I've Never Seen Anyone So Shameless

Seeing that the contestant bound to the Curry Kingdom was Sharman Gandhi,

many Curry Kingdom viewers felt their hearts sink.

Because Sharman was quite famous throughout the Curry Kingdom.

He was not even twenty-two, yet he had already achieved the feat of earning eight million Lighthouse Coins a month.

The phone he used and the car he drove were both made of solid gold.

However...

If he hadn't come from such a privileged background,

he would never have been able to do any of that.

Everything he had was thanks to his family's conglomerate.

Without his family background,

he would probably have been just an ordinary person.

On top of that, he often posted anti-intellectual nonsense on social media.

People across the Curry Kingdom had little affection for him.

Especially recently.

Sharman had been exposed for molesting girls in their teens.

There had been more than one victim.

At the time, the scandal had caused quite a stir in the country.

However...

Because Sharman's family was enormously wealthy,

they had managed to control the narrative.

In the end, they even turned around and accused the victims,

claiming the girls had made it all up to extort money from Sharman.

They also hired online trolls to smear the victims in the comments.

Later, under pressure from public opinion, several victims had been driven to suicide to prove their innocence.

And yet, even after all that, Sharman had never been brought to trial.

Instead, he had brazenly appeared in public to promote a new drug made by his company.

It was no exaggeration to say...

Sharman's behavior had been utterly outrageous.

Some viewers even hoped he would die in the Forbidden Land.

But of all things...

this man had been bound to the Curry Kingdom.

If anything happened to him,

ten million people would be dragged down with him!

For all these reasons, the Curry Kingdom's viewers had mixed feelings.

Especially when they saw Sharman's situation take a turn for the worse.

They couldn't help feeling worried.

After all, this man, who had been wealthy for who knew how many generations, had no skills beyond squandering money and spouting anti-intellectual nonsense.

Fortunately...

There was always a way out.

Just as everyone thought Sharman wouldn't be able to hold on much longer,

a light appeared in the Forbidden Land.

It was like a lifeline, catching Sharman's eye.

After traveling some distance,

Sharman was able to confirm

that the person who had made the light

was the contestant from the Yan Kingdom.

Xu Fan!

He was saved.

No matter what, the Yan Kingdom and the Curry Kingdom were neighboring countries.

Whenever the Yan Kingdom did anything,

they paid attention.

Then they would invent a holiday to boycott Yan Kingdom goods.

But since their country lacked sufficient production capacity,

the boycott usually left the market paralyzed.

All kinds of absurd scenarios played out on a regular basis.

This time was no different.

They had been following contestant Xu Fan's performance in the Forbidden Land

every step of the way.

"Now that he's run into a Yan Kingdom contestant, Sharman's life should be safe."

"Yeah. We're promoting a community with a shared future for humanity, after all. All the contestants are in the Forbidden Land together, so helping each other is only right."

"Besides, the Yan Kingdom has taken plenty of advantage of our country. I don't see anything wrong with making their contestant look after Sharman."

For a while...

quite a few Curry Kingdom viewers entered the Yan Kingdom's Live Stream Room.

Then they used all kinds of machine translation apps to send comments.

They demanded that contestant Xu Fan share his food and fresh water with Sharman unconditionally.

They also insisted he protect Sharman in the Forbidden Land.

Otherwise...

the Yan Kingdom would be going against the mainstream of a shared future for humanity.

And as a major power in the Asian region,

they would impose economic sanctions on the Yan Kingdom.

Faced with these sudden demands,

quite a few Yan Kingdom viewers burst out laughing.

They had seen shameless people before, but never anyone this shameless.

"Good grief, I can't believe this. Those Curry Kingdom folks are always so ridiculously confident, no matter the situation."

"Relax, relax. This isn't the first time. Don't they threaten to sanction us every other day?"

"Honestly, there's nothing wrong with contestants in the Forbidden Land helping each other out. But what's with that holier-than-thou attitude?"

"I've never seen anyone so shameless!"

"If it were a young girl, I wouldn't mind. But wasn't Sharman a scumbag? Asking our contestant to protect a scumbag? What a waste!"

"I didn't expect them to try to guilt-trip us like this."

In an instant, Yan Kingdom viewers fired back.

Of course...

not everyone in the Curry Kingdom was hostile toward the Yan Kingdom.

It was just that certain lingering issues remained.

Only a small portion of Curry Kingdom citizens could get online.

And those who were friendly toward the Yan Kingdom were a tiny minority among them.

Their voices were quickly drowned out.

Besides, Sharman was a scumbag to begin with.

Many Yan Kingdom citizens couldn't understand

why the Curry Kingdom let someone like him do whatever he wanted.

It made no sense.

Of course...

Xu Fan and Sharman had no idea about the online arguments.

The two greeted each other with a smile.

"Are you the contestant who won a large stretch of woodland for the Yan Kingdom?"

Sharman looked around, his eyes filling with questions.

"But how did you kill the beasts?"

"You don't seem to have any weapons with you."

"Oh, right..."

"Could you spare me some food? Everything I brought has frozen solid."

As he spoke, Sharman took some food, including compressed biscuits, out of his bag.

Because of the low temperature,

it was all frozen solid.

He couldn't bite into it.

"No problem. I've got plenty of smoked meat," Xu Fan said without a second thought.

After all, he ate nothing but meat from beasts in the Forbidden Land.

The advantage was that he could provide for himself.

As for the downside...

Whether it was edible

was a matter of luck.

Take the Nuger Worms he had killed that day, for example.

Just looking at them had killed his appetite.

Still, Xu Fan wasn't going to begrudge Sharman some smoked meat.

What set humans apart from animals was the connection between strangers.

And the people of the Yan Kingdom had always been a warmhearted nation.

Xu Fan tore off a large chunk of smoked meat and tossed it to Sharman, then answered his first question.

"As for the beasts in the Forbidden Land..."

"They only look scary. At the end of the day, they're still living creatures."

"They bleed when they're hurt."

"And they die if you hit them hard enough."

"There's really nothing to be afraid of."

Xu Fan said it casually,

as if killing beasts in the Forbidden Land were no big deal.

"Is... is that so?" Sharman blinked. Thinking about it, whenever he'd run into a beast,

he'd been too busy running for his life to notice.

Then he glanced at the Female Snow Wolf.

"By the way, Mr. Xu Fan, can you get a Treasure Chest just by killing those beasts?" Sharman asked meaningfully.

He wondered...

whether killing the Female Snow Wolf in front of him

would earn him a Treasure Chest.

After all, according to what the Mysterious Voice had said,

Treasure Chests ranked D+-Rank and above were full of good stuff.

The darkness in Sharman's heart

began to grow!