[Since this punishment targets only Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang will not receive any punishment if he squats more slowly than Bibi Dong.] [However, if Bibi Dong squats more slowly than Yu Xiaogang, she will receive further punishment.]
[???] [Awesome, there's even a competition!] [Haha, Gangzi actually has to do the peace sign too!] [So, as far as the livestream room is concerned, repeating something you've already been punished with doesn't count as punishment?] [Then Gangzi will have plenty of chances to make a comeback!] [Looks like the livestream room won't pass up a single chance to humiliate Gangzi to death.] [But isn't this rule a little too suggestive?] [Squats?] [And Gu Xingzhou and Tang San have to help!] [What's suggestive about it? Gu Xingzhou has already given Bibi Dong the Thirteen Needles of the Gang Gate. What's the big deal?] [As for Tang San, hasn't he already used the Ten-Year Solitary Bamboo Kill on Gangzi?] [So Gangzi can absolutely trust Tang San with his back, okay!] [Likewise, Bibi Dong can absolutely trust Gu Xingzhou with her back, okay!] [Haha, honestly, if I were Tang San, I'd have a breakdown.] [They're roommates, and both were chosen by the livestream room, yet their treatment is worlds apart!] [Never mind the Four-Hundred-Year Lone Bamboo and the Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.] [Who would choose to stand behind Gangzi when they could stand behind Bibi Dong?] [Who told Tang San to join the Gang Gate and insist on becoming his disciple? He picked his own teacher!] [I'm so jealous. Gu Xingzhou is feasting far too well!] [He's practically the livestream room's own son!] [I don't know whether he's its own son, but he's already Bibi Dong's adopted son now.] [o(╥﹏╥)o]
[Elite Livestream Room] [Liu Erlong: This livestream room is despicable. Performing something again doesn't count as punishment if you've performed it before? What kind of twisted logic is that!] [Liu Erlong: Besides, this peace sign comes with eye-rolling! And squats! It's completely different from Gangzi's-ahem, Xiaogang's-first rooftop performance, okay!] [Flender: Ahem, it really is despicable...] [Ning Rongrong: There's even a speed contest...] [Ning Rongrong: If she loses, won't she have to keep getting punished forever?] [Bai Chenxiang: This livestream room is terrifying!] [Ma Hongjun: Compared with His Holiness the Pope, Grandmaster Gangzi's earlier Tough Bamboo Temptation was actually the easiest punishment.] [Xue Beng: Yeah, but from the looks of it, this is nowhere near the livestream room's limit. Every punishment from now on is bound to come with some new trick.]
On the platform.
Bibi Dong's face darkened as she read the newly announced rules.
As if this humiliation wasn't enough, they actually had to compete!
If she lost, she would face further punishment, but they hadn't said what that punishment would be. That very uncertainty frightened Bibi Dong all the more.
She glanced back at Gu Xingzhou, the adopted son she had only just acknowledged, took a deep breath, and said, "Xingzhou, you must give it everything you've got."
"I will, Mom."
Gu Xingzhou answered with a determined look.
Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang stared solemnly at Tang San and said, "Although this isn't our punishment, we must still give it our all. Only by doing every performance well can we earn the audience's approval and gain more popularity. Only then will we have more opportunities to take the stage and earn more rewards in the future."
"I understand, Teacher."
Tang San nodded earnestly too. Having acted out so many scripts with Yu Xiaogang, he was no longer some raw recruit. Although he still found it disgusting, he had become much more accepting of it.
The rewards were what mattered most!
He needed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring too, or even a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring! He might even become a true god!
If he couldn't surpass Gu Xingzhou, wouldn't all the suffering he had endured have been for nothing?
At that thought, his gaze grew even more resolute.
"Mm, good. That's a spirited look!"
Yu Xiaogang's gaze was approving.
At the same time, he glanced at Bibi Dong out of the corner of his eye. Putting on a good show was actually secondary. What he truly wanted was to use this opportunity to take revenge on Bibi Dong.
Revenge for her betrayal of him.
[The performance is about to begin!] [All performers, please take your positions.] [Please note the following:] [1. This punishment will not forcibly control the performer's body. Therefore, Bibi Dong must make the peace sign, roll her eyes, and stick out her tongue herself. If she cannot maintain these poses and expressions and interrupts them for more than three seconds, she will be deemed to have failed. The livestream room will take control of her body to complete the punishment, but another round of harsher punishment will also begin.] [2. As Yu Xiaogang is making a guest appearance rather than participating as a punished performer, the livestream room will directly take control of his facial expressions. His assisting performer, Tang San, may freely control his own body to perform the competitive squats.]
"What?!"
"I have to make that expression myself?!"
Bibi Dong broke down on the spot when she read those instructions!
Although it was the same peace sign, doing it voluntarily and being forced into it were worlds apart!
If the livestream room controlled her, she could grit her teeth and get through it. At worst, she could think of something else to distract herself.
But if she had to perform it herself, that would undoubtedly tear her self-respect out of her, throw it onto the ground, and trample it mercilessly!
How could she possibly make such a shameful, outrageous expression?!
Yet if she refused, the punishment would continue, and the livestream room had specifically emphasized the word [harsher].
If an ordinary punishment was already like this, she didn't even dare imagine a harsher one...
So she had no choice at all!
At the sight of this, the audience erupted into discussion too.
[This livestream room is something else. It really thought of every detail!] [Without bodily control, this is what real punishment looks like!] [This livestream room is terrifying.] [Honestly, I'm starting to feel sorry for Bibi Dong.] [This really is much harsher than Gangzi's punishment.] [Never mind Bibi Dong being the lofty, noble Pope. Even an ordinary person like me couldn't make that expression and pose!] [Then you're hopeless. My wife can!] [My husband can too!] [Awesome. Why don't you guys have an offline competition too?]
[Elite Livestream Room] [Ning Rongrong: ...This is terrifying. Looking at it this way, the livestream room's bodily control is actually a form of protection...] [Liu Erlong: If that's how it is, I feel like even the rewards have lost their appeal...] [Bai Chenxiang: Let my purity remain in this world!] [Bai Chenxiang: Anyway, I could never do something like that...] [Dai Mubai: But we don't have a choice, do we? If we're really selected, we either put our all into the performance and win the competition, or wait to lose and accept the punishment...] [Ning Rongrong: I've never wanted to escape the Douluo Continent as badly as I do now.] [Ning Rongrong: o(╥﹏╥)o] [Bai Chenxiang: +1!] [Zhu Zhuqing: +1.] [Shui Bing'er: +1..]
Meanwhile.
The livestream room was still announcing its instructions.
[3. Assistants must press close to the performers' backs. The livestream room will generate ropes and automatically bind the two tightly together. The peace-sign performer will primarily be responsible for making the peace sign, while the assisting performer will lead the squats. The peace-sign performer must also cooperate fully.]
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