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Chapter 1621 Twisted (I’m going to roll in the snow)

Raspberry PRO Office.

It's still as peaceful as ever here, or rather, a little too peaceful.

"Speaking of which, I haven't seen Xiao Ai in the past few days."

Kurokawa Akane looked at the office suspiciously.

"Did she go filming?"

Mai Sakurajima also asked curiously, and after hearing their thoughts, Kana Arima who was sitting next to her angrily grabbed a handful of potato chips.

"What filming! She is singing about youth now, singing about youth!"

"What's the meaning?"

"That guy went to participate in club activities! Joined something called..."

Arima Kanae scratched his head and looked at Ruby sitting on the other side, who hurriedly answered.

"Classics Department."

"Yes! The Classical Literature Department seems to be called this! I've been there once before, ah, it's really hot, we are so busy here that we can't even touch the ground, but she is singing about youth with other girls in the department! I just think about it when I think about it. accurate!"

"Kana, wouldn't it be great if you joined me too?"

Ruby couldn't help but complain at this time, and Arima Kana glared at her.

"Do you think I have time?"

"...Ahahaha..."

Ruby also laughed dryly. Under normal circumstances, students in the performing arts department would not participate in club activities. The reason is simple: they don't have time.

Students who have not become popular should seize the time to hone themselves and make their debut as soon as possible.

Students who become popular should take advantage of their popularity to receive more notices and do their best to maintain their artist lives.

Under such circumstances, there is naturally no time to participate in club activities.

"There may not be one like Xiao Ai in a hundred years, so we'd better not imitate her."

Arima Ganai has also given up.

"Xiao Ai went to participate in club activities?"

On the contrary, Kurokawa Akane is more concerned about other contents.

"Are there any girls in the club?"

"Including Xiao Ai, there are three people in the club, and they are all girls."

It seems that Ma Ganai has investigated it, and now they are talking about it in detail.

"One of them is called Anami Anana, she is quite cute, and she is quite popular in the general department. The other one is called Eru Chitanda, she seems to be the daughter of a good family, well, both of them have very similar personalities. It’s not bad, I should be able to get along with Xiao Ai.”

It's not wrong for Yanami to be rated as "fairly cute" by Arima Kana. After all, in the entertainment industry where there are so many beauties, having such a sentence is considered a good evaluation. Those whose appearance is below the standard line may not even be considered human beings, but are completely goblins.

"...That's it..."

After hearing Arima Kana's answer, Kurokawa Akane thought for a moment.

"Is it still too late for me to transfer to another school now?"

"What are you thinking? Why do you want to transfer to another school out of nowhere?"

"I also want to celebrate youth with Xiao Ai."

"Aren't you going to arrange a new stage play next?"

"…………"

Kurokawa Akane didn't speak, but looked at Arima Kana angrily, who chuckled and rolled his eyes. Only Mai Sakurajima was beside her, looking thoughtful and silent.

"...That's it, everyone talked about these topics in the office."

Back home, Ruby also told Duanmuhuai what happened in the office, and Duanmuhuai laughed.

"Yes, yes, let them be jealous. When they get older, they will know that youth can never come back. Hahaha..."

"Sister, if Kana knows what you said, she will definitely quarrel with you."

"Don't be afraid, she can't make any noise to me anyway."

Duanmu Huai waved his hand.

"Actually, I'm also a little envious. I also want to enjoy my youth with everyone."

Ruby threw herself on the sofa, then danced and complained.

"But you can't go to the dome to perform if you join the club."

There is no idol club in Yanggao. If you step back ten thousand steps, even if there was one, it would not be possible for you to go to the dome.

"Woo..."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Ruby pursed her lips in dissatisfaction and stared at him. At this moment, suddenly, the doorbell rang.

"Ding dong."

"Who?"

When they heard the doorbell ringing, Duanmu Huai and Lu Bi were both stunned. Although their addresses were not strictly confidential, they were also not public and could not be known to outsiders. And the apartment has double access, so salesmen and the like can't come. In other words, they are neighbors - but they don’t know their neighbors either?

"I'll go take a look."

Duanmuhuai stood up, walked to the door, and turned on the intercom. Then he saw Mai Sakurajima standing outside.

"Well……"

"I'm Mai Sakurajima who just moved next door today."

The latter spoke into the intercom with a smile as if meeting for the first time.

"This is our first meeting, so please take care of me."

"...Come in."

Duanmuhuai sighed silently, and then opened the door.

Ruby was naturally surprised by the appearance of Mai Sakurajima, but she was still very happy.

"Sister Mai, does she live next door to us? That's great, then we will be neighbors from now on!"

"Me too. I didn't expect Xiao Ai and Ruby to be next door. I was shocked."

You're lying. When you had puberty syndrome and had no place to go, I kept you here for several days.

Of course, Duanmu Huai would not be bored to expose Mai's remarks.

Originally, it was just a simple greeting from the neighbor, but after Sakurajima Mai walked into the house and exchanged greetings for a short time, she stood up.

"By the way, you haven't had dinner yet, I'll cook."

"Hey? Why don't you bother Sister Mai..."

Ruby was obviously a little surprised and looked at Duanmuhuai for help, while Duanmuhuai nodded.

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, Mai said she wanted to make it, so I left it to her. It just so happened that we didn't think about what we wanted to eat."

"Oh well."

Ruby thought reasonably. She frowned and thought for a moment, then stopped thinking about it and continued to watch TV. Duanmu Huai took the opportunity to walk to the kitchen and now watched Mai cutting vegetables neatly. "There are no ingredients in the refrigerator. I can only cook curry. That's no problem. I'll buy groceries when I come back tomorrow. If there's anything you can't eat, tell me in advance."

"Ah, oh..."

By the way, this is not your home. Do you really plan to come to my house for dinner every day? Then why do you live next door to me?

Duanmu Huai just complained in his heart, and then withdrew the topic.

"By the way, I encountered an incident today that may be due to puberty syndrome."

"oh?"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's words, Sakurajima Mai paused and then handed over a potato.

"Peel it for me."

"All right."

Duanmuhuai took the potatoes, peeled them, and told Sakurajima Mai what happened in the club today. Sakurajima Mai also frowned when she heard this.

"Are you saying that the script was not even written yet, and a DVD based on the script appeared? And no one knows who the actors in it are?"

"That's right, I checked the roster of Class F after that, and I couldn't find those people, but..."

"but?"

“There are a few spots on the roster that are empty.”

"..."

Hearing this, Sakurajima Mai turned her head.

"You mean, you suspect that those people are like me and cannot be recognized by others?"

"It's not clear yet, but this matter is indeed a bit strange. I plan to investigate and see if I can find any clues."

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai snorted coldly.

"Can you believe it? Those people actually decided the entire process of making a film by voting."

"A vote?"

"That's right, the squad leader showed me the minutes of their meeting. Most people voted for a movie when it came to the cultural festival. Then what movie to make, most people chose a mystery film... just like that, one by one. The voting, even the filming location, how many people are going to die in the script, and how they die are all decided by voting.”

Having said this, Duanmu Huai shook his head speechlessly.

"I'm speechless when they shirk responsibility to this extent. If they really don't want to do it, they might as well stop doing it."

What Duanmuhuai hates most about Japanese culture is this kind of ambiguous thing. As I said before, in Japanese culture, once someone takes responsibility, it means that the entire society can impose righteous sanctions on him. It is precisely because of this that the Japanese are unwilling to take responsibility even if they are beaten to death, so they came up with this method to spread the responsibility.

At that time, even if the movie fails, it will be the responsibility of the whole class, not one person.

When I read the minutes of the meeting, Duanmu Huai was speechless. If you are all like this, you might as well quit. What the **** is going on? If Duanmu Huai encountered this situation, he would simply give up his job.

"Then if that's the case..."

Hearing this, Sakurajima Mai thought for a moment.

"Maybe the problem is not with those few people, but with others."

"Huh? What do you say?"

"Xiao Ai, you said before that the filming of that film was terrible."

"That's what beginners are like."

"But it sucks."

"That's true, no matter how good the camerawork or acting skills are, there is nothing that is up to standard."

"I guess... they might not be able to accept that."

"???"

Facing Sakurajima Mai's answer, Duanmu Huai was a little surprised.

"How to say?"

"I naturally hope that the things I have worked so hard to take will be good, or at least of average quality. If the quality is so bad, wouldn't it be a busy time for other students?"

"I was originally an ordinary student, not even an acting major. It's not surprising that I would have such a result."

"Indeed, Xiao Ai, you only think so because you are an artist, but in fact, I think you also know that the audience doesn't actually care about this."

"Oh...that's right."

Hearing this, Duanmuhuai immediately understood what Sakurajima Mai meant. He recalled that before time travel, a director once invested hundreds of millions in a movie, and the result was a box office failure. Then the director broke his guard and scolded the audience on the Internet for not understanding art and appreciation. The audience scolded his movie for not being interesting at all and a complete waste of money.

Yes, it's that simple.

When shooting something for people to see, regardless of skill or artistry, in the final analysis, it still depends on whether the audience finds it interesting.

The audience doesn't care how much money you invested in your film, how many stars joined it, or what emerging technologies you used. They only care about whether the film is good or not.

Similarly, to outsiders, it doesn't matter how much Class F paid for this movie. What matters is whether it looks good or not.

From that point on, that movie was a total outcast.

"So what you're saying is that people in Class F think this movie is too bad and want to subconsciously forget it? Just like forgetting black history? But why are the actors disappearing?"

"Because they are laymen, they can't tell whether the lighting, music, camera, and script are good or bad. But the acting skills are very intuitive. Whether the acting is good or not can be seen at a glance. Maybe they I feel that there is nothing wrong with the part I am responsible for, it is just the actor’s poor acting skills - we have encountered this kind of thing often. "

"That's..."

Duanmuhuai sighed silently. When making movies and TV shows, discussions like this often occur. The audience doesn't understand the technology, but they can tell who performs well or poorly. So at times like this, it's the actor who takes the blame.

Experts may still be able to give fair evaluations, but laymen...

"So what you're saying is that they think those actors ruined their work. If they were gone, the movie wouldn't be bad, right?"

“It’s always easiest to blame someone else, let alone vote on it.”

When most people think you are guilty, then you are really guilty.

This is what the so-called minority obeys the majority.

But for Duanmu Huai, he is better at turning the majority into the minority.

"To be honest, if several people can disappear out of thin air just because of this, then this puberty syndrome would be a bit too scary."

Duanmuhuai touched his chin and picked up another potato.

"What are you going to do?"

"I'll go talk to them again. Well...thank you for your suggestion. I've thought of a good way."

Duanmu Huai said with a sneer. Mai Sakurajima's statement reminded Duanmu Huai of the time when he was a consultant to the wind club, when Koori Nakasai and Rina Kosaka had a heated argument over the solo spot. At that time, many people in the instrumental club were on the side of the middle-aged Kokaori and believed that Reina Kosaka should respect the elderly and care for the virtuous.

Japanese people are like this, they always like to hide behind others, and the same is true for Japanese. When it comes to ambiguous expressions, no language can compare with Japanese. In the final analysis, these ambiguous expressions are all intended to prevent oneself from taking responsibility.

At that time, the people in the wind club did not want to be thought that they hated Reina Kosaka, so they came up with the guise of Middle Ages Furukaori, and it sounded like that.

But at the end of the day, they just don't want to be responsible.

In fact, you can find this point by watching TV dramas. When Japanese people are angry, they will directly shout to the other person, "You are responsible for me, take responsibility!" or "Call the responsible person out!".

In the eyes of people from other countries, the Japanese don't even know how to get angry, so what's the point of calling them out? Can't you scold me more harshly? WTF or something like three in a row is better than this.

But in the Japanese cultural context, this sentence is basically equivalent to "You go to hell" and there is no difference.

So you see, the Japanese are just like this.

The same goes for the students in Class F. If, like Sakurajima Mai said, they unconsciously hoped that the actors would take responsibility to make them disappear... then Duan Muhuai wouldn't mind letting this group of people disappear... The idiot really realizes who is that grassroots team.