Chapter 423: The Ship Will Sink When It Comes to the Bridge
Crackling...
The remaining moisture in the branches made a crackling sound when it encountered the flames.
In the camera, a beautiful girl skillfully used the tools in her hands to handle a fish that looked to be at least 2 kilograms. While putting the fish on a simple grill over the fire, she sighed with a bitter face and said, "This is all the harvest on the first day. Can I really last seven days... If I don't get first place this time, the next round will be dangerous."
"Forget it. When the time comes, let's just get through today. I just don't know how the other trainees are doing. Are they already enjoying a feast of wild game?"
Having said this, the girl sighed again, picked up a coconut at hand, drank the coconut milk in one gulp, and an expression of extreme satisfaction appeared on her face.
She picked coconuts from the coconut trees on the beach.
As a trainee who has been trained by a wilderness survival master, climbing a coconut tree should be a basic survival skill that everyone knows, right?
"Well, now that things have come to this, let's eat first."
The fresh fish was placed on the grill, sizzling and dripping with oil. Even though Yang Ruoqian knew that the taste of the fish would definitely not be better than cooking it at home due to the lack of seasoning and modern processing, he still felt a craving in his stomach.
At least this thing won't taste bad! Why bother with these things on a deserted island?
There are a lot of trainees who still can't let go of the food they ate before, and would rather waste their precious energy wandering around, drawing an incorrect map with their poor memory, or doing other meaningless things.
But no matter what they were doing, there was one thing in common - no one found food.
Even though some trainees kept their mentors' instructions in mind and thought of the most easily available fat, fresh water and electrolytes on the island - coconuts, they could only stare at the tall coconut trees in amazement.
How do you get this thing off?
On the first day, almost all the trainees except Kong Feifei were unable to get any food. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were completely wiped out.
Chang Zhiqing was also very interested in this kind of wilderness survival project. At this time, they had left the helicopter and returned to the villa specially prepared for them.
"Is this how we survive? I think the difficulty is a little low." Chang Zhiqing commented as she looked at the island. "This island has obviously been tampered with. There are a lot of resources."
If it is a completely hardcore wilderness survival, the whole thing will be full of "running for life". Every day you are either looking for food or on the way to find food. If you are unlucky, you will have to rely on yourself to get through seven days.
Even Lu Ling, a survival expert who has done many full-length recordings, has experienced not having a decent meal for three whole days.
Not to mention those trainees who have lived in the city since childhood and only underwent simple training before surviving.
Appropriately reducing the difficulty can increase investment and make the variety show more effective. Yang Ruoqian certainly agrees with this.
The program team of Kuiguang Group will not be stubborn and will tell the audience that there will be more supplies on the island than normal, and they don’t care.
Compared to the program crew that tells the truth, the audience hates the program crew that obviously tampered with the program but insisted that it did not tamper with the program in order to create a good image.
But as a pure spectator, Chang Zhiqing understood the situation, but she still hoped that something more exciting would happen.
Yang Ruoqian laughed: "How can it be so simple? Since we have appropriately lowered the hard difficulty, we will definitely appropriately increase the soft difficulty."
Chang Zhiqing paused for a moment while holding the iced coconut, with a look of curiosity on her face: "What's the difficulty increase?"
"Didn't we say before that the winners of the previous stage will be rewarded, and those who fell on the edge of elimination in the previous stage will be punished... The punishment will come soon." Yang Ruoqian explained, "Kong Feifei's performance in the previous round was not satisfactory, and she will definitely be included in the punishment list by the program team."
Chang Zhiqing became more interested: "What exactly is the punishment?"
"If we can't start with the trainee resources, we can start with the human factors." Yang Ruoqian smiled, "The production team found a few people who look 30% like the contestants. They will pretend to be a certain trainee, approach the punished contestants under deliberate arrangements, and use different means to mess with them."
"Anyway, on a deserted island, the trainees' original image will be almost destroyed in two days, and no one will be able to see anything."
"The production team fully respects the trainees' privacy and does not engage in awkward interactions. As long as they do not arrange trainees who are familiar with each other, there is no need to worry about being discovered."
"It's okay if they find out. Just consider it as a trainee successfully passing this punishment."
"That's quite mean. Did you come up with this idea?" Chang Zhiqing thought for a moment and glanced at Yang Ruoqian out of the corner of her eye. "It looks very much like your abstract style."
"The production team came up with this... I'm overwhelmed with the amount of work in the company right now, so how could I have the energy to work out such specific details for a variety show?" Yang Ruoqian sighed, "And how am I abstract?"
What abstraction! As a person who was as busy as Qi Mu in the whole company, Yang Ruoqian had saved only enough money to buy two Rolls-Royces after two years.
One is called Rolls-Royce Vanishing and the other is called Rolls-Royce Illusion.
Abstractions are all superficial. He just wants to make some money. Is it that difficult?
Chang Zhiqing crossed her arms and smiled, "You came up with a lot of your dirty tricks before, so don't put the blame on the employees. But, has the production team ever considered a problem? If a staff member pretends to be a trainee to harm others, will it have a bad impact on the trainee himself?"
"I definitely considered it." Yang Ruoqian put on his bathrobe, curled up on the sofa, watched the live broadcast and ate a lot of tropical fruits that he couldn't eat normally, and continued to explain, "Variety shows are all shot and released after editing. The audience can know from the narration and text introduction that these people are not real trainees, but staff members pretending to be insiders."
Chang Zhiqing changed into a nightgown, wrapped her slender figure tightly in the wide robe, and half-lying on the sofa: "That's fine... I quite like trainees like Kong Feifei, and I think she will be quite popular. If she is eliminated before the top nine, will you just let her go? I think she will be signed by another agency."
Now, many small and medium-sized brokerage companies have discovered a new code to get rich - picking the remaining people from the Kuiguang Group!
Since the group's reputation has grown, various film and television dramas and variety shows have been presented to the audience one after another, and many agents have also seen business opportunities.
Just because someone is eliminated by Kuiguang Group doesn’t mean they have no commercial value!
Even if the big companies don't like the artists, they can still make enough money for the small companies.
Many artists who have performed well in variety shows, accumulated popularity and have a good reputation, or actors who have performed well on the set of a drama but have not been hired by the director for various reasons, are often eliminated and soon after, many agents come to them, vying to sign them.
Although outsiders are not allowed to enter the film set, under the instruction of Yang Ruoqian and other company executives, all film sets of Kuiguang Group will have dedicated staff to create a group for these agents, and record some clips that can be released and send them to the group.
If there are agents out there who are interested in these actors, they can sign them directly.
This process is very cumbersome and involves many more manual processes, but it can also bring good reputation to the Kuiguang Group, which is very much in line with Yang Ruoqian's wishes.
So now even a large number of "friendly competitors" including Tianyue Group respect Kuiguang Group and Yang Ruoqian himself.
As long as one is a person, he or she does not even need to have a good relationship with the Kuiguang Group. As long as he or she has not offended Yang Ruoqian, he or she can become a beneficiary.
Those who are capable can get the best resources without relying on any other factors.
Previously, because the Kuiguang Group and the old entertainment companies were incompatible, they each did their own thing in many things, which gave them a strange feeling that your entertainment circle and my entertainment circle were not the same circle.
The traditional entertainment industry doesn’t want to play with the Kuiguang Group, but the Kuiguang Group is a self-contained system and doesn’t want to play with them either.
This situation reached its peak after the Kuiguang Group launched its own entertainment industry honor awards.
People don’t even bother to play on the same track with them for the honor!
In the eyes of countless veteran entertainment capitals, what stands out about the Kuiguang Group is its self-entertainment.
In fact, if things ended here, it wouldn't be a big deal. The entertainment market is large enough, and the production capacity of a single company, Kuiguang Group, is limited after all. Even if it can stably produce high-quality products in all fields, from a macro perspective, it's just a piece of the pie, which is not a big deal.
However, the speed at which trends change among celebrities in the entertainment industry is so fast that it has exceeded everyone's expectations.
A large number of new talents choose Kuiguang Group as their first choice for cooperation and signing, and a large number of companies have found that they can make more profits by turning to Kuiguang Group. Even netizens and audiences believe that the honors awarded by Kuiguang Group are far more valuable than traditional entertainment honors.
The Cornerstone Award should be a benchmark of honor.
In the past two years, not only has the Kuiguang Group not shown any signs of amusing itself, but these old guys are starting to seem to be amusing themselves.
After the Golden Horse Foundation Awards were presented, traditional awards were actually presented once, and it was done in a very serious manner. However, compared with the popularity of the awards ceremony held by the Kuiguang Group, which had only been held for a year, it is no exaggeration to say that it was a joke.
It feels like... suddenly the entire entertainment industry doesn't want to play with them anymore.
The outsider is actually me!
In fact, it is easy to understand. On one side, the remuneration is high, the contract is conscientious, the resource support is in place, the focus is on IP building, and there are no unspoken rules; while on the other side, it is completely the opposite...
Everyone knows how to choose.
This huge variety show was also watched by countless eyes.
They were determined to grab the leftovers from Kuiguang Group! Countless agencies were secretly hoping that Kong Feifei would not make it into the top nine and would not sign a contract with Kuiguang Group.
Yang Ruoqian was well aware of this kind of thing, and also knew what Chang Zhiqing was referring to. He took a bite of the unknown fruit and said, "It all depends on her luck."
"Tsk, you're really willing to do that... Don't you know that her traffic alone is about to revitalize their entire girl group?"
"Girl group?" Yang Ruoqian was half a beat slower in digging the fruit. "What girl group?"
"Don't you know that Kong Feifei is in a girl group?"
I really don’t know! Now Yang Ruoqian has completely regarded himself as an audience member. He doesn’t care about many details and doesn’t want to care.
He put down the fruit and perked up: "How many people are there in this girl group?"
Chang Zhiqing didn't quite understand why Yang Ruoqian was so interested all of a sudden, so she answered blankly, "I remember there were six or seven people like this, right? What happened?"
"Sign! Even if she is eliminated early, Kong Feifei must be signed. Not only her, but also her girl group!" Yang Ruoqian said without thinking, "I will pay for the signing!"
Good, there's a buy one get six free deal! A girl group that has been around for so long and remains unknown must find an excuse to recruit them.
They seem to be alive now, but in fact they are largely dependent on the temporary traffic brought by Kong Feifei.
Once the traffic disappears, they will immediately be back to their original state.
And I heard that many teams nowadays can share hardships but not wealth. If there are any conflicts among them, won’t all the resources invested in them be wasted?
"You change your face very quickly..." Chang Zhiqing complained, "Is it because the company doesn't have a girl group?"
So far, there is only one real artist team in Kuiguang Group, and that is the Huang Rushi Macho Dance Troupe that is running all the way on the macho road.
Their macho version of New Treasure Island is still firmly at the top of the B station's playback volume list, but in any case, they cannot be considered a serious group.
Yang Ruoqian chose to sign with Kong Feifei's girl group, which was the group's first exploration in the relevant field.
"That's it." President Yang once again inevitably entered the working state while on vacation, but he didn't care about it at this time. "Let me see what outstanding performance our company's future girl group will have when facing punishment!"
"Who are you giving your speech to?"
“…”
As he spoke, the screen switched to the staff's exclusive perspective.
This is a tall woman who is about 1.75 meters tall and has a toned body but does not look out of place at all.
She smeared a handful of mud on her clothes, smiled at the camera, and showed off her beautiful waistline: "Then let's go over now and see where Kong Feifei is."
As she spoke, she looked at the navigation and headed in that direction along the nearest route.
More than ten minutes later, a small ball of fire came into view in the twilight, and in the distance Kong Feifei could be vaguely seen squatting next to the campfire and barbecuing.
"You're doing pretty well. You're worthy of being Kong Feifei... You didn't let anyone down."
The staff member pretending to be a trainee laughed with a bad taste in his mouth: "But it's okay, little girl, you're unlucky to meet me~"
(End of this chapter)
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