The third game also passed safely without any surprises. Qi Xia led everyone hanging on the rope, quietly waiting for the Man-Snake to arrive.

“It’s been a while, everyone.” The Man-Snake finally appeared and began chatting with them. “I am Man-Snake.”

“Man your mother!” Qiao Jiajin shouted loudly. “After Goat and Dog comes Snake? You believe or not I’ll slaughter you right now?”

“Please don’t get agitated.” The Man-Snake’s voice was very calm. He looked up at everyone, then said, “You are undergoing the final test. I have a lever at hand. As long as I pull it, you all can descend slowly, and no one will be injured.”

“So will you pull it?” Xiao Ran asked.

“I…” The Man-Snake smiled indifferently. “I’ll play a game with you all. Whether you can survive or not depends on yourselves.”

After hearing this, Qi Xia turned to look at everyone and said: “No one speak later, leave it to me.”

The Man-Snake looked at Qi Xia in mid-air with great interest, walked forward and said: “I have an interesting question. Whoever can give the correct answer within three attempts, I will pull the lever and let you all down.”

“An interesting… question?” Qi Xia was slightly stunned. He felt that the Man-Snake hadn’t said it like this before.

“Listen carefully, everyone. If you were seriously ill and stranded on a deserted island, and you had two types of miracle drugs that looked exactly the same, ten pills of each. It’s known that you can only survive by taking one pill of each type every day, but you accidentally mixed the pills together and can no longer distinguish them. Assuming rescue will arrive in ten days, how should you take the medicine to survive during these ten days?”

Qi Xia frowned, feeling something was strange.

The games designed by the previous Man-Goat and Man-Dog were completely the same as last time, but the Man-Snake had suddenly changed the question.

“Excuse me, is there a difference in the color of the pills?” Xiao Ran asked.

The Man-Snake looked at her coldly and said: “Two chances left.”

“Hey! Pretty girl?!” Qiao Jiajin yelled. “There are only three chances total, don’t mess around!”

“I…”

Xiao Ran lowered her head in difficulty, her expression very upset.

At this moment, Qi Xia’s understanding of her deepened by another level—she was not only self-righteous, but didn’t even listen to advice.

“Qi Xia… what’s going on?” Officer Li looked at him and asked quietly. “Why did the question change?”

“I don’t know.” Qi Xia shook his head. “Last time I already felt this Man-Snake was strange…”

“Strange how?” Officer Li asked.

“Last time we won, but the Man-Snake didn’t die.” Qi Xia hit the nail on the head. “After the Man-Goat lost to us, he died, but the Man-Snake didn’t. This is obviously contradictory.”

“Now that you mention it… that’s true…” Officer Li shook his head, knowing now wasn’t the time to dwell on this issue, and changed the subject to ask: “So do you have the answer now?”

“Yes.”

This question was the same as “Yes or No”—an ordinary logic problem.

Qi Xia suspected that “Snake” type games were probably “logic type” or “intelligence type,” which was quite in line with the cunning characteristics of snakes.

Seeing everyone staring at Qi Xia, the Man-Snake also cast his gaze toward him and asked: “Do you know the solution?”

“Yes.” Qi Xia nodded. “The answer is to crush all the pills into powder, mix them thoroughly, then divide them into ten portions as evenly as possible, and take one portion each day.”

“Oh?!” The Man-Snake showed an excited look, then calmly took out a small notebook from his chest, looked at it and said: “So that’s how it is?”

His muttering voice was very quiet—if you didn’t listen carefully, you wouldn’t know what he was saying at all.

Qi Xia always felt the Man-Snake’s behavior was very strange, as if even he himself didn’t know the answer.

A few seconds later, the Man-Snake suddenly burst into laughter: “Hahahaha! You’re really interesting!”

“Interesting?”

Qi Xia’s eyes turned cold. He suddenly remembered that in the previous game, when he solved the answer to “Yes or No,” the Man-Snake had laughed so hard he doubled over and said this exact phrase.

“Wait, I’ll let you down right now.”

The Man-Snake pulled the handle, and everyone slowly descended to the ground.

“Everyone, congratulations on surviving the ‘interview.’ Push open this door, and a new world awaits you.” The snake-headed person put his hands behind his back and stood beside the wooden door.

“Street trash…”

Qiao Jiajin walked up viciously, as if wanting to vent all his dissatisfaction with the “Man-Goat” and “Man-Dog” on the “Man-Snake” before him.

The Man-Snake turned around coldly, looking at the aggressive Qiao Jiajin but not moving at all.

“Are you all perverts?!” Qiao Jiajin shouted loudly, stepping forward to grab the Man-Snake’s collar. “Wearing these weird masks, trying to kill us again and again, now I’ve finally caught you!”

The Man-Snake sneered and said in a low voice: “While you’re still alive, I advise you to let go quickly.”

“What did you say?!”

Qiao Jiajin raised his fist forcefully, and just as it was about to fly toward the snake-headed person’s face, Officer Li grabbed his arm.

“Qiao Jiajin, forget it.” Officer Li said. “These people are lunatics, don’t bother with them.”

No one else spoke to the Man-Snake. Qiao Jiajin also reluctantly withdrew his hand, and everyone walked out of the room under Officer Li’s leadership.

Qi Xia stood at the back of the group, and just as he was about to exit, the Man-Snake suddenly spoke.

“Qi Xia, I look forward to playing with you again next time.”

Qi Xia’s whole body froze, stunned in place.

He turned around to look at the Man-Snake, and asked through gritted teeth: “You all remember everything too, don’t you?”

“Hehehehe…” The Man-Snake swayed his rotting snake head slowly toward Qi Xia. “Why wouldn’t we remember? Everything here is so wonderful. In the days to come, we’ll meet regularly like old friends, and you’ll answer my various questions.”

Hearing the Man-Snake say this, Qi Xia suddenly felt deep despair.

Yes.

In the days to come, he would meet with the Man-Snake regularly.

The “Land of the End” would be annihilated on the tenth day, and Qi Xia would die along with it.

But after he died here, he would temporarily return to reality, wait for a day to experience that massive earthquake, and then die in reality again.

Whether in the “Land of the End” or the real world, Qi Xia seemed to have entered a strange cycle that he could never escape.

His life was at shortest one day, at longest ten days.

As long as this strange place still existed, he could never return to his own life.

These lunatics had not only trapped Qi Xia here forever, but had also erased Yu Nian’an from her life.

“Man-Snake, toying with me like this, you will definitely regret it.” Qi Xia said coldly.

“Regret?”

Qi Xia didn’t bother with him anymore, walked out the door and caught up with the group.

As soon as he stepped outside, that familiar heavy smell hit him in the face, making Qi Xia feel somewhat nauseated.