Jiang Ye ran away as soon as the person in black appeared.

After she ran around several corners, she looked back.

Not only the person in black.

Even the cameraman who was filming her had disappeared.

Jiang Ye: "..."

If there was no cameraman, wouldn’t all her running have been in vain?

Forget it, the most important thing now was to formulate a game strategy.

The selling point of this show is watching the players complete game tasks and fight against the people in black.

So, just hiding wouldn’t be popular, she should try to participate in the game tasks as much as possible.

In the early stages, the five of them in 5tars could spread out a little.

But in the later stages, when they were completing the main tasks, it would be best to gather together.

It would give casual viewers the impression that they were a group, it would be convenient for group fans to cheer for their group spirit, and it would be convenient for CP fans to ship them.

Jiang Ye took out the map.

The game venue wasn’t very big, six points were marked with names, which should be the key task points.

Jiang Ye looked at the map, confirmed her direction, and set off.

Because she was afraid of encountering the person in black, Jiang Ye was extra careful with every step she took.

She felt like she was the sneaky emoji.

But Jiang Ye didn’t find her teammates or the person in black on her way out.

Instead, she passed the elimination room first.

The elimination room was a separate small building, players who were eliminated could see the status of the players outside through the windows.

There was only one person standing alone in the elimination room.

When she saw Jiang Ye walk past, she shouted.

Jiang Ye turned around and was stunned for a second.

She quickly glanced at her watch, "You’re already eliminated? It’s only been three minutes!"

Lin Zui: "..."

Lin Zui: "Didn’t you look at your phone?"

Lin Zui: "To be precise, it only took me six seconds."

Jiang Ye opened her phone and looked.

Sure enough, Lin Zui’s elimination message had already popped up.

It was just that she was too focused on escaping and hadn’t noticed.

Jiang Ye was heartbroken.

Who would have thought that her "《How to Fly the Entire Group to Victory in a Hot Variety Show》Preliminary Plan" hadn’t even started to be implemented, and she had already lost a key member.

Lin Zui rolled her eyes and held out her hand, "Come here."

Jiang Ye held out her hand and joked, "My cameraman isn’t even here, you won’t be able to snag my screen time."

"Who wants to snag your screen time!"

"I’m just returning the luck you lent me."

Lin Zui patted her hand twice, "You should keep that luck."

She was prone to bad luck.

If she snagged Jiang Ye’s luck, wouldn't she become even more unlucky?

No wonder she only lasted six seconds in her variety show journey.

"Don’t worry, Captain."

Jiang Ye still hadn’t given up on her grand plan, "Maybe we’ll have a resurrection task later."

"..."

Lin Zui was very practical, "First, you should make sure you don’t get caught yourself."

Jiang Ye raised a finger, "Got it!"

While she was chatting, Jiang Ye’s cameraman finally found her again.

Jiang Ye and Lin Zui waved, avoiding the person in black while scouting the area, so they could make the task easier later.

Shows usually set a game script for each episode.

All the players’ tasks will revolve around this script.

The task will be released around five minutes after the start, but players need to find the special NPCs in the script to trigger it.

Jiang Ye quietly patrolled the venue.

The casual NPCs were all wearing ancient costumes.

It seems like this should be a script with an ancient setting.

She soon found a strange man in the central plaza, he was asking everyone, "Can you help me find my music score?"

Got it.

Jiang Ye immediately stepped forward and volunteered, "What are you looking for?"

"My music score is missing pages."

The NPC showed her his music score, "But I don’t know which pages are missing, can you help me find them?"

After he finished speaking.

Jiang Ye’s game phone suddenly rang.

She opened the message.

【Task One】

【There are ten different musical notes scattered throughout the venue, players need to find all the notes and enter them in order according to the sequence on the back of the notes into the missing parts of the NPC’s music score.】

【If you don’t complete this task before the countdown of eighty minutes, an extra person in black will be added to the venue.】

At the same time that Jiang Ye triggered the task, the phones of the other nineteen people in the venue also received the corresponding message.

"Eighty minutes countdown."

"Isn’t that more than half an hour?"

"Let’s go, let’s go, hurry up and find them!"

Jiang Ye glanced at the music score he gave her.

Jiang Ye: "..."

He was wearing ancient clothes.

But the score was in simplified notation.

The program team really went to a lot of trouble to make it easier for the players.

Jiang Ye nodded, "Don’t worry, I’ll definitely help you find——"

She didn’t finish her sentence, she caught sight of the person in black patrolling, and immediately took off running.

Jiang Ye felt that she had probably transferred all her bad luck to Lin Zui, so she was lucky this time.

Because she didn’t run very far before she found a prop box stuck in a tree.

But the program team was really too evil, what were they thinking with this setup?

Jiang Ye definitely couldn’t climb trees.

So, she picked up a few stones by the tree and weighed them in her hand.

She was confident, she felt like she was back to when she was seven or eight years old and throwing darts with her friends.

Jiang Ye naturally interacted with the camera, "You guys don’t know, do you? I used to have a nickname, Little Jiang Flying Knife."

Jiang Ye said, throwing the stone forcefully.

Throw again.

I’ll throw again.

Jiang Ye: "..."

"I’m sorry, I was young and reckless."

She turned around, clasped her hands together, and said sincerely to the camera, "Can the post-production editors please cut out that part? Thank you."

When Jiang Ye finally managed to knock the prop box down.

She opened it and looked inside.

Empty.

Jiang Ye: "..."

This luck, it’s no surprise it’s hers.

The next fifteen minutes.

Jiang Ye dodged and searched, she found five or six empty boxes in a row.

These boxes were hidden in all sorts of strange places by the program team, and she had a hard time getting them.

In the end, none of them were useful.

Jiang Ye: "..."

Is this reasonable?

As more and more time passed.

Jiang Ye didn’t give up, but she was also a little frustrated.

She sadly lay down under a bar counter, preparing to pull out a box, she hadn’t even opened it when she heard someone shouting and running towards her.

"Help, help, help, help————"

The voice was too familiar.

Jiang Ye quickly opened the door and looked out.

Cheng Zhen stumbled out of a corner, shaking off the person in black and rushed into the door.

Jiang Ye closed the door and held it shut, she only breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that the person in black was gone.

Cheng Zhen slumped against the door, "I thought I was dead."

She panted for a while and discovered the box that Jiang Ye hadn’t opened, "Why didn’t you open it?"

Jiang Ye: "You open it."

Jiang Ye held back her thoughts of "Whatever, it’s probably empty, how could the program team make it so easy for us to find things", and watched Cheng Zhen open it.

Then, Cheng Zhen took out a musical note prop with a 3 on the front and a 7 on the back.

Jiang Ye: "???"

Jiang Ye: "How did you do that?"

"It’s okay."

Cheng Zhen said, "It wasn’t that hard to find, right?"

She said, and then took four more musical notes out of her pocket.

Jiang Ye: "..."

Is this the modern-day lucky charm?

Jiang Ye looked Cheng Zhen up and down, "Why didn’t I realize you had this ability?"

Cheng Zhen: "?"

Jiang Ye: "How did your clothes get dirty?"

"Oh, one of the note boxes was on the other side of a wall, I had to go around if I wanted to get it, it was too troublesome."

"But that wall was quite high. I tried to climb it, but I couldn’t."

Jiang Ye had a bad feeling, "Then what?"

Cheng Zhen: "Then I found a hole in the wall."

Cheng Zhen: "I climbed through it."

Cheng Zhen said nonchalantly, she even looked a little proud, like she was saying "Look at me, I’m so amazing."

Jiang Ye: "..."

Jiang Ye couldn’t help but laugh, "… Do you still have any awareness of being a girl group idol?"

As they were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps approaching again.

Jiang Ye: "The person in black isn’t coming back, is he?"

The two of them quickly looked at each other.

Cheng Zhen quickly ducked under the bar counter.

But Jiang Ye couldn’t find anywhere to hide, so she could only hang onto a nearby pole.

Cheng Zhen: "?"

Jiang Ye had a wild idea, "If I hang higher, he won’t be able to catch me, right?"

Cheng Zhen: "..."

The footsteps got closer.

Their hearts were pounding.

"It’s too obvious."

Cheng Zhen was conflicted, she was finally going to show her self-sacrificing spirit, "If the person in black comes in, why don’t I run outside and draw his fire for you?"

Jiang Ye shook her head, "… Be quiet, he’ll hear us."

The door suddenly opened.

Tan Meng: "..."

Tan Meng looked at Jiang Ye hanging on the pole in a strange position, her expression was priceless.

"… What are you doing?"

Jiang Ye: "..."

Jiang Ye: "… I’m telling you I’m on the monkey bars, do you believe me?"

Jiang Ye jumped off the pole, "Forget it, never mind, how are you doing, did you find any notes?"

Tan Meng: "One."

When Tan Meng took out the note, Jiang Ye noticed that her hands were also covered in dirt.

Jiang Ye: "… You didn’t climb through a hole, did you?"

"No."

"I got this one from a casual NPC."

Cheng Zhen boldly guessed, "So, you fought the NPC and snatched it from her?"

"… No."

Tan Meng said, "That NPC only gave it to me after I performed a talent."

This is also a common routine in variety shows.

Jiang Ye asked, "Then what?"

Tan Meng paused and said, "So, I did two backflips for her."

Jiang Ye: "..."

She wouldn’t have been wrong to give her the real box just for that talent.

How could this be?

Jiang Ye’s expectation for 5tars’ participation in the variety show was to come here to gain fans.

But one of them was eliminated in six seconds.

One of them threw darts for a long time and didn’t hit anything.

One of them climbed through a hole.

One of them did backflips.

They were the girl group with the least idol baggage ever?

"By the way."

Jiang Ye suddenly asked, "Did any of you see Zhiyi?"

Tan Meng: "No."

Cheng Zhen: "Me neither."

"Ah, she probably got separated when we were running."

•••

At this moment, Shen Zhiyi was on the other side of the recording base.

She looked at the familiar scenery and said, "Didn’t we just come here?"

Shen Zhiyi was a little scared.

She subconsciously took a step back and asked her cameraman cautiously, "Is… is this the legendary ghost hitting a wall?"

Cameraman: "..."

Usually, staff members aren’t allowed to give hints to the players.

But facing this situation, he paused and said, "Have you considered that you might just be lost?"

Shen Zhiyi: "..."

So, Shen Zhiyi took out the map again and looked at it for a long time.

When Lin Zui released the person in black, she ran without looking back, and she only stopped when she was tired.

As a result, she didn’t know where she had run to.

It had been almost twenty minutes since she set off, and she seemed to be going in circles.

After Shen Zhiyi confirmed that she really couldn’t understand the map, she decided to call Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye was taking Cheng Zhen and Tan Meng to fill in the music score.

The NPC was standing in the most conspicuous place in the central plaza, Jiang Ye walked over while being vigilant of the person in black who could appear around them at any time.

Her phone rang, and she was startled.

Jiang Ye answered the phone nervously, "Hello, who is this?"

"… I’m sorry, Jiang Ye."

Shen Zhiyi’s voice sounded a little embarrassed, "That… I think I’m lost."

"We’ll come find you later."

Jiang Ye asked, "Where are you?"

Shen Zhiyi looked around and said uncertainly, "I think I’m… next to a tree."

Jiang Ye: "..."