After everyone had finished selecting their answers, Zhong Zhen slowly stood up, took off his suit jacket, then folded it neatly and laid it flat on his chair.

He loosened his shirt collar to make himself as comfortable as possible, then stood up and walked a few creaking steps to the center of the room, looking up calmly at the ceiling.

“A massive iron ball… Come then, come kill me.”

He spread his arms wide, as if welcoming a violent storm.

A line of text gradually lit up on the screen—

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

Zhong Zhen smiled faintly. “Good to die… If one could forget everything each time, people wouldn’t suffer so much.”

“BOOM—”!!

A tremendous sound suddenly exploded. Everyone was confused for a moment.

Yun Yao was shaken so hard by this sound that she couldn’t sit steady, falling directly to the ground along with her chair.

She had no time to feel the pain and hurriedly scrambled up to frantically pound on her left wall in terror.

The massive sound just now had actually come from her left side.

Wasn’t the coordinate of the person supposed to die this round “4”? How could it be “-2”?!

“Chen, Chen Junnan… Chen Junnan, you…” Yun Yao tremblingly knocked on the wall, but she didn’t know what to say. It seemed that asking anything now would be superfluous.

In just a few seconds, Yun Yao’s eyes had already turned red with anxiety. Countless questions emerged in her mind, but no one could answer them for her.

Why was this?

Who had cheated?

“Referee! Referee!” Yun Yao left the wall and came to the door, then pounded hard on the wooden door. “The equipment has a problem! Your rules also have a problem! Is anyone there?”

A moment later, Yun Yao only felt a gust of strong wind sound from the other side of the wooden door, followed by an oncoming wave of cold air.

Xuanwu seemed to be standing outside.

“Re-Referee… You made these rules yourself. The iron ball shouldn’t have fallen here!” Yun Yao reached out and patted the door again. “Right now is the critical moment of gambling with our lives. How can you use such tactics?”

Xuanwu pondered for a while, then spoke. “Making such a racket—how bold.”

After hearing this, Yun Yao slowly stepped back. The sense of danger from Xuanwu outside the door was more than a level higher than Earth-Snake.

Seeing that Yun Yao didn’t speak, Xuanwu spoke again. “The rules never mentioned when the iron ball would fall. The game situation is entirely normal.”

“Normal…?” Yun Yao felt that Xuanwu had gone so crazy that he had no normal thinking. “The iron ball just now was clearly opposite us. Now it has silently crossed half the field and suddenly fallen next to me. You call this normal?!”

“How bold.” Xuanwu said coldly. “If you continue to make trouble unreasonably, your head will certainly be separated from your body.”

Yun Yao was slightly stunned. All her words were stuck in her throat.

Why exactly?

She had just found the motivation to move forward, but everything had vanished in an instant.

Why, in this damned place, could she not accomplish a single thing she wanted to do?

The “Heaven’s Gate” she had poured all her efforts into had now completely collapsed. The people preserving memories were becoming fewer and fewer. She had finally wanted to gamble an Earth-level to death and start over from the beginning, and now Chen Junnan was dead.

His death meant the “Participants'” gamble with Earth-Snake was over.

Could it be that gambling with Earth-levels would never succeed?

But… why would Xuanwu say “everything is normal”?

Yun Yao was so anxious that her palms trembled, and her ears kept ringing. Why… why hadn’t she heard the bell sound until now?

“Wait a minute…” Yun Yao looked up blankly and surveyed the room she was in.

The soundproofing here was really too good. It was very difficult to hear sounds from outside.

Could it be that the “Echo” had already arrived?

Yun Yao thought for a while, then the corners of her mouth curved up.

She had long anticipated that such a day would come, anticipated that she would be completely isolated from the outside world, not knowing where the “Echo” was.

But “Strong Luck” was, after all, “Strong Luck.”

Yun Yao took a rotten-tomato-colored lipstick from her small bag, pulled off the cap and twisted it out, then gently applied it to her lower lip. Then she pressed her lips together, making herself look somewhat more spirited in this dark room.

“My ‘Strong Luck’…”

Her eyes turned cold as she raised her head and casually tossed the lipstick into the air.

The lipstick leaped high, traced a perfect parabola in the air, then rushed toward the ground.

“Thud.”

The uncapped lipstick stood steadily on the ground.

Yun Yao bent down to pick up the lipstick, then threw it into the air once more.

The lipstick still stood on the ground.

After three times, Yun Yao was already confident.

Her “Strong Luck” had arrived. She just didn’t know how strong this “Luck” could be…?

Yun Yao held the lipstick cap in her left hand, raising the cap upward toward mid-air.

Then her right hand picked up the lipstick and threw it forcefully at the wall. This time she used tremendous force.

The thrown lipstick was like a wildly flying bullet, continuously striking the walls inside the room several times. Each time its bottom touched the wall. Finally, it hit the screen in front of Yun Yao and bounced toward the air above.

Yun Yao closed her eyes, trying not to control her movements. The next second, the lipstick flying toward the air inserted itself back into the cap.

Everything was luck.

“Very good…” Yun Yao opened her eyes and threw the lipstick into her backpack. “‘Luck’ is very strong. I haven’t received such strong ‘Luck’ in a long time. I hope it can last a little longer…”

She lowered her head to reconsider the tactics. At this time, Chen Junnan should already be dead, but Xuanwu said “everything is normal”… Could it be that they had to wait until the game completely ended?

Because Earth-Snake was currently in the game, there was no reason to let him withdraw midway?

Or had someone else gambled their life, causing Earth-Snake to be unable to break free?

Whatever the result, she now had “Strong Luck” on her person. Even if that iron ball was suspended above her head, it absolutely couldn’t possibly fall.

It would get stuck, it would malfunction, it would crack—in any case, it wouldn’t fall.

This was “Strong Luck.”

On the other side, in Zhong Zhen’s room.

After the massive sound settled with dust in the distance, Zhong Zhen also opened his eyes in disbelief.

“Is this a miracle…?”

He hesitated for a moment, then slowly revealed a smile. “Someone actually made a move at this moment. It’s hard not to believe this isn’t the gods’ intention.”

After pausing for a few seconds, Zhong Zhen turned back to pick up his suit jacket and put it back on.

A one-in-ten-thousand probability had taken effect—what else was impossible?

That “Scapegoat” was really here.

What an infinitesimally small probability this was!

Not only was he here, but he had also made his move at just the right time to help him escape a certain-death situation.

If this wasn’t arranged by “the gods,” then what was it?

“Since the gods have helped me, then it’s my turn to fulfill my vow.” Zhong Zhen swept up his somewhat disheveled bangs, revealing an exceptionally sinister face. “My dear neighbor… I need to find a way to kill you.”

At this time, the White-Clothed Girl slowly frowned, feeling the situation was somewhat strange.

The rules seemed to have been completely figured out by her, but how could the iron ball appear there…?