The Best Actor Insists On Living With Me!-Chapter 1672 - 1662: Falling Behind (Part 3)

Xia Siyu happened to be sitting side by side with him on a camel and leaned over to take a look: "Your phone isn’t working."

She took out her own phone. It was the one Qin Baizhou had given her after Bo Yan had thrown her old one into a hotpot. Bo Yan had bought her a similar model in a different color. She had been using it for over a year, but since she didn’t play games often, she hadn’t replaced it.

She opened the built-in compass app on her phone, but the needle was wobbling, clearly malfunctioning too.

Xia Siyu immediately spat: "What a crappy phone, I’ll replace you tomorrow."

Bo Yan’s expression was serious: "It’s the magnetic field. There must be a strong magnetic field around here, maybe a magnetic mountain. That’s why the phones are affected."

No wonder; generally, desert highways are built close to water sources. Unlike in ancient times, water sources are now used not just for survival but for irrigating anti-desertification plants nearby.

But Moon Bay is about twenty kilometers north of the highway, quite a distance away. Because of the magnetic field, likely from some ancient mine, devices are affected, so they deliberately bypass it.

So, it turns out the show provided each team with a guide for this very reason. It’s only twenty kilometers away, and with a guide, they can direct you when you veer off course. The show knows that compasses are pretty useless around here.

But they don’t warn the participants, letting them find their own way. No wonder the show said that love isn’t all sweetness; it might also be sticking together in dire circumstances.

Is this really a love show? It already feels like a survival adventure.

Even if Xia Siyu isn’t well-educated, she understands the basic knowledge that magnetic fields can affect phones and compasses. Her first reaction was to turn around directly — riding the camel to the cameraman, she said to the camera: "Showrunners!"

Are they trying to compare this unnoticed danger to that fatal accident from a year and a half ago involving another show?

No wonder the showrunners hinted earlier that it’s best for the teams to stick together, to make a bigger target that’s easier to catch.

Even though the water and food they brought were enough for them to wander another day or two in the desert, the showrunners really went hard.

Those who know Xia Siyu know that while she has a temper, usually a shout would suffice. But now, she was genuinely enraged.

Since that accident a year and a half ago, she wasn’t angry about later taking the blame, getting scolded for a year, or losing two best actress awards. She was mad about how there could still be shows that don’t disclose risks.

Even with enough preparation and a guide, and a bunch of people surrounding them, after all, this is still the desert—what if something happens?

Something happens, someone could die or get injured, and would anyone really be accountable? Even if there were compensations later, it would cause irreversible damage.

Xia Siyu was so angry that she actually smiled a little. In front of the camera, her smile was extremely dazzling: "Good, you’re really good."

Her smile disappeared as quickly as it appeared, and she led the camel back. The show provided a director for each group, and she was going to speak to the execution director!

She hadn’t gotten far when Bo Yan grabbed her wrist.

Xia Siyu thought Bo Yan was going to persuade her not to act out, and her temper flared: "Bo Yan, let go of me! I just have to get an explanation today!"

If I don’t find out, I’ll write my name backward!

"I know the way," Bo Yan stayed calm, and Xia Siyu froze for a moment, "What’s your plan?"

Bo Yan took her wrist—on it was the watch Xia Youbiao had specifically given her before.

Xia Youbiao liked buying watches, and previously netizens had figured out his name through his watch. Naturally, he gave his daughter the best. Xia Siyu had worn this watch to the Golden Moon Awards ceremony before, even though she didn’t win, and she had never taken it off since.

Although Xia Siyu didn’t get along well with her dad verbally, she understood his intentions. Even though she couldn’t help but complain when she confronted him, she kept her father’s goodwill in mind and always carried the watch with her.

The watch Xia Youbiao gave, of course, wasn’t bad. This watch wasn’t about whether it had diamonds — it could resist strong magnetic fields.

It’s well known that mechanical watches worry most about magnetic fields affecting their movements in daily life. Cheap cars and expensive watches, those who only buy diamond-studded or limited-edition watches are amateurs. The truly knowledgeable ones look for watches with such capabilities, and some high-end watches can even quickly determine the constellation at night.

Indeed, Xia Siyu’s watch still functioned normally. But what good is a watch?

Bo Yan said: "With a watch, we can find the direction. We’re in the Northern Hemisphere, and in the afternoon in the Northern Hemisphere, if you point the hour hand towards the sun, the bisected angle between the hour hand and twelve o’clock points south. Conversely, the opposite direction is north."

Using this method, they could roughly calculate their direction.

While saying this, Bo Yan held onto Xia Siyu’s hand, and they were very close together. If not for the fact that they were on two different camels, their bodies might have been touching.

However, Bo Yan’s expression was so focused, appearing as if he was just studying, with no indication at all that he also perhaps wanted to lean a bit closer to his wife.

"Are you sure?" Although Xia Siyu trusted Bo Yan, she still felt it might be risky.

"There’s another way to be sure, which is the tamarisk here." There were plants to prevent wind and sand along the highway, but once you move away from the road, these plants disappear. But there must be a water source in Moon Bay, and where there’s water, there’s likely ground water. And where there’s ground water, there will be vegetation.

The sparse tamarisk growth here signified a water source.

"Trust me, it’s this way."

Xia Siyu nodded: "Alright, let’s go this way."

They had only taken a couple of steps when Bo Yan lowered his voice and said: "Actually, there’s another hint. When I just suggested we go this way, the guide noticeably relaxed."

While the guide would steer them if they were clearly off course, who wouldn’t want to find the right path sooner, finish early, and get paid?

With these three confirmations, this direction had to be the right one.

They continued along this path for a distance until sunset. They were still about seven or eight kilometers away, and since darkness had fallen, they could no longer rely on the sun for direction.

When checking the phone again, the magnetic field was still strong, and the compass needle continued to shake.

Although the watch remained unaffected for the time being, without the sun, how could they find their way? The surrounding dunes all looked identical, and Xia Siyu couldn’t tell them apart.

She looked at Bo Yan again, to which Bo Yan said, "Let’s rest for a while."