After Switching Bodies, the Mad Overbearing CEO Takes Over the Entertainment Industry-Chapter 116 - : People Who Hate Me Are Blind

Chapter 116: Chapter 116: People Who Hate Me Are Blind

The drizzle still fell from the sky, and before they set foot on the island, Yan Ming had provided them with raincoats. The group walked along while searching through the roadside bushes, attempting to find some clues.

Yu Chuang sighed, wiping the rainwater off his face with his hand, “This dreadful weather is too much, and the show wouldn’t possibly place clues along the road. Let’s go look for some residential houses. Since this is a fishing island, there must be houses where people used to live.”

After walking along the flat road came an uphill climb. Ji Tian, looking at the steep slope, tapped on her legs and hung her head in misery. The group walked in silence. Halfway up, Ji Tian frowned, “If only we had communication devices, we could split up and search, saving more time.”

Unfortunately, before coming to the island, all communication devices, such as mobile phones, were confiscated.

Luckily, after about ten minutes of climbing the hill, they reached the downhill path where at the bottom, there was a decrepit house covered in moss. Ji Tian’s eyes lit up, “Let’s go inside and look around, see if there’s a map.”

The building had two floors and one-third of it had already collapsed. The walls were covered in green plants and the front yard was overgrown with weeds as tall as a person.

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Ji Tian went ahead with a stick to flatten the weeds, “Be careful as you walk, watch out for snakes.”

Yu Chuang found a tree branch and started beating the dense bushes while Gong Yu watched Ji Tian’s practiced motions thoughtfully. Ji Tian noticed his gaze. Great, this guy was still observing her. She really couldn’t stand it!

Unluckily, she was stuck with him. Unable to resist, she met his gaze, “What? Why keep staring at me!”

Unexpectedly, Gong Yu simply smiled lightly, “If you weren’t looking at me, how would you know I was watching you?”

Ji Tian was baffled.

Playing word games with her.

“Are you still mad at me?” he suddenly asked.

Ji Tian was taken aback. What was she mad about? Just about to rebut, she saw him smile gently again, “Whether in the past or now, you are you, Ji Tian, and only you.”

Ji Tian’s heart skipped a beat. A memory was on the verge of emerging but was sharply blocked, leaving her with an indescribable emotion spreading within her.

Her head pounding severely, she saw Gong Yu walking into the abandoned building. Only then did she rub her temples, muttering quietly, “What nonsense, are these aftereffects from falling into the lake?”

[I’m amazed, just when I thought Shen Zhiyi and he were a good match, how come he and Ji Tian seem like a good match too?]

[…Doesn’t matter, let everyone have a turn, we’ll eventually find the right flavor!]

[When Gong Yu was on the show, he said he came for someone. Who exactly is it? We’ve been guessing for so long but still haven’t figured it out, and the show’s about to end… I wonder if I’ll ever know the answer in my lifetime?]

The abandoned building’s ceiling had collapsed making a large hole, still dripping water, with some rotten wooden furniture inside, new green shoots emerging from the cracks in the walls, and a faded old calendar from twenty years ago.

He Chenxi walked in, “I’ll go upstairs and look.”

Yu Chuang hurried after her, “I’ll go with you.”

Ji Tian searched with Gong Yu on the first floor.

“Found a small box,” Gong Yu pulled out a box from the rice container.

Soaked from the rain, the box was a bit damp, but thankfully the inside was dry. They opened it to find two Xiao Lingtong phones which powered up fully charged, clearly prepared by the show crew as a bare minimum communication tool.

Ji Tian made a call to check the balance to understand that the two numbers were stored in each other’s devices.

Upstairs, Yu Chuang also brought down a box, holding his forehead helplessly, “Another decryption. The map is in the box, and there’s a note with ‘scattered all around’ written on it.”

Gong Yu took one look, “If we form a character from the pattern of horizontal and vertical lines, there are two answers, either ‘transform’ or ‘cover’. Pay attention to things related to these words or… the terrain.”

Yu Chuang’s eyes lit up. Having someone intelligent in the team really made a difference. He nodded pretentiously, “I saw that too, let’s head in this direction then.”

Ji Tian split the cell phones, “I’ll team up with Sister Chenxi, and Gong Yu will team up with Yu Chuang. No objections, right?”

“None.”

“There’s another fork in the road ahead. Each pair takes one, and if something comes up, contact us with this cell phone. Walk to the end, then return the same way, and we’ll find a place to meet.”

After splitting up, the four of them left the house; Gong Yu’s team went up while Ji Tian headed downhill.

[Production team! What are you doing? We want to see Sweet Sister, give her some camera time! Where are the cameras? Why only Gong Yu’s team and Shen Zhiyi’s team!]

[What’s this about! Why suddenly no camera time, I’m going to report this!]

[Cough, friendly reminder, if you want details go to Weibo, arguing here will get you muted and kicked out of the livestream by the admins.]

[Ha, a minor show playing the big shot! First time seeing this, probably too proud to want rapid cooling, they dare suppress such popularity!]

[I don’t know about the production team being big shots, but the young masters and ladies from the top wealthy families of Bai Ji and Gongjing City are still recording. Do you think they would let the livestream turn vile? Probably only reducing He Chenxi’s camera time to lessen public attacks.]

While the production team only dared to include He Chenxi’s silhouette when showing Ji Tian, her face was no longer shown.

Under these circumstances, many fans of He Chenxi who spoke up were met with cyberbullying, leading to an increasingly lesser number of people defending He Chenxi.

Of course, the people on the island were unaware of what was happening outside.

Ji Tian only wanted to win and go home after leaving the island.

She looked at a small stone monument beside the road which read “Fengshu Village.”

“Sister Chenxi, there’s a small village ahead, let’s go check it out.”

He Chenxi nodded, “Okay.”

The rain had stopped, but the road was very muddy, causing Ji Tian’s shoes to get muddied with filthy rainwater. Along the way, He Chenxi responded promptly whenever anyone called her, no longer as distracted as yesterday, but also not as spirited as when she first joined the program.

The village still retained its old tiled and mud houses, most collapsed halfway, hard to imagine the desolate island once had inhabitants.

Now, except for rubble, only a few large black rats scurried around the village.

He Chenxi hesitated for a moment, “How about you wait outside, I’ll go in and look.”

Ji Tian, holding a stick, had given the fruit knife to Gong Yu’s team.

She stepped forward, “No need, I’m not that delicate.”

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He Chenxi paused and laughed, “You indeed make it very hard for someone not to like you.”

Ji Tian nodded unapologetically, “You’re right, those who dislike me are simply blind.”

He Chenxi smiled faintly, the day Ji Tian told her that people shouldn’t be too rigid, but life made her bow her head. She clenched her fist tightly, turned off her mic, walked up to Ji Tian, and turned off her headset too.