Trembling At A High Altitude

"The setting of this scene lasts for a total of two hours,"

"Within those two hours, the traitor must find and brutally kill the Underground Worker to win. Throughout the plot, the traitor can only kill one person at most."

"Within two hours, if the members of the Red Star News Agency successfully protect the Underground Worker and the traitor kills the wrong person, the News Agency team wins."

"The performance is confrontational in nature, and the points are staked."

"If their camp wins, regular Extras each get 20 points, Minor Special Engagements each get 40 points, and Followers each get 80 points, if their camp loses, then regular Extras each lose 20 points, Minor Special Engagements each lose 40 points, and Followers each lose 80 points,"

"Moreover, all surviving Actors will also receive the corresponding compensation for a performance according to their rank," the director said before pausing.

"That means, if we win this round, people like us, the Extras, can get a total of 30 points?" Glasses Man Huang Xun quickly calculated.

"Yes," the director nodded.

"We're in the money!" Glasses Man Huang Xun seemed very happy.

This round, it would be very difficult for their traitor team to lose! Plus, he didn't have to put in much effort - just cooperate with the Traitor Leader. Usually, he could only earn 10 points from a scene, but today he could earn 30 points!

Li Teng also did some calculations in his mind.

Compared to regular performances, these confrontational ones certainly did earn a lot more points.

The higher the rank of the Actor, the more points they earned. Someone like Sunglasses Woman, one rank above him, could earn 60 points if she won, and someone like Feng Dahai, who was a Follower, could earn 120 points from just one performance.

Plus, with the 100-point bounty on Li Teng, if Feng Dahai ultimately won, he could earn a total of 220 points!

Indeed, those at the bottom had the least rights. If you want to earn more points, leveling up is the key.

However, it also indirectly revealed something else, something that gave Li Teng some peace of mind.

It meant that higher-ranking bosses from the Silver Wolf Guild probably wouldn't come to kill him.

For instance, Actors one rank above Feng Dahai could earn nearly 200 points from just any performance, and even more from confrontational ones, so they wouldn't bother killing him over a mere 100 points.

But why hadn't these people with so many points left the Film and Television City?

The reasons boiled down to two possibilities: either they didn't want to leave, or they simply couldn't leave, no matter how many points they had.

Li Teng highly suspected the latter.

It seemed that the stone pillar wasn't as simple as it appeared; maybe the exchange of points for height on the pillar was only a pie in the sky drawn for newcomers, just a belief to keep them going.

If that was the truth, it was incredibly cruel.

Forget it, there's no point thinking about this right now. First, he had to figure out how to survive this scene.

"Because all of the members in the Red Star News Agency camp are newcomers who aren't guild members, regardless of whether the News Agency camp wins or not, the Actor who is killed will enjoy newcomer protection. They won't be wax-sealed immediately but will be forced into the Hell Theater Troupe for a round of Hell Mode shooting."

"Please pay attention to your points balance. If you are on the losing side and your account balance is insufficient to cover the deduction, your points will become negative, resulting in immediate wax-sealing. This penalty does not include newcomer protection!"

"Before filming begins, the Traitor Leader will choose an informant from among the six members of the Red Star News Agency."

"All six members of the News Agency, including this informant, will randomly receive a clue about the identity of the Underground Worker."

"At the same time as receiving the clues, one of the five editors who aren't informants will be randomly designated as a liar."

"When the Traitor Leader tortures them severely, apart from the liar who can choose to lie or tell the truth, the others must not disclose random clues if they don't confess; if they do confess, they must give out the real clue they received."

"The standard for confessing is to first say, 'I confess,' followed by their clue."

"The Traitor Leader can obtain up to six clues, one of which may be false, with the other five being true."

"The Traitor Leader must use these clues to deduce who the Underground Worker is."

"And then kill them."

"The traitor leader only has two hours to make a judgment!"

"Whether the killed is an underground worker or not, because the role they played dies in the story, they will be penalized by joining the Hell Theater Troupe."

"If the traitor leader kills the real underground worker, then the traitor team wins, and the news agency team loses."

"If the traitor leader kills the wrong person, then the traitor team loses, and the news agency team wins."

The director detailed the confrontation rules to all the actors.

"The underground worker is so pitiful, no matter what, they have to be sent to the Hell Theater Troupe." Glasses Man Huang Xun sighed, then looked at Li Teng with a mocking smile.

"Nonsense! What if he's not an underground worker? Do you dare to kill him? Aren't you afraid of losing points?" Gao Fei retorted Huang Xun.

"Hehe, why do I feel like it's him? Even if it's not him, among you people, one of you will definitely go to Hell," said Huang Xun with schadenfreude.

"You traitor!"

"Aren't you getting into character too fast? What are you even talking about?"

...

Next, the six editors had to obtain their own clues.

At the same time, they had to determine the underground worker and the liar.

The traitor leader also needed to appoint an editor as their mole in the Red Star News Agency.

Everyone was taken to a coffee shop, which was the actors' first time entering the coffee shop.

The coffee shop was divided into individual small compartments.

One for each person.

Each compartment had a sofa chair, a coffee table, and a terminal machine.

There were even a small plate of snacks on the coffee table!

Li Teng's eyes lit up, and he grabbed the plate, pouring all the snacks into his mouth.

The portion was too small, hardly enough to relieve hunger.

Under the director's arrangement, each of the six editors obtained the clue corresponding to their character's identity from the terminal machine.

Next, the system randomly selected a liar.

The liar's identity was only known to themselves; the liar was the only person who could report false clues at the interrogation scene. When the others were interrogated, after saying "I confess," they must tell the truth.

If the rules were violated, they would be deducted 1000 points and eliminated on the spot.

Only the liar, after saying those three words, could still fabricate false clues to mislead others.

Finally, the system randomly selected an underground worker.

The underground worker, apart from knowing their own identity, had their identity clues also in the hands of a few other editors. These clues might directly reveal their identity or might require several clues to be pieced together to confirm their identity.

After everyone received their clues and confirmed their identities, they were escorted out of the coffee shop by the theater troupe staff and took two buses to the filming location.

Seeing Feng Dahai and Pretty Boy Du Qing board one of the buses, the others chose the other bus.

Glasses Man Huang Xun wanted to ride with the original troupe members but was booted off by everyone with pushes and kicks.

Having no choice, he joined Feng Dahai and Du Qing on their bus.