Chapter 146 A Treasure Hunt in the Countryside
Once the director finally regained consciousness, he quickly leaned over the screen. At that moment, the number of viewers in Xu Wang and Pei Yanchuan's exclusive live stream room had reached over 100,000.
The director, with his lower body squatting and his upper body resting on the table, sighed with emotion: "No wonder he's a CEO; he's more proactive at work than us beasts of burden."
The assistant director hesitated, then decided it was best not to say anything that might upset the boss so early in the morning.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the guests gathered again in the village chief's courtyard. They encountered very few villagers on their way here because the volume of goods shipped these days was relatively large, so many villagers went up the back mountain to pick fruit early in the morning, leaving only some elderly grandparents with their grandchildren at home. The old village chief was old and could have stayed at home, but he couldn't resist and asked his son to carry him up the mountain.
"Good morning, teachers." The director appeared before everyone with a smile.
"Good morning..." A voice, barely alive, responded to him.
"Oh my god!" The director was so startled by Yunxi's appearance that he jumped back on the spot.
The camera pans to Yunxi, who is staring blankly ahead with two large panda eyes.
[Wow, Yunxi's dark circles are so prominent, did she not sleep all night?]
[I went to bed at 2 a.m. last night and woke up at 7 a.m., but I wasn't this terrified.]
[Seeing how scared the director was, he immediately performed a backward jump from the spot (covering his mouth and chuckling).]
[I sensed something was off about him while watching the live stream last night (thinking)]
[Add one, deep in thought...]
"Teacher Yun, are you alright?" The director looked at Yunxi with concern. If she collapsed in his live stream, would his live stream still be in business?
"It's nothing, I just had a nightmare last night. I dreamt that a husky kept chasing me, so I didn't sleep well." Yunxi shook her head calmly.
Upon hearing the other person's words, Xu Wang glanced at Jiang Xiubai silently. At this moment, Jiang Xiubai was grinning crookedly, and indeed had a bit of a husky-like appearance.
Huh? Jiang Xiubai seemed to sense a gaze. She turned her head left and right in confusion, then turned back again, probably just imagining things.
"Dear teachers, today you will embark on a day-long treasure hunt. The production team has set up six treasure locations in the village. There are no rewards or punishments for this activity, but the treasures you find belong to you!" The director shouted excitedly into the microphone.
—A gust of wind blew by, stirring up a speck of dust on the ground between the guests and the director—
"No reward and no punishment?" Gu Yunlan stroked her chin thoughtfully.
"So it means there's no benefit or harm to us whether we look for it or not, so we might as well just give up." Xia Yu excitedly raised his hand. He was the best at giving up!
"Why don't we go back and rest?"
"Okay, okay, I agree. I was just thinking of taking a nap anyway."
The director, watching the guests already discussing heading home to rest, had veins throbbing on his forehead. If it weren't for the expensive microphone in his hand, he would have smashed it on the ground and yelled at them, "Do you know how much money I spent on this treasure hunt? Do you know how much effort I poured into my wallet? You just say you don't want it, without even considering my feelings?"
The director suppressed the volcano that was about to erupt inside him and continued to smile as he picked up the microphone: "Teachers, why don't you think about it again? After all, there really is a treasure."
"What treasure?" Xu Wang asked curiously.
"Golden Badge." The director said these four words very seriously. He didn't believe that the word "golden" would diminish their enthusiasm for participating in the event.
"A toy gold badge for 9.9 yuan with free shipping on shopping platforms?" Yunxi asked, yawning widely.
"No, it's a 999 pure gold badge." The director looked up with a smile.
"Oh, 99.9 pure gold!" Yunxi's sleepiness vanished instantly; he couldn't believe his ears.
Xia Yu and Hou Yunqi both looked up at the same time.
Gu Yunlan originally planned to turn 180 degrees, but after hearing the director's words, she immediately turned 360 degrees: "Director, please continue."
Qin Huai stood silently to the side, rubbing his forehead.
Xu Wang and Pei Yanchuan exchanged a glance, both noticing the disbelief in each other's eyes.
Zhong Ran and Leng Yifan were also shocked.
"One, two, three, four, two, two, three, four..." Yunxi had already started moving his body around in place. He was determined to win this treasure hunt.
Jiang Xiubai watched from the side and twitched the corner of his mouth.
Seeing this unexpected turn of events, the director raised his head triumphantly, thinking, "That's more like it."
"But the village is quite large. Are we just going to search aimlessly like this?" Xu Wang raised a very important question. If we search blindly like this, it will take forever. The show might be finished by then, and we might not even find the six golden badges.
"Don't worry, Teacher Xu, the production team certainly won't let you teachers just search randomly. I've already drawn a treasure map for you all in advance." The director clapped his hands with a smile.
The assistant director and another crew member worked together to move a huge whiteboard out of the room, on which several patterns appeared to be drawn.
[Wait, the director just said he drew it?]
[Oh no, this game is already at a hellish start.]
[That's right, you heard me correctly, our amazing, genius artist/director is creating again (bitter smile)]
[Oh no! It's that familiar scene again.]
[The director's animation skills are still so bad that I'm completely baffled.]
[This really looks like a drawing my 5-year-old son made.]
[The director gives himself a thumbs up: I'm serious about drawing.]
………………
There were six patterns on the drawing board. The first pattern was two vertical lines with messy S-shaped lines wrapped around them. The second pattern was two cylinders with two lines connected to them. The third pattern was an animal, but it was not clear what kind of animal it was. The fourth pattern was a series of irregularly arranged squares. The fifth pattern was a square with a stick figure standing on it, holding a stick. The last pattern was a large black dot.
Everyone stepped forward at the same time and quietly looked at the pattern in front of them.
"this…………"
"Forehead…………"
The director had a big smile on his face. This was his most satisfying work, which he had been working on for almost two hours, wiping and refining.
"Is this a drawing of a pig?" Xia Yu asked hesitantly, pointing to a picture on the whiteboard.
"This must be a rabbit, its ears are so big." Yunxi looked at the pattern Xia Yu was pointing to and gestured to show the length of its ears, which were almost half the length of its face.
“I think it’s an elephant. Look at its ears, they’re so big, like a banana leaf fan,” Gu Yunlan said, revealing her inner doubts.
The director's smile grew increasingly strained as the conversation progressed, and finally shattered completely.
"Director, if you don't want to give us the gold badges, just say so." Jiang Xiubai stared at the six abstract patterns in front of him, his mind a jumbled mess that he couldn't sort out.
"Are these two candied hawthorns?" Xia Yu asked, pointing to one of the patterns on the whiteboard.
"Isn't it a tree?" A rare look of confusion appeared on Qin Huai's face. This painting was even harder to guess than the last one.
"Isn't this a telephone pole?" Xu Wang frowned.
The director standing nearby felt like he'd been shot three times in the heart. *Thud! Thud! Thud!* Was his drawing really that hard to decipher? It was so lifelike!
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