Chapter 35: Fire
“Isn’t this good news?”
Xiao Di looked at Tan Xuan eagerly and asked.
"I thought it was some good news. You should give me something to eat first."
Tan Xuan was not interested in the good news and directly took out a hamburger from the takeaway bag.
Xiao Di was very dissatisfied, "Hey! Why are you stealing my food?"
"I haven't eaten for a day. There are things here that I bought for you and some of mine. Otherwise, how could you eat so much by yourself?" After opening it, Tan Xuan started to eat with big mouthfuls. Wow, this good news didn't satisfy his hunger at all. It was still more comfortable to eat.
Xiao Di took a look at the things in the bag and found that it was indeed not enough for one person, so he didn't care about it anymore. He finished the work in his hands and started to concentrate on eating.
After eating something and drinking some coffee, Xiao Di felt more energetic and focused. "What have you done? Why haven't you eaten for a whole day?"
"Hey, don't mention it. I went to help Qian Bo send warmth to his leader, and I saw the excitement by the way."
"What's going on?" Xiao Di instantly became alert when he heard the excitement.
"Leader Qian Bo's house was haunted, and he asked me to help, but a fake Taoist priest got there first." Tan Xuan said while eating.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Di became even more interested after hearing this, and looked at Tan Xuan with shining eyes, "Haunted, tell me in detail, I found that many people like this kind of subject matter. I will finish these two episodes and continue with this matter."
"What! You still want to talk about this?" Tan Xuan shook his head. "No, this won't do. It involves other people's privacy. If you anger leader Qian Bo, you will suffer the consequences."
Xiao Di curled his lips towards Tan Xuan and said, "What are you afraid of? I will cut out the beginning and the end and only tell the middle part. I won't mention any names, so no one will know who I'm talking about. Just treat it as a story. Who cares who it happens to? Besides, his house is the only haunted one in the world."
Tan Xuan shook his head, "That's not a good idea either."
"What's wrong with that? I need to take a break now, so just think of it as telling me a story..." Xiao Di would never let go of something he had made up his mind about, and he had a lot of reasons to make it so that Tan Xuan couldn't avoid them even if he wanted to.
"Oh well."
Tan Xuan was no match for Xiao Di, and he told Xiao Di roughly what happened at Director Chang's house, providing first-hand material for Xiao Di's next program. However, he did not mention anything about the methods he used and the things he did not tell Director Chang. Who knows if Director Chang goes online, and if he hears about it, it will be bad for everyone.
After finishing the talk and eating almost done, Tan Xuan cleaned up the garbage and said, "You can do your own thing. I should go out to drive my car. If you are hungry again tomorrow, you can find a way yourself. You are busy with work, and I am busy making money."
Xiao Di hushed his nose and said disdainfully: "Tsk! I will be done with my work tomorrow. If you want to show me your courtesy, I won't accept it."
"Hey!" Tan Xuan was unhappy, "I'm here to bring you a midnight snack, and you say this. Hurry up and give me the money. I'm leaving right away. I won't serve you next time you beg me."
Xiao Di glanced at Tan Xuan and curled his lips. "A grown man is so stingy, you deserve not to find a girlfriend. If I ask you to send food and you dare not send it, just wait, I will make you show your face in the next video."
Tan Xuan glared and said angrily, "How dare you?"
"Do you think I dare?" Xiao Di did not give in at all. He stared at Tan Xuan like a fighting cock, showing no sign of weakness.
In the end, it was Tan Xuan who was defeated and walked away with his head down in disappointment.
"Is it my bad luck? How come I met such an unreasonable person? It's true that villains and women are hard to raise. I'll go to the temple to ask the old monk to chant some sutras one day..."
Tan Xuan left as if he was chanting a sutra, and Xiao Di was cursing in the room. As for the meal money, one of them forgot to ask for it, and the other forgot to give it.
When there were no orders in the early morning, Tan Xuan also wanted to watch the show that Xiao Di did. He wanted to see what kind of show she did. The key was what the content of the video she produced was. As a result, he found that when he was with Xiao Di, he was only busy bickering and forgot to ask her what platform she uploaded it on. He didn't know the platform , the name of the show, and the ID. He didn't even know what keywords to enter when he wanted to search online.
"Forget it. She's an internet celebrity and needs a red light. As a driver, I'm most afraid of red lights. I prefer green lights."
Tan Xuan didn't think Xiao Di would become famous just because of a few episodes of processed supernatural adventure activities. Would it be possible to catch people's attention if the pictures that were more heavily censored than those in restricted movies were uploaded to the Internet? He really couldn't figure out where the "selling point" was. Of course, he was too lazy to think about it. Even if he really became famous, he wouldn't care. At most, he would say an insincere "congratulations". If Xiao Di could treat him to a big meal because of this, it would be great. He wouldn't mind saying a few more good words.
Tan Xuan didn't take this matter to heart and continued with his sports car driving career. However, on Sunday night, he received another call from Su Cheng, and they were still talking about this matter.
"Tan Xuan, have you seen Sister Xiao Di's video? Sister Xiao Di has become very popular these days. The clicks on each of the two activity videos have reached hundreds of thousands, and many big names are reposting them..."
As soon as the phone was connected, Su Cheng couldn't wait to share the good news with Tan Xuan, and his tone sounded particularly excited.
Tan Xuan didn't understand why Xiao Di was angry, and what it had to do with her, Su Cheng. She frowned and pretended to be polite and said, "Sorry, I was driving and didn't pay attention to that."
"Why don't you pay attention to this? It's such a happy thing. Do you know? Because of Sister Xiao Di's videos, I am now a celebrity in the adventure group. I have participated in two events, and supernatural events occurred in both events." Su Cheng continued excitedly.
"Really? Then congratulations on making a name for yourself in your group." Tan Xuan replied casually. Although he said congratulations, he didn't seem to be happy at all.
"Why don't you sound excited at all?" Su Cheng was a little dissatisfied with Tan Xuan's perfunctory attitude.
Tan Xuan was speechless for a while. He really didn't know what the excitement was. After Su Cheng chattered for a long time, he said, "That video of Xiao Di has nothing to do with me. Whether it's popular or not has nothing to do with me. If you want to celebrate, you should go to Xiao Di."
"How can it have nothing to do with you? You were in Sister Xiao Di's second video, and Sister Xiao Di described you as a god descending from heaven. Many people on the Internet are talking about you. The few of us who participated in the event only became popular in the group, but you became popular on the Internet. If Sister Xiao Di hadn't used a pseudonym and described you in a mysterious way, I guess there would be curious netizens who would come to your door to look for you..."
"What! Did that girl Xiao Di really post me online?" Tan Xuan's voice suddenly rose eight octaves. Fortunately, there were no passengers in his car at the moment, otherwise they would have been scared by him.
The only one who was frightened by Tan Xuan was Su Cheng. Su Cheng yelled on the phone: "Why are you yelling? If you are angry, then you are angry. You don't have to yell so much even if you are happy."
"Am I happy?" Tan Xuan had the urge to curse, but when he thought about what Su Cheng said about Xiao Di not introducing her very much, he held back and complained, "She is just kidding. There are so many capable people on the Internet. If others knew it was me, I would be annoyed to death all day."
"Don't worry about this. I've already explained this to Li Jianyang and Zhang Qinghe. No one will know that the mysterious man in the video is you. It's just that our supernatural exploration group has become famous all of a sudden, and suddenly many people want to join us. We will continue to hold exploration activities, and I will definitely be the best person to organize the activities..."
"Stop it." Hearing Su Cheng fantasizing about the future, Tan Xuan's heart immediately sank. "You still want to organize activities? Let me make it clear in advance that I will no longer join in the fun. Just have fun by yourselves."
Thinking about the fact that she had been a free babysitter twice, Tan Xuan was really fed up with it. Oh my god, if this continued, how could she continue her life which had finally calmed down?
Su Cheng snorted unhappily, "We'll talk about it later. You always say the same thing. Well, someone in the group wants to add me as a friend again. I won't talk to you anymore. Let's have a meal together someday. Zhang Qinghe said he wanted to thank you for saving his life."
"Forget about eating. What platform did you post Xiao Di's video on? I'll take a look when I have time."
"You don't have to go through so much trouble. Just search for 'Di Sheng Ge' on the Internet. There are so many people forwarding it now, you can see it everywhere."
Tan Xuan used his mobile phone to search for "Dishengge" on the Internet, and indeed, it was flooded with videos of the event that night, but everyone in the video was censored, and it was so blurry that only the gender could be distinguished from the body shape, and everything else was unclear. The plot of the event was introduced by Xiao Di in the form of narration, and it was not Xiao Di's own voice. She was explaining the whole process as a bystander. Everyone at the scene used pseudonyms, and the part about the dispute between Zhang Qinghe and Guo Mingjia was deleted to highlight the atmosphere of the event. It was obviously a supernatural event, but it cleverly avoided words like ghosts, and even the hanged ghost was not mentioned at all. It only explained that someone had hanged himself in that room.
It was the first time that Tan Xuan saw Xiao Di's work. It was really the same. The atmosphere was controlled very well. A very ordinary event was made up of ups and downs by her, and it was a bit thrilling. In some places, she was free to play, and the whole process was interpreted in her way, which was more exaggerated than the actual one, and of course more exciting. There was no mention of ghosts in the whole process, but it made people feel that ghosts existed in the activity.
Looking at the comments under the work, most of them are discussions based on the video. Some people said without hesitation that there was a ghost there, some tried to answer it in a scientific way but were stumped by others in the end, and some said that it was a fake activity that was deliberately recorded and was attacked by others. Anyway, there are all kinds of opinions, but there is one thing that Tan Xuan can be sure of, that is, "Flute Pavilion" is really popular.
