Because the host Phil's hometown is in Auckland, our first relay station in New Zealand, the rest place is Phil's father's farm. Dillon and I were the first team to arrive, even close to the second by almost three hours between Zoe and Joseph. As for the last group of old friends Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi who arrived, we have opened a distance of eight hours.
Fast forward to the first stop, and the group Lu Renjia and Lu Renyi were eliminated. And after a night's rest, we got up first at 6:00 the next morning and received clues about the next stop from Phil.
The second stop was to Sydney, Australia, driving from Phil's father's farm to Auckland Airport. When we arrived, it was past seven to eight o'clock. We got a ten o'clock flight to Sydney. We'll be on the plane later, with Zoe, Joseph, and cowboy brothers Sam and Dean.
The first group to set off was our three teams. Here I also communicated with the two cowboys for the first time, and learned more about their people. Dean is the older brother and Sam is the younger brother. Although in fact it seems that Sam is more than ten centimeters taller than Dean, which makes his brother Dean become a dwarf. Sam is a full 1.9 meters, and Dean is actually not short, about 1.85 meters.
The two brothers jointly inherited the family business of their deceased father and ran a village together. After talking a little bit, I found out that although they looked like rambunctious rednecks, they were actually very shrewd. Astute but not insidious, an adversary to cross because I believe they will confront you head-to-head, not behind your back.
Zoe and Joseph were a bit more savvy than I thought, and they didn't rush to ask us last night after they learned that Dillon and I got a fast-forward card that we needed to give to others. They didn't even mention it, maybe they thought the time had not come.
It also gave me a sigh of relief, because while Dillon and I will definitely give them the fast-forward card in the end, that doesn't mean I'll let them take it for granted. Besides, giving charcoal in the snow is always more important than icing on the cake.
This race in Sydney, Australia, is not much different from the situation in Auckland, New Zealand. After coming out of Sydney Airport to find the designated vehicle, we received the next clue in the car, heading to the Sydney Opera House. Find a designated character in front of the Sydney Opera House and get clues to the Barricade quest.
The roadblock mission is to go to Bondi Beach and find the next clue among the five hundred sand piles on the beach. But the dug piles of sand need to be re-piled up by the contestants themselves before looking for the next one. This is basically a task that depends on luck, and if you are lucky, you can pass it faster.
In fact, although I hate this kind of luck, but in a certain way, luck is actually a kind of strength. Because I don't trust my luck very much, and I spend most of the day digging on bare sand, I'm more worried about sunburn. So this time the roadblock task was done by Dillon.
On the roadblock task here, Joseph almost used the extraordinary luck of shocking the show team to find a clue with a 1 in 50 chance in only five minutes in five hundred sand piles. So the siblings were ahead of us by almost half an hour during this time.
Dillon was the second of three to find the trail, which required us to head to the Rocks in Sydney to find the next detour in a famous pub. The setting of the program group that allows the contestants to find their way through turns and turns, in fact, from another perspective, it allows the contestants to truly travel. Of course, it's just more in a hurry than the tour group.
Compared with Bondi Beach, which is particularly famous for its beautiful scenery, the Rocks area of Sydney has a rich and colorful historical experience.
It's a maze of gravel alleys, cul-de-sacs and courtyards crammed with shops, warehouses and row houses built in the early nineteenth century. Although long ago, The Rocks was just a gathering place for Sydney dockworkers and stevedores. But today there are numerous shops, boutiques, pubs and restaurants built here, attracting overseas tourists like a magnet.
Thanks to the previous alliance agreement, when we first arrived in the rock area, we happened to meet the brother and sister group who just got the task and was about to leave. Maybe it was out of the idea of the fast-forward card in our hands, or maybe it was just a simple final agreement, Zoe and Joseph did not hesitate to point us in the right direction to look for.
From the hand of the proprietress of the century-old tavern, the clues for the next detour quest given are on the ground or underwater. The aboveground task requires contestants to travel to Taronga Zoo to help the animal keepers count the kangaroos. As long as the number given is correct, you can get the next clue.
The underwater task is to ask the contestants to go to the Sydney Aquarium, dive into the water like a diver in the aquarium, find a clownfish with a special pattern in the tropical fish, take a picture with a waterproof camera, and hand it over to the diver to get it. a clue.
Both tasks can actually be a huge waste of time, because when you complete both tasks, if you make a little mistake in either, you have to do it all over again. But because of my reputation as a siren among the survivors, and Dillon is a good diver, we chose to dive without hesitation.
By the time we arrived at the Sydney Aquarium without seeing Zoe and Joseph, we knew they had chosen the aboveground mission because of Joseph's hydrophobia. It also gave us an opportunity to grab the No. 1 spot without having to face off against allies.
The feeling of knowing that I was defeated afterwards is completely incomparable to the frustration of seeing myself defeated intuitively. In order to allow our alliance agreement to continue happily, it is the best to be able to just split the task selection.
Because the detour mission can be done by two people, and Dillon and I are both observant types, we only got up and down in the water for half an hour before we caught sight of the fish. On the other hand, Zoe and Joseph spent an hour and a half on the ground task to count the correct values.
Although it is a two-game winning streak, because in fact, in this round in Australia, the only people who can really take the first place are only the three groups on the first batch of planes, so Dillon and I still do not attract too much attention. Because all three of our groups took the lead along the way, and the other groups that arrived in Sydney in the second and third groups were more or less an hour to two hours behind.
But this kind of time advantage that is too advanced has also brought us some disadvantages. That is, we didn't meet anyone else other than a brief hello to the other contestants that night at Phil's father's farm. And there is an old saying that, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will not be in danger in a hundred battles.
Even though we are leading the pack now, Dillon and I lack the understanding of other opponents. Lack of understanding of other opponents, it is possible to let us stumble later. Fortunately, the program group will not let the leader's situation continue for too long.
In the second round in Sydney, Australia, the Asian-American male-female group Romeo and Zhu Yingtai, who were not full of lovers, were eliminated after losing the blond stunners and best friends Lucy and Louise. At the start of the third round, our lead was wiped out by flight time.
"The next stop is Tokyo, Japan." I opened the clue card Phil handed us, read the words to Dillon, "Let's find a travel agency to see the earliest flight today."
I asked the front desk of the hotel where we live and found the nearest travel agency. And when we set off, I saw Zoe and Joseph, the sibling group behind us, also got up and came to the hotel lobby. Because going from Sydney to Tokyo is not as close as coming from Auckland to Sydney, the earliest departure time of the plane starts at 12 noon.
The group that got on the first planes to take off, in addition to me and Dillon and Zoe Joseph, was Sam, Dean, the model duo James and Sid. It doesn't seem to be strong, but it has always been able to lead the second-tier cancer survivor father-son combination David and Kurt. Do your part black and white with police husband and wife combination, Tevez and Vera.
All of a sudden, the first-tier team increased from three to six. The second batch of three teams of retired husband and wife team Catherine and Paul, blonde stunners and best friends Lucy and Louise, and otaku team Johnson and Louis were not much slower than the first-tier team. Their plane took off only half an hour slower than ours.
Basically everyone is back at the original starting line.
"Hi there! Brian and Dillon right?" James and Hitt from the model group stepped up to talk while waiting to board the plane. James took the lead and said: "Me and Sid have both watched your performance in Survivor, it's really handsome! I bet the detour mission you chose yesterday was the diving one, right?"
Someone took the initiative to come forward to befriend, and I naturally did not intend to refuse. After all, because of participating in Survivor, Dillon and I are already the type of old fritters in the eyes of other contestants, and we won two relay stations in a row. Although this result is not very conspicuous, it makes us stand out from the crowd. .
At this time, Dillon and I are in great danger of being isolated, so let me turn this disadvantage into an advantage. With the upward mentality shared by all human beings, make some good moves with other strong combinations. This also avoids being attacked on the back and back when facing the turn.
Looking at the model James with black curly hair and the temperament of an Italian man, I smiled and said, "Yes, you guessed it right. And I guess you also chose diving, right? Sam who was talking to you before. And Dean, I think they've chosen the kangaroo count on the ground."
"Wow, it's a pity we didn't see the Siren entering the water with our own eyes." Sid, who was a standard German, with long pale blond hair tied in a pigtail, said after James with great interest.
"And worthy of being a siren, you guessed it too accurately. As far as I know, Sam and Dean are standard landlubbers. Originally I planned to go on ground missions with them, but James insisted on pulling Follow me on an underwater mission. Just to see if I can happen to run into you."
Listening to Sid, it seems that Sam and Dean of the Cowboys were caught up by the second tier yesterday after wasting too much time due to their bad luck on the roadblock mission. And when the two of them met again, they formed an alliance model that was not too good but not bad.
"Oh, shut up, Sid!" James slapped Sid a little angrily because he was told by his friend's big mouth in front of the person concerned. Then he turned around and said to me with red ears: "Actually, I have been following you since the America's Next Top Model. It was a pity to withdraw from the competition. Fortunately, you made a comeback in Survivor. !"
I didn't expect James, who looked very difficult to deal with, or a little fan of mine? Because this is the first time I intuitively meet someone who has a mentality of liking and admiring myself, but who can easily speak to an equal dialogue. So with an inexplicable feeling, I actually felt a little embarrassed.
Feeling that the smile on my face was a little too high, I looked into his eyes and said with a smile, "Thank you for your support. Since we are all models, let's make friends together."
I reached out and shook hands with James. Then, just as James was going to do a pompous greeting that Europeans often use, a big hand pressed on my shoulder.
"Brian, what are you doing? We're boarding the plane." Dillon's voice sounded unpleasantly in my ear.