After the rules were announced, the director summoned all of the trainees and instructors to the stage. According to teams, the trainees stand behind each instructor. The MV began to play on the big screen after everyone stood up.
The director played a total of four songs, which the trainees must perform for the first time. Because the theme of this assessment is singing and dancing, even though the four songs are not the same, they must all be sung and danced.
Following the viewing of the video, trainees from other groups have already begun discussing with their teammates which dance is appropriate for their group and which song to choose for performance. The trainees in Lin Yanran’s group, on the other hand, can only look at each other; no one wants to express themselves at all.
Except for Xia Xingxing, the remaining 14 people were forced together after being eliminated by other groups due to the trainees in their group. Although there are vocalists, dancers, and rappers, they are all only minor players. Furthermore, the group’s style is very mismatched, not integrated at all, and no song appears to be appropriate for them.
Following the viewing of the video, the program team immediately placed four blind boxes in the center of the stage, stating that each group sent a representative to select a ball. If you get two teams of the same colour, there will be a live PK during the performance. No one dares to try this matter that is related to the fate of the team.
After all, if one is unlucky and draws a particularly strong team, wouldn’t it be a direct death?
After discussions among the groups, representatives were dispatched one after another.
Xuan Yihan was sent by Pei Luo’s group, and Gao Yu was sent by Lin Yanran’s group.
At the director’s order, the four trainee representatives quickly ran toward the blind box they were looking for.
Gao Yu ran the fastest and arrived first. He hesitated for a moment before looking at the four blind boxes, then looked at his team members.
“Pick the one in the middle!”
Gao Yu reached out to the blind box in the middle after hearing everyone’s voices.
Unexpectedly, the Tang Tang group’s representative had sharp eyesight and quick hands and snatched the one in the middle as soon as he ran to the destination. People from Han Zhe’s group also followed and took another one away.
Gao Yu had no choice but to randomly take one of the remaining two blind boxes. Then he opened the blind box in his hand and found a small red ball drawn.
Xuan Yihan next to Gao Yu also opened the blind box directly.
Xuan Yihan’s eyes lit up the moment he saw the colour of the ball. Then he took out the ball slowly and waved to his teammates, showing off.
The trainees in Pei Luo’s group burst into astonishing cheers immediately after seeing the color clearly.
“Wow, red!!!”
“Hanhan is awesome!”
“Is this the legendary top luck!!”
Gao Yu squatted down, his head in his arms, after hearing the cheers from Pei Luo’s group. Why must he select a king bomb?
The Pei Luo group, also known as group A’s “half of the country,” consists of all the big bosses from class A and class B. His group’s strength, on the other hand, is lacking.
In terms of his group’s composition, while some players are not bad, the overall strength compared to the opponent is like the elite rocket class that has been chosen and the continuous hard work class that has been patchworked. The difference between the two of them is too much.
What a waste of luck! Gao Yu walked back to the team dejectedly and bowed his head to apologize to everyone.
“I am sorry……”
“There is no way to do this kind of luck,” the team members who silently felt they would leave in the next round comforted him perfunctorily.
Lin Yanran said nothing and simply patted Gao Yu’s shoulder, signalling him to cheer up. But Gao Yu dodged it as soon as his hand touched the opponent.
Lin Yanran no longer insisted because the other party refused to accept his kindness.
After drawing out the PK opponents, the program team continued to do things again.
The director announced to everyone with a loudspeaker that the songs performed by each group also need to be drawn.
Just now they managed to dodge the bullet, now they have to do it again. This kind of uncertainty made the trainees on the stage nervous again.
“The repertoire for this performance will be selected by the instructor.”
After speaking, the director team called Lin Yanran’s name.
“Lin Yanran, you pick first.”
Lin Yanran, who was named, walked to the director’s side and quickly glanced at the four blind boxes in front of him.
Seeing him watching the blind box, the director asked him, “Have you thought about which one to pick?”
Lin Yanran smiled, and then looked at the trainees in his group, “I will ask my team members.”
“As long as you don’t pick “Not Me” everything is ok,” the trainees said in unison as the camera turned around.
After hearing the four songs, the trainees immediately identified “not me” as the one they did not want to choose. Not only was the song difficult to sing, but so were the dance moves. The important thing to note is that the overall stage effect for such a difficult song to complete is not as eye-catching as the other three songs. To sum up, no one wants to be unlucky enough to get this one.
“Your team doesn’t want to smoke “not me”.” The director looked at Lin Yanran, “Then I wish you good luck.”
Lin Yanran nodded, and when he was about to smoke, he found Xia Xingxing in front of him clasping his hands and praying nervously. While praying, he also meditated silently. “Idol, come on, don’t pick “not me”.”
Not only Xia Xingxing, but several trainees also focused their attention on him, as if he was the hope of the whole village.
Before Lin Yanran came to pick, he actually didn’t think it was that big of a problem. These few songs seemed similar to him.
But now everyone looks so nervous, and they don’t want “not me”…
If that’s the case…
Lin Yanran withdrew his hand, which was about to select a song from the box, and raised it to face the director. “Director, can I wash my hands first?”
The director was taken aback, and asked back, “Why do you want to wash your hands?”
Lin Yanran explained to him solemnly, “Too much bad luck.”
Director: …
Trainee: ? ??
The staff who were shooting off the stage: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
The director who finally realized what Lin Yanran meant, refused straight away, “No.”
“Okay.” Lin Yanran agreed, but instead of picking right away, he took out an individually wrapped wet tissue from the bag.
Director:????
Lin Yanran lowered his head, took out a wet tissue, and wiped his hands piously and earnestly before picking up a blind box and starting to unpack it.
The members of Lin Yanran’s group saw their mentor working so hard to prevent them from picking “not me”, and they couldn’t help but feel a little bit of anticipation in their hearts.
Their group was unlucky enough today, so they couldn’t be more unlucky to meet “not me,” could they? So everyone was waiting for the final answer with bated breath.
It turns out to be true. They were even unluckier in terms of fortune. Wiping with wet paper towels was, after all, pointless.
Looking at the big five words “not me” in Lin Yanran’s hand, Lin Yanran’s whole group was so shocked that only two words appeared in his mind.
Oh shit
Even God has arranged an elimination script for their group of cannon fodder.
After the lottery was drawn, today’s recording was over. To ensure that everyone has three days of practice time, the program group did not give the demo videos of each group to the trainees but distributed them at 8:00 tomorrow morning.
Seeing that everyone was very depressed, Lin Yanran knew that he could not really comfort them by talking too many empty words, so he asked them to go back and have a good rest.
Xia Xingxing was obedient, and when he returned to the dormitory, he began to soak his feet beautifully, following the steps of his idol’s health preservation.
Gao Yu and Jin Letian in the same group saw Xia Xingxing soaking their feet, so they kicked over the foot-soaking bucket that Lin Yanran gave them.
Xia Xingxing was very angry when he saw it, and quickly picked up the two-foot soaking buckets.
“This is a gift from Teacher Yanran. What do you mean by doing this?”
Gao Yu, who now has the worst deck of cards and feels that he will be eliminated anyway, doesn’t bother to pretend to be friendly, so he directly hates Xia Xingxing. “What do I do with my things? Do you want me to take care of you? Why don’t you let me vent with such a lousy song?”
Jin Letian also sneered, “The other groups have already started practicing, but our group was asked to rest first. Do you think we can stay after soaking our feet?”
It was obvious that the two of them had vented all their anger today on Lin Yanran.
The other trainees in the dormitory obviously didn’t want everyone to make the atmosphere so ugly, so they comforted the two of them, “Mr. Yanran doesn’t want to pick this song for us either.
“Hurry up, I see a lot of people can dance along while watching the video, we can’t compare without this foundation, let’s rest first, and build up our energy before training tomorrow.”
“That’s right, don’t quarrel.”
The two finally didn’t say anything after the persuasion of other trainees and the cameras of the director’s team who came to shoot the material again. However, this unpleasant atmosphere did not dissipate, and it was still spreading the next day.
At eight o’clock the next day, the program team gave them the video of “not me” and asked the trainees to follow along. After getting the video, they were told by the program team that they had to study by themselves first, and the instructor would not be allowed to give guidance until the afternoon.
The trainees who originally had no hope for Lin Yanran nodded indifferently.
Gao Yu even laughed directly with Jin Letian, “What difference does it make if you have him or not?”
The air pressure in the practice room was very low.
Except for the constant playing of “not me,” almost none of the trainees were willing to speak, and they simply followed the video and practiced over and over. They practiced this for an entire day, but the results were negative. The problem with the forcedly assembled team was now completely exposed.
Because there was almost no communication during the entire practise process, and everyone practised independently. So now everyone was like someone who had been randomly selected from the road to form a team. They are only capable of doing what they are good at. In forming a team, there is no tacit understanding, and there is no fit at all.
The dancers had almost all of the dance moves memorised, but singing was a major issue. The vocal performances are excellent, but the dance moves have yet to be memorised. Not to mention the rapper, neither of whom is particularly talented, and all of whom can only be described as hesitant.
For a day, fifteen people danced, but progress was slow, and they couldn’t even do one dance together. Everyone realized the problem after a day of pointless work. They appear to be a sandcastle with no cohesion at all.
“How about we settle on the C position and the captain?” Someone suggested that these two be chosen during the practice gap so that everyone could blend in a little bit.
Xia Xingxing shook his head in disapproval, “Didn’t the program team say that we should wait for the instructor to see the effect before discussing it? Teacher Lin Yanran is coming soon, let’s wait for him.”
Gao Yu irritably stated, “Is it beneficial for him to come? Singing and dancing are pointless; do you still believe he can help us?”
Lin Yanran walked to the training room’s door just in time to hear Gao Yu’s words.
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