Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 73

The other two groups only felt that the two people in the green group were simply rascals, yet they couldn’t quite say where exactly they were rascally, so they could only endure it with a bitter smile.

Zhao Jingran led Deng Xiaoran toward another route. The two walked with their heads together whispering.

“Blame Sister for not reacting in time, dragging you down.” Deng Xiaoran was still immersed in the thrilling scramble just now, making a wiping tears gesture toward the camera: “Nothing more to say.”

Zhao Jingran said: “It’s fine. Learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians, alright? If we run into them again on the next route, I’ll directly go up and block the two of them, and you directly grab the checkpoint.”

Deng Xiaoran laughed out loud, gave Zhao Jingran a thumbs up, and introduced him to the onlookers: “A reliable younger brother.”

On the other side, the green group passed the second checkpoint and obtained a map fragment, but it was a fake one.

Sun Yimin hugged his head in pain, his expression exaggerated: “Oh my god!”

“Stop buying, let’s go.” Zhan Hang said.

His constitution was simply like a superhuman. Sun Yimin didn’t want to move at all after climbing such a long slope, yet Zhan Hang was fine as if nothing happened.

But Sun Yimin was truly too tired, so he directly sat down against the corner of the wall and began playing the victim: “I’m about to die, I need to rest.”

Zhan Hang put his hands on his hips, frowned looking at him, then raised his hand to check his watch, saying: “Then rest for one minute.”

Sun Yimin couldn’t believe it: “One minute?! Just kill me!”

Zhan Hang clicked his tongue, that expression seeming to say “that’s not impossible either.”

Sun Yimin: “…”

The two confronted each other for a moment. Sun Yimin’s assistant truly couldn’t bear watching anymore. She applied to Jiang Chongyang for a short intermission. Jiang Chongyang saw through the screen that Sun Yimin’s face was indeed a bit pale, so he agreed and gave ten minutes.

Zhao Kaile followed this group taking the cable car directly up the mountain. When getting off, he was still somewhat unsatisfied.

Sun Yimin was supported to the side by his assistant. The camera moved away. He didn’t even bother maintaining appearances anymore, his face completely collapsed, wishing he could directly get in the car and go home. Several assistants gave him water, massaged him, wiped sweat, and tidied his clothes and hairstyle.

“Is the production team deliberately messing with me? How did they arrange me in the same group as him?” Sun Yimin muttered, his gaze sweeping toward Zhan Hang and finding that there weren’t many people around him, just one familiar little assistant.

The several people who heard this all had bitter smiles. The drawing lots was done by rolling dice in the group chat, witnessed by everyone. The randomness was very strong. It was basically impossible for anyone to manipulate it.

Zhao Kaile opened a bottle of water for Zhan Hang and handed it over, then asked worriedly: “Brother Hang, are you uncomfortable anywhere? I saw Sun Yimin was about to faint.”

“That’s because his body is weak.” Zhan Hang said arrogantly: “I’m very good, not uncomfortable anywhere.”

Zhao Kaile leaned over and whispered: “How about we still restrain ourselves a bit, lest his fans watch this episode and come looking for trouble again.”

Zhan Hang looked forward, his lips moving slightly, also whispering: “Was my performance very obvious?”

Zhao Kaile said speechlessly: “Of course!!”

Zhan Hang gave an “mm,” thinking to himself that yes, even Zhao Kaile could tell, so it was indeed a bit excessive.

During the second half of recording, Zhan Hang’s attitude toward Sun Yimin clearly softened a lot, somewhat matching Jiang Chongyang’s original expectations for him.

At the third checkpoint, the red group and green group, enemies on a narrow road, were about to run into each other again.

Zhan Hang saw from afar two figures walking one after another on another path, precisely Zhao Jingran and Deng Xiaoran. Sun Yimin’s eyes rolled, and he immediately came up with a mischievous idea.

When he was still in the boy band from the talent show, he had a prankster king persona. Of course he wouldn’t let this drop for this show, so he put his arm around Zhan Hang’s shoulder and whispered in his ear.

The camera gave the two people’s backs huddled together.

Sun Yimin said: “Brother Hang, I’ll be the hidden line, go around and pretend to be a ghost to scare them. You be the obvious line, keep walking, be flashy.”

Zhan Hang said politely: “But if they see me walking alone, they’ll definitely be suspicious.”

“…” Sun Yimin said: “Then don’t let them discover us. The two of us walk separately, neither flashy, keep in contact.”

Zhan Hang: “OK.”

Jiang Chongyang sat in the back watching with cold sweat, practically being played to death by these two people. He had no choice but to instruct the camera crew through the walkie talkie to again split into two paths like last time.

Sun Yimin had rested enough. His playful heart rose greatly. He grabbed a white cloak from the props team and ran off in a puff of smoke. While running, he said to the cameraman who wanted to follow: “Brothers you don’t need to come, don’t need to come, I’ll record myself!”

The cameraman didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Director! He won’t let us follow!”

Jiang Chongyang said helplessly: “If you can catch up, chase. If you can’t, forget it.”

Deng Xiaoran and Zhao Jingran were crossing the bridge. The sky was getting a bit dark. The bamboo forest was rather eerie.

“Alright, I see the little red flag. We’re almost there.” Zhao Jingran encouraged her. Seeing Deng Xiaoran couldn’t walk anymore, he specially reached out to support her.

Deng Xiaoran covered her heart, panting: “I’m a bit regretting coming to this show now.”

Zhao Jingran laughed loudly: “Too late to regret.”

The two walked to the end of the wooden bridge. Suddenly a white shadow floated past in front.

Deng Xiaoran’s heart immediately tightened. She grabbed Zhao Jingran’s wrist and looked around in terror.

“What’s wrong?” Zhao Jingran didn’t see it, only looking at her in confusion. In front of the filming crew, it wasn’t good to directly push her hand away, so he could only smile and ask gently, maintaining his persona.

“You didn’t see it?” Deng Xiaoran was even more frightened, and asked everyone: “Did you all see a white shadow?”

Several men holding instruments looked at each other and shook their heads one after another.

By this point there weren’t many passing onlookers left, only the artists and assistants, and the production team staff. The surrounding scenery became a bit dim with the daylight. The bamboo forest rustled. It indeed had a bit of a suspenseful, thrilling, and horror atmosphere.

Deng Xiaoran let go, thinking to herself that she must be too nervous.

Zhao Jingran was completely baffled. He led her forward a bit more. The white shadow flashed again, only briefly floating between two trees.

This time everyone saw it. Deng Xiaoran screamed out loud, abruptly covered her heart, her breathing became rapid, her body swaying unsteadily.

Zhao Jingran realized the situation wasn’t quite right. He hurriedly supported her and said to the staff and assistants: “Stop recording for now! Take her to rest!”

“There’s a ghost…” Deng Xiaoran’s face was pale, continuously inhaling, her limbs slightly twitching, intermittently repeating: “There’s a ghost!”

The incident happened suddenly. Everyone was stunned. They hadn’t expected this to happen. Jiang Chongyang knew the inside story. This checkpoint indeed hadn’t arranged any NPC to pretend to be ghosts. He saw the entire process in the screen. He had no choice but to pick up the walkie talkie to call a stop, telling them to quickly send her down.

The team members who received the news on the other end all had complex expressions. Some couldn’t believe it, some gloated, some had confused faces. It was simply spectacular.

A few minutes later Sun Yimin returned wearing the white cloak. Everyone looked at each other. They were about to use their eyes to elect someone to question him, but he spoke first, distressed: “What’s the situation? I waited for half a day and they never came. Could they have known early on that I was hiding there and changed routes?”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Kaile’s eyes widened in terror. He cowardly shrank behind Zhan Hang and asked in disbelief: “Brother Hang, it wasn’t him?? Could it be that on the mountain there really is…”

But Zhan Hang looked at Sun Yimin without saying a word. The latter returned a confused gaze, as if truly unaware.

An assistant went over and briefly described what happened to Sun Yimin. Upon hearing this, he opened his mouth in surprise and murmured: “No way… I hadn’t even arrived yet?! There really is that… that thing??”

A sudden accident occurred on set. The game couldn’t continue. Jiang Chongyang had no choice but to announce a pause in this episode’s recording, waiting until Deng Xiaoran who was sent to the hospital had news before making a decision.

Zhao Kaile was in the car removing makeup for Zhan Hang. He saw Deng Xiaoran’s expression in the footage, heard her scream, and couldn’t erase that scene from his mind. Even now he was still a bit suspicious and fearful, having to uneasily look out the window every little while.

“Don’t scare yourself.” Zhan Hang said: “Of course Sun Yimin wouldn’t admit that his prank really harmed someone.”

Zhao Kaile was still a bit frightened: “But Deng Xiaoran’s expression was too real. If it was someone pretending, would she be scared into that state?”

Zhan Hang said: “Today’s exercise in the show far exceeded her usual exercise. She should have been exhausted to the extreme at that time. A person’s heart rate is already very high after intense exercise. Being scared by Sun Yimin like that, of course she couldn’t withstand it.”

Zhao Kaile relaxed slightly and let out a long breath.

Silence fell in the car for a moment.

Zhao Kaile reacted and asked: “Then if Deng Xiaoran doesn’t want to participate in this show anymore, what happens next?”

“What else can be done.” Zhan Hang said: “Replace her with someone else to fill Deng Xiaoran’s position.”

Zhao Kaile asked: “Will the production team hold Sun Yimin responsible?”

“I don’t know if they will or not.” Zhan Hang said expressionlessly: “Deng Xiaoran’s company will definitely come to apply pressure, but after a stalemate it will just end with paying money. The production team won’t replace two people over such a small matter. Not worth it.”

These words made Zhao Kaile instinctively feel a bit uncomfortable, thinking to himself that someone was scared into fainting and sent to the hospital, and this is called “such a small matter”? Would it only count as a big matter if someone was directly scared to death…

Zhan Hang said again: “Deng Xiaoran, what a pity.”

Zhao Kaile was startled and looked up at him.

Zhan Hang raised his eyebrows and politely looked back.

“Nothing.” Zhao Kaile said moved: “Brother Hang, you’re so kind.”

Zhan Hang seemed not to have heard, saying to himself: “The first two episodes that came out, her popularity wasn’t low either. Her company and she personally could completely ride the momentum of this variety show to make a killing before she exits the circle.”

Zhao Kaile: “…”

Zhan Hang asked: “What did you say just now?”

Zhao Kaile shook his head expressionlessly.

“Don’t talk too much about today’s matter when you go to the company.” Zhan Hang instructed: “If Xie Lin runs into you and asks about this matter, just say you don’t know clearly.”

Zhao Kaile knew he was afraid that he would speak without thinking and cause trouble again, so he cooperatively nodded.