Hearing Chen Junnan’s lazy voice, the girl’s anger flared up.

“I’m saying… can you be a little more tense? We could die at any moment now…”

“Will being tense prevent us from dying?” Chen Junnan scratched his ear. “Miss, what should I call you?”

“I…” The girl sighed. “Xu Qian.”

“Hey, I had an old classmate also named Xu Qian. What a coincidence, right?”

Xu Qian was silent for a moment, then said helplessly, “My name is already very common. If you don’t have anything to say, can you not force conversation? What do you actually want to say?”

“I just feel this game is making me a bit drowsy.” Chen Junnan sighed. “Let’s do something more interesting, shall we?”

“Interesting?” Xu Qian didn’t quite understand. “When we could die at any moment, you still care about what’s interesting or not?”

“Of course.” Chen Junnan said with a smile. “You’re a girl, so you can call Earth-Snake over, right?”

“That’s not right…” Xu Qian was startled. “Earth-Snake said before that you can only contact him when you feel like you’re about to die…”

“Call for help.” Chen Junnan interrupted. “Right, go ahead and call.”

“Call my ass!” Xu Qian wasn’t thinking about hanging up for the first time. “Why would I call him for help?”

“To help me call him over!”

“Why don’t you call him yourself!”

“I’m a guy!”

Although the two had only talked on the phone a few times, they were already about to start arguing.

“What does it matter that you’re a guy?!” Xu Qian seemed quite angry. “Does calling the referee distinguish between men and women?”

“How would that old lecher listen to me? Sister Qian, just help me out.”

“You already said he’s an old lecher!” Xu Qian shouted. “And Earth-Snake just said that as long as you ‘perform well’ he’ll help women—doesn’t that sound suspicious? Why would I call him?”

“Hey! Don’t worry!” Chen Junnan laughed. “After you call him over, I’ll talk to him. I absolutely won’t let anything happen to you.”

“But you don’t seem credible at all…” Xu Qian sighed. “You can’t even leave your room—how can you guarantee I’ll be fine?”

“Then how do you want me to guarantee it?” Chen Junnan was also at a loss. “You’re the only person I can contact right now.”

“How about this… a few more rounds.” Xu Qian said. “If you can keep me safe, I’ll help you call Earth-Snake over.”

“Ah, alright then.” Chen Junnan nodded regretfully. “I’ll hang up first then. Let’s keep in touch.”

Xu Qian hung up without another word, and Chen Junnan reluctantly put down the phone.

He walked over to sit beside the chair, naturally resting his hands on both sides of the screen.

As his hands touched both buttons simultaneously, a wonderful feeling gradually emerged.

“Huh…?”

He placed both thumbs on the two buttons respectively—they fit just right.

“This… this is…”

Just as he was hesitating, the phone suddenly rang.

“Ring ring ring—!!!”

“Oh mama!” Chen Junnan was startled again. “Damn it, sooner or later I’ll rip out this phone line…”

He reached out and picked up the phone. “Hello? Junnan’s Earth-Snake Affairs Office, go ahead.”

“Chen Junnan, what’s going on over there?” Yun Yao asked in confusion. “Why was the line busy just now?”

“Busy line? Bah, spam call.” Chen Junnan shook his head. “Did the question come?”

“That’s right.” Yun Yao nodded. “This time the question is ‘Does a year have four seasons?'”

“This… damn it, are we coaxing children?” Chen Junnan cursed. “I really want to have a good chat with this old bastard about whether he’s educated or not!”

“And… I also inquired about the person ahead of me. That impatient girl said the person ahead of her is a man with a rather muffled voice, but doesn’t know specifically who.”

“Is it that ‘Zhong Zhen’ you mentioned?” Chen Junnan asked.

“Probably not.” Yun Yao denied. “You should have heard that man’s voice. Although he’s in his thirties, his voice sounds relatively young.”

While agreeing, Chen Junnan used his nail to carve the new name “Muffled-Voice Man.”

“Almost there—we already have position information for eight people.” After finishing the carving, Chen Junnan said to Yun Yao, “Big star, let’s choose ‘no’ for this question.”

“No…?” Yun Yao thought for a moment, then asked, “Chen Junnan, the question is ‘Does a year have four seasons?’ Are you sure you want to answer ‘no’?”

“Definitely.” Chen Junnan agreed.

“But isn’t that answering incorrectly?” Yun Yao thought about it. “Is it okay to answer incorrectly?”

“To be honest, I already answered the first question incorrectly.” Chen Junnan paused, then said, “For the second question, I didn’t even understand the question, so I probably got it wrong again.”

“Huh?”

“For the first question I chose ‘yes,’ admitting I’m a girl, but I didn’t receive any punishment.” He said with a smile. “There are a total of five girls on site, but the final answer was ‘yes’—what does this indicate?”

Yun Yao considered it along Chen Junnan’s line of thought, then answered, “There are two possibilities. First, at least two men lied. Second, someone changed the question afterward.”

“Exactly.” Chen Junnan continued. “Just as I thought from the beginning, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ in this game aren’t important. After all, during the second question I directly changed the question and made most people make the same choice as me. If the answer at that time was wrong, you all should have been wrong now.”

Yun Yao still didn’t quite understand. “But what’s your reason for choosing ‘no’?”

Chen Junnan slowly tilted his head, cradling the phone with his cheek, then stretched the phone cord and walked over to the display screen, placing his hands on the buttons on either side of the screen.

“Big star, did you play with ‘Xiaobawang’ when you were little?”

“Xiaobawang…?” Yun Yao was stunned. “Sorry, never even heard of it.”

“Great, we’ve found another generation gap, huh?” Chen Junnan thought for a moment and said, “I remember you’re a post-2000s kid?”

“What post-2000s, am I that old…?” Yun Yao sighed. “I was born in 2011.”

“Oh, 2011?” Chen Junnan nodded. “Then your chances of seeing a ‘Xiaobawang’ are indeed rather slim. By your time, the PS was already in its fourth generation, right?”

“Chen Junnan… do you want to get to the point?”

“Hey!” Chen Junnan said with a laugh. “Big star, I just suddenly had an idea.”

He reached out and pressed the “yes” on the left and the “no” on the right, then said, “What if these two buttons on our screen—one is ‘left’ and one is ‘right’? What we call ‘correct’ and ‘incorrect’ is actually choosing ‘left’ and ‘right’ for the giant geometric object each time?”

“What…?” Yun Yao frowned and thought rapidly, quickly widening her eyes.

That’s right.

This direction was completely correct.

Yun Yao quickly calculated mentally and said, “Assuming I’m ‘0,’ choosing ‘yes’ would be ‘-1,’ choosing ‘no’ would be ‘+1,’ then the person who died now should be at ‘-2,’ and the giant ball has now reached ‘+1.'”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan was stunned for a long time, then said, “Big star, speak a bit slower—I’m having trouble keeping up.”