“What do you think?” Standing next to the people from the embassy, Liu Guobin asked, “What about it?”
“What about it?” The people from the embassy were surprised, and then said, “Hurry up. Call and report to the government for an immediate news blackout. Don’t tell the local government. We will wait for the domestic decision.”
At the same time, Fang Qiu didn’t care much about it. He asked for a particularly bright light stick from the program staff, and walked into the cave alone to see those human figures left by the heroic predecessor on the rock wall in the cave. The martial arts moves were recorded in the patterns.
Unfortunately, after he walked around and took a closer look, he found that the predecessor of the Ming Dynasty did not save all his martial arts. “Maybe he thought that this place was too remote to be visited by anyone, so he didn’t keep it all because of a lack of interest.”
“But these are enough.” He whispered secretly.
He memorized all the records on the wall and began to learn and integrate them. When he finished it, all the matters concerning the bones of the ancient hero, the gold, and the remains of Zheng He had all been dealt with over there. As he just walked out of the cave, he saw a big ship off the island from a distance.
“What’s the matter with this ship?” Fang Qiu asked, “Why is there a ship docking on this island at this time?”
“I don’t know.” Liu Qingshi shook his head and added, “I’m also surprised. Why is there a ship on this uninhabited island?” Others also shook their heads.
This made Fang Qiu even more puzzled. When he was about to go there and have a look, Liu Guobin suddenly pulled Fang Qiu aside, and whispered in his ear, “This is a merchant ship just passing by and the one that the government has contacted. It’s going to secretly ship the gold back home. Otherwise, a billion dollars’ worth of gold would cause endless trouble!”
“Is it national smuggling?” Fang Qiu was stunned.
“Don’t put it that way.” Liu Guobin patted Fang Qiu on the shoulder, and said with a look of justice, “Can it be called smuggling when it’s ours in the first place? As Chinese, you should be more patriotic, Ok?” Fang Qiu smiled.
“By the way, there is good news.” Liu Guobin continued happily, “The authorities told us that we are allowed to show this incident, but only the discovery of the treasure, and the rest won’t be aired.”
“Oh.” Fang Qiu nodded clearly.
This was great news for both the director and the TV station, but for Fang Qiu, it didn’t seem to be of much use. “You are really my lucky charm. We have had everything when you are here, first the sharks and then a storm. In the end we even found the treasures.”
Liu Guobin added excitedly, “This is new to a variety show.” Hearing his words, Fang Qiu looked at the director speechlessly, and asked, “Are you complimenting me or satirizing me for making trouble wherever I go?”
“Of course, I’m complimenting you.” Liu Guobin smiled.
“Oh.” Fang Qiu asked, “What are they going to do with the bones of the ancient hero?”
“Do not worry,” Liu Guobin said, “he is a hero with national righteousness and will not be treated badly by the government. The embassy said that this ancient hero was on a historical mission worth admiring. It is necessary to give him enough credit and his bones will be left here. After all, this place has inherited his will, and the government will send people to promote this place as soon as possible and set up a monument to further witness his heroic deeds.”
“That’s good.” Fang Qiu nodded. Although he wanted to bring the bones of this old man back to his hometown, it would obviously not be easy to find out his hometown after so many years.
The most important thing was that the old man’s will was to stay here and guard this sea area until he died. If he took his bones away, wouldn’t it be against his will? Therefore, Fang Qiu thought that this method was quite good. Everything was ready. All staff of the program team retreated to the beach and continued to record the end of the episode.
At the same time, under the arrangement of the embassy, they packed the gold and then loaded it on the merchant ship and transported it away. After the merchant ship finished loading and left, the people from the embassy allowed the program team to leave.
“All right.” Hearing the news from the embassy, Liu Guobin immediately announced to everyone, “I officially announce that the recording of this program is over.”
With that, the six MCs who had just finished recording the end immediately swarmed up and rushed towards the director and were ready to beat him. The director fled in fright.
The members of the shooting crew also successfully filmed the scene of several MCs chasing the panicked director. After everything was over, Fang Qiu went back to the cave again, bowed deeply to the bones of the old predecessor, and then left with the program team. After leaving the uninhabited island, the program team did not make any stops. They boarded the plane and returned to Huaxia.
At the Capital International Airport, the plane landed.
Everyone had changed their outfits. They walked out of the airport’s safe passage and said goodbye to each other. Everyone, including the members of the director team, expressed their gratitude to Fang Qiu for his excellent performance in the past few days. They knew that without Fang Qiu, they might not have been able to finish the recording these days.
Without Fang Qiu, there would not have been as many highlights in this episode as they were now. They were looking forward to this episode, and couldn’t wait to rush back to edit it. Of course, apart from the director team, the six MCs and Song Yaqi all knew that this show was destined to be brilliant. As long as the editing of the show was good enough, it would inevitably be a big hit once it was aired!
They were grateful to Fang Qiu for everything.
Therefore, everyone expressed their gratitude to Fang Qiu. Fang Qiu was humble enough to say that the program was a joint effort, and he hoped to see them next time.
After the program team left, only Song Yaqi stayed.
“I was surprised that your agent would allow you to participate in this kind of show.” Fang Qiu smiled and said, “But after these days, your performance was very good, and you are very talented in doing variety shows.”
“Thank you.” Song Yaqi responded with a smile, and then said, “Thank you for your care over the past few days, so that we… we were not so miserable.”
“My pleasure. I am a doctor after all,” Fang Qiu said.
“Well, I should get going. The agent is waiting for me outside.” Song Yaqi pointed at the safe passage, and then said to Fang Qiu, “Goodbye.”
“Goodbye.” Fang Qiu nodded.
After saying goodbye to her, Fang Qiu immediately booked a ticket to Beijiang on the Internet. Then under the cover of Song Yaqi, he escaped the eyes of fans at the airport. After getting the ticket, he went directly to the VIP waiting room. As soon as the time was up, he boarded the plane and flew to Beijiang. The plane he took was still on its way to Beijiang when the program team had already begun to release the materials eagerly.
Of course, it was the director’s order.
This episode of the show was so shocking. How could he not release the materials in advance? Although there had been heated discussions caused by the participation of the two celebrities Fang Qiu and Song Yaqi before, it was not the final effect the director had wanted to achieve.
It was just a publicity stunt. The most important thing was the quality of the show! Of course, the release of the materials was not official.
It was done by the marketing accounts that the director team had often worked with. “According to reliable sources, Fang Qiu participated in a variety show. To fish for abalone in the sea for lunch, he encountered sharks. The situation is still unknown!”
The first piece of news was released by a marketing account that had often released explosive news. As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar on the Internet.
The marketing account had attracted a lot of attention. Although the materials released were not necessarily true, most of them were topics of special concern. Therefore, as soon as the news came out, it was reposted and commented on by many people. All of a sudden, many random netizens were attracted.
Fang Qiu’s fans who heard the news were also dumbfounded!
“Fang Qiu encountered sharks?”
“D*mn, is this true?”
“No way! He just went fishing for seafood, and met sharks?”
“Blogger, please make it clear. Did anything happen to Fang Qiu?”
“The news sounds fake, right? Fishing for abalone but meeting sharks? How could it be possible?”
“It’s rumor. The blogger is just spreading rumors. I’m sure the blogger is an idiot!”
“The blogger has underestimated the program team too much. It is certainly not stupid. Do you know that an A-list celebrity is worth less than Fang Qiu? He charged 100 million dollars of medical fees. He donated one billion dollars. They finally managed to get Fang Qiu on the show, and they would certainly be very protective of him. How dared they allow Fang Qiu to go into the sea and encounter sharks?”
“That’s right. Do you know how many precautions a program team would take during the recording? How could it be possible for him to encounter sharks? I swear, if Fang Qiu really encountered sharks, I will eat dog shit alive!”
All of a sudden, there were heated discussions on the Internet. The comment about eating dog shit alive was liked by thousands of netizens, and many of them kept screenshots of it.
A large number of netizens flooded into the official Weibo account of the program team and started various inquiries. However, when they were talking enthusiastically, the official Weibo account actually responded.
The account not only liked a certain “eating dog shit” comment, but it also directly replied on Weibo that, during the recording of the show, Fang Qiu did encounter sharks, and the situation was particularly critical. He also killed a shark in the sea. He was now safe and sound. They didn’t have to worry about him. As for the specific situation, they would know it when they watched this episode on time.
When that response came out, everyone was shocked!
“Damn, are they kidding? Fang Qiu killed a shark in the sea?”
“Are you joking? Fang Qiu might have encountered a shark, and had a narrow escape, but killing the shark? Do you believe it yourself?”
Even Fang Qiu’s fans didn’t believe it, let alone some random netizens.
After all, it was a shark in the sea!