Downstairs at the hotel.
Xu Nuo, who had come down to see the guests off, felt increasingly uneasy. He had a feeling Chen Feng's smile earlier seemed like he knew something.
He quickly went to Xu Ming's side and whispered a few words.
Xu Ming was startled.
He turned to him, frowned, and asked, "What do you suspect him of? Why do you think he noticed something? Is there a reason?"
Xu Nuo scratched his head: "This... it's just a feeling. The main thing is, I can't tell if he was talking about before or... this time when he said I entered his room."
"Did you leave any traces?"
"No, absolutely not."
"Then don't be so paranoid."
Xu Ming said impatiently, "If you want to do great things, you need a calm mind. Don't panic when things happen, understand?"
"Understood, Teacher."
Xu Nuo nodded.
Xu Ming then softly said, "However, one must always be on guard. You must leave Jiangnan City immediately tomorrow. Mr. Mike and I will stay for two more days. Tomorrow, we'll see if Chen Feng comes to meet us. We'll decide then."
"Teacher, do we really want to recruit him?"
"That depends on tomorrow's meeting."
Xu Ming said indifferently, "Not everyone can become a like-minded partner. However, he has what we want. Everything has to be weighed after we meet him."
"Okay, I understand."
"Let's go."
The two of them hurried out of the hotel.
...
The night passed without incident.
Chen Feng also slept soundly.
The next morning.
The top five contestants gathered at the broadcast building.
Today is the second part of the final battle.
It's also the outdoor filming segment.
The five individuals need to draw their character profiles for today's experience in the broadcast hall, and then, accompanied by a camera crew, go to the target environment for immersive filming.
Whoever interprets the role more accurately, and whoever can make the audience feel less incongruity, wins.
The five environments are a government canteen, a construction site, a research institute, a large supermarket, and a steel rolling mill.
Immersive filming means that in these specific settings, most people are unaware of the presence of the top five contestants.
Only a small number of selected lucky audience members will hide in a room and secretly observe the ability of these top five contestants to blend into the environment.
They will watch the authenticity of their character interpretations.
These lucky audience members will then score the top five contestants.
After the scoring is complete, the top five contestants will return to the broadcast hall, where three master artists will make the final judgment, select the top three, and crown the national champion.
The basic process is like this.
The five individuals began to randomly draw lots to assign their experience scenarios.
After the draw, the results were as follows.
First was Chen Feng, who drew the research institute scenario.
Next was Little A Yi, who drew the government canteen scenario.
Yu Zhiwen drew the large supermarket.
Han Tao drew the construction site.
Tao Yilun was the most miserable, drawing the steel rolling mill.
With the draw complete, the five individuals immediately set off with their teams, heading to their respective chosen scenarios.
...
At nine o'clock in the morning.
All five groups successfully blended in.
All the filming personnel were disguised, and hidden cameras were also set up at the workplaces of the top five contestants.
Online.
The topic of the show's final battle was extremely popular.
Many people knew that in the second part of the competition, the five individuals had to blend into specific scenarios.
However, the specific scenarios they went to were kept strictly confidential by the production team.
Therefore, no one knew where the top five contestants actually went.
Not knowing leads to curiosity.
Curiosity leads to discussion.
Thus, the internet was filled with analytical posts.
...
At the same time.
In a conference room of a government agency in Jiangnan City.
The lucky audience members who were selected as judges were excitedly seated in chairs, a total of thirty people, all staring at the large screen in front of them.
Inside the screen.
It was Little A Yi, who had transformed into a canteen auntie at a government agency.
Because it wasn't mealtime yet, Little A Yi was busy in the canteen.
Everyone in the canteen knew her identity.
Today, they needed to cooperate with her for the show.
At the same time, they also needed to observe her effectiveness in portraying a canteen worker.
Therefore, even though they really wanted to ask for her autograph, or even get a closer look at her true appearance, during filming, no one could give it away.
They could only hold back.
So, Little A Yi, dressed in the uniform of the government canteen, was busy all morning in the canteen, doing various odd jobs.
The lucky audience members in the conference room were quite excited.
Every time they saw Little A Yi doing dirty and tiring work like an ordinary canteen auntie, the audience would burst into exclamations.
It turns out these celebrities can sometimes be so down-to-earth.
...
Another scene.
That was a construction site somewhere in Jiangnan City.
Although it was the dead of winter, Jiangnan is different from the Northeast; construction sites generally do not stop work, they just keep going.
So, the construction site was bustling with activity.
In a temporary shed, a group of rough men with dark faces were excitedly staring at the monitor, watching the person inside.
It was Han Tao.
At this moment, he was wearing tattered clothes.
He wore a safety helmet, a towel that had turned black and yellow draped around his neck.
He wore gloves on his hands and a pair of yellow rubber shoes on his feet.
He was diligently pushing a wheelbarrow.
He was pushing sand.
Because he was wearing a mask, no one on the construction site noticed him.
At one point.
Han Tao was pushing a full cart of sand, wobbling across a single-plank bridge, and accidentally tipped over into a ditch nearby.
Then, the shed erupted in laughter.
The rough men laughed heartily: "Hahahahaha, look at this delicate-skinned person, he can't even push a cart steadily."
"Seriously, the production team is quite tricky. Making a small celebrity like this come to a construction site to push sand?"
"Hey, I heard he has to move bricks later."
"This guy is probably cursing. Look, his mask keeps moving, his mouth must not have stopped."
"Hahaha, it'd be strange if he wasn't cursing."
"Tsk tsk, this is really exciting to watch. These small celebrities can make big money just by putting on a smile, while we work hard every day and can't even guarantee food and shelter. Let them taste what hardship is like too."
"That's what I'm saying."
...
The workers discussed animatedly.
Because the nature of the work is different, the working group and atmosphere are also different.
Little A Yi was lucky to choose the government canteen.
The staff there were not as hardworking, and even lived a pampered life, so the overall atmosphere was very relaxed.
Seeing Little A Yi experiencing the role, they only treated it as gossip and entertainment.
Some even wanted to chase after her as a fan.
But on a construction site?
The workers' mentality was completely opposite.
They subconsciously felt a sense of vengeful pleasure.
Precisely because the wealth gap was too wide.
Celebrities, in their glamorous world, can earn money that ordinary workers can't earn in a lifetime just by putting on a smile and striking a pose.
But what about the workers?
Selling their labor, working hard their whole lives, only to gain mere subsistence.
This huge disparity cannot be balanced by anyone.
Therefore, when they saw Han Tao struggling on the construction site, the workers would only laugh it off.
They felt no sympathy at all.
So, Han Tao's difficulty was much higher than Little A Yi's.
He needed to truly integrate into the state of a construction worker to perhaps get evaluation scores from the worker audience.
This required him to give it his all.