Chapter 933: The Threatened Lab Rats

The introduction continued.

"Lab Rat Number 4, Wang Daqiang, male, 22 years old, Electronics Factory employee, threatened as follows:

Wang Daqiang has a half-brother from his father's other marriage, and this brother has a violent temper and runs with the wrong crowd.

Then, Wang Daqiang got involved with this half-brother's wife, his sister-in-law, and put a big green hat on his brother's head.

So,

Wang Daqiang, you wouldn't want your brother to find out about you and his wife, would you?"

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Nothing beats dumplings for taste, nothing beats a sister-in-law for fun. I only ever dared to think about it, never expected this guy to actually go through with it! And on top of that, his brother has a violent temper and runs with the wrong crowd. If his brother ever finds out, he'll be lucky to escape with his life, and even then, he'll probably be half-crippled.]

"Lab Rat Number 5, Zhang Jing, female, 27 years old, a regular office clerk at an ordinary company.

Threatened as follows: She had feelings for her best friend's boyfriend. To push her best friend and the boyfriend to break up, she once invited her best friend to a bar and deliberately got her drunk, which led to the best friend being violated by multiple men at the bar. When the boyfriend found out, he decisively broke up with her.

After the breakup, Zhang Jing seized the opportunity and became his girlfriend.

Zhang Jing, you wouldn't want your dirty secret exposed to the public, would you?"

"Lab Rats Number 6 and Number 7 will be introduced together."

"Zeng Guangyao and Zeng Guangzu. Just from the names, you can tell these are brothers. Not just brothers, they're identical twins."

"Age 25, occupation: grave robbers.

Threatened as follows: The mere fact that they rob graves is already a massive leverage point. But especially, they've also killed people during their grave-robbing operations, which is an even bigger leverage point.

After all, you two brothers wouldn't want to go to prison, would you?"

All seven lab rats had now been fully introduced.

The photos of the twin brothers displayed on the electronic large screen behind the Long-haired Beautiful Hostess gradually faded out with time.

Chat section.

Middle-aged Uncle: [So all the lab rats this time have leverage against them and were threatened into participating. Interesting, truly interesting. But gaining hold of all these leverage points must not have been easy, right?]

Domineering Female CEO: [Gaining hold of these leverage points and threatening the participants definitely requires a lot of effort. So compared to other options, paying them ten thousand a day is still the better deal. Of course, this is also Alice Apartment deliberately creating this kind of setup this round to add some novelty.]

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Alright, alright, I want to see what new stuff has been added! I'm waiting!]

Aside from Ultimate Rich Kid, many others were also posting, urging the Long-haired Beautiful Hostess to quickly introduce what new elements had been added to the game.

The Long-haired Beautiful Hostess didn't keep them in suspense and got straight to the point:

"Based on our own ideas, as well as the various suggestions viewers have privately sent us over the past week, we've decided to add this new gameplay mechanic to the Far Neighbor live stream game."

"Of course, this new gameplay mechanic only takes effect for this round, as an experiment. It won't necessarily appear in every round going forward."

"This round's new mechanic is called: Paid Assassination!"

Paid assassination, as the name suggests, means paying money to kill someone.

"The rules for Paid Assassination are as follows:

Anyone watching the live stream can participate.

You can use money to bribe the residents in the apartment to kill lab rats.

However, both the buyer and the seller operate on a voluntary basis. It's not mandatory."

Upon seeing these rules, I am the Hero: [Damn, if we play it this way, wouldn't the game end even faster? For example, if I bet on Jiang Ran, and I want this round to end quickly, I'd just spend money to hire killers to take out all the other lab rats.]

Others also noticed this and immediately felt that this Paid Assassination mechanic wasn't all that great!

With her lips slightly curved upward, the Long-haired Beautiful Hostess said, "The rules haven't been fully introduced yet.

Paid Assassination will only be activated 7 times per round, once per day.

For Paid Assassination, each person watching the live stream can contribute a maximum of ten thousand per person.

Then, designating which resident kills which lab rat requires a collective vote from everyone."

"For example, if I want the Demoness sisters to kill Jiang Ran, and you want Zhang Yao to kill that lawyer, then everyone needs to vote on it. Do you all understand?"

Evil Wolf: [I don't understand. If it works like this, what happens if the residents refuse the Paid Assassination? Do we need to re-vote? Or do we go with the second-highest vote count?]

The Long-haired Beautiful Hostess said, "If the resident refuses, then today's Paid Assassination is simply voided."

Hiss...

Many people in front of their screens watching the live stream sucked in a cold breath. They never expected there to be a rule like this.

If residents kept refusing, and residents refused every single day, then this gameplay mechanic would essentially be useless.

The Long-haired Beautiful Hostess didn't care about any of that. She said, "Every round in the future will likely feature a different set of new gameplay mechanics, so everyone can look forward to that."

"Oh, I almost forgot. Before we start the betting, there's one more thing I need to inform everyone about."

The Long-haired Beautiful Hostess lightly pressed her forehead with her right hand, looking somewhat troubled, as if she had genuinely almost forgotten about this matter.

"Huang Kaiyu, everyone should know about him by now, right? Because he killed three people to protect his cats and dogs, he was arrested, as mentioned last time. This time, Alice Apartment managed to get him out. They transformed him from a lab rat into a resident. He's already moved back into Alice Apartment. Of course, since he's a resident now, the ten thousand a day doesn't apply anymore. Just like ordinary residents, it's ten thousand a month."

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Damn, how are they so efficient? He was only arrested a little over a week ago, and they've already gotten him out?]

Domineering Female CEO: [Alice Apartment is about to become a cat and dog paradise. Once someone is brought out, they're forced and can't leave. His previous cats and dogs will probably all be sent to his home in Alice Apartment for him to raise himself.]

Middle-aged Uncle: [What cat and dog paradise? More like cat and dog hell...]

[Unless he keeps all the cats and dogs inside his own home and never lets them out. Once he lets them out, quite a few of the psychological freaks in this apartment genuinely love torturing cats and dogs.]

A whole bunch of chatter filled the chat.

But the Long-haired Beautiful Hostess ignored all of it and started the betting.

Soon, the betting session ended.

The results were as follows:

"Lab Rat Number 1, Jiang Ran, total bet amount: 42.99 million!

Lab Rat Number 2, Yang Qi, total bet amount: 28.71 million!

Lab Rat Number 3, Chen Sanshui, total bet amount: 20.01 million!

Lab Rat Number 4, Wang Daqiang, total bet amount: 12.25 million!

Lab Rat Number 5, Zhang Jing, total bet amount: 2.78 million!

Lab Rat Number 6, Zeng Guangyao, total bet amount: 23.41 million!

Lab Rat Number 7, Zeng Guangzu, total bet amount: 21.9 million!

Round 34, total bet amount: 152.05 million!!!"

Jiang Ran still had the highest amount.

But this highest bet amount was getting lower and lower.

The main reason was that he was too consistent.

Betting on him guaranteed a win, but it wouldn't split much money.

Moreover, betting on him offered no thrill of gambling, nor the sense of achievement from winning a bet.