Chapter 78 World 2 [48]
The six people looked in the direction indicated by the director. On the open space on the outskirts of the island complex, there were more than twenty small wooden houses.
It is not actually appropriate to describe it as a log cabin. Each cabin seems to be one and a half stories high, and the half floor is like an attic.
The wooden house covers an area of about 60 square meters. It is quite spacious for one person to live in, and it is not a cramped place even for a family of three.
Of course, if you compare the wooden house with a luxurious building complex covering tens of thousands of square meters, it can indeed be called a cabin.
After answering the questions that netizens were most concerned about, the director briefly introduced the scope of the event. Except for the very gorgeous buildings in the center of the island, other places on the island are open to guests.
Not only are there two yachts parked at the pier, but the off-road vehicles on the island are also available for use at will, provided you have a reliable relevant driving license.
[Wow, if the entire island is open, three days is a bit too short. I feel like I can't explore it all. I think I can spend seven days filming and see more.]
I think the production team also wanted to extend the filming time a bit, but if three days cost one million, the price for seven days would be too much for the production team to afford.
[But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with wilderness survival, right? We all have cabins to live in. I remember my wife Qingqing's last desert island survival adventure was truly about survival: fishing, catching seafood, living in a tent, and even cooking our own meals.]
After briefly explaining the range of activities available to the six guests, Director Qin, who was in charge of the filming, began to introduce the six guests with a loudspeaker.
Jing Ke and Shao Qing are the most well-known among the six, and also have the highest status. It can be said that no one in the entertainment industry wants to go against the former.
Liu Chang, originally a popular wilderness survival expert, has officially debuted as a regular guest. After the New Year, he took on a few tough-guy character roles, which made a small splash in the entertainment industry, and his number of fans has reached millions.
Qin Zheng is the former stepmother of the young duke. She is a little less popular than Shao Qing, but because she is a regular guest on "Who is the Murderer?", she often appears in various variety shows and has a good reputation among the public.
Yao Lan, a recent winner of the Newcomer Award, is currently very popular. She appears to have never worked with Jing Ke or Shao Qing before, making her the only new female artist in the six-member group.
But Jing Ke, who had investigated the identities of the guests in advance, knew very well that Yao Lan was the cousin of Xiao Yao, who had previously tried to rely on Director Zhang to snatch the third female role in Shao Qing's tribute film.
Jing Ke is not sure about the relationship between Yao Lan and Xiao Yao for the time being. Judging from the messages and interactions on public social platforms, the most basic superficial sisterhood should exist.
As for the last guest, the only new male member in the group, it was Xu Yi who debuted last year. Initially, Xu Yi emerged as a celebrity under the name of Xiao Xu Yin.
After Xu Yin was taken away by the police for investigation and was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison, Xu Yi quickly got rid of the label of "Little Xu Yin" and gained a lot of fans with his sunny and cheerful personality.
After learning about the guest structure, Jing Ke almost understood why the program team spent money to invite herself and Shao Qing.
If the new program team fails to get off to a good start, then this variety show that mixes love and wilderness survival will definitely fail, and it will be a silent failure.
"Next, I will announce the tasks that the guests need to complete when staying in the cabin." Director Qin is only in her early thirties. She and Qin Zheng have no blood relationship, they are just good friends.
At least one-third of the reason why Director Qin invited Jing Ke and Shao Qing to be the guests of the first episode was because of Qin Zheng's strong recommendation.
"The six guests will be divided into teams of two on a voluntary basis. Once paired, the two members of the team will be assigned to different locations on the island. Each person will have a tracking watch on their wrist that will indicate the distance between them and their teammates every ten minutes."
Director Qin held up a loud speaker and explained the rules. "It's currently 2:00 PM. If you don't reunite with your teammates within three hours, that is, before 5:00 PM, you will lose your right to stay in the cabin and will have to sleep in a tent tonight."
"The first team to complete the rendezvous will receive luxurious ingredients. The second team to complete the task will receive ordinary ingredients. As for the last team, I'm sorry, you can only get a small amount of ingredients."
Director Qin: "To increase the fun, we've also placed a number of prop cards on the island. Using these prop cards, you can get items like a compass and shorten the distance reminder time."
After explaining the rules in a long and eloquent manner for five or six minutes, Director Qin announced the start of free team selection.
[Hahaha, they say it's a free choice, but I bet Jing Ke will definitely be in the same group with Shao Qing. They're a real couple that's officially announced. Unless the production team has a mental problem, they definitely won't separate them.]
I'm not sure if Qin Zheng will choose Liu Chang or Xu Yi. I think Liu Chang would be a better choice from a mission perspective, as he can clearly determine the direction based on the environment.
[But Liu Chang doesn't look as attractive as Xu Yi. After all, this is a dating observation variety show, so I think Xu Yi is a better choice.]
Oh my god, why is Qin Zheng walking towards Yao Lan? Are they planning to form an all-lesbian group?
[Hiss, Liu Chang and Xu Yi are not bad either, one is a tough guy, the other is a pretty boy...]
[Stop! My brother is straight, his sexual orientation is female, please don't force him to be a man!!! What's wrong with the production team? Why don't they arrange more guests? There are too few options for four people to pair up with each other!]
There are indeed fewer combinations, but the combination of three same-sex couples has brought a lot of popularity to the program team. The number of viewers in the live broadcast room has stabilized at five million. The advertising fee in the lower left corner alone can make the program team recoup a lot of funds.
"Shao Qing, after the distance between us is displayed for the first time, don't move. Wait until the second distance display is completed, then you just move around in a small range. I will come to find you." When they were about to separate, Jing Ke lowered his voice and said in Shao Qing's ear.
However, this action did not have much effect. Both of them had microphones on their bodies and lowered their voices so that other guests could not hear them, but the audience waiting in the live broadcast room could hear them clearly.
The program team only gave the guests three hours to find each other, so they would not be too far apart from each other, basically ranging from 5,000 meters to 3,000 meters.
After finding himself brought to a forest-like place, Shao Qing, who could only identify the location by looking at the sun, decided to tinker a little. He followed Jing Ke's instructions completely and stopped moving after the watch displayed the straight-line distance between the two sides for the first time.
[Wow, the distance is 4,821 meters. Shao Qing and Boss Jing are the farthest apart. Are the production crew secretly doing something behind the scenes? Qin Zheng and Yao Lan are only a little over 3,000 meters apart.]
[That shouldn't be the case. Judging from the trajectory map provided by the program team, the guests can actually choose their destination within the area. It must be that the timing is too coincidental.]
[Shao Qing really stopped moving. How is Boss Jing going to find him?]
Did you notice that after Boss Jing wrote down the number 4821 meters, he walked resolutely in one direction, not circling when he encountered a small hill, but just walking straight ahead?
[Could it be that the production team told Boss Jing Shao Qing's location? Doesn't the watch only display the real-time distance?]
After a passionate discussion among the audience in the live broadcast room, the ten minutes passed quickly.
The direction Jing Ke chose didn't seem to be particularly accurate. After walking for ten minutes, the original 4821 meters became only 4562 meters, but she had clearly walked a distance of almost 600 meters.
However, Jing Ke did not feel discouraged. Instead, he relied on the surrounding plants to confirm his discovery. Then, he used the 600 meters he had walked and the distance between the two times to accurately calculate the angle by which he had deviated.
This kind of calculation difficulty requires the use of a computer for most people to find the answer, but as long as there is a genius in this world who can do mental arithmetic, Jing Ke can also complete it, and even surpass it slightly.
So, Jing Ke stayed there and thought for less than a minute, then adjusted his direction and walked forward at a faster speed than usual.
[Huh? Is this cheating? I was staring at Boss Jing the entire time, and she never left my sight. How did she suddenly go from saving over 200 meters in 10 minutes to saving nearly 700 meters in 10 minutes?]
[Oh my god, was there someone from the production crew giving her some direction off-camera? This must be some special training!]
[Um, didn't you guys notice what Boss Jing said at the beginning? If Shao Qing hadn't moved, wouldn't the law of cosines be the correct way to calculate the angle?]
[Huh? What? I'm a poor student, I don't understand!]
"Theorems are so difficult. Anyway, it's just about finding the interior angles of a triangle given the side lengths. But can this be calculated mentally? Boss Jing really has something up his sleeve. Maybe I can figure it out even with a computer."
[Isn't Boss Jing a returnee? She's obviously mixed-race, maybe she graduated from a prestigious foreign university.]
It's indeed a well-known university. I just checked some freshly published encyclopedias. Boss Jing is an Ivy League graduate with a master's degree in finance. He should be more sensitive to numbers and have strong calculation skills, which is easy to understand.
[What incredible computing power! It's a shame not to use this kind of brain for scientific research.]
"Don't you think Boss Jing's sense of direction is terrifying? Didn't the map just show the guests' movements? Boss Jing is practically moving in a straight line! At this rate, we'll be reunited in an hour at the earliest!"
[Family, it's no longer dark. The director team has also released the drone footage. Boss Jing is accompanied by two photographers, both of whom are carrying equipment and trying hard to chase Boss Jing.]
[Uh uh uh, but if that's the case, Boss Jing will be so tired. Shao Qing doesn't have to do anything, but Boss Jing has to walk five kilometers painstakingly.]
[Come on, some people's efforts are worse than no efforts. I suggest you look at the results of the other two groups of people who worked hard.]
As the saying goes, there is no gap without comparison. While Jing Ke was using his brain to find the right direction, the other two groups of guests were still using the simplest method to find the right direction.
What's the easiest way? Of course, change direction as soon as you realize you're getting too far.
If one party stands still, this method can slowly test out the correct direction, but it is impossible to prevent both parties from thinking this way.
Not to mention that some people can't even tell the directions, and as they walk they lose their direction. The distance starts to fluctuate, and although they have walked a long way, the straight-line distance starts to shorten.
So the trajectories of the four people other than Jing Ke and Shao Qing on the map are a bit laughable.
Fortunately, the program team anticipated this situation in advance, so they placed props near the guests' birthplace so that guests with poor sense of direction could get a compass.
With the help of items that can shorten the cooling time, the positioning time that was originally displayed once every ten minutes was gradually reduced to once every five minutes or even three minutes. The other two teams finally found the feeling and began to shorten the straight-line distance.
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