“Damn,” Lu Xiaotian was shocked, “What did Brother Lin do? How did his reputation instantly drop by 50 points?”
“It’s still dropping…” The fat guy was also sweating, “Damn, what did he do? Now he’s become the public enemy.”
As they were talking, they heard violent banging sounds coming from the glass room next door.
Perhaps because it was the first voting day, the guards for the five corridors had become very lax. The fat guy and Lu Xiaotian stood up and saw Zhao Jingtian, with his long ponytail, in the opposite glass room, punching the glass with all his might.
“Bro, stop hitting it,” Lu Xiaotian pressed against the glass and said to him, “Do you think you’re Star Platinum or something, with your ‘Ora Ora’? You can’t break it…”
Just as he finished speaking, he saw a crack appear under the other’s fist.
Lu Xiaotian: …
The girl with the sunflower on her head also covered her mouth and smiled. She took two steps forward, gently exhaled, and reached up to remove a hair accessory from her head.
In the next moment, the hair accessory in her palm emitted a dazzling light, eventually transforming into a blood-red earring, landing in her snow-white palm!
She chuckled softly, pressed her palm against the glass, and slightly raised one corner of her mouth at the dumbfounded Lu Xiaotian and the fat guy.
“Let me teach you a little lesson,” she raised a single finger and smiled gently, “Those who reach the intermediate level have some skills up their sleeves.”
In the next moment, centered around the earring, the entire glass wall turned into rippling water!
The commotion in the fifth corridor obviously couldn’t reach the main venue. The water gradually submerged the red-haired girl’s thighs, and the host, holding a microphone, reacted instantly.
He looked at Lin Huai angrily and said, “How could you kill her? You…”
“Didn’t you want her to die?” Lin Huai said softly.
“What?”
“Yes, who would want her to die? She was so young and so cute,” Lin Huai said in a light and cheerful tone, spreading his hands, “But I’m just a prisoner who can press a button; I can’t decide her life or death. If you want to save her, open the cabinet now, and it’s still possible.”
The host was choked up, but he didn’t make any move. Lin Huai then laughed even more heartily.
“You see, your sympathy, your civilization, your manners, are just that,” he smiled gently, “As you said, I’m the villain, and I’m more eager for her death than you are. She’s beautiful now, but once she drowns, she won’t be. Her skin will bloat, her beautiful green eyes will bulge like a dead fish’s, not to mention her lips—do you think a girl judged as a potential criminal at ten, used to bear all malice, has ever had the chance to kiss a boy she liked?”
He spoke in a detached tone, uttering light words. Meanwhile, the water level finally rose, submerging the girl’s delicate lips.
“Actually, compared to promoting justice, what I prefer is breaking the script,” he paused and looked up, as if talking to the Examiner of this round—the puppet who loved drama—through the air, “I’m a big-shot actor, and big-shot actors not only add scenes for themselves, buy hot searches to debut as the center, but also learn to bring their own scriptwriters to alter the script—”
“—Now, it’s time for me to alter the script,” Lin Huai said, “What’s the current viewership?”
“T-two million?” the host instinctively replied.
As the girl was completely submerged, her red hair floated like freely growing seaweed in the water. Lin Huai faced the camera with a wolfish grin.
In the next moment, he slammed his fist into the mechanism on the cabinet!
“Useless,” Dr. Lucille and the curator said simultaneously, “Such a high-stress mechanical system, he can’t possibly break it…”
“Is this just futile rage?”
“?? Dude, you were the one who wanted to kill her first.”
“What’s he trying to do? Can someone explain it to me?”
“The logic of a psychopath doesn’t need to be understood.”
“Damn, when it comes to matters of life and death, this guy still wants to be a contrarian!”
However, to their astonishment, after three quick punches, the cabinet’s mechanism was broken open by him!
“This is impossible!” The curator and Dr. Lucille jumped up simultaneously.
Equally panicked were the audience below. Seeing Lin Huai emerge as the center, they screamed and fled their seats.
“Electrocute him! Electrocute him!”
“I can’t!” The person in charge of the controls screamed, “I-I can’t move!”
Behind him, in his shadow, a red figure quietly appeared and successfully infiltrated.
—It was Yan Xi, who could control shadows.
“Damn it, just shoot him, shoot him!” The curator issued orders.
“No, we can’t!” The person in charge of the security system said, extremely flustered, “The security system seems to have crashed! We don’t know who did it!”
“It’s an external attack, a hacker’s attack!”
“Where’s the hacker? Why wasn’t this reported earlier?”
“It seems to have been set up about ten minutes ago, with a fifteen-minute delay before activation…” The security maintenance worker was sweating profusely, “Let me check the IP source…”
“What’s there to check!” The curator was on the verge of a breakdown.
Long before the exhibition, they had set up a series of computer-controlled automatic attack measures in the venue to prevent emergencies. The most powerful automatic electromagnetic cannon system could directly turn Lin Huai into ashes. This security system had been in use for forty years, continuously updated by top programmers, and represented the pinnacle of the greenhouse’s wisdom…
Yet, this person was telling him that the security system had been breached?
Amidst the continuous alarm sounds, the glass cabinet doors of the five corridors were also opened. Lu Xiaotian, who had been dumbfounded watching Zhao Jingtian and the sunflower girl leave, now saw the glass door in front of him… open.
“The cabinet door is open!” He cried with joy, “Let’s come out!”
Fatty: “Bro, your taste is a bit heavy… What? It’s open? Who did it?”
“Who else!” Lu Xiaotian said excitedly, “Of course, it’s our invincible Brother Lin, Lin the Invincible… Let’s go, let’s charge!”
With that, he fiercely twisted his wrist.
“I’m going to pay back all the bullying I’ve endured these days…”
“Damn it!” The curator angrily threw down his headset, “Let’s go, let’s go…”
As the audience fled in panic, Lin Huai smiled and bowed to them.
“The show is about to begin,” he said, “Please remain calm, audience.”
In the next moment, overwhelming crimson threads rose from the ground!
Lin Huai had wanted to use this skill ever since he saw the half-faced puppet—now, he finally got his wish. However, he seemed to have some difficulty controlling the force, and as he sealed the doors, a few fleeing audience members were pierced through the chest by the overly hard threads, turning into human skewers.
“Oh dear,” he shook his head regretfully, not because of the deaths, but because of his failed first attempt. Then, he gently clapped his hands, “Please return to your seats and don’t move around, otherwise, I might have a hard time controlling my threads.”
Under his smiling invitation, everyone tremblingly returned to their seats. A man who had laughed the hardest when number 72 suffocated just now let out a scream at the sight of the piercing threads. When he turned around, he saw a lady pierced by the threads and began to retch. He swayed for a while before finally fainting.
—Only to be sliced into several pieces by the threads upon hitting the ground.
In this atmosphere of extreme terror, Lin Huai walked step by step towards the glass cabinet that was now completely submerged. The girl floating in the water inside the cabinet didn’t close her eyes; even though she was nearly suffocating, her green eyes remained open, looking at him.
He smiled, and in the next moment, he snapped his fingers, and countless crimson threads rose from the ground, piercing through the glass cabinet from all directions!
The threads were incredibly hard but just narrowly passed through the gaps between the girl and the cabinet. After the glass cabinet shattered, they gently dissolved into the shadowy water. Clear water flowed out of the cabinet, and the girl was gradually lowered from the water. After a while, she clutched her throat and began to retch.
The terrified host, who had wanted to sneak away, was pinned in place by countless threads, forced into a ridiculous pose. Lin Huai walked to the glass cabinet, looked at the girl inside, placed his hand on the cabinet, and said, “Why weren’t you afraid just now?”
The girl coughed and shook her head.
“I was very afraid,” she said, “But being killed by you is better than being killed by them. Besides, I… you saved me once.”
Lin Huai stared at her for a long time, the corner of his mouth raised, smiling like a villain and yet like a child.
“Don’t you want to ask me why, since I have the ability, I didn’t save the first three people?” he said.
The red-haired girl still shook her head.
“That’s your business,” she said, “And you must have… your reasons.”
“Shh, don’t define me so quickly, I’m not a good person, maybe I really just like watching cruel things… But you said one thing very well,” he said, “Thank you for not saying ‘because you’re a good person’ or ‘because I believe in you’—that would have made me lose my cool. But there’s another thing you need to remember.”
“I don’t save people for no reason, unless I think it’s fun,” he said, “So, next, I’ll show you something good.”
Then, with a wave of his hand, the third cabinet next to the red-haired girl was blown open by a gust of air.
As the cabinet was blown open, the hellish scene beneath it was revealed.
“Gag—”
A louder retching sound came from cabinet number 13. Beneath the third cabinet was the most horrifying execution scene she had ever seen.
The person who fell didn’t even have time to make a sound, turning into an unrecognizable pile of meat paste in the most gruesome manner.
“This is the conspiracy of this Game, to give people hope and then bring them despair in the end,” Lin Huai said coldly, “You really have a way with playing with people’s minds.”
He laughed.
“You’re perverted, and I’m crazy, so I fit right into this world—” he spread his palm, “I made a bet in eight minutes, and in the end, I won, and your hypocrisy was exposed.”
“Next,” he said, “It’s our turn to strike back.”
