“Who is it?”

The person answering the phone this time was a man with a very shrill voice.

“Ah, hello, hello…” Chen Junnan said enthusiastically. “So basically, we have a ‘life-and-death wager activity’ we’d like to recommend to you. I wonder if you’re interested?”

“Not interested,” the man said coldly. “Who are you?”

Chen Junnan had already roughly guessed this man’s personality. Unlike the nervous big brother from before, he couldn’t be made to submit through threats.

“I…” Chen Junnan pondered for a second before saying, “I’m the person wagering my life against Earth-Sheep.”

“What?” The shrill-voiced man was stunned, then fell silent for over ten seconds before asking, “So that means that long pause earlier… you were behind it?”

“That’s right,” Chen Junnan confirmed. “I’m calling this time to confirm your position.”

“I see.” The man instantly understood everything. “So the phone can be actively refused… You want to know whether I’ll support you or support Earth-Sheep?”

“Yes.” Chen Junnan nodded. “I want to make Earth-Sheep completely disappear from the ‘End Land,’ but I can’t do this alone. I need help.”

“I can’t say for sure about that,” the man answered honestly. “I don’t want to get involved in affairs between you two. I just want to take my ‘Dao’ and leave after the game ends.”

Chen Junnan nodded after hearing this. “In that case… you should also want to earn more, right? If we win the game, there will only be forty-eight ‘Dao,’ but Earth-Sheep should have more on him. If he dies…”

“I’m just an ordinary participant,” the shrill-voiced man interrupted Chen Junnan. “I don’t want to get caught up in the struggles between you important figures. Offending any of you wouldn’t be good for me.”

“So in other words… you’re neutral?”

“I’m not completely neutral,” the man answered. “I’m more likely to lean toward Earth-Sheep. After all, ‘Zodiacs’ are much more powerful than participants.”

“Then I understand…” Chen Junnan said with furrowed brows. “If I ask you not to answer the phone later… would you agree?”

“I won’t agree,” the man answered decisively. “Whatever you want to do is fine, but I will strictly execute the game according to the rules. As long as the phone rings, I will definitely answer it.”

“I see.” Chen Junnan sighed. “Then I’m hanging up.”

After hanging up, Chen Junnan once again refined the current layout on his wall.

To Xu Qian’s left was the “Nervous Man,” and further left was the “Shrill-Voiced Man.”

Since the “Shrill-Voiced Man” refused to not answer the phone, Chen Junnan’s reconnaissance work had reached a dead end here.

But fortunately, the overall personnel layout had mostly surfaced.

Although it was uncertain who was to the left of the “Shrill-Voiced Man,” it was definitely a man, because further left was the “White-Robed Woman.”

Chen Junnan extended his finger and drew two question marks on either side of the “White-Robed Woman.”

Among all the people now, only the identities of those on either side of the “White-Robed Woman” were uncertain—he only knew they were two men.

Looking at it this way, “Zhong Zhen” was beside the White-Robed Woman. Although he didn’t know if it was on the left or right, they had definitely communicated by phone.

Chen Junnan currently had no better method for now. He could only call Xu Qian and have her start passing the question, then wait for this round of phone transmissions to end.

A few minutes later, the screen in front of Chen Junnan finally lit up. This time seemed to take longer than any previous time.

“This is bad…” Chen Junnan’s eyes narrowed into slits. Things were not under his control.

“The final answer to this question is—’Yes.'”

The sound of massive chains rang out overhead. The giant ball had now moved to coordinates “1.”

“What’s going on…?” Chen Junnan felt he couldn’t quite grasp the direction of the entire situation.

The answer this time was still “Yes”?

He felt that his question had been passed to at least three people on his left, and these three people’s answers were most likely all “No.” Add in Yun Yao and himself, and that was already five “No” votes.

There were eleven people on the field now. Could it be that all the remaining people voted “Yes”?

“This is ridiculous… what’s going on?” Chen Junnan turned to look toward his right. The iron ball was now suspended above the head of the woman to Yun Yao’s right. Would she die?

“Don’t be like this…” Chen Junnan stood up and looked around bewilderedly. “We don’t have many chances… we must crush Earth-Sheep to death…”

But in the empty, cramped room, his voice couldn’t get out at all.

He felt that among the remaining people, there was indeed a formidable figure who had already begun to make his move.

The person receiving the question this round was “2,” which was the “Muffled Man.”

Chen Junnan knew he was at “-1,” very close to the other person, and at this time Yun Yao wouldn’t lie to him anymore, so he had a high probability of learning the real question.

Before long, the phone rang.

Chen Junnan picked up the receiver with a grim expression.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know either…” Yun Yao’s voice didn’t sound very nervous. “The girl to my right probably won’t survive.”

“You… why are you so calm?”

“Chen Junnan… I suddenly remembered something,” Yun Yao said. “I don’t think I can die…”

“What nonsense are you talking about? Do you know how close the iron ball is to you right now?”

“Yes, it’s very close, but precisely because it’s so close, I’m absolutely safe.”

“What…?”

Yun Yao took a breath and said, “Chen Junnan, I’m an ‘even number.’ Right now, only ‘odd numbers’ can die…”

Chen Junnan didn’t immediately understand Yun Yao’s logic and could only stare blankly at the layout diagram he had carved on the wall.

“‘Even numbers’ and ‘odd numbers’?”

He placed his finger on “1,” then calculated, and slowly widened his eyes.

If you looked at it in a rhythm of one, two, drop, one, two, drop… the iron ball at “1” could never reach Yun Yao’s “0.”

“What?!”

Chen Junnan felt his mind was a bit chaotic. Could the iron ball in this game only hit “odd numbers”?!

At most six people would die?!

After just a few seconds, he felt something wasn’t quite right, then looked toward his left.

Wait… there seemed to be a problem.

Yun Yao’s coordinates were “0,” and his were “-1,” but “-2” had died!

Not long after the game started, an “even number” had died! He hurriedly used his fingers to calculate the “answers” from these several rounds, feeling that nothing was amiss, and the iron ball’s position was also completely within his expectations.

“Exactly when did the death target change from ‘even numbers’ to ‘odd numbers’?”

Hearing Chen Junnan’s question, Yun Yao let out a long breath and said, “It was when the iron ball was about to drop for the second time, when we chose ‘No.'”