“Oh my God! There is gold!”
“Wow! The gold is heavy enough to crush a human being! Where is the gold now? Why wasn’t it said in the show?”
“Director, why don’t you tell us where the gold is now? Did you hide it?”
“Where is the island? I’m going to search for treasure!”
“I’m going to look for the gold and worship that hero!”
“They should tell us how they handled the gold, shouldn’t they? After all, the gold is so precious.”
“I’m still stunned by what happened in the show! The poor python! It’s the first time I’ve seen a python got dehydrated and died in seawater.”
“Yeah. Only Fang Qiu was capable of that. Other people wouldn’t be as brave as him, and even if they were brave, they couldn’t kill that python.”
On the Internet, everyone began to discuss it.
What they talked about the most was the guard, Yang Yizhi.
They wondered if it was true that the man had killed all the pirates on his own, as suggested in the article that was engraved on the wall.
They were curious if there was really such a powerful man in ancients times.
After all, in the eyes of modern people, this kind of thing was really difficult to achieve.
The Internet was a wonderful thing that one could find all kinds of strange things on it.
As soon as the episode ended, a person really found Yang Yizhi’s name in some ancient books and records. Thus, it was confirmed that there was really such a person in history. It was recorded in the books that he followed Zheng He to the west, but there was no record about what happened later.
His story was found in many ancient books.
Now, everyone was finally sure that his story was true.
Those who paid special attention to this matter were extremely shocked.
None of them expected it to be true or expected that there would really be such a person in history.
In their eyes, even if the show’s crew managed to make up such a story in those books, they couldn’t fake such a large amount of gold.
Yang Yizhi quickly became well known on the Internet.
Even some historians, professors, and teachers in universities also participated in the discussion.
Some people tagged those historians and professors on social media to ask them what had happened back then.
Some people even tagged those famous directors at home and abroad, asking them to write a script based on it and made it into a movie.
All kinds of discussions flooded the Internet.
At the same time.
In a room of a complex in the capital.
“Hmm?”
A grey-haired man who looked like in his fifties heard about this variety show on the Internet, and after he watched the show, his eyes lit up.
This man’s name was Zhao Rulong.
He was a relatively well-known screenwriter.
That was because he had a long collaboration with a famous director in the country.
A screenwriter always worked behind the scenes, so did Zhao Rulong. So, some people might know his name but did not know who he actually was.
Recently, Zhao Rulong was very depressed, and some of his hair even turned grey.
That was because the director he collaborated with hadn’t produced any new works for a long time and was urging him to write a new script. Having been in the industry for dozens of years, Zhao Rulong had no inspiration now, so he wanted to buy some popular Intellectual Properties, such as novels, so as to adapt them to scripts.
However, to his disappointment, many popular Intellectual Properties he wanted to buy had already been purchased by others. His company did not want to buy other less well-known Intellectual Properties because they thought they were worthless.
This put him in a particularly difficult situation.
Without any inspiration or Intellectual Property, what should he do?
He could only stay at home and wait for the inspiration to come to him.
After waiting for so long, he finally got it.
He never expected that he would get inspired by a variety show.
“Hero, Zheng He, ocean, island, treasure…” he murmured.
His eyes became even brighter.
All those elements were interesting!
Moreover, those elements were now very popular among the audience. If he managed to write a script based on those elements and start propagating it immediately, the audience, who was interested in Yang Yizhi’s story, might keep following the news of the movie until the day it was released.
“I finally have an inspiration!”
Zhao Rulong stood up excitedly in an instant. He walked out of the room and ran to the next room.
The famous director, Chen Xiaogang, lived in that room.
However, as soon as Zhao Rulong rushed out of his room, he saw Chen Xiaogang run out of his own room.
They bumped into each other with great excitement.
“I thought of a new theme for my script!” Zhao Rulong said.
“I got an inspiration!” Chen Xiaogang said almost at the same time.
They looked at each other and said in unison, “Zheng He and the guard!”
After saying that, they laughed out loud.
“We need to hurry up. We must finish it as soon as possible.”
Zhao Rulong urged Chen Xiaogang. “Director Chen, I think you should go to find the show crew of Run Wild&Survive as soon as possible. We must reach an agreement with them ahead of others. After all, they are the direct witnesses of the event. With their permission, our script and movie will be legal, and if others copy the idea, they will be breaking the law!”
“You’re right! We must settle this matter as soon as possible.”
Chen Xiaogang nodded and immediately took out his mobile phone to make a call. He asked someone to get the contact information of the show’s crew. He could imagine how many people would try to obtain the legal right to produce works based on this theme.
At this time, the rating of the third episode of Run Wild&Survive was announced.
On a list of the ratings, Run Wild&Survive was ranked first.
Its rating actually reached an amazing 8.9%!
The crews of all variety shows, TV stations, and the press were amazed after hearing the news.
Even some individual social media accounts also expressed their admiration.
The netizens were stunned by the rating.
“Oh my God! I didn’t expect a show to have such a high rating after the show ‘Young Chinese Medicine Doctor’.”
“It’s so amazing! I’m wondering how big its market share would be.”
“As expected, Fang Qiu is awesome. He is always in the spotlight wherever he goes.”
“After Young Chinese Medicine Doctor, will Run Wild&Survive become popular as well?”
“Well, this is not all about the show becoming popular. Instead, it’s about that the JZ TV has become one of the A-list variety show TV stations with the help of Fang Qiu and Run Wild&Survive.”
After reading the rating list of all channels, the netizens were even more stunned.
They were shocked to find that almost all the audience chose to watch Run Wild&Survive, and only a few of them chose to watch other shows. As a result, the highest rating of other shows was only 0.2%.
Everyone was dumbfounded by this.
The crews of other variety shows all felt upset.
However, they also thought that Run Wild&Survive deserved those ratings because nothing in the show was hyped.
Besides, even if some things in the show were hyped, no one else could come up with those ideas.
No one would think about producing a show with content such as fighting a shark and searching for treasure.
The crew of JZ TV cheered excitedly when they saw the rating of the show.
They achieved the highest rating after the show was aired.
At the same time, the show became very popular among the audience because of the last three episodes.
Even if the rating of the next episode dropped by half because Fang Qiu was not in it, it would still be higher than that of all other variety shows.
Thus, the crew thought they should thank Fang Qiu.
Without hesitation, the overjoyed director of the show called Fang Qiu immediately.
“Hello?”
Fang Qiu answered the phone.
“Hey, Fang Qiu, it’s Liu Guobin.”
Liu Guobin continued enthusiastically, “The three episodes that you participated in were all aired.”
“I heard it as well,” Fang Qiu replied with a smile.
Liu Guobin thanked him sincerely and said, “To be honest, I really didn’t expect the ratings of those three episodes to go higher and higher, and I must thank you for this. Without the traffic you brought to the show and the hot topics you created, we wouldn’t have achieved such a high rating. Thank you so much.”
“Glad I could help.”
Fang Qiu answered with a modest smile, “I really can’t take credit. All of you have made contributions to it.”
“Yes.”
Liu Guobin smiled as well and continued, “Our contributions account for 10% while yours account for 90%.”
“Please don’t say that, Director Liu.”
Fang Qiu shook his head with a wry smile. What happened in the show was accidental.
He did not expect so many accidents to happen after going to the sea.
“Stop calling me Director Liu.”
Liu Guobin said in a straightforward tone, “We’re friends and I’m older than you, so you can call me Brother Liu.”
“Okay, Brother Liu,” Fang Qiu answered.
“I have something to tell you.”
Liu Guobin grinned and continued, “We both had a good time during the cooperation, and I believe we would achieve greater success if our cooperation continues. So I want to invite you to join our show again. What do you think?”
“Brother Liu, I’m sorry. I can’t join you this time.”
Fang Qiu gave a bitter smile and shook his head repeatedly. “I think I’d better stay away from variety show now. I’m a doctor of Chinese Medicine, and I don’t want others to regard me as a variety show star. Besides, I think I should give these chances to other celebrities. I don’t want to be cursed.”
“Haha.”
Liu Guobin laughed and said, “Okay. When you want to join a show again after having a good rest, please consider our show first.”
“Okay.”
Fang Qiu quickly nodded in agreement.
He really didn’t plan to get on any variety show now, so he decided to wait and see.
At this moment, in a complex in the capital.
“Whoa…”
Looking at the final rating of Run Wild&Survive, Li Huawen, the director of Young Chinese Medicine Doctor, felt relieved. “It’s lucky that their ratings didn’t surpass my show’s.”
In fact, Li Huawen had been quite nervous before.
He thought, “Fang Qiu almost caused trouble for me. I must invite him to my show next year. Even if he couldn’t participate in every episode, I must make him participate in the first and last episodes.”
An idea suddenly popped into his head. He now was the director of the New Year’s Gala, and he was racking his brain, trying to think of an idea for the gala. He could invite Fang Qiu to the gala since he was so popular among the audience now.
“Fang Qiu, the New Year’s Gala…”
Li Huawen murmured and couldn’t help laughing.
The topics about the show were still hot, and there was no sign that people would lose interest in them.
People were talking about it even at midnight. They browsed the comments of the show on their computers or mobile phones. Some people even started to watch the show for the second time and even the third time.
However, just as everyone was discussing it, someone posted a long post on social media.
The title of the post was “The Treasure on the Island: A Horrifying Detail”.
The post analyzed the details of many things that happened in the show.
The content of the post included:
“Don’t you think that Fang Qiu was furious the moment he saw the python?
“Why was he so furious?
“It could be seen that Fang Qiu respected Yang Yizhi very much and the remains of Yang Yizhi had been touched, so they were scattered on the ground. I guess that Fang Qiu was furious because he thought the python swallowed part of the remains of Yang Yizhi. Except for this, I couldn’t think of any other reason for what he did later.
“Let’s not talk about why Fang Qiu would think that way first. He must have his reasons. We all know that he is very smart and quick-witted. He mastered so much knowledge of Chinese Medicine in just one year. He must have noticed some details, so he came to that conclusion.
“However, all these things don’t matter. What matters is that Zheng He’s story happened six hundred years ago, which means that the python had lived for six hundred years. It’s horrifying! Was this python a demon?”