Chapter 76
This time there was a comprehensive water and power outage. Not only could the lights not be turned on after entering the dormitory building, but even showers were impossible. This caused a group of trainees, who still smelled of hot pot, to stop at the door of the dormitory building, stuck in a dilemma.
"We've already got someone to repair it. It'll take about half an hour for the power to be restored. You can go in first or hang out outside for a while. We'll come out and let you know when the power outage is over."
After the staff member finished speaking, the trainees sparsely responded with a few "yes." Luo Jiayu looked up at the densely packed, dark windows of the dormitory building, then turned and poked Chu Yu, "Let's go in first."
"I'm afraid of the dark." Chu Yu had just found a street lamp that was suitable for him to squat like a mushroom. He leaned under the light and almost hugged the lamppost tightly.
"It's okay, I brought a flashlight." After saying this, Luo Jiayu took out a pocket flashlight from his pocket very naturally, and pressed the switch button back and forth twice as if to demonstrate its performance. The warm light turned on and off.
The system in the brain cursed the host as a spendthrift at the latest consumption record. It was unclear whether the love brain aggravated the spendthrift nature of the host, or the spendthrift nature further promoted his love brain.
"Did you buy it or bring it with you?" Chu Yu curiously took the flashlight from Luo Jiayu's hand and pressed the switch a few times. She unexpectedly discovered that the light could change color. In addition to the two colors of bright snow and warm yellow, there was also a cool fantasy laser mode.
"unimportant."
Then it must be bought.
Chu Yu played with it for a few more times, then praised the flickering colorful lights, "Cool."
Luo Jiayu was feeling proud, but the next second, his childhood friend grabbed his shoulders and shook them twice in a serious tone.
"Don't spend money recklessly in the future. I'm afraid you'll die in the camp if you spend too much. If you want to buy something, you can ask me to borrow money and I'll buy it for you."
Luo Jiayu was so touched that his heart softened. Just when he wanted to take the opportunity to get close to the other person, he realized something was wrong: "Wait, what did you use to buy it?"
"Good impression, I have a lot of good impressions." Chu Yu replied as a matter of course, and then realized belatedly who all the good impressions he had came from.
Recalling the scene before he left where the other person was tortured to death by the twenty points of favorability he had stolen to buy a small cake, even if Luo Jiayu had a thousand points of favorability towards him, he probably wouldn't dare to spend even a single point.
“…” Chu Yu lowered his head, looking very distressed.
From this perspective, they are both poor now.
Luo Jiayu didn't care about these things. To be more specific, he was aware of his consumption level. To put it another way, his entire life was one of relaxation. Even if he really saw a coffin, he wouldn't cry. He would try his best to open the closed coffin lid and climb out again.
So he just poked his childhood friend and helped divert his attention:
"Do you remember one day in our second year of high school when we climbed out the window to the school auditorium after evening study?"
Chu Yu lowered his head and concentrated on studying the hundred ways to play with the flashlight. He casually said, "I remember. What's wrong?"
That time they stayed in the auditorium until everyone in the school had left and the security guard had closed the gate and gone off work. In the end, they climbed over the school wall.
"Hmm..." Luo Jiayu shifted his gaze away from the other person, "I want to hear you sing."
Chu Yu looked up at him and blinked for one second, two seconds, but didn't react.
Luo Jiayu also acted on a whim. He didn't know what his childhood friend was thinking, but that night when he saw him sitting on the stage and singing to him alone, he felt very happy, so beautiful that it was like a dream, and now he wanted to replicate the dream again.
But the reality is very different from his beautiful vision.
First, Chu Yu opened his mouth and tried to warm up his throat, then shook his head, and his voice was a little hoarse when he spoke again:
"It's spicy, uncomfortable, take a rest."
Now the one with his head hanging down became Luo Jiayu.
"I'll go get you a bottle of water."
Second, when he was buying water, he met Lu Yiyang who was also buying soda water for Xue Liu.
"Hey, what is this?" When the other party saw the glowing object in his hand, he showed the same curious baby eyes as Chu Yu.
"Ultraman Transformation Device, press it to transform into Tiga." Luo Jiayu took the bottle of mineral water that was spit out by the vending machine while talking nonsense without changing his expression.
"So powerful?!" Lu Yiyang quickly took the newly claimed transformation device and pressed a few buttons with a smile on his face. As expected, it turned out to be a pocket flashlight, just as he expected. "I knew you were lying to me."
"I just heard you and Chu Yu chatting. What singing? You guys want to sing?"
Luo Jiayu: "Almost. I want to hear him sing."
"So that's why you prepared this?" Lu Yiyang said, pressing it twice more and quickly discovering the coolest laser rainbow mode. He exclaimed, "That's really fun. When Chu Yu sings, will you use this to illuminate him from the stage?"
"That's not necessary. We're not that conspicuous."
Luo Jiayu blurted out and felt something was wrong: Is it really not that serious?
Lu Yiyang was still happily playing with the multifunctional call light in his hand, not paying much attention to what the other party replied: "When you two are done using it, please lend it to me and Xue Liu. I want to play this with him too."
Before Luo Jiayu could answer, he saw the other party clapping his hands. He had a brilliant idea: "Why don't we just sing together and have a small concert? There's a power outage now so we have nothing to do, right?"
Luo Jiayu blinked.
Luo Jiayu frowned.
Luo Jiayu's brows relaxed as he suddenly realized something. Eager to try, he reached out and high-fived the person in front of him: "That makes sense."
Chu Yu had been squatting quietly under a streetlight, observing humans like a mushroom. Because he had slept too much during the day, he wasn't very sleepy at night. But if he wasn't sleepy for too long, he would get bored, and Luo Jiayu hadn't come back yet.
At this moment, a high-quality gay man sneaked up to him step by step.
The first thing he said was an enthusiastic call, without the shyness of a first meeting, but with the familiarity of someone of the same kind:
"Good evening, sister."
The little mushroom from Chuyu brand turned around and said, “?”
He vaguely remembered being called a handsome guy by others before he entered the camp.
But mushrooms still maintain basic friendliness and politeness when interacting with humans.
"Good evening."
Song Lai became more and more aggressive and took two steps closer to the person.
Although he had lost his previous evil thoughts about the handsome guy after learning the truth, that face that everyone praised as handsome still attracted his attention. While admiring it, he also felt a sense of resentment and regret in his heart:
How come they are the same model?
He looked at Chu Yu again: he had a cool face, aloof temperament, went out without makeup, didn't do manicures or wear makeup, and wore a hoodie and jeans in a very ordinary outfit, perfectly avoiding all stereotypes, just like any straight man.
It's not even as good as his childhood friend who jumps around all day long. After all, Luo Jiayu would secretly spray mint perfume on his cuffs and collar.
Could it be a miscalculation? Song Lai couldn't help but wonder.
"Baozi," Sister Song began to approach the socially anxious child in a familiar manner, "Have you ever been in love?"
The mushroom blinked and shook its head.
If you have never been in a relationship, it is easier to misjudge the model!
Song Lai didn't believe it and continued to ask, "Do you have someone you like?"
Chu Yu froze in silence, neither nodding nor shaking his head, just remaining silent.
Song Lai tacitly agreed that he didn't, and at the same time, he lit a candle for the traitor in his heart.
How can I be sure of my own model if I don’t even have someone I like!
But what Song Lai didn't know was that Teacher Zhao had asked Chu Yu a similar question a long time ago.
At that time, in order to persuade Chu Yu to pursue Jiang Chenglu and get the male lead script, Teacher Zhao said earnestly: "You have never been in a relationship, how can you be sure that you can't be the No. 1?"
"It's very simple." Chu Yu replied calmly, unperturbed, revealing the reason that had left Teacher Zhao speechless until now.
I'm too lazy to move.
But Song Lai didn't know all this. He was worried about the uncertain future of his traitor. He felt that it would be difficult for him to drink champagne under the current circumstances. Just as he was about to say something to help, he saw the traitor himself walking towards them with a bottle of water and a speaker.
Following behind him was Lu Yiyang, who was having a lot of fun playing with a flashlight.
Luo Jiayu originally replaced the speaker system during their second public night training and karaoke session to cheer people up, but he didn't expect it to be used for the second time today.
"Want to sing?" Luo Jiayu turned towards his childhood friend who was squatting like a mushroom, and took out a box of mints he had just bought from a vending machine from his pocket to moisten his throat.
Chu Yu was matter-of-fact: "I can't sing."
"Then listen to me sing." Luo Jiayu squatted down and looked at him at eye level, stuffed the mint candy and water into Chu Yu's hand, and his fingers returned as they left, gently placing them on the back of the other's hand.
Chu Yu was so shocked by his action that her breath was choked. She looked at him nervously, her eyes wanting to avoid him but not wanting to. Her eyelashes trembled unconsciously because of her tense nerves, but she was reluctant to let go.
After all, it's just a gentle action of covering the back of the hand.
Whether it was giving sweets or water or covering the palm with the back of the hand, these actions were very normal for them in the past, and they had even done something more intimate.
But the situation now was completely different from before. The way he looked at each other was different, his purpose was different, and the atmosphere was different. Chu Yu didn't even realize that he had lost his mind. It was Lu Yiyang's loud voice that pulled him back to reality from his detached state.
In order to attract customers for Mr. Luo who was organizing the concert, Lu Yiyang did his best to spread the word, even running around with a loudspeaker:
"We're planning to hold a blackout concert! Everyone is welcome to come and listen to us sing! If you want to sing along, you can contact me to sign up for a performance! Anyone want to join us? Anyone want to join us? Anyone want to join us?"
It turns out there are people, and a lot of them.
When the first group of maintenance staff came out of the dormitory building, they saw a lawn surrounded by trainees in three layers inside and three layers outside. It looked extremely lively, with bursts of applause and laughter coming from time to time.
A simple stage was set up on the lawn. Lu Yiyang was performing a duet with Xue Liu, who looked like he had lost all hope in life. The audience was waving star lights and glow sticks to keep the beat.
"Where did they get the star lights?" the staff was surprised.
In fact, every trainee who got the star lamp was also surprised. They looked at the cool guy with sunglasses in front of them, whose pockets were like Doraemon's treasure chest. He took out a star lamp and a pair of glow sticks. After everyone got their own cheering props, Luo Jiayu's pockets were magically emptied.
But the staff didn't hesitate for too long. The impromptu concert spontaneously organized by the contestants due to the power outage was excellent material. They immediately asked the program team to sponsor a microphone and two guitars for this large-scale gathering, and one of them was even electric; then they sent a cameraman to follow the whole process.
"The next contestant to take the stage is contestant No. 2 Song Lai. Let's listen to his stage announcement." After Lu Yiyang got the microphone sponsored by the program team, he took on the role of host even more excitedly. After he finished speaking, he handed over the microphone and waited for the contestant's wonderful performance.
Song Lai elegantly took the microphone, tossed her hair, and looked across the crowd at the fans who were still outside the fence. She winked and said, "Look at me slay the whole audience. I love all of you."
The fans who received his love burst into screams.
From this moment on, this blackout concert became a memory shared by trainees and fans.
"Speak freely, speak freely. Our main theme tonight is indulgence."
After Lu Yiyang finished speaking, he handed the microphone to Li Sheng, who was on the stage taking deep breaths repeatedly. Li Sheng, holding back the tears in his eyes, shouted with all his might, "I hope I can successfully debut!"
The precedent of making a wish on stage seemed to have lit a fuse, and the subsequent trainees who came on stage began to express their wishes one after another under the stars:
"I hope my dancing skills can get better."
"I hope I can be the center of the stage during the third public performance."
“I hope I can maintain my current ranking smoothly.”
"I hope mom and dad are in good health and everything goes well."
“I hope everyone here can be happy every day and realize their dreams.”
Chu Yu sat on the chair closest to the stage, holding a cat head-shaped color-changing lamp given to her by Boss Luo out of favor. Next to her sat Luo Jiayu, who was tuning a piano.
"What's your stage announcement?"
"I like you."
"!" Chu Yu suddenly turned around to look at him, and half of her face turned red because of this unexpected answer, "..."
Luo Jiayu finished tuning the strings and heard the host start calling out his name. He lowered his head and smiled, "Just think of this as what I want to say."
"Next up is the finale contestant, Luo Jiayu. His announcement is—he has no announcement! He's got a lot of personality!"
Lu Yiyang's sunny personality makes him accustomed to maximizing everyone's emotional value. After his excited introduction, he consciously left the stage and left it to the contestants to perform.
The sunglasses seemed to be some kind of amulet that belonged exclusively to Luo Jiayu. Once he put them on, he would be the most handsome guy in the camp.
Almost from the first note of the electric guitar, the whole audience began to ignite.
Chu Yu was not used to partying with the crowd, and as he stared at the figure singing on the stage, his eyes gradually became blank and his memory drifted to a place long ago.
At that time, he had just entered the first year of high school, and the new clubs started recruiting new members. Luo Jiayu originally wanted to drag him to sign up for the music club and play in a band, but because he was internally selected by the school's art team, Luo Jiayu had to sign up alone.
Later, during a large-scale event on campus, the band club held a small concert on the playground. Luo Jiayu was the guitarist and lead singer. He played the electric guitar that he had just learned from his childhood friend and sang "What makes you beautiful" to the audience of more than a thousand teachers and students. He was full of energy and vigor.
At the climax of the music, everyone was singing along, jumping and clapping to the beat. Chu Yu happened to be passing by the playground with a lunch box at this time. After hearing the noise, he turned towards the stage and met Luo Jiayu's eyes.
He saw the other person smiling at him, and then the next second, all the members of the band started throwing candies and chocolates at the audience. The crowd screamed, and Chu Yu saw the candies in his childhood friend's hand thrown straight towards him, and then fell accurately on his lunch box.
He remembered that scene for a long time. He didn't know why, but it was still fresh in his mind and he could never forget it.
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