With a loud boom, Tan Xiao was sent flying!

He then crashed heavily onto the floor and couldn’t get back up for a long time!

Not only was the iron-armored muscular man’s defense extraordinary, his strength was extraordinary too!

When the countdown reached 5, Tan Xiao scrambled to his feet, stumbling and staggering toward the side of the stage. The muscular man advanced toward him step by step.

Although moving in the iron plating was less than agile — even somewhat clumsy — dealing with an injured Tan Xiao was more than sufficient.

“Run!” Su Man called out anxiously from her seat up high.

“I can’t run!” Tan Xiao clutched his chest, his face a mask of pain.

It wasn’t clear whether he had broken ribs, but every step sent a piercing ache stabbing through him!

Behind him, the muscular man came clomping forward, clearly intent on finishing him off! — Of course he intended to finish him off. Winning normally would only net him 10 points, but eliminating him outright would earn his full score!

In a 1v1 brawl, even the gods couldn’t save him!

A wave of doom washed over Tan Xiao’s heart.

His feet slipped, and he tumbled to the ground with a thud, the pain from his injuries spiking even worse! And the Iron Man was closing in behind him!

Tan Xiao screamed in fright and frantically dug through himself for a prop — and hurled out a card, shouting, “A question! A question! — What is 11111 multiplied by 11111?! Answer!!!”

Back when they’d all entered the “Lucky Quiz” together, not only had Bai Youwei and Shen Mo received answer cards — he and Pan Xiaoxin and Teacher Cheng had gotten answer cards too!

The Iron Man’s body froze, motionless.

The threat was temporarily lifted.

Tan Xiao let out a breath of relief, then grew smug. Taking his time, he got up unhurriedly and flashed the Iron Man his middle finger. “You think you’re the only one with props? See that? I, Laughing Bro, have props too!”

At that moment, he heard a muffled reply emerge from inside the iron helmet: “…It’s 123,454,321.”

Tan Xiao’s eyes went wide with disbelief.

The answer card hovering in front of the Iron Man flickered with light, then vanished in an instant. The Iron Man was freed and charged toward him again!

“Son of a—!” Tan Xiao took off running, stumbling and lurching as he went. “Why does it work for Sister Wei and Bro Mo but not for me?!!”

Below, Leonid cursed irritably, “You numbskull! Couldn’t you ask something harder?!”

Tan Xiao was utterly aggrieved. “That wasn’t hard enough?!!”

It was multiplication with several digits!

Su Man was anxious on his behalf too. “The multiplication isn’t the problem — it’s the numbers you chose that were too simple!”

But it was too late to say any of that now!

The Iron Man was invulnerable, Tan Xiao was injured — he couldn’t do a thing. All he could do was run for his life to buy himself time.

From below, Shen Mo called out a reminder. “Tan Xiao, find his weakness. That armor either has a time limit or another weak point.”

Tan Xiao could barely keep running, let alone spare a moment to look for weaknesses.

He frantically searched his body for props —

He found the snowflake prop, and was warned that it counted as an offensive prop and could not be used;

He found a coin — useless, so he just threw it! Used it like a stone to chuck at someone!

He hadn’t expected that the tiny coin, upon striking the Iron Man, would have such a significant effect!

The Iron Man stumbled and crashed down, the iron plating clanging loudly against the floor!

Tan Xiao froze and stared at the Iron Man on the ground, wondering if the man was afraid of coins… or afraid of metal?

The Iron Man braced his hands against the floor and tried to stand. His knees tightened, but as he rose, he stumbled and fell again!

This time Tan Xiao saw it clearly.

It was the coin he’d just thrown — by pure luck, it had lodged in the Iron Man’s knee joint. In other words, the knee section of the iron armor had been jammed. It couldn’t bend. Of course he’d keep falling!

Tan Xiao snorted with laughter, standing on the stage in gleeful schadenfreude. “Ahahahahahaha!!!”

Ding! —

“Happy bonus~” the inspector said with a pleased smile. “A happy bonus awarded — 5 points.”

Tan Xiao froze.

His score changed from 25 to 30.

Leonid immediately bellowed, “What are you standing there for?! Run! Run to the Battle King’s seat, you idiot!”

The players below: “……”

Damn it, this rotten luck of his…

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