Chapter 2

"Our country actually agreed to let a show like this happen?"

"It's not being held in our country, and the Ten Conglomerates joined forces to make it happen. Think about it!"

"Is Jiang Ye really being kept in the dark? The entire city was evacuated, and he didn't know? I think that's bullshit."

"Exactly. Maybe Jiang Ye's an actor too. He's working with the show or took a huge payoff from the Ten Conglomerates. Once he wakes up, he can do whatever he wants, destroying things and venting however he likes, as long as he brings shame on our people and our country."

"That host, Chen Danni, looks like a banana person to me."

"Does that even need saying!?"

Inside the official Dragon Country livestream for Racial Insight.

Two hosts, a man and a woman, were responding to questions from viewers.

"The city Jiang Ye lives in is an island city overseas. He's an international student attending university there."

"Once the production team selected him, they had the world's top hackers disguise the information bubble around him, as well as everyone and everything he usually came into contact with."

"So he knows nothing about the show or its preparations."

"In this city where he's the only person, the production team has installed millions of cameras to livestream him from every angle. The same has been done for the other five."

"Some people are also wondering whether Jiang Ye will discover us once he wakes up. I don't know if you've seen The Truman Show, but the production team put a great deal of work into disguising the world around him. An ordinary person couldn't possibly spot a flaw, at least not in the first three months."

"Also, on the island where Jiang Ye lives, all means of leaving the city, including planes and ships, have been disabled. So even if he's desperate to return home, he can't exactly swim back, can he?"

"As for whether Jiang Ye has been bought off and knows what's going on, and is therefore putting on an act, we've invited Professor Qin as a special guest."

"Professor Qin, please share your thoughts on that."

Professor Qin, whose temples were flecked with gray, answered as soon as the host finished speaking. "I believe that's impossible."

Professor Qin continued, "At present, teams of top psychology experts from countries around the world are observing the six participants at all times."

"Under that kind of observation, if any of the six participants knew beforehand that this was all a fake setup, the psychology experts would see through them in an instant. With their every move under scrutiny, I don't think even a world-class actor could pull it off. Sooner or later, they'd give themselves away."

Professor Qin's reasoning was sound and well-founded, and it convinced many people.

That also made many people breathe a sigh of relief.

If it was a fair contest, then a loss was a loss.

But if Jiang Ye had been bought off and deliberately made a disgrace of himself on the show to smear his own people, that would be fucking hard to swallow.

Just then.

A wave of startled cries suddenly rang out across the world.

On the screen behind the production team.

The young man sleeping soundly in the first image on the screen.

As a dazzling beam of light fell across his face.

His eyelids trembled a few times.

He woke up!

"Look, our Jiang Ye woke up first! It's starting, it's starting!"

"That yellow-skinned monkey woke up."

"Assi, the first one awake was actually one of those Dragon Country people!"

"Baka, what was Amaiwa Yusuke doing yesterday? Look at the time, and he's still not awake."

As soon as Jiang Ye woke up, he drew the attention of countless people around the world.

Countless heated discussions instantly fell silent, and countless pairs of eyes fixed on the first image.

Jiang Ye woke up and first drew open the curtains.

Then he stretched, looking utterly content.

A wonderful weekend was about to begin.

As an international student, he had been here for nearly a year.

His life as a student abroad had been uneventful.

His circle was small, and he didn't have many friends, let alone close ones who understood him. He didn't have a single one.

Still, he quite liked this quiet, uneventful life, with little going on and few people to bother him.

After keeping busy for a while, he made breakfast, sat down at the table, and began to eat.

Little did he know, directly across from him.

A camera was capturing his every move in full.

Inside the international livestream studio.

Host Chen Danni watched Jiang Ye eat breakfast as she provided commentary.

"While Jiang Ye was away from home, the production team had already made meticulous preparations throughout his house, installing as many as several hundred miniature cameras."

"If someone discovered that everyone else in the world had suddenly vanished, their home would be an important place to observe them."

"That's why these miniature cameras are not only extremely well hidden, but most of them also use the most advanced technology available today."

Chapter 3: We Should Believe in Him (Desperately Begging for Flowers, Rating Votes, and Monthly Tickets)

In the chat of the international livestream.

"I'd like to ask what the world human rights organization thinks of this!"

"Human rights? With such a great chance to be livestreamed in front of the whole world and become famous everywhere, who cares about human rights?"

"Assi, why wasn't someone from our people given such a great chance to appear in public?"

"Baka, they should have chosen our Yamato people. We're the finest people in the world."

Meanwhile, in the domestic livestream, many people were discussing it heatedly.

"If it's really as the production team says, and there was no prior communication, then what they're doing is a violation of human rights."