“I…” Man-Snake was slightly stunned. He wanted to choose an answer but discovered that no matter how he responded, it would be futile.

“Hahahaha!”

Man-Snake suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard he bent forward and backward. Before long, he stopped laughing and said, “You’re really interesting.”

“Interesting?” Qi Xia looked coldly at Man-Snake. “Where’s the interesting part? Haven’t I already won?”

Man-Snake slowly walked to the wall and reached out to pull down the lever.

Everyone felt their bodies drop, then they began to slowly descend.

Qiao Jiajin’s face was full of confusion. He turned his head and asked Qi Xia, “Liar, what does it mean? Why does this count as winning?”

Qi Xia discovered that the rope was indeed descending. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Think about it. As long as this question was asked, we were already saved no matter what.”

“If my next question is ‘Will you pull down the lever,’ would your answer be the same as to this question…” Qiao Jiajin silently repeated the question but couldn’t figure it out at all.

“I see…” Doctor Zhao nodded thoughtfully. “If he answers ‘Yes,’ then the next question can only be answered with ‘Yes’ as well, and we’d be saved. After all, the next question is ‘Will you pull down the lever.'”

“But what if he says ‘No’?!” Qiao Jiajin felt he had discovered some loophole. “Wouldn’t it be fine if he just said ‘No’?”

“If he says ‘No,’ the next question can only be answered with ‘Yes.'” Han Yimo said weakly. “The brilliance of this question is that if he answers ‘No,’ he admits that he would give different answers to the two questions. Remember? This snake-head person said he wouldn’t lie.”

Qiao Jiajin was stunned. He turned back to look at Qi Xia again and asked, “Did you just think of all this… What kind of monster are you?”

“I don’t deserve to be called a monster.” Qi Xia shook his head. “I’m just a wandering liar.”

As they spoke, everyone had slowly landed on the ground.

Due to the prolonged hanging, everyone’s palms hurt with a burning pain, and the two injured people’s condition was even less optimistic.

“Everyone, congratulations on surviving the ‘interview.’ Push open this door, and a new world awaits you.” The snake-head person put his hands behind his back and stood beside the wooden door.

“You bastard…”

Qiao Jiajin walked up viciously, as if wanting to vent all his dissatisfaction with “Man-Sheep” and “Man-Dog” on the “Man-Snake” before him.

Man-Snake coldly turned around and looked at the aggressive Qiao Jiajin without moving at all.

“Are you all perverts?!” Qiao Jiajin shouted loudly and stepped forward to grab Man-Snake’s collar. “Wearing these strange masks, trying to kill us again and again—now I’ve finally caught you!”

Man-Snake gave a cold laugh and said in a low voice, “While you’re still alive, I advise you to let go quickly.”

“What did you say?!”

Qiao Jiajin forcefully raised his fist. Just as it was about to fly toward the snake-head person’s face, Officer Li grabbed his arm.

“Hey, have you forgotten about the man whose skull was smashed?” Officer Li said in a low voice. “If they’re all the same kind of people, how do you plan to defeat them?”

“I…” An expression of unwillingness appeared on Qiao Jiajin’s tough face. He gritted his back teeth and slowly uttered a few words. “But these damned…”

“Don’t worry, aren’t we able to get out?” Officer Li interrupted him and said in a low voice. “As long as we can get out, I’ll definitely make them pay.”

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking and just slowly came before Man-Snake.

Looking at this person up close, they discovered just how bizarre he was.

The temperature around this snake-head person was lower than other places. His old suit and the mask on his head together emitted a strange fishy stench.

His eyes were shooting out gazes from within the mask—clearly he was human. But the smell on his body was like a snake that had been dead for a long time.

“Everyone, welcome to the new world.”

The snake-head person’s muffled voice came from within the mask, then he turned back and opened the door.

With a creaking sound, the bright light from outside the room streamed in.

Qi Xia furrowed his brow. He discovered that outside the door wasn’t outdoors at all, but rather a corridor.

“Where’s outside?” Qi Xia asked.

“I already said, it’s the new world.” The snake-head person slowly raised both hands. “The future ‘God’ will be born among you! Will be born in the new world! How exciting!”

“God again…” Qiao Jiajin asked viciously. “What exactly are you people plotting?”

Seeing someone ask a question, the snake-head person was clearly interested. “An omnipotent god…! He can realize all ideas!”

“Omnipotent?” Qiao Jiajin’s brow furrowed into a knot.

Doctor Zhao on the side discreetly waved his hand at Qiao Jiajin, then said to the snake-head person, “Okay, we understand. Quickly let us out.”

The snake-head person paused, then nodded and stepped to the side.

Qi Xia walked up first. The people behind him also didn’t seem to want to stay in this place any longer and quickened their pace to follow.

As everyone stepped into the corridor, a special smell filled their nasal cavities.

How to describe that smell?

Heavy, an extremely heavy smell.

This smell was as if the billions of people in the entire world had all died, then were exposed to the air and rotted. This rotting smell attracted countless insects competing to feed on them.

They reproduced in large numbers, then died in large numbers, and then also rotted.

After letting this overwhelming smell of decay settle for a period of time, when it was no longer pungent, it became this current heavy smell.

It took Qi Xia a long time to come to his senses. Then he opened his eyes to look and discovered before him was another scene that made one despair.

They were currently in an endless corridor. The ceiling here was low and oppressive, extending forward along this corridor.

And on both sides of the corridor, countless wooden doors were slowly opening.

Just like the wooden door behind them.

Before long, the wooden doors gradually began to reveal human figures.

Most were masked people covered in blood. Looking from afar, only an extremely small number of doors had normal people walking out.

And those so-called “normal people” also all looked exhausted and trembling.

Like Qi Xia, they had also survived.

“What’s the situation…” Han Yimo asked weakly. “We’re not the only nine who were captured?”

Qi Xia’s expression was extremely heavy. The situation before his eyes far exceeded his imagination.

This organization had captured countless people and then conducted killing games?

“But… there are really too few people who survived…” Zhang Chenze sighed darkly.

Looking around at the thousands upon thousands of doors, only a scant few people had walked out.

Situations like Qi Xia’s room where “everyone survived” weren’t even seen once.

“Everyone, please.”

The snake-head person waved his hand to the side, indicating the direction for everyone to proceed, then stood beside the door with his hands behind his back. It seemed he didn’t plan to leave.

“Let’s go.”

Everyone knew this place was not suitable to stay long. They formed a long line and slowly left.

As they passed by shabby wooden doors one by one, everyone saw up close those people wearing animal masks.

Among them were oxen, horses, and dogs.

There were also the sheep and snakes they had seen before.

Without exception, they all emanated bizarre auras and were permeated with the smell of rot. The scenes inside the doors were mostly full of corpses on the ground. No one knew what kind of “games” they had participated in.

After walking another dozen or so steps, everyone was startled by two animal masks before them.

The person on the left wore a huge rat mask and leaned against the wall, while the person on the right wore a huge rooster mask with arms folded across the chest.

These two masks clearly weren’t man-made objects but were actual animal skulls made into masks.

But where in the world would there be such huge rats and roosters?

Like the other people wearing animal masks, these two only glanced indifferently at Qi Xia and the others without any other movement.

“What are these animals…” Lin Qin was somewhat frightened and instinctively moved away from those two people.

Qi Xia furrowed his brow slightly, as if thinking of something.

Sheep, dog, snake, rat, rooster…

“They’re zodiac animals.” His lips moved slightly, uttering a few words.

Everyone was stunned and looked over.

The animal masks worn by those people in shabby suits were indeed all within the twelve zodiac animals.