Now everything seemed to be developing according to his own thinking, yet also seemed somewhat different.

Qi Xia had once said that the “character” on Jin Yuanxun might be “卒” (Pawn), which was extremely important to them, and they needed to focus all their efforts on surrounding him in the remaining time.

Now he had somehow muddled his way into a “Man-Snake” game with him—did this count as within the plan or not?

Since Jin Yuanxun, once he obtained an “Echo,” would become as slippery as a loach and impossible to catch, it was just right to lock him in this room now and seize his “character.” That way, when he started jumping around later, it would be useless.

“Very good, very good…” Chen Junnan nodded.

“Good what?” Man-Snake said. “Since you’ve entered the game venue, the game still has to be played.”

“Oh, you’re right.” Chen Junnan turned to Jin Yuanxun and said, “Little Jin, do you dare?”

“What’s there not to dare? Bro, I’m not completely afraid,” Jin Yuanxun said.

“You still haven’t seen the problem here, kid?” Chen Junnan said with a smile. “Didn’t you see me secretly communicating with the referee just now?”

“What… what communicating?”

“Private communication,” Chen Junnan said. “Secret dealings.”

“What… dealings?”

“Do you want to speak properly or not? Who’s having secret dealings with you?” Man-Snake said. “Weren’t you in a hurry? Not in a hurry anymore?”

“Hey, now that I’ve gotten the ‘characters’ back, I’m indeed not in a hurry.” Chen Junnan said to Jin Yuanxun, “This referee Snake Bro and I have known each other for over twenty years—childhood friends. He’s planning to blow a biased whistle and award me the ‘character’ in your hand, so you might as well surrender early.”

“Oh no…” Jin Yuanxun was stunned. “It can’t be true, right?”

“Jilin Yanbian,” Jin Yuanxun corrected.

“Then you’re at a disadvantage in this game,” Man-Snake said with a smile. “Mine is a quiz game. As a Chinese person, if you can’t even speak Chinese fluently, how can you proceed?”

“I can basically understand everything!” Jin Yuanxun said. “It’s just that I’m not very fluent when speaking. Both my parents speak Korean at home.”

“Wait a minute!” Chen Junnan let go of Jin Yuanxun and came to Man-Snake’s side. “Snake Bro, are you really planning to proceed with the game?”

“…Otherwise?” Man-Snake asked.

“You don’t have any game props here. What game are you going to conduct?” Chen Junnan asked.

“I am the game prop.” Man-Snake pulled out a notebook from his chest and slapped it on the table. “In a moment, I’ll ask questions to both of you. Whoever answers correctly wins.”

“Questions?” Chen Junnan looked at the tattered notebook on the table. “Can I look at it in advance?”

“You can,” Man-Snake nodded.

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was stunned for a moment. As if afraid the other party would change his mind, he quickly flipped through the notebook and found it was filled with questions.

The handwriting even looked somewhat familiar.

Not wanting to be left behind, Jin Yuanxun also hurried to Chen Junnan’s side to look at the question book together with him.

“Today… two… so… please… who?” Jin Yuanxun mumbled as he read.

“Little Jin, if you can’t read, stop trying. Move aside a bit, and I’ll explain it to you later.”

“Why should you care?” Jin Yuanxun frowned and retorted, continuing to look at the words in the notebook.

Chen Junnan quickly browsed through it. They were basically all logic puzzles, and there were even logic puzzles that had been asked in the interview room. Those puzzles had a checkmark in pencil after them.

Chen Junnan was all too familiar with this type of book—every kid had a pile of them when going to school. So he instinctively flipped to the last page.

The last page was still logic puzzles.

“…?”

“What’s wrong?” Man-Snake asked.

“Where are the answers?” Chen Junnan asked, holding up the notebook.

“What answers?”

“The answers to the questions! Where are the answers to these questions?”

“How should I know?”

“Hm…?” Chen Junnan was stunned for a moment, but quickly understood. “I get it. You keep the answers and questions separate? Quite cunning.”

“No, I only brought this notebook here,” Man-Snake replied. “Isn’t this enough to stump you two?”

“It is. No, what’s the point of stumping us two?!” Chen Junnan said. “Besides, does this kid next to me even need you to stump him with these questions? Just one sentence ‘blue cloth cotton door curtain hanging on the door’ could make him shut down for a whole day.”

“Hey! Bro! You…” Jin Yuanxun wanted to say something, but he didn’t understand what that sentence meant just now, and couldn’t even repeat it once.

“That’s why I said he’s at a disadvantage in this game,” Man-Snake said. “Are you two ready? If you’re ready, I’ll start. Three questions—if anyone can answer two correctly, they win.”

“Wait!” Chen Junnan knew this wasn’t his strong suit at all and quickly tugged at Man-Snake again, saying quietly, “Don’t we still have a deal? Can you let me go through the back door?”

“Back door?” Man-Snake replied quietly. “How?”

“First tell me the answers to the first three questions,” Chen Junnan muttered in a low voice. “Otherwise, I suspect I won’t be able to win.”

“Didn’t I just say clearly? I said ‘How should I know?'” Man-Snake said. “Where would I have the answers?”

“…?”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was stunned. He felt that what he said wasn’t wrong at all—in this damn place, he was often confused.

Every time he clarified his thoughts, it was for the next time to be even more confused.

But could this be blamed on him? He could only say that he had encountered all the absurd things in this world.

“Are you fucking with me…?” Chen Junnan said. “If you don’t know the answers, what’s the point of asking?”

“After you finish answering, I’ll think about whether it’s right or not,” Man-Snake answered truthfully.

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was silent for three seconds before asking, “I seem to not quite understand. Let me see if this is what you mean…”

“Speak.”

“You ask questions, then we guess, and you judge whether the answers are right or wrong based on our guesses.”

“Right.”

“In other words, whoever you think is right is right.”

“Right.”

Chen Junnan blinked. “Then why don’t you blow a ‘biased whistle’ for me? Don’t you still need to see Old Qi? What good does it do you if I lose?”

“Ah, although I really want to see Qi Xia, this isn’t a matter of ‘biased whistles,'” Man-Snake said. “First of all, we ‘Zodiacs’ also have our own regulations. I can’t be unfair. Secondly… I really want to know the answers to these questions.”

“Aren’t these just ordinary logic questions?” Chen Junnan said. “You can search online and find a ton of them. So what if you know them?”

“This is a ‘ticket,'” Man-Snake said.

“Ticket…?”

“It leads to a very distant future,” Man-Snake said. “Although it’s very far, I want to go take a look.”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan and Jin Yuanxun looked at each other. The question-and-answer game hadn’t even started yet, and they already couldn’t quite understand what Man-Snake was saying.