Still half drunk in the early morning, Jian Jing went downstairs to have breakfast at around eight o'clock, and saw the perfect Kang Mucheng again.

He still had a cup of coffee and a sandwich.

Jian Jing was tired: "You stayed up all night and had a hangover without rest, and you are not afraid of sudden death."

Kang Mucheng glanced at her: "I'm awake."

She snorted softly: "If you feel uncomfortable, just rest for a while. Why get up and work so hard? You can't make enough money."

Kang Mucheng said calmly: "It's just a drink. What about you, nothing happened last night?"

Jian Jing shrugged: "Nothing."

"That's good." Kang Mucheng didn't mention Smith's email at all, and said to her, "I got the award, sort out the photos from yesterday, and when it's not only the news here, the domestic publicity should also keep up." Jian Jing

: "I'll listen to you."

"I'll probably stay for another week. What are you going to do?" Kang Mucheng knew that it was already very reluctant for her to attend the cocktail party yesterday, so it would be better not to bother her with the follow-up matters. "Go out and have fun?"

Jian Jing nodded happily: "I think so too. Since we are here, let's treat it as a trip."

Kang Mucheng looked at her with some concern and hesitated: "Otherwise, Diane..."

"No need." She smiled, "It's so inconvenient for you to lose a secretary. I'm not a child anymore. I still need someone to accompany me when I travel."

Kang Mucheng: "It's not as safe here as in China."

Jian Jing smiled, moved her seat, sat next to him, and then opened her palm. There was a large lipstick. She whispered: "It's a small toy I bought before. It only has one bullet. It's enough for self-defense."

Kang Mucheng frowned.

She sat back down as if nothing had happened: "Worry less about me and more about you. There are so many shootings in New York. You should hire two bodyguards."

Kang Mucheng laughed: "It's not necessary."

"It's necessary."

The two were arguing when Jian Jing's phone rang.

It was Jiang Baiyan calling.

She was a little surprised and answered it immediately.

"Jingjing, the producer of Haunted House asked me if you were in the United States." Jiang Baiyan called specifically, and it was indeed business. "They are filming a movie here, and they wanted to ask if you would be willing to make a cameo appearance."

Jian Jing was surprised: "Can a variety show make a movie?"

"A reality show movie." He said, "You didn't want to go, so I found an excuse to turn them down."

Jian Jing thought about it, and since they were going out to have fun anyway, the haunted house in Haunted House was always fun, so she asked, "Where is it? Is it far away?"

"Seattle," Jiang Baiyan asked, "Do you want to go? If so

, I'll go with you." She said, "I'll think about it and tell you later."

"OK." He hung up.

Kang Mucheng then asked, "What's the matter?"

Jian Jing told him the story, and he agreed, "Go ahead." She was wandering around the United States alone, so it would be better for her to meet up with the haunted house program team, where there are more people, it's safer and more lively.

"Okay, let's see."

So it was decided.

Kang Mucheng's hangover symptoms came out, and he asked a little later, "Is Jiang Baiyan going too?"

Jian Jing made a face at him.

"No one is filming abroad, and if they do, I'll ask them to delete it." She promised.

Kang Mucheng sighed.

"Don't sigh, it's easy to get old." She pushed the noodles she wanted over, "Eat something soft, cold sandwiches are not good for your stomach."

Kang Mucheng paused, obediently put down the remaining sandwich, and picked up the fork to eat the noodles.

It wasn't authentic, but it was warm and soft, and his stomach felt much better.

Since they decided to go to the haunted house, Jian Jing moved quickly, checked out at noon, and took the nearest flight to Seattle in the afternoon.

Jiang Baiyan became his travel companion.

He was much stronger, although he still looked thinner than others, but you have to know that in order to be on camera, he usually looked several times thinner than ordinary people, skinny, only in this way could he become a handsome boy in front of the camera.

When he was in Rose Gold, he gained some weight, but in reality he was still thin. When we met again today, he finally looked like a normal young man.

"You've gained weight." Jian Jing handed over a bag of snacks, "Can you eat now?"

Jiang Baiyan immediately opened it and stuffed it into his mouth, saying vaguely, "I can eat, I can eat anything now. I can eat a big bowl of rice, steak, pork chops, and lamb chops are all fine." Jian

Jing sighed, "You were so miserable before."

"It's so inhumane." He slumped in the chair and thought about it, "Carbohydrates are good, fats are good, I don't want to eat eggs every day to grow muscles anymore."

Jian Jing: "Be careful not to become a fat man."

"That won't happen, I exercise every day." He quickly lifted his T-shirt and showed her his abdominal muscles, "Look, you're still doing well."

Jian Jing said righteously, "The world is going downhill."

"It's not me who posted handsome guys on WeChat Moments." He muttered.

Jian Jing pretended not to hear.

The domestic flight only takes a few hours, and we arrived in Seattle in the evening. After

a night's rest, we met up with the production crew the next day.

Although the filming location was said to be in Seattle, it was actually not in the city, but in a nearby town two hours' drive away. When we arrived at the location, we saw that it was a real-life filming.

The entire haunted house occupies a corner of the town, including a farm, a hotel, a road, and a forest.

There are also streams, wooden houses, and caves in the woods.

Jian Jing: I want to play.

Why are the haunted houses in this world so interesting?

"Teacher Jian, this show is good, isn't it?" The director squinted at her. "It's a Sino-US co-production. It's a rare opportunity. Do you want to be a guest star?"

Jian Jing stood next to the camera, observed carefully, and said regretfully: "It's not an immersive experience."

"That's not easy to do. The real haunted house is just a hotel on the farm. There are some small devices in other places." The director explained, "The forest is too dangerous. It's impossible to let you run around casually."

Jian Jing said: "Then it won't be real enough."

"A reality show movie is still a movie." The director said, "But the script is just an outline, and they still don't know the specific details."

Jian Jing asked, "Can I take a look?"

The director smiled and said, "Of course, this farm is open to the public and can be used as an ordinary B&B."

Jian Jing walked away contentedly.

Jiang Baiyan moved a small stool and moved over to watch the excitement. Several guests are now in the basement, and the pre-arranged infrared camera is doing its best to shoot pictures from all angles.

There is no need for a director to control it, and no need for a photographer to follow it. Everyone is free and chats while watching.

The director asked, "Xiaobai, do you want to guest star?"

Jiang Baiyan: "I'm very expensive."

The director laughed and didn't take it seriously: "Stingy, look, Teacher Jian has agreed."

Jiang Baiyan said, "I can't show up with Teacher Jingjing and cause trouble for her."

"Huh?" The director was stunned and puzzled, "You haven't caught up yet? Didn't you come together?"

Jiang Baiyan sighed.

"Tell me quickly." Everyone loves gossip, and watching the gossip of celebrities up close is the greatest fun in boring work.

Jiang Baiyan said, "No, I said I wanted to come to the haunted house too, so it's a good opportunity to come together."

The assistant director asked in surprise, "Is the scandal true or false?" He thought it was just a routine of true or false rumors.

Jiang Baiyan gave him a bitter face.

Having known each other for so many years, the director team and Jiang Baiyan have always gotten along well. Now they couldn't help but feel distressed (happy): "What do you mean, can't catch up?"

Jiang Baiyan held his cheek: "Anyway, I won't come."

"Oh, now you are your own boss, you are so proud, right?" The director pretended to be unhappy, "Get lost, you are not welcome to eat for free."

Jiang Baiyan wiped his tears: "When you invited me, you said I was a little sweetie, but now you don't need me anymore, and you don't even give me a 20-yuan lunch box. I'm going to expose you."

Everyone laughed, and the barriers that were previously caused by his skyrocketing value also disappeared with the joke.

This is probably the reason why Jiang Baiyan is so popular.

He is not arrogant.

The shooting lasted for three hours, and there were several breaks during the period to let the guests go to the toilet and drink coffee. At noon, the farm had prepared food. Except for a few guests who went back to their rooms to eat alone, the staff gathered in the restaurant.

Jian Jing ate a hot beef burger and said, "This farm is quite fun. I found a lot of interesting things."

She first walked around the outside of the farm and found a board under the haystack, which was soaked with blood. When she opened it, she found that the bottom was sealed. When she looked closely at the gap, she could see some strange patterns.

It was a sheep and an owl.

The decoration of the bathroom also had these two elements.

There was a huge deer head hanging in the tavern. The style of the decoration was very similar to the last century, and so was the music, as if time had stopped at a certain moment.

There was also a wooden house in the woods, with bullet holes embedded in the wood, as if there had been a gunfight, and huge scratches all over the outer wall, suggesting that a beast had visited it.

"What's the story behind this?" she couldn't help but ask the director.

The director said: "A group of college students went out for a trip, encountered a rainstorm, and rested on this farm..."

Jian Jing was speechless: "Why does it always start like this?"

"You don't travel? You don't encounter heavy rain? The routine is not afraid of being outdated, as long as there is a sense of substitution." The director continued, "They checked into the guest room in the middle of the night and saw some inexplicable things. You were looking in the mirror, and the people in the mirror smiled at you. The scene of people passing by your door kept repeating. It was obviously your first time here, but the owner of the farm knew what you like to eat and what you can't eat, as if he had been here many times..."

It felt a bit like a horror movie.

Jian Jing asked, "Then what?"

"Then they went into the forest." The director threw out the bait, "How about it, Mr. Jian, there's a chase scene in the forest this afternoon, would you like to guest star?"

Jian Jing held her chin up, "What part?"

"The farm originally prepared several NPCs, but the most suitable one is the woman in this wooden house." The director patiently explained the role of this character.

The guests were chased by monsters and fled into the forest. There was a thunderstorm, and they saw a new wooden house that was completely out of date.

There was someone in the wooden house, a woman, who took them in, said a bunch of mysterious things, and then went out to get some food, but never came back.

Jian Jing: "What a weakling."

The director remained calm: "Then there is another plot. Remember, there is an X club in the haunted house you played last time? Our worldviews are connected. Do you want to appear in this role?"

Jian Jing thought of the sunglasses group who appeared at the end of the last time she played in the escape room, and asked: "Is it handsome?"

"You can be as handsome as you want." The director boasted. He found Jian Jing mainly because her performance in the previous few seasons was very good, and the audience couldn't forget it, so he wanted to bury an easter egg in the movie.

It seems not bad to use this as the ending of his haunted house program. Jian Jing thought about it and agreed.

The director was very excited and decided to arrange the show in advance and shoot the finale tomorrow.

Jian Jing: This is indeed a movie.

The director said, "I'll go and borrow a car for you, an off-road vehicle, how about that?"

Jian Jing hesitated: "Actually..."

Everyone: "???"

She said this and that, and this and that.

The director was happy to hear that and made the decision: "Okay, no problem."

Then, he notified her to get up at four o'clock tomorrow morning to film.

Jian Jing was confused: "Four o'clock?"

The director: "Yes, this is the last scene, of course we have to face the dawn and the sunrise."

Jian Jing wanted to change her words, but everyone didn't give her a chance and pretended to be very busy.

"Teacher Jian, I'll come to you at four o'clock tomorrow to do your makeup."

"I have the clothes here, Teacher Jian, try them on later."

"Rest early tonight."

Alas, once you get on a pirate ship, it's easy to get stuck.