BXBX NOVEL Chapter 159 - Mic Hog
Chapter 159: Mic Hog
“Ding! Decision is unsuccessful. Failed to receive championship honor point.”
Meng Fan had long gotten used to this.
It’s not that Meng Fan was an unlucky person; on the contrary, he was rather lucky. He had received +1 honor points with just a 30% success rate. He wasn’t the type of person who would only receive a point with a +50% chance. No matter how he looked at it, he was born with good fortune.
There was a 10% success rate bonus, so even if the decision failed, Meng Fan found this very acceptable.
Having said that, Meng Fan could also accept senior Ah Ning’s wishes to celebrate that night. He had slipped away too often before, and couldn’t leave again. Only, towards senior Ah Ning’s desire to dress up—
“Goodbye!”
Meng Fan waved his hands and turned to leave.
Of course, all three floors were surrounded by people. Meng Fan couldn’t run even if he wanted to unless he wore the hat.
Wear the hat?
Not yet.
He was only trying to leave as a joke.
Meng Fan couldn’t crossdress himself, but it didn’t mean he couldn’t accept other people crossdressing. The Qing Dynasty was already dead; this was an era of freedom, including gender orientation, let alone what others wore.
Only senior Ah Ning looked too good in women’s clothes. Some people were afraid they would fall in love with him.
Just like how many people were afraid that they couldn’t help but bend their preferences!
Of course, senior Ah Ning was only joking. Crossdressing was his hobby, although he never cared about the judging eyes of others, he wasn’t stubborn enough to the point to render others uncomfortable because of his hobbies.
If he wanted to perform he could do it at home. There was no way he’d wear it to wash his feet and get massaged.
And you might not even believe, senior Ah Ning was heterosexual.
As they headed for KTV after eating and washing their feet, senior Ah Ning brought along a very pretty girl, introducing her as his girlfriend. They were about to be engaged at the end of the year. The players in the box, as well as the cheerleading squad including Qu Jing Jing, were all shocked.
“Senior Ah Ning, you’re straight?” The red-headed youth asked very straightforwardly.
Senior Ah Ning let out a laugh and said, “Have you heard of ‘Liang Zhu’?”
The people in the room were stupefied. Who hadn’t heard of it, but how was it related?
As if performing a comedy sketch, senior Ah Ning said, “This is the story of a straight male, Liang Shan Bo, discovering he was heterosexual and committing suicide. It’s very easy to bend, but life-threatening when trying to be straight. With such foresight, how can I dare take the risk?!”
The group was unable to wrap their minds around this. Then senior Ah Ning smiled and spoke, “Actually I’ve always been straight, I’ve never gone awry. Only, when you guys see me crossdress, you probably question my orientation. As for me, I feel no need to explain it to everyone.”
He paused, took his girlfriend’s hand and explained again, “Are you guys dumb?! Why do I crossdress? It’s because women’s clothes look good! From the bottom of my heart, I think girls’ clothes look good, like ten thousand times nicer than men’s clothes! You think I do it for guys to notice me? Its purely for my own enjoyment okay?! I almost hate myself for being a guy, so do you really think I’d like men?”
This logic was flawless!
Everyone rose and bowed.
After the episode, the atmosphere at the KTV started to rise.
Then senior Ah Ning’s death metal voice rang out. It shocked everyone indeed as the group started approaching senior Ah Ning to play games and drink alcohol to prevent their ears from being broken by the mic, not allowing him to remain idle and grab the microphone.
Senior Ah Ning’s girlfriend was an incredible singer too. The level of sweetness in her voice was proportional to her appearance. Everyone was intoxicated by her singing. Later, they discovered she had met with senior Ah Ning because of music. The two had even formed a group, one sweet voice, and a death metal voice. It was unimaginable!
The two started dating a long time after establishing their group. His girlfriend said she thought he didn’t like girls at first but learned later…
The latter half of their time at the KTV spot, everyone realized there was someone else in the room that needed to be restrained. Meng Fan!
Meng Fan was originally a person who can open up pretty easily, but because his singing was very average—there was nobody in his family that could sing well anyways, including Meng Cai Wei—he was embarrassed to sing at the beginning. But after drinking some alcohol and being forced to sing “Sudden confidence”, he ran out of self-control.
Hehe. The weakest singer at the KTV had become the mic hog!
What’s a mic hog?
One kind of mic hog were people like senior Ah Ning’s girlfriend, who was good at singing and can sing any song. The other kind was Meng Fan, who was a tyrant and refuses to let go of the microphone.
He would sing along to any song, and even if he didn’t know the song he’d make up his own arrangement!
In comparison, senior Ah Ning’s death metal singing only cost you an ear. But Meng Fan’s voice would cost you your life!
The most terrible thing was that senior Ah Ning could be restrained, but Meng Fan was uncontrollable!
While he occupied the mic, he managed to sing eight songs. Meng Fan finally felt somewhat embarrassed, finished two more songs and handed the microphone over.
The moment he handed the mic over, a f*cking task was triggered!
“Ding! You’ve triggered the task [Mic Hog].”
“This mission requires 1000 songs to be sung at a KTV by hogging the mic.”
“Upon completion, you will receive the title [Mic Hog] (singing skills +5, sound appeal +3)”
There was only one phase for the task, and when finished, he’d receive 1000 points.
There was also an equipment bar under the task, similar to the one from [Concert Killer]. A black magic microphone, with the exact same function.
There was also an attribute bonus: Singing skill +1, sound appeal +1.
It could be connected to any audio equipment, built-in vocal, remote control devices, and other functions.
“Iron brother, let’s drink!”
The red-headed youth had a downcast look on his face when he saw Meng Fan hand-over the mic. Before he could reject, he quickly handed the mic to someone else and dragged Meng Fan to drink. Iron bro, your voice sounds like hot iron too, stop singing, please!
Meng Fan was a little dumbfounded too.
Before when he triggered the [Concert Killer] task, the key attribute to receiving the reward was based on his presence and his performance in front of the screen. Although singing skills were part of the rewards, it was not much, so he didn’t care for it.
After all, that task was very difficult to complete. He had to screw around at a dozen or so concerts to complete it.
Relying on progress alone, the +1 singing skills would not help.
After all, their entire family did not have much vocal talent. Even Meng Cai Wei had taken vocal lessons for a period before giving up.
A +1 or +2 increase in singing skills did not make a difference.
Moreover, Meng Fan did not think he would dabble in music during his life. He’d be thankful if he could sing at KTV without being scorned.
Today, the [Mic Hog] task appeared.
This task was not difficult, and the attribute rewards were not low. Singing skills +5, plus the added bonus from the black magic mic; he could directly rise to the level of an adequate KTV singer! He wouldn’t ever have to worry about singing Karaoke then.
Of course, what attracted Meng Fan to this task wasn’t just the singing skills. After all, even if a KTV singer’s skill level ended at karaoke, there was still the voice appeal!
Meng Fan had experienced the effects of smile appeal, so it was wrong to say he had no expectations towards the power of voice appeal!
Meng Fan wasn’t interested in gaining these rewards to become a singer.
But he was very interested in becoming a voice actor from these rewards!