Chapter 24 Two Dead, Two Disabled
While everyone was mocking little Sakura for her short-sightedness and poverty,
a sentence from the chosen one of Moluo Country in "Analog Horror" attracted everyone's attention.
"Jiang Xiao is taking care of three kids by himself? In that case, isn't it possible that some of us will advance to the challenge directly without an opponent?"
The rest of the chosen ones were taken aback.
It seemed that was the case—that if they had no sons or daughters, how could the show "Where's Dad Dead" even proceed?
Other than the very few chosen ones who had been actively chosen by the children (like Jiang Xiao and Meichuan Neiku),
most of the kids were passively waiting to be selected by a chosen one.
However, some of the chosen ones sheepishly stepped back, visibly not wanting to pick anymore.
They wanted to wait until the others had made their choices so they could advance directly.
But someone in the barrage of online comments raised doubts.
"Can this really work?"
"Under normal circumstances, without children, indeed, you can't participate in such parent-child variety shows."
"But... are you sure talking about 'normal circumstances' is useful in 'Analog Horror'?"
Nine dads, ten kids, Jiang Xiao taking care of three, which meant inevitably someone would sit out.
Sensing these chosen ones wanted to sit out,
the expressions on the few kids who hadn't yet been picked by any dads turned incredibly cold.
Chillingly cold, in fact, their gazes devoid of any color,
Even though these children's appearances hadn't changed, they felt like vengeful corpses seething with rage.
These dads don't want us anymore?
Are we... are we being abandoned...
Everyone else has gotten a dad, just they... they are the children nobody wants.
Children unwanted by their fathers... are they considered the bastards adults speak of...
Something was seriously off—at the very least, fifteen degrees of wrong!
Some smart chosen ones immediately picked the kids whose faces were relatively less dark.
After a round of selections, there were just two kids left whom nobody wanted.
And the three remaining chosen ones were all from the Philippines, people there generally lacking intelligence and discernment.
Watching as the ten-minute window for selection was about to close, the weaker chosen ones from Nisi Country and Jiliya Country couldn't resist the pressure.
They each chose a child.
The last "victor," a dark-skinned man from Moluo Country, saw that he had successfully managed to sit out.
He couldn't suppress his ecstatic expression any longer, almost bursting with glee!
Unfortunately, before he could fully relish the thought, he saw his headless body...
Oh, so it was his own head that had flown up, huh~
'Bang~' 'Bang!' 'Bang!' 'Bang!'...
And that wasn't the end of it!
After his head had been bizarrely lopped off, his body started to explode repeatedly.
Pieces of flesh were violently torn from him, and this time the chosen ones didn't even know which child had struck.
Perhaps... perhaps they all had?
Because all the children present were glaring furiously at the now dead dark-skinned man, their expressions eager to gouge out his heart and debone him!
"Moluo Country chosen one: Yin Gangnan, failed the challenge ('Daddy, Where Are You Dead')."
"The supernatural threat will arrive in 120 seconds, devastating the city of Casablanca for 48 hours."
As Moluo Country's leading economic city, Casablanca was the national hub for commerce, finance, maritime, and air traffic, with nearly 4 million permanent residents accounting for 12% of the nation's population and 46% of the national industrial workforce.
This was the heart of the nation—likely to be wiped from existence after this.
The entire country of Moluo was thrown into a state of immense panic.
Casablanca wasn't just about the population.
If such an economic city were destroyed, the whole nation might perish!
However, in the face of the supernatural threat, the nation's leaders only uttered a simple "Leave it to fate" before taking no further action.
'Bang~'
With the last explosion,
Not a single piece of flesh could be found on Yin Gangnan's body, as if it had been scraped by a boning knife, leaving only a skeletal frame.
Lolita in the blue dress snorted coldly, her tone quite dissatisfied.
"Who cut off his head first! Didn't we agree that with these cases, the head should be cut last? I wanted him to watch his flesh being torn piece by piece! I wanted him to feel the ultimate pain and fear!"
The dark-skinned chosen ones from Nisi Country and Jiliya Country swallowed hard, immensely relieved they had made the right choice at the crucial moment!
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'Bang~' 'Bang~'
Before the two of them could be happy for long, their left legs made two crisp sounds.
"Ah! Fuck!"
They watched in horror as their shinbones eerily bent forward at a 90-degree angle below the knees, the intense pain eliciting the most agonizing screams of their lives.
The cold-hearted little girl in black retracted her fingers that had been pointed at their shins.
"You two have been lightly punished. If this happens again, you will be dismembered to death!"
Dismembered to death?
The two black guys didn't understand what it meant, but they were certain it wasn't anything pleasant.
"You still need to take care of Nannan and Qingfeng, you can't die now, so stop barking! Xiaoqing, go, reattach their legs."
They could be reattached?
Not bad, I didn't expect these creepy kids to have bone-setting skills!
The two immediately extended their fractured shins toward the little boy who approached them.
Seeing how willingly they offered their legs, the little boy's mouth twisted into an odd smile.
"Crack!" "Crack!"
The two men: (유口유|||)...
The utmost pain left them voiceless, their clothes instantly soaked in cold sweat as their bodies quivered like sieves.
Not just the two victims, but the other Chosen Ones also tensed up watching the scene.
This wasn't bone-setting at all; it was sheer forceful straightening of protruding bone fragments!
The pain was unimaginably excruciating.
Both black men's complexions had turned pale from the pain, and if nothing else went wrong, they could only participate in the Analog Horror limping...
Lolita in the blue dress turned to Jiang Xiao, a sweet smile spreading across her face again.
"Daddy, we can go home now. By the way, my name is Bai Yi, the little pink-haired one is Mu Xitang, and the black-dressed Stoic Face is Shi Shi... Of course, you are our dad, so you can call us whatever you want~"
"Uh-huh, I see, you understand!"
"Daddy, what you're trying to say is 'I understand,' right?"
Mu Xitang corrected him.
"Um~um, goosie-goosie, close enough, right~?"
"Daddy daddy, is playing pretend family really that fun?"
Bai Yi was very curious about the games daddy mentioned.
"Hmph, boring, but our daddy is surely the best! He even drew the chubby Left Guardian!"
Shi Shi might act uninterested, but she seemed to like Jiang Xiao the most.
Jiang Xiao scratched his head and laughed foolishly, "Wow~~~ Hehe~ You praising me like that will make me shy~"
A group of four, one tall and three small, were the first to leave the hall, heading to their own home.
Outside the house, the sun was bright, shining on the disorderly rural two-story houses.
Add to that the occasional laughter and chatter of the four, and the scene was incredibly harmonious.
The only downside was that the Analog Horror had yet to officially start, and already two Chosen Ones were dead and two were disabled.
The live feed was abuzz with comments about the difficulty of this session.
[Good heavens, even Seven-Star Kaidan is this fierce? The game nearly crippled half the players right from the start!]
[Well, personally, I think it's not too bad. It's just those Chosen Ones being too clever for their own good, trying to skip their turn?]
[Exactly, especially those guys from India, leering at the strange with lascivious eyes - he was asking to be killed.]
[That's right, the death rate in other live streams isn't nearly as high. They would have been fine if they only treated them as normal kids to begin with.]
In the end, the reason for the heavy casualties was because of the big idiot from India.
Had he not sought his own death and gotten his head blown off instantly, the rest of the Chosen Ones wouldn't have been terrified of the children.
[But I do think Jiang Xiao gets along pretty well with these kids.]
[Maybe it's because they're a similar age? Isn't Nohara Shinzou just a five-year-old kid?]
[Yes, as we all know, Shinjiro has always performed well when dealing with pretty girls.]
[Hehe, let's stay vigilant, folks. Kaidan is never easy, and it hasn't even started yet!]
That remark woke everyone up; it wasn't the time to be happy.
"Daddy, we're almost home. Mommy has been so anxious waiting for you."
"Yeah, grandpa has always needed care too. It's really great that you could come."
[Right? I remember Nohara Shinzou is usually very restrained around his family, right?]
Upon reading this comment, everyone fell silent.
It wasn't just 'restraint' that Shinjiro had nearly induced Mei Ya into early menopause...
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