The next day, three o 'clock in the morning.
The competition had only been going on for fifteen hours, and five out of the ten contestants had already been eliminated. They were … Warren Buffett, Lindsay Arhat, Baron Solomon Screchard, Bellak Hussein O 'Guanhai, and Eastwood Gu.
Among them … Arhat, O 'Guanhai, and Gu were eliminated by Steven Carbon played by Feng Bujue. Buffett was eliminated by Arhat.
As for that Baron Solomon Screchai … he had forfeited on his own accord. After he found the first marijuana hiding spot, he stopped and leisurely smoked the two marijuana in the plastic bag. He then announced to a nearby camera that he wanted to withdraw from the game.
Objectively speaking, the baron's move was quite wise. In a situation where the chances of winning were slim, forfeiting was undoubtedly the most sensible thing to do. If he continued to play, the situation would only get worse and worse. Compared to "having your knees smashed" or "playing with all your strength for seventy-two hours and still failing in the end", quitting early at least saved you some pain.
In addition, among the five people who survived, there was one who was almost in a half-eliminated state. That was contestant number ten, John Winston Abscess.
Like the baron, Abscess also smoked the first batch of marijuana immediately after he found it. But after he smoked, he neither forfeited nor continued to explore …
He just stayed where he was and rested in silence for a few hours …
His attitude was very passive, as if he didn't want to do anything.
Helplessly, the program crew sent a staff member to ask him if there was anything wrong with his body. Abscess replied that he was meditating for love and peace, and his actions were a protest against the program and the world.
So, the staff member left again because the director decided … to let him continue to protest …
In summary, there were only four contestants left on the island that were still competitive, namely Block, Not Erect, Wendy, and Carbon.
If the elimination continued at the pace of the first day, perhaps before the sunset of the second day, the survivor of "Seeking Poison in the Wild" would be born.
And this … was a situation that Feng Bujue was extremely unwilling to see.
Now that he turned back to look at the two main missions of this scenario, 'Survive for seventy-two hours on Carnabis Island' and 'Complete at least six challenges given by the production team', there were many hidden messages … or rather, hidden 'difficulties'.
First of all, the phrase "survive on Carnabis Island for seventy-two hours" … was a huge trap in itself.
With the combination of the introductory cinematic and the second main mission, it was easy for the players to be led into thinking that the goal of this scenario was to win Man Seeking Poison.
However, as the scenario unfolded, Feng Bujue slowly realized … that was not the case.
If one were to look at the first main quest alone, one would discover that … surviving on the island for 72 hours and winning the competition did not have an absolute cause-and-effect relationship.
Secondly, there was also a very obvious restriction in the condition of "completing at least six challenges given by the program team" — you had to wait for the program team to take the initiative to "give" you the challenge. But … what if they don't give it to you? Or perhaps … they felt that there was no need to give it to you anymore?
At this point, I believe you understand the situation …
If the players eliminated all nine opponents in a very short time and won the competition, then this scenario would be game _ over.
Because from the moment you won the competition, there was no reason for you to stay on the island anymore.
If you stubbornly refused to leave this deserted island, there would usually be two outcomes. The better outcome would be: Everyone would just think that you were being arrogant for a moment and return to the ship to wait for you for a day and a half. They would only leave after you had thought things through. The worse outcome, which had a higher probability of happening, was that people would treat him as a lunatic and capture him. They would then forcefully drag him onto the ship and leave the island.
Taking one step back, even if you really managed to stay on the island for seventy-two hours, the production team would not give you any more 'challenges'.
Therefore, the real difficulty of this scenario was … the two main missions would conflict with each other, and the basic setting of the plot would conflict with these two missions as well.
This kind of conflict was not going in the opposite direction, but a relationship of mutual restraint. For example … if the players wanted to complete the first main mission, they could not win the competition too early. But if they wanted to complete the second main mission, they had to do the challenges. But if they did the challenges, they would expand their advantage and win the competition faster.
Also, how to deal with those 'opponents' was a very complicated and contradictory thing. If they were all eliminated, then you would win the competition and lose the scenario. But if you kept them around, then you would be keeping a hidden threat.
Any of them could deal you a fatal blow at the most unexpected moment. Brother Jue was almost eliminated by Luo Han earlier. If not for Kevin, he would have died. And their threat would only worsen as time passed.
This was because … at the end of the competition, there would only be a few people left on the island, and of these few people, the players would be the ones who had completed the most number of challenges. And the others would not have completed more than six challenges (after all, they did not have a fixed target for that). Therefore, if they wanted to win, there was only one way — to eliminate the person who had completed more challenges.
Think about it, on the morning of the fourth day, about ten hours before the end of the competition. Anyone who had not been eliminated would have the thought, 'Since I've come this far, I have to win!' At this time, they were usually hungry and sleepy, addicted to drugs, eager to win, and out of their minds …
At that time, the production team would also mediate. They would fan the flames in front of those who were lagging behind, reveal some information about the leader, and give them a choice. "Do you want to accept another challenge from me and try to surpass him … Or do you want to know his current coordinates and then do something about it?"
Then, the most interesting part of this reality show was about to begin — all kinds of crazy arguments, profanities, and scuffles would appear.
This was the guarantee of viewership; this was what the audience of that era wanted to see.
One could say that it was sick, depraved, or vulgar, but from their perspective, it was something that was so normal that there was no need to explain.
Once upon a time, people looked at everything that appeared on the screen with kindness, and they were moved by some of the performances that were not very clever but very sincere.
Later, people looked at entertainment products with a relatively objective attitude and enjoyed the wonderful creativity and dazzling visual effects.
Later, people began to pursue fame and weirdness to show their so-called "personality" that no one cared about at all, or to satisfy some deep needs in their hearts. Therefore, erotic publicity, retarded idol culture, cheap and vulgar hype, and shameless plagiarism celebrities emerged one after another and gradually became mainstream.
And in the twenty-fifth century, in an era of peace where no one had to worry about starvation, what kind of things were people eager to see?
The answer was simple — conflict, violence, and competition.
People had seen enough of the false tears, the false smiles, the false praise, the false astonishment on the stage. They wanted to see the naked, unadorned, real reality show.
This was "Seeking Poison in the Wild."
…
In the cave.
The fire on the ground had been extinguished.
The rainstorm outside the cave gradually became lighter and turned into a drizzle. The thunder stopped around midnight, and the wind weakened a lot.
Last night, when Brother Jue and Kevin went to hunt the Garuda, the program staff came to the cave in the rain and carried away the injured and incapacitated arhat. So when Brother Jue came back with the crocodile meat, there was no one in the cave.
Because it was rainy, these people left obvious traces. Feng Bujue, who returned, quickly speculated what had just happened.
He did not care about this and just lit the fire again. While drying his clothes and socks, he enjoyed a delicious meal that he had never tasted in real life.
The night was silent …
In the early hours of the morning, Feng Bujue, who had rested for a few hours, had basically recovered all his stamina points.
And this also meant that he had to start moving …
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