Chapter 60
[Mario: Dude, your skill level is almost professional! I used to hire a small streamer for a game coaching job; he had participated in youth training but couldn't beat others, so he had to come out and make a living. You're way better than him!]
[Mario: I can't bear to let you go to waste. You work really hard at your games, and I bet you're short on money. Actually, esports pays pretty well. Even if your performance isn't great, you can still earn a few thousand a month, plus social insurance and housing fund contributions!]
[Mario: I know someone in the esports scene who has connections. Want me to introduce you to a training camp and see if you can get tested?]
[Leng Zhi: Which team? Are they strong?]
[Cold Treatment: Too weak. Are there any other options?]
[Mario: Dude, you've got high standards.] The kindergarten teachers are counting the children at the exit. Afterward, they'll lead everyone to grab the best spots for the parade floats, where the children will have the best viewing experience.
This was a park visit guide prepared in advance by the teachers. I heard that many children were chosen for this spot and became the lucky ones to parade with the animated characters.
When the parade officially began, all the children put on the character earmuffs they had bought at noon, and Jiang Mingzhe even made sure that his two fathers wore them too.
Two adults and one child, wearing adorable husky hats, stood out in the crowd, attracting the attention of the other children.
Meng De looked up and tugged at Meng Cheng's sleeve: "Brother, let's buy the same ones next time and wear them together!"
Meng Cheng glanced down at the pink pig hat his younger brother had chosen, then at the captain's adorable, silly husky, and smirked, "Heh, no way."
His voice wasn't loud, but it was just loud enough for Leng Zhi to hear.
Soon, Meng Cheng felt the captain's murderous gaze—it seemed he couldn't escape tomorrow's extra training.
Jiang Yijing awkwardly tugged at the pom-poms hanging down the sides of his hat. Objectively speaking, it was indeed a little embarrassing for an adult male to wear such a hat.
However, with Leng Zhi accompanying him, his mood improved considerably. The post quickly rose to the top of the trending searches, surprising the production team, and the live broadcast's popularity was maintained.
After a while, the Blue Team finally finished the first room following the prescribed solution route.
The waiting areas between the two groups were connected. As the members of the Blue Group filed out from behind the door, Leng Zhi finally felt a lightening of his load.
"Uncle/Dad!" Xiaoyu and Duoduo rushed towards Yun Jingcheng and Le Xinzhou, with Duoduo almost knocking Le Xinzhou over.
Le Xinzhou picked up his excited daughter: "Oh, slow down, how were things on your end?"
Duoduo started bragging: "I just opened the front door and we came out!"
Le Xinzhou, who was busy running around, asked, "Huh?"
Seeing the other two groups of guests enjoying themselves, Lei Ling stretched out her arms towards Xi Xi, who was not far away: "Xi Xi!"
Xixi was engrossed in playing with Jiang Mingzhe when she was suddenly awakened by a voice calling her from behind. She slowly stood up and walked towards her uncle somewhat reluctantly.
He wasn't actually familiar with Lei Ling, and the short day they spent together left him with a bad impression of this uncle.
However, as her father requested, Xixi had to appear to have a very close relationship with her uncle in front of the camera.
He managed a smile, ready to respond, but Leng Zhi grabbed his hand.
"XiXi, the next level is about to begin."
Lei Ling's smile froze in mid-air.
No, why are there child snatching incidents?
As if to justify his actions, Leng Zhi gestured for the two children to continue playing, then stood up and walked towards Yun Jingcheng and Le Xinzhou.
"Hey, does the Blue Team have too few members? Why are they even trying to steal members from the Red Team?"
Le Xinzhou stuck out his tongue and joked, "What do you mean by 'grabbing'? The kid pounced on him himself. What's wrong, are you getting anxious, kid leader?"
Upon hearing Le Xinzhou's words, Lei Ling's face flushed red and then turned pale—Xiao Yu and Duo Duo rushed over, but his Xi Xi didn't move!
The horn also sounded promptly:
"Guests, please return to your respective teams. The door to the next round will open shortly. The timer for this round will really affect the outcome."
After everyone had returned to their places, the two-tone gate slowly opened, and the electronic clock on the wall began its countdown.
3! Leng Zhi was glancing at Lei Xixi out of the corner of his eye.
He hadn't spent much time with human cubs and didn't know their personalities. If Jiang Mingzhe was like a puppy, full of energy and causing trouble wherever he went, then Xixi gave him the impression of a kitten.
This should be a gentle and reserved child.
Leng Zhi vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
It's hard to put into words, but the aura between Xixi and Lei Ling is subtly different from what Lei Ling described.
Next, based on the audience's popularity votes, Li Chi awarded Jiang Mingzhe, Xiaoyu, and Le Duoduo five, three, and one star respectively.
When Leng Zhi heard the list being read, he couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows.
How can this be number one?
He padded up his live stream with a lot of fluff today. In the morning, he tried to be a hands-off manager, and in the afternoon, he showed the audience Jiang Mingzhe sleeping for half a day. He practically had the words "give up" written all over his face.
Are this generation of viewers too easy to please?
If Leng Zhi were to open a video website and search at this moment, he would find that today's live stream has provided fans with countless creative materials.
On a certain website's variety show fanfiction section, the screen is already filled with clips of his battles of wits with Jiang Mingzhe, and there are even fanfictions about him and Jiang Yijing.
Jiang Mingzhe now has two more rows of stars on his shoulders—he really can't let them go now.
"An escape room?" Le Xinzhou's eyes lit up.
He's very familiar with this; he's a regular guest on another escape room reality show next door, so he's extremely familiar with the process.
He patted his chest confidently and said to Duoduo, "Duoduo, this dad is amazing! Believe it or not, Dad will take you flying!"
Duoduo turned her head away speechlessly, showing disdain for her father's boasting.
"However, we are different from other escape room variety shows. In order to give the kids a better experience, we have made a lot of optimizations to the design of the escape room, and we will randomly shuffle the order, so the children may not be with their parents!"
The staff quickly brought over an opaque lottery box.
The lottery box has a thoughtful design with an opening at the top so adults can easily reach the lot, and an opening on the side so short children can also reach it.
Jiang Mingzhe drew the first one, and he unfolded the slip of paper: "I'm number one!"
The others also drew lots one after another, and then several grandmothers exclaimed, "I'm number one too!"
All the guests fell silent: "..."
Only Youyou pouted and said, "I'm number two, and none of you are with me."
Shaoqi covered her mouth in surprise: "Youyou, you're with Mommy, and Mommy is number two. Does that mean there's another number one who's also a guest?"
Amidst everyone's curious and inquisitive gazes, Leng Zhi silently raised the lottery paper in his hand: "It's me."
Li Chi hadn't expected things to turn out this way. He raised his hand and pressed down on his in-ear monitor—even the director was laughing heartily, very satisfied with the show's effect.
"Then let's divide them into groups like this: Group One will go to the room on the left, and Group Two will go to the room on the right."
Finally, he added, "Brother Leng, make sure you take good care of the kids!"
Leng Zhi turned around and looked at the string of children behind him, his heart filled with despair.
This morning was destined to be agonizing.
2!
1!
The new escape room is very large, connecting three rooms together, and is five times the size of the previous level. The props team did not lie; it was indeed carefully arranged.
The electric flame in the fireplace was beeping, a huge Christmas tree stood in the center of the living room, and small red and green flags hung on the wall, all of which explained the theme of the room.
This is a cozy home before Christmas Eve.
The children were indeed very curious about the new secret room that had been specially prepared for them. They scattered, one touching the Christmas tree, another jumping onto the sofa, having a great time.
The loudspeaker announced, "Welcome everyone to Xiaoxiao's home. Today is Christmas, but little Xiaoxiao hasn't received her Christmas present yet. What's going on?"
"It turns out that Santa Claus hid the gifts. Guests, please bring your children and find clues about Xiaoxiao's Christmas presents to help her get her unique gift. The clues are hidden all around you, so remember to use your brains!"
Hmm... she is indeed quite cute.
The teachers scrambled to secure spots on either side of the street near the parade entrance. There were no flower clusters to obscure the view, and since it was the start of the parade, the front of the floats quickly came into the children's view.
"It's Dr. Ha!" Jiang Mingzhe jumped up excitedly upon seeing the character standing on the hood of the car.
Dr. Ha is the husky dog doctor character corresponding to the hat he's wearing. It's a relatively unpopular character, rarely seen as the main character, so today's appearance is a pleasant surprise.
His brilliant and mighty captain has actually been reduced to performing in escape rooms on live stream.
In some ways, this wealthy wife is not as good as him, a street urchin.
When he first started watching the live stream, Leng Zhi had just arrived at the preparation room, and now that the escape room is more than halfway through, almost an hour has passed.
During that hour, Zou Shushun also went online to search for recordings of the live streams from a few days ago.
The captain truly lives up to his title; he maintains such high popularity even on a children's variety show.
He watched the Jiang Yijing x Leng Zhi CP montage with great interest, then clicked on a funny fan-made creation, and enjoyed several of them before discovering that there was also a live stream clip of Leng Zhi playing games.
Although Lei Shen's skills weren't great and Leng Zhi didn't use his signature hero, as teammates for many years, their quirks and chemistry wouldn't change.
If Zou Shu was only 70-80% sure before, now he is 100% certain.
A flame ignited in Zou Shu's heart.
Now that they've all traveled to this new world and the captain's hands can play games, does that mean they can have another LSG team?
As long as the captain is there, LSG will continue.
Zou Shu jumped up from the chair and then sat down again.
But how can we get in touch with the team leader?
He's currently unemployed, while the team leader is a wealthy stepmother and a popular variety show star—the difference is like heaven and earth. Even if he knew Leng Zhi's schedule, rushing over would only make him look like a sasaeng fan or a lunatic.
Zou Shu stood up again and paced anxiously back and forth in the room. Finally, he gritted his teeth and came up with a terrible idea.
Forget it, who cares if it's a bad idea or not, what if it works? Let's give it a shot!
Zou Lin was helping in the kitchen downstairs when he suddenly saw a figure rushing out.
"Brother! Where are you going? I'm going to relieve you later!"
Zou Shu moved with lightning speed, leaving behind a blur and the words: "I'll switch shifts with you and help you in the kitchen tomorrow morning."
He rode his electric scooter at breakneck speed to the Jiang Group building.
The address of the Jiang residence was not publicly disclosed, so Zou Shu couldn't go there directly. He could only try his luck by visiting the Jiang Group, whose address was publicly available on Qichacha.
The security guard noticed the suspicious person.
Zou Shu arrived in a hurry, dressed casually and unpretentiously, which made him stand out from the elite office workers in the group building.
"What are you doing loitering around here?" The security guard walked over.
Zou Shu immediately put on a handsome smile: "Hey, security guard, hello, hello. I'm not a bad person. I want to ask about someone."
As he spoke, he even pulled out two cigarettes and lit them for the security guard without saying a word.
As the saying goes, you can't hit a smiling face. Although the security guard pushed his cigarette away, his tone softened: "Who are you looking for? I can register you, but unauthorized personnel are not allowed in our building."
"I'm not going in. I just want to ask, do you know President Jiang's wife, Leng Zhi?"
"Mrs. Jiang? What's your relationship with him?"
The security guard looked at Zou Shu suspiciously.
I've seen people inquire about employees, but I've never seen anyone inquire about the boss's wife.
Dr. Ha's character is an eccentric but surprisingly reliable chief physician. Today is the first time the actor is wearing this costume as the opening guest on the front of the car, and he is performing enthusiastically on the front of the car.
Dr. Ha immediately spotted three striking little fans—or rather, a fan family—on the right side of the street.
As a relatively unpopular character, and being a temporary substitute today without any prior announcement, he had already anticipated that upon entering the room, he would be joined by fans of the more popular pink fox character on both sides.
Although there were still many colleagues wearing pink fox hats on both sides, he was pleasantly surprised by this unexpected husky family and immediately blew several kisses towards Jiang Mingzhe to express his happiness.
Jiang Mingzhe jumped and hopped, the pom-poms on his hat flying off his back: "He saw me! He saw me!"
To match the guests' roles today, the front of the float was decorated to resemble an ambulance and surrounded by layers of flowers, which both adhered to the original design and maintained a celebratory atmosphere.
When the float approached Jiang Mingzhe, the front of the vehicle stopped.
"Wow, it seems like one of our kindergarten kids is going to be chosen. They stopped early this time." The teacher, a seasoned amusement park annual pass user, was very familiar with the parade's process and was observing from behind the crowd.
"Yes, I wonder which lucky baby it is. It's rare to see Dr. Ha leading the way," another teacher remarked.
Dr. Ha's choice was Jiang Mingzhe, of course.
This fits the character's personality perfectly; given his eccentric and flamboyant nature, it's only natural that he would treat his fans well.
Jiang Mingzhe covered his mouth, never expecting such a huge surprise to actually happen to him.
Dr. Ha jumped off the float and made a gentlemanly gesture of invitation to the children, linking arms with them.
Because of the difficulty of voice acting, the costumed characters cannot speak. A staff member explained on their behalf: "Little friend, congratulations on being chosen by Dr. Ha to be your adventure partner today. You will be riding on the float with Dr. Ha."
Jiang Mingzhe was small, so he immediately squeezed through the fence and stood next to Dr. Ha: "Dr. Ha, I like you the most!"
He stood carefully next to Dr. Ha, not reaching out to touch him—before the parade, the kindergarten teacher had specifically instructed everyone that the puppets were actually played by real people, and if you used too much force, your favorite character might get hurt.
[Mario: Here's what I'll do, I'll ask someone I know on that team to ask if any top teams are recruiting.]
[Mario: Wait a minute, he replied instantly, saying KM team is looking for a jungler. Aren't you a jungler? Give me his contact information, I'll ask him for you!]
[Leng Zhi: I can play any position, even jungle.]
[Leng Zhi: This is my contact information. I'm available for a trial anytime if I can get in touch with you.]
[Leng Zhi: Thank you very much.]
[Mario: It's nothing, just a quick greeting. Whether it works out in the end depends on their decision. Sigh, you insisted on choosing a strong team. They have a big reputation, but people are fighting tooth and nail to get in!]
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