I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 108: Hit the Brakes!!!

The second task begins. The first group to battle as the yellow ducks is the Yellow Team, while the Blue Team and Red Team naturally become the sharks.

Guan Yu excitedly grabbed three yellow duck swim rings, the kind with the long swan necks, and immediately put one on.

The other two weren’t very willing to accept them. Qi Feng held the swim ring with a face full of subtle disdain.

"Director, can we change to other colors or animals?"

This type of swim ring, usually seen only in children’s water park collections, is something macho men can’t really handle.

The director said no.

Cheng Zhirang raised his hand again and asked, "Then can we not use the swim ring?"

The director directly made an ’x’ gesture in front of his chest.

Cheng Zhirang stared at the swim ring, frowning for quite a while as if trying to persuade himself to accept this weird thing. Once he’d almost convinced himself, he reluctantly accepted it, pulling it over his head.

The yellow duck swim ring floated on the water, sticking from his waist up. His arms firmly held it, turning the gentle alpha male into something adorably odd.

The two male yellow ducks moved a bit closer to the deep end, while Guan Yu floated alone in the slightly shallower area. Then, the sharks took position behind them. Mu Qiu, with professional assistance, conquered a "shark" and clung tightly to it.

"Director, how can we tell which one is the jet-powered one?"

Lin Xixi got a bit excited as soon as she sat down and, along with Li Yang and Duan Pinyuan, asked the director, seemingly wishing the one they chose was the jet-powered one.

Mu Qiu, riding the inflatable shark, said, "Do you all like running freely on the water surface this much?"

Li Yang ran a hand through his hair, "All guys do, conquering is all it is."

Lin Xixi raised her hand, "I don’t really enjoy the feeling of freely flying on the water surface. I just wanted to ask, and then quickly rule out my choice."

Guan Yu: "Seems like you two are surfing on the same musical waves."

"The shark requests the yellow duck to pipe down; revealing yourself is just reminding me to hunt you."

Guan Yu pointed at Cheng Zhirang and Qi Feng ahead, "The king hunters are in front. If you have the skill, come over."

Mu Qiu grabbed the fin of the inflatable shark, leaning backward, and struck a pose like a cowboy stopping a horse, then said to the director, "Director, hurry up! I can’t control my shark anymore!"

"... Pfft." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"Hahahahahahahaha!"

"Why are you two so funny?!"

"You guys are comic treasures, aren’t you? Even the director can’t stop laughing!"

"Such acting skills from you both, the show’s acting training class didn’t deceive me!"

Li Yang: "With such acting, I suggest sending you to be roaming NPCs."

"Please don’t speak, natural deadpan, you’ll easily get gang-attacked."

Li Yang rolled his eyes, muttering, "Curse the heavens for treating me unfairly," urging the director to start quickly.

After laughing enough, the director slowly raised the megaphone and drew out his words to announce, "The first round of ’Escape from Heaven’ begins—"

Guan Yu quickly turned around, paddling with her hand behind her, her legs kicking joyfully in the water, although not gaining much speed.

"Brother Cheng, Qi Feng, protect our mascot!"

Cheng Zhirang & Qi Feng: "..."

Unable to hold back their laughter, they shielded her escape, even though the shark riders hadn’t figured out a way to start chasing.

The shark riders... faced their first challenge.

Li Yang wiggled forward a couple of times on the shark but couldn’t float outwards; instead, he almost toppled into the water.

"How does it move without waves? What about the jet-powered ones? They aren’t moving either?"

Mu Qiu swore he casually replied out of his own free will: "No waves? Make your own."

"... Mu Qiu! I’m serious! How can we chase? Sister Guan Yu’s already paddled 1.2 meters away."

Shi Yuhuai from the neighboring team had half his legs in the water, kicked a couple of times, feeling it wouldn’t work, then retreated a bit, lying on the shark, lowering his center of gravity, using his hands to paddle, causing the shark to move erratically sideways.

"Just paddle directly. Hands and feet work, everyone moving together creates more momentum."

The unsteady Shu Ran hurriedly asked, "Then what if the wave I create flips me over?"

Shi Yuhuai couldn’t possibly know, and even if he did, he didn’t want to say much, so he just turned to the camera... and the director behind it.

He didn’t say a word, just looked.

The director couldn’t withstand it, voluntarily explaining, "Regardless of being a duck or a shark, if you flip, you can climb back up and continue the game. Just keep your expression, catching the opponent until they all perish or escape, only then is the game over."

Shu Ran breathed a sigh of relief, "That’s good, that’s good."

She was probably the first to capsize and perish.

Knowing they can flip an infinite number of times, Li Yang, who’s been repressed from the start of this episode, was revitalized, smile on his face, frantically pedaling his shark forward.

The water surface quickly became tumultuous; Mu Qiu sat firmly, kicked Li Yang’s inflatable shark, leveraging the reaction force to move further away from him.

"Mu Qiu, why kick me?!"

"Borrowing your foot’s strength, I’m off to block Sister Guan Yu!"

"... You wish! You’re heading in the exact opposite direction from her!"

Mu Qiu shut his mouth, stopped speaking, lay on the shark, paddling with both hands and feet, swayed to the right, ready to snag any chance.

Cheng Zhirang and Qi Feng stood side by side, shielding Guan Yu behind them, slowly moving toward the left side’s lifebuoy direction. The turbulent water increased resistance, causing the yellow duck swim rings they wore to bob up and down like three short-legged ducks dancing.

"Everyone, kick hard! Brother Cheng, they’re about to escape!"

Shu Ran, having finally adapted to the inflatable shark, got interested too, raising her hand to loudly encourage everyone with slogans.

As a team battle enthusiast, Mu Qiu immediately pedaled back. Her drift over earlier positioned her right at the Yellow Team’s escape line; she felt she was about to play a crucial role.

Just kicked twice, when suddenly from that side, a high-pitched soprano scream erupted, loud and bright, startling her into a shiver, almost flipping over with the shark.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Mu Qiu’s ears hadn’t reacted yet when she saw two blue shadows zoom forward in a flash, heading in different directions.

Shu Ran leaned backward, clutching the shark’s fin, screaming as the suddenly-powered shark sped towards Shi Yuhuai’s side.

"Make way! Clear out!"

The immeasurable soprano, too terrifying.

The other shark racer didn’t scream as loudly but... their response was somewhat unexpected.

When the shark suddenly received a push from behind, Lin Xixi’s first reaction was to grab the shark’s fin fast.

However, grabbing has different methods and goals—Shu Ran grasped in panic just to stabilize, while Lin Xixi was really preparing to "step on the brakes and stop." She pulled the fins on both sides hard upward, causing the inflatable shark, under simultaneous upward head pull and backward tail push forces... to successfully flip.

With a thump, Lin Xixi fell into the water, and the shark car began wildly zooming off on its own.

The splash even pushed Li Yang’s inflatable shark a bit outward.

Everyone: "..."

Shu Ran: I didn’t expect I wouldn’t be the first to fall.

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