Chapter 172: "Masked Singer" Live Night ! Bombing the Entertainment Circle!

Li Xiang is no longer the same person he used to be. With the popularity of "King of Masked Singer", Li Xiang has already become one of the famous domestic hosts.

Especially his "broken voice joke" is widely circulated, and he is known as the male host with the best breaking voice in the country. If he does not break the voice in each episode, the audience will feel uncomfortable!
At this time, there were people in the audience shouting his name. These people were all Li Xiang's fans.

Some people even asked Li Xiang to give a live performance with a broken voice:
"Breaking sound!"

"Breaking sound!"

"Breaking sound!"

Li Xiang's lips curled up into a smile. He was not afraid of being teased by the audience, but he was afraid that as a public figure, he would not have much to remember.

He readily followed the audience's request and said loudly:
"Welcome to the live broadcast night of the King of Masked Singer, I am the host Li Xiang (broken voice)——"

The sound broke! The sound finally broke!
The audience watching the live broadcast laughed like crazy! I didn't expect Li Xiang to be so easy to talk to. He actually gave a performance with a broken voice.

I feel comfortable now!
But that’s not all. Next, every time Li Xiang introduced a member of the guessing panel, he would perform a broken voice.

"Welcome Han Shi——"

"Welcome He Zhiyuan——"

"Welcome Zhang Qingfei——"

"Welcome Qiu Dagui——"

……

"Welcome Jiang Nan——"

……

Breaking sound!

Breaking sound!

Still broken sound!

Li Xiang broke his voice 17 times in a row!
The atmosphere at the scene was extremely exciting, with screams and applause resounding throughout the venue, all for Li Xiang.

No one had expected that Li Xiang would heat up the atmosphere right after the live broadcast began, in such an unexpected way.

Weibo’s real-time discussion section has been flooded with “Hahahahahahahahaha”.

"Hahahahahahaha, I'm dying of laughter, this feels great!"

“When will I be able to stop laughing when I see Li Xiang’s broken voice, hahahahaha!”

"This is the first time I've seen a host become famous by breaking his voice 2333!"

"Also 6, born with a holy body that can break sound!"

"Is his throat really all right?"

“I didn’t expect that the first trending search was contributed by Li Xiang, hahahaha.”

"Brother Xiang also worked hard for the show, hahahaha!"

"The main thing is that he breaks his voice as soon as he says it."

“Trivia: Even the host of “Masked Singer” has unique skills!”

“Isn’t this a world-class voice?”

"Li Huowang: I can't even come for this."

After the atmosphere heated up, Li Xiang introduced the rules of the finals:

Unlike the previous five episodes, the final night will no longer be a two-on-two duel format, but everyone will compete together.

After everyone finishes singing, the program will open a voting channel for a nationwide vote.

The on-site audience voted through the voting machine, and the off-site audience voted through the "Masked Singer Final Night" section of Lemon Video.

The first round, choose three from six.

The top three masked singers will automatically enter the second round, and the bottom three masked singers will be eliminated and their masks will be unveiled on the spot.

In the second round, the three winners will compete with the king of singers from the previous five episodes, Li Huowang, and the winner will become the king of singers of the first season.

In other words, entering the second round will qualify you to challenge the King of Singers.

This undoubtedly increased the difficulty for Li Huowang.

"This rule is good, it's simple and clear, there's no room for manipulation, if you can do it, go ahead, if you can't, go down!"

"I feel like it's a bit unfair to my Wangwang. He's already the singing king, so why should he compete with three others? Can't we just stick to the same rules as before?"

"I think it's quite reasonable. It's good that the singing competition has been cancelled. This way it's fair to everyone. In the previous episodes, Jianzhongren and Shenye each had to sing three songs to advance to the singing competition. When competing against Li Huowang, physical exhaustion is a big problem. Moreover, the time for rehearsal and preparation is not at the same level at all. It takes too long to prepare three or four songs. Li Huowang only needs to prepare one song."

"Of course the singing king has his privileges. If he doesn't have any privileges, what's the point of being the singing king? Why don't you let Shen Ye and Jian Zhong Ren be the singing kings? Do you think they are qualified? It's fine if they are qualified."

"Stop arguing. The production team is also considering the length of the show. If it's a 1v1 showdown, how long will it take to broadcast? And Li Huowang's fans should not be impatient. Just trust Li Huowang, okay? He has already tried H Key, Cocoon Man, and Late Night. There's no reason why he can't beat them all."

"Three new singers have come to fill in the vacancies. I wonder if Cocoon Man, H Key, and Late Night can make it to the second round!"

"I'm afraid someone strong will come!"

Backstage, the six masked singers who will be performing in the first round have already drawn their order of performance.

Lemonade is the first water of life
The man in the cocoon is second.

H key third.

Seven parts sugar fourth.

Late night fifth.

Chandelier No. 6.

Backstage, the host asked, "Teacher Life Water, how do you feel now? Are you nervous?"

Lemonade said: "A little nervous."

Host: “So what are your goals for today?”

Lemonade shook his head: "As long as we don't lose too badly."

The guessing panel, Han Shi and others were watching and having fun.

Han Shi smiled and said, "For the three new masked singers, the pressure is indeed not small. They just arrived and encountered a live broadcast. They are not prepared at all."

He Zhiyuan was also laughing:

"Yeah, not only that, they also have to face the singing king Li Huowang who has won five consecutive rounds, the three gatekeepers in the second round, the cocoon man who has entered the second round for five consecutive rounds, Shen Ye whose identity has been revealed, and H Jian who is evenly matched with the first two. It's really miserable~"

Zhang Qingfei looked a little reluctant: "Besides, they are not familiar with the stage, so there is no guarantee that they will not get into trouble due to stage fright."

On Weibo, viewers also felt sympathetic after hearing their analysis:
"This is the first time I see Teacher Han Shi laughing so mischievously, hahahaha."

"After analyzing it this way, it really makes sense. I feel more and more that Li Huowang, Jian Zhongren and the other four are all villains."

"That's right. Shen Ye is the king of singing in Yingdao, Xi Xiang. The other two are not inferior to him in strength and are definitely members of the national team. Add in Li Huowang, who has already attracted the attention of CCTV before he even revealed his identity. There's no way this will work!"

"The judges are already gloating!"

"It's actually very courageous of you to come here."

“I also think it’s great to be here.”

On the stage, Li Xiang said loudly:

“Now, let’s welcome our first masked singer – Lemonade is the water of life!

The concert is about to begin, and the voting channel has been opened——"

On the big screen, the code names of 6 masked singers appeared. Behind each masked singer's code name was a progress bar, which represented the number of votes.

Li Xiang: "The 500 audience members and jury members can vote through the voting machine. Audience friends across the Internet can vote through the voting interface of the Lemon Video app live broadcast page. Every audience member can choose to vote or not when the singer is singing."

The real-time vote count will be displayed on the big screen on site, and the Lemon app will also push out the real-time vote count list. Please hurry up and vote for the masked singer you like."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xiang stepped down from the stage. The lights in the venue dimmed and turned a deep blue, and the Water of Life walked onto the stage.

The song he was going to sing appeared on the big screen:

《Life Puree》

This is a rap song. When seeing the title of the song, many people were surprised!

Whether it was the audience or the judging panel, they all looked at him with pity.

No, what's the point of singing rap on this competitive stage?
But to everyone's surprise, when everyone thought he was going to fail, he actually sang very well!

The song "Life Original" adapted by Life Water is very exciting and explosive! It has both the fast-talking part with hot lyrics and the show-off part with high notes!

"What kind of magical adaptation is this? It's invincible!!!"

"It's so cool! It's so awesome, I'm totally obsessed!"

“The live broadcast is so amazing!”

"A steady one!"

"Very grand, and interprets the heroic spirit of the martial arts world very well!"

"It was so explosive, I got goose bumps all over my body and my head was numb!"

"Is Wk so awesome!"

“The live performance was really infectious, relaxing yet tense!”

"If I remember correctly, this is the first time rap has appeared on this stage, right?"

"I suddenly remembered that this show is called 'King of Masked Singer'! The highlight is that you have no idea how awesome the masked singer is before he starts singing!"

"Did you guys figure out who it was?"

"I can't hear anything!"

“Where on earth did The Masked Singer find these evil singers?”

"It's just right! This is the powerful showdown I've been waiting for! The strength of "King of Masked Singer" lies in the fact that any singer who comes out would be a complete slam dunk in other shows!"

On the big screen, the votes for Life Water continue to increase!
one thousand!
Ten thousand!
One hundred thousand!

one million!

Six million!
It soon broke through nine million and reached nine million, four hundred and eighty thousand!
Looking at this exaggerated number of votes, everyone was stunned. Holy shit, it’s almost 10 million votes?
How many viewers will watch the live broadcast?

You know, although the Masked Singer Live Night is for the audience to vote for the strongest singer in their minds, most of the audience are still unwilling to vote and just watch. It is good enough if the number of voters accounts for a quarter of the total audience!

If we count it as one quarter, the number of voters is 10 million, doesn't that mean there are 40 million people watching the live broadcast?
That is to say, on average, four out of every 140 people in the country are watching King of Masked Singer?! One out of every 30 people is watching King of Masked Singer?
And this is the most conservative estimate!
The industry insiders were once again shocked and numbed!

"Why are the votes so high? How many people in the country are watching King of Masked Singer? Oh my god!"

"That's awesome! The ratings will definitely exceed 5!"

"I'm afraid of heights, thank you!"

"Just kill me, seriously! This number of votes is a bit too low to give me a chance to survive! I'm telling the truth."

"Cheng Cheng is really hopeless! He is not a human being!"

"This is only the first singer, and a new singer. I can't imagine how high the votes will be after Li Huowang comes out."

“This number of votes is terrifying!”

"Cheng Cheng single-handedly raised the number of votes to tens of millions."

"Lemon Video made a lot of money this time!"

Lemon Video is indeed making a lot of money. After all, if the audience wants to vote, they have to download and register Lemon Video. This time, "The King of Masked Singer" directly brought them millions of downloads and hundreds of thousands of registrations.

This is almost unimaginable in this era of stock competition. Although Lemon Video often advertises that it has more than 300 million active users, it is basically exaggerated. We don’t know what fancy data they used to calculate it!

There are more than 300 million active users, and one in four people is using it. Do you ask them if they believe it?
Lemon Video is making a lot of money, but it is also in pain and happiness!

Good news: A lot of people voted!
Bad news: There are too many people voting! The server can't handle it!
At the recording site, Zhang Yibai sat backstage, looking at the terrifying voting numbers with a smug smile:

Guess why I put “Water of Life” last?
Don't underestimate him, he is——

What a powerful existence!

After Lemonade finished singing, the Cocoon Man came on stage.

"Ahhh, sister is like a warrior!"

"It's a blast, it's a blast!"

"Great!"

"Help!"

“It’s a real treat!”

"It's the people in the cocoon who are harmed!"

"Each match is better than the last, her condition has never been worse!"

"Too good!"

After the performance of "Man in Cocoon" was over, he received 11.78 million votes.

He was the third to appear late at night, and his performance was still stable. Moreover, with his identity revealed, many viewers were willing to vote for him. His number of votes was higher than that of the man in the cocoon, reaching directly 12 million.

Then it was Qifentang. After seeing the amazing performances of the three contestants before her, she simply stopped acting and did not try to hide her original voice. Anyway, this was the last episode, and she would not win by hiding her voice and concealing her true strength, so she might as well just sing with her original voice to let everyone know who she is. Maybe she would still have a chance to enter the second round.

on Weibo.

"She is Fang Qiang, right?"

"It's her. I heard it."

"No, why didn't she disguise her voice and just sing it in her original voice?"

"I don't know. I guess he wants to win this way."

"That's a bit clever."

"That's right. Xi Xiang used the original voice because she couldn't pretend anymore when she was singing Cantonese songs. How could she not pretend?"

Qifentang didn't expect that the audience didn't buy it at all, or rather, there weren't that many people who bought it, and she only got five million votes.

Then it was the H key. Maybe her singing didn't make any breakthrough this time and the audience was a little aesthetically fatigued. Plus, she chose the wrong song, so the votes barely broke 9 million and she didn't make it into the top three. She was eliminated early as soon as the votes came out.

"Damn, the H key is eliminated? Isn't the competition too fierce?"

"Life Buffalo's!"

"What kind of song did you choose? It's not suitable for her at all."

"I want to know, is it a sin to choose a song that is familiar to everyone? H Key lost because of the song selection! What a pity, she could have made it to the second round."

Finally, the Chandelier came on stage and received seven million votes.

At this point, the first round of competition ended and the top three were decided, namely, Man in the Cocoon, Late Night, and Water of Life.

The audience had a lot of fun watching the live broadcast. It was really interesting. We could also see the singers' real-time reactions. It turned out that they were as nervous as ordinary people. There were so many jokes during the live broadcast, such as the interludes, the singers' performances, the interaction of the jury, and so on.

Of course, the most interesting one is Li Huowang!

Although he didn't appear in the first round, he still made a strong presence, appearing in the screen from time to time, behind the singers being interviewed, in the empty shots during the transition, behind the host...

He always flashed by quickly, and with his disheveled hair and red clothes, he really looked like a ghost.

At first the audience was shocked by him, but then they started to curse him:
This psycho!
Next, the moment of unveiling came. All the audience stretched their necks and stared at the screen, wanting to see the three eliminated masked singers, especially who H Key was.

Li Xiang took the card and said:

"The first round of competition is over, the qualifying spots have been decided, and the masked singers Chandelier, H Key, and Qifentang who didn't qualify will be unveiled!"

"Who are the chandelier, the H key, and the seven-point sugar? I'll be right back after the commercial!"

After that, the screen cut to the interlude. At this time, countless people across the country were fooled and cursed in anger:
Holy shit! You guys are just cutting it off here? ! ! ! Who taught you to insert ads like this?

Mommy, please refill it for me quickly!

The advertisers, on the other hand, were grinning from ear to ear:

This is a huge amount of traffic!
Fuck, fuck me hard!

(End of this chapter)