Chapter 269: It Has Started, It Has Started
Likewise, although Jiang Ran had far more money bet on him than Fang Xiao,
he still ranked third from the bottom among the ten lab rats.
And in this special live stream, the lab rat with the highest amount bet on him was Number 10.
Big Fur Country, Roman, one billion USD. A university student.
Domestic side.
Wang Baobao controlled the mouse.
He clicked on the table hanging in the live stream room.
He clicked on Number 10, lab rat Roman.
He discovered that the one-billion-USD bet amount,
over sixty percent of it came from people in Big Fur Country. As for the nearly forty percent left, those bets came from several other countries.
That proportion was extremely high.
After all, for Jiang Ran, nearly ninety percent of the bets came from people inside Hua Country.
That was very strange, because this university student named Roman
was only really known to those people from Big Fur Country.
People from the other countries didn’t know him at all.
So.
Why were so many foreigners betting on him?
Very simple — as mentioned before.
People judged each lab rat based on their basic info and the various photos provided,
to decide whether that person was worth betting on, whether they were worth spending big money on.
So how did Roman look?
One meter eighty-five, though a university student, his build was extremely sturdy.
Among the ten lab rats, he was definitely one who caught the eye at first glance.
That explained why he received so many bets.
Of course, there’s a saying: you can’t judge a book by its cover.
This Roman might look burly but could actually be useless in comprehensive ability.
But put yourself in the bettor’s shoes:
a hulking Roman like an ox, and Fang Xiao, a drunken man whose face had been ravaged by smoke and alcohol —
if those two stood together, who would you bet on?
At that moment, Hua Country’s long-haired beautiful host continued:
“For this special live stream, the total bet amount is: 4,025,600,000 USD.”
Rounding off the small change,
converted to yuan, that’s roughly multiplied by seven.
About 28 billion Hua yuan.
This sum was already enormous.
And this is why
the special live stream allows each person in the live stream room to bet on three lab rats.
That’s the reason.
It’s to expand the total bet amount for every special live stream.
If so, why only allow betting on three?
Wouldn’t allowing more be better?
No, no, no — in this situation, more is not always better.
Think carefully and you’ll understand.
There’s a bit of “scarcity increases value” logic here.
Expanding the number of bets isn’t the real objective.
What’s the real objective?
It’s the money.
Those 28 billion Hua yuan and then some!
This is cash flow, not so-called assets.
This money flows from the accounts of people in these live stream rooms straight to the forces behind Alice Apartment.
That money will only flow back from that account seven days later to be split and distributed,
paid to those who bet on the winning lab rats — the ones who live until the end.
With such a huge sum, over those seven days the forces behind the apartment can manipulate it at will.
Think about what those backers could do with that money in seven days.
How much more could it produce?
To ordinary people, seven days may seem like nothing.
But to certain financial titans, that’s more than enough time to operate.
Of course, that’s not the main point.
The main point is the live stream.
Hua Country’s long-haired beautiful host continued:
“The special live stream follows the same rules as each country’s Alice Apartment.”
“In the end, the money will be distributed proportionally to those who bet on the winners — that is, those who bet on the lab rats who survive until the end.”
“Currently, all procedures have been completed.”
“Next, the live stream officially begins.”
Domestic side.
When Lin Feng and Wang Baobao saw Hua Country’s long-haired beautiful host finish that sentence,
their computer screens switched from the six female hosts’ windows to a huge ocean liner.
The ship was packed with people.
The sight stunned Lin Feng and Wang Baobao.
Especially when,
they then saw the ship arrive at its destination:
Macedonia Island.
It had to be said, from the computer images Macedonia Island looked very scenic — visually striking.
So imagine being there in person.
They watched as people from the ship, each carrying their luggage, disembarked at the Macedonia Island pier.
The two stared at each other, eyes wide.
Wang Baobao said, “No way. This special live stream only has ten lab rats, so why are so many people coming to this island? Could this cause trouble?”
Putting aside other countries’ Alice Apartments,
take Hua Country’s Alice Apartment alone.
During the live stream it was basically a sealed-off place.
There were hardly any miscellaneous people inside.
Besides the lab rats, it was just that group of perverts.
But on this Macedonia Island, there were so many ordinary people?
Wouldn’t that lead to problems?
Big trouble?
However, the two figured that since this was a special live stream, maybe everything would be more… special!
So having more off-duty people around might just be part of what makes it special.
At that moment, Wang Baobao, who was operating the mouse, suddenly noticed a chat room in the lower-right corner of the live stream desktop.
He clicked in and found,
this was the Hua Country side’s own Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room chat.
He clicked and found that the usual talkers like Middle-aged Uncle and Domineering Female CEO were all posting in that chat.
Of course, the chat didn’t show the number of participants;
it was just a chat room.
Presumably, other countries had their own single-country chat rooms like this.
After Wang Baobao clicked in, he urgently told Lin Feng to look at Middle-aged Uncle’s message.
Middle-aged Uncle: [Quick, look, that A San is barking like a dog again!]
In the live stream comment area.
A San — whoever mentions lizards again, I’ll go after them: [Last time during a special live stream that we A San Country participated in, we were the ones laughing last. If nothing goes wrong this time, it’ll be us again. After all, we have a lot of people;
the ones who can break out are the strong ones, even if both of those two are lowly low-caste scum.]
Someone from Cherry Blossom Country replied: [Always bragging, don’t use your brain. Does this kind of thing really rely on numbers? You have many people, so does that mean your country’s lab rats who break out must be the strongest? Then why haven’t your country’s contestants defeated America’s? Why is America’s Alice Apartment the strongest and sickest in the whole world?]
Someone from Korea also said: [Exactly. If sheer numbers decided it, why has Hua Country only produced two people who can participate in the special live stream so far?]
Good grief, the argument somehow circled back to Hua Country.
At this point, Middle-aged Uncle couldn’t take it and started spewing live:
[You bunch of idiots, I hope you meet Jiang Ran’s older brother and younger brother.]
Someone from Big Fur Country posted: [Jiang Ran’s older brother and younger brother? What’s that? Are his brother and younger brother also on Macedonia Island?]
If you’re not part of Hua Country’s Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room, you wouldn’t understand.
What Middle-aged Uncle meant by that statement —
Jiang Ran’s older brother and younger brother — wasn’t he referring to the personality that had once taken out the clown?