Chapter 81: Fight a Good Turnaround Battle
"Now, singer Lika will perform the song 'Deep Sea' for everyone."
As the host's voice came through, the stage went dark.
A deep blue tone slowly lit up. At center stage, a woman in a dark blue mermaid tail dress gradually appeared before everyone. She had a slender waist, her slim arms adorned with delicate sparkles, and the fish-fin-edged half-face mask added an air of endless mystery.
In just an instant, everyone's eyes were focused on her.
Isabella stared hard at Lika on stage, waiting confidently.
The audience in the venue quieted down. Those who hadn't seen the live performance before thought this scene was absolutely beautiful.
William frowned slightly. That familiar feeling was rising up again.
Meanwhile, outside the venue.
Countless people were watching this live stream.
When the broadcast first started, the scene looked pretty ordinary - just a regular mermaid stage that even looked a bit plastic and cheap under that lighting.
Just one second later, suddenly, the entire image seemed to jump.
In the blink of an eye, some people just took a sip of water and saw that the previously mediocre stage had instantly become high quality.
The whole atmosphere and texture were completely different.
Details that had been blurred and compressed before now appeared clearly before everyone's eyes.
The sparkling scales on the masked mermaid's body, the fine shimmer of deep blue sea light reflecting on her skin - she was a complete mermaid princess.
In an instant, everyone's attention was drawn to her.
Soren and Mia, watching by their computers, got excited.
"Jeffrey's side is done!"
"I was worried for so long, thank goodness everything went smoothly!"
"Yeah, yeah, now it's up to us!"
"This time I'm definitely going to make a comeback!"
"Amelia is the best!"
The two discussed excitedly, not noticing Hawk standing outside the study, watching them with a smile.
Backstage, Isabella glanced at the live stream interface. Her expression changed slightly, but she immediately controlled it. She said she needed to use the restroom, then walked to a spot without cameras and called Zaid.
Soon, Zaid picked up.
"What's going on?" Isabella asked anxiously. "Didn't you say everything was arranged? Why has her stream quality recovered?"
"Don't worry, maybe it's not adjusted yet. Let me go check," Zaid immediately replied.
"You promised me, remember!" Isabella warned. "If you can't handle Lika, you won't be able to deal with Jeffrey either."
"I know." Zaid agreed and went to handle it.
But Zaid was destined not to handle it in the short term.
Because at that moment, on the other side, Jeffrey was guarding the door to the equipment control room with a sinister smile. Not far from him, several people were being held by his men.
Seeing Zaid approaching from afar, Jeffrey cracked his knuckles. He had prepared for this early on.
Undercurrents were surging below.
But in the live stream.
As the masked mermaid began to sing, starting with a low hum combined with the ocean water effects on stage, it directly pulled people into the world of the deep sea.
Lika sang softly, telling a different story of a mermaid falling in love with a prince.
This time the story's focus wasn't on the love itself, but on the little mermaid wanting to see the world on land. Love was just an accent to her outward adventure.
The prince was just one item in the scenery she passed by.
Falling in love with the prince and leaving the prince were both her choices.
She could take it up and put it down. She was always herself, herself at different stages.
As the song moved from the initial girlish feelings and immersion in love to later seeing more scenery and diving back into the deep sea, the blue on stage became dazzling. The masked mermaid's dress swayed up and down with the gentle breeze, like a living fish tail swimming.
The musical scale also gradually rose from the initial low notes, continuously climbing upward.
The audience was captivated by her.
On the live stream, comments were rapidly refreshing—
"Is she this good!"
"Yeah, it's truly a feast for the eyes and ears!"
"This is Lika? The Lika I thought was just okay at composing lyrics and whose overall stage was just average?"
"And she looks really good too!"
"Haven't you noticed, all her makeup and styling perfectly match the current stage! Very coordinated!"
"I was at a previous live show. Actually, every one of Lika's live performances is great, but the stream quality and audio quality were really bad. I said this before and no one believed me, I was so frustrated."
This comment from a live audience member was immediately liked by countless people.
"Right, the quality seemed to jump just now."
"Yes, yes, just for a second or two, right when entering the venue. In the blink of an eye, it went from cheap-looking to what we see now!"
"Live audience, is this what you've been seeing all along? You've had it so good!"
"Live audience here to tell you, the live effect is even better."
......
Online discussions were everywhere. Soren and Mia were directing their people to run around everywhere, stirring things up.
Meanwhile, at the "Voice of Heaven" recording site.
Isabella kept staring at the live stream interface on the side. Lika on stage had already sung through a good portion, but it still hadn't switched back.
Unable to wait, Isabella called Zaid again.
This time it took a while for him to answer.
"Why did it take so long to pick up?" Isabella asked anxiously. "What's the situation? Why isn't it handled yet? It's been more than halfway through!"
On the other side, Zaid rubbed the corner of his mouth, glaring hatefully at Jeffrey.
When he arrived, he saw his people had been detained.
"Voice of Heaven" was jointly produced by many management companies and various investors. All parties' relationships needed to be maintained, and they couldn't easily make moves.
Although everyone knew Jeffrey had a bad temper, even with that temper, he hadn't dared to act rashly before.
Otherwise there would be endless consequences. After all, Jeffrey was just one of the Adams family heirs, not to mention there were several more episodes to come.
Daring to act now, and being able to precisely catch his people, meant he had already balanced all the powers and handled the other investors.
Just now when he went to talk to Jeffrey, trying to muddle through this episode, Jeffrey didn't care what he said and just punched him.
"Zaid, when I don't lose my temper you think I'm easy to bully? My temper is no joke!" Jeffrey said after hitting him.
Jeffrey hadn't leaked any information before, so Zaid didn't bring anyone this time. Now it was too late to find people.
So he took this loss.
When Isabella called at this moment, he found it annoying too.
"I'm handling it, aren't I?" Zaid said, casually responding before hanging up.
"Zaid, you..."
Isabella hadn't finished speaking when Zaid had already hung up, making her quite angry.
On stage, Lika's notes continued to climb higher.
Drawing admiring gazes from everyone.