Chapter 30 Battle Royale Recording (I)

The live broadcast lasted only one hour. Although netizens were clamoring to invite the King of Gossip to talk for a while longer, Yu Wen knew that these people were just talking nonsense.

The Rain Suckers =

"Actually, you are all just supporting me out of habit. You don't really like me that much." Yu Wen was quite proud. "Xiao Yu now knows a lot about the entertainment industry."

After being exposed that day, he did a lot of hard work for several days!

"If you say that, I won't leave."

"I weigh 100 kilograms, and I have 200 kilograms of rebelliousness. Can you tell me for sure?"

"I've taken the seat of the Queen (cyber wooden fish knocks knocks)"

"Heh (evil smile) You little thing, you have successfully aroused my desire to win or lose."

"Okay, wait, I'll accompany you until you become popular and explode the universe!"

After the live broadcast, Yu Wen rested at home for a few days. On the night before Monday, he carried a small suitcase and embarked on a tense and exciting journey.

"Battle Royale" has started recording!

With the experience of recording a variety show last time, Yu Wen skillfully communicated with the staff and recorded some pre-interviews in the car.

The first recording destination is in the suburbs of Linshi. The specific location was not notified in advance. The staff arranged a hotel, and the styling team knocked on the door early the next morning.

"Battle Royale" has always been full of mystery, unlike other variety shows that arrange for guests to meet and get acquainted in advance. Not to mention meeting, Yu Wen only knew the names of several other regular guests from the PD's official Weibo, and didn't even have contact information. When he

arrived halfway up the mountain in the program crew's car, Yu Wen saw an unexpected face. Jian Heng waved at him very enthusiastically. Yu Wen:? The guests who were present had already made their looks, and there were only him and Jian Heng in the open space in front of them. Jian Heng was wearing a medieval outfit that looked a bit sloppy, with the details deliberately made to look old and gray, and he was holding a lute in his hand. When he got closer, Yu Wen asked him, "Aren't you going to record a romance variety show?" Jian Heng was still cheerful, "I died." Yu Wen: ...Is this something we should be happy about? "Although I didn't make it to the romance variety show, I got a chance to be on Battle Royale! I won't tell you who became famous, but you, Xiao Yu, have contributed a lot!" Jian Heng pounded his chest gratefully, and finally praised him with sparkling eyes: "And Xiao Yu, you are super handsome today!" Yu Wen looked down at his outfit. The styling of Battle Royale is usually related to their identity, and the identity cards are drawn online by the staff two weeks in advance, so the styling team has enough time to modify and add to make the styling more suitable for the artist. His waistcoat and long boots set off his tall figure, with a complicated belt set around his waist, a shining badge on his chest, and a sword on his left hip, which he had just taken off to affect his movements. With a light touch of his fingertips, he could touch the rubies inlaid on the hilt. He also had a cape on his shoulders, with tassels falling along the folds. Yu Wen estimated that his identity today was either a prince or a warrior. The classical castle behind him exuding medieval colors undoubtedly verified his guess of the worldview. It is indeed a famous variety show that burns money. Jian Heng looked him over, stroking his chin and said, "It seems that you are the most handsome guy this time. My little partner is outstanding... But one of us is holding a sword and the other is holding a guitar. What should we do if we can't run today?" Both of them have done their homework. NPCs will constantly appear in the middle of "Battle Royale". Once they touch the health bar, they will lose a lot of blood. Once the blood bar is cleared, they will "die" immediately. "Guitar?" The topic deviated for a moment, and Yu Wen looked at the lute in his arms in surprise, "The guitar only has six strings." The one in your hand, you can't count them at a glance. "What? I thought it was a variation of the guitar. What is a lute?" Yu Wen choked. Jian Heng spoke so confidently that he doubted his own judgment for a moment. It turned out that this guy was just talking nonsense... "The lute is a solo instrument that was popular in Europe during the Renaissance." Yu Wen thought about it and summarized it briefly: "... In short, it is a plucked string instrument that is difficult to play. It was a favorite travel item of medieval bards." Jian Heng carefully counted the strings, "Wow, eleven." He said, "You know a lot. Can you play this lute?" Yu Wen hesitated, "A little bit." When I was in college, I learned it from a classmate who was good at musical instruments, but I didn't learn it well. I haven't touched it for several years and almost forgot it. Jian Heng's eyes lit up, and just when he was about to let him play a song, the third guest's car arrived. It was another familiar face. Tong Li got off the car in a complicated bell-bottom skirt and smiled when she saw them, "Hello, hello, how are you?" Tong Li is also a new resident this season. As the brainpower of "The Mountain", she bargained with the program team to get a lot of resources for her. She is the only one among the other four residents who has worked with Yu Wen before. The appearance of an acquaintance made Yu Wen relax a little. Soon, the remaining three guests arrived one after another. Two of the residents this season are familiar faces from the previous two seasons: veteran national MC Fan Xiangyang and first-line actor Daniel Lee. The latter has a quarter of Scottish descent and is loved by the audience for his handsome and deep face and his high level of dedication to each identity card. He even deliberately changes the way he speaks to match the character setting in the show. The other is Yi Ming, a young star who has become popular in recent years and has her own traffic. The guests were not given much time to socialize. After a simple nod and greeting, the program team covered their eyes with black cloth and led them to the castle behind them. This castle is located on the hillside deep in the forest, surrounded by towering trees that stretch as far as the eye can see. When landing, Yu Wen quietly took a look at the appearance of the castle - lonely and dilapidated. The clock tower has stopped working, the pointer is missing the hour hand, the walls are a little mottled, and even the outer fence is covered with cobwebs and rusted. It looks like an abandoned castle that has been uninhabited for a long time. The staff took them to the designated location, settled them, and left quietly. "Zizi... Zizi..."

There was a somewhat intermittent radio sound in the house. Yu Wen took off his blindfold and looked around. He was surprised to find that unlike the cold and dilapidated appearance from the outside, the interior of this castle was actually bright and beautiful. This might be a study room, with a full bookshelf standing in the corner, and he was sitting at a desk. On the left hand side was a brass bird ornament, which was vivid, and the ruby ​​in its eyes was glowing.

The radio sounded from the corner, where a small speaker was hung.

"Zizi... This is the castle of the evil dragon, dear guests... Welcome to your arrival..."

The voice was low and hoarse, as calm as a machine, but if you listened carefully, you could hear a vague malice.

"In the twelfth year of William I's reign, a team of brave men came to the castle deep in the forest to look for the princess. Great warriors, you are the heroes carefully selected by the king. The brave men's swords are sharp and unparalleled. The great magician can face thousands of troops alone. The stubborn dwarves will not succumb to the iron knights. The clever elves have comprehended the most difficult healing magic...

The dragon's castle is full of crises. Ghosts are watching you, warriors. There are many crises on the way to find the princess..."

Yu Wen suddenly tilted his head - he heard the echo from the corridor outside, which means that the broadcast was not broadcast to a single person, but to the "guests" of the entire castle.

"The road ahead is uncertain, and everyone is an enemy."

- This is the last sentence of the broadcast. Compared with the previous background introduction, this sentence is more like a piece of advice.

After the broadcast, Yu Wen met the bird on the table, tapped the armrest of the chair, and sorted out the rules of "Battle Royale" in his memory.

They will have different identities in each episode. At the beginning, they will only be given some superficial clues. From the clothes, the surroundings after waking up, the objects on their bodies... they can roughly guess the characters they play in this episode. But just knowing who you are is far from enough. As the recording progresses, more clues are revealed, and the guests can gradually learn the stories of these characters. At the end, it's time to compete for information.

Because there are two necessary conditions to determine whether you can escape: one is to unlock your own complete story line, and the other is that the health bar is higher than 20%.

When completing tasks and unlocking story lines, you will constantly encounter attacks from NPCs. The health bar representing your health will drop again and again. When it drops to 20%, you cannot escape; when it drops to zero, you will die.

There is only one way to restore your health bar: hunt your "prey".

In their story lines, there is a hidden "hunting chain". Your identity information will tell you who is the prey that can provide you with "nutrients" when your health drops to 20%.

Generally speaking, the hunting chains of all guests can form a closed loop.

The story line is particularly important in such a crisis.

Yu Wen glanced at the back of his hand. On the black half-finger glove, three blue bars were flashing with fluorescent light. The blue bar near the thumb side had dropped to almost half.

How come the health points dropped so quickly this time? He frowned in confusion.

In addition to the attacks of NPCs, simple survival also consumes health points, which means that even if you sit still, the blue bar will drop.

Under such rules, "time is life" is reflected vividly.

Yu Wen stood up and looked around - the space they were in after they closed their eyes generally meant "home", hiding a lot of identity information.

In order to avoid being chased by NPCs after going out, he decided to turn this room upside down before leaving.

-

[Seventh day from last.

We traveled through mountains and rivers and found this castle based on the clues left by the princess.

Its words are very intimidating, and I don't know if they are true or false. Just in case, I decided to record my findings.

...

Sixth day from last.

Ghosts are everywhere. The great magician is injured. Time has frozen here and his wounds cannot heal.

Blood is gushing out. I must find a way to check and balance it as soon as possible, otherwise he will die from excessive bleeding!

...

Fifth day from last.

We found traces of the princess! The princess must be in this castle, there is no doubt about it!

...

Fourth day from last.

We rescued the princess.

But the great magician is dead.

...

Third day from last.

This is despairing news... The magic cast on the castle is as strong as an endless mountain range... Without the great magician, we are powerless to break through.

...

Second day from last.

In order to save the dwarves, the elves sacrificed themselves.

I must take them away! Only then can I be worthy of my dead companions!

Invincible hero! Draw the sword in your hand countless times and break through the maze in front of you!

...

The first day before the countdown.

We can't get out.

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This is a notebook placed on the desk in front of me. There are only a few pages written on it. The handwriting is clear and a little sloppy. If you flip back, you can see some analysis of the castle.

It was mentioned in the broadcast just now that the entire castle belongs to the "evil dragon" and they are all "guests", so Yu Wen naturally cannot be the owner of this study. It's just that for some unknown reason, he stayed in this study and left a lot of traces.

The feather pen and ink bottle were placed in a mess on the right side, and there were more than a dozen open books on the table. The vertical bookcase was half-opened and half-closed, and the books inside were simply placed and not restored.

——"He" stayed in this study, flipping through the collection of books, looking for a way to break through the magic.

Yu Wen hesitated for a moment, then started from the desk and quickly flipped through all the drawers in the room that could hold things. He had a rough idea of ​​what was inside, and then came to the bookcase.

Before turning the pages, he subconsciously glanced at the health bar on the back of his hand - the first grid was already empty.

No, it was dropping too fast, it was not normal.

Theoretically, their health bars should be able to sustain life activities for 24 hours.

Yu Wen turned around again and scanned everything in the room.

It was no different from what he saw at first glance, the low cabinet, the desk, the messy table top, the brass ornaments...

His gaze suddenly fixed on the brass bird.

Just now when he was sitting at the desk, the bird was looking right at his eyes. Why was the bird still looking at him when he walked to the bookcase?

"The ghost is watching you."

The ghost is a bird?

Yu Wen suppressed his thoughts for the time being, pulled off the dust cloth on the high cabinet, and covered the bird with it.

The scarlet gaze disappeared, leaving only a slightly raised mass on the table to show its existence.

There are about sixty books in the bookcase, and with the books spread out on the desk, there are more than seventy books. Yu Wen decided to quickly scan them.

There are also tips for scanning books: first the title, then the table of contents, then the preface, and then quickly browse the possibly important ones from the table of contents. After following this process, you can basically file all the clues in your mind, so it won't be a hassle to find them later, and it can make up for his lack of Western fantasy worldview.

Twenty minutes later, he glanced at the health bar.

There was still a little blood left in the first bar.

The blood loss rate was much slower than before, and it was basically certain that the bird was causing trouble.

Thinking of this, Yu Wen hugged the book and looked back.

...The dust cloth fell to the ground, and the brass ornaments on the desk disappeared.

Yu Wen held the book in one hand, and the cross sword that was in the way was carried on his shoulder. He glanced around and saw no trace of the bird.

Where did it go?

There was a slight breeze at the back of his neck, and Yu Wen seemed to sense something and turned his head suddenly.

Bang - snap -

the sword swept the brass bird with a low collision, and the mechanical creature hit the wall. Its pair of brass wings flapped stiffly, but it finally couldn't resist its fate -

it fell to the ground with a snap.

No movement.

Yu Wen: "..."

Do I have to pay for the damaged props?

He glanced at the camera in the corner of the room quietly, where the executive PD and a large number of staff must be sitting at the moment. Yu Wen took the sword off his shoulder with a guilty conscience and held it in his hand honestly.

He looked at the half-dead brass bird on the ground, hesitated, and still tried to rescue it.

The tail of the cross sword stretched out and poked the little yellow bird tentatively.

The next second, click -

the little yellow bird and the tail of the sword were tightly magnetically sucked together.

Yu Wen:?

This bird can fly by itself, it's not strange that it's an electronic device, and it's not strange that there are magnetic components in electronic devices... But what does this have to do with the tail of your leather sword sheath?

Could it be that the program team installed some special device on the tail of the cross sword?

Yu Wen pushed the little yellow bird away and pinched the tail of the sword... It was hard.

He stretched out the tail of the sword again, and about ten centimeters away, the little yellow bird was sucked over with a click.

Push it away again, try again... After repeating back and forth four or five times, Yu Wen finally confirmed that there was indeed a special device in the tail of the sword that could produce a magnetic attraction effect with the little yellow bird.

He suddenly realized that this was a bug.

If this brass bird is today's NPC, that is, the "ghost" mentioned in the broadcast, then he doesn't have to be afraid of the ghost's pursuit. As long as he makes sure he is not in a wide open space, the ghost needs to get closer to scan him, and he can use this sword... to arrest the ghost.

Realizing this, Yu Wen slowly raised his eyes and looked at the camera in the corner.

He raised an awkward but polite smile.

After the camera, the executive director and staff also realized this.

Everyone was silent.