Zhan Pengfei chuckled and quickly explained:

"Oh dear, that's just Dawei's personality. He's actually a very nice person."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes."

Zhan Pengwu smiled and echoed his sentiments...

"You'll find out once you get to know him that he's actually a good person, not as bad as he looks. He's quite kind-hearted."

Ye Feng didn't reply, but just smiled faintly.

After testing Tang Weiwei at noon, he knew...

The fact that the other party did not take the opportunity to kill or seize weapons is enough to prove their character.

If it were anyone else, they probably would have already turned on each other with swords.

Ye Feng doesn't need particularly strong teammates, although having them would be ideal.

However, as long as they are united, can play a certain role, and have strong execution capabilities, he is confident that he can live to be a hundred days old, given the existing tools and resources.

His desire to cooperate with Tang Weiwei and the other two was not to seek their protection.

I simply don't want to be their enemy.

Simply put, it's better to avoid trouble. Having two more powerful friends is the same as having two fewer formidable enemies.

And right now, even the most difficult person on the other side has clearly changed their attitude towards me, which is a great thing.

After all, a team can only have one leader to give orders.

In high spirits, he waved to Zhan Pengfei.

"Come on, I'll teach you how to make a jar."

"Okay, okay."

Zhan Pengfei was naturally more than happy to agree, nodding repeatedly…

9 PM, inside the Merrick Triangle Building—

Markuko sat in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window in his office, gazing at the steel city below, his two white eyebrows furrowed...

He seems to be thinking about something important.

The ashtray on the stool next to me had already extinguished three cigars, and the room was filled with smoke.

Yesterday, the eighth episode aired, and viewers continued to give it rave reviews.

Its popularity and viewership ratings continue to rank first in the world.

This is something that has never happened before since the show was created.

Because of Ye Feng's existence, the number of Chinese fans who bypassed the Great Firewall to watch his videos skyrocketed to 90 million...

The show's total fan base is only over 160 million.

The number of viewers from 25 countries is only around 320 million.

In other words, Chinese people make up nearly one-third of the population.

The speed at which this show makes money can only be described as earning a fortune every day.

However, this is also what Markuko is worried about…

He knew that Ye Feng had played a significant role in making the show so popular in China.

Therefore, Ye Feng definitely cannot die for the time being...

In fact, his original plan was pretty much the same as Ye Feng's guess.

Before the show started, he knew that the Amazon would experience a once-in-50-year flood.

So the game date was deliberately set last month in order to select a capable player.

Sure enough, Ye Feng soon came into his field of vision.

After observing for a while, he found that this young Chinese boy was indeed very entertaining.

Add to that his Chinese identity, and he's practically a walking money-printing machine.

So he started to promote Ye Feng like crazy, increasing his screen time and publicity.

Clearly, this series of star-making tactics resonated with the Chinese people, making him incredibly wealthy.

The map he later gave Ye Feng on the river was indeed one he had meticulously designed.

Although it's close, it's difficult. The purpose, of course, is also for the sake of the show's effect.

His original plan was to lure Ye Feng to a certain location.

Then, based on his camp, other top ten players from the leaderboard are placed next to him as opponents.

As a result, in the course of his future survival, Ye Feng will be forced to encounter and fight with others.

If things go smoothly, he will directly announce Ye Feng's camp location on his watch later in the game.

Let everyone surround and kill him, to bring the final climax to the story.

Finally, they'll make a huge profit, squeezing every last drop of value out of Ye Feng.

But he's gone too far now...

I thought Ye Feng only knew survival skills and didn't know how to fight.

Just like when he first met those two wanted criminals, he didn't dare to make a move.

But Ye Feng adapted too quickly and integrated into this killing game in a short period of time.

And with their clever minds and teamwork, they wiped out the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth places on the leaderboard.

In addition to successfully acquiring the weapon, they also gained two powerful teammates.

The game is only halfway through, and there are already only 25 challengers left.

Excluding the 8 members of Ye Feng's team, there are 16 people left.

Makuko took a puff of his cigar, his wrinkled old face practically screaming worry.

This is happening much faster than he planned, and the progress is out of control.

That's how capitalists are; they want to get a return of ten thousand dollars for every dollar they invest.

Having finally encountered Ye Feng, this fat sheep, how could we not squeeze him dry?

The problem is that "breaking through the encirclement" is mainly about killing.

If we start the main event now, and the remaining people kill Ye Feng, I'll lose out on countless billions.

But if Ye Feng kills everyone, then there's no one left. What will the rest of the show air?

"Damn Clayvin! What an idiot!"

Makuko cursed angrily and stubbed out the cigar he had just lit.

He had originally planned a scenario where the top nine on the leaderboard besieged the number one player.

They've even come up with a title for the show...

Yellow, white, and black—a war of races—who is the strongest primitive race on Earth?

As one can imagine, such explosive and hate-inducing news, edited together with some bloody and violent clips, and accompanied by a high-energy music track, became a trailer.

How many people will be looking forward to this episode?

"Knock knock knock..."

Just then, there was a knock on the door…

"Come in…"

The door creaked open, and two clowns walked in.

One is the Ugly King, whose bright red nose is still very noticeable.

The other clown's face paint was slightly different.

But the most obvious thing was his nose; he was wearing a smoky blue nose.

"Sir, you were looking for me?"

Makuko slowly stood up from his boss's chair and walked up to him.

“Ugly Lord, I’m afraid I’ll have to trouble your HR department to work overtime recently.”

The clown named Ugly Duke was slightly taken aback, his eyes darting around for a few seconds before he was still full of doubt.

This boss always speaks in a cryptic and ambiguous way, making him truly difficult to understand.

"Sir... could it be... that Amazon's program ended early?"

"NoNoNo…"

Makuko shook his head and gently stretched out his left hand to the side.

Ugly Emperor immediately took out an A4 sheet of paper from the folder and handed it to him.

At the very top center of the paper, there was a string of English words written on it.

"Kill out of the encirclement and flee for life"

The translation is...

A desperate escape from the encirclement.