“What the hell?!” Chen Junnan was stunned. “You’re saying you’re a ‘wall-passing’ ‘Echo’?”

“Uh…” Seeing Chen Junnan’s such a strong reaction, Cui Fourteen was also startled. “Team Leader, do you know me?”

“Ah no, no, no…” Chen Junnan shook his head. “It’s just that I often fantasize about my ‘Echo’ being ‘wall-passing’…”

“Why?” Cui Fourteen felt somewhat curious and couldn’t help asking back. “This isn’t even a powerful ability. You might not know how many times I’ve died from suffocation inside walls…”

“Is that so?” Chen Junnan reached up to scratch his nose. “But I think ‘wall-passing’ is really practical, at least compared to my…”

With the words on the tip of his tongue, Chen Junnan still swallowed back the two words “scapegoat.”

“Yeah, Team Leader…” Song Qi turned to look at Chen Junnan. “We’ve known each other for a while now, but still don’t know what your ‘Echo’ is?”

Everyone at this moment looked at Chen Junnan expectantly. Logically speaking, someone Qian Wu valued so highly must have an extraordinary ability.

Seeing everyone’s expressions, Chen Junnan first raised the corner of his mouth, then put his arm around Song Qi’s shoulder, and said to everyone with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes, “Little Song, don’t pry into matters of society. The rest of you shouldn’t listen either. If I tell you about my ability, it could scare even me to death.”

“Huh?”

“In any case, don’t ask anymore. If I say it, it’ll stop working.” Chen Junnan said. “You just need to remember that my ability can save your lives at critical moments…”

“Uh…” Now everyone was truly curious. An ability that could save lives at critical moments sounded extremely rare, but why was he unwilling to say it?

“Alright, alright.” Chen Junnan waved his hand. “I roughly know all your abilities now. Let’s start discussing tactics.”

“Well…” After hearing this, Song Qi gave a bitter smile. “Team Leader, we haven’t told you everyone’s ‘Echo Triggers’ yet…”

“No need, no need.” Chen Junnan hurriedly waved his hand. “If you tell me, I’ll get confused. Let’s just let everything take its natural course. After all, the car will find a way when it reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge.”

“Since that’s the case, I’ll speak first about my thoughts.” Cui Fourteen was the first to speak at this moment. Chen Junnan recalled that when Earth-Rabbit was explaining the rules earlier, Song Qi had also first sought her opinion. It seemed she would be the “strategic general” in this game.

“Little Fourteen, go ahead.”

“I believe the most important thing in this game is ‘vision.'” Cui Fourteen said, getting straight to the point.

“‘Vision’?”

“Yes.” Cui Fourteen nodded. “We and Earth-Rabbit start from the same room. He can know the direction each of us is advancing in. This is really too fatal. We need to escape Earth-Rabbit’s vision as quickly as possible, so he has no idea which direction we’re moving in.”

“Tsk…” After hearing this, Chen Junnan nodded. “Little girl has a bit of Old Qi’s flavor.”

“I don’t know who Old Qi is.” Cui Fourteen answered with a serious face. “But we need to ‘lock doors’ as much as possible, not letting Earth-Rabbit see which door we actually entered. In the later stage, his pursuit of us will be disrupted, and we’ll have a higher probability of escaping from here.”

Song Qi pressed his lips together, looked at the structure of the room before him, and asked, “But our starting room only has two doors…”

“Yes, so we need to split into teams.” Cui Fourteen said. “The six of us need to split into two teams from the very beginning, minimizing losses as much as possible.”

“Is it safe?” Song Qi asked again. “Even if we split into two teams and enter the two doors separately, Earth-Rabbit will chase after one of the teams. Our possibility of getting rid of him isn’t great.”

“Splitting into two teams is just the first step.” Cui Fourteen continued. “We need to change to three teams in the middle of the game, creating the illusion for Earth-Rabbit that we’re still two teams. In the later stage, we’ll split into six teams, each for themselves, circling around Earth-Rabbit, then taking the opportunity to scatter and escape.”

“I see.” Song Qi nodded. “It sounds like a fairly reliable plan. If anything happens, we can only improvise at that time…”

Chen Junnan stood on the side picking his nose the whole time, thinking about the feasibility of this matter. After a short while, he reached out to pat Song Qi’s shoulder. “Little Song, wait a moment.”

“Hey, don’t pat me with the hand you used to pick your nose…”

“Don’t get excited, wait, wait.” Chen Junnan thought for a moment and said, “Isn’t your focus a bit off?”

“Off?” Cui Fourteen stared at him with her large, darting eyes. “Where is it off?”

“In this game… can we really ‘circle around’ Earth-Rabbit?” Chen Junnan asked.

“You mean…”

Chen Junnan walked to a wall on the side, used his fingernail to scratch out a four-by-four chessboard pattern, then drew a circle in the upper left square and a triangle in the lower right square.

“Our goal is to move from the circle… through several turns of movement, and escape to the triangle.” He said. “I understand correctly, right?”

“That’s right.” Cui Fourteen nodded.

“During this time, anyone who encounters Earth-Rabbit will be killed.” Chen Junnan added.

“Yes.”

“Then is there such a possibility…” Chen Junnan pointed at the triangle in the lower right of the chessboard. “Earth-Rabbit doesn’t need to chase us midway at all… He just needs to reach this triangle before we do and guard the exit, and none of us can leave.”

“This…” Chen Junnan’s single statement was like a revelation, making everyone present hesitate.

Yes, the rules never mentioned that Earth-Rabbit couldn’t guard the exit. If he really reached there in advance, everyone could only wait for death.

But Earth-Rabbit’s “movement” only required one action opportunity, meaning he could completely walk faster than everyone else. What reason would there be for him to arrive later than everyone?

“I have an extremely suicidal plan…” Chen Junnan suddenly revealed a wickedly mischievous smile. “If I say this plan out loud, even Old Qi would probably praise me for being clever.”

Seeing Chen Junnan’s smile, everyone suddenly had an ominous premonition.

“Team Leader… what exactly is your plan?”

“Hey… nothing much.” Chen Junnan waved his hand. “Just want to recruit two ‘door-closing disciples.’ Does anyone want to come learn how to ‘close doors’?”

“Huh?”

After hearing Chen Junnan’s words, Song Qi was obviously stunned. “‘Door-closing disciples’ means what? What exactly are you planning to do?”

“It’s self-explanatory.” Chen Junnan said. “Since Earth-Rabbit’s ‘unlocking’ plus ‘opening door’ per turn will exhaust all his action power, we need to actively leave two people behind, constantly responsible for closing doors for Earth-Rabbit, so this old guy can’t get out from the starting point.”

As soon as Chen Junnan finished speaking, complex expressions appeared on everyone’s faces.