Chapter 22
Chapter 22
When the staff heard the roars, they turned around.
They led the visitors from behind the artificial hill and slowly toward the four white lions in the center.
Su Chen stood near the back of the line.
He looked toward the very front of the group.
At the front were the rabbit-eared Chosen Ones, including those from Asan Nation.
They gradually approached the white lions.
Sang Luoyi of Asan Nation stared at them in fascination and even reached out to touch one.
Decades ago, the lion had been Asan Nation’s national animal.
Naturally, Sang Luoyi loved them.
With staff accompanying and gesturing him forward, he felt no fear.
His palm moved closer and closer.
The white lion sensed his affection.
It responded with great enthusiasm.
The lead lion bit Sang Luoyi’s head off.
Scarlet blood splashed across the ground and even sprayed onto a staff member’s face.
[Sang Luoyi, the Chosen One of Asan Nation, has died. Following a comprehensive assessment, Asan Nation’s national fortune has been reduced by 15 points. 65 points remain.]
[Floods will descend upon the entirety of Asan Nation for 15 days.]
With the death notice, the remaining three white lions charged the rabbit-eared people in the front row as though they had heard a bugle.
Blood sprayed through the air again.
Amid agonized screams, the Chosen Ones lost their minds with fear.
When they recovered, they fled madly toward the exit.
Lamb of Ugly Nation ran fastest of all.
He seized the rabbit-eared Chosen One from Kangaroo Nation and threw him toward the pursuing lions.
Then he kicked down the Chosen One of the Daying Empire.
[The Chosen One of Kangaroo Nation has died. Following a comprehensive assessment, Kangaroo Nation’s national fortune has been reduced by 15 points. 60 points remain.]
[Plague will descend upon the entirety of Kangaroo Nation for 15 days.]
[The Chosen One of the Daying Empire has died. Following a comprehensive assessment, the Daying Empire’s national fortune has been reduced by 15 points. 70 points remain.]
[Eternal night will descend upon the entirety of the Daying Empire for 15 days.]
……
Death notices sounded without pause.
Those people served as shields, buying him time.
Lamb gradually escaped the lions’ pursuit.
“Idiots! Every one of them! The advisers were wrong! The black text must be false! The Lion Enclosure is too dangerous!”
Lamb shouted curses as he ran.
The countries whose contestants he had betrayed were furious but dared say nothing.
After all, Ugly Nation was still their dear old daddy.
They did not dare condemn it.
Their enraged citizens instead cursed their own advisers and Longguo.
“My God, how stupid! The black text was obviously wrong, yet our country told the Chosen One to obey it!”
“The advisers bear full responsibility! They must pay with their lives!”
“And Longguo! All this information came from Longguo. Those treacherous Easterners must be sanctioned!”
“We demand an allied army of sixteen nations flatten Longguo and make them die alongside our dead civilians!”
……
As their Chosen Ones died, those countries’ livestreams gradually closed after a countdown.
The angry viewers flooded into Longguo’s channel.
“Damn Longguo! This was your conspiracy! You gave us false information!”
“Bullshit! You copied us. Besides, why is our Su Chen fine? This is your own fault.”
“Don’t celebrate yet, Longguo trash. Your Chosen One will die soon too. You only have seventy national-fortune points left, don’t you? Lose another fifteen and your disaster will double!”
“Get back to your own livestream and stop spewing shit here. Oh, sorry, I forgot your contestant died and you don’t have one anymore.”
The argument descended into chaos.
Inside the Lion Enclosure, only Su Chen stood calmly where he was.
He watched everything coldly.
In his view, everyone killed by the white lions was already beyond saving.
When observed calmly, the four lions clearly prioritized people with rabbit ears.
One suddenly raced past Su Chen in pursuit of Lamb.
It did not even glance at him.
Su Chen relaxed completely, knowing he had guessed correctly.
His contamination was not severe enough to kill him.
He would still need the white lions to determine exactly how serious it was.
He had nothing else to do while he waited.
So he simply watched Lamb’s flight for entertainment.
Lamb dragged person after person into the lions’ path as repeated death notices sounded around him.
At last, he reached the heavy metal gate.
“Hahaha! I escaped! As expected of a hero of Uglyrica!”
He cheered and ran for the entrance.
Then the gate suddenly began to close.
Lamb was on the very verge of escaping alive.
At that exact instant, the gate slammed shut before his nose.
As it closed, he saw the culprit.
It was Yamashita Kenichiro of Sakura Nation.
The killing intent in Yamashita’s eyes plunged Lamb into despair.