Chapter 40: Sister, sister, sister!

Although Ji Jingchuan was allowed to continue living at home, Shang Que still sent him to a cafe outside when the program crew's car came to pick him up.

The filming location of this variety show is a small island. Everyone got off the ferry.

Taking a speedboat over, you can see a bit of green on the magnificent water surface from afar. As the boat approaches, the scenery of the island becomes clearer and clearer in your view.

Surrounded by reefs and shaded by green trees, the soft sand beach gleams golden in the sun.

After getting off the boat, everyone stood on the plank road and looked around in amazement.

The sea water behind me is transparent blue, and the waves hit the rocks one after another, making a rustling sound in concert with the sea breeze.

Jiang Yize exclaimed "Wow" and subconsciously raised his voice: "What a beautiful island."

"I feel like my soul has been cleansed." Ning Sheng squinted his eyes and turned back to ask with concern: "By the way, how is Ji Jingchuan now? Is he still dizzy?"

Ji Jingchuan didn't know whether he was seasick or seasick. Not long after the speedboat left the ferry, he turned pale and leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed. He even dry-heaved twice during the journey.

Until now, when everyone was admiring the island scenery, he was standing alone not far away, hanging on the railing of the plank road like a salted fish being exposed to the sun.

Shang Que took out a water cup from his bag and handed it over: "Drink this."

There were two slices of lemon floating in the water. When Ji Jingchuan saw it, he subconsciously showed a look of resistance. However, under the threat of Shang Que's eyes, he still obediently held the water cup with the pink kitten lid and reluctantly sipped most of the bottle in one sip.

The live broadcast officially began only after he calmed down for a while and his expression became less ugly.

After the director's opening remarks, he introduced the story behind this episode: "You are a six-member expedition team. Due to a storm at sea, your ship ran aground on a reef and you are stranded on this small island, forced to spend two days and one night there. Among you is an undercover agent."

"Wow--"

Everyone turned to look at each other, and Ning Sheng pretended to be serious and asked, "Lu Zhixu, are you an undercover agent?"

"It seems very likely," Jiang Yizhe analyzed. "The program team usually uses smart guests as undercover agents. Brother Zhixu and Sister Shangque are both suspects."

Lin Jinyi was dissatisfied: "So you mean the rest of us are not smart?"

Jiang Yize quickly explained: "That's not what I meant. I meant that we are not good at hiding things."

"Oh—" Lu Zhixu dragged out the words, and then he started to make trouble, "Shang Que, he said that we are both very scheming."

"Hey, hey, I didn't say that!"

[Hahahaha, everyone, please stop teasing Xiao Jiang! ]

[But I think what he said makes a lot of sense. Lu Zhixu and Shang Que are indeed good candidates for undercover work.]

【Not necessarily.】

"Maybe they'll do the opposite and choose you as an undercover agent, so that no one will be on guard." Ji Jingchuan snorted coldly.

Jiang Yize was silent for a second, then smiled awkwardly: "That's possible."

Once suspicions arise, trust begins to crumble. As soon as everyone hears there's an undercover agent, they even disperse.

The director then explained the detailed rules.

The six-member expedition team is divided into three camps, one undercover, one independent guest, and the remaining four are adventurers from the good group.

Each person has a badge on his sleeve, and tearing it off means death.

The undercover's mission is to eliminate the adventurers. When only one person is left in the good group, it is considered a victory.

Independent guests, also known as deducers, have four chances to guess the identity of others. They win if they guess correctly twice.

The good guys need to find out who the undercover is and vote him out through a meeting or have him shot dead by the police. The four adventurers also have different identities, namely -

Detective: There is one chance to check the person, but it will only show whether he is a member of the good group or not, and cannot distinguish between undercover agents and independent guests.

Sheriff: There is a chance to kill someone, but if the person killed is a member of the good group, you will die too.

Wizard: You can choose to die in place of one person.

Politician: The Good Guys will be notified when killed.

The staff gave everyone a mobile phone. During the independent action phase, the good guys need to complete the tasks received on the mobile phone. Undercover agents and forecasters will receive task information, but they are not required to do it.

Meetings will be passively initiated at 3 pm and 8 pm, in which everyone can vote to eliminate one person. In addition, after the detective identifies a person, he can actively initiate a meeting.

The undercover agent has a total of three chances to kill. If he is not eliminated after three meetings, he can go to the outside of other people's tents when he goes to bed at night, tear off the badge on them, and eliminate the last person.

[Oh my god, a real-life Werewolf.]

[Everyone looks like a wolf now.]

【The trust crisis has begun! 】

Before coming, the program team had assigned identities to everyone. After explaining the rules, they entered the independent action stage.

Jiang Yize checked his phone and said, "My job is to set up the tent."

"Me too."

"Mine is to go fishing."

Everyone received their first task. Jiang Yize and Lu Zhixu stayed behind to set up the tent, Ji Jingchuan went to the woods to pick up wood to light a bonfire, Ning Sheng also went to the woods to pick mushrooms, and Lin Jinyi and Shang Que's task was fishing.

Several people either gathered in groups or walked alone, dispersing to complete their tasks. Lin Jinyi took a fishing rod from the production team and followed Shang Que while studying it curiously: "How do I use this? I've never fished before."

"I don't know either."

Lin Jinyi paused, her eyes widening in disbelief. "Then we'll get nothing. The director even said we'll have to pay the rent of two fish for this thing."

Shang Que asked back, "If he says he will take it, will you give it to him?"

Lin Jinyi was surprised by her self-righteous attitude, and then realized: "Oh, that's right, who is he?"

Shang Que really seems to be the least bothersome of the guests, but he turns out to be the most rebellious.

[The director has been playing tricks on them a lot. This time, he didn't even give them bait. The main goal is to have a willing hook, right?]

[Hahahaha, I can tell neither of them has ever fished before. They happily walked away with their fishing rods.]

Lin Jinyi felt relieved, and quickly walked over to Shang Que and said, "By the way, you are not an undercover agent, right? I'm afraid you might kill me while walking."

"No one can be killed in this round of missions." Shang Que explained to her, "Everyone saw me walking to the beach with you. Jiang Yize and Lu Zhixu stayed where they were, while Ji Jingchuan and Ning Sheng went to the forest. If there were fewer people, it would be easy to guess who did it. If the undercover wanted to kill someone, he had to wait until everyone was doing their individual missions and sneak away."

Lin Jinyi understood: "How do you know so clearly?"

"Because I am an undercover agent." Shang Que grinned at her.

【!!! ！ ！】

[Is he exposing himself as an undercover agent, or is he trying to trick Lin Jinyi into revealing her identity? ]

[It's not necessarily the case with others, but Shang Que might actually be a bit of a self-exposure stunt. Previously, she played Werewolf on a variety show, proactively revealing she was a wolf, making everyone think she was a bomber (who, if voted out, would indiscriminately kill everyone present and immediately declare victory). As a result, no one dared to vote for her, and she survived to the end.]

[If she is really an undercover agent, the others will be in trouble.]

Lin Jinyi was frightened and took two steps back. She held the arm with the badge and asked, "No way?"

Shang Que raised his eyebrows: "Guess."

Seeing her throw down these words and walk towards the beach, Lin Jinyi took out her cell phone worriedly, thought for a moment, and entered the corresponding word in the identity confirmation box: Shang Que - undercover.

【If you guess wrong, you have three more chances. 】

Lin Jinyi breathed a sigh of relief, but then pursed her lips in frustration.

There were only three chances left, and that damn Shang Que had wasted one of them.

She quickly put away her phone, trotted over, and said nonchalantly, "You must be lying to me. How could an undercover agent admit to being an undercover agent? And you said that this round of undercover agents would not take action. You must be just trying to scare me."

Shang Que admitted frankly: "Yes, I lied to you."

Lin Jinyi's heart sank: "I'm scared to death. I said you are a good person like me, so what is your identity——"

"detective."

Lin Jinyi's words stopped abruptly. This time, she wasn't so easily fooled. She frowned and asked, "You're a detective? If you're a detective, then what am I?"

"I'll know what you are after I check you out." Shang Que said firmly, pretending to use his cell phone to check you out.

Lin Jinyi held back until she saw her actually typing on the screen, then changed her tone and said, "Don't waste your chance to test me. I was also trying to trick you. I didn't reveal my identity because I was afraid you were a fortune teller. I'm a politician."

Shang Que suddenly looked up at her and nodded: "Okay, I believe you."

She changed the subject: "But I really am a detective. I'm thinking about who to test later. Let's wait until someone dies."

Lin Jinyi would no longer believe her words. Knowing that Shang Que was not an undercover agent or a fortune teller, she was the one who said she was a politician in the good group. She claimed to be a detective, so the most likely people were the sheriff and the wizard.

Lin Jinyi originally wanted to try one of the two options, but after her hand touched the phone, she hesitated for a moment and chose to remain silent.

There are only three chances left, we must cherish them and not let Shang Que waste them all.

On the other side, when Ji Jingchuan came back after picking up wood, Jiang Yize and Lu Zhixu had also set up their tents.

He asked, "Has Shang Que and the others not returned yet?"

"Not yet. Sister Shang Que and Lin Jinyi went fishing over there." Jiang Yize pointed in a direction.

Ji Jingchuan immediately raised his leg and walked over there: "I'll go take a look."

When he walked over, he only saw Lin Jinyi standing on the reef, looking out to sea with an anxious look on her face.

"Where is Shang Que?" Ji Jingchuan asked.

Lin Jinyi was startled by the sudden sound. She turned around to see it was him and explained, "We couldn't catch any fish, so she went into the water to retrieve some seafood. This is what she caught."

There were a few scallops and crabs at her feet, a palm-sized fish in a bucket, and even a couple of conches and abalone.

The harvest was quite good, and we could foresee a sumptuous dinner.

Ji Jingchuan asked worriedly, "Where's Shang Que? Is he still in the sea?"

"She said she'd pop up every two or three minutes and told us not to worry." Lin Jinyi kept checking the time on her phone. "It's been two minutes. Why hasn't she come up yet?"

Behind the camera, several lifeguards arranged by the production team were always ready. Hearing this, hesitant about whether to wait and see: "Wait another half minute?"

"What are you waiting for?" Ji Jingchuan frowned and shouted towards the sea: "Shang Que, Shang Que!"

Seeing no response, he pursed his lips and jumped into the sea without thinking.

【!!!!!!】

[I remember Ji Jingchuan can't swim! ]

Lin Jinyi was shocked: "Help!"

She knew that Shang Que could swim, so she was not too worried, but Ji Jingchuan was a complete landlubber.

Sure enough, after a huge splash, he sank face down into the water without even floating up, leaving only the back of his black head floating up and down.

*

The moment the sea water flooded over his mouth and nose, the feeling of suffocation reappeared in Ji Jingchuan's mind.

Maybe it's because God cannot open all the doors and windows for a person, so even as a genius, he has some insignificant shortcomings.

He can't swim.

When he was a child, Shang Que taught him seriously for several summers, but in the end he could only barely float on the water with a lifebuoy.

After she went abroad, one time, the kids in her elementary school class bullied her and deliberately said, "You can't even learn to swim. Your sister must think you're too stupid and that's why she doesn't want you."

This sentence was inexplicably engraved in Ji Jingchuan's mind. After returning home, he couldn't help but wonder if his mother and sister thought he was disobedient and that's why they didn't take him with them, or if his sister thought he was too stupid and that's why she never called him.

So that day, he secretly went to the swimming pool at home to practice swimming. At first, he could swim a short distance with the help of a lifebuoy, but later he somehow ended up in deep water. When he came to his senses, he no longer had the strength to swim to the shore.

At that time, Ji Jingchuan hoped that Shang Que would come down from the sky, pick him up from the water as usual, and angrily say, "Ji Jingchuan, you are so stupid."

*

"Ji Jingchuan, you are so stupid."

A hand grabbed his collar and pulled his head out of the water. He breathed in fresh air again. Ji Jingchuan coughed a few times and opened his wet eyelids. In his sight, Shang Que, wearing diving goggles, was standing in front of him. His tone was impatient and mixed with a bit of worry: "Why did you go into the water if you can't swim? Are you looking for death?"

Ji Jingchuan didn't refute after being scolded, but just looked at her blankly: "Are you okay?"

Shang Que was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "I'm fine, but you're in trouble. The abalone I picked up with great difficulty fell down in order to save you."

"Go down and be buried with them." Shang Que pretended to push him down.

Ji Jingchuan quickly hugged her arms tightly and shouted angrily: "Shang Que, you don't know how to appreciate kindness. I came down here because I was worried about you. And if you kill me, you won't have a brother anymore."

The last sentence was said in a much lower voice. Shang Que pulled him towards the shore and said nonchalantly, "No, no, you won't call me sister anyway. There are plenty of people who do."

"How can others be the same? How can others be the same!" Ji Jingchuan was very unconvinced.

"And who said I can't yell? Isn't it just sister?" He thought for a long time, then closed his eyes and said, "Sister, sister, sister!"

"Shut up, I heard you."