Chapter 46 Huaning TV Station 6
The trainees from all three groups were closely following Liao Manni's plastic surgery.
She went for plastic surgery at 5pm on Thursday. Dinner time was longer than breakfast, from 5:30 to 6:30. During dinner, everyone in the small restaurant knew that she had gone for plastic surgery and were waiting to see if she would show up.
Normal plastic surgery has a recovery period. Even double eyelid surgery takes at least a week. Since she went for the surgery on Thursday, the skills of her body teacher must be far beyond reality and there is no need for a recovery period. Maybe she will come to eat after the surgery.
Tang Ying glanced around the restaurant and said, "Everyone is paying so much attention to plastic surgery."
Zhang Runyue: "When you are in a hurry to save your life, this is the fastest and most labor-saving method. It's hard to refuse."
Wang Wei still felt that the risk was too great. “After plastic surgery, can I recover after leaving the game?”
Tang Ying said: "It should be possible. As long as there is a breath left, the healing players can save him. Plastic surgery and recovery should not be a big deal for them."
Then Wang Wei could understand why everyone was paying so much attention to it, and even she was very excited.
Of course, many players are also very angry. A male player from the business unit sneered and said angrily: "Originally, we could have cleared the level based on our own abilities. The cosmetic surgery is meaningless. It just compresses the living space of all of us players and increases the difficulty of clearing the level."
What he said makes sense. This is the internal competition that Zhang Runyue mentioned before. If more and more people have plastic surgery, those who can pass the evaluation smoothly will become dangerous if they do not follow suit, and it may even affect the trainees in the upper group.
After all, appearance accounts for 60%, and the changes brought about by plastic surgery are the most obvious.
They waited until half past six but still didn't see Liao Manni.
There was nothing they could do, the restaurant was about to close, so they went back to their practice rooms.
At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Hu Yihang from Xia Bai's dormitory suddenly said, "Come quickly! Liao Manni is here!"
He was the person in their group who was most concerned about Liao Manni's plastic surgery. He had been waiting at the door and was moved as soon as he saw her.
After hearing this, the people in the practice room all ran to the door and looked outside. When they ran over, Liao Manni happened to pass by the door of their practice room.
Zhong Zicang squeezed a seat for Xia Bai. Amid the crowd of trainees, Xia Bai saw Liao Manni walking past him gracefully and confidently with a smile on her face, wearing 13cm red-bottomed high heels.
The corners of her mouth were raised, and the arc extended to the tip of her ear, as if she was holding an invisible chopstick, revealing eight perfectly white teeth. Her smile was standard and natural.
For the first time, Xia Bai realized that a pair of smiling lips could have such a great impact on a person's facial features and overall temperament. The perfect smile led to the rise of her apple cheeks, optimized the upward curve of the tail of her eyes, brought out her confidence from the inside out, and even her walk was more beautiful than before.
Liao Manni at this moment was even more dazzling than when she was seen on the 13th floor - this was the common thought of all the trainees in the lower group, including Xia Bai.
But Xia Bai noticed something indescribable weirdness. Her smile was really natural, not as stiff as on the stage. The weird thing was that Xia Bai felt another kind of barely perceptible stiffness.
He opened his eyes wide and looked carefully, but after Liao Manni took two steps, he could no longer see her.
Xia Bai only smelled the smell of disinfectant that was always present in the hospital.
"She's so beautiful oh my god!"
"Did she get her mouth done? The results are amazing!"
"She looks perfectly fine, so natural. If I hadn't seen her before, I wouldn't have known she had plastic surgery!"
After Liao Manni left, the players in their practice room started talking at once. No one was calm and couldn't think quietly about their own programs.
Xia Bai saw excitement on their faces.
How much can a performance program be improved in a day? But plastic surgery can improve the appearance to a higher level.
Maybe it's not just their practice room, the other two practice rooms can't concentrate on practice. There are too many people who are interested in plastic surgery, and their only concern is the side effects, so they all stare at Liao Manni, wanting to know how she feels and whether she has any problems.
That night, the dormitory area was no longer as depressing as usual, but now it was busy and lively.
When Xia Bai came back with the small basin, people in the dormitory were discussing the news they had heard from outside.
Hu Yihang said: "Liao Manni said that the plastic surgery took less than an hour, and she was given anesthesia in advance. The plastic surgeon's skills were very good. After the surgery, she didn't feel anything after taking the anti-inflammatory medicine. She was fine, didn't notice any problems, and didn't feel any discomfort."
Wang Ming, who was sleeping in the lower bunk of Hu Yihang, said, "Is it really such a good thing? Why does it sound so unreliable?"
When you see only the benefits of something and no disadvantages at all, even a child can tell there is a problem.
"The production team has an agenda. They don't provide free plastic surgery. They want something in exchange." Hu Yihang said, "But Liao Manni didn't say what it was. She said it might be different for each person."
"Ah, that sounds safer. I knew this damn production crew wasn't that kind."
"Yes, I feel it's a bit like in the movies, where we exchange our souls, love, family, etc. Of course, if we only want to have plastic surgery on one part, we shouldn't need these. Smaller things, like a year of life?"
There was a lively discussion in the dormitory, and they seemed to feel relieved.
Maybe they feel at ease knowing what they have to pay for plastic surgery. At least they know that the program crew will not give them the plastic surgery for free. They all know one thing: nothing good comes for free.
Maybe they know that plastic surgery requires sacrifice, so not all players will go for it. They won't be so eager. If they can accept the exchange from the program crew, they can even gain an advantage in the competition.
Xia Bai lay on the bed listening to their discussion. He scooped a little facial cream, warmed it in his palm, rubbed it and carefully pressed it on his face. He touched his soft face, glanced outside the door, and lay down.
Friday.
With less than two days until their solos, the trainees are becoming increasingly anxious.
After Feng Sheng talked with Liao Manni, he went to see his body shaper teacher for plastic surgery before breakfast, and then came to the cafeteria to eat breakfast.
Feng Sheng had his nose reshaped, as he originally had a flat nose. If you ask which facial feature can enhance a person's appearance, the eyes and nose are definitely the most common answers, especially the nose, which is more related to a person's temperament. There may be celebrities with single eyelids and small eyes, but few have flat noses or bulbous noses.
He was originally a bit rough, but after having his nose done, he became much more refined. It can be said that he went from being a bodyguard to a president.
They couldn't help but think that changing just one part of a person's body could lead to such a big change.
Feng Sheng didn't care about the gazes of others. He was from the Banyue Group and walked straight to You Mohan and Shi Danfeng. You Mohan touched his nose, nodded to him, and asked him to sit down.
Xia Bai looked over there and said blankly: "I want to touch it too."
“…”
Ling Changye: "I'll let you touch it when I have it."
The two who have undergone plastic surgery so far are Liao Manni from the Holy Game Guild, and Feng Sheng from the Half Moon Group. Their Game Management Bureau has not yet undergone plastic surgery.
Although it is a group competition, the competition has not started yet. They do not have a strong sense of team yet and are more inclined to unite the clubs. They regard the other two clubs as enemies. They probably don't want to share information with them and naturally won't let them touch.
"I'll let you touch me at noon." Hu Yihang at the table next to him suddenly said.
Several people turned to look at him. Zhong Zicang asked, "Hu Yihang, have you made up your mind?"
Hu Yihang said: "I want to have plastic surgery, at least go and ask what the exchange is. If I can't accept it, I won't have it. If I can accept it, I will have it."
They are originally trainees from the lower group and there is a gap between them and other groups. If others have done it but they haven't, then is there any possibility for them to survive?
These were his thoughts, but he didn't say them. He knew that Zhong Zicang had been trying hard to boost everyone's morale, and he shouldn't say such things at this time.
"I suggest you think about it carefully and see how the two people's plastic surgery progresses before making a decision. If you have really considered it, I will respect your decision," said Zhong Zicang.
Hu Yihang nodded, "Well, this is my business."
He would make his own decisions, and if anything went wrong he didn't want Zhong Zicang to be responsible or have any emotions.
Not long after breakfast, Hu Yihang went to the physical education teacher's office. He came back very late, and there were two players in line before him, and each player needed about an hour.
In the lower-level group practice room, other players were practicing while waiting for him. Several of them were absent-minded, practicing smiling while looking towards the door.
Zhong Zicang reminded them: "Practice well. If you can practice your smile to Liao Manni's level, you don't need to have your mouth fixed, right?"
Unfortunately, the effect is not great. Now many players in the practice room can no longer concentrate on practicing and they all want to know what plastic surgery is all about.
Hu Yihang didn't come back until after eleven o'clock in the morning.
Hu Yihang had his eyes done. He had double eyelid surgery and seemed to have done something else that made his eyes look completely different from before. It was so eye-catching that one could not take their eyes away.
"You've changed so much!"
"Their plastic surgery skills are really amazing!"
"It's stable, it's stable, brother, you are stable!"
"What did you exchange for the opportunity to have plastic surgery?"
What to exchange for the plastic surgery opportunity is the most concerned issue for everyone. Hu Yihang knows it. He touched the corner of his eye, his mood has not yet calmed down. He took a breath, not knowing whether he was nervous or excited. "Don't worry, the exchange is very fair. If it's not fair, I won't exchange it."
"How fair can it be?" Zhong Zicang asked.
"You can exchange for whatever you want." He half covered his eyes. "My eyes are a little small and look quite gloomy, so I had plastic surgery. I got a pair of eyes that suit me. In exchange, I will give them my eyes and put them in their plastic surgery material library to find a new owner who is suitable for them."
All the players were stunned.
No wonder he said it was fair, an eye for an eye, it does sound fair.
"In that case, Liao Manni and the others..."
"Liao Manni used her mouth to replace a smiling lip, and Feng Sheng also replaced his nose."
"But, but the human immune system will reject foreign organs and tissues." Zhang Runyue just finished speaking and felt that what she said was ridiculous. She was talking about biology and medicine in a weird game. This was not a place to talk about science. "What is this?"
Xia Bai asked blankly, "Human body grafting?"
“…”
Could you please not create such horrible words?
Hu Yihang immediately covered his eyes, "Xia Bai, what nonsense are you talking about! Do you still want to touch my eyes?"
Xia Bai immediately said: "It's just an eye replacement. It might be safer than filling it with other materials. Can you let me touch it?"
Hu Yihang lowered his head. His breathing was still very unstable. "Just touch your eyes. You don't want to wipe your eyeballs, do you?"
He also wanted to be touched, and somehow felt that this would make him feel more at ease.
Xia Bai first patted his shoulder, which made Hu Yihang feel more at ease. Then he carefully touched his eyes through his eyelids and asked him, "How do you feel?"
Hu Yihang closed his eyes, so his breathing gradually became steady. "It doesn't hurt. Maybe the anesthetic hasn't worn off yet. I didn't feel anything obvious when you touched me. It was just a little cold."
Xia Bai touched it for a while and then withdrew his hand, saying only: "Very good technique."
After he finished touching it, several people came over to touch it and were amazed at how good his technique was. No scar could be seen, except that the eyeball was still slightly red and swollen.
It was not until the dinner bell rang that Hu Yihang escaped from the clutches of the two devils. He ran to the door and cursed with a smile, "If you touch me again, I'll charge you, you filthy hooligans!"
He no longer looked nervous, and as he said this, his eyes moved, making his facial features lively and even a little charming. He really looked like someone who could be charged, and the other players were stunned.
"Hu Yihang...Hu Yihang you are so awesome now!"
Not only the trainees from the lower group, but also the trainees from the higher group were looking over here. Hu Yihang felt a little embarrassed by being stared at, so he ran to the restaurant first.
"What did he say?" Ling Changye and Yang Mei walked up to Xia Bai and asked him.
Xia Bai repeated to them what Hu Yihang had said.
He spoke slowly, matching his pace, and they slowly made their way to the end.
After he finished speaking, Ling Changye asked, "Did you find anything?"
"His eyeballs are dead." Xia Bai said calmly.
Yang Mei's eyes widened little by little, and she quickly covered her mouth, letting out only a little bit of sound, "How do you know? I see that his eyes are very lively, how could he be dead?"
Xia Bai didn't know how to tell them so that they would believe him, "... you will know after you have contact with more dead bodies. If there is no disinfectant to cover it, I can smell it."
“…”
Both of them were lost in thought, not knowing what they were thinking about.
Xia Bai was trying hard to think of how to make them believe him. He knew that what he said was not convincing. Hu Yihang's eyes were indeed lively when he smiled, and they were not like the eyes of a dead person in the impression of ordinary people.
Just as he was trying to think, he heard two people say in unison: "I believe it."
Xia Bai: “……?”
What were they just thinking about?
Ling Changye seemed to really believe it and had confidence in his professionalism. He said, "Go on."
"Ah? Oh." Xia Bai accepted their trust and continued, "Liao Manni's mouth should also be that of a dead person. She didn't make smiling lips, but used her own mouth to replace the dead person's smiling lips."
When he saw Liao Manni last night, the strange feeling of flexibility and stiffness was explained. Originally, Liao Manni's mouth was flexible, but due to psychological problems, it was very stiff when she smiled. Later, the mouth she replaced was very flexible when she smiled, but it was a dead person's mouth, and it was stiff except when she smiled.
The dead are stiff, but the living are spiritual.
Yang Mei immediately touched his mouth and stroked his arm. When he heard that Hu Yihang's eyes were dead, he had goose bumps. When he heard that Liao Manni's mouth was dead, his reaction was even greater.
How does it feel to have a dead person's mouth on a living person?
How does it feel when eating?
Ling Changye frowned and thought, "Remember on Sunday, a player asked the producer if he would leave the show if he was eliminated, and how did the producer answer?"
"Fallen petals are not heartless." Xia Bai automatically completed the next sentence, "Turning into spring mud to protect the flowers."
Combined with what Hu Yihang said, they now understood what this sentence meant.
Yang Mei still didn't understand, "What do you mean?"
Xia Bai was more patient with Yang Mei than Ling Changye was. He explained to Yang Mei, "Didn't Hu Yihang say that his eyes were obtained in exchange? He used someone else's eyes, and his eyes were stored in the plastic surgery material library to be used by people who are suitable for his eyes in the future."
Yang Mei figured it out, "Will the eliminated players also do that?"
Xia Bai nodded, "The fallen petals are withering flowers, they are failed trainees who may die. They turn into spring mud, which means they are broken into different parts to protect the flowers and help the new flowers, that is, the new batch of trainees, to provide nutrients for their successful debut."
Yang Mei said: "We are the first batch to enter the game. The materials used for our plastic surgery are from the trainees who died before. If we don't pass the game, will our facial features be used by future players?"
Xia Bai felt that what he said was meaningless, so he encouraged him, "If you don't want to give it to them, then work harder."
Yang Mei: "I will definitely work hard, but how can I work hard? They seem to like me very much."
“…”
Xia Bai turned to face Ling Changye and asked, "Should we tell them?"
Ling Changye looked at You Mohan and Shi Danfeng who were not far ahead, "This morning, only the players from the Game Management Bureau and the Holy Game Guild went for plastic surgery. No one from the Half Moon Group went. They should have known about it."
Xia Bai: "Where are the people from the Tourism Bureau? Should we tell them now?"
He knew that if he were in Ling Changye and the assault team's shoes, he would not tell them. Telling them would cause panic and might even "alert the enemy," which would be detrimental to clearing the game.
But what would happen if we didn't tell them and they went for plastic surgery without knowing the truth? What problems would arise if the dead parts were transferred to the living body?
Ling Changye seemed to know what he was thinking. He looked up at him with a smile on his face. "Do you think if you tell them, they won't get plastic surgery? Do you think they will thank you?"
Xia Bai was stunned.
Ling Changye: "You don't have to worry about it. They will know it soon. If they don't think of it and don't get the news, they won't be able to complete the game even if you tell them."
"I'll listen to the captain." Xia Bai nodded stupidly.
Ling Changye looked at him again, but said nothing.
Xia Bai was still curious: "What are the dangers of using dead body parts for plastic surgery? In reality, the immune system will reject them and they may rot."
"It won't rot in this show. This show requires trainees to have a perfect face." Ling Changye said: "Maybe you can refer to the talent instructor."
Xia Bai thought of the talent instructor's weirdly perfect face, and suddenly realized that her face was made up of countless people.
When they walked into the restaurant, Ling Changye said, "Observe Hu Yihang tonight, and we will decide whether to tell them tomorrow."
Xia Bai nodded obediently.
They entered the dining room last, and the other players had already started eating.
Xia Bai got his own low-level trainee's rice again and refused the food Yang Mei gave him. Yang Mei now really believed that Xia Bai only liked to eat rice, so she didn't hesitate and ate the hearty lunch box herself.
The other people in the Tourism Bureau were discussing who had plastic surgery today. The three of them followed the names they mentioned and observed the trainees, focusing their attention on Liao Manni, Feng Sheng and Hu Yihang.
Liao Manni no longer looked in the mirror as frequently as before. She lowered her head to eat, and from the side, the corners of her mouth were still raised while she ate.
If you saw this scene on ordinary days, everyone would find it weird. However, under the pressure of death, they were practicing all the time, especially smiling. They practiced smiling while brushing their teeth, so smiling while eating was not strange - in the minds of other trainees.
Feng Sheng picked up a piece of spicy chicken and was about to eat it when he suddenly sniffed. Shi Danfeng asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and continued eating, but not long after, he touched his nose again and put the finger that had touched the bottom of his nose into his nostrils to smell.
Hu Yihang kept smiling and seemed very happy, but he would occasionally be absent-minded, rub his eyes and continue talking to people with a smile.
After lunch, more players went to get plastic surgery in the afternoon. Some people who went might not be able to finish the surgery on the same day, so they had to wait until tomorrow. After hearing this news, other trainees became more anxious. Tomorrow was Saturday, the last day, so more people went to sign up and wait in line. Even two people from the Half Moon Group went.
In addition to practicing smiling, Xia Bai has been observing Hu Yihang in the practice room and found that sometimes his face turned towards him without his eyes moving, or when he was looking out the window, his eyes turned to the mirror.
He didn't know whether Hu Yihang had noticed.
After returning to the dormitory at night, Xia Bai finished washing up early, lay down on the bed, wrapped himself tightly in the wet and cold quilt, and continued to observe Hu Yihang through the gap in the quilt.
He always felt that this matter was very familiar, as if it was not the first time he had done it. He wrapped himself tightly in the quilt skillfully and felt sorry for himself.
After the lights in the dormitory were turned off, he poked his head out from under the quilt.
Hu Yihang slept in the middle bunk like him, so he could see his face when he turned sideways.
After the lights were turned off and everyone was getting ready to go to bed, Hu Yihang rubbed his eyes and prepared to go to sleep. Not long after, he opened his eyes again, put his hands on his eyes and stroked them carefully several times before closing his eyes.
This happened three or four times until he finally fell asleep.
Xia Bai couldn't sleep yet. He kept staring at Hu Yihang, stubbornly resisting the urge to sleep.
He touched his eyes and thought, if he continued like this, he would get dark circles. That would not look good.
Xia Bai pursed her lips and continued to stare at Hu Yihang quietly in the silent night.
I don’t know how much time had passed, maybe it was almost dawn, Hu Yihang opened his eyes.
Xia Bai lowered his eyelashes and watched with only a tiny glimpse.
Those eyes turned rapidly, and suddenly they would open very wide, the eye sockets almost bursting, and then tears overflowed from the eye sockets, as if they were worn out by the rapid rotation.
Hu Yihang's forehead was covered with sweat. He raised one hand as if he was struggling. It was unclear whether the sweat on his forehead was due to fatigue or pain.
The more he struggled, the faster his eyes moved. Xia Bai secretly opened his eyes and saw that the tears were still flowing out, and they were already a little bloody.
What did he see, or what did it see?
What did it see and what did he see?
Suddenly, Hu Yihang sat up abruptly, and the iron bed creaked, which was particularly loud in the dark and small room, but did not wake up the other roommates who only slept less than four hours a day.
The room on the second floor below ground naturally has no balcony, no sunlight, and no moonlight. There is only the light in the corridor, which can barely illuminate a corner of the dormitory. The breathing sounds are damp and decayed. It is half faint light and half deep darkness. Sitting in the middle, it is easy to feel like you don’t know where you are, and you are in a trance of time.
Hu Yihang turned his head slowly, and the very slow movement seemed stiff.
Those eyes filled with tears and bloodshot met Xia Bai's quiet eyes.
Hu Yihang opened his mouth but said nothing in silence.
Xia Bai stared at his mouth, as if he understood what he was saying.
Whose eyes are in my eye sockets?
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