Martial Arts Returnee’s Game Broadcast

Chapter 156

1. [Silent Swordsman ES (Ending Space)]
[Field Type - Space]

In the waiting space, which is longer than the broadcast time, today, like every day, thousands of space dwellers continue to expand their living territories.

• Hydraulics equipment repair, first come, first served, 1 spot, 500 points!
• Seeking workers for hydrogen tank replacement!
• Silent Swordsman small statue interceptor pilot urgently needed! Send a whisper with the nickname [????????]!
• Duel Agent urgently needed! Epic Fantasy Duel Arena solo rank of Platinum or higher only!

Among these residents, some viewers, having lost all their points on Toto due to poor judgment or unable to buy points through microtransactions, are left bitter.
These so-called space labor class viewers look at the professional viewers, dressed neatly, who follow after the energetic, well-dressed viewers with envy.

• Are those guys repairmen in real life too? Where do they learn such knowledge?
• Talent with a 30% story rate should all die.

Viewers who made the right choices and earned large points from Toto or gained mass points through sponsorship take charge of their own projects.
They oversee the construction of giant structures, hold space battles using points, and place bounties to catch villains who scatter space junk.
They do everything that can be done with points, much like A-list alpha males in the marriage market, rich, handsome, and competent.

• You guys can’t even ride a luxury spaceship, can you?
• Epic Fantasy mechanic repairmen are god-tier jobs. It’s so easy to make points. You should definitely do it.
• Low-level guys? No skills? Weak physique?

The professional viewers selected by these alpha males are like those who have succeeded in marriage in real life.
The well-off professional viewers laugh at the remaining ones in the waiting area, boarding the finest spaceships driven by their employers.
The morale of the remaining viewers naturally plummeted.

• I hate manual labor. I don’t want to make pyramids anymore…
• Hey, Kim! Stop with the nonsense and update the sign.

When a large cargo spaceship docks at the landing bay, viewers who had been lying around quickly raised their cheap signs.

[10 hours wait in the daily waiting room. 15 years of building experience with Minecraft. Equipped with sincerity. Equipped with concepts.]
[This slave does it cheaply.]
[Hello, I really need a meal, please help me.]
[I have a wife like a tiger and children like bears at home. I don’t want to go back home. Please give me some points so I can stay out.]
[I’ll do anything you ask, but please don’t kidnap me to a weird warehouse for some weird play.]
[I’ll be your secret friend. Women only.]
[1-month watercolor painting experience, will paint buildings cheaply… please give me points…?]

General viewers without a high story rate or physical talent could only appeal to their skills and get hired as laborers.
Employers, with their rugged skins like day laborers, scanned the signs and then whipped at a few signs.

• You, you, you. Follow me!

When the "hired" sign appeared, viewers shook their signs up and down, cheering loudly.

• Dobby is no longer free. I’ve become a slave!
• Kyaa, spaceship slave!
• But what are we doing?

The employer grinned.

• Slave.
• Huh?
• I built a slave ship, but there’s no one to fill it. I’ll pay as much as a pyramid laborer.
• Damn, you’re really trying to make me a slave for real, aren’t you? Are you insane?
• I don’t want to do this.
• Hehehe, I love being a slave.
• Then you want to go do manual labor?

The employer pointed to another cargo ship.

• You don’t need professional knowledge! Space pyramid laborers! 20 points per day! First 50 applicants!

These are essentially the lowest-tier in the labor office.
They grumbled at the hardest, most time-consuming, least interesting, and lowest-paying tasks.

• Damn, another pyramid today?
• I’m pissed, so I’ll hide traps in the pyramid.
• Should we secretly grab some treasure when the supervisor isn’t looking?

After thinking it through, being a pyramid laborer and suffering through hard work might be better than silently playing the slave game in prison while earning points.

• Are we wearing shackles too?
• You’ll find out when you get there.

Thus, three viewers boarded the slave ship.

2.
One of the viewers who boarded the slave ship, [?????????], carefully opened the slave-only panel, constantly looking around.

[Residence]
[General Prison +1P] (Capacity 17/50)
[Cell +5P] (Capacity 3/10)
[Instructor’s Room +10P] (Capacity 2/3)

So many people are here.
Where did they even get all these from?
As they stared in disbelief, the panel content changed in real-time.

[Instructor’s Room +10P] (Capacity 3/3)
[Temporary Slave "Candy, if you give me some, I’ll follow" has chosen the Instructor’s Room. The capacity is full, so no more selections for the Instructor’s Room.]

• Heh heh, choosing the instructor’s room with my own hands, what a peculiar slave. You, go through that side hallway.

One of the slave ship's hallway doors opened, revealing a corridor bathed in pink light.

• Heheh
• Don’t cross your legs, just go inside quickly!

Candy, who was kicked in the rear, entered through the hallway, and the door closed.

• What, do you want to go inside too?
• Not at all!

She peeked into the abyss.

• I’ll take the solitary cell.
• Hey, don’t do that, let’s go to the general prison together. I’m scared to go alone.
• I’m fine. I’ve played horror games for 30,000 hours.

This is just crazy.
Experiencing virtual reality horror games through all the senses, not on a computer screen or movie screen, is content only true tough nuts can challenge.
Or people whose minds are broken by intense fear.
Not that desperate for points, [?????????] chose the general prison.

[Restraint Options]
[Basic Ankle Shackles 0P]
[Wrist Shackles +1P]
[Ball Gag +1P]
[Beastman Headband +1P]
[Cat-Hand Escape Doll +5P]
[VR Helmet +10P / 1H]
[Limbs Bound +20P]

[Clothing Options]
[Basic Slave Clothes 0P]
[Large Size Slave Clothes +1P]
[Small Size Slave Clothes +1P]
[Hole-Ridden Slave Clothes +3P]
[Android Doll Mask +5P]
[Animal Doll Mask +5P]
[Monster Doll Mask +5P]
[Restraint Clothing +10P]
[Tentacle Restraint Clothing +20P/1H]

What kind of place is this?
Even [?????????], who was treated as a weirdo in other rooms, became dizzy from the madness of the slave ship.

• Here’s the prison where you’ll be staying. If you stay locked up, you’ll get slave pay every day, so behave properly. Heh heh.
• You crazy bastard.

In the general prison, slaves covered in all kinds of options were sprawled out.

• New recruit, welcome.
• Ooooh
• A new one, a new one, a new one!!!

[?????????], terrified, backed into a corner.

• You, you guys! What are you going to do with me!
• Hahaha
• This new recruit is cute.
• We’re all just here to make points.

Fortunately, the slaves weren’t here to give a hard time.

• There’s a regular event on the slave ship. They periodically land at other stations and sell event services there, that’s where the real money is.
• Slaves who participate in the event get double the pay!
• Double!!
• If you wear an animal doll mask, you can participate in the space zoo! There, you can unlock the taste option and eat all sorts of delicacies, so let’s wear the animal doll mask together!
• Ooooh!!
• If you wear a monster doll mask, you can participate as a monster slave in the arena! They won’t give you weapons, but if you win, you rake in points. How about we both try betting on an extreme reverse victory with a monster doll mask?
• Oooooo!!
• Sometimes, if your avatar skin is split half and half, you can go on a date with slave ship tourists who want to play master and slave and get tips. If you're interested, let’s get some skin cheats together.

This is incredible.
The slave ship was far more lucrative than pyramid laborers—no, at least ten times more profitable.

• Heheh, but be careful not to fall too deep, okay? If you miss the timing to return to the slave ship, you might be dragged into the animal circus or forced into risky jobs by clients.

What the hell do they want to do?
If they get reported for this kind of thing, won't they really be dragged to prison?
[?????????] turned her head in disgust.

• Forget that, what’s with that VR helmet? 10 points, isn’t that great value?

The animal doll mask and monster doll mask-wearing slaves tried to stop her, horrified.

• Hey, newbie. This advice is for your mental health. You’d better not touch that.
• That’s right. Even us animal doll mask-loving slaves, who used to be hardcore perverts, don’t mess with the VR helmets.
• Listen to them.

A slave, hanging with limbs bound on the prison wall, spoke.

• The leader has spoken!
• Is it the first time in 33 hours?
• I’ve never seen that guy talk while logging in!

So, the leader.
[?????????] stared, stunned, and the leader warned her with a serious expression.

• Everyone who wore that thing just flailed around desperately, begging to be let out, or they became useless slaves who couldn’t get off the slave ship.
• Useless slaves?
• Look over at the other corner.
• I don’t see anything.

The pitch-black darkness.
As [?????????] peered into the dark corner of the prison, a prisoner wearing a helmet suddenly sprang out.

• Please take this off, I’m going crazy!!
• Holy shit, that scared me!

Startled, [?????????] stumbled backward.
A viewer, crawling along the floor, grabbed her ankle.

• Aaaaaaahhh!!
• Hey, pull yourself together, newbie!

Three monster doll mask-wearing slaves rushed to separate them.
As they lay on the floor, she heard strange sounds near her ear.

• Chirp chirp... chirp chirp chirp...
• Hehe... Ehehehe...

When she looked closely, she saw prisoners muttering from the other side of the darkness.

• Why are those people acting like that? Shouldn’t we call the police?
• The chirping guy is the one who’s been tortured by an ASMR viewer playing sparrow sounds for an hour. He’s been listening to chirping sounds all week and now he only speaks like that.
• Could it be the VR helmet...?
• Yeah, the guys who wear the helmet get to choose the videos that ‘crew’ or ‘visitors’ pick on the slave ship. If you get stuck with perverts, you really experience hell.
• Then what about the guy who’s laughing strangely?
• He got stuck watching only ‘love game’ videos all day, from perverted virtual couples.

Well, it wouldn’t be weird for someone to break down after watching only that kind of video all day.

• Then what about the guy who just begged to take off the helmet?
• He was watching videos with women in them.
• Why is he in such agony?
• Because they were dressed loosely.
• Isn’t that actually good?
• The video title was ‘10-Hour Compilation of Extremely Obese Women Exercising’.
• !!!
• There’s still 4 hours left. That’s the talk of the idiot who bought a 10-hour VR helmet usage.

How terrifying!
[?????????] grew afraid of the slave ship.

• Ah, they said if I stay for one hour, I can get off here. I’m getting out of here!
• Heh heh... I thought that way too at first. But you’ll soon realize.
• What do you mean?

The leader spoke seriously.

• Even if you get out of here, the boredom won’t change.
• ......
• Silent Swordsman won’t return. I want to play a little longer in space. But I don’t have enough points to enjoy it. But I don’t want to work honestly.
• Ugh!!
• Someone like you, lazy and scared, but wanting to earn a lot of points easily, will eventually fall into the slave play on this ship. There’s no other way for you.

Hanging from the wall with limb restraints, the leader’s words were even more convincing.

• Hahaha, stop it. I’ve settled here because I fell for Silent Swordsman’s crazy movie collection! If I leave here, I’ll pick up my sword and go back to the training ground!
• How long do you think you’ll focus on such a boring, unprofitable job? You’ll be able to do it for an hour a day at most, right?
• Uhhhh!
• Accept your fate. You’ll follow me into the limb restraint slave club. There’s no other way for a lazy coward like you!
• No, I’m not that kind of person!
• Hahahaha, hahahahaha!
• Aaaaah, I think I’m losing my mind!!

3.
An hour later.
As soon as [?????????] arrived at the next space station, she ran off the slave ship, crying.

• Leader, wasn’t that too harsh on the newbie?
• Stop talking nonsense, ?????????. This is too hard of a world for a King Half-Breed. You know that.
• If we keep going easy on the newbies, only weirdos will be left in the cells.

The slave [?????????], wearing a spotted zebra animal mask, grumbled, and the leader gave a wry smile.

• Did you see his hands?
• What about his hands?
• Avatars in these public spaces usually reflect the user’s physical traits. His hands had the calluses of a swordsman.
• Huh. You can tell just by looking at his hands? Why the hell are you playing jailer on a slave ship, then?
• I played Toto.
• Ah.
• It was a bad choice.

At the lonely mumble of the man, [???????], who had lost all memories, [?????????] turned away, swallowing his tears.