“If one ‘stick’ can save Old Qin…” Lin Qin decisively picked up “Water Falls Without a Trace.”

As long as she could resolve the accumulated water in Qin Dingdong’s room, it would be very difficult for her to lose her life.

The current situation was rather complex. The combination of flooding and hail greatly increased the probability of Qin Dingdong’s death.

The turbulent water flow mixed with low temperature could carry away all of a person’s body heat even faster than “cold current.” Moreover, with foreign matter entering the room from two directions, the speed at which it would be filled had shortened by half.

Now they just needed to drain the water from Qin Dingdong’s room, and the situation would greatly improve.

After all, broken ice could hardly cause suffocation. Even to drown someone, it would need a certain amount of time to melt.

“It should be like this, right?” Lin Qin held a “stick” in each hand. She knew the game had entered its final stage, and every choice affected everyone’s life and death. She could only raise her head to look at Su Shan, then slowly lifted “Water Falls Without a Trace,” as if waiting for Su Shan’s opinion.

Su Shan looked at that “stick,” stroked her chin with her hand, and was just about to nod in agreement when she hesitated.

A barely perceptible thought flashed through her mind.

“Wait…” She reached out to stop Lin Qin’s action, then narrowed her eyes to think for a moment.

The current situation… was a bit strange.

Could Earth-Dog be this foolish?

It was already the last two rounds. For him, this was no different from a decisive battle, which meant the move he was giving now was his most ferocious “killing blow.”

But after setting up the “calamity” in Qin Dingdong’s room, he had clearly left an entire round’s time for the remaining “Four Seasons” to react.

According to normal development, all the “rescue efforts” would be sent from various seasons successively to “winter.”

Since the “Year Beast” had activated the “calamity” before Qin Dingdong’s “wish,” even the “wishing stick” in Qin Dingdong’s own hand had enough time to make a full circuit to save herself.

In other words, although this round seemed like the “Year Beast” had unleashed all his killing moves, he had left gaps everywhere.

It was the “besieging a city but leaving an opening” tactic again.

“This is really too abnormal…” Su Shan extended a finger to stroke her nose. “Do you have some special plan?”

Right now, it appeared that using “Water Falls Without a Trace” could solve all the immediate problems. Qin Dingdong could survive, and everyone could smoothly enter the final round.

At that time, regardless of what the “calamity” was, everyone just needed to immediately complete a circuit of “No Idle Fields Under Heaven” to extinguish the “Year Beast’s” lamp, thereby winning this game.

“So you hope we’ll use this ‘Water Falls Without a Trace’?” Su Shan had a feeling of déjà vu.

Last time, Qi Xia had led her into hell in exactly this inconspicuous manner.

But Su Shan knew that this time, she was more calm than last time.

Inferring from a macro perspective, why would Earth-Dog guide them to play “Water Falls Without a Trace”?

With only one round left, Earth-Dog only had one “calamity stick” remaining in his hand.

Regardless of what was written on this “calamity stick,” it would be resolved by “Torrential Rainstorm.”

Right now, “Torrential Rainstorm” was in “summer’s” hands. This was the center of the year, sufficient to deal with various situations occurring throughout the year.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if the last round’s calamity fell on “spring” or “summer,” even if there was no way to resolve this “calamity,” as long as they moved fast enough, they could still complete “No Idle Fields Under Heaven.”

Wasn’t this a guaranteed winning situation…?

“Ah!”

Su Shan’s eyes instantly widened. She felt her warm tears continuously flowing out. Her vision was somewhat blurred at the moment. She hurriedly wiped away her tears, and her eyes shone with brilliance.

“I understand now!”

Without time to say more, she hurriedly raised her head and made a gesture to Lin Qin.

She tried to use simple sign language to tell Lin Qin not to play “Water Falls Without a Trace,” but rather to play “Spring Warmth and Blooming Flowers.”

Lin Qin had a general feeling she had misunderstood Su Shan’s meaning. Several times she took out “Water Falls Without a Trace” and waved it in front of Su Shan, but Su Shan shook her head each time.

“What the hell…? Is there really no problem?” Lin Qin muttered to herself somewhat incredulously. “The one that needs to be resolved first is ‘hail’…?”

She simply turned the “stick” directly around, showing Su Shan the characters on it. Su Shan looked carefully and still shook her head.

“Have you not gone mad…?” Lin Qin was at a loss for words. She looked at Qin Dingdong next door. At this moment, the mixture of water flow and broken ice had already reached her waist.

At this time, they were actually going to stop the “hail”?!

Wouldn’t Qin Dingdong be drowned very quickly then?

“This… this…” Lin Qin knew she wasn’t stupid, but she completely couldn’t guess what Su Shan was thinking. “Forget it… I’ll just listen to you…”

As she inserted the “stick” into the hole, everyone present, including Earth-Dog, stared at Qin Dingdong’s room.

Su Shan looked at Earth-Dog’s expression impassively, knowing she should have guessed correctly.

This was a move so dangerous it couldn’t be more dangerous.

The broken ice from the ceiling stopped after a tremor, and only the gradually rising water level remained in the entire room.

Upon seeing this scene, Earth-Dog clearly furrowed his brow. He turned his face to look at Su Shan.

“Worthy of being you…” Earth-Dog’s low voice rang out from the broadcast. “This is too unscientific. How were you able to guess?”

Su Shan had no way to answer Earth-Dog. She just slightly raised the corners of her mouth.

Now the odds of winning this game had finally increased.

Earth-Dog silently lowered his head and said, “The third person’s ‘wish’ has ended. Now please have the fourth person ‘draw a stick’…”

His tone was no longer as calm as before. After all, even he himself hadn’t expected that the strategy he had racked his brains to devise would actually be seen through.

Qin Dingdong didn’t understand. She had originally thought that the remaining teammates should remove her “flooding,” but after all that bustle, they had actually removed the “hail.”

Now her room was a complete mess. The two “neutral sticks” in her hand were floating on the water surface together with the broken ice, while the table was submerged underwater.

How was she supposed to “draw a stick”?

Before she could figure it out, a “stick” floated up from the table surface. This “stick” quickly detached from the table and floated onto the water surface.

“Screwing with me, huh…?” Qin Dingdong furrowed her brow. “Big sister’s makeup is going to run.”

Qin Dingdong floated on the water surface. Enduring the cold throughout her body, she took a deep breath, then holding the “stick,” dove headfirst into the water and firmly inserted it into the hole on the table surface.

“The eighth round… begins.” Earth-Dog sighed deeply.

Seeing Earth-Dog’s performance, Su Shan’s anxious heart finally relaxed somewhat. Inferring from all the circumstances, the last “stick” in Earth-Dog’s hand wasn’t “drought” at all.

Because while using “Torrential Rainstorm” to resolve “drought” made sense in principle, it wasn’t one hundred percent compatible.

Since Earth-Dog had kept this “stick” until the very last round, it meant the last “stick” in his hand was a “calamity” more powerful than “drought”—powerful enough to kill a person in an extremely short time, but it feared water.

For example—

“Wildfire.”