“Old Qi… even you…” Chen Junnan stared at him wide-eyed.
“I can’t think of a better method either.” Qi Xia said. “Right now the most important thing is to split up and lead ‘Cat’s’ members to participate in ‘Earth-level’ games. If the opportunity is right, I’ll directly propose betting lives with the opponent.”
“You…” Qian Wu blinked. “We’ve already reached such a critical juncture, and you’re still thinking about your plan?”
“Yes. ‘Heavenly-Horse’ is just the immediate difficulty, but we need to solve far more than just her alone. We still have the ‘Final Difficulty.'” Qi Xia said. “This time the opportunity is perfect. Qian Wu and I will split up and each lead a small squad to participate in games, forcing ‘Cat’ to fully erupt in desperate situations.”
Qian Wu nodded. “I originally wanted to complete this task myself. Now that Qi Xia is willing to help, that’s even better…”
He turned around, staring at Qi Xia with a serious expression. “However, ‘Echo’ has the possibility of failure. Having just the two of us lead teams is still not safe. I suggest Da Wa and Er Wa each lead a team as well. I’ll inform you all of each person’s ‘Echo’ trigger… You can adapt to circumstances and decide your own countermeasures.”
“What?!”
“What the hell?!”
Qiao Jiajin and Chen Junnan both froze simultaneously, their expressions somewhat unnatural.
Chen Junnan cleared his throat and said, “I say, Little Qian Dou… aren’t you mistaking my identity a bit? With Old Qi here, what kind of damn leader am I? Don’t you know what my status is?”
Qiao Jiajin also laughed dryly. “I’m saying… Transformation Guy, you’re overestimating me a bit. I only know how to fight. Otherwise I wouldn’t have cooperated with the Liar either.”
“I understand you both.” Qian Wu said. “If everything is led by Qi Xia, I feel it will be difficult to push the team members into desperate situations.”
Chen Junnan nodded after hearing this, but quickly realized something was wrong. “No wait… are you ruining our reputations here, kid? What do you mean we two leading teams can push people into desperate situations? You better say that again.”
“The fact is just so.” Qian Wu nodded, looking at Chen Junnan with a serious expression. “Da Wa, I’ll give you a balanced team. These people have both brains and skills, but they’re veteran ‘Cat’ members, so they have very little experience participating in games. You will lead them.”
Chen Junnan wanted to refute something after hearing this, but thinking carefully, this team should still be pretty good, so he could only nod in agreement.
After speaking, Qian Wu looked at Qiao Jiajin again. “Er Wa, I’ll give you a physically weak team. These people have brains but aren’t good at combat. You’ll lead them to participate in ‘combat’ and ‘physical’ type games. At critical moments you can have them help you come up with ideas, but if you want to win the ‘game,’ you’ll still need to put in considerable effort.”
“Oh… okay.” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “Although I’m missing a ‘big brain,’ it sounds like you’ve given me a team of ‘small brains’…”
“That’s about right.” Qian Wu nodded. “As for me, I will lead the weakest people in the entire team to participate in ‘games.’ These people should be most suitable for me.”
“Then what about me…?” Qi Xia frowned. “Looking at it this way… aren’t you going to give me a whole team of ‘brutes’?”
“No.” Qian Wu shook his head. “‘Cat’ has no brutes, but your responsibility is still heavy.”
“Oh?”
“I will give you the famous ‘problem members’ of ‘Cat.’ These people have varied personalities, are extremely difficult to discipline, but each one is quite capable. I hope you’ll not only use today’s time to make these people achieve ‘Echo,’ but also let them witness your charisma. After all, we’ll soon be acting together. If these people don’t obey your discipline, it will be troublesome in the future.”
“Charisma…” Qi Xia sneered. “Do I have that kind of thing?”
“You do.” Qian Wu confirmed. “It’s just unknown whether you can make them see it.”
Officer Li, who had been listening on the side for a long time, asked in confusion, “Then what about me…?”
“You’ll come with me.” Qian Wu said. “I will trigger your ‘Echo’ today.”
Hearing this, Qi Xia’s expression darkened. If he remembered correctly, Officer Li’s ‘Echo trigger’ was ‘near death.’
Could Qian Wu possibly have a way to bring back someone near death…?
After the group established their final tactics, they had Nineteen remove the ‘Silence.’
Qian Wu gathered everyone and divided them into teams. After establishing everyone’s squads in the plaza, he lowered his head and wrote three notes—each person’s ‘Echo’ trigger—then handed them to the three squad leaders besides himself.
Qiao Jiajin received the note and looked at the people in front of him, feeling somewhat troubled. Three men and three women—although they looked determined in their eyes, their builds were thinner than the last. Among them was even Nineteen, who had been continuously activating ‘Echo’ just now. He already looked exceptionally exhausted.
“Making a group of smart people participate in ‘physical type’ and ‘combat type’ games…?” Qiao Jiajin blinked and said with a sigh, “Why not find suitable games…”
In contrast, Chen Junnan showed a happy smile after seeing his team members. Without even looking at the other five people, Song Qi alone was the most powerful helper. This person not only had brains and combat skills online, but had even obtained ‘Echo’ in advance.
“Little Song!” Chen Junnan happily put his arm around Song Qi’s shoulders. “I really didn’t expect you’d come with me. This is also a kind of fate, right?”
Song Qi found Chen Junnan somewhat difficult to deal with, but thinking carefully that he used to be the person with the highest status in ‘Cat’ team, he could only nod and smile bitterly. “I didn’t expect you’d be my captain either.”
Among everyone, the most uncomfortable was none other than Qi Xia.
First to walk toward him with a disdainful look was Zhou Liu. A metal baseball bat was tucked at her waist, and she casually chewed gum in her mouth. The instant her eyes met Qi Xia’s, it seemed like she was greeting him, but it looked more like she was rolling her eyes at him.
Qi Xia looked behind her and found another acquaintance had come.
‘Forget Worry’ Luo Shiyi.
“Damn it…” Luo Shiyi cursed under his breath. “When I came here, no one told me I’d still have to ‘participate in games’…”
According to Qiao Jiajin’s description, this person was exceptionally ruthless when activating ‘Echo’ and fighting, willing to trade life for life multiple times. If used well, he should also be a great asset.
Looking further back there were two more people. One was about one hundred seventy-five centimeters tall, and Qi Xia actually couldn’t determine this person’s gender at first glance. Their face looked like a man’s, but their figure looked like a woman’s.
The other was a short, fat man with a gloomy expression. His appearance was pleasant, but his expression looked like he’d suffered a tremendous grievance.
“Hey! You the captain?” That person of indeterminate gender asked.
“Yes.” Qi Xia nodded. “You are…?”
“Qiu Shiliu.” That person said. “Being my captain, what qualifies you?”
“Tch!” Zhou Liu called out. “Sixteen, what nonsense are you spouting? No matter if the other party is human or dog, since Fifth Brother arranged it, can we go against Fifth Brother?”
Luo Shiyi also nodded on the side. “Yeah, damn it, it’s Fifth Brother’s arrangement. Even if this person gets us all killed, we can’t blame Fifth Brother.”
Qi Xia smiled as he looked at the four people before him. “Quite interesting.”