Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Tick tock.
Time passed by, and cold sweat dripped from Song Wenbin's face. He seemed to have lost some organ, his face was pale, and his eyes were dull.
"I hate... I can't find your watch... What brand is your watch, and what does it look like...?" Wei Ning, who had found nothing, asked uneasily Song Wenbin, who was kneeling on the ground dumbfounded.
Song Wenbin looked at his backpack, his eyes swept over the faces of his colleagues beside him and the uncles and aunts on the same journey not far away, and squeezed out from between his teeth.
"There is a thief..."
Is there a thief?
Wei Ning was shocked.
Song Wenbin stood up like crazy, rushed to an obese aunt who was waiting for maintenance, grabbed her clothes, and shouted anxiously: "Hey! Did you take my watch!?"
The aunt was so frightened by Song Wenbin's crazy appearance that she screamed and danced. The soldiers on the side also pulled Song Wenbin back unceremoniously and reprimanded loudly: "Be more honest and don't disrupt order!"
But the loss of the watch made Song Wenbin completely lose his mind at this moment. Even under the hold of the soldiers, he broke away regardless, rushed to his colleagues, and accused like a madman: "You guys!! Who stole it?" My watch!!”
"Who the hell stole your watch?"
Huo Yu shouted angrily: "You accidentally lost it and you blame others!"
It definitely couldn't be Huo Yu. Huo Yu gave him the watch. Song Wenbin turned his head and looked at the newcomer in the team with a very gloomy expression: "Hua Jianchen, did you steal my watch?"
"what? What?"
Hua Jianchen was caught off guard.
"Did you take my watch!?"
The more Song Wenbin looked at it, the more he felt that Hua Jianchen looked like a thief. He jumped up and pressed Hua Jianchen against the tree trunk next to him, "Huh!? Where is my watch!?"
"How could I do that? I don't want too many watches..." Hua Jianchen groaned as he was squeezed.
"Don't think I don't know it's you..."
Song Wenbin's face turned pale, and he said in a ghostly manner: "What are you doing here? Do you think I don't know about your little thoughts?"
While he was talking, his fingers were still squeezing Hua Jianchen's throat, and he was slowly applying force. Hua Jianchen looked at Song Wenbin's expression and turned pale.
Sutina was standing next to the tree trunk, rushed over, grabbed Song Wenbin's arm, and screamed: "Brother Song, what are you doing!!"
"Sutina."
Song Wenbin looked at Su Tina, "Have you seen my watch?"
The expression on Sutina's face disappeared little by little, and she shook her head expressionlessly.
Song Wenbin lowered his head. The film crew members in the distance stopped the soldiers who were rushing forward. Huo Yu strode to Song Wenbin and pulled Song Wenbin away from Hua Jianchen's neck.
"I accidentally vented my anger on others! You don't have a good temper! It'll be fine if you take a picture of this thing, right? Fighting with a new colleague!?" Huo Yu said angrily.
"I wasn't careful."
Song Wenbin raised his head little by little. At this moment, he had no energy for traveling at all, and looked at the three people in front of him absentmindedly.
"Are you not careful? Why did you bring that kind of thing on the trip!?" Huo Yu became angrier as she thought about it. She angrily scolded Song Wenbin and said, "You asked for this all on your own. We asked you to go with our arrangement." If you don’t do it, you have to plan your own route. Not only will you spend a lot of money, but you will also lose your watch!”
"Cough cough cough..."
Hua Jianchen covered his neck and coughed: "How about... we stop all the people who are with us and check them one by one?"
"Just throw it away."
Huo Yu crossed his arms and said impatiently: "If someone really steals and hides such a big thing, you will never be able to find it."
If you lose it, lose it...
Song Wenbin felt as if his ears were broken.
He asked Huo Yu repeatedly: "If you lose it...is it lost...?"
Huo Yu was stunned for a second. She looked at Song Wenbin's devastated look, and she couldn't help but suddenly thought of the bleeding finger on the street before going to Seoul.
Her lips moved, wanting to take back her words.
However, Sutina suddenly interjected and asked: "It's just a watch... Why do you care so much? I mean, even if the watch is more expensive, the program is more important. As long as the program is filmed well, you can buy many, many watches." ah."
Hua Jianchen heard this and quickly agreed: "Yes, Teacher Yan, I understand your watch. It is not a limited edition. Although the price is a bit expensive, it is not that exaggerated. It should be nothing to you now. Wait until the show is filmed." Well, if you really like it, just buy another one."
ah?
Song Wenbin looked at Hua Jianchen in confusion.
Hua Jianchen smiled and said: "If you really like it, I can give you one. I have many friends who are watch dealers in Hong Kong and Macau. The watches there are good and cheap."
"Yes, Brother Song, the top priority is to film the show well. Maybe the watch will come out by itself after the show is finished filming. Maybe you pulled it on the plane." Sutina said calmly.
Song Wenbin looked at Huo Yu and asked steadily: "What about you, do you think so too?"
Huo Yu looked at Su Tina, hesitated for a few seconds and waved his hands angrily: "Okay, okay, just throw it away. Finish filming the show first, and then talk about other things when we get back."
After saying that, she turned and left.
But he hasn't taken two steps yet.
Song Wenbin suddenly pounced on Huo Yu.
Huo Yu was caught off guard and was pushed against the tree trunk by Song Wenbin.
"I...Nima..."
Song Wenbin pressed Huo Yu and lost his anger.
The people on the show were frightened by Song Wenbin's abnormal behavior.
"Song Wenbin!!" Su Tina shouted.
"Teacher I hate! Teacher I hate! What are you doing!?" Hua Jianchen said loudly.
"Yan! Calm down!"
Wei Ning put down the camera and rushed over.
"Don't even come here!"
Huo Yu raised one hand and shouted loudly.
"You are playing with me, right..."
Song Wenbin squeezed out from between his teeth.
But Huo Yu didn't care about Song Wenbin's tricks. He simply opened his arms and then punched him in the lower abdomen, knocking him back a few steps.
"You lost your watch, but you want to trouble me?" Huo Yu said coldly and softly: "Is there such a truth in the world?"
Song Wenbin bent over and covered his lower abdomen, looking up into Huo Yu's eyes, feeling empty inside.
But Huo Yu didn't want to say anything more to him. She stood there and said loudly to everyone: "Teacher Yan is under too much pressure and needs to rest for a while. After crossing the border, let's find a place to stay and settle down for the day."
…
…
Late at night, after completing the inspection, the group crossed the Panama border and arrived at a small town near the border. It was already dawn. After two days and three nights of bumpy rides, the Extraordinary Journey program team was very tired with almost no rest. After arriving in the town, they couldn't wait to find a hotel that looked good. Sit down dining in the restaurant on the first floor.
The food in Central America is not unpalatable. The restaurant prepared some tortillas, some fried sugar packets, some chocolate cake with jam, and a glass of mango juice for them.
Although he hadn't eaten seriously for a long time, Song Wenbin didn't have a strong appetite. He sat alone at the corner of the table, eating the food on his plate with an expressionless face, listening to the whispers of several colleagues next to him.
"What to do... next..."
"Costa Rica is not visa-free for China, so it won't be easy for us..."
“Can I go directly to Guatemala by sea?”
"That should be the route planned by the smuggler..."
"Do you still want to contact the smuggler?"
"His bid was too high. He directly mentioned ten thousand US dollars. Each of us only has nine thousand US dollars now. Besides, we can't give all the money to them. There are still other expenses on the road..."
"Yes, but if the four of us buy it together, the other party should be willing to get a discount, but Teacher Wei..."
Hua Jianchen said and closed his mouth again.
The three people whispering at the table instinctively glanced at Song Wenbin sitting at another table, looking at the guy who was unwilling to find the smuggler from beginning to end.
Song Wenbin noticed their dilemma, quickly swallowed the food in a few mouthfuls, then took the key, returned to his room on the third floor, and closed the door.
Leaning against the door, Song Wenbin felt a little regretful in his heart. He regretted why he brought the watch to Central America in a fit of enthusiasm. Now that the watch was lost, he could not absolve himself of the blame. But he got angry at Huo Yu because of this matter, which may be a very excessive thing in anyone's opinion.
Regret engulfed his soul in the silence. He took out his mobile phone and opened the chat interface with Huo Yu. After hesitating again and again, hesitating again and again, he finally said with difficulty: "Are you there?"
After sending it, he let out a short sharp scoff.
"waste!"
"Shut up." Song Wenbin said to himself in fear.
That piece of trash came out almost without control. This unconscious behavior made him afraid to think. He walked to the bed, took off his clothes and lay down. He kept checking his phone, but after a long time of checking, there was no reply from Huo Yu.
Having not rested for a long time, he could no longer bear the torture, so he simply turned off his phone, lay on the bed, and fell asleep.
From day to night, Song Wenbin slept extremely uneasily. He had many dreams. He dreamed of the empty dragon farm, the lonely North Pole, the frosty Siberia, and the empty black GTR at the door of his home.
After waking up, it was already night. Song Wenbin looked around him. Hua Jianchen, who was supposed to live in the same room as him, was not there. There were vague signs of someone coming in the room, but there was no one there.
The buzzing of insects and the sweltering heat outside the window made it clear that this was still Central America.
He walked outside the room's balcony and lit himself a cigarette.
After burning for a while, I didn't feel the emptiness in my heart. The scene in the dream was still affecting reality.
He took out his cell phone to see if Huo Yu had responded to the message, but suddenly found that Huo Yu's profile picture had changed. She used to have the black and white photo of herself sitting on the GTR as her profile picture.
But this time, her avatar inexplicably turned into an exaggerated photoshopped avatar. The upper half of the avatar showed Huo Yu's face, and the lower half showed a fat, angry mouth. If you look carefully, the mouth should be the mouth of the fat tiger in the anime Doraemon.
Huo Yu turned into a fat tiger?
This is strangely suitable for her.
However, she changed her avatar but did not reply to the message. Does this mean she is still angry?
With this in mind, he edited another row of "Still angry?" and prepared to send it.
But when things came to a close, he vaguely felt that something was not right, because just now it seemed that two identical avatars appeared in his chat list at the same time. So he exited the chat interface, scrolled down the chat history, and soon found the same Huo Yu x Fat Tiger avatar. When I clicked on the profile picture, I realized that the owner of the profile picture was Sutina.
The chat record with Sutina was more than a month ago. Song Wenbin stared at Sutina's profile picture for a while, feeling a little confused and unclear.
But then, he shuddered, and quickly found the small group of three of them. Was it three people? No, it was a small group of four people now. Because Hua Jianchen is also inside.
Looking at it again, sure enough, Hua Jianchen's avatar also changed to Huo Yux Fat Tiger.
All three of them wore the same avatar, but he was the only one who used his own avatar.
Seeing this scene in the middle of the night, Song Wenbin's stomach suddenly surged, and a strong feeling of chill filled his heart. He looked at Huo Yu's chat page again and deleted the query in the draft.
Then, he put down his cell phone, took a deep breath of cigarette, and exhaled it for a long time, as if he was spitting out his soul.
For a long time, Teacher Yan had thought that he would not feel emotional fluctuations because of women, but he found that he was wrong.
There are sufficient reasons and reasons for hating teachers.
And at this moment, this deep disgust, this disgust that goes deep into his bones, is reminding him that his two teammates, his two colleagues, are still women.
He didn't care who came up with the idea or who was telling him what, but the unbearable disgust in his heart would definitely have a huge impact on reality.
"Have you slept?"
Teacher Yan sent a text message again.
"I'm awake, Yan, what's wrong?" Weining quickly replied to his message.
"Can you come out for a moment? I have something to tell you."
Song Wenbin said.
Soon, Wei Ning and Song Wenbin met in the corridor. Song Wenbin whispered: "Call the director out. I have something to talk to him about."
Although Wei Ning didn't understand Song Wenbin's decision, he still called the director who edited the video out of the room.
"I decided to go it alone."
Song Wenbin stood in front of Baoli and said.
Director Bao Li was very surprised by Song Wenbin's request. He was confused and said: "What, what about acting alone."
"I want to go to the US-Mexico border by myself." Song Wenbin said.
"I...I don't quite understand..." Pauly frowned: "Can you explain it more clearly?"
"It's like this. Three people in the team insisted on looking for smugglers, but this was not part of my plan from the beginning. Not only does looking for smugglers have no program effect, but it is also very detrimental to the filming of the program. Those people must not The program crew may be allowed to film openly.
Fortunately, there are four people in the show now, and there is a male beside Sutina and Huo Yu, which is enough to handle some accidents and emergencies, so I decided to still carry out the show according to my ideas. Therefore, the film crew should be divided into two parts, one part follows them and the other part follows me. "
The director was stunned.
Song Wenbin opened his backpack, took out all his funds from the bag, put it in Baoli's hand, and said, "Please give this part of the funds to Su Tina and Huo Yu. If the smuggler asks for ten thousand US dollars, then Just start from this part. If you, the director, want to follow the filming, you may also need money."
"Then... what about you?" The director looked at the ten thousand dollars in his hand in shock.
"Me?" Teacher Yan shrugged: "I don't need money, I can survive anywhere."
ah?
Even Pauly was stunned by such wild talk.
Only Wei Ning stood aside and looked at Song Wenbin, his body trembling with excitement, and stars even twinkling in his eyes.
"You stay and take pictures of them." Song Wenbin said to Baoli.
Then, he turned around and patted Weining on the shoulder and said, "Follow me with other photographers. I promise that I will bring you more content."
(End of chapter)
