Trembling At A High Altitude

"????"

Li Teng's eyes bulged in disbelief.

"????"

Huang Xun's face was a picture of shock.

The two looked at each other, dumfounded.

"After ten years, hahahaha, this is killing me!" Gao Fei couldn't hold it in and burst into laughter.

"The people have turned over and become the masters," Elsa couldn't suppress her laughter either.

"Ten years ago, I didn't know you, you didn't belong to me. We were still the same, staying by a stranger's side, walking through streets that gradually became familiar..." Anna began to sing.

"After ten years, we are friends, we can still ask after each other. Only that kind of tenderness, can no longer find a reason for an embrace..." Li Teng joined in singing a few lines.

Although the lyrics were completely unrelated to the plot, the gag with 'ten years' nearly made Anna, Li Teng, Gao Fei, and Elsa choke with laughter.

The director is too badass! The plot changes at the drop of a hat!

That Liu Huang must have water on the brain to come to the set and actually dare to complain about the director.

The earlier comment from Huang Xun, 'You won't die if you don't act up', could now be sent his way.

"The newspaper editors under the influence of the underground workers all joined the revolutionary team."

"After the liberation of New China, the Traitor Leader and his remaining henchmen formed an Enemy Special Squad to sabotage New China. They were successfully captured by the editors who had joined the revolutionary team."

"This scene is where the revolutionaries interrogate and settle accounts with the Traitor Leader and his remaining henchmen for their heinous crimes."

"Within two hours, the revolutionaries successfully interrogate and find all four pieces of criminal evidence controlled by the Traitor Leader and his lackey who lurked among the revolutionaries. With this evidence, they execute the Traitor Leader by firing squad, leading to the victory of the Revolutionary Team."

"If within two hours, the revolutionaries fail to interrogate and take control of all four pieces of the Traitor Leader's criminal evidence, the Enemy Special Squad wins."

The director finished explaining the plot.

"No way, am I going to be tied up and tortured again?" Huang Xun was stunned.

"I protest! Wasn't it agreed that we would use the same script as last time? How did it change to ten years later? Isn't this trapping people? If you had introduced this content earlier, I definitely wouldn't have chosen the role of Traitor Leader!" Liu Huang was furious.

Last performance, it was the Traitor Leader who brutally tortured the newspaper editors. But this time, it was ten years later and China had been liberated! The roles of torturer and victim were reversed! Now, as the Traitor Leader, he had fallen into the hands of Li Teng and the group of editors!

Not mentioning it earlier and only bringing it up now was clearly a trap he had been lured into!

"I only said that this performance, like the last one, would still be a confrontational play."

"I also said that every confrontational play's script is 'different'."

"The script for this confrontational play is still called 'Lurking War Wolf'."

"But I never said it would be exactly the same as the last!"

"Protest denied!"

The director rejected Liu Huang's protest.

"Hahaha..." Anna laughed again.

"This is going to be interesting," Elsa exhaled a sigh of relief. She shuddered at the thought of performing 'Lurking War Wolf' again. She really didn't want to go through that last scene another time. Another whipping and she was ready to follow in Daisy's footsteps and jump off a pillar.

"Isn't this pit a bit too deep? Director, let me play Mickey again! My role hasn't changed since last time! I don't need to switch!" Huang Xun hurriedly suggested to the director.

Wrong thigh hugged again! Liu Huang was also about to be hugged to death by him!

Every hug meant death, and now Huang Xun even started to doubt his life choices.

"No way! I've already made my choice!" Du Qing hurriedly declined Huang Xun's offer.

At that moment, Du Qing couldn't help but feel secretly relieved that he was not eloquent. After Liu Huang arrived, he hadn't fawned over him like Huang Xun, so Liu Huang had not chosen him as his lackey but had gone with Huang Xun instead. Otherwise, it would have been him being brutally tortured once the performance began.

"Didn't you say that choosing the Traitor Leader was a guaranteed win? What's this all about? You're not in cahoots with them, deliberately trapping me, are you?" Liu Huang looked at Huang Xun with suspicion. Now it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about him being tortured, and possibly being killed or wax-sealed!

"Boss! How could that be? If we lose, I'll die too!" Huang Xun's face was the picture of injustice, hugging the boss hadn't worked out, and now he was getting flak from both sides!

"Brother, you've worked hard, enduring so many performances, always lurking by the side of the enemy, secretly aiding us, bearing such grievances—we will remember you," Gao Fei said with schadenfreude.

"The Lurking War Wolf must be him, right? Hahaha..." Elsa laughed loudly.

"It turns out he's the main role of this whole scene," Anna realized with an epiphanic expression.

"You...who are you all? Is it necessary to kick someone when they're down?" Huang Xun said, on the verge of tears.

...

"The performance is adversarial in nature, and the points are akin to placing bets."

"If the faction you're in wins, each common extra receives 20 points, each Minor Special Engagement actor receives 40 points, group followers get 80 points, and special actors acquire 160 points; if the faction is defeated, then each common extra will have 20 points deducted, each Minor Special Engagement actor will have 40 points deducted, each group follower will lose 80 points; special actors will have 160 points deducted."

"All surviving actors will receive their respective level's payment for one performance."

"Both participating sides, pay attention to your point balance. If you're on the losing side and there aren't enough points in your account to cover the deduction, your points will turn negative, be sealed in wax, and this punishment will not offer newbie protection!"

"Before filming starts, the system will randomly select two hidden Collaborators among the editors."

"The Traitor Leader, his lackey, and the two hidden Collaborators will each randomly receive one piece of evidence of the Traitor Leader's crimes."

"There are a total of four pieces of evidence."

"When undergoing interrogation by the Revolutionaries, if one confesses, they must reveal the true evidence of the crime they received."

"The standard for confession is that one must first say, 'I confess,' then proceed to reveal the evidence of the Traitor Leader's crimes that they possess."

"Once the Traitor Leader, lackey, and Collaborators confess, they can no longer be tortured."

"The Revolutionaries can obtain up to four pieces of evidence of the Traitor Leader's crimes."

"Only when the four pieces of evidence are collected can they convict the Traitor Leader and then execute him by firing squad!"

"The Revolutionaries have just two hours to collect the evidence!"

"Once the Traitor Leader is executed by firing squad, since the role they played dies in the narrative, they will immediately be penalized 1,000 points, and if the account balance is negative, it will be sealed in wax after the performance!"

"If the Traitor Leader is executed by firing squad, then the Revolutionary Team wins, and the Traitor Team loses."

"If the Revolutionaries fail to collect all four pieces of evidence, unable to execute the Traitor Leader by firing squad, then the Revolutionary Team loses, and the Traitor Team wins."

The director thoroughly briefed all the actors about the adversarial rules.

"Damn! There's no one to lie in this round; we have to withstand the pressure on our own?" Huang Xun was even more dumbfounded after hearing the rules.

The two Collaborators can still hide, but he and Liu Huang, the two overt enemies of the people known as traitors and lackeys, would undoubtedly be subjected to severe torture and could only withstand it until they couldn't bear it anymore and confessed.

The problem was, if the two of them couldn't endure it and the two Collaborators also confessed, the likelihood of their faction losing would be immense. Losing this adversarial performance would mean Huang Xun's account points would plunge into the negative! The only outcome he faced was being sealed in wax!

He was doomed! Absolutely doomed!

Since participating in the performance, this was the first time Huang Xun truly felt panic.

"Don't hold out, you'd be better off confessing early. The more you talk, the lighter your punishment; the more you resist, the harsher it gets, and you can avoid physical suffering," Gao Fei watched Huang Xun with a smirk.

Ten years later, liberation!

The people became the masters!

Finally, they could hold their heads high and breathe freely!

Li Teng, however, was not as optimistic as Gao Fei.

Though the initiative now lay with the Revolutionaries, killing Liu Huang through this storyline was not going to be easy.

Obtaining all four pieces of evidence was necessary to execute the traitor Liu Huang, a task far more difficult than Feng Dahai's previous scene where he had to find and kill an Underground Worker.

In the previous scene, even if Feng Dahai hadn't found all the clues, he could still randomly kill an editor.

If luck was on his side and he killed the right person, he could still win the confrontation.

But in this scene, according to the rules, if even a single piece of evidence was missing, he couldn't lay a hand on Liu Huang.

It also meant that as long as Liu Huang, Huang Xun, and the two Collaborators among the editors, if any one of them didn't confess, he would be helpless against Liu Huang.