Chapter 40.2

As for the reason…

“You two can still sleep hugging each other. You can use one of your beds to block the door. But we can’t.”

“Exactly, exactly.”

Peng Yushu’s explanation received strong agreement from everyone else.

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other and retreated in defeat.

In the end, Bai Rui and Peng Yushu stayed in the middle room, while Tang Ling and Lu Xuehai stayed in the other room.

[Hugging each other. The two of them sleeping together while hugging. Hehe, hehehe, I want to see it. I have to see it.]

[Sister, did your pants fall off? Besides, they already slept in the same bed last episode.]

[What did we see last episode? We saw nothing! Every time the livestream started, the two of them had already tidied themselves up properly. They had even finished putting on makeup! Oh right, Sister did let us watch some makeup footage, but Gu Nan had really already finished her makeup.]

[Tang Ling’s real persona has come out. Look at how much he’s trembling. Tsk, tsk, tsk. So pitiful. I’ll cherish him for one second.]

After putting down their luggage, everyone continued searching. After all, they had not found the ingredients yet, nor had they finished drawing the map.

If they could find ingredients, they would use those to cook, and the emergency food they had brought could continue to be saved for emergencies.

Moreover, after all this time, the production team still had not given them a mission card. This was also a very strange thing.

Were they holding back a big move?

Gu Nan and the others had left the hotel very early. After coming to the town, they had constantly been receiving “surprises” from the town. They had not eaten lunch either, and after that, they had used “Bus No. 11” to walk for so long.

At present, everyone was both tired and hungry, but they still could not find where the ingredients were placed.

“We’re almost done walking through this entire town.” Gu Nan took out the tissues she carried with her, pulled out a few, and handed them to Shen Zhibei so she could wipe the sweat from her forehead. “If we really walk through everything and still don’t find anything, let’s just eat what we brought ourselves.”

Seeing that Gu Nan was about to put the tissues away, Peng Yushu finally stopped giving looks so hard that his eyes were about to cramp and spoke up. “Aren’t you going to hand us some too? We also walked until our foreheads are covered in sweat.”

“So you wanted some too? You should have said so earlier.” Gu Nan directly handed the whole pack of tissues to Peng Yushu.

Peng Yushu looked at the entire pack of tissues handed to him. After quite a while, he accepted it, then started handing tissues to the others himself.

“Ai, once someone has a wife, they can’t see anyone else in their eyes.”

Gu Nan took Peng Yushu’s words as praise and said with a smile, “Thank you for the compliment, Teacher Peng. It’s all because Zhibei taught me well.”

Shen Zhibei glanced at the shameless Gu Nan and said nothing, continuing forward.

They were now in the factory area.

Because they knew that the places with glass installed were the locations chosen by the production team, their search speed was very fast.

However, compared with the residential and commercial areas, the factory area was much harder to walk through.

In addition to wildly growing weeds, there was also a lot of rusty steel and machinery. If they were not careful, they might step on small things hidden in the weeds. If no one beside them caught them, they would end up falling.

Lu Xuehai, walking at the very back, used one fall on his backside to prove this point.

“Would the ingredients be placed in the factory?”

This time, Tang Ling had not closed his eyes. But while speaking, he had originally been behind Shen Zhibei, and now he had shifted from the middle of the line to a position parallel with Shen Zhibei. He was also nervously tugging on Gu Nan’s clothes and looking around left and right.

Gu Nan tugged several times but could not make Tang Ling let go.

“Forget it. Let him hold on,” Shen Zhibei said.

Seeing Tang Ling’s frightened appearance, Shen Zhibei could not bear it. Although she was also very afraid, she had not reached Tang Ling’s level.

Very naturally, she walked forward and hooked her arm around Gu Nan’s.

“You…” Feeling Shen Zhibei’s extremely natural movement, Gu Nan felt flattered and a little confused.

Recently, she had truly felt the huge change in Shen Zhibei’s attitude toward her.

It seemed Shen Zhibei had become closer to her, and also seemed to have developed a little fondness for her.

And she herself, whenever she thought of their gentleman’s agreement, seemed to begin feeling reluctant to part with Shen Zhibei too.

Gu Nan carefully looked at Shen Zhibei’s expression as she held her arm.

Was this really just her illusion?

Or was it only because of the temporary mark that the two of them had developed these feelings toward each other?

Seeing Gu Nan suddenly look at her so seriously, Shen Zhibei asked in confusion, “What is it?”

Gu Nan pressed her lips together but still did not actually ask. She only said, “Nothing.”

Although she really wanted to ask Shen Zhibei whether she had developed even the slightest feeling of closeness toward her.

But if that feeling was really just her own illusion, asking it would be far too embarrassing.

[The one who gives people the most sense of security here is actually Gu Nan. Truly unexpected.]

[Gu Nan: That’s the spot only my wife can hold. Let go, hey!]

[Wanting to speak but stopping, stopping but wanting to speak, hahahahaha.]

[I can guess what Gu Nan wanted to say. It must be: Wife, that was the spot I left for you, and you gave it away so easily. Hmph, Baby has little emotions now.]

Since Gu Nan had already said it was nothing, Shen Zhibei did not investigate what Gu Nan wanted to say. Instead, she continued explaining to Tang Ling, “There was nothing in the other places. Now only the factory area hasn’t been searched. And factories also have cafeterias, so it’s still connected to ingredients.”

“Actually, I feel like staying here would be better than staying in that building.”

Perhaps because talking helped ease his emotions, Tang Ling began muttering.

“The factory area feels a little less scary than the residential area, so I dare open my eyes. But this is still daytime. What are we going to do at night? The moment I think that we still have to stay there tonight, I want to pay the penalty and run away.”

At this point, Tang Ling suddenly asked bashfully, “Gu Nan, are you really not afraid?”

“In the daytime, it’s still okay, though I do feel a little creeped out. At night…” Gu Nan thought for a moment but still could not imagine how she would be at night. “I haven’t experienced this kind of thing before, so I don’t know how I’ll be.”

“But you’re acting really calm. Um, I…” Tang Ling hesitated for quite a while before finally saying it. “Can I carry my bed and sleep in your room?”

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei turned their heads at the same time and looked at Tang Ling, who had said this.

[No! Mama orders you to refuse him quickly!]

[Help, don’t be a lightbulb between the Nanbei CP, okay? I’m begging you, Tang Ling. Wuwuwu.]

[Don’t hesitate, don’t think. You two need private space as wife-wives. Hurry ​unauthorized copy​and be ruthless. Don’t pity him. Refuse him, hurry!]

Facing Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei’s gazes, Tang Ling retreated a little. Just as he was about to say forget it, Peng Yushu and the other three came forward from behind.

“Tang Ling just said he wants to carry his bed to your room? I suddenly got inspiration from that.” Peng Yushu’s face was full of excitement. “Anyway, what we’re sleeping on are all Simmons mattresses. We can lift them and move them. Why don’t the six of us just stay in one room? That way, everyone will be together, and we probably won’t be afraid at night. What do you think?”

Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei looked at each other and felt that this idea was not bad either. It could avoid the fear that might appear at night.

“That’s… not bad,” Shen Zhibei replied.

Peng Yushu smiled sheepishly, then continued, “You two can still sleep in one bed, and use the empty bed to block the door, right?”

Gu Nan’s original plan was to share a room with Shen Zhibei, but they would still sleep in separate beds so Shen Zhibei would not be afraid. At that time, they could just use the bed Gu Nan slept on to block the door.

But Teacher Peng’s suggestion suddenly made the two of them share a bed again.

Actually, the two of them had already shared a bed many times, and a few more days would not matter. It was just that the production team’s Simmons mattress was the width of a single bed.

If two people slept on this kind of bed, it was impossible for them not to touch. In order to sleep more comfortably, they might really only be able to sleep while hugging.

Never mind hugging while sleeping—the two of them had only held each other for a long time for the first time on the day of the second temporary mark. To suddenly raise things to the level of sleeping while hugging was truly a little embarrassing.

Gu Nan rubbed her nose. “I can just sleep on the bed blocking the door.”

“If the production team really sends someone to push the door at night, sleeping there would be too scary.” Lu Xuehai quickly stopped her. stolen content “Just squeeze in with Zhibei. When the time comes, if someone outside pushes the door, they won’t be able to push it open all at once. Once we sense it, we can all go up together and hold the door.”

“Right. It’s fine. Don’t be shy. We promise we won’t look at you,” Peng Yushu immediately promised.

[Oh no! There are even more people now. Twisted crawling, painful howling.]

[Teacher Peng, my internet mouthpiece, how did you change too? Heartbroken.]

[I’m about to faint. Why did it go from a two-person room to a three-person room, and now directly to a six-person room? What I want to see is Nanbei being lovey-dovey with just the two of them, not six people sleeping in a common room! Hoarse screaming.]

[Saying this very quietly: maybe this way we’ll be able to see Sister and Gu Nan sleeping while hugging.]

[How is that possible? Think about how much they love covering things. Last time, that teeth-mark ring only happened when they covered the camera and took off the mics. Now there are four more people in the room. Can they still play around? Won’t they hide even more? Ah, thinking about how we might not see any interactions makes me need oxygen.]

Since things had already been said to this point, Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei no longer insisted on sleeping separately and only nodded in agreement.

The six of them continued walking forward.

Growl.

“Whose stomach was that?” Peng Yushu looked toward Tang Ling’s stomach at the front.

“It was mine.” Tang Ling awkwardly raised his hand. “I’ve used up too much energy today. I really can’t control this kind of physiological reaction.”

“Don’t worry. If we can’t find anything around here, we’ll go back to where we’re staying and directly cook instant noodles.” As Gu Nan was speaking, she saw a shabby sign up unauthorized copyahead with the words “Workers’ Cafeteria” written on it.

“Speaking of which, we’re here. Look over there!” Gu Nan pointed at the sign ahead.

Because this was the last location, the group quickened their pace and ran a little. In the end, they really discovered that this place had glass.

When pushing the door open, Gu Nan deliberately checked whether there was a lock on the door.

Sure enough, it was the no-lock version, so the restaurant should also have had no lock.

The entire workers’ cafeteria had had all its seats and tables removed. The whole hall was empty, with only a very large glass cabinet in the middle, and a freezer beside it.

Large amounts of vegetables, meat, seasonings, rice, flour, oil, and even beer and drinks were openly placed in the transparent glass cabinet and freezer.

“Can we really just take them directly like this?” Gu Nan still could not quite believe the production team would let them take things so easily, so she asked again.

The chief director did not speak and only made a “please” gesture.

“We can take more vegetables. In this weather in the Northeast, even if vegetables are left outside, they won’t spoil that quickly,” Shen Zhibei reminded them.

“We should take some more…” Because Tang Ling was mindful that they were on the show, he did not say it directly, but he pointed at the beer. “It can strengthen our courage.”

“Okay, I’ll move it.” Gu Nan made an “OK” gesture.

With half belief and half suspicion toward the production team, everyone took [Read on BaiLianTales]the maximum amount they could carry before preparing to go to the restaurant and start cooking.

Just as they were about to walk out of the workers’ cafeteria, Gu Nan seemed to notice a corner of clothing in the style of a long robe and mandarin jacket drift past.

Connecting it to the fact that this was a horror-cooling special, two words immediately jumped into her mind: jiangshi.

Gu Nan did not plan to say it now. She thought she would tell the others this “bad news” after they finished this meal.

While eating, they should not think about what terrifying plot they would experience later. Otherwise, they might not be able to eat.

Carrying the edible ingredients, everyone moved much faster on the way back to the restaurant.

First, they were already somewhat familiar with the road. Second, they no longer needed to search for things along the way, which saved a lot of time.

Once they reached the restaurant, Bai Rui suggested that this time, each person should make one dish. They could not always let Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei work hard.

To be honest, both Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei were suspicious of Bai Rui’s suggestion. They kept feeling that she wanted to do something through it.

Or perhaps it was because they had already labeled Bai Rui as a bad person. So now, no matter what Bai Rui said, they suspected it had another meaning.

In any case, Gu Nan directly rejected Bai Rui’s suggestion.

Of course, when she actually spoke, Gu Nan’s words were not harsh. She only said very gently, “No need. Zhibei and I aren’t tired. Besides, you all don’t really know how to cook. If hot oil splashes on you, or you cut yourself with a knife, wouldn’t the loss outweigh the gain?”

Shen Zhibei also followed by persuading them. “That’s right. You can rest first. Later, you can help us set the table. Besides, won’t you all be washing read the original at bailiantales.com the dishes afterward? Gu Nan and I will be resting then too.”

Bai Rui did not insist. After Gu Nan and Shen Zhibei persuaded her like this, she obediently sat there and waited for the meal.

With the help of electrical appliances, the cooking speed was naturally fast.

It was just that the sound made by the non-silent small generator echoed through the empty town, casting a shadow over their hearts. It made them feel even more that the production team would plan something around it.

Very soon, a table of dishes was ready. Everyone’s cup was also filled with golden “wheat juice.”

“Although the place isn’t quite right, this time at least isn’t as difficult as the previous episode.” Peng Yushu raised his cup. “Come, let’s strengthen our courage together!”

“Cheers!”

No one at this table could not drink. Their alcohol tolerance only varied from high to low. But this time, in order to not be so afraid later, everyone gulped down the entire cup.

Just as the six of them ate and drank, the sky outside gradually darkened, and the production team’s plan was about to officially begin.