Earth-Dragon tilted her head back naturally, looking at Qinglong with an unchanged expression.

She really didn’t seem afraid of death.

“Hit a sore spot… feeling a bit uncomfortable?” Earth-Dragon said with her compressed throat, “Isn’t this exactly what you’ve been doing all along… poking everyone’s sore spots… tearing apart everyone’s hopes… You can laugh, but others can’t?”

Qinglong didn’t answer, only increasing the force in his hand.

Earth-Dragon slowly frowned, feeling that although her body had been enhanced, her neck was about to be snapped.

Since it had come to this step, should this chaotic and laborious life of hers end?

But clearly more than ten seconds had already passed, yet Qinglong hadn’t directly made the killing blow, and his hand’s movement had also stopped.

Earth-Dragon opened her eyes, staring at Qinglong with incomprehension. She didn’t know why, when her words had already reached this point, Qinglong would still need to hold back.

In her line of sight, she saw Qinglong looking down with a grave expression.

In the game venue below, in the “Red Team’s” “Reserve Zone,” Qi Xia had been looking up at him all along.

Including this scene of him gripping Earth-Dragon’s throat at this moment—it was all taken in by those grayish-white goat eyes.

Qinglong hesitated.

What an absurd feeling this was…?

Qinglong knew that the person below was merely a mortal body. The force of wind from a casual wave of his hand could send him flying several meters, yet he couldn’t see through those eyes.

“I can’t understand the thoughts of a ‘God’…?”

But at that time, he felt like he was looking at an ant. Humans couldn’t understand ants’ actions… how reasonable was that?

But now, should Qinglong believe… that the reason he couldn’t understand him was because he was more like a “God”?

“Absurd.” Qinglong said lightly, slowly releasing his fingers that had been clamping Earth-Dragon.

“Cough…” Earth-Dragon suddenly resumed breathing and immediately coughed dryly twice, “So annoying… can’t strangle me to death… and then let go in the end…”

“You’re trying to trick me.” Qinglong said, “Humans can’t understand both ‘ants’ and ‘Gods’ at the same time. Does that mean ‘ants’ are ‘Gods’?”

“Whether ‘ants’ are ‘Gods’ or not, only you know.” Earth-Dragon said, rubbing her neck, “Whether Qi Xia is an ‘ant,’ you also know better than I do.”

Qinglong stared down with a grave expression, only to discover Chen Junnan hurriedly pushing open his door from a room far away, and in the next second teleporting to the “Reserve Zone.”

“Old Qi!” Chen Junnan said, “Things are a bit troublesome now. You need to listen to me first. There are several things. First is… Holy shit!”

Chen Junnan’s gaze was instantly drawn to Qiao Jiajin on the ground. The words he was about to say were completely forgotten as he rushed forward to check on Qiao Jiajin’s injuries.

“What the hell is going on?!” Chen Junnan crouched on the ground and shouted, “Which bastard did this?!”

Han Yimo shrank to Qiao Jiajin’s side, letting Qiao Jiajin’s head rest on his lap, not daring to speak like a statue.

Qi Xia shook his head: “Only Zhang Shan could have done something to this extent.”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was slightly stunned, and his bellyful of anger had nowhere to go.

Before coming, he had clearly seen Zhang Shan’s corpse lying in the “River Path.” Now Qiao Jiajin wasn’t dead, just severely injured… could this be considered fair?

But speaking of “fairness,” with Zhang Shan and Qiao Jiajin’s characters… to actually distinguish between life and death here… where exactly was the fairness in this?

Chen Junnan stood up, looked up at Qinglong, and pointed at him viciously, saying a verb phrase that started with “I.”

However, he didn’t make a sound the entire time, only moving his lips.

Presumably, with Qinglong’s ice-cold intelligence, he could still know what he was saying, right?

“Old bastard…” Chen Junnan cursed in a low voice, “This young master will make you suffer a great loss sooner or later.”

“How was the progress just now?” Qi Xia asked.

“Damn it…” Chen Junnan turned around and said, “Old Qi, speaking of ‘progress,’ that was way too bizarre…”

“How bizarre?”

Chen Junnan had only been out for a few minutes, yet felt like many things had happened. He didn’t know where to start talking about his heroic deeds.

“Let me talk about the result first.” Chen Junnan said, “This young master ‘swapped packages.'”

“Hmm…” After hearing this, Qi Xia paused and said, “Next time you should say ‘lost a character’ instead.”

“You understand what I mean! This young master ‘swapped packages.'” Chen Junnan said, “The ‘Bao’ I worked so hard to get was lost again. The swap rate is a hundred fucking percent. Fortunately, we’ve already used it, so losing it isn’t a loss.”

“Where was the ‘character’ lost?” Qi Xia asked.

“With a really fucking weird Man-Snake. The Man-Snake who opened the door for us.” Chen Junnan said, “That bastard bullied me in front of a kid. He blew a biased whistle and even gave me twenty big slaps.”

Qi Xia paused: “Speak properly.”

“He wants to see you.”

“What did he say exactly?” Qi Xia asked again.

“He didn’t tell me the specific situation.” Chen Junnan said, “But judging from his face full of deep hatred and resentment, he definitely wants to find a way to see you… do you have a significant relationship with him?”

After hearing this, Qi Xia nodded: “Yes.”

But a few seconds later, he felt something wasn’t quite right. Even if it were true… that Man-Snake clearly didn’t have a game, so how could he appear here?

“Wait…” Qi Xia suddenly frowned and turned his head to look at Han Yimo beside him, “When you and Wen Qiaoyun participated in the game, did that ‘Zodiac’ say anything?”

“Say anything…?” Han Yimo was stunned after hearing this, “It seems like he said they were some kind of ‘Assistants’ or something else…”

“As expected…” Qi Xia raised his head to look at Chen Junnan, “What questions did he ask you?”

“Uh…” Chen Junnan recalled, “Generally speaking, it was ‘Survivorship Bias,’ ‘Byzantine Generals Problem,’ and ‘Infinite Monkey Theorem.'”

“Tell me his location.”

Chen Junnan pointed on the map on the wall: “It’s this ‘Si,’ in the opponent’s half of the field.”

“I’ll go and come right back.”

“Wait!!” Chen Junnan immediately reached out to grab Qi Xia, “Old Qi… are you serious?”

“Yes, I need to see him.”

“At a time like this?” Chen Junnan said, “Why don’t you wait until the game is almost over before going? Or just wait until after the game ends…”

“Did he say he was in a hurry?” Qi Xia continued, “If we’re talking about the same Snake, I suspect I won’t be able to see him after the game ends.”

“How do you know that…?” Chen Junnan said, “But it feels very dangerous right now… the people on the other side are all there. What if you get trapped in a game?”

“Now that Zhang Shan is gone, I can guarantee a hundred percent win rate in ordinary games.” Qi Xia said, “Even if I run into the other side, it’ll be fine.”

“Ah… right…” Chen Junnan said, “He also asked me to give you a message…”

“About what?” Qi Xia asked again.

“About the venue where we’re currently located… but…” Chen Junnan looked back at Qinglong in the heights.

“Good, I received it.” Qi Xia said, “I understand the content.”

“Uh…” Chen Junnan was slightly stunned after hearing this, “No… I haven’t said it yet…”