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Bai Jingan refurbished the training room on the third floor, doubled its size, and reviewed all the upgrade procedures to prevent any spyware from getting in.
Ever since Xia Tian and Dee Dee had moved in, his house had become much more noisier and the whole house had an atmosphere of normalness… He wasn’t really familiar with how a house would feel like when there were people living in it, but he felt that it should be like this.
Huitian sent a few sports cars and luxury goods over, took a bunch of photos, and at one point, came over and told them that the media wanted to know what the two of them usually called each other.
Bai Jingan said he called Xia Tian “Xia Tian”, and Xia Tian said he called him “Bai Jingan”, and sometimes “Hey”.
“No,” Huitian said, “You’ve to give each other a nickname.”
“Nickname?” Bai Jingan said.
“What’s wrong with ‘Hey’ as long as he knows that I’m calling him?” Xia Tian said.
Huitian ignored his reply, as if it couldn’t be regarded as a language.
“Hurry up, think of something that you would call each other in private, something intimate. Think of it immediately,” she said.
The two were silent for a while, and Bai Jingan said, “I really think Xia Tian is good.”
“Calling Bai Jingan by his name indeed feels a bit distant,” Xia Tian said, “Then I’ll call you Lil’ Bai?”
Bai Jingan said in shock, “You can’t call me that way!”
“I’m going to call you that,” Xia Tian said.
“Then that’s it,” Huitian said joyfully, “I’ll report it right now!”
Bai Jingan stared at them for a while, but finally gave in as he really didn’t know what else to say.
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In this way, he became “Lil’ Bai,” with an extra “cute” persona attached to him, and the media reported extensively on this subject.
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On top of that, as the stars of the new division, they had received a number of invitations to private parties that couldn’t be turned down easily.
Some of the powerful people’s parties were just parties, but some were… very weird. Bai Jingan had seen a lot, and Xia Tian had seen even more. He was simply a glittering pervert attractor.
One time, Xia Tian had returned home from a party with his clothes in disarray, and went to get an antidote injection with a cold expression. He overdosed, and Bai Jingan went over to help him control the dosage. Xia Tian smelled like drugs, and his jacket was nowhere to be found.
Afterwards, he learned that it was a private party hosted by a rich man, who had clearly specified that Xia Tian should be there. He hadn’t been there long when the host tapped on the glass to gather everyone’s attention and said he wanted the stars, actors and ordinary people present to strip naked to accompany him and his guests.
His original words were very tactful and flat. He said that sexual intercourse wouldn’t occur, and that getting naked was just a formality. He took it for granted that everyone was understanding.
“I know people like that,” Xia Tian said, “they just put on airs and pretend to know everything and make you feel so irrelevant and stupid. It’s better to do what they say. But…”
“But you were going to do that,” said Bai Jingan, “because everyone else took their clothes off, and you also wanted to prove that you could do it too.”
“I stood in front of him, took off my jacket, and then my shirt. He kept staring at me,” Xia Tian said, “He acted like he didn’t care, but I could see that he was enjoying it.”
He stared into the cup of tea, and Bai Jingan added some calming medicine; the psychedelic drug on the Upper City was powerful and lasted for a long time.
“At that moment, there was a guy in there who was very high due to drugs and moved a lot,” Xia Tian went on to say, “He looked… like he was crazy, probably he really was crazy. It’s impossible for normal people to…”
He paused and seemed to shiver a little.
Later, Bai Jingan also saw that scene on TV—it was also a reality show with good ratings, and many people were waiting to gloat at others misfortune and watch something pornographic at the same time.
On the screen, a small tier star acted in the most perverse way possible, believing himself to be a dog under the influence of drugs.
“I wasn’t sure what exactly was wrong, it just felt quite wrong… I took advantage of the chaos to leave the party, and only then realized that I had also inhaled some drug when my hands kept trembling after I got into the car,” Xia Tian said, “I didn’t discover I had inhaled drugs straight away because I was able to think but…I actually undressed in front of him! I don’t know what else I would’ve done if I had continued to stay there.”
This was the most common “fun game” in the Upper City, Bai Jingan thought, where they liked to find newcomers, those who weren’t familiar with this setup and wouldn’t mind. These people would feel humiliated, get disgusted by themselves, and you wouldn’t even feel that the other party had done anything, because no one had forced you to do anything.
But that was all right. Countless entertainment shows, drugs and parties in the Upper City could help you ignore the crisis of your soul and let you continue to be happy.
It would greatly delight the people of the Upper City if they could overwhelm someone like Xia Tian in momentum and become a shadow in his soul.
Bai Jingan patted his comrade’s arm. The man had his head down, a few locks of his long hair were loose, his breathing was unstable, and his clothes were disheveled. From the corner of his eyes, he could still see the screen showing the video footage of the Killing Show, and countless deaths were turned into small labels here, densely packed with no end in sight.
He felt a very obscure and distant longing to take care of Xia Tian. The next time the guy went to a party, he had to keep an eye on him. The Upper City was too dangerous for him to be left to deal with alone.
For so many years, Bai Jingan had tried his best not to attract attention to himself but taking care of Xia Tian felt natural, like when one had a brother, one couldn’t simply let him go to a place like that by himself.
This longing seemed to rise from the deep abyss of his soul, tinged with blood and sadness. No matter what he had been through before, he had definitely learned that this kind of feeling was fatal, but he didn’t know how to get rid of it.
It wouldn’t work though; the world was so dangerous that no one could take care of anyone else.
Huitian came over the next day and brought Xia Tian’s jacket, saying that it was sent by “Mr. Yi”.
“I don’t want it!” Xia Tian exclaimed.
“Oh…” said Huitian, as she put the bag on the sofa. She seemed to be very familiar with this kind of scenario.
“We’ve talked with Mr. Yi, and settled this matter already,” she continued, “You’re the focus of the company’s training, so it’s unlikely that you’ll really be pressed into bed by any rich man. Also, being gently affectionate is the hot fashion these days. It’s just a matter of what’s popular at the moment.”
She said this with a straight face. She was familiar and also blunt when it came to such topics.
“But you should also know,” she added, “that if a bigwig really wishes for it, there is no other way out.”
After having known each other for so long, Bai Jingan knew that Huitian had ended up here because of the student loan. Although she clearly stated on the form that she did not want to accept jobs related to the Killing Show, she was assigned here because she had done well in public relations and marketing courses. The Upper World wasn’t interested in her personal ambitions.
She had never watched the Killing Show. When she was in college, one of her classmates had assured her that she would like it. After watching it, she was even more certain that she would never be able to accept such stuff.
Now, every morning, noon, and night, she had to rely on a few large glasses of strong liquor just to be able to start work. It was not a big deal; everyone was like that.
But life went on, no matter what you did and whether you liked it or not. Society had developed to this point, and the mighty torrent of wheels would drag everyone and rush towards a crazy future.
“It’s just…” Huitian paused for a moment, then said, “Don’t make things too ugly, it’s useless.”
At this moment, her cell phone rang, and she went outside to answer the phone. Bai Jingan heard her say indifferently, “Come on, I’m just a pimp—”
After the other party said something, the smile on her face faded.
An invitation to a show.
Of course, it was the type of invitation that couldn’t be refused.
A holographic invitation was sent over. The two Killing Show players watched gloomily as Huitian opened her inbox and revealed the gorgeously designed letter.
The letter showed a crumbling, murky gray building in the Lower City, filled with monsters and bloody corpses, with the words, “Stay tuned for an epic Escape Show—The eighth anniversary show of the Zone N Massacre!” written on it.
“It’s modeled after District N7, but with a lot of new monsters and interactive plots,” Huitian said dryly, “It’s not a long show, and it’s one of those one-day lightning shows…”
Xia Tian uttered a curse. Bai Jingan stared at the holographic invitation letter. After a moment, he reached out to zoom in on the details.
As an advertisement, the details on the invitation letter would reflect the show’s selling point to a certain extent. With a cold expression, he marked the corpses and monsters one by one.
The bodies on the holographic screen were dripping with blood, one more creative than the other, and some did not look like they had been killed by monsters, but rather like shooting an exotic pornographic movie.
The creepy monsters fully reflected the talent of the designer.
Bai Jingan zoomed in on several details, and Huitian turned her head to stare at the wall.
She didn’t know what to say. She wanted to say, “If any of you has a financial backer, you don’t need to worry too much about this kind of thing”, but this kind of thing was really hard to tell. She still had some dignity left.
This was a different world. It didn’t seem to exist when cracking jokes with them, asking for nicknames and setting up jobs, but that was the essence of this pompous world.
She had no choice but to say that she would ask for relevant information as soon as possible, after which she hurriedly left.
Thank you for the chapter!
Disgusting
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Thank you for the chapter~💖
“Hey” and “Oe” are indeed how I address my friends hahahaha
Celebrating anniversary of a Massacre… Idk how to process that. The author really knows how to show dark side of humanity.
Thanks for the awesome translation!
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️