Chapter 42 Huaning TV Station 2
Upon hearing the news, the atmosphere on the 13th floor suddenly changed.
The tension is still there, but it is not the tension of a three-way confrontation. At this time, they all know that completing the game is the most important thing at the moment.
In this world, apart from the assault team, almost no one is willing to enter the game. Even among the assault team, not all of them want to enter the game. After entering the game, most players only want to use their skills outside the game, and they will be nervous and cautious when facing the game, after all, the game is almost a life-and-death struggle.
Ling Changye noticed the expressions of these people and laughed. Because of his relaxed and casual appearance, he smiled and talked to people as if he was chatting with relatives and friends. "The people of the Holy Tour Guild support games so much that they almost regard games as a belief in God. They must be very happy to play the game, right?"
“…”
Most of the volunteers were entering the game for the first time, but they had already experienced how bloody and terrifying the game was through repeated rescue operations after the game. When they heard that they were drawn into the game, they were much more panicked than those ignorant newcomers.
Hearing Ling Changye ask this, the tension inexplicably eased a lot.
The bald man gritted his teeth and laughed, "Yes, many stupid, weak and inferior humans will be screened out again. Of course we are happy."
As he said this, he glanced at Xia Bai and the other volunteers with a sinister smile.
Those wearing white coats and protective clothing are naturally from the rescue team of the Tourism Administration's Logistics Department. Everyone knows that except for a few healing players, the rescue team of the Tourism Administration has no skills.
The volunteers said nothing.
There is no need for people from the Tourism Bureau to come out and explain this game.
In the locked state of the game, they were divided into three groups, each occupying a corner of the 13th floor to discuss matters separately.
On the Shengyou Guild side, there are a total of 15 guild players including those who have come to join them.
The bald man was obviously the leader, and his followers asked him nervously: "Brother Qiang, what should we do?"
The bald man had a face full of flesh, and looked at people like a wild animal. "Why are you so nervous? At the moment, we have the upper hand. Ling Changye asked us to go to the Education Institute just now, but I didn't go because I wanted to test his skills and see if he is an ace or a fool. Isn't this what we agreed on? It will be the same even after entering the game."
Another player from the Shengyou Guild also said, "Those people behind Ling Changye don't look like they are from the assault team. Their strength is definitely not something we should be afraid of."
"No." The attendant frowned and said, "Didn't you notice that the people over there are quite good-looking?"
The two were stunned. Having both come from more than one game, they immediately understood what he was talking about.
The game was related to the place where it landed. They were locked into the game at the provincial radio center building, and this game was likely related to what happened here.
Huaning TV is a relatively famous TV station. Almost everyone has watched its programs. There are many excellent TV dramas, but it is even more famous for its variety shows, which have both good reputation and popularity.
They came here in advance to take a look. The podium building below is mostly offices. In addition to offices and large conference rooms, the main building also has many studios.
Therefore, they are likely to shoot a movie or TV show here, or participate in variety show-related TV shows - all of which are related to appearance.
The woman next to the bald man lifted her long black hair and asked, "Am I not good-looking?"
The bald man also laughed, his mouth bleeding, "There are many people with good looks, have they all become stars? How many people who become famous in the entertainment industry are easy? It depends on the means and whether you have the luck."
Diagonally opposite, by the window, Ling Changye said, "The game should be related to the entertainment industry. It is very likely that we will participate in some variety shows. We have an advantage here, so don't be nervous."
There are 19 people on their side. The three volunteer groups are a combination of 5+5+4. Two volunteers were in the ambulance with the injured and did not come here. Including Yang Mei, there are 13 people in total. Ling Changye and his team have 6 people.
Among so many people, perhaps only Xia Bai really understood what he said, because they have Yang Mei, who is a fan of Wan Guimi, so if it is related to the entertainment industry, they will have a great advantage.
Since it is related to the entertainment industry, it naturally cannot be the normal entertainment industry in reality. All kinds of weird and strange things are bound to appear.
After hearing what he said, the volunteers felt a little more at ease.
Ling Changye continued, "But don't take it lightly. There are several very powerful players in the other two teams. The people from the Shengyou Guild kill without blinking an eye, and the couple from the Half Moon Group are their club and the president's wife."
Xia Bai guessed that these people were not simple, otherwise Ling Changye would not be here. Large-scale conflicts between players were indeed under the jurisdiction of the Operations Department, but not the Assault Team. Maybe the opponent was not that simple, so he was asked to come here to calm the situation after a week of taking his kids out.
He looked at the Half Moon Group across the door. There were 10 people there.
They seemed to say nothing, quietly waiting for the game to officially arrive.
In the online course of the Tourism Administration, Xia Bai saw a simple introduction to the Half Moon Group. After becoming a member of the assault team, he had higher authority and saw a more in-depth introduction.
The Half Moon Society is a bit of a nebulous club, and generally tends to support the advent of games. They are roughly on the same side as the Holy Tour Guild, but they are not as extreme as the Holy Tour Guild. It's not that they have a good temper, but the degree of cruelty of their methods is sometimes even beyond that of the Holy Tour Guild.
This club originated from the area adjacent to the Flower Kingdom and the Mang Kingdom. The club leader's abilities have never been fully understood, and the information from the Game Management Bureau only records that two players exploded and died in front of him.
He and his wife entered the game together and encountered almost no opponents. A group of partners from the assault team entered a game with them, but ultimately failed to get out. I don't know if that had anything to do with them.
When Xia Bai looked over, the president was carefully wiping his wife's face with his sleeve. There was some blood and cigarette ash on his wife's face, and he wiped it clean bit by bit. His wife, whose facial features were exposed, was very beautiful, but a little thin, with sunken eye sockets, some traces of time, but also the tenderness left by time.
[The game has been loaded, and the special map Huaning TV station is now online. ]
All the players who were looking at each other and thinking to themselves were startled.
Xia Bai had entered two games before, both were normal maps, and this was his first time entering a special map.
Anyone who has watched the online science courses of the Game Management Bureau, or has lurked in the player exchange center for a few days, knows that ordinary maps have relatively fixed ways of playing, or ways of passing levels, which is the name given to this game by players, seeking truth.
There is no fixed way to play special maps, and there are all kinds of forms. Special maps are not necessarily more difficult than ordinary maps, just like Erwa's Qili Village Primary School copy, where a group of children play a game and the winner clears the level. However, there are too many uncertainties in special maps, which always make people feel uneasy, especially when there are so many people. It is safer to find the truth in ordinary maps.
[When the Huaning TV station map was launched, you happened to be in the main building of Huaning TV station. It must be a special fate. Welcome players to enter Huaning TV station. You are very lucky to be selected to participate in the TV station's ace variety show Idol 404. Idol 404 is a high-quality idol talent show with high attention and rich rewards. I wish you a smooth debut and a bright future. 】
Finally, Xia Bai's familiar words rang out again: [Welcome, corpse collector Xia Bai. ]
Yang Mei took off her outer protective suit, turned around and asked Xia Bai: "Brother, am I qualified for the major?"
Many people from the Tourism Administration looked at Yang Mei. They didn’t know Yang Mei’s identity and there was only amazement in their eyes.
At Xia Bai's repeated request, Yang Mei has not worn Lolita, cheongsam, Hanfu, etc. in the past few days, and has been wearing fairly everyday JK uniforms.
Most of his JK uniforms consist of a shirt and a pleated miniskirt, but today he wore over-the-knee socks and shallow-mouth leather shoes.
Even those in the action department had to admit that this was a really likable group of girl group members. They were full of energy and cute, with a bit of sexiness that wasn't exaggerated. They could have debuted right away.
If the occasion hadn't been wrong, both of the men would have asked for her contact information.
Xia Bai didn't want to answer this question, nor did he want to endure these looks, so he looked at Ling Changye.
Ling Changye lowered his eyes and looked at the floor. "Did you hear the sound?"
At first Xia Bai thought that he didn't want to care, but after two seconds he really heard the sound. The sound seemed to come from far away underground, getting closer and closer until it rang clearly in his ears.
"All trainees, please gather at the studio on the first floor below ground! All trainees, please gather at the studio on the first floor below ground!"
Not daring to disobey the game's orders, the three groups of players immediately took the elevator down.
They didn't know there was a studio on the basement floor of the main building of Huaning TV Station. Of course, it was probably only in the game. As soon as the elevator door opened, they felt the obvious difference between this place and the 13th floor.
It was autumn in Quanguang City, the weather was clear and crisp, and it was starting to get a little dry. Perhaps because it was underground, the underground floor was damp and dark, and it felt like summer at the seaside, with even the fishy smell of the sea.
The underground floor was spacious, but not as high as the floors above. It seemed a bit depressing under the dim light, especially when there were several expressionless staff members standing in the corridor in front.
When they got out of the elevator, the door slammed shut behind them.
Xia Bai turned around and found that there was no elevator button on the underground first floor, which meant that they could not take the elevator out from here. They could only enter but not exit.
He was not the only one who discovered this, and this discovery added to the panic. They seemed to be trapped in this depressing underground level.
The studio was easy to find. There were only four practice rooms and a large studio on the underground floor. After passing by the staff who were looking at them expressionlessly, they walked into the largest studio.
There is a large stage at the front of the studio. The lights on the stage are bright and dazzling. It is relatively dark below the stage. There are many red leather seats, and three people are already sitting in the front row.
Just looking at the backs, there is a black-haired woman in a red dress, a man with short hair, and a woman with curly hair that reaches her ears.
No one spoke. After the players came in, two players wanted to sit quietly on the seats. A whip appeared out of nowhere and whipped them over. They were really whipped from the seats to the wall. Blood immediately gushed out of their bodies, their skin was torn, and the exposed bones soon turned black. They rolled on the ground screaming in pain.
The woman in the red dress stood up, holding the blood-red whip in her hand, and said in a sharp voice, as if it came out of her tiny throat: "You don't greet your mentors and seniors when you meet them. Is this your etiquette?"
All the players looked at the whip in her hand with fear. The whip was elusive and extremely long, with fresh flesh and blood on its spikes. The old black blood in the gaps between the spikes gave off a slightly smelly bloody odor that filled the entire studio. It was unknown how many people's blood was accumulated from the whip.
"Then I'll give you a lesson first." The woman in the red skirt raised only one side of her red lips. "We are your physical education teachers. You can call me Teacher Liu, but please bow before you call me. Bow to senior teachers and bow to high-level trainees. This is the most basic etiquette in 404."
"Did you hear that?"
“Yes.”
"Did you hear that?"
“I heard it!”
"Did you hear that?"
“I heard it!”
She didn't stop talking until all the players bowed and answered her loudly.
The man next to her stood up slowly. His face was very serious. He didn't have any lively expression that a living person should have. His face was gloomy and the corners of his mouth drooped. "I'm the producer of Idol 404."
The curly-haired woman on his right stood up. She was a woman with no flaws from her figure to her face. She was perfect to the point of being weird. "I am your senior from the first season, and I am also your talent coach this season."
Xia Bai had never watched any talent show variety shows. When he was in high school, several girls in his class were fans of the shows and they often discussed them in class. At that time, he was... in a daze, thinking about the God of Joy at home.
But he could tell a lot about this talent show from these three people who were probably judges.
The producer represents the capital side, and of course may also represent something they mentioned called traffic.
One is a physical education teacher and the other is a talent coach, which shows that in this talent show, what matters most is talent and appearance, and these two may be equally important.
The producer said: "Each of you knows what kind of contract you signed with the company. You have no choice but to try your best to debut. Otherwise, we will have to sell you out to pay back the company's training fees. We have the power to deal with you. This is the power the company gave up in order to send you to participate in this festival."
They didn't know what contract they had signed with the company, but they understood that if they didn't train well, the consequences would be terrible and the production team had the right to "deal with" them.
"Now, let me announce the rules for the initial evaluation that will be carried out soon. We will conduct the initial evaluation in a live broadcast, with the three judges discussing the evaluation with the online audience. Online evaluation is the best way to experience the audience's appeal. Of course, the audience of our show is also very professional. They will also rate your appearance and talent, and their ratings will be included in the total score together with ours. This evaluation is very important and will determine your treatment and grouping in 404 in the future."
"Remember, traffic comes first, and fans are God."
As the producer finished speaking, a large screen that almost covered the entire wall of the studio lit up, facing the stage from all directions, like a pair of eyes. As long as they looked up, they could see those eyes' comments on them through a barrage of comments.
[Is this year's 404 starting? 】
【I can’t wait any longer.】
【Let me see how this year's trainees are. 】
The producer said, "Well, the preliminary evaluation will now officially begin. Please take your seats."
The players then quickly took their seats, and the two players who had just been beaten to pieces were helped to their seats.
Yang Mei pulled Xia Bai to sit next to Ling Changye and squeezed into the last row.
"The trainees whose names are called, please come on stage and perform." The producer looked through the trainees' information and said without giving them time to prepare, "First one, Liao Manni."
A hot woman walked onto the stage, and Xia Bai recognized her as the woman standing next to the bald man from the Holy Travel Guild.
She has a hot body and beautiful features. In the eyes of the players, she is someone who can debut right here. No wonder she exudes confidence in every step.
After Liao Manni came on stage, she lifted her long hair on the right side of her head to reveal her fair collarbone. She put her hands together on her chest and bowed, "Hello, three judges, hello, audience."
There is a big screen behind her, and they can see the barrage on the big screen while they are watching her.
[Well, this one looks okay. ]
[I wonder what talents he has. 】
[The skin is a little yellow. 】
[There are too many eye-to-eye interactions.]
[No, my breasts are sagging.]
When Xia Bai saw Yang Mei, she immediately lowered her head to look at her flat chest.
“…”
Liao Manni could also see the barrage of comments on the big screens on the left and right sides of the audience seats and at the back, especially the one at the back facing her. Her expression changed when she saw the barrage of comments.
[What? This expression management is too bad. ]
Is she unhappy with our comments?
【I will give the first F grade first. 】
The muscles on Liao Manni's face twitched slightly, very slightly, but the stage lights were too bright, all focused on her, and any subtle expression could be clearly seen.
The physical education teacher suddenly said, "The audience said that you can't control your facial expressions. Didn't you hear that? Why don't you smile?"
They don't know what the other two judges are like. This physical education teacher is currently the most terrifying one in the players' minds. The whip she places next to her smells bloody and seems like it will be swung at any time and hit the bone.
Liao Manni immediately laughed, her laughter seemed a little forced and awkward, and was once again magnified by the lights.
[It's too ugly to smile. 】
[Why, did we force her to laugh? ]
[Laughing is like crying, am I here to watch others cry? ]
The physical education teacher held her whip, "Did we force you to participate in the show? This is an opportunity you asked for. How funny!"
The smile on Liao Manni's face grew bigger and bigger, and the bigger smile also magnified her nervousness.
"Can you laugh or not?" The physical education teacher slapped the ground with his whip. There was a loud "pa" sound, which made people more nervous than being hit on the body.
The producer pulled out her information and put it on the table, staring at her gloomily. His eyes seemed to want to eat people, and the dissatisfaction on his face seemed to condense into black water and drip onto the ground.
The barrage of comments on the four large screens scrolled faster and faster, so dense that it seemed as if one could hear the dissatisfied insults in them, or like a pair of staring eyes rolling.
The smile on Liao Manni's face got bigger. She seemed to have forgotten how to smile. She could only pull her mouth wider and wider, until almost all her teeth were exposed, and tears came out of her eyes from laughing.
Not only was she nervous, but the players in the audience were also nervous. They couldn't help but open their mouths.
Even someone like Liao Manni, who they thought could make her debut on the spot, was like this on stage. What would happen if they went on stage?
The faint rapid inhalation and nervous faces in the audience further increased Liao Manni's nervousness. She felt her whole body buzzing, but at the critical moment her mind was clear. She knew that this would only get worse. She couldn't laugh. She might die from laughing.
She trembled and said, "I will perform a jazz dance for you all. I hope you like it."
Without giving the physical education teacher a chance to speak, she jumped up as soon as she finished speaking.
It can be seen that the first few movements were very stiff, but they gradually got better in the later stages. Even Xia Bai, who doesn't know how to dance, could see that she danced very well, her limbs were flexible, and she performed various difficult movements one after another.
Without background music, it would be difficult to bring the audience into the dance as one person dances under the silent gaze of so many unknown and scary people, but Xia Bai felt her rhythm.
After she finished dancing, she lowered her eyes slightly, as if she didn't want to look at the screen. She was scolded by her physical education teacher again, "What's your attitude? Is this what your company taught you? You don't even have eye contact with the audience on stage?"
Liao Manni took a deep breath, smiled and raised her head.
It seems like she really can't laugh anymore. The players in the audience all thought so.
The physical education teacher was so angry that his face turned black, "Your mouth is the ugliest I've ever seen. Take a good look in the mirror when you get back to the dormitory!"
There are six levels in total, ABCDEF, and Liao Manni only got an E in the end.
The audience ratings will be directly counted on the big screen, with 21 Cs, 160 Ds, 650 Es, and 159 Fs.
The body shape teacher gave me an F, the talent instructor gave me an E, and the producer also gave me an E.
The physical education teacher said: "You should be thankful that this is the first evaluation. If you get an E in the next evaluation..."
She didn't say what would happen, she just stuck out her tongue and licked her lower lip.
Yang Mei took out a pen and a small notebook from somewhere, wrote on them and asked Ling Changye: "Captain, how was her dance?"
After the two players were drawn, none of the players sitting in the seats spoke. Yang Mei also knew that he couldn't speak, so he wrote.
Xia Bai saw Ling Changye also wrote back to him in a handwriting that was very casual and sloppy, "Professional level, Liao Manni should be a professional dancer."
Yang Mei: "Ah, is the 404 trainee rating so strict?"
Ling Changye knew that people around him might be watching, so he wrote down two more possibilities: "One, the rating is strict. Two, the direction is wrong."
Seeing that Yang Mei was about to ask again, he wrote down in advance, "Keep reading."
The producer called out another name: "Jia Caihua."
[Fake talent? This name sounds like it doesn’t have any talent hahaha! ]
[Can someone with such a tacky name be an idol? ]
[Jia Hua. I think this name is good.]
Jia Caihua was a male player. Before he stood up, he saw comments about him jumping on the big screens around him. When he stood on the stage, he realized that he could see more clearly. The studio seemed to be a trapezoid. Standing on the stage, all the comments poured in to him, and there were three cruel, gloomy and weird judges staring at him.
"Laugh, laugh..." he reminded himself, and these words were clearly transmitted throughout the studio through the microphone on the stage.
【Hahaha! 】
[Is his character a clown? ]
[Look at his legs shaking hahaha! ]
The physical education teacher whipped him on the ground, and he shook even more violently. Perhaps he learned it from Liao Manni, and he immediately started the talent show. "Next, I will bring you a song."
But his voice was shaking, and the shaking was more obvious when he was singing, with trembling, glissando, and crying tones throughout the entire song.
There are two emotions that are very easy to empathize with, one is embarrassment, the other is nervousness. He was filled with these two emotions, and the players became nervous as well. They didn't know what he was singing, and they felt like the days were passing by like years.
Not to mention the audience getting any pleasure from him.
F-Class.
When Jia Caihua saw the producer looking at him with a gloomy look when announcing the results, as if he was looking at a dead person, his heart skipped a beat and he ran down quickly, forgetting even to bow.
After Jia Caihua, the next three players who came up were all F-level.
There were more and more comments on the screen, and they were becoming more and more dissatisfied. The atmosphere in the studio was becoming more and more tense. Many players were obviously very powerful players with skills, but for some reason they were so nervous in this environment that they didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
They were sitting behind the three judges and felt that there was a dark aura coming out of the producer. His voice became increasingly gloomy, a real chill that could reach people's hearts.
"Next, Shi Danfeng."
Xia Bai saw the wife of the president of the Half Moon Group slowly stand up.
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