Chapter 36: 36 Can the manipulation be any more obvious? _1

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Song Lele and Xu Xinling were the first to recover, immediately embracing and jumping around together.

“We each have a ticket now, Tang Feng surely won’t want his, so we can have one each.”

“Right, we were just fighting over it, and now there’s no need to fight anymore.”

The two girls, who had been at loggerheads over a ticket just moments ago, were now as close as ever.

This left Tang Feng speechless with shock.

How quickly women change their minds…

“Hey, I’m the one who won you the tickets, shouldn’t you be hugging me?”

He watched the two embrace, feigning jealousy, “What’s the point of hugging my best friend?”

“Try letting go of my best friend and come at me!”

“Dream on, you wish,” Xu Xinling gave him a glare, her cheeks flushed with a rosy color.

“Tang Feng, how on earth did you do it? These tickets are so hard to get, and you actually won two in a row?” Song Lele had calmed down from her excitement, and now looked at Tang Feng with curiosity.

Xu Xinling’s face was also filled with surprise, “Lele told me before you were blessed by Lady Luck, and I didn’t believe her. Now, I really do. Your luck is just incredible!”

Not just the two of them, but even the others waiting in line were looking at Tang Feng with a mix of shock and envy.

Only fifty-one tickets available, and this guy won two in one go.

Such luck, and he’s not buying lottery tickets but opening blind boxes?

It’s like using a cleaver to kill a chicken!

However, before the crowd’s astonishment could last long, the host’s voice rang out again, “Congratulations to this handsome guy, he has… won another entry ticket…”

His voice trembled with excitement.

Everyone looked at him, their faces filled with confusion.

“Didn’t they already announce it just now? Why announce it again?”

“Right, is there a need to announce it twice? Isn’t it heartbreaking enough the first time?”

“Has the host panicked? Not believing the result and that’s why he repeated it?”

“Indeed quite astonishing. To continually win two tickets, his luck is truly incredible…”

The crowd thought the host was repeating the second ticket result and began murmuring to each other.

But then, the host raised his voice, “Congratulations to this handsome guy, his third ticket has also won… an entry slot!”

While saying this, he unfolded the third ticket.

The words “Entry Ticket” appeared once again before everyone’s eyes.

The bustling square instantly fell silent.

All eyes were fixed on that entry ticket, then shifted to Tang Feng, who looked completely calm.

Winning one ticket among fifty chances was already extremely lucky.

Winning two was just insanely lucky.

But winning three all at once was simply beyond belief.

Someone in the crowd was the first to shout, “Three tickets in one go? How is that possible? Isn’t this guy a plant from the organizers?”

Upon hearing this doubt, others had their eyes opened.

“This guy must be planted by the organizers, otherwise how could he be this lucky?”

“Exactly, more than twenty people before him got nothing, and he gets three in a row? This can’t be explained by luck alone.”

“Now there are only two explanations. One is, he’s a god—only a god could win three in a row. But does that probability exist? It doesn’t. So there’s only one explanation, the organizers are pulling strings!”

“Haha, could the rigging be any more obvious? Do they really think we’re all fools?”

The few hundred people on the spot immediately questioned the organizers’ fairness.

At first, the voices were soft, but as more people joined the questioning, they grew bolder and louder.

The outcry from several hundred people was quite immense.

Although Song Lele and Xu Xinling benefited from the situation, they also harbored some doubts deep down.

“Lele, do you think Tang Feng might know the organizers? Otherwise, there’s no way to explain his winning three times in a row,” Xu Xinling turned to Song Lele and whispered.

“It shouldn’t be…” Song Lele was also uncertain.

She really wanted to believe in Tang Feng, but his “triple win” was indeed hard to comprehend.

To say he hadn’t colluded with the organizers was becoming a bit of a stretch.

Tang Feng, however, wasn’t in a hurry to explain, because he knew someone else would be more anxious.

Sure enough, the host hurriedly took the microphone and explained to the crowd below, “Please rest assured, our event is open and transparent, and there is absolutely no foul play!”

But this assurance was obviously not satisfying to the crowd.

“You say there’s none, and there’s none? Then how do you explain his winning three entry tickets in a row?”

“Right, you must give us a satisfactory explanation today, or we won’t accept it.”

“We won’t accept it…”

The crowd was still filled with righteous indignation.

Especially the more than twenty people who hadn’t won were extremely angry.

The host suddenly turned pale with fright, standing on stage, at a loss.

He couldn’t figure out what was going on, the organizers hadn’t told him anything about arranging for shills in this event.

If there were shills, why hadn’t they informed him earlier? Why make it so obvious?

As the host was silently cursing, a meticulously dressed middle-aged man quickly stepped onto the stage and took the microphone from him.

“Hello everyone, I am Zhao Xu, the manager of Pop Mart Zhonghai Branch Company, and I can assure everyone that our event is in gratitude for your support of Pop Mart, there is absolutely no shady business!”

Though he said the same thing as the host, his status was different, and so the weight of his words was also different.

The mood among the crowd below abated slightly, but only just a little.

Immediately, one of the boys questioned, “Then how do you explain his winning three entry tickets in a row?”

“Right, so many people couldn’t win before him, why could he win three tickets consecutively?”

“You must give us a satisfactory explanation…”