CIATB Chapter 652: Round 32 Goes Live
Chapter 652: Round 32 Goes Live
A comic author in the group: "Holy crap, what's going on with that author's 'Love Abyss'? It's in the top three of the reward chart again this month, how many months has it been now?!"A second comic author: "Didn't people notice it the first month it climbed the reward chart? At that time, everyone thought it was just the author amusing themselves, tipping their own work, right? But it's been so many months in a row now... who the hell knows what's going on..."
A third: "Could it be possible this author is buying rankings? Is he a major rank buyer?"
A fourth: "How could it be buying rankings? A major rank buyer? They usually buy a wave for works that are currently serializing or have just finished."
"That comic of his ended two or three years ago, and only then did it suddenly start receiving rewards. Probably just ran into a rich female die-hard fan."
A fifth: "So envious, when will I ever encounter such a rich female die-hard fan?"
A sixth: "Well, you'd need to draw a romance-type comic first. After all, 'Love Abyss' is all about that lovey-dovey stuff."
A seventh: "This author has made quite a bit these past few months, I'm so jealous I could die. And I read that 'Love Abyss' of his, it's really not that great. But thanks to these months of rewards, it's managed to draw in quite a few readers."
An eighth: "That's the power of money..."
Seeing this, Jiang Ran clicked on a few other groups to look, found it boring, and closed it.
After closing it, he lay on the bed in his home bedroom, staring blankly at the snow-white ceiling.
On the ceiling, an extremely well-hidden camera was live-streaming Jiang Ran's every move.
It had been exactly one week since the end of the previous 31st round.
The 32nd round of the "Far Neighbor" live-streamed game had begun broadcasting.
This time, there was no influx from the "Game Producer Death Match" live stream room.
The "Far Neighbor" game live stream room had returned to its normal viewership numbers.
The number of viewers for this round's opening broadcast was 150,000.
In the live stream room, it was still that same studio, and still that same long-haired beautiful hostess.
Speaking of which, from this long-haired beautiful hostess's first round broadcast to the 32nd round, she had never once said what her surname or given name was.
When people asked her, she pretended not to see it.
At this moment, the long-haired beautiful hostess cleared her throat, took a sip of water from the mineral water bottle beside her, and began hosting:
"Welcome everyone to the 'Far Neighbor' game live stream room, round 32."
"Getting straight to the point, introducing this round's lab rats."
"Lab Rat Number 1, Jiang Ran. No introduction needed."
"Lab Rat Number 2, Huo Yun. No introduction needed."
Middle-aged Uncle: [Hey, didn't Huo Yun say in front of The Artist that he planned to leave? Why did he stay and participate again?]
Long-haired beautiful hostess: "This question will be answered together when introducing Lab Rat Number 3."
"Lab Rat Number 3, Huang Kaiyu, male, 33 years old, Occupation: Delivery Person."
"He was approached by a signer. Because he had adopted too many stray cats and dogs and had no money to support them, he signed an agreement with us to move into Alice Apartment, earning ten thousand a day."
"Additionally, this person, like Huo Yun, once suffered from severe psychological illness, but was cured by the same doctor named Lucas."
"Therefore, the reason Huo Yun could stay is because he wanted to make friends with other patients cured by Lucas."
"This Huang Kaiyu chose to move in for similar reasons."
"Because of this matter, the responsible agreement signer spent a lot of brain cells and effort to forcefully retain Huo Yun. Otherwise, Huo Yun would have already run away."
The long-haired beautiful hostess's explanation cleared up the confusion in Middle-aged Uncle's mind.
Domineering Female CEO: [So they really were people who once had mental illness.]
[He was planning to leave, but stayed because he wanted to make friends with patients cured by the same doctor.]
[Is this the kind of thinking a normal person should have? Just because he wants to make friends, he stays in a dangerous apartment?]
Fairy Sister: [Also, I only found out now that Huo Yun was once mentally ill? I remember, during the round Huo Yun first arrived, I don't think this was ever introduced?!]
Little Aunt: [Exactly, they never introduced that he was once mentally ill. Now everything makes sense. No wonder, as a lab rat, he could get along with a bunch of freaks like The Artist. It all connects.]
The long-haired beautiful hostess then said: "There's more to tell you about these two people. This also happened outside the apartment."
"You should all remember that Jiang Ran once went to a mental hospital to have his condition examined."
"The doctor who examined him was named Bai Xiaoliang. This doctor is very skilled, top-tier in domestic psychiatry, and ranks among the best in the world too."
"He also has a junior brother, namely Lucas. In this field, he is on par with his senior brother Bai Xiaoliang."
"At that time, Jiang Ran went for a consultation once, and Lucas happened to be at the hospital where Bai Xiaoliang worked. Lucas replaced Bai Xiaoliang and performed treatment on Jiang Ran."
"As a result, it was that very night that an incident occurred."
"A delivery guy climbed up outside Jiang Ran's window in the middle of the night, smashed the glass, trying to break in and attack and kill Jiang Ran. Instead, he was pushed back by Jiang Ran, fell downstairs, and then ran away. Do you all remember? That delivery guy was Huang Kaiyu!!!"
Middle-aged Uncle: [If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten. Now that I think about it, there really was such an incident.]
Little Dragon Girl: [I remember at the time, we discussed how this person was weak, stupid, and clumsy. He couldn't even deal with Jiang Ran's main personality. I never imagined this person would be a lab rat this round...]
The long-haired beautiful hostess said: "There is no grudge between Huang Kaiyu and Jiang Ran. Therefore, the grudge is between Lucas and Jiang Ran. Although our people investigated the situation at the time, we still don't understand why Lucas would have Huang Kaiyu kill Jiang Ran, especially since he had only given him one session of hypnosis therapy."
"According to eyewitnesses, that hypnosis therapy session didn't seem to go very smoothly for Lucas. It was interrupted midway, he was sweating profusely, in great pain. Perhaps this was the reason, or perhaps there were deeper reasons. This led to the instigation of murder."
Domineering Female CEO: [I have a question. As a psychiatrist, or psychological doctor, did he psychologically manipulate and control Huang Kaiyu to kill, or did Huang Kaiyu voluntarily kill for him? After all, this isn't killing chickens or dogs! If murder is exposed, you go to jail, possibly even face the death penalty!!!]
The long-haired beautiful hostess said: "I can answer that. The reason Huang Kaiyu could agree was probably due to absolute gratitude towards Lucas and other factors. Of course, there's one more point, based on our investigation here."
"Huang Kaiyu... is also not an ordinary person. It seems he has killed people before, luring people who liked abusing cats and dogs to his home and turning them into cat food and dog food."
"So, perhaps human life isn't that serious of a matter in Huang Kaiyu's eyes."
Little Dragon Girl: [Turning people into cat food and dog food? Even if those who died were animal abusers, from this perspective, he's not much different from some of the apartment residents! He's a perverted killer too!]
[Can someone like this be brought in as a lab rat?]
The chat section was filled with discussion.
In the end, it was the long-haired beautiful hostess who made the final call: "This kind of person is an exception. Just treat it as a fresh point of interest. We can't have every round be filled with ordinary people, can we?"