Chapter 33 Chapter 33 breaks the record and becomes a hot topic (2 in 1...
[Chapter 33, Hot Search Again]
The online variety show "House of Despair" has a different length for each episode. Most guests would spend two to three hours on it, and some could not even finish it after three hours. However, FTM broke the record and finished it in less than an hour and a half.
There was more than enough time, and the director said excitedly: "Quick, ZKT give FTM a brief interview!"
Teams with extra time after completing the round can be interviewed to make up the running time, which will also allow the audience to better understand the guests of this episode.
The mechanical sound in the game lobby is actually the central control side speaking in real time.
After receiving the director's instructions, the central control immediately said, "Congratulations to all challengers. As the team that broke the clearance record, the system will conduct a brief interview with you."
The five people exchanged glances - it seemed like this was another temporary procedure.
System: "First, can the five of you introduce yourselves to the audience?"
Mo Xun smiled and said, "Hello everyone, we are..."
The five people said in unison: "FTM group."
The five people began to make simple self-introductions. They had practiced their interview lines many times, so they were very confident in front of the camera.
Except for FTM’s fans in the live broadcast room, most of the audience watching the variety show did not know them and only knew that it was an idol group.
Now, after an interview, everyone has discovered the special features of this group.
They are a harmony singing and dancing group from Shengyao Media, and they just debuted last month?
The performance of FTM in this episode was so outstanding that it aroused the curiosity of many viewers. The bullet comments in the live broadcast room kept floating like snowflakes——
"It's actually a harmony group? Pay attention!"
"A fresh boy band that just debuted? This band is awesome!"
"I was confused by their analysis and decided to watch the replay."
“As a loyal viewer of Despair Chamber, this is the most comfortable episode I have ever watched.”
"The five of them are really strong together. The key is that no one is holding them back."
“666! Show me how good it feels!”
"See you at the beginning, I'm going to re-brush now~"
At this moment, Xu Baichuan, who was watching the live broadcast backstage, almost jumped up with excitement - he never expected that FTM would break the human record!
Director Liu's voice of praise rang in my ears: "Old Xu, the group you lead is amazing. I heard their analysis and reasoning, and they really have clear ideas and careful logic, especially Fang Yinnian and Tang Che."
Xu Baichuan couldn't suppress the smile when his own child was praised.
But he still tried to control his emotions, managed his expression, smiled and said modestly: "Our Tang Che is from Jiangzhou University, and Yinnian also ranked first in cultural subjects and was admitted to Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music. These two have really good grades."
Of course you should praise when you can.
Are there any other boy bands with academic ace players like us? No.
Director Liu had read FTM's information before and had long noticed the schools of these two people, but good academic performance does not necessarily mean that one can complete the reasoning in the locked room. If the mental quality is not strong enough, even the top students from top universities would be scared to death when they come to the secret room.
But Fang Yinnian and Tang Che from FTM are really smart and calm.
Fang Yinnian has very keen observation skills, and he is the one who organizes and analyzes most of the clues. Tang Che is also very good at data calculation, information memory, and logical reasoning. These two deserve the credit for helping us clear the secret room so quickly today.
Of course, Mo Xun’s group command played an indispensable role. As the captain, he made a very decisive decision at the critical moment, searching the upper and lower floors simultaneously and exchanging information through messages, saving incalculable time.
Xiaofei acts as the screaming atmosphere group and the person who passes messages and pulls lights.
Tan Junwen's analysis of the painting and his drawing of the complete interior space structure of the villa also contributed to the final correct answer.
Director Liu said with emotion: "This is the first time I have seen such a perfect combination."
There are five of us, and none of them can be missing.
They were put together and turned perfectly like tightly fitting gears.
The escape room designer next to him said excitedly: "They were able to find all the clues and sort out all the logic. This is the first team to achieve 100% clue collection since our escape room program started!"
Initially, the production team was not willing to have FTM as the guest star, and they originally invited the popular talent show group Sonic.
Sonic is a boy band formed through this year's talent show "Dream Light" and has gained a lot of support from fans before the group was formed. Among them, the most popular one is the all-round ACE Qu Yan, who has 10 million fans on Weibo.
FTM’s Fang Yinnian, who has the most followers on Weibo, has only 500,000.
The gap between 10 million and 500,000 is an insurmountable chasm. In the entertainment industry, this is the difference between first-tier stars and 18th-tier celebs!
Which variety show would not invite first-tier guests but instead invite unknown third-tier guests?
However, this episode of the escape room is a music-themed plot escape room, so we must find guests such as singers and idols who have knowledge of music.
Sonic had to go abroad to attend an awards ceremony and his schedule could not be adjusted. Xu Baichuan happened to get the news and contacted the program crew through his connections in the circle.
The appearance fee Xu Baichuan asked for was very low. The treatment of small-time celebrities in the entertainment industry is so low that it can be ignored. He just wanted to give a few kids a chance to appear on variety shows.
The production crew thought carefully and decided that it would be a good deal to invite this group! It can save a lot of budget, and the five of them are all good-looking, so there is no need to find additional guests. The five of them can open the secret room directly.
The two parties hit it off and signed the contract.
Before the recording of the show, everyone thought that the five newbies would be scared and scream, make some rookie mistakes, and make the audience laugh. If the ratings could reach 80% compared to the previous episode, it would be considered a pass.
I never expected that the five members of this group would work so well together!
The five people have their own unique personalities and their own areas of expertise. Watching them play in the escape room, in addition to being thrilling, exciting and funny, the audience can also feel a bit of the team spirit of "teammates working together to pass the levels."
It’s just like in an online game where everyone works together to complete a dungeon.
The moment I finally figured out the truth, I actually got excited!
Director Liu stood up excitedly and held Xu Baichuan's hand tightly: "Not only did you break the fastest clearance record of the variety show "Hopeless Chamber" since its launch, but you may also break our record for the number of views!"
A colleague from the publicity team suddenly said, "Director Liu, it's trending on the Internet."
Director Liu turned around and asked: "Is the publicity and promotion so quick to buy hot searches?"
The publicity colleague said hurriedly, "We haven't had time to buy it yet! The FTM record was broken so suddenly that we didn't even have a press release ready. It was promoted by netizens' discussion. It's currently ranked tenth on the entertainment charts and is still rising!"
The producer and director hurried over and looked at the hot search rankings on the publicity team's colleague's computer.
The entry that netizens discussed did not even have a host.
The entries are full of praise.
“FTM is awesome!”
“It’s really fun to watch this group go through the chamber.”
"There are tanks, healers, atmosphere team members, and reasoning team members. They work together so well. They are truly a team. Most people can't play like this~"
"Our little group has made it big!"
"I like Fang Yinnian, he's handsome and very smart~"
"I get Tang Che. He's really good at calculating areas and memorizing information!"
"Does anyone like Mo Xun? He's a captain with excellent command ability and is also very skilled. He was so quick to react when he used a mop to jam the mechanism!"
"I like the confused guy Tan Junwen hahaha, he made me laugh to death when he got lost and went in circles, and he is also very reliable at the critical moment~"
"Am I the only one who likes the blond-haired atmosphere-creating Xiaofei? Hahaha, he was the one who screamed the most during the whole process. Without him, who would have known that this was a horror chamber!"
"I'd like to introduce our little group to you. Welcome passers-by to follow us~ [First stage video link] [Red and Blue Competition Variety Show link]"
"If you like to ship this couple, you can join our #魔方天地# topic. This couple is super shippy, and the escape room variety show also gave out a lot of sweets!"
"I have decided to become a fan of FTM from today on. This boy band is very special. I am following them and I look forward to their bright future!"
In the real-time square of entries, information is refreshed almost every second, so fast that it is hard to keep up.
What does this mean?
These are all living people discussing this!
No matter how much money you spend on buying trending searches, even if you get the number one spot, it will soon fall if no one pays attention to it.
Topics like this, which are spontaneously discussed by a large number of netizens after watching the show, are the most authentic "hot topics" discussed by living people.
Today is Saturday, and there are many variety shows and TV dramas being broadcast. The hot search terms on the entertainment list are like a battle of gods, changing every few minutes. It’s really awesome that the entry FTM has made it into the top ten of entertainment industry just by relying on popular traffic!
Director Liu was so excited that he danced with joy: "Quick, notify the publicity and promotion team to heat up, release more video clips and promote it! Get the official Weibo account up and running!"
The producer said, "I'll make a request to Taohe's boss to put our episode of 'Chamber of Despair' on the top of the homepage tomorrow, Sunday, to promote it."
"Yes, yes, it's a record-breaking issue after all, it deserves great publicity!"
"FTM has set a record for the fastest completion of Chamber of Despair." The publicity girl was also very excited. "I will write a press release right away, find some wonderful illustrations and video clips, and send them to various media and marketing accounts. Once the marketing matrix is fully caught up, the press release will be sent out to the entire network at the same time!"
"Okay, this episode has a lot to watch, it will definitely become a classic. Let the editing team release some behind-the-scenes footage!"
Xu Baichuan: “…”
He suddenly felt his eyes warm and he wanted to cry - it felt like his own child who was not valued performed exceptionally well and became the top scorer in the exam?
The kids are really promising, and he, as their agent, is quite proud of them.
At this time, the five people from FTM finished a brief interview and were taken backstage by the staff.
Fang Yin said in a young voice: "Catherine is very talented. Why did she give the song she wrote to her boyfriend? I don't understand such a love-minded person."
Tang Che said coldly: "Although it was Nina who killed Catherine, don't you think Alan is the most hypocritical and despicable person? He can't write a song himself, steals other people's works, and plays two games at the same time. It's disgusting."
Tang Che's disgust for the scumbag was written all over his face. Fang Yinnian nodded and said in agreement, "The scumbag is quite disgusting. The screenwriter has a lot of imagination."
Tan Junwen smiled and said: "The story originated from reality. Maybe there are also such scumbags in reality who steal other people's works and play two women at the same time."
Everyone walked forward while chatting.
Arriving backstage, the five people immediately stopped their discussion. Mo Xun led everyone in bowing politely: "Thank you for your hard work, Director Liu." "Thank you for your hard work, teachers."
Director Liu walked forward with a smile, patted Mo Xun on the shoulder and said, "You guys have worked hard, great!"
He gave two thumbs up.
Of course they were happy to be praised, and smiles appeared on their faces.
Xu Baichuan stepped forward and said, "Boss Yang, Director Liu, I ordered milk tea for all the staff and it will be delivered later. Thank you to the production team for giving us this opportunity."
Variety show producer Yang Zhi's face darkened, and he felt a little embarrassed when he recalled his disdain for Xiao Hutuan during the initial negotiations.
But to be in the entertainment industry, being thick-skinned is a must.
Yang Zhi stretched out his hand with a fake smile and said, "Old Xu, you are so polite. I hope we can continue to cooperate if there is a chance in the future."
Xu Baichuan heard his hidden meaning, shook his hand, and said with a smile: "Looking forward to our next cooperation. Thank you, Mr. Yang. I will take them back first."
Yang Zhi waved enthusiastically: "Okay, bye. Be safe on the road!"
Xu Baichuan led five people into the nanny car. He handed the plastic bag to Mo Xun. Mo Xun had already memorized the appearance of his teammates' cell phones and quickly distributed them.
Fu Fei's phone was covered with a rubber case with a little yellow duck cartoon. He quickly opened his phone to check Weibo and asked, "Brother Xu, we broke the record this time. Did we do well?"
Xu Baichuan smiled broadly: "It's more than good. Do you know how many episodes of "House of Despair" have been filmed?"
Fang Yinnian said, "We are in the eighth episode of the second season. Together with the previous season, there are 20 episodes in total."
Xu Baichuan nodded: "Yes, you broke the record of 20 issues."
The five of them were collectively stunned.
Total record? ! Wow, you guys are awesome!
Fu Fei said excitedly: "Are we the overall record holder now?"
Xu Baichuan's smile became more obvious, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise wildly: "Yes. The original record holder for clearing the secret room was a few guests who won the quiz contest last year. The time to clear the secret room was 1 hour and 48 minutes."
"That episode of the variety show 'Puppet Robot City' was watched repeatedly by the audience, and now the number of views has exceeded 100 million."
"Today, you have replaced them and become the new record holder."
"Taohe will definitely put the variety show on top for a lot of publicity, and the program team's marketing matrix will quickly follow up. You will see information about FTM's record-breaking under related recommendations on all entertainment news websites, media public accounts, Weibo marketing accounts, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, etc. on the Internet."
"A large number of viewers will be attracted and watch this program. In the next six months at least, there will be viewers who will continue to watch this program again and again. People who are interested in FTM will search for you and follow you."
“You can experience this influence for yourselves!”
Five people: “…”
I can't believe it.
When they first started participating in the escape room variety show, they were still worried that they wouldn’t be able to play and would make a fool of themselves. What if they embarrassed themselves?
So they spent a week studying the variety show, memorizing solutions to common mechanisms, and making all preparations.
Unexpectedly, the five of them worked very well together at the variety show recording site. Mo Xun Yinnian was in one group, Tang Che Junwen was in another group, and Xiao Fei flexibly transmitted signals and controlled the power switches. They searched the upper and lower floors at the same time to find clues as quickly as possible.
The guest team put together temporarily would not have such tacit understanding as them. Nor will they risk being eliminated to protect those around them at critical moments.
Because those guests are not real teammates.
And they are teammates who spend every day together. They should have trusted each other and been willing to trust each other with their backs.
Perhaps it is because of this subconscious trust that they are able to completely trust their teammates without having any "opinions" when cooperating.
When five people work together, the efficiency is super high.
Breaking the record was such a pleasant surprise!
Mo Xun and Fang Yinnian looked at each other, and Fang Yinnian smiled and said, "Are we going to gain another wave of fans?"
Mo Xun said, "Of course. You and Tang Che performed the best this time. I guess many netizens will come to pay tribute to the two academic masters."
Fu Fei was so excited that he danced with joy: "Our little group is going to get better again. Both of our variety shows were effective in showing off our reputation hehe!"
Tan Junwen smiled and said, "If Sonic hadn't given up due to something, we wouldn't have had this chance to break the record. I really think we are pretty lucky?"
Tang Che said calmly: "Luck is also a kind of strength."
Fu Fei agreed: "That's right, if we let Sonic come on this show, he will definitely not be able to break the record!"
Fang Yinnian was puzzled and asked in a daze: "Why do you say that? Aren't they also a boy band?"
Fu Fei stole a glance at his agent, lowered his head, and said in a quiet and mysterious voice, "Everyone in the talent show group has a lot of ulterior motives. They will definitely disband and go solo in two years, so they can only get along on the surface. Their private relationships are not that good, and their fans often quarrel."
Xu Baichuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Xiao Fei, you know this again?"
Fu Fei chuckled: "I followed their fan chat on my secondary account. The fans of their most popular character Qu Yan scolded the rest of the team for holding their brother back, and they counted down every day to 'when will my brother Yan go solo'."
Fang Yinnian: “…”
It's easy for a group like this to be at odds with each other, right?
Sonic was a limited-time activity from the beginning and would disband at the end of its time, so it was understandable that everyone was planning for their own future.
But FTM is different. All five of them started out as unknown individuals and now they don’t have the ability to work alone, so it would be better for them to stick together.
Seeing Fang Yinian lower his head, Mo Xun couldn't help but ask softly, "What are you thinking about?"
Fang Yinnian said: "What if one day FTM fans start fighting each other? For example, my fans scold you, or your fans scold me?"
Mo Xun smiled and said, "It's normal for fans to scold their teammates. Don't take it personally."
Fang Yinnian thought for a moment and said, "That's right. Anyway, I rarely post on the fan chats, so I won't notice if I get scolded."
Xu Baichuan couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard them chatting.
There is always a wonderful aura of "exclusivity" between these two people. When Mo Xun and Fang Yinnian started a 1V1 chat, it was difficult for the other three teammates to interrupt.
Xu Baichuan rubbed his temples: "Mo Xun, how many times did you pull Yin Nian's wrist in this secret room variety show?"
Mo Xun was stunned: "How many times?"
Xu Baichuan: “Four times.”
Mo Xun and Fang Yinnian: "..."
Xu Baichuan: "You CP fans summarized it and even made a special edit. I watched helplessly on the forum as your #魔方CP秘室直播楼# was pushed to the top of the list of today's HOT posts, with thousands of replies, and CP fans went crazy."
Fang Yinnian recalled carefully for a moment and said, "The lights were off and the room was dark. A monster was chasing us. Mo Xun reacted faster and pulled me into the closet."
Mo Xun thought carefully, "When we were going downstairs, wasn't I holding a flashlight? I was worried that you might fall, so I helped you up."
Fang Yinnian looked puzzled: "They still kowtow to this?"
Tan Junwen smiled and said, "It's quite nice, we held hands!"
Fang Yinnian turned around and looked at him: "Pulling wrists is not holding hands."
Tan Junwen: "Rounding it off means holding hands."
Fang Yinnian was speechless: "How can you round it up like this? Isn't it normal for boys to put their arms around each other's shoulders? How about I pull you along too?"
Tan Junwen quickly hid back: "No, no, I won't break up the couple."
Tang Che had a blank expression on his face: "Last time they were chasing each other, this time they were pulling each other's wrists, why do these CP fans keep changing their tastes?"
Tan Junwen concluded: "In the eyes of CP fans, your breathing is loving him."
Everyone: “…”
Xu Baichuan glanced at Tan Junwen and said, "Junwen, you are good at it, right?"
Tan Junwen smiled and said, "I followed the Mofang Tiandi super topic on my secondary account. Their CP fans are really good at imagining things, and I learned a lot from them."
Fu Fei thought guiltily: I paid attention to it too. After all, a pair of CP suddenly became popular in FTM, and it is normal for a teammate to care about them.
Only Tang Che could not understand from beginning to end.
Xu Baichuan glanced at Mo Xun and asked, "You don't intend to open the business on purpose?"
Mo Xun immediately denied: "You must be joking. It was pitch black and there were monsters chasing me. I was just trying to escape. I didn't have time to think about whether to open the business or not."
Xu Baichuan: “…”
He was so focused on escaping that he even pulled Fang Yinnian with him.
Therefore, pure natural sugar is the best.
Deliberate business will appear very deliberate. In this episode, Mo Xun pulled Fang Yinnian to escape several times out of instinctive "protection".
No wonder the entertainment group has built a new building of CP.
Xu Baichuan has been thinking about how to create a business plan for this pair of CP recently, but...they have become so popular even without his intervention.
If they continue to operate, the CP fans will go crazy.
It’s better to keep a low profile. Xu Baichuan is a little scared of the tacit understanding between these two.
***
After returning to the hotel that night, everyone checked Weibo and shared any interesting information in the group.
The entry #FTM breaks the record for clearing the Chamber of Despair# rushed all the way to the top three, the same high position as the last time #leading teammates to get killed#
However, the last time, all the passers-by who clicked in just "laughed first out of respect", and there were a lot of hahahahaha below the entry. Everyone who clicked in this time was praising them for being calm, smart, and having a good teamwork, with a large number of 666s under the entries.
Many familiar IDs took the opportunity to promote FTM's works.
Fang Yinnian had seen these stock-buying fans last time they were on the hot search list. This time, they seemed to be more confident and had more things to recommend.
Fu Fei excitedly posted in the group: "Brothers, we have second-generation fans! Look at these bloggers, they have drawn a lot of Q-version avatars for us!"
Tan Junwen commented: "It's better than mine."
They finally have some fans who can create!
For example, a blogger named "Note Lady" drew a set of Q-version avatars in secret room costumes based on the image characteristics of the five people, which is super cute.
There is also a blogger named "天天爱追星", who turned all the classic clips of this episode of the escape room variety show into Q-version emoticon animations, with funny words like "Save me", "Don't get close to me", "Brother Corpse, why are you in the closet" and so on.
These cute emoticons and avatars have received a lot of praise.
There are also bloggers who are good at photo editing. They took screenshots from the show’s video, edited them carefully and posted them, making the five people look even better than in the promotional photos.
Fang Yinnian happily saved all these pictures.
These secondary creative works maintained the popularity of the entry, which stayed on the entertainment charts from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., with tens of millions of readings!
The five of them started to gain followers like crazy again.
Fu Fei sent a row of tearful emojis in the group chat: "This wave seems to be even stronger than the last one, brothers. Will my fans exceed 500,000 tonight?"
Tan Junwen said: "After the marketing catches up, it will continue to rise tomorrow, Sunday. It will be easy to break 500,000, and it may even break 100 this year."
Tang Che was very eye-catching on the first stage, but some people did not accept his cool image of a man with braids, so his fan gain was relatively slow.
He performed so well in the escape room this time that netizens found out that he was a top student at Jiangzhou University, and he scored 650 out of 750 in the college entrance examination.
How many people in the entertainment industry scored 650 in the college entrance examination? Some people can't even score 250.
Tang Che’s Weibo followers began to increase rapidly.
Many comments said: "Please, academic master, I hope you will not fail the exam~"
"The best idol among all!"
"Wow, Jiangzhou University is my alma mater, and there is actually a junior who has become an idol in a boy band? Pay attention!"
"What is your brain made of, handsome?"
“This is my math homework. Can you help me calculate the area?”
There are thousands of comments under the latest Weibo post.
Then, Tang Che actually replied to the comment asking him to help with his math homework, and even wrote down the complete solution formula by hand.
Fans: “!!!”
Holy shit, one day I can actually ask my idol to help me with my math homework!
Tang Che didn't make much splash in "Red and Blue Competition", but he became popular in the variety show "Desperate Chamber" and his fans quickly caught up with him.
Of course, the one who gained the fastest followers is still Fang Yinnian.
Fang Yinnian has a boy-next-door face that is most easily accepted by the public. In addition, he always has highlights in every variety show. After watching FTM's first stage, passers-by will like him more as the piano-playing lead singer.
Mo Xun is the captain and he performs well in every variety show. With more and more CP fans, his popularity is no less than Fang Yinnian.
Everyone has their own fan-attracting points, and this wave of variety shows was an effective way to increase their popularity and collectively gain followers, and even FTM’s official Weibo account saw a significant increase in followers.
Before long, a flood of press releases began to sweep the entire Internet.
All the headlines, entertainment updates, insider reports, major social media and entertainment marketing accounts were reporting the news that FTM had broken the sealed room record.
The press release written by the sister from the publicity team was so passionate and exciting, as if they had broken some world record.
With the help of a large number of press releases and the top promotion on the homepage of the Taohe platform, this episode of the variety show attracted countless viewers to watch it again.
Fang Yinnian clicked into Bilibili and found that a UP host had made an analysis and editing of this episode of the variety show, and gave high praise to the FTM clearance process.
"It's a real team. Everyone trusts their teammates. No one forces or complains at critical moments. They just do whatever they are told to do."
"I don't pay much attention to boy bands and I haven't listened to their songs, but I think the five of them are very harmonious and friendly together. They are a very tacit team."
“To be honest, although this episode has some imperfections, the five members of FTM are invincible when working together, and breaking the record is quite impressive! The logical reasoning is very clear, and they didn’t let down at the critical moment.”
"Everyone's IQ is online... Oh no, Xiao Fei's IQ is not online, hahaha, he screams the loudest, and the atmosphere group is also indispensable!"
Fang Yinnian felt warm inside when he heard this.
The most outstanding aspect of this variety show is actually the cooperation.
They finally felt like a team.
Fang Yinnian was unfamiliar and confused about boy bands in the beginning, but now he has gradually begun to accept and like the FTM team.
The five of them are all unknown. They just work together to make their way in the world, so outsiders think they are very united.
Maybe it’s because it’s too obscure, and without unity, there’s no way to get ahead.
But Fang Yinnian hopes that even if they become popular in the future, or even become top stars in the entertainment industry, the relationship between the five of them can still be as harmonious as when they were newbies.
He spent all his time studying and practicing the piano since he was a child. He had no time to go out and play, and he didn't make many real friends.
But now, he suddenly has four good brothers!
This is truly the best gift God has given him.
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