Chapter 2: Reality Show

In a daze, Lin Quying always felt like he was walking inside a dark hallway. He looked left and right suspiciously, as if he was looking for something. Why was he staying here? Where is this? Lin Quying puzzledly advanced along the dark building passage, when suddenly, he fiercely saw that a red shadow swiftly swept by in front of him! "Who …… who!" Immediately afterward, he took another step forward, and fear began to rise within him. "Hey …… hey hey hey …… what's going on here?" As he continued to advance on the dark hallway, his legs were starting to shake a little. "Hey!" Right at this moment, he suddenly felt a cold hand dead center the back of his neck! "Ah!" Lin Quying finally woke up at this time. "I go …… seem to be having a nightmare?" Lin Quying took the cell phone that was charging at the bedside and opened the screen to look at it. "7:00 …… I go, that early?" For a full time anchor like him, every day is to sleep to wake up naturally, the last time he woke up at 7 o'clock he forgot when it was. "Hoo…… keep sleeping, keep sleeping." Lin Quying pulled the quilt over his head and continued to lie in bed. It was reasonable to say that he had played games until the early hours of the morning, and now he definitely hadn't slept enough. However, now that he had been lying down for a while longer, the red shadow in front of the corridor would appear inside his mind, and the more he thought about it, the creepier he felt. "Ugh, I should have known that I wouldn't have used that telescope to peek across the street yesterday. What a thing to call this." Lin Quying realized that he actually didn't feel like sleeping at all right now. "Forget it, get up." Then, he started to get up to dress, wash up, and order takeout. After waiting for the takeout and throwing yesterday's replacement clothes into the tumble dryer, he returned to his room and sat in front of the computer. "When this advertising money comes in, I'll be able to buy another car. Just in time to see …… what kind of car is good?" Just as Lin Quying was searching through the various car advertisements on the webpage, he suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, glanced at the high-powered binoculars in front of a side window. "……" Somehow, seeing this telescope now reminded him of last night's experience. Somehow, it stimulated the curiosity within him. "Is it true that I …… misread last night?" After he thought for a while, he shook his head and said, "Well …… never mind, I should be the one who saw it wrong." Just at this time, he suddenly realized that in the lower right corner of the computer, a video push popped up. That push reads, "A brand new thriller horror reality show, stars and vegetarians of the horror island challenge! It will be broadcast exclusively on the East Star TV channel!" Above the tweet, images of several celebrities appeared. "Oh? Kind of interesting?" So he clicked on that tweet, intending to take a look. East Star TV was a satellite channel that ranked in the top three for variety ratings nationwide. East Star TV launched a reality show focusing on the private lives of celebrities last year, and it gained the number one ratings in the country. However, a reality show that combined celebrities and vegetarians sounded quite innovative. "Well …… let's see." In the preview of the video, several bursting hot traffic stars appeared, including Xiao Zhi, Mu Aishan, Tang Tingtian, Sun Jiamin, Lu Yunxiu, etc., almost all of them were traffic actors with a love bean origin and stretched acting skills, and comparing to them, Xiao Zhi was actually the one with the best acting skills. And then, it was the introduction of the vegetarians, inside the vegetarians were network writers, Muay Thai fitness trainers, ordinary stock brokers and so on. "Ahhhh? Black Ghost Fire? Is this person the author of Mansion 444, Black Ghostfire? His real name turns out to be Dong Evil, this name is too special, isn't it possible that his parents are particularly fond of Yellow Medicine Master?" Inside the vegetarian guests, Black Ghost Fire actually appeared! Lin Quying remembered that a few years ago, he particularly enjoyed reading the book Mansion 444 ah. "In 10 days, the star group and the vegetarian group will come together for a live reality show on an uninhabited island, an island located in remote waters that was rumored to have been the third place in the world's top ten scary places on the extranet. The most crucial thing is that this live broadcast, will be a live broadcast conducted by drones, there will never be any editing after the fact!" A reality show filmed by drones? And it's guaranteed to be live and never edited? "Interesting!" The more Lin Quying watched, the more interested she became, but it was the few traffic stars, who were either fresh meat or Netflix faces, that were really uninteresting. Nowadays, the variety show is essentially another kind of "TV drama", often through editing to create the effect of the program, many people say that the stars are relying on the variety show to establish a persona, to whitewash their own. Especially in recent times, because of the film and television winter, some small actors into the anchor, more actors are a brain into the variety show. Just as he was watching the preview of this reality show, the doorbell outside rang. He rushed to the door, opened it, and the takeout was delivered. "Hello sir, your pizza." "It was delivered really fast!" Lin Quying took the plastic bag that was still quite warm for the pizza box. "Okay, sir, enjoy your meal." "Wait!" Lin Quying opened the plastic bag and looked at it, frowned, and said, "How come it doesn't come with the regular soup?" "Well, our store has canceled the rule of ordering a pizza to get the regular soup of the day from this month, it's written on the Meituan APP." "Really? That's right, it's been a while since I asked your store to order a pizza. Okay, you go." Lin Quying closed the door and went back into the room, continuing to click on the video to check it out while continuing to eat the pizza. "There's no case soup ah …… I should have known that I would have ordered some drinks just now." After eating half of the pizza, he couldn't help but feel a little thirsty. Walking to the kitchen, there was not a single drop of water left inside the hot water bottle. If he continued to boil water with the electric kettle, it was too hot again. And after being on air for so long yesterday, he had long since finished all the water. Opening the refrigerator and taking a look, there wasn't even a bottle of milk left. "Then …… go out and buy something to drink." After he finished the rest of the pizza, he put on his coat, grabbed the sorted garbage bags, locked the door and went out. As he walked to the door, he subconsciously glanced at the building across the street. Somehow, he always felt a little intimidated. At this time, passing by the fitness area of the neighborhood, it looked very cold. About a week ago this place was still the territory of the square dancing amazons, but then after being complained about the nuisance, the amazons went outside to find other places. Walking to the convenience store near the entrance of the neighborhood, he quickly walked in and dropped several buckets of bottled water in his shopping cart. He hadn't been out in a really long time, so he just made a big purchase this time. Then, he bought a bunch of frozen food, as well as instant coffee, Red Bull, and cigarettes and other things to facilitate an overnight broadcast. "Well, this week it'll be another outdoor live broadcast in the neighborhood, showing off the upscale neighborhood I live in." Now, last night's experience, Lin Quying had basically forgotten it cleanly. Just as he walked to a shelf near the cash register and took another pack of instant noodles, a man and a woman's voices came from the opposite side of the shelf. "Nie Han, this, we don't need to buy any household items either, right?" "Since we're going to ask about things, it's best to buy more things for good. For me is the fifth blood word, for you guys is the fourth blood word, must be extremely careful, you do not want to step Chen Fu Lin Xuan's dust, right?" "Line …… line, know, all listen to you." Lin Quying froze, what is the blood word they said? Then, he saw the man and woman go to the cashier to pay the bill. At this time, Lin Quying froze. The woman …… was exactly the beautiful woman wearing Prada that he saw last night! And she was now wearing another new set of Prada women's clothes! And that man, was the man beside her that the telescope saw yesterday! What a coincidence! He quickly turned his head, not daring to look at them, and quickly walked to the shelf in the far corner of the convenience store. Yesterday, when they closed the curtains, they wouldn't have found him, would they? And it was such a coincidence that they all came to this convenience store to buy something? Waiting for that man and woman to leave, he then dared to walk back to the cashier to check out. After checking out, the cashier continued, ''That sir, why don't you apply for a membership card? Once you have a membership card, you can exchange your points for merchandise. We've had a big offer recently, as long as you get a card within this month, then you can get six cups of coffee attached within this year, and you can use this card at all of our convenience stores in the city." "It's not necessary." Lin Quying asked himself what kind of wealth he was now, relying on live broadcasts to make money day in and day out, was there a need to be greedy for such a small advantage? After taking the large shopping bag, he turned back towards the convenience store's entrance, and the cashier added, "That sir, our membership card is really excellent ……" The cashier watched Lin Quying walk out of the convenience store and stood frozen in place. Another cashier next to him came over and said, "What's wrong? Why don't you tell him that this time the membership card will be sent first ……" "That, Little Sun?" "Huh?" "When that man turned around just now, didn't you notice? The back of his neck, there is a very red handprint!"