Chapter 777: Hunters and Prey!

Luo Mo's solo concert concluded with three Electronic Music performances.

When he bowed to thank the audience, the entire venue erupted in enthusiastic applause and screams.

It could be said that the first overseas stop of his world tour was a complete success!

The Huaxia audience was very satisfied, and the foreign audience was also successfully won over by him.

These days, a certain model is very popular domestically.

That is, traffic stars who have no representative works in the country and are not recognized by their own people insist on making music that leans toward Chinese culture, and then go abroad to participate in various activities and perform.

These musical works don't make much of a splash abroad, and it is still their fans who are paying the bill.

After the fans pay, they have to show off with great fanfare domestically, saying that their "brother" is winning glory for the country, has always been committed to cultural Output, and has brought Huaxia culture to the whole world!

Not to mention, it is indeed a new model for forcibly elevating a star's personal status.

Where exactly is the problem in this?

Because the prerequisite for cultural Output is that one's own people must recognize it first.

If your own countrymen don't recognize your music, and no one listens to your songs, you haven't even passed the test with your own people.

When this major prerequisite hasn't been met, you forcibly take it abroad to be gilded, then let the fans reach a collective climax, and then hype it up—it's all a bit meaningless.

The culture you are outputting doesn't seem to be the same thing as the culture we recognize ourselves...

Luo Mo is different.

Although he didn't come with huge ambitions this time, he did indeed stun the foreign audience at the scene.

For one thing, Tony kept shouting to Ceng Rui that he wanted to buy a suona online to play with after returning home.

He wanted to play a few notes for his parents and younger brother!

Ceng Rui even specifically explained to him how special the suona is in Huaxia.

Once Tony heard that, he became even more excited!

He began to feel glad that Luo Mo had recommended such a special traditional Yueqi to him so early.

While his parents are still in good health, he feels he needs to practice more.

When the time comes, who knows, he might not even need to hire a priest; he can just play a song himself to give them a Blessing on their way to heaven!

Ceng Rui: "..."

He also didn't know if the Huaxia "Dharma Instrument" suona would work in your Meiguo.

Of course, besides the suona, what shocked foreigners the most at Luo Mo's concert tonight was the Opera and his spear dancing.

There is no need to say much about Opera; as a national treasure, its international popularity is high enough, it's just that many foreigners have never experienced it live.

To them, it is truly magical that a man can suddenly switch to such a voice to sing.

Moreover, the Opera segment in "Lanting Xu" does not make the audience feel that singing this way is effeminate; they only feel it is very graceful and pleasant to hear.

As for the spear dancing...

Ceng Rui recalled how crazy the scene was after Luo Mo flipped and jumped onto the surface of the big drum.

A large number of foreign friends like Tony were shouting: "ZhongGuoKungfu (Chinese Kung Fu)!"

They were shouting with such heart-wrenching intensity, and it was so stirring.

That resonant and powerful sound, loudly shouting the two words "China," once made Ceng Rui suspect that their patriotic sentiment was slightly higher than his own at that moment...

If he weren't truly incapable of martial arts, he would have been unable to resist standing up and saying to Tony: "Want to learn? I'll teach you!"

This scene also reminded Ceng Rui of a school anniversary when a Huaxia international student went up and performed a set of Tongbei Fist.

The entire venue went completely wild.

The level of enthusiasm even far surpassed the eight sexy hot girls dancing and shaking their hips on stage earlier.

Especially those international friends with thick lips; when they each made that "Ooh—" sound, their mouths were almost pouting longer than their noses.

Since then, that Huaxia international student became a school celebrity.

Really, don't underestimate the fanaticism foreigners have for Kung Fu!

The concert ended, and a large number of security personnel began to evacuate the audience.

Huaxia people have a very strong awareness of safety and maintaining stability, so they appear more cautious and careful during mass gatherings.

Luo Mo doesn't skimp on money in this regard and hired many people.

After walking out of the Chicago Station concert venue, Ceng Rui was still a bit excited.

He is now looking forward to the impact that will be generated once the video of this concert spreads online.

He is also curious whether Luo Mo will release English songs like "natural" onto foreign music platforms.

"If he releases them, we'll be able to see the data intuitively," Ceng Rui thought to himself.

"Is it possible to hit the New Song Chart?" he wondered in his heart.

The live video of Luo Mo's Chicago Station overseas tour spread across the entire internet that very night.

As a Heavenly King with top-tier traffic in Huaxia, once these videos were released, they naturally sent him to the top of the Weibo Hot Search.

The King of Hot Search is truly not called that for nothing.

However, what's interesting is that even though it was a concert, the video with the highest view count was not the stage performance of any song.

It was the segment where Luo Mo openly roasted the Doomsday Apostle series!

Many viewers recorded this content and posted it online; many videos with better audio and clearer shooting angles had view counts exceeding ten million!

"It deserved to be scolded, and it deserved to be scolded by name!"

"So satisfying!"

"Luo Mo is an Ox!"

"Laughing to death, I actually saw someone saying we can't criticize it. If we repay injury with kindness, how shall we repay kindness?"

"I'm truly amused. A film dares to directly insult a nation, and then we aren't allowed to say this film is bad?"

"Anyway, I feel it's satisfying!"

"The coolest part is, his next song is also called 'Natural'!"

Because "Doomsday Apostle 2" has been banned, not only will this film not be released domestically, but any related promotional activities will certainly not exist either; even the theme songs and promotional songs from the film cannot be found on Huaxia's music platforms.

Therefore, many people are not clear about whether the "Doomsday Apostle 2" theme song "Natural" is actually good to listen to.

However, the "Natural" that Luo Mo sang is very much to everyone's taste!

It sounds very fiery and high-energy, possessing a sense of power from the inside out!

In the comment section, some overseas students even expressed: "I personally think Luo Mo's is much better!"

"Absolutely no fan filter; I listened to both, and I can only say Luo Mo is an Ox!"

Of course, there are certainly people making snide remarks about this incident.

"Please, this is an English song; it's not up to us to decide, right?"

"Actually, the chart data is the most reliable, but it would be a miracle if an English song sung by a Huaxia person could make the charts!"

"I don't even understand what there is to bash; the point is that Huaxia's Science Fiction films just don't live up to expectations! What's the use of jumping around and cursing? I don't have high hopes for 'The Wandering Earth' anyway; Science Fiction made by our countrymen is just trash!"

"Exactly, don't wait until the film gets rubbed into the ground by others!"

"I can already imagine how embarrassing it will be when the time comes..."

The appearance of numerous opinions indeed caused a massive argument online, with everyone holding their own views.

As for the entertainment industry, many people are actually taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Like many people who have grudges against Luo Mo, they indeed hope to see him lose face and fail abroad.

But looking back at all the past events, Luo Mo can always turn the impossible into the possible!

They have been abused before, so their feelings are the most intuitive.

Opponents are often the people who understand you best.

—We know too well just how much of an Ox Luo Mo is!

Animation films, the box office record used to be only over one hundred million, and he managed to push it past five billion.

Realistic themes, it's hard to even break one hundred million! "Dying to Survive" achieved a double harvest of box office and reputation!

The path he has walked, he has always been this confident, and he has done too many astonishing things.

So, why would it be impossible in the field of Science Fiction?

This group of old enemies inexplicably even had a feeling of schadenfreude.

Counting on Luo Mo to flop, this probability is too low.

It would be better to count on—letting the world feel our pain!

"So you're the damn Jeffrey, so you're the damn director of 'Doomsday Apostle', right?"

"Brother Mo! Abuse him!"

Meiguo, a certain luxury apartment.

The director of "Doomsday Apostle 2", Jeffrey, had already fallen asleep.

He had been running promotions for the film for the past few days and was truly too tired.

He had originally wanted to pay attention to Luo Mo's Chicago concert.

But thinking that a Huaxia person, what kind of waves could he possibly stir up? Better to wait and see tomorrow morning.

As a result, Jeffrey hadn't been asleep for long before he was woken up by his phone ringing.

His ringtone is the interlude of the "Doomsday Apostle 2" theme song "Natural".

In the interlude of this song, there is a guitar solo that he personally likes very much, so he used it as his ringtone.

Speaking of which, the current data for this song is very good.

Looking at the Heat Index, if it can be maintained tomorrow, it might just rush to the number one spot on the New Song Chart!

As a film's theme song, being able to achieve this level is truly not bad.

Jeffrey, who was cuddling his third-tier young model girlfriend, pulled out the arm she was pressing on, picked up the phone, and looked at the caller.

The caller was one of the screenwriters for "Doomsday Apostle 2".

This film has a total of three screenwriters, and Jeffrey himself also participated in the script work.

After answering the phone, Jeffrey listened to the other person's words and was a little confused.

What Luo Mo did at the concert did not match his previous impression of Huaxia people.

In recent years, many people have said they can clearly feel that Huaxia people are more self-respecting and confident, but Jeffrey had no intuitive feeling about this.

At this moment, he finally understood a little.

However, he still didn't quite understand.

"'Natural'?" He held the phone, completely stunned.

Luo Mo actually also created a song called "Natural" and sang it directly at the concert?

Oh, my God! This Huaxia Heavenly King of pop music, could he be thinking that he can come to our Meiguo music scene and crash our party?

I really want to take off my shoe and measure how big his face is.

He knew very well that Luo Mo had never sung English songs before and didn't have much of an audience base for English songs.

At the same time, his own "Natural" had only been released a few days ago.

That is to say, the creation cycle for his song was also very short; it must have been completed in an extremely short amount of time.

Furthermore, during this period, *Doomsday Apostle 2* and its theme song "Natural" have both been undergoing large-scale promotion, and their exposure is very high.

From a certain perspective, it is equivalent to the timing, location, and people all being on Jeffrey's side.

Jeffrey even suspected, could he be trying to use this method to leech off our popularity?

The young model on the bed was also woken up by Jeffrey's movements.

Wearing a black lace nightgown, she walked behind Jeffrey, then wrapped her arms around him, pressing against his back completely braless, and asked him what was wrong.

Amidst Jeffrey's brief narration, a face much more handsome than Jeffrey's appeared in the mind of this third-tier young model.

She had an impression of Luo Mo's appearance.

Because Luo Mo had appeared on the 【100 Most Handsome Faces in the World】 ranking many times, and was always among the top.

Hmm, the gold content here on Blue Star is definitely not the same as that 【Asia's 21st】 of Uncle Shen on Earth.

"Honey, why don't we watch the video?" she suggested.

The video of Luo Mo singing "Natural" at his concert can definitely be found online, and who knows, tomorrow there might even be quite a few Meiguo media outlets reporting on this matter.

Jeffrey nodded, not minding.

He had great confidence in his movie's theme song.

Are you kidding me? We are about to rush to number one on the New Song Chart!

Jeffrey raised his large hand and slapped his girlfriend's perky buttocks hard, signaling for her to search for the video.

"Oh—!" the woman exclaimed, directly lifting her buttocks, pinning his large hand under the buttock flesh, and then began to search.

Sure enough, the video was found immediately.

What is absurd is that the number of comments and likes for this video are both very high, and the view count is also extremely high!

"This is normal, there are also a large number of Huaxia people in Meiguo," Jeffrey said helplessly: "A populous country, especially good at reproducing, just like those in a farm..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was startled by the sound coming from the video.

This song "Natural" by Luo Mo had a powerful, deep chanting sound right from the beginning.

This segment of chanting gave one a sense of unyieldingness like a solid rock.

As a director of the doomsday genre, honestly, if he had accidentally heard this chant while choosing a song, he would have liked it very, very much!

And the moment Luo Mo opened his mouth to sing, he felt a slight sense of crisis.

The front part of the entire song, as mentioned before, was trying its best to highlight the 【human voice】.

That sense of power, along with a hint of hoarseness, were all just right.

It's just that, at first, he thought the accompaniment was so thin and no Yueqi were used because Luo Mo's creation time was relatively rushed, so it appeared somewhat crude.

Hey! Buddy! Are you relying entirely on your own throat to carry it now?

But you have to know, this type of song is very dependent on the band's accompaniment!

Until Jeffrey heard that line, "【That's the price you pay.】"

From here on, Luo Mo's pitch rose directly, and there began to be a sense of passion as if about to launch a charge.

This made him realize that the styles of the two songs clashed; they were both that kind of hot-blooded style.

This would depend on whose was more burning!

At this moment, Jeffrey and his young model girlfriend were no longer sleepy at all.

The palm that had been pressed under his girlfriend's buttocks was also pulled out by him.

His expression became increasingly grave.

In the video, Luo Mo sang loudly: "【Rather be the hunter than the prey.】"

Jeffrey's heartbeat began to accelerate.

It was too suitable, too suitable for the final part of his movie, that segment where humanity launches a counterattack!

However, he also understood very well that at this very moment, he... was the prey in Luo Mo's song!

In the video footage, Luo Mo stood in front of the microphone stand, holding the microphone with both hands, his eyes staring straight ahead with determination, as if he were saying to him across the air:

"【I'm watching you!】"

(End of this chapter)