"Five, four, three, two, one!"

"Hunters on the move!"

At the assistant director's command, Su Ying, Zhu Mingyue, and Xiao Chen stormed out of the storage room.

Like the previous two groups of hunters, they also chose to search the guest rooms on the third floor of the villa first.

Zhu Jinzhao and Shi Jing sat under the eaves, and for a time no one paid them any attention.

Shi Jing held a phone with a bunny case on it and leaned against Zhu Jinzhao, whispering to her.

"It feels cool and comforting..."

Zhu Jinzhao nudged him with her shoulder and said in a low voice, "Xiao Yi, please keep your distance."

Shi Jing blinked, looking aggrieved: "Why? Aren't we competitors?"

Zhu Jinzhao: "Our competitors are all idiots."

[Hahahaha! How come I'm seeing Lei Jun's jokes here too!]

Please note that this "呗" is a variant of "逼".

Wow, she's cosplaying both a staff member and Xiao Ai/Xiao Yi—double cosplay! That's so realistic!

[@LeiJiang @LeiJiang @LeiJiang, come quick! I've found a wild spokesperson for you! Not for the phone, but for you!]

The dog rushing to take the exam: [Oh, so our Chaochao is already happily engaged in business?]

Since Zhu Jinzhao had already exposed the secret of the mattress, Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue focused their search on the area under the bed when looking for the person.

But the other guests weren't stupid either. Once this well-known "hidden corner" was exposed, it would no longer be considered "safe".

So even though Su Ying searched under all five beds, she couldn't find a single person.

"No need to search under the bed anymore." Zhu Mingyue came out of Ning Shi's walk-in closet and reminded Su Ying, who was still determined to search under the bed, "Everyone knows this spot, no one will be stupid enough to hide there anymore. Let's go to the fourth floor, we checked three times and there was no one there."

"I give up." Su Ying reluctantly pressed the mattress back down, then pulled out her phone from her pocket and started frantically calling Zhu Jinzhao again.

"Zhu Jinzhao's mind is really too strange. If you want to deal with her, you absolutely can't use normal human thinking."

"Hmph..." Zhu Mingyue chuckled ambiguously, without responding to her words.

She made five or six more calls to Zhu Jinzhao, but when he still didn't answer, she had no choice but to give up for the time being and put her hopes of causing trouble on Zhu Mingyue.

“Mingyue, you and Jinzhao are such good friends, why don’t you think of a way to get her to reveal her location?”

"I can't think of a solution." Zhu Mingyue rejected Su Ying's suggestion without hesitation.

She walked into the living room and focused on searching every possible corner where someone might be hiding. She said dismissively, "Chaochao is too smart. I can't think of a way to deal with her. Let's just search carefully."

Su Ying didn't give up and kept pressing her, saying, "But you're Jinzhao's older sister. You know her better than we do. If you think about it carefully, you're sure you can come up with some ideas, right?"

"No." Zhu Mingyue's tone was even more perfunctory. She didn't even glance at Su Ying as she spoke.

"..." Su Ying was stunned for a moment, and her gaze turned cold and filled with deep resentment.

"There's no one in suite number two. Let's go to the next place." After searching the living room and balcony, Zhu Mingyue turned around and left the room.

Su Ying followed silently behind her, her right hand clenched into a fist the whole time.

In the live stream, Su Ying's fans were furious to see their idol being treated coldly by a newcomer.

【I have to say, Zhu Mingyue is completely outrageous! My Yingying is a top star, how dare you, a newbie, be so cold to her?】

[Hey, it's because my Yingying is so respectable that some shameless bastards dare to give her attitude!]

[Fine, fine, so you're playing this game? You're jealous of my Yingying's popularity and trying every trick in the book to piggyback on her fame? You think I'll let you get away with it but not become famous?]

[You idiot, do you want to die with Zhu Jinzhao?]

[Oh dear? I only missed the live stream this morning and Yingying got bullied like this by two newbies? Looks like our Yingying is too easy to talk to.]

Su Ying's fans were furious and immediately launched a personal attack on Zhu Mingyue in the live chat. Zhu Mingyue's fans and a small number of casual netizens couldn't stand it and immediately retaliated.

[Bullying? Su Ying's fans still have the nerve to say those two words? Who was it that lost a game and then lost their temper and swore? That topic is still trending.]

[What a respectable person! He can't stand losing a game, so he swears at a girl. The negative trending topic about him is still going strong. That's just too respectable!]

[What's wrong with giving someone a hard time? Your Yingying deserves it! She can't stand losing a game, so she insulted someone else's sister and expects them to be nice to her?]

A war of words was about to break out, and the live stream instantly descended into chaos.

Su Ying first swore in the game, and then was openly and coldly ignored by Zhu Mingyue. One negative trending topic about her appeared one after another, and her reputation was about to collapse.

However, her management company wasn't too worried, because her fans have always been very vocal and supportive. Furthermore, the company had already contacted the production team, and soon there would be a plausible explanation for Su Ying's use of profanity…

"ha……"

I'm so bored today that I keep yawning, and my eyelids are so heavy that I feel sleepy again.

Shi Jing tossed her wig, staring blankly at the rain in the courtyard, and asked weakly, "Chao Chao, do you think they can find us?"

Zhu Jinzhao shook his head: "They're still searching the rooms. We don't even know when they'll be able to find the outside of the roof, so how can we expect to find them?"

“Oh yeah…” Shi Jing nodded numbly. “I’m so hungry, I want to eat lunch.”

Zhu Jinchao chimed in, "I want to eat too... Ugh, this is so boring. I'll send a message to Xiao Li to ask what she's doing."

Shi Jing leaned over and said, "You send it."

"Oh." Zhu Jinzhao took out his phone, ignoring the dozens of missed calls, and directly sent a message to Xiao Li on WeChat.

—What are you doing?

Xiao Li replied instantly: Going to work.

Then he attached a photo of himself typing on the keyboard.

Zhu Jinzhao zoomed in on the photo, but his attention was immediately drawn to the coffee next to the keyboard.

She swallowed hard, her mouth watering, and then used the edit function to draw a red circle on the coffee before forwarding it to Xiao Li.

—What is this? Is it tasty? I'm from the mountains and I've never had this before.

Xiao Li: ……

Xiao Li: Wait a minute, I'll bring you two drinks over.

Wishing you a cheerful reply this morning: Yay!

The coffee arrived quickly; in less than two minutes, Shi Jing and Zhu Jinzhao each received a cup of ice-cold coffee.

"Drink up, I'm going back to work now."

After delivering the coffee, Xiao Li said goodbye and turned to leave, but just then, Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue's voices suddenly rang out behind her.

"Mingyue, let's scan the eaves first before searching the rooms again."