Chapter 73 Amusement Park Part-time Task
After completing the mission, Jin Li retired, leaving the members alone to face the cameraman.
People who often watch variety shows are familiar with the routines of the program planning team, and the importance of task points is self-evident.
So, they have to make as much money as possible.
It was 8:00 AM when we arrived at Universal Studios, and the sun was already high in the sky. Since the park hadn't opened yet, there were few people at the main entrance.
Without wasting any time, the members rushed to the address marked on the note.
The milk tea shop, ice cream shop, and fast food restaurant were all located on the amusement park's food court, so Lei Lie and his six companions headed for the same route. The toy store was in another direction, so Zheng Xingye and Cui Junxi had already left the main group.
Mo Bei and Zhong Gaoyi, the only two who drew amusement park facilities, embarked on a completely different path from their teammates.
"You guys are the extras in the haunted house today, right?"
The owner of the haunted house who greeted the two was a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties. Although he had an ordinary appearance, he looked kind.
Mo Bei nodded slightly, "Hello. I'm Jiang Mo Nan, you can just call me Xiao Jiang."
On the side, Zhong Gaoyi followed up and said, "I'm Xiao Zhong."
"My last name is Li. You can just call me Brother Li."
Just as his first impression gave people, Brother Li was not a difficult person to get along with, and he quickly began to introduce the work flow to the two of them.
Although it is a workflow, there is actually nothing special that needs to be introduced.
The job of a haunted house actor is very simple. They just need to put on makeup and dress up as ghosts, lie in ambush near the mechanism of the scene, and jump out to scare people when the tourists trigger it.
However, even such a simple task is still a big challenge for Zhong Gaoyi, who is naturally afraid of scary things.
However, Brother Li didn't seem to notice Zhong Gaoyi's timidity and uneasiness. He just enthusiastically introduced the scenes of the haunted house. "Our haunted house has three main scenes: Zombie Resurrection Night, Ghost Marriage in the Old House, and the Wilderness Haunted Village. Which scene do you want to go to?"
Zhong Gaoyi: “…”
I don't want to go to any of them.
When Mo Bei heard about the Zombie Resurrection Night, his eyes flickered slightly, and he asked calmly, "Excuse me, are we going to play zombies on the Zombie Resurrection Night?"
"Of course!" Brother Li replied with a smile. "By the way, the actress originally supposed to play the bride in the Ghost Marriage at the Old House happened to be on leave today, so if you choose the Ghost Marriage at the Old House, you'll need to play the bride. As for the Haunted Village in the Wilderness, you'll mainly play the villagers who have transformed into zombies. This is a real test of your acting skills. If you play it well, you'll be a zombie, but if you don't, you'll look like a crazy psychopath."
As if worried that the two would feel psychologically burdened by his words, Brother Li changed the subject and said, "It doesn't matter if I can't act well. After all, I can still scare tourists with my scary look. You can choose whatever you want. I'll take the remaining role."
Mo Bei already had a plan in mind, "Then I'll choose the night of the zombie resurrection."
A zombie playing a zombie is also a true portrayal of himself.
Unexpectedly, Brother Mo Nan made the decision so quickly, which made Zhong Gaoyi, who was already afraid and resistant, feel troubled for a moment.
Seeing Zhong Gaoyi's embarrassment, Mo Bei asked Brother Li, "Which of the remaining two scenes is relatively less scary? My friend is a little afraid of this."
Hearing this question, Brother Li rubbed his chin and said, "Actually, they're all pretty scary. Our haunted house is pretty well-known in Yuehai City."
Brother Li paused and said, "If you're really scared, then choose a ghost marriage. You need to wear a red veil to play the bride. If you can't see it, won't you be less scared?"
Hearing this, Zhong Gaoyi nodded with a fearless look on his face: "Okay! Then I'll choose this one."
Since there is no way to change the current situation, he can only choose the less bad one from the two options.
only……
"Although the red veil makes it impossible to see the scary props in the scene, it also makes it impossible to see people. How am I going to scare the tourists later?"
Hearing Zhong Gaoyi's question, Brother Li chuckled and took out two pairs of headphones. "Put these on. If any tourists enter the scene, our colleagues in the monitoring room will alert you."
Hearing this, Zhong Gaoyi suddenly realized, "So there is this method."
Brother Li smiled and waved his hands, "Alright. The park is about to open. Hurry up and change your clothes and put on makeup."
With that, the two were pushed into the dressing room.
Just like in a serious movie, the actors in the haunted house are also given great attention to their makeup.
He wore tattered clothes that matched the character's setting, put on a long wig, and then Brother Li personally applied terrifying makeup and long fangs to Mo Bei.
After a while, the handsome idol who was once loved by thousands of girls instantly turned into a zombie that gave people nightmares at the first sight.
Mo Bei looked around in the mirror and secretly sighed in his heart: I have to say, this look is actually quite similar to his zombie appearance.
Zhong Gaoyi donned a bright red wedding gown, a wig, and a phoenix crown. His handsome face was covered in a thick layer of white foundation, and his eye sockets and cheeks were painted with blue-gray veins. He looked nothing like a living person. As he sat on the bench with the red veil covering his head, the atmosphere of horror instantly took over.
Looking at himself in the mirror, Zhong Gaoyi's heart skipped a beat.
He had clearly seen this face since he was a child, and the facial features were still the same, but it gave people a creepy feeling.
This is too scary!
In order to ease Zhong Gaoyi's nervousness, Mo Bei started chatting with Brother Li.
"Brother Li, your makeup skills are amazing. You're almost as good as the professional makeup artists on the set."
Hearing Mo Bei's praise, Brother Li laughed out loud: "It's not as amazing as you say, I learned it all by myself."
"You are really amazing that you can draw so well even if you are self-taught."
"As for hobbies, interest is the best teacher."
After some small talk, the final preparations were completed.
Seeing that the time was almost 8:30, the two put on headphones and were taken to their respective exclusive scenes by the staff to lie in wait.
The scene of the zombie resurrection night simulates a mass grave in the wilderness, and Mo Bei's position is in a broken coffin.
Lying in the coffin again after several months, Mo Bei unexpectedly felt a long-lost sense of nostalgia.
It's strange to say, he was obviously quite frightened when he was just resurrected, but now, perhaps because his mentality has changed, he doesn't think the coffin is unlucky at all.
To be honest, he still doesn't know the true identity of this body, nor does he know why he was resurrected in an ancient corpse that had been dead for many years and looked very similar to himself. He also doesn't understand why the system chose him.
However, he has never liked to worry about trivial things. Since God has given him a new life, he will naturally cherish everything he has now.
Even if he now needs to lie in the coffin again and play the role of a zombie.
Unlike Mo Bei, who was accepting the situation well, Zhong Gaoyi was sitting in the middle of the wedding bed in the new room of the old house. He couldn't see anything around him because he was covered with a veil. The room was very quiet, and the cold air from the central air conditioner blew straight into people's pores, making them feel even more uneasy.
In order to relieve his nervousness and prevent himself from having wild thoughts, Zhong Gaoyi began to mutter to himself:
"Don't think too much. Everything here is fake. There are no ghosts in this world..."
Only his voice could be heard in the empty room. However, the silence was soon broken by the music specially configured for the scene in the haunted house.
Hearing this creepy music out of the blue, Zhong Gaoyi's breathing stagnated and he couldn't help but tremble all over.
"Mom, save me... I don't want to play anymore, I want to give up..."
Just then, footsteps were heard in the distant corridor. Then, a staff member’s voice came through the headset: “Tourists are coming, get ready.”
Upon hearing the news, Zhong Gaoyi stopped being afraid and sat up straight.
"Zhong Gaoyi, you can do it."
Perhaps it was the intrusion of tourists that allowed him to temporarily escape from the strange silence and loneliness. After taking a deep breath, his pounding heart gradually calmed down.
Then, he heard the conversation between two girls outside the door——
"Is this it?"
"It should be here. I heard crying in the house just now."
“…”
"Why don't we go? I'm a little scared."
"What are you afraid of? These are all fake."
As soon as the words fell, a "squeak" sound came from my ear.
The tightly closed wooden door was pushed open from the outside.
Zhong Gaoyi held his breath and waited quietly for the girls to approach.
However, before he could do anything, a high-pitched scream suddenly rang out in the house.
"Ahhhhhh there's a ghost!"
Apparently, having spotted the "ghost bride" sitting on the bed, the girl who had previously declared it was fake and nothing to be afraid of rushed out first. Her friend, left behind, was even more frightened and also ran out screaming.
“…”
Zhong Gaoyi sat motionless on the bed with a dazed look on his face.
Isn't that right? He didn't do anything.
The photographer who accidentally captured this scene while hiding in the closet couldn't help but smile.
He was originally a bit nervous about filming in such a place, but when he saw other tourists screaming so miserably, he suddenly wasn't afraid anymore.
Of course, in addition to the photographers who were filming, cameras were installed inside and at the entrance of the scene where the members were located, and they used night mode to shoot. However, to protect the privacy of the tourists, each of their faces would be blurred in the later stage.
Through the surveillance video of the haunted house, the two girls who were scared to death in the ghost marriage scene in the old house quickly ran to the zombie resurrection night scene where Mo Bei was.
Zhang Shanshan couldn't help but flinch at the eerie mass grave. Subconsciously, she grabbed her best friend's arm and said, "Xiaoyu, why don't we go out?"
Lin Keyu shook her head. "We've already spent the money for the tickets, we can't come here for nothing."
As she said that, she held her bestie's hand in return and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of if we're together."
Zhang Shanshan: “…”
You just said the same thing.
Resisting the urge to sabotage the show, Zhang Shanshan had no choice but to nod, "Yeah."
So the two girls bravely continued to move forward.
When Zhang Shanshan saw the tattered coffin in a corner of the scene not far away, she subconsciously took half a step back.
Seeing this, Lin Keyu quickly comforted her: "This should be a model. There must be a mechanism installed on the back. When we get close, the mechanism will pop up, and then-"
Suddenly, a bony, purple hand stretched out from the tattered coffin. Then, a terrifying face covered in fangs appeared before their eyes.
“What the hell—!”
For a moment, Lin Keyu didn't care about explaining, and subconsciously grabbed her best friend and ran away.
At the same time, the zombie behind them actually crawled out of the coffin and chased after them.
Seeing this, the two girls screamed in fear. The more timid one even started crying.
Mo Bei decided to quit while he was ahead, and stopped chasing them after they escaped from the zombie resurrection night scene area.
Lying back in front of the coffin, he smiled at the cameraman hiding in the corner and said, "This is quite interesting."
The cameraman, who was looking into the eyes of the green-faced and fanged Mo Bei, said: "..."
Weak, pitiful, scared and helpless.
While Mo Bei and Zhong Gaoyi's work as haunted house actors was progressing smoothly, other members on the other side also encountered various problems.
Wearing the pink ice cream shop uniform, Xu Tingchuan looked a little ugly.
He had never worn anything so pastel-colored since he was a kid. It wasn't cool at all.
Bai Li accepted this uniform well.
Because of their outstanding appearance, the store manager originally wanted to send them out to distribute flyers to attract customers. However, after learning that they were not allowed to show their faces, he could only assign them simple tasks such as cashiering and clearing tables in the store.
But even with masks covering most of their faces, the two people with their height and long legs were still very conspicuous.
There were many young girls among the tourists who passed by the ice cream shop and couldn't help but go in when they saw the two of them.
"Welcome, what can I do for you?"
At the cashier counter, the handsome guy in charge of taking orders has a pair of charming eyes and eyebrows that make people fall in love with them at first sight.
Liu Xinyi, who was bewitched by the handsome guy, was stunned for a moment. With a slight blush on her cheeks, she looked away at the menu beside her. "Um... I want a chocolate ice cream."
"Okay, please wait."
While the boy was ordering, Liu Xinyi mustered up the courage to secretly observe him. She screamed madly in her heart—
So handsome!
The sound is nice too!
It's a pity that I can't see the whole face.
Liu Xinyi complained in her heart and her eyes began to turn to the other side.
This ice cream shop offers dine-in service, and many people choose to dine in the store in order to look at the handsome guy for a while longer.
Not far away at table number 2, two girls were blushing as they placed their orders with another handsome waiter: "I want a strawberry sundae and a double scoop of vanilla and taro ice cream. And a French toast!"
Compared to the handsome guy at the cashier, this guy looks more aloof and taciturn. But even so, the gloomy temperament he exudes is still fascinating.
Watching the handsome guy who took the order leave, many people whispered to each other:
"He's really handsome."
"I just don't know if he has a girlfriend..."
"No matter whether he has it or not, I'll try to get WeChat later."
"Although, do you think he looks familiar?"
"Is there?"
"I always feel like I've seen them somewhere. Could it be... at a comic convention?"
"No, it should be on the D note!"
While the customers in the ice cream shop were still arguing about where they had seen these two handsome guys, Sheng Yanyu and Yi Chuheng, who worked in a milk tea shop, were recognized by fans after only an hour.
Despite their vehement denials, the two were ultimately unable to escape the eagle-eyed gaze of their fans. Seeing that denial was impossible, the two had no choice but to bite the bullet and admit it.
The mission cannot be completed, and there may even be a crisis of being at the bottom.
Unexpectedly, they met Zidan by chance in the amusement park. The excited fans posted photos online immediately. The encounter photos were like a bomb that immediately blew up the fans online.
Some fans who were already in Yuehai City became increasingly restless and asked questions in the comment section of netizens they had met by chance, such as "Is he still there?" and "Is it too late to rush over now?"
Unfortunately, after being exposed, the two were asked to stop their mission by the crew and moved to another location in a hurry.
After all, the members' identities have been exposed, and staying there will only cause chaos at the scene.
Also at risk of being exposed are Tao Xiaotie and Lei Lie, who also work at a fast food restaurant.
"Excuse me, who are you..."
"no."
Avoiding the inquiring gaze of the girl in front of him, Tao Xiaotie quickly put down the meal.
But even if I turned my back, I could still feel the burning gaze from behind.
He was thinking too beautifully.
Not only does the waiter not get to eat delicious food, he also has to bear the risk of being caught at any time. In addition, he has to suppress his instincts and struggle to resist his greed for food.
This is too difficult for Taotie!
In comparison, Choi Jun-hee and Jung Xingye, who work in a doll peripheral store, seem to have it much easier.
The two of them were fully armed and dressed in doll costumes. Not only their fans, but even their own parents couldn't recognize them when they saw them dressed like this.
Although it was a bit hot to work in a doll costume, fortunately the air conditioning in the store was turned on very high, so it was not unbearable.
Unlike other members of the service industry who had no effective disguise and were in close contact with customers, Mo Bei and Zhong Gaoyi, who were currently playing ghosts in the haunted house, could not even get close to the tourists. The tourists would hide away from them the moment they saw them.
In addition, the makeup created by Brother Li that would give even ghosts nightmares meant that the two of them were completely free of any risk of being exposed.
Zhong Gaoyi, who was originally afraid of scary things, gradually found the fun of playing a ghost amid the screams of tourists and slowly broke down his original psychological barriers.
Although ghosts are scary, it seems that nothing is scary anymore after you become one.
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