Chapter 1417 Earning Big as an Extra!

Meanwhile, at A Wu Ming Restaurant.

Cui Geng arrived at A Wu Ming Restaurant to find that Lu Zhiyao, Zhang Zuting, Lin Jiaqiang, and other movie emperors who had played extras in *The Successor* had already arrived. Huang Sibai and the main creative team from Fei Huang Studio were also there, as well as several authors, including Yu Fei.

"Oh, Teacher Cui is finally here. Come on, take the center seat!"

"Teacher Cui, are you getting arrogant? You're not even eager to eat at A Wu Ming Restaurant. Come on, you're fined a big lobster!"

Everyone greeted Cui Geng enthusiastically, deliberately leaving an empty seat for him in the middle of the group.

Cui Geng felt a little helpless. He guessed this was what it meant to be unknown after years of writing, then becoming famous overnight!

Before, the people around him would call him Old Cui, or acquaintances would politely call him "Big Boss," but the title "Teacher Cui" was something he had never heard before.

Clearly, *The Successor* had been elevated to a divine status, and he, the original author, had also been elevated along with it.

Now, everyone saw Cui Geng not as a simple author, but as a great prophet and social scholar, after all, he was the one who had predicted the outcome of the Ukralia election a year ago.

Only Cui Geng knew that it was all a fluke, all luck.

But this kind of thing couldn't be explained, and there was no need to explain it, so he could only silently accept it.

Cui Geng sat down in his seat and said, "It's not that I wasn't eager to eat, it's just that I was gathering material and forgot the time."

Huang Sibai asked, "Did you get scammed again playing GoG?"

Cui Geng coughed lightly, a little embarrassed, "Ahem, it's nothing really, just that one of my teammates in a game where we had a big advantage went AFK. A game that should have ended in twenty minutes was dragged out to fifty minutes, and we still lost."

Huang Sibai couldn't help but look serious, filled with righteous indignation. "Such a thing happened? I'll send a message to Zhang Nan right away and have her punish them severely!"

Cui Geng quickly said, "No need, I've already reported it. Now, as long as the GoG system detects someone going AFK, it will automatically punish them, and the punishment is quite severe. The game has also compensated me with tokens, so there's no need to trouble the person in charge over such a small matter."

Huang Sibai nodded. "Well, that's good. This kind of unhealthy trend cannot be allowed to grow. Tenda will never indulge such players."

Cui Geng looked at everyone present. "Oh, where's Director Zhu?"

Then he realized, "Oh! The Suffering Travels haven't ended yet, have they?"

Huang Sibai had a painful expression on his face, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch upward slightly. "That's right, it won't end until the end of this month."

"I wonder if Director Zhu is doing well on the island."

"But it's still better than what we had back then, we went to Shennongjia! Why can they play in the sand and bask in the sun on the island? That's not fair!"

Cui Geng coughed lightly. "Not necessarily, at least you don't get sunburned in the Shennongjia forest. A few days ago, I watched Teacher Qiao's livestream, and everyone seemed to be quite tanned. As soon as the training ended, everyone was exhausted, but they still forced themselves to slather on sunscreen like crazy."

"And the rock wall on this island is higher than the rock wall in Shennongjia back then. It can only be said that both are suffering, and your two groups have their own unique suffering."

Huang Sibai: "Oh? Is that so? Then I feel better."

Lu Zhiyao also said with some regret, "Oh dear, Director Zhu can't come, so we can only reluctantly eat his share for him!"

"But speaking of which, this Suffering Travels you mentioned… I think it's quite popular recently."

"A few days ago, I even wanted to schedule some time to sign up and give it a try. As a result, I went to the official website and, wow, it wasn't even open. I checked online, and it said that the reservations were completely full, and you couldn't get a spot if you were even a little slow."

"I don't know when the next reservation will open, and even if you sign up, it's hard to say when you'll be scheduled."

Cui Geng was a little stunned. "Ah? You want to go?"

"What's so good about going? It's just pure suffering! Don't believe me? Ask Huang Sibai, he's been there."

Lu Zhiyao looked at Huang Sibai. "Is that so? How is the Suffering Travels? Is it really that hard?"

Huang Sibai was silent for a moment, then said with a straight face, "Well... it is a bit hard, but the rewards are also great..."

Cui Geng couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Good lord, I call it good lord!

Everyone who has been to the Suffering Travels has become so unscrupulous!

And the most bizarre thing is that everyone who has been to the Suffering Travels will become a strange superposition state, which can also be called "Schrödinger's Suffering":

When they go themselves, or when they talk about the Suffering Travels with irrelevant people, these people will definitely complain a lot, saying that it is completely a waste of money to suffer, and that it is too hard;

But if they are talking about the Suffering Travels with people who are interested in going or who ask out of curiosity, they will say with a straight face that the Suffering Travels has a very rich cultural heritage and profound spiritual connotation, and is very worth a visit.

Terrible, so terrible!

Do you think others can't see through your little tricks? Isn't it just to trick others into going to suffer with you?

Such a clumsy play, anyone with normal intelligence shouldn't fall for it, right?

But looking at Lu Zhiyao again, he was becoming more and more interested as he listened.

"Oh? Rock climbing? Wilderness survival? And this island episode has diving?"

"Teacher Qiao, Ruan Guangjian, Yao Bo, and the people in charge of Tenda all went?"

"Then this is actually a Tenda elite training camp, no wonder ordinary people can't even get in!"

"Can you talk to President Pei and have him open a special session for us?"

Huang Sibai suppressed a smile and said with a straight face, "I can give President Pei a report, and I believe that President Pei is so loyal that he will definitely overcome the difficulties and arrange a session for everyone."

Lu Zhiyao was very happy. "Great! Teacher Cui, you come too?"

Cui Geng shook his head like a rattle. "Sorry, excuse me, goodbye!"

Good lord, this group of people must have lost their minds. It's so comfortable to play games in Moyu Internet Cafe, who wants to suffer in the wilderness and on remote islands!

If you want to die, die yourself, but don't drag me along!

Cui Geng was afraid that they would never finish talking about this topic, and just happened to see the food being served, so he quickly said, "Okay, okay, everyone, let's eat!"

Everyone came early and had been chatting for a while, so they were all a little hungry and immediately started eating.

All the precious ingredients on the table were unlimited, you could take whatever you wanted to eat, and everything was delicious!

Cui Geng even had a bit of a dilemma: after eating one delicious dish, he thought it was very delicious and wanted to eat another serving; but the other dishes were also very delicious, and if he ate another serving, he was afraid of filling his stomach and not being able to eat anything else.

After eating something to fill his stomach, Zhang Zuting first raised his glass. "Today, the only pity is that President Pei is busy with work and couldn't come, but I believe that President Pei's heart is with us."

"I propose that we all raise our glasses together to toast President Pei!"

Everyone responded one after another, raising their glasses.

Dining at A Wu Ming Restaurant has always been completely free. You can drink alcohol if you want, or you can drink water or beverages. The main purpose of everyone is to eat. Whether it is alcohol or beverages, they are all used to accompany the meal.

No one can force others to drink.

This was a rule set by President Pei the first time he arranged a dinner, so it has now become a tacit understanding that everyone consciously abides by.

It is honorable to eat a lot, not to drink a lot.

After the alcohol and beverages were down, everyone opened up and chatted while eating.

Lu Zhiyao was also very emotional. "Actually, I originally wanted to support President Pei with this drama, *The Successor*. After all, the two movies *Tomorrow is Beautiful* and *Mission and Choice* helped me a lot before. Even out of gratitude, it would be right to run a free extra role in *The Successor*."

"I didn't expect that the benefits of being an extra would be so great!"

"I said I was supporting President Pei, but in the end, I was still carried by President Pei and Brother Huang. I'm really ashamed."

After *Mission and Choice* was successful, not to mention the money Lu Zhiyao earned, the key was that he became more popular, more famous, and his acting career became wider.

Too many crews came to him to film, and it hurt his brain to choose scripts.

But Lu Zhiyao had a very firm principle: everything was based on President Pei's film schedule, and he would not accept any roles that conflicted with it!

The last time he came to Jingzhou to freeload, Lu Zhiyao asked President Pei about the new drama. As a result, President Pei said that the new drama would be filmed in the US, and there was no suitable role for Lu Zhiyao. If he insisted on participating, he could only play an extra role as a Chinese American.

Lu Zhiyao thought at the time that President Pei was definitely being polite.

Did President Pei think that he was too high-profile now, so he wouldn't accept extra roles?

Absolutely not!

He would definitely not accept extra roles in other crews, but he had to accept extra roles in President Pei's crew no matter what!

People cannot be ungrateful. Even if there is no remuneration for this extra role, in order to repay the favors of the previous two movies, he must participate.

Not only would he participate himself, but he would also bring Zhang Zuting, Lin Jiaqiang, and this group of people to participate together!

Thus, the situation arose where this group of people went to play supporting roles in *The Successor*.

Director Zhu Xiaoce was also very talented, and he managed to carve out enough and very suitable roles for these people in *The Successor*.

Lu Zhiyao played a Chinese American superhero, Zhang Zuting played a judge in a talent show, and Lin Jiaqiang played an ordinary person, a staunch supporter of Phil.

Other people, including Zhang Zuting's old friends and some staff members of Fei Huang Studio, also played a role as extras, and they were completely seamless, and it was impossible to tell!

Because the city of Hope in the film was originally a fictional city, an environment where various ethnic groups were mixed, there was room for this to play out.

In fact, during the filming process, Lu Zhiyao and Zhang Zuting had already had a premonition that this film would not be a huge hit, and even if it did, it would not be of much help to them.

After all, their roles in the entire series were not that many, and the real protagonist was the foreigner who played Phil.

But they never expected that this drama would not only become inexplicably popular, incredibly popular, but also be of great help to their acting careers!

Especially Lu Zhiyao, who benefited the most.

Even many film reviews and media outlets were picking on Lu Zhiyao and praising him, more than the main characters in *The Successor*!