I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!

Chapter 649 - 648: Relaxing One-Stop Service

This hit was really quite hard. Even Shu Ran, who was so mindful of her celebrity image, was lying on the ground speechless.

Who cares about elimination or not, who cares about the 173 or 813, she’s just lying here, gazing up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, pondering whether the show’s producers have a gripe with her.

The atmosphere was momentarily a bit tragic.

But for those cleaning the scene and dragging away the eliminated contestants, it meant nothing.

Two minutes after the electronic sound notification ended, several battlefield cleaning staff hurried in from all directions, dressed in work clothes washed to a faded white, wearing black hats, and had white rubber gloves on their hands.

"Make way, make way, recycling old people, old brains, old clothes ah."

The person shouting put on the gloves, took small steps intending to "recycle Shu Ran." Aside him, four other individuals followed, with two standing at Shu Ran’s feet and two at her arms, ready to carry her away as directed.

Originally devoid of survival instinct, with only a desire to gaze at the sky, Shu Ran accidentally caught sight of the faces of those few people.

"???", why are her teammates holding her feet?

Mu Qiu also saw them, quickly glanced at them, and then fixed her gaze on the 173, but she spoke to them.

"Li Yang, are you guys taking on part-time jobs? Playing zombies and posing as staff, are unemployed people so busy?"

Li Yang, who was doing part-time: "...Guests please refrain from speaking to part-time NPCs, we are very busy."

Chu Qiu glanced during his eye-opening exercise and quickly nodded, joining the topic: "Guan Yu, you treat this job much more seriously. Hey? Where are Brother Huai and Chen Yi?"

Zhao Yu also joined the group chat: "Maybe the two of them haven’t managed to change roles successfully. Not every company allows employees to moonlight, after all."

Cheng Zhirang listened quietly, realizing that what they said seemed quite reasonable.

During this moment, under the command of Guan "Staff" Yu, Shu Ran was lifted up, panic-stricken and wildly screamed.

"Put me down! Put me down! I can walk myself!"

Guan Yu: "Providing comfortable services for eliminated players is our duty; just enjoy it. Okay guys, let’s go!"

"Guan! Yu!!"

"Alright, alright, since you don’t like this approach, let’s switch. Do you prefer being dragged away face-covered or simply carried off directly?"

"... Can’t I just walk by myself?!"

"That definitely won’t do, we’ve come here all the way, we gotta be useful!"

The conversation went on, eliminated players and re-employed staff engaging on-camera about the best way of elimination, which was a first.

Mu Qiu restrained her laughter, jestingly remarked: "Sister Guan Yu, does your battlefield cleaning staff include lines?"

Her words prompted Chu Qiu and the others to join in the conversation, Zhao Yu even unconsciously turned his head to glance at Shen Zhousong and the rest.

Maintaining visual contact within the attack range of 173 was already immensely challenging; now engaging in chats simultaneously spelled predictable outcomes.

Behind the statue, the four staff members pressed a small button simultaneously, activating four red lights at once.

Cheng Zhirang could only manage a sigh.

"Cheng Zhirang eliminated! Cheng Zhirang eliminated! Cheng Zhirang eliminated!"

"Mu Qiu eliminated! Mu Qiu eliminated! Mu Qiu eliminated!"

"Chu Qiu eliminated! Chu Qiu eliminated! Chu Qiu eliminated!"

"Zhao Yu eliminated! Zhao Yu eliminated! Zhao Yu eliminated!"

The consecutive announcements of four individuals being eliminated echoed through the ruins.

Mu Qiu froze, regrettably closed her eyes and crouched down, covering her face in repentance.

"Ahhhh—"

Chu Qiu: "That’s it, that’s it!"

A moment ago, Guan Yu, who was pondering which comfortable service to use for Shu Ran’s elimination, suddenly lighted up with joy.

"Ending all at once?! Such a stroke of luck?!"

Veteran Li Yang, still calm, informed her: "No use, Mu Qiu can revive people."

Guan Yu: "??? Right, I seemed to have heard a bit about the Purifier information during my retraining sessions. Tsk, boring."

She patted Shu Ran again, signaling to the other laid-off staff.

"Let’s go, no need to choose, just drag them off."

They donned their hats and gloves, apologized, and covering Shu Ran’s mouth, dragged her backwards.

"Goodbye folks, hope to see you all again soon."

Chu Qiu: "You better not make wishful promises!"

Watching them leave the "battlefield," Mu Qiu raised her head to meet the gaze of the other three.

Zhao Yu: "Alright, revive."

Chu Qiu: "I didn’t expect to use up my second revival chance so quickly."

Cheng Zhirang: "Are you going to save me, right?"

Mu Qiu sighed, took out a card from her pocket, holding it in her palm, feeling too listless to even raise it, she muttered: "Revive... "

"Wait, wait," Chu Qiu hastily interrupted, took a deep breath with closed eyes, saying, "While 173 is inactive, let me speak first!"

"...You have the floor."

"Did Shu Ran just end the 813 parasitic period?"

Cheng Zhirang responded to him: "Otherwise, there’s no other explanation. Only 049 and the statue can instantaneously kill. As a cardholder, she’s immune to statue damage, and no one used 049 against her, so it must be the effect of 813."

"So, my non-elimination was really due to Guan Yu’s aura? Is the aura of the Protagonist even extended?" He’s still a bit puzzled, "Can the aura extend to others?"

"Maybe it covers a large area?" Zhao Yu suggested, "Analyzing this way, those around Sister Guan Yu and Brother Huai might not be parasitized, or the parasitic time might be extended.

And the difference in elimination times between early and later parasitized individuals suggests the 813’s parasitic time is fixed, starting from when parasitized?"

"It should be. But the card doesn’t mention it."

If this is indeed the case, then no matter how hard Li Yang, Han Xizheng, and the others worked to survive until now, they would have been eliminated at once earlier, irrecoverably.

As for Shi Yuhuai and Chen Yi... it seems the aura was wasted.

"Have you finished?" Mu Qiu kindly inquired, "I’m afraid we might time-out."

"Alright, alright, let’s get on with it, revive."

She raised her hand slightly, addressing a line of cameras and staff: "Revive the four of us."

The electronic voice immediately gave a response.

"Cheng Zhirang revived! Mu Qiu revived! Chu Qiu revived! Zhao Yu revived!"

They immediately stood upright, returning to the earlier tacit combat mode, fully engaged in visual contact to resist 173.

While everyone was focused on 173, Mu Qiu knowingly curled a subtle smile at the corner of her mouth.

How great, now Cheng Zhirang and Chu Qiu no longer have revival opportunities.

Whereas Zhao Yu has one left, and she herself has two, judging by the available revivals, she’s the likely last one standing.

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PS: It’s coming, Brother Cheng and Qiuqiu’s showdown is coming