Chapter 167
Chapter 167
Jiang Li withdrew her gaze and turned her attention back to the Ferris wheel attraction.
The few tourists ahead of her passed the staff’s inspection and entered the last cabin without incident.
Jiang Li took note of the data left on the electronic device after the last tourist stepped away from it.
There was no text on the screen, only a string of numbers: 150.
Other than that, there was not a single extra piece of information.
That number on the device… What did it mean?
After the last tourist entered the Carriage, the staff member beside it turned on the power, beginning a new rotation of the Ferris wheel.
Jiang Li watched as the cabin at the very bottom was slowly driven upward by the machinery in a counterclockwise direction.
As the Ferris wheel rotated and rose, the Health Points above the tourists’ heads gradually began to decrease from 100, point by point.
Just as Jiang Li was about to observe more closely, a strange sensation suddenly came from her right wrist.
Jiang Li lowered her eyes.
A translucent bracelet rimmed with a green glow was shrinking from large to small, settling around Jiang Li’s right wrist at the most suitable size.
[“Energy Bracelet” is in position. The game is about to begin-]
[The bracelet’s energy range is: 0 to 9999. Initial value: 5000. Please be advised.]
A glowing, floating number-“5000”-appeared above Jiang Li’s bracelet.
Before Jiang Li could understand what it meant, a line of glaring bullet text drifted across the inside of the 3D Glasses she was wearing.
-“Jiang Li, stop struggling. Please just go die.”
After that comment floated past, a faint sting came from Jiang Li’s right wrist.
The floating number on the Energy Bracelet dropped from 5000 to 4980.
Jiang Li’s heart gave a slight jolt.
Spurred on by that first remark, more and more glaring lines of text appeared in Jiang Li’s view through the 3D Glasses.
-“Jiang Li, please put the bigger picture first and choose the easier way to clear the level!”
-“Jiang Li, please give up your own life in exchange for the lives of over ten thousand hostages in Jinlin City! Jiang Li, please sacrifice yourself for the nation!”
-“Jiang Li is so selfish! What right does she have to drag more than ten thousand people into a game with her? What gives her the right to decide whether everyone lives or dies!?”
-“Jiang Li, if you fail, everyone will die with you! I’m begging you! Why can’t you be a little smarter??”
-“This is the first time I’ve ever hated someone this much. Please go die, Jiang Li. Thanks.”
-“No wonder the entire Jiang Family died out, raising such a selfish daughter!!”
One vicious comment after another drifted past.
The burning pain around Jiang Li’s wrist intensified.
The floating number above the bracelet also rapidly plunged from 4980 to 4020.
Different comments caused the number to drop by different amounts, but it kept falling all the same.
When the number fell below 4000, Jiang Li’s knees went weak. Strength drained out of her entire body, and she collapsed toward the ground.
“Hey, girl!” The female college student behind her reacted quickly and caught Jiang Li.
“How are you feeling? Did you skip breakfast and get low blood sugar?”
The female college student and her friend helped Jiang Li up together.
Jiang Li’s lips had gone slightly pale. She could not describe how she felt right now.
It was as if, in an instant… all the strength in her body had been sucked away.
Even standing was extremely difficult for her now.
The female college student hurriedly opened her backpack, took out a piece of hard fruit candy, tore open the wrapper, and fed it into Jiang Li’s mouth.
The young woman also pulled out a new bottle of mineral water, hurriedly twisted off the cap, and brought it to Jiang Li’s lips.
In the conference room, Xia Guofeng was in the middle of a meeting when he saw Jiang Li’s condition in the Live Streaming Room. It was as if something had suddenly clicked.
But before Xia Guofeng could give any orders, every expert in the conference room had already pulled out their phones in unison, opened the stream, and fired off a dozen or twenty supportive bullet comments for Jiang Li.
There were just over twenty men on the expert panel. After all their years of experience, they had naturally noticed the clues behind the Health Points and the Energy Bracelet.
Health Points were tied to the visitors’ lives. They determined whether a visitor lived or died.
If the Health Points reached 0, that meant the visitor was dead.
Those visitors would presumably be led somewhere in the park by the staff and disposed of all at once.
As for the number on the Energy Bracelet, it was tied to public sentiment and opinion in Huaguo.
Judging by the abnormal phenomenon just now, the more voices there were within Huaguo supporting Jiang Li, the higher Jiang Li’s energy value would rise.
But if the voices slandering Jiang Li gained the upper hand, then the situation from earlier would occur-
Jiang Li’s energy value would plummet, and it could even affect her mental state, physical strength, and other bodily indicators.
Even if Jiang Li’s Health Points were at 100, if her energy value dropped too low, she would be nothing more than a walking corpse, let alone have the strength to clear the game.
Now that the experts had realized what was going on, they looked at the malicious comments in the Live Streaming Room, and fury surged through every one of them.
These men in their forties and fifties were suddenly full of fighting spirit, going head-to-head with the twenty-somethings in the bullet comment section.
Xia Guofeng quickly used his administrator privileges to kick every sender of those malicious bullet comments out of the Huaguo Live Streaming Room.
In just two short minutes, he had kicked out seventy or eighty troll accounts.
But that was far from enough.
Xia Guofeng immediately enabled a full-room mute, then unmuted the experts’ accounts so they could send friendly messages and clear the bullet comment section.
Five minutes passed.
The value on Jiang Li’s Energy Bracelet rose from its lowest point of “less than 3,000 points” back to above 5,000.
After Xia Guofeng’s frantic operations, even the muscles in his fingers had begun to twitch and cramp.
He slammed the table and stood up. “Someone is definitely causing trouble on purpose!”
“How could there be such a coincidence? Jiang Li only just put on the bracelet. Even we haven’t figured out how it works yet, and the sentiment in the bullet comment section suddenly spirals out of control!”
Xia Guofeng clenched his fist. “Technicians, investigate the detailed IP addresses of the accounts steering the narrative immediately!”
“Everyone else, maintain control of the screen for now.”
In the Live Streaming Room.
After the number on Jiang Li’s Energy Bracelet rose, strength gradually returned to her body.
She nodded gently at the two girls who had helped her and gave them a polite smile. “Thank you. I’m… much better now.”
Jiang Li took off the 3D Glasses filled with flying bullet comments.
Although she could choose not to look at the comments, Jiang Li could still sense that the text of those bullet comments was still affecting the value on the Energy Bracelet, as well as her own physical condition.
Seeing Jiang Li stabilize, the female university student let out a long breath of relief.
A pleasant sense of satisfaction from helping someone welled up in her heart, and she took the initiative to say,
“Oh, right, girl, the Ferris wheel in this park takes three to four people per car. Why don’t we go together? There are exactly three of us, enough to fill one car!”