Pinnacle of the Stars

Chapter 16 16. It's Not a Joke
Lu Qiu sat on the steps in front of the flower bed, while eating the cone in his hand, he was thinking about the financial issues he would face right now.

Under the auxiliary training that satisfied all the conditions, Xiangwei Mao achieved the effect he wanted. Although he could not succeed 100%, at least he had the opportunity to challenge the beautiful flowers.

Just for this effect, he may have to live a life of eating tree fruits all day long with his partner for a long time to come.

——It starts from eating this cone.

'Fortunately, there is only one Pokémon Xiangwei needs to raise now. ' Lu Qiu comforted himself in his mind.

After all, there is nothing to suffer from. The Pokémon that entrusts its life and future to itself.

Sighing heavily, he pushed aside the irritating thoughts in his mind.

'Why think so much. '

Holding the useless idea of ​​taking every step and counting one step at a time, there must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain, he called out Xiangwei who was chasing butterflies, and said enviously: "Sometimes I really envy your physical strength."

In this regard, Xiangwei glanced at him arrogantly, and did not see the embarrassment when he failed in the training just now.

Lu Qiu took Xiangwei Miao and found his way to the venue of the Moonlight Ball.

On the way, perhaps because the street decorations were too similar, he realized that he was a bit of a road idiot. He circled the two streets several times, and only found out that he was lost under the friendly reminder of others.

Fortunately, after a certain distance, he could see a road sign installed in a city, otherwise, if he really stayed where he was and continued to circle around, he would be laughed at by Xiang Weimao lying on his shoulder.

Didn't stop at the door much.

After entering the venue, Lu Qiu saw that there were more people watching the second day's official game than yesterday, and there should be many tourists who just came to Jihua City, so that he would be reminded to be careful if he couldn't walk a few steps underfoot.

After walking forward for a while, seeing the dense crowd that refused to leave, he simply went to the side to find the staff to explain his situation, and under the guidance of the other party, he walked directly into the contestant preparation area from the side.

When Lu Qiu arrived at the area surrounded by the stage, he found that there were already many contestants sitting here.

It's just that most of them have nervous expressions on their faces, and they seem a little restless.

In fact, no wonder so.

But anyone who has seen the dreamy scene last night will be looking forward to how many votes his performance will get, and how many viewers in the audience will sink into it.

Holding Xiangwei Miao and finding an empty seat, Lu Qiu looked around at the Pokémon of the other contestants, and at the same time unconsciously rubbed Xiang Weimiao's paws.

"Do you want me to help you relax?" He lowered his head and suggested in a low voice.

Shaking his head to the tail meow.

"Then do you want to eat something more, I have some leftover biscuits here. No, that candy?"

Squinting to the tail.

It looked up at its trainer.

Then a paw called up unceremoniously.

"Thank you."

Suddenly, Lu Qiu felt his mood calm down.

Not too long.

At the moment when the atmosphere rose to high altitude, the dance officially started under the announcement of the moonlight.

"Everyone has been waiting for a long time. First of all, welcome to Jihua City. I am the host tonight."

The familiar voice made Lu Qiu look up.

With the cover of the stage, the audience in the audience cannot see the contestants in the preparation area, but the contestants can see the outside scene through the projection screen.

Tonight's official competition has more hosts, and when the contestants will take over the stage, the organizers consider that someone needs to come out to arrange the order and deal with emergencies.

There is no problem with the practice.

It's just that the nervousness was clearly visible on the face of the person on the stage.

"Come on, Yami! The Jihua Market is up to you!"

Behind the stage curtain, where the audience can't see, the mayor Ji Hai, the old gentleman who presided over the girl beauty pageant yesterday put his hand on his mouth and said in a low voice: "Smile, say a few polite words and introduce the contestants to the stage .”

On the stage, Yamei bit her lip, and suddenly turned her head to cast her murderous eyes on the old bastard who pulled her here for the second time.

Originally, she thought that this year the beauty pageant champion had really set up a regulation to act as the host, but when she changed her clothes, she was told that this was originally the job of the mayor.

'Bury him, just tonight. '

Yamei took a deep breath, followed, the shame and anger on her face were swept away, and she introduced to the audience in a spirited tone: "Then, without further ado, please watch the ten-year celebration program of Jihua City, Moonlight The main show at the ball!"

As she spoke, she turned around and gestured, sending the gesture of welcome to the backstage, "Please welcome our first contestant tonight with applause!"

There was a warm slap, and Lu Qiu raised his hand and pressed Xiangwei's restless tail.

Accompanied by the introduction, in the contestant area backstage, a boy who was half a head shorter than himself stood up stiffly, held a Poké Ball, and walked towards the stage.

On the other side, after seeing the contestants on the stage, Ami slowly retreated from the opposite position, giving the boy the stage where people were paying attention.

Stand on the stage.

Under the eyes of everyone, the boy gritted his teeth and threw the elf ball high: "Come out, trumpet bud!"

The red light landed, and the horn bud with a bent body twisted and twisted and appeared on the stage.

'The cultivation is not bad, it should be a little difficult to fight. Lu Qiu looked at the trumpet bud on the stage, and gave an encouraging look from a position where the other party could not see.

"Speaker Bud, use the Flying Leaf Knife!"

Following the boy's order, blade-like green blades of grass flew out from the two large leaves beside Trumpet Ya.

The power doesn't look weak, but because it didn't aim at the target, it just released its skills indiscriminately for a while.

"Use the vine whip to knock out the Flying Leaf Quick Knife!"

The boy's instructions didn't end, he clenched his fists and gave Horn Ya the combination of skills he thought of.

The moment the Flying Leaf Knife stopped releasing, two vine whips were thrown out quickly, and the leaves in the sky were slammed down in a 'crackling' manner.

This idea is not bad.

But even many bystanders in the audience who are not trainers can clearly notice that while Trumpet Bud's vine whip is being swung, many leaves of Flying Leaf Knife have already dissipated automatically after exceeding the distance.

After a hasty response, more and more leaves were missed, and it could be seen that half of the performance had failed.

The young man's face was tense, and he walked off the stage with a disappointed expression on his face when he counted the votes given by the judges.

"The gap of 43 is a bit big." Lu Qiu sighed and shrank back on the chair.

'If all the blades are successfully stopped, what will be the final score? '

"Let us thank the contestants for their performance with applause." Yamei came on stage again to liven up the atmosphere. Driven by her, the audience gave the boy a good-hearted applause.

His performance is already quite novel to those who have never seen the gorgeous contest. If there were no beautiful flowers who opened the way yesterday, the applause at this moment would have been even more enthusiastic.

Next, the players behind the scenes took to the stage one after another.

But their performances are hardly anything to go by.

Many of them just put a skill at random, and such a performance can't even be called a "mistake".

Except for a powerful fire-breathing dragon who conquered about two hundred flowers with a flame vortex, most of the contestants won only a few votes.

The scene was staggering to watch.

This also let the contestants understand that the Moonlight Ball is not a joke that they can participate in with a perfunctory attitude.

As the judges, the flowers are obviously more serious and ruthless than humans.

In the case of not being able to win their appreciation, they will even send zero votes to unprepared players.

Regardless of emotional issues.

Therefore, when the fragrance of flowers all over the city dissipated, Lu Qiu even felt that the person on the stage was about to cry.

For the contestants, the pressure is too much.

In this way, the performance desire of subsequent performers is getting lower and lower.

Until, accidents suddenly began to appear.

"Sorry, I want to abstain."

After walking off the stage with a person with no votes, the girl who was supposed to continue on the stage according to the order suddenly apologized to Mayor Yoshihime who was watching over the contestants.

"Well"

In this regard, the mayor just raised his hand and patted her on the shoulder: "Don't worry, after all, this is just a show, and you can feel the happiness brought by Jihua Market with your heart. There are many interesting places to go after the celebration have a look."

"I personally recommend the flower shop mentioned in the brochure."

"Don't dislike flowers because of this, they are the most beautiful inside."

After comforting the girl a few words, under the help-seeking eyes from Yamei on the stage, Ji Hai straightened his expression, and said to Lu Qiu and the rest of the contestants: "The next steps will not be in order. Do you want to continue on stage?"

Lu Qiu nodded.

It's no wonder that Ami would give herself a suggestion to perform as soon as possible in the way of going on stage in this order.

Speaking of which, it might be a bit cruel to the players just now.

However, from this moment on, the Moonlight Ball will really become a competition.

(End of this chapter)