Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

[How ridiculous! Has the Xia Kingdom abandoned its people? Sending complete newcomers to participate in a bizarre S-rank mission!]

Is it too late for me to acquire citizenship of the neighboring island nation?

[This guy named Tsurugi, I... ...

Undoubtedly, when these messy bullet comments involve his personal information, many of them are filled with insults and abuse directed at him.

Although being selected was not Dongjiang's problem at all, or even the government's problem, who cares?

I could be killed at any moment, so naturally, as much hostility as there is on the invisible internet can be released.

Seeing the barrage of insults directed at him, Tsurugi was not angry at all; on the contrary, he was very tolerant and magnanimous.

Hey hey hey, they're all immature people, what's so unforgivable about it?

"It seems my self-cultivation skills are getting better and better," Tsurugi thought to himself.

After all, if he had seen someone insulting him like that in the past, his first reaction would have been to kill the whole family.

Of course, it could also be because he will have to give an 'explanation' to everyone's family in the world no matter what.

But why did he always feel that these comments had a certain something he couldn't quite put his finger on? It wasn't particularly obvious before, but he always felt... that the balance of yin and yang was off?

Is this your first time... participating in... a mission?

The contestant from the South Korean country next to him, Park Chung-soo, asked him a question in broken Chinese. Tsugumi raised an eyebrow and nodded slightly.

"Don't be nervous... If things really get tough... don't lose on stage... just focus on yourself." Park Jong-soo said with a friendly smile.

"What would happen if you died on stage?" Tsugumi asked with great interest.

"Nobody knows, but it's said they'll be dragged into these bizarre hells," whispered the Japanese player next to him, whose name I couldn't recall.

“We came for the country, but you didn’t, and we’re both men, so we should help each other.”

What does this have to do with whether someone is a man or not? Tsurugi was a little curious, and then read their memories.

Then, he squinted.

Well, good heavens, he thought the bizarre setting of this damn world was already enough to make him complain, but he didn't expect there to be another heavyweight setting mixed in.

That is 23 percent of the world's population that has disappeared to date, all of whom were men.

Hmm... that's interesting. Are they planning to exterminate humanity by eliminating the entire male population?

That's pure nonsense. If you can just let people have fun with it, what's the difference between killing men and killing women?

Then all those who were captured and brought in to participate in these bizarre games were men, while the monsters on the other side, regardless of the game format, were all women.

No wonder that with only 23% gone, the world's industrial level has almost regressed by 40 years.

After all, you can't expect others to do the hard and tiring production jobs that are reserved for laborers. What they want in terms of equality is to exchange one-tenth of your workload for double the pay.

So over the course of a few years, not only has the number of men worldwide plummeted, but industrial production capacity has almost regressed to the level of the millennium, and even the level of internet culture has shown extreme decline.

Um......

Tsurugi didn't think about it in more detail, but perhaps Cthulhu was behind all of this!

This area is not to be looked at, not to be understood, and not to be touched.

Anyway, in the end it all comes down to TuTu, and we'll find out what kind of bastard is behind it all later—anyway, when it comes to connections, Dongjiang has never been afraid of anyone!

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"Keep going, Bro! We have to get out of here alive!"

"Once this mission is completed, those ministers and those people in the strategy team will have no reason to keep withholding my retirement pension. I'm going to move to Antarctica!"

"If you can't hold on any longer, just raise your hand and quit. Even if the company dies, it's better than actually dying here."

Listening to the Bros' united or rather, shared joys and sorrows blessings, Tsugumi, who didn't know their names at all, felt a surge of goodwill towards them. At the same time, she began to have a different vision for the new world she was about to create.

[Next, please welcome our female guest!]

As the program's audio began, accompanied by a background music track that Tsugumi found quite familiar, "You're just bragging!", eight beams of light shone from the darkness of the opposite platform, followed by the appearance of eight female ghosts on the platform.

Tsugumi also saw the information about the eight female ghosts from the comments.

[Look, ladies! Isn't that Liu Ruyan, the contestant who slaughtered over thirty participants in the 'Lakeside Hut' instance two months ago?]

Ahhh, these ladies are so beautiful, they're killing me!

[And Countess Christina, the vampire queen is amazing! I'll suck mine!]

[And that one, isn't that Sister Varak? I heard the number of Nankin participants who died at her hands is already in the five figures!]

[Hehe, this time we'll get to see these Nan people struggling again.]

Very good. It seems that the proportion of normal people in the comments is lower than expected, or rather—the comments from normal people are being deleted and they are being banned?

Is it because all the normal people have been persecuted to death, or is it a chain reaction caused by the former that has led to no one except the abnormal speaking on the platform?

That being said, with the targeting so specific, don't the men in this world even think about going all out against the other side?

Many thoughts flashed through Tsugumi's mind in an instant, but she only paid attention to the blind date in front of her at the very end.

In stark contrast to his relaxed demeanor, every one of the bros around him was trembling like leaves, sweating profusely.

One reason for this is that these female ghosts are extremely difficult to defeat; out of the eight, they are divided into four B-level, two A-level, and two S-level.

Of course, in Tsurugi's eyes, they were all speed bumps.

The other part is due to the completely unappealing appearance of these female ghosts.

Logically speaking, the female ghosts participating in such dating shows should all be stunning beauties, otherwise they wouldn't be worthy of the protagonist's harem.

But clearly, the program in this ditch is not like that.

Of the eight contestants, four could be considered to have taken on a human form, or to put it more bluntly, the only two who could be considered beauties were Liu Ruyan and Countess Christina.

But that's about it; in Tsuruga's eyes, out of 100 points, he'd give it at most 65.

However, Tsurugi's attention was not on these people at all, but on the ghost nun Valak.

She was clearly not a 'beauty,' or rather—wasn't she just like that ghost nun from James Wan's movies?

In other words...

Hey, isn't this a familiar face? Even though we've never met before.

Noticing Tsurugi's gaze, the ghost nun also looked over, just about to reveal a bloodthirsty smile—

The next moment, the ghost nun showed an expression as if she had seen a ghost, followed by terror, a questioning of life, and then more terror.

Tsugumi looked at him with interest and smiled, then mouthed...

—I swear on God's underwear, if this piece of shit was your doing, I will torture you for ten million years, and then personally deliver you to Michael so that He can set your bones.

"Croak!!!!"

The next moment, the ghost nun let out a shrill scream, which frightened the man on the blind date across from her so much that he turned pale and almost fainted.

[Is the ghost nun so agitated? It looks like this is going to be a massacre.]

But why does her scream sound like she's afraid of something...?

[The one on top is obviously a jerk! Do you know how strong she is? She could absolutely annihilate you Nan people!]

Putting aside the comments that would lower one's IQ, Tsugumi looked at the crowd around her with interest after threatening the ghost nun.

This bizarre blind date has a two-way system: the woman first chooses her ideal partner, and then the man gives his response—but the man can give multiple responses, meaning there are multiple potential dates.

You earn one point for each guest you meet, but if the woman dislikes you, she'll likely try to take advantage of you during the blind date. Of course, you can quit, but your points will remain at the point you left when you quit.

Trying to fall in love with these weirdos? That would be very difficult.

You might as well just put Dongjiang into some kind of supernatural tale about a door-knocking ghost or a water ghost.

Since there's no way to restrict his actions anyway, he'd rather not be bothered by it.

979>>>>

[Everyone is in position. Female guests, you have one minute to choose your preferred partner.]

[The bizarre blind date officially begins]

980

699. Loyal viewers of "If You Are the One"

"So the person who set up this show must be a loyal viewer of 'If You Are the One,' right?" Tsurugi commented, looking at the bizarre lighting.

But to be fair, he used to quite enjoy watching this dating show.

Of course, it's just that I enjoy looking at the pretty girls in the pictures; after all, this is an era before the dominance of the "internet celebrity face"...

Tsurugi glanced around at the group of things that were beginning to take on human form, picked at his ears, and then squinted at Valak.

Great, at least we've confirmed that we know someone here.

Let's start with her!

This arrogant, terrifying ghost nun wouldn't even listen to argue with him; she trembled the moment her gaze drifted over to him.

Then she chose Dongjiang without hesitation.

Can we not choose? He's afraid that if he doesn't choose, this guy will drag him out of hell the next day and hand him over to Michael to be chopped into a hundred pieces!

[Selection complete!]

[The female guests' favorite male guests are about to be revealed!]

Eight red lines were precisely aimed at the same person.

The entire room fell silent. The male guests and the audience alike stared in disbelief as they watched Tsugumi, chosen by all the female guests as their ideal man.

【No, why? This Nan person is indeed handsome, but not to this extent!】

How can a pretty boy possibly gain the attention of that vampire queen?

Not necessarily. I think they might want to eat him...

The last comment was spot on. Dongjiang glanced at the eight things in front of him, and as expected, apart from Valak and that thing named Liu Ruyan, the others were all looking at him with drooling eyes.