Chapter 93: Chapter 93 I Became a Stand-in (1/5)

Wu Mu’s inability to challenge definitely frustrated Xu Zhiwen.

He clearly had the chance to make an exit with Wu Mu, but he simply couldn’t figure out which one was Wu Mu.

Even if he wanted to pull a mutual exit, he couldn’t make it happen.

Wu Mu, completely composed, blended in with the guests, quietly waiting for the show to begin.

The recording of the show had already started at the front desk.

After the host finished introducing the rules, the flight guessing judges came onstage.

A figure wearing Mechanical Armor and a Mecha helmet walked up from backstage.

Mechanical Warrior?

The guessing judges were undoubtedly taken aback.

But Zhao Xue quickly realized, "It’s King Liang, he’s intentionally dressed up like this."

Since Liang Jun had previously leaked on Weibo that he would be a guessing judge, even without asking the program team, they knew it must be Liang Jun.

This outfit was clearly a playful nod to his stunt as the previous Mechanical Warrior.

When the guest took off the helmet, it was indeed Liang Jun, who really came to make a splash on the show.

He greeted the guessing judges with a smile, "Hello, everyone, I am Mechanical Warrior Liang Jun, today’s flight guessing judge."

The guessing judges all laughed, "We thought the Mechanical Warrior had come to our judging panel. How were we supposed to identify him later?"

Zhao Xue greeted King Liang with a smile, "Welcome King Liang. With you here, we won’t have to worry about identifying the Mechanical Warrior."

Liang Jun was quite confident, "I’m familiar with most people in the circle. Let’s listen to him sing live later and maybe pick up some clues."

After getting to know each other, the backstage scene appeared on the big stage screen, chosen by the guessing judges.

Watching the silent backstage scene, Chen Jian expressed some regret, "It seems no one’s coming out to chat this time."

"Haha, probably the Mechanical Warrior is worried about his identity being revealed, now that everyone is trying to pinpoint him," Cai Wanhai joked.

"But with them not talking, it makes it even harder for us to identify him."

Zhao Xue analyzed each guest on the screen, "Firstly, Cat and Orange are definitely not it; they are guests from the previous episode and haven’t changed outfits."

Chen Jian nodded, "The witch and the detective should also be out, they’re both female singers, while the last episode’s Mechanical Warrior was clearly a male singer."

By ’witch,’ he naturally meant Wu Mu. As for the detective, she was a female singer dressed as a detective sitting opposite Wu Mu, wearing a brown trench coat and a detective hat, with a pipe in her mouth.

Her face might have been covered by a detective’s hood, but her silhouette and tied-up hair were clearly those of a female singer.

"Eliminating these two, it must be one of the remaining two."

Everyone observed the last two contestants, one a singer who had spoken earlier disguised as a stump, and the other masquerading as a robot.

"The stump seems more likely; his willingness to speak up indicates an extroverted personality, matching the style of the previous Mechanical Warrior."

Everybody analyzed minutely as if dissecting a case.

They couldn’t help it; the impact left by the previous Mechanical Warrior had been too profound, completely playing them.

This time, they were all thinking about redeeming themselves.

"Since it’s down to these two, why not have them both come up together!" Chen Jian suggested.

The stump and the robot were chosen as the first group of contestants to come onstage.

As they took the stage, the guessing judges undoubtedly perked up with full attention.

Through rock-paper-scissors, the robot went first.

The robot sang a song called "Heaven Mountain," which had quite a few high notes.

But Yue Li shook her head while listening, "It’s not the Mechanical Warrior."

The skill gap was too big; this robot might not even match her level, let alone the previous Mechanical Warrior.

Even Zhao Xue, an outsider, could tell and nodded in agreement.

Liang Jun, more professionally, commented, "His breath control is lacking; he can’t stabilize after hitting the high notes."

After thinking about it, he said, "It should be Zhu Gui, he always has this issue, and although he intentionally changed his tone, he still inevitably revealed his true voice in the high notes."

This one isn’t it, so that just leaves the last one.

Everyone was eagerly watching the guest dressed up as a tree stump.

The tree stump guest went on stage and sang a love song titled "July."

Honestly, it was quite pleasant to listen to.

But...

Zhao Xue exclaimed in surprise, "Why do I feel this isn’t the Mechanical Warrior?"

It sounded nice, but lacked the stunning, scalp-tingling sensation that the Mechanical Warrior had in the previous episode.

Besides, there was nothing exceptional about the performance effects, just normal singing.

Liang Jun also frowned, "This seems to be Ye Zongqiang; I remember his way of enunciating certain words."

If neither of these two are the Mechanical Warrior, then where did he go? There are only these two male singers.

Everyone was undoubtedly a bit confused.

"Could he be deliberately underperforming?" Cai Wanhai speculated.

Maybe the Mechanical Warrior was one of the two, deliberately underperforming like this.

Once everyone considered this possibility, they undoubtedly felt a bit of a headache.

If the Mechanical Warrior was indeed disguising his abilities, then how were they to find him?

They could only guess based on the voice, but they couldn’t just make random guesses.

It wouldn’t be like last episode, where after making their guesses, they realized they were wrong.

Everyone felt a bit uneasy.

The tree stump guest won in the audience vote.

The judges hesitated for a while before finally choosing a song by Ye Zongqiang based on Liang Jun’s guess.

After he sang, Liang Jun was even more convinced that it was Ye Zongqiang.

He analyzed the similarities between the two from various professional perspectives, concluding that no matter from which angle, it absolutely had to be the singer he thought it was.

After the discussion, Zhao Xue and the others decided to go with Liang Jun’s speculation, reported Ye Zongqiang’s name, and then chose another singer with a similar style.

Eventually, in the audience vote, Ye Zongqiang received over one hundred and seventy votes.

Clearly, everyone still trusted King Liang quite a bit.

And the result...

Luckily.

The thing Zhao Xue and the others were worried about didn’t happen.

With a puff of white smoke rising, the contestant who revealed himself on stage was indeed Ye Zongqiang.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Then people got a bit bewildered again.

"If neither of these two are, then who exactly is?"

It’s just these two male singers.

Neither Xu Zhiwen nor Orange Head from last episode were it.

Cai Wanhai cast his gaze towards the remaining two female singers, hesitatingly said, "He wouldn’t have disguised himself as a female singer, would he?"

This...

The judges exchanged glances with each other, it wasn’t impossible, considering there were no more contestants to guess from.

But using a falsetto to imitate other singers is one thing, even mimicking female singers is something else.

That greatly increases the difficulty.

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