Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Crying at the Wrong Grave
"Why are they also setting standards for civil service exams here? Positions are cancelled if the number of applicants isn't met?"
He Junzhuo was powerless to complain, "Sister Yunti, Brother Yan, don't worry, I will definitely continue."
"Your 8% chance is just a little more than a sidekick," Ming Jiaojiao muttered. "But... me too."
Banlie stood beside Yunti with his arms folded, his attitude was self-evident.
"I'll continue too," Cui Da stole a glance at Yun Ti, then scratched his head sheepishly when she looked back. "With so many excellent teammates, I'll consider this an opportunity to learn from the outdoor adventure experience."
After saying that, he punched Ye Xuan's shoulder. "What about you? You won't run away from the battle, will you?" "Old Cui," Ye Xuan said helplessly. "I'm the favorite to win, okay? Besides..."
He held his fist palm downward in front of Yun Ti in a standard fist bump. "Yun Ti, in the next match, I will give it my all and challenge you for the top spot."
And Yunti's number one fanboy, Kangzai, who was the first to discover the fat man stealing the raft in the rainforest, also raised his hand with shining eyes.
Someone sheepishly explained, "Sister Ti, we absolutely, absolutely aren't trying to cause trouble or disrupt the competition. We simply... need the money."
In the end, there were only nine people.
Count, among the familiar contestants, who has become a "deserter"...
After looking around, He Junzhuo stared at Ma Yuming next to him in shock, "Old Ma, what's wrong with you?!"
Ma Yuming was so overwhelmed by the gazes that he couldn't even lift his head. He said with difficulty, "My wife is sick and needs money, so..."
It was impossible for him to get the 100 million bonus, so he could only hold on to the 5 million.
Having said that, any further accusations would be moral kidnapping.
Li Xingyan pondered for a few seconds and clapped his hands. "Everyone, as long as you choose to continue, you name the price and I'll pay. The number of places is limited, first come first served!"
???
What a powerful wallet! Such a familiar bking smell...
"Well, Brother Yan, can I withdraw first, then compete for your place and then join?" He Junzhuo smiled flatteringly.
Ming Jiaojiao, who also came from a wealthy family, was also shocked: "You really are your parents' eldest son. I'm curious about how rich your family is. Haven't you squandered it all after all these years?"
Only at this moment can Banlie, Ye Xuan and Cui Da deeply understand how strong the "competitiveness of courtship to win at the starting line" is.
Young Master Li is really a loser, but he is really rich!
Seeing that the others were ready to take action, let alone ten people, even the dead people could jump up on the spot to join the Hundred Regiments Campaign.
Yun Ti said, "I want to quit too. Can you just give me 100 million?"
"Really?" Li Xingyan's eyes lit up. "Titi, why didn't you tell me earlier? I'll give you all my money, and I'll also give you the company my dad inherited from me..."
Before he could finish his words, he was slapped on the back of his head.
Yun Ti's face was filled with black lines. "You're burning through money and have nowhere to spend it, right?"
If you tempt her again, she really won't be able to help but accept it.
Sister Ti’s meaning is very clear, the “money kidnapping” of wife slave Li Shao must be invalidated.
Well, I finally won the 5 million yuan prize from the program team.
In a team of a thousand people, it is difficult to even get ten people together.
"According to the filming schedule, if the competition can't continue, won't the production team have anything to air later?" He Junzhuo squatted on the ground, thinking more and more that something was wrong. "Maybe it's just a gimmick, a little show effect, and it won't be canceled."
But this is a rogue program team. Just the fact that it accepts so many mixed contestants, so many people have died here, and the country is unable to intervene, shows that it is impossible to guess the intentions of the program team with normal thinking.
After hearing Li Xingyan's inference, everyone fell into deep thought.
"Master Li, Master Li," Ma Yuming said hesitantly, his face flushed, "I helped you move your luggage and set up your tent. Does the promised reward still count?"
Li Xingyan blinked and said, "Of course."
"If I continue, can I... add more?"
Seeing him nod, Ma Yuming hesitated for a moment and made up his mind: "Then I will continue."
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Soon, everyone knew that Ma Yuming was indeed forced by his family circumstances.
After ten people chose to continue the game.
That night, the production team played the "background information of other contestants" on the AR interactive display screen in each contestant's room.
Ma Yuming, an outsourced armored car escort in a fifth-tier small city, is usually outgoing and warm-hearted. However, due to the heavy burden on his family, he was tempted to steal a safe, but he turned himself in halfway. When he went to the police station, he found out that he had taken a box of money used for practicing martial arts. After receiving a verbal warning, he also lost his job.
His wife was seriously ill and the daily expenses of his children's schooling were high, so he decided to sign up for this competition.
He Junzhuo, a graduate of directing and screenwriting from a prestigious university, was suppressed due to bad luck and factional struggles in the company. He quit his job under the heavy burden and chose to deliver food. He took part in the competition on a whim.
Banlie, an orphan, relied on eating at other people's homes before he became an adult. After he became an adult, he worked as a bricklayer at construction sites and in nightclubs. He suddenly ran away just after he was hired as a "male model" and signed up for a competition.
Ye Xuan, born into a poor family, has a drunken, abusive cuckold father, and a prostitute mother who abandoned her husband and children. He was discharged from the army after fighting someone who used his parents' names to insult him. He later rose to fame as a mercenary abroad. Determined to win the championship, he accepted the program's invitation.
Next are Cui Da, Su Jian and Kang Zai. It can be said that each of them has his own dissatisfaction in life.
As for Li Xingyan and Ming Jiaojiao, they are true paying players.
The other contestants' profile videos were all very inadequate and miserable, but they were like the stars in a music video shot with huge investment, looking glamorous and bright. They either attended various upper-class cocktail parties and dinners, or various press conferences and art exhibitions.
By the end, only one was left.
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"Hey? Hello!"
Yun Ti was forcibly woken up by being pushed and pulled without any mercy.
The bright sun, the gray ancient walls, the sandbags under her seemed to be broken by gravity, and yellow sand scattered all over her.
"Is it still possible?"
Under the awning, the director held up the walkie-talkie and shouted impatiently: "If you can't do it, get out of here!"
"I, can." Yun Ti turned over with difficulty. Her back felt like it had been run over by a car and was in excruciating pain.
As a stunt double, she had just finished the female lead's role - a clash of swords with the enemy, and "falling off the city wall" after being accidentally shot by an arrow.
In pursuit of realism, there was no wire-hanging in this scene.
"Who the hell hired this stunt double? He's only two meters tall, and there's a cushion underneath, yet it's so hard for him to stand up..."
The director suddenly threw his script and yelled on the set, "If you can't handle being thrown, hit, or beaten, then don't even think about this job! Remember, from now on, my crew will never hire someone like that!"
Her face was covered with hot sweat from being scorched by the 40°C high temperature for several hours, mixed with sticky sand, but Yun Ti felt her body was unusually cold.
She raised her hand with difficulty, trying to wipe away the sweat, but ended up wiping away blood from her nose.
This is Yun Ti's first time joining a crew as a stunt double.
Someone grabbed the back of his head and pushed him into the mud, almost suffocating him.
While rehearsing a scene while lying on the asphalt, he was almost run over by the crew's drift car.
In the middle of winter, he soaked in the river water that was almost frozen with his back bare until he became hypothermic.
He was treated as a human punching bag by the super-powerful big-name star in the same group, who slapped him again and again, until his face was so swollen that he couldn't act for a week.
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Some directors and actors seem to only find the rigor and sophistication of their profession when shooting stunt double shots.
Amid repeated insults, beatings, and throws, Yun Ti truly realized the saying, "Life has beaten me repeatedly, but my flesh has become elastic and firm."
It was not until she became known as the "most durable" stunt double in the film and television city that she gradually saved some money.
But what followed was a run on the company by other peers and extortion by the local bosses in the film and television city.
"Little girl, are you okay?"
The woman who got out of the nanny car was dressed simply. She handed a towel to Yun Ti and asked her to wipe the mud off her face.
Yun Ti knew her, Li Ran, the director and producer of the new crew.
This is the most gentle and friendly person Yunti has ever met in the film and television city.
Yes, in this "small social circle" where everyone can trample on this young stunt girl who has just come of age and has no background, only Li Ran treats Yun Ti as a living person.
They drove away the hooligans for her, treated her as an actor rather than a punching bag, took the same protective measures, and bypassed the intermediaries to recommend her directly to the crews of other famous directors...
"Perhaps you could try imagining this place as a jungle where the strong prey on the weak. Only by showing your fangs and claws will others not dare to bully the weak. Survival of the fittest. After all, how bad can it get?"
"If you could, what animal would you like to be?" Li Ran asked.
"Leopard."
The timid and introverted girl raised her head which had been hanging down.
There was finally a hint of youthful vitality in his eyes, which had always been dull.
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When there was a knock on the door.
Yun Ti was repeatedly dragging the progress bar of the videos of Li Xingyan, Ming Jiaojiao and Ye Xuan.
It's very strange. It's clearly them in the video, but I always feel like something is missing.
Not to mention the regular trains, which have no soul at all.
"how?"
Yun Ti raised her head and looked at the crowd of heads outside the door.
Each of them has an expression that looks like they are about to cry but not crying.
"Titi..."
Ming Jiaojiao hugged Yun Ti, tears streaming down her face, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you, I bullied you like that..."
Before this, she had never remembered that Yun Ti had been her stunt double more than once.
"Bullying?" Yun Ti was puzzled.
To compete for the female role, she deliberately acted like a green tea girl in front of Ye Xuan several times to make things difficult for Yun Ti. At first, others misunderstood Yun Ti and threw dirty water on her, but she remained indifferent. Perhaps she also watched the crew bullying Yun Ti coldly...
"But I didn't feel anything you said."
After hearing Ming Jiaojiao's confession, Yun Ti interrupted disapprovingly, "If you really regret it, you can tell me the real reason why you came to participate in the competition."
Judging from her contradictory behavior, she is by no means as simple as described in the original book: she came only to gain acting experience, and stayed to the end to follow Ye Xuan.
Ming Jiaojiao didn't answer immediately. Instead, she childishly buried her face in her neck and whispered in a whisper that only they could hear: "Of course. You are my most important friend."
One after another, they clenched their fists with tears in their eyes, about to speak.
Yun Ti realized later that they might have also read "her" background information.
…
I wanted to say that it wasn't entirely her, but it was hard to explain.
Just think they were crying at the wrong grave. It's really embarrassing.
Li Xingyan dawdled until the end.
With his head drooping and his shoes kicking, the red at the corners of his eyes showed that this emotional young master had turned into a crybaby again.
"Come here." Yun Ti said.
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The author has this to say: When Baobao's curiosity shifted from "interesting things" to "interesting people," from physiological curiosity to exploring the complexity of human beings, she truly began to connect with the world. Conversely, it was precisely because of her arrival that the characters in the book came alive.
Ps: At first, everyone thought that Master Li’s words were just a joke, until… [狗头][狗头]
The snow mountain map will be opened in the next chapter, bringing you a cool summer!
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