Snowflakes

Since the six segments came to an end, it was time for the group to be sent back.

The white-collar woman asked the director, "When is the film crew gathering next time? What film will it be?"

"I have nothing to tell you," the director replied with a completely emotionless tone.

"Usually, they gather after three to five days. As to what film it will be, you will only know after coming next time. This group has many newbies, so the difficulty for the next one probably still won't be too high, around 1 elimination in 8," the woman in the sunglasses answered on behalf of the director.

"Brother, you saved my life this time. I owe you one favor. If there's a chance in the future, I will definitely repay you." Gao Fei stretched his hand toward Li Teng.

"You're welcome." Li Teng shook hands with Gao Fei.

Although he survived, Li Teng still wasn't quite happy. It was so unworthy that he hadn't obtained the 100 points.

…

After a simple farewell ceremony, the group sat on a bus under the "escort" of a bunch of staff members.

The bus drove for 20 minutes to a nearby airport, where eight black helicopters were gathered.

Different from when they came, when the helicopter had directly dropped Li Teng on the landing area beside the sea, when they returned, they boarded helicopters at a centralized airport.

Soon Li Teng knew why.

Before boarding helicopters, they had to pass through security checks, undergoing extremely stringent checks. Anything apart from the clothes on them wasn't allowed to be brought into the helicopters.

And for clothes, pants, socks, shoes, and such weren't allowed to be worn beyond the normal need of one's own body. None of the clothes sold in the film studio had accessories, such as belts, strings on them, and shoes that didn't have shoelaces. It was probably to prevent them from tying clothes into a rope and climbing down from the stone pillars.

The woman in the sunglasses' cell phone was also confiscated and stored into a storage locker by a staff member for temporary safekeeping.

After waving to each other, Li Teng, Gao Fei, and the others boarded their respective helicopters.

After they entered the helicopters, the helicopters' doors closed.

Just like when they had come, the interior of the helicopter was completely black. They could see nothing.

"To be escorted with a special helicopter as an extra is such good treatment." Li Teng heaved a long sigh.

After a while, he thought of something, reached out around the cabin, and found the box back when he had first entered the helicopter.

Unfortunately, the box was empty.

It seemed that the helicopter box provided a small amount of food and drinking water only when returning to the film studio—none when going back.

Since he had nothing to do in the dark, Li Teng sat still for a while, then lay down in the cabin.

Perhaps he was tired, or perhaps due to other reasons, Li Teng was soon fast asleep.

…

He slept for an unknown amount of time.

Li Teng was awakened by the coldness of a gust of wind, and there was the sound of music from an unknown place.

After waking up, Li Teng suddenly realized where he was right now.

The helicopter sent him back to the top of the stone pillar.

The music came from the helicopter to wake him up.

The helicopter's cabin door opened, and the cold wind blew in from outside the cabin door, carrying a few snowflakes with it.

The sky outside was about to get dark.

Upon seeing the snowflakes still falling outside the cabin, the extremely small top of the 1,000-meter stone pillar, and the thick layer of snow accumulated on top of his worn bed, Li Teng was immediately submerged by fear and despair.

Even climbing down the helicopter's shaky rope ladder to the tiny top of the stone pillar was a very difficult challenge. Not to mention the problem of how to spend this night after returning there.

The snow was still falling…