After giving himself a reassuring pill, Earth-Snake looked up at “Xuanwu.”

“I… which room should I join now?”

“Two have already died…” Xuanwu looked around and said, “You choose the room of one of the deceased.”

After speaking, she lightly waved her hand again, and Xu Qian’s room door closed.

At this moment, Xu Qian finally sat down on the floor with a thud.

Too terrifying. Someone at “Xuanwu’s” level had just appeared a few steps away from her, her dangerous aura fully revealed.

This was also the first time she had been caught up in an “Earth-level” life-betting scene.

“Qian Jie, are you okay?” Chen Junnan asked.

“I, I’m fine…” Xu Qian breathed a sigh of relief. “I’ve discovered you really do have a problem… don’t you think the current situation is dangerous enough already?”

“Dangerous?” Chen Junnan asked ambiguously in return, “I think this game has been dangerous from start to finish.”

“Then why did you drag ‘Earth-Snake’ in as a Participant?!” Xu Qian asked angrily. “He’s completely familiar with the rules of this game—how are we supposed to fight against him?”

“Hey, we’re just getting started here.” Chen Junnan laughed. “Don’t forget, I’m the one who declared the life-betting. If I lose, I’ll be the only one punished.”

“This…”

“Don’t hesitate. Quickly help me see which room Earth-Snake entered.” Chen Junnan said seriously. “Earlier Xuanwu told that old lecher Earth-Snake to choose a deceased person’s room… Right now one deceased is ‘behind’ me and one deceased is ‘in front’ of me. Which room this old lecher chooses will affect my tactics going forward.”

“I can’t see even if I want to…” Xu Qian sighed. “They closed my room door.”

“Oh…?” Chen Junnan was startled. “That fast…?”

Besides Chen Junnan and Xu Qian, the many Participants in their rooms were also muttering to themselves.

The game had progressed to this point, and this seemed to be the first “halftime break.”

The “Question” hadn’t continued to be passed on, and no one’s phone was ringing. Due to the excellent soundproofing, their rooms were all very quiet, which made everyone’s mood somewhat agonizing.

During this time, Yun Yao even tried calling Chen Junnan several times, but strangely it showed as busy every time.

What on earth had happened?

Why was there such a long break after the second person died?

After waiting for about several more minutes, Yun Yao’s phone suddenly rang.

Ring ring ring—!!

“Hello…?”

“Ah!” A girl called out. “I was so anxious, I, I finally received the question!”

Yun Yao nodded: “Why did it stop for so long? Do you know what happened?”

“I don’t know… I waited so long before the call finally came.”

“Then… what’s the question?”

“This…” The anxious girl thought for a while and said, “This question was told to me by the uncle with the muffled voice in front of me. Although he passed it on very clearly… I still find it very bizarre.”

“Tell me and let me hear.”

“Then you better remember it well…” The anxious girl said while recalling, “‘I, orange, murderer, on Mount Taihang, fruit not eat.'”

“Ah…?” Yun Yao never imagined that this question would be so absurd that it was like a line of code. “The person in front of you really said it like this?”

“Yes, that big brother said his memory is very good. He only used a few seconds to memorize these words, but he didn’t know what they meant, so he carefully taught them to me, hoping someone down the line could crack it.”

“You… tell me one more time.”

The girl told Yun Yao once more, and Yun Yao also wrote down these words.

She still didn’t quite understand—what did these words have to do with the true-false question?

This sounded more like a few random nouns a child had typed on a computer.

Yun Yao could only first select the answer “False,” then called Chen Junnan.

She told Chen Junnan these words in detail, one by one.

“Pfft…” After hearing it, Chen Junnan suddenly laughed aloud.

“Chen Junnan…” Yun Yao sighed. “Can you be a bit more serious? The game stopped for so long just now—maybe something changed. These words might be hiding…”

“Big star, don’t overthink it.” Chen Junnan interrupted. “What’s coming next is the real beginning.”

“What…?”

“I just did something big.” Chen Junnan laughed. “I want to ask, since the establishment of ‘Heaven’s Mouth,’ how many Earth-level ‘Zodiacs’ have you all killed?”

“This…” Yun Yao was silent for a while, then sighed. “Not a single one. We tried before, but the outcome was too tragic. From that point on, the plan has been shelved, and we can only bet lives with Man-level ‘Zodiacs.'”

“Not a single one? That’s ridiculous. Then are you interested in killing an Earth-level together with me?”

“Ah?”

Yun Yao’s eyes slowly widened, then she covered the phone and said in a low voice: “Chen Junnan… you, you bet lives with Earth-Snake?”

“That’s right.”

“Too dangerous!” Yun Yao said. “Without one hundred percent certainty, betting lives with an ‘Earth-level’ is far too dangerous! If you lose, you’ll become a Native.”

Chen Junnan gave a dry laugh after hearing this: “Big star, do you know what ‘betting’ means? There can’t possibly exist a gamble with ‘one hundred percent certainty’ in this world. Even Old Qi can’t do that.”

“This…”

Chen Junnan’s words awakened Yun Yao.

“Big star, if you keep waiting for a ‘one hundred percent’ opportunity, I advise you to change paths as soon as possible. Otherwise, you won’t get out even in a hundred years.”

“It seems you’re right.” Yun Yao smiled bitterly. “I’ve been too timid and hesitant…”

“So have you figured it out?” Chen Junnan said. “We’ll kill him together?”

“Mm.” Yun Yao nodded in agreement. “If there’s anything you need me to help with… just say so.”

Seeing that Yun Yao agreed so readily, Chen Junnan laughed: “There is one thing I need your help with.”

“What?”

“If I die, don’t forget to relay today’s events to Old Qi. Best if you could embellish it a bit and let him know that this young master isn’t an ordinary person.”

“What are you talking about?” Yun Yao was instantly puzzled. “You just declared life-betting with Earth-Snake, how are you directly leaving your last words already?”

“What? Is that not allowed?”

“I won’t relay it for you.” Yun Yao said. “If you want to say something, go say it yourself.”

“Hey, this young master is just afraid I won’t live to see that day.”

The more Yun Yao listened, the more something felt wrong: “Chen Junnan… what exactly do you mean? You decided yourself to ‘bet lives’ with Earth-Snake, but now it looks like you have no confidence at all… can you really do this?”

“Didn’t this young master already say?” Chen Junnan laughed. “I’m purely ‘betting.’ My win rate is at most thirty percent.”