Zhang Chenze never expected that the “stick” she had been holding securely for half the day would also “escape.” Caught off guard for a moment, she let it burrow into the pile of insects as well.

“What the hell… what the hell is this?!”

If this stick also had some mechanism, why didn’t it escape at the start, but instead chose to escape now?

Could it be… this wasn’t a “mechanism” at all?

“Wait…” Zhang Chenze tried hard to calm herself down. “Could this be the ‘Echo’ they were talking about?”

Since everyone’s rooms were completely sealed, and Zhang Chenze’s room was packed with locusts, she not only didn’t know if she had truly “Echoed,” but also had no idea what the name of her “Echo” was.

But in the other rooms, it seemed none of the “sticks” had escaped—only hers had.

There was only one answer: this situation was caused by her own “Echo.” This was a transcendent ability that others didn’t possess.

She tried hard to calm her thoughts that were on the verge of collapse, ignoring the buzzing of insects in the room, then did her best to review what had just happened.

What was the principle behind the “stick” escaping?

The first time the “stick” escaped, she had been holding it with her right hand, then crushed an insect to death with her left hand.

From that moment on, the “stick” in her right hand had turned into an insect.

This was a bizarre kind of “fairness,” and also seemed like a kind of “substitution” beyond comprehension.

“Wait a minute…” Zhang Chenze felt like she might have gone mad after all. “Is this really reasonable…?”

If she could kill something and make something else turn into it, wasn’t this ability too strange?

Lin Qin had said that all “Echoes” could be regarded as a kind of “transcendent ability,” but was this ability even useful?

“No…” Zhang Chenze slowly furrowed her brow. She had already killed so many locusts—why had only one “stick” turned into a locust?

She slowly raised her left hand and looked at the locust residue on it, suddenly thinking of something.

Could it be…

Only things killed with her “left hand” would affect what was in her “right hand”?

She had only been continuously stomping the locusts on the ground with both feet before, causing this bizarre ability to never activate. But now that she had started searching with her left hand, she had accidentally killed several more dying locusts…?

“What am I even doing…” Zhang Chenze shook her head, feeling like she had abandoned conventional thinking and started analyzing this matter with a madman’s logic. She shook her head to stay alert, then came back to her senses and muttered to herself, “Since those two ‘sticks’ have already turned into ‘locusts’… there’s only one way to find them now.”

Zhang Chenze took off her torn suit jacket, shook off the locusts on it, then began waving it around, driving away the massive sea of insects on the ground.

With a loud “buzz,” a large number of startled locusts shot up from the ground and flew into the air.

The entire room instantly descended into chaos, with countless locusts crashing around everywhere, making Su Shan’s heart tighten when he saw it from the side.

Zhang Chenze paid no attention. She just used her left hand to protect her face, then kept waving her clothes with her right hand. She now had to do everything possible to ensure her left hand didn’t kill any locusts, or even she didn’t dare imagine what would happen next.

Within a few seconds, Zhang Chenze’s plan took effect. Although the “sticks” had turned into “locusts,” they still didn’t have wings after all. Even if they wanted to escape, they could only bounce around on the ground, making them particularly conspicuous.

One “stick” shot out from the pile of corpses, trying to leap into the air with force. Zhang Chenze, with quick eyes and hands, hurriedly stepped forward and caught it firmly.

Turning her hand over to look, it was indeed “Blazing Sun Caresses the Earth”!

“Excellent!” She didn’t have time to search for the other “stick” and rushed to the table to toss it in.

This year’s “summer,” she wished that autumn would still have the “Blazing Sun Caress the Earth.”

Holding her jacket, Zhang Chenze supported herself on the table with her left hand, about to breathe a sigh of relief, when a locust happened to fly under her palm. At this incredibly coincidental moment, it was crushed flat by her palm.

Before she could panic, the suit jacket in her right hand suddenly began to shake, moving with an amplitude that made one’s hair stand on end.

“Ah!”

Zhang Chenze threw the jacket away and quickly backed up several steps, feeling every hair on her body stand up, with every drop of blood from the soles of her feet to her scalp turning cold.

The jacket flapped its sleeves a few times in mid-air, then seemed to transform its shape and crawled onto the table surface.

It used both sleeves to support itself on the table, and the collar part slowly lifted up, as if staring at Zhang Chenze.

“What is this thing… don’t scare me…”

Zhang Chenze nervously stepped back, only to see the suit jacket “spread its wings and take flight,” shooting up directly from the table, constantly waving its sleeves as it lunged at her.

Since the ground was completely covered with insect corpses, Zhang Chenze’s movement was very inconvenient, and she was soon tripped and fell to the ground.

And at that moment, the jacket pounced on her with its teeth and claws bared.

Su Shan had been watching this scene from the side all along, and was now too shocked to speak.

This ability called “Soul Migration” was far too bizarre. Not only had the “sticks” moved, but now even the “jacket” had come alive. But was this situation really reasonable?

Would they harm their own master?

And directly across from Su Shan, Lin Qin felt her brain gradually going blank.

In this extremely cold room, she huddled in a corner, trying hard to preserve the heat in her body. She had never imagined that when a person was extremely cold, they would completely lose the sensation of cold.

She was just a bit sleepy.

As the cold wind at minus thirty degrees Celsius continued to blow down, the feeling of cold was gradually disappearing, replaced by increasingly heavy eyelids.

“I’m really so tired…”

Lin Qin exhaled a breath of hot air. Just as she was about to close her eyes, she felt the strong wind stop, and a few seconds later, a blast of hot air suddenly rushed in.

The temperature of this hot wind didn’t seem very high, but it caused searing pain throughout her entire body.

This pain not only dispelled her drowsiness but also caused her to instantly fall to the ground, wailing incessantly.

Her broken leg had previously lost sensation due to the cold, but this hot wind brought the pain back.

As the hot wind blew over her body, it felt like boiling water being poured on her, scalding hot, causing everything from her scalp to her limbs to throb wildly.

Su Shan saw a large amount of water vapor beginning to appear in Lin Qin’s room and knew she should be saved, but her condition was too dangerous.

From the start of the game until now, Lin Qin had consecutively suffered two “calamities,” and both of these “calamities” happened to be disasters with extremely high lethality.

“Lin Qin… you must survive,” Su Shan said in a low voice. “We’ll leave this damned place sooner or later…”

Lin Qin moved her fingers, then grabbed the table and slowly stood up.

Although her whole body hurt, it didn’t seem to affect her movement.

“Did you all do nothing this round?” She wiped the water vapor from the glass with her hand. “We could have killed that dog any moment now…”

After confirming that a “calamity” had appeared in Qin Dingdong’s room, Lin Qin looked at the “sticks” on her table. Including the “neutral stick” she had just drawn this round, there were four in total.

She had to use these four right now…

Wait a minute.

Four sticks?