Chapter 283: Test Subject No. 8, Amir
"Hey, Ke Bei, what are you still looking at in that room? Aren't you coming?"
Xiao Peng had already left, with Jiang Ran following behind.
Xiao Q had one foot out of the small room when he turned back and saw Ke Bei staring at something on the wall.
"Oh, coming."
Ke Bei quickly caught up, and as he passed by Xiao Q, he spoke in an extremely soft voice, like a mosquito's buzz: "That might be human blood."
Hearing this, Xiao Q turned his head in surprise but didn't speak, his eyes seeming to ask, are you sure?
Ke Bei extended one hand, showing an eight.
This meant he was eighty percent certain.
Afterwards, the group followed the paper figure map and found the exit.
The exit was still on the 9th floor, just on the other side of it. After they exited the haunted house, they received large gift packages from two staff members dressed as vampire hunters at the haunted house exit.
One package per person.
The large gift package was simply a bagged gift set.
When opened, it contained various small toys and mini figures.
Things like vampire figures, zombie figures, palm-sized peach wood swords, and similar items.
Looking at these, Xiao Peng's anger finally subsided a bit.
While the four of them were coming out to receive gifts, there were already many people at the exit who had left the haunted house earlier.
Those who had come with companions were all complaining that this haunted house wasn't scary at all.
Aside from being dark and requiring light sources,
and playing scary music, there wasn't much else to it.
The only thing that could be considered a feature was that the haunted house was like a maze.
Listening to these comments, the four of them realized that these people apparently hadn't encountered the paper figure that tapped shoulders?
After the four of them emerged from the haunted house, they went their separate ways, each returning to their own hotel rooms.
...
It was exactly 5:00 PM now.
Room 4212 was a single room.
It housed a person from A San Country.
This person from A San Country was none other than Lab Rat No. 8, Amir.
His betting amount was 500 million USD.
So why was his betting amount so high?
In this special live stream, A San Country had two lab rats.
One was the already deceased fruit vendor, Rajiv, with 256.7 million USD.
The other was this one, with 500 million USD.
Looking at the betting distribution, over eighty percent of his betting amount came from wealthy individuals in A San Country themselves.
This meant that those in the live stream room from A San Country who knew this Amir believed in his capabilities.
Their belief in him was higher than their belief in Rajiv had been!
So what capabilities did this Amir possess?
According to the simple information provided, he was just a taxi driver!
Could he be some kind of shady driver?
The type of lab rat who was ruthless and vicious?
No, the reason he won so much in betting amounts
was purely because he knew how to play it safe.
During the four rounds he spent in the A San Country's Alice Apartment, he hadn't eliminated a single deranged criminal or deranged serial killer.
After discovering the apartment's secrets, he simply holed up in his own room and played it safe.
Actually, playing it safe can sometimes be really effective.
Just like when playing battle royale games.
Often, by playing safe and hiding, you can manage to reach the top rankings.
Of course, the most popular battle royale game on mobile phones now, Game for Peace, is full of cheaters - if you're unlucky enough to encounter someone with wallhacks, they'll directly chase you down in a vehicle and take you out.
But this was reality.
Therefore, Amir actually managed to play it safe through all 4 rounds.
After arriving at Macedonia Island, although Amir really wanted to go out and have fun,
he felt there must be great danger here, so he decided to continue employing his strategy of playing it safe.
As soon as he got his hotel room key today,
after briefly organizing his room, he used a hotel cart to gather lots of food and water. It was free anyway, and the hotel didn't restrict you.
He stockpiled everything in his hotel room.
Enough to sustain himself for over 7 days without needing to go out.
Afterwards, he also went to the duty-free shops, supermarkets, and other stores near the hotel.
He bought a red football uniform - exactly like the one worn by the football zombie in Plants vs. Zombies, completely identical.
And also a baseball bat.
Although everything was free on Macedonia Island for those who bought tickets,
the premise was that you didn't take things off the island.
If you took things off the island, you had to pay, so what Amir actually paid was a deposit.
When it was time to leave the island, he could return the items without much loss, as the full amount would be refunded.
After completing all this, Amir returned to his hotel room.
After returning, he even went to the extreme of piling all movable items in the hotel room against the door from the inside, blocking it.
This was a measure to prevent anyone from entering from outside.
Only after doing all this did he truly feel at ease and relax.
For him, with this combination of preparations he'd made,
he could definitely easily get through the 7 days.
After all, he had managed to stay safe for so long in the A San Country's Alice Apartment.
But he had no idea that this place operated completely differently from the Alice Apartments in some countries.
"Wife, son, daughter, wait for me. I'll soon have enough money saved up for immigration."
Now, Amir was in his hotel room, murmuring to himself while looking out at the blue sky and sea outside.
Like many people who entered Alice Apartment, some discovered the apartment's tricks but still chose to stay because they needed money.
Amir needed money, lots of money. Why?
Because he wanted to immigrate.
He wanted to take his whole family and immigrate to the UK.
He felt that the living environment in A San Country wasn't suitable for continuing to live there.
There were really too many people, and many men were simply insane, so desperate that they wouldn't even spare lizards.
Therefore, in a place where even lizards could be coveted,
Amir worried about his wife and daughter every day.
This was one reason he wanted to immigrate to the UK.
The second reason was A San Country's caste system.
Although it's said that A San Country's caste system was legally abolished long ago,
if you search your heart and ask, has the caste system really disappeared?
If it had truly disappeared,
he wouldn't be working so hard to take his whole family away from A San Country.
Currently, Amir lay on the soft large bed, looking at a family photo of the four of them on his phone.
He couldn't hide the happy smile on his lips.
Just then, there was suddenly a knocking sound at the door.
Along with a voice:
"Sir, would you like special service? (English)"
From the sound, it was a young girl.
Amir, lying on the bed, shouted toward the door: "No need! (English)"
Amir was very loyal to his wife.
He wouldn't do anything that would betray his wife.
After he replied that he didn't need special service, there was no further sound from outside the door, only the tapping sound of footsteps walking away.
Amir lay on the bed, eyes open, staring at the snow-white ceiling.
Perhaps it was the exhaustion from the several hours on the boat earlier, or perhaps it was the mental and physical energy consumed after arriving at the hotel while moving food and water and other preparations for playing it safe.
Amir now only felt that his eyelids were so heavy, so very heavy.
He himself didn't know when it happened, but he ended up falling fast asleep.