While worrying about various things in his mind, Bob drifted off into sleep, and he immediately found himself watching a new livestream!
[Ding! You have entered the live stream of 'Player Zephyr Reid'!]
[Ding! According to the rules of Obelisk Aperion, you must watch the stream for at least 4-hours before you are allowed to quit!]
[Ding! Enjoy the live survival show dear watcher!]
The usual same machine-like message rang out in Bob's head; the only thing different was that the name of the player was different; everything else was just the same as always.
'It's a man again… phew… at least I won't have to see a beautiful lady die… that would have been a great loss to the world…'
As the livestream came online, Bob noticed that there were already thousands of people watching it and the comment section was filled with 'RIP' already.
People literally had no faith in these new players, just like the previous ones; after all, just surviving the first hour was already a massive hurdle for almost all of the previous players.
"The person this time is kind of handsome… also, he seems like he works out quite a bit…"
As Zephyr had just gotten his physique upgraded, his body was now more well-built, and even his face looked more handsome than before.
Thus causing Bob to misunderstand that he was already handsome and good-looking from the start.
Looking at the comment section, Bob noticed many ladies paying condolences.
[Blue_Hair_Ms.Crocodile: Sigh… there is already an ongoing scarcity of good-looking men in this world and now this sh*tty game is gonna reduce the number even more!]
[The_Muscular_Bunny: I understand you sister! Sigh, if only the game gave us voting rights, I would vote to sacrifice all the ugly men instead! That would actually help us save the world!]
[Flaming_Dck_Sage: Tch tch, you girls don't know sht! It would actually be more preferable to sacrifice death row criminals rather than us innocent ugly-looking fellas you know! #Uglyguyslivesmattertoo!!]
[Heaven_peircing_banana: Well said, fellow Taoist! Jade beauties these days do not understand the severity of the oppression that less gifted young masters like us face these days!]
[Heaven_peircing_banana: The true strength of a man is not in his looks but in the power of his heaven-piercing banana!! #bananamattersmore!!]
[Shady_CrookedEye_Ron: I am a professional Dck surgeon; if any of you want your little brother enlarged, contact me at 24323XXXX, we also do free organ transplant surgeries too…]
[Paul_the_disaster: Oh fck off! No matter the place, these frauds are everywhere! At least don't promote your shady business in this place! You are embarrassing the human race in front of the aliens!]
[Backsh*t_Expert_3333: Stand aside, beta cucks! This alpha male great backsh*t expert is here to collect all the baddies!]
[Heaven_peircing_banana: @Backsh*t_Expert_3333 is radiating small dck energy; I can feel it straight through the fabric of the cosmos! And I only have one thing to say! Fck off!!]
[Backsh*t_Expert_3333: @Heaven_peircing_banana only those who have a smaller dck choose such weird names such as you, so you are the last person to be arguing with me about dck bruh… Glf: Sigma Chad!]
[Shady_CrookedEye_Ron: I am a professional mind surgeon; if you want to unlock the sigma chad mentality, contact me at 234212XXXX, we also do free brain rot reduction surgeries…]
Looking at the chat going completely crazy over completely random bulsh*t Bob could only shake his head in helplessness.
'The death of players has become such an everyday thing nowadays that people have become more and more unhinged…'
'And this 'shady ron' fellow… I think I have seen him before in previous streams too; he's always been spamming these weird shady scam messages…'
Just when everyone was messing around, the livestream finally moved as the 'Player,' Zephyr scratched his face with an awkward look on his face.
"Err… sooo… What do I do now? It's dark everywhere; I don't even have a torch…"
Hearing the voice of the player for the first time Bob felt a bit surprised.
"Oh? He doesn't seem flustered at all… he seems much calmer than the previous players…"
Zephyr was standing on a strange mound of greyish sand; he suddenly squatted down and took a handful of that strange sand in his hand and looked at it with narrowed eyes before saying,
"Is this Ash?..."
Looking around, Zephyr noticed that the entire ground was actually covered in ash, not sand.
"So much ash? Am I around a volcano or something? But I don't feel hot at all; in fact, it's kind of chilly here…"
Hearing Zephyr's words, the entire comment section moved!
[Shady_CrookedEye_Ron: I am a professional geologist; that is not volcanic ash at all. that looks similar to what's left after forests are burned completely to the ground or it could even be a corpse burned through cremation, perhaps…]
[Volcano_Gobbler_Eric: Indeed, as an expert in the field of volcanic research, I can confirm that this is definitely not volcanic ash, but the scale of ash here is too much for it to just be from a cremated body… it's likely from a burnt forest…]
[Purple_Horizon_Lavaworm: No matter what kind of ash this is, this doesn't seem like good news at all; perhaps there is a fire-breathing monster nearby that could have created this phenomenon!]
Although the people in the comments were just giving their opinions according to whatever knowledge they had, it was likely not perfectly accurate, as the situation inside the horror game was too bizarre and unpredictable compared to Earth.
Seeing the situation, Bob, who himself was a geology student, felt like he should give his opinion too.
[The_Invincible_Bob: In a previous stream, there was a location where it literally rained glass; there's a lot of ash and smoke around the host… perhaps ashes naturally rain in this place continuously…]
[It might cause breathing and health issues so it's better to find shelter or make a mask to cover your face…]
Although Bob knew that the host, the player, would likely not be able to see his advice, he still decided to join in the fun just like others and gave his opinion.
What he didn't know was that Zephyr could really see their comments, and the main reason why he even spoke about the ash was to make people indirectly talk about this matter.
It was all a plan to get more expert opinions!