Chapter 594: 594: Voting Has Begun

Bai Youwei watched the two of them silently.

The silent atmosphere seemed contagious, it was so quiet around that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone was looking at Bai Youwei, waiting for her reaction.

Perhaps it was Bai Youwei’s gaze that made Fang Yu uncomfortable, he turned his face away and said, “If you don’t believe me, you can ask others.”

Bai Youwei seemed to snap back to reality, clutching her chest in mock horror, and giving a smile:

“You scared me! I almost thought I was one of the Red Eyes! Thank you guys!”

She returned to Xu Fanghe’s side, let out a long sigh of relief, and started muttering to herself: “I knew it, I’m certain I have Yellow Eyes… the vote is just about to begin. Suddenly telling me that I am a Red Eye, there must be something fishy…”

On Xu Fanghe’s side, the bespectacled man and the woman with the scarf swapped glances.

The woman with the scarf said to Bai Youwei: “Let’s go, these people are up to no good. It’s not necessary to continue listening to their nonsense.”

Bai Youwei nodded, “Yes, let’s all go, they are starting to argue fiercely and loudly, it’s quite scary~”

Xu Fanghe slowly said: “The game forbids us from using violence, perhaps it also took this into consideration…”

The chaos was interrupted, everyone returned to their own rooms to wait for the moment of voting.

…

Ya Chaohui went to Fang Yu’s room and couldn’t resist asking him, “Why did you just say her eyes are yellow?”

“You agreed too, didn’t you?” Fang Yu replied with a frown, “Yellow Eyes clearly wanted to see the Red Team make a fool of themselves. The Red Team took one of our people and lost another, they really didn’t gain anything. We can’t just give them another person, can we?”

Ya Chaohui looked troubled, “I know… it’s just, her relationship with Commissioner Shen…”

“It’s no big deal.” Fang Yu dismissed, “This is just a prelim match anyway, she won’t die if she loses. Maybe the Commissioner will even thank us for getting her eliminated early, so she won’t have to participate in those brutal competitions later on.”

Ya Chaohui sighed, nodding, “Ah, you’re right. I just feel… guilty about deceiving her.”

“So what do you propose we do?” Fang Yu was clearly displeased, “Tell her she’s a Red Eye and let the Red Team become 13 strong, and then there’s Yellow Eyes, he’ll definitely take issue with it!… I’m not afraid of him, but you need to understand, he has both of our numbers.”

When deciding who to vote for, all the members of the Blue Eyes Camp had shared their own numbers with the leading African American, to avoid friendly fire during the voting.

Ya Chaohui stopped talking and just sighed.

…

Approximately 8 hours after the start of the preliminary rounds, around 10 am, the sun had half-set on the horizon, and the sea was bathed in a fiery hue of the sundown.

Bai Youwei heard the tolling of bells.

It was the signal to start the first round of voting.

She calmly and unhurriedly wheeled herself towards the square. As it was inconvenient for her to move around, she was naturally last to arrive.

When she arrived at the square, the short-haired woman had just emerged from the voting room.

It seemed she was still holding a grudge over Bai Youwei wrongly joining their faction. As she walked past her, she cursed, calling her a “dumbass”.

“Hey~” Bai Youwei reached out and grabbed her arm, smiling and asking, “Just now, were you cursing me?”

With a deliberate emphasis on the word “me” in her tone, a veiled threat lingered.

The short-haired woman looked at her with a weird expression.

Finally, she shook off Bai Youwei’s hand and walked back into Red Eyes’ group with a grim expression.

Bai Youwei shrugged it off with a smile, rolled her wheelchair into the voting room—

The sensor door opened before her and closed once she was inside. The small cylindrical space was now filled with only her presence.

In front of her was a display screen showing thirty numbered options from 1 to 30.

According to Xu Fanghe’s instructions, she was supposed to cast her vote for Number 2.

But strangely enough, all the numbers were grayed out and unselectable, except for Number 1 and Number 9.