Chapter 165 Talents Show

Hao Ren still clearly remembered what Becky looked like when she first arrived: dressed in a drab leather armor, with a dagger and longsword at her waist, an old, faded scarf around her neck, her hair tied back in a casual ponytail for lack of time to manage it, the life of traveling and camping making her look as if she had just returned from a self-drive tour of Tibet. At that time, Becky was a pretty girl, but she had a touch of rusticity; her rough mercenary side was impossible to hide.

The current Becky was almost a different person from then. If she walked down the street without a name tag on her head, no one would be able to tell that she came from another world...

"Not bad, right?" Becky noticed that not only Hao Ren, but the eyes of the others around her were also full of surprise. She immediately spread her arms and turned around proudly, "I chose the clothes myself. Your world is really good, huh? There are beautiful clothes and delicious food everywhere. Although I always feel a little uneasy about your 'tech' stuff, the other aspects are really great. It's much more comfortable than my old home."

"It looks like you're adapting quickly," Hao Ren nodded reassuringly. This mercenary girl, whom he had accidentally brought here, was, to be honest, the one he was most worried about. Now that he saw Becky seemed to enjoy her current life, he felt much more at ease. "But speaking of which... where did you get the money to buy clothes? Did Nangong Wuyue give it to you?"

"Prize money," Becky said proudly, patting her chest. "Wuyue and I signed up for some kind of... um, I don't know what kind of event it was, but it was a bunch of people competing in all sorts of weird things. Just winning a few matches got you prize money. It was so much fun. Seriously, the people in your world are really interesting. A bunch of people compete in throwing flying knives or singing songs, and there are people watching below, and they even pay to watch. How much free time do they have..."

Hao Ren was stunned by Becky's nonsensical words. Just as he was about to ask what was going on, he saw Nangong Wuyue coming out of the kitchen, holding a large towel in her hands, carefully rubbing it as she walked. Doudou's little head poked out from the gap in the towel, looking around.

This was a routine steaming session according to the Crow 12345 cold treatment method.

"I was dragged into it by her," Nangong Wuyue had already heard the conversation, and the expression on her face was also one of amusement. "Becky's initiative is really... The Goddess gave her the ability to understand languages, and as a result, she figured out how to live here in just a few days. In fact, she doesn't need anyone to take care of her at all. She saw that a local TV station was running a variety show and insisted on dragging me to participate. I was originally worried that she would rush over and cause trouble, so I went with her, but I was confusedly dragged into signing up."

As she spoke, Nangong Wuyue had already arrived in front of the coffee table. Doudou had been waiting in the towel for a long time, and at this moment, she calculated the distance and jumped out of the towel with a whoosh, landing in Hao Ren's arms. The little guy's tail was smooth, and no one could usually catch it. If she wanted to jump somewhere, there was really no way to stop her.

Doudou grabbed Hao Ren's clothes and swayed back and forth, acting cute. The latter picked her up and smelled her: "Hmm, Isatis Root flavor..."

The others also took turns holding Doudou and passing her around, nodding in agreement: "Isatis Root flavor." "It's Isatis Root." "It seems like there's a bit of sesame oil flavor too..."

After being boiled with Isatis Root, Doudou was filled with the sweet smell of medicinal powder. It was hard to say whether this treatment could cure her cold, but at least Hao Ren felt that the chances of the people around Doudou catching a cold were reduced a lot. At this time, Vivian also curiously asked Nangong Wuyue about her and Becky's experiences in the past half month, and finally understood the rich and colorful housekeeping life of these two—they had actually been on TV! And they were more or less local celebrities...

In fact, Hao Ren knew that the local TV station often recorded variety shows. Although he didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing, he had heard that the city TV station was quite accomplished in this area. One of the programs was the most famous, "Citizen Talents." It was said to be Citizen Talents, but in fact, this program accepted registration from everyone, as long as they currently lived in the city. The content of the program was not fixed. The main idea was to show personal talents. Whether you could break a large stone on your chest or pierce a willow leaf from a hundred paces, or just sing and dance, it was a stage for people with a skill to show off. Every week, the program would hold a competition, and the winner would receive a prize—it was such a talent show without any great characteristics, but because of its low registration threshold and the variety of talents, it had a high reputation in the local area.

Hao Ren really didn't expect that Becky, a mercenary girl from another world, would excitedly run to the TV station to sign up for such a thing... Should he say that people from the mercenary profession can quickly adapt to any environment?

"I can understand Nangong Wuyue singing..." Hao Ren listened to Becky's enthusiastic description of how fun it was to record a program at the TV station, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What personal talent do you have to show?"

Becky looked at him as a matter of course: "Breaking granite and reinforced concrete slabs on my chest."

Hao Ren: "..."

There really was someone who went up to show off breaking a large stone on their chest! But this tough woman, do you think performing this on stage really has no impact on your personal image?

Becky was still proud: "I almost scared the judges to death. Such a thick piece of granite was placed on my body, and then I used the bucket of an excavator to smash it hard. Sometimes it took several minutes to smash it open—if that old man in the audience hadn't fainted, I might have really made it to the end with this... Unfortunately, the TV station later said that this project was exciting but too violent, and forced me to change to another one. So I had to change to one that wasn't so flashy."

"Actually, I forced her to change," Nangong Wuyue curled her lips. "She didn't consider the physiological limits of earthlings at all, competing with excavators with Stone Skin. I was worried that if she became popular, she would attract the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Becky lowered her head dejectedly: "Later, I performed carving flowers on tofu skin with a long sword while blindfolded..."

Hao Ren wiped his cold sweat: She was good enough.

"Wuyue, you must be singing," Vivian looked at the siren girl enviously. "Just based on your good voice, even if you can't remember the lyrics after going on stage, just humming a few times would probably be enough to get you into the finals—I'm really envious of you. It seems like making money like this is quite fast. It's a pity that I don't know anything, except for magic and flying, and I'm pretty good at cooking."

Lily turned her head: "You can go up and do magic! Cover your hand with a red cloth, and after lifting it, a large flock of..."

"They transform into doves! I only have bats here!"

"Then you can perform breaking a large stone on your chest—your physique can't be worse than Becky, a human, can it? She may not be as strong as you even with Stone Skin. Then the two of us can form a group. You break the large stone on your chest, and I'm responsible for smashing it."

Vivian looked at Lily with a strange expression: "You would definitely swing it around and smash it down, with the goal of smashing me into the ground so that I couldn't be dug out, right?"

Seeing that the two superwomen were actually seriously discussing this topic, Hao Ren quickly pulled their attention back: "Stop discussing it. You guys should just stay at home obediently. Nangong Wuyue is a street performer, and she's more professional than you on stage, so don't even think about it."

There was another sentence he didn't say: Vivian envying Nangong Wuyue's good voice was useless. What she should envy was her normal level of luck. With this unlucky vampire's poverty that had almost become an incurable disease, even if she won 100,000 in prize money on TV, she might not be able to safely make it to the bank to deposit the money...

He knew that if he said this, he shouldn't expect to have dinner today, so he held it back and didn't dare to say it.

"You two had quite a lively time for the past half month," Hao Ren looked at Becky and Nangong Wuyue with a smile. "But let me confirm one last time: Did you cause any trouble? You all know that our team is special in nature, and we need to be cautious about things that involve public appearances."

"Hey, don't be so overly cautious," Becky waved her hand carelessly. "It's not like we're doing something illegal. Who can stand living such a sneaky life? Besides, Sister Wuyue has been making a living by singing on the streets for decades, and she hasn't had any problems."

Nangong Wuyue smiled shyly: "The two of us were just messing around at home. How about you—how's it going? It seems like you've done something big? I heard the Goddess mentioning it, saying that your thinking is getting more and more open."

Hao Ren then talked about the situation in the past half month, which made Becky and Nangong Wuyue sigh with emotion. Although they may not be able to fully understand what life under the dome was like just by hearing about it, the experience of the Irim elves and the epic event of the Great Migration were enough to move them quite a bit.

"You're really an amazing and good person," Becky looked at Hao Ren with great emotion. "You're usually so quiet, but you actually have such great abilities... By the way, I've had enough fun here. When are you sending me home?"

As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded.

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