After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 412: Being a Spectator Off the Field

Chapter 412: Chapter 412: Being a Spectator Off the Field

"Master Shi, what do we do now?"

They arrived only to encounter a highway robbery.

Then they ran into fellow travelers, and if it weren’t for their hurry to explore the wasteland, she would have been quite interested in the program that the diviners were shooting.

Shi Yaoguang said, "First, let’s find a place to rest and figure out the situation in the wasteland."

An Xiaoya nodded in eager and obedient agreement with the plan.

In the unexpected outpost of the Mobei Desert, the development was actually not bad, having reached the level of a third-tier city.

The trio quickly found a place to stay and inquired about the program that the diviners mentioned.

They were talking about a variety show featuring mediums, aimed at finding truly skilled and extraordinary people.

Ever since the founding of the country, it was forbidden for spirits to manifest, making it very difficult to find a powerful medium these days.

Most of them were charlatans and swindlers.

The purpose of this program was also to dispel the prejudices in the public’s mind.

This was much like the lost art of traditional Chinese medicine.

A truly skilled Grandmaster of Chinese medicine was different from your average barefoot doctor.

Putting that aside, they were now facing a problem.

That was... the Mobei Desert had been sealed off.

The medium-based reality show "This is Not a Trick" was filming in Mobei, and the notorious desert naturally became a place for people to prove themselves.

This episode’s content involved venturing into the wasteland to uncover its secrets, and it was said that deep within the wasteland, there was a place where eternal darkness reigned, yet the scorching sun was incessant.

Because of this contradictory setting, many were curious, and some even wanted to go and investigate for themselves, but...

Although most people who went there returned intact, upon return, they all claimed to have lost their memories.

Since the involved parties had amnesia, not many rumors about the peculiarities of the Mobei Desert spread, and only a few were aware of these matters.

The filming of this episode of "This is Not a Trick" was meant to unravel the mystery.

Those outside the medium circle, or those who were uninterested in mediums, didn’t understand these things.

Some loyal viewers, however, were quite curious.

It was also because the mediums had loyal viewers, cough, and most importantly, the support of a sponsor backing them up, that they could afford to rent a significant part of the Mobei Desert as the shooting location.

Now, Shi Yaoguang and An Xiaoya couldn’t even go to the wasteland.

In their own words, it was... "too late."

Of course, it wasn’t absolutely out of the question.

By the time the medium show aired the Mobei Desert episode, it was already drawing to a close.

The medium masters did not accept people joining halfway through, but the audience off stage could, couldn’t they?

The off-stage audience, as the name implies, is there for show.

It could be said that this was already an unspoken rule in the industry.

In many reality shows, the audience is the same in principle.

The "ordinary people" they let in were to a large extent, extras brought in by the production team.

If they were truly random individuals, there was a chance they could be fans of the celebrities. And if it were only fans, it would be one thing, but what if sasaeng fans infiltrated? Wouldn’t that put the show at risk?

For this reason, many shows would recruit "off-stage audience" privately to prevent accidents.

Shi Yaoguang and her companions had timed their arrival inconveniently; their best option to enter the wasteland was to sign up to be part of the off-stage audience.

Only this way could they join the production crew and go inside.

Although Shi Yaoguang felt that traveling with a group was somewhat inconvenient, she didn’t reject the idea.

After all, she had a whole month to spare, and she was sure she would find what she was looking for.

With Shi Yaoguang having no objections, An Xiaoya naturally had none either.

After she signed up, she even became good friends with one of the show’s guests, who happened to be the diviner they had met earlier, but that’s a story for another time.

...

The production team was set to depart tomorrow morning.

Shi Yaoguang spent the night with Quan Jinbei.

Quan Jinbei was indeed in a wheelchair, but he wasn’t truly incapacitated, so there were no awkward situations when they were together.

After showering, Shi Yaoguang meditated for a while, and Quan Jinbei sat on the edge of the bed.

Shi Yaoguang watched him for a while, then asked, "How are you feeling now?"

Quan Jinbei stretched his body and then said with some surprise, "I feel better than before."

He spoke with some curiosity, "This feeling only came after getting closer to Mobei, could there be something special about Mobei?"

Shi Yaoguang shared her thoughts with him, "Xiaoya mentioned before that there’s a place in the Mobei Desert that is eternally cloudy but also basks in brilliant sunlight. I suspect there might be something there that could help your body recover."

"The way you are now is because the storyline forced itself on you. If there’s no way to change the storyline, the outcome will still not change..."

As she spoke, she sighed, "If I had known this would happen, I should have found the thing before dealing with the scumbags."

When it came to this, Shi Yaoguang truly felt hatred.

After the rewind in time, she really hadn’t actively done anything to Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng.

It was just her showing off some of her skills. Quan Sicheng and Shi Yiqing couldn’t even handle that small setback – could she be blamed for that?

Absolutely not!

Yet, without any sense of proportion, they insisted on blaming everything on her. What could she do?

That’s why they say it’s awesome to have a powerful father.

For others, having a father like Wang Gang or Li Gang was impressive enough, but theirs was Heavenly Dao.

Once Heavenly Dao took action, you’d know whether there was any hope or not.

Quan Jinbei ended up being dragged out to be made an example of...

Shi Yaoguang hadn’t dealt with Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng, not because she was soft-hearted, but because the time wasn’t right.

She feared that acting too soon might cause Heavenly Dao to change something.

Unexpectedly, her mere passive counterattack had already unbalanced Shi Yiqing and Quan Sicheng.

That, she could not tolerate.

She was already in this state, and yet Heavenly Dao was still unsatisfied.

If it was unsatisfied with this, unsatisfied with that, did it really want her to be finished before it would be satisfied?

If that was the case, then she was determined to let Heavenly Dao know that it was impossible for her to be finished!

The person she was protecting would not be finished either!

Quan Jinbei looked into her determined eyes, and the corners of his lips quietly curled into a brilliant smile.

He rarely smiled, but when he did, it was as if ice and snow were melting.

Shi Yaoguang was momentarily dazzled.

At the same time, she felt a strange sensation in the depths of her heart.

Quan Jinbei’s smile just now seemed...

Somehow familiar.

Of course, not familiar in terms of appearance, but that feeling.

Shi Yaoguang always felt a sense of déjà vu.

Yet, when she thought about it carefully, she couldn’t remember when she had seen it before, and she mused to herself that she must be mistaken.

Not dwelling on that feeling, she looked at Quan Jinbei and said, "Tomorrow ’This is Not a Trick’ is heading out to explore the desert, be careful on the road."

Upon hearing this, Quan Jinbei’s brows raised slightly, "Aren’t you coming with me?"

If she were going, she wouldn’t have mentioned being careful on the road.

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