“Why can I see text…?”

Su Shan furrowed her brow in thought for a moment, feeling like she had no clue whatsoever.

She lowered her head and looked at Lin Qin’s table again, then suddenly froze.

Although they were quite far apart, Su Shan could now see clearly the characters on Lin Qin’s “lots.”

Her eyes seemed to have truly undergone a transformation. Not only were those lots extremely far away from her, but the text on them was even facing away from her.

Yet Su Shan had obtained something like X-ray vision, able to clearly make out every single character on them at this moment.

“‘Spring Warmth and Blooming Flowers Day’ and ‘Average Fortune’…”

After reading the words on the lots, Su Shan turned her head to look at Qin Dingdong.

Qin Dingdong met Su Shan’s gaze at this moment.

She saw that Su Shan’s eyes had become incomparably dazzling, but they seemed somewhat overused—both eyes were now bloodshot.

“This is really quite troublesome…” Qin Dingdong shook her head. “Acting so recklessly right after gaining an ability? What if you go blind?”

Su Shan didn’t know what Qin Dingdong was muttering about. She just lowered her head to look at the “lots” in front of Qin Dingdong—”Autumn Wind Sweeps Fallen Leaves,” “Water Recedes Without a Trace.”

“I see…”

Now she really wanted to know what “lots” Lawyer Zhang had in her hand.

After all, she was “Spring.” If she couldn’t make proper plans for the entire year, this game could never be won no matter what.

She stared intently at that grayish-green swarm of insects. Because every single locust had tiny rays of light around it, Su Shan could only stare with great effort, her eyes wide open. Only after her eyes began to feel scorching hot could she roughly make out Zhang Chenze’s outline.

She seemed to have calmed down and was no longer flailing her arms, but her entire body was still trembling ceaselessly.

Su Shan looked through the light around each locust toward the table surface.

Because locusts were lying on every single “lot,” the writing on them was extremely difficult to discern.

Su Shan took a step forward and opened her eyes even wider with greater effort. It seemed that only by using all the strength in her body could her gaze penetrate through those locusts.

She clearly felt her eyes beginning to become even more scorching. After a spell of blood-red dizziness, she finally made out the text on the lots.

“Heavy Rain Pours Down,” “Blazing Sun Caresses the Earth.”

Now all the “lots” in everyone’s hands had been completely clarified.

Zhang Chenze had played “Average Fortune” in the first two rounds, and in the third round had played the “Ten Thousand People Unite to Relieve Disaster” that she herself had passed on.

Lin Qin had played “Average Fortune” for three consecutive rounds.

As for Qin Dingdong, her hand was relatively rich—she had played one lot of unknown name with “thick smoke,” one “Average Fortune,” and one “Firecrackers Bid Farewell to the Old Year.”

Excluding “Average Fortune,” and adding in all the “wish lots” that had already been consumed, eleven “wish lots” had appeared in total so far.

Among them, there were two “Firecrackers Bid Farewell to the Old Year.”

In other words, of the “wish lots” with five-character phrases, there were currently nine types.

“Something’s a bit strange…” Su Shan furrowed her brow, already thinking in a deeper direction. “If each ‘lot’ can counter one type of ‘calamity,’ why would nine lots with literal text appear? After all, the Earth-Dog only has eight types of ‘calamities,’ so what is that remaining lot for?”

Su Shan looked at the only remaining “wish lot” in her hand—”Four Seas Have No Idle Fields.”

If she hadn’t guessed wrong, this was the extra one.

Her previous direction of speculation should have been correct. “Four Seas Have No Idle Fields” wouldn’t counter any “calamity”—rather, it was a kind of “accumulation.” Since it had no “defensive means,” it must be an “offensive means.”

Looking at it from another perspective, the remaining eight lots had all already appeared. From now on, everyone could only draw two types of “lots”—”Average Fortune” and “Firecrackers.”

She didn’t know if this was bizarre luck or the Earth-Dog’s arrangement, but now both the “Four Seasons” and the “Year Beast” sides had already drawn all the lots that could be effective. What came next depended entirely on strategy.

Su Shan slowly closed her eyes, feeling that her eyes were a bit dry and painful. Her face also felt somewhat cold, as if she had shed tears. Without paying much attention to it, she inserted “Four Seas Have No Idle Fields” into the hole on the table surface.

Right now, no one could save Zhang Chenze. The only solution was for her to overcome the locusts filling the sky and continue the game within the room.

Though it was difficult, this was the only way.

Zhang Chenze’s room.

She trembled all over with her eyes closed, listening to the enormous buzzing sound resounding by her ears, feeling those hard, cold insects crawling all over her body, causing every pore on her body to contract rapidly.

The texture of locusts was very particular. In order to be able to stay on any crop, their feet all had sharp barbs.

Right now, these tens of thousands of barbs were all hooked onto Zhang Chenze’s skin. What should have been bone-cutting pain—yet Zhang Chenze couldn’t feel it at all.

She was on the verge of collapse, not daring to breathe at this moment, not daring to open her mouth, and even less daring to open her eyes.

With great difficulty, she had finally spat those few locusts out of her mouth. A bitter taste still lingered in her mouth now, and she never wanted to experience that feeling again.

The Earth-Dog lifted his head to look at Su Shan’s eyes. He seemed to have something he wanted to say, but he still cleared his throat and said in a low voice, “The first person’s ‘wish’ has ended. Please have the second person ‘draw lots.'”

Zhang Chenze was slightly startled when she heard this voice. Although she was already surrounded by these disgusting locusts, she absolutely could not stop moving now. If this was truly a game about the “Four Seasons,” she absolutely could not fall here.

If other people died tragically because she couldn’t move, that would be fundamentally unfair.

Looking at it from a macro perspective, the one who should really die this time was indeed herself. After all, she was neither an “Echoer” like Lin Qin and Qin Dingdong, nor was her mind as sharp as Su Shan’s. If one person had to die to win the game, her own death would absolutely be the optimal solution at this moment.

“Yes, this way is fair.”

Thinking of this, she slowly opened one eye. After confirming there were no locusts on her eyelid, she boldly swung her arm once.

The situation couldn’t possibly be worse than it was now.

“It’s just insects crawling all over my body…” Zhang Chenze slowly took a step forward, feeling like she was stepping on countless withered leaves that crackled and snapped underfoot. “It’s just a pity I have experience… This kind of thing can’t stump me…”

She tried her best to drive away the locusts on the table, wanting to clear out the blocked holes, but no matter how she drove them away, these insects just clung to the table motionless.

Zhang Chenze slowly clenched her teeth, then pressed her palm onto the table and forcefully pushed all the insects on the table surface away.

The “lot” for this round was finally revealed.

She could only faintly see that there were five characters on the “lot,” but before she could make them out clearly, her vision was filled with chaotic locusts. She quickly protected her eyes, and after carefully taking the “lot,” she cautiously crouched down. After clearing away the few locusts in front of her eyes, she lowered her head and looked very carefully at the five characters on the “lot”—

“Sweat Drips Down to the Soil Below the Grain.”