24: The Japanese livestream room is in disarray!

While the Dragon Country's contestants were forging ahead, making great strides toward teamwork and elite status,

the livestream rooms of other countries were filled with wails of despair.

Especially in the Japan.

In their official livestream room, the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

On the screen, the frames for seven of the twenty contestants had already gone dark.

This meant that,

less than three hours after the start,

they had already lost more than one-third of their contestants!

This mortality rate was among the highest in the world.

Among the remaining contestants,

the best-off had only found a temporarily safe place to linger on, while most were struggling amidst hunger, fear, and despair.

The bullet chat in the livestream room

had also shifted from the initial 'Banzai for the Great Empire of Sakura' to endless abuse and complaints.

"Baka! What are our contestants eating? Why is every single one of them such a waste!"

"That sumo wrestler, weighing three hundred pounds, was actually devoured by just two zombies? He is simply a disgrace to the Empire!"

"And that kendo master, holding a katana, got surrounded by a group of zombies and didn't know how to do anything except commit seppuku!"

"Why! Why do the Dragon Country people have guns and all sorts of magical items, while our contestants have nothing! It's unfair! This is blatant discrimination!"

"Protest! We demand an explanation from the national destiny arena!"

The audience of the Japan had completely lost their minds.

Especially when they saw

the elite Self-Defense Force members they had pinned high hopes on

suffering heavy casualties due to a lack of intelligence and supplies,

that feeling of impotent rage reached its peak.

At this moment, the main screen of the livestream was locked onto the only light of survival—the 17-year-old Idol Trainee, Watanabe Mayu.

Ironically, among the twenty contestants from the Japan,

the one who had survived the longest was this fragile girl who had been the least favored at the start.

In the footage, Watanabe Mayu was curled up in a foul-smelling sewer.

Her beautiful pink stage outfit

had become dirty and tattered, and the exquisite makeup on her face was ruined by tears and mixed with muddy water, making her look like a little stray cat.

She hugged her knees, shivering, and kept sobbing softly.

"Mama... I want to go home... It's so dark here, and it smells so bad..."

"I don't want to die... I haven't even held a concert at the Dome yet..."

The girl's desperate cries were transmitted clearly

to the ears of every Japan viewer through the livestream.

Countless otaku fans in the Japan

felt their hearts break as they watched their beloved idol suffer inhuman torture in such a filthy and harsh environment.

"Mayu-chan... she's so pitiful!"

"Hold on! Mayu-chan! You are our light!"

"Damn it! Someone save her! Someone save our Mayu-chan!"

"It's all the fault of those useless Self-Defense Forces! If they had survived, they could have protected Mayu-chan!"

However, just as everyone was feeling distressed for Watanabe Mayu's situation,

some discordant voices began to appear in the bullet chat.

"Cry, cry, cry! All she knows is how to cry! Can't she be like that female doctor from Dragon Country and pick up a weapon to fight!"

"Exactly! Even a doctor from Dragon Country can kill zombies. You're an Idol Trainee; what else can you do besides cry?"

"Stop being toxic. Mayu-chan doesn't have a Strength Enhancement Potion, how is she supposed to fight?"

"Heh, I think she's just a pure waste. Didn't you see her 'Super Intuition' talent? It turns out to be useless for anything except helping her run away."

Most of these bullet chats came from Dragon Country viewers who had flooded into the Japan's livestream room.

They had just finished watching the satisfying plot in their own livestream room—Wang Yi slaughtering thousands of zombies, Li Bingyao crushing heads with a steel rod, Chen Hu being unrivaled with a crowbar, and Zhao Zihan hitting targets from a hundred paces.

Contrasting that with the miserable scene here in the Japan, their sense of superiority instantly ballooned, and they couldn't help but come over for a 'friendly exchange'.

The mockery from the Dragon Country viewers

instantly ignited the fury of the Japan viewers.

"Get out! You Dragon Country people are not welcome here!"

"Dragon Country people are all cowards! You must have used some underhanded means!"

The viewers of the two countries, separated by screens,

engaged in a fierce 'keyboard war'.

The atmosphere in the livestream room became a foul mess.

In the Japan's command center, the Defense Minister's face turned livid.

Watching the unsightly bullet chats in the livestream room, he trembled with rage.

"Baka! Close the bullet chat! Turn off the bullet chat for me immediately!"

He roared at the subordinates beside him.

"Hai!"

However, just as the technicians were preparing to close the bullet chat,

a new change suddenly occurred in the livestream footage.

In the sewer, Watanabe Mayu, who had been crying,

seemed to suddenly sense something

and abruptly stopped sobbing.

Her eyes, filled with fear,

stared fixedly into the darkness deep within the sewer, her body tensed straight like a startled fawn.

Her Super Intuition talent had activated again!

Something... was rapidly approaching from the darkness!

"Creeeak... creeeak..."

A grating sound of grinding bones echoed from the darkness.

Then, a huge, twisted figure slowly crawled out of the dark.

It was a monster stitched and sewn together from countless human corpses in some eerie way!

It had over a dozen arms and over a dozen legs, crawling rapidly along the sewer walls like a giant centipede.

In the center of its body was a hideous head formed by the aggregation of countless skulls, with dozens of eyes flickering simultaneously with light of malice and hunger.

【Special Infected—Suture Monstrosity】

When the name of this monster appeared on Su Yuan's system panel, even he couldn't help but frown.

The designer of this dungeon

really had a sick sense of humor.

And in the Japan's livestream room,

when the viewers saw the full appearance of this monster, everyone was scared out of their wits!

"What... what the hell is that thing?!"

"Bleh! So disgusting! Is that sewn together from corpses?"

"Mayu-chan! Run!"

However, in the narrow sewer, where could she run?

The Suture Monstrosity let out a nauseating roar made of countless overlapping voices, and with over a dozen legs exerting force at once, it lunged toward Watanabe Mayu like an arrow from a bow!

"Ah—!"

Watanabe Mayu let out the most piercing scream of her life, her legs going weak from fear.

She collapsed onto the ground, watching helplessly as the nightmare made of corpses drew closer and closer!

She closed her eyes in despair, waiting for death to arrive.

In the Japan's command center, the Defense Minister closed his eyes in pain.

He knew that the last bit of hope for the Japan was about to be extinguished.

In the livestream room, countless otaku fans let out heart-wrenching wails.

"No—! Mayu-chan!"

However, just when everyone thought Watanabe Mayu was certain to die,

a brilliant blade light, like a flash of lightning in the dark night, shot out without warning from another fork in the sewer!

Squelch!

The blade light was fast to the extreme!

Before the Suture Monstrosity could even react, its massive head, composed of countless skulls, was split in two from the middle by this blade light, cut cleanly and efficiently!

Green pus, blood, and brain matter sprayed out!

The Suture Monstrosity's massive body crashed to the ground, twitched a few times, and then became completely still.

Instakill!

Killed in a single strike!

The entire Japan livestream room instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Everyone stared dumbfounded at this sudden scene, their minds going blank.

What... happened?

Watanabe Mayu also sensed that something was wrong.

She carefully opened one eye, but what she saw was not the bloody scene she had imagined.

She saw a tall and upright figure with his back to her, standing before the monster's corpse that had been split in two, slowly sheathing his blade.

The person was wearing a black riot suit, his features obscured.

But in his hand, he held a uniquely shaped battle blade whose blade was still slightly 'humming'.

It was none other than that high-frequency battle blade!

"You... who are you?" Watanabe Mayu asked with a trembling voice.

The figure did not turn around, but only spoke in a stiff Sakura language with a heavy accent:

"Dragon Country, Assault Squad, breacher, Chen Hu."

After speaking, he glanced at the monster's corpse on the ground,

curled his lip in disdain, and then complained through the newly opened voice channel:

"Captain, I've reached the sewer. Just took out some trash while I was at it; it looked quite unique. By the way, when does our squad mission start? I'm already itching for it!"

Wang Yi's calm voice immediately came through the channel:

"Don't get bogged down in fighting. Head to the Hongyuan Building immediately according to the mission guidance. The others are almost there too."

"Roger that!"

Chen Hu responded, no longer paying attention to the Japan girl still slumped on the ground behind him.

He turned and strode toward another direction, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

Leaving only Watanabe Mayu and the hundreds of millions of completely petrified viewers in the entire Japan livestream room.

Dragon Country... Assault Squad?

He just said... he took out some trash?

That terrifying monster that had scared them out of their wits was, in the eyes of the Dragon Country contestant, just... trash that could be taken out at will?

An unprecedented sense of humiliation and frustration surged into the hearts of every Japan viewer.

Pfft—!

In the Japan's command center, the Defense Minister looked at the screen and could no longer hold it back; he spat out a mouthful of blood!

He broke down!

Completely and utterly, he broke down!