Chapter 101 City Hall (V)

Bai Tao looked up from the rule paper and saw the true appearance of the City Hall. The twenty-four functional departments were real, and the last two functional departments, the Secretariat and the Human Resources Management Department, also revealed their real names.

Secretariat - Resident Satisfaction Statistics Bureau

In front of the Resident Satisfaction Statistics Bureau, a carnivorous plant was nailed to the ground. Xiao Liu was trying to help her break free, but he tried his best but failed to move the wooden stick that Bai Tao had inserted into the concrete floor.

Bai Tao appeared with a cheerful step: "My dear people, what are you doing?"

Xiao Liu: “!!!”

How come that devil came back so soon!

Seeing Bai Tao approaching, Xiao Liu was almost scared to death.

The Piranha plant managed to stand up straight and protected Xiao Liu behind it: "Mr. Candidate, you should go to work."

Bai Tao: "I will, but before that, I have something I want to know. Tell me where the mayor is and I will let you out, how about that?"

The mayor, the nominal highest official of the Dream City City Hall. Bai Tao has never seen her outside the copy, and Bai Tao has not found her hiding place inside the copy.

The twenty-four functional departments are nominally responsible to the mayor. Bai Tao did not find the "Mayor's Office" on the map of the City Hall. Apart from the rule paper and word of mouth from the copy NPCs, the mayor did not appear in any written document.

The petals of the Piranha Plant were tightly closed, and it remained silent.

Bai Tao squatted down and said, "You are so lucky. The rules prohibit killing citizens of Dream City."

Having said that, she deliberately showed a bloodthirsty and cruel smile, looking up and down at the carnivorous plant and Xiao Liu, as if looking for the most appropriate place to start the knife.

As natives of the City of Dreams, they must know that the rules prohibit the killing of citizens of the City of Dreams, but that does not mean they will not be tortured.

There are many monsters who like to torture people, and Sister Han and Xiao Liu are not sure that Bai Tao is not one of them.

Xiao Liu couldn't help but speak out: "As a candidate, you should care for the citizens of Dream City."

She showed her weakness.

Bai Tao nodded: "Of course, the prerequisite is that you two tell me the whereabouts of the mayor." She put her hands on the wooden stick and tore the body of the carnivorous plant.

After being threatened repeatedly, Xiao Liu couldn't bear it anymore and begged for mercy: "No, no, no, I'm telling you!" He subconsciously looked at the Piranha Plant.

The Piranha Plant didn't say anything, but didn't stop him either. It nodded in pain, tacitly allowing Xiao Liu to answer Bai Tao.

Xiao Liu: "Mayor, the mayor is helping the residents of Dream City solve problems all the time. You will meet the mayor when you complete your task!"

Rule 3 of "Dream City Lord Selection Rules" [Lord candidates need to help residents solve problems].

Looking at Xiao Liu's expression, she showed no signs of lying, and the polygraph tester also showed that she was not lying. Bai Tao looked at the Piranha Plant: "Is that so?" She accidentally stepped on the rhizome of the Piranha Plant.

Xiao Liu was so angry that he dared not say anything. He could only mutter quietly: "You are not trustworthy. We have already told you. What else do you want?"

Ignoring Xiao Liu's complaints, Bai Tao stared at the Piranha Plant. Xiao Liu was telling the truth, but that wasn't necessarily the truth. There was another possibility for the polygraph to give a green light - Xiao Liu thought she was telling the truth.

Bai Tao doesn't believe that the mayor who appears in the "City Hall Notices" will strive to become the city lord like an ordinary candidate.

Calling him mayor is more like using the title of mayor to replace the city lord, rather than becoming the city lord.

The carnivorous plant remained silent. Bai Tao pressed harder and harder, and the roots were completely broken, squeezing out green juice. She suddenly laughed out loud.

“Hahahahahahahaha”

As she smiled, the petals on her face began to fall off. She didn't expect that, unlike animals, her roots were her weak point as a plant! Now that her roots were destroyed, she couldn't survive. Bai Tao would also die if she violated the rules.

Bai Tao looked terrified and took two steps back: "You——"

Piranha Plant: "Hahahahaha~ I'm going to die, and you are going to be buried with me!"

The laughter became more and more rampant. She never compromised and had only one goal from beginning to end - to drag Bai Tao to be buried with her.

Being teased, Bai Tao's face was filled with anger. She disregarded the rules and tore the petals of the Piranha Plant. The angrier Bai Tao was, the happier the Piranha Plant became.

She said, "Don't you want to know where the mayor is? Before you die, I will show you my mercy. The mayor is everywhere! You are not as good as a leaf of the mayor!"

Bai Tao suddenly stopped and looked at the Piranha Plant with a half-smile: "Oh? Really? Thank you, Sister Han, for telling me this."

The smile on the Piranha Plant's face disappeared: "What? You——"

Bai Tao waved her hand and the illusion disappeared. The crushed roots and fallen petals were all illusions. In fact, Bai Tao did not touch a single leaf of the carnivorous plant.

Seeing the Piranha Plant open its eyes, Xiao Liu smiled: "Great, Sister Han, you finally woke up!"

The Piranha Plant: "Get lost!" It threw Xiao Liu away and rushed towards Bai Tao, "You despicable and cunning guy, I'm going to kill you!"

But she couldn't even touch a single hair of Bai Tao.

It is rude not to reciprocate. As soon as she came in, she was pulled into an illusion and lost her memory. Bai Tao was not so ruthless. She just prepared an illusion for the carnivorous plant.

Bai Tao waved: "Sister Han, thank you!"

He has a cheerful smile and is not bloodthirsty at all.

Only then did Sister Han realize that she had fallen into Bai Tao's trap a long time ago.

Mayor's whereabouts get√

But Bai Tao did not see a way out of the copy. The mayor was everywhere, and this description made Bai Tao immediately think of the rules.

It is not advisable to just kill the dungeon boss and pass directly. It seems that we can only go step by step.

So let’s start with the Resident Satisfaction Statistics Bureau!

Just as I was thinking about it, the door of the Resident Satisfaction Statistics Bureau was pushed open again.

"Mr. Candidate, it's time for you to get down to work. Do you want to give a speech or complete the Favorability Challenge today?"

The new guy is a human being. She doesn't even need to act. She is not a human, not even a creature of any race. She is a city hall employee simulated by the rules.

If being a city lord requires pleasing the rules rather than the real citizens, Bai Tao will understand why there has never been a city lord in the City of Dreams.

Rules are the embodiment of the world consciousness of the world of ghost stories. Being a city lord is no different from being a boss in a company. Being a boss requires fighting against Him. The larger the fragment of world consciousness, the stronger the self-awareness, and He will not allow others to stand over Him.

After thinking this through, Bai Tao chose the favorability challenge task without hesitation. With a blur in front of her eyes, she was teleported to the stage, where the spotlight made her eyes hurt.

She was the only one on the stage, and the audience was bustling with people, as if there were countless people standing there, just like the humans who invited Bai Tao to work, all of them were the embodiment of rules.

The turntable slowly rose up, and the announcement sounded: "Let's choose today's mission for the candidate!"

10,000-meter ropeless bungee jumping, dancing with snakes, haunted house exploration, fighting Godzilla...

Baitao: "..."

There are ten challenges in total, each one is more perverted than the other, and their purpose is to torture the candidates for city lord to death.

There is a countdown on the turntable, and the candidates do not need to do anything. Once the countdown ends, the turntable will start spinning directly.

“Cordless bungee jumping!”

"Haunted House Adventure!"

......

The audience was enthusiastic and the malice in their voices was expressed unabashedly.

Eventually, the needle pointed to Dancing with Snakes.

Broadcast: "Aha! It seems that the candidates are lucky this time. Dancing with snakes, as long as we find the poisonous snake inside, we can easily complete this task!"

"Shh~" There was a booing sound from the audience. It sounded like a relatively simple task, but Bai Tao did not let her guard down.

The turntable disappeared, replaced by a box that could only accommodate one person and was filled with various snakes.

All kinds of common, rare and very dangerous snakes are entangled and climbing inside, so densely packed that just one glance can make a normal person develop snake phobia.

Broadcast: "If you choose to complete another challenge, you can take a snake out of the box! We recommend that you take out the poisonous snake, because this can greatly increase your survival rate~" The voice did not stop for a moment, and added, "Oh, I forgot to say, in order to enhance the viewing experience of the performance, we stipulate that all performers' resistance to poison will be the same as that of ordinary humans~"

Broadcast: "Then please tell me your choice!"

'Just find the poisonous snake inside?'

Does she look gullible?

In the snake box, there are bamboo green snakes, silver ring snakes, black mambas, cobras, taipans...

Almost all the poisonous snakes are in it.

Non-venomous snakes are a minority.

Bai Tao took another look and said, sorry, she had to overturn her previous words. There was only one non-venomous snake, a black and white ring snake that looked very similar to the Bungarus multicinctus. It was surrounded by a group of venomous snakes. It was very human-like, shaking constantly, and looked like it was about to be scared to death.

Bai Tao ignored a large part of the broadcast and said, "Let's get started!"

Broadcast: "Are you sure? You have a chance to regret before entering the box~"

She twists her head and changes into a spider. Although she has no resistance to poison, she is still poisonous. She can even compare which one has stronger venom, spider or venomous snake.

Climb up to the snake box and just a little poison will take care of these guys.

She said, "OK, let's start--"

As soon as the word "OK" was spoken, the transmission began.

Bai Tao's pupils dilated, something was wrong. At the beginning it was like a cat playing with a mouse, and it was obviously playing with Bai Tao, but now it was so anxious, there must be something fishy!

She started to fight against the teleportation and quickly changed from a spider to a human form. The more the broadcast told her to do something, the less she could do it. One second later, the teleportation ended and Bai Tao entered the snake box.

Suddenly a huge monster appeared, and the balance of the snake group was broken. The poisonous snakes responded one after another, and venom splashed everywhere, but without exception they were blocked outside the protective shield.

Bai Tao used props, floated in the air, and prohibited any snake from touching her.

The white peach served as a trigger, and the poisonous snakes began to kill each other. Some snakes would naturally hunt other weak snakes.

Countless venoms mixed together, and in less than a minute, all the poisonous snakes in the snake box died, killed by the venom of other poisonous snakes.

After five minutes, the snake box was opened, and a pile of snake corpses fell onto the stage. Bai Tao floated out unharmed, which again caused a round of sighs from the audience.

Bai Tao: "Have I completed my challenge?"

The radio reluctantly announced: "Congratulations to the candidate, you have completed the Dancing with Snakes mission! Your citizen favorability has increased by 5%."

"But..." The broadcast voice suddenly became sharp, "During this performance, you watched three Dream City residents die without doing anything. Your citizen favorability rating will be reduced by 15%!"

"Your citizen favorability is now -10%!"

The broadcaster sighed in a pretentious manner: "Alas, if you had listened to me and voted out the innocent people, this wouldn't have to happen. As a candidate for the city lord, how could you be so selfish~"

Bai Tao's face darkened. She knew there was a trap in the snake box. If she had any contact with the poisonous snake, the radio would definitely say that she was the one who killed the residents of Dream City.

The broadcasting was deliberate in order to make her break the rules.

A vegetable leaf was thrown at her from the audience and Bai Tao dodged it subconsciously.

Broadcast: "Oh my, this is all the people's love for you, how can you hide? Citizen favorability decreased by 1%, and now the citizen favorability is -11%"

Broadcast: "Oh, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you. Once the citizen favorability is less than -30%, you will automatically be disqualified as a candidate for city lord~"

Bai Tao: "There is no such rule on the rule sheet."

Broadcast: "So now we have it~"

On the rule paper, the sixth rule of "Dream City Lord Selection Rules" appeared.

6. When the citizen favorability remains below -30% for one day in a row, you will no longer be a candidate for city lord!

Cheerful music sounded on the radio, and today they were also plotting to kill the city lord candidate~

La la la la la la, as long as she's here, forget about becoming the city lord~