“He’s here!” Little Glasses called out happily. “He’s finally here!”

They saw the large man slowly approaching. He was about one point nine meters tall with a buzz cut.

While yawning and feeling around in his pocket, he asked the ox-headed person, “How much?”

“Entry ticket is one ‘Dao.'”

The large man pulled out a small orb from his pocket and flicked it to the ox-headed person with his thumb. The ox-headed person caught it steadily in his hand.

“Slept well… let’s begin.” The large man stretched lazily, then moved his neck around and said in a muffled voice, “Let me see what tricks you’ve come up with this time.”

Qi Xia and the other three looked at this fierce-looking large man, feeling he wasn’t exactly a good person.

Qiao Jiajin didn’t pay much attention to the large man. After all, he had seen too many people like this on the streets.

These people relied on their strong bodies to run rampant in the streets. Qiao Jiajin had personally beaten several of them to tears.

He just didn’t know whether the large man before him… was also a paper tiger?

With the number reaching twenty people, everyone began to slowly step forward to pay their “entry tickets.”

Qi Xia thought for a moment, then also took out four “Dao.”

This was not a small amount for them. After submitting these four, they would only have one “Dao” left.

“Are we really participating in this game?” Qiao Jiajin asked. “What about our tactics?”

“I’m conflicted too,” Qi Xia said. “Although doing this is very risky, I feel that games with twenty people participating together aren’t so easy to come across. It’s worth gambling on.”

After obtaining the agreement of the other three, Qi Xia deposited four “Dao” into the box before the ox-headed person.

“Very good.” The ox-headed person nodded, then turned back to open the door. Inside the door was a staircase leading downward, heading to the basement.

“All participants, please enter.”

He turned around and slowly walked down the stairs.

The participants also followed behind him with cautious expressions on their faces, walking toward the depths underground.

“This venue looks very large… completely on a different level from the ‘Man-Mouse’s,'” Tiantian said quietly.

“Be careful,” Qi Xia replied. “I have an ominous premonition.”

That middle-aged man had asserted before participating in the game that this game would result in “death,” which greatly concerned Qi Xia.

But what he feared now wasn’t death, but rather being forever buried in this bizarre place.

As a liar, he had experienced too many life-risking adventures, but without exception, he had survived them all.

Thinking carefully, this time wasn’t any different from previous situations—it was all just licking blood from the edge of a blade.

Before long, everyone reached the bottom of the stairs.

This was a small room. Under dim lighting, it was filled with an old, musty smell. Twenty chairs were placed in the center of the room.

On both sides of the room were doors, painted with colors—one yellow, one green.

“Everyone, please sit,” the ox-headed person said. “Don’t worry, the game hasn’t started yet.”

After hearing this, everyone sat down skeptically. Qi Xia and the other three also sat side by side together.

Only then did they discover that there was a small light on each armrest of the chairs, one yellow and one green.

“Since this is a team game, to ensure fairness, we will now conduct ‘random team division.’ Please do not move from your seats, otherwise ‘punishment’ will be administered to everyone in advance.”

With this single statement, everyone’s expressions became somewhat unnatural.

The ones who reacted the most were Little Glasses and the middle-aged man. “Ah?! Team division?!”

Qi Xia stroked his chin and thought briefly, knowing that this setup only benefited the organizer.

If this was a “gambling” game, they must reduce the participants’ chances of winning to the minimum. Thinking this way, the best method was to scramble everyone’s teams.

The ox-headed person walked to a corner of the room, found a button switch, then turned back to look at everyone meaningfully and said, “The game officially begins.”

After speaking, he pressed the button. The lights on both sides of everyone’s chairs began to flicker. Yellow and green light started changing continuously, forming a bizarre scene in this dim space.

Qi Xia looked at the small lights on his armrests, feeling somewhat nervous.

If “Ox” truly represented physical strength type games, that wasn’t within his area of expertise. This game would have to rely on the brute force of Qiao Jiajin.

But if he could think this way, others could too.

For example, that Little Glasses and the chubby middle-aged man—they had called over that large man as their helper.

But everyone’s little schemes seemed to be completely within Earth-Ox’s grasp. He would try to avoid this kind of situation from happening, which was why there was this “random team division.”

Qi Xia knew that if his luck was extremely poor and he and Qiao Jiajin were divided into two different teams, the benefits of this game would become difficult to predict.

Before Qi Xia could come up with a complete strategy, the two-colored lights stopped flickering.

Some people’s yellow lights lit up, while another group’s green lights lit up.

It seemed this was the random team division.

Qi Xia turned his head to look around at how the four of them were divided. It was both good and bad.

The good news was that he and Qiao Jiajin both had yellow lights lit, so they were on the same team. But the bad news was that the two girls had green lights lit and were divided onto another team. If this really was a physical strength type game, it would be very unfavorable for them.

Sighs rose and fell throughout the crowd. It seemed that aside from Qi Xia’s team, the other people’s team divisions were also unsatisfactory.

“The game rules will now be announced,” the ox-headed person said in a muffled voice. “Both sides will conduct games independently, each having their own field, with no connection to each other. As long as you can persist for ten minutes in the field without being eliminated, you will be considered to have passed. In the end, everyone can obtain a number of ‘Dao’ equal to the number of people who passed.”

After hearing these rules, many people couldn’t sit still.

“Hey!” The middle-aged man stood up at once. “You might as well have said nothing at all! What game are we actually participating in? What will we encounter?”

After hearing this, everyone also quietly looked toward Earth-Ox. They originally thought he would explain the game rules further, but he only looked at the middle-aged man, then said indifferently, “Yellow light team, please follow me.”

“You…!” The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, but didn’t dare to curse out loud.

He hadn’t been divided onto the same team as his teammate, and was already full of anger. Now he couldn’t even understand the rules clearly. His entire emotional state was very unstable. Little Glasses beside him could only keep tugging at his clothes, trying to get him to calm down.

Qi Xia turned his head to look at Tiantian and Lin Qin, saying, “No matter what’s inside that door, be very careful. Remember that survival is the priority.”

“Mm.” The two girls nodded nervously.

“Let’s go.” Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin walked forward.

The two looked at their “teammates” and found that the situation wasn’t optimistic either. Among these ten people, six were actually women. If they really had to conduct a team “physical strength type” game, it would inevitably be a tough battle.

Besides Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin, the other two men were Little Glasses and the middle-aged man. Meanwhile, the team next to them only had the two women, Tiantian and Lin Qin.

“Damn…” Qiao Jiajin looked at those two teammates’ physiques and couldn’t help cursing quietly. “One skinny guy, one fat guy…”

“Don’t say anymore,” Qi Xia said. “We can only rely on ourselves.”

The ten people lined up and stood before the yellow door.

The other ten people, under the ox-headed person’s direction, also stood before the green door.

As a low rumbling of chains sounded, the doors before everyone opened. Again, it was a downward staircase.

Without a word, Qiao Jiajin walked down. The others in the team also quickened their pace to follow him.

This staircase wasn’t long, but it was somewhat steep. Everyone walked about several dozen steps before arriving at a spacious field. This place was approximately half the size of a basketball court. In the center of the field was a round iron plate about the size of a table.

Qi Xia quickly surveyed the environment here. This place was surrounded on all four sides by high walls. On the front side was a large iron door, and above the large iron door was a countdown electronic clock, the time frozen at ten minutes.