Although everyone didn’t understand medical knowledge, they roughly grasped Doctor Zhao’s meaning.
For them now, pulling out the harpoon was simple, but suturing a wound was difficult.
“The writer’s life is now saved. The only thing we need to do is quickly leave this place and find somewhere with proper conditions to treat his wound again.”
With a single sentence, Doctor Zhao pulled everyone’s thoughts back to reality.
If they couldn’t leave this bizarre room, their fate would sooner or later be the same as Han Yimo’s.
“But how do we leave? Is the ‘game’ over?” Lin Qin asked, covering her nose and mouth.
Qi Xia thought carefully for a moment and shook his head.
The mask had written it very clearly just now—the person called “Man-Dog” hoped they would survive and said “see you after the rain.”
By logic, after this rain-like barrage of harpoons, the so-called “Man-Dog” should appear. He might bring the next game.
But why wasn’t he showing himself?
“Hey, Liar.” Qiao Jiajin slowly walked to Qi Xia’s side and asked with a serious expression, “You have a way to survive, right?”
“What of it?” Qi Xia replied coldly. “Whether I can survive or not, what does it have to do with you?”
“I’m not as smart as you, so I can only find someone to cooperate with.” Qiao Jiajin seemed to be recommending himself. “You have brains, I have strength. Let’s work together.”
Hearing this, Qi Xia furrowed his brow slightly.
“Sorry, I’m a liar. I don’t plan to trust anyone except myself.”
Before Qiao Jiajin could say anything more, Officer Li suddenly voiced a question.
“What is this?”
Everyone turned their heads to look and discovered that Officer Li was carefully examining a harpoon in his hand.
“What’s wrong?”
Doctor Zhao approached Officer Li and asked cautiously.
“There are words.” Officer Li handed the harpoon to Doctor Zhao.
Doctor Zhao took it and looked. His expression changed—the tail of this finger-thick harpoon indeed had tiny text:
“I am ‘Man-Sheep.’ If you can see these words, it means you’ve survived.”
“But how many of you survived?”
“Is anyone injured?”
“I’m truly worried about you all.”
“I cannot watch you die with my own eyes.”
“In a quarter-hour, death will descend from above again.”
“Dodge them and find a way to survive.”
Doctor Zhao gritted his teeth, then violently threw the harpoon to the ground.
“Are you kidding me?! This is endless!” He roared loudly, seeming to want to release all the emotions he had suppressed until now.
“Calm down!” Officer Li said in a deep voice. “If you can’t control your emotions, how will you survive?”
“Survive…? But we’re already dead!!” Doctor Zhao finally couldn’t take it anymore. “We’re already dead, yet we still have to be tortured by the fear of death. What exactly does the ‘Organizer’ want?! Can’t he just kill us outright or let us go?”
Everyone’s expressions were somewhat unpleasant at this moment. Yes, what exactly was the purpose of these waves of death threats?
Was it really as the goat-headed person said, to select a “God”?
Could it be that except for one person who would become a “God,” the rest would have to go to hell?
“Everyone, we’ve survived two ‘games.’ Do you think it’s because we’re smart? No!” Doctor Zhao clenched his fists tightly. “We just had incredibly good luck! But what about next time? And the time after that? In this ever-changing room, just how long can we survive?!”
Officer Li pressed his lips together, stepped forward, and grabbed Doctor Zhao by the collar. “Hey… buddy! At a moment when lives are at stake, the one thing we absolutely cannot lack is ‘morale’! If you don’t want to live, you can go die by yourself! Don’t shake the troops’ morale here!”
“I…!” Doctor Zhao’s lips trembled slightly. “But how do we get out? Do you have a way to lead us out?”
Officer Li pondered for a moment and said, “I don’t have a ‘method.’ I only know we must survive! As long as we survive, there’s hope for everything.”
He released his grip on Doctor Zhao, walked to the side to pick up a harpoon and examine it, then walked to Han Yimo’s side to look at the harpoon in his shoulder. He discovered that both harpoons had the same text.
It seemed their luck really was too good.
The previous challenge not only required dodging the deadly attacks but also keeping at least one harpoon to know the clues for the next round.
“Regardless, this time at least we’ve been given clear clues.” Officer Li carefully read the words on the harpoon and said, “Unlike before, this time the attack will only come from above.”
He pointed to the small characters “death will descend from above again” on the harpoon.
As soon as he finished speaking, the entire room began to change again.
All the holes in the walls were slowly disappearing, while the countless holes in the ceiling also began to shift and rearrange.
Finally, only nine remained.
Three holes in each row, three rows in total.
“It looks like the game is becoming simpler.” Officer Li looked at the nine holes in the ceiling and sighed. “This is a blessing in disguise.”
“But why did it become ‘Man-Sheep’ again this time?” Lawyer Zhang pointed to the corpse on the ground that had been torn to pieces by harpoons and asked, “Wasn’t Man-Sheep already killed by us?”
Qi Xia thought for a moment and also found it very strange.
The goat-headed person who had just died did indeed call himself “Man-Sheep,” but inside his mask it was written “I am Man-Dog.”
Sometimes sheep, sometimes dog.
Could this also be one of the clues?
“There’s no time.” Officer Li said to everyone, “It’s already 1:23. It won’t be long before those nine holes in the ceiling shoot harpoons down. Everyone, pick up a tabletop and stand against the wall.”
By now, most of the tabletops on the ground had been torn to pieces. Only some smaller ones could still barely be used.
Fortunately, all nine holes in the ceiling were gathered in the center. It appeared that the wall edges were safe.
Everyone silently walked to the ground to pick up the broken tabletops and moved to the wall, spreading out and staying far from the central holes.
But at this moment, Qi Xia didn’t move. He slowly closed his eyes again.
No matter how you looked at it, the third game was far too suspicious.
Because the “Organizer” had very directly provided the solution.
In Qi Xia’s view, this hint was extremely unnecessary.
Did they want them to die or to live?
Why specifically mention “Man-Sheep” and “Man-Dog”?
If “Man-Sheep” and “Man-Dog” didn’t refer to names, what could they represent?
“Hey, Liar, come over here!” Qiao Jiajin shouted. “You’ll die standing under the holes!”
“Die…?” Qi Xia looked coldly at the holes above. “I cannot possibly die here. I have a reason I must get out.”
“What’s going on… does it look like the smartest person has also become a traitor?” Qiao Jiajin was somewhat puzzled.
Qi Xia extended his index finger and lightly tapped his own temple.
“Wait… wait… give me a bit more time.”
Everyone slowed down even their breathing, quietly watching Qi Xia in the center of the room. No one quite understood what in such an obvious game still required repeated contemplation.
