Chapter 831: A 38-Year-Old Soul in a 10-Year-Old Body
As soon as these words were spoken.
The chat section fell silent for over ten seconds.
More than ten seconds later.
Comments flooded in. Most were full of doubt, thinking the Long-haired Beauty host was joking.
I am the Hero: [Stop joking around... Conan... haha]
Evil Wolf: [Even if this little boy, this lab rat, really is Conan, it's useless. Didn't his brother, Ke Bei, die last time? He's probably been reborn by now!]
Diamond Bachelor: [Xiao Q, Xiao Peng, Ke Bei, three big fools. I still think these three are idiots. They could have survived, but they insisted on saving others.]
Middle-aged Uncle: [You can't say that, big shot. At least they proved love and friendship exist.]
Ultimate Rich Kid: [Let's not talk about the dead. I'd rather understand the specifics of this little boy's background.]
Right then, the Long-haired Beauty host began her introduction:
"Lab Rat Number 8, Jin Hai. You've all seen his photos already."
"I said he was Conan before, but none of you believed me."
"Here are his personal details. Let's see if you all think he counts as Conan or not?"
"Jin Hai, male, age: 38 years old."
"When he was nine, Jin Hai was just an ordinary little boy. Everything was normal."
"But when he turned ten, everything started going wrong."
"After he turned ten, his body stopped developing. It wasn't until he was thirteen that his slow-to-notice parents realized something was off with their child."
"So they took him to the hospital."
"At first, the local hospitals couldn't figure out what was wrong. All they knew was that Jin Hai's body had stopped growing. As for why it stopped? They couldn't determine the specific cause."
"It wasn't until they took him to a major hospital in the capital that they finally found out what was going on with Jin Hai's body!"
"Jin Hai had an extremely rare genetic defect disease. This disease caused his body to stop developing from the age of ten."
"After discovering the disease, his parents naturally asked the doctors how to treat it."
"Because it was an incredibly rare genetic defect, even the capital's top hospitals, with specialists researching the condition, couldn't guarantee anything. All they could do was attempt various treatments."
"But in the end, the heavens had locked Jin Hai into a ten-year-old body, while his soul kept growing older."
"Jin Hai was the third child in his family. Above him, he had an older brother and an older sister. Below him, a younger sister."
"Because the various treatments had little effect on Jin Hai, plus the medical costs were too expensive and not worth the effort, his parents gradually lost hope. They gave up on Jin Hai and just raised him as a child who would never grow up."
"That's what they said. Originally, his parents thought four kids was just the right number, not too many, not too few. They hadn't planned on having more."
"But after learning about Jin Hai's rare genetic defect, they decided to have another child. A boy."
"Ironically, of Jin Hai's five siblings, the other four were all perfectly healthy. He was the only unlucky one."
"Because his body was trapped at age ten."
"His education also stopped after the first semester of high school."
"He couldn't stand the strange looks and whispers from teachers and classmates anymore."
"With a ten-year-old body, after dropping out, he couldn't work either. All he could do was stay home with nothing to do."
"As the years passed, his older brother, older sister, younger sister, and younger brother all started their own families."
"He kept living with his parents. But after they retired, his parents traveled all over the country, even going abroad. They left this son at home, sending him a monthly allowance so he could take care of himself."
"Then our agreement signers approached him. He signed the agreement and moved into Alice Apartment, for ten thousand a day."
After hearing this lab rat's personal information.
The chat section.
Ultimate Rich Kid: [He really does count as Conan. Just a different kind of Conan from the other one. Still, both have an adult soul trapped in a child's body. Of course, Jin Hai's brain definitely isn't as sharp as that famous detective Conan's.]
I am the Hero: [He got this genetic defect disease, so his body stays at ten forever. Doesn't that mean he's immortal?]
Middle-aged Uncle: [You genius... He got this genetic disease, which only stops his body from growing, keeping him like a ten-year-old kid. But it doesn't mean he won't age! The organs and cells inside his body will still age like a normal person's. In short, besides having a ten-year-old body, everything else about him is the same as an ordinary person.]
Domineering Female CEO: [This Far Neighbor live stream game really has some genius agreement signers. They can find lab rats this special.]
[And Jin Hai isn't like those dwarves who never grow up either. Dwarves have child bodies, but their faces are clearly adult faces. Jin Hai's face is still a ten-year-old child's face.]
Fairy Sister: [That's so pitiful.]
Little Dragon Girl: [Jin Hai isn't the worst. At least he has a ten-year-old body. From those photos, he looks like he's about one meter forty.
You should know, there's someone even worse off. Also in their thirties, but their body is permanently stuck at one year old, only seventy-two centimeters tall...]
Little Aunt: [I'm really curious. Just from the information so far, his family might not be super rich, but they seem pretty well-off. They could afford five kids, took him to the capital's big hospital, and his parents travel everywhere after retirement. So why did Jin Hai agree to sign the agreement?]
[Looking at his life, besides being trapped in a ten-year-old body, he stays home alone, his parents send him money regularly. I don't know how much, but it's enough for food and drink. He doesn't even have to work. This kind of life should be many people's dream. Why come to Alice Apartment? Attracted by the money?]
Middle-aged Uncle: [We'll find out by watching the livestream later.]
Long-haired Beauty host: "Now, I'll introduce Lab Rat Number Nine, also the last lab rat of this round."
"Lab Rat Number Nine - Zheng Zihan, female, 22 years old, unemployed. She was approached by an agreement signer, signed the agreement, and moved into the apartment for ten thousand a day."
After introducing these brief personal details.
Next came a series of Zheng Zihan's personal photos.
Long straight black hair, dressed quite innocently. She had average looks and an average figure.
That was all that was revealed about Lab Rat Number Nine.
After that came.
The half-hour betting session.