56 Chapter 56
◎Excited◎
Zhang Li said this not only to the contestants, but also to Jia Jia.
Almost as soon as she finished saying "change strategy", Jia Jia seemed to understand something.
Zhang Li didn't mince words and directly expressed her thoughts: "I think you should all have songs prepared for the finals. I hope you won't hold back this time. As long as you successfully defend the stage this time, I will give you new songs for the finals, and I'm sure they will be suitable for each of you."
If someone else said this, the contestants might have doubts in their hearts, but this sentence came from Zhang Li.
Not to mention Zhang Li's eagle-like vision, who in the domestic entertainment industry doesn't know that Zhang Li and Wan Cheng have a close relationship, and the Past Studio can be transferred with her?
If it is really as Zhang Li promised, then they don’t even need to think about it, they know what to choose!
"Although it's a bit stressful to spend half a month practicing just one or two songs, it's also a test that will push you to improve. If you can truly hold your own."
If they can really hold the ring...
This sentence caused great ripples in the contestants' hearts.
"Teacher, then... have you prepared accompaniments for so many songs?..." one of the contestants asked.
But after asking the question, he smiled awkwardly, knowing that he had asked a stupid question.
If it were still his turn to consider such matters, he wouldn't have to stand on the side of the players.
Speaking of this, even mentors Yuan Minshan, Jia Jia and others became a little curious.
Zhang Li just smiled and said, "You just need to be at ease about this kind of thing."
She asked Wu Heng to open the Past Studio not just for fun, not to mention that she had been preparing for it for so long.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up.
Yuan Minshan and several other mentors looked at Zhang Li with almost magical eyes.
If Past Studio had already prepared so many new songs suitable for each of their team members, doesn't that mean... Zhang Li might have already anticipated that Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang would cause trouble at the critical moment?
Others have only taken one step, but she has already thought a hundred steps ahead?!
Or is it that there are too many songs produced by Past Studios and they are producing them like an assembly line?
No matter which one it was, they felt awe-inspiring.
The contestants haven't thought about it that much yet, but with Zhang Li's promise, everyone agreed to go all out to defend the title.
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The next day, the live broadcast of the program started again on time.
Following the previous day's challenge match, the eliminated contestants and the South Korean contestants continued to challenge each other according to the previous draw order.
The eliminated contestants' abilities were there, but the chances of them succeeding were slim. This live show was merely a way to give them more exposure.
Instead, the online comments about baseball players came true.
The strength of these baseball players is really solid, and there are no pure rookies among them.
In the morning session, although the players had exhausted all their strength, these South Koreans seemed to have developed a real-time tactical approach, completely avoiding the powerful players like Deng Xu, and tacitly choosing the most suitable challenge targets.
After a four-man match, only one defending fighter managed to hold the ring. While this may have something to do with the quality of the fighters selected by the Koreans, it still made people sigh in relief.
Some people in the barrage couldn't help but start to feel anxious.
What's going on? If things continue like this, more than half of the teams advancing to the finals will be Koreans!
[Stand up! How can we let these Koreans run rampant on our own territory?!]
【Come on! Beat these people back!】
These Koreans are so cunning. Where's that arrogance they had when they picked Feng Ruo and Xidi yesterday? Why is it gone? Are they only bullying ordinary players? ...
Although the last sentence was true, it was obvious in the barrage that Pei Yuanzhi and his group were involved in the attack.
[Stop bragging! These local players are only as good as they can be. No matter how you explain it, they're still weak!]
"No way, no way? If someone takes this position, it's a matter of strength, nothing else."
[It was so embarrassing. This was on their own country's stage, and three of the four defenders failed.]
I'm so disappointed with these players. I'd rather support the Korean team. After all, they are really strong.
Please open your eyes and see clearly. Chinese athletes are simply not as good as Korean athletes. It's really a waste of time on them...
Zhang Li had thought of this possibility a long time ago, so he made arrangements in advance.
Lingman Public Relations also began to provide guidance.
[Oh my, the Chinese players are not as good as the Korean players. Do you think they dare to challenge Deng Xu? Do they dare to challenge Jin Quan? Do they dare to challenge the other top contenders?]
[This is really disgusting. Yesterday, they were so ignorant that they picked Feng Ruo right away, and then chose Xidi, who wasn't as outstanding. As a result, they were both slapped in the face. Today, they directly changed their tactics and started picking on the weak ones?]
[Didn't it already seem like these contestants weren't that talented during the grading rounds this morning? There are still stronger competitors to come, so why are some people so anxious? ...]
After guidance, the audience finally realized the most important issue.
Sure enough, by the afternoon session, the situation finally seemed to be improving.
Still failed to successfully eliminate a single contestant, but facing the strong attack of three South Korean contestants, two of them performed very well and successfully defended the stage with the same solid strength, while the other contestant also performed quite well, but unfortunately lost with a small number of votes. However, at this level, he may be able to make a comeback when he has the opportunity to challenge the opponent later.
At the end of the second day, the results of the challenge match were revealed to everyone.
In the past two days, the number of eliminated players and foreign players challenging each other has reached ten. The eliminated players have a zero percent chance of winning against each other, while the foreign players have a fifty-fifty chance of winning against each other.
In other words, five of the original twenty defending spots have now been taken by foreign players.
The only American player was drawn first and chose the easiest defending player to beat. Four other players from Baseball replaced the original defending players.
There are still six players from the Baseball League who have not yet challenged. It is just unknown how strong these six players are.
However, seeing the current results, many people still breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially the director who had been under pressure from public opinion before. He thought about it and realized that even if only one of the remaining six South Korean players failed, half of those who advanced to the finals would still be Chinese players.
In the final ranking competition, there are players like Feng Ruo who are still there to support the team, so the final result will not be too ugly.
Such analysis also appeared on the Internet.
Many fans who were paying attention began to pray: It would be best if the remaining six Baseball players were all weak.
However, unlike the director and netizens, Zhang Li was determined to severely defeat Pei Yuanzhi and the others.
She knew that Pei Yuanzhi and others would spend many times more to introduce these Korean players than the last time they introduced Korean TV series. She wanted to make these people lose all their money!
So, whenever these South Korean contestants sang, she was even more focused than the contestants who were observing the show itself.
Music has no borders and many things are common.
Through the observation of her, Chen Xiaodong, Yuan Minshan and others, they were able to roughly analyze the strength of these contestants.
We just have to wait and see how the remaining six Baseball players perform in the upcoming knockout matches.
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As the second day arrived, the challenge match gradually entered the key stage.
The ratings of "Sing Out Loud" have been breaking new records time and time again, and countless fans and ordinary audiences are paying attention to this competition.
With Bi Yan's familiar opening words, the next challenge match soon began.
The eliminated contestants tried their best to show their progress, but due to the huge gap in strength, they were defeated one by one.
Whenever a Baseball player comes to challenge, the audience pays more attention.
The situation on this day was completely different. There were only two weaker defending players left.
However, when the first baseball player came on stage and did not choose these two people, everyone knew that this baseball player was the same as the one who chose Feng Ruo. Either he was extremely strong, or he was here to be sacrificed.
After she started singing, everyone realized that this was a strong enemy.
The first round ended quickly with the defending contestant defeated.
In the second round, the Baseball players chose the weaker defending player.
Just when everyone thought that he would fail this time, unexpectedly, this player suddenly took out his trump card and caught the opponent off guard.
Seeing such a result, the audience's eyes lit up.
Analysis has already begun on the barrage.
[These Koreans have tactics, but it's clear that our local players are not to be trifled with!]
[Is he being pushed into a corner or does he have other plans? But I have to say, well done!]
It's clear that the Koreans planned to select players based on their strength this time, hoping to get all six in, but they failed in the second round! Looking forward to the other players' counterattacks!
[Oh wow! The Koreans definitely didn't expect this! ...]
As the audience expected, after the third Baseball player won, the fourth Baseball player again chose the last weak defending player.
Then, the opponent was taught a lesson by the defending contestant who was also ignored.
At the end of the morning session, four players from the United States came to challenge, two won and two lost, leaving only the last two. Even if all of them made it, it would be impossible for them to equal the number of local players.
Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang were expectant at the beginning, but gradually became impatient. Although they tried their best to hold it back, the bad premonition in their hearts became stronger and stronger.
According to their thinking, more than ten carefully selected Korean singers can get at least half of the qualifying places.
But unexpectedly, before the final stage, seven of the sixteen people died. Even if the last two made it, they would only have nine spots.
However, the two had not yet thought of the most critical issue.
At the beginning of the afternoon session, some people started discussing in the barrage.
[If I remember correctly, the contestant who failed to defend the ring still has one chance to counterattack, right?]
【!!! 】
[Oh my god, I almost forgot something so important! ]
[So, if the contestants who were successfully kicked out work together, can they still fight back and take a few spots from the Koreans? ...]
However, now is obviously not a good time to pay attention to these things, because the overall challenge match has not been finalized yet.
After the eliminated players finished their challenge, the last two players from South Korea also came on stage one by one.
What Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang didn't expect was that one of the two contestants who they originally thought would advance together was "defeated" by the contestant who "suddenly performed exceptionally well".
When the result of the last knockout match between the South Korean players came out, the barrage of comments went into a frenzy.
[Ahhhhhhh! So beautiful!!!]
[Securing twelve positions! Well done to the Chinese team!]
[That is to say! No matter how powerful the Koreans are, this is China!]
[Hahahahaha Pei Yuanzhi's face turned blue with anger haha ...
Next is the special performance for the eliminated contestants, but many people in the barrage are still immersed in the joy of victory.
At the end of the day, only the last two eliminated contestants had yet to challenge the opponent, and the challenge results of the Baseball contestant had already been announced.
The results have all been disseminated online.
The Koreans' mentality is a little off. They carefully selected sixteen people, but only eight made it to the finals.
Only the first Korean chose Feng Ruo. There were clearly several others left, including Deng Xu, but the Koreans didn't dare to choose any of them. The only one they chose was Xidi, and they got beaten badly by him, hahahahaha.
[They're still talking about reserve forces, but looking at that typhoon, does it look like a reserve force? ...]
Although several South Korean players successfully gained some fans through this program, it was still pitifully small compared to the huge number of fans of Feng Ruo, Deng Xu and others. The fate of Pei Yuanzhi and others' water armies was also left without any refutation by real fans.
But what made everyone happy was yet to come.
On the last day of the live broadcast of the sixth episode of the second season of "Sing Out Loud", after the remaining two eliminated contestants had kicked out the opponent, Bi Yan announced that the final segment was that 'each failed defending contestant will get one chance to kick out the opponent'.
As soon as Bi Yan finished speaking, Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang obviously remembered something.
The two exchanged glances, and Pei Yuanzhi interrupted again with the microphone: "Let me ask first, if the South Korean players are successfully challenged by the defeated defending players, they should also have a chance to challenge the champion, right?"
Bi Yan was stunned for a moment, but the director's voice soon came from the headset.
He smiled. "Because the South Korean contestants joined midway through, their positions are the same as those of the eliminated contestants. If they successfully challenge the defending contestants, and then are successfully challenged by other defeated defending contestants, they will be disqualified from advancing."
If you can challenge another competitor and then be defeated, and this happens over and over again, then how long will this show last?
But Pei Yuanzhi obviously felt that he had been tricked by the program crew.
"They are also normal contestants. Why can't they have the same opportunities as others?!"
Bi Yan's expression was already somewhat subtle. He listened to the director's instructions in the headset and repeated, "Because the players from South Korea joined in mid-game."
But Pei Yuanzhi obviously still wanted to fight for it. In order not to disrupt the program, the director directly ordered someone to remotely turn off Pei Yuanzhi's microphone.
The camera also cut back to Bi Yan, who began to announce the next steps as if nothing had happened.
He invited out the eight defeated defending contestants.
When Pei Yuanzhi found out that his microphone was blocked, he almost lost his temper. Yun Shang, who was beside him, could only quickly hold him back and comfort him for a long time.
Zhang Li and the others sat nearby and watched the show. Only Jia Jia, who was also sitting next to Pei Yuanzhi, felt a little scared when she saw the furious Pei Yuanzhi, fearing that he would suddenly go crazy and involve her.
After the defeated defending contestants drew their lots, Pei Yuanzhi finally calmed down after hearing Yun Shang's words.
This scene certainly could not be seen in the live broadcast room. Only the audience present saw the whole process of Pei Yuanzhi almost going crazy. Some people even secretly filmed it with their mobile phones, planning to upload the video to the Internet immediately after leaving the venue.
Why not release it now? Because they signed an agreement not to reveal the content of the show in advance. Otherwise, the live broadcast of the production team will be delayed. If someone secretly broadcasts it before them, wouldn’t all the online viewers be attracted to it?
Pei Yuanzhi's behavior did not affect the progress of the program except for gaining more people's disgust.
The eight defeated defending contestants now start the final round of challenges.
But what no one knew was that Zhang Li had already discussed a countermeasure with Yuan Minshan and Jiajia.
Zhang Li exchanged the cooperation rights for a new song for the promises of the weakest contestants.
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In the Chinese country of this world, there is also a story called "Tian Ji's Horse Racing". By swapping the order of the horses, using inferior horses against superior horses, medium horses against inferior horses, and superior horses against medium horses, the horse race is won with a result of two wins and one loss.
But this time Zhang Li wants to do the opposite.
She let the six weakest players challenge the six strongest Baseball players, and the two strongest players left would face the two weakest Baseball players, and she would definitely kick them out!
The Baseball players, who are now on the defending side, have not yet realized the seriousness of the situation.
It was not until the first, second, third... returning defending contestants all set their challenge targets as them that they realized it.
After the live broadcast, the barrage also came to its senses.
Good boy! Good boy!
[It’s clear they are cooperating and facing the outside world in unison!!]
【How did MD become so hot inexplicably! 】
Cheng Xiaodi actually challenged the strongest baseball player?! I thought of a possibility...
[Fuck! Sacrifice style! ! !]
[They want to secure Yu Qi and the others' asylum! ...]
Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang naturally noticed what the barrage of comments could realize as well.
But they wanted to protest, but the director blocked their microphones and they couldn't make any sound.
The baseball players also discovered this problem.
However, faced with the unity of these players, even if they thought of it, they would not be able to deal with it for the time being. They could only do their best because they were now the chosen ones.
However, Zhang Li's strategy was ultimately superior. The two players, Yu Qi, who she had high hopes for, went all out and defeated the two weakest players from the Korean country with a narrow victory.
With their victory, the final promotion results were finally announced.
Of the twenty final spots, Chinese players won fourteen, while baseball players only won six.
Pei Yuanzhi was so angry that he slammed the table on the spot, but the production team had already arranged security guards to guard him and Yun Shang.
In order to avoid making things too awkward, Yun Shang could only pull him back with all his strength.
Once the live broadcast ended, the audience who were watching the show were asked to leave.
The contestants were also taken away by the director, leaving only Pei Yuanzhi, Yun Shang and other mentors and program crew members to confront each other.
Pei Yuanzhi's eyes lingered on Zhang Li, Yuan Minshan, and Jiajia. Seeing the director finally being invited over, he sneered, "In this final challenge, can you guarantee that these people haven't teamed up to cheat?"
The director looked at Zhang Li and the others.
Zhang Li just smiled. "Director, what is cheating? The contestants were promoted based on their own strength. They clearly had a spot in the finals, but it was snatched away by a group of people who suddenly appeared. Is it wrong for them to have exclusionary thoughts?"
As soon as these words came out, there was silence for several seconds.
But Pei Yuanzhi couldn't do as she thought.
"Since it's the production team's arrangement, shouldn't the contestants comply? If they lost their spot in the finals, they can only blame it on their lack of skills!"
"Oh~" Zhang Li took a long breath. "If that's the case, then the last two Baseball players lost because they were not strong enough."
"You!..." Pei Yuanzhi pointed his finger angrily.
But just as he moved, everyone around him, except Yun Shang, subconsciously tried to protect Zhang Li.
Even the director stepped forward and blocked Pei Yuanzhi's fingers with his hands.
Looking at the actions of these people, Pei Yuanzhi almost fainted from anger.
Zhang Li soothingly pushed the director's hand away and continued to talk to Pei Yuanzhi, "Since Teacher Pei said we cheated, then you should produce evidence of our cheating."
"Excuse me, where is the evidence?" Zhang Li spread out his palm towards him.
Pei Yuanzhi wanted to say that the contestants' choices were evidence, but Zhang Li beat him to it, "Don't tell me the contestants' actions are evidence unless you can produce substantive legal evidence."
"Also, I'd like to ask Mr. Pei, in what capacity are you appealing on behalf of these baseball players?"
"As your mentor's deputy? Or as their boss?"
The last sentence completely tore off Pei Yuanzhi's mask.
Yuan Minshan and Jiajia couldn't help but smile sarcastically.
The director simply cleared his throat and began looking left and right.
What Zhang Li meant was not only accusing Pei Yuanzhi of affecting the fairness of the variety show, but also mocking him for forgetting his role as assistant mentor because he was the boss of the South Korean players.
Pei Yuanzhi was obviously very angry, but in everyone's eyes, Zhang Li was just telling the truth.
The director coughed again in a fake manner and said to Pei Yuanzhi, "Teacher Pei, on the show, you are the assistant mentor. You should think more carefully when doing things in the future. After all, you have signed a contract with the program team. If it affects the show..." The program team will definitely hold you accountable.
I've been annoyed with this guy for a long time!
After the director asked everyone to talk things out, he gave the final closing remarks and told everyone they could leave.
Zhang Li and the others said hello to the director and Bi Yan, and left together. Only Pei Yuanzhi and Yun Shang were left, one with a clenched fist and the other with a sad face.
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No one knew that the audience member who had previously filmed Pei Yuanzhi getting angry after his microphone was muted, posted the video intact online after leaving the venue, which quickly sparked heated discussion.
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