Showbiz: The Annual Squid Game Tournament

What would it be like to lure celebrities into playing a terrifying game?

Zhang Xiaoqiang says the annual Squid Game Championship he created is exactly that kind of live variety show.

But according to the System, if players clear the game, the Host only gets the usual rewards. If they fail, however, he gets a hundred times the reward!

Who needs cucumbers when you have a vibrator?

So Zhang Xiaoqiang starts setting traps for the celebrities in the game. In a little garden, I dig and dig and dig...

In the game:

Escape Room Team: Who am I? Where am I? What kind of place is this?

Yearning for Life Team: Bro, even if it's the Water-Splashing Festival, you can't splash boiling water on us!

Detective Team: We dug a ditch and thought we'd escaped disaster. Why did we end up falling into an even bigger pit?

Other teams: Nothing but colorful language.

Audience: You set people up this badly. Do you have a grudge against celebrities?

Zhang Xiaoqiang grins. "My games are all about giving people a hand when they're in hot water, then making things worse when they're already down. Why get so worked up?"

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