The Red Team were werewolves, while the Blue Team were mere civilians. 🦊 These were the roles assigned to the two teams by...
The Red Team were werewolves, while the Blue Team were mere civilians.🦊
These were the roles assigned to the two teams by the production team for this episode.
However, as Bao Ruanruan approached the toy stand, looking puzzled, it felt as though a massive, merciless killer was marching towards Cheng Yao and the other three, who looked like harmless, pitiful little creatures.
Cheng Yao let out a shout, prompting the Red Team to flee. They scattered like frightened birds and beasts2.
They sprinted the whole way, wildly, without looking back, and almost made it to the amusement park's entrance!
Cheng Yao did not even dare to look back. "Did she come after us? Did she see me?"
Xiao Mengfei covered her face and crouched down beside Cheng Yao as they hid behind a rubbish bin.
"Is Bao Bao chasing after us?"
"Oh, my God!"
"Big Bro Cameraman, PD, save us!"
[……]
[…………]
[Red team, that's it? Is that all you've got? And you still want to steal Bao Ruanruan's things?!]
[D@mn, hasn't this mission been reversed? Xiao Bao looks more like the great robber here. The Red Team is so scared until their fart rolling and urine flowing3, and they're completely powerless to counterattack. They can only offer up their possessions with their hands cupped4, 2333…]
[Mm… stop struggling. @DirectorZhengMingchang, just give all three tip pouches to the Red Team in one go. These kids really can't make it without external plug-ins5!]
[This is really awkward.]
The viewers in the barrage of comments burst into protest.
They could not bear to watch any more.
Quite a few of them were even Cheng Yao's fans.
This scene truly portrayed the nursery rhyme 'Two Tigers Running Fast📹' that they could practically start humming the tune~
Once Lan Zhi had calmed down, standing by the flowerbed, while panting heavily, with her hands on her hips, she said, "I can't run anymore… I can't do this anymore…"
Qu Ji'en was still full of stamina, but he didn't understand why they were fleeing in this first place.
And he was greatly shaken by it.
"We must have run at least 500 metres away, right?"
They were already so far away that even someone with eagle eyes couldn't see them.
Bao Ruanruan had made the four of them flee like dogs6 just with her strength alone.
What were they even doing?
Qu Ji'en, who had come to his senses, had wanted to stop running halfway, but his teammates had already run too far ahead.
If he stopped, he would get separated from them.
So he could only chase after them.
But theoretically, it should have been the Blue Team who were afraid of them!
Even if their Red Team had been exposed, it would have been four against four, and they would still have had the advantage!
Qu Ji'en felt that they really did not need to flee in such a miserable state.
"Ugh, Brother Qu, you don't understand how terrifying Bao Bao is." Xiao Mengfei said after raising her hand.
Cheng Yao looked around, let out a sigh of relief, and nodded along.
He still had lingering fear.
"Once, Lu Wenhao wanted to go to her room to renovate it for her. But she spotted him on the surveillance camera, then travelled a thousand miles to catch the thief7 just to nab him red-handed."
"After that—"
There was no 'after that'.
Cheng Yao looked at Qu Ji'en. "Brother Qu, she's the one holding the Director's life-saving agreement! Snap out of it! If she catches us, it's game over."
Qu Ji'en: "……"
He had almost forgotten about that.
How had he ever thought she was weak before?
"On our team… me," said Cheng Yao, pointing to himself. He then glanced at the other two women. "Feifei, and Sis Lan — each of us has a 'life-saving agreement' in her hands that says we must help her."
Xiao Mengfei nodded. "According to the rules, we cannot make a move against Bao Bao. If she calls for us to help her, we must do as she says."
Qu Ji'en: "…!"
Sorry, excuse me.
As it turned out, he was the only clown8 here.
"What you mean is," his thin, handsome lips twitched ungracefully, "in our Red Team, the three of you could possibly rebel and change sides9, and only I alone will carry out the mission to the end."
On the spot, he took a step back and looked at Xiao Mengfei and the other two warily.
Xiao Mengfei could only spread her hands.
Cheng Yao sighed.
Lan Zhi shrugged.
"That's just how things are."
[Pfft, pfft, pfft——]
[I almost forgot about this too.]
[Alas, I thought it was four against four. Turns out I was too shallow10. It has always been Qu Ji'en against seven people, 233333.]
[Qu Ji'en: "Overnight, I somehow became enemies with the whole world."]
[My team is actually full of the enemy's friends.]
[After waking up, I discovered I was the only human left.]
Qu Ji'en was a proper team captain, but his title had existed in name only for more than just a day or two.
But for the first time, he realised what kind of terrifying force he was fighting against.
"From now on, none of you are to leave my sight."
Qu Ji'en was… starting to be scared.
He even began to suspect whether this mission, devised by the production team, was aimed specifically at him.
Just what kind of people was he leading on this mission!
Fortunately, Qu Ji'en had practised martial arts since childhood. He was therefore physically strong, mentally resilient, and did not give up easily.
"We'll walk back to the original spot right now."
"She should have returned to the queue by now."
But before leaving, he cleared his throat and held out his hand.
"Because of this item called 'the life-saving agreement', please hand all your phones over to me for temporary safekeeping."
Lan Zhi and the other two froze for a moment, but quickly understood.
If he took their phones away, they wouldn't be able to communicate with Bao Ruanruan.
Bao Ruanruan walked back slowly and at a leisurely pace.
In front of the camera, compared to Cheng Yao and the other three, who were routed into total disorder, she was practically taking a stroll.
It was as if she had just taken a walk around her own doorstep and even brought a toy back with her.
A wave of 'hahaha' floated across the scrolling comments.
Liu Qiu also did not know what else to say.
But at least Bao Ruanruan had not discovered the Red Team, and that was good enough.
"Mm, I went to buy a rabbit. On the way, I asked the shop assistant whether they had seen any suspicious people."
[!!!]
Liu Qiu: "!"
She trembled a little. "And then?"
Bao Ruanruan glanced at her with her clear eyes. "PD, you seem especially talkative today, and especially concerned about me."
Liu Qiu: "……"
"Is there something I don't know about?" Bao Ruanruan asked gently.
Liu Qiu: "!"
[Round one: the PD failed to draw out words11 of the target and became a suspect in return. Minus one HP.]
Liu Qiu's whole body tensed up. She gave a dry laugh. "Isn't it just because lining up is too boring? I was afraid the audience would find the livestream uninteresting."
Bao Ruanruan nodded, seemingly accepting that explanation.
She shook the rabbit toy in her hand, then took a piece of paper and a pen out of her bag.
"I didn't really ask out anything particularly special."
"The toy shop assistant said someone had been watching me just now, but they probably didn't mean me any harm."
Liu Qiu: "……"
This shop assistant could be considered smart too, even knowing how to hide the real meaning in their words.
She had almost been frightened.
"But since she said it that way, I think more than one person was watching me."
"Otherwise, she should have said… 'There really was one person just now', instead of 'there was someone.' What do you think, PD?"
Bao Ruanruan communicated sincerely on camera.
Liu Qiu: "............!"
[Kiddo Ruan is really too sharp.}
[PD, you'd better keep quiet. Xiao Bao is just like radar.]
[Tsk! She looked like she was buying a toy, but she was actually fishing for information. She's a game king — who could have thought of that?]
Everyone felt that Bao Ruanruan was too smart.
She knew how to use every environmental advantage available to her.
The Red Team had chosen a spot near the toy shop from which to observe, which was clearly a hidden, advantageous position.
However, once Bao Ruanruan made her move, the toy shop became a high-risk point that nearly exposed them.
Every viewer thought buying the green rabbit had been worthwhile, since it had been exchanged for useful information and increased the vigilance of both Bao Ruanruan and the Blue Team. But no one expected—
this rabbit had another, even more important purpose!
After waiting in line for half an hour, the four members of the Blue Team finally got to ride the roller coaster.
They quickly went upstairs.
When they passed the glass room where the roller coaster management staff were, Bao Ruanruan paused.
She raised her head and glanced at the facility's latest maintenance and disinfection times.
She saw that both had been completed the previous week.
She nodded with satisfaction.
Once the other three members of the Blue Team were seated on the roller coaster, Bao Ruanruan proceeded to check each safety buckle individually to ensure it was secure.
After the amusement park staff had checked them, she checked them again.
She also inspected the roller coaster's lower guide rails from beginning to end.
[Meticulous!]
[Safety Committee Member Bao~]
[As expected of Kiddo Ruan.]
However, once Bao Ruanruan had finished her checks, she began rummaging through her bag.
She took the green rabbit out of her backpack and put it on the empty seat beside Qu Feifei in the second-to-last row.
She fastened the rabbit's seatbelt.
To make absolutely sure that it wouldn't fall off, she then tied two loops of safety rope around it and wrapped it with transparent glass tape.
The three members of the Blue Team: "…?"
Liu Qiu: "……?"
[???]
Liu Qiu held her forehead, coughed lightly and stepped forward.
"Teacher Bao, what are you doing?"
[Hahahaha! The PD's three views have shattered12 — what are you doing?]
"Sweetheart," Bao Ruanruan called out warmly to the PD for once, "Have you ever heard of the term 'test flight'?"
Liu Qiu: "…What?"
[Test flight as in an aeroplane test flight? Hhhh!]
[You're letting a doll do the test flight?]
[I'm laughing myself to death! Even a rollercoaster needs a test flight? Ruan, do you think this is a fighter jet?]
[The three members of the Blue Team — test-flight guinea pigs~]
Bao Ruanruan, however, was very cautious. "My health condition isn't the same as theirs, so they can't take my place in the experiment."
Does a plush toy have the same body as yours?
Liu Qiu's whole face was written with the word disbelief.
Then the camera panned over.
And everyone saw five large characters written in pen on the rabbit's fluffy body.
———— 'Teacher Bao Ruanruan'
Liu Qiu: "……"
The three members of the Blue Team: "……"
[Once my name is written on it, it's me. Understand?]
[Kiddo Ruan, did you secretly sign up for comedian classes?]
Bao Ruanruan, with her backpack, insisted on doing a test flight, so she did not get on the roller coaster for this round.
When the four members of the Red Team crept secretly under the amusement ride, Qu Ji'en made a hand gesture.
Under the camera, he lowered his voice.
"Seize the chance. Later, when the roller coaster starts, I'll be responsible for snatching the backpack, and you guys keep watch."
Now, he no longer felt comfortable delegating important tasks to anyone else.
Cheng Yao and the others all nodded.
They bent at the waist and were also wearing masks and hats.
In order to reduce the chance of being discovered by Bao Ruanruan and the other three, they had even left the cameraman far behind and were now wearing GoPro cameras on their heads to film.
However, when they ran under the roller coaster, the four of them turned to look.
The camera shook for a while.
They did not see Bao Ruanruan or PD Liu Qiu, nor did they see the cameramen accompanying the Blue Team.
Of course, none of that was the main point.
"Would the backpack be taken to the second floor?" Xiao Mengfei guessed.
Some roller coasters started on the second floor.
At this moment, the roller coaster had already rung its bell and started moving.
Suddenly, a burst of screams rang out above their heads!
"Go, let's head up." Qu Ji'en pushed off with his long legs and rushed upwards.
Xiao Mengfei and Cheng Yao quickly followed, with Lan Zhi guarding the rear.
[Everyone has gathered together in one place.]
[This is really going to be exciting…]
[You are about to see a… Bao Ruanruan who is currently test-flying. Congratulations!]
Qu Ji'en had long legs, and under the GoPro camera filming from his head, even the stairs turned into afterimages.
Like the wind racing and lightning flashing13, it filmed the roller coaster passenger boarding point on the second floor.
In the time of lightning and flint sparked14, it captured the figures of PD Liu Qiu and the Blue Team's cameraman crew.
With the speed of thunder before one could cover one's ears15, it captured Bao Ruanruan's fair, delicate side profile, glimmering with a soft, watery sheen in the sunlight…
Qu Ji'en's camera shook violently.
It was as if the world had come to a sudden halt.
[Keep that fire burning ~]
"Retreat!"
After Qu Jien let out this deep growl instruction, viewers saw him running for his life in an instant, captured by his GoPro's field of view!
Cheng Yao almost rolled down the stairs, but Qu Ji'en grabbed him at once.
"What happened, what happened?" Lan Zhi almost let her dialect slip out.🦊
"She didn't get on the rollercoaster!"
Cheng Yao was about to cry.
Lan Zhi: "!"
Xiao Mengfei: "!"
"Run!"
This part was not a replay of the earlier footage.
Rather, they freaking ran away again.
[I've never seen such bold robbers before (dog head).]
Just as Lan Zhi from the Red Team was about to leave the roller coaster facility, Qu Ji'en called her to a stop.
"Don't move!"
He lowered his voice.
"Squat down."
"If she looks from upstairs, she can see us."
The three members of the Red Team: "!"
The entire roller coaster boarding area was on the second floor.
When standing on the platform and looking towards the tracks, one could see exactly what was happening on the ground below...
From a high vantage point, the field of vision was even wider.
As long as the Red Team walked out of the stairwell, their figures could be seen by people on the second floor.
At that moment, Qu Ji'en and the other three were pressed tightly against the stairwell wall, not daring to move any further.
They could only pray that Bao Ruanruan had not noticed them just now.
But—
The livestream camera switched.
They saw Bao Ruanruan's gaze, which had been fixed on the roller coaster, turn slightly towards the stairway entrance.
A hint of doubt flashed across her delicate face.
"Did you hear footsteps just now?"
"It sounded like someone came up and then went back down?"
Liu Qiu's back stiffened.
This time, Bao Ruanruan quickly turned her gaze back again.
"It looks like quite a few tourists want to wait for the test-flight results, just like me."
The tourists who were afraid of heights must have backed out after seeing the scene on the second floor.
That's a normal reaction.
Bao Ruanruan turned her head back, smiling.
However, when she looked at the roller coaster already charging onto the Q-shaped track, with tourists hanging upside down in mid-air, her fair little face tightened.
"Ah, my rabbit's head has gone crooked!"
[Hhhh, the rabbit has saved the Red Team's four lives!]
[Kiddo Ruan: "If it's *this dangerous, will my head still be safe if I get on it?"]
[Ruan: "Test flight failed. Goodbye, rollercoaster~ I'll never ride you in this lifetime~"]
[Red team, what can be used to save you?]
The scrolling comments were incredibly lively and joyful.
After riding the roller coaster, the Blue Team went on other rides, such as the river rapids and the drop tower.
By the time they had finished all the activities, the neck of Bao Ruanruan, the green plush rabbit, had become so loose that its stuffing was almost falling out.
Bao Ruanruan was dumbstruck.
Meanwhile, Qu Feifei and the other two members of the Blue Team could not help but touch their own necks.
Fortunately, their out-of-the-factory quality17 was better than this plush toy's (not really)!
Seeing that it was almost evening and everyone had enjoyed themselves, Zhen Xuan and the others prepared to pack up and return to the hotel to freshen up and rest before dinner.
Meanwhile, Qu Ji'en's red team had not achieved anything yet.
The Red Team's PD stepped forward with a bitter smile. "Would you like to use the second brocade pouch?"
As soon as those words came out, the four members of the Red Team were all speechless.
You actually still dare to bring up the brocade pouch?
"You said there would be balloons, but in the end, there weren't any."
The PD spread his hands. "All I can say is that our enemy is very powerful."
The Red Team: "……"
Bao Ruanruan is undeniably strong.
She alone had forced them to keep running away until now.
"Open it, then. The second brocade pouch." Qu Jien made the final call.
This time, inside the brocade pouch was a golden envelope.
It looked much higher-level than the previous one with the balloons.
When they opened it, they found a Carnival Hotel room card inside.
Qu Ji'en raised an eyebrow.
The PD explained, "The four teachers from the Blue Team will check into the hotel and then leave for dinner."
The dinner arranged by the production team for the Blue Team was at the hotel's buffet restaurant.
"This is the room card for the room opposite theirs."
In addition, the envelope contained a card serving as a letter of introduction.
Lan Zhi held it in her hand and began reading aloud: "With this letter of introduction, you may enter the hotel's logistics service department and apply to be room cleaners."
"After successfully applying, you will receive one set of cleaner uniforms, one cleaning trolley, and one set of tools."
"You will then have one chance each to enter the Blue Team's room under the guidance of the hotel cleaning staff and learn how to clean. The training period will last 30 minutes."
[…This brocade pouch is impressive this time.]
[So they're disguising themselves as cleaners to steal the backpack and USB drive?]
[Who doesn't leave one or two items of clothing in a room?]
But the PD soon spoke up: "If you violate the hotel cleaning staff's code of conduct in any way, and you are discovered by official staff, any items you have obtained will become invalid and will not count."
"So basically, we can't be discovered by anyone, even the cleaners?"
"Correct." The PD nodded.
While the four members of the Red Team were discussing, the PD behind them turned the envelope over.
On the back was a line of words that the Red Team did not see—
#This game is only meant to remind all viewers to take good care of their valuables.#
[……]
The PD then flipped the card over.
There was an eye-catching line of red text with three exclamation marks written in bold standard script.
#Never, at any time, should we think we can get away with doing something illegal.#
#If the Red Team refuses the mission, the production team will reward them with 100,000 yuan in travel funds, and the programme sponsor will provide an additional 500,000 yuan. #
#Do not commit evil just because it is small; robbery and theft are unacceptable#
[!]
Not doing the mission would be equivalent to giving the Red Team 600,000 yuan for free!
Unfortunately, under the pressure of the tense mission, the Red Team did not even look at the back of the card at all.
The four of them had already started discussing Plan B.
They had absolutely no idea that they had become negative teaching material18, nor did they know they had missed out on a valuable bonus.
The audience burst into a wave of '2333'.
The Carnival Hotel was located inside the amusement park.
If guests checked in on the day of their arrival, they could use their hotel guest information to re-enter the amusement park and enjoy all the rides again.
Some travellers would choose to splurge on a stay at this luxury amusement park hotel.
The hotel's style was different from that of the five-star hotels outside.
The exterior of the rooms was designed to resemble a castle.
Every room was named after a fairy tale.
The interior decoration also corresponded to the fairy tale's content.
For example, the suite Bao Ruanruan and the other three had checked into, which had two bedrooms and a small living room, was called the Snow White Room.
As soon as one entered the room, one could see a floor-standing mirror with golden carved patterns.
"Magic mirror, magic mirror, am I the handsomest person in the world?"
Zhen Xuan strode over to the mirror and tossed his head.
[Xiao Zhenzhen, you have no idea what is about to happen later.]
[I finally know why my kid is getting even more foolish… tsk tsk, his whole group has this kind of style.]
The Snow White room had three or four carved mirrors.
Besides that, there was also wallpaper depicting the princess and the seven dwarves.
Even the light switch by the entrance, the desk, and the power sockets by the beds were decorated with stickers of little dwarves.
"Sis Ruanruan, Feifei, you two stay in the inner room. Bro Lu and I will sleep in the outer room."
The two bedrooms were connected by a small living room.
Only the inner room was slightly more secluded.
This suite was not very large. Each bedroom had two single beds with Snow White sheets, a bedside table, and a television.
The small living room had a two-seater sofa, a coffee table, and a computer desk.
Apart from that, there was a standard bathroom.
There was more than enough space for the four of them to rest in.
However, at that moment, PD Liu Qiu knocked on the door, beaming, and walked into the room.
"Teachers, do you still remember the USB drive I gave you this morning?"
"Let's grade a portion of the audience's short answers now, then we'll feel more relaxed later."
[Is she deliberately making them take out the USB drive?]
[Kiddo Ruan, don't move!]
But Bao Ruanruan raised her little face and glanced at the clock on the wall.
4:10.
Dinner was indeed still early.
She could do some work first to ensure she would get enough sleep that night.
"That works too."
The USB drive was with her, so she immediately opened her backpack.
Meanwhile, Zhen Xuan skipped to the living room computer, humming a tune as he turned it on.
Qu Feifei and Lu Wenhao also gathered in the living room.
As there was only one computer, the four of them gathered together to discuss a grading standard.
However, they could not operate it together.
Bao Ruanruan blinked. "Then we'll work in turns."
They decided to divide the work and cooperate, with each person grading 500 questions.
Bao Ruanruan would start first, while the other three took the opportunity to shower and rest.
Once she had finished grading, Qu Feifei would take her place, and they would continue alternating until the last person had finished.
This way, they could save time on discussions and work efficiently.
Moreover, everyone would be able to get sufficient rest.
The other three members of the Blue Team's eyes lit up, and none of them had any objections.
PD Liu Qiu turned around.
Out of the Blue Team's sight, she silently faced the camera and gave a thumbs-up.
[Hahahaha, even the PD couldn't help giving her a like!]
[Bao Bao's arrangement — rest time with no blind spots.]
[There will always be one person awake.]
[The Red Team… can only wait for them to leave the room.]
The Red Team wept.
When the livestream switched over to their side, it showed that they had already received new information.
"We'll go after the Blue Team leaves for dinner."
Qu Ji'en's expression was sombre.
From 1 p.m. until now, they had not harvested even a single grain19.
"Let's not get discouraged. First, we'll attend the cleaner training course and aim for all four of us to pass."
"According to the mission card, we will have at least four chances to act."
The hotel manager had long informed the hotel cleaners about this variety show filming task.
Thinking that the celebrities had come to experience a day in the daily life of logistics workers, they were immediately very enthusiastic.
They pulled out all their skills to teach them. "We must make sure to provide every guest with the highest-quality service, help them make their beds and clear rubbish from tables..."
"The most important point is that we cannot touch guests' personal belongings."
The four members of the Red Team all looked away at the same time.
After the test ended, Lan Zhi walked up to the camera and pressed her palms together.
She apologised to the camera.
"The four of us are only playing a game today. Please absolutely do not learn from us."
Xiao Mengfei nodded. "Valuables must be properly watched over and kept safe. When you're out and about, whether it's in the amusement park or the hotel, you must pay special attention."
[That survival instinct gets full marks.]
[Hehe, you shouldn't have taken on this mission in the first place~]
"But I need to remind you, Red Team teachers," the PD said softly. "If you don't obtain a single item within four hours, the Blue Team will receive a hint about your mission."
"You had better take action before five o'clock."
The Red Team: "……"
It wasn't that they weren't taking action; they just didn't dare make a move!
The Red Team felt bitter inside, but couldn't say anything.
They could only grit their teeth.
Qu Ji'en took a deep breath. "We're not in a hurry."
[We're not in a hurry; we're just scared.]
[Qu Ji'en: "I want to act too, so why don't you teach me how? (dog head)"]
[I really didn't expect the Red Team to have gone four hours without gaining anything! The Blue Team's weakness is actually very obvious. It lies with Zhen Xuan and Lu Wenhao.]
[As long as Bao Ruanruan is there, it'll be very difficult. They must find a way to send her away. @RedTeam, the key to victory has been handed to you, so move your brains a bit20.]
Bao Ruanruan was undoubtedly the hardest link to break through.
Not only was she cautious and had a strong sense of safety, but her five senses were also sharp.
What made things even harder for the Red Team was that her safety awareness had influenced the entire Blue Team.
Unless she left, the Blue Team would be guided by her way of thinking.
Moreover, she always had a terrifying intuition for sensing danger at critical moments.
When it was nearly five o'clock, and the four-hour deadline was about to expire, the Blue Team members had rested up and were ready to leave the room for dinner.
"Wait a moment." Bao Ruanruan, however, spoke up and stopped them.
Zhen Xuan, the last person to finish grading the papers, had carelessly left the USB drive plugged into the computer.
He had just patted his bottom and was about to leave.
Bao Ruanruan raised her willow-like brows slightly, walked over, and unplugged the USB drive.
She carefully held it in her palm.
Zhen Xuan hissed lightly. "Do we need to take it with us? It should be fine if we leave it in the room, right?"
Bao Ruanruan blinked her curled lashes slightly. "There are viewers' contact details inside the answer sheets. If the data leaks, it will harm their privacy."
"Many telecom scams are said to be carried out using illegally purchased personal information. Especially when the files on this USB drive are not even encrypted."
As she spoke, she looked around the room.
There was no safe. What a pity.
She turned the computer back on right then and there, inserted the USB drive, and set a password on the Excel file inside.
She even held her hand up in front of the camera, briefly blocking it.
[55521, she really is Mama's good daughter!]
[+1. For the first time, I deeply feel that I, as a viewer, am being protected by a celebrity! Who understands this!]
[Safety Committee Member Bao, the safety of Mama and Baba's personal information also relies on you to protect it~]
[Who wouldn't like a Bao Bao like this? No wonder my Xiao Xiao fell for her so quickly.]
[I was really moved today.]
Viewers all felt a sense of unprecedented safety thanks to Bao Ruanruan's actions, as evidenced by the bullet comments.
This feeling could be attributed not only to the meticulous work of the programme crew, but also to the show's celebrity guests.
Under ordinary circumstances, which celebrity would care about such a thing?
Yet today, viewers had witnessed this scene live.
Bao Ruanruan's actions had made them feel extremely reassured and at ease.
However, Bao Ruanruan, in the camera, still felt that it was not enough.
After adding the password, she paused for a moment.
"I heard that anything saved on a computer can be restored through technical means, even if it is deleted?"
After all, they had just been working on the hotel computer.
Bao Ruanruan instantly became worried for the viewers.
She looked towards PD Liu Qiu.
Even Liu Qiu froze for a moment. "Then should I call the TV station's technical staff and ask them?"
Only then did Bao Ruanruan nod. Holding the USB drive, she stood up and handed it to Qu Feifei first.
Then she began making precise on-site arrangements around the computer, which was now considered high risk.
Lu Wenhao and his buddies, who were standing right there, were all dumbfounded by her movements.
However, to keep the audience in suspense, the production team actually cut the camera away from this scene!
The livestream suddenly switched to show an empty hotel room.
[? Director, do you believe I can mail you razor blades?]
[I'm going to make a fuss over this!]
[Is there anything that a noble Diamond Member like me, who bought the card at half price, isn't allowed to see?]
[Release it! This is the real scripture22!]
[I still wanted to learn from it — I'm always on business trips, so I wanted to see how Kiddo Ruan handles hotel safety!]
[And you pull this on me!?]
Scrolling comments came in waves, burying the livestream screen like snowflakes.
Too bad the Director had never acted like a decent human being.
The more fiercely the audience shouted, the more he ignored them.
Zheng Mingchang's old face even appeared on camera for the first time today.
"Don't worry."
"We recorded it. Any valuable content will be shown in the official episode."
"Please look forward to it next Friday."
He let out a 'hehe' laugh.
[……]
[For the sake of ratings, you really have no bottom line.]
[Awooo, Kiddo Ruan, you have to avenge Mama!]
The audience all wanted to rebel.
But it was useless.
Bao Ruanruan moved very quickly. Once she had finished, she joined the utterly shocked Blue Team members, and they all walked out of the room together.
Not long after, during the livestream, there was a 'beep' as someone swiped a room card to open the door from outside.
Soon, a cleaning trolley could be seen being pushed inside.
The scrolling comments instantly stopped.
It was as if all the viewers were holding their breath.
The first person to come in was a hotel cleaner auntie wearing a face mask. Following her was Qu Ji'en, also wearing a face mask, a cap, and full janitorial attire.
At over 1.9 metres tall, he was extremely conspicuous.
Even with a mask on, his tall, straight nose bridge was recognisable.
The auntie at the front was clearly no match for handsome men either.
She wished she could share all the tidying techniques she knew with him.
"The duvet cover must be flat at all four corners, with no wrinkles. The two pillows should be stacked together, with the foam pillow below and the down pillow above, aligned evenly."
As the auntie spoke, she began changing the pillowcases and duvet cover.
Then she guided Qu Ji'en as he did it.
As Qu Ji'en was shaking out the duvet cover, he glanced at the bedside table.
Taking advantage of the auntie turning around to get the bedroom-specific cleaning cloth, he quickly checked the bedside table's surface.
Unfortunately, it was perfectly clean.
The four members of the Blue Team had not left behind a single item.
[Hehe.]
When the auntie came back to wipe the tabletop, Qu Ji'en quickly arranged the pillows properly.
Then he moved to the room outside.
"Auntie, I'll start cleaning the living room clockwise first."
In the cleaning lesson he had just taken, he had learnt that dusting should be done from the inside outwards.
The auntie handled the bedroom, while he handled the living room. No issue there.
"Use the grey cloth for the living room."
The auntie turned back and said this.
She then came over and watched him wipe the table for a while.
Once she was satisfied that he had done a good job, she went to clean the bathroom herself.
Actually, this room had already been cleaned once that morning.
Since the production team only needed the celebrities to try cleaning a room once, they chose this one, which they had already booked.
There wasn't much rubbish or dust in the room.
The duvet cover and pillowcases were also still fairly clean.
However, the auntie had never been careless, even about a single thread23, as she focused all her attention on her own work.
Qu Ji'en quickly turned the computer screen around, but there was no USB drive.
Only then did he slap his head and turn the computer tower under the desk around to look at the USB ports at the back. There was nothing there either.
His expression froze for a moment.
He picked up the few books scattered on the desk and shook them a little.
"…Meridians…"
"Health…"
The corner of his mouth twitched.
[Hahaha, you recognised them! They are the sources of the test questions you did just now!]
"If it's a book that the guest brought themselves, and it's open, we must not close it."
"Leave it in its original place."
The auntie poked her head out from the bathroom.
Qu Ji'en hurriedly gave a flustered "Oh."
He lifted the few books and looked at the desk surface.
The camera moved over.
There was nothing there.
He put the books back in their original places.
However, after a short while, he picked them up again and shook them.
Nothing fell out either.
He sighed.
He pulled open the desk drawer, but it was empty, too.
The Blue Team really was cautious.
It took Qu Ji'en less than half an hour to realise that he wouldn't find anything.
[As expected, hhh.]
[Don't be too disappointed. This is very normal. (dog head)]
He followed the auntie and pushed the trolley out, then shook his head slightly towards the three Red Team members who were looking at him.
The Red Team: "!"
"Then who's next?"
The auntie looked at them.
The Red Team: "……"
They would just come out empty-handed.
Did they still have to go in and clean again?
This really was unpaid volunteer labour, huh.
[Cheng Yao: "Forget it, maybe next time."]
[Sis Lan: "There's nothing inside, so what are we still going in for?"]
But the auntie was very serious. "Then Teacher Lan Zhi, please."
Lan Zhi: "……"
She took a deep breath and could only force herself to re-enter the room.
Not long after she went in...
Cheng Yao and Xiao Mengfei immediately surrounded Qu Ji'en.
"How was it? Did they really leave nothing behind?"
Qu Ji'en took off his mask, and a trace of disbelief flashed across his handsome face.
"It's so clean, as if no one had ever stayed there."
"…………"
[Hahahahaha!]
[Help, I'm laughing myself to death!]
[Once Bao Bao makes a move, we'll know if they've got what it takes!]
"The only suitcases there were all inside the wardrobe, and they were locked."
Qu Ji'en spread his hands.
"I wanted to take them out, but…"
He glanced in the auntie's direction.
Clearly, that was not possible.
It would be too obvious.
The three members of the Red Team sighed together in front of the camera.
It wasn't that they weren't trying hard.
The enemy was simply too cunning.
Meanwhile, Lan Zhi could be seen huffing and puffing as she mopped the floor diligently.
"Let's go back to our room and discuss it again."
[It's useless.]
[What use would that be?]
At six o'clock, Bao Ruanruan and the others returned to the room contentedly after finishing dinner.
"If filming the show was like this every week, even I'd want to become a regular," said Zhen Xuan happily.
He took the room card out of the zipper pocket of his windbreaker.
With a beep, he swiped the card.
However, as soon as Bao Ruanruan stepped into the living room, she raised her little face.
"Someone has been here."
Lu Wenhao: "…!"
He clutched his chest and immediately took a step back.
Those words felt so familiar, as if he had just heard them yesterday.
Now, even with his eyes closed, he could remember that nightmarish day in Hengshan Village.
He had not expected to experience it again so soon.
Fortunately, though, this time it was not him on the receiving end.
Bao Ruanruan walked to the desk.
She glanced at it.
"Someone moved the books on the desk."
[Ah? Did Kiddo Ruan put a strand of hair inside the book, and now it's gone?]
But very soon, Bao Ruanruan walked over to the desk and took out her phone.
[?]
[It wasn't a strand of hair?]
At that moment, everyone understood.
Bao Ruanruan seemed to have evolved again.
She was no longer the same old Bao Qingtian, who relied on simple methods.
Now, she was Bao Version 2.0.
Zhen Xuan walked over and also looked carefully at the desk.
"These books were stacked together just now, and it seems like you deliberately placed them like this? This notebook and this pen are in the right place…"
But Bao Ruanruan shook her head and opened the photo album on her phone.
After flipping through several photos, she found the one she was looking for————
She lightly touched the screen with her index finger and zoomed in.
The livestream camera followed suit.
They then discovered that the photo on Bao Ruanruan's phone screen was a snapshot of the hotel desk in front of them!
The position in the centre of the desk, where she was now standing, was identical to the shooting angle.
And in the photo, several books were scattered in the centre of the desktop.
Two of them were stacked together: a book about meridians leaned slightly to the left, with another blue-covered book underneath it, revealing the characters '健康24' on its cover.
Bao Ruanruan pointed at the characters '健康24' on the screen.
She brought the phone photo close to the desktop.
They then discovered that the character 康 in '健康24' was now only two-thirds visible on the blue-covered book currently on the desk.
Its position was indeed different from the one in the photo!
[D@mn! I found the difference!]
[This was taken before she left the room! D@mn it!]
[Bro Qu moved its position! He even thought he had restored it…]
"Crap! Someone really came here!"
Zhen Xuan pointed at the phone screen and shouted in a low voice.
Even his expression became tense.
He looked around.
"Who came here, and why did they move our books?!"
Lu Wenhao felt a chill at the back of his neck.
"Not just the books."
Bao Ruanruan looked at the computer screen and the tower under the desk. "The computer has been moved too."
As she spoke, she took a dial-like object out of her trouser pocket.
The red needle moved and trembled sensitively.
SN… 360-degree markings…
[A compass!?]
Bao Ruanruan placed the compass on the desktop beside the monitor and read the angle.
"23 degrees."
"It's shifted three degrees south compared to earlier."
She then bent down and placed it on the computer tower.
"89 degrees. It's shifted by two degrees."
"Someone probably…"
As she spoke, Bao Ruanruan carefully took a pair of disposable gloves out of her pocket and put them on.
Then she lifted the computer tower, leaned forward, and checked behind it.
She then put the computer tower back down.
Remarkably, she had replicated almost all of Qu Ji'en's earlier movements when he had checked the computer tower!
[……]
Bao Ruanruan lifted her fair little face and looked at the other three members of the Blue Team in the room, as well as the show's PD. "Maybe this person was looking for something like a USB drive."
[Mighty~]
[Justice Bao is here; where is Zhan Zhao🔗?]
[Someone, bring out the dog-head guillotine📹!]
PD Liu Qiu's expression immediately changed. She sighed softly, stepped forward, and finally handed over the production team's envelope, which she had been hiding behind her back all along.
The Blue Team: "?"
[Oh, four hours are up. The Red Team gained nothing, so they're going to give the Blue Team a piece of information.]
[Goodbye, Red Team.]
Team Leader Zhen Xuan opened the envelope and was immediately surprised.
The others leaned in to look and saw six words written on the card — 'Pay attention to your backpack safety.'
"What is this? Would the production team remind us for no reason?"
Lu Wenhao took the envelope. "This is the mission card envelope for the director team."
Zhen Xuan: "!"
"Is it a mission about paying attention to backpack safety?"
Bao Ruanruan raised an eyebrow. "So my feeling this afternoon wasn't wrong. Someone really was following us."
Lu Wenhao swore softly and looked towards the camera. "What is Director Zheng doing now?"
They had known nothing about it and had not noticed it at all.
"That's normal, too," Bao Ruanruan nodded. "If they give us the key to open a treasure chest, the more valuable the treasure chest is, the harder the obstacles and the stronger the boss guarding it will be. That's the normal logic of a game."
The other three members of the Blue Team: "!"
Liu Qiu: "!"
"So." Bao Ruanruan looked at Liu Qiu. "The camera secretly watching us beside the toy shop this afternoon wasn't from fans at all. PD, you knew that a long time ago, didn't you?"
Zhen Xuan instantly looked at Liu Qiu. "PD, confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist, and you'll be treated strictly!"
Liu Qiu: "Wait, I only just found out too!"
[PD: "I can still put up a little fight."]
"It looks like they're people whose identities can't be revealed. Then that means——————they're people we know, right?"
Bao Ruanruan blinked.
Liu Qiu: "……" She hadn't said anything at all.
"Are they the four from the Red Team?"
Bao Ruanruan's little face looked delicate and moving, yet her words were like a needle seeing blood25.
Liu Qiu: "............"
She gradually gave up struggling.
[Red Team, I found the BGM that belongs to you!]
[Red team: "I still want to live another 500 years!"]
[Goodbye, old friends~]
Footnotes Full List
- Based on the Werewolf Game. This is the Japanese version, which is like a drama.
- 做鸟兽状逃奔 (zuò niǎo shòu zhuàng táo bēn) — literally 'to flee in the manner of birds and beasts'. It means to run away in panic and scatter in all directions.
- 吓得屁滚尿流 (xià de pì gǔn niào liú) — literally 'scared until fart rolling and urine flowing'. A crude idiom meaning extremely terrified.
- 拱手送上 (gǒng shǒu sòng shàng) — literally 'to offer up with hands cupped'. It means to hand something over willingly or helplessly.
- 外挂 (wài guà) — literally 'external plug-in'. Internet/game slang meaning a cheat, hack, or unfair advantage.
- 像狗一样的逃了 (xiàng gǒu yī yàng de táo le) — literally 'fled like dogs'. It is a mocking expression describing a very pathetic, cowardly escape.
- 千里捉贼 (qiān lǐ zhuō zéi) — literally 'catch a thief from a thousand li away'. It exaggerates that she managed to catch someone even from very far away.
- In internet slang, "小丑 xiǎo chǒu" (clown) often means a person who is foolish, laughed at, or the butt of the joke.
- 叛变 (pàn biàn) — It means to betray one's side or defect.
- 我浅薄了 (wǒ qiǎn bó le) — Internet-style self-mockery meaning 'I was too naive/simple-minded'.
- 套话 (tào huà) — literally 'to draw out words'. It means to fish for information or get someone to reveal something indirectly.
- 三观碎了 (sān guān suì le) — literally 'the three views shattered'. 三观 (sān guān: three views) refers to one's worldview, values, and outlook on life. It means someone is shocked so badly that their understanding of reality is broken.
- 风驰电掣 (fēng chí diàn chè) — literally 'the wind races and lightning flashes'; it means extremely fast.
- 电光火石间 (diàn guāng huǒ shí jiān) — literally 'in the time of lightning and flint sparks'. It means in an instant or in the blink of an eye.
- 迅雷不及掩耳之势 (xùn léi bù jí yǎn ěr zhī shì) — literally 'the momentum of sudden thunder before one has time to cover one's ears'. It means with lightning speed, too fast to react to.
- Here, Lan Zhi was using the dialectal form 咋了 (zǎ le) for 怎么了 (zěn me le: what happened).
- 出厂质量 (chū chǎng zhì liàng) — literally 'factory-exit quality'. It jokingly refers to the quality of how someone was 'made', as if humans were products from a factory.
- 反面教材 (fǎn miàn jiào cái) — meaning a bad example used as a warning
- 颗粒无收 (kē lì wú shōu) — literally 'not a single grain harvested'; it means to get nothing at all.
- 动动你们脑子 (dòng dòng nǐ men nǎo zi) — It means 'use your brains' or '*think'.
- 555 (wǔ wǔ wǔ) — internet slang representing crying sounds, like 'wu wu wu'.
- 真经 (zhēn jīng) — literally 'true scripture'. It means the real, valuable knowledge or secret method.
- 一丝不苟 (yī sī bù gǒu) — It means extremely careful and meticulous.
- jiànkāng: Health
- 一针见血 (yī zhēn jiàn xiě) — literally 'one needle sees blood'; it means to hit the nail on the head or get straight to the point
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