Chapter 29: Chapter 029: It Seems the Company Has Given Up on You Chapter 29: Chapter 029: It Seems the Company Has Given Up on You No sooner had he spoken than Xu Zishen’s legs went weak, and he plopped down on the ground.
Shen Yan still held the poisonous snake, which was about two fingers in size, and yanked it from his pant leg.
Her tug was even stronger than the constricting force of the snake.
It made Xu Zishen shudder all over; he nearly wet himself on the spot.
The feeling of the snake’s tail sliding over his skin was really unpleasant!
The pupils of the VJs and PDs abruptly contracted!
The audience, seeing the snake coiled around that fair arm, felt their own pupils shake violently!
The scene of the girl quickly seizing the snake truly shocked the national audience, and the barrage in the live broadcast room instantly died down.
Soon, everyone snapped back to reality, their hands trembling as they typed.
[Oh my God, Yanyan, you’re grabbing a poisonous snake, not a little earthworm, throw it away, quickly!]
[I knew there were many snakes in summer, what is the production team doing, how could such a mistake happen.]
[Did it bite anyone, why is the production team still dazed, don’t they know poisonous snakes can be deadly.]
[If something happens, the production team would be indirectly committing murder.]
[Yanyan, you, you’re scaring us, tell us if you were bitten, say something…]
At this point, even Yanyan’s haters were worried for her.
Finally, the production team came to their senses and raced over, “Xu Zishen, Shen Yan.”
Shen Yan disentangled the snake, an action that gave onlookers goosebumps. Just imagine such a soft-bodied venomous creature wrapped around one’s body; it would make anyone explode on the spot!
On camera, Shen Yan, unhurriedly, removed the snake from her arm and, in front of the audience’s eyes, tossed it away, then swiftly picked up a small spade.
“Whack, whack…”
The several people who had rushed over froze.
They watched as Shen Yan smacked the snake’s head into the soft mud, then kept hitting, hacking, smacking…
In the serene forest, the only sound was the clear and forceful whack after whack.
Voices full of urgency came through the walkie-talkies, with no response.
Xu Zishen, who was sitting on the ground, watched the ethereal girl crisply smashing the snake, a twist in the scene that was a bit too abrupt for him.
Shen Yan continued smacking and kicked sand over the snake’s body at the same time.
To avoid any blood splatter.
The snake’s tail wriggled twice and then stilled.
Shen Yan wiped the small spade on the grass and looked towards the stunned crowd, her tone calm, “He wasn’t bitten, neither was I, the snake is dead.”
The snake is dead…
Everyone stared at the scene before them, their minds crashing and rebooting.
Xu Zishen was the first to snap out of it, promptly rolling up his pant leg to find not a single mark.
He took a long breath.
His whole body relaxed along with it.
“Shen Yan, are you hurt at all?” the others gathered around Shen Yan, frantically checking her over.
Shen Yan spread her hands open, pristine except for the red marks from gripping the spade too hard.
Everyone exhaled in relief.
Having relaxed, they felt utterly weak.
Then came a chill down their spines—the production team had already checked carefully, sprinkling a lot of realgar around places where snakes might hide. How could such a poisonous snake still be on the prowl?
Right on their unavoidable path.
Just think, if the person in front wasn’t Xu Zishen, but one of those following with the cameras, then they would have been the ones bitten by the snake.
Everyone had a terrible look on their faces.
The presence of the poisonous snake had killed the mood for recording.
Someone finally answered the walkie-talkie; Director Li and others running towards the scene all breathed sighs of relief.
With a stern face, Director Li stared at the dead snake on the ground and then at the composed Shen Yan, taking a deep breath, “We’ll pause the broadcast here for now; other team members, conduct a thorough safety check.”
Everyone sprang into action.
Xu Zishen’s assistant helped him up and took him back.
Though he wasn’t bitten, the scare was no less intense.
The roads were no longer passable.
Shen Yan did want to continue, but everyone else was scared, so she followed them back to the rest area.
Xiao Zhao ran over from afar, also with a look of sheer anxiety on his face, “Yanyan, are you, you’re okay, right?”
Shen Yan shook her head.
The faces of the returning crowd all looked grim, and Xiao Zhao, wanting to ask questions, could only hold them back.
Xu Zishen went back to his tent with a pale face and immediately changed out of the pants that had been nicked by the snake’s fangs, then had his assistant dispose of them.
When Shen Yan returned to her tent, Xiao Zhao followed, asking insistently, “Yanyan, you really weren’t bitten by the snake?”
Shen Yan glanced at her, “If I were bitten, could I still be standing here all well? That was a viper.”
Xiao Zhao knew about this viper and her eyes instantly widened.
Thinking of that scene, Xiao Zhao’s voice trembled, “You, you’re too bold… How could you dare to catch a snake with your bare hands, if it had bitten back, even if there was antivenom, you might still…”
“I’m fine, aren’t I,” she had caught more poisonous snakes in the jungle before.
Xiao Zhao turned pale, “I, I’ll call Sister Lu.”
Shen Yan thought to herself, even if you do call, that controlling agent probably won’t care.
The most she’d do would be to mock Shen Yan’s terrible luck.
However, once Xiao Zhao’s call was made, she was stunned.
Running back, she said with a strange look in her eyes, “Yanyan, it seems like the company… has abandoned you.”
“Huh?”
“Sister Lu said that from now on, you’re no longer under her management, whether you live or die is up to you, which means you won’t have an agent to manage you anymore.”
No agent to manage her, so was she supposed to pull in her own resources?
Then what’s the point of being an artist, might as well switch careers and become an agent.
Shen Yan raised her eyebrows, surprised, “I haven’t received any notification from the company.”
Her phone was spotless.
Immediately, she thought of something and understood.
Presumably, there was some adjustment on the company’s side, and they had explained that to Zhang Lu, but Zhang Lu had not handed things over to her.
“Being on this show, the attention and response I’ve brought has been quite good; the company won’t ignore that.”
Even an idiot could see she was quickly improving, and she might even become a cash cow for the company.
The top management at Xinyu would have to be foolish to neglect her.
“Then I’ll ask around again to see what’s going on with the company,” Xiao Zhao felt uncertain.
Shen Yan nodded.
The encounter with the venomous snake that Xu Zishen and Shen Yan had experienced was quickly known to everyone.
The live broadcast of the show had just begun not long before it was interrupted.
With such an incident, the audience could completely understand the program team’s decision to halt the broadcast.
They needed to perform a thorough check before the live broadcast could resume.
But this situation agonized Director Li.
The losses from halting the broadcast for a day were immeasurable.
Thinking of the snickers from his peers behind his back, Director Li’s anger flared even more.
“What’s going on with the production crew? Didn’t they say that the area was checked and safe? Now a venomous snake appears, nearly biting someone; how are we supposed to ensure the personal safety of our people?” The complaints came from outside; Shen Yan didn’t go out.
“Suddenly stopping the broadcast, the program crew are facing major losses; it can’t be helped,” said Zhou Jingming.
Everyone had returned to the starting point, now sitting together in a circle.
Chu Jing noticed that Mu Jincheng’s expression wasn’t very good and asked with concern, “Jincheng, what’s wrong?”
Mu Jincheng shook his head, “Nothing.”
As he spoke, his gaze drifted to the other side.
That was Shen Yan’s tent.
Shen Yan was lucky not to have been bitten.
Mu Jincheng knew very well that it was his own people who had arranged for the venomous snake.
He had only requested the person to be taken out, never had he ordered to take a life.
If the snake had bitten and there wasn’t enough time to get to a hospital, the person would have undoubtedly not been saved.
Mu Jincheng felt irritated, walked to the side, picked up his phone, and called someone. As he moved away from the crowd, he asked through gritted teeth, “What’s going on, why release a venomous snake?”