Chapter 58
Chapter 58
That evening, the director’s superior told him Bai Hehua would not be coming back, because that warehouse really had been blown up by her.
Of course, the reason had nothing to do with trying to please some CEO. It was because the stock market crash had wiped her out overnight.
So she had secretly smuggled in some goods, and that warehouse was where those goods were being stored. In the end, though, someone reported her. In a fit of ruthless desperation, she blew up the warehouse, causing massive casualties.
By some strange twist of fate, she had also received the insurance payout and gotten through her crisis.
According to the superior, there was absolutely no way she was coming back.
At the same time, the app on the remaining celebrities’ phones suddenly began flashing. They tapped it open and found a video inside.
When they played it, they saw Bai Hehua. She was in a detention center, sitting there in obvious unease.
A moment later, she seemed to have a stomachache and went to the restroom.
The detention center restroom had squat toilets. She had just reached the toilet area and had not even squatted down when a hand suddenly shot out from the hole in the toilet and grabbed her ankle.
“Ahhh!!! Help me!!!”
Bai Hehua screamed like mad, but it was useless. The inmates around her were as dead to the world as if they had been drugged. No matter how loudly she screamed, none of them woke up.
That hand dragged her down, forcibly pulling her into the hole. Because the opening was extremely narrow, every celebrity could even hear the sound of Bai Hehua’s bones cracking.
She shrieked as she was squeezed, inch by inch, into a long, distorted shape, until at last she was completely dragged inside.
And it still was not over. The video continued.
For some unknown reason, Bai Hehua still had not died. She could no longer scream. Only her fingers kept scratching against the sewer walls.
The sound made everyone’s hair stand on end, and it continued for a full hour before finally stopping.
The video ended, and everyone fell into silence. Panic set in among them all. In that instant, they realized just how important fans were.
Their fan count absolutely could not drop to zero!
But very soon, they looked at Mission 2 and felt miserable all over again, because every single one of them had some dark secrets, to a greater or lesser extent. If those things got out, their fans would definitely hemorrhage like crazy!
But if they did not say anything, they would violate the Taboo, and who knew if things would become even worse then.
For a time, all of them were caught in an agonizing dilemma.
The netizens watching the livestream were confused as well. They wondered what these people had seen. Why had they all suddenly gone silent?
Among them, only Liu Ye was happily eating his boxed meal in his room, because although the director was angry, he had actually given him an extra chicken drumstick!
Beside him, the driver said, utterly speechless, “Seriously? Aren’t you a little too petty? She only said a few things about you, and you got her sent straight to prison.”
Liu Ye looked deeply wronged.
“What did I do? I didn’t do anything! I just said she blew up a warehouse full of firecrackers for love, and then she got taken away!”
At this point, Liu Ye asked, a little frightened, “Wait, are firecrackers regulated that strictly in Huicheng? You can get arrested just for setting off firecrackers?”
Driver: “…”
The meatball between his chopsticks fell.
All the netizens fell silent too.
“Didn’t you say she blew up a warehouse?”
“When did I say she blew up a warehouse…” Liu Ye got halfway through his sentence before suddenly remembering something. Then he said sheepishly, “I think… I forgot to say the word ‘firecrackers.'”
Everyone: “…”
In a certain sense, the reason Bai Hehua got arrested was truly beyond words.
But if anything, the whole thing ended up gaining Liu Ye quite a few fans.
In particular, the relatives of the workers Bai Hehua had harmed suddenly boosted Liu Ye’s follower count by several hundred.
And in that instant, the driver keenly sensed that the white light around Liu Ye seemed to have grown even stronger.
He nearly burst into tears. Was there supposed to be any room left for a Fiend to live?
Because of Bai Hehua’s video, no one except Liu Ye slept well that night.
Some of the more timid ones even dreamed about Bai Hehua’s gruesome state.
Early the next morning, everyone got up late. The director didn’t say anything about it. After all, someone had just been taken away; they needed time to recover.
But the moment they got up, they heard a commotion.
“I told you! I only drink one specific brand of bottled water. I’m not used to the water you have here.”
Zhao Yang shouted angrily. A wisp of pink suddenly flashed through his eyes.
“But you didn’t tell us in advance,” a staff member said helplessly.
“I don’t care. I only drink Meilijia bottled water. Xia Family water is way too polluted, and my delicate stomach can’t handle it,” Zhao Yang said.
The staff beside him kept trying to persuade him. This was a livestream, after all. Throwing his weight around like this was terrible for both his own image and the show’s.
Logically speaking, this guy was very smart. He knew what he should and shouldn’t do. So why had he suddenly become so impulsive?
The director couldn’t figure it out either, but he knew they couldn’t let Zhao Yang keep going like this. He hurriedly shot Liu Ye a look.
Liu Ye hesitated. It wasn’t that he was afraid of embarrassing himself; he genuinely had no idea how to help cover for him.
“Just act even more high-maintenance than he is!” the driver beside him said.
Liu Ye understood immediately, then shouted at the top of his lungs, “Right! I also only drink one specific brand of bottled water. If you don’t prepare it for me, I’m not filming!”
“Uh, what brand do you drink?”
The staff member quickly asked.
“I only drink Binglu! I won’t drink anything else!”
Staff member: “…”
Director: “…”
Driver: “…”
If that’s what you want, just go grab some yourself. There are several cases right there!
Online opinion of Liu Ye instantly flipped.
[You really can’t tell from looking at him. He’s actually pretty frugal.]
[Just look at what he’s wearing and you’ll know.]
[This is the first time I’ve seen someone demand Binglu.]
[Now this is what a real celebrity looks like.]
“No, seriously, couldn’t you have named something more expensive?” the driver said speechlessly.
“This isn’t expensive? It’s one yuan a bottle!” Liu Ye said, baffled.
After Liu Ye interrupted him, the pink in Zhao Yang’s eyes instantly faded. Only then did Zhao Yang realize what he had been saying, and he hurried back to his room.
Seeing that, Liu Ye excitedly showed off to the driver.
“See, bro? I handled it again… Wait, bro, why are you looking at 98 Tongcheng?”
“Nothing. I’m just getting prepared.”
Meanwhile, Xiaoshuai, who was off to the side, turned grim, because he had seen the aura of his organization’s drug on Zhao Yang.
He immediately returned to his room and sent a message to his organization, asking why the drug had been used ahead of schedule during his mission.
Although their drug had already spread out, judging by what he had seen from Zhao Yang, the dosage used was clearly very large. It definitely wasn’t something absorbed by accident.
But the organization’s reply left him stunned, because they said they had never used the drug in that area at all.
“You bastards! Do any of you have a brain? How can you not know about something like this?!”
Xiaoshuai cursed out loud, but the moment the words left his mouth, he clapped a hand over it.