I'm Crushing on Gorgeous Faces in Variety Shows!-Chapter 354: Spy

Since the coerced participants didn’t seem to have any complaints, the director took it as their consent.

"The game ends here. Now, let’s announce the results of each participant from each group. You can all look at the big screen."

Everyone shifted their gaze from the director to the big screen, looking up at the bluish glow on it.

The blue light points, like beautiful drifting jellyfish, moved smoothly on the interface, finally forming a sentence, while the electronic voice broadcast it.

"Congratulations everyone, today’s task is complete. You’ve contributed to the food distribution for our faction. Tonight, the program team will provide everyone with free barbecue. Now we will tally each group’s results for taking on tasks and increasing food distribution.

The group ranked first will receive an extra reward. The group ranked third will have two skewers of vegetarian food replace two skewers of meat. The group ranked second remains unchanged. Now, let’s reveal the results—"

The option card labeled with the "Loves Roasted Garlic" group appeared on the big screen, then transformed like a Transformer, quickly combining into three infrared-scanned humanoid figures.

"’Loves Roasted Garlic’ Group: Mu Qiu, Guan Yu, Ye Mian. A total of 22 skewers of food were obtained, plus a big bonus pack."

The option card switched to the second group, forming distinctive three-dimensional figures in another manner. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"’Really Loves Roasted Garlic’ Group: Fu Ran, Tang Zi, Shu Ran. A total of 15 skewers of food..."

"Wait a minute!!!"

Tang Zi and Li Yang both shouted at the same time, startling the nearby Guan Yu, who also thought the production team made a typo.

Li Yang jumped out, puzzled, and asked, "Did they get it wrong? Sister Shu Ran is in our Five Garlic Cloves group."

Guan Yu: "...What Five Garlic Cloves group? The program team gave it a grand name, calling it the ’Super Really Loves Roasted Garlic’ group."

"That’s not important," Li Yang just wanted to clarify, "Director, did your machine malfunction?"

Tang Zi: "Yeah, Brother Cheng is in our group!"

Fu Ran: "It’s definitely wrong."

Shi Yuhuai: "Shu Ran is in our group."

The director gave a meaningful smile.

The three humanoid light points on the screen were scanned, followed by a beep sound.

The mechanical voice delivered the report: "Scan complete, the ’Super Really Loves Roasted Garlic’ group members scan correctly, Fu Ran, Tang Zi, Shu Ran. A total of 15 skewers of food obtained."

Li Yang: "Is the chip in this machine broken?"

Mu Qiu gestured with his chin to the person sitting behind the director: "The engineer is over there, why don’t you say he’s tired and hungry and made a mistake."

"Then the engineer is tired and hungry and made a mistake."

"...I think the big guy wants to stab you with the mouse."

"That’s the only possibility! Our groups were watched by the staff, and filmed by the cameras; it must be correct!"

At this moment, Cheng Zhirang cleared his throat.

Mu Qiu: "Brother Cheng caught a cold?"

Li Yang: "The wind indeed is a bit strong right now."

Tang Zi: "So what’s going on? Did they get it wrong?"

Shu Ran stood elegantly without speaking.

Guan Yu looked at Li Yang with an expression of caring for the mentally deficient.

Some people’s impression on everybody is just too good, so when they try to reveal their misdeeds, people think they’re taking the blame.

Cheng Zhirang is one of those people.

He coughed twice, catching the attention of those who were focused on the engineer’s alleged mistake, then he gave a gentle, polite smile.

"Actually, during the grouping, I did eat five cloves of garlic."

Mu Qiu looked at him with surprise.

"Brother Cheng, you ate five? What do you mean?" Li Yang looked around confusedly, finally fixing his gaze on him: "You ate five?! You’re in our group?! Then, then Sister Shu Ran..."

Tang Zi was even more shocked: "What do you mean, Brother Cheng, you’re not in our group? So why were you placed in our group?!"

Guan Yu: "I’m shocked too, but it’s not that strange that he’s not in our group."

Li Yang couldn’t understand, scratching his head in thought: "If Brother Cheng is in our group, if the second group’s division is correct, that means Sister Shu Ran, you lied? But how come the lie wasn’t detected by the cameras?"

Tang Zi was still immersed in shock: "So both Brother Cheng and Shu Ran lied? Are they spies? Was Shu Ran really in our group?"

Fu Ran and Shi Yuhuai also furrowed their eyebrows, looking puzzled at Cheng Zhirang and Shu Ran.

Sister Shu Ran, who had kept her mouth shut, felt a bit embarrassed by all the staring, coughed before she spoke: "Well, I did only eat three roasted garlic cloves."

Tang Zi: "Then why did you report five?!"

"Because, being honest, with two girls and Fu Ran in our team, while the other team had three guys, there’s no way we could compete. I had to come up with something else."

Infiltrate the enemy’s ranks, disrupt their actions, try my best to hold them back, isn’t that good?

Guan Yu chimed in casually: "But we also had three girls, and we led the race."

Shu Ran was momentarily speechless, glaring at her: "You guys are an illegal gathering!"

After scolding Guan Yu, she turned back to Tang Zi and the others, striving to explain: "I admit, due to that momentary wrong thinking, I made an irrevocable error."

Certainly not admitting she didn’t want to be in a group with Tang Zi.

Shi Yuhuai, with a light sneer, said: "So that’s why you were so eager to grab my stickers?"

Turns out they weren’t in the same group, no wonder. Different tribes, different hearts.

Li Yang suddenly understood: "No wonder Sister Shu Ran wanted to grab Brother Huai’s stickers so bad, even going so far as to clash with Sister Guan Yu and Mu Qiu!"

Guan Yu swatted him repeatedly: "You’re the scheming one! You’re the conspirator! Just because you know a few idioms doesn’t mean you have to use them on us?!"

Li Yang fled, clutching his head: "I’m just telling the truth, can’t you handle the truth?!"

"Only you can! Only you can tell the truth!"

Mu Qiu watched with great interest.

Tang Zi, observing their camaraderie with a somewhat indescribable subtle expression, looked away after a couple of seconds, refocusing on Shu Ran and Cheng Zhirang.

"Shu Ran, you did it for our group to win, but what about Brother Cheng? Just went along with it?"

Cheng Zhirang: "Actually, I didn’t intend to misreport. Even though Shu Ran claimed the spot first, I also reported my count. The cameras would certainly have caught anyone lying."

Mu Qiu: "But—"

Cheng Zhirang: "But, it just so happened that after she reported, both groups were full. Also, I couldn’t be sure how many she actually ate. If she really ate five as well, our group would be overfilled, and someone would be kicked out to take the roasted garlic punishment."

Additionally, he didn’t think Shu Ran was likely to be lying as a spy—compared to Mu Qiu and Guan Yu.

Of course, a bigger reason was that he didn’t want to risk being forced to eat roasted garlic. This way, he could avoid punishment and stall the other group.

After all, putting the other team in third place was practically equivalent to placing their own team at the top.