CHAPTER 59: CHAPTER 59: TRUE ALPHA IS CALM AND COLLECTED

Cheng Zhirang completed his first kill in the second round of the Hunting Time and took his suit jacket from the branch beside him, waving to Mu Qiu.

Mu Qiu just wanted to run over when Guan Yu stopped her.

"Is it our turn now?"

"... What?"

"Alliance! Mu Qiu, you have to remember, Brother Cheng has robbed you for ten years! Ten years! How many ten years do you have in your life?!"

Mu Qiu: "..."

She began to think about her earlier lie about the ten years, wondering if she was wrong.

Guan Yu continued to whisper, "Anyway, you’re just using Brother Cheng’s power to hide from Brother Huai. If we form an alliance, we can also follow behind Brother Cheng."

Mu Qiu turned her head to look at Cheng Zhirang, who was waiting for her, then looked back down to observe Guan Yu, "Sister Guan Yu, do we really need to form an alliance without rummaging through my pockets?"

Guan Yu withdrew her hand from Mu Qiu’s work pants pocket, finding nothing, "Are you so calm because you’ve moved the stickers elsewhere?"

"Otherwise, would I have to be pinned down and searched if robbed again?"

After being robbed of a sticker by Cheng Zhirang, she felt that leaving the sticker in her pants pocket was really unadvisable. If she’s robbed by a male guest again, viewers might think it was taking advantage, and if male guests avoid it due to concerns, some people might say the female guests can’t handle the game. Either way, moving location was necessary.

Guan Yu pondered, "Makes sense. If Brother Huai had thought of this sooner, he wouldn’t have suffered that ’humiliation’ just now."

From afar, Shi Yuhuai, who had already suffered "humiliation," gave her an expressionless glance.

Guan Yu asked Mu Qiu again, "So where did you move it to? Your work pants have several pockets; they’re a good tool for confusing people."

Mu Qiu covered the top two pockets, backing away from her, "If I told you that, Sister Guan Yu, how dull-witted would I have to be?"

Guan Yu laughed awkwardly, waved her hand, "Forget it, forget it, you go on, seeing your pocket gives me a headache. I’m going back to the plot, my leading man is still on the road looking for me."

Mu Qiu didn’t care whether her eyes hurt or if she went to the plot. Her heart had already flown towards Cheng Zhirang like an arrow.

Walking to Cheng Zhirang’s side, she observed his elegant posture with his suit jacket draped over his arm and thought of a sentence.

The most A is the one who remains calm under pressure.

"Brother Cheng, where are we going now?"

Cheng Zhirang scanned the surroundings, "The bell for the second round hasn’t ended yet, and someone might want to rob us at any time. Let’s sit at the bank over there; there’s air conditioning."

"?" Mu Qiu didn’t react, uttering a sound, "Now, sit at the bank?"

While they said someone could come to rob their lives at any time, the next sentence was to sit at the bank to enjoy the air conditioning?

Cheng Zhirang patiently answered her, "I’ve already robbed one sticker from Shi Yuhuai; he probably won’t let a second person get it, so for now, I’m the biggest winner in the second round. He and I just need to compete once more in the third round to decide the winner. Also, I looked around earlier and found there’s a bank with an open waiting area."

"Oh, so the real content of this episode is actually the showdown between you and Brother Huai." She slowly nodded, coming to this conclusion.

One with the longest initial Life Value and one who robbed that longest Life Value, the contest was only between them, and everyone else was just accompanying them.

Cheng Zhirang digested this concept and nodded seriously, "If nothing else happens midway, that’s pretty much it for now."

"Unexpected events? What could be unexpected?" It was already the second round, and as he said, the winner was practically determined between him and Shi Yuhuai, the only possible unexpected event...

She widened her eyes and quickened her steps to face him, speaking quickly, "What was the sticker you robbed from Brother Huai just now?"

Cheng Zhirang gently replied, "Don’t worry, it’s thirty thousand years."

Thirty thousand!

Her mind gathered the information, and Mu Qiu carefully sorted out each person’s potential, "Brother Huai’s sticker was taken from his pants earlier, so it’s pretty certain the earlier ten-year sticker was robbed from Sister Shu Ran, and now that ten-year sticker has been returned to Sister Shu Ran. Li Yang has formed an alliance with her, but I suspect this alliance isn’t very solid. Sister Guan Yu’s role should be the one among us with the shortest Life Value. This is a personal battle, and there should be Life Value rankings at the end. To avoid being last, she might be the first to act frantically. But it’s alright, unless she can rob Brother Huai’s second sticker, otherwise, Brother Cheng, you should be the biggest winner, for the time being."

After finishing her analysis, she believed that aside from Shi Yuhuai’s reluctance to interact with women, which might allow Guan Yu a miraculous hunt, there weren’t any surprises.

Mu Qiu looked up at Cheng Zhirang with doubt, "Brother Cheng, so what is the unexpected you mentioned?"

Cheng Zhirang walked steadily, still advising her to watch her step, then switched his suit jacket to the other hand and analyzed for her, "This episode’s rule is a Life Value snatch game, with only three bells in total; it ends after three rounds of snatching. It’s already been a while since the second round began; so what time is it now?"

Mu Qiu didn’t have a phone, so Cheng Zhirang stretched his left wristwatch in front of her.

"Ten thirty."

"Right, it’s already the second round, yet it’s only ten thirty. If we measure by the interval between the second round and the ringing of the bell, the third round won’t take long, and it’ll end just after noon. Did the director tell you that this episode might take a bit longer to record, and to be prepared?"

Mu Qiu hesitated to nod, "He mentioned it."

"These two possibilities are mutually contradictory."

"You’re saying the third round’s start interval or this round’s end time might be long?"

Talking on the way, they left the amusement park and saw the lush green bank. Cheng Zhirang opened the door and stood aside, letting her enter first.

Mu Qiu thanked him, entered, but didn’t sit down, turned around to watch him come in, and continued questioning.

"It’s possible," Cheng Zhirang put a flat pillow from the nearby sponsor product table on the iron chair with many holes, letting her sit, "but there’s another possibility, a mobile npc could appear, and the rules might change accordingly."

"Mobile npc?"

Mu Qiu glanced at the pillow printed with a peach heart. She asked while her gaze seemed a bit absentminded; she leaned her hands back on the pillow and then slowly and solemnly sat down.

She never found sitting on this kind of bank chair in the summer so comfortable before. Once she wore shorts to the bank for business, sitting for half an hour with these hole imprints on her legs left them red and painful.

Once she sat down, Cheng Zhirang took two bottles of water from the sponsor table beside the chair, handing one to her, and continued speaking, "Li Yang formed an alliance with Shu Ran to steal her sticker; Shu Ran is most likely the first to become a mobile npc. According to your setting, mobile npcs perform role-playing and must follow the storyline. I believe among them might have surprises we can’t foresee."