Trembling At A High Altitude

Anna, who had initially appeared extremely weak, suddenly flexed her waist. Her bent legs, with lightning speed, wrapped around Feng Dahai's shoulders and clamped tightly onto his neck. Using his body for leverage, her waist violently twisted to conduct a 180-degree rotation with her legs.

With a 'crack', in a mere instant, Anna had actually snapped Feng Dahai's neck using just her legs!

Fearing he wasn't dead, Anna shouted forcefully, and with her hands still tied and her wrists and waist exerting strength again, her legs clamped onto Feng Dahai's neck and yanked upwards fiercely, pulling his body, which weighed over a hundred jin, off the ground.

With a twist and a pull on Feng Dahai's neck, the fragile cervical vertebrae emitted a brittle sound once more. When Anna, finally exhausted, released her legs and threw him aside, Feng Dahai was already eyes rolled back, his body collapsing to the ground!

"CUT!"

The director announced an interruption in the filming, and the staff quickly carried Feng Dahai's body off the set.

Everyone present was stunned.

How fierce was this woman? To be able to kill a man while her hands were tied and suspended?

That couldn't be possible unless one had undergone special training, right?

It seemed that Anna's previous weakness had all been an act.

She had actually self-detonated!

Feng Dahai had taken all precautions, turning Li Teng into a tightly bound 'zongzi' to prevent his self-detonation, but he had failed to guard against Anna's!

With the situation as it was now, Anna was definitely going to Hell, and Feng Dahai was docked 100 points. Once the medical pod resurrected Feng Dahai, the theater troupe would decide whether to continue today's shooting based on the balance of points in his account.

"Ah! This malicious couple is too cunning! Why didn't you listen to me, boss?" Huang Xun lamented.

"Don't worry, he must have more than 100 in his account. Since he came to carry out the assassination mission, he would be mentally prepared for this," Pretty Boy Du Qing replied to Huang Xun with a frown.

The other injured actors were also temporarily rescued by the staff and taken to a treatment room next door, where they lay in medical pods to receive treatment for their injuries.

After being treated in the medical pods, everyone moved to an adjacent rest room for a short break.

During the non-shooting period, the actors couldn't attack each other. Everyone except Feng Dahai was in this rest room.

The young girl Daisy was clearly badly shaken, sitting silently by the wall with tear stains on her face and her body still shivering from time to time.

The female office worker Elsa was in a slightly better condition than Daisy but not by much. She too was silent, just sitting there blankly.

The Sunglasses Woman Anna didn't say a word either, her face cold, lost in thought.

Gao Fei was also shocked, and he seemed somewhat embarrassed, apparently reluctant to make eye contact with Li Teng.

Glasses Man Huang Xun sat in a corner of the room, constantly complaining to Pretty Boy Du Qing about something, with Du Qing occasionally comforting him with a few words. It was clear that Huang Xun was complaining about Feng Dahai's torture, which he couldn't understand at all.

"Director, I'm hungry. Are there any free boxed meals on set?"

The severely punished Li Teng walked out of the treatment room as if nothing had happened and asked the director standing in the execution chamber.

"There are those for sale, but none for free. What would you like to order? I can have the staff bring it to you," the director replied to Li Teng.

"Not free, huh? Then forget it. Are there any free snacks or anything?" Li Teng searched the execution chamber, not even sparing Feng Dahai's execution toolbox.

"No."

"The theater troupe is too stingy, aren't they? They want the horse to run, but they don't want the horse to eat grass. Could you relay this to the higher-ups? Even if they don't provide boxed meals, they should offer some free snacks and drinks during the shooting break, right?" Li Teng was dissatisfied.

"Please return to the rest room immediately," the director said after a moment of silence.

Li Teng shook his head and turned back to the rest room.

While Glasses Man Huang Xun and Pretty Boy Du Qing were talking, Huang Xun occasionally glanced at Li Teng, Anna, and others, trying to see if these people would exhibit any abnormal behavior or have conversations while in the rest room.

Unfortunately, there was nothing.

Huang Xun figured that if he and Du Qing weren't there, maybe these people would communicate with each other, discussing how to deal with the Traitor Camp.

Was the self-detonation part of a prearranged plan?

The situation was getting more complex!

...

Minutes had passed again.

Feng Dahai's treatment was completed, and he was revived.

The director also formally announced something to everyone.

Feng Dahai's account was deducted one hundred points, but since it didn't go into the negatives, the shooting would continue today.

In addition, because Sunglasses Woman Anna self-detonated, regardless of the outcome of today's performance, she would be forcibly sent to Hell Theater Troupe.

Upon hearing the shooting would continue, young Daisy couldn't help but cry. With Elsa and Gao Fei's persuasion and the warnings from the staff, she had no choice but to return to the execution room with the others.

Everyone resumed the positions they were in before the shooting was interrupted, those who were tied to the pillars were bound again, and those who were hung up were strung up again.

Feng Dahai was clearly frightened. As soon as the shooting restarted, he immediately ordered the military police to tie up the three female editors who had been hanging with ropes as well.

A moment of negligence had cost him 100 points for nothing, which Feng Dahai found hard to accept.

He glared at Anna with intense resentment. As soon as the military police had tied her up tight, he began to beat her mercilessly with a whip, quickly leaving her battered beyond recognition.

"Boss, you've vented enough, but you can't kill her! She's going to Hell anyway. Killing her now is meaningless!" Huang Xun boldly reminded Feng Dahai.

"What now? Even under these circumstances, do you still think she's not an Underground Worker?" Feng Dahai retorted with an intimidating glare.

"She might really not be one," Pretty Boy Du Qing also spoke up.

"If she wasn't, why would she self-detonate looking for death? Is she insane?" Feng Dahai was visibly irritated. It was such a simple scene, such an easy hunt. He thought he could easily reap those 100 points of reward but had not expected to almost capsize in the gutter due to Li Teng and Anna, these two troublesome characters!

"She's really not, boss. Please, calm down and listen to my detailed analysis, or we could lose even more," Huang Xun said clearly after the earlier treatment.

"Speak," Feng Dahai finally calmed down.

"The biggest suspect now is Anna. Otherwise, her motive for self-detonation can't be explained."

"But what if it's a trap?"

"Anna has been through over a dozen performances. She should know the consequences of self-detonation, right? Boss, you weren't planning to kill her just now but were about to kill Li Teng when Anna suddenly self-detonated."

"If Anna were an Underground Worker, and you were about to kill Li Teng, she would just need to wait and see, with no need to self-detonate at all."

"Under such circumstances, there's only one possibility that would lead her to self-detonate."

"That's if she was willing to sacrifice her life for Li Teng."

"Such a possibility is extremely low, bordering on ludicrous."

"Especially for someone like Li Teng, a scumbag among scumbags, a battler of the worst kind."

"An actress like her wouldn't be so naive as to be blinded by emotions."

"This fundamentally eliminates the possibility that Anna is an Underground Worker."

Huang Xun confidently analyzed.

"Then why did she self-detonate when I was about to kill Li Teng? Hurry up and tell me why!" Feng Dahai grew more impatient as he listened, urging Huang Xun.

"Boss, listen to my analysis slowly. Let's first think about this—if Anna isn't an Underground Worker, and you wanted to kill Li Teng, why would she stop you?"

"Or to put it another way, why can't Li Teng die?"

"Even if the Newspaper Camp lost, Anna's fate would be better than self-detonating and certainly going to Hell, right?"

"Then why would she self-detonate? There's always a reason for anomalies, so we must consider her..." Huang Xun continued on, even showing a sense of pride, believing his high IQ had seen through everything.

"Could you just get to the point! Rambling on like this, what's the point? Do you want to be whipped to feel better?" Feng Dahai raised his whip.

"Don't! Please! Boss! Listen to me, even if the Newspaper Camp lost, Anna's outcome would be better than self-detonating and certainly going to Hell, right? So why would Anna self-detonate under these circumstances?"

"There's only one reason, unless..."