◎Two-in-one◎
Lin Chaojin and Chi Ling's hands holding the cards trembled, they looked at each other, then looked at the staff in unison, and said in unison, "A mouse's son can dig holes?" There was a hint of disgust in their voices.
"Ah," the staff member was stared at by two beauties, feeling the beauty up close. Even though she was a woman, her heart skipped a beat. Facing their gazes, she spoke more gently, "Yes, this is your innate skill. As the saying goes, 'A dragon gives birth to nine sons, and a mouse's son can dig holes.' Well, a mouse's son may not be as good as a dragon's, but it can dig nine holes."
Lin Chaojin was silent for a moment. "So, we have nine safe houses to choose from? Nine for each person, or do we share them with teammates?"
"You're really smart," the staff member complimented with a smile, his face full of sincerity, like a kindergarten teacher coaxing a child. He continued, "It's split between the two of you, 4.5 each."
Chi Ling glanced at Lin Chaojin and found that she was being sincerely praised by the female staff member. Although her face was calm, her ears were secretly red. She was a little curious for a moment, as if she had discovered another contrast in herself.
"Then how do we determine which ones are our safe houses? Can we get shelter by going in?" Chi Ling frowned and thought for a moment, then asked.
"Well, you can choose any dark hut as your shelter," the staff member patiently answered her, continuing, "Although this card is bound and can't be stolen, it might be a little problematic to use."
The staff felt a little guilty after saying the last sentence. Looking at the two beauties who were in a daze, they felt even more guilty. At the same time, they complained about their immediate boss, Director Zhang, asking how he could make things difficult for such a lovely girl.
Lin Chaojin and the others followed her words and discovered that there was a very small line of text in the lower right corner of the card, which would be easily overlooked if you didn't pay attention. "Hey, we found another nest of these little creatures. Get rid of them!"
So although it seems that each of them has four and a half shelters, the reliability does not seem to be very high, and there is no explanation as to what the half is.
The two put away the cards and prepared to go somewhere else to look at other card skills.
"Wait a minute," the staff member stopped them again. The two looked at her at the same time. The staff member walked to another corner, a blind spot that the camera could not reach, and waved to them quietly.
Lin Chaojin and the others looked at each other, thinking that they had triggered some secret easter egg, and walked over.
The staff member mysteriously rummaged through her pockets, took out two bags of cookies, and handed them to them, "Here, these cookies are delicious."
Lin Chaojin and the others were stunned for a moment when they saw the biscuits stuffed into their hands.
Before they could move, the staff member dug into his pocket again, pulled out a few lollipops and shared them with them, urging them, "Hurry up, put them away." He raised his head and glanced at the camera not far away, and continued, "Don't let the director find out."
When Lin Chaojin and the others held the snacks in their hands, they realized that they were being fed. They felt a little warm for a moment and whispered their thanks to the staff.
When the two walked out of the corner, luckily Chi Ling was wearing a sweatshirt with a big pocket in the middle, so the snacks could be put in without being seen.
The netizens in the barrage just thought that the staff had something to explain, but Director Zhang did not notice that staring at several screens alone was a bit exhausting.
The staff watched them leave the exhibition hall and return to the backstage. Several other female staff members gathered around them and asked, "Did you give them the things?"
"Give it to them, give it to them," the staff member nodded hurriedly, and at the same time complained quietly to them, "Director Zhang is such a jerk! He won't even let them spend the money."
"That's right, next time we will continue to feed them, as well as Chuchu and Yanruo." Other staff members echoed.
Director Zhang, who was worried about him, sneezed several times. After finally stopping, he rubbed his nose and complained to Assistant Li, "It's so hot, I'm not going to catch a cold."
"Maybe, the heat can cause a cold," Assistant Li answered seriously, but when he glanced at Director Zhang, who was full of energy, he felt that someone might be thinking about him behind his back.
Just as Lin Chaojin and the others were leaving the exhibition hall, the smartwatch beeped and sent a message, "Congratulations to players Lin Chaojin and Chi Ling for obtaining the Rat talent skill. Their combat power has increased. Other players, keep up the good work."
This message was displayed on both of their watches. Looking at the message, it was obviously broadcast on the public screen, and other guests would obviously receive it as well. So this not only announced their identities, but also announced that they had skill cards, although the purpose was not explained.
"The production team is really good," Lin Chaojin said with a twitch of his lips, then frowned, "Will other cards we find be announced later?"
"It's possible, but judging by the content of the skill card, he kept it a secret from us," Chi Ling replied after taking a look at the message.
At this time, Director Zhang glanced at the message he sent and nodded happily. This is fun, which made the other guests nervous. "Yawn", sneezed twice in a row, and muttered: "I don't think I really have a cold."
Assistant Li watched his behavior from the side with a blank face and did not express any opinion.
Lu Ge and the others also received this message. "No way, how could my sister be so fast?" He suddenly felt anxious. He had the Cat Card, how could he fall behind her? He turned to Chi Huai and said, "No, we have to find the Skill Card quickly too."
I looked up and saw Chi Huai looking down at the watch with a faint smile on his face.
Lu Ge was amazed after seeing it. No, it was the first time he saw this person express emotions so openly. "What are you laughing at? Is this message so funny?" Lu Ge wondered. It was just a public screen message.
Chi Huai heard his words, glanced at him, put away his smile, put his hands down and put them in his pockets, and said lightly: "Nothing."
"Oh," Lu Ge scratched his head. This guy changed his expression too quickly. He stopped smiling as soon as he saw his smile. He didn't provoke him. However, this guy usually didn't have any expression when looking at people. Lu Ge didn't care and urged him to find the skill card.
After walking for a while, they saw an open space in front of them. Large incandescent lamps illuminated the space as if it were daytime. The second most attractive thing was that in front of the space were rows of small square plastic houses, more than two meters high. The space inside was less than one square meter, barely enough for an adult to stand. In addition, in front of each small house was a black cloth that hung down to the ground.
Lu Ge and Chi Huai walked over and saw two tall and strong men in black clothes and sunglasses standing on both sides of the five small houses. There was also a man in black on the other side holding a microphone in one hand and a piece of paper in the other.
"No, what's the big deal?" Lu Ge was shocked when he saw the three big men in black staring at him. "Director Zhang, it can't be that serious," he thought to himself, wasn't it just something that happened quietly just now? Was it necessary to mobilize so many of his "elite"?
However, Director Zhang expressed his satisfaction through his actions, and nodded with satisfaction as he watched the scene from in front of the camera.
"I'm sure you've all heard that a hunting cat can't lack endurance," the black-clad host said, holding a manuscript in his hand. His voice was flat and without a trace of fluctuation, like a heartless robot reading a script. "Come, use your endurance to endure this test. It will grant you mysterious powers. Keep going, God will bless you."
"Puchi, haha." Lu Ge looked at the upright and expressionless man in front of him and read out this sentence full of middle school students. He couldn't help but burst into laughter, "Brother, big brother, you are too funny. At least add some emotion."
"Hahaha..." For a moment, the only sound in this empty place was Lu Ge's undisguised laughter.
"Haha, uh," Lu Ge took a while to realize that he was the only one laughing like a fool. He looked at Chi Huai who looked like an old monk in meditation, with no expression at all. Then he looked at the three big brothers in black who were staring at him expressionlessly.
"Ha, it doesn't seem very funny," Lu Ge awkwardly touched the back of his neck, silently moved to Chi Huai's side, and muttered, "Director Zhang, is it really that serious? He's just trying to prevent us from doing anything. I don't know what this challenge is. Should we accept it?"
Chi Huai looked up at the man in black and asked, "What card did you get from the challenge?"
There was nothing to hide about this. The man in black kindly replied, "It's your innate talent."
"Hey, that's so awesome! We must get it. Otherwise, my sisters and the others have all gotten the talent cards, so what if we don't have them?" Lu Ge said happily, his eyes lighting up.
Chi Huai nodded and looked at the man in black, "We accept the challenge."
The man in black didn't waste any time talking to them. "The challenge is simple. Now, as long as you accept the challenge of not laughing and enduring, you can get the talent card."
"Wait, don't laugh," Lu Ge suddenly felt something was wrong and asked again, "No laughing challenge?" No way, his sense of humour is not ordinary low, this is just a joke on him.
"Yes," the man in black said sparingly.
"It's over, brother," Lu Ge patted Chi Huai's shoulder with a sad face, "It seems that I have dragged you down."
Chi Huai looked up at him and said faintly, "It's up to you. We don't have to take this card either."
"No, that won't do," Lu Ge refused outright. Just kidding, the talent card looks very powerful, how can I not have it.
Chi Huai shrugged casually and let him worry about it.
Lu Ge gritted his teeth, looked at the man in black and said, "Will this laughter-control challenge still do something to us?"
The man in black twitched his lips. "Sorry, we don't have this hobby."
"Hey, what are you thinking?" Lu Ge rolled his eyes to show his disdain. "Then we accept the challenge."
The man in black shut up and didn't reply to him, signaling the other two men in black to start preparing.
Lu Ge looked at the small rooms and muttered to himself, "There must be some director's spoof stuff in there. It must be like this. I can't help but laugh."
The first black cloth was lifted, and a man dressed as Sun Wukong walked out. Well, that's normal, Lu Ge nodded, although Sun Wukong was too strong.
Then Sun Wukong did a "somersault cloud" on the spot, which was a somersault. Well, it was very neat, but the decoration on his head fell off while he was doing the somersault, and then the top of his head became bald, with only a few tufts of yellow hair on both sides floating in the wind. The monkey jumped up and down in panic.
"Hahahaha." Lu Ge's vision was greatly impacted. The bald Monkey King was all in his mind. He couldn't help laughing. "Haha, if you do this, Sun Wukong will fight you to the death, hahaha..."
It took a while for Lu Ge to stop laughing. He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, turned around and saw Chi Huai standing there leisurely and calmly. "Uh, don't you think it's funny?" Lu Ge scratched his head, which made him look very stupid.
Chi Huai glanced at him and curled his lips, "It's quite funny."
"Haha," Lu Ge stood up straight, holding his breath, "Next time I will definitely hold back my laughter," and then he bit his lower lip with his upper teeth and pursed his lips tightly.
[Ge Songsong: Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Huai Shen: That cold expression is not funny at all.]
[It's hard for Ge to be so cowardly. Actually, I think it's quite funny. It caught me off guard. The bald monkey brother, hey, I almost died of laughter.]
However, the flag cannot be raised casually. In the next few times, Lu Ge did not even make it to the fifth room and fell to the ground laughing.
He stood up again, rubbed his mouth which was sore from laughing, turned to the camera and said aggrievedly, "Director Zhang, admit it, you are just making fun of me." What kind of a challenge is this? Director Zhang can only come up with such weird ideas.
Director Zhang, who has hidden his achievements and fame, was in a good mood and drank a sip of tea. Wow, the tea was really delicious.
Chi Huai frowned, not expecting that his sense of humor was so low. He walked over and twisted his arm.
"It hurts, it hurts," Lu Ge jumped up, "No, why are you pinching me? It hurts so much."
Chi Huai withdrew his hand and nodded, "It seems the pain point is also very low."
"Hey, what you said is wrong," Lu Ge looked puzzled.
Chi Huai turned to look at the man in black and said, "You should have a massage mat ready," then glanced at Lu Ge, "This won't work if you still want to complete the mission."
What this means is that he can use the acupressure pad to relieve his smile when he looks at the selection.
Lu Ge looked skeptical when he heard this, "This acupressure mat is useful."
Chi Huai touched his nose and nodded.
"Okay, give me the acupressure mat," Lu Ge waved his hand and said to the man in black. He had never tried this thing before, so it shouldn't be more uncomfortable for him than those funny things.
The man in black listened to his request and silently asked the staff to bring the collected acupressure mats up to him.
Lu Ge took off his shoes, looked at the thing nonchalantly and said, "This thing doesn't look that great," and then he stood on it with both feet.
Seeing his actions, the barrage of comments began to roll.
[Brother, please don’t…]
[I was careless, bro. This acupressure mat is really painful. I tried it once during a club activity, and it was so sour and refreshing.]
[He covered his face, unable to bear watching.]
"Ouch!" Lu Ge cried out in pain less than a second after standing on the mat. He stumbled off the mat and sat down on the ground, staring at his feet. "Why does it hurt so much?"
After a while, he turned his head and looked at Chi Huai dimly, "Brother, my dear brother, your idea is really great."
"Ahem," Chi Huai turned his head and looked at the sky.
Lu Ge bared his teeth and stood up again. "I'm done. It hurts, but it's all for my cards."
Okay, the man in black saw that he was full of energy, so he directed the new actor to go in from behind the hut and start a new round of challenges.
It’s true, this acupressure mat is really useful. At least the few people in front of him, Lu Ge, endured the pain and watched, and their smiles were not so big.
Now there is only the last cabin that has not been revealed. Lu Ge is standing on the acupressure mat, frowning and baring his teeth. His expression is so interesting.
[Again, please don't blame fans for idols' behavior!]
[I'm embarrassed to watch this, brother. Even your handsome face can't stand being ruined like this.]
[What? Is this the new top star? Are you sure he's not the new emoji master? What the hell.]
"Come on," Lu Ge roared, "Let me see what the last room is."
The man in black silently turned his face away and directed the removal of the black cloth in the last room.
The black cloth slowly opened, revealing the true face of the woman inside. The first thing that caught my eye was a long leg stretched out seductively from under the slit cheongsam. Looking up, a fan obscured her face. At this time, a delicate and deep voice came from behind the fan, "Sir, I am here."
After hearing this, Lu Ge shuddered and almost fell on the acupressure mat, yelling, "Wait, don't, don't move the fan away."
However, the person did not listen to him. She moved the fan away in a very charming manner, revealing a beautiful face with long curly hair, two blushes on her cheeks, thick eyebrows, bright red and plump lips, and a huge black mole beside her lips, with a few black hairs on the mole fluttering in the wind.
The person stood sideways, lifted up the hem of her skirt, bent one leg, and pouted her lips. With a loud "mu ma" sound, she gave Lu Ge a kiss through the air, then supported the wooden board with one hand and said coquettishly, "Come on, act like it."
"Hmm," Lu Ge bit his lower lip tightly with his teeth, his face twisted into a ball. Just looking at his lips that were bitten white, you could tell how much strength he used.
The big man in black dressed as a beautiful woman was still trying his best to show off his charm.
Lu Ge couldn't close his eyes and not look at him, so he could only endure it, with his toes almost digging into the acupressure mat.
There was an unusually long countdown in my ears, "10, 9, 8... 3, 2, 1."
When the man in black uttered the last number, Lu Ge took a step back and sat down on the ground, screaming "ah ah" a few times to ease the torment of laughter and pain.
"You guys are amazing," Lu Ge simply sat on the ground and stopped worrying. He rolled his eyes at the camera and said, "Director Zhang, you're really cruel." Then he turned around and looked at the men in black with an indescribable look. "Okay, I'm impressed by your professionalism."
Those who played the big brothers in black twitched their lips after hearing this and thought, "Thank you very much. If you could hold back your laughter so well, there wouldn't be a need for so many of us to show up."
"Here, your cards," the big brother in black handed them the cards.
With a "whoosh", Lu Ge stood up. What a joke! He had to risk his life to get this, so he had to take a good look at it.
It just said: Cats have nine lives. Congratulations, you have mastered the method of saving your lives. You have enough lives to allow you to come back to life. Come on, show your abilities and fight with your lives.
"Haha, sure, this is amazing," Lu Ge patted the cards complacently and said to Chi Huai, "Then we are invincible. With so many lives, it will be easy to kill those rats."
"Well, it's not that each of you has nine lives, but you two will split it equally, with four and a half lives each," the man in black stopped his beautiful dream.
"It's okay," Lu Ge waved his hand nonchalantly. Four and a half is enough, hehe.
Chi Huai took it and took a look at it, frowned, and pointed at the very small words in the lower right corner of the card: Things that come easily will be easily lost if you don’t cherish them well.
"Obviously Director Zhang isn't that generous," Chi Huai said, "there must be other traps waiting for us."
Lu Ge came over to take a look, but didn't take it seriously. "Hey, no big deal, we just need to be more cautious." With so many lives, it would be impossible to waste them all.
"Beep," the smartwatch chimed. Lin Chaojin glanced at the message and saw a public screen message: Congratulations to players Lu Ge and Chi Huai for finding their talents. Hey, the battlefield is getting interesting, little ones, start looking forward to it.
Lin Chaojin raised her eyebrows after reading it.
Chi Ling came over and said, "I didn't expect my brother and the others to move so quickly." Then he looked at the red dot on the watch. "The gap between us and the others is gradually closing."
This is like the encirclement in the chicken game. Following the path instructed by Director Zhang, everyone will eventually gather together to face the enemy. Of course, before that, you can also kill others first. What remains is the final in the final duel circle.
"We need to find more skill cards as soon as possible," Lin Chaojin said, "otherwise, with only this talent skill, we'll only have the defense part."
Chi Ling nodded in agreement.
The two of them discussed it and continued walking towards their next destination.
"Hey, then," As the two were walking, Chi Ling suddenly saw a glowing card on the road. It was lying there quietly, tempting people to pick it up.
"Wait a minute," Lin Chaojin grabbed Chi Ling's hand to stop her from going forward. Chi Ling obediently stopped.
Just as they were hesitating, another person walked out onto the road, glanced at them, and quickly walked over. He got the skill card before them, raised it, and excitedly said to the person walking over, "Sister, come here quickly, I picked up a skill card."
Yan Ruo walked over, looked at her brother with a smile on her face, and praised: "Great."
After she finished speaking, she seemed to have just seen Lin Chaojin and the others, and said in surprise, "You two are here too." She glanced at the card in her brother's hand and said with embarrassment, "We didn't know you saw this card first. How about we return it to you?"
Yan Sinuo opened his mouth and said, "What do you mean they saw it first? This card is on the ground, anyone can pick it up." He raised his chin and looked at Lin Chaojin, "Isn't that right?"
Lin Chaojin's expression remained unchanged as she nodded, "Of course."
However, some netizens disagreed in the comments.
[No, why did Lin Chaojin stop Chi Ling from picking it up? The card might contain some powerful skills, but it was thrown away like that. What a shame.]
[Exactly. Just now, Chi Ling was about to pick it up, but Lin Chaojin could have gotten it without holding her back. I wonder what she was doing.]
[She really treats her like a daughter, and everyone has to listen to her.]
[Let's be honest, Sister Yan Ruo is really nice. Even though they found it first, she still offered it to Lin Chaojin and the others. How can she be so kind?]
[Heh, Miss, do you have the nerve to ask for this? You can't bully others because they are kind and easy to bully.]
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