Arc 5 Chapter 6
That night, Mo held Shen Jiayan. The both of them peacefully slept using the Snow-Toothed Beast’s tail as a pillow and the thick, warm fur on its body as a quilt.
It was just these two that slept well, while the people on Lan Ya’s side stayed up all night.
Lan Ya had always liked omnipotent men, so when Bai Tian saved him, he fell in love at first sight. However, Bai Tian’s performance today really disappointed him. It was just reaching for a bug, but he shrieked and screamed. In the end, he actually admitted defeat in order to make the Program Team let him down.
His performance in the entire game was not only cowardly and weak, it was also irresponsibly selfish. Lan Ya had imagined that Bai Tian’s performance would be very different.
On the contrary, Mo did not only speak up at the beginning of the game, saying that he did not need An Xin to climb up, he also fulfilled the promise to An Xin completely——he won the entire game without An Xin stepping out.
On one hand, Lan Ya somehow hated Mo for not leaving a bit of honor for them and making them face a crushing defeat. On the other hand, a few distinct thoughts actually emerged for Mo. Lan Ya had always revered the strong. From this day’s game, Mo was undoubtedly the strongest among these men. If….
Nowadays, Lan Ya had made up his mind to dump Bai Tian, but now was not the right time.
After all, because of his previous performance, he and Bai Tian were an inseparable CP in the hearts of the netizens. If he suddenly kicked Bai Tian away, it was very likely that it would badly affect his own Support Level. He had to think of a way to get rid of Bai Tian and make himself look like the victim at the same time, in order to win the sympathy of the netizens.
Scheming like this, Lan Ya slightly looked into another direction and he then remembered An Xin.
The Program Team had already confiscated all of the contestant’s personal communication devices on the first day of shooting. It was just that a noble young master, like Lan Ya, had his own means of communication.
Lan Ya avoided the micro-drones that were filming and found a staff member he had arranged to blend into the Program Team, “Help me tell my father to spread the news of An Xin and Bai Tian being childhood sweethearts at the orphanage. Guide the public opinion in the direction of the two of them working together to deceive me.”
“At the same time, make some netizens mention topics like ‘Mo must be interested in Lan Ya’ and ‘Lan Ya and Mo are so compatible’, just like the previous threads about Bai Tian and me, understand?” Lan Ya said with a flash of ambition shining in his eyes.
The man nodded and quietly left.
One moment, Lan Ya had just arranged everything. The next moment, Bai Tian came looking for him.
Perhaps he knew that his performance this day was somewhat disappointing, Bai Tian put away his usual feeling of superiority over Lan Ya and had a bit of anxiety in his expression, “Lan Ya, we need to identify the person to be eliminated in our tribe by tomorrow morning. Do you think that I will be the one to be eliminated?”
Lan Ya was a bit impatient, but it was not the right time to have a falling out with him yet. He could only perfunctorily speak to him, “No, don’t worry. I won’t vote for you.”
“But if both Jerry and Ailee vote for me, wouldn’t that tie the votes?” Bai Tian frowned, “I specially went to ask the Program Team. The rules mentioned that if there is a tie, one person from the other tribe will be chosen to vote for the person to be eliminated. You know An Xin. He will definitely vote for me!”
Mentioning the last sentence, Bai Tian unconsciously lowered his voice.
Lan Yan raised his eyebrows and thought of saying something random to deal with this. He suddenly remembered the news he received that day and said, “Ailee’s Support Level actually rose to Second Place.”
Consequently, Lan Ya swallowed down the next words he was about to say and instead whispered a few words into Bai Tian’s ear.
After listening, Bai Tian laughed as if he was relieved from a burden. The whole person seemed to have found a backbone at once. Even his back was straight as he walked.
The two of them thought that no one would mind this scene, but little did they know, they had long fallen under the eyes of those mindful netizens.
Early the next morning, it was finally the time to cast their elimination votes.
Ailee was the first to cast her vote. She voted for Bai Tian, as she and Jerry agreed to do last night. When they asked her for the reason, she frankly said, “In yesterday’s relay race, Lan Ya went up three levels, Jerry went up seven levels, and I went up ten levels. Bai Tian did not even break through one level, so I voted for him.”
The following votes were made by Bai Tian and Lan Ya, both of them voted for Ailee.
When it was finally Jerry’s turn to vote, he glanced at Ailee with a bit of apprehension in his expression.
Suddenly, Ailee had a sense of foreboding in her heart. Sure enough, she heard Jerry slowly say, “I vote for Ailee. I’m sorry, Ailee.”
Jerry betrayed her!
When she heard her name pour out from Jerry’s mouth, Ailee’s mind went blank at once. This usually outspoken and imposing woman’s eyes nearly turned red in an instant. She incredulously looked at Jerry, “Why?”
Jerry shrank back and didn’t speak. Last night, Bai Tian looked for him and told him that if he did not want to vote for Ailee, then Bai Tian and Lan Ya would both vote for him together. Jerry was afraid of being eliminated and he was not willing to offend two people at once. As a result, he had no choice but to betray her.
Ailee suddenly understood something. She sneered and wiped off her tears, “‘Nobleness is the epitaph of the noble and despicableness is the passport of the despicable. 1’ The game’s winners and losers have never been the criteria in which you get judged, it was the intimacy. I won’t ask you the reason again because when I chose to be with you at the beginning, I should’ve known that I would end up like this!”
Lan Ya was so angered that his face turned red, but he could not say a word of rebuttal.
Every word of scolding from Ailee was pointing to their noses, but no name was mentioned. If Lan Ya stepped up to refute at this moment, wouldn’t that just be him admitting that those words were all pertaining to him?
After Ailee finished scolding them, it wasn’t over yet. She went over to Shen Jiayan.
The color of Mo’s eyes turned deeper. He reached out and took Shen Jiayan into his arms. It was a protective gesture at a glance.
Fortunately, Ailee didn’t want to scold Shen Jiayan either. She just gently stamped a kiss on Shen Jiayan’s forehead, which was her greatest way to express her apology, “Forgive me for having trusted the others and brought you harm. I hope that you can go all the way.”
Shen Jiayan hinted at Mo to let him go, then Shen Jiayan went over to hug Ailee. He had no intention to deny the phrase “I hope you can go all the way”. Instead, he solemnly responded, with his eyes slightly bent, “Okay.”
Mo fixedly looked at this kind of Shen Jiayan for quite a while, he said with a gentle smile, “I will help you.”
With no superfluous words, he just said “I will help you” and it made Shen Jiayan feel warm as a whole.
Ailee left but the fans of Ailee, who were left behind, were going crazy. They turned over the footage of Lan Ya and Bai Tian conspiring the day before, then footage of Bai Tian going to Jerry last night and threatening him. Therefore, they naturally knew that it was totally a setup for Ailee to leave “Survivor”.
Since the person Ailee wanted to support was An Xin, then they would also support An Xin. In any case, they wouldn’t allow the person who set up Ailee to win at the end of the show.
And so, before Lan Ya knew it, the situation had already gotten out of his control. The Support Levels on the Star Network had also undergone great changes.
The Support Level of both An Xin and Mo had been increasing. Meanwhile, Jerry’s Support Level however, was plummeting down. The netizens hated traitors. Ailee’s fans hated him. Bai Tian and Lan Ya’s fans also hated that he made the two get caught in an embarrassing situation, so they hated him.
An Xin’s Support Level rose to negative 10 million at once and Mo’s Support Level rose to negative 15 million. Furthermore, this trend of increase did not show signs of declining.
However, Jerry’s Support Level fell to negative 20 million, replacing Mo in the last place.
Even more unexpected than the fact that An Xin and Mo finally stopped being on the bottom of the Support Level Ranking, was that many discussions about Mo and Lan Ya’s CP suddenly popped out of nowhere on the Star Network. Some of the footage was from the previous game on catching bugs, like Mo and Lan Ya’s giving each other glances. There were also screenshots of the two of them in the same frame in the past.
It was only a pity that just as they were posted, these videos would usually be ridiculed by An Xin and Mo’s anti-fans.
“This can be called staring at each other? Look at the way Mo gazes at An Xin in this photo. This is called ‘so tender that love just pours out’, you see? In contrast to this, what is the difference between the way Mo looked at Lan Ya’s eyes and the way he looks at the recycled garbage in the Interstellar Aviation Station?”
“Are you born stupid? Mo and Lan Ya are a match? Will you go home and match yourself with a swine?”
“I actually really admire you, I really do! Your spirit deeply influenced me– you are blind, but you still kept posting these comments. Compared to you, we are really nothing! I can only tell you with all my heart: You are fucking blind!”
…And it continued, until all those comments were mocked into deletion on their own accord before it stopped!
Seeing that the names from this group of netizens were known as An Xin and Mo anti-fans, but appeared to defend them fiercely, some of the bystanders wondered, “Aren’t you An Xin and Mo’s haters? Why do you react so badly when other people pair Mo and Lan Ya together?”
Like complete tsunderes, these netizens said, “We’ve all been badmouthing them for so long. If people want to say bad things about them, only we can do that! What is with that group of people who came out to defame both Mo and Lan Ya together?
“If you all are the only ones allowed to scold them, why do you help them increase their Support Level?” This point made them even more puzzled.
“You fools!” These netizens inconsistently said, “We can’t continue to scold them if we don’t keep them in the game in the first place! If they were eliminated because of their low Support Level, who would we scold then?”
It should be known that competitions, like “Survivor”, were greatly influenced by the Support Level. It could even be said that the person with the highest Support Level had absolute dominance in the game.
And currently, the one with the highest Support Level was still Lan Ya!
Arc 5 Chapter 6
That night, Mo held Shen Jiayan. The both of them peacefully slept using the Snow-Toothed Beast’s tail as a pillow and the thick, warm fur on its body as a quilt.
It was just these two that slept well, while the people on Lan Ya’s side stayed up all night.
Lan Ya had always liked omnipotent men, so when Bai Tian saved him, he fell in love at first sight. However, Bai Tian’s performance today really disappointed him. It was just reaching for a bug, but he shrieked and screamed. In the end, he actually admitted defeat in order to make the Program Team let him down.
His performance in the entire game was not only cowardly and weak, it was also irresponsibly selfish. Lan Ya had imagined that Bai Tian’s performance would be very different.
On the contrary, Mo did not only speak up at the beginning of the game, saying that he did not need An Xin to climb up, he also fulfilled the promise to An Xin completely——he won the entire game without An Xin stepping out.
On one hand, Lan Ya somehow hated Mo for not leaving a bit of honor for them and making them face a crushing defeat. On the other hand, a few distinct thoughts actually emerged for Mo. Lan Ya had always revered the strong. From this day’s game, Mo was undoubtedly the strongest among these men. If….
Nowadays, Lan Ya had made up his mind to dump Bai Tian, but now was not the right time.
After all, because of his previous performance, he and Bai Tian were an inseparable CP in the hearts of the netizens. If he suddenly kicked Bai Tian away, it was very likely that it would badly affect his own Support Level. He had to think of a way to get rid of Bai Tian and make himself look like the victim at the same time, in order to win the sympathy of the netizens.
Scheming like this, Lan Ya slightly looked into another direction and he then remembered An Xin.
The Program Team had already confiscated all of the contestant’s personal communication devices on the first day of shooting. It was just that a noble young master, like Lan Ya, had his own means of communication.
Lan Ya avoided the micro-drones that were filming and found a staff member he had arranged to blend into the Program Team, “Help me tell my father to spread the news of An Xin and Bai Tian being childhood sweethearts at the orphanage. Guide the public opinion in the direction of the two of them working together to deceive me.”
“At the same time, make some netizens mention topics like ‘Mo must be interested in Lan Ya’ and ‘Lan Ya and Mo are so compatible’, just like the previous threads about Bai Tian and me, understand?” Lan Ya said with a flash of ambition shining in his eyes.
The man nodded and quietly left.
One moment, Lan Ya had just arranged everything. The next moment, Bai Tian came looking for him.
Perhaps he knew that his performance this day was somewhat disappointing, Bai Tian put away his usual feeling of superiority over Lan Ya and had a bit of anxiety in his expression, “Lan Ya, we need to identify the person to be eliminated in our tribe by tomorrow morning. Do you think that I will be the one to be eliminated?”
Lan Ya was a bit impatient, but it was not the right time to have a falling out with him yet. He could only perfunctorily speak to him, “No, don’t worry. I won’t vote for you.”
“But if both Jerry and Ailee vote for me, wouldn’t that tie the votes?” Bai Tian frowned, “I specially went to ask the Program Team. The rules mentioned that if there is a tie, one person from the other tribe will be chosen to vote for the person to be eliminated. You know An Xin. He will definitely vote for me!”
Mentioning the last sentence, Bai Tian unconsciously lowered his voice.
Lan Yan raised his eyebrows and thought of saying something random to deal with this. He suddenly remembered the news he received that day and said, “Ailee’s Support Level actually rose to Second Place.”
Consequently, Lan Ya swallowed down the next words he was about to say and instead whispered a few words into Bai Tian’s ear.
After listening, Bai Tian laughed as if he was relieved from a burden. The whole person seemed to have found a backbone at once. Even his back was straight as he walked.
The two of them thought that no one would mind this scene, but little did they know, they had long fallen under the eyes of those mindful netizens.
Early the next morning, it was finally the time to cast their elimination votes.
Ailee was the first to cast her vote. She voted for Bai Tian, as she and Jerry agreed to do last night. When they asked her for the reason, she frankly said, “In yesterday’s relay race, Lan Ya went up three levels, Jerry went up seven levels, and I went up ten levels. Bai Tian did not even break through one level, so I voted for him.”
The following votes were made by Bai Tian and Lan Ya, both of them voted for Ailee.
When it was finally Jerry’s turn to vote, he glanced at Ailee with a bit of apprehension in his expression.
Suddenly, Ailee had a sense of foreboding in her heart. Sure enough, she heard Jerry slowly say, “I vote for Ailee. I’m sorry, Ailee.”
Jerry betrayed her!
When she heard her name pour out from Jerry’s mouth, Ailee’s mind went blank at once. This usually outspoken and imposing woman’s eyes nearly turned red in an instant. She incredulously looked at Jerry, “Why?”
Jerry shrank back and didn’t speak. Last night, Bai Tian looked for him and told him that if he did not want to vote for Ailee, then Bai Tian and Lan Ya would both vote for him together. Jerry was afraid of being eliminated and he was not willing to offend two people at once. As a result, he had no choice but to betray her.
Ailee suddenly understood something. She sneered and wiped off her tears, “‘Nobleness is the epitaph of the noble and despicableness is the passport of the despicable. 1’ The game’s winners and losers have never been the criteria in which you get judged, it was the intimacy. I won’t ask you the reason again because when I chose to be with you at the beginning, I should’ve known that I would end up like this!”
Lan Ya was so angered that his face turned red, but he could not say a word of rebuttal.
Every word of scolding from Ailee was pointing to their noses, but no name was mentioned. If Lan Ya stepped up to refute at this moment, wouldn’t that just be him admitting that those words were all pertaining to him?
After Ailee finished scolding them, it wasn’t over yet. She went over to Shen Jiayan.
The color of Mo’s eyes turned deeper. He reached out and took Shen Jiayan into his arms. It was a protective gesture at a glance.
Fortunately, Ailee didn’t want to scold Shen Jiayan either. She just gently stamped a kiss on Shen Jiayan’s forehead, which was her greatest way to express her apology, “Forgive me for having trusted the others and brought you harm. I hope that you can go all the way.”
Shen Jiayan hinted at Mo to let him go, then Shen Jiayan went over to hug Ailee. He had no intention to deny the phrase “I hope you can go all the way”. Instead, he solemnly responded, with his eyes slightly bent, “Okay.”
Mo fixedly looked at this kind of Shen Jiayan for quite a while, he said with a gentle smile, “I will help you.”
With no superfluous words, he just said “I will help you” and it made Shen Jiayan feel warm as a whole.
Ailee left but the fans of Ailee, who were left behind, were going crazy. They turned over the footage of Lan Ya and Bai Tian conspiring the day before, then footage of Bai Tian going to Jerry last night and threatening him. Therefore, they naturally knew that it was totally a setup for Ailee to leave “Survivor”.
Since the person Ailee wanted to support was An Xin, then they would also support An Xin. In any case, they wouldn’t allow the person who set up Ailee to win at the end of the show.
And so, before Lan Ya knew it, the situation had already gotten out of his control. The Support Levels on the Star Network had also undergone great changes.
The Support Level of both An Xin and Mo had been increasing. Meanwhile, Jerry’s Support Level however, was plummeting down. The netizens hated traitors. Ailee’s fans hated him. Bai Tian and Lan Ya’s fans also hated that he made the two get caught in an embarrassing situation, so they hated him.
An Xin’s Support Level rose to negative 10 million at once and Mo’s Support Level rose to negative 15 million. Furthermore, this trend of increase did not show signs of declining.
However, Jerry’s Support Level fell to negative 20 million, replacing Mo in the last place.
Even more unexpected than the fact that An Xin and Mo finally stopped being on the bottom of the Support Level Ranking, was that many discussions about Mo and Lan Ya’s CP suddenly popped out of nowhere on the Star Network. Some of the footage was from the previous game on catching bugs, like Mo and Lan Ya’s giving each other glances. There were also screenshots of the two of them in the same frame in the past.
It was only a pity that just as they were posted, these videos would usually be ridiculed by An Xin and Mo’s anti-fans.
“This can be called staring at each other? Look at the way Mo gazes at An Xin in this photo. This is called ‘so tender that love just pours out’, you see? In contrast to this, what is the difference between the way Mo looked at Lan Ya’s eyes and the way he looks at the recycled garbage in the Interstellar Aviation Station?”
“Are you born stupid? Mo and Lan Ya are a match? Will you go home and match yourself with a swine?”
“I actually really admire you, I really do! Your spirit deeply influenced me– you are blind, but you still kept posting these comments. Compared to you, we are really nothing! I can only tell you with all my heart: You are fucking blind!”
…And it continued, until all those comments were mocked into deletion on their own accord before it stopped!
Seeing that the names from this group of netizens were known as An Xin and Mo anti-fans, but appeared to defend them fiercely, some of the bystanders wondered, “Aren’t you An Xin and Mo’s haters? Why do you react so badly when other people pair Mo and Lan Ya together?”
Like complete tsunderes, these netizens said, “We’ve all been badmouthing them for so long. If people want to say bad things about them, only we can do that! What is with that group of people who came out to defame both Mo and Lan Ya together?
“If you all are the only ones allowed to scold them, why do you help them increase their Support Level?” This point made them even more puzzled.
“You fools!” These netizens inconsistently said, “We can’t continue to scold them if we don’t keep them in the game in the first place! If they were eliminated because of their low Support Level, who would we scold then?”
It should be known that competitions, like “Survivor”, were greatly influenced by the Support Level. It could even be said that the person with the highest Support Level had absolute dominance in the game.
And currently, the one with the highest Support Level was still Lan Ya!
