Chapter 768: Chapter 768: The Fear of Being Ruled by the Afro
Back when the first round of the academy competition was over, Lucas Jennings created a prank animation specifically to get back at Scarlett Jennings, depicting Elysia Xander being blown into an afro by Scarlett’s imitation of the Fire Thunder Talisman.
And the five avatars in front of him, although their full faces were not visible, each face was made into a prank expression, with faces of breakdown crying, pouty grievance, bewilderment, dumbfoundedness, and one looking as if their soul was blown away.
On the other side of the live stream screen, Samuel Chalmers looked at Scarlett Jennings wearing the afro wig, and the corners of his mouth rarely curved into a smile.
Just looking at this, you know this wig must be her idea.
It’s hard to perceive that she has such mischievous moments.
Because that animation was only spread on the Spiritual Affairs APP, the audience in the live stream couldn’t recognize who it was, assuming it was just a random internet image found by the program team.
[Quite quirky.]
[Hard to imagine that behind this afro, one of them is my girl.]
[Mama, my Fairy Lady is starting to be down-to-earth~]
Amid these comments, a few insiders drifted by.
[Ha-ha, such a familiar afro.]
[Familiar +1]
[I know whose afro this is, but I’m not saying~]
Compared to the quirky comments in the live stream, Elysia Xander on-site almost exploded in anger.
In that moment, she seemed to recall the days when the afro animation was wildly circulated in Spiritual Affairs, and the fear once dominated by that afro...
She thinks Scarlett Jennings must be doing this on purpose!
Aside from deliberately humiliating her, she also wants to see her lose her temper through this image, thereby revealing her identity.
Elysia Xander clenched her fists tightly, forcing herself to control her facial expressions.
She wouldn’t let her have her wish!
Elysia Xander tried hard to pretend she wasn’t affected, but unexpectedly, Cedric Wilder laughed straight out beside her,
"Ha! I know this afro, isn’t it from the Xander Family..."
Mid-sentence, he suddenly felt an extremely cold gaze cast toward him from beside him.
Cedric Wilder was all too familiar with this kind of gaze, he turned his head, met Lucienne Xander’s inexplicably murderous gaze, felt baffled but fearless, and returned a smile.
Next to him, Amber Livingston and Ariel Zimmerman noticed he stopped halfway and curiously expressed,
"Is there something special about this afro?"
Cedric Wilder, under Lucienne Xander’s murderous gaze, very boldly declared,
"Oh, it’s significant. This is from the time at our academy competition, when Scarlett Jennings blew someone into an afro with the Fire Thunder Talisman."
Cedric Wilder’s mouth went on a spree, divulging without considering friend or foe or occasion.
Soon, he vividly described Scarlett Jennings learning and counteracting the Fire Thunder Talisman.
Live stream viewers, aside from the few aware of the academy competition incident, were very intrigued, and everyone typed enthusiastically for Cedric Wilder to continue.
[More clouds, more clouds, more more more.]
Ultimately, Lucienne Xander couldn’t hold back and coldly interrupted his outpour,
"Can irrelevant content be skipped? We’re in the guessing game segment now."
Cedric Wilder was forced to stop, and only then did Amber Livingston reluctantly shift the topic back.
Most viewers were left wanting more, thinking Lucienne Xander resembled a parent specialized in dousing kids’ excitement.
However, the segment had to proceed.
Under Amber Livingston’s hosting, everyone quickly refocused on the five guests wearing wigs.
Cedric Wilder felt slightly bored.
This segment posed no difficulty for him, as long as he carefully sensed...
Huh, how come he can’t sense anything?
Cedric Wilder didn’t believe it and quickly tried sensing again.
And still, nothing.
Similarly, Lucienne Xander also noticed.
Amber Livingston explained according to the hint card at this moment,
"To ensure that our metaphysics representative can’t instantly identify the correct guest through their aura, our mystery guest has set up a barrier to cover their aura, and everyone can utilize magic to counteract and determine the final choice."
"It’s important to emphasize that in this segment, those who guess wrong and those who guess right will automatically form a group, and our mysterious guest will automatically join the group that guesses right."
Amber Livingston paused for a moment after speaking, pointed at himself, and asked,
"Do I have to guess too?"
Director Clark glanced at him off-camera and said,
"You’re the substitute host but also a guest, so yes, you have to guess too!"
Additionally, the program team initiated a prize guessing interaction on Weibo outside the venue.
The second episode started right off by stirring up everyone’s emotions.
The guests also started analyzing and guessing the five people in front of them.
Indeed, just guessing is not enough; you also have to state your reasoning.
Cedric Wilder immediately became eager, the first to step up, and invoked the Immortal Family, and this time he summoned the Immortal Fox.
The Immortal Fox was still the same Immortal Fox from last time. After appearing, he glanced at the five people in front but couldn’t perceive any differences in their aura.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and directly released his demonic power, trying to impact that so-called barrier.
However, as the demonic power brushed against the barrier surrounding those five people, he suddenly seemed to sense something.
A pressure from a bloodline different from spiritual power made him shudder instantly.
Immediately, he withdrew all his probing without hesitation, and the entire fox became obedient,
"That one, just that one."
He randomly pointed to someone with a big afro who was crying their heart out, "Her expression while crying seems the most genuine."
Elysia Xander: ...
The program team didn’t reveal the answer right away but marked with Cedric Wilder’s avatar and then signaled to the other guests.
The second to guess was Diana Craig, the astrologer, who did a divination on the spot.
The first divination yielded no result.
The second time, after changing the question, she finally got an answer.
"Although I can’t directly divine which is the correct guest, the hexagram shows my lucky spot today is in the southeast, so I guess it’s her."
Diana Craig pointed to the afro on the far left.
Next was Ariel Zimmerman. Ariel couldn’t use mystical means to judge, so she asked directly,
"I ran into a ghost on set before. Which of you knows what kind of ghost I encountered?"
As soon as the question popped, only one person among the five visibly reacted.
Ariel immediately pointed to that person, "I choose her! She must be Scarlett!"
Scarlett knows she had been entangled with a Shadow Ghost before!
When it was Amber Livingston’s turn, he was a bit dazed.
Although he wanted to use the same method, this wouldn’t create a good show effect, so he could only switch directions,
"Although the height and appearance are the same, based on my understanding of that mysterious guest, her posture and aura are different."
Then he pointed to the afro standing most upright on the far right.
John Dawn wasn’t familiar with Scarlett Jennings, so he could only choose one by the method of ’spot the difference’.
Finally, it was Lucienne Xander’s turn.
She directly used a talisman to probe, and unlike the others, she didn’t want to be in the same group as Scarlett Jennings.
So, after detecting nothing behind the barrier, Lucienne coldly said into the camera,
"I choose none of them."
She said, "I guess none of them are the correct guest."
Even with a one-in-five chance, she wouldn’t give Scarlett Jennings a chance to approach her.
Lucienne’s unconventional choice caught everyone by surprise.
But soon, the program team began to reveal the answers one by one.
First, it was the afro on the far left chosen by Diana Craig. When that person removed the headpiece, it was the wrong choice.
A glint of surprise flashed in Diana Craig’s eyes, but she quickly gave a shy smile to the camera, "Looks like my divination was wrong."
Then John Dawn, Ariel Zimmerman, Cedric Wilder, and Amber Livingston all chose incorrectly.
Ariel was shocked, pointing at her chosen person, "You’re not Scarlett, why did you react so much when I asked?!"
That person was a bit embarrassed,
"I’m sorry, Ariel, I’m actually a fan of yours. Just hearing you’d encountered a ghost on set excited me..."
Ariel Zimmerman: ...
Alright then.
The others weren’t too surprised, but when the last afro was revealed, Amber Livingston was dumbfounded,
"No way, the previous choices were all female, why is the one I picked a guy?!"
The last man turned out to be Anthony Anson.
With a smaller build, he had been pulled in unexpectedly by Scarlett Jennings, and now he looked at Amber Livingston expressionlessly,
"I am a man, do you have a problem with that?"
Amber Livingston certainly dared not have any problem. Although others didn’t know Anthony Anson, Amber did. This guy had connections.
But quickly, everyone suddenly realized something.
"Wait! All five have taken off their headpieces, and none of them are Scarlett Jennings!"
Amber Livingston directly mentioned the mysterious guest Scarlett Jennings by name.
The guests on set were all puzzled, but quickly, they all turned to look at Lucienne Xander.
None of those five were Scarlett Jennings, which means Lucienne guessed right!
Lucienne Xander: ...
Facing everyone’s eyes of "admiration and envy," Lucienne didn’t show a hint of joy for guessing the answer correctly; instead, she looked rather displeased.
She realized she had been tricked.
And the one who tricked her finally walked out leisurely from the back exit.
Scarlett Jennings looked directly at Lucienne Xander, a composed expression on her face with a slight curl at the corner of her mouth,
"Congratulations on guessing correctly; now the two of us will be grouped together. Let’s have a pleasant cooperation."
Elysia Xander: ...
Feels like swearing.