The yellow eyes voted before the red eyes, and Bai Youwei had cast her vote early.

Per her agreement with the short-haired woman, she was to concentrate her vote on Numbers 28 and 29—she suspected one of those belonged to Xufang He.

Unfortunately, she hadn’t been able to predict the future.

After voting for Number 29, she had no way of anticipating that Xufang He would later stop the red-eye players and say those words full of implied threats.

As a result, all 4 votes that should have gone to Number 29 ended up on Number 25 instead.

The current situation on the field was:

Red eyes: 5 people (including 1 blue eye),

Yellow eyes: 6 people (including 1 red eye),

Blue eyes: 3 people.

The actual count by eye color was: red eyes 5, yellow eyes 5, blue eyes 4.

The blue eyes, now down to only 4 people, were destined to be demoted to commoners. Since they had no chance of winning, they had even less reason to go against Xufang He.

All Xufang He needed to do was cut down one more red eye, and his victory would be all but certain!

Now, faced with Xufang He’s interrogation, Bai Youwei couldn’t help but wonder: was he about to make his move against the red eyes?

Doctor Xufang fixed his gaze on Bai Youwei’s eyes and asked: “Why did Number 5 only receive 2 votes?”

“Yes—why is that?” Bai Youwei replied with perfect composure. “I cast my vote. Maybe it’s because someone else didn’t vote for them.”

“Is that so…” The corner of Xufang He’s mouth curved in a smile, but his eyes were cold as a snake’s. “Little girl—children who don’t tell the truth also receive divine punishment.”

“Divine punishment?” Bai Youwei blinked. “Didn’t you just say that divine punishment would come at tomorrow’s sunrise? It’s only ten in the morning right now—there are still two rounds of voting between now and tomorrow’s sunrise. By the time divine punishment arrives, the game will surely already be over~”

Xufang He: “……”

The smile froze at the corner of his mouth. Then, slowly, he lowered himself toward her, brought his lips to her ear, and murmured quietly:

“Before that comes to pass… I can have you eliminated all the same. Because—I know your number. It’s 11.”

The faint trace of a furrow appeared between Bai Youwei’s brows, so subtle it was barely perceptible.

“Are you certain?” She met his gaze without a hint of intimidation. “What a coincidence—I happen to know your number too… It’s 29.”

Xufang He faltered slightly, and then a glint of contemptuous amusement passed through his eyes. “Oh… so my number is 29, is it. We can try it out next round.”

Bai Youwei smiled. “Sure—let’s try it next round.”

Xufang He’s expression went completely cold.

He straightened up, led the yellow eyes away, and between the two sides—the facade had been completely torn away.

The short-haired woman walked over to Bai Youwei’s side and asked with worry: “What do we do next round? He’ll definitely come after us. If we lose even one more, we’ll truly have no way left to win.”

Bai Youwei knitted her brow in thought and looked toward the blue-eye group.

Only three remained on that side.

By some stroke of luck, Fang Yu and Yu Chaohui were both still there, along with a slightly heavyset man with curly hair.

Bai Youwei said: “If we work together, red and blue combined have 9 votes. The yellow eyes only have 5 right now…”

“Cooperation isn’t possible.” Fang Yu cut her off coldly. “It doesn’t matter how airtight a plan we work out right now—it’ll be useless. When the fourth round of voting comes, he’ll definitely use the same trick to control the vote again. At that point, anyone who doesn’t vote as he demands will be seen as inviting divine punishment. I know you red eyes want to win, but we won’t stake our lives to help you win.”

Yu Chaohui gave an awkward apologetic smile and said: “We’re truly sorry, but we really can’t take that risk…”

He bowed apologetically, then led Fang Yu and the curly-haired man away.

Only the red eyes remained in the square.

The short-haired woman let out a helpless sigh. “It’s no use—unless we can uncover the truth behind ‘divine punishment’ in the next seven-odd hours and neutralize the threat, they won’t cooperate with us. Aah! The yellow side must be on guard against us, and time is so short. What can we do…”

Bai Youwei watched the direction in which Fang Yu and Yu Chaohui had left, and replied coolly: “Digging out the truth would be far too much trouble. I have a simpler method…”

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