Happy National Day to Everyone!

Happy National Day to Everyone!

As long as both contestants abstained, they could advance to the third stage together.

It was a win-win situation, but only for the groups at the front. Those further back could only watch helplessly as the contestants ahead of them advanced.

Once ten contestants from the front had advanced, everyone still waiting behind them could turn around and get lost.

At the base of the pyramid, the contestants looked up with hostile, watchful expressions, some jealous, others resentful.

Meanwhile, 0175 and 1868, who were closest to the pyramid's peak, looked dazed, as if they couldn't believe such a good thing had happened to them. They were the first group in line.

The rules announced by Teacher Slaughter left the Upper Class in the audience somewhat displeased. They booed, unable to understand why there was a rule that let the lower-class contestants advance so easily.

"What's the host playing at?"

"If the first five groups all choose to abstain, does that mean the second stage just ends like that?"

"Let's see if there are any other rules. Advancing just by abstaining is way too easy."

To the audience's disappointment, Teacher Slaughter announced no further rules.

What he had already explained was everything the second stage entailed.

Truthfully, Teacher Slaughter himself felt a little uneasy. The events for the second and third stages hadn't been designed by him. The organizers had arranged them long ago, and he was only there to host.

In fact, he hadn't learned what today's events would be until last night.

When he saw that abstaining would let another member of the same group advance directly, he had been just as baffled.

But he'd heard that the rule had been designed by someone highly influential on the production team, so he trusted that