Chapter 108 The Third Performance 8.0

After the stage discussion ended, Lu Wei and his teammates returned to the practice room and, without wasting a single minute, re-planned their practice plan.

In order to speed up the progress, after careful research, everyone divided the existing members into two groups according to the duet, solo and harmony patterns, and divided the available time of the day into several blocks.

Members can arrange themselves according to their needs. Group one will be led by team leader Qiu Haiyun, and group two will be led by the team's only rapper Song Yujie.

This change made Lu Wei very busy. She wanted to become a disciple of Bodhi Patriarch and learn the seventy-two transformations, then pull out two strands of her hair to turn into Monkey Xiaowei and participate in the competition in her place.

God knows what she has been through in the past two days. Facing her teammates' teaching, she dared not relax for a moment, for fear of wasting their time. Her mind was always in a highly tense state. Even when she was sleeping, the lyrics seemed to have legs, passing by her eyes line by line. She could not fall asleep without silently "singing" them twice.

To improve lung capacity, boost my breath, and enhance my vocal power, I exercise relentlessly. The first thing I do in the morning, after washing up, isn't eating my favorite meal, but jogging 365 laps around the studio.

This was simply torture for her who didn't like sports.

“Occasionally” when Lu Wei saw other contestants in the vocal group singing and running, the tears in the corners of his eyes almost slipped out of the corners of his mouth.

Well, to be honest... she was a little hungry. If the production team could prepare some chocolate candies, she could run two more laps.

Lu Wei really wants to improve...

It’s a pity that the program crew didn’t give me a chance.

Sad, emo, want to cry, but life must go on.

Qiu Haiyun felt like he had almost run enough. He raised his wrist to check where the two needles on the dial were pointing. Seeing Lu Wei still moving mechanically, with a look of despair written all over his face, he quickly said, "It's time for dinner, Xiao Wei."

“Here I come!!!” Lu Wei’s eyes lit up, and he rushed into the practice building in two steps. He was completely different from his previous listless look, and looked like a puppy waiting to be fed by his family with his special food bowl in his mouth on time.

Qiu Haiyun was both angry and amused. If it weren't for the footage of her eating three boxes of lunch in a row, anyone who saw her like this would think that the production team was abusing her.

Forget it, humans have just evolved from cubs to adults and are still growing, so it is understandable that the contrast is too great.

After finishing his meal and returning to the practice room, Lu Wei switched back to his cool, arrogant, and evil mode, using the mineral water bottle as a microphone and quickly entering the performance state.

The audition is tomorrow. Although they have basically mastered the movements and their singing is pretty good, they still lack a certain feeling.

Lu Wei didn't know why. Everything had gone smoothly, from song selection and team formation to choreography discussions, but during the entire practice period, not a single spark had flown from Group B of the second public performance, "Adolescence." That kind of soulful connection, that intertwining of auras, hadn't happened once.

We look like a team, yet not like a team.

It's inexplicable and confusing.

Does it mean that sound, light and electricity performances require performers to stand on the stage and use lights, scenery and sound transmission to stimulate the senses of sight, touch and hearing in order to improve the coordination between each other and immerse themselves in the song?

Thinking of this, Lu Wei felt overwhelmed. She knew clearly that this was all self-consolation. She couldn't resonate with the audience off stage, and it was even more impossible to convey her emotions to the audience on stage.

Only truth can move people's hearts, and only sincerity can catch people's eyes.

What went wrong? The team members? Me? The song? Was it an external or internal factor?

Before Lu Wei could identify the problem and find a solution, a loud "bang!!!" interrupted all her thoughts, and she was so scared that the mineral water bottle in her hand almost slipped.

Oh my god, the decoration team has started work?

The big hammer costs 80 and the small hammer costs 40, which is going to scare someone to death.

Before Lu Wei could calm down and discuss this with her teammates, there was another loud "bang!!!" and she bounced up, with goose bumps all over her arms.

ha? ? ?

Are you crazy?

Is the guy next door planning to change his career and open a barber shop?

Lu Wei's face was full of disbelief. She exchanged a glance with Qiu Haiyun and the others, opened the door of the practice room, and stretched her neck out curiously.

Before she could find the gossip, she saw the doors of the practice rooms opposite and around her were all opened, and the scouts all had confused, curious, and surprised expressions on their faces.

The "Shock Wave" group showed up, the "Wonderful" group showed up... and so did the "Wonderful" group. All that was left was... this familiar face, anxiously running out of the practice room—her good teammate from the second public performance, Lee Eun-byul, and the cameraman who was filming with her.

Li Eun-byul is about to explode with frustration. He finally landed the captaincy of the all-around team, "Fascination," and was ready to redeem himself and turn his reputation around. He never expected to run into a group of troublemakers, none of whom would give in or yield to the other.

Her practice progress was not affected, but her lifespan was affected.

Looking at the rows of contestants sticking their heads out, including Kim Yoo-ri, Lu Wei and other teammates from the second public performance, Li Enxing felt an indescribable regret in her heart. She should have pulled a teammate over to share the hardships, at least there would be a helper to ease the atmosphere. It was really painful to fight alone.

Alas, hindsight is unnecessary. She should just complete this story line first.

Li Enxing bowed deeply to the people around him with apology: "I'm sorry to bother you all. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay."

"It's okay."

Everyone showed great generosity in front of the camera, and the desire to watch the show in their eyes was drowned out by concern.

Lu Wei blinked quickly, swatting away the curiosity in her pupils with her eyelashes. If the all-around group performed well, or if the other groups' third public performances met expectations, this scene would definitely be edited out.

Instead of eating the melon, she was captured by her fellow melon lovers' Poké Balls.

Before Li Enxing went to find Han Shuying and Kong Yufei who had run away, she deliberately glanced at Lu Wei and Jin Youli. She was very curious about how these two would solve such a problem.

Will I be like her and go with the flow?

Kim Yoo-ri didn't show any emotion on her face, but she was actually complaining in her heart. Lee Eun-seong hadn't made any progress at all.

If she needed the stage to change her fate, she couldn't let the conflicts between her teammates escalate. Controversy can happen, but she can't let such a small thing ruin her public image. She doesn't want a stable happiness, but she has to resort to some crooked ways.

Is it a good thing to win the audience's temporary sympathy? No, if there is only beauty and tragedy, but no strength, everything will be empty talk.

Now she feels that Li Enxing is a demeaning opponent.

Lu Wei didn't have any thoughts. As a member of the domestic entertainment industry's gossip-eating squad stationed on hot searches, she had learned her lesson long ago and would not judge things whose causes and consequences were unknown.

Seeing that the person had left, she withdrew and closed the door of the practice room.

Qiu Haiyun glanced at his teammates who were pretending to be serious, and said helplessly: "It's okay, let's continue practicing."

Only after being a team leader did one understand the sheer volume of work within the team. Just having one teammate who was a "roll king" was enough to give her a headache. She had two or three conversations with them. Two off-camera and one on-camera.

Furthermore, the reason Jeon Sharon was able to listen to the advice and take a few steps back wasn't because she was so sweet-talking. It was because there was no one in the group to pick up the pieces. Lu Wei and Song Yuji would comfort and care for their teammates, but they wouldn't cooperate in acting.

This is a kind of confidence that radiates from the inside out and has nothing to do with rankings.

Qiu Haiyun and Sun Congli are different. They are both afraid of being disliked by the audience, afraid of negative news about themselves, afraid of being seen as worthless, and afraid of their rankings dropping.

Therefore, Qiu Haiyun could understand Li Enxing very well. If she were in the all-around group, she would probably cry on the first day, be emo on the second day, and collapse on the third day.

When Song Yuji heard the words about practice, she did not respond immediately. She was thinking about one thing: should she learn the spirit of getting angry and use big problems to beat up small problems.

No one is a fool. Their current state is like water and oil. They can blend together for a short while when shaking, but will immediately separate when calm.

Oh... Can Lu Wei be of any use again?

Lu Wei: “”

Let’s change to a sheep, it’s a ball.

After the episode, everyone had different thoughts.

In order to find the problem, Lu Wei was distracted for the first time during the joint training. He took the initiative to retract his outward emotions, walked normally, and kept an eye on his teammates.

She stayed in this show to support her friends and the stage that makes her blood boil. There is no reason to stop at the third public performance. There is no need to serve the audience a plate of tasteless chicken ribs that is a pity to throw away.

Feeling the aura around Lu Wei dissipate, Song Yuji looked at her in surprise. Is she completely fed up with her?

Sun Congli and others vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but they had no time to think about it. They just felt that something had disappeared from their surroundings.

Lu Wei watched the performance from the beginning to the end, and finally, finally, she noticed something was amiss. The core theme of their performance was freedom and joy, and everyone was really working hard to deliver on that concept.

Whether it is actions or expressions, they are all deliberately moving closer to the concept.

But the problem is, no one feels that singing this song is a happy thing at all. Instead, there is a hint of restraint and timidity in their eyes.

Saw a ghost.

When the music ended, Lu Wei sighed heavily without hiding anything.

Qiu Haiyun hesitated, opened and closed her mouth several times, but no sound came out. She knew why Lu Wei was upset, but she didn't know how to solve this problem. This was her dereliction of duty as the captain.

Sun Congli started to act like a quail. A basic skill for a comedian is to be perceptive. She was a little afraid that Lu Wei would get angry. In the second public performance, she was able to calmly silence her teammates. Now she must be thrown into chaos.

Quan Sharon pinched her palms, cleverly realizing the team's problem. Despite their high rankings, aside from Lu Wei, who was vying for the C spot, and Qiu Haiyun and Song Yuji, who both had special skills, she and Sun Congli were all at risk of elimination.