express their opinion.

Meanwhile, inside the dressing room of the Prince of Lanling.

Tongtong was shivering: “Teacher Yang Zhongming is even more domineering than I imagined. …”

“Hmm.”

Tongtong thought the Prince of Lanling would remain silent as usual; she was just trying not to make the room too cold.

However, to Tongtong’s surprise, Prince Lanling was really nodding his head and said in a calm voice,

“Yuan Xi’s level is indeed middling among the top female singers, white swan is one of the strongest among the top singers, she sings really well, this version of ‘Big Fish’ is almost on par with Jiang Kui.”

Silence!

Tongtong: “…”

Photographer: “…”

Everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

What did Prince Lanling just say?

Did he really dare to blatantly say that Yuan Xi’s skills are indeed not as good as the White Swan’s?

And he even claimed that the female singer, White Swan’s rendition of ‘Big Fish’, is only evenly matched with the A-list singer Jiang Kui?

What the hell!

Your words are toxic, aren’t they!

What kind of linguistic genius could offend two top singers at once?

Isn’t this the legendary…

Astonishing after a single utterance!?