Chapter 1
All Humanity Faked Its Disappearance, and I Was Livestreamed Building a Spaceship. Author: Xianyu Qunzhu
The world's Ten Conglomerates joined forces to create a show. Its production team quietly evacuated everyone from a city, leaving only Jiang Ye, who had been kept in the dark.
When a nation was on the rise, the first thing to do was launch a precision strike against its cultural heritage and national confidence.
People around the world wanted to see the black-haired, black-eyed young man named Jiang Ye make a fool of himself. They looked forward to attacking his nation over whatever he did, over his doing as he pleased.
Early the next morning, the show officially began.
When Jiang Ye noticed how unnaturally quiet it was outside, when he became certain that all humanity had vanished.
Just then, the Survival Assistance System activated and told Jiang Ye: in one month, a massive meteorite would strike the planet, causing a great catastrophe.
Jiang Ye: ??? Then what do I do?
System: I'll help you build a spaceship and escape Earth!
"Oh my god, he actually built Skynet all by himself. He wants to create machines..."
Chapter 1: Racial Insight
"Hello, everyone. I'm Chen Danni, the host of Racial Insight."
"This show was created through the joint efforts of the world's top Ten Conglomerates and is dedicated to discovering the most outstanding nation!"
"The first episode has six contestants: one each from Dragon Country, Neon Country, and Stick Country in the East, two from the West, and one from the Sam Empire."
"The show takes place in six modern island cities."
"For the show, all residents other than the contestants have been evacuated from their respective cities, creating a setting in which humanity has suddenly disappeared."
"The purpose of the show is to observe the performance of contestants from six nations over six months in this setting and see which nation is the most outstanding."
"This show was created by the Ten Conglomerates, who stake their reputations on it. We guarantee that none of the contestants knows about the show. Afterward, we will provide them with financial compensation."
Having introduced the show's general background, Chen Danni turned to the six screens behind her and began a more detailed introduction.
On the screens, every contestant was still fast asleep.
But unbeknownst to the six of them, the cities they were in had long since emptied of people.
Now, all that remained was to wait for the six contestants to wake up and officially begin the show.
Chen Danni pointed at the first screen.
"Everyone, please look at the screen. The young man sleeping in bed in the first image is our protagonist from Dragon Country in the East."
"His name is Jiang Ye. He's twenty years old and a student studying abroad. Once he wakes up, what will happen in a city where he's the only person? Let's wait and see."
With that, Chen Danni pointed to the second screen. "His name is Charles, and he's from the Sam Empire..."
At seven o'clock sharp that morning.
Racial Insight, which had been promoted with great fanfare around the world for a week, began broadcasting on schedule.
On the surface, the production team claimed the show was meant to discover the most outstanding nation.
But the show's underlying purpose was actually to strike at a nation that had recently been on the rise: the people of Dragon Country.
When a nation was on the rise, the first thing to do was launch a precision strike against its cultural heritage and national confidence.
Every country understood this perfectly well.
Around the world.
At that moment, many people were holding their phones or gathering in public places, watching the show begin and waiting for the six contestants on screen to wake up.
While their own contestants were still asleep, people kept posting comments on various social platforms.
On the international social media platform Twitter.
"Once the restraints of society are removed, human nature will instinctively begin to vent itself. This is unavoidable. Whether they do well or badly depends primarily on a nation's cultural heritage and its people's genes."
A tweet from John, a specially invited international observer, had barely been posted before hundreds of thousands of people liked and reposted it.
Many people agreed with him.
"I am Steele, an expert in both personality colors and psychology and a professor currently teaching at Harvard. I believe the six will last at most half a month before they can no longer endure the loneliness and kill themselves."
Although this tweet received fewer likes and reposts than the previous one, it attracted millions of comments.
Millions commented under the tweet, sharing their guesses.
Some thought it would take at most a week, while others thought at most three weeks...
"Our Sam Empire contestant is the best. He'll definitely survive the longest and put on the most impressive performance!"
"Baka, we Yamato People are the finest race in the world."
"Aishiba, when it comes to endurance and the ability to handle pressure, we Great Han People are the best!"
People began by boasting about their own contestants, but gradually the discussion shifted to the young man on the first screen, Jiang Ye.
"This is a nation full of deep-rooted flaws. I don't even need to watch to know that once Jiang Ye wakes up, he'll do whatever he pleases and disgrace his country and his nation."
"For Jiang Ye's nation, when faced with any crisis, only emotional bonds can keep them going. Without those bonds, left all alone, once he learns of humanity's sudden disappearance and assumes the worst, I'm afraid he'll have a mental breakdown very quickly."
When some of these comments flashed through the livestream chat, they immediately set Dragon Country's viewers boiling.
"Bull-fucking-shit! You Westerners are the ones with a mountain of evil deeds behind you. Who the fuck in the world doesn't know that?"
"And you lackeys from Stick Country and Neon Country, keep being dogs. Fuck your mothers!"
"Fuck, you yellow-skinned monkeys, just wait to be humiliated, hahahaha..."
"Baka, who doesn't know that you Chinese are known around the world as the sick men of East Asia? Hahaha!"
"Aishiba, Dragon Country's viewers are so uncouth. What a bunch of trolls!"
"Who started running people down first? And you're talking about manners! You're killing me."
"Western white dogs, and you people from those two lackey countries, I'll turn into the Barbarian King, enter your dear mother's womb, and land a critical hit with every slash."
"..."
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Chapter 2: Jiang Ye Wakes Up First (Begging on My Knees for Flowers, Rating Votes, and Monthly Votes)
The online battle on international platforms continued.
But only a small fraction of people could get past the firewall.
On domestic online platforms, however, the scene was quite different.
"There's something I don't get. When the six wake up, won't they notice us outside?"