Everyone had discussed things thoroughly, and the golden ball slowly emerged from the mud, its playful childish voice revealing mischievous delight—

“Current game failed. Thirteen players surviving. Now entering the fourth round of ‘The Frog’s Golden Ball.’ Please prepare yourselves! One-minute countdown begins: 59, 58, 57…”

After several rounds of shocks and scares, they had unknowingly reached the fourth round.

The survivors had also changed from 33 people to 13 people.

Shen Mo picked up Bai Youwei, preparing to have her hide back in the shell. Bai Youwei gently tugged at the corner of his clothes, whispering in his ear: “Go over there.”

She pointed in a direction.

Shen Mo raised his eyebrows slightly. “What?”

“I want to stay away from him.” Bai Youwei said. “That Zhang Hua might go crazy.”

Hearing this, Shen Mo turned back to look. The mud was crammed with densely packed snails—he couldn’t tell for the moment which one Zhang Hua was hiding in. But based on his understanding of Bai Youwei, she wasn’t someone who spoke carelessly.

Changing positions was fine.

Going farther also took more time. By the time Shen Mo placed Bai Youwei into the shell, the countdown was nearing its end.

He stood calmly in position, looking at the golden ball above.

He had his own line of thinking.

The condition for clearing the game was finding the golden ball. There were currently two difficulties: 1. Too little time; 2. Hard to confirm the range.

He had already narrowed the range as much as possible through the water splash locations, and the problem of insufficient time had to be solved by killing the frog.

From that previous attack, killing the frog wasn’t impossible. The skin layer was thin—easily peeling off a layer—but the knife was too small. Creating deeper wounds became difficult.

Did the frog have any weak points? …Eyes? Belly?

While thinking, the countdown ended, and the golden ball began “lively” bouncing through the cave again.

Everyone else avoided the ball, but Shen Mo alone chased after it. When the ball stopped, Tan Xiao, Hui Ge and the others closely followed Shen Mo in a rush, searching for traces of the golden ball in the soft mud.

The golden ball was very cunning. Each time it created sixty or seventy mud holes to confuse them. Even though Shen Mo had narrowed the range, searching just a dozen or so holes was still very time-consuming!

Teacher Cheng dragged his old arms and legs out of the snail, joining them in the search.

While searching, he appealed to others to come out and help.

With this kind of thing, the more people there were, the faster they could find it. A few more people crawled out of the snails, participating in the ball-searching operation.

However, time still wasn’t enough. Only 20 seconds! After 20 seconds, the mud pit began to tremble—the frog was coming again!

The only fortunate thing was that Zhang Hua had guessed right! This time the frog no longer moved as urgently and quickly as the last round, but returned to its slow speed, crawling out from the mud slowly—

Shen Mo’s pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw the frog’s back was oily and water-green, completely intact!

“Holy crap!” Tan Xiao also saw it and cursed. “How did it heal?!”

Everyone cursed and took off running.

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened!

A gunshot rang out!—Yes, a gunshot! It exploded with a bang in the cave. The people who had just run to the shell edges couldn’t stop their legs—they passed right by their “refuge,” continuing to run forward!

For a time, the ground was full of wailing and cursing. The panicked people had no idea what was happening. Even those who fell couldn’t control their flailing legs!

Muddy water splashed everywhere. The frog ate with extreme relish!

Shen Mo was the first person to stop. He rolled to hide behind a large snail, his five fingers tightly gripping the shell edge, forcibly suppressing that urge to run in his mind!

Then he turned to look at Bai Youwei!

Bai Youwei had also heard the gunshot. However, she was disabled—no matter how strong the urge to run was, she couldn’t run half a step.

At this moment, she slid out of the shell, sitting against the edge, wanting to see what was happening outside. She immediately caught sight of Shen Mo staring at her.

She shook her head at him, then placed the toy gun on her chest. The meaning was very clear: The person who fired wasn’t me.