Chapter 2347: Chapter 1313: Part 2
At first Ye Qingning was frightened, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked for Mo Jingyan, only to realize Mo Jingyan wasn’t there; after glancing left and right she finally saw her bodyguards.
Seeing the bodyguards’ faces, anger rose in her heart; whether or not it was the bodyguards who saved her, she still had to vent the fear and fury in her heart on them. She gave the few bodyguards a vicious glare and swore she’d make Gege dock their pay.
The show would still go on, but after running into danger, there was no way they could keep filming in a dangerous spot.
There are wolves around here?
No one knew if more would come; wolves were supposed to appear at night, yet today they’d shown up in broad daylight. After watching the livestream and learning how the wolves had appeared—
Those people had gone into a cave and disturbed them. The wolves were already starving in winter, so many of them living together, all in hunger. The appearance of humans made them, in that hunger, throw caution aside and kill prey on sight.
By the time staff had revived Mo Jingyan and Ye Qingning, they were already carrying their prey and heading back to the lodging; lunch still hadn’t been eaten.
They planned to roast the wild rabbits and pheasants.
The director knew this game couldn’t go on, so he had everyone return to the temporary rental house.
They needed to deal with lunch, and after they were done with dinner, everyone would head down the mountain.
For everyone’s safety, this time they’d only use helicopters to take people down; there’d be none of that hiking like in the morning.
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The director actually wanted to spend the two days in this forest to boost the show’s heat, and he wanted the guests to hike down on their own—the shared risk would send the popularity soaring.
The reason he changed his mind was that he had no choice. As the director, even though they’d had people sign contracts and all the guests had bought insurance—
Right after the guests encountered danger, they’d already received complaint calls from the guests’ families.
Among them were family members of Ye Qingning’s investor, and also the family of rich second-gen Fang Zizhou.
As for Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou, not only had they not encountered danger, they’d even helped, sending the show’s traffic surging even higher. With these two heavy-hitters around, the show never flopped.
After those dangerous scenes just now, their show was already hot.
The director felt that whether it was Luo Youyou or Mo Jingyan, they were both the show’s lucky stars. Although the others also had some heat, if they wanted to compete with other variety shows on the market and fight for ratings, it didn’t come down to how much the investors put in.
It depended on the audience—on one exciting scene after another that kept them interested.
When the director, staff, other guests, and the bodyguards returned to the rented courtyard, the smell of meat was already wafting through the air.
That married couple surnamed Liang had been the first to come back; they’d borrowed the stove to cook the ingredients Da Li had brought back. Even though their operation had failed this time, they couldn’t show it; the audience was watching them.
If they showed even the slightest abnormality, their careers as embedded operatives would be finished.
But they were so furious. They’d clearly already captured their target—just a little bit more and they would have taken the person away. Then that accident happened, and those two targets they’d been keeping an eye on kept exposing their plans again and again, ruining their efforts again and again.
Their superiors and they themselves all wanted to eliminate these two. Whether back in their original location or after coming out to join the show, every time they sent people to hunt this man and woman, the mission failed.
The more they knew these two weren’t ordinary, the more they wanted to get answers from them that would benefit their side. They wanted the method of obtaining that special ability, so their people could all learn it, then defeat this country’s people—whether in Martial Arts competitions or in boxing.
They wanted to cripple them, break them.
When Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou came back, the couple had already finished cooking and were just about to eat. They even greeted them, not letting anyone see what they were really thinking.
Only when they lowered their heads did their eyes flash with a sinister chill, the kind the audience would never notice.
The man and woman finished cooking their own meal so quickly.
They were barbecuing—how could barbecue be done that fast?
They were butchering rabbits—how could you skin rabbits that quickly?
They were slaughtering chickens—plucking chickens without even needing hot water?
The couple quietly watched this male-female duo while they ate.
They had considered tampering with their food, but the two were too cautious and cunning—their cups were always kept among their personal belongings.
If the water wasn’t something they’d brought themselves, they wouldn’t drink it.
So the couple had racked their brains trying to find ways to drug them and knock them out, and then do what they wanted to do. They didn’t think this was any particularly vile crime at all.
Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou were surrounded by the production crew, the other two groups of guests, their bodyguards, and the people specially assigned to protect them.
After what had just happened, no one dared relax for even a moment.
It was just that, because everyone had gone out searching, no one had stayed here to obediently cook.
The couple who’d gotten back early were already eating, almost finished with their dishes.
The smell made everyone’s mouths water; in fact, they wanted to snatch the food straight from Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou’s hands. In real life, it wasn’t like they never had meat, and there were even people who liked eating game.
Restaurants serving that kind of "private" game were a thing. As for whether it was truly wild or just farmed—that depended on the owner’s integrity and, well, on whether their own palates could tell the difference.
Up here in the mountains, in a place teeming with wild creatures, they just wanted to taste some wild animal meat. Even if they couldn’t take any back, at least they could satisfy their cravings.
The production team had one advantage: every time they went somewhere to film, they’d buy local specialties.
It was already noon and there was no time to cook rice, so they turned to the dry rations and frozen foods they’d brought. Besides dumplings and wontons that just needed a quick boil, they also had instant noodles.
If they were in the city or the suburbs and had no time to cook, they could just eat boxed meals.
The hosts had already been sent away; someone in the crew knew how to cook, but earlier when everyone went out searching for people, even the cook had gone.
Watching Mo Jingyan and Luo Youyou eating so happily, they were hungry too.
The guests hadn’t hunted much prey; they couldn’t just trade for more so everyone could eat.
They hadn’t even had time to drag back the dead wolves while searching for people just now.
After rescuing everyone, some staff had gone back looking for food and reached the site of the fight between wolves and humans.
The ground still reeked of blood, but there were no wolf corpses to be seen.
They didn’t dare stay there for long. With no carcasses to find, they could only hurry back.
No one dared approach the bloody ground, afraid that wolves not yet dead would smell the blood and their scent there and come after them for revenge.
Humans were powerful; they’d killed dozens of wolves and hadn’t even seemed to struggle much.
This was also a merit for the show—the talk about taking down those bad guys—though some villains had stolen the credit, which was a bit of a pity.
In one of the rooms in the house, the couple sat still after finishing their meal, just listening to the noises outside.
Listening to every move everyone outside made.
Under normal circumstances, Ye Qingning wasn’t this greedy for meat, but when you’re exhausted and starving, your body instinctively seeks comfort in the search for food.
She’d just been looking for Mo Jingyan, and hadn’t expected to find him barbecuing with Luo Youyou here. They were eating, and they hadn’t even greeted her or invited her to join.
Ye Qingning’s eyes were brimming with tears now, and her expression as she looked at Mo Jingyan was pure "heartless scumbag."
That look in her eyes really could make some casual viewers who had just entered the livestream, or those passerby fans who’d just started to stick around, misunderstand and think Ye Qingning’s expression was that of a proper girlfriend whose boyfriend had been stolen by a mistress.
A proper married couple, yet there was another woman by the husband’s side, making one woman look so wronged. People who didn’t know the situation would automatically think: whoever cries is the victim; whoever’s tears are more pitiful, they’ll support, they’ll speak up for, they’ll side with.
Mo Jingyan avoided Ye Qingning’s gaze and didn’t offer so much as a word of comfort.
Probably because they’d already done what they could—they’d stepped in instead of standing by, done their best to rescue people, and that was all they could do...
