I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 428: Ultraman Fires a Laser?

Li Yang smiled and eagerly asked him, "Is it ready?"

The three of them, all limping, gathered together. He seemed to find an inexplicable comedic point, grinning all along.

Jiang Lu nodded, "It’s ready, watch."

He then replicated Shu Ran’s performance from earlier, but compared to Shu Ran’s somewhat stiff performance, he was much more natural.

Moreover, the interval between pointing at the director and then at Guan Yu behind him was very short, as if he was just faking it. There was even a bit of choreography added when he laughed with arms akimbo, first laughing with his head thrown back, then bending over and laughing while looking down, vividly expressing the idea of "laughing back and belly up."

Seeing this, Li Yang was dumbfounded.

After he finished performing, Li Yang went from grinning to utterly confused.

"This is... what is this?"

Some grand opera mixed with spiritual dancing? Ultraman shooting lasers and going crazy?

His imagination wasn’t as vivid as Mu Qiu’s, he could only dwell on these already quite absurd ideas.

He thought and thought, furrowed his brow and asked, "Brother Jiang Lu, were you not messing around? At the very least, you should make sure the people before you understood the essence of Mu Qiu’s performance, right?"

Jiang Lu looked utterly innocent, "I wasn’t messing around."

At most—using Mu Qiu’s own words—he just added his own inspiration to that barren language and impoverished performance.

His expression didn’t look fake. Li Yang was skeptical, slowly turning back, holding his pen, lost in thought.

From which angle should he start writing?

The performance was so continuous, with no obvious pauses, he didn’t know how to summarize it.

He pondered and pondered, scratched his head, sketched a draft, still uncertain.

He took so long that Shi Yuhuai positioned at number six even voluntarily knocked on the door.

Shi Yuhuai was mute, and after the door opened, he didn’t speak, just stared straight at Li Yang.

His gaze seemed to say: Why haven’t you finished writing? I’ve been waiting to the point of boredom. Are you up to this or not?

Li Yang felt uneasy under the stare, coughed, "Brother Huai, don’t worry, I’ll write it right away, I’ll write it immediately."

Having made the promise, he furrowed his brows in a serious manner, pen point suspended over the paper, took half a minute before he started writing.

Writing even seems this hard, feeling harder than the performance! If he had known, he wouldn’t have stubbornly competed with Mu Qiu for this position!

Internally, he cried a river.

With everyone on the left and right watching him, Li Yang finally trembled as he clenched his teeth and wrote the first word.

Point.

After he wrote this word, the rest flowed much more smoothly. While muttering "sorry my teammates" to himself, he followed the realistic narrative from the previous round of Shi Yuhuai’s writing style, directly describing Jiang Lu’s performance.

[Point at the director, then point at someone behind, then laugh with arms akimbo, laughter starts with head thrown back, then bending over, looking down and laughing]

After finishing, he read through it once and wished he could just swallow the paper in the crook of his arm.

This isn’t any kind of literary description; this is just a manual, an instruction guide!

He himself felt it had no literary quality, let alone what others would think.

But it wasn’t what others were concerned with. They only cared if it entertained.

Shi Yuhuai knocked on the door twice more, with much more force than the first time, as if expressing his dissatisfaction.

Like a child.

Li Yang quickly held up the paper for him to see.

"Brother Huai, you need to experience this with your heart. It’s all straightforward, just follow it."

Shi Yuhuai had no reaction, took the paper, glanced through it from start to end, returned it to him, and nodded.

Li Yang: "?? So fast?! Brother Huai, aren’t you going to look at it a few more times, think it over?"

Shi Yuhuai, thinking he was worried he hadn’t understood or read it clearly, shook his head appeasingly.

"... I’m quite worried about you, maybe you should look at it two more times?"

The response he got was Shi Yuhuai’s "determined back."

Li Yang called out "Hey" twice but couldn’t stop him. Shi Yuhuai already knocked on the divider door for position seven.

Guan Yu’s face appeared.

Shi Yuhuai counted down three, two, one, started by pointing at the director, pointing behind her, then laughed in the air, arms akimbo, performing a silent "hahaha," followed by bending over to do a low "hahaha" silently once more.

Finally, with a closing gesture, expressed it was over.

Guan Yu’s mouth opened wide.

If she could speak, she would definitely say: This must be... a really sad story, right?

What kind of weird performance, what kind of creepy literary story is this? Moreover, it seemed somewhat familiar.

But it was just like an absurd meme, absolutely not a literary story, okay?

She was silent for a moment; the complaints in her mind could not be spoken, suddenly finding that two mute people together was really hard.

She kept silent, not speaking, and Shi Yuhuai assumed she hadn’t understood, sighed disdainfully, and performed it once more.

Guan Yu almost wanted to gouge out her own eyes.

She made an okay gesture, deciding to consider herself innocent and continued passing the information with Shi Yuhuai’s performance.

This performance really is such that disrupting it would be hard to find a place to start.

Seeing that she got it, Shi Yuhuai breathed a sigh of relief and sat back down on the couch without moving.

Guan Yu knocked on Cheng Zhirang’s partition.

She mouthed the words: Brother Cheng, the next performance is going to be an affront to your eyes.

The lip-syncing was a bit fast, Cheng Zhirang didn’t grasp it clearly, only sensing from her somewhat... mournful expression that this performance might not be normal.

Guan Yu muddled through and repeated Shi Yuhuai’s performance once again.

After watching, Cheng Zhirang too fell into contemplation.

"Was this passed on by Shi Yuhuai, and you didn’t modify it?"

Guan Yu nodded, mainly because she didn’t know how to modify it.

A mute and a deaf person, engaging in dialogue perfectly with just body language.

"I understand," Cheng Zhirang indicated he got it, "You..."

"Ah ah ah!" Guan Yu suddenly tapped the partition twice energetically, eyes shimmering, making ah ah sounds inaudibly from her mouth.

I get it! I get it!

She was so excited her upper body almost lunged forward.

Cheng Zhirang leaned back slightly, carefully analyzing her behavior and actions, whether someone hearing-impaired could understand it.

He believed they could, so he extended his hand, "You get it? Please perform it once more."

Guan Yu blocked the partition door, confidently performing anew once again.

Pointed at the director, then drew a circle with both hands, lay down making the last round’s "looking at the remaining moon outside the window" gesture, then got up, pointed at herself, and began laughing arms-akimbo, forward and backward.

Mid-laugh, she stopped suddenly.

Knocked into a bag.

This... is a literary story? Plainly it was the scene she was laughing at just "waiting for her turn," okay?

And did she laugh that exaggeratedly?!

Two small flames rose in Guan Yu’s eyes, arms-akimbo, looking towards the direction of the director, moving her mouth non-stop, but dared not make a sound, expressing her silent protest rather strangely.

The director turned his head pretending he didn’t see.

Cheng Zhirang, watching her series of actions, furrowed his brows once, confusedly asked, "Is it necessary to add so much?"

The previous performance was a sentence; now, just watching Guan Yu’s rapid mouth movements, would approximately take eight hundred words.

PS:

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