CHAPTER 29: CHAPTER 29: MOBILE NPCS, KNOW YOUR PLACE

That’s a pretty wild idea, turning a marriage plot into a time travel twist.

Mu Qiu fell silent at the end, thinking that maybe writing too many quick-transmigration stories had given her a bit of a professional quirk.

"I guess I’m overthinking it."

"I hope it’s you overthinking," Li Yang said with a gloomy face, "because if we add this too, my brain is going to be a complete mess."

The fast-track romance class already had a detective plot added, and if there’s another time-paradox twist, he might crash on the spot.

Cheng Zhirang replied gently, "It’s okay, let’s consider it as providing us with a brand new perspective. We can think in this direction when we’re stuck. However, I have a small question for Li Yang."

Being named, Li Yang instinctively stood up straight, "Brother Cheng?"

"The lawyer said you are getting a divorce too, why is that?"

Li Yang opened his mouth dryly, unable to answer, and turned to look at Shu Ran and Zhu Qi, "Ah, right, why the divorce?"

Zhu Qi: "...You’re asking me?"

Then both of them turned simultaneously to Shu Ran alone.

Shu Ran wore a face that said "finally the moment everyone’s been waiting for" and replied, "I guess it’s because you’re only good at sponging off your parents, with no ambition?"

"What if it was he who asked for the divorce?" Shi Yuhuai posed a different opinion very rigorously.

Shu Ran proceeded as if Shi Yuhuai wasn’t there and continued talking to Li Yang, "Or was it that you resent me having a brother who drags you down?"

"Well, compared to ours, your divorce reason is indeed a bit rushed," Guan Yu mused, rubbing her chin, "save these issues, we might have an answer later. Let’s hurry to trigger the next scene first."

"Right, let’s head to the next site."

So a few of them started to walk out, Shi Yuhuai at the front with long strides, was the first to exit. When it was Guan Yu’s turn, she just stepped onto the threshold when the little broadcast came on for the second time.

"Guan Yu has been demoted to a mobile NPC, losing half her mobility, losing half her mobility, losing half her mobility."

Guan Yu retracted her foot instantly: "?"

For a moment, Guan Yu became the focus of all attention.

"You probably just have to stay here," Mu Qiu speculated, "a mobile NPC with reduced mobility, the crew probably means you can only stay here, with the remaining mobility just enough for performing your scenes here and talking to us."

"What?!" Guan Yu was shocked, "I have to stay here alone? And still take requests for acting?"

"If I still have some use at all."

Guan Yu fell into silence, but in the little broadcast, the director’s voice gave no further explanation beyond this, she was quite reluctant.

"You all go and leave me here alone, that’s impossible, I don’t believe it."

She stretched out a foot, tentatively stepping on the previous spot again.

Unsurprisingly, the little broadcast sounded again.

"Guan Yu has been demoted to a mobile NPC, losing half her mobility."

"’...’" After a brief silence, Guan Yu started stomping on that spot madly.

The little broadcast didn’t repeat, only after she finished stomping did a leisurely line come on,

"Please, mobile NPC, have some self-awareness."

Alright, you could tell it’s not a robot just by listening.

"Pfft—hahahahaha"

[Have some self-awareness hahahahahahahaha I freaking applaud the director!]

[I can already imagine the director behind the little broadcast leisurely munching on seeds, sipping a small drink, pinching a small microphone and calling out leisurely enjoying life]

[Hahahahahahaha My Yangyang’s eyes have turned to crescents with laughter]

[Ahhhhhhhhhhh Su Yan laughed!!!]

[Screenshot saved, old sisters who want it, give a discount, ninety-nine and it’s yours]

[Cheng Zhirang! Laugh already! Open your mouth and laugh!]

[Some fans of Cheng Zhi have indeed been driven to madness]

[Never missing Yan Shen’s every move, I am a spirit born from the camera]

[Could it really be that Sister Guan Yu is going to be left here alone?]

[I just became a fan of Sister, don’t ah hahahahahahahaha why am I suddenly laughing out loud]

[Maybe because you’re a fake fan]

[Mobile NPC... can’t even have a name/laughing like a zombie]

Guan Yu was in despair.

The despairing Guan Yu squatted at the entrance of the factory, watching the others leave, her eyes sorrowful.

"Without a mother, the family is in danger."

"You just said you wouldn’t divorce, now with husband and wife separated, you could accept that."

"Just said stay with me, now following Wang Tiezhu away, what good is a son with good grades?"

"Sister Guan Yu, goodbye then." Li Yang waved to her after he went out, his expression cheerful.

Guan Yu waved her hand dejectedly, "Go go go."

The two of them "made friends through enmity" from the previous teaser episode, becoming each other’s biggest rivals, the unrestrained laugh just now was from Li Yang.

The camera facing the factory entrance, through Mu Qiu and the others walking out one after another, was directly at the pitifully squatting Guan Yu at the factory door.

Other cameras were already turned toward the road ahead of the others, then stopped.

Su Yan, walking at the back, was too sensitive to the camera; the photographer hadn’t stopped long before he sensed something was wrong and stopped to look back.

"Wait a moment..."

Before he could finish, there was a sound from the flowerbed ahead on the gravel road, something blowing up, each louder and closer.

Someone across the street started running, shouting, "It’s natural gas! Natural gas explosion!"

"Boom!"

Several human-shaped stands near the flowerbed flew up.

The few people walking out were shocked, exclaiming as they ran back, quickly dispersing in threes and twos, frantically seeking shelter in buildings.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" The soprano was particularly prominent.

"My heavens, what the hell is that?!"

"Is this a real explosion?! So loud?!"

"Quickly hide!!!"

"My manager duped me!"

The little broadcast came again, "A natural gas leak explosion has occurred in the small town, explosion in one minute, countdown starting!"

The explosion scene was so realistically done, Mu Qiu, in her panic, followed Cheng Zhirang into a nearby small villa, hiding at the stair corner, tightly pressed against the triangular wall, her mind seemed filled with the sound of a pounding heart.

The photographer actually didn’t follow inside, she quickly glanced outside, her mind racing, wondering exactly which episode from her book this drew from, how a romance scene suddenly added a blast escape segment, did they combine several of her episodes.

As she pondered and peered outside, she happened to catch something different.

Amid the intermittent thumping sounds, two people entered through the small villa door.

Mu Qiu immediately retracted her gaze, pressing herself tighter against the wall.

...Su Yan and they aren’t in the same team, right? Then why follow them in here?

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Su Yan: Take a guess?