Chapter 05 Chapter 5
Good words cannot persuade a damned ghost. Some people seek death themselves, so nothing others say will be of any use.
Xuanyin despises people who are not ambitious the most, especially those who seek death for a man who doesn't like them at all.
The system was right about something, love-brain is really scary.
But now Xuanyin has become Cheng Xuanyin, out of the most basic respect, these words are only said in my heart.
She went to bed, unaware that the impact of her video was not limited to this campus.
The First People's Hospital of the Third Special District of Capital Star.
In the corridor, which was as bright as day, several people in neat uniforms were walking quickly, and their black boots made a clattering sound on the ground.
The badge of "Federal Image Publicity Agency" on the chest sparkled in the light.
"Is the patient mentally stable?"
"Stable. Aside from one person suffering some minor trauma to their spiritual sea, everyone else is unharmed. However..."
"What is it?"
"It's just that my mood is a little unstable."
"It's normal to be frightened when attacked by a nightmare beast."
The assistant was a little embarrassed: "They seem more excited than frightened."
The middle-aged director paused and looked at his assistant: "Excited?"
Ghostly howls were heard from the hall ahead.
"After I get out, I want all the information about Lady Shiji!"
"I want to make a golden statue of her and worship it every day at home."
"When will you return the laptop to me? I want to vote for Lady Shiji and bring everyone in my family along!"
"I'm betting my entire year's salary on Lady Shiji becoming the dark horse of this competition!"
The middle-aged director frowned slightly and came to the entrance of the hall.
This was originally a treatment hall, but now it is full of people from a design firm who were recently recruited. They have completed mental assessments and are under observation.
All of them had rosy faces and were in high spirits, discussing with their hands and feet gesticulating excitedly, without any sign that they had nearly died at the hands of the nightmare beast.
It's really exciting.
The middle-aged director looked at them for a while, but did not go in. Instead, he turned and left, saying to his assistant, "Do a good job of appeasing them and stop them from going out and talking nonsense."
The assistant nodded: "Yes."
"The media didn't get the letter, did they?"
"No, we suppressed the news immediately."
The director nodded.
The Capital Star is the most sacred and core place of the Federation. If people knew that a nightmare beast appeared in the key business circle of the Capital Star, but the alarm did not issue any warning, and almost caused casualties, how would those small countries in the stars view the Federation's security work?
How can the people of the Federation trust the government and the military again?
Also, don’t forget that the Empire is still watching!
In short, such things that damage the image of the federation must never be allowed to happen.
"Has the inexplicable divine power riot at the university in the Fifth Special District been investigated?"
"The Security Bureau sent a team to investigate, but there are no results yet."
The director frowned tightly. How could today be a good day? In the Third and Fifth Special Districts, things were happening one after another, and there was no peace at all.
The assistant hesitated and said, "Director, those people in the hall mentioned that it was a video that helped them drive back the Nightmare Beast, allowing them to hold out until help arrived."
As he spoke, he played the video for the director.
The director was slightly surprised when he saw the cross-dressing video. This video is indeed very eye-catching.
However, he felt unhappy when he thought that if the designers in the hall ran to the bottom of this video and said something nonsense, the appearance of the Nightmare Beast would be exposed.
"Grandstanding, take this video down."
The assistant was embarrassed: "This competition is supervised by the Divine Tower, and no secret manipulation is allowed."
"Then try to suppress it as much as possible and ask those people to shut up and stop talking nonsense. Also, pay attention to the comments under the video and delete any inappropriate ones."
This can still be done.
"yes."
"By the way, what's the name of this contestant?"
The assistant took one look and said, "A dinosaur wearing high heels?"
…
Xuanyin woke up feeling refreshed.
My brain doesn't hurt as much anymore. I looked inward at my spiritual sea and found that it was much calmer and I was slowly recovering.
She turned her head and saw a yellow ball of light beside the pillow.
After a pause, she stood up and said, "Good morning."
The system was very excited: "Did you know? The number of views of your cross-dressing video has exceeded 500,000!"
"Really?" Is that all that happened in one night?
But if you think about the population of the Federation, it's understandable. After all, there are tens of billions of people in the Federation, and 500,000 views is just a drop in the bucket.
This is based on the fact that each ID only counts one playback volume per day, and repeated views are not counted, otherwise the number would be even more exaggerated.
"Is that thousand dollars worth showing off?"
"Hey, hey, it's already over two hundred points."
Xuanyin entered the competition's official website. The headline on the website was no longer "Registration Open", but "Hot Selection"
The homepage is divided into several lists.
One is the judges' rating list, one is the public rating list, and there are also popularity lists, innovation lists, and so on.
Xuanyin saw her work on the Innovation List at first glance. The homepage of the list only displays 15 works, and hers happened to be the 13th.
The name is very conspicuous.
Entries: "Shiji Niangniang"
Contestant: Dinosaur wearing high heels
The system screamed, "Wow, wow, you're on the front page! I've been watching you the whole time, and you've been hovering around the top 20. And you're actually on the front page! This is a historic moment that has garnered worldwide attention!"
Xuanyin: “…”
As a system, aren't you a little too restless?
However, she soon understood the excitement of the system. It was different when she was on the homepage. For example, she clicked on the homepage of her own work. As soon as she entered, the number of views was 51w+ and the number of downloads was 833.
Then after a refresh, the number of views became 640,000+ and the number of downloads: 1,156.
This data is really rising rapidly.
The comments are also increasing rapidly.
It feels like riding a rocket.
According to the competition rules, scoring is divided into [judge scoring] and [public scoring].
The [Public Rating] is actually the number of downloads. Whether you want to collect, learn, or spread it again, as long as you download it, it means you agree to support this work, and one download is one point.
Downloading requires one star coin, and a user can only download up to 3 videos per day, and a video can only be downloaded once. This also limits netizens from downloading randomly and repeatedly to increase their scores to a certain extent.
In other words, Xuanyin has already obtained more than a thousand points.
However, this amount of points is not enough to put her at the top of the public rating list. One or two hundred places down the list, the points all start from hundreds of thousands, and the competition is frighteningly fierce.
Xuanyin returned to the homepage of her work and read the comments below.
[So cool and beautiful, lick your face, lick your face, lick your face, download one to show respect]
[I've looped it dozens of times. This style of painting and storytelling is so strong. I downloaded it and read it carefully.]
[This transition is so amazing, let’s learn it hehe]
[The soundtrack is very special, and the timing is very good]
[I downloaded it to study clothes. This dress is so beautiful that I want to make one for myself. It would be even better if the lady could make a tutorial.]
[Watching this video when working late at night is very refreshing, I have added it to my favorites]
Most of them came for the cross-dressing video itself, so some unpleasant words also popped up:
If you don't know, you might think it's a short video platform. Can the competition be more serious? 】
[How on earth can this be called a divine garment? This kind of entry should be eliminated immediately!]
[This is a competition for divine clothing, not a platform for displaying skirts]
Where does the divine power fluctuation in the video come from? Is this cheating?
Xuanyin didn't care about these bad comments, because she made the video so flashy, she really did it to attract attention and quickly gain some show-off points.
Even the flashy name of the competition was intentional, so it's normal for some people to find it eye-catching.
Suddenly, she saw this comment:
[Thanks to Lady Shiji, and thanks to Dinosaur Riding High Heels. My brother was possessed by a nightmare beast yesterday. Fortunately, I was watching the video at the time, and I was able to scare the beast away with it.]
Xuanyin raised her eyebrows. This video could actually scare away the Nightmare Beast?
But this comment caused a quarrel:
[Wow, where did they find this internet troll army? Can videos scare off nightmare beasts? This is the funniest joke I've heard this year!]
[Do you think everyone is a fool just to promote this contestant? ]
[It's true. Last night, a designer uploaded a live video on WeChat Moments. A nightmare beast really entered their company, but the video was quickly deleted.]
Xuanyin wanted to see the latest reply, so she refreshed the page, and found that the comment was no longer visible.
I don't know if it was swallowed by the server or it was overwhelmed by too many comments.
However, in just a short while, the video has received over 1 million views and over 2,000 downloads.
The revenue from downloads is split equally between the contestants and the organizers of the competition.
More than 2,000 downloads means more than 2,000 yuan. After splitting it in half and deducting taxes, it is still about 1,000 yuan.
Thinking of her double-digit savings, Xuanyin breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, she didn't have to worry about food.
I entered the withdrawal page and prepared to withdraw cash, but found a text message in the background.
It was sent by the judging committee.
Hello, contestant 'Dinosaur in High Heels'! The design concept of your entry is quite novel. Could you please elaborate on the motivation behind it so the judges can give you a more comprehensive and detailed evaluation?
Xuanyin thought for a moment. The rules of the competition were that the public selection period for the auditions was seven days. After seven days, the top three thousand judges and the top ten thousand public scorers would enter the preliminary round.
With the current momentum of her work, it should not be a problem for the public rating to enter the top 10,000, so the judges' rating will not be very important.
She also didn't want to explain at length what magic power was to a group of judges whose identities she didn't know.
So she simply ignored the text message.
…
Competition jury.
The judges were anxiously awaiting Xuanyin's response.
"Did Dinosaur, wearing high heels, reply to the text?"
"No?"
"Haven't you seen it yet?"
Xuanyin’s video is amazing, but her motivational explanation is poor.
The dynamic explanation is the core of a design proposal. Unless the designer presents it himself in a video, like Cheng Ziqi did, it will not be made public and only the judges can see it.
The more unique the core, the less likely it will be publicly displayed.
After watching Xuanyin’s video yesterday, the judges quickly felt the fluctuations of divine power in her video.
Someone even got a low-level Nightmare Beast to verify it, and found that the video did have an attacking and deterrent effect on the Nightmare Beast.
This excited the judges.
You have to know that when a powerful spirit possessor is fighting, if his power is strong enough, even if it is recorded in a video, the video will contain the attack of divine power when it is circulated for the second time, and ordinary people will not be able to bear it.
In Xuanyin's video, the divine power attack is more targeted at the Nightmare Beast rather than humans, so the Nightmare Beast is very sensitive to this, but people will only feel inexplicably shocked after watching the video.
The judges felt that based on this point alone, this work was definitely worth considering. Perhaps it was a student or disciple of some powerful person, who used an anonymous pseudonym to bully the novice village.
They excitedly went to see Xuanyin's explanation of motivation, and then—
"Mrs. Shiji, what kind of figure is she... a mythical figure? She's actually a mythical figure!"
The judges were shocked.
Although everyone talks about creating gods and divine clothes, everyone knows that the images they designed are not gods, so the categories will be written as: animals, plants, machines, etc.
This is the first time someone has filled in “mythical figure”, how arrogant!
Reading further down, the explanation is very simple, even perfunctory.
[Shiji Niangniang's original form is a stubborn stone. She is a demon fairy who has attained enlightenment for tens of thousands of years. She is the leader of demons and possesses immense magical powers.]
[Niangniang Shiji's weapons are the Tai'a Sword and the Eight Diagrams Cloud Light Handkerchief, and her mount is the Qingluan.]
[Shiji Niangniang can absorb the energy of the earth and transform it into her own magical power.]
Is it that simple?
What does it mean that her original form is a stone? Is she a stone?
What are demon immortals? Is the number of tens of thousands of years too exaggerated?
What are the Tai'a Sword and that "something handkerchief"? What is the Qingluan? Is it a blue bird?
Can it absorb the earth's energy? How exactly does it absorb it? And what exactly is mana?
It seems like everything has been said, but it also seems like nothing has been said.
So they wanted the contestant to complete the explanation of motivation.
At this time, a judge said weakly, "News just came from the finance department. Dinosaur just withdrew cash in the backstage wearing high heels."
The judges anxiously waited: "..."
So you have time to withdraw cash, but no time to reply to text messages?
Maybe they are replying, wait a little longer.
But after waiting for a long time, there was still no response.
The other party did not leave any contact information.
It is impossible to find people if they remain anonymous.
So you don't want to bother with them at all?
"This contestant is too arrogant. She should be eliminated."
"This work contains divine attacks. Do you think you can brush them off?"
"Who knows how this divine power was created? Maybe she found a spirit-possessing master and had him perform some moves while she was filming the video, thus recording the divine power into the video."
"Do you have any evidence? If you open your mouth without any evidence, be careful of being reported!"
"There have been cases in previous years where completely out-of-concept entries were eliminated from competitions, only for the contestants to go to the Tower of God for certification and pass. Do you want to be mocked by the entire internet again?"
The judges argued among themselves and finally decided that they really couldn't understand Xuanyin's design. There was no reason to give her points, but they couldn't eliminate her either, so they could only ignore it.
If her public ranking can make it into the top 10,000, let her enter the preliminary round. If not, she can only blame herself.
After this decision, the debate came to an end, but one judge looked at the video thoughtfully.
He was well-informed and knew about the Nightmare Beast attack that occurred in the Third Special Zone last night. He also knew what role this video played in that incident.
If there was no video, several people would have been injured or killed in the office.
Unfortunately, the Propaganda Department suppressed the news.
When I looked at the official website homepage again, I found that "Shiji Niangniang" was pushed down again after being on the homepage for a short time.
He frowned. It was obvious who was behind this.
Thinking of the Propaganda Department's increasingly hardline and paranoid style in recent years, the judge sighed, and then thought that if the magical clothing in the video was indeed possible to realize, then it would definitely be a huge innovation.
Thinking of this, I feel excited and expectant.
He downloaded the video and sent it out.
[There's a special contestant in this competition. Could you please help me see if this is a disciple of a certain master?] [Video included]
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