After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots’ Beloved
Chapter 444: Have you been watching us all along?

Chapter 444: Chapter 444: Have you been watching us all along?

It’s already the fourth day since we arrived on this deserted island.

For the past three days, Lu Sheng and the others have been searching the second ring area of the island every day for the second map fragment, but they’ve found nothing.

Tomorrow, everyone will exchange the areas they’re responsible for, meaning the five of them have already searched all parts of the second ring.

But even if they exchange areas and continue searching, what clues can they find after combing each place for the fourth time?

If there really were clues, why couldn’t the first three people find them?

Thinking this way, it’s inevitable that the team’s morale will be low.

So by this evening, Lan Yu and Lu You Ye were visibly more anxious.

Even Lu Youming and Lu Sheng, who were usually the most calm, couldn’t help but furrow their brows.

Over these past few days, they’ve also encountered other people on the island.

However, the scene from that day where Lu Sheng fiercely beat Xu Xinya left a deep impression on everyone else. Lu Sheng had already warned them that anyone who approached them would get beaten. Besides, the brown bear was always beside Lu Sheng.

So, even if those people saw them, they didn’t dare approach.

Although they’ve only had brief encounters without any exchange, one thing Lu Sheng and the others know for sure.

These people also couldn’t find the second fragment.

Because if they had found it, they wouldn’t be like us, constantly wandering within the second ring.

No one can find the map fragment.

Is there a problem with the game’s setup?

Or is there an issue with the placement of the fragments or clues?

But if there’s a problem, why hasn’t the electronic parrot appeared on the fourth day yet?

Could it be that the game organizers want us to go several days without finding any clues?

Dusk is approaching.

Although everyone is dejected and lacks energy, they’re still preparing food to cook; after all, they need to eat.

And Lu Sheng, after dealing with the firewood, is sitting in front of the camp distractedly pondering these issues. The brown bear, several times bigger than the girl, is beside her, occasionally nudging her shoulder with its head.

Upon seeing this scene, the netizens began to send barrages of comments.

[Sigh... As viewers, seeing the show’s continuous twists and unexpected turns is quite refreshing. But putting ourselves in the players’ shoes, it’s really frustrating.]

[Indeed, before, they suddenly found themselves on a plane, dropped off on a deserted island. Now they’ve been searching for something that doesn’t exist for several days. No matter how many days they continue to search, they won’t find anything. How despairing must that be?]

[I think no one can figure out the real key to ending the game. Normal people just can’t think in that direction. Looks like they’ll have to stay on the island until the tenth day to return.]

[All the participants are good students; they probably don’t play games much, so they can’t think in that direction. If it were those who are always immersed in gaming with rich imagination, they might figure it out.]

The people on the island are very down. Meanwhile, the netizens feel bad for these kids, yet, on the other hand, they grow more anxious and excited.

They all want to see if anyone will find the real key to leaving the game.

If someone is the first to discover it, who will it be?

Thus, even though the live broadcasts from the island over these past few days have lost the overt and covert scheming and become dull compared to the first two days,

the viewership hasn’t dropped at all.

The number of viewers is nearing five million, setting a record for the highest viewership of live broadcasts for Chinese variety shows.

The camera returns to Lu Sheng’s camp.

Just as Lu Sheng is lost in thought, Lan Yu, beside a tent behind her, suddenly lets out a surprised shout: "...Ah, Shengsheng, come look quickly!"

Lan Yu’s shout made everyone stop what they were doing. Lu Sheng snapped back to reality, stood up from the ground, and walked toward Lan Yu, asking, "What’s wrong?"

Lan Yu had pulled out a black backpack from the luggage sack. Lu Sheng looked down and saw it was the backpack she carried when hunting that night.

Lan Yu unzipped the backpack, revealing a pile of creamy white, seemingly plump fruits inside.

"Shengsheng, these are the fruits you picked three nights ago, right? Since we had plenty of other food at the time, I casually placed the backpack into the luggage sack and forgot to take it out over the past few days."

"I just noticed the backpack while packing and suddenly remembered this matter, causing my heart to skip a beat. I thought with this summer weather, these fruits kept in the backpack for several days would definitely rot and stink."

"But after opening it—I couldn’t believe it—the fruits are still all so fresh, looking as if they’d just been picked."

Lan Yu couldn’t help but marvel, "What’s with these fruits? They inherently have preservation and freshness functions, so impressive!"

Lan Yu was just speaking casually, and the others didn’t pay it much mind, only thinking these unusual fruits were easy to preserve and wouldn’t spoil even kept this way.

However, at this moment, Lu Sheng suddenly froze. Then her eyes widened slightly as she stared at Lan Yu, her voice not as calm as usual: "Lan Yu, what did you just say?"

"Hm?" Lan Yu was confused, "I said these fruits are amazing. Despite being kept in a backpack for several hot days, they’re still fresh as if just picked..."

Before Lan Yu could finish speaking, Lu Sheng seemed to have thought of something.

She halted her breath, raised her hand, took the backpack full of fruits from Lan Yu’s hands.

The others exchanged glances, wondering what got into Lu Sheng suddenly.

Then they saw Lu Sheng crouching down, turning the backpack upside down, pouring all the fruits onto the ground.

Lan Yu was even more baffled, couldn’t help but ask: "...Shengsheng, what are you doing?"

Lu Sheng didn’t reply, her eyes fixed on the fruits on the ground, watching and arranging them by size and shape.

She placed the large fruits in a row, medium-sized fruits in another row, and smaller fruits in a third.

Once done, Lu Sheng gazed at the fruits for a few seconds, then slightly opened her mouth, revealing a surprised expression.

This made Lu You Ye anxious too, hurriedly asking: "What’s wrong, Shengsheng? Is there something wrong with these fruits? Say something."

Lu You Ye was questioning here, but Lu Sheng still didn’t answer, only took a deep breath.

In the livestream, the viewers saw the girl putting down the fruits and standing up from the ground. The next moment, she actually looked up at the sky.

She wasn’t looking at any specific part of the sky, but she lifted her head to look upwards, slowly surveying around.

No one knew what Lu Sheng was doing. But at this angle, Lu Sheng was directly meeting the livestream viewers’ eyes.

Because the game interface gives the viewers a God’s-eye view to observe the people on the island from diagonally above.

The viewers for the first time in the livestream came face-to-face with the girl.

The netizens were all puzzled, unsure of what Lu Sheng was suddenly up to. Just as they were about to say that Lu Sheng might be distressed about not finding the map fragment.

However, the next moment, they saw the girl, eyes on them, opening her mouth.

Her expression could be considered calm, speaking a sentence. Her tone was cool but determined.

"You’ve been watching us all the time, haven’t you?"