At the same time, in the monitoring cabin...

"Director, we have a situation. You'd better come and take a look."

Hai Meilong hadn't even finished his insider trading talk with Jue-ge, and hadn't even put down the walkie-talkie, when a deputy director walked up to him, urgently saying this.

"What is it?" Hai Meilong tilted his head, lowering his voice.

"Just now, Lie Nongs was captured by several people of unknown identity," the deputy director replied.

"Huh?" Hai Meilong frowned slightly. "What do you mean, 'people of unknown identity'?"

"Uh... well... several men wearing light blue striped sailor suits, headscarves, long belts, and scimitars at their waists... whom we don't know at all." The deputy director paused here, thought for a second, and then added, "Um... my personal speculation... did someone land on the other side of the island?"

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" At this moment, the voice of Geli Ersi came from the walkie-talkie.

Hai Meilong then realized that the communication had not been interrupted. He immediately brought the walkie-talkie to his mouth and replied, "Don't worry, Bell, I'll take care of it. You and Mr. Tan continue doing your own thing, everything as planned."

Geli Ersi hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and then replied, "Okay... James, since you've said so..." He took a breath, "I believe you can handle it."

"Heh... when have I ever let you down?" Hai Meilong laughed.

Indeed, as Hai Meilong himself said, he had never let them down.

Every member of the *Wilderness Survival* crew trusted Hai Meilong very much. They didn't trust his reputation, but his real ability.

Hai Meilong was a very capable person. He was a natural leader, a commander. If he had been born in a time of war, he would have certainly achieved something in the military and political circles, but in these peaceful years, he "eventually" became a director.

"Well... let's just leave it at that for now," Geli Ersi continued, "Contact me if there are any new developments..."

With that, he ended the communication and looked up at Jue-ge, saying, "Stephen, let's go back to that part just now and do it again."

As Geli Ersi spoke, he had already put away the walkie-talkie, stepped back a few steps, and returned to the position he was in when the two first met.

"But... the angle of the sunlight has changed..." Feng Bujue said, "Our position and posture will also be different from before. If we cut this part together with the previous one, it will be easily noticed."

"Haha..." Geli Ersi laughed, "Just switch the shooting angle." He pointed to a camera on a large tree nearby, "When editing, you can insert the shots taken by that camera, and then return to the footage shot by the floating camera next to me after a few seconds, and cut to a close-up. That way... after a few camera transitions, no one will be able to tell that there was any editing in between. Unless the two sets of shots before and after the editing are one during the day and one at night, or one is sunny and one is rainy... of course, even if that's really the case, there are ways to cover it up with post-processing."

"I see..." Feng Bujue responded thoughtfully, and then said, "Then there's no problem... how about we start with my line 'Give me more challenges at once'?"

"Yeah, okay." After Geli Ersi finished speaking, he thought for a few seconds, glanced at the camera, and then returned to that hosting tone, "Are you sure? Stephen, you must know... this is of no benefit to you. By doing this... you are voluntarily giving up four chances to receive props."

"It doesn't matter, I've thought it through very clearly." Feng Bujue also turned on his acting mode, responding pretentiously, and putting on a very confident look, "I don't need that many props to win the game at all."

"Oh, it seems you are confident..." Geli Ersi widened his eyes and replied, his acting skills were also excellent, and he easily showed the complex expression of doing ideological struggle, "Well... okay then." After a few seconds, he revealed a decisive look, "Since you yourself requested to increase the difficulty, I have no reason to refuse..." He raised his right hand and spread out his five fingers, "Listen carefully, Stephen, your five challenges are..."

[Side quest triggered] At this moment, the quest prompt rose in response.

The instant he heard the prompt, Feng Bujue almost instinctively opened the game menu and turned his gaze to the quest bar.

"One, hunt a Queensland hairy-nosed wombat. Whether dead or alive, as long as the hunt is successful."

As Geli Ersi's voice started, a side quest refreshed in the menu: [Capture a Queensland hairy-nosed wombat alive with bare hands.]

"Two, find and eat a tuber. Whether raw or cooked is fine, but I personally suggest you roast it over a fire."

[Eat a whole taro root raw.]

"Three, hunt a bird, any species will do. Similarly, dead or alive is fine... if you want, you can catch it and let it go."

[Shoot down an animal of the Aves class using a ranged attack method (without the aid of any traps).]

"Four, draw a map of any area on the island that is no less than five square kilometers. A rough sketch is fine, but it must be understandable, at least to me... and the deviation between the map and the actual terrain cannot be too great." As Geli Ersi said this, he took out a small notebook from his backpack, "The paper is here. You can draw it on one sheet of paper, or you can draw it on several sheets separately and then tear them off and piece them together. As for a pen... you have to figure it out yourself."

[Draw an accurate military topographic map of any area on the island that is no less than five square kilometers.]

"Five, find and dig up a mineral weighing more than 500 grams. Any mineral will do, as long as it has mining value, but it does not include ordinary rocks or pebbles."

[Find and dig up a Juese mineral weighing more than 500 grams.]

"Holy crap..." Feng Bujue thought to himself, "So, every challenge will trigger a corresponding side quest..."

He guessed right, this nightmare was set up like this...

Objectively speaking, this setting did not actually increase the difficulty of clearing the script. Because side quests are optional. Players can ignore the side quests and only complete what Geli Ersi said, which counts as a successful challenge and does not affect the progress of the main quest.

However... from a practical point of view, this setting has increased the overall difficulty of the script by about 30%.

Because the person playing now... is Feng Bujue.

He is the kind of player who says "How troublesome", while tirelessly completing all the hidden elements and side quests in the game. Based on his past performance in various scripts, the system has long understood this. Therefore, this setting is undoubtedly generated specifically for Jue-ge...

"The above... are the five challenges I give you." Geli Ersi finished reading the challenge content, and then said, "Do you remember? Do you need me to repeat them?"

"No need," Feng Bujue replied without thinking.

"Okay." As Geli Ersi spoke, he squatted down and opened the zipper of his backpack, "Then... before I leave, choose an item you want to receive."