"But if I press the red button, someone will die..."

"Who cares! This windfall is finally happening to me! This is money sent to me by heaven! Nobody can stop me!"

"Even if we don't press the red button, many other people will, and we still have a chance of dying, so I decided to press it."

"Money doesn't matter, I just want to see a big one, so I'll press [the button]."

"The green button! Our whole family chose the green button!"

In the various channels of public opinion, only a minority speak out, while the majority remain silent.

The one-minute countdown passed quickly.

For official residences around the world, this minute passed incredibly quickly.

In that one minute, all official residences maximized their propaganda efforts—

"Human life cannot be measured in money; human life is of paramount importance!"

"Don't be silly! That stranger who died because someone pressed the red button could very well be you!"

"Unite! Unite! Unite! Nobody wants to die! If we all choose not to, then none of us will die!"

A deluge of advertising campaigns has been launched, on computers, mobile phones, outdoor LED screens...

Within that minute, for the first time in human history since the dawn of civilization, more than 50 percent of the world's official residences acted in unison.

The reason why official residences do not take action is mostly because they lack the ability to take emergency action, not because they are unwilling.

For example, those extremely backward official residences in the African region.

When the one-minute countdown ended, two buttons, one red and one green, actually appeared in front of eight billion people.

Between the two buttons is a string of golden numbers: a "1", five "0"s, and finally a Euro symbol.

Above the two buttons is a progress bar.

Red on the left, green on the right.

When the one-minute countdown ended, the red area of ​​the progress bar jumped directly to 5%, with the percentage numerator having eight decimal places after the single digit, changing rapidly. Within a second, the number jumped to 10%.

"Global notification: More than 10% of the global population has selected the red button, and the system account balance is currently sufficient."

The moment this notification appeared, especially the last sentence about the system balance, the progress bar, which had just passed 10%, instantly doubled to over 20%.

"Global notification: More than 20% of the global population has selected the red button, and the system account balance is currently sufficient."

It wasn't until this point that the rate at which the decimals grew rapidly after the single digit of the numerator slowed down noticeably, but they were still growing.

The green area is also slowly growing, but it hasn't even reached one percent yet, and it's still far from that.

In the hotel conference room on Tianluo Island.

As everyone present looked at the system interface that appeared before them, Liang Yan said with a pale face, "This is only the beginning, and one-fifth of the world's population has already made their choices."

Rowent shrugged helplessly. "Even knowing they might die, these people are still so determined. Heh, just as we expected, they really haven't disappointed us."

Grant sighed, rubbing his forehead. "I really don't know where this world is headed in the future."

......

Church Square, Vatican City.

The global systemic awakening event that caused a huge stir in the outside world seemed to have never happened here.

The core members of the Vatican remained united in their confrontation with Yang Ning.

One hour, two hours...

As time passed and it got late at night, when the first group of Vatican members couldn't hold it in any longer and needed to use the restroom, the atmosphere among the Vatican members seemed to have changed slightly.

Yang Ning sat there motionless, like a statue.

He was quiet, but his ghost was not.

"Phew, shh! Phew, shh!"

"Pee..."

At first, Sun Dapang kept shushing the members of the Vatican.

Later, several little male ghosts, including Honghong, Xiatian, Little Bald Wudi, and Little Turtle, joined in.

Finally, Yamei, who was still confused, also hugged her little head and joined the other little male ghosts in "peeing" across the street.

The fat guy even wanted to show off his "elephant" on the spot and give the other side a good pounding, but Yang Ning flicked his finger and a bolt of lightning startled him so much that he quickly pulled up his pants, which were already half off.

It's unclear whether the "hissing" sound was effective or not, but it was obvious that many people on the Vatican's side were becoming increasingly embarrassed.

"A living person can't be suffocated by suffocation," a cardinal noticed the unusual behavior of the crowd behind him and said, "Convenience won't affect our fighting spirit."

As soon as he finished speaking, the members of the Papacy who had been forming an impenetrable human wall in front of the two rows of Roman columns suddenly stood up.

The cardinal's face immediately turned green.

But that's not the most fatal thing.

From the moment the cardinal finished speaking, almost every minute someone among the thousands of people at the Vatican had to get up to relieve themselves.

Moreover, a considerable number of people went to relieve themselves and suddenly seemed to realize something, and the anger in their eyes caused by the death of the Pope gradually subsided.

These people, naturally, could no longer return to the crowd.

This is a bit awkward.

The scene that had been united suddenly became somewhat chaotic.

None of the three cardinals at the front expected that their united and righteous side would weaken for a while simply because of the issue of defecation.

The next day dawned.

On the system interface in front of everyone, the red progress had reached forty percent, and the green progress had finally broken through one percent with great difficulty.

Yang Ning opened his eyes, stretched, and said, "Even knowing they might die, forty percent of the people still chose to win tonight. A mere 100,000 euros, tsk..."

After speaking, Yang Ning looked at the members of the Vatican opposite him. After a night of confrontation, it was clear that the fighting spirit of the Vatican members had weakened considerably.

Beside him, the poems, now fragmented into pieces, said, "I know this! One effort, then decline, then exhaustion!"

Beibei, whose facial cracks had faded considerably, nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes! Shiwen is right!"

Yang Ning rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "That's just human nature. People can unite in anger, but they can also back down when things get tough. They can be driven by greed or stay true to themselves..."

One day, one night, another day, another night.

On the third day, only a few hundred members of the Vatican who were sitting opposite Yang Ning remained.

At this point, the red progress bar on the system interface had reached 50%, while the green progress bar was still at 1%.

On the fifth day, the red progress is 60% and the green progress is 1.5%.

Only two hundred or so members of the Holy See remained in front of Yang Ning, sitting firmly opposite him and blocking his way.

On the sixth day, the red progress was 65%, and the green progress was 3%.

There were fewer than two hundred people in front of Yang Ning.

On the seventh day, the system gave the final deadline for selection. The red progress surged by 90% in one day, while the green progress was less than 4%.

Despite the efforts of all the government offices over the past few days, the progress of the "red" project has ultimately exceeded 90%.

At the same time, in front of Yang Ning, not counting the Papal knights and priests who possessed special abilities, there were seventy-seven other people.

Seventy-seven dead people.

The people who died of thirst and hunger were forced to sit in front of Yang Ning.

The moment Yang Ning stood up, the system interface in the eyes of everyone in the world changed.

"I'm sorry, but because over 90 percent of the world's population chose the red button, if the reward is given out, then 90 percent of the world's population will die."

"To prevent such a scenario of human extinction, the system will implement an alternative plan..."

"Would you be willing to limit the subject of death to a single person?"

As the system notification sounded, a refined and handsome young man from the East slowly appeared in everyone's view—

This is a photo of Yang Ning himself.

"System task reset, voting will now begin again."

"Would you be willing to receive 100,000 euros, at the cost of the death of the kindest person in the world?"

"Voting will begin in one minute. The red button represents 'yes,' and each press earns you 100 euros, up to a maximum of 100,000 euros. The green button represents 'no,' and you only need to press it once."

"You have one day to make your choice this time."

"Please note that if you choose to press the red button this time, you will need to provide emotional power. The more extreme the emotional power, the more times you can press the button."

"Countdown begins..."

......

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