Chapter 59 Shengjing Entertainment: Unrivaled Leader!
Is passive performance prohibited?
But number 1 didn't perform passively at all!
Anyone with eyes can see that number 1 performed very seriously, and that number 1 has a solid foundation. Apart from that small mistake in the middle, he performed very well overall.
Aside from being young people, those who enter this instance have nothing in common, and most of them don't know how to sing or dance. There are really very few people as good as No. 1.
If this is considered negative performance, then what is considered positive performance?
Are the requirements for mere NPCs really that high?
Or was it that number 1 was judged to be performing passively because of that mistake in the middle?
Are mistakes not allowed?
Can't we make even the slightest mistake?
After finishing the trainees' makeup, the NPC makeup artist disappeared without a trace. At this moment, only the trainees were in the backstage dressing room. Everyone was stunned by the NPC's voting criteria, and no one spoke for a moment.
The rules explained by Jerry, the trainee manager, on the radio were vague. Nobody knew the specific function of the like and dislike votes, but the dislike votes didn't sound good. Would the top-ranked dislike votes be eliminated directly? Nobody knew.
Based on Player 1's performance, Shi Yu drew several conclusions in her mind:
Firstly, these thousand NPC audience members cannot abstain from their votes; they must either like or dislike the vote.
Secondly, although the show is a trainee talent show, performing songs and dances in a conventional manner may not necessarily please the NPC audience.
Thirdly, when contestant number 1 made a mistake and forgot the dance steps during the performance, it was because he accidentally glanced at the audience. Was contestant number 1 frightened by the NPC audience members staring directly at the stage? Or were the NPC audience members influencing the trainees?
Shi Yu is still unsure about this.
However, if you're worried about being influenced by the audience members (NPCs) in the audience, wouldn't it be better to perform with your eyes closed?
Trainee number 2 was a girl with a gentle and elegant demeanor. She wore light makeup, had long black hair that reached her waist, and a white dress. She sang a slow-paced English song.
This is an experienced player. She also guessed that the first player's mistake might be influenced by the audience NPCs below the stage. Therefore, after going on stage, she closed her eyes and immersed herself in the music throughout the performance.
Her singing skills were average, not amazing, but her voice was gentle and melodious, which was very pleasant to listen to. She didn't sing off-key or make any mistakes throughout the performance, and ultimately received 246 votes of approval and 754 votes of disapproval.
Although the number of votes for favorites was not high.
However, compared to No. 1's dismal 12 votes, her vote count is truly enviable.
The trainees behind them imitated No. 2's singing performance. Some of the smart ones also realized that No. 1's mistake was because he glanced at the audience, so they also imitated No. 2 by closing their eyes and not looking at the audience.
In general, regardless of whether the performance is singing or dancing, as long as there are no mistakes or errors during the process, and the audience is not looking down, the final number of favorite votes can be between one hundred and two hundred. Although it is not as good as No. 2, it is still acceptable.
However, if a trainee glances at the audience during a performance, a mistake is bound to happen. Shi Yu observes every stage and, almost without exception, trainees who have made mistakes will only receive double-digit votes, no matter how well they perform.
This shows that NPC audiences are really strict.
There is no room for the slightest mistake.
This also shows that the NPCs offstage do indeed influence the trainees, but it's unclear how they do so. Is it through simply glaring at them? Or is it mental pollution?
"Player number 25, get ready—"
After the announcement, Yun Yi got up and headed to the preparation area.
Yun Yi was probably one of the best-looking players here, and he was dressed very elegantly. Everyone was looking at him, and Shi Yu watched him go with everyone else. Unexpectedly, Yun Yi suddenly turned around and looked at him.
Shi Yu: "..."
Shi Yu could only mouth "Go for it!" to Yun Yi, who nodded at him and turned to leave.
Shi Yu guessed that Yun Yi might be a model or a celebrity in real life.
Because Yun Yi is very clear about his advantages and knows how to showcase them, while other players let the NPC makeup artist do whatever they want, he directs the makeup artist throughout the entire process, from makeup and styling to clothing matching.
Yun Yi changed into a khaki silk suit with a dark bow tie. His short, flaxen hair was combed back and styled with hair gel, with a few strands deliberately left out at the temples, giving it a neat yet slightly messy and relaxed look. He wore gold-rimmed glasses with a light gold chain hanging down his shoulders, making him look like a wealthy young master who had been immersed in the arts since childhood.
And Yun Yi's initial stage performance was indeed on the piano.
But it's more than just the piano.
Each trainee's performance time is five minutes.
At one minute and forty seconds, the melodious piano music suddenly stopped. Yun Yi took off his glasses with one hand and stood up. At the same moment, the music became more urgent, and Yun Yi started dancing to the beat.
Yun Yi looks thin, but his dancing is incredibly powerful, with fluid movements and perfect timing. His movements are sometimes slow and sometimes fast, perfectly combining strength and languidness without a single mistake. Actually, Player 1 is also a good dancer, but his appearance isn't as pleasing to the eye as Yun Yi's.
At three minutes and fifty seconds, Yun Yi took off his coat and tossed it aside, revealing a white shirt underneath.
The white shirt was just an ordinary white shirt, and Yun Yi wore it very properly, even buttoning it all the way up to the top. However, due to the intense dancing, Yun Yi was sweating, and the white shirt, soaked with sweat, was very transparent, clinging to his body. With each breath, his six-pack abs were faintly visible underneath...
Yun Yi ultimately received 627 votes of approval and 373 votes of disapproval.
The highest number of votes so far!
The live stream chat was filled with screams—
[Wuhu! Yunyi, you understand the secrets of traffic!!!]
[Can dancing for five minutes really soak a shirt like that? Besides, excluding the minute or so he played the piano, he didn't even dance for five minutes. I seriously suspect Yun Yi wet his shirt before putting it on!]
[Shocking! A certain celebrity surnamed Yun went to extreme lengths to garner votes; is this a sign of distorted humanity or moral decay?]
[Ahhhhh, Yunyi, you've changed! You weren't like this before! How could you dress like this? How could you do a wet/seductive look?! To that, I just want to say... more! I love watching!]
The trainees who went on stage later followed suit, also imitating Yun Yi by taking off their clothes midway through the performance, or wearing very little or revealing clothing on stage, and they did indeed receive more votes than the previous trainees.
[HHHH, everyone is gradually figuring out the secrets of data traffic.]
[Isn't this just like in real life? The less clothing you wear, the more people want to see. Sigh, it seems even NPCs in games can't escape this kind of low-brow, perverse humor.]
Among a sea of low-cut, short skirts, crop tops, and see-through outfits, Qiu Xiaoyuan's long-sleeved dress is a breath of fresh air.
Qiu Xiaoyuan has been learning folk dance since she was a child and has a solid foundation in dance. Moreover, she has been actively participating in school arts activities since she was a child and is not shy on stage. Shi Yu was not worried about her at first, but seeing that everyone was learning Yun Yi, Shi Yu became a little worried about Qiu Xiaoyuan.
Surprisingly, Qiu Xiaoyuan, who dressed conservatively, also achieved good results.
She received 402 votes of approval and 598 votes of disapproval.
Everyone tried to imitate Yun Yi's deliberate attempts to grab attention, which initially worked, but gradually the audience grew tired of it. Later, when trainees went all out and performed striptease dances, they barely managed to get a little over a hundred votes.
Trainee number 54 was a burly man who was 1.9 meters tall. He was clearly not the kind of person who could sing and dance. What he performed was not singing and dancing, but special skills such as breaking bricks with his bare hands and breaking a large stone on his chest.
His results were also good, with 446 votes for favor and 554 votes for dislike.
It seems that audiences not only like those who dress scantily, but also those who are unconventional and independent.
However, when Jerry, the trainee manager, first explained the rules, he also said that trainees could perform anything they wanted.
The trainees who followed also realized this and began to perform some strange and unusual things.
For example, eating twenty hamburgers in one go, drawing a circle with the left hand and a square with the right hand at the same time, kicking three times in mid-air and then kicking a bottle away with the fourth kick, and some even more outrageous ones, such as being able to stick out a very long tongue to lick the tip of the nose, opening the mouth wide enough to fit an orange the size of a pea head, bending backwards until both hands touch the ground and still being able to run, etc.
However, no matter how hard the trainees rack their brains to make themselves appear independent and unique.
Viewers will eventually experience aesthetic fatigue.
Trainees ranked 70th or lower, no matter how amazing their special skills were, never received more than 200 votes.
Starting from number 80, the NPC audience members began to yawn frequently.
Their yawning was even more synchronized. The already nervous trainees became even more nervous when they saw the audience yawning. The more nervous they became, the worse they performed. The worse they performed, the more the audience yawned, and the more they yawned, the worse they performed... It was a vicious cycle.
Even the most mentally strong trainees, unaffected by the audience's yawns, couldn't please the audience with their performances, and ultimately none of them received high votes.
Trainee number 90 even set a new low, with 9 votes for favorites and 991 votes for dislikes.
The next few also received double-digit votes.
In addition, Shi Yu discovered that the audience also judges by appearance. With the same performance content and the same level of performance, trainees with higher appearance received more votes than those with lower appearance.
Finally, the last performance has arrived.
Shi Yu was dressed in a medieval retro punk all-black tailcoat, tall boots, and black gloves—a standard magician's outfit. Compared to the other trainees' outfits, which were practically plunging to their navels, Shi Yu was completely covered from head to toe, not even showing his face; a black mask completely concealed his features.
"Hello everyone, I'm going to perform the magic trick 'The Disappearing Person'."
Before Shi Yu, there had been several other magicians performing, and the audience was already tired of seeing them. They would lift their eyelids briefly, then slump back into their chairs in unison, yawning incessantly, just wanting it to end quickly.
Shi Yu takes her acting very seriously.
He pushed a magic box, about half a meter and a person tall, out of the prop room, opened a side door, and showed the box had wheels underneath. He pushed the box around to make sure the audience was watching, and said, "As you can see, there's nothing inside right now."
He closed the side door, circled the magic box once, and then stopped in front of the door, making a symbolic gesture.
"Now everyone, take a look."
He opened the side door, and Lin Fengbai, dressed in a shirt and trousers, walked out.
Shi Yu had tried summoning Lin Fengbai in the restroom before deciding to perform this.
"Next up is the 'Disappearance of the Living' technique."
Lin Fengbai stepped into the box, Shi Yu closed the side door, then walked around the box once more, made a hand gesture, and placed his hand on the side door armrest: "Now it's time to witness a miracle, three, two, one..."
The box was opened.
It was completely empty inside.
The magic performance wasn't particularly brilliant, but it wasn't too bad either; it was just average, barely passing.
Shi Yu didn't want particularly good results.
This game lasts for ninety days, and I don't know how many more performances there will be. This is only the first performance, so I can't perform too well, or I'll become a target for other players. But I also can't perform too poorly, or I'll risk being eliminated.
He just wants a mediocre grade, or even slightly below average.
The voting process will begin after the performance.
On the big screen, the votes for "like" progressed very slowly, while the votes for "dislike" progressed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, there were already 100 votes for "dislike," while there were only 20 votes for "like." Shi Yu guessed that his final score would probably be around 100 votes for "like."
Yes, he can accept it.
The straps on the back of her head mask were a little loose, so Shi Yu reached behind her head to tighten them.
Who knew my hand would slip.
The mask fell off.
A beautiful and elegant face appeared before everyone.
His black magician outfit made his skin glow, and his face was clean and without any makeup, yet he looked a million times better than those trainees with elaborate makeup.
The NPC audience members below the stage stopped yawning and stared at him without blinking.
Seemingly not expecting the mask to suddenly fall off, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened slightly, like an innocent domestic kitten suddenly thrown into a strange environment. Trusting humans, she showed no fear, only confusion and innocence in her eyes.
It makes you want to grab him and spank him hard, to let him know the wickedness of human nature.
The voting screens are also changing.
Dislike votes stopped fluctuating, while like votes surged.
Shi Yu ultimately received 815 votes of approval and 185 votes of disapproval.
Fault line first!
Shi Yu: "..."
He really just wanted an average grade.
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