What should they do next?

Everyone looked at each other in dismay. Lawyer Zhang and Tiantian standing to the side were especially frightened.

What on earth was going on? What were these people doing?

“Damn it…” Qiao Jiajin was completely at a loss. “What now? Are we just going to sit here and wait to die?”

Lin Qin and Officer Li both looked toward Qi Xia simultaneously.

The situation had become so thorny that they could only hope Qi Xia had an idea.

But at this moment, Qi Xia’s expression was somewhat dazed as he held Yu Nian’an’s hand, gazing quietly at her.

“An… your hands are so cold, are you cold?”

“No, I’m not.”

“Yu Nian’an…” Lin Qin frowned slightly, feeling that the cause of everything should lie with the Yu Nian’an before them.

“Give me the gun,” she said, turning to Officer Li. “There’s only one solution left…”

Seeing the look in Lin Qin’s eyes, Qiao Jiajin immediately sensed something was wrong.

“Psychologist… are you playing with fire?” he asked worriedly in a low voice. “If you kill that pretty girl… the liar won’t let you off. I feel like what comes after will be even harder to handle than now…”

“But he’s about to go mad!” Lin Qin said. “I don’t care if he’ll hate me or not. The urgent priority now is to wake him up! Otherwise, he’ll live here forever with this Yu Nian’an and become a native!”

Officer Li and Han Yimo exchanged glances, simultaneously realizing the severity of the situation.

Han Yimo and Doctor Zhao tossed the gun body and magazine back to Officer Li. Officer Li reassembled them, then smoothly released the safety and threw it to Lin Qin.

Lin Qin took a deep breath at this moment, slowly raised the handgun, and aimed the muzzle at Yu Nian’an not far away.

No matter what the Yu Nian’an before them was, she at least looked like a normal person.

If a normal person was killed, they would naturally revive in the next cycle.

“I’m sorry, Yu Nian’an…”

Just as Lin Qin raised the gun and was about to fire, a voice slowly spoke up beside Yu Nian’an.

“Lin Qin, put down the gun.”

Everyone froze, discovering that the speaker was none other than Qi Xia.

“What?”

Qi Xia turned his head, looking at Lin Qin with a pair of cold eyes.

“I told you to put down the gun.”

“You…”

Everyone also noticed that the feeling Qi Xia gave off wasn’t quite right. Usually, everything he did had its logic, but now he was actually acting on emotion.

“Qi Xia, if you don’t kill her, you’ll…”

“Killing my Yu Nian’an won’t do any good at all,” Qi Xia said coldly, turning to glance at the Man-Goat on the ground before continuing, “You’re pointing a gun at Yu Nian’an just to get me to come up with an idea, right?”

Lin Qin knew Qi Xia was right.

To borrow Qi Xia’s brain, she had actually planned to personally kill his most important person.

“You selfish people,” Qi Xia said with displeasure, scanning everyone in the room. “Just to make me come up with an idea, you actually dare to threaten me by pointing a gun at Yu Nian’an, is that it?”

Hearing this, Qiao Jiajin felt uncomfortable. “Liar, how can you think of us this way?”

“You’re right, that’s exactly how it is,” Lin Qin said without concealing it. “If pointing a gun at Yu Nian’an can get us the countermeasure, it’s actually more convenient to communicate with you.”

Qi Xia stared at Lin Qin’s eyes for a moment, then slowly said, “Don’t point at Yu Nian’an. Put down the gun, and I’ll tell you the countermeasure.”

Hearing this, Lin Qin slowly lowered her raised gun hand.

“Very good,” Qi Xia nodded. “Just like I said, killing my An won’t have any effect. The urgent priority is to make the Man-Goat die.”

“What?” Lin Qin was startled.

“Throw the gun to the Man-Goat,” Qi Xia said. “Just like he said himself, the contract stipulates that if his suicide fails, someone from a higher level will appear to personally kill him, and then we’ll be in danger.”

This statement provided everyone with a new line of thought.

Qi Xia explained further, “Yu Nian’an has appeared in the room, so our room may be considered ‘in violation of the rules.’ If high-level figures kill us here, the loss to us would be even greater.”

After hearing this countermeasure, everyone looked at each other again. After all, they knew Qi Xia’s scheming nature. Although it sounded very reasonable, there was no way to determine whether this statement was true or false.

“I’m not planning to deceive anyone,” Qi Xia said. “Every time the Man-Goat dies, we can move freely. If you use the only remaining bullet to kill Yu Nian’an, we’ll still be trapped in our chairs, only able to sit here waiting for the harpoons to come.”

Although his eyes were somewhat dazed, the words he spoke were still very logically clear, making it impossible not to believe him.

“He’s right,” Officer Li nodded. “I’ve also read that contract…”

Although everyone didn’t know what the “contract” Officer Li mentioned actually was, it appeared the Man-Goat was acting according to the regulations on the “contract.”

After thinking it over several times, Lin Qin still decided to adopt Qi Xia’s strategy. Under everyone’s gaze, she tossed the handgun to the Man-Goat.

Although the Man-Goat couldn’t hear or see, he could clearly feel a heavy object drop into his arms.

He lowered his head to feel it—it was the handgun.

“Ex-excellent!!” The Man-Goat raised his head, staring with both eyes flowing with bloody tears, excitedly shouting, “I can die!! I can finally die!!”

The next second, he raised the gun, aimed it at his own heart, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The tremendous gunshot reverberated repeatedly in the sealed room, gradually disappearing together with the Man-Goat’s screams.

Everyone could now stand up.

Lawyer Zhang hurriedly stood, retreated a few steps, then fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, Tiantian rushed over to help her up.

“Are you alright?” Tiantian asked.

“What-what is this place?” Lawyer Zhang looked at the people before her somewhat frantically. “What are you all doing?! Do you all know each other? Aren’t you shocked that someone committed suicide right in front of you?”

Officer Li slowly walked to Zhang Chenze’s side and said, “Lawyer Zhang, please calm down first. I’ll explain the reason for all of this in a moment.”

“How do you know my surname…?”

Qiao Jiajin also came to Tiantian’s side, saying in a gentle tone, “Pretty girl, it’ll be dangerous in a bit. You should hide behind me. Once we’re out of the room, I’ll explain everything to you.”

Tiantian looked at Qiao Jiajin somewhat warily. The man before her looked rather roguish. He had flower-arm tattoos, and the first thing he said was “pretty girl.” It was hard to believe he wasn’t a bad person.

Lin Qin walked to the Man-Goat’s corpse and searched his pockets, indeed finding a stack of A4 paper and several pens. Before long, she also found the “Identity Card” in his pocket.

After thinking for a moment, she turned back to distribute the identity cards and paper and pens to everyone, saying, “Although this is the first time encountering this kind of situation, to be safe we should write down the Man-Goat’s name first.”

Everyone received a “Liar” card, then all wrote the name “Man-Goat” on their slips of paper.

At this moment, Han Yimo nervously stared at the “tenth person” in the room, not relaxing until he saw him write down the two characters “Man-Goat.”

The next moment, the room indeed began to change.

Many holes appeared in the walls and ceiling. The second round of the game had begun.