"Aiyo, fuck! This idiot... Ah shit, my God... Dammit!"
"If I'm guilty, then judge me, not just watch this idiot wandering around aimlessly! It's getting dark! I'm going crazy here!"
"Forget it, just destroy everything, hurry up."
Even Dragon Country hadn't officially started the instance yet, they had learned the rules from other countries' livestreams.
"So where's the exam venue?" Xiao Yi, who was lost, said this.
Fortunately, after wandering around, Xiao Yi finally found the Western-style mansion.
The viewers' blood pressure, which had just gone down, shot back up immediately.
Xiao Yi didn't go in through the door; instead, he started wandering around in the yard.
"What on earth is he trying to do?"
Seeing that it was about to get dark, Dragon Country's higher-ups, out of desperation, had to use their only chance for an external reminder to make Xiao Yi open the door.
Xiao Yi then walked up to the door and soon picked up the note on it.
The viewers couldn't help but feel a bit worried.
"He can't possibly be illiterate, right?"
"At the very least, he's got a primary school diploma; he can't be that bad."
However, Xiao Yi frowned and immediately tore the note to shreds.
"What the what! What does this even say!"
Xiao Yi knew some of the words, but when they were combined with the ones he didn't know, he couldn't understand any of it.
The livestream erupted in wailing.
"It's bad! He really can't read!"
"I'm afraid he doesn't even realize he's in the abnormal instance!"
Xiao Yi pushed the door open and immediately saw a family about to enjoy their dinner.
"My name is Professor Hannibal, and this is my wife Maria and our son Nathan," the host of the mansion introduced himself.
This was a procedure every Chosen One would go through, but unlike other Chosen Ones, Xiao Yi pointed at the old lady who was slumped motionless in a chair and asked, "And her?"
"Oh, she's our mother," Hannibal answered with a smile. "She's been like this for a long time, I hope you don't mind."
No sooner had Hannibal finished speaking than his son started playing with his food.
Soon, that terrifying scene was enacted in front of Xiao Yi, and although many viewers in the livestream had seen it before, they were still frightened.
But Xiao Yi's expression was calm, and he even expressed support, "Good! Naughty kids need to be taught a harsh lesson, can't waste food!"
The livestream's viewers were instantly speechless, is that your focus here?
Hannibal said to Xiao Yi with a smile:
"Sorry you had to see that, oh, by the way, you must be hungry too, why not join us for dinner?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yi immediately looked at the food on the table.
A big pot of thick, dark broth with white, larva-like objects faintly visible inside, along with a large chunk of some creature's flesh laid out on a plate, blood still visible on it.
Seeing Xiao Yi's reaction like this, the atmosphere in the livestream quickly became tense.
"It's over! He doesn't know the first rule! Bro, don't eat! You mustn't eat!"
"Hannibal, the name is pretty much a clear hint of what that food is made from!"
"Don't eat! There's prion!"
"Oh my! Prion!"
However, Xiao Yi still sat down at the table as expected.
"Please have a meal? That's nice to hear, it's been ages since I had a proper meal. No lies, the only reason I came to see you, Professor, was to grab something to eat!"
The livestream was filled with cries of dismay.
"You haven't eaten in a long time? Are you facing financial difficulties?" Hannibal asked.
"Yes, I can't find a job so naturally there's no money for food," Xiao Yi complained. "These days, everyone wants work experience over academic qualifications. If you don't hire me, how am I supposed to get any experience? And even so, there's still discrimination based on education. They say my education is too low to accept. But academic degrees don't equate to ability, and besides, how is my education low?"
Listening to Xiao Yi's words left the audience quite stunned.
"This Xiao Yi makes some sense. Does he really have an IQ of just 6?"
"I feel the same. Oh no! Could he be lowering my IQ too?"
Hannibal nodded and said, "Survival of the fittest, the rules of human society haven't changed since ancient times... you must be starving then, okay, let's eat now."
"That's what I've been waiting to hear!"
Before the words were even fully out, Xiao Yi had already lunged at the dining table, viciously tearing into the food like a wild beast.
Starved for so long, Xiao Yi couldn't care less about manners, just eat eat eat eat eat eat!
"…Ah?"
It wasn't just the viewers in the livestream; even Hannibal himself was dumbfounded.
Seeing Xiao Yi's frenzied behavior, a hint of fear showed in Hannibal's eyes, prompting him to step back a few paces.
"You go ahead and eat, I'll go check on my wife and the lad." Saying this, Hannibal quickly turned and left.
The livestream audience was even more baffled.
"What's going on? Did Xiao Yi's way of eating really scare off that mad professor?"
"Brother Xiao Yi, you are the real weird one here, aren't you? You look even stranger than they do!"
"Wait a minute! Xiao Yi already broke the first rule, but he's totally fine!"
"I get it, the first rule is a fake!"
"Indeed, it's not surprising for the highest difficulty to have fake rules. That explains it. But for Xiao Yi to break through a challenge even Professor Dick couldn't solve, could he actually clear the game?"
The flow of the livestream started to change.
Elsewhere in Lighthouse Country, the higher-ups watching the Dragon Country livestream immediately took the opportunity to remind Professor Dick offstage that the first rule was fake.
Dick then stopped hassling Hannibal.
"Can't refuse such hospitality, then I won't be shy..." Puhwaha!
Professor Dick spat out black blood.
This meat is poisoned! Who the hell said the first rule was fake? Could there be a traitor from Lighthouse Country?
Impossible! It should only be Lighthouse Country planting traitors in other countries!
However, Professor Dick, having an S-tier Talent, managed to withstand the abnormal contamination. He didn't violate Hannibal's request, and it was fortunate that Maria wasn't there.
Though completely different from Xiao Yi, he had also narrowly survived this challenge.
People in the Lighthouse Country livestream were stunned, and so were those in Dragon Country who knew about it.
What's the situation with Xiao Yi?
In the Dragon Country livestream, Xiao Yi was still tearing into the food, unaffected.
"Could he have the strongest S-tier Talent, which is why he resisted the contamination?" some comments speculated.
"If this is true, then Dragon Country also has an S-tier Talent Chosen One! We might be able to change our streak of defeats!"
"That means, we no longer have to endure those scumbags' mockery, and even smash their faces in!"
"Brother Xiao Yi! You are my god!"
But in reality, Xiao Yi possessed an SSS-tier Talent, making him immune to any abnormal contamination, effectively rendering the first rule useless.
Xiao Yi couldn't hear the gasps of admiration in the livestream; he just felt he had encountered a family of warm and kind-hearted people.