Chapter 1036: Up and Down the Mountain, the Madness of Proxy Bidding

Down the mountain, Liu Rulan crossed her arms and looked at the empty lounge. With a helpless expression, she turned to Xiao Chen and asked, "So where is Xiao He now?"

"Uh, Brother Xiao went up the mountain."

Xiao Chen scratched his head: "Just now, Engineer Lin from Fusheng Technology ran over and told Brother Xiao that the machine was stuck, so Xiao He went up with him."

"Just him alone?"

“No, there’s also that leader who came to inspect the set several times last time. I originally wanted to go up the mountain with Brother Xiao, but he made me stay.” Xiao Chen said, then mysteriously raised his palm. “But I heard that something happened on the mountain, and even the criminal police came. Judging from Brother Xiao’s personality, he must have gone up to help!”

"Is there any need to speculate?"

Liu Rulan sighed and shook her head: "Go look at your phone now."

Xiao Chen paused for a moment, then took out her phone.

A few minutes later, he looked shocked: "What? So Brother Xiao caught a corpse on the mountain?"

But after he finished expressing his shock, he realized something was wrong and immediately changed his tune: "No, that's not right. Didn't Brother Xiao just go up there? He clearly went up the mountain to help out, how could he have the leisure to go fishing!"

Liu Rulan sighed, "So it's obvious that someone on the mountain took pictures of this and posted them online, which then led to those marketing accounts spreading rumors."

"How could they do this! It's completely fabricated! And we don't even know what's going on up in the mountains!"

After realizing what was happening, Xiao Chen was also furious: "That's terrible, Sister Liu! Now everyone knows that Brother Xiao is still on the mountain! What if some guys get the news and insist on going up the mountain to take pictures of Xiao He?"

What's most abundant near a film studio?

Bidding on behalf of others!

Honestly, with that kind of perseverance, these guys could do much more than just be filming! But they all ended up getting together and doing all sorts of things.

It might have been alright in the early days, but now there are more and more people in the same industry, and they are becoming more and more involved. As a result, some more extreme paparazzi are no longer satisfied with simply publishing their travel itineraries, but instead they follow, stalk, and secretly photograph private individuals, making money from exclusive and rare materials that others cannot capture.

At this point, the paparazzi were no different from the paparazzi themselves.

It's all about traffic and making money.

Nobody should ask who has the lower limit.

"The mountainside is blocked off, those guys shouldn't be able to get up there... right?"

Xiao Chen paused for a moment, then added an uncertain "maybe".

Liu Rulan shook her head and turned to walk out: "Let's go take a look too."

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As expected, they were stuck in traffic.

Looking out the window at the endless mountain road, Xiao Chen clicked his tongue in amazement: "Wait, are they really that fast?"

Liu Rulan also twitched the corner of her mouth: "It's been said online that it might involve a criminal case. I don't know what they can get by rushing to the scene!"

Just like the Hong Kong entertainment industry kidnapping case back then, they don't care about human life at all.

All they cared about was Xiao He, the male lead of the recent hit drama "The Imperial Empire," the most popular man in the Chinese entertainment industry right now, and the fame and money he could bring them.

"Sister Liu! Sister Liu! Brother Qi, stop for a second! Brother Qi! It's me!"

A familiar shout came from afar.

Old Qi glanced at the rearview mirror and slowed down, while Liu Rulan also turned her head to look back, then raised an eyebrow: "Huang Meng."

Sure enough, Huang Meng and his young apprentice were riding on the small electric scooter that caught up from behind.

"Sister Liu, it's been a long time!"

The younger apprentice was in charge of riding the bike, while Huang Meng sat behind, peeking out and greeting Liu Rulan.

"Huang Meng, you must have just come down from that mountain, right?"

Liu Rulan lowered the car window and glanced at their electric scooter to get a general idea of ??the situation.

"Hehe, Sister Liu, as you know, this hillside is right across from the ancient costume filming location over there. I brought a newcomer here, so I can pass on some experience to him."

Huang Meng was quite frank, openly admitting their itinerary for the day, "But don't get me wrong, I really didn't come here today to follow Brother Xiao, and the photos that those marketing accounts on the internet have now weren't given to me by me."

“I know,” Liu Rulan said with a half-smile. “After all, you’re registered under Xiao He’s name.”

Huang Meng smiled awkwardly, not really wanting to talk about such an embarrassing thing in front of his apprentice, so he quickly continued to explain why he had caught up: "By the way, Sister Liu, there are more and more people going up the mountain. If you keep going like this, you definitely won't make it. When we came down, we saw the traffic police directing traffic ahead and heading back."

"I see—"

Liu Rulan glanced back again and, sure enough, saw that there were still cars continuously going uphill behind her.

A quick glance at those license plates made her smirk involuntarily.

These paparazzi are acting like dogs!

Liu Rulan took out her phone and started making calls.

A few minutes later, Liu Rulan looked at Huang Meng again: "Turn around and come up the mountain with us."

"Ah, is this...is this okay?"

Huang Meng paused for a moment, then immediately understood what Liu Rulan meant. He asked cautiously, somewhat uncertainly, "Sister Liu, is there something you need me to do?"

"Exclusive photos, authorized, do you want them or not?" Liu Rulan put down her phone and said irritably, "If you don't want them, I'll have Xiao Chen go and stop other paparazzi on the street."

Now, you can throw any stone on this mountain and it'll hit a proxy bidder.

It doesn't matter if Huang Meng is one more.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Huang Meng immediately responded enthusiastically, his face full of fawning smiles, "Sister, sister, I'm right here, we're old acquaintances here! You can't let other proxy photographers take this job."

Then, he patted his apprentice on the shoulder, signaling him to move forward quickly and get closer, so that he wouldn't let this opportunity slip away.

At that moment, another young man riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle happened to pass by.

Seeing a car and an electric scooter suddenly stop there, he thought something had happened, so he stopped and asked them.

What's wrong with you all?

Zuo Cheng took off his helmet, glanced at Huang Meng, then at Liu Rulan in the car, and suddenly narrowed his eyes: "Hey? You're... Xiao He's manager?"

Liu Rulan also looked at the other person: "Who are you?"

...

On the mountain, Xiao He was still unaware of what had happened down below.

Sitting on the small chairs that Lin Qi and his team had set up, Xiao He began to repeat the work that Lin Qi and his team had done as technicians before, which was to direct the group of mechanical spiders to go down into the cave again to explore and search for any evidence and clues that might be found.

However, this time Xiao He switched to a manual transmission, and he controlled many functions simultaneously.

The picture quality is... well, it's hard to describe.

Xiao He glanced at the blue light blocking glasses on the table, which no one knew had put there, and put them on himself without thinking.