AHFAFTGTTT Chapter 49

Chapter 49: Plan “Why did she come too?”…

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Zhao Anqing knocked on Zhao Gan’s door.

There was no response from inside.

A little anxious, Zhao Anqing knocked again.

“Director, something’s happened.”

This time, slow footsteps could be heard, but it wasn’t Zhao Gan who opened the door, but a young boy with a pure appearance.

Zhao Anqing had some impression of him; he was the lead singer of a popular boy band that had risen unexpectedly this year. Zhao Anqing wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, but the angle of his profile looked somewhat familiar.

“Little Zhao, director.” Seeing it was him, the impatience in the boy’s eyes dissipated, and he called out ingratiatingly.

As soon as he spoke, the flattery on his face deeply marred his originally somewhat refined appearance.

“Come in and talk,” a low voice came from the inner room.

Zhao Anqing entered the room and first smelled a strange scent, then saw Zhao Gan coming out of the inner room, straightening his clothes as if he had just tidied himself up.

His father and Zhao Gan were cousins, so the two were actually related by blood.

Zhao Gan had also promoted him quite a bit; he had been involved in many programs with Zhao Gan since he first came to intern.

“What’s the matter that you’re rushing around so urgently?” Having his pleasure disturbed, Zhao Gan didn’t give this distant relative a good look.

Zhao Anqing then remembered the matter at hand, “Ye Xiao and Lu Baoyu won today.”

Hearing Ye Xiao’s name, the boy pouted unhappily.

Zhao Gan scratched his nose affectionately, “I’ll help you contact them about that drama you mentioned earlier. Close the door when you leave.”

Only then did the boy become happy, thanking him in a delicate voice before leaving the door, almost stumbling over the threshold. He turned his face slightly and smiled shyly.

Only then did Zhao Anqing remember who he resembled—

Xu Chengyue.

Except Xu Chengyue’s face would never have such a coquettish expression.

Seeing the person leave, the smile on Zhao Gan’s face immediately dropped: “It should have been him anyway. This kid, Lu, never listens to arrangements. If it weren’t for too much cooperation with the Lu family, who would want to take on this task!”

Zhao Anqing was considered one of his own, so Zhao Gan didn’t pretend when talking to him, scolding whenever he wanted.

“Teacher Lu is young and a bit lively, which is normal.”

Zhao Anqing said this, but in his heart, he wanted to tear Lu Baoyu into eight pieces.

It was because of him that they had to temporarily increase their workload so much, staying up for three nights. This damned capitalist.

“Just this?” Zhao Gan frowned.

“There’s one more thing,” Zhao Anqing said hesitantly, “Shangguan Yaoguang seems to have… found the signal station.”

“What?!” Zhao Gan looked at him sharply.

Zhao Anqing also had a headache. This program lasted a total of 7 days. Excluding the first and last days, each day’s game would yield a clue to the signal station. A total of 5 clues were needed to deduce the final address.

Teacher Shangguan had only obtained two clues in total yesterday and today, and even today’s clue was only shown to him once before being exchanged by Lu Baoyu and the others. With just these clues, it was absolutely impossible to find the final address.

Of course, Zhao Gan didn’t believe it either. The two quickly walked towards the monitoring room.

Each live broadcast camera on the island had a dedicated person responsible for following it. A team of staff members hurriedly greeted Zhao Gan when they saw him.

Zhao Gan looked at the live broadcasts from all directions. There were too many screens, and it was chaotic. Zhao Anqing pointed to the screen and showed him, “Director, Hao Yun and Zhou Qingqing are on this side of the island, and Qing Sha and Wen Jingxin are on that side.”

“Ye Xiao and Lu Baoyu are moving towards the shore by boat,” he said, pointing to the screen on the left.

“As for Shangguan Yaoguang and Xu Chengyue, the camera hasn’t captured their exact location, but the heart rate watches show that they are moving towards the signal station.”

Although it was unbelievable, it was indeed the case.

If they really found it, it would be equivalent to cutting the program in half directly, and all the plans and arrangements made by staying up all night would be invalidated.

“Find someone to stop them,” Zhao Gan said, taking a deep breath.

Zhao Anqing was about to respond when he suddenly said, “It’s too late.”

At the same time, the staff exclaimed, “The camera has captured it! There’s footage! They really found the signal station!”

Zhao Anqing quickly opened his phone and turned the screen to show Zhao Gan. The densely packed search terms showed—

#Shangguan Yaoguang cleverly deciphers and tears up the script

#Desert Island Signal Station the biggest joke of the year

It was already trending.

Zhao Gan clenched his fists as he looked at the slender figure in the monitor.

“Chengyue, it seems you didn’t listen to my words last time. You still want to help him oppose me. Then… don’t blame me for being ruthless.”

“I didn’t expect it to really be here.”

Xu Chengyue jumped off the small electric scooter and looked at the towering gate in front of him, saying with a smile.

It was too cold at night on the island, and he couldn’t help shivering from the wind. His teeth chattered, but he still had to praise, “Shangguan, you’re simply too smart.”

After he and Fu Yang found the Immortality Flower this afternoon, they circled the entire island, and then Fu Yang deduced the approximate direction based on yesterday’s clue. After getting today’s clue, he was even more certain of the location, so he generously gave the first place to Lu Baoyu and the others.

Because even if they got first place, they couldn’t leave the island.

The final victory had been determined.

Fu Yang took off his jacket and put it on Xu Chengyue.

Xu Chengyue refused, “I’m wearing a jacket. You’ll be cold…”

Fu Yang: “I’m hot.”

Fu Yang wasn’t lying. Xu Chengyue had been sitting behind him hugging his waist while driving, making him feel hot all over.

“If you don’t believe me, feel it.” He put his hand near Xu Chengyue’s face.

His small face was almost completely covered by his palm.

In the moonlight, his skin was crystal clear, like a mountain sprite from a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, dreamlike and illusory, as if tempting people to inhale his aura at any moment.

Xu Chengyue didn’t know that he had already imagined a drama about a scholar and a fox spirit. At this moment, he obediently leaned in and rubbed against his hand, feeling the skin hotter than a fever, and believed him.

Then he took two steps back and changed the subject a little embarrassedly,

“Zhao Gan is really willing to spend money. He actually built such a big venue.”

Fu Yang took back his hand, parked the scooter by the side of the road, his posture so handsome that he didn’t look like he was riding a scooter but a Yamaha.

“It’s okay to use the Lu family’s money for nothing.”

Xu Chengyue thought so too, nodding his head and saying, “Let’s go in and take a look.”

“Wait.”

Fu Yang looked keenly behind Xu Chengyue—

“I knew it, following you guys is never wrong,” a cold female voice rang out.

It was Wen Jingxin carrying Qing Sha who had followed them.

At this time, on the east side of the island—

“Zhou Qingqing, why can’t we find anyone?” Hao Yun searched all the territories, but there was no one to be found. The huge island seemed to be left with only the two of them.

It was eerily quiet.

A gurgling sound rang out, making it even more eerie.

“What ghost is that, come out!” Zhou Qingqing pointed his folding fan in all directions.

Hao Yun touched his stomach, saying embarrassedly, “My stomach is growling, I’m so hungry…”

Even his bright red hair drooped listlessly.

“Without Yaoguang, we don’t even have any food to eat.”

In the past few days, the two had been eating cooked food by relying on Fu Yang’s fire. Because it was too easy to get, they hadn’t learned how to make fire by drilling wood, so they were now cold and hungry.

“What if they all ran away, leaving only us on the island…” Hao Yun touched the goosebumps on his arms, muttering to himself. When he looked up, Zhou Qingqing was silently holding his fist very close to him, “What are you doing! You scared me to death!”

“I’ll knock you out, so I don’t have to eat you,” Zhou Qingqing said in a sinister and terrifying voice.

“Are you human?!”

Hao Yun already suspected that everyone had left him behind. He was flustered, hungry, and had such an abnormal teammate, so he burst into tears.

“Wuwuwuwu…”

He sat on the ground with his limbs sprawled out, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and the more he thought about it, the more sadly he wailed.

“Okay, okay, I’m just teasing you.” Zhou Qingqing unfolded his clenched hand, inside was a green and red fruit. He stuffed all the fruits hidden in his pocket into his arms, “You’ve always been craving this, here, take it all, eat it quickly.”

Hao Yun couldn’t stop crying. All the grievances he had accumulated on the island for the past few days, not being able to eat enough, not being able to sleep well, losing all the games, and not getting anything, poured out.

“Hey…” Zhou Qingqing panicked and stuffed the biggest fruit into his wailing mouth, finally stopping the crying.

“Ugh…”

Hao Yun blinked his eyes, large tears falling, tasting sweetness in his mouth, and slowly stopped, hiccuping from crying, “Where did you get it?”

“Stole it from following Sister Wen.”

Hao Yun mixed tears and snot and took a bite, satisfied.

But as he ate, tears pattered down again pitifully, “Where do you think the captain and the others went…”

Zhou Qingqing sighed and hugged him, “Adults naturally have adult things to do.”

The captain that Hao Yun was thinking about had already entered the gate of the signal station.

Similar to the villa game room in the pilot film, opening the door brought a gloomy chill.

“This is the signal station? It’s almost like a haunted house.” Wen Jingxin looked at the darkness inside, with not a single light, and said vigilantly.

Hearing this, Qing Sha was afraid and instantly hugged her waist, “Wenwen, I’m, scared…”

Fu Yang: “…” When did this senior sister become afraid of the dark? Isn’t staying up all night in the lab a regular thing?

He retracted his teasing gaze, “How did you guys follow us here?”

Wen Jingxin’s eyes flickered slightly, “It’s strange to say, but there were traces left on the ground on the way we came, as if someone deliberately led us to follow you.”

Qing Sha’s hand around her waist paused slightly, straightening up and saying, “Ye-yes, it is strange…”

Then the four of them looked at each other in pairs, and there was silence for a moment.

Xu Chengyue took the lead in changing the subject, “Let’s go in and see what’s inside.”

The exterior of the signal station was shaped like a spaceship, and the interior was very large and empty. Moreover, they probably hadn’t found the switch, so it was still dark now, and they could only grope their way inside.

[Desert Island Survival changed to Escape Room…]

[It’s Desert Island Survival changed to Haunted House Adventure… I’m scared. The night vision effect of the live broadcast is really good. Finally, there’s a feeling of a big production]

[So they’ve already found the signal station, are they still recording the next few days?]

[Suddenly a little happy, watching the grassroots tear up the script, but it’s about to end soon, and I’m not very happy]

[It’s so thrilling at night]

[I dare not watch it ah ah… what happened? What happened?]

[Don’t close your eyes, look quickly!! Xing Yue is giving out sweets]

Xu Chengyue took the lead, groping forward, but unexpectedly, there was a threshold in front of him. He tripped and was about to fall when a hand landed on his waist and pressed him firmly into his arms.

“Thank you.” Xu Chengyue breathed a sigh of relief.

Fu Yang took the opportunity to suggest, “Let’s hold hands and walk.”

“Okay.” Xu Chengyue handed his hand to him.

Fu Yang imperceptibly changed the handshake into holding hands tightly. After doing this, he was embarrassed to the point that his ears turned red.

Qing Sha, who watched this whole process, said that she had learned something and whispered, “Le-let’s hold ha-hands…”

Before she could finish speaking, Wen Jingxin grabbed her wrist, “Let’s go.”

Qing Sha: “…” Why is the atmosphere a bit wrong, it’s like arresting a prisoner.

“There’s a wall ahead, be careful,” Xu Chengyue reminded.

In the darkness, Wen Jingxin narrowed her eyes, moved her hand on the wall a few times, and found the switch in the secret compartment. In an instant, the lights turned on—

The four of them were shocked by the scene in front of them.

–

The boat was about to dock, and the anger in Ye Xiao’s heart was even stronger. He knew that Zhao Gan was not a good person, but he had served him diligently enough this year, but in the end, he became an abandoned pawn.

Zhao Gan had better give him an explanation, otherwise, he would definitely make him pay the price.

Suddenly, the staff on the boat received a message, notifying them, “Sorry, teachers, we can’t go ashore for the time being.”

Ye Xiao frowned, “What do you mean? We have a spot to leave the island.”

“The program is over.”

Lu Baoyu: “?”

Ye Xiao: “?”

“The signal station has been found, and the program has ended early. You have been notified to return to the island to record tomorrow’s celebration banquet.”

Ye Xiao watched helplessly as the ship that was about to dock, just one step away.

But now he had to return…

Shangguan Yaoguang, it must be him again!

–

The cabin door slowly slid open, and everything in front of them instantly submerged the four of them in a futuristic atmosphere.

The cold-toned walls seemed to be covered with a thin layer of metallic luster, and faint blue light shone through the cracks.

Countless large and small light screens floated in mid-air, arranged in an almost perfect geometric combination, scattered throughout the space, displaying the live broadcast of the island, one of which was showing the four of them.

The entire space was staggeringly large, completely an upgraded plus version of the game room in the previous pilot film, simply the appearance of the interior of a spaceship in everyone’s imagination.

Qing Sha asked suspiciously, “This, what is this?”

The suspended keyboard floated gently in mid-air, and there was a green button on the space bar with the words “Do not press”.

Do not press, which means press it no matter what.

As she spoke, Qing Sha had already pressed the green button.

[Congratulations on escaping and winning the game]

This line of black bold text was displayed on the huge screen.

Qing Sha: “…”

“I won, so… hastily.”

“Congratulations, congratulations!”

“Congratulations.”

“Congratulations, congratulations.”

Obviously, the people in front of them didn’t care who won at all. Instead, they were preoccupied and congratulated without any emotion.

Xu Chengyue tapped the silver-white machine unconsciously with his fingers, “Shangguan, there seems to be movement outside.”

Fu Yang looked out of the cabin door, “Is there?”

“Could it be that the remaining two have also found their way here? I’ll go out and laugh at them.”

Saying that, he got up and went out the door.

As for the remaining one, before Qing Sha could speak, Wen Jingxin automatically stepped out, “I’ll go out and take a look too.”

Thus, only the two of them were left in the control room. Xu Chengyue pressed the microphone, unobtrusively blocking the live broadcast camera next to him.

“As we guessed, this is an upgraded version of the game room.”

Qing Sha smiled and said, “Yes, that’s great.”

She came to participate in this program, of course, not only to chase stars, but more to help Xu Chengyue, seeing Wen Jingxin was an unexpected joy.

Xu Chengyue: “Why did she come too?”

Qing Sha: “You guys ran so fast, I can’t drive, so I can only let Wenwen carry me, I didn’t expect the traces you left to be so obvious, so… she might have noticed something…”

Xu Chengyue: “It’s okay, I’ll rely on you next.”

Qing Sha nodded seriously.

Without saying more, she quickly typed a string of code.

In an instant, the screens of the fans who were watching the live broadcast went black.

[Yay? What’s going on, am I stuck?]

[I seem to be stuck too]

[I just praised the big production, and now you’re doing this!]

[Be bold! Quickly fix the live broadcast room for the viewers]

[Zhao Gan, get out here and fix the live broadcast room]

The director team in the monitoring room on the edge of the city was in a panic, “What’s going on? Why is it all black? Is there a problem with the signal tower connection?”

“We’re checking, there’s no problem, it’s strange.”

“Check a few more ports to see if it’s the one on the island…”

As they were talking, the next second, the screen returned to normal.

[Okay, okay, it seems it was just a temporary stuck]

[Maybe more and more people are watching it]

Outside the cabin door—

Fu Yang: “Why did she come too?”

Wen Jingxin: “She’s clingy, can’t get rid of her.”

Fu Yang: “You can’t get rid of her?”

Wen Jingxin nodded.

Okay then.

Fu Yang: “Has Ye Xiao been acting strangely these past few days?”

Wen Jingxin: “No action.”

Fu Yang frowned, “Impossible, how could he not be doing anything?”

That guy’s eyes were about to kill him.

“While he’s not on the island, go to his tent and search it.” Fu Yang always felt that this guy was going to cause trouble, so he had made complete preparations before coming to the program.

“I don’t have this item.” Finally, Wen Jingxin spat out the two words she hadn’t said before—”Boss.”

“How much money did Xie Wanwan give you?”

Wen Jingxin made a gesture.

Fu Yang: “Double it.”

Wen Jingxin: “Deal.”

Fu Yang: “…”

Wen Jingxin: “But boss, the mark you left for me was too obvious, it almost aroused her suspicion.”

Fu Yang: “I didn’t leave a mark for you.”

Wen Jingxin: “?”

Fu Yang: “…Forgot.”

At that time, Xu Chengyue was sitting behind him hugging his waist, fragrant and soft, his head was about to smoke, how could he remember to leave any marks.

He touched his nose, embarrassed to say it.

After this side finished talking, he entered the cabin door, and the four people with their own plans moved their eyes away imperceptibly.

There were rooms in the spaceship, and food was prepared, so they fell asleep beautifully, ready to welcome tomorrow’s closing.

And somewhere in the north of the island—

Hao Yun was wrapped in a large cotton coat, shivering all over, sneezing.

“Wuwu, why haven’t the captain and the others come back yet…”