"If you really can't find any members from Jinzhao's group, you can consider forfeiting. However, if you forfeit, your group's score will be deducted by three points."
"Divided among three people?!"
The three people in front of the camera exclaimed in surprise almost simultaneously, all quite shocked by the severity of the point deduction.
Fang Lei: "Our total score is only ten points. If we deduct three points, then our group's maximum score will only be seven points?"
The assistant director nodded: "Yes. Because you found three fewer people, the score will naturally be reduced by the corresponding three points."
"No way!" Ning Shi firmly disagreed. "The competition among our three groups is already fierce. If our scoring cap is only seven points, wouldn't that put us a third behind the other two groups?"
"I don't want to forfeit; I want to hold onto those three points."
The assistant director respected her opinion, but his words carried a hint of helplessness: "If you want to keep those three points, you can only keep searching until you find everyone from Jinzhao's group."
"Let's keep looking." Ning Shi tossed her hair, regaining her enthusiasm. "Lei Zi, Li Zi, let's keep looking. We must hold onto these three points firmly!"
Li Weiwan and Fang Lei responded in unison, "Okay!"
Unwilling to give up, the three chose to "continue" and went back up to the fourth floor of the villa to begin another round of thorough searching.
Seeing the three of them working so hard, viewers in the live stream offered encouragement while also trying to dampen their enthusiasm.
[Go Shi Bao! Go Li Ge! Go Lei Zi! Although you definitely can't hold onto those three points, I still hope you can do your best!]
[You three remember this: no matter what happens, we'll always have your backers behind us! Just do it!]
"Hey... stop looking, let's go home, child, let's go home!"
"Although the three warriors had used all their strength, like those who would rush to the cafeteria for food, they were no match for the evil forces lurking in the darkness, and were utterly crushed by the despicable Great Demon King Chaochao!"
The trio was unwilling to give up so easily, so they deliberately went back to the villa and walked around it twice, until they were completely exhausted, before returning to the assistant director and finally giving up without hesitation.
Zhu Jinzhao and Shi Jing's hiding place never changed from beginning to end. If Fang Lei and the others never realized that someone could hide under the bed, they would never have been able to find Zhu Jinzhao even if they searched ten more times.
Listening to the footsteps and voices coming and going, Zhu Jinchao lay on the floor under the bed, yawning with boredom.
"Zhao Zhao..." Shi Jing's voice was already tinged with obvious drowsiness, making Zhu Jinzhao's eyelids heavy.
"Why don't we take a nap first? Maybe they'll have forfeited when we wake up."
Zhu Jinzhao turned on her phone, glanced at the time, and nodded in agreement: "Good idea, good night."
Shi Jing: "Good night."
[Hahahaha! You guys are so insulting! Ning Shi and the others are running around the villa like cattle, while you two are just lying here leisurely saying goodnight to each other!]
[You Great Demon King, please stop your magic! My little Shi Bao is still just a child! She really can't find you!]
Who invented Zhu Jinzhao? Who exactly invented Zhu Jinzhao?! If this thing isn't nerfed and released, what chance do others have?
They searched the villa thoroughly twice, but the three, unwilling to give up, still returned empty-handed. However, this time they were satisfied.
"I abstain! I want to abstain!"
Ning Shi ran down the stairs, rushed to the assistant director, and glared at him with a grimace: "I'm forfeiting! I can't find Shi Jing and Jin Zhao at all!"
"...Ahem." The assistant director cleared his throat, barely suppressing his laughter. "Didn't you say you would never forfeit and were determined to hold onto those three kills?"
Ning Shi put her hands on her hips, a disdainful sneer playing on her lips: "Plans can't keep up with changes. I've changed my mind. Since we can't find them anyway, continuing to rush in will only waste time. We might as well just give up and see where those three are hiding."
"Hmm..." The assistant director nodded slowly, satisfied with her awareness. "She's flexible, quick-witted, and not bad."
As he spoke, the assistant director took out his phone from his coat pocket: "Since you've decided to forfeit, I'll notify Jinzhao and the others to come out?"
Fang Lei waved his hand weakly: "Go ahead and shout, I want to see what kind of weird place the three of them have hidden in that we can't find them even after searching like this."
“No—” Ning Shi thought for a moment, but suddenly made a different suggestion, “Assistant Director, don’t let Jinzhao and the others come out directly. Let them tell us their hiding place, and the three of us will go to pick them up ourselves.”
The request wasn't unreasonable, and the assistant director agreed without much thought.
"OK."
—Villa Butler: @Can't see me@Poison everyone along the network cable. The hunter has given up. The remaining players can reveal their locations.
When the group message popped up, Zhu Jinzhao was already somewhat dazed. She squinted as she unlocked her phone, opened WeChat, scanned the group notification twice, and then her eyes widened suddenly.
"Ning Shi and the others have forfeited. Shi Jing, we can go out now!"
Shi Jing was looking at her phone when she heard this, and frowned slightly in displeasure: "We can go out, but the production team requires us to reveal our location."
Zhu Jinzhao didn't seem to care much: "So what if I lose? Anyway, I can't use this position in the next round."
"Why can't we continue using it?" Shi Jing was a little confused, but after asking the question, he figured it out himself. "Oh, because even if we don't reveal our location, they will know that we have been hiding in the room the whole time when we go out. Then in the next round, Su Ying and Zhu Mingyue will definitely guard our room, and the location under the bed will be easily discovered."
"Yes." Zhu Jinzhao opened the chat window and directly @ed everyone in the WeChat group.
—We're in suite number three. Come on up to my room.
Less than two minutes after the message was sent out, the door to Suite 3 was pushed open by six guests.
A cacophony of footsteps and chattering voices accompanied the approaching footsteps to Zhu Jinzhao's room, then stopped above her head.
Su Ying frowned and looked around the room: "Why did Jin Zhao call us here? There's no one here."
Ning Shi chimed in, "Is she kidding us?"
Li Weiwan shook her head: "We've all abstained, there's no need to tease us today."
Fang Lei: "I think so too..."
Amidst the rising and falling speculations, Zhu Jinzhao and Shi Jing simultaneously raised their hands to support the mattress, and then gently lifted it up, easily raising the mattress completely.
And the secret under the bed was instantly exposed.
"Surprise!!"
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