Chapter 215 The Weird Grouping of Sea Fishing

The situation did not remain deadlocked for long.

Following the notice from the program crew, the other guests soon returned to the beach for group photoshooting. Nine guests plus nine PDs, even without counting other staff members, this was already a huge group of people, not to mention that there were a bunch of people from the program crew busy working not far away.

The job was simple, which was to prepare the necessary items for sea fishing for these guests who had many opinions.

A beach motorcycle rumbled up to the crowd and director Li Wensheng jumped off.

This time, he did not continue to communicate with the guests remotely using a loudspeaker, but was present on the scene in person.

Li Wensheng patted the sand on his body, smiled and clapped his hands to attract everyone’s attention. When everyone looked at him, he said cheerfully:

“This island’s original name is indeed not Wulong Island, but the name has not been decided yet. Our program has a great influence. When the subsequent developers complete the development and open it to the public, it may really be changed to this name.”

“Now that everyone has proposed to go fishing at sea instead of on the beach, and considering that this project can be used as a promotional point in the future, the program team has decided to agree after discussion, but we have to set three rules.”

“First of all, safety is the top priority, and everyone should understand this. All guests must act in pairs. The program team will provide each group of guests with a paddle board equipped with a motor and paddles. There will be a fixed camera on the boat, and the PDs and staff will accompany them in a lifeboat, so that they can be rescued in time if an accident occurs during the journey.”

“Please make sure to wear your life jackets, be responsible for yourself and others, the program team does not want any accidents to happen.”

“Secondly, the tools needed for sea fishing have been prepared. The time for going out to sea is tentatively set at three hours. You can only fish and cannot jump into the sea to try to catch fish, otherwise all the fish will be confiscated.”

“Finally, there are nine guests now, and one of them will inevitably be left alone. The one who is left alone will not be equipped with a fixed camera, and a PD with experience at sea will accompany him to film. The PD can help the guest fish and control the direction during the process.”

After saying that, Li Wensheng snapped his fingers and said something in English in a very imposing manner:
“Any questions?”

Qi Qingyi sighed and raised her hand.

Li Wensheng raised his finger and pointed it at her in a very stylish way:
“Ms. Qi, please speak.”

Qi Qingyi forced a helpless smile:
“Director Li, it’s any question, without the s, the grammar is wrong.”

Li Wensheng: …

Li Wensheng coughed twice in embarrassment:

“That’s not the point.”

“The point is, do you have any questions or suggestions? If not, then is this the deal?”

Han Fei raised his hand:

“Director Li, is it the production team that decides who will be grouped, or is it us who decide?”

Li Wensheng put his hands in his pockets and said:
“There are three options. Either you guys vote on yourselves, or the program team prepares a lottery tool, or… let the audience in the live broadcast room vote to decide.”

Now, even Ren Tuo, who had just arrived at Wulong Island, became interested.

He raised his hand like the first two people and asked:
“How do we decide the groups by voting? There are nine guests here. If we want to group them in pairs, there are thirty-six possible combinations. Do we have to put so many options in the live broadcast room and let the audience vote to choose four groups, and the remaining one will be automatically singled out?”

Li Wensheng shook his head, his face full of mystery:

“The rules will not be revealed for now, to prevent the audience from focusing on the statistics and controlling the score.”

“Just tell me how to choose first.”

The nine guests looked at each other and exchanged glances with the people they were most familiar with here.

Then, Han Fei, Qi Qingyi, Nie Wenjin, and Xu Qingan said in unison:

“Vote in the live broadcast room!”

Ren Tuo looked at Nie Wenjin, whose eyes were a little bright, and shrugged indifferently:

“Then I’ll choose this one too.”

There are nine people in total, and five of them have expressed their opinions. So the ideas of the remaining four are no longer important. The minority must obey the majority. What’s more, among the four people, there are three guests with extremely bad reputations, Lu Siyuan, Shu Yi and Zhao Mingtao, and no one thinks their opinions can be taken seriously.

In fact, these three people really lowered their heads and said nothing at this time, knowing very well that their words were of no use. The remaining one, Lu Xiaoli, whose presence was so low that she was almost transparent, had an expression of watching a show on her face, as if she was afraid that the matter was not big enough.

Li Wensheng nodded without much surprise, took a whiteboard from the staff behind him, wrote something on it with an oil-based marker, and then hid the whiteboard behind himself.

他 说:

“In order to prevent the guests and audience from being dissatisfied with the grouping decision and accusing the program team of shady dealings and behind-the-scenes manipulation of the rules, I will first write the grouping rules on this board and then display them after the voting results come out.”

“Now, there will be a five-minute countdown in the live broadcast room. Interested viewers please start voting. The votes will be counted after five minutes and the number of votes will be updated and displayed in real time. Please rest assured that this vote is fair.”

Sure enough, as Li Wensheng finished speaking, a voting window appeared in each of the nine live broadcast rooms.

The audience was surprised to find that the voting method was different from what Ren Tuo had guessed. There were only nine options, which meant that each of the nine guests had only one box, and each audience member could only vote for one person.

This window will automatically disappear after you vote, and a real-time changing vote ranking list will appear. If you don’t want to vote, you can just cross it out in the upper right corner. It will not affect the viewing experience, but you will not be able to view the vote ranking in real time.

But it just seems to have no impact.

Most of the viewers who come to watch the live broadcast are just there to watch the fun and eat melons. If they don’t look at the real-time data, what’s the point of watching the live broadcast? The sense of participation plummets!

Therefore, even the audience who had clicked the cross before, after seeing other people discussing it heatedly in the barrage, couldn’t help but reopen the voting window. Many of them randomly chose one and voted. They didn’t really want to vote for any guest, they just wanted to get the qualification to view the number of votes in real time.

It has to be said that Li Wensheng, who proposed this plan, has a very accurate grasp of the audience’s psychology.

He did not force any behavior, but he did a lot of work to increase the interaction in the live broadcast room – even if it was just a cooperation, the Feiniao platform also had data requirements for the amount of interaction. It was almost noon today, but apart from the private conversation between Zhao Mingtao and Lu Siyuan, there were no other hot topics that stimulated discussion among the audience. This move could be regarded as completing the KPI ahead of time.

The audience who have voted and the staff of the program team can see the voting window and ranking list, but the guests cannot.

A little girl who loves to eat melons seemed calm, but in fact she was anxious and anxious, just wanting to know the voting results and grouping rules. For Qi Qingyi, the long five minutes finally passed.

In front of the camera, Li Wensheng took the tablet computer handed to him by the staff and pressed a button on it. Then the constantly changing number of votes in the live broadcast room froze.

He flipped the tablet with one hand so that the guests and the camera could see the vote ranking on it, then he took it out from behind with his other hand and turned the whiteboard towards the crowd, without flipping it over for the time being.

The guests’ attention was focused on the rankings on the list.

From first to ninth they are: Han Fei, Lu Siyuan, Zhao Mingtao, Shu Yi, Nie Wenjin, Ren Tuo, Xu Qing’an, Qi Qingyi, and Lu Xiaoli.

There are even three guests with hundreds of thousands of votes among the guests with the highest number of votes. In fact, there are not too few guests at the bottom, with at least tens of thousands of votes.

But in fact, anyone can see that the number of votes is not based on popularity and audience preference at all.

Even if we take a step back and say that no matter how hot the scandals and black material are, it is impossible for the audience to like Lu Siyuan, Zhao Mingtao and Shu Yi that much, but they got very high votes. Why?
You can see the clues from the current barrage.

[Hehe, it’s worth it that I asked my family to quickly download the FeiNiao APP and vote. This human wave tactic really works! ]

[Me too! I just risked being discovered by my supervisor and asked my colleagues to vote with their own accounts while I was at work. I just focused on this ranking and almost messed it up a few times. Fortunately, everyone worked together to keep the ranking stable.]

【Rub your hands and wait for the show, brothers! Since we are purely looking at the number of votes, I think everyone’s guesses should make sense. The first, second, third and fourth place will definitely be grouped in order. Otherwise, what’s the point of voting? 】

[I want to laugh when I think about seeing Han Lu, Zhao Shu, and Nie Ren fishing together. Although it’s a bit unethical, will this arrangement result in death? The latter two groups will watch the awkward and ambiguous scene, but the first group might really fight on the sea.]

[It’s hard to say. Anyway, no one will be killed. The production team has taken such thorough precautions, so nothing serious will happen. Just hit them. You can’t throw people into the shark’s mouth.]

[Our whole family is sitting together watching the live broadcast now. After I explained the relationship network and the revelations to my grandparents, they both prepared their reading glasses and melon seeds and waited to watch the fun. There has never been such harmony in front of the projector in my house. The melon gate will live forever! ]

【…】

Yes, that’s right. After a minute of intense discussion, the audience unanimously agreed that the program team must form teams according to the ranking order, otherwise what’s the point of voting? So everyone quickly reached a consensus, calling on friends and even going to the super topic to appeal to everyone to vote quickly and make sure that the groups that everyone wants to see the most are paired together.

After unremitting efforts and over 90% audience participation, we have finally maintained this ranking in a position that everyone wants to see.

As for the last three guests, namely Xu Qing’an, Qi Qingyi and Lu Xiaoli, since their images are either more likable or do not have much presence, or the audience wants to see more exciting things, these three people were ranked last and will be discussed next time.

Needless to say, Han Fei and Lu Siyuan had just fought yesterday.

Although the scene of Xu Qing’an beating up Lu Siyuan was even more shocking, they had just experienced a big fight, and Lu Siyuan had been warned by Zhao Mingtao, so it was hard for him to fight again; but Han Fei was different! No matter how much Lu Siyuan was warned, whenever he met Han Fei, he would start to commit suicide like a fool. When these two met, it was bound to be a lot of fun!

As for Zhao Mingtao and Shu Yi, it is even simpler.

The original purpose of these two people on the show was to clear their names, but man proposes, God disposes, and no one expected Xu Qingan to come, so they were very cautious on the show, fearing that it would cause any more topics and let netizens bring up their affairs again. But the more they avoided suspicion, the more the audience became excited, and they forced them to be together, insisting on seeing what they were like when they were alone.

As for Ren Tuo and Nie Wenjin…

There were some weird viewers who wanted to watch Nie Wenjin x Xu Qingan, but they were outnumbered by those who wanted to watch Ren and Nie. After all, Ren Tuo’s single arrow was too bold, and everyone could see what he meant by Nie Wenjin, especially since everyone just found out that Ren Tuo might have been hospitalized because he saved Nie Wenjin, which made it even more interesting.

A young and talented actress with no scandals since her debut meets a young and promising rich second-generation rich boy, with the added bonus of the latter’s self-described white moonlight buff. Even though the show has been changed beyond recognition, there are still some viewers who have not forgotten their original intentions and think it is a hidden love show, and want to see what different chemical reactions will occur when the two of them meet.

So, this led to the current situation.

However, when the audience was rubbing their hands excitedly in the barrage.

Li Wensheng flipped open the whiteboard in his hand.

The rules are clearly written in neat and elegant running script.

[Grouping rules: According to the number of votes in the live broadcast room, 1-9th place is grouped together, 2-8th place is grouped together, and so on. The fifth guest will be left alone.]
The whole beach suddenly became quiet.

The audience in the live broadcast room was even quieter than the guests on the beach.

The audience was going crazy.

[Stupid director, I still divide my mother’s students into groups! There must be something fishy going on here!!!]

[What kind of cerebral palsy grouping is this??? Wow, your production team is not only playing tricks on the guests, but now they are playing tricks on the audience too, right?! ]

[It is indeed wise for the program crew to choose a deserted island as the recording location for this episode. If it were filmed in a normal province, even in a mountain valley, I don’t know how many people would have sent warmth to their homes today (manual soybean smile)]

[It turns out that people really laugh when they are speechless. I was so angry that I laughed out loud. ]

[…I’m too lazy to spray. ]

[Li Wensheng, right? I’ve got this in mind. Next time I won’t watch any show you direct, everyone has a responsibility to protect their breasts!]

[Wait, don’t be impatient, this grouping… seems to be worth looking at too? ]

[What the hell is there to watch! According to his classification, it would be Han Fei x Lu Xiaoli, Lu Siyuan x Qi Qingyi, Zhao Mingtao x Xu Qingan, Shu Yi x Ren Tuo, and Nie Wenjin would be left alone… No! ]

[What’s wrong? This is absolutely right! Zhao Mingtao and Xu Qing’an are in the same boat, the cuckolded and irritable brother and the adulterer Xiao Wang, this group alone is enough to watch! ]

[Hiss, they are the two with the deepest hatred in this show, the hatred of stealing a wife is irreconcilable, bro, aren’t the production team afraid of something going wrong? ]

Let alone the barrage.

on the beach.

Han Fei frowned and compared the groups, then glanced at two people calmly.

The audience may not know, but he knows it very well.

Shu Yi and Ren Tuo were grouped together, seemingly two people who had nothing in common, but if Shu Yi said something bad about Nie Wenjin without knowing the consequences… he really found it hard to believe that Ren Tuo would not do anything to harm her.

(End of this chapter)