Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

The middle-aged man’s voice was laced with anger.

“You say his guess just now was completely wrong? Does that mean you’re planning to let these first-class passengers go?”

This statement immediately became the new center of attention, drawing in even the economy-class passengers who hadn’t been paying much attention to the matter before. They all looked grave and serious.

Captain Tom said, “That’s right, you guessed correctly.”

Hearing this answer, the middle-aged man thought his ears were playing tricks on him.

“What? Say that again?!”

“I said, you guessed right. I’m going to let these first-class passengers go. I won’t take their lives.”

“Are you joking?”

“No, I’m very serious.”

At that moment, the middle-aged man slammed his phone—a German edition Rice phone worth 999 euros—forcefully against the ground.

In an instant, the phone shattered, its front and back exploding into pieces.

The middle-aged man roared at the phone in sheer fury.

“Why?! Why aren’t you following your own rules and killing these first-class passengers?! Is it because these rich first-class people bribed you with money?!”

Captain Tom let out a sneering laugh.

“Bribe me with money? Do you really think someone who can pull off something like this would care about a few measly coins from them?”

The middle-aged man ground his iron teeth, the sound grating.

“Then why?! Tell me!”

Captain Tom’s disdainful voice then slithered into the ears of every passenger on the plane like a sinister whisper.

“Actually, from the very beginning, I never intended to follow the rules I set myself.”

“That goes for you business-class and economy-class people too. If, in the end, you didn’t meet the number I specified, I still wouldn’t have laid a hand on you. I definitely would have let you off.”

“Consider it a hidden rule. Honestly, I set up this game because I wanted to see—when faced with life and death, what choices would the rich, the moderately wealthy, and the poor make? What would their humanity look like?”

“As it turns out, when faced with death, everyone is selfish.”

“Every single person, in order to survive, is selfish and self-serving.”

“But what surprised me were those few in first class. Just like in business class and economy, some of them killed others to save themselves. Yet others, for no clear reason, chose not to kill.”

He was referring to Xu Yang.

Of course, there was also Jiang Ran and the long-legged blonde girl.

But in Captain Tom’s view, the latter two were weak and had no other choice. Xu Yang was different—he had the ability to dominate everything in first class, yet he gave it up.

“No!”

“You bastard!”

“You deserve to die!!!”

“You’ve been screwing with us the whole time!!! What kind of bullshit hidden rule is this!!!”

The middle-aged man screamed hoarsely into the phone. After finishing, he fell to his knees with a thud, his hands bracing against the floor and his head bowed. No one could see his expression, but they could see tears dripping from his face, pattering onto the ground. They could also hear his sobbing.

“Do you know what I did to survive?!”

“I’m sorry… sorry… Honey… I’m so sorry!!!”

The middle-aged man kept sobbing, his whole body trembling.

Among the three cabins, economy class had it the worst.

That cabin had the most people.

This middle-aged man and his wife had come to Germany from Hua Country for work. After finishing, they were taking this flight back to Hua Country. When the incident happened, the man immediately stepped up to protect his wife, all the way until near the end.

Near the end, there were still 21 people left in economy class.

That meant one more person needed to be eliminated.

And everyone’s eyes were fixed on the couple.

So the extra person had to be chosen from between the man and his wife. They were forced to make the choice themselves.

The man who had protected his wife the whole way finally chose himself in the face of the fear of death.

His love for his wife hadn’t overcome his fear of dying.

And that was why, upon hearing Captain Tom reveal the hidden rule, he completely broke down.

But he wasn’t the only one breaking down. The other 19 people in economy class who had survived had also gone against their own consciences, done too many terrible things to stay alive.

Now, they were all collapsing.

The only ones who weren’t collapsing were in first class and business class.

The six people in business class were clearly a rich young woman in her twenties and her five bodyguards.

The young woman tossed her hair and gave a light snort.

“Lucky for me, I always bring some bodyguards wherever I go. Otherwise, I’d be dead today too.”

“Even luckier that I’m not like some idiots who sit in first class themselves but make their bodyguards sit in economy to save money. Then when trouble hits, the bodyguards can’t protect you.”

This young woman walked over to the four still-unconscious first-class passengers and stopped in front of the Hua Country man in his twenties.

She seemed to know him. Earlier, she had been talking about the idiot who sat in first class while making his bodyguards sit in economy—and that was him.

She stared at him, unable to suppress a cold smile.

“Mr. Tightwad, looks like you’re the one who ended up in a miserable state now.”

After saying this, the woman looked up at the three people standing in first class—Jiang Ran, the long-legged blonde girl, and Xu Yang.

She asked directly, “Who beat him up so badly?”

Xu Yang yawned and stepped forward. “I did. What about it? Is he your boyfriend? You want to get revenge for him?”

“Revenge? Ha, don’t flatter yourself. He’s my boyfriend, sure, but I can have plenty of boyfriends.”

“As for him? Hah…”

“Is it because he’s stingy? But he didn’t seem like a tightwad to me,” Jiang Ran spoke up. He remembered that this Hua Country man in his twenties had raised his offer to 20 million earlier today just to win him over. Someone who casually threw around 20 million wouldn’t seem like the stingy type.

“You haven’t interacted with him deeply, so he might seem generous to you. But the truth is, he’s incredibly tight-fisted.”

“Let me give you a simple example. You think some A-list celebrities are super rich, right?”

“But some male stars haggle with prostitutes over prices.”

“Some people buy houses and secretly contact the owners directly just to avoid the agent’s commission.”

“As for this guy… he came to Germany himself, brought only two bodyguards to save money, and even made them sit in economy class.”

“Unlike me, I bring plenty of bodyguards, and we all sit in business class together.”