Chapter 103: Love Variety Show Strategy System (21)

Splitting a coconut is simply out of the question.

After all, this is a Love Variety Show; what kind of sense would it make to have guests split coconuts with their bare hands? If word got out, would any guests dare to come on this program again?

"Male and female guests, please drink from the same coconut together until it is finished."

This time, the rules explicitly stated it must be completed by a male and female guest; Xie—the only female guest in this group—Yang could not escape it.

As for the male guest, it was the winner of rock-paper-scissors—Zhou Hanqing.

After the NPC finished reading the rules, they picked a coconut, opened a small hole on the spot, and had Xie Yang and Zhou Hanqing insert their respective straws into the hole to drink while holding the coconut together.

The hole was very small and the straws were very short; as the two drank, they inevitably brushed against each other's foreheads and even the tips of their noses. Xie Yang was fine, but Zhou Hanqing's ears turned red.

At this moment, the barrage in the live stream was so abundant it overflowed the screen.

The director finally revealed a satisfied smile: This is the right rhythm!

Looking at the other two groups of guests—

Xie Danni and Lu Ming were doing pottery; the female guest sat in front, the male guest sat behind, and they were working together in an embracing posture to complete the same piece of pottery;

Xiao Chenglei and Liu Yang were eating a sweet and sour hawthorn candied fruit together in front of a candied fruit stall.

Not bad, not bad!

Finally, it has the flavor of a Love Variety Show!

It wasn't in vain that he rushed and hurried to move the team-building event, originally ten days away, to today.

The group games from the past two days were made by Xie Yang to the point where they were barely recognizable as a Love Variety Show; they looked more like a competitive variety show for winning prize money.

It seems that future group games will have to follow today's template.

"Director, Xie Yang seems to understand the local dialect."

The director was pulled back to his senses by the assistant's words; seeing the scene through the monitor, he almost jumped off his small folding stool:

"How did she find a Clue Card again? Is the coconut Task finished?"

"More than that, the coconut milk dessert Task is finished too. That's why I said she seems to understand the dialects of many places."

Upon hearing this, the director immediately picked up his walkie-talkie: "Attention everyone! Attention everyone! Do not actively solicit customers! Do not actively solicit customers! Spread out as much as possible! Spread out as much as possible! Stop exposing your identities! At this rate, they won't need to wait until tomorrow noon; they could collect all the Clue Cards today!"

【Hahahaha! I'm dying of laughter at the director! He's picked up the walkie-talkie three times in just a few minutes!】

【Sister Xie: I didn't come here to do Tasks; I came here to find loopholes in the rules.】

【If a vendor doesn't solicit customers, can they even be called a vendor?】

【People are coming and going on the Ancient Town street, yet it is deathly silent.】

【Hahahaha... Is this really a Love Variety Show? Why is it so funny?】

It must be said, the director's strategy was correct.

The NPCs playing vendors stopped soliciting customers, and the NPCs with other identities scattered, no longer concentrated in the center of the Ancient Town; the progress of Xie Yang's four-person group in finding Clue Cards slowed down.

Holding the seven Clue Cards they had obtained, they walked back and forth along the main street of the Ancient Town, found no more Clue Cards, and decided to go look around elsewhere.

On the way, they ran into Xiao Chenglei's three-person group.

"How many Clue Cards have you gotten?"

"Seven, how about you guys?" Jiang Tuo asked back.

"You guys are that fast?" Xiao Chenglei was incredibly surprised, "We only have two."

Jiang Tuo: "That's right! Our group has Xie Yang!"

"..."

Why the silence?

Jiang Tuo glanced at Xiao Chenglei in confusion, thinking to himself, they couldn't have been discouraged, could they?

Seven to two; the comparison was indeed a bit tragic.

Fu Yichen suppressed a laugh and changed the subject, asking Xiao Chenglei: "Are you guys also planning to go look around elsewhere?"

"Yeah, I suspect the director pulled the NPCs back; there are suddenly so many fewer people on the street," Xiao Chenglei said, scratching his head.

"I just heard a local say that a newlywed couple is getting married today; we plan to go join in the fun, maybe we can find some Clue Cards," Lin Xiaoning added softly, "Teacher Zhou, do you want to come along?"

She was asking Zhou Hanqing.

At this point, who didn't understand? — Lin Xiaoning's crush was Zhou Hanqing.

Wow!

The other three in Xie Yang's group looked at Zhou Hanqing in unison; they were just missing a handful of melon seeds to hold.

Glancing at the three of them who were watching the show, Zhou Hanqing said in a cold voice: "I listen to the group."

"..."

Fu Yichen saw that Zhou Hanqing was truly unwilling to accompany Lin Xiaoning, so he suggested:

"Chenglei, leave this area of the new district to you guys; the four of us will stick to what we discussed earlier and go look around the Old Village."

"That works too, splitting up is more efficient."

Privately, Xiao Chenglei also felt it was better to split up, as that would give him and Liu Yang many more opportunities to interact.

It was just a bit unfair to Lin Xiaoning...

Thinking of this, he looked at Liu Yang, and Liu Yang understood, taking Lin Xiaoning's hand:

"Let's go, Xiaoning, let's go find Clue Cards and try to find more than Brother Fu's group!"

Lin Xiaoning raised her hand to quickly wipe the corner of her eye and nodded vigorously: "Mm."

【Hugs for Xiaoning, don't cry!】

【Go for it! Cold God will discover how good you are!】

【The female guest No. 5 is too selfish! Isn't having Jiang Tuo enough? Why must she keep Director Fu and Cold God around her too!】

【The one above! Did you just start watching the live stream? Brother Fu and Cold God joined Sister Xie's group on their own.】

【The long-awaited shura field has finally appeared! Ho ho! I just love watching the guests scheme against each other. What's so good about fixed 1v1 male-female couples? You have to break them up, scramble them, then break them up and scramble them again! The messier, the better!】

【……Sister, your taste is a bit heavy!】

……

The Ancient Village Site hasn't been relocated yet, but the government is already planning for it.

It's not that they want to tear this place down and rebuild it into residential housing, but rather they intend to protect it and build a Relic Museum, which will be a selling point for the Ancient Town's tourism industry in the future.

Right now, it's still broken houses here and there; some have even collapsed, leaving only a circle of dilapidated wall foundations hidden beneath the lush branches and leaves of ancient trees.

Xie Yang and the other three wandered around while looking for NPCs, and before they knew it, they had walked quite far.

"I have to say, the air here is truly good." Jiang Tuo took a deep breath and stretched, "If one lived in an environment like this every day, surely one would live a long life, right?"

"That's true." Fu Yichen nodded in agreement, "When I was on the bus, I looked up this Ancient Town, and there really used to be a saying about a 'Long Life Village'."

"Right? I saw many elderly people on the street who couldn't speak Mandarin; I couldn't understand what they were saying either, they must all be locals."

"The young ones have all gone out to work." Pausing, Fu Yichen suddenly thought of a method, "That's it! Most of the locals are older, and the young ones are nine times out of ten NPCs."

"That's right!"

"Good idea!"

"This way the target range is narrowed down, and we don't have to wander around like headless flies."

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's head back! Xie Yang? Xie Yang, what are you looking at?"

Xie Yang was examining a dilapidated courtyard they were passing by.

Half of the courtyard wall had collapsed, the house was also in ruins, and weeds grew thick in front of and behind the house; it was clear at a glance that it had been abandoned for many years.

Logically, there was nothing eye-catching about it, but she was attracted by a cluster of vegetation in the corner of the wall.

It was a cluster of succulents.

Seeing succulents on a tropical island wasn't strange, but what was strange was that this cluster of succulents had been groomed into a very peculiar pattern.

Xie Yang tilted her head and changed her angle to examine the succulents.

Suddenly, her expression turned solemn.