Chapter 334
Chapter 334
The variety show for Jian Fan’s group had now been generated.
Yellow Hair was a little disappointed that he could not join them, but he did not dwell on it.
The moment he heard the rules, he had already known where he stood.
Those five had been a true alliance from the start. Him? He was only along for the ride.
“What should we pick?” Yellow Hair asked Yang Zhen and Lin Junruo beside him.
Yang Zhen stared at the three remaining worlds, her brow furrowed deeply. “None of these fall within my area of expertise.”
She could muddle through an escape room, at least. But the other three? Running an inn and living a slow-paced life? Dating? Looking after a child? They were making things difficult for her, Yang Zhen.
Remembering Yang Zhen’s background, Yellow Hair silently shut his mouth. He turned to Lin Junruo instead. “What about you?”
Lin Junruo considered it, then said, “The dating show?”
Dating was the one thing she had some experience with.
“Sure.” Yellow Hair was no good at any of the remaining three, so it made no difference to him.
Yang Zhen felt the same way.
And so, the three of them chose Love Connection together.
As a top idol who had appeared on variety shows before, Shen Xianglan knew the most about them. He looked at Zhou Jingying. “Ms. Zhou, which one are you joining?”
Zhou Jingying hesitated as well.
When she had left the entertainment industry, it had not yet come up with so many different formats. Thus, despite being an industry veteran, she did not really understand these shows. Of the three remaining options, she was afraid to choose the parenting show because it would remind her of her dead child. As for the other two… Zhou Jingying glanced at Yellow Hair and Lin Junruo, then made up her mind at once.
“I’ll go with them,” Zhou Jingying said.
At once, Shen Xianglan said, “Then I’ll go with Ms. Zhou.”
The two of them also chose Love Connection.
The show filled up again.
In the end, Xie Cheng was the only person in the group who had yet to choose.
Yellow Hair glanced at Xie Cheng and suddenly felt a little sorry for him.
He had only two paths before him now. First, he could struggle on alone. Second, he could team up with Xia Zeqin.
Neither was a good choice.
While Yellow Hair was still pitying Xie Cheng, the panda robot issued another notification.
“All remaining positions have been filled. Player Xie Cheng will automatically enter the variety show Parenting Diaries.”
Well, he had not even been given the chance to choose.
Once all twelve Players had made their selections, the panda robot bobbed its head again. The light screen before them changed. At the same time, a beam of light descended in front of each of the twelve, eventually condensing into an Identity Card.
Qin Nan was the first to turn over his Identity Card.
Permanent cast member of Escape Room. Personality: taciturn.
Qin Nan was baffled.
I suspect you’re targeting me.
They wanted him to be taciturn… Fine. It only meant keeping quiet. At worst, he could say nothing and let Jian Fan carry him through the show.
At that moment, Jian Fan stared at the Identity Card before him and lapsed into silence as well.
Permanent cast member of Escape Room. The group’s resident deadweight.
Jian Fan: “…”
He, too, felt that the Realm of Death was targeting him.
As the group’s resident deadweight, how could he possibly solve an escape room? If he cracked any puzzles or displayed even a hint of his abilities, that would count as breaking character. This…
Jian Fan chose to remain silent.
Lu Jing, Qin Weiyi, and Mu Xin had also received their Identity Cards.
Lu Jing was the director of Escape Room, with an added character restriction: girlish sensibilities.
He also felt targeted.
Girlish sensibilities in a horror escape game? Were they kidding him?
Qin Weiyi, meanwhile, had drawn the role of a camera operator assigned to follow the cast. He had to run after the cast members wherever they went, and his character restriction was–exceptional stamina.
Qin Weiyi’s face went cold. He hoped whichever cast member he had to follow would know better than to run around recklessly.
Mu Xin also fell silent when she saw the Identity Card before her.
She had drawn the role of a cast member as well, though she was only a guest star. Her assigned persona was a coy, affected actress.
For her, that did not seem–too difficult?
She merely had to switch from pretending to be pitiful to acting coy.
With all five Escape Room roles assigned, Yellow Hair, Lin Junruo, and the others joining the dating show had also finished reading their Identity Cards.
Lin Junruo and Yellow Hair were permanent cast members. Lin Junruo’s assigned persona was an aloof, commanding beauty–excellent, nothing like her at all. Yellow Hair’s was a passionate, possessive young boyfriend–also excellent. Compared with his actual personality, one could hardly call them identical; in fact, they had absolutely nothing in common.
Yang Zhen’s draw was even more absurd.
Yang Zhen had drawn the role of the show’s scriptwriter. Did that mean she had to write all those sugary romantic scenarios? That was far too much to ask of Doraemon Yang Zhen. Her assigned persona was even more ridiculous: sweet, naive, and innocent.
Sweet… naive… and innocent.
Yang Zhen nearly blacked out on the spot.
Compared with the collapse of those three, Zhou Jingying and Shen Xianglan reacted much more calmly.
Zhou Jingying had drawn the role of director, responsible for planning and coordination, with the persona of an avid couple shipper. It posed no difficulty for her. Shen Xianglan had drawn the role of a camera operator assigned to follow the cast. His settings specified excellent camera skills and an aloof demeanor, which presented no problem for him either.
That left the final two. Xia Zeqin was a cast member on the slow-paced variety show, playing the role of a caring older-brother figure. Xie Cheng had also drawn a permanent cast role, but there was one problem: he was the child being looked after, and his assigned persona was an adorable little boy.
Excellent. Wonderful, all of it. As if.
Once everyone had read their Identity Cards, four rings of light appeared before the group. They then drew all twelve people completely into their respective circles.
The new game officially began.
Each variety show allowed no more than five Players, but naturally, a show could not be filmed with so few people. Once the Players entered, each variety-show world would fill out its cast according to their selections, generating NPCs and altering the setting as circumstances required.
At that moment, Qin Nan, Jian Fan, and Mu Xin, the three cast members, were each transported into a small dark room.
There was no one else inside.
Qin Nan walked around the room and called out Jian Fan’s and Mu Xin’s names. When no one answered, he decided to go outside and take a look.
Yet the instant his hand closed around the handle, a line of text appeared before his eyes–Script currently being generated.
What did that mean?
The Script had not been generated yet?
Meanwhile, Lu Jing sat in another small dark room, staring at several Scripts before him with a growing headache.
This so-called variety-show world provided nothing more than a theme: Escape Room. That was it. They had to devise the design, logic, and everything else themselves.
None of their Identity Cards assigned them the role of the show’s scriptwriter, so an NPC had been generated to fill it.
After Lu Jing entered this world, an NPC assigned as the show’s scriptwriter approached him and handed him three Scripts, asking him to choose one as the content for the first episode.
Of course, as the director, Lu Jing could also propose his own ideas and alter any of the existing content.
One could say that the Players were entirely free to create this whole world as they pleased.
The problem was that Lu Jing had drawn this role, and he knew nothing about any of it. They could not break character, either, so Lu Jing could hardly have Jian Fan and the others design the plot, then copy it wholesale himself.
Lu Jing went numb.