0713: You who shine in the parallel world

The internal artists have more or less heard about the weird operations of the Brother Pi program team in the first two seasons, and they definitely know much more than the so-called "inside information" leaked on major platforms.

Of course, there are corresponding good aspects as well. At least Yu Yu knows that before his four brothers took on the big job of Brother Pi, they also asked for the opinions of Brother Pi's acquaintances from the previous two seasons. Putting aside some of the tricks the program crew used to hype the show for the sake of topic and traffic - such operations are more or less used by both Fruit TV and other program crews - Brother Pi is indeed hard and torturous, but in the end, one can learn a lot from the gains on the stage.

Therefore, the brothers who had prepared in advance discussed privately that they could wait and see for the first stage or even the first public performance, to test the program team's true positioning and attitude towards them, whether the program team would interfere too much with their song selection, whether they would interfere with their stage creativity, whether they would claim to give them freedom on the surface but still have an authoritarian policy behind the scenes, etc. These will affect their later thoughts on the stage.

As for whether the five of them will break up later, they don't care. During the wait-and-see stage, they can first get together to put on a stage for the five of them. After getting familiar with the program and the program team, they can think about whether they are willing to try something new, cooperate with artists they are interested in, and try different stages.

After all, they are all independent artists and not a boy band signed under the same agency. Publicly, there is no contract that forces them to be tied together. Privately, they all hope that their brothers can enjoy the stage and find the direction of their interests, and they will respect each other's wishes.

If you hit a wall outside, feel tired and want to come back, then just come back. After all, your "roots" will not be scattered.

Wang Yuexin struggled for a moment with the question of whether they should continue as a team. However, upon seeing Yu Yu agree that music should honor its true nature and that diverse encounters would create a unique brilliance, he relented. No one could predict the future; it would be best if they could continue together. If not, he hoped everyone could get the stage they desired.

Precisely because the brothers were holding a tentative attitude, when the program crew greeted them with a smile and discussed letting them perform their first stage according to the program crew's ideas, they had already prepared for their proposals to be rejected and did not protest too much except for a few soft rejections.

Obviously, they could also see that the program team was also testing their bottom line, observing their attitudes and thoughts when their stage creativity was replaced. That was why Yu Yu gave Yu Haoming a thumbs up when he came out. His seemingly unintentional solo song selection made the program team not know how to respond for a while.

Later, they even jokingly brushed aside his solo, without mentioning at all why the song "Actually I'm Fine" was not suitable for the first stage. You know, they would have said a few words about other people's suggestions.

"Then why didn't you mention that when they suggested 'The Original Me', Brother Sheng said 'Has Anyone Told You' would also be a good choice to play first?"

In the evening, Zhang Yuan finally arrived in Xingcheng. Led by the local native Wang Yuexin, the five of them found a restaurant. While eating and talking about the afternoon group meeting, Yu Haoming, who was teased by Yu Yu for having a dagger in his smile, quickly brought up Chen Fusheng as an example.

"Brother Sheng appears to be an honest man on the surface, but he's actually not honest at all. Everyone in this room knows this, and some people even feel it deeply." Yu Yu said seriously, but the subtle references to the past grievances between Chen Fusheng and Fruit TV still made others laugh. "I think a certain TV station just wants Brother Sheng to sing the line 'Forget the Oaths of Love and Love' on stage, tsk tsk."

"Oh↑↓~~" Zhang Yuan screamed.

Although he knew Yu Yu's last words were nonsense, Chen Fusheng, who had already been in the mood after a few drinks, still picked up a peanut and threw it in front of the grinning Yu Yu: "You brought up 'Dream Catcher' yourself, what else do you need to make such a solemn promise?"

After all, no matter what the song "Swear of Love" is, it has nothing to do with Fruit TV now.

Yu Yu immediately raised his glass to apologize, but Wang Yuexin didn't intend to let him go. He complained to Zhang Yuan in a serious manner that the pitch of "Red Sun" prepared for them by the program crew was quite high. As a result, Yu Yu waved his hand and took over the job of singing the high notes for Zhang Yuan, and they couldn't stop him even if they wanted to.

"Although I'm sure I can do it," Zhang Yuan said with a little arrogance, then changed the subject, "But do you have the nerve to just hand it over to me like this?"

"Why should I be embarrassed? Just like what some people said online, 'Yu Yu has been away from the music stage for many years and has no basic skills. She relies purely on her vocal talent.' Then we must let someone with more than ten years of foundation come." Yu Yu blinked.

Zhang Yuan, who had been pretending to be angry, couldn't help laughing when he heard the black fan's remarks quoted by Yu Yu. Chen Fusheng and Wang Yuexin were the same. However, since Yu Haoming didn't know that Yu Yu was Query, they didn't say anything but just smiled knowingly.

Yu Yu did not bring it up on his own initiative. Even if they had a good relationship with others, they would not tell others about Yu Yu's hidden identity. They just didn't know when Yu Yu would be able to be honest with other brothers.

Since there was a program recording the next day, the few of them just had a few drinks and a full meal in the evening before returning to the hotel to rest.

The next day, after completing their makeup and styling at the hotel, the five of them waited in their room for the production crew's notification to come in. The pilot filming wasn't a one-time event, with all ten groups of artists entering the room one after another. Therefore, there was a first-come, first-served arrangement when leaving the hotel for the set.

Of course, there are also people who demand the order in which their pilot films appear, as if they regard it as an invisible status struggle. Some people don't care, but some people take it very seriously.

Yu Yu has seen too many such invisible struggles. From his previous life to the present, there have always been people vying for the first place on the red carpet at award ceremonies, including those for big and small awards. He himself doesn't care about it. In his opinion, as long as one's strength and status are improved, others will arrange it even if he doesn't say anything, such as what is happening with Query now.

None of the five of them brought it up, and the production crew wouldn't bother asking, so they simply arranged for them to appear as the sixth group in the middle. This time period was pretty standard; they didn't have to wait too long in the hotel, nor did they have to arrive too early and stand in an empty room to greet each group of members.

When they received the notice to go downstairs, the hotel lobby was filled with fans and station girls and boys who were there to pick up and drop off the stars. There were also some scalpers who took photos on behalf of the stars. Among them were fans of other artists and fans of 0713. However, when each group of artists came down, most of them would still surround them.

In order to avoid causing congestion in the hotel, each group of artists basically walked very quickly when they got off the bus, and the brothers did the same. However, they kept reminding the people around them to be careful with their steps while walking, and when they got on the bus, they would wave to them, make hearts, and give them as much food as they wanted, successfully winning the favor of passers-by.

"Is Master Xi Yuyu really this handsome?"

Some fans of other families couldn't help but sigh that compared with Re-employment and other people in 0713, Yu Yu rarely appeared in public, so that passers-by who never paid attention to him had only seen screenshots of variety shows, emoticons or photos on the Internet at most.

Back when "Bird of Paradise" was at its peak, there were quite a few photos of him with stunning filters online. However, because he was too low-key and the popularity faded, passers-by's impression of him faded as well. Who would have thought that his real-life appearance was even more shocking than those retouched magazine photos...

Are those photos all reverse photoshopped?

"Besides, he's really tall and has really long legs. When he walks next to Zhang Yuan, he's even taller than Zhang Yuan."

"Let's hire the strongest young miner, what do you think?"

"No, Yubao is clearly a purebred succubus from the younger Ma Wang family!"

"Ahhh, these pictures of mine are blurry. Why is the focus on the chair behind me?! Nikon, what are you doing?!"

"Sister, are you worried about bringing your Nikon? It's okay, I took some photos. Although I didn't push them, I'll send them to you later."

"Thank you, thank you. Teacher, I'll help you take the picture of whoever you push!"

The fans waiting in the hotel were chattering and exchanging messages, and the five people sitting in two cars arrived at the underground passage of the recording studio in no time.

The temperature in Star City was high in late June, and the afternoon sun was blazing. It was indeed quite cool to walk underground, but the first shot of the trailer actually showed us entering the underground garage...

"A cold and gloomy garage. Hmm, maybe the program crew wanted to create this kind of cold storage atmosphere." Yu Yu looked at the surrounding scenery with a slightly decorative style and nodded.

The other four people turned around and looked at him: We thought Brother Xiaoliang wasn't here either?

Zhang Yuan walked quickly forward, trying to get away from Yu Yu who suddenly made a stupid remark. However, Yu Yu rushed up from behind and hugged his neck, leaving him nowhere to escape. Wang Yuexin laughed loudly behind him, and together with Chen Fusheng and Yu Haoming, who seemed a little "calm" beside him, caught up with the two people in front.

Directly in front is a round table with cards on it. The program team has made ten cards with the names and initial stage information of the ten groups of brothers and placed them in a circle on the table, with a challenge card in the middle.

According to the program team's early introduction, they need to choose one of the nine groups other than themselves as the challenge group for the first stage, and hand over the challenge card to the other group. Then they will choose a group to avoid the battle, indicating that they do not want to fight against them in the first stage.

There are two roulette wheels on the left and right behind the round table. The names of the captains of the ten groups performing on the first stage are written on the roulette wheels. The captain is the one with the oldest experience in the group. Therefore, the captain of the first stage of group 0713 is Chen Fusheng.

The roulette wheel on the left represents the challenge combination, and the one on the right represents the avoidance combination. After they make their selection, they need to turn the roulette wheel to the corresponding captain's name, and then go upstairs from the stairs on the side to meet up with others.

It was actually very clear from the beginning which group to choose for the challenge. There was an old acquaintance of theirs, Huang Pin Guan, who had participated in "Come to Our Concert" together last year. They had a good relationship with Pin Guan on the show last year, so during a private discussion they decided to challenge Pin Guan's team.

"Then this challenge card has to be handed in in person. The captain should give it to it, right?" Zhang Yuan looked at the challenge card in his hand and wanted to pass this hot potato to Chen Fusheng.

"Should I give it to you?" Chen Fusheng said uncertainly, but he had already taken the challenge card handed to him by Zhang Yuan. "Then should we go up this way now?"

"No, Brother Sheng, we still have to pick a group that avoids fighting." After Yu Yu, the tallest one, pointed the challenge wheel to Huang Pinguan's group, he came to the group that avoided fighting.

Yu Haoming stood in front of the round table and looked at the information on the card: "Avoid fighting? Then who should we choose?"

"They are all senior brothers." Wang Yuexin's eyes swept over Lin Zhiying, Cai Guoqin, Hu Yanbin, Wang Yaoqing, Lu Yi and others one by one, and felt that none of them were suitable to choose.

To be honest, they respect every senior and junior artist, but they are not afraid to confront any of them.

"Can we choose ourselves? My name is on it." Chen Fusheng made an unexpected but reasonable choice.

If Chen Fusheng dared to say it, Yu Yu would dare to do it. He directly turned the roulette wheel to Chen Fusheng's name.

"This isn't a good idea..." Zhang Yuan hesitated. He wasn't worried about whether the production crew was willing to do this, after all, they hadn't said they couldn't do this. He was just worried that after doing this, the production crew would edit the footage and give the audience the impression that they were arrogant and insolent.

Yu Yu could see what he was hesitating about. Thinking that this was just the first stage, he turned the plate again and smiled slightly: "Just kidding, why don't you choose the dancing group? I'm a radio gymnastics athlete and I really don't want to go against them."

"Okay." Chen Fusheng nodded. If possible, he hoped not to touch singing and dancing this season.

So, after choosing between challenging and avoiding the fight, the five of them followed the spiral staircase to the second-floor lobby.