[Major announcement! Curry Kingdom contestant "Sharman Gandhi" has been confirmed dead in the Forbidden Land!]
[Major announcement! Curry Kingdom contestant "Sharman Gandhi" has been confirmed dead in the Forbidden Land!]
[Major announcement! Curry Kingdom contestant "Sharman Gandhi" has been confirmed dead in the Forbidden Land!]
News of Sharman's death instantly appeared in the Live Stream Rooms of every contestant.
It stood out prominently.
Especially in Yan Kingdom and Curry Kingdom.
They had the largest populations on Blue Star.
Their Live Stream Rooms also had the most viewers.
Even though it was already night,
they still had more than a billion people watching online.
Yet no one had expected contestant Xu Fan to pull off a last-second reversal!
Almost everyone wore the same look of utter shock!
Contestant Sharman, who had been in complete control...
was dead?
"Y-you've got to be kidding me, right? How did that guy Sharman die? He was the one holding the gun!"
"Black magic! The Yan Kingdom contestant used black magic!"
"I can't understand it. How could Sharman be the one who died?"
Countless Curry Kingdom viewers stared wide-eyed, breaking out in cold sweats.
At that moment, they felt as if they'd been on a roller coaster, plummeting straight to the bottom.
They couldn't believe it.
They couldn't accept it.
But no matter how much they rejected the truth,
they couldn't change what had already happened.
On screen, Sharman lay inside the cave, his head blown apart by Xu Fan.
It was a gruesome sight!
The most terrifying part was...
Sharman hadn't just failed to secure resources from the Forbidden Land for Curry Kingdom.
More than ten million Curry Kingdom citizens would also be buried with him!
For Curry Kingdom viewers, this was an enormous blow!
Most importantly...
How exactly had Xu Fan managed to turn the tables?
He clearly didn't have a weapon!
Meanwhile, in contestant Xu Fan's Live Stream Room,
Yan Kingdom viewers were equally stunned.
Everyone was shaken to the core.
Especially after the despair they'd felt just moments earlier.
Now, they felt a tremendous sense of relief.
There was no doubt that contestant Xu Fan's successful reversal against Sharman
had defied everyone's understanding!
They racked their brains, but couldn't figure it out.
How exactly had contestant Xu Fan pulled it off?
But one thing was certain.
Thanks to contestant Xu Fan's calm, collected response,
Yan Kingdom had once again escaped a crisis!
At least ten million lives had been saved!
For them, this was undeniably wonderful news.
"Ahhh! When I saw Sharman pull the trigger, I completely froze. Thank goodness—thank goodness our contestant made it out alive."
"Sharman died pretty horribly. His head was... kind of disgusting."
"He deserved it. If he hadn't betrayed Xu Fan after he'd helped him, this wouldn't have happened to him."
A flood of comments scrolled through Yan Kingdom's Live Stream Room.
Among them were plenty of condemnations from Curry Kingdom viewers.
"Your contestant is a despicable, shameless villain! Does he know that more than ten million people will die because of him?"
"So much for the community of shared human destiny! Yan Kingdom has no shame!"
"This is outrageous! No matter what happened, he shouldn't have killed someone!"
Just from reading the comments posted by Curry Kingdom viewers,
anyone who didn't know better might have thought contestant Xu Fan was the one who'd killed and robbed someone.
But...
Anyone who had actually watched the stream knew
that contestant Sharman had fired first.
Xu Fan had merely acted in self-defense.
Forget the Forbidden Land, where the law of the jungle prevailed.
Even on Blue Star,
contestant Xu Fan's actions would have been perfectly reasonable and lawful.
"Here we go again. Your contestant was the one who acted like a backstabbing snake, and now that he's been killed, you're pretending to be the victim? Where were you before?"
"Exactly! When Sharman had the upper hand just now, I didn't see you saying anything about a community of shared human destiny."
"I think contestant Xu Fan did the whole of Blue Star a favor. Who knows if Sharman would've gone on to sabotage contestants from other countries if Xu Fan had let him go?"
"He got what he deserved!"
At that moment, most Yan Kingdom viewers stood firmly together.
They weren't swayed by the comments from Curry Kingdom.
On the contrary, they kept defending contestant Xu Fan,
and strongly condemned Curry Kingdom's double standards.
When Sharman was about to kill someone, they'd been gloating.
They'd mocked their contestant.
And now they were playing the victim and appealing to the community of shared human destiny?
Where had that attitude been before?
Maybe they could try being decent people in their next lives!
In the small screen at the bottom right of the Live Stream Room,
host Xiao Ying was completely shaken.
Although she'd been immensely relieved when contestant Xu Fan killed Sharman in self-defense, this was the first time in her life she'd ever seen a person get shot in the head.
Even though watching Xu Fan kill the Forbidden Land's ferocious beasts had toughened her up,
humans were still different from beasts.
The sight had hit her with a powerful shock.
In an instant, host Xiao Ying felt her stomach churn. She wanted nothing more than to throw up everything she'd eaten that day.
Her mind was filled with images of Sharman's gruesome death.
Just keeping herself from throwing up took all her strength.
There was no way she could explain anything right now.
Brother Qiang and Yuan Yuan were no better.
When all was said and done, they were ordinary people. How could they have ever seen anything like this?
In the end, it was Warrior King Chen, who had seen scenes like this countless times, who broke the silence in the Live Stream Room.
"Did any of you notice..."
"Xu Fan's hands turned black?"
Although night had fallen in the Forbidden Land, the fire Xu Fan had lit was still burning.
By its light, Warrior King Chen had clearly seen
that when contestant Sharman fired,
Xu Fan's hands had suddenly turned black.
An aura seemed to coil around his arms, too.
Warrior King Chen found the sight unbelievable.
And then there was the condition of Sharman's body.
Based on his many years of combat experience,
Warrior King Chen was certain.
Ordinary physical strikes couldn't have caused injuries like those.
At most, they would have left a bloody wound on Sharman's face.
But this looked like the result of a bullet passing through his head.
How was that possible?
Contestant Xu Fan hadn't fired a gun.
Could he have caught the bullet Sharman had fired
and sent it right back at him?
Thinking carefully, Xu Fan had indeed made a grabbing motion.
But that was just too fantastical.
This wasn't some cultivation fantasy novel.
How could anyone catch a bullet with their bare hands in the real world?
It was utterly inconceivable.
Director Zhang, standing nearby, had also seen his share of upheavals.
The sight of Sharman's gruesome death hadn't fazed him much.
Instead, he was astonished that contestant Xu Fan had managed to turn the tables.
And after Warrior King Chen pointed it out,
Director Zhang drew in a sharp breath. "Are you saying Xu Fan caught the bullet with his bare hands, then defused the crisis?"
Considering the impact this could have,
Director Zhang had deliberately used the phrase "defused the crisis."
At the same time, a new question confronted everyone: how exactly had Xu Fan managed to do it?
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