“Everyone can freely choose their seats according to the current arrangement. Next, we will proceed with a tacit understanding test,” Yao PD said, looking at the eight people who had already taken their places.
The rules of the game are as follows: Next, we will randomly throw out a series of weird and wonderful questions, and everyone present needs to quickly write down their unique answer on the small answer board in front of them.
After everyone has finished answering, we will display all the answer boards one by one. Any combinations with identical answers will be considered to have a high level of tacit understanding. And, the partners with higher levels of tacit understanding will be able to smoothly obtain key clues for this episode's undercover agent.
As soon as Yao PD finished speaking, a cunning, mischievous smile appeared on his face, as if that smile contained countless untold little secrets, making it hard to fathom. His gaze slowly swept over everyone present, seemingly wanting to capture a hint of interesting reaction from their changing expressions.
When Lin Yi and Teacher Bai Lu heard these game rules, their hearts skipped a beat, and they instantly felt an invisible pressure pressing down on them. Lin Yi muttered in a low voice, “Oh my god, this is terrible! I haven't even figured out who my superior is yet, and they’re going to reveal clues so quickly? This game is too difficult to play. I really don't know what Yao PD is thinking; he's simply too wicked!” As he spoke, he shook his head helplessly, his face filled with deep resentment towards Yao PD.
In contrast, although Teacher Bai Lu was equally nervous inside, she still tried her best to maintain a calm and composed demeanor, not letting her emotions show easily. She frowned slightly, secretly pondering, “What should I do? I don’t know how high the tacit understanding between Lin Yi and me can be. If we can cooperate tacitly enough, maybe I can find a way to cover for him…” Thinking of this, she couldn't help but secretly glance at Lin Yi beside her, her eyes revealing a hint of worry and anticipation.
“Alright, everyone, let's start the game. The order for revealing answers will be Lin Yi, Chao Ge, Chen Ge, Chen He, Baby, Kai Ge, Zhou Sheng, and Teacher Bai Lu, in that order. The production team will arrange for statistics.” Yao PD waved his hand, and two staff members immediately came up to record.
“Please listen to the first question: What is your favorite color?”
“Everyone has ten seconds to think... Please reveal!” Yao PD said unexpectedly once again.
The camera focused on Lin Yi, who slowly opened his answer board, which read “Water color” and had a drop of water drawn on it.
“Lin Yi’s answer is water color! Next is Chao Ge.”
Deng Chao also slowly opened his, which read “Blue.” “Chao Ge’s answer is blue.”
“Wait a minute, please wait a minute,” Zhou Sheng suddenly interrupted the director, “What did you say Lin Yi’s color was just now? Water color?”
Zhou Sheng suddenly stood up and walked to the front of everyone, his eyes constantly shifting back and forth between Lin Yi and Teacher Bai Lu.
“What’s wrong, Sheng Sheng? Did you find something?” Baby asked, looking at Zhou Sheng’s strange actions.
“I found that Bai Mengyan also wrote water color, I think there must be something going on between them!” Zhou Sheng shouted.
“Eh? Zhou Sheng, what you're saying... as a loyal fan of Teacher Bai Lu, it's perfectly reasonable for me to like water color!” Lin Yi also nervously glanced at Teacher Bai Lu, and seeing her looking at him, he quickly nodded and smiled.
“No, I mean...”
“Alright, Zhou Sheng, were you scared by Lin Yi just now? Well, as a fan, of course he would write that color.” As the strategist of the Running Man Group, Chen He also quickly came out to smooth things over.
“No, I still feel a bit strange, but I can't quite put my finger on it.” Zhou Sheng also didn't know what was wrong with him; he just kept feeling there was some kind of connection between these two.
“That was close, that was close. Is Sheng Sheng's intuition that accurate? It seems I'll have to tear Sheng Sheng's name tag off first!” Teacher Bai Lu thought, looking at Zhou Sheng who had sat back down.
“Alright, everyone, next is the second question: What is your favorite fruit?” To prevent what just happened from reoccurring, Yao PD decided to start from the other side this time.
“Teacher Bai Lu, please reveal your answer board first.”
Teacher Bai Lu flipped open her answer board, “I like to eat grapes, so I wrote grapes.”
“Then Zhou Sheng’s answer is: pineapple.”
“Please wait a moment, I think I also need to report something,” Deng Chao suddenly interrupted Yao PD.
“What’s wrong, Chao Ge? What did you find this time?” Chen He turned his head to look at Deng Chao.
Deng Chao took Lin Yi's answer board and walked to the front of the crowd, first showing the answer to the camera, and then to everyone else.
“Grapes?!” x6
Even Teacher Bai Lu had not expected it to be like this.
Zhou Sheng then said, “See? I seriously suspect they've colluded!”
Seeing this situation, Lin Yi quickly stood up, looking slightly nervous, and said, “Zhou Sheng, you’ve really misunderstood! Teacher Bai Lu and I truly just met for the first time today. Please don't spread such a huge lie about Teacher Bai Lu. Besides, I am genuinely fond of grapes; I absolutely love them.”
As he spoke, Lin Yi didn't forget to playfully wink at Teacher Bai Lu, subtly conveying some information.
Teacher Bai Lu understood immediately and quickly chimed in, “Exactly, Sheng Sheng, what's wrong with you today? Why are you always picking on Lin Yi and me? Could it be that you have some special mission and want to pin this blame on us?”
Upon hearing this, Lin Yi’s heart secretly rejoiced, and he mused to himself, “Heh, I didn't expect my Teacher Bai Lu to be so quick-witted, cleverly helping me divert attention. This is great, when we play the name tag ripping game later, I'll have to go a little easy on her. It's just a shame I can't team up with her, otherwise, we'd definitely cooperate flawlessly!”
Zheng Kai, who was nearby, also chimed in, “Isn't that right? Zhou Sheng is indeed a bit strange today.”
At this moment, Li Chen also leaned in and interjected, “In my opinion, given our show's usual style, it's highly likely that this time the gues has been set up as an undercover agent or something similar.”
Upon seeing that the situation was not as he had imagined, Zhou Sheng said, “How could that be? How could I be an undercover agent? Chao Ge, you have to believe me, I am innocent! I was just curious about how Lin Yi and Teacher Bai Lu had such good tacit understanding, hahahaha.”
Deng Chao, seeing Yao PD wink at him, understood, “Alright, alright, let’s continue the game. As for Zhou Sheng’s words, I’m skeptical. Let’s keep an eye on Zhou Sheng for now.”
Deng Chao, being a veteran, naturally knew how to create a good show effect.
“Ah, Chao Ge, I’ve been wronged!” Zhou Sheng also sat back down in despair.
Yao PD, seeing that it was getting late, decided to change the game format, “Next, there will be three questions that we will release simultaneously. If you have one item in common, you get three points; two items, six points; and if all three are the same, you can directly form a team. Afterwards, we will form teams based on everyone’s scores for the later segments.”
“Everyone, please listen to the questions: First question: Among the novels created by Lin Yi, which one do you like the most?
Second question: What is the one thing you most want to say right now?
Third question: Where do you most want to go?”
Yao PD looked at the pondering individuals and then said, “You have thirty seconds for this round of answers. You can think, but do not give any hints.”
Listening to the questions, Lin Yi casually wrote down: “the return of the condor heroes”, “Tear off Zhou Sheng’s name tag first”, “Dali”
“Everyone, time’s up. Lin Yi, please reveal your answer board first.” Yao PD chose Lin Yi after looking around.
Lin Yi casually flipped open his answer board, revealing his answers: “the return of the condor heroes”, “Tear off Zhou Sheng’s name tag first”, “Dali”
As Yao PD read them out one by one, when he read the answer to the second question, Zhou Sheng said with an incredulous look, “Ah! How am I involved in this? What did I do for you to punish me!”
“Hahahaha, Zhou Sheng, look at you, what is this? Who told you to tease our great writer like that earlier?” Chen He said, sounding like a wise elder brother.
“I'm not saying this, but Zhou Sheng, you've already been out before it even started!” Zheng Kai also joked.
“Hahahahaha” x5
Just then, the lively atmosphere was interrupted by Baby's sudden words.
She frowned slightly, and said thoughtfully, “Well, I think compared to this, there’s actually something else that’s more worth exploring in depth.”
Upon hearing this, everyone stopped laughing and turned their gaze to Baby.
Zheng Kai eagerly asked, “What is it, Baby? Hurry and tell us.”
Baby, feeling everyone's intense gaze, revealed a cunning smile, then rushed forward, embracing Teacher Bai Lu beside her and saying, “Hehe, then let our beautiful great beauty, Teacher Bai Lu, personally show everyone her answer board.” After speaking, she playfully winked at Teacher Bai Lu.
Immediately after, Baby, disregarding whether Teacher Bai Lu agreed or not, reached out and quickly flipped open the answer board tightly held in Teacher Bai Lu's hand. In an instant, the content on the board was clearly displayed in front of everyone, with three lines neatly written on it: “the return of the condor heroes”, “Tear off Zhou Sheng’s name tag first”, “Dali”.
Upon seeing this result, the scene instantly fell into a dead silence, followed by a chorus of gasps. Especially Deng Chao, he widened his eyes, staring incredulously at the two identical answer boards, his mouth agape wide enough to fit an egg, stammering, “Oh... Oh my god! What... what exactly is going on here? How can such coincidental answers appear?”
“Oh my, what’s going on? How can these be the same?!”
“Uh, we can understand your first and third answers, but how can the second question also be exactly the same? This makes no sense, does it?” Li Chen rubbed his forehead, looking completely bewildered.
“Everyone, I can attest that Lin Yi and Teacher Bai Lu indeed met for the first time today. We also did not arrange answers for them in advance,” Yao PD suddenly revealed the fact that they had just met.
“I knew this episode was unfavorable for me; Lin Yi and Bai Mengyan are devils, to be able to say such things. I seriously suspect there's something wrong with them!” Zhou Sheng no longer knew how to express his thoughts.
“Zhou Sheng, you can't say that. This situation only proves that Teacher Bai Lu and I have a high level of tacit understanding; it doesn't prove anything else,” Lin Yi said with a smile.
“Yes, Zhou Sheng. How can you so arbitrarily force a specific identity on us just because of such a small game? We truly just have a relatively high level of pure tacit understanding!”
Teacher Bai Lu grumbled indignantly, and before she could finish, she heard Lin Yi, who was beside her, immediately chime in, “Exactly, we really do have an astonishingly high level of tacit understanding!”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Sheng’s facial muscles twitched violently, and he incredulously retorted, “What? You call this tacit understanding? This is simply outrageous!”
Lin Yi and Teacher Bai Lu exchanged a knowing glance, then simultaneously and emphatically declared, “Of course, that’s right! We do possess such unparalleled tacit understanding!”
Before their words even faded, a burst of hearty laughter echoed through the entire space.
“Hahahahaha…”
At this moment, Lin Yi quietly gazed at Zhou Sheng, who was frantically fleeing into the distance, running away from the two of them, and couldn't help but ponder to himself, “Oh dear, I’m truly sorry, Zhou Sheng! Actually, deep down, I didn’t want to reveal my true identity so early, but since things have come to this, I can only take it one step at a time!”
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