Johnny was obviously relieved to see that Meg was not hurt.
What happened this morning was enough to annoy him. Jasper was hospitalized because of the powder incident, and Hades, who was urgently called to put out the fire, was almost assassinated in the Mocha Building.
If Miss Nancy had not arrived in time, they would not have been able to record today's show.
"Director, we need an explanation for this matter. We were almost killed today," Xi said with a serious expression.
As an agent, this was one of her duties.
Johnny smiled awkwardly. As the director of the Chef King competition, it was usually the agents who fawned over him. He had never been questioned like this before.
However, today's situation was different. The incident happened in their place and the impersonated staff had been found in the utility room. However, the responsibility for this kind of incident was on them.
Miss Nancy had already taught him a lesson and asked him to appease Hades and ensure that he could participate in the competition as usual. At the same time, he would not leak this matter out.
"Yes, we are the ones at fault. To show our sincerity, we will increase Mr. Hades's appearance fee by one million." Johnny said sincerely, "I apologize to you on behalf of the show. At the same time, I hope you can keep this matter a secret to avoid more negative impact on the show."
The tweet that Hades forwarded in the morning was still fermenting a storm. If he posted another one now, "Assassinated in the Mocha Building, I'll be scared to death."
The hot search list would probably explode again.
Meg clicked on the tweet in front of Johnny and glanced at his followers that had exceeded five million. Then, under Johnny's gaze, he clicked on the PK link of the Chef King competition.
Looking at the PK value that was slowly increasing to two million, he sighed and said, "It's really difficult to catch up from zero."
There was only an hour left before the show's live broadcast. Meg's PK value was not even a fraction of the lowest contestant's. His online score would probably be zero.
The top eight contestants would advance to the top four. The top four contestants had all exceeded 100 million PK points.
This was not a fair competition at all.
Meg exited the PK page and returned to his tweet homepage. He clicked on the post page and remained silent.
A drop of cold sweat slid down Johnny's cheek. Ever since the Chef King Competition, this was the first time he had been bullied by a newcomer.
"Actually, I also feel that the rules of the competition are unfair to someone like you who joined the competition at the last minute, so I've discussed it with the program team. This time, in the quarterfinals, we'll reduce the proportion of online PK points from 20% to 10%, and the live judges' scores will account for 90%," Johnny said.
This was actually a last-minute decision by him. Originally, the list of the top four had already been released. Hades had only asked Shi Shishi to save the day, and he would be directly eliminated today.
"That's great, Director. You're really a fair person." Meg turned off the Weibo and looked at the director approvingly.
Johnny: "…"
"Then do your makeup well. I'll get the staff to prepare the clothes for you." Johnny nodded and left the dressing room.
The rules had been changed, but Hades would still be eliminated today.
He was very sure because he was the one who wrote the script.
Meg and Xi looked at each other and the corners of their mouths curled up at the same time.
Meg had studied the live scoring mechanism of the past four seasons of the Chef King. After entering the top 16, the score difference between the live judges' scores would become very small. The difference between the highest score and the lowest score was rarely more than 10 points, and the difference between the first and fourth place was even smaller.
Therefore, in this case, online popularity became an extremely important reference data.
This was obviously a sinister game concocted by the capitalists and the program team. In order to support their brother's promotion and debut, fans would crazily fight to bring huge traffic to the program and also rich economic benefits.
Based on past experience, it was impossible for Meg to first concede 20 points and then rely on the live judges' scores to pull back 20 points to enter the semifinals.
Now, Johnny had made a promise to reduce the proportion of online PK points in the quarterfinals. This was considered to be giving Meg some preferential treatment and care.
Of course, a 10 point difference was basically excluding him from the semifinals for this kind of competition.
However, Meg had great confidence.
Although the Chef King competition was a variety show with more entertainment than professionalism, from the top 16 onwards, the ten-member jury was extremely professional. They invited industry bigwigs, top chefs, and gourmets.
Therefore, even with the influence of the program team, the professional jury's score rarely exceeded 95 points. More than 90 points was considered a high score.
This was Meg's chance to reverse the score.
The makeup artist for Meg was a petite young lady. Perhaps she was smitten by his beauty, but she blushed the entire time.
"Mr. Hades, may I take a picture with you?" After the makeup was done, the lady finally mustered the courage to speak to him.
"Of course, your makeup skills are impressive." Meg nodded with a smile and asked Xi to help take a picture of them.
"You're so nice. I wish you success in the competition." The lady received the photo happily and sent her blessings.
"Thank you." Meg got up and left the dressing room. Under the guidance of the staff, he went to the changing room.
He knew that this girl would soon post their photo on Weibo, and then use some flattery to increase his favorability with some passers-by.
"You seem to enjoy the feeling of being a celebrity." Xi followed behind Meg and sent him a telepathic message with a slightly strange expression.
She was originally worried that Meg would not be able to adapt to life in the underground city and everything around him was completely different from the Nora Continent.
However, it seemed that she had been worrying too much. Meg was not only adapting, but he was also like a fish in water. He even knew how to create a persona for himself and gain more fans.
"I love what I do." Meg said with a serious face, "I'm also a professional when it comes to being an idol."
"What's an idol?"
"Uh … in my hometown, it means a celebrity."
The program team prepared a uniform for the contestants. Meg joined the team at the last minute, so the program team rushed to change a chef's suit for him. It barely fit him.
The black and white color scheme was simple and bright.
Meg changed into the chef's suit and immediately felt the frequent stares of several staff members.
This was the trouble of being handsome.
"There are still 15 minutes before the live broadcast begins. All contestants, please go to the recording site. The staff will check the site equipment one last time to make sure that the audio output of the contestants' equipment is normal …" Johnny's voice sounded from the broadcast, and the site immediately became busy.
(End of Chapter)
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