Entertaining Children

After saying something to the hip-hop team behind him, Piper Hugo turned around and looked at Zhou Jingyi on the stage and said, "Before I start evaluating you, I have a few questions I want to ask first, is that okay? "

"Of course, please." Zhou Jingyi said with a smile.

"First of all, when you "zombies" came out, we were all shocked. This shape is very cool, did you design and make it yourself?" Piper Hugo glanced at the few standing in the back row. A "zombie" asked curiously.

"Yes," Zhou Jingyi nodded, "To be specific, it was designed by one of our team members, and most of the production was also done by him. We just stepped on the clothes to make them look dirty. One thing is that the zombie makeup on their faces was put on by me and him, but the makeup was also designed by him, and I just followed his instructions."

"Oh? Who is it? Could you please come to the front?" Piper Hugo asked with interest.

"He's not on stage." Zhou Jingyi shook her head, "He's not American. According to the regulations of this competition, he can't perform on stage, so he's not on stage right now."

"Okay," Piper Hugo nodded, seemingly satisfied with their compliance with the regulations, and then asked another question: "What happened to the lights when the "zombies" came out just now? When did you put them on?" All our on-site lighting engineers have been bribed?"

"Wait, I should ask our Jill more about this question." Before Zhou Jingyi could answer, Piper had already muttered to himself, then turned his head and shouted in the direction of the control room on the second floor above the auditorium behind him: "Jill ! How long ago were you bought by them?"

"No, we don't know the lighting engineer on site at all," Zhou Jingyi replied with a smile, "At the beginning, I didn't know what was going on, but now I think I know the answer."

"Oh?" Piper turned to look at Zhou Jingyi on the stage, "What's going on?"

"If the lighting engineer was bought, it must have been bought when we performed just now. And the person who bought him must be the team member who made the costumes and shapes of the "zombies" we just mentioned. Because I think He is not in the auditorium where he was originally. If I guessed correctly, he must be in the control room on the second floor, with the lighting engineer." Zhou Jingyi explained.

"How is that possible?" Piper didn't believe, "In order to avoid disturbing the work of the lighting and sound engineers, the aisle door leading to the control room on the second floor is locked, and only the two of them and a few of us have the keys. "

"I don't know how he did it, I just believe he will have a way." Zhou Jingyi said confidently.

"Well, I'm really interested in this guy now." Piper said something, then turned to the direction of the control room again: "Jill, I know you can hear what I said. That kid is now in your The control room? If it's there, get him down and onto the stage, I mean it."

The three judges all turned their chairs, and even the people in the auditorium turned their heads and looked curiously in the direction of the control room on the second floor behind.

I saw a figure walking out of the control room, and when he came to the corridor door leading to the control room, the figure did not open the door, but directly leaned on the railing of the second-floor corridor next to him and turned over the railing . The figure's legs were hanging in the air, and it only relied on its hands to hold the upper part of the railing to maintain its body. Then, as soon as the hands were released, the whole person fell down.

"Well..." Seeing this, there was an exclamation in the theater. The aisle on the second floor of the theater is more than four meters to five meters from the ground, and the height of the railings is almost six meters. Falling from this place is very dangerous.

The figure grasped the protrusion at the bottom of the railing with both hands during its fall, stabilized its figure and let go again, before finally landing on the carpeted theater floor.

"Huh" Seeing the figure standing up as if nothing had happened, the people who knew that he had landed safely breathed a sigh of relief.

The person who landed was undoubtedly Xiao Yao. After landing safely, he trotted onto the stage and stood beside Zhou Jingyi. Zhou Jingyi tactfully moved one step to the side, giving him the position in front of the microphone.

Only then did everyone see clearly that this was a very young boy with a Chinese face.

"Young man, what you did just now was very dangerous. This kind of behavior is too reckless." Piper turned around and the first sentence he said was to teach Xiao Yao a lesson.

"The lighting engineer didn't give me the key to that door." Xiao Yao spread his hands, "I thought he told me how to get here and how to go back, so I had to jump down. I play parkour. It is already very proficient, and it is not very dangerous for me, but I am still very grateful for what you just said to me."

At this time, a familiar song called "Forgetting" suddenly sounded from the audio speakers at the scene. After just playing two sentences, the music stopped.

"Okay, Jill, I know you forgot to give him the key, and you didn't mean to embarrass him on purpose." Piper raised his hand back amusedly, and said loudly.

"Your teammates say you're not American?" Piper turned his attention back to Xiao Yao.

"Yes, I'm from China, and I'm from China." Xiao Yao replied.

"Can you tell me what you do? And what do you do in America?" Piper continued.

"I am a student. I came to the United States to study as an international exchange student. Now I am studying in a middle school in Calabasas." Xiao Yao continued to answer.

"Student? Middle school?" Piper repeated in surprise.

"Yes." Xiao Yao nodded.

"You designed the shape of the zombie?" Piper continued to ask.

"Yes." Xiao Yao continued to nod.

"He is also the choreographer of this dance." Zhou Jingyi suddenly put her head in front of the microphone and interjected.

"Really?" This time it was the three people on the judging platform who were surprised at the same time.

"Basically," Xiao Yao said, "I came up with the idea and conceived the plot, but the teammates helped to perfect many details of the action."

"How did you do it?" Piper looked at Xiao Yao and asked.

"I don't know, I just know." Xiao Yao shrugged and spread his hands again.

"Can you dance?" Piper asked another question.

"Yes." Xiao Yao continued to nod.

"Can I have a moment?" Piper demanded.

"Why?" Xiao Yao laughed, "Are you planning to modify the rules of the competition to allow non-Americans to dance on stage?"

"No, just to satisfy my old man's curiosity." Piper also laughed.

"Can I refuse?" Xiao Yao pouted.

"Aren't you afraid that I will eliminate your team because of this?" Piper continued to laugh.

"Will you?" Xiao Yao looked at Piper with a smile and asked back.

"Well, I really won't." Piper smiled and raised his hands.

"Mary, Santos, what do you two think?" Piper turned to look at his two judging partners.

"Promote directly." The two looked at each other, and then replied in unison.

"Very well, I think the same." Piper laughed, and then said to everyone on the stage, "Congratulations, you will directly advance to the main game! You can start celebrating now."

"It's great!" Zhou Jingyi who was next to Xiao Yao screamed and hugged Xiao Yao. The team members behind also cheered, surrounded the two of them, and a group of people happily hugged each other.

"Okay, you can leave now and wait for the announcement of our main match arrangement. Now, leave the stage for the teams behind and go home to celebrate." Piper had to interrupt the players on the stage.

"Okay, thank you." All the team members on the stage bowed again, and jumped off the stage happily. Under the envious eyes of the audience, he pushed open the theater door and left.

Blown by the cold wind outside the theater, everyone calmed down a little. Zhou Jingyi recalled the performance on the stage just now, and asked Xiao Yao with some fear: "Your dance is already very good now, and it's not that you can't do it, but when Piper asked you to dance on the stage just now, did you Why did you refuse? Aren't you afraid that he will eliminate our team because you refused him?"

"Ha, of course I'm not afraid." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "As I said, I have watched the competition videos of the "National Street Dance Contest" in the past few years. Piper has been the judge for the past few years, and I know his character. .To fully display his personality within the scope allowed by the rules, he will only appreciate it, and will not retaliate."

"I thought you said you watched the competition video, but you were only referring to the dancing part." Zhou Jingyi said.

"Of course not. Knowing about judging is also part of my homework." Xiao Yao said, "Unfortunately, this year's judging is only for Piper, who is an old judge from previous years, and the other judges have all changed."

"It's enough." Paul patted Xiao Yao's shoulder and said, "You've done enough."

"Where are we going to celebrate next?" TJ leaned over and asked, "Do you want to go to a bar to party? I know a lot of good bars in Los Angeles."

"No, Yang is not old enough to enter the bar." Zhou Jingyi said.

"Yeah, I think it's good to celebrate a little bit, let's just go to the bar to have a carnival, we just entered the main game, not won the championship." Paul also said, "Besides, our dance for the main game has not yet been settled. .”

As soon as Paul said this, everyone immediately looked at Xiao Yao in unison.

"Well, the main competition is different from the primary election." Xiao Yao pondered for a while and said, "According to the competition system, the first two games of the main competition are one-on-one PK matches. Since it is in the form of fighting dance, our design The way of plot can no longer be used. We can only find a way in other aspects."

"That's right." Everyone nodded. Speaking of the reason why they were able to directly advance to the main match today, the biggest highlight is that they used dance to express a complete story. But in the fight dance, after one party dances for a while, the other party comes out and dances for a while as a response, and this goes on alternately until the end of the competition time, so designing plots and telling stories is useless in the form of fighting dance. No, because the acting is simply not coherent from beginning to end.

"Fighting dance, the most important thing is movement." Xiao Yao said, "Well, I will take you to a place, hoping to give you some inspiration."

"Now?" Paul and TJ looked at Xiao Yao together and said.

"Wait, let me make a call first." Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. After the call was connected, Xiao Yao asked, "Hi, Nathan, I'm Yang. Are you in the old school today?" Is there an event somewhere?"

"Okay, I'll come over later, um, I'll bring some friends over." After finishing speaking, Xiao Yao hung up the phone and said to Paul and TJ, "That's right now."