Chapter 1628 - 521: Collective Madness

Chapter 1628: Chapter 521: Collective Madness

With those words, Lei Gang felt much more at ease. He could probably see that Wen Xishu was a very righteous, very... saint-like person.

The advantage of someone like this is that at least they won’t harm you. The downside is that sometimes they can mess things up.

He always felt that you couldn’t be too merciful in the apocalypse. However, everyone was just in a cooperative relationship.

Once inside the shelter, they wouldn’t interfere with each other. He thought about it:

"Are you... interested in those two girls?"

Wen Xishu shook his head and stopped engaging with Lei Gang, but instead spoke to the seven others:

"We won’t kick you when you’re down, but don’t randomly guess our abilities, or I guarantee you’ll regret it. Now you can think about ways to escape the swamp. Rest assured, we are not enemies."

The seven people immediately felt relieved, like receiving amnesty.

Although the men all had doubts, thinking it was quite irrational, the two girls were indeed continually thanking Wen Xishu, as if they were seeing the Savior.

Soon, the group answered several randomly generated questions by the forest... including but not limited to: the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever done, the most evil thing they’ve done, and things they’ve done to someone they respect outwardly but actually dislike on the inside.

But they were indeed lucky not to encounter a question like "What is your superpower?"

After the seven managed to escape the swamp, Wen Xishu also briefly got to know them. He introduced himself.

On one hand, to show goodwill, on the other hand, to demonstrate "intimidation power."

After learning that Wen Xishu and Liu Jianxin could individually slay many monsters in the apocalypse, everyone’s gaze became as clear as Lei Gang’s at the beginning.

Wen Xishu decided to call Lei Gang and the five others Team One.

The newly met five men and two women were called Team Two. The seven of Team Two were all from Longxia and had heard that there is a "shelter" here where one can always live safely.

The seven people were quite young, and Liu Jianxin just felt it was troublesome to remember everyone’s name.

He didn’t remember the names of the five men and just directly labeled them from Bystander No. 1 to Bystander No. 5. His address would be something like, "Hey, you."

But Liu Jianxin did remember the names of the two girls, one named Guo Han, and the other Song Xiaoxiao.

It’s not that Liu Jianxin was driven by lust, or that the two girls’ human rights were higher than those of the men, or that their names sounded better, nor was it that he thought they were some rare characters he might encounter in the future.

It was that the two girls were extremely grateful for Wen Xishu’s lifesaving, grateful to the point of wanting to offer themselves.

Their eyes couldn’t hide the love and affection.

And in the original Team One’s five-member group, Gu Yu clearly showed a bit of jealousy. She was one step away from shouting: "Brother Xishu, I was here first."

Three women, already a scene.

All three women seemed hypnotized with a kind of inexplicable fondness for Wen Xishu, directly swirling around him, eager to get close and chat.

No, to be precise, they were already getting close, only to be pushed away by Wen Xishu’s lack of understanding of romance.

This not only puzzled Liu Jianxin but made all the men wonder, is Wen Xishu handsome? He’s alright, but worthy enough to make three girls this enamored? Could it be a superpower?

They thought so, and other audience members thought so too. Some even speculated — Wen Xishu’s power is to hypnotize women.

[Currently, 765 people are guessing your ability — hypnotizing the opposite sex. Your ability has not been exposed.]

[Currently, 1,556 people are guessing your ability — hypnotizing. Your ability has not been exposed.]

When Wen Xishu saw this, he thought he misread the numbers, but he didn’t; indeed, it was guessed as hypnosis, instantly making him think it was the end.

He almost thought he was sabotaged by Virgo’s ability, eliminated prematurely, directly out. This was indeed quite frightening, because his actual ability was hypnosis.

But interestingly, Wen Xishu’s ability was not exposed.

This suddenly made Wen Xishu think of one thing.

The rules prompt that invoking abilities doesn’t require a specific action; the audience doesn’t know who invoked it, but they are notified when an ability is activated.

He hadn’t hypnotized these girls, so the ability wasn’t activated.

So even if the audience guessed hypnosis, because no superpower was currently activated, audience-provided reasons were inappropriate.

To be fair, although initially scared into a cold sweat, the disaster turned into a blessing, and instead, quite a few audience members started ruling out hypnosis.

After all, in the eyes of those guessing hypnosis, hypnosis was the wrong answer.

"This is interesting; it seems many audience members, despite watching more than once, are still quite naive. When filling the questionnaire, we didn’t activate abilities, but the audience could use ’proactively filling in’ as the reason."

"But earlier, I hadn’t activated any superpower; they didn’t see any prompt for superpower activation, yet they speculated my ability was hypnosis; too foolish... wait."

"No, I can’t think the audience is too foolish; that’s arrogance."

"I must assume the audience’s decisions are optimal. What if earlier, someone indeed activated an ability, hence the audience correctly received a superpower activation prompt; this possibility exists."

"Yes, this is the most likely scenario."

"In the eyes of the audience, 14 people gathered, and then I was surrounded by three girls, at this time, someone happened to activate an ability..."