Chapter 871: A Swarm of People, the Production Team on the Verge of Tears
Tonight's internet is destined to be a night of revelry for many.
I thought last night's live boarding show was already a hot topic of conversation in Hong Kong entertainment, but unexpectedly, starting from midnight, the story took a completely different turn.
There are no secrets that stay hidden forever.
Moreover, this trend was initially created by the three organizers themselves to generate buzz.
Many people are paying attention to the situation here.
Even though not everyone dares to expose such things directly, there are still some daring individuals who update the situation online and hype up the topic in order to generate traffic.
Many other guests who sensed the danger immediately reported the situation back home, at least to ensure they wouldn't suddenly disappear in the sea without explanation—after all, such things had happened before.
With such a huge scandal occurring on the Xiang Sheng, and witnessed by so many people on board, no one can guarantee what will happen next.
The Xiang Sheng might suddenly disappear into the high seas, vanishing without a trace, and all those people would also disappear without a trace. After countless years, their disappearance became one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries...
Therefore, some information was quickly leaked out by those with ulterior motives.
Most importantly, the Xiang Sheng had excellent network infrastructure. Even a few kilometers away from international waters, it could still connect to the internet. Once it returned to Chinese waters, the news spread like wildfire. Before the crew even disembarked, the news was already everywhere.
As a result, a large number of messages about 【mysterious pregnant woman】, 【illegal human trafficking】, 【terrifying metaphysical gathering】, 【gunfight on a ship】, etc., spread rapidly, only to be quickly suppressed by the cyber police.
However, this still left a huge ripple on the internet, and as time went on, these messages did not completely disappear. Instead, they continued to spread from many tricky angles, bypassing the official basic detection, and were passed back and forth among countless night owls who stayed up until the early hours of the morning.
So the news couldn't be stopped at all, and it quickly spread across the internet.
Upon receiving the news, the reporters who had been waiting in Victoria Harbour finally saw the return of the luxury cruise ship.
Xiang Sheng Hao is still exactly the same as when I left; to the naked eye, there is almost no change.
Still magnificent, still dazzling like stars, still the most eye-catching presence on Victoria Harbour.
But everyone also saw the police ships and yachts that were sailing on both sides of the Xiang Sheng.
This seems to confirm that the rumors circulating online are true.
This incident has attracted the attention of the Coast Guard!
Before the Xiang Sheng even came to a complete stop at the shore, a large number of flashes were already going off like crazy. Countless paparazzi, reporters and others swarmed forward like hungry wolves, rushing directly into Victoria Harbour in the blink of an eye. They smashed through all the railings and barriers that had been set up in the harbor, and completely surrounded the place where the Xiang Sheng was to disembark. The scene was immediately filled not only with the sound of taking pictures, but also with countless screams and questions.
In addition, countless others who received the message are rushing to the scene!
These people include media reporters, internet celebrities, and fans... If they had a direct, eagle-eyed perspective at this moment, they would see that a large number of people are continuously heading towards this area from the entire Victoria Harbour area.
This is all because it's the early morning, and most people are asleep.
If it were morning, even more people who knew about this would probably come over!
The current situation is something that many people did not expect.
Perhaps they didn't expect that the Xiang Sheng cruise ship party, with the addition of many people from the entertainment industry, would lead to a situation that is not only a major criminal case but also involves the entertainment industry, causing the matter to escalate into another thorny area.
After all, the entertainment industry pays more attention to young people, and young people are the most enthusiastic about these things.
They are genuinely curious enough to stay up all night and come to the scene to see what's really going on!
You can tell from the growing number of young fans gathering around.
Ultimately, with no other option, and fearing that forcibly disembarking would trigger an even greater public outcry, the Xiang Sheng had no choice but to turn back and, under the arrangement of the police, dock at another remote and relatively closed port.
Finally, after less than half a day on the ship, everyone was allowed to disembark.
However, what awaited them was a large-scale police investigation.
-
When Xiao He disembarked, he encountered the people from the variety show "Wandering Through Mountains and Rivers".
At this moment, Hu Pei, the director of "A Journey Through Mountains and Rivers," was rambling on with his producer with a long face, occasionally glancing at the police officer who was asking questions on the other side.
His producer also looked grim; both of their faces were etched with grief and despair.
Remembering how Hu Pei had cheerfully called out to him earlier, and how they had taken a group photo in front of the Xiang Sheng ship with the entire crew when they disembarked, Xiao He simply went over and asked, "Director Hu, what's going on here?"
Seeing that it was Xiao He, Hu Pei barely mustered up a bit of energy, but after greeting him, that energy instantly deflated, like a punctured balloon. Xiao He could even feel him slowly losing his composure: "Hello, Teacher Xiao. It's so good to see that you're safe and sound."
However, he then said dejectedly, "Unfortunately, things aren't going so well for us now."
When Xiao He saw the police officers packing up and sealing the production crew's equipment not far away, he roughly guessed what was going on.
"Has the equipment here been temporarily seized by the police?"
Xiao He inquired.
"It's not just these..."
Hu Pei was almost crying when she said this, "I'm afraid our 'Wandering Through Mountains and Rivers' spin-off is going to be canceled. With such a big incident at Xiang Sheng Hao, I'm afraid it won't be able to be broadcast."
Hu Pei did not attend Xiao He's party. As a director who cherishes his hair, he went straight to his room to sleep after recording the show and having a big meal with the rest of the crew. He had no idea what happened afterward.
Even the things about the pregnant women on the Xiang Sheng were told to him by other people.
So from Hu Pei's perspective, it was like this: he woke up to find the sky had fallen, Xiang Sheng Hao was embroiled in a huge scandal, and his program probably wouldn't be able to air.
Despite spending so much time and money preparing, it all came to nothing in the end.
Hu Pei is now praying that this incident won't affect their production team, otherwise, not only will the spin-off episodes be affected, but the main episodes might also be implicated.
That would truly be a double loss.
Hu Pei already had a faint sense of impending death.
Xiao He:...Hiss, that's really terrible.
This was something that couldn't be avoided in advance. After all, Xiao He hadn't expected Bao Wenyin to engage in feudal superstition on the ship and cause such a big mess.
Thinking that he had apparently taken the money for the entire project but had only worked for less than an hour, Xiao He, the only one who hadn't suffered any loss, felt a little sorry for the producers of "Wandering Through Mountains and Rivers".
However, a refund is not possible.
He would never give back money that's already in his pocket.