“You’re using a thirty percent win rate to bet lives with an ‘Earth-level’…” Yun Yao thought Chen Junnan had simply gone mad.

“Is ‘thirty percent’ too little?” Chen Junnan said seriously. “In my view, ‘thirty percent’ is already a very good result.”

“What?”

“Big star… if betting lives with each Earth-level has a thirty percent win rate, theoretically three ‘Participants’ could kill one ‘Earth-level.'”

After hearing this, Yun Yao felt something was off: “You can’t calculate it like that, right…?”

“Fine, let’s say my studies were poor and I calculated wrong. Then is four enough? Is five enough?” Chen Junnan’s tone gradually became serious. “Ten Participants exchanging for one Earth-level’s life—is that enough?”

“What are you trying to say?”

“There are only a little over twenty Earth-levels total, but how many Participants are there?” Chen Junnan asked pointedly. “If everyone could unite as one, going forward one after another, the ‘Zodiacs’ would have long since gone extinct. So what if losing turns you into a ‘Native’? As long as this damn place can be destroyed, couldn’t everyone still escape?”

Yun Yao knew that what Chen Junnan said made perfect sense. If they truly wanted to bet all the “Zodiacs” to death, having everyone in the entire “Land of Endings” unite would naturally be the optimal solution.

But this optimal solution still couldn’t escape human nature.

Everyone knew that charging forward would bring victory, but who would be willing to charge at the very front?

“You also know this is just a concept.” Yun Yao said with a sigh. “All the ‘Participants’ aren’t a disciplined army. On the contrary, everyone has their own thoughts, and among them are no shortage of cowards and selfish people.”

“So this young master will be that selfless person.” Chen Junnan laughed. “Although I don’t know whether betting all the ‘Zodiacs’ to death is useful or not… let’s just test it out on Earth-Snake.”

On the other end of the phone, Yun Yao pondered. She felt that Chen Junnan seemed to understand the “Land of Endings” very well, yet was also hiding quite a few things. She wasn’t clear what his purpose really was.

“You don’t need to think about the question from earlier either.” Chen Junnan said. “The question setter is ‘Xuanwu.’ She most likely won’t use Earth-Snake’s equipment. The earlier question was her randomly pressing buttons—probably every future question will be like this.”

“Then… what do you plan to do?”

“What else can we do?” Chen Junnan laughed. “We don’t have a ‘Question Setter’ anymore. This game has now become a complete ‘left-right’ game, with all questions controlled by the players.”

Chen Junnan gave a few more instructions, then hung up the phone.

Now he had a more important task—

Confirming the position of that old lecher Earth-Snake.

Things had become slightly tricky.

The room on his left was originally empty. By logic, making one phone call would confirm whether Earth-Snake had chosen this room.

But Earth-Snake was deeply versed in the game’s rules.

He knew that after Xuanwu took over, the “Question” became completely unimportant. From now on, as long as one actively controlled “Yes” and “No,” one could control the game.

So it was possible he would choose not to answer the phone in order to hide his position.

This way, there would be no way to determine whether his coordinates were “-2” or “3.”

Chen Junnan pressed the dial key and waited for a while. Just as he expected, no one answered in the room on his left. When the dial tone rang for the eleventh time, Xu Qian picked up.

“Hello?”

“Qian Jie…” Chen Junnan called out. “I’ll tell you the question. Let’s see what attitude everyone here has.”

“Okay…”

Chen Junnan closed his eyes and thought for a moment. Assuming Earth-Snake was right there on his left but hadn’t answered the phone, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

This meant Earth-Snake had no way to interfere with the “Question.” His own thoughts would be accurately transmitted to Xu Qian.

And since Earth-Snake had joined the game, everyone no longer needed to kill each other. As long as they could kill Earth-Snake, they could equally divide all the “Dao” on him, so unity should relatively improve.

Chen Junnan slowly opened his eyes and said: “Qian Jie, the question is this: ‘Someone has bet lives with Earth-Snake, shall we kill Earth-Snake together?'”

“This is good…” Xu Qian nodded and said. “As long as this question spreads throughout the venue, the ‘Participants’ might take the initiative.”

“Not necessarily.” Chen Junnan denied. “After all, in other people’s eyes this is just an ordinary question. No one can prove it’s real, but… let’s first transmit it like this.”

“Okay.”

After the two hung up the phone, Chen Junnan looked again at the personnel distribution diagram he had drawn on the wall.

Now the room on his left and the third room to Yun Yao’s right were empty.

Earth-Snake was hiding in one of these two rooms.

And right now the iron ball was suspended above the third room to Yun Yao’s right. If the answer to this question was “Yes,” it would make the iron ball continue moving left.

Chen Junnan had already determined his tactics.

This time “Yes,” next time “No,” making the iron ball return to “3.”

Then for the third question “Should it drop?” choose “Yes,” and slam it down hard.

Regardless of whether Earth-Snake was in that room or not, first slam him hard a few times.

But all of this had to be built on the foundation of the Participants uniting as one. As long as no one modified the question, Chen Junnan’s information would be transmitted to at least six people. Adding himself and Yun Yao, the people who knew Earth-Snake was participating in the game would reach eight. No matter what, they would be the “majority faction.” Earth-Snake could only wait for death.

If luck was even better, Earth-Snake wasn’t at “3” at all, but rather at “-2.” Then he would have no chance whatsoever to modify the question, and everyone on the field would know the news of Earth-Snake’s participation.

Next, the iron ball would drop ten more times. The best method, of course, was for all of them to land on Earth-Snake’s head. This way, no matter how strong and resilient his body was, he would inevitably die without a doubt.

After waiting for several long minutes, the screen in front of Chen Junnan flickered.

“The final answer to this question is—’Yes.'”

“Mm…” Chen Junnan nodded hesitantly. Just one “Yes” was still not enough to deduce the full picture of the entire matter. Did everyone know the news of Earth-Snake’s participation?

He would just have to watch the next progression.

“The next question is Question Eleven…” Chen Junnan looked at the distribution diagram on the wall and slowly furrowed his brow.

The eleventh person… was exactly “3”!

“Haha!” Chen Junnan couldn’t help but laugh aloud. According to the rules, the first person to receive the question needed to use the phone to transmit the question to the next person.

If he continued to play dead, he would definitely violate the rules.

“Earth-Snake, you old thief, won’t this flush you out?”

What came next was waiting—waiting for this question to be transmitted. If Earth-Snake wanted to survive, then he would definitely transmit it and change the question.

Ring ring ring—!!

The instant the phone rang, Chen Junnan had already put it to his ear.

“Speak.”

“Chen Junnan!” Yun Yao called out with a mix of happiness and tension. “Earth-Snake has appeared! His coordinates are ‘3’!”