Chapter 20 Bizarre News
After the short breakfast time, the director team sent staff to the dormitory to check whether the contestants' luggage contained any prohibited items.
All items found, including cigarettes, alcohol, snacks, game consoles, tablets, and mobile phones, must be handed over to the production team for safekeeping. They can only be returned after a contestant is eliminated or a group debuts.
Actually, this part should have been completed last night when the contestants checked into the dorms. However, because the show recording ended too late yesterday and everyone was very sleepy, in order not to delay the next morning's recording, the production team had to postpone it until now.
Suddenly, the contestants' cries could be heard from the dormitory building.
Dormitory No. 5, where Mo Bei lived, didn't have many contraband items. Apart from a large pile of snacks in Tao Xiaotie's suitcase and Bai Li and Lei Lie's phones, there was basically no damage.
But after watching his favorite snacks disappear from his mind, Tao Xiaotie was depressed for a while.
Seeing that none of Mo Bei's belongings had been confiscated, Lei Lie was a little surprised, "You didn't even bring your cell phone?"
"Yeah." Mo Bei said half-truthfully, "Before I came here, I guessed the production crew might confiscate it, so I didn't bring it."
Upon hearing this, Lei Lie couldn't help but reveal an expression of respect on his face.
After checking the luggage, the staff began to distribute training uniforms representing their respective levels to the players.
They are called training uniforms, but in fact they are just T-shirts of different colors with letters representing their respective levels printed on them.
Grade A is red, Grade B is orange, Grade C is yellow, Grade D is green, and Grade F is black.
I have to say, the training uniforms arranged by the production team are much better than those of other talent shows in the past. At least Class A doesn't have to wear pink, and Class F doesn't have to wear gray.
The moment he got the red T-shirt, Lei Lie visibly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately it’s not pink, otherwise he would be laughed at by his sister for the rest of his life after the show is broadcast.
Unlike Lei Lie's joy, Bai Li seemed a little disgusted with the F-level training suit.
"Why can't Group F's clothes be designed in white? This color makes my face look dark."
Zhao Xi, who happened to be visiting Dormitory 5 from Dormitory 3, couldn't help but interject, "Black is so great! We're so envious! Look at the clothes we have in Class C. They look just like the Meituan delivery drivers."
Mo Bei, who was about to put on the yellow T-shirt, said: "..."
After being comforted by Zhao Xi, Bai Li, who had originally disliked the dull black color, immediately stopped complaining.
Everything really depends on contrast. Compared to this bright yellow, black at least seems deeper and more stable.
After changing into training clothes, the contestants went to the instructors for individual small-group lessons according to their respective levels.
Because Zhao Xi and Mo Bei were in the same class, C, after separating from their three roommates, they went to class together.
The first class of Class C is a dance class, taught by instructor An Junze.
No one expected that this versatile singing, dancing, and songwriting instructor would be the first to teach Class C. After all, according to most people's thinking, a talented person like him should first teach the most elite Class A.
Although surprised, most of the contestants were more happy than shocked.
After all, many of them were fans of An Junze himself and even his former group, AIM. Being able to get up close and personal with idols so quickly was something they would have never dared to imagine in the past.
However, An Junze himself did not let the contestants off easily just because they were his fans. On the contrary, he was very strict in class, and he corrected almost every contestant's mistakes.
After just one hour of class, the contestants went from being initially excited to becoming nervous, fearing that they would be called upon by the instructor if they were not paying attention.
After An Junze found out that Zhao Xi had made mistakes in her movements four times in a row, even someone as cheerful and lively as Zhao Xi could not help but wilt like an eggplant hit by frost.
Looking at the listless contestants in the classroom, An Jun couldn't help but sigh silently in his heart.
In his impression, most of the students in Class C were academically biased: some were good at singing but poor at dancing, and some were the opposite.
But this time, maybe because he put too much psychological pressure on the contestants, even those contestants with good dance skills in the class did not perform to their full potential.
Instead, it was Jiang Monan, who made a mistake on the first stage and ruined the entire performance, who gave him a different kind of surprise.
Although some of his movements still seemed a bit stiff at times, overall he was the one with the lowest error rate.
Once he points out a fault himself, he will not make the same mistake next time.
If there is something wrong, correct it; if there is nothing wrong, encourage it. As a teacher, I like students like this who do not need my excessive lectures and emphasis.
If he can continue to maintain this performance, it is not impossible for Jiang Mo Nan's level to rise again in the next second rating of the theme song.
While the contestants were disconnected from the internet and "retreating to practice," some strange news quietly appeared on the Internet...
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At the Yuehai City Funeral Home, Zhao Xiaolou, who had a rare moment of free time, sat in the lounge, bored and watching short videos.
Suddenly, an eye-catching piece of news came into view——
"Recently, Yuehai City police apprehended a group of tomb robbers in Yueming Mountain."
"It is reported that when the police arrived, the two suspects had collapsed unconscious. Not only were their bodies tied up with a piece of rag, but they had also lost their clothes, mobile phones and a battery-powered scooter."
"Surprisingly, after waking up, the suspects Zhang and Li claimed they had dug up a zombie, which had not only resurrected but had also frightened them unconscious and tied them up."
"The police naturally didn't believe such bizarre claims. Suspecting the two suspects had mental problems, they sent them to the hospital for examination. However, the hospital's examination revealed that the two suspects were not seriously ill and their families had no history of hereditary mental illness."
"Thus, things became increasingly confusing. Zhang and Li don't have mental illnesses. If they're not lying, then are there really zombies in this world that can resurrect themselves?"
"The police continued their investigation and discovered that the two men were accompanied by an accomplice and principal offender, a surnamed Wang."
"According to the confessions of Li and Zhang, Wang had committed no fewer than 20 cases of tomb robbery and illegal trafficking of cultural relics in China. However, at the time of the incident, Wang had already fled the scene.
"Therefore, the police speculate that the zombie incident was staged by Wang himself. Because the three men had a disagreement over the division of the loot, Wang pretended to be a zombie, knocked out two of them, tied them up, and tried to keep the loot for himself. The lost phones, clothing, and vehicle were likely on Wang's person."
"Yesterday, Yuehai City police issued an A-level reward warrant for the arrest of Mr. Wang. If anyone sees him, please cooperate and call the police immediately..."
Liao Yu, who had come in to pour water, paused when he heard this: "Mountain Yueming? Isn't that right here?"
"Yeah." Zhao Xiaolou scratched his head. "But have the police ever been here? I don't have any recollection of it."
"Me neither." Liao Yu poured a glass of water and sat down. "It must be fake news. If something this big really happened, we should have remembered it."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Sun, the driver responsible for transporting the deceased's body, immediately took over the conversation: "It's not fake news. The police really did come. That morning, I went to a nearby town to pick up a deceased person, and on the way, I saw a group of police cars heading towards Yueming Mountain."
"when?"
Facing the two's puzzled gazes, Xiao Sun seemed to suddenly remember something and began to stammer.
"Well, it's about... a while ago when there was a... uh, strange thing going on at our funeral home. Didn't you two feel unwell and both take leave to go back and rest?"
Upon hearing this, Liao Yu and Zhao Xiaolou froze.
It was the day when an unidentified body appeared and disappeared out of nowhere in the funeral home!
When he found out that he had made a mistake in the identity of the deceased, Liao Yu immediately called Zhao Xiaolou to go back and deal with it. Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the embalming dressing room, the body was gone!
They searched the entire funeral home but couldn't find him. Instead, the deceased Chen Hao, who was supposed to be undergoing body makeup, was still lying in the body freezer.
This incident left a significant psychological scar on them. After finishing Chen Hao's order, they took two days off.
It was precisely because of this that they did not know that the police car had been to Yueming Mountain.
It's just that the tomb robbers dug up a zombie, and then the zombie came back to life...
Recalling the stiff touch he felt when he was applying makeup to the missing corpse, Liao Yu's face turned pale instantly.
Could it be... that corpse is the zombie from the news?!
This also explains why the body suddenly appeared and disappeared. Because he ran away on his own!
Zhao Xiaolou hadn't seen the body in person like Liao Yu had. But seeing her face was a little grim, he guessed that she must have connected the news in the short video with the strange incident they had encountered earlier. So he whispered to comfort her.
"Sister Liao, this matter has nothing to do with us. Didn't the police say that those two tomb robbers were lying? Zombies don't exist. Don't scare yourself."
Hearing this, Liao Yu was slightly startled and nodded.
Indeed. She must have been overthinking it.
How can there be zombies in this world? This isn't a movie.
Like the staff at the Yuehai City Funeral Home, Xu Zihan, who had just recently gone to the Yuehai City Cemetery to celebrate Mo Bei's death anniversary, also saw this news.
However, she hadn't made the connection between the "zombie" in the news and the male fan she had met before. To this day, she still believed he was a close friend of Mo Bei's in the entertainment industry. She was so tightly wrapped up simply because she didn't want to be photographed.
Her daughter Xin Yiru doesn't pay attention to such social news. Even if she sees it on Weibo, she just glances at it and then scrolls away.
As a former AIM group fan and current An Junze's sole fan, what is more important for her right now is to go to the big fans to collect the latest beautiful pictures of her brother.
She clicked on the Weibo of an An Junze fan who she followed, and sure enough, she saw a newly posted nine-square grid.
[foreverJunze V: Ahhh! Fresh Junze hyung! So handsome! (heart) (heart)]
After clicking to enlarge and admiring them for a while, Xin Yiru picked out a few of her favorite pictures and right-clicked to save them.
Jun Ge recently filmed a talent show on Pineapple Video, and many fans who followed his schedule would pick him up and drop him off. Compared to his casual commuting photos in private, she prefers his energetic performance on stage.
It’s a pity that she hasn’t seen Jun Ge on stage for a long time.
I don’t know whether Jun Ge will participate in the mentor’s singing segment and perform on stage during the recording of "Youth Plan" this time.
Oh, if only this program could be broadcast earlier. That way she could see the fresh Jun Ge earlier.
Thinking of this, she was bored and clicked on the official Weibo of the program team.
I'm free anyway, so if I can find some good talents in the show, I can follow them for a few months and become a show host who runs away as soon as he debuts. There's nothing wrong with that.
Coincidentally, as soon as I opened Weibo, several nine-grid pictures popped up in front of me.
Just five minutes ago, the production team released a set of photos of the contestants as a pre-show warm-up. Although they were not official official photos, they gave netizens who had been eagerly waiting for months a new hope.
"It's really better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early..."
Xin Yiru raised her eyebrows, and then began to look through the "roster" of the "new concubines" like an emperor choosing a concubine.
"No, that smile is too oily."
"This one won't work either. He looks too young. He's not even an adult, right?"
"This look is not my cup of tea..."
Xin Yirui grumbled as she scrolled through the video, "I feel like the quality of this year's contestants isn't very good. Why isn't there anyone who suits my taste..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly stopped.
Xin Yiru was very familiar with the face in front of her, because the face had been her mother's phone screensaver for many years, and even though her father was jealous and protested many times, he never changed it.
That was Mo Bei, her mother's idol when she was young!
Looking at the face in the photo that was almost exactly the same as Mo Bei's, Xin Yiru was stunned.
Are there really people in this world who look so similar?
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