There was only a small lamp lit inside the tent, which had been running on little power for half a month, making the light very dim.
Using this faint light, Wen Yao looked at the note handed to her by Lu Yunxi. "I think there's something wrong with the production team," she read. Just as Wen Yao was about to speak up, Lu Yunxi signaled for her to be silent and pointed outside, then to the sleeve badge on her arm.
The drone had a camera, while the microphone was on the sleeve badge.
Understanding Lu Yunxi's message, Wen Yao had only intended to mouth what she wanted to say.
She asked, "What's the problem?" with her mouth. Lu Yunxi, seeing this, quickly wrote down everything she had seen on the paper. As Lu Yunxi described the situation, Wen Yao couldn't wait and leaned over to see. With every word written, Wen Yao's expression grew more serious.
Wen Rou and Zheng Wen were only in a state of unconsciousness, and were still alive. Lu Yunxi felt worried and wanted to see what was happening. When she went back, she found Wen Rou and Zheng Wen still under the large tree, but their positions had changed. In the afternoon, they were sitting against the tree, but now they were lying still in the grass.
Lu Yunxi hurried over to check their breathing and pulse, and was relieved to find them alive. She planned to help them sit against the tree rather than lie on the damp grass.
Although her efforts were futile and couldn't save the two, they served to comfort herself, much like visiting a deceased loved one's grave.
This was also Lu Yunxi's mindset; she felt that by doing all this, she could alleviate some of the guilt of not being able to save them.
But before she could start helping, she heard some noise nearby.
Even though Wen Yao had checked the surrounding environment and said it was relatively safe, this was still a deserted area at night, and anything frightening could suddenly appear.
So Lu Yunxi quickly took cover, deciding to observe the situation discreetly.
She thought the noise might be from wild animals on the deserted island, but she saw four men in black clothes.
These men were burly, wrapped in black fabric, wearing black masks, almost entirely obscured in the darkness, with only their outlines visible. Lu Yunxi could be certain that these four men were not other contestants, as they had no backpacks or sleeve badges.
The four men went straight to Wen Rou and Zheng Wen and then turned on their lights. One of the men crouched down and examined their condition. He didn't have any equipment, but his actions in checking their eyes and tongue, and taking their pulses, showed great skill and professionalism.
After the check, he glanced at the person behind him, who immediately handed him a syringe. After lifting Wen Rou's arm and inspecting the wound, he then injected something into her. The same was done for Zheng Wen.
Lu Yunxi was completely at a loss at what she was witnessing. She didn't know who these men were or what they were injecting into Wen Rou and Zheng Wen. The production team had emphasized repeatedly that apart from the participants, there were no other people on the deserted island. So how did this happen?
If these people weren't part of the production team, then who were they? Perhaps it was people from a neighboring country who knew they were recording the show on this deserted island and came to rob them?
At that moment, Lu Yunxi's mind was filled with various news about organ trafficking.
As she watched the four men prepare to carry Wen Rou and Zheng Wen on stretchers, it seemed unlikely to her. Given how seriously ill Wen Rou and Zheng Wen were, would their organs even be viable for sale?
Moreover, the fact that the four men had come directly to Wen Rou and Zheng Wen indicated that they had known their exact location, not just accidentally stumbled upon them.
In the wilderness, only the production team, equipped with a positioning system, could have been so precisely located.
Lu Yunxi also recalled the previous contestant who had suffered serious injuries and then mysteriously disappeared.
Could it have all been carried out by the production team? Perhaps the previous disappearance or death of the contestants wasn't merely due to them encountering danger on the deserted island...
Realizing this, Lu Yunxi was filled with dread. As she watched the four men leave, her heart raced nervously.
She tried hard to suppress her pounding heart, fearing that even her heartbeat would attract their attention.
But just then, something landed on her head from above.
Already on edge, Lu Yunxi was startled. Although she managed to stifle any sound, she accidentally stepped on a branch, producing a "crack" sound.
Upon hearing this, the four men immediately became highly alert. One of them quickly ran towards the source of the sound.
Seeing this, Lu Yunxi ran as fast as she could, with the man close on her heels.
Lu Yunxi didn't know how long she had been running but knew she was completely out of strength. She had to find a place to hide.
Luckily, at that moment, a plump wild rabbit appeared, and upon spotting it, the man relaxed his vigilance and turned back.
After seeing the man walk away, Lu Yunxi collapsed in exhaustion on the ground and took a while to recover before walking back laboriously.
After reading about Lu Yunxi's experience, Wen Yao furrowed her brows and fell into contemplation.
In fact, shortly after arriving on the desert island, she realized that something was amiss.
For example, in the first week, with ample self-provided food, everyone was absolutely prioritizing self-preservation and wouldn't take any risks, but three people went missing and four were seriously injured in the first week.
The number of people is one aspect, and the other is the missing persons.
How to explain the term "missing"?
Every guest would wear a sleeve badge with a GPS locator and a drone tracker. Unless a guest was foolish enough to throw away their badge, how could they go missing?
And the male guest who disappeared without reason before, she could confirm that the male guest was seriously injured and on the brink of death, and later when the show's weekly report was broadcast, the name of that male guest did indeed appear on the "departed" list.
But how did the male guest really leave their sight, "dying" in another place?
Another point that puzzled Wen Yao the most about this show was the invitation of Wen Rou.
When selecting guests, the production team had assessment standards, which were divided into two aspects: physical fitness and survival ability.
For example, Lan Yunxi, she may appear weak and lack wilderness survival experience, but in reality, her physical fitness was very good, and she was not lacking in strength and endurance.
As for Wen Rou, using the phrase "without strength to tie up a chicken" would not be an exaggeration.
The whole country knows that Wen Rou is not capable of martial arts and she always complains about being tired and exhausted even when filming, to the extent of asking her sister to be her stunt double, so she definitely wouldn't survive on a deserted island.
Could it be that the production team really invited Wen Rou to die just for the sensationalism of pitting the sisters against each other in the same show?
This had puzzled Wen Yao for a long time, but now with the presence of these black-clothed people, everything that couldn't be explained before seemed to be explained.
Wen Yao thought that the black-clothed people might have been sent by the production team to rescue people, but in order to ensure the authenticity of the show, they wouldn't easily act, and would only appear when the lives of the guests were at stake.
Those "missing" or "departed" people actually didn't die.
The reason the audience believed they died was that the production team deliberately blurred the situation and created a feeling that they had died.
Upon careful recollection, Wen Yao found that the production team had never specifically mentioned who had died, and had always used ambiguous words like "missing," "departed," and "farewell" to give people the wrong impression.
Wen Yao took the pen and paper from Lu Yunxi and wrote, "Don't be afraid, they may be arranged by the production team to rescue people, but they are acting furtively to avoid being discovered by the audience."
Although, deceiving the audience in this way was wrong in Wen Yao's opinion.
But nowadays, reality shows have scripts, magic performances are all illusions, and haunted houses are staffed by real people, seemingly a universally acknowledged secret that people do not reject.
If that was the case, the lack of casualties would be a fortunate thing.
However, Lu Yunxi refuted her, "No! They have no good intentions."
Lu Yunxi recalled the scene, the silver light glinting off the needle of the syringe in the hands of the black-clothed people made her hair stand on end, it was definitely not something good.
And their treatment of the two patients was very rough, and then the man chasing her afterwards, it seemed like he was chasing an enemy.
Lu Yunxi dared to affirm that these people were definitely not just there to rescue.
She was afraid Wen Yao wouldn't believe her, so she wrote, "The reality show 'Surviving on a Desert Island' has caused a huge public outcry every year due to casualties, and the show will also be boycotted. If someone was rescued, the production team should have responded, right?"
"And those previous guests who supposedly died in the previous seasons, have truly never appeared in the public eye again, if they were alive, surely people would know."
The more she analyzed, the more terrifying it seemed to Lu Yunxi.
Now she felt that floods, wild beasts, and starvation were nothing compared to the horror of human hearts.
The impact of the situation was too great, and coupled with Wen Yao not having witnessed the public outcry before the start of this show, she hadn't thought about the issue of the complete disappearance of those previous guests.
Now that Lu Yunxi had brought it up, the doubts that Wen Yao had thought were reasonably explained, in fact, more doubts arose.
Did those guests who completely disappeared really die?
If they did die, then what was the purpose of the four black-clothed men?
If they didn't die, then how did the production team handle them?
Wen Yao couldn't understand, but she was certain that there was definitely something fishy about this show.
And as a guest of the show, she had become a pawn manipulated by the production team.
From childhood, Wen Yao had always been the one playing chess, so how could she allow herself to become a pawn, at the mercy of others?
She was determined to unravel the mystery and find out the truth!
Wen Yao looked at Lu Yunxi, who was still not recovered from her recent experience, and reached out to embrace her, her palm just touching Lu Yunxi's sleeve badge.
She suddenly realized something.
Wen Yao pointed to the sleeve badge, and Lu Yunxi didn't react right away, looking puzzled at Wen Yao.
Hastily, Wen Yao wrote, "The drone has been following you all along. Will the audience in the live broadcast room also have seen what you saw?"
At these words, Lu Yunxi immediately sat up, excitedly patting her thigh.
"Yes, the show is live!"
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However, the real situation was not as optimistic as the two had imagined.
Inside the live broadcast room, a group of viewers had intended to follow Lu Yunxi's line of sight to see the final situation of Wen Rou and Zheng Wen, but just as Lu Yunxi spotted the two, the screen suddenly went black, and the entire page displayed "no signal."
They switched to the channels of other guests and found that the other channels were all normal, only Lu Yunxi's channel had no signal.
But the other guests on other channels are not as gentle and attractive, so everyone crazily spammed the barrage to criticize the show's equipment as trash.
"This season, the program has had no signal many times, I'm speechless."
"The last male guest disappeared because of no signal, it's always at these critical moments when there's no signal!"
"@Deserted Island Survival Show is so popular, can't they get some good equipment for the guests?"
Everyone spammed the barrage, wrote complaints and feedback, and patiently waited for almost forty minutes before Lu Yunxi's channel picture returned to normal.
The audience looked at Lu Yunxi sitting on the ground, as if she had just escaped from death, completely unaware of what just happened.
"What's wrong with Lu Yunxi, what happened?"
"What about Wenrou and Zhengwen? What happened in these forty minutes?"
"Lu Yunxi is shaking all over, what on earth happened!!!"