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On the high-definition screen, Anne's votes increased rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, she surpassed Leonardo to become the number one vote.

It was so terrifying to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot.

Several players had a look of horror on their faces, and they all guessed that Anne's move was inspired by the real-world Carol v. Trump case.

On April 25, 2023, Carol, a 79-year-old American female writer, filed a lawsuit in the Manhattan Federal Court in New York, accusing former US President Trump (who was still a wealthy New York businessman at the time) of forcing her in a dressing room of a department store in the mid-1990s.

Although it was too long ago, there was a lack of the most critical material evidence, and Carol herself was vague about the date of the incident, and could only remember that it was probably in the mid-1990s.

But because she filed a civil lawsuit, not a criminal lawsuit. The jury ruled that Trump was responsible for the case and had to pay Carol $2 million in sexual assault compensation and $3 million in defamation compensation.

(According to American law, criminal cases of this type require clear physical evidence, while civil cases only require a unanimous jury to make a judgment)

Trump was extremely dissatisfied with the result and made public remarks to belittle Carol many times. On January 16, a year later, a federal jury in Manhattan, New York, ruled that he must pay Carol a total of $83.3 million in defamation damages and fines.

Watching her votes gradually rise, Anne sneered in her heart. Evidence? What evidence do you need? Putting aside the facts, don't you have any responsibility?

It's said that it takes only a few words to spread rumors, but it takes a lot of effort to refute them. The people who wronged you know how wronged you are better than you do. This matter was originally made up by Anne. How could Irfan produce evidence?

Even if Irfan produced physical evidence such as photos to prove that he had not been to Boston two years ago, Anne could change her words in an instant, saying that maybe she had remembered the wrong time due to long-term psychological torture, maybe it was three or four years ago.

'This is not a court, and it's important to prove whoever claims. Moreover, even if it is a court, the Carol case is a good example, and it can still provoke the audience to judge Irfan guilty. ’

Annie's mind was floating, and her face still maintained an expression of fear, pain, and terror.

"You"

The handsome Indian Irfan was furious. In the real world, he is a second-generation Indian elite who immigrated to the United States. His parents are both Silicon Valley executives, and he himself belongs to the Brahmin caste with relatively fair skin. In terms of appearance, he is no less than Leonardo and others.

And he also has a title skill called [Kama Sutra], which can temporarily increase his physical fitness and charm attributes after yoga training. He obviously has an advantage in the current love variety show reality show.

However, Annie's slander and slander completely disrupted his plan-he has fallen behind and fallen into a self-proving trap that will never end.

At this moment, it was useless for him to say anything in front of the camera. Reasonable defense would be considered as quibbling;

Admitting guilt and begging for forgiveness would be considered insincere;

Using violent means would be considered as angry and revealing his true face;

"You're playing this game, right? Okay, let's die together!"

Irfan's face was ferocious, his hands shook, holding a pair of ornately decorated fist swords, and rushed straight towards Annie.

Sprinting at full speed, Irfan's figure was as fast as a shadow, and the sharp blades of the fist swords cut through the air, making a whistling sound.

"Help!"

Annie screamed and closed her eyes like an ordinary person. She had already retreated several steps, and at this time she took a sideways step and hid behind Leonardo.

'Fuck! ! ! '

Leonardo cursed in his heart. Annie played a good trick of diverting trouble. If he pretended to be slow to react or avoided it at this time, the end result would be that the audience would think he was incompetent and cowardly. He was bound to lose popularity in the next reality show.

'Annie, wait for me! ’

Leonardo gritted his teeth and had to pull out a two-handed sword from his backpack to block Irfan’s slash.

At the same time, he raised his mouth slightly, pretending to be calm and unrestrained, and said lightly: "Mr. Irfan, please be a gentleman."

"Help her? You will die too!"

Irfan's eyes were wide open, and his right hand pressed forward to block Leonardo's two-handed sword. His left hand stabbed out like a ghost and stabbed the opponent's neck.

Leonardo remained calm, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands and dragging it to the right, using the weight ball at the end of the hilt to hit Irfan's wrist. If this blow hits, it can completely break the wrist bone and make the fist sword incapable before stabbing the target.

Irfan knew that he couldn't take this blow hard, so he changed his moves immediately, changing the forward stab to a horizontal slash. However, this brief moment of opportunity was also seized by the opponent, who stepped back half a step and came to the distance where the two-handed sword was most suitable for use.

Ding ding ding ding——

The weapons of both sides collided at high speed, and the aftermath of the battle swept through the living room, smashing the tables, chairs and benches into pieces.

This bloody fight further pushed up the popularity of the live broadcast, directly breaking through the two million mark and reaching 2.3 million.

A lot of barrages also floated across the screen at the right time.

[Okay! Kill him, kill him! ]

[I want to see a river of blood! ]

The black beauty Harley didn't want to get involved in the fight, so she stood up immediately, pretending to be shocked and at a loss.

Jin Huiying also reacted and stood there and shouted, "Don't fight anymore!"

The acting was so realistic that she cried out in panic.

'One or two of them are so good at acting, it's wonderful. I won't watch the Oscars this year without you. '

Li Sheng, who was standing in the corner and watching, called him an expert. He couldn't just do nothing at this time, but he didn't want to take action, so he could only.

"Stop!"

Li Sheng raised a 170 straight knife and rushed forward two steps. As soon as he came to the fighting range, he suddenly raised the blade back, as if the knife was bounced. He stepped back several steps with a pale face and blood foam spurted out of his mouth.

Little Red Riding Hood hurriedly asked with concern: "Mr. Ant, are you okay?!"

"It's okay. It's just that I was escorting a group of vegetarian/environmental/animal protection/transgender/depression/childhood trauma/ethnic minorities/disabled/terminal illness/overweight orphans through the wasteland to their guardians. I fought against more than a dozen mutant beasts alone, and the hidden injuries left have not healed yet."

Li Sheng wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth (actually the blood from biting his mouth), and sighed.

Harley and Jin Huiying cast a vigilant look at him without leaving a trace. No, it's a wasteland outside, where do so many orphans with political correctness buffs come from? And what the hell is vegetarianism and overweight? Byd eats vegetative people every day, right?

This guy named Ant, his nonsense and acting skills are not much inferior

Ring, ring, ring——

On the TV screen, the countdown for this round of links officially ended. Several robotic arms simultaneously put away the cameras and boom microphones, turned into cannon barrels, aimed at the bottom, and blasted out long metal poles.

I don’t know what principle these robotic arms’ fire control systems use to firmly track and lock Irfan who is moving at high speed. Four long poles penetrated his shoulders and thighs at the same time, nailing him to the ground like an insect specimen.

The robotic arm with wisps of green smoke ignored Irfan’s screams and screams, grabbed him roughly, and dragged him to the door.

Bang!

The door opened automatically, and the robotic arm threw Irfan out violently, throwing him into the deep darkness.

The screams became farther and farther away until the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard, and then some kind of beast roared and howled, and finally everything was silent.

The door slowly closed under the action of the damper.

One by one, the robotic arms put away their long poles and took out tools such as vacuum cleaners and floor scrubbers, and cleaned the messy rooms like housekeeping staff. Some even took out glue and wooden boards to fill the big holes on the floor and glue the broken porcelain decorations.

The repair work was carried out in an orderly and fast manner, and the broadcast in the corner of the ceiling also sounded, still with the same emotional and deep narration.

"Aha, it seems that our [End! I'm surrounded by beauties/handsome guys] wasteland love reality show has produced the first eliminated contestant. Mr. Irfan failed to get enough votes and was unfortunately eliminated. Next, we will give the remaining contestants 2 hours of rest time to let them return to their respective rooms to recuperate. Two hours later, we will have a talent show. Now let's watch a commercial."

The live broadcast was interrupted, and on the TV screen, everyone's votes were cleared. Irfan's head portrait turned gray and white, with a large red [WASTED] printed in the middle.

The next round requires a heat of 3 million.

‘Something is wrong.’

The handsome black guy Will narrowed his eyes slightly. This reality show eliminates one person in each round, but the popularity requirement is gradually increasing - this is not reasonable. As the number of contestants decreases, the popularity of the show itself is constantly decreasing.

Unless conflicts are artificially created to force a popularity point.

“Annie, right?” Leonardo, who was forced to be involved in a battle, put away his two-handed sword and looked at Anne coldly, “I will remember you.”

“Don’t be so cold, handsome guy.”

Annie blinked pitifully, “I am not thinking about everyone too? If the popularity does not meet the standard, everyone will be executed. Besides, I have raised your support rate. We can still cooperate in the next round.”

“Huh.”

Leonardo was too lazy to talk nonsense and turned away. Others did not want to have more contact with Anne, the femme fatale, and left the living room to explore the villa.

The villa covers a large area. In addition to the living room, master bedroom, second bedroom, kitchen, game room, dressing room, and cloakroom, there are also indoor swimming pools, indoor gyms, private cinemas, parking lots and other facilities. Similarly, through the window, one could only see darkness outside.

Leonardo walked into a bedroom, closed the door, rubbed his sore shoulders, and suddenly grinned and laughed silently.

Stupid woman who thinks she is smart, hahahaha, she thought she eliminated a competitor, but she was digging her own grave.

"Idiot?"

At the same time, Little Red Riding Hood, who was exploring the villa with Li Sheng, asked sincerely, "Why did Mr. Ant say that about Annie?"

"Because she is really stupid."

Li Sheng played with a nuclear lighter and said casually, "She falsely accused Irfan of being a sex offender, eliminated the latter, and created a persona for herself as a 'victim of the survivor'.

In this way, in the next game session, if other players want to target her again, it will be easily regarded as 'harming the weak'. And the audience is more inclined to vote for her with sympathy.

Considering only the round, Annie's strategy is fine. But she overlooked one point. The mission briefing mentioned that the meaning of this program is to continue human civilization."

Little Red Riding Hood asked in confusion, "Is there any problem with this?"

"Without considering the political correctness prevailing in the West, it takes at least men and women to continue human civilization. The mission briefing and TV commercials did not mention that this world has cloning technology, artificial human technology, etc."

Li Sheng said: "Therefore, the only ones who can survive this show to the end must be one man and one woman. Or multiple men and multiple women.

In this case, what do you think is the most favorable situation for the individual?"

"The most favorable situation."

Little Red Riding Hood tilted her head and thought for a while, and understood, "I am the only one on my side of the gender!"

"That's right."

Li Sheng smiled slightly, "The fewer people on my side and the more people on the other side, the more favorable it is for me. If I am the only one on my side, then I will not lose no matter what.

In other words, the essence of this reality show is not the fight between the opposite sexes, but the competition between the same sex.

What Anne did actually pitted herself in it."

He jumped onto the table with the help of the wall, and reached out to try to remove the fixing nut of the ceiling track.

Buzz!

A mechanical arm immediately stretched out from the track, holding a small LCD panel with a pattern of ×, and said loudly to Li Sheng in a mechanical voice: "Please do not interfere with/destroy the camera system, otherwise you will bear the consequences."

"Sorry, my occupational disease has come back. Pay attention next time."

Li Sheng quickly withdrew his hand and said sincerely.

The robotic arm paused for a moment and silently retracted.

Tsk, they are watching so closely, are they afraid that the contestants will know the principle of the camera system?

Li Sheng squinted his eyes and thought, took out a few metal cans the size of paint buckets with wires inserted from the backpack column, and taped them to the surface of the villa wall with tape.

While sticking, he also paid attention to the movement of the track robotic arm.

"Uh"

Little Red Riding Hood looked at Li Sheng's actions, her eyes were straight, and her voice trembled a little: "Are these bombs?"

"Yes, homemade IED." Li Sheng said casually.

IED, the full name of Improvised Explosive Devices, is a simple explosive device. It has various forms and uses materials including but not limited to waste grenades, artillery shells, civilian detonators, fertilizers, etc. It is common in asymmetric warfare in the real world and is a weapon for the weaker side to use against the armored units and infantry units of the stronger side.

These explosives were all made by Li Sheng by reading relevant books, buying materials from the shabby streets, and rubbing them by hand in the white bone corridor.

The reason for hand-rubbing is not only to exercise practical skills, but also because there is a popular saying in the player forum - to a certain extent, the killing field will count the "external objects" in the backpack column of novice players as the player's own strength, thereby increasing the difficulty of the task.

Avoid the situation where novice players buy more than ten or twenty individual cloud bombs per person and put them in the backpack column, and bombard the monsters as soon as they show their heads.

If the guns, ammunition, drones, vehicles, etc. are hand-rubbed by players, they will not be counted as "external objects".

During this period, Li Sheng studied theoretical mechanics, material mechanics, structural mechanics, soil mechanics, fluid dynamics, ammunition engineering and explosion technology, etc., and not only can he make IEDs by himself, but also learned military blasting.

All IEDs can be controlled by shortwave signals, and their placement locations are all load-bearing walls of villas - if Li Sheng is eliminated, he doesn't mind blowing up the entire villa to test how the program team will react.

It should be known that the overall world view, outlook on life and values ​​of society are developing rapidly with the general environment. Before 1954, the United States was still implementing the apartheid system, and by 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement had been launched, which was only more than 60 years.

From the barrage of comments floating across the TV screen, we can know that the outside world is at least the 22nd century. During this period, we have experienced nuclear wars, wasteland chaos, and even the reconstruction of civilization. According to common sense, moral values ​​and values ​​should have undergone earth-shaking changes. But the audience's tastes have not deviated too much, and Anne's false accusation method can still work.

This is abnormal in itself.