Chapter 265 Do I Look Like Bodhisattva?
The monitoring room backstage was as quiet as the grave.
The chief director and the assistant director were stiffly looking at the monitor.
The girl on the screen was gorgeous, overbearing, ambitious, and scheming!
After quoting a series of ransom terms, she even waved her hand like a bandit.
At once, her accomplices, Donald and Kara, each grabbed one arm of the staff member. They took him under the camera of the drone and threatened him, "Beg for mercy! Do you hear me?"
The staff member was devastated.
With tearful eyes, he looked up at the drone and shouted pitifully, "Director, help, help me..."
The assistant director was pissed off.
His hands shaking, he questioned, "What the hell? Kidnap? Blackmail? Threaten us?"
He then yelled at the chief director, "How come you're so calm!"
The chief director blinked innocently and shrugged. "What else can I do?"
The assistant director lost his tongue.
The chief director was a loser, and he could do nothing about it. Picking up the intercom, he instructed the technicians, "Connect me to the drone. I need to talk to them!"
Ebony looked at the unresponsive drone for a long time, frowned, looked back at the staff member, and ordered, "Beg again and cry more bitterly, or meet my fist!"
Aggrieved, the staff member tried to persuade her, "E... Ebo, the program team will not give you those things. It's against the rules. Please just let me go."
Ebony said coolly, "Let you go? Do I look like Bodhisattva?"
The staff member fell into despair.
Kara fidgeted and whispered, "Ebo, looks like they're unwilling to compromise."
Donald, who had never done anything terrible in his life, got cold feet and said, "Yeah, what if they say they don't care? We can't really kill the hostage."
As soon as his voice died away, the signal was connected. The assistant director, who was going to talk to Ebony, froze.
He put the intercom down and looked at the monitor. "Yeah, do they dare to kill the hostage?"
The chief director thought of the history of Ebony that he had studied in the past few days and shrugged. "You're not sure about that."
The assistant director snickered, "How is that possible? She dares to kill people?"
"Why would I want to kill him?"
Ebony chuckled at Donald's stupid question. "That's not what I mean."
Donald looked puzzled.
Ebony looked at the drone and said, "We are recording a program, and the participants are the six guests. What will happen if a staff member keeps appearing in the scenes? If they don't give us what we want, I'll take him wherever I go. I'd like to see how they're going to film the show."
Donald and Kara were enlightened.
In the monitoring room, the chief director slapped his thigh and said admiringly, "Brilliant!"
"Will you stop talking!" The assistant director held up the speaker and shouted into the chief director's ear, "Which side are you on?"
The chief director cringed and stopped talking.
The assistant director glared at the girl on the screen, gritted his teeth, and walked around the chair. In the end, he picked up the intercom and flipped the switch.
Above the camp on the uninhabited island, the angry voice of the assistant director finally came out of the drone. "Ebony, don't make this kind of joke. Please release the staff member as soon as possible."
Ebony said unhurriedly, "I've put forward the terms. He will be released when the things are delivered."
The assistant director insisted, "We can't grant that."
Ebony frowned and said, "Guys, time to work!"
Donald and Kara took the order and started their abuse.
One of them grabbed the staff member's ear and the other pinched his nose.
The staff member screamed, suffered like hell, and shouted to the sky, "Director, help!"
The assistant director began to get anxious, "We can't do that, really. How... How about two field bags? There will be some items commonly used in the field, but water, seasonings, tents, and sleeping bags are out of the question."
Ebony shouted, "Add the punishment!"
Kara used a branch to poke the staff member's armpit.
Donald took off the staff member's shoes and tickled his feet with a stick.
"Ahhh, hahaha, Ahhh!" The staff member was driven crazy. He screamed bitterly and burst into tears. He was going nuts.
The assistant director panicked and raised the ante, "You'll have the seasonings, but there won't be a large amount. I can't get you a kitchen, can I?"
Ebony said, "Tents and sleeping bags."
The assistant director rejected, "This is a survival game rather than a tour. If we give you the tents, the show is done."
Ebony didn't really want so many things. She was trying to figure out the bottom line of the director team. Since the assistant director refused to raise the ante again, she said, "If there are no tents and sleeping bags, you should at least give us some quilts. Our clothes can't keep us warm at night."
The assistant director reluctantly said, "You'll have two blankets."
It was better than nothing.
After a series of haggling, they finally reached an agreement.
One hour later, Ebony and the others finished the shelter.
The supplies were delivered by helicopter.
Afraid of losing another man, the program team dropped the supplies through a rope.
Ebony checked the items and waved her hand to release the hostage.
Once set free, the staff member scrambled up into the helicopter.
The cabin door closed with a thud, and the small helicopter soon flew away. Even the exhaust could no longer be seen.
At the sight of the large pile of items, Donald remained calm, but Kara cheered up.
Dizzy with success, she rushed over, hugged Donald, and shouted excitedly, "Ahhh, Donald, do you see what? I am so happy!"
Lloyd was sitting there feeding the fire with wood.
When he saw that, he cocked his brows, put the branch down after a while, and stood up.
He raised his hand and pulled over the pretty girl who was counting the supplies. Before she could react, he grabbed her slender waist and folded her in his arms.
Putting his mouth to her ear, he copied Kara's lines and whispered, "Ebony, I am so happy."
