Chapter 0152 – There’s a Unique Charm About Him
At seven in the evening, after running two wrong circuits, Liu Dagger finally drove Chen Ge to his destination.
”Get out of the car, I’ll take you to meet the rest of our studio.” Liu Dagger parked the car and drilled into the nearby woods.
”This is almost to the county district already, isn’t it?” Chen Ge checked his backpack and got out of the car with all his things.
The road had been unmaintained for many years, and was pitted with potholes and bits of gravel thrown in, as if someone had deliberately blocked off the road and didn’t want people to pass through it.
The trees on both sides of the road should have been purposely planted a long time ago, tall, straight and very lush.
Walking into them, the tree crowns blocked the moonlight, not allowing a trace of light to penetrate, giving people a slightly eerie feeling.
It was already dark, Chen Ge opened the flashlight and followed Liu Dao, walking for ten minutes or not out of the woods.
”Older brother, you can’t be lost, right?” Chen Ge looked for half a day and didn’t find anyone anywhere.
”Take it easy, take it easy.” Liu Dagger made a phone call, then walked towards the other side of the woods again, “This area is very complicated, without any reference, if you’re not careful, you’ll get lost. You enter the hospital live alone, pay attention on the way, it’s best to make some markings on the tree trunks.”
After walking for a few more minutes, Liu Dagger and Chen Ge finally came out of the woods, and they saw a large civilian tent on a dirt slope.
”This is the only open area in the vicinity, and it’s also the place with the best signal.” Seeing Liu Dao coming over, the few people busy in the tent all walked out.
”Brother Liu, why did you just come back? There weren’t enough people in the first place, you want to tire out Sister Li and I.” A young man with a flat haircut and a head like a teapot lid complained, he looked to be in his early twenties and had a big grin.
”Obviously you’re a roadie yourself, but you still have to pick up people.” The one who opened her mouth to speak was Sister Li, who had rough skin and a body that was stronger than the average male.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Liu Dagger hurriedly dragged Chen Ge over, “This is the anchor who is preparing to single-handedly take on the Third Ward – Chen Ge, there’s still some time left before the live broadcast starts, so you guys teach him more about how to use the live broadcasting equipment and filming techniques.”
”He’s Chen Ge?” Sister Li pushed Liu Dagger out of the way, and together with the flat-headed youth, they surveyed Chen Ge, and when they saw Chen Ge’s look at this moment, a hint of surprise passed through their gazes.
Wasn’t it a live Spirit Detection broadcast? What’s the point of bringing a chicken over?
They wanted to spit out Chen Ge’s costume, but after all, it was their first time meeting each other, so they rigidly endured it.
”My name is Zhang Ping, this is Sister Li, we are both in charge of the live broadcast tonight.” The flat-headed youth led Chen Ge into the tent, which had a lot of equipment set up, he told Chen Ge how to use various things, while later letting Chen Ge open the black suitcase, handily teaching Chen Ge filming techniques and precautions.
Outside the tent, Sister Li looked at this scene and was a little unsure: “Old Liu, are you sure this kid can do it? We sacrificed the recommendations of two 100,000 concern anchors to get him a secondary page promotion. The platform is afraid of falling out with Qin Guang, making it clear that they don’t favor us.”
Liu Dagger lit a cigarette, the platform recommendation resources were divided into five levels, the first level was the best, the fifth level was the worst, the biggest recommendation they could get for a newcomer was the second level page recommendation.
”He only has one second level recommendation, Qin Guang has three first level recommendations going on at the same time, as well as a large cover advertisement, the two sides are simply not on the same level.” Sister Li had never been optimistic about Chen Ge, and this feeling was even stronger after meeting Chen Ge in person; an anchor who wanted to become a fire-breaking anchor was either extremely beautiful, or spoke with great flair, had a strong personal style, or had all sorts of specialties. But Chen Ge seems to have none of these, the feeling he gives people is very ordinary. Neither flamboyant nor quirky, he looked calm and introverted, more like a surgeon than an anchor.
”What you see is just on the surface, if you talk to him more you can realize that there is a special kind of charisma in this person, and he has a completely different understanding of horror thrillers than normal people.” Liu Dao recalled the first time he talked to Chen Ge, during the conversation, he was led by the nose by Chen Ge, with no initiative at all, and in his heart, he exclaimed that he had met a real “pervert”.
Later, after reflecting on the situation, he realized that the conception of both sides’ thinking was no longer on the same level.
”I still don’t think highly of him, this time our investment will probably go down the drain.” Sister Li sighed, “There’s another thing, we’ll definitely be hated by Qin Guang when we help him fight for a referral channel. Now that the platform is pushing Qin Guang towards the first-tier anchor position, when he becomes the platform’s front anchor, the other anchors in our guild will have an even harder time.”
”Have some faith in Chen Ge, okay? To put it bluntly, both of Qin Guang’s live broadcasts were plagiarized, and this one we hired is the rightful owner.” Liu Dao signaled Sister Li to keep her voice down and not let anyone hear.
”It’s not that I don’t think highly of him, the scripts, props, and actors have nothing, what’s the point of him just doing a dry live broadcast like this? Can the audience buy it?”
”I’m not going to argue with you, in short, don’t make any mistakes tonight, just do your own thing.” Liu Dao organized his expression and entered the tent, he went up and greeted Chen Ge, took out his laptop and opened the webpage of his collection, “Chen Ge, come take a look at this.”
Chen Ge thought it was a script at first, and only after reading it did he realize that it was a few news articles.
”It’s easy for us to design our own script to wear out and look raw, so why don’t we just let you give it free rein?” Liu Dao pointed to the news in the computer, “The three things that are most discussed by netizens in the rehabilitation center, the first is the missing dean, so far it’s not clear whether he’s alive or dead; the second is that whenever it’s late at night, the sick building will emit a strange sound, as if there’s still someone living in it; and the third is those inexplicably appearing blood characters, sometimes they can be seen at night, but when you go over there again during the daytime, everything just return to normal. A live exploration broadcast from these three directions should be a little better.”
Chen Ge nodded and carefully read through all the news, getting a rough idea of the strange events in the rehabilitation center.
”Let’s eat first, we’ll discuss some details later.” Sister Li took out a few boxed lunches from the insulated box and distributed them to everyone present.
At 9:30 PM, Liu Dagger went out to make a few phone calls and came back to tell Chen Ge that it was time to start.
Zhang Ping took out a piece of live broadcasting tool from the black suitcase, and Chen Ge was making the final preparations, he opened the handbag, and against that completely incomprehensible look from the crowd, snatched the jacket from under the white cat’s paw and wore it on his body.
This piece of clothing had the kitten’s scent remaining, and after entering the sick building, the white cat would only keep following him if he wore this piece of clothing.
”What are you all looking at me for?” Chen Ge stuffed the ragdoll into his jacket pocket and released the white cat, “Isn’t it normal to bring some roosters, ragdolls, and white cats for a live spirit visitation?”