Qiao Jiajin led his small squad around for a long time before finally finding the second Earth-level Zodiac.

The three men and three women in the team didn’t know what exactly Qiao Jiajin was concerned about, but considering that all of them together previously couldn’t beat him in a fight, they could only follow him unconditionally as he walked through the streets.

Until they saw that Earth-Horse from afar.

The Earth-Horse appeared to be a woman with a pure white horse head, white mane cascading down like long hair.

She wore a pure white suit with a wine-red shirt underneath, currently standing in front of an indoor basketball court waiting for everyone.

“Hello there.”

Seeing people approaching, the Earth-Horse started greeting them from far away.

After seeing this, Qiao Jiajin scratched his head and slowly walked up.

“Horse… Horse…” Qiao Jiajin was stunned for a long time before somewhat uncertainly spitting out three words: “Horse Sister?”

“What sister…” The Earth-Horse frowned as she looked at Qiao Jiajin. “How rude. You should at least call me ‘Earth-Horse.'”

“Okay, okay, okay…” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “Earth Sister.”

“How rude!” The Earth-Horse shouted. “How can there be someone as rude as you?!”

“Huh?” Qiao Jiajin felt somewhat wronged. “How was I rude? Weren’t you the one who told me to call you Earth Lady?”

“Stop your nonsense.” The Earth-Horse looked somewhat angry, her previously refined temperament disappearing completely within just a sentence or two. “Are you playing or not?!”

“Uh…” Qiao Jiajin was stunned. “We’ll, we’ll play… But can you first tell me what this game is about?”

“Death race.” The Earth-Horse said impatiently. “Five ‘Dao’ per person. Those who survive get ten each. Hurry up.”

Qiao Jiajin looked back at the people behind him with some difficulty and asked quietly: “Did I make her angry somehow? Do Zodiacs usually have ‘Earth’ as their surname or ‘Horse’?”

“I don’t think it’s about the ‘surname’ at all…” Bai Jiu also covered her mouth and smiled. “The problem lies with ‘sister.'”

“‘Sister’?” Qiao Jiajin didn’t quite understand. “This woman is almost two meters tall. Shouldn’t I call her sister?”

“You’re pretty sturdy yourself.” Bai Jiu reached out and tapped Qiao Jiajin’s arm. “You look thin, but you’re actually so solid.”

“Ah… let’s not talk about that…” Qiao Jiajin shook his head. “Do we have enough ‘Dao’? Seven people, five per person… that adds up to quite a bit.”

“Don’t worry.” Bai Jiu nodded and pulled out dozens of “Dao” from her small backpack behind her. She counted them with her not-very-wide palms, then stood up and handed them to the Earth-Horse. “Sister, don’t be angry. Here’s the ‘Dao.'”

“Good girl.” The Earth-Horse reached out and patted Bai Jiu’s head, then collected all the “Dao.”

After seeing this, Qiao Jiajin was even more confused: “I still don’t understand… Why is it okay when you call her sister?”

“Qiao Ge, just don’t ask.” Bai Jiu and Yun Shijiu showed bitter smiles. “Let’s hurry inside.”

The Earth-Horse collected all the “Dao,” nodded to everyone, turned around, and opened the large door behind her.

Everyone felt a burst of cold air hit them head-on, as if extremely low-temperature air conditioning was running inside.

“If you all have thick clothes, remember to wear more layers. It’ll be very uncomfortable if you catch a cold.” The Earth-Horse seemed to have recovered her composure and said in a gentle voice, “This way, please.”

Everyone took a breath at the entrance, then braving the icy cold air, slowly walked into this basketball gymnasium.

Fortunately, the construction of basketball courts wasn’t complicated. Everyone could almost see the entire structure at a glance.

Though called a “basketball court,” this place looked like a completely renovated small plaza. The basketball hoops on both sides had been removed, leaving only a flat floor.

Looking carefully at these floors, they also seemed to have been tampered with, covered with a thick layer of ice. If you said this wasn’t a basketball court but an ice skating rink, there wouldn’t be any problem with that.

In the center of the venue, many pieces of broken glass with pointed ends facing upward were neatly arranged in two rows, faintly drawing a straight track in the middle of the ice surface.

Outside the track, many waist-high wooden boxes stood on both sides, each with a small circular hole on top, their purpose unknown.

At the end of the track, something about the size of a motorcycle was covered by a dark-colored curtain.

“Everyone, my game is called ‘Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse.'”

“Wooden Flowing Flowing Horse?” Qiao Jiajin paused.

“Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse.”

“Wooden, Wooden Ox Ox Horse?”

“Wooden…” The Earth-Horse was about to explain but suddenly turned her head away angrily. “If you can’t understand, forget it. What’s the point of you causing such a commotion? A crude person like you probably wouldn’t find it useful even if you understood.”

“This…” Qiao Jiajin only felt that the big sister before him still seemed very angry, but he didn’t know where exactly his problem lay.

“Now I’ll explain the rules to everyone. Listen carefully.” The Earth-Horse slowly walked around the ice surface and came to the end of the straight track. “My game rules are very simple… You seven people, all of you must complete one round trip on the track within fifteen minutes. That counts as winning the game.”

“One round trip?” Qiao Jiajin looked at the track formed by the thick ice layer and swallowed. “Will you give us ice skates?”

“Ice skates…?” The Earth-Horse smiled slightly. Only then did everyone notice she seemed to have applied lipstick to her pitch-black lips, looking somewhat strange. “Don’t even think about ice skates, but I’ll give you something else. This thing is much more formidable than Westerners’ ice skates.”

“What…?” Qiao Jiajin lifted his foot and looked at his old leather shoes, feeling this matter was a bit difficult.

The Earth-Horse paused, then reached out and pulled aside the curtain nearby, revealing the wooden structure that had been covered underneath. It was a very strange pushcart.

This pushcart didn’t look much different from an ordinary pushcart, but there was a chair on top of the cart bed. This chair seemed to be integrated with the pushcart, apparently fixed with mortise and tenon joints during production.

Qiao Jiajin looked at the pushcart’s wheels again. This look didn’t matter, but it gave him quite a shock.

Although like other pushcarts, the wheel was in the middle of the entire pushcart, it wasn’t an ordinary wheel but a very smoothly carved wooden sphere.

“Damn…” Qiao Jiajin cursed under his breath. “Earth Lady, you’re not joking, are you? We have to push this cart with a sphere at the bottom on the ice?”

“That’s right.” The Earth-Horse said. “Not only do you have to move on the ice, but you also have to return before the time runs out, otherwise everyone dies.”

“Do you think I’ve never pushed a pushcart before?” Qiao Jiajin felt this game was somewhat absurd. “Even ordinary wheels might not be able to move smoothly on this kind of ice surface, let alone a sphere…”

“That’s why people need to push.” The Earth-Horse said. “Sounds quite reasonable, doesn’t it?”