Chapter 171: Better To Look At Legs, Work Better With Legs!
On the way to the Big Plaza, Yuan Zhu traveled together with the introverted youth and kept asking questions to inquire about news regarding the competition.
The latter had no suspicions either. So many young males were interested in this event, and these days, lustful fellows kept being attracted to participate, so he answered every question.
After a conversation, Yuan Zhu quickly figured out the operating model of the Taixi Saintess. This talent show event that seemed to select high-quality beautiful girl idols from the public was actually jointly promoted by various large and small enterprises, with investment and sponsorship behind the scenes.
The competition was divided into 36 areas, and the contestants or idol groups in each area were just like race cars in an F1 competition.
Behind them were their respective sponsor investors, which could be local companies in Taixi or enterprises from other places. As long as they paid a sum of money, they could select beauties with appearance, talent, and temperament from the numerous high-quality idols, singers, and dancers for title sponsorship.
In the end, the vast number of high-quality misses would slaughter each other, with rounds of eliminations, ultimately selecting the strongest of the year to become Taixi’s external city business card, crowned with the name of Saintess.
To attract more attention and get the grassroots populace to participate spontaneously, the organizers chose a popular sea selection mode. In addition to carefully cultivated seed contestants, they also mixed in some reserves, trainees, and wild high-quality idols from the public… holding elimination matches in each district.
During the competition, high-quality wild idols emerged from time to time, and even some high-appearance, high-quality pure passerby audience members could stand out and be fought over for signing by other companies (script?), so the public’s participation enthusiasm was even higher.
Behind this competition was actually a competition and game between various enterprises.
All sides selected agents and had idol misses deeply bind with their own brand culture. In the promotion process, they fused products with performances, continuously showcasing and brainwashing externally, spreading their own brand culture and expanding influence among the populace.
And this, this was the true purpose of the Taixi Saintess.
On the super first-tier big stage of Taixi, gathering public attention to expand influence and reach. On the supernatural level, condensing power to further enhance the enterprise’s ‘foundation’.
Behind this involved the operating model of the Industrial God Kingdom and Commercial Deity Kingdom. In Yuan Zhu’s cognition, the Mao Mao King was very suitable to participate in such a competition.
Having the most appearance-competitive, explosively figured Zhou Chu in the squad perform the temptation of children’s wear that was bursting at the seams, both pure and desirous, to make a name for Luxury Children’s Wear in one fell swoop.
But unfortunately, the Mao Mao King was an Otherworld clothing company registered in the Bubble Layer and temporarily had no intention of getting involved in Du Ling. Zhou Chu was also an ‘anti-Mao Mao vanguard’ and would most likely refuse to participate, destined not to see this beautiful scene.
While various companies used title-sponsored contestants to become famous in the arena and output enterprise culture externally; ordinary audience members didn’t need to think deeper, just purely appreciating the idols’ performances vying brilliantly would already be a feast for the eyes, gaining mental joy and satisfaction.
This was a win-win.
As for the contestants themselves, they also borrowed the competition to gain enough attention, obtaining fame and rich remuneration, which was greatly helpful for future undertaking development. Among them, the excellent ones could even become spokespersons for various companies.
Even, this kind of ‘showing off greatly’ behavior itself was a cultivation method for certain supernatural systems.
Finally, the annual Taixi Saintess competition had long become one of Taixi’s business cards, continuously harvesting influence on the West Coast, also stimulating economic consumption. Every year at the finals, a large number of tourists would come to watch the competition, with the tourism industry continuously booming, and the brands of the title-sponsored girls all selling like crazy.
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Harboring inexplicable anticipation, Yuan Zhu arrived at the central plaza with the youth beside him, seeing the scene of seas of people from afar. At the center of the plaza was a huge stage, with speakers, lights, and backgrounds all set up. Someone was already performing on stage, and below the stage were frenzied shouts, cheers, and screams.
In addition, in other areas of the Big Plaza, like exhibitions held on Earth, small booths were set up one after another, where various enterprises promoted products. Those idols who hadn’t performed on stage yet stayed at their own booths, promoting products to the audience, signing for fans who came to support, or performing small programs.
Yuan Zhu stood at the outer edge of the plaza, looking into the distance, and as wished saw all sorts of long legs, super short skirts, slim waists, big breasts, flat chests… Not only youthful and vibrant girls, but also charming and glamorous bad big sisters. Even palace-dressed long-eared elves, bunny ear girls in cartoon fursuits… everything imaginable, giving a comic con illusion, but superior in quality.
At this time, the youth following beside Yuan Zhu also shed his introverted and repressed state, with quickened breathing, flushed cheeks, shining eyes, looking far in one direction, bursting with endless enthusiasm inside, poised to squeeze into the crowd and charge toward the booth he supported.
Yuan Zhu hurriedly grabbed the other’s collar and asked: “This competition site looks messy, and there don’t seem to be any professional judges. How exactly do they select and eliminate?”
The youth was anxious to support his own idol but couldn’t resist the strong and robust Yuan Zhu, so he helplessly replied: “Did you see those booths? And other food, alcoholic beverage, and souvenir consumption areas. As long as you tip at least 10 yuan anywhere in the arena, you get a vote. Before the deadline, vote for the contestant you support, and finally tally the votes for promotion. I’ve said it, can you let me go now?”
It really could stimulate consumption: “Then what if someone deliberately buys votes?”
“Every vote is bought with real money. Buying votes, doesn’t that even more prove the contestant’s influence? I beg you, please let me go, okay? I need to go vote for my goddess now!”
Yuan Zhu let go, smoothed the wrinkles on the other’s shoulder, and waved goodbye: “Then good luck, hope your supported contestant can advance smoothly.”
“Thanks!”
Watching the youth charge into the crowd, Yuan Zhu continued to crane his neck and look around. He discovered that around the big stage in the plaza, there were 24 uniformed, powerful aura, burly green-skinned orc security personnel over 2.4 meters tall, hands behind backs, standing in front of rows of railings, separating the frenzied audience from the stage.
Little Spicy Stick: “Even security uses supernaturals. Those green-skins have pollution traces in their bodies, forming energy resonance with each other, creating a force field. Though I don’t recognize the pollution system, it’s already recorded.”
Yuan Zhu looked toward the stage, where a three-person group of three girls in extremely vibrant clothing colors were holding instruments, bouncing and jumping in front of the microphone, fully opening the mic to sing an extremely fast-paced advertisement song.
The performers were ordinary mortals without supernatural aura. However, among the contestants queuing below the stage to go on, there were a few supernaturals, including one he was familiar with from the Law System. Not sure if it was a Security Bureau colleague of Zhou Chu?
Spicy Stick: “No way! From what I know, the Law System is known for ‘low threshold + high stability’, with the broadest audience and highest spread. Any ‘pollution system’ on the verge of losing control or regretting can switch to the Law System for salvage. Even the Holy Church’s Great Law Heaven (Eight Holy Kings) is a variant of the Law System.”
Yuan Zhu had no mind to argue with the spicy stick at this point; his attention was slowly drawn by one miss after another passing by.
“Hiss… these legs are heavenly, perfectly combining fleshiness, shape, and length. I give them 10 points!”
Little Spicy Stick nodded deeply in agreement: “Approved, legs for a year!”
Yuan Zhu was stunned and asked in surprise: “You like this too?” You’re a damn female elf!
“Huh?”
Little Spicy Stick was also taken aback and immediately explained: “As an ‘artificial intelligence’ less than half a year old since birth, my three views, preferences, fetishes… didn’t have time for postnatal cultivation. From the moment of birth, I fully inherited all your preferences. So what you like, I like; our aesthetics match! Even my current appearance is modeled after your fetishes.”
“Makes sense!”
Little Spicy Stick suddenly exclaimed: “Wow! Boss, quick look, that white-haired one isn’t inferior to me! And with a world-weary face, hiss—it’s hitting the spot.”
Yuan Zhu followed the arrow marked by the spicy stick on his retina and was startled: “Good eye! This is just a sub-area, and the quality is already this high?”
Spicy Stick sharp review: “This is Taixi, the most prosperous city on the West Coast, sucking in beauties from surrounding areas; high quality is only natural. Especially in this world overrun by gods and demons with supernatural power existing. Even zero-magic Earth has plastic surgery and beauty enhancement; a supernatural world is only more outrageous. I remember among the pills we grabbed in Cicada City, there were beauty retention pills?”
“Were there? No impression.”
Spicy Stick: “Yes, yes. In my records, there are 20 bottles of beauty retention pills.”
Soon, Yuan Zhu followed the boiling crowd bit by bit into the plaza interior, not going shopping or consuming, just buying a bottle of pure water, then having the Soul Program turn on recording mode, variously looking at legs, faces, breasts… feeling dazzled, constantly critiquing and scoring with Little Spicy Stick, corners of his mouth uncontrollably grinning, already forgetting the purpose of coming here.
“Not poking, not poking, really not poking! Worthy of a big city; this trip wasn’t in vain.”
Spicy Stick agreed: “Exactly, exactly. In Running, no such fortune. Even the misses from Yellow Millet Town would be ordinary here. Wow, there’s a super beauty over there, just dressed too conservatively.”
“Compared to those outstanding ones on stage, Zhou Chu isn’t up to par.”
Along the way, Yuan Zhu had seen about thirty or forty various contestants: sweet type, fresh type, cold glamorous type, heavy makeup type… dazzling array.
Especially this kind of real appearance seen live up close, completely different from the previous life’s celebrities under ‘big screen + makeup + special effects’ triple enhancement fake masks. All details, key points, flaws were revealed under his Fiery Golden Eyes.
Therefore, those that made him feel beautiful were truly breathtakingly so. If classifying on-site misses with a pyramid model, then their Happy Home’s appearance representative Zhou Chu could only rank in the second tier below the top.
As for the pink-haired Meng Xiyue, her heavenly looks were just at the level of an ordinary backup dancer. As for Senior Student Chen from Rain Courtyard, he could only tearfully give her an ‘intellectual’ label.
“There’s a short-haired green-skinned miss over there; is she orc mixed-blood? Great figure, heavenly appearance; how did this come about? I don’t get it. This defies genetics!”
Yuan Zhu looked over and was also stunned by the 1.9-meter short-haired athletic green-skinned girl: “Her skin tone is very light, probably 1/4 or 1/8 bloodline. To produce this level, I judge she can advance! Is she endorsing sports beverage? Lots of people queuing to buy around her.”
“Wanna go take a look?”
“Wait!” Yuan Zhu suddenly stopped and showed a puzzled expression, trying hard to recall and think, “Why do I feel like there’s something on my mind? What did we come here for?”
Little Spicy Stick also realized belatedly and was stumped by the question. Without the reminder, she was still immersed in the joy of looking at legs and faces… Now asked by Yuan Zhu, she also felt like something important was missed?
“Eh… find someone! Right, we’re here to find someone. That A Miao from Cat Street!”
Yuan Zhu quickly corrected: “It’s A Miao from Cat Street; Lei Shen Company said she’s here. I guess she’s a partner of Lei Shen, either screening idols as a broker for the competition; or… she’s a contestant herself?”
Little Spicy Stick: “No way? This A Miao isn’t an arms dealer, smuggler, professional fencer, counterfeiter, money launderer… I guess she used some means to control a batch of high-quality underground wild idols in Running and brought them to Taixi to cooperate with Lei Shen.”
Having thoroughly read Yuan Zhu’s memory, Little Spicy Stick had already imagined a series of little stories.
Yuan Zhu: “Have you found Lei Shen Company’s booth?”
Spicy Stick: “No, all booths you’ve scanned, I’ve edited and summarized. Here there are cosmetics, beverages, food, clothes, daily necessities… companies, but no arms company booths.”
Yuan Zhu: “How many areas do I have left to visit?”
“You were busy looking at legs, at least 2/3 of the areas were skipped; I didn’t find related info in your ‘memory’. Now, I’ll re-mark arrows for you; move to those areas and scan, I’ll cooperate with your vision for screening. If there’s no Lei Shen booth, then no way.”
Yuan Zhu: “Do you support auditory ‘keyword search’?”
“Too noisy, but I can try. If sounds like ‘arms, weapon, Lei Shen, Cat Street…’ appear in the surrounding noise, I’ll notify you.”
Then, Yuan Zhu and Little Spicy Stick each allocated 1/3 of their energy, searching for Lei Shen Company’s booth and booths related to ‘Running’ while appreciating the scenery, but found nothing.
Instead, the sweet smiles of one high-appearance big sister and miss after another warmed their injured hearts.
From the audience crowd below the stage, astonishing cheers erupted again. Yuan Zhu, who was looking around, was affected and suddenly stopped: “Forget it, won’t look anymore! Anyway, already appointed; come again tomorrow. For now, let’s focus on enjoying the performances!”
Spicy Stick nodded repeatedly: “Yes, yes, yes; been waiting for you to say that.”
At the same time, behind Yuan Zhu at the stage periphery came a complaint: “Hey, guy in front, make way; don’t block me from seeing the girls!”
