Invincible Urban Evil Doctor

Chapter 965: Chapter 975: International Competition (Part 2)

Of course, entering this grand palace-like building requires a special ticket.

Ticket!

Lin Xi certainly doesn’t have one.

But not having one couldn’t stop him.

Now, he followed several people with tickets in front of him and went in together.

The two old men checking tickets at the entrance only checked the people in front and completely overlooked Lin Xi.

The people in front didn’t notice that the old men didn’t check Lin Xi’s ticket.

Actually, Lin Xi used the shadows of the people in front to avoid the sight of the ticket-checking old men.

This method can be achieved by anyone with the strength of the King of Soldiers and who is skilled in concealment.

Entering inside the palace, he found it was a small music hall.

On stage, besides a huge piano and a small stool, it was empty without anything else.

But even like this, it firmly attracted almost full attention from the audience below.

Lin Xi glanced ahead and to both sides and didn’t see any trace of Luo Susu.

It seemed she should be preparing backstage.

Next, he walked like a person with a ticket to a spot in the middle row where there was just an empty seat.

He walked over and naturally sat down.

Beside the seat was a chubby white woman with a somewhat snobbish look.

"What are you doing?"

"Why are you sitting here?"

"There’s someone in this seat!"

She showed a disdainful look on her face at Lin Xi, saying, "You must be sitting in the wrong seat!"

"Get up quickly, my husband will be here soon!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xi glanced at her and replied, "Let’s talk about it when he gets here."

"Maybe when he arrives, he won’t even want to sit!"

The chubby woman was taken aback, seemingly not expecting that someone could be even more shameless than her.

Just as she was about to explode, a medium-sized man dressed very gentlemanly came from behind, though he appeared decent until you saw his face.

Because there was a huge black mole at the corner of his mouth.

And his eyes clearly didn’t belong to an upright person.

"Wife, who is he?" The man asked the chubby woman as soon as he arrived.

His face wasn’t looking good.

It was as if his woman was secretly involved with the man sitting in his seat.

Lin Xi: "..."

He thought to himself, am I really so tasteless?

Just as the chubby woman was about to explain something, Lin Xi quietly took out several stacks of RMB from the Jade Pendant Space, roughly amounting to tens of thousands.

He directly handed it to the standing man, "You guys leave, the money will be yours!"

The man was initially stunned, his anger and frustration instantly fizzled out.

And without saying much, he took the RMB.

This thing, although not British Pounds, he also knew it was money and could be exchanged for quite a few British Pounds.

Or you could say it could buy about ten tickets without any issue.

"Alright!" He hesitated little.

And he pulled the bewildered chubby woman out together with him.

After all, Lin Xi said for them to leave together.

If his wife didn’t go, he wouldn’t get the money.

Chubby woman: "..."

But clearly, the chubby woman’s status at home was far below her husband’s.

So she was dragged out just like that.

As she left, she glared fiercely at Lin Xi twice.

As for the nearby people, upon witnessing this change, they showed disdainful expressions.

"What kind of people are these!"

"How can they have no manners at all?"

"Yeah, and this yellow-skinned person thinks having money makes him great?"

"Exactly, those two are no better, lacking any backbone for some money!"

"Seems like they’re definitely not piano enthusiasts!"

"..."

Several people whispered several things, assuming Lin Xi couldn’t hear, but Lin Xi heard them all.

However, he didn’t mind the discussions of these people.

Instead, he sat casually in his seat, looking ahead.

At this time, he also noticed there were a row of large sofas a certain distance from the stage in front of the audience.

There were nine in total!

Above, sat five men and four women.

Among them were two yellow-skinned people, one man and one woman; the rest included five white people, one black person, and one Hispanic.

Of the two yellow-skinned people, that man was probably Chinese or of Chinese descent.

That woman was likely Korean.

Although their skin color was similar, Korean or Japanese people are easily distinguishable from us Xia Country people.

"Judges?" Lin Xi mused.

After about ten minutes, the outside door closed, indicating the competition was about to start.

The stage, which was dim earlier, also gradually lit up.

A middle-aged mixed-race woman dressed very provocatively walked onto the stage, and after she called out a few times, eight more people came out from backstage.

Among these eight people, Luo Susu was obviously one of them.

Of course, under the spotlight, they didn’t pay much attention to the audience full of people.

Rather, they fixed their gaze on the people on the judging seats.

The judges also nodded to the eight people, looking encouraging.

After the host explained some rules and eight participants each introduced themselves, they prepared to start the performance.

Lin Xi also learned from the host’s words that these eight people were from eight different countries.

This was also the final eight decided in this piano competition, you could say, the top eight.

Each one’s skill was extraordinary.

They almost represented the strongest person among college students domestically.

In Asia, only Xia Country and Korea made it to the top eight.

Korea’s participant this time was a senior more than two years older than Luo Susu and is currently in the second year of a master’s program.

Next, the host took out a round bottle.

The bottle contained eight small paper balls.

The paper balls had numbers from one to eight.

Whichever number you drew, you’d perform in that order.

For example, if Luo Susu drew number five, then she’d perform fifth.

After all performances are over, nine international judges will score each person.

Discarding the highest and lowest scores, then taking the average of the remaining seven scores to select the top three, to determine first, second, and third place.

Of course, the nationalities of these nine international judges were not the same as those of the contestants.

But this couldn’t avoid the existence of immigrants among them.

This couldn’t be blamed on the international organization hosting it, only on the limited number of judges.

They had spent a great deal of effort finding these nine people.

And these nine people also had certain guarantees in terms of character.

But this certainly wasn’t 100% fair; some degree of bias was unavoidable.

Just like the female judge who immigrated from Korea to Southeast Asia, although she wasn’t Korean, she might still lean towards the Korean contestant when scoring.

This possibility wasn’t small!

After all, the Korean people are so shameless!

"Begin!" the host called, and the eight people holding paper balls walked towards the backstage.

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