Chapter 1309: Chapter 1308: Some People Can Adapt Quickly
If a show wants to succeed, it must please the audience.
All levels of the audience must be considered.
Upper-level audiences love to watch the lower classes scramble in front of "small and insignificant temptations," and they love to see them caught in the whirlpool of human struggle!
For mid-level audiences, the combination of entertainment and a touch of elegance is their favorite, to a certain extent.
Mid-level audiences are demanding they rid themselves of some lowbrow tastes, and they don’t often tune in to pee and poo shows, preferring to watch something "elegant."
Stage plays, musicals, and even operas are excellent, and of course, following those girls on TV while exercising is also a good idea.
As for the lower-level audiences... they just want happiness. If there’s anything happier than ordinary happiness, it must be the joy brought by satisfying material life needs.
Five percent of people pursue spiritual enjoyment, while the rest chase after material things!
When people must make choices about human nature under the temptation of money, it is certainly very interesting.
Now this girl faces such a choice, and she chooses quickly, swiftly eliminating three seemingly shrewd people.
These people might just not have adapted to the game yet. Once they do, perhaps her advantage won’t be as apparent.
From the start, the girl understood that this game was not about answering more questions correctly, but about eliminating more people and ensuring she doesn’t get eliminated.
Then it’s about considering answering questions.
Three contestants left angrily, and then she browsed through the questions and assigned a question to Harry.
Harry felt a bit uncomfortable, but he accepted the outcome. Of course, he also assigned a question to someone he perceived as a threat.
"When you answer a question correctly, you can earn two thousand dollars."
"Answer two questions correctly, you can earn four thousand dollars."
"Answer three questions correctly... you can earn eight thousand dollars."
"Besides this simple rule, there’s another rule."
"If you answer the question given to you by someone else correctly, you’ll receive an extra two thousand dollars from the person who assigned the question to you!"
"Of course, there’s no penalty for wrong answers, which is good news."
After the host announced this unexpectedly tricky rule, people instinctively looked at those they had assigned a challenging question to.
The girl looked at Harry, while Harry glanced at the middle-aged man pretending to be familiar with everything.
But then, the next second, he turned back to look at the girl, and the girl looked away.
The atmosphere became subtly tense; those who were mentally struggling with "why do people want to make things difficult for me" suddenly realized it’s actually an opportunity.
As long as they answered the assigned question correctly, they could not only receive the normal reward but also get an extra sum from those ranked higher.
"Back and forth, it’s a four thousand dollar gap!"
Looking at the scoreboard in front of the girl, as long as Harry answered correctly the question she gave him, he could surpass!
Meanwhile, this rule made everyone realize that the competition has escalated again!
This time, the answers didn’t need to be powerful, and everyone was given ample time. When the time ran out, the rankings underwent a huge change.
Harry reached the top for the first time, while the girl who needed assistance exited the first tier.
Harry accumulated a prize of nine thousand dollars and is currently in first place.
He couldn’t answer one question, so he only got four thousand, but luckily the girl gave him two thousand, so he ended up with six thousand.
This was enough to instantly propel him to first place.
At this point, the atmosphere between the contestants had become more somber and serious, with a faintly oppressive sense of an impending storm.
Mutual difficulties were resolved by the opponent, resulting in personal losses, which left everyone in a foul mood.
They knew the TV station was playing tricks, trying to pit them against each other, but for a million dollars, they had no choice.
"This time, we need to eliminate two contestants, but the choice is yours, Harry."
"You decide who stays and who leaves!"
The enormous pressure suddenly fell on Harry, and the four tied for last place looked at him, some faces pleading, some angry, some threatening!
Harry glanced at the girl, not understanding how she made her decision so quickly earlier.
He hesitated a little, and ultimately chose two contestants who seemed likely to be potential competitors and sent them off.
"The next round of the game is very simple; it’s like giving out welfare."
"Everyone will participate in the next questions; you just need to tell me if they’re right or wrong."
"Three thousand dollars per question, winners share, losers have no punishment, and there will be..." The host looked at the card in hand, "ten questions."
"This means you will split three thousand dollars among yourselves. You have one minute of rest time, and once the green light turns on, I will start reading the questions."
These questions are those where people seem to know the answers but aren’t so sure.
Or ones that are easily confused with answers to other questions, providing a strong subjective impression without a clear idea of right or wrong.
When the host read out the first question, Harry hesitated a bit, and the girl who needed assistance suddenly raised a question.
"Host, can I share my answer with others?"
The host nodded, "Of course you can. The prize money is divided among the victors, if you wish to share the money with others, that’s your right."
Just as everyone was still a bit confused, the girl spoke up with her answer, "This question is wrong, the correct one should be..."
She not only pointed out the mistake but also provided the correct answer.
Harry hesitated a bit, uncertain whether her answer was correct.
But he knew, the girl seemed to be up to something.
"From the start, I’ve noticed that the show wants to pit us against each other, but we really don’t need to be enemies!"
"We just need to find ways to get through the challenges together, that way, someone is sure to win a million in the end!"
"Then we can share the money based on each person’s contribution."
"At the very least, each of us could get tens of thousands, possibly even more, there’s no need to play by their rules."
The host smiled without saying a word, and the girl’s words seemed to give many people new ideas.
As the countdown ended and the answers were revealed, the girl’s choice was correct!
People didn’t immediately believe what the girl said, they just started to think.
Indeed, there was no need to eliminate each other right away, only to leave the game because they couldn’t answer questions!
But many felt she wasn’t that kind; in the end, only she, Harry, and another lady won, each gaining an extra thousand.
People’s attitudes towards her seemed to shift, too.
Harry also noticed the advantage of doing so: keeping more people to tackle harder questions later was indeed the right strategy.
He had realized that the first round questions weren’t very hard, the second a bit challenging, and now these questions tested their memory of polymorphic topics!
Subsequently, for the second question, the girl also revealed the answer, once again proving her willingness to help everyone with her actions.
By the third question, those who were still doubtful had started to follow her lead.
The fourth and fifth questions were answered by others, and once again, victory was achieved through teamwork.
Although everyone only received a cumulative reward of three hundred, they were one step closer to victory!
However, when it came to the sixth question, there was a problem.
"This question is wrong!" the girl firmly stated her answer, given the previous trust people had in her.
Several who didn’t know the answer themselves immediately assumed the question was incorrect.
But Harry was somewhat confused; he remembered this question as being right.
He looked at the girl, and she looked back at him.
As time was running out, the human tendency towards group conformity as social animals overpowered his knowledge.
The result... this time, the girl appeared to have been wrong.
But frustratingly, she was the only one who got it right.
Seeing her scoreboard suddenly increase by three thousand, there was a barely concealed smug look on the girl’s face.
The first time she revealed the answer, people doubted her good intentions, she earned a thousand.
The second time, the same, she got five hundred.
She didn’t know the answers to the third, fourth, and fifth questions, so the nine hundred was a bonus.
This time, she walked away with three thousand all on her own!
Her accumulated prize money had risen to second place again!
Throughout this process, she hadn’t lost anything, but rather gained a lot of advantages, especially this time with the three thousand.
No matter what happened next, she wouldn’t be the one eliminated.
She wanted to start a new life, she didn’t want to go back to the past, lying in bed like a toy anyone could play with.
She also wanted her own dignity, hoping that when communicating with those well-dressed gentlemen, she wouldn’t be naked and lying down.
She... had a reason to win.
The girl brilliantly disrupted the newly forged unity, and the host seemed to turn a blind eye to this behavior.
By the seventh question, the girl provided another answer.
And this time, she told the truth again.
But people didn’t believe her, not realizing this was actually a hint!
Only she and Harry got it right, each increasing their lead by another fifteen hundred.
This method of mixing truth with lies effectively exploited people’s distrust of her and the predictions within predictions within predictions, reducing the number of people sharing the prize.
The numbers on the scoreboard had reached seven thousand nine hundred.
This was money she could only earn in three to four months in the past, and she wanted more!
