Qiao Jiajin walked forward and reached out to feel Luo Shiyi’s neck. After confirming the other party was dead, he hurried to Li Xiangling’s side.

“Kung Fu Girl…” He called out with some concern. “How are you?”

“I’m fine…”

“Come on, I’ll take you up.” As Qiao Jiajin spoke, he grabbed Li Xiangling’s arm.

“No… don’t…” Li Xiangling smiled bitterly. “I won’t go up just yet…”

“Huh?” Qiao Jiajin was startled. “What kind of nonsense are you talking? You planning to settle down here?”

“Hehe…” Li Xiangling laughed weakly. “Something’s wrong with me. It’s not easy to leave…”

“What?” Qiao Jiajin clearly sensed something was wrong. After freezing for a moment, he reached out his hand.

Just as he was about to get close to Li Xiangling, Qiao Jiajin touched an upright piece of wood.

Like a table leg.

“My luck is really just too bad…” Li Xiangling said with a laugh. “When the boulder fell, it smashed the table… and a table leg flew right at me…”

“Don’t, don’t joke around…” Qiao Jiajin said. “You…”

“My right arm is nailed to the wall…” Li Xiangling moved her body, trying to make herself more comfortable. “Even if I pull out the wooden stick, I’ll probably die anyway…”

“You haven’t achieved ‘Echo’ yet, so don’t talk about dying or not dying.” Qiao Jiajin kept reaching out to touch the table leg, trying to find where Li Xiangling was injured. “Kung Fu Girl, this time the three of us fought side by side and won beautifully. If you dare forget it, I won’t forgive you.”

“Brother Shan… is he alright?” Li Xiangling asked again.

“He’s doing great.” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “That big guy could probably punch a bear to death right now…”

After saying this, he felt something was off. “Damn it, Kung Fu Girl, stop asking random questions. You sound like you’re giving your last words. I’m taking you out right now.”

Qiao Jiajin finally found the location of Li Xiangling’s wound—it was her right upper arm. This table leg was very thin and hadn’t injured the bone, only piercing through her bicep.

“Good… not a fatal injury…” Qiao Jiajin instantly felt relieved. The urgent priority now was treating the wound. “Kung Fu Girl, where did you say the key was just now?”

“Don’t waste your effort, Brother Qiao. The key is under the boulder… we can’t move that boulder…”

“The boulder…?”

Qiao Jiajin turned his head. After thinking for a moment, he walked toward that enormous stone.

He slowly placed his hands on the stone, only to discover both his hands were covered in Li Xiangling’s fresh blood, making it difficult to calm his mind for the moment.

“Please… let the miracle happen one more time…” He muttered under his breath, constantly recalling the state he was in during the recent battle.

“There was never any stone here in the first place…” Qiao Jiajin finally murmured silently.

Unfortunately, the stone didn’t move at all.

“Damn it…” Cold sweat dripped down Qiao Jiajin’s face. “Come on, appear for me… that miracle like stars!”

He discovered that the harder he tried, the less he could feel that miraculous sensation.

An expression of despair slowly emerged on Qiao Jiajin’s face.

Was Li Xiangling just going to be hung here, waiting to die?

“Don’t, don’t be like this… what I hate most in this life is gambling and cheating… I don’t want anyone else to die because of gambling and cheating…”

As soon as those words fell, the boulder trembled and instantly shattered into countless points of light, drifting everywhere like fireflies in the night.

Clang!!

At the same moment, the enormous bell sound rang out again. Qiao Jiajin felt his ears had become much clearer.

He let out a long breath. Borrowing the light emitted by the white points of light, he looked down and indeed saw a metal key.

“Excellent!”

He picked up the key and looked around. The faint glow was now illuminating a wooden door not far away.

“Kung Fu Girl… I’m going to take you with me now…” Qiao Jiajin said.

“Brother Qiao…” Li Xiangling bit her teeth. “Forget it. Right now I’m a burden.”

“Teammates who fight side by side are never a burden.”

Qiao Jiajin could now see Li Xiangling’s appearance clearly. She had indeed suffered many injuries, but most were surface wounds. The most serious was her right arm. She seemed to have been struck while jumping—her right arm was now raised high, hanging her entire person on the stone wall.

“But how will you get me down…?”

Qiao Jiajin slowly walked over and looked at the current situation. Li Xiangling was about thirty centimeters away from the stone wall behind her. Right now she was almost suspended in air, which must be very painful just to think about.

“I told you, I’ve practiced Wing Chun.” Qiao Jiajin answered.

“Wing Chun…?” Li Xiangling didn’t quite understand. “Does Wing Chun have techniques for this…?”

“No, you’ve misunderstood.” Qiao Jiajin walked behind Li Xiangling, one hand forming a palm and the other a fist, placing them on the front and back of the table leg respectively. “When I practiced Wing Chun, I discovered something very interesting.”

“What?”

“If the force is clever enough, I can very easily destroy a wooden dummy.”

Crack!

He shook both hands, unleashing an explosive inch-force. The wooden stick behind Li Xiangling broke instantly with a sound.

“Huh?”

Li Xiangling didn’t even feel pain. Her whole person fell down from the stone wall and was caught by Qiao Jiajin.

Qiao Jiajin placed Li Xiangling on the ground, then went to the side and opened the wooden door.

Outside the wooden door was an upward staircase.

“Let’s go, Kung Fu Girl.”

Li Xiangling looked at Qiao Jiajin’s clear eyes and felt a wonderful sensation in her heart.

Those eyes made her heartbeat quicken a bit.

“Let’s go.”

“Oh, alright…”

…

Qi Xia paced back and forth in the hall with a complicated expression. He had heard all the bell sounds just now.

Why were this round’s bell sounds so enormous?

Who had achieved “Echo”?

Had Qiao Jiajin achieved “Echo”?

Why did that lunatic who used stones leave so dejectedly?

“Hey, Qi Xia.” A soft voice sounded outside the door.

He turned to look—Jiang Ruoxue had arrived.

Qi Xia said nothing and sat down with a calm expression.

“Why are you ignoring me again?” Jiang Ruoxue smiled bitterly. “Every time I’m ignored by you.”

“Different paths mean no collaboration.” Qi Xia shook his head. “Are you here to take your teammates home?”

“No, I just came to see you.” Jiang Ruoxue sat down beside Qi Xia. “But speaking of which, we’ve met several times now. Which time did I make you feel we have ‘different paths’?”

Qi Xia was about to speak, but after thinking carefully, he discovered the situation was indeed quite interesting.

The first time he met Jiang Ruoxue was in Earth-Dog’s letter delivery game. As an enemy spy, she hadn’t caused any waves. Moreover, when A’Mu and two others wanted to kill him, she activated her “Karma” ability and caused one of them to crash to death on the glass in Lawyer Zhang’s hands.

To be honest, Jiang Ruoxue had saved him that time.

The second time he saw her was yesterday. She had spoken multiple times to dissuade that lunatic Xiaoxiao, but unfortunately Xiaoxiao was too crazy and wouldn’t listen to advice.

If Jiang Ruoxue hadn’t claimed to be part of “Extreme Path,” Qi Xia would think she was just a very normal “Participant”—even a pretty decent person.

“You and Xiaoxiao are together after all.” Qi Xia said. “Normal people wouldn’t act together with her.”

“I never said I was a normal person either.” Jiang Ruoxue stretched lazily and said, “Originally I really did come to take Xiaoxiao and the others back. Now that I think about it, I probably won’t be able to pick them up.”

“Why?”

“Because too many people achieved ‘Echo.'” Jiang Ruoxue extended her slender fingers and counted. “Just now, five people should have achieved ‘Echo,’ right? Zhang Shan’s probability of achieving ‘Echo’ is five out of six—too high.”

After hearing this, Qi Xia fell silent again. He couldn’t guess what Jiang Ruoxue was thinking.

Just then, rustling sounds came from the wooden door not far away.