"General Manager Si, great, Miss Du finally woke up..."
Although Ma Su's face was pale, she still managed to show a faint smile. "Um... how is Mrs. Sheng?"
I struggled to sit up and did not answer Ma Su's question. Instead, I said to the cameraman, "Go, find your staff. Shao Lili is still in the gym!"
Since I entered the illusory realm in my soul form, Shao Lili must be in the place where she hid last.
She said that she was sleeping in the gym's lounge. Then her body must still be there!
The cameraman immediately called the director. In less than five minutes, two staff members rushed into the gym. After a search, they indeed found Shao Lili who was unconscious due to lack of oxygen in the locker of the men's lounge.
The variety show crew had a doctor with them. After giving Shao Lili a checkup, they found that except for low blood oxygen, there were no major problems with her body.
So they called an ambulance and took Shao Lili to the nearest hospital.
In my illusory realm, I did not know how I summoned the One-Eyed Buddha Mother. She swallowed Lu Yingxia who had lost her belief and become an ordinary ghost into her belly, even wrapping the Five Thunder Mantra into it...
When I lost consciousness, I could still faintly feel the thunder rumbling around in my soul form. But when I truly woke up, my body was actually unscathed, as if I had only taken a nap!
In the hotel lobby, we met the director of the variety show, Shi Anbang.
He was sitting on the sofa in the lobby with a dark face, smoking one cigarette after another. When he saw Ma Su coming, he immediately pointed at her and scolded, "Ma Su, what's going on! I only let these second-rate celebrities of Tao Ran appear in my variety show because of you. Now what does this mean? What if one is missing? How can I conduct my game segment?"
"Director Shi, don't be angry!"
Ma Su's originally worried expression immediately piled up into a sincere smile after seeing Shi Anbang. "We are still thinking of a way to solve it."
As she said that, she pointed at me. "Look, I have a beauty here. An amateur! She will definitely detonate the traffic!"
"Hey, what are you doing?"
Because of the things in the illusory realm, I already had a strong dislike for Ma Su. Now she actually wanted to drag me into the spotlight. I instinctively refused. "I came to help you deal with things, not to help you film such a boring game!"
"How can you call it a boring game?"
Shi Anbang was very dissatisfied with my words.
"My show has tens of millions of fans on the video platform. They are all my most loyal viewers. They like whatever I film!"
Shi Anbang proudly patted the T-shirt with the show's name on his body.
"They are my fanatical followers. Do you understand? A boring game? That's the 'electronic pickled mustard' of tens of millions of people. If they don't watch my show, they won't even eat comfortably!"
"That's right! Director Shi's show has a magical power!"
At this time, a middle-aged woman walked out of the elevator. Although her face was covered with concealer, she still could not hide the stiff traces of excessive plastic surgery. "It can make washed-up celebrities become popular again. Whether you call it metaphysics or luck, but Director Shi just has this ability! So, I also came to join in the fun. Maybe, the next person to become popular and famous will be me!"
The woman who spoke was the washed-up movie star An Hong invited by the show crew. She was almost a household name movie star ten years ago!
She had appeared in many award-winning movies. At her most glorious time, TV shows scrambled to invite her as a guest.
However, it did not last long.
With the rapid development of mobile phone short videos, people no longer liked to watch movies that lasted two or three hours. They liked that kind of faster and cheaper seconds of pleasure.
An Hong always insisted on being a big screen star, so she was quickly abandoned by time.
After several struggles and transformations, she finally decided to rely on variety shows to return to the public's view.
Nowadays, there are a great number of variety shows. An Hong's agent had selected for her for a long time before finally deciding on Shi Anbang's variety show. Shi Anbang liked to use the guise of experiencing immersive life to arrange some slightly supernatural plots. These were all scripted in advance, but the artists pretended not to know and made the audience surprised.
This time, Shao Lili was originally the first surprise for the audience!
However, what caught everyone off guard was that Shao Lili really disappeared... Even Ma Su's phone was connected to another strange space. This made the show crew extremely excited and thought that this was a very good show effect.
The result was naturally not disappointing. After the editing and broadcast, it even caused a traffic tsunami!
For a moment, all the lines of the video website were blocked.
The curiosity about unknown things was human nature.
Shao Lili appeared in the hotel room, but we could only see her on the phone screen... This strange scene even made many different speculations on the Internet.
Shi Anbang originally thought that this plot that deviated from the script was just Ma Su colluding with Shao Lili to hype.
For the sake of the rising ratings data, Shi Anbang did not care about Ma Su's self-will.
He did not expect that after only one day of the show, Shao Lili would have to withdraw due to illness.
Shi Anbang did not want this hard-won ratings frenzy to stop abruptly!
In today's world, traffic was the password to wealth!
Shi Anbang had already received all the naming rights and sponsorship funds for the show. It was absolutely impossible for him to spit them out!
"Moreover, I have already asked the cameraman to film all the scenes of Miss Du expelling the demons before. We can make them into a bonus... No no no, this is much more interesting than the main show!"
Ma Su looked at me with a flattering expression. "Miss Du, please help me... This time, just think of it as helping me do an exorcism ritual!"
As she said that, she lowered her voice. "Didn't you say last time that it starts at one million? I... I will give you five million this time! I only ask you to fill in for Shao Lili!"
"You... You have a good abacus!"
Only at this time did I finally understand that I had been calculated by Ma Su.
Even if Mrs. Sheng Lu Yingxia did not appear to interfere this time, she might still drag me into the production process of this "electronic pickled mustard".
In fact, I was the so-called flying guest invited by this show to specifically deal with the real or fake supernatural events in this life show!
"I will never agree! Please find someone else!"
My soul form had just returned to my body from the illusory realm. I was still soft and could not exert any strength. I could only lean in Si Jiangchen's arms and had no momentum when I spoke.
Si Jiangchen suddenly lowered his head and whispered in my ear, "This show is very interesting. It has gathered wealth, beauty, fame, food, and dreams... Xiao He, don't you want to see how Ma Su collects the Five Desires for Sheng Shixun?"
I could not help but be stunned. The Five Desires... If I also became one of them, what would my desire be?