Chapter 272: Test Subject No. 7 — Rajiv, Dead
What is an accident?
An accident is a completely unexpected sudden event.
In this world, various accidents happen every minute and every second.
For example, getting hit and killed by a car while walking.
Or choking to death on a fishbone while eating fish.
These all count as accidents.
But if you think carefully about these kinds of accidents,
they're actually caused by human actions.
For example, someone who gets hit and killed by a car while walking - that person probably usually likes to jaywalk.
Therefore, it doesn't seem surprising that they might get hit someday. And someone who chokes to death on a fishbone probably usually enjoys eating fish and often gets bones stuck, but never expected that this time it would cost them their life.
These are all human-caused accidents.
In novels,
this means accidents with foreshadowing, making them feel less abrupt.
So what is a truly terrifying accident?
It's an accident caused by factors completely unrelated to the actions of the person experiencing it.
Like that news story from a few years ago.
A billionaire and his daughter who had just returned from studying abroad were driving when a pile driver from a construction site collapsed and crushed them to death.
This kind of accident was completely unrelated to the behavior of those who experienced it.
They maintained good habits like driving safely.
What caused the accident was that construction site habitually using substandard pile drivers with inadequate safety inspection measures.
That is to say, even if this particular pile driver collapse hadn't happened,
this construction site would have eventually had other incidents.
Perhaps other accidents that would have caused different deaths.
This is an accident caused by others' actions, leaving the victims completely unable to defend against it.
Rajiv was currently using his Rice phone in selfie mode.
He saw the Korean young man silently appear behind him in the frame, then watched as this Korean young man pulled out a sharp dagger with his right hand.
When the Korean young man realized Rajiv had spotted him through the phone's selfie mode, he instantly and without hesitation stabbed the dagger into Rajiv's left chest.
Right where the human heart is located.
Rajiv reacted quickly too, but unfortunately, it was too late. The dagger had already deeply pierced his heart.
Then he struggled desperately to break free from the Korean young man behind him.
During the struggle, his phone fell to the ground.
He covered his heart with both hands, but it was useless - large amounts of red blood gushed out from between his fingers.
"Help! (in English)"
Rajiv turned and shouted toward the balcony.
Trying to call for help.
But the Korean young man rushed forward, stabbing the dagger into his neck with his right hand while using his left hand to tightly cover Rajiv's mouth. Then he used all his body's muscles, exerting force to drag the frantically struggling Rajiv backward.
Rajiv naturally wouldn't go down without a fight.
He directly opened his mouth and bit down hard on the Korean young man's left hand that was covering his mouth.
But as soon as he bit down, he realized something was wrong.
The feeling when he bit down was incredibly hard.
And very rough.
Moreover, after he bit down, the hand showed almost no reaction.
It still tightly covered his mouth, struggling against his jaw.
Rajiv felt something was wrong and strained to look downward with his eyes.
What he saw was a terrifying scene.
He saw that the Korean young man's left hand
was extremely rough, with frighteningly thick calluses, and the skin on the palm seemed to have been scalded by boiling water.
Twisted and deformed.
Wait, was he hallucinating?
This Korean young man's hand was clearly snow-white and delicate?!
Stab! Stab!
While he was thinking this, the Korean young man's right hand kept stabbing the dagger into the front of his body.
Making stabbing sounds.
Bloody holes were being rapidly created.
Thanks to this, Rajiv realized he wasn't hallucinating.
Rather, he remembered.
This Korean young man had shaken hands with him using his right hand.
The same hand now holding the dagger to stab him.
That hand was snow-white and delicate.
While the left hand was dirty and ugly.
He understood everything now.
But understanding this now was too late.
Because he was about to die.
"Careless, so careless... (in English)"
These were Rajiv's final thoughts before death.
So, considering everything described above, was Rajiv's death an accident?
And was his death caused by his own factors? Or by others' factors?
...
After killing Rajiv, the Korean young man looked down at Rajiv lying in a pool of bright red blood, eyes wide open in death, body covered in blood.
He merely curled the corner of his mouth.
His face full of contempt.
The Neighbors Over Distant Relatives live stream room had been broadcasting from Rajiv's perspective the entire time.
Everyone witnessed Rajiv's death process.
Immediately, the live stream screen switched to the studio.
Returning to the six beautiful female hosts with hot figures.
The beautiful host from A San Country stepped forward from among them and said:
"In this special live stream, lab rat No. 7 Rajiv has died. The total bet amount of 256.7 million USD has been fully transferred to the final prize pool."
After she finished the announcement, the screen switched again, though this time to other footage.
Of course, in the special live stream, just like in the Alice Apartment live stream, viewers in the live stream room could freely switch camera angles.
Simultaneously, when exciting scenes occurred, the main camera would automatically switch.
To be honest, Rajiv's death was quite unexpected.
Not just for the already deceased Rajiv regarding his own death.
Including all five million-plus people in the live stream room felt the same way.
Except for these Hua Country people, people from the other several countries had watched many special live streams before.
But in the special live streams they had watched,
no one acted this quickly.
Especially someone pretending to be a tourist, being in the same room with the lab rat, and taking action directly without any preamble.
A person from Big Fur Country typed on his keyboard: [I've watched quite a few special live streams too. Some special live streams take place in small towns, some on resort islands, but no matter where, this opening was too fast, so fast I never expected it.]
Hua——Middle-aged Uncle said: [Fast or not doesn't matter, I'm more interested in knowing about that A San Country's lizard? Didn't they say Rajiv would survive until the end?]
Hua——I am the Hero: [Rajiv did survive until the end - his soul survived until the end.]
Hua——Fairy Sister: [The slap in the face is too harsh. Right now, forget that he's still in the 1-hour speaking ban, even if he could speak, he wouldn't show up.]
The Hua Country people hadn't forgotten about this A San Country person called A San—Whoever Mentions Lizards Again, I'll Get Angry.
Back then he mocked Hua Country as garbage, worthless.
Therefore at this moment, with him being proven wrong, many Hua Country people came out to mock him with sarcastic remarks.
Of course, although that A San Country lizard didn't show up, other A San Country people did speak up.
[Enough, what are you so proud of? Be careful, the next lab rats to die will be your two Hua Country ones!!!!]
[Hahaha, really? I don't believe it.]
Hua Country people and A San Country people began confronting each other with words.
If these conversations were posted online,
and people were told these were dialogues between wealthy people from various countries,
probably many wouldn't believe it.
After all, in their minds, rich people should be calm, not showing emotions on their faces, right?
How could they possibly curse loudly, confront each other, acting like ordinary people?
But actually, this is nothing special - even rich people are still human.
If you've experienced those early domestic internet mobile phone industry events,
this doesn't seem surprising at all.
After all, back then, things like "competitors are idiots" and public challenges were emerging endlessly.