Chapter 896: Making a Living with One’s Brains

His skin was so fair that even many women would envy him, let alone men. The saying goes, "Fair skin hides a multitude of flaws."

If you took those handsome male celebrities and changed their skin to the ordinary yellow or dark tones of the average person, you'd find their looks would plummet instantly.

This Hua Country man had already cleared 57 rooms.

He was currently in the 58th room.

Arguably, he was among the top five players in this round of the game.

And the question in this room was:

"How many chapters are in the Ming Dynasty novels 'Journey to the West,' 'Water Margin,' 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' and 'Investiture of the Gods,' respectively?"

"A: 100, 120, 120, 100

B: 120, 100, 90, 100

C: 90, 110, 100, 100"

When they saw this question,

Fairy Sister privately messaged: [Kao... who the hell knows how many chapters these have! I don't know a single one!!!]

Little Dragon Girl: [Same here, I don't know any of them either. And it's four novels at once, this is literally a death sentence.]

Fairy Sister and Little Dragon Girl were completely stumped by this question. Unless they had their phones to help, but clearly these contestants had their phones confiscated long ago. When the game started, they had to rely entirely on their own brains.

But this question seemed simple to the Hua Country man. He only hesitated for a few seconds before choosing A.

And A was indeed the correct answer.

The main camera angle shifted again.

It cut to another room, and this room actually had two people inside.

Fairy Sister privately messaged: [Hey, why are there two people in this room? Didn't they say every participant enters from different rooms in different directions?]

Little Dragon Girl: [They do enter from different room entrances in all directions, but sometimes during Q&A, two people who are destined to meet end up in the same room.]

Fairy Sister: [Then... how does that work?]

Little Dragon Girl: [When two people enter the same room, they can choose to cooperate and answer a question together to clear the level together, or one person can answer first and the other answers a different question after.]

Fairy Sister: [I see...]

There were two men in this room, one white man and one black man.

English is the most widely spoken language in the world, and clearly both of them could speak it. So the two reached a cooperation agreement and chose to answer a question together.

But in the face of the question in this room, both of them answered incorrectly.

The consequences of answering wrong, neither of them knew. They still thought they could grab the money and run.

Then a gunshot rang out. The black man was the first to collapse to the ground, motionless.

The white man saw the black man beside him suddenly die. He was stunned for a moment, then he stared in terror at the fallen corpse, especially the bloody hole in the back of the black man's head and the water that kept pouring out of that hole. He looked around wildly in panic.

He immediately screamed for help and begged to be let out. Then he frantically twisted the three doors in this room, plus the one he had come in through. But none of the four doors would budge. He was trapped inside.

Finally, with another gunshot, he died too.

Little Dragon Girl privately messaged Fairy Sister: [This is the cruelty of this game! Of course, compared to the other games in the Black Software, this game is much better. At least this one doesn't have players killing each other.

If this room said that as long as you kill the other person, you'd get all their prize money from answering questions, then there'd probably be a lot of people murdering each other.]

Fairy Sister: [Yeah, the best part here is that cooperation is actually possible! It's a breath of fresh air among the Black Software's offerings! No wonder it has so many viewers. After watching all those bloody live stream rooms in the Black Software, it's nice to occasionally watch something more low-key.]

The two continued watching the live stream.

What followed was some people answering wrong and dying, and others answering right and continuing on.

The So Many Doors game had one more special rule.

In this So Many Doors live stream game, if a player wanted to fully clear the game, they had to go through 100 rooms and answer 100 questions.

But the So Many Doors live stream game gave all participants a pre-set target before the game started. For example, they would ask you to set a goal in advance.

If you cleared 10 rooms, or 11 rooms, or even said you'd clear 5 rooms, as long as you reached that expected target, you could leave early.

But if you wanted to continue answering questions, that expected target would be voided. You had to answer all 100 questions and clear all 100 rooms before they'd let you out.

So this was the test of human greed.

Each question was worth 100,000 Hua Country dollars.

Even converted to the currency of developed countries, like USD, where one US dollar equals seven Hua Country dollars, it was a huge temptation for ordinary people.

Currently, the player with the most rooms cleared in this round was a white man who had reached 72 rooms.

He had already participated twice before. This was his third time.

This white man was also very young, only 29 years old.

He was considered a star player in the So Many Doors live stream game.

In his first two attempts, he had cleared the full game both times, earning 10 million Hua Country dollars each time. Of course, they'd convert it to whatever currency he wanted.

And every time after getting the money, he'd go to those Southeast Asian countries.

What did he do there?

Naturally, he spent it.

That place was basically a white man's paradise.

Taking his country's currency with its high exchange rate and spending it there, it felt amazing.

He was treated like a king.

Besides, being a white man put him a cut above the rest there, receiving preferential treatment.

He was in high demand.

Take Tai Country, for example.

In the eyes of many Tai Country locals, white people were: rich, high-class, and respectable.

Moreover, the local service industry catered to white people excessively.

Priority service.

Simply put, it was like having an identity filter built in.

If you were a Hua Country person and a white man went to the same store, the sales associate would absolutely serve the white man first.

Of course, this white man went there mostly to keep local girls as mistresses.

His favorite place was Tai Country, and he spent most of his time there.

All the money he earned went to supporting the local girls.

Every day at the bar, living a life of debauchery.

Every day, sleeping with different women.

He lived more comfortably than an emperor.

Especially since Tai Country had quite a few mixed-race girls from the younger generation.

Their figures leaned toward the Western aesthetic.

Curvy in all the right places, slim waists and perky rears.

Moreover, Tai Country idolized white aesthetics, which led many local women to shape their appearance and bodies toward that standard.

Through all sorts of methods.

As well as their dressing style, makeup, and so on.

White men definitely preferred this kind of aesthetic.

The Hua Country trend of "pale, young, and thin" wasn't really their thing. Of course, if a Hua Country girl fitting that mold threw herself at them, they wouldn't say no to a free meal.