Qi Xia’s statement was exceptionally difficult for everyone to understand.

At first listen, this statement had many loopholes, and even Earth-Sheep didn’t quite understand what Qi Xia was thinking.

“You mean… you’re not leaving?” the older woman asked.

“I’ll leave last.” Qi Xia said. “I have some questions I want to ask Earth-Sheep.”

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other. Leaving last… wouldn’t that mean being left alone?

Was this person stupid?

And moreover… one fan for one “Sorrow”?

“Can we exchange with you right now?” a woman asked.

“No, not right now.” Qi Xia shook his head. “As I said, someone needs to take the ‘Sorrow’ from Earth-Sheep’s hands. My exchanges will begin at that time.”

“But…”

Everyone felt troubled. Earth-Sheep’s “Sorrow” required three fans to exchange, but no one wanted to take out those three fans.

“Everyone, you are now a collective whole.” Qi Xia said. “As long as someone takes Earth-Sheep’s fan, I’ll immediately give you all the ‘Sorrow,’ and then you can escape. If you can’t do this, I won’t give any.”

Qi Xia’s words landed with a resounding thud, stunning everyone.

After a while, an older participant said, “How about… we pool together?”

“The sixteen of us pooling three fans shouldn’t be difficult, right…?” Someone in the crowd began to echo.

Qi Xia didn’t care at all how everyone raised the funds. He simply closed his eyes quietly and waited.

In about a few minutes, they had pooled together three fans and exchanged them with Earth-Sheep for one “Sorrow.”

Everyone now looked toward Qi Xia.

Qi Xia nodded and said, “Very good. Now I need all of you to elect a captain.”

“Captain…?”

“I don’t want to make transactions with each of you one by one. That would be too troublesome.” Qi Xia shook his head. “I need a middleman. This person will collect fans from each group to exchange with me, and I’ll give the ‘Sorrow’ to him all at once.”

All the participants hadn’t expected that under Qi Xia’s subtle influence, they would actually begin to gradually unite.

“How about we let this big brother be captain!” a young girl said. “He just took out fans to exchange with Earth-Sheep for ‘Sorrow.'”

“Right, let big brother do it!”

At this moment, a somewhat introverted-looking big brother was pushed before everyone. He actually seemed a bit embarrassed.

“Since… since everyone is electing me as ‘captain,’ then I won’t be modest.” The big brother nodded to everyone. “Everyone, please organize by groups. Each group give me one fan, and I’ll uniformly exchange with this brother.”

After hearing this, everyone no longer hesitated. After discussing briefly, each team took out one fan. Qi Xia also decisively pulled out all the “Sorrow” from his pocket in one go.

He displayed each one to everyone, confirming there were seven “Sorrow” fans.

“Brother… shall we exchange then?” The big brother looked at Qi Xia somewhat awkwardly, since the fans in his hands were almost all “Joy” and “Happiness.”

“That’s right. We’ll do a simultaneous exchange of ‘money’ and ‘goods.'” Qi Xia said. “But not here. We need to change locations.”

“Change locations?”

“That’s right.” Qi Xia nodded. “Please, everyone come with me.”

Although everyone was somewhat confused, now that they had handed over their fans and elected a “captain,” they could only follow the main group.

Earth-Sheep watched as the crowd slowly walked to a side far from him, his expression exceptionally cautious.

He didn’t know what benefit Qi Xia could possibly gain by doing one-for-one exchanges with everyone using the “Sorrow” he had accumulated for so long.

He was clearly monopolizing and could have made a huge profit, obtaining at least twenty fans, yet now he was doing one-for-one?

Qi Xia gathered everyone around him and softly said a few words.

After listening, everyone showed unusual expressions.

“Young man… you haven’t gone mad, have you?” the older woman asked tremblingly.

“Of course not.” Qi Xia nodded, then turned to the “captain” and said, “Let’s exchange.”

The captain froze for a moment, then finally nodded with a grave expression. He handed the seven fans to Qi Xia, and Qi Xia also gave all his “Sorrow” to everyone.

After the “captain” distributed all the “Sorrow” to everyone, they looked at each other, then immediately scattered in all directions by groups.

Earth-Sheep furrowed his brows slightly, always feeling something was strange, but at this moment Qi Xia walked toward him.

“Earth-Sheep.” Qi Xia called out.

Earth-Sheep didn’t answer, only looking coldly at this man.

“You should still have a full set of ‘Joy,’ ‘Anger,’ ‘Sorrow,’ and ‘Happiness,’ right?” Qi Xia asked.

“Didn’t you see?” Earth-Sheep answered coldly. “I only have what’s on the table.”

“No.” Qi Xia shook his head. “You have the initial three fans, and after you killed someone, you also took their five fans. In other words, besides the six on the table, you have eight more.”

Earth-Sheep still didn’t speak.

“To ensure that at the final moment you could escape no matter who you teamed up with, I don’t believe you wouldn’t have kept any ‘Sorrow’ at all.” Qi Xia continued. “So you absolutely have a complete set of ‘Joy,’ ‘Anger,’ ‘Sorrow,’ and ‘Happiness’ in your hands. After all, you don’t know what kind of teammate you’ll encounter.”

“So what?”

“So today you’ve fallen into my trap.” Qi Xia said.

Before Earth-Sheep could react, the crowd in the distance who were “pairing up” suddenly became noisy.

“Pairing failed?! You fucking deceived me?!”

“Oh my god! How did we also fail here?”

“What’s going on?! Our fans were swallowed!!”

Earth-Sheep frowned and looked at the distant crowd but made no extra movements. He knew that fraudulent behavior occurring in his venue was very common.

When more than ten people remained on the field, the ugliest side of human nature would be fully displayed.

At this point, people might beat each other to death for a fan even without knives.

In past games that reached the final stage, this place would inevitably be littered with corpses.

The crowd appeared chaotic, with everyone clamoring and coming to the center of the hall, seemingly about to start fighting.

Earth-Sheep gradually noticed something seemed wrong. Each of these seven teams seemed to have gotten into fights.

Even if fraudulent behavior had occurred… was it possible for all seven groups to simultaneously commit fraud?

Before Earth-Sheep could react, all the participants frantically ran toward the exit.

They seemed to have been carefully shifting their positions from the very beginning, just waiting for this moment to escape.

Earth-Sheep’s eyes widened in alarm. Sensing something was wrong, he immediately vaulted over the table and rushed toward the crowd.

But he was a step too slow. The seven teams ran out the door as if they had seen evil spirits.

Only then did Earth-Sheep look at the “pairing machines” beside him in disbelief. Each machine displayed “Pairing Successful.”

He stared at the exit, his eyes slowly widening. He knew he had fallen into a trap.

He needed to stop that man immediately!

He turned back and rushed toward Qi Xia at full speed, but again he was a step too late.

“Earth-Sheep, I want to bet my life with you.” Qi Xia smiled.