The Security Guard Who Won the Heart of the Unattainable Actress - Chapter 28.2

Chapter 28.2

Everyone and the security team were ready to go, gearing up for the new challenge.

“It’s started! Run!”

A large number of strawberry people rushed over, and the players scattered.

Hua Yuzhi: “These strawberry people are so realistic and creepy. Now that I see them magnified and on a person, why do the strawberry seeds look so much like blackheads?”

As soon as Hua Yuzhi finished speaking, a huge group of strawberry people rushed toward her.

“?”

Ran Mingyue: “A trigger word? Run first, run fast, to the villa with the convenience store.”

Jiang Qiaoye: “What did you just say? Why did these strawberry people suddenly go crazy?! Ahh! 06! Protect me, protect me! My health is in the red!”

Li Guang ran while pulling Jiang Qiaoye closer, making sure he didn’t leave her grasp. Li Guang had to remember Ran Mingyue’s instructions to keep a close eye on Jiang Qiaoye.

“Keep up,” Ran Mingyue said, coming to Li Guang’s side. Li Guang said, “You don’t have to worry about me. I’ll make sure to follow you closely.”

Ran Mingyue looked back. “I’m afraid you’ll get lost.”

“I won’t!” Li Guang said. “I only have my eyes on you. No one else is in my range of following.”

Ran Mingyue couldn’t help but smile in the midst of this serious escape situation.

So cute.

The strawberry people’s weapon was a long green stick. It seemed that whoever it hit would have their health drop. The players were collectively chased by the strawberry people out of the lakeside area.

Everyone was chased to the back door of the convenience store.

“Don’t worry about it! Just find a place to hide! There are only twenty minutes left in the game.”

Ran Mingyue rushed into the original convenience store location. It was also a villa, but unlike the others in the neighborhood, it was the only two-story one, making it look a bit shorter.

Song Suoqi hadn’t been found yet.

No one knew where Xiang Que went. In the chaos, Ran Mingyue, along with Jiang Qiaoye and Wen Yingzhi who hadn’t had time to break out, rushed through the back door of the small villa.

As soon as they entered the backyard, the back door instantly caught fire, and the flames shot up high, blocking some of the strawberry people.

“What the heck?!”

When the open flame appeared, Li Guang’s steps faltered, and her gaze froze. Ran Mingyue turned to look at her, and Wen Yingzhi shrieked, “Is it on fire?… The regional mission wasn’t over yet?”

“A fire and ice combo, what are you guys even playing at, production team?” Jiang Qiaoye was still shaken, but he couldn’t help but laugh. “Are you guys really doing a survival challenge?”

Everyone ran up to the second floor.

All the rooms on the second floor had been opened up, creating a large, open space. In the center was a large, open window.

Besides the door they had run in through, there was also a narrow, person-high black door on the side that read “Staff Only.”

“Quick! Close the door! The last one!”

The last person was Jiang Qiaoye. They realized that the strawberry people were attacking both teams indiscriminately. Even after they had entered this space, two strawberry people threw the sticks they were holding inside.

The green sticks flew in an arc. As they hit the ground, the door slammed shut with a bang, locking out the remaining strawberry people.

Ran Mingyue only glanced at the window once, and then quickly looked away. There were no other decorations in this room, except for the cameras. And the cameras were placed by the window.

Her heart was pounding.

“Do you guys feel that…” Jiang Qiaoye and Ran Mingyue were using all their strength to hold the door, and even Wen Yingzhi had to help. No one revealed their vital life points on their chests.

Ran Mingyue didn’t need Jiang Qiaoye to say anything. She also felt a strangeness. The door was heating up. In just the time it took to say one sentence, it was already so hot that all four of them felt it was scalding.

“Let go!”

Ran Mingyue shouted, pushing Li Guang to the side.

Both of them fell to the ground. When Li Guang looked up, all she could see were red, soaring flames.

With a bang, just like the door downstairs, it ignited fiercely in front of them as they looked down.

“?” Wen Yingzhi and Jiang Qiaoye were dumbfounded. “Director! Director! No way, is it really on fire?!”

In front of Ran Mingyue and Li Guang, the green stick thrown in by the strawberry people also started to burn.

The window was open, and a smell of burnt wood came from outside. But there was no smoke.

Li Guang took a deep breath without a word.

Jiang Qiaoye picked up the stick and waved it in front of Li Guang.

He found that Li Guang was just standing there, frozen. Normally, Li Guang would have nimbly run away.

A weakness?

“06…”

Perfect. Since he found Li Guang’s weakness, he might as well take out Ran Mingyue’s security guard…

Li Guang saw the flames dancing in front of her eyes, and she lost her normal reaction. She didn’t even try to dodge.

Before Jiang Qiaoye could take another step, Ran Mingyue, who had somehow gotten behind him, wrapped one arm around his neck and accurately pressed the life point on his left shoulder.

“Player Jiang Qiaoye, has been eliminated. Calculating.”

Jiang Qiaoye froze. “Sister Ran, didn’t you say you’d let me stay until the end? I was going to take you to find Song Suoqi!”

Ran Mingyue ignored him, pulling Li Guang toward her. “I was originally going to let you stay at low health, but I just changed my mind.”

Why did he have to provoke Li Guang?

Ran Mingyue took Li Guang’s hand and found that Li Guang’s hand was cold. Li Guang was scared. Jiang Qiaoye had just frightened Li Guang.

“Sister Ran, this fire isn’t real…” Jiang Qiaoye still held the stick that had belonged to the strawberry person.

A chaotic shout came from downstairs. “I found Song Suoqi! I found her! Xiao Ran, are you guys okay up there? Hurry down!”

Hua Yuzhi and Ran Mingyue were together. She and Wen Yingzhi were in a standoff.

Wen Yingzhi said, “We’re going to win, you know?”

Jiang Qiaoye stood still.

“I think he’s weird…” Li Guang had recovered her breath. She pulled her hand back, only thinking about telling Ran Mingyue, “Be careful and protect your life points. This place…”

Another wave of burnt wood smell came from outside the window, making everyone on set tense up.

There was nowhere to go down except for the window.

“It’s okay.” Ran Mingyue didn’t have time to listen to what Jiang Qiaoye was saying. She held Li Guang’s hand again and repeated, “It’s okay. Everything will be okay.”

Li Guang’s hand was trembling slightly. Ran Mingyue only realized this after she held Li Guang’s hand tightly.

Li Guang herself didn’t realize it. It was a pure stress response to the situation.

“You wait! Teacher Ran, don’t worry about me. I’ll fight Wen Yingzhi! An eye for an eye is still possible.” Hua Yuzhi stood opposite Wen Yingzhi without moving. “We have to find a way to get out. There are ten minutes left. We have to find a way to take them all out.”

“Can one of you come down and help? It’s hard to deal with her here,” Xiang Que’s voice called from downstairs. “My security guard meat shield is gone.”

But a broadcast suddenly sounded in the area. “Player Jiang Qiaoye has used the ‘Sit-up Card.’ Jiang Qiaoye, you are revived.”

Jiang Qiaoye was un-frozen in an instant. He was very close to Ran Mingyue.

“Careful!” Li Guang saw Jiang Qiaoye rushing over, but Ran Mingyue had her back to him and didn’t see. If she was pressed on the back again, Ran Mingyue would be eliminated.

Li Guang immediately grabbed Ran Mingyue’s shoulder, switching places with her. Jiang Qiaoye pressed Li Guang’s life point, and Li Guang’s health bar was completely gone.

“Player Wen Yingzhi, eliminated.” At the same time, Hua Yuzhi also eliminated Wen Yingzhi’s life bar.

Wen Yingzhi said, “It’s useless even if you take me out. Can you catch the rest of them? To catch the rest of them, you’ll have to jump out of this window.”

The burning door was making a cracking sound, and it was clear that it wouldn’t last much longer.

The production team had designed a dead-end door. Once it was closed, it would automatically burn, preventing players from going back the way they came.

“Run! Hurry! Out the window,” Li Guang pushed Ran Mingyue, so Ran Mingyue could see the mission requirements that had appeared by the window. “There must be a way for you to take out all the escape team members right now.”

Just as Li Guang finished speaking, Jiang Qiaoye, knowing that he couldn’t beat Ran Mingyue if he stayed here, unhesitatingly rushed toward the window.

Sure enough, there were staff and an inflatable crash mat waiting below.

“I’m flying!” Jiang Qiaoye, who loved playing these kinds of games, faced everyone and let his body drop out of the window as Ran Mingyue came over.

After landing, Jiang Qiaoye shouted, “Captain Wen, come down! After you’re down, don’t worry about Brother Xiang Que. We’ll just wait for the circle to shrink, and we’ll win!”

“You see? We’ll still win. Mingyue is afraid of heights. She can’t come down.” Wen Yingzhi waved at the people inside and also jumped down.

Only today did Li Guang find out that Ran Mingyue was afraid of heights.

No wonder. No wonder Ran Mingyue paused when she saw this big window on her way in. It must have been then that Ran Mingyue had a rough guess about the show’s plan.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. So what if we were provoked?” Hua Yuzhi said. “We’re only losing this time because Jiang Qiaoye got a ‘Sit-up Card.’ It doesn’t matter if we don’t jump. They’re bullying our Captain Ran, huh?!”

There were ten minutes left. Now that they had all jumped down, they might also be eliminated by the two people waiting below.

“Wait,” Ran Mingyue said. Even though there were only ten minutes left, she knew it would be hard to overcome this mental barrier. “Wait a minute. Let me think. I have a points card too.”

In the water tank challenge, she had indeed failed, but she had held her breath the longest. And before that, the hunt team’s points had always been higher than the escape team’s.

“Hunt team hidden prop card activated. ‘Cut Metal with Its Sharpness.’ In the last five minutes, if all players are gathered in the same shrinking area, the hunt team wins, and the escape team loses.”

What?

“Gathered in the same area” means—

“Holy crap! Then if we jump from here now, we win, don’t we? It doesn’t matter if they’re all down there.” Hua Yuzhi immediately reacted. “Let’s go! I refuse to believe they can win!”

The door downstairs was also on fire, which meant this courtyard was completely sealed off. If all the players were gathered in the courtyard now, the hunt team would win.

Because the door on the second floor was sealed, they could only jump out of the window.

A loud shout came from below: “Jump! Someone is here to catch you! Don’t be afraid! If you jump, we win!”

It was Xiang Que.

Wen Yingzhi also shouted, “Don’t jump! It’s so scary to jump down. You’ll have nightmares tonight.”

Ran Mingyue’s expression was extremely bad.

Only Li Guang and the cameraman were waiting on the side. Li Guang couldn’t leave. She had to wait for the production team to tell her what to do before she could move.

She was worried about Ran Mingyue’s current state. She felt that Ran Mingyue needed her to stay, but the production team told her to leave. She had to go.

Unlike Ran Mingyue, Li Guang could go down the stairs through the staff-only passage.

She was still worried and walked to Ran Mingyue’s side.

“My channel is 06. Press here twice.” This was Li Guang’s personal channel. It had never been used before. Li Guang pressed Ran Mingyue’s microphone and said a secret only they knew, in a low voice, “Don’t be afraid.”

She didn’t have time to see what Ran Mingyue’s expression was. Li Guang had to leave for now.

She ran all the way down. When Li Guang got to the bottom, she found that there was a rescue mat that was over a meter thick. This was a short second story. The main challenge was overcoming the mental fear of jumping out of a window.

The production team would naturally not let the players get hurt, but they would create an atmosphere. The countdown started again. The last three minutes.

“Jump! Only three minutes left!”

The other teammates were all cheering below. “Captain Ran, it’s not scary! Hurry and jump down! If you jump, we win!”

“Mingyue, you’ve been so brave until now. If you stop, all your efforts will be for nothing!”

Hua Yuzhi shouted, “Exactly! You can do it! It’ll be over in a second. I already jumped! It’s less than a second!”

“Stop yelling. You’re going to lose,” Wen Yingzhi said. “Mingyue won’t jump. This isn’t a film shoot now.”

“But the game has come this far. Even I, with my small courage, jumped down,” Hua Yuzhi said. Jiang Qiaoye added, “Sister Ran might jump. Look, isn’t she looking at it? But there’s only a minute or two left. It might be too late.”

The others were still chatting in the gaps, but Li Guang’s gaze was fixed on the big window on the second floor, never leaving it for a moment. Until Ran Mingyue appeared at the window again.

She saw Ran Mingyue take a long breath. She also saw Ran Mingyue’s hand touch her earpiece and press it twice.

In Li Guang’s earpiece, there was silence.

The channel was connected, but Ran Mingyue hadn’t spoken yet.

Li Guang could hear Ran Mingyue’s breathing.

And the constant countdown.

Li Guang looked up at Ran Mingyue. Ran Mingyue’s face was as beautiful as ever, and her eyes were bright and determined. She was a truly trustworthy captain.

But all Li Guang could think was, How scared was Ran Mingyue when she was filming?

All those times with high-altitude wires, Ran Mingyue never said she was afraid. She never caused any inconvenience for her work.

After a long time, only Ran Mingyue’s soft call came through her earpiece.

“Li Guang.” Ran Mingyue just said her name. Li Guang understood the rest of what Ran Mingyue was saying. She was asking, Li Guang, can I jump? Should I jump?

Li Guang looked into Ran Mingyue’s eyes and felt that at this moment, Ran Mingyue’s eyes were like moonlight shattered into ripples.

She shook her head with certainty.

Amidst the shouts of encouragement, urging Ran Mingyue to jump without a second thought, Li Guang looked into Ran Mingyue’s eyes and said softly, “Nobody said you had to be a hero.”

Ran Mingyue finally said, “What if we lose?”

“It doesn’t matter if we lose. It doesn’t matter. If you don’t want to jump, then don’t jump.”

The voice paused, then sounded again. “If it were you, what would you do?”

“Me? Oh.” Li Guang reached up and took off her sunglasses. Her eyes were gentle and bright. “I won’t make things difficult for you, and I won’t force you. Whether we lose or win, I’ll be the first to come and get you.”

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