Selection of all humanity?

Chosen ones?

…And changing the world???

Tan Xiao listened dumbfounded, staring at Houzi blankly, never expecting someone could be even more of a dreamer than himself.

“Don’t be impulsive. Before any matter has been thoroughly investigated, don’t jump to conclusions lightly.” Teacher Cheng slowly advised. “Even if there really is a world-changing selection, there should be comprehensive examinations in morality, intelligence, and physical fitness, with separate papers for humanities and sciences, and special students getting extra points. That would be scientific…”

The smile on Houzi’s face turned cold. He gave Cheng Weicai a look that said “shut up, you don’t understand anything.”

He stared at the burning fire, saying to himself: “This world is already rotten to the core. Some people suffer scorn, working from dawn to dusk yet can’t even eat a meal. Some people don’t need to do anything and have endless money to spend. Why? Why are some people born with money? Why are some people born to suffer hardship? Even Heaven can’t stand it anymore, right? That’s why the game appeared… She was right—garbage should be cleared away! Those people weren’t killed by us. Who told them they lacked ability?… He was eliminated by the game, not killed by me. Not me. I’m a winner. I received a divine gift. I’m a chosen one… I’m different from them…”

His voice turned into muttering at the end. He seemed possessed, repeatedly chanting: “I’m a chosen one. I’m different from them… I’m a chosen one…”

Tan Xiao looked at Houzi with an indescribable expression. Finally, he turned to look at Shen Mo and Bai Youwei, pointing at his own head, meaning: Has this guy gone crazy?

Houzi: “By the way.”

Tan Xiao jumped in fright and quickly put his hand down.

Houzi looked up with a smile, saying to Shen Mo: “Come to think of it, I should thank your sister. If she hadn’t dragged it out to the ninth round, even if we cleared the game, the mud reward might not have had this many uses.”

Clearing on the ninth round gave 9 uses as a reward. Behind this reward were one life after another.

Yet not only did he not complain, he actively tried to win over Shen Mo and Bai Youwei.

Shen Mo’s expression was indifferent. He didn’t comment on this topic, only saying calmly: “The rain won’t stop for a while. The cars can’t leave. Let’s get something to eat first.”

Houzi nodded and stood up. “There are pots, bowls, ladles, and pans in the cafeteria. I’ll go get a few.”

As he spoke, he had already run out into the heavy rain.

The remaining people in the room looked at his back, momentarily speechless.

Houzi’s reaction was too abnormal. He seemed to see himself as the protagonist of salvation. After experiencing one trial by fate, he felt superior to others.

Shen Mo looked down at Bai Youwei, asking her: “Are you satisfied now?”

Bai Youwei sat silently with her head lowered, her long hair hanging down to cover both cheeks. No one could see her expression clearly.

Tan Xiao looked at these two people, only feeling the atmosphere become inexplicably strange. He asked in confusion: “What exactly is… what’s wrong with Houzi?”

No one answered.

Teacher Cheng gently shook his head and let out a long sigh:

“Alas…”

…

The time was afternoon, but the sky was as dark as night.

Tan Xiao rummaged through the trunk and found some food—nothing more than instant noodles and hot dogs. Everyone boiled a pot of water over the fire and hastily settled a meal.

Bai Youwei ate very little. She only took two bites of the instant noodles before putting them down, looking listless and spiritless.

Inside and outside the game, she existed in two completely different states.

One weak and silent;

One perverse and wild.

Shen Mo had never encountered this type of girl or woman before.

The female colleagues he met at work were all straightforward and generous. The cousins and relatives in his family were also well-educated and reasonable. Only his interactions with Bai Youwei each time made him feel like handling something prickly.

It seemed his initial comparison of her to a little hedgehog was a great misunderstanding.

Hedgehogs had spines on their bodies, but what Bai Youwei had all over was knives!

The poisoned kind at that.