They felt uncertain, and the barrage of comments was flooding the screen like mad.
Meanwhile, off camera, the production team was in utter panic.
The crew members originally hidden in this room said they had never seen them come in at all.
They checked every camera placed in the corners of all the rooms, but found nothing. No one knew where they were filming right now!
The figure behind the curtain and the embroidered shoes made their scalps crawl even more.
"No! No one responds! Just say filming is proceeding normally!"
Chen Xianyu rubbed his bald head irritably, stopping the assistant director from cutting off the livestream.
"Hurry up and send some men in to look! A mansion this big can't just vanish into thin air!"
In the monitoring room, the script supervisor and the entire production team stared at the screens. They could not predict what would happen next, much less what consequences it might bring.
But just as everyone was watching the livestream, a message suddenly flashed through the comments.
Someone on Weibo broke the news that the production team had lost track of the guests! They couldn't find them! Go look, quick!
Unknown tipster: Insider news: although the guests on "Weird and Strange Adventure" are still livestreaming normally, the production team has lost contact with them. Seven guests and seven camera operators vanished into thin air inside the old mansion! Guaranteed true!
The attached photo showed the monitoring room in a frantic, overwhelmed frenzy.
This instantly sent all the viewers and fans into an uproar.
Fans flooded the comments, hoping the production team would see them and respond, while fan clubs immediately contacted their respective agencies.
Cold-Blooded Killer: Breaking! Someone says Yang Xiaoxiao's agency can't reach her anymore! Calls say there's no signal!
But they had just seen Yang Xiaoxiao take out her phone and use it on the livestream!
Salted Fish Turns Shen: Oh my god! Tian Dong's bandmates saw the news during their stage livestream and called him too! They can't reach him!
Entertainment World Tour Center: According to the tip, Si Yan's manager has already stormed over to the production team demanding they hand him over!
One revelation after another instantly pushed Weird and Strange Adventure to number one on the trending list, but most people thought it was all an act, deliberate hype from the production team.
The terror brought on by the embroidered shoes had yet to fade. Shi Lezhi and Tian Dong reassured everyone that it was just for the show, yet neither dared go anywhere near them.
Just then, Jiang Nuo, who had stayed out of things ever since entering, suddenly moved.
He walked over to the embroidered shoes and crouched down, seemingly examining something, then reached out and lifted the gauzy curtain.
The sight on the bed shocked everyone deeply.
A puppet in bridal robes lay flat on the bed. Exceptionally lifelike eyes were painted on its sallow face, their whites enormous as they stared over at them.
"Ah..."
Yang Xiaoxiao nearly screamed, hurriedly clapping a hand over her mouth as her heart pounded.
"Just as I thought. It's this."
Understanding dawned on Jiang Nuo. He put the embroidered shoes on the puppet, muttering, "How strange. Of all the places to keep watch, it had to be this room. No wonder you can't get out."
The puppet silently let him handle it. Once its shoes were on, it continued lying flat on the bed, but what kept everyone frozen was that no matter how its body moved, those eyes remained fixed on them.
"Oh, there's a bridal veil too."
Jiang Nuo dusted off his hands. "Tian Dong, hurry up and put the veil on your bride!"
Tian Dong: "..." Was he hearing things?
"My... bride? Have you lost your mind, Jiang Nuo?"
"You took her red bridal veil, so you were accepted as the groom. Didn't I warn you?"
Jiang Nuo raised an eyebrow, his eyes brimming with interest. "Don't be shy. You should be able to leave once you put it on her."
Only then did everyone realize that those stiff, eerie eyes weren't looking at all of them at all. They were staring fixedly at Tian Dong!
Their gazes shifted from the puppet to Tian Dong.
"You're lying! You must be lying! This is some trick you cooked up with the production team!"
Tian Dong would never listen to something so absurd. He immediately grabbed the red veil from the table and flung it at Jiang Nuo in fury.
"All you care about is our personal grudge, and you're using this to get back at me!"
Si Yan's previously indifferent gaze settled on Tian Dong, turning cold.
Jiang Nuo caught the veil and shifted his gaze to the furious Tian Dong, a dark look flickering through his eyes.
"Then I'm staying out of it."
He casually tossed the red veil aside, stood up, and dusted himself off.
The instant his hands left the puppet, the previously dull, rigid figure let out a piercing shriek, and every candle in the room began to sway.
As Yang Xiaoxiao screamed, no longer able to hold it back, the puppet bride stretched out her arms and flew at Tian Dong.
"What the hell is that thing! Get away!"
In his immense terror, Tian Dong forgot the ironclad idol rule against swearing on camera and flailed his hands wildly to fend her off.
"Boo-hoo-hoo..."
The puppet began weeping again, its stiff fingers clamping firmly around Tian Dong's arm so that he could not move it an inch.
"Bow... get married!"
The voice was shrill and grating, even worse to listen to than fingernails scraping glass.
"Get away! Aaaah!"
Tian Dong struggled in vain. She actually swung him to the ground, his knees slamming hard against the floor. He screamed in pain, cold sweat pouring down his face.
Oh my god! Is this really just for the show?!
The production team still hasn't responded. This can't fucking be real, can it?
Jiang Nuo, hurry up and save Tian Dong, you cold-blooded bastard! Don't you have the ability?
Fuck, wasn't Tian Dong the one who snapped at Jiang Nuo first? One fan like you really does the work of ten haters...
"Help me! Save me!"
The puppet bride forced Tian Dong to his knees. Even banging his head against the corner of the table failed to free him, and he could only look toward the guests huddled together.
His camera operator set down his camera to try to save him, only for the abnormally strong puppet to fling him away. Jiang Nuo caught him.
The guests did not dare act rashly and could only look to Jiang Nuo again.
Jiang Nuo shrugged. "All he had to do earlier was put the red veil on the bride's head. Tian Dong insisted on throwing it away. That has nothing to do with me."
Xu Jing barely maintained composure, brows tightly furrowed. "Then how do we save him?"
"Easy. Wait until the bride finishes the wedding bows."
With even him saying that, the others dared even less to go help, afraid they might bring out something else.
Under everyone's horrified, incredulous gazes, Tian Dong was dragged through three kneelings and nine kowtows. Finally, after the bride and groom finished bowing to each other, he was casually tossed to the floor.
Seeing that the puppet bride was about to keep tormenting him, Jiang Nuo finally moved in a flash.
No one saw how he did it. They only saw him snatch Tian Dong away, grab him casually, and toss him to the floor.
The puppet bride, who had possessed boundless strength moments earlier, was like a doll in Jiang Nuo's hands. He dismantled her in just a few moves.
Inside the puppet's hollow body was actually a human heart, already dried out and shriveled. It fell to the floor as the puppet came apart.
Tian Dong had already been scared half to death.
Panting heavily, he climbed up from the floor, his elbows red from the impacts and his face scraped. He glared at Jiang Nuo resentfully.
"You did that on purpose."
"You knew the puppet would come alive, yet you didn't tell us beforehand!"
Without the slightest guilt, Jiang Nuo accepted it very casually. "Then go ahead and think that."
In truth, he had not intended to save Tian Dong earlier. Someone reaping what he had sown was not worth saving.
Unfortunately, at the crucial moment, he had spotted the cameraman in the corner and remembered his precarious standing with the general public. Better save him after all.
What a dedicated entertainer.
Jiang Nuo nodded, expressing his appreciation for himself.
Bang-
A hidden door behind an old painting swung open.