Qiao Jiajin had quick eyes and fast hands. Just before Qiu Ershi was about to crash into the handcart, he reached out and grabbed his leather jacket.

Before everyone could react, Qiu Ershi was casually pulled aside by Qiao Jiajin like a rag, then steadily supported.

“Annoying kid…” Qiao Jiajin looked at the still-shaken Qiu Ershi and smiled. “Your reaction is quite fast, it’s just that your body is too light…”

“No, no it’s not that, Qiao Ge…” Qiu Ershi shook his head. “It’s really a bit slippery underfoot… I’ll pay attention next time.”

After hearing this, Qiao Jiajin nodded. “Keep your eyes tightly on the opening, and lower your center of gravity while you’re at it.”

Qiu Ershi rubbed his forearms, feeling as if someone had punched him hard. “Okay, Qiao Ge.”

The two began guarding one side of the cart, slowly advancing along with the cart’s speed.

The people pushing the cart gradually found their method as well, and their speed gradually increased.

After reaching the endpoint, everyone once again encountered a difficulty.

According to Earth-Horse’s description, they needed to push the entire cart for a round trip. The best method would of course be to push the cart to the endpoint and then pull it back to the starting point intact, but this way everyone would change from “pushing the cart” to “pulling the cart.” Having no choice, they could only turn around, but turning around wasn’t as simple as everyone had imagined.

Because the track was very narrow and the cart body was rather long, everyone had to rotate the cart while avoiding the glass under their feet. Almost everyone had to try to step over these sharp instruments on the ice surface.

During this time, Ning Shiba nearly fell while moving, but fortunately Luo Shiwu beside her supported her.

If she fell here, it wouldn’t just be her feet that got injured—her entire body could be cut by the glass.

While everyone was turning the cart around, Qiao Jiajin and Qiu Ershi kept carefully watching the wooden box in the distance, but the wooden box didn’t make any movement. It just continuously rotated its direction, always keeping its opening aimed at everyone.

“Damn…” Qiao Jiajin blocked the “Cat” members behind him and looked at the wooden box with slight puzzlement. “What principle does this damn thing operate on? It’s clearly wood but can keep turning its head?”

Everyone also knew that the first round should be the simplest round of the entire game. If they couldn’t even endure this round, they could almost directly admit defeat in the following rounds.

“Same tactics.” Qiao Jiajin said. “Annoying kid and I will block the ice balls together. Everyone else focus on pushing the cart.”

“Okay!” Several people answered in unison.

The cart had barely moved less than half a meter when “Army Breaker” immediately made a move.

Only hearing a “clack” muffled sound, the ice ball inside seemed to have been reloaded.

But for Qiao Jiajin, this time wasn’t good. Due to the special position of “Army Breaker,” for everyone this wooden box was closer to the endpoint rather than the starting point, so at this very moment they were very close to “Army Breaker.”

In an instant, Qiao Jiajin raised both hands in front of him, stood firm in a Wing Chun Character Goat Clamping Horse stance, steadied his upper body, and assumed the Wing Chun upper and lower double guard hands.

“Don’t know if the knowledge I learned can be used…” Qiao Jiajin took a deep breath. “Being this close to the opponent, it can only be ‘Wing Chun.'”

“Qiao, Qiao Ge…” Bai Jiu looked somewhat worriedly at this distance. They were at most three to five meters from the wooden box.

At this distance with a high-speed sphere flying out, could an ordinary person really block it?

“I’ll handle it.” Qiao Jiajin said. “No one is allowed to be distracted. Push the cart with full force.”

“Ah…?” Everyone looked at him somewhat incredulously.

“Just pretend the ‘ball’ rule doesn’t exist.” Qiao Jiajin said. “I seem to have found the way to crack this game…”

He slowly revealed a trace of a smile and slowly understood the confident expression that Qi Xia displayed every time in a game.

As long as he had confidence he could handle all the problems before him, he really could be this confident.

“Swoosh!”

Only hearing a muffled sound, the ice ball flew toward everyone at extremely fast speed. Because the distance was too close, there was simply no way to estimate its landing point.

Qiao Jiajin lightly stepped forward, raising both his left and right hands at the same time. One hand used an arm guard to protect his head, while the other used an outer gate horizontal slap. While defending his face, he relied on feeling to strike out a palm toward the ice ball.

Because Qiao Jiajin had never had experience using a palm to strike a ball, this palm strike was somewhat off, but it still directly changed the ice ball’s flight direction.

What a coincidence—after changing direction, this ice ball actually flew straight toward Earth-Horse in the distance.

Earth-Horse snorted coldly and didn’t move at all. That ice ball shattered to pieces on her body.

“Snap!”

Countless glittering fragments exploded open around Earth-Horse, like a brief blizzard.

“Assaulting the referee…?” Earth-Horse brushed off the ice fragments on her hands and asked in a very serious tone, “Do you know what you’re doing?”

“Who?” Qiao Jiajin also shook his somewhat painful palm. “Who assaulted the referee?”

“What do you say?”

“What do I say?” Qiao Jiajin scratched his head. “If you ask me, it’s ‘Army Breaker’… Why is this thing shooting randomly? Should we dismantle it?”

“What…?” Earth-Horse was clearly stunned, feeling she couldn’t quite grasp the logic of the man before her. “What nonsense are you spouting? Didn’t the ball fly over from your direction?”

“Is that so?” Qiao Jiajin was also stunned. “The ball flew out from ‘Army Breaker.’ I have no way around it, because the rules said the ‘cart rider’ can’t be knocked down. I’m following the rules.”

Earth-Horse felt she really couldn’t talk with this person and could only helplessly shake her head. “This time I’ll assume you didn’t mean it, but if this kind of situation happens again next time…”

“Then I’ll still be very sorry.” Qiao Jiajin cut in. “At that time I’ll definitely apologize to you seriously again.”

“You…!” Earth-Horse bit her teeth and stopped speaking. More precisely, she didn’t want to deal with this flower-armed man before her anymore.

The cart continued to move slowly forward and gradually moved away from “Army Breaker.” After advancing about five or six meters, the next ice ball flew over again.

This time it was Qiu Ershi who stepped forward and used both arms to block it.

An ice ball was an ice ball after all. Although it hurt when it hit the body, at least it wouldn’t cause injury.

Qiao Jiajin had originally thought Qiu Ershi would fall again due to losing strength, but it looked like he had also gradually gotten used to this smooth ground. It could only be said that the people in the “Cat” team really weren’t ordinary people after all.

Seeing this scene, Bai Jiu also nodded with some relief. No matter what, there shouldn’t be casualties in the first round. Only this way could they maximize the success rate of passing.

She sat on the “Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse” and was just about to encourage everyone when a familiar voice came to her ears.

“Xiao Jiu, where are you all?”

“Liu Jie?”