Except for Mu Li, the other three had dressed themselves up completely, wearing masks, hats, and sunglasses.
Seeing the three in this state, Mu Li couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure no one will recognize you guys like this?"
"As long as there are no cameras, generally no one can recognize us," Chichi explained. "Without this face, how many people would know you?"
Mu Li nodded, feeling that Chichi made a lot of sense, and directly had Gardevoir hide the camera.
Chichi and the other two's eyes lit up. "That's awesome! There's even a trick like this?"
"It's nothing!" Mu Li said with a proud smile. "By the way, are we just going to keep walking around like this?"
"We can't go soak our feet again," Fan Yizhi complained. After speaking, his stomach rumbled. He looked at the other three and said directly, "I'm hungry."
Mu Li rubbed his stomach and only then realized that he hadn't eaten lunch. "I'm hungry too."
Although Zheng Yun didn't speak, his gaze also turned to Chichi.
Chichi paused, then suggested, "How about hotpot?"
Mu Li instinctively shivered, a hint of an awkward smile appearing on his face. "The hotpot you're talking about, is it spicy hotpot?"
Chichi blinked and said, "What else?"
Mu Li laughed awkwardly, "Spicy hotpot, huh? Is there an option for Yangcheng spicy?"
"Yangcheng spicy?" Chichi's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe his ears. "Are you talking about that Yangcheng spicy where you put a tiny bit of chili oil on a toothpick and mix it into a clear broth hotpot?"
Mu Li instinctively nodded frantically, but then immediately felt a bit embarrassed. "It doesn't have to be that exaggerated."
"A hotpot without chili has no soul, you know?" Chichi was too lazy to even complain. "Pick something else."
Zheng Yun and Fan Yizhi, who were beside them, were stunned, especially Fan Yizhi, as this was the first time he had heard of the concept of "Yangcheng spicy."
The netizens in the live stream also started playing with memes.
I feel like the amount of chili I eat in one meal is enough for a Yangcheng person to eat for a lifetime.
Although Yangcheng people can't eat spicy food, Yangcheng people eat people.
Human scorpion soup, anyone?
Yangcheng people don't eat people, okay?
Yangcheng people say hotpot is the best.
...
Zheng Yun sighed and patted Mu Li's shoulder. "It's okay, after you record the show for two years, you'll find that you can eat anything."
Chichi nodded in deep agreement. "That's right, even that fermented herring can, I feel like I've gotten used to that taste. I feel a bit off if I don't eat a few bites every year."
"You said it," Fan Yizhi said. "Next time Wu Ha wants to eat fermented herring can, mine's all yours."
Mu Li also chimed in, "Chichi Ge, mine's also for you. We have it on video as proof."
"Get lost!" Chichi said irritably. "Hurry up and think about what to eat! I'm starving."
"How about this? We directly ask a passerby and let them tell us what to eat?" Mu Li suggested.
Chichi's eyes lit up. "That's a good idea, kid. It's not bad."
Zheng Yun and Fan Yizhi also nodded in agreement.
"Since that's the case, we still need some restrictions," Mu Li continued. "I'll come up with a question, and then the four of us will write down what we each think is the most likely answer."
"Next, we'll take the question and ask passersby, letting them tell us what to eat. Once a passerby names a food, the four of us must eat it and check in with a photo before we can go find the next passerby to ask. If we eat the food we wrote down within 10,000 steps, it counts as a successful challenge; otherwise, it's a failure."
"As a penalty for failure, I have my secret recipe Yangcheng special drink here."
Chichi nodded slightly, a mischievous smile appearing at the corner of his mouth. "Sounds good, but I need to add a penalty. If A Li fails, he has to challenge the insanely spicy chicken wings."
"Agreed!" Zheng Yun and Fan Yizhi replied simultaneously.
Mu Li's face instantly turned pale. "Playing that hard?"
Chichi smiled mischievously, "Of course. You're bringing out your secret special drink, so it's not too much for me to bring out insanely spicy chicken wings, is it? This is a game you proposed, you're not going to chicken out, are you?"
Mu Li gritted his teeth and forced himself to say, "Who's afraid of whom? It's just insanely spicy chicken wings. Who can't eat a tiny bit of chili?"
With that, Mu Li immediately ran to a print shop and printed a piece of paper. On the paper, only one question was written: "What do you think is the best food in Modu?"
"This is the question. Everyone can write down their favorite answer." Mu Li handed the question paper to everyone. "Later, we can only show this paper to passersby, but we can't speak, nor can we use any expressions or gestures to hint. Understand?"
The three looked at it, then nodded in agreement.
"Wait a minute, I have some doubts about your character," Mu Li said, seeing how obedient the three were, and instantly grew suspicious. "Before we start, you'll swear with me."
"Huh? Swear? Is there no one you care about in this world anymore?" Chichi's eyes widened instantly.
"No? Is this that socially embarrassing?" Zheng Yun also widened his eyes, as if he couldn't believe what he had heard.
Fan Yizhi simply refused. "No playing, no playing. What happened to trust between people?"
"Based on your past performances, I don't trust your character very much," Mu Li said truthfully.
"If we wanted to cheat, do you think swearing would stop us?" Chichi retorted.
"This..." Mu Li was momentarily speechless.
"You're not even sure, are you?" Chichi smiled mischievously. "So, this oath is useless. This is a gentleman's game, and we will naturally abide by it."
"Exactly," Zheng Yun echoed. "Besides, you're right next to us. Can't you see what we're doing? The most important thing between people is trust. Trust us, and we will return your sincerity."
Mu Li hesitated. "But if you're not even willing to swear, what reason do I have to trust your character?"
Chichi immediately rolled his eyes and said irritably, "It's not that we're unwilling to swear, it's just that the oath is too socially embarrassing. We're not single dogs like you; we all have wives and children. How are we supposed to face them when we go back?"
"Exactly, exactly!" Zheng Yun and Fan Yizhi quickly agreed.
"Is it really for your families and children?" Mu Li still hesitated.
"Really," the three nodded simultaneously.
"Then you swear in the name of your families and children," Mu Li suggested once more.
The three exchanged helpless glances and sighed, "Fine, fine."
"Alright, then follow me and repeat," Mu Li nodded. "I, Mu Li, swear in the name of my family..."
"I, Chichi/Zheng Yun/Fan Yizhi, swear in the name of my family..." * 3
"Not to cheat..."
"Not to cheat..." * 3
"Not to play dirty..."
"Not to play dirty..."
"To strictly abide by the rules of the game..."
"To strictly abide by the rules of the game..." * 3
Seeing the three finish their oath, Mu Li finally nodded. "I'll grudgingly say you passed."
"Wait a minute..." Chichi seemed to realize. "Didn't we just swear?"
Zheng Yun / Fan Yizhi: "..."
At this moment, the audience in the live stream had already burst into laughter.
I feel like I'm watching three idiots.
So funny, does swearing in the name of my family mean it's not me swearing?
I'm really going to die laughing at these three.
The show effect of these four people is so good, I could watch it all day.
I've already been watching all day.
Where are they in Modu? I want to go meet them by chance.
...
The four quickly prepared their answers. Mu Li didn't know much about Modu's cuisine, so he just wrote down "pan-fried buns."
After the four handed their answers to Gardevoir, they arrived at Huanghe Road, one of Modu's most famous snack streets, and officially began their task. The step count would be based on the steps recorded in Weibo.
Once the game started, the four simultaneously put on their masks and stopped speaking.
So, from a passerby's perspective, four strange men, holding a piece of paper, without speaking, would excitedly rush up to people they saw, surrounding them.
Those who didn't know what was happening were almost ready to call the police.
Fortunately, Gardevoir was following behind the four, holding a camera, which prevented passersby from calling the police.
In this day and age, short videos are prevalent, and there are simply too many internet celebrities who carry cameras or phones and behave strangely on the streets, especially in a big city like Modu. You could throw a stone and hit several internet celebrities.
The people of Modu were also accustomed to it. Once they saw someone holding a camera, even if the person was rummaging through a trash can for food, everyone would just find it perfectly normal, after all, people walking on the street would occasionally see someone pop out of a trash can.
Although Mu Li's live stream had many viewers, there were very few viewers actually in Modu. Even those viewers in Modu knew that Mu Li was filming the "I Live Alone" program and didn't go to the scene to try and meet him.
However, Mu Li and the other three had some self-awareness. Knowing their behavior was quite strange, to avoid scaring children and Misses, the four initially chose some relatively strong males.
But these passersby seemed uninterested in Mu Li and the other three. Most passersby simply walked away without even looking at the question on the paper. The few who were patient enough to look at the question suspected the four were playing a prank and left without answering.
The four had walked almost 500 steps without getting a single answer.
"It seems our strategy has some problems," the four discussed, gathered together.
"I said we should ask Misses. They are beautiful and kind-hearted, and they will definitely answer our questions," Zheng Yun suggested.
Mu Li looked at Chichi and Fan Yizhi. The three nodded, all agreeing that Zheng Yun had a point.
So the four immediately changed their target.
"That Miss over there, the one with glasses, she looks easy to bully...Pooh, easy to talk to..." Chichi said, pointing to a slightly plump girl wearing a simple white T-shirt, denim shorts, black-rimmed glasses, and holding a Pichu in her arms.
"Alright, she's the one," Zheng Yun nodded.
Seeing that the girl was about to leave, the four quickly rushed in front of her, blocking her path.
Chichi was just about to speak when the Pichu in the girl's arms let out a sharp cry. The next moment, a golden flash of lightning streaked by, and by the time the three recovered, Chichi had already turned into a charred figure with an explosive hairstyle.