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Chapter 1473 Chapter 107. Perfect Performance

"Still no agreement?"

Annan looked at Ingrid who returned empty-handed.

He entrusted the task of applying for portrait rights to the contestants to Ingrid. The contestants had never heard that portraits could be sold for money, so they agreed after being half-tricked and half-bribed. However, all the Dragon contestants refused.

It’s not that the dragon has a good business sense, but the price it asks is simply beyond Liberty City’s ability to afford.

They either asked for a few thousand gold nars or the entire sales volume. Even the three blue dragons who were already citizens of the Free City: Nocturis, Zelgast, and Volumanis asked for 99% of the sales volume. The remaining 1% was left for Annan, the factory, and taxes.

Ingrid shook her head: "They are asking for too much."

"How greedy..."

If Annan hadn't wanted to recruit them, he would have asked the factory to do it directly.

What I made are blue dragons, red dragons, gold dragons, silver dragons, and bronze dragons. They are not your models. Where do you see your names?
So even though the dragon is the darling of the world and the pinnacle of the Allen continent, there is a reason why it has a bad reputation...

“So how are the sales of the model going?”

Ingrid continued, "Each commercial street was given ten of each contestant, and they were sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves. It's hard to tell which one has higher sales."

“There are still many rich people…”

Annan sighed, 200 commercial streets mean 20000 models, and one model sells for 10 silver coins, so the sales volume exceeds 2000 gold nars.

However, 2000 Kinnars is not pure profit. In addition to the cost of hiring workers to make the models by hand, % of the profit must be shared with the contestants as a portrait usage fee.

But it's just a one-time deal. After "Everyone's Singer" ends, it won't sell so well... until the second season.

“By the way, there is a lot of demand from customers for the judges’ model.”

"Tell them not to worry, the collector's edition will be sold after the finals start."

You can always trust Annan's ability to make money. As long as the profit is enough, he can even auction his virginity.

It may be incomprehensible to outsiders that Liberty City has made so much money, but why is it still like a dragon that is never satisfied?

However, only the people of Liberty City knew that all the money that Lord Annan earned was spent on Liberty City and its people. Only the officials of Liberty City knew how much they needed money - giving Annan 100 gold nars was enough for him to live, and giving him 100 million gold nars would be spent in an instant.

It’s the third day of the promotion tournament, and tonight there will be a highlight: champion candidate Bailey Knight will appear on stage.

Before Bailey Knight came on stage, the first special guest came on stage to set the mood.

Annan chose none other than…Bieshu, the ratman who was eliminated in the elimination round with a good score of 970, Forrest Gump.

Even though people dislike the Rat Man and are unwilling to vote for him, they still support the big black rat performing on stage. Even the name Forrest Gump was given to it by Annan.

Forrest Gump was not as angry as expected after losing the election. He had 970,000 votes, including the one million votes that the Rat Man had stolen for him, which meant that nearly one million people were willing to vote for him.

It is unknown how many of these one million manpower are ratmen hiding in the human camp.

In any case, thanks to "The People's Singer", Forrest Gump's popularity in the human world jumped to become the second most famous rat man after Jerry - even though Jerry is a rat.

"Hello, I'm Forrest Gump, the rat man."

Forrest Gump's fluent common language drew applause from the audience.

"Three years ago, I was born in a sewer in the south. I lived on leaking garbage and my tail was bitten off in half by a mousetrap. I never thought that one day I would be able to stand in the sun and speak."

Forrest Gump was wearing Fast pants with a hole in them, and his broken tail was swaying gently.

"I know you're afraid of our teeth marks appearing on the grain bags, just like we dream of torches burning us into a ball of fire."

"I also know that peace does not mean who forgives whom. It means that when the ratmen knock on the ore in the mine, humans will have a good dream because they have discovered a new mineral vein instead of thinking that the ratmen are attacking the city."

"When we hear humans shouting at the cave entrance, we don't have to guess whether it's shouting for killing or collecting minerals." The Skeleton King tilted his head slightly at the judges' table: "Annan, what lines did you prepare for it?"

"Evelyn prepared it. She is now better than me at stirring up emotions."

"Well said."

"really."

Evelyn usually stayed in the tavern a lot. She had seen many bards, succubi soliciting business, and frustrated painters who had failed in their exams.

On the other side, after finishing his speech, Forrest Gump saluted the audience and held up the microphone with his paws: "My singing won't be very good."

"After all, the tune of peace has to be a little off-tune to be true."

After the applause, Forrest Gump began to sing.

Even a person with a different musical style can clearly hear the difference between Forrest Gump and the previous contestant, but who would be more critical of a peace-loving rat man?
After the song ended, people gave warm cheers and applauded.

In the audience, the centurion of the street sweepers also applauded.

The atmosphere was set and Peterson walked onto the stage.

"Let us thank Forrest Gump. Next, let us invite Bailey Knight from Silver City to sing the song, "My Heart Will Go On"!"

The stage lights suddenly dimmed, and a beam of cold white spotlight pierced the darkness.

Bailey Knight stood in the center of the light column with her hands folded in front of her abdomen - this was a starting posture that had almost never changed in her 30-year stage career.

The moment the first note fell, the organ sounded synchronously, giving all the audience goose bumps.

Compared to her current performance, the previous few games were just like playing house...

Is this the level of one of the strongest singers in the Allen Continent? Annan was amazed. It was not much inferior to supernatural powers...

At the climax of the song, Bailey Knight's cold, high-pitched voice brings people back to the cold night surrounded by a tide of rats.

At this moment, behind Bailey Knight was projected the scene of Jack and Rose saying goodbye to each other through a thin door.

The audience had never experienced such an audio-visual scene before and they all burst into tears.

As the last syllable faded, everyone stood up with tears in their eyes and applauded Bailey Knight.

Annan: “It sounds really (muted) nice!”

Faru: "Wow, this is so touching..."

Siren: "I would like to call you the greatest singer in human history."

Skeleton King: "I feel as if my heart is beating with spring."

Scarlet Queen: "Phew... Your singing reminds me of the song of death 1,500 years ago..."

……

The third night of "Everyone's Singer" ended, and Bailey Knight's votes were far ahead.

There's no way around it. When it comes to other songs, people will still be more or less unfamiliar with them.

But "My Heart Will Go On" is almost known to everyone in the commercial street, and coupled with Bailey Knight's stunning performance, there are very few who can surpass her.

If Bailey Knight sang this song in the final, she would probably win the championship.

(End of this chapter)