Chapter 106 - Barrage

Chapter 106: Chapter 102 BarrageLi Cheng sat in the chair, his left hand hidden beneath the table firmly grasping the Bat Hook Claw Gun, ready to pull the trigger at any moment. His right hand took out a small device.

It consisted of a laser pointer and a spinning wheel. The laser pointer, mounted on the wheel, pointed at the TV screen, and when the wheel spun and stopped, Li Cheng would record on paper the barrage directed by the laser.

Dense numbers floated across the TV screen, all of them phone numbers.

A mechanical arm hung in midair, swaying slightly like the Sword of Damocles. As time trickled away, the mechanical arm ultimately didn’t thrust forward, and the camera lens still aimed at the table laden with "gold ingots."

Seeing Li Cheng and Little Red Riding Hood’s vote count steadily climbing, with the show organizers not interfering—Leonardo and the others, still playing volleyball, were shaken to the core.

"I only brought ten gold bars and a small amount of diamond jewelry with me, and I imagine everyone else did too. Adopting Ant’s tactic, spending money on raffles to buy votes, it’s clear we can’t compete."

Leonardo pressed down his surging emotions, forcing himself to think calmly, "Then, attack Ant, seize the gold?"

Probably not feasible either—as it seems the bottom line for the mechanical arm is that contestants can’t directly attack each other. Moreover, if they attacked Ant, the excited viewers might not give their votes to them either.

What they didn’t know was that Li Cheng earlier got a few pieces of gold from Little Red Riding Hood and, while others were preparing for the next round of reality show in the gymnasium, ran to the Bone Corridor and melted the gold with a Nuclear Energy Lighter, mixing it with other metals to come up with these gold ingots.

Among them were gold-plated, copper-mixed fake gold, and pure gold ingots.

"Trust me," Li Cheng lowered his voice to everyone, "if anyone gets eliminated, don’t resist, immediately head to the door to leave the villa, there’s a high chance you can survive."

"Bullshit—"

In desperation, Will, unable to maintain his genteel demeanor, exclaimed in a ghetto accent, "Then why aren’t you at the door waiting?"

"Because I’m busy servicing the audience. All viewers are my family."

Li Cheng claimed defiantly, nonchalantly spinning the wheel.

Rattle rattle—

The wheel spun for a while and slowly stopped, pointing to a barrage

"Very well, we now have our first lucky viewer. These are your gold ingots."

Li Cheng shifted some of the gold on the table to one side, persuasively speaking to the barrage with a sense of déjà vu, "Hey, the most important thing in life is to be happy. Matters of the heart can’t be forced. My mom told me to always keep smiling, and good luck will naturally come. Cheer up, okay?"

Having said that, he continued to spin the wheel, locking onto the barrage sent by the second lucky viewer.

Li Cheng copied down the phone number onto paper, and with a grave face, he said, "Look, tell your cousin, true love is always on the way. The old lady from the next village over lived single her entire life waiting for true love; she’s been dead for over a decade.

One day, a dark technology warlord happened to pass by, and at first glance, he felt a connection with the old lady. He dug up her grave and exhumed her, extracting DNA from her bone marrow using cutting-edge biotech, cloned her back to life, fitted her with the latest Mechanical Prosthetics, and threw in dozens of armored vehicles, Power Mechas as a bridal gift.

Now their family is a renowned power, the couple is loving and happy. I heard they’re supposed to give birth to a pair of gene-mutated twins next year, naturally born with heterochromia, possessing Mechanical Prosthetics Supreme Bone and superpowered strength, little mutated human babies who love to drink beast milk. It’s really something to be envious of."

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been in the killing field for too long and gradually awakened to my wicked nature, or if the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method and Immersion Performance Method have made Li Cheng’s thinking increasingly abnormal, but his ability to blather on the fly was growing by the day.

Sitting next to him, Little Red Riding Hood struggled to keep her composure. In order to manage her expressions well, she had to pinch her own thigh where the camera couldn’t see, just so she could maintain a casual smile.

She raised her hand to wipe away the glistening beads of sweat on her forehead and chimed in with Li Cheng, "Yes, I’ve heard as well. That old lady’s, oh no, I mean the Wasteland Warlord’s wife’s story is truly enviable. Mr. Ant, shall we draw the next lucky audience member?"

"Sure."

Li Cheng smoothly went with the flow and continued to spin the wheel.

Watching the gold bars being taken away, the frequency and quantity of the barrage on the TV screen visibly increased, with some barrages grasping the essence of the lottery—they deliberately sent long messages to increase their size and the time they stayed on the screen, thus increasing their chances of winning.

Soon, the TV screen was flooded with a plethora of chaotic barrages, which was precisely what Li Cheng wanted.

The more chaotic the barrages, the more diverse the content, the more time he could buy to observe these samples and confirm his suspicions.

Only his calm and composed demeanor, in the eyes of Leonardo and others, was especially unbearable.

The vast majority of votes had been siphoned off by the prankster Li Cheng and Little Red Riding Hood, and their beach volleyball game was no longer drawing any attention, with barely any new votes trickling in.

"Ant!"

Holding a beach volleyball and currently with the lowest number of votes, Will said in a deep voice, "Help me canvass for votes, and as soon as we leave here, I’ll immediately have a big gift for you! Don’t forget who I am."

Will came from Gen-Sys Biotech Company and, with his status as a direct member of the company, could apply for a significant amount of funding from his superiors after leaving this place, and transfer it to Ant as a reward.

The problem was...

"Don’t joke."

Li Cheng said evenly, "Without proof, what you can offer, others can too, leading to a disorderly competition.

If you truly needed help, you wouldn’t talk about doing something ’after leaving here,’ but would give me the Equipment on you right now.

Same as before, trust me, if anyone gets eliminated, don’t resist, immediately head to the door and leave the villa."

"Hah,"

Will sneered cynically, "Sitting around waiting for doom isn’t my style..."

With that, he fiercely lifted the volleyball and unleashed his Skill onto the ball.