“Hey… Earth-Dog!”

Xiao Xiao could no longer tolerate it and finally called out.

“Mm…” Earth-Dog held a book covering his face, his voice drifting out lazily.

“Do you want to go or not?” Xiao Xiao asked irritably. “Weren’t you just saying aggressively that you wanted to wait for others to clear a path for us? Only a few minutes have passed and you’re already about to fall asleep.”

“Mm…” Earth-Dog responded again, like sleep-talking in a dream.

“I give up… I really give up.” Seeing that Earth-Dog wouldn’t listen, Xiao Xiao could only say to Zheng Yingxiong, “You just keep watching him closely. Best if you could stare him to death.”

Zheng Yingxiong had been seriously watching Earth-Dog the whole time, not knowing what he was pondering.

Xiao Xiao stopped bothering with this adult-child pair. She simply moved her feet and came to Lin Qin’s side.

This girl had been muttering in the corner since earlier, as if chanting scriptures.

Xiao Xiao didn’t know what important scriptures must be chanted right now at such a critical moment.

When she came up behind Lin Qin in three steps, Xiao Xiao leaned her ear close to listen to Lin Qin’s self-talk. But after just a few seconds, she felt absolutely furious.

Just as she had said, not a single person on this team was normal.

Only herself, suffering from bipolar disorder, seemed to truly be working hard for “Extreme Path” and the final mission.

Although Lin Qin looked like a normal person, she kept repeatedly muttering what seemed like crazy talk:

“I should drink some water soon.”

“I want to use the bathroom.”

“Crazy… Everyone’s crazy…” Xiao Xiao shook her head helplessly. Soon she thought of Han Yimo, who had been lying behind the sofa for a long time.

If there was anyone who could still be of use now, it might only be Han Yimo.

“Hey!” Xiao Xiao squatted down beside Han Yimo and gave him two crisp slaps. “Are you still alive?”

Han Yimo had no reaction whatsoever. Although he was still breathing, he looked as if he had been dead for a long time.

“You’re like a little chick—you collapse after getting slightly injured…” After Xiao Xiao finished speaking, she slapped him two more times. “If you had exercised your body even a little, it wouldn’t have come to this…”

Han Yimo still had no reaction. Xiao Xiao felt that a few more slaps would really kill him.

“Well done.” Xiao Xiao stood up, looked at the strange crowd in the room, and then said, “You’ve really opened my eyes. I’m preparing to set out on my own. Is anyone coming with me?”

Several members of “Extreme Path” looked at her with somewhat dazed expressions.

“We should have already missed the appointed time…” Xiao Xiao said. “Right now, all the ‘Extreme Path’ members are fighting to liberate the ‘Ants’… Only we’re hiding here… I really feel too uncomfortable…”

After hearing this, the several members of “Extreme Path” looked at each other. None of them made a move.

Xiao Xiao stared at them and said again, “Haven’t you noticed? This Earth-Dog doesn’t want to go out at all… He wants to stay safe in this storm. Are you also preparing to wait here? Wait until all our teammates are dead…? Wait until the mission completely fails and we get expelled?”

Hearing this, Earth-Dog gently moved the book covering his face, revealing one eye.

“If you guys aren’t going, I’ll go by myself.” Xiao Xiao said. “Even if it’s just me alone… I’m still going.”

“What’s the rush…?” Earth-Dog’s muffled voice came from under the book. “Isn’t it already too late?”

“Because of whom are we too late?!” Xiao Xiao immediately got angry hearing this. “Wasn’t your plan to escort us to find that Heiyang? But we’ve been waiting in the room for so long in vain… What exactly are we waiting for?!”

“Didn’t I say…” Earth-Dog sighed. “Waiting for brave and battle-ready ‘Zodiac’ to clear a path for us.”

After hearing this, Xiao Xiao could no longer tolerate it. She walked forward and grabbed Earth-Dog’s collar.

Earth-Dog hadn’t expected that the girl before him had considerable strength. She actually pulled him into a stagger, and the book on his face also fell to the ground.

“I’m brave and battle-ready enough!” Xiao Xiao said. “You just keep waiting… Could such a massive plan achieve victory through ‘waiting’? I now only pray that there aren’t too many people like you among the ‘Zodiac,’ otherwise the entire ‘Extreme Path’ will have misplaced their trust.”

“Don’t worry, there aren’t many people like me.” Earth-Dog reached out to pinch Xiao Xiao’s wrist and with a light application of force, pried her hand open. “Since we’ve already missed the opportunity to meet Heiyang, why not wait here with me for another encounter.”

“Another encounter…?”

“Shh.” Earth-Dog raised a finger and placed it in front of his mouth. “Don’t disturb her.”

Xiao Xiao looked at Earth-Dog’s gaze. He was actually looking at Lin Qin.

“Disturb… her?” Xiao Xiao turned around to look at Lin Qin. “She’s already been scared crazy by the ‘Train’… Do you know what she’s muttering?”

“I can see it.” Earth-Dog said. “Although I only suddenly thought of this plan after seeing her… But I feel it can catch them by surprise.”

“What…?”

“It’s a ‘Strategy.'” Zheng Yingxiong said. “Since earlier… ‘Strategy’ has been emanating from your body…”

“Of course…” Earth-Dog stretched lazily. “I only look lazy, but for me… Today is genuinely ‘overtime work.'”

Xiao Xiao stared at Lin Qin in confusion, only to find Lin Qin still muttering:

“I should drink some water soon.”

“Should I eat something?”

“I want to use the bathroom.”

…

When Xiao Ran headed toward the end of the corridor, she found that the “Participants” on both sides had clearly decreased. When she truly arrived at this door at the end, she found that only she remained before her eyes.

Not only were there no “Participants” here, there weren’t even any “Zodiac.”

She had thought that the end of the corridor would be some magnificent grand door, but unexpectedly it was also an old, shabby door. This lowered Xiao Ran’s opinion of Qinglong and Heavenly-Dragon somewhat. She thought to herself that the leaders here didn’t seem to be wealthy people either.

“So damn far.” Xiao Ran cursed under her breath, then took a deep breath and called out in a sweet voice, “Is anyone inside?”

After her words, the inside of the door was completely quiet.

She turned her head again to look at both sides of this door and found that there was a short corridor on each side.

Those two short corridors and the longest corridor of the “Train” formed a “T” shape, and the door before her was right at the junction of the “T.”

“I have something I’d like to report. If someone’s there, could you open the door?” Xiao Ran raised her voice to ask again.

But there was still no movement inside the door. It seemed like there was no one at all.

“Um… If it’s not disturbing, then I’ll come in by myself.”

After waiting a few seconds without any response, Xiao Ran reached out and gently pushed the door open.

Inside the door was a round table. Directly across from her, a man wearing a dark green robe was reaching out to rub his forehead. From beginning to end, he never looked at Xiao Ran even once.