Why?

Why……

Jiang Ran also wanted to know why...

I would ask that question myself.

Xu Yang asked twice before, but she didn't answer.

Now, I have exposed the fact that I followed others in front of the coral reef for more than half an hour.

Tsk, that’s too embarrassing.

Fortunately, at this time Zhou Kangbo had just finished discussing the situation with his friend and walked out of the cabin.

"I've asked my friends about your paintings. Generally speaking..."

While Xu Yang's attention was drawn away, Jiang Ran quietly took a step back.

OK, not found.

Jiang Ran immediately ran off the boat with a cat-like step.

Look back after leaving.

Awesome, I really didn't get caught!

call--

Jiang Ran finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It's so embarrassing.

I hope that the next time we meet...

Xu Yang must have forgotten about this matter.

After leaving the big ship, Jiang Ran felt much more relaxed.

She planned to fill her stomach first, and then, before it got dark, she would quickly go to the marked shallow waters two hundred meters away.

There are countless antiques there waiting for her to visit!

Of course, at this point, it no longer matters to Jiang Ran how many points the antiques can be exchanged for.

After all, after getting 5,000 points, what suspense is there about the first place?

Her obsession with underwater antiques stems more from the intimacy of encountering familiar things again after a thousand years.

However, strangely, on the way to the camp, Jiang Ran always felt that someone was secretly staring at him.

Thinking of this, she instinctively turned her head back, and sure enough, a contestant just turned his head and whistled artificially, pretending that nothing had happened.

Jiang Ran has now become accustomed to this kind of thing.

I want to see but I dare not. If something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.

Jiang Ran pretended not to notice anything and walked straight towards the camp.

Not long after, I felt a familiar gaze from behind.

She pretended to look at the scenery, slowed down her pace, and then seized the opportunity, suddenly turned around and grabbed it.

Sure enough, a sneaky guy was caught.

I took a closer look and saw that it was an acquaintance.

"You, what are you doing!" Fu Bo yelled.

"I'm going to catch you," Jiang Ran sneered, "Tell me, why are you secretly looking at me?"

"Who, who saw it? Humph, you're just being sentimental."

Is Fu Bo still so stubborn?

Jiang Ran's curiosity piqued, he put his arm around his shoulders and said in a slower tone, "Are you still hiding it from Daddy? Tell me, what are you looking at?"

"Nonsense!" Fu Bo huffed. "You're my dad!"

Jiang Ran: "Thank you for your recognition."

Fu Bo: "...I just slipped up."

After much persuasion, Jiang Ran finally got some information out of Fu Bo, but he felt that he was deceiving him.

According to Fu Bo, there was no way she could get first place? This was a joke. She had just earned 5,000 points. Who else in Papua New Guinea had more points than her on the 600-plus islands?

"Tsk - if you don't believe me, just look at the rankings yourself!" Fu Bo said confidently.

"Okay, I'll show you what it means to be the truly deserving number one."

Jiang Ran said as he opened the follow-up ball.

Before the ranking list popped up, she pointed the screen at Fu Bo and said, "Look, take a look for yourself. Think carefully before you tell lies in the future."

"You should be the one taking a closer look," Fu Bo snorted. "There's a huge number two in front of your name, can't you see it?"

What?

Is she really second?

How is this possible?

Jiang Ran took back the ball and took a closer look, and found...

Fu Bo really didn't lie.

Not only that, the name of the contestant who ranked first surprised her even more.

"Bian Zhao? How come she is number one?"

After asking several times, Jiang Ran finally understood the reason.

After the mall's trading system opened, she went online twice in quick succession, not paying attention to subsequent developments. In reality, this trading system was much more than she had anticipated.

Jiang Ran only knew that he could use points to buy things from the mall, but he didn't know that players could also negotiate among themselves to trade and exchange points for physical items.

This form of transaction just happened to benefit Bian Zhao.

Jiang Ran was still shocked: "You mean, Bian Zhao rented out his hovercar in exchange for points?"

Fu Bo nodded: "Yes."

"She also sells all kinds of food that she brought from the capital planet?"

"right."

"Then... wouldn't she rent out that house too?"

"That's not the case," Fu Bo said. "She said that people moving into the house would bring in a lot of dust and make it dirty, so she won't rent it out."

"Oh, that's fine."

Jiang Ran sighed: "Finally, he looks a bit like the Bian Zhao I knew."

"But..." Fu Bo said, "Bian Zhao said that if someone can do a full body disinfection before entering the house, she would consider it."

Jiang Ran: “…”

It's really, really crazy!

After hearing this, Jiang Ran could understand the origin of Bian Zhao's points.

But she still has many confusions, such as...

"Aren't hovercars very common on the capital planet?"

Jiang Ran asked, "It's already the fourth day, and the competition will be over in three days. When we return to the capital planet, we can ride any hovercar we want. Why do we have to rent one from her at such a high price now?"

"You don't know this, do you?" Fu Bo said, shaking his head. "Rarity makes things valuable! A hovercar isn't a big deal on the capital planet, but on Earth... Tsk, you don't understand, taking a ride like that, circling the ocean, is incredibly comfortable!"

Jiang Ran paused: "Have you rented one before?"

Fu Bo: “…” Is it so obvious?

Of course, Fu Bo didn't want to answer this question, as it would seem like he was betraying the revolution.

His eyes wandered around and he looked around and talked about other things.

Fu Bo: "Of course, this is just one of the reasons."

Jiang Ran: "Any other reasons?"

Fu Bo: "Another reason is you!"

"When we were selecting the contestants for this competition, we deliberately excluded all your fans. However, most of the people who came here have watched the first two episodes, so this has led to a strange situation."

"In other words, everyone knows... your performance in the first two seasons was top-notch. It's only because there wasn't a competition in the second season that you would have come in first. But no one is a fan of you, so..."

"So everyone wants to see the champion stumble and the hero fall?" Jiang Ran asked.

Fu Bo applauded her awkwardly: "That's a very accurate summary."

"Okay, I understand."

Jiang Ran discussed the situation with Fu Bo for a while.

After she could ask nothing more, she did not hesitate. Full of confusion and immersed in the watching eyes of the other contestants, she went straight to find Bian Zhao himself.

Halfway through the journey, I suddenly saw a familiar orange-yellow hovercraft rising into the air.

Jiang Ran looked carefully and found that the person riding in the car was not Bian Zhao, but another male contestant.

I guess he spent points to rent it from Bian Zhao.

Just as he was thinking about it, a series of shouts suddenly came from the hovercraft in mid-air.

The sound came so suddenly that Jiang Ran was almost startled.

“Ah, hoo—”

"Wow--"

"Flying so high—"

“It feels so good—”

“…”

Jiang Ran: “…”

Could this really be someone from the capital who was used to riding a hovercar? It was unbelievable.

Immersed in such emotions, Jiang Ran finally found the person who was responsible for this incident - Bian Zhao.

When she found the person, Bian Zhao was still sitting leisurely in a wheelchair, basking in the sun and watching the lively life of his tenants.

Jiang Ran asked directly: "Why do you have a points ranking?"

Bian Zhao said as a matter of course: "Didn't we agree on this at the beginning? I'm a non-staff player, and non-staff players are still players. Why am I not ranked?"

Jiang Ran: "..." She thought it was just a statement.

After several undercurrents and open and covert arguments, Jiang Ran finally accepted this cruel reality.

Bian Zhao was actually included in the list of contestants, and was able to participate in the points ranking and even be eligible for the championship prize.

If I had known this would happen... I would never have agreed to let her bring the space button.

While Jiang Ran was thinking, he glanced at the tenant of the hover car who was shouting in the sky.

Isn’t this too unfair?

Bian Zhao: "Is there anything else you want to say?"

Jiang Ran was silent for a long time: "How do I rent a car?"

Bian Zhao: "...two hundred points per hour."

Not only Bian Zhao was speechless, Jiang Ran was even more speechless.

Jiang Ran paused and said in disbelief, "Don't think I don't know. You rent it to others for 80 minutes an hour."

Bian Zhao: "You also said that it was someone else."

Jiang Ran: “…”

So there is still room for discrimination?

Bian Zhao was still making inorganic metallic sounds: "I am now the island's monopoly. Do you know what monopoly means?"

"...It means that only you have these things."

"No, monopoly means I have the power to set prices," Bian Zhao said. "If I want 50 points, I can get 50 points. If I want 300 points, I can get 300 points. Even if I want 1,000 points, I can get 300 points."

Jiang Ran: “…”

Jiang Ran: "You profiteer."

Bian Zhao: "Thank you for the compliment."

After a long while.

Jiang Ran: "This money is really easy to make."

Bian Zhao: "Are you still renting it?"

Jiang Ran: "... rent."

The author has something to say:

Bian Zhao: Please call me the Monopoly Man of the program team!