“Since it’s decided, all leaders please wait a moment.” Ground Rat said. “I need to confirm whether this will affect my life safety.”

“Your life safety?” Qin Dingdong furrowed her brow, crossing her arms over her chest. “Student Rat, do you think your sister has that much time?”

“I have no choice.” Ground Rat said. “Do you know what stage we’re at right now?”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu also turned back to look at Ground Rat.

“It’s the ‘betting’ stage.”

Ground Rat smiled and raised both hands—one hand showing five fingers, the other showing four fingers.

“‘Zhu Que’ is selecting a suitable gambling table to place his bet. The table he chooses becomes his casino. All the leaders present have a one-in-nine chance of dying…” Ground Rat bared his dry yellow rat teeth. “Such a dangerous gamble, and we can’t do anything about it—we can only wait. Isn’t it thrilling?”

“Did you also do nothing?” Chu Tianqiu asked. “It seems you knew about the plan earlier than us.”

“I’m ashamed to say I should indeed be proud of this matter.”

Ground Rat smiled and retracted one of the four fingers.

“Originally, each person had a one-in-eight probability of death, each door having a 12.5% death probability.” Ground Rat continued. “With my own efforts… I reduced everyone’s death probability to one-in-nine, or 11.1%. Do you know how much merit it is to distribute that 1% probability reduction across so many people?”

Chu Tianqiu nodded: “You’re the extra ninth person, and you opened a door on your own authority. Such risky behavior doesn’t seem like something you would do.”

“Indeed…” Wei Yang also said. “Why are you, this dead rat, so dedicated at this moment? When I was in trouble back then, why did you inform on me at the first opportunity?”

“Oh, I really must explain this.” Ground Rat lowered his head, not looking at Wei Yang’s eyes. “If I don’t explain it clearly, you might think I’m no longer a ‘fence-sitter.'”

“You…!”

“So you ‘single-handedly reduced the death probability for everyone participating in the plan by 1%’?” Chu Tianqiu said with a smile.

“Yes.” Ground Rat pointed at his own head. “Saving a single ‘door’ alone truly isn’t my style. This is the only kind of strategy I could think of. Even if you didn’t actively make a deal with me, I would have found a way to get Participants to walk through my ‘door.'”

“Interesting.” Chu Tianqiu nodded. “It’s a line of thinking I hadn’t considered.”

“So the more people participating in this plan, the greater my merit.” Ground Rat said. “If you encounter Brother Sheep, please put in a good word for me in front of him.”

“I’ll try my best.” After Chu Tianqiu finished speaking, he turned his head to gaze into the distance. “So has the ‘betting’ ended?”

……

“Something seems a bit strange…” Heavenly-Dog furrowed his brow, quietly saying to Heavenly-Snake beside him.

Heavenly-Snake and Heavenly-Dog had just finished their work at hand and returned to the room, where Qinglong was already sitting.

“What?” Heavenly-Snake looked at Heavenly-Dog’s eyes and immediately opened his mouth wide. “What the hell does ‘boarding the vehicle’ mean…?”

“I… I’m not sure if it’s what I think it means, but that organization called ‘Extreme Path’ seems to…” Heavenly-Dog raised his head, just meeting Qinglong’s gaze.

Qinglong seemed not to have heard the voices below, looking at Heavenly-Dog with slight confusion: “What about ‘Extreme Path’?”

“I…”

Heavenly-Dog had wanted to let Qinglong make the decision on this matter, but he never expected that Qinglong still couldn’t hear any sounds. Something seemed to have happened to him, causing his “Spirit Hearing” to temporarily malfunction.

“Speak.”

“Ah… well… ‘Extreme Path’ seems to want to ‘board the vehicle.'” Heavenly-Dog answered. “But I’m not quite sure what this ‘vehicle’ actually is…”

“‘Board the vehicle’…?” Qinglong thought for a while, then spoke: “If it were others, we’d need to look separately, but ‘Extreme Path’ specifically doesn’t require that.”

After speaking, he closed his eyes and activated his extremely refined “Soul Seizing.” He still had a trace of consciousness remaining in Lin Qin’s brain. As long as he could extract Lin Qin’s thoughts, he could directly know the entire “Extreme Path’s” movements.

“First you destroy the giant bell, then you want to ‘board the vehicle’… Baiyang, but you didn’t expect I’d leave a backup measure. Even if you know about this needle, you can’t remove it.”

He searched through Lin Qin’s brain at this moment and quickly discovered a bizarre problem.

There was nothing in Lin Qin’s mind—he was merely thinking about some ordinary everyday matters.

Such as when he should eat, or when he should drink some water.

“What kind of thoughts are these…” Qinglong slightly opened his eyes and looked toward Heavenly-Dog. “Are there many people saying ‘board the vehicle’?”

“No.” Heavenly-Dog said. “Only one or two people.”

“There shouldn’t be any problem.” Qinglong said. “No matter how much they want to conceal it, a person’s thoughts cannot be hidden.”

Upon hearing this answer, Heavenly-Dog silently lowered his head.

Logically speaking, under normal circumstances, Qinglong would definitely go down to investigate at the first opportunity. But at this moment, his eyes were bloodshot, merely sitting motionlessly around the round table. It seemed that activating his “Immortal Technique” again would cause excessive conviction.

“As long as there’s nothing wrong…” Heavenly-Dog nodded, avoiding Heavenly-Snake’s eyes.

But from that brief moment just now, Heavenly-Snake seemed to have read something rather unusual.

……

“Tch, we can’t enter the door right now?” Zhoumo looked at the teleportation gate before her, impatiently gazing at Earth-Pig.

“Not right now. I have an uneasy premonition.” Earth-Pig looked toward the deserted distance, his hands also gradually beginning to move. “Perhaps our luck is about to run out here.”

“Tch, no way, right? We won the lottery?” Zhoumo chuckled lightly, pulling out a signal flare from her waist.

“Hot-tempered young lady, let’s make an agreement.” Earth-Pig said.

“What?”

“If you survive, help me tell Qi Xia to carry on living with my conviction.”

“Tch, that line is a bit too chuunibyou. I can’t say it.” Zhoumo said. “If we really won the lottery, you find a way to survive and then go tell him yourself.”

As soon as the words fell, a crimson feather descended from the sky.

The people of “Extreme Path” all stared at that feather at this moment, watching it slowly fall. The instant it touched the ground, a person wearing a feather cape was already floating before everyone.

Zhoumo extended one finger to lightly press against her ear and said to the other teams of “Cat”:

“Everyone, you’re safe now.”