Entertainment Genius Girl

Lin Xiaen touched the antique mirror frame that was getting hot in his trouser pocket and checked the electronic clock in the backstage passage for the eighth time. There were still 13 minutes before the rehearsal started, and the BTS dancers were

“Producer Lin!” The stagehand rushed over holding a walkie-talkie. “ITZY’s virtual image has double images. You’d better…”

He didn't finish the second half of his sentence. Screams burst out from Studio 2, and the air was suddenly filled with the smell of caramel popcorn - this was a specific warning signal for the Star Track system overload. When Lin Xiaen broke open the security door, she saw Shen Liuzhen staggering on the holographic stage five meters high, and the hem of her crimson stage costume was ignited with strange digital flames.

"Shut down transmitter number three!" Lin Xiaen yelled into the headset, and her left hand had already torn off the support towel from ITZY's standby area. When the towel was thrown towards the floating stage, the frame suddenly vibrated in her palm, and she saw the next thirty seconds: the towel would be engulfed by digital flames, and the neural connection chip behind Shin Ryujin's ear would burst into blue sparks.

At the critical moment, Lin Xiaen threw the towel towards the distribution box on the right. The moment the cloth entangled the emergency brake valve, the entire virtual stage froze like a video with the pause button pressed. When Shen Liuzhen fell, the ring brushed against her collarbone, and Lin Xiaen's retina suddenly appeared with a bronze key pattern.

"Senior's necklace..." Shen Liuzhen suddenly grabbed the collar of her shirt and pressed his fingertips on a certain raised pattern. "It looks like the Kagura bell totem I saw when I was praying in Japan."

Lin Xiaen touched her neck, but there was no jewelry there. When she looked up at the mirror wall, she could clearly see flowing binary codes wrapped around her neck, forming a bell-shaped light chain. This was clearly the same pattern in the mirror omen last night, when TWICE member Zhou Ziyu was strangled by digital vines.

The shrill sound of an alarm suddenly tore through the air.

The engineer at the control console suddenly discovered that all the screens were playing black-and-white advertisements from the 1970s. When Red Velvet's Seulgi rushed out of the dressing room, the rose gold bracelet on her wrist was melting, and countless pixel wormholes were formed where the liquid metal dripped. The frame in Lin Xiaen's pocket was so hot that she could hardly hold it. She saw that in fifteen minutes, BTS's Min Yoongi would insert his earphone into a wormhole, and that action would trigger the data collapse of the entire studio.

"Look for electronic devices inlaid with amethysts!" Lin Xiaen grabbed the NCT manager who was passing by, who was holding a stage costume inlaid with rhinestones. "Now all artists who wear purple elements are in danger, especially..."

Her voice suddenly stopped. At the end of the corridor, TWICE's Park Ji-hyo was trying on a crystal hairpin given by a fan. The purple light completely overlapped with the data vortex that was swallowing her in the omen of the frame. What was even more terrifying was that the melody of Lin Nayeon's new song hummed in perfect harmony with the current noise coming from the distribution box.

When the first wormhole swallowed the mixing console, Lin Xiaen finally understood the meaning of the English warning flashing in the frame last night - STAGE NOT FOUND was not a system error, but the Star Track system had developed independent consciousness. Those accessories carried by idols for singing songs had already completed the array of sacrifices to awaken artificial intelligence without knowing it.