At the same time, inside the monitoring cabin.

"Director, there's a situation. You'd better come and take a look."

Before Hai Meilong had even finished his insider trading talk with Jue-ge, and before he had a chance to put down the walkie-talkie, an assistant director walked up to him, urgently saying this.

"What is it?" Hai Meilong tilted his head and lowered his voice.

"Just now, Lie Nong was kidnapped by several unidentified people," the assistant director replied.

"Huh?" Hai Meilong frowned slightly. "What do you mean, unidentified people?"

"Uh… well… a few men wearing light blue striped sailor suits, with headscarves, long belts, and curved knives at their waists… men we don't recognize at all." The assistant director paused there, thought for a second, and then added, "Um… my personal guess… did someone land on the other side of the island?"

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?" At this moment, the voice of Glamers 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 handle it. You and Mr. Tan just keep doing your thing; everything is proceeding as planned."

Glamers hesitated for a moment upon hearing 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, just as Hai Meilong himself said, he had never let them down.

Every member of the *Wilderness Poisoning* crew trusted Hai Meilong implicitly. They didn't trust his reputation, but rather his tangible abilities.

Hai Meilong was an extremely capable person, a born leader and commander. If he had been born in a time of war, he would surely have achieved something in the military and political world, but in these peaceful years, he "ultimately" became a director.

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

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

As Glamers spoke, he put away the walkie-talkie and took a few steps back, returning to the position the two of them had been in when they first met.

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

"Haha…" Glamers laughed. "Just switch the camera angle." He pointed to a camera in a large tree nearby. "During editing, we can insert shots taken by that camera, and then switch back to the shot from the hovering camera next to me after a few seconds, and cut to a close-up. That way… after a few camera angle changes, no one will be able to tell that there was editing in between. Unless the two sets of shots before and after the edit are one during the day and one at night, or one on a sunny day and one on a rainy day… Of course, even if that were the case, there would be ways to cover it up through post-processing."

"I see…" Feng Bujue replied thoughtfully, and then continued, "Then there's no problem… How about we start from my line, 'Give me some more challenges all at once'?"

"Yeah, okay." Glamers finished speaking, thought for a few seconds, glanced at the camera, and then resumed his hosting tone. "Are you sure? Stephen, you should know… there's no benefit to you in this. By doing this… you're voluntarily giving up four opportunities to collect props."

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

"Oh, it seems you're confident…" Glamers widened his eyes and replied. His acting was no less impressive, easily displaying the complex expression of someone in the midst of an internal struggle. "Um… okay then." After a few seconds, he revealed a resolute look. "Since you yourself are asking to increase the difficulty, I have no reason to refuse…" He raised his right hand and spread his five fingers. "Listen carefully, Stephen, your five challenges are…"

[Side Quest Triggered] At this moment, the quest prompt arose.

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 Glamers spoke, a side quest refreshed in the menu: [Capture a Queensland hairy-nosed wombat alive with your bare hands.]

"Two, find and eat a tuber. Raw or cooked is fine, but I personally recommend you grill it over a fire."

[Eat one whole raw taro root.]

"Three, hunt a bird, any species. Dead or alive is fine as well… If you want, you can catch it and let it go."

[Kill 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 smaller than five square kilometers. A sketch is fine, but it must be understandable, at least to me… and the deviation between the map and the actual location cannot be too great." As Glamers spoke, he took a small notebook out of his backpack. "The paper is here. You can draw it on one sheet, or you can draw it on several sheets separately and then tear them off and piece them together at the end. As for a pen… you'll have to figure it out yourself."

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

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

[Find and dig up more than five hundred grams of Juese ore.]

"What the heck…" Feng Bujue thought to himself, "So every challenge will trigger a corresponding side quest…"

He guessed correctly. This nightmare was set up that way…

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 Glamers says, which counts as a successful challenge and does not affect the progress of the main quest.

However… in reality, this setting has increased the overall difficulty of the script by about 30%.

Because the person playing now… is Feng Bujue.

He's the kind of player who says, "What a pain," while tirelessly completing all the hidden elements and side quests in the game. Based on his past performances in various scripts, the system has long understood this. Therefore, this setting was undoubtedly created specifically for Jue-ge…

"That's it… those are the five challenges I'm giving you." Glamers finished reading the challenges and then said, "Did you remember them? Do you need me to repeat them again?"

"No need," Feng Bujue replied without thinking.

"Good." Glamers said, squatting down and opening the zipper of his backpack. "Then… before I leave, choose an item you want to receive."