Seeing that Lin Qin was clearly injured, Su Shan’s expression finally lost its composure.

Even though these people were “veterans,” even though they could preserve their memories, even though they had already struggled countless times here—dying and living again—they were still “people” after all.

As humans, how fragile were they under these sheet metal mechanisms?

As long as Earth-Dog’s mechanisms were set up even slightly more ruthlessly, Lin Qin would already be dead by now.

But wasn’t this method of making someone die slowly equally cruel?

When Su Shan watched helplessly as Lin Qin was pushed into the air by the iron mesh once again, she gave up.

“Qi Xia, I’ve already tried my best to follow your guidance and do things accordingly… but I always feel I can’t do it.” Su Shan blinked. “If I have to abandon my teammates, I fundamentally can’t think of how to win.”

Su Shan’s eyes gradually became resolute: “I want to save them…”

Now they had arrived at the last phase of the second round—”Winter.”

Qin Dingdong stared somewhat blankly at Lin Qin’s room until a “lot” popped up from her own table.

“Firecrackers Bid Farewell to the Old Year.”

She was startled and picked up this “lot” with an expressionless face.

This was the true “killing move,” much stronger than the “Thick Smoke Scatters Across Eight Directions” she had played in the previous round.

Just as she was about to insert this “lot” into the hole, she remembered her experience in the previous round.

When she was about to be buried by fine sand, it was Su Shan’s “lot” that saved her.

So following this logic, should she also save Lin Qin now?

But could she… still be saved?

While Qin Dingdong was contemplating, Lin Qin fell consecutively two more times, once nearly hitting the table in the room.

Her situation was extremely urgent. Who in this world had ever tried repeatedly falling from a height of three meters while half-crouched?

Qin Dingdong took out the “lots” in her hand—one was “Strong Wind Sweeps Fallen Leaves,” one was “Water Recedes Without a Trace.”

Judging from their literal meanings, neither of these two “lots” should be able to save “Lin Qin,” but if she didn’t do something, could Lin Qin survive?

Just at this moment, from the corner of her eye Qin Dingdong saw Su Shan. Su Shan was anxiously pounding on the glass, seemingly wanting to express something.

Qin Dingdong looked at her lip movements and discovered she was saying “pass.”

“Pass…?” Qin Dingdong furrowed her brows. “Could it be… you can save Lin Qin?”

Without time to think, she hurriedly inserted “Firecrackers Bid Farewell to the Old Year” into the hole.

A moment later, Earth-Dog’s room lit up with five-colored brilliance, and the cheap firecracker sound effect rang out again.

This time there was a clear difference from the last time. After the lights went out and the sound effect stopped, one of the lanterns above Earth-Dog’s head went out.

Earth-Dog furrowed his brows and looked at Qin Dingdong, his eyes revealing a trace of killing intent, muttering a sentence: “Really troublesome…”

Except for Lin Qin, everyone looked at that extinguished lantern.

This was the first step they had taken toward victory. Since Su Shan had previously drawn “Firecrackers Bid Farewell to the Old Year,” she was even more certain of her idea.

To make the “firecrackers” attack the “Nian Beast,” the only method was to pass this “lot” to “winter,” then have “winter” make the wish.

After all, the card said “bid farewell to the old year,” and “winter” was the end of the year.

The third round began.

After Su Shan began acting, she didn’t hesitate for a moment and hurriedly picked up “All People Together Provide Disaster Relief” in her hand and inserted it into the hole on the left side of the table.

What she had to do this time wasn’t to “make a wish,” but to “give a gift.”

After all, this “lot” had an arrow pointing left. If her guess wasn’t wrong, once she “made a wish,” this lot would only take effect in Zhang Chenze’s room, but her room didn’t have an “earthquake,” so the “lot” wouldn’t take effect.

Now the only hope was to have Zhang Chenze “wish” for this lot.

After sending out the “lot,” Su Shan received the “lot” for this round—it was a “Neutral Lot.”

This was the first time Su Shan had seen a “Neutral Lot.”

Now in her hand were “No Idle Fields Throughout the Four Seas” and one “Neutral Lot.”

“So there are still… ‘Neutral Lots’…?”

Su Shan had a trace of an ominous premonition. If this game was meant to balance the probability of victory for both sides, then among all the “lots” there should be a large number of “Neutral Lots.” In other words, every “lot” that could be “wished for” was extremely precious and must be used well.

But now there was a huge hidden danger.

Qin Dingdong had wasted a “lot” in a previous round—it was a “lot” that could produce huge amounts of smoke.

If every “lot” could exactly break one “calamity,” which kind of “calamity” did “smoke” correspond to?

Would it result in one type of calamity that couldn’t be resolved at the final moment?

“Now is not the time to consider this…”

Su Shan came to the glass side, attracted Zhang Chenze’s attention, then pointed at the “lot” that had just emerged from Zhang Chenze’s table, and then pointed at Lin Qin’s room.

Zhang Chenze nodded and picked up this lot to look at it.

Yes, the words on the “lot” were already written very clearly.

Since an “earthquake” was occurring in Lin Qin’s room, which was a powerful natural disaster that was completely impossible to resist or predict, the only thing people could do under this kind of disaster was “disaster relief.”

Zhang Chenze decisively inserted “All People Together Provide Disaster Relief” into the hole.

This time Lin Qin was again lifted into the air. She looked very weak, her hands and knees covered in blood. She listlessly raised her head and looked at everyone in the room, her expression slightly despairing.

She had never imagined she would die under such a bizarre punishment.

If she could choose, she would rather fall directly from a height of thirty meters instead of falling ten times from a height of three meters.

The other people in the room were equally clear that if Lin Qin was dropped this time, judging by her current condition, even if she didn’t die, she absolutely couldn’t stand up again.

In that case, “autumn” would disappear, and the most important link among the four seasons would be broken right there.

Just as the iron mesh was about to fall, the broadcast in Lin Qin’s room suddenly rang out with the shouting voices of tens of thousands of people.

This soul-stirring sound gave Lin Qin a glimmer of hope for life. In a daze, she felt as if someone had come to save her.

Although no one appeared, the iron mesh still slowly descended amidst the crowd’s shouting and finally landed steadily on the ground.

Lin Qin was saved.

But her condition was very poor. She felt pain all over her body, and her right leg had also lost sensation.

She raised her head and felt something ice-cold sliding down from her forehead. Reaching out to touch it, her palm was also covered in crimson blood. It seemed she had scraped her forehead at some point earlier. Fortunately, the injury wasn’t severe, and her mind was still relatively clear now.

“The second person’s ‘wish’ is complete. Please have the third person ‘draw lots.'” Earth-Dog’s calm voice transmitted from the broadcast again, drowning out the shouting in Lin Qin’s room.

Zhang Chenze looked at the “lots” in her hand and slowly furrowed her brows.

This round she hadn’t “drawn lots” at all; instead, she had received Su Shan’s “lot.”

In other words, compared to the previous round, the “lots” in her hand hadn’t changed at all. So as long as one accepted a “gift,” they would forfeit “drawing lots”?

“‘Earthquakes’ really are terrifying…” Zhang Chenze said with a grave expression. “This ‘calamity lot’ was only applied to autumn, yet it caused the remaining several seasons to be unable to take any other actions for the entire round…”