Thanks to the overwhelming gifts from viewers, Lu Shi's live stream has become the second most popular stream in the entire hall.
For a new streamer, this is an absolutely miraculous achievement.
More and more players were drawn in, but after listening to Lu Shi's analysis, they started discussing things outside the main storyline.
Are these new people different from the original version of yourself?
"Of course not, they all look the same! Besides, they're already resurrected!"
"No, no, no, it's not resurrection, it's the birth of new life. The difference between people isn't their appearance, but their experiences. They are different from those prisoners!"
"So, Mother Teresa, you're saying that if it were you, you would release these so-called newborns, right?"
The man hummed in agreement: "If possible."
"Ridiculous! They'll definitely make the same mistakes! Criminal genes flow in their veins!"
...
Fortunately, Lu Shi didn't turn on the bullet comments, otherwise he would have been surprised by the audience's leaps in thinking.
He returned to his computer and finally opened the seven-day documentary video about prison guard Wang Qiang.
At the beginning of the video, a hideous human face suddenly appears in front of the camera.
He grinned, and saliva dripped down his face... A black spot that occupied most of his eyeball was in his scarlet pupil.
"Meat...I want to eat meat!"
Wang Qiang, chained up, howled like a wild beast.
A note from the author:
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Chapter 18
☪ True Plague Prison
"Wang Qiang, you've already eaten too much meat."
Even though Wang Qiang's hands and feet were chained together, he still shook the iron bars with all his might while locked in the iron cage.
Seeing the extent of the twisted iron bars, Lu Shi had no doubt that he would be able to open the iron cage in less than a day.
This Wang Qiang is probably no longer human.
However, Dr. Liu did not seem afraid of Wang Qiang. He slowly walked up to Wang Qiang and gently grabbed the iron bars with his hand.
In that instant, Wang Qiang, who had just been tearing at the air, suddenly stuck his head out.
If Dr. Liu hadn't dodged quickly enough, Wang Qiang might have already bitten off his hand.
Others might not be able to tell, but Lu Shi could see at a glance that both Wang Qiang and Dr. Liu were moving faster than normal people.
In other words, from this point onward, Dr. Liu and the prison guards began to mutate.
“Look at you, Wang Qiang,” Dr. Liu said, not angry at Wang Qiang’s attack, “Don’t you look like a mad dog that bites indiscriminately! But I’m curious, can you still understand what I’m saying now?”
"Pah!" Wang Qiang bit down on the iron bars, drawing blood with his teeth. He glared at Dr. Liu as if he were looking at prey he had already captured: "If it weren't for you, I, I would never have become like this! What, what exactly was that meat!"
Even though Wang Qiang's tone was full of disgust for the meat, he still couldn't help but drool when he said the word "meat".
"Don't you all know the truth?"
Dr. Liu pressed on relentlessly, and when he saw Wang Qiang's expression falter, he felt incredibly pleased.
"Their bodies are just sitting there, not rotting or smelling. If you were in their shoes, you wouldn't be able to resist eating them too!"
As Dr. Liu spoke, he clenched his fists: "If we weren't stuck and out of food, do you think I would eat these corpses?"
At this point, Dr. Liu grabbed his throat with his hand, forcibly suppressing the urge to vomit.
Lu Shi nodded slowly upon hearing this; it was all within his expectations.
Since the prison has become a closed-off island, the first thing to consider is the food problem.
The prisoners won't die, but the prison guards won't.
They need to eat constantly before they turn into monsters.
Looking at Dr. Liu in the video, Lu Shi found it difficult to feel any pity.
He brought this on himself.
Back when he traveled down the mountain, he once passed through a village.
The village was very poor, but what puzzled Lu Shi was that the men in the village were all very strong. However, the women in the village appeared to be malnourished.
He later learned that the village had suffered a famine.
When there was no food to eat, these men finally crossed the line.
They used their own children as food.
The men later discovered that they only needed to eat one fetus per year to go a year without needing to eat anything else.
As a result, the men could simply stay in the village and idle away their days.
Women not only had to farm and work to meet their basic needs, but they also had to give birth to children for the men every year and provide them with food.
Lu Shi suddenly laughed, and even with the beauty filter applied, that laugh was still chilling.
Even with his eyes closed, he could still hear the screams of those men—no, those devils—in the raging fire.
Looking at Dr. Liu again, he had already finished explaining how helpless and difficult things had been for him.
"If it weren't for me, we would have starved to death long ago!" He locked Wang Qiang up, presumably out of another layer of fear.
After all, like Wang Qiang, he had also been a prisoner. So, everything Wang Qiang is experiencing now will inevitably happen to him.
"But won't the bodies of those prisoners also be used up?"
Wang Qiang bit his lip, and when he licked the blood off his lips, he found that the madness within him was briefly suppressed.
“Then kill them all,” Dr. Liu said casually, his tone as indifferent as if he were merely about to crush a few ants.
"Anyway, they'll just give birth to a new one. Endless reproduction—that's the perfect kind of fleshy creature! If I can get out of here, I'll definitely keep them in captivity! With them, famine will never happen again!"
"I might even win a Nobel Prize then! It's just sacrificing a group of heinous criminals, yet it benefits all of humanity. I'm so kind!"
Lu Shi gave a cold snort, clearly disagreeing with the viewpoint.
Thinking that there were viewers watching the video with him, Lu Shi couldn't help but say:
"Don't listen to him. Even I wouldn't do something so cruel."
Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Lu Shi himself believes he is a kind person.
Wang Qiang, inside the iron cage, scoffed at the scientist's statement: "Didn't those people have no memory? According to your bullshit theory, they're practically new people, and they have no criminal record, right?"
Dr. Liu slammed his hand heavily on the iron cage, snorting disdainfully, "Have you heard of this theory? A murderer's child has a one in four chance of becoming a murderer himself. And if a murderer is reborn, the probability of him killing again should be far greater than one in four, right?"
This highly learned man, who had achieved numerous scientific research accomplishments, stood tall and confidently raised his hand.
In that instant, he imagined himself as a god who controlled the lives of others.
"I was merely taking precautions," Dr. Liu said coldly.
"I don't care," Wang Qiang continued shaking the iron bars. "If you don't want to let me out, then give me some meat!"
"Wait a little longer," Dr. Liu said before leaving.
The subsequent videos were all Wang Qiang's "silent performances," in which he paced back and forth in the iron cage, becoming increasingly agitated.
Whenever he was on the verge of collapse, Wang Qiang would put his hand in his mouth and take a big bite.
He bit himself quite hard, only stopping after he bled.
His agitated state immediately subsided after he drank his own blood.
Lu Shidu understood it all, and Dr. Liu, as someone who experienced it firsthand, naturally also discovered this secret.
"So that's it, withdrawal symptoms." Dr. Liu laughed heartily, slamming his fist on the table. "Once you're used to eating human flesh, you're bound to have a hard time adjusting to other foods! So that's it, God is telling us to treat those people like livestock!"
Lu Shi, staring at the computer screen, rolled his eyes: "God? That's just the monsters' arrangement. Humans killing each other has always been their favorite trope."
Poor Wang Qiang wasn't fed a piece of meat until the seventh day, after he had almost chewed off all his fingers.
Hungry, Wang Qiang left the iron cage.
Back in his dorm, he attacked Liu Ming, as Lu Shi had read in his log.
Liu Ming, who was almost eaten as a snack by his two roommates, later became a prison guard, and Lu Shi quickly deduced the reason.
"The flesh of these prisoners is amazing; it can even bring the dead back to life." Lu Shi clicked his tongue unconsciously, sending a chill down the spines of countless viewers in the live stream.
No way, their Demon Lord wants to have a taste?
After all, Lu Shi is known for his outrageous behavior, so it's not impossible that he might suddenly run down to the first floor and bite a prisoner.
Our beautiful Demon Lord turned around, her long, flowing hair so elegant it could be used to film a shampoo commercial.
He rested his finger on his chin and said regretfully, "If you're desperate, finding a prisoner and eating them is actually a strategy to pass the level. Theoretically, if you eat them, you'll turn into one of those monsters downstairs. I think your personal stats will skyrocket."
To the average player, his joke was a "hellish joke" that sent chills down their spine.
However, the expert players in the Silver Hall were filled with admiration.
Silver Hall
Red Spider and the man in black exchanged a glance, then spoke at the same time:
"He's so stupid!"
"He's amazing!"
Red Spider paused for a moment, then explained, "With his words, whether it's the newbie dungeon or the hidden dungeon, clearing it won't be a problem. I even suspect that the malice of the one who brought us in... the corpse next to the newbie when they wake up was eaten by you."
“If it were me,” Red Spider said, suppressing his nausea, “I definitely wouldn’t tell anyone. Instead, I would release a paid guide separately after I came out.”
The man in black rubbed his temples. "No wonder she's someone who runs a guild," he thought, "her perspective is completely different from mine."
"He's amazing, and he always thinks about things from strange angles. No normal person would think of those things, right?"
“Indeed,” Red Spider’s eyes gleamed with an even stronger desire to possess Lu Shi. “He is dangerous, but if used properly, he could become a core member of our guild!”