Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 694

“We will now announce the final rankings of the competition…” the host's voice boomed, immediately recapturing everyone's attention.

“In third place, from Moralia Country, is the entry ‘Darkly’.”

Moralia Country? The audience members who had been waiting to ridicule Orient Country exchanged confused glances. Wasn't third place supposed to go to Orient Country? What right did they have to aim for second?

Even now, their arrogance persisted, convinced that the “backward” Orient Country could never surpass Moralia. Sure, the other program, ‘D,’ wasn’t bad, but who knew if it was just something cobbled together by Orient Country’s so-called masters? How much of it was their own original work? Second place? That was far too ambitious for Orient Country!

“Our second-place winner is ‘D’ from Froskia Country!”

The host's announcement left the crowd even more stunned. What was going on? Third place was Moralia Country, and second was Froskia Country? Didn't that mean first place was…?

The judges were just as baffled. Could such a brilliant and complex program like “Glimmer” really not be from Froskia Country? Hadn’t Froskia just recently announced major breakthroughs in their programming capabilities? What was happening?

“And the first-place winner is ‘Glimmer,’ from Orient Country!”

As the host finished, a dead silence fell over the hall. All eyes stared at the man walking out from backstage. He was middle-aged, with salt-and-pepper hair and simple clothes. His entire appearance seemed completely at odds with the high-tech world of programming. Coupled with the fact that he had won the championship on his first try, Tucker himself was in a daze, walking so stiffly that his arms and legs moved in unnatural unison.

This was the programmer from Orient Country who created “Glimmer” and won the championship? He didn't look like someone who even touched a computer!

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