In the third round, everyone prepared to arrange for the tall girl in the team called Feng Shiqi to sit on the “Wooden Ox and Flowing Horse.”
Although this girl looked quite tall, her weight was still light after all. She should be the most suitable candidate for the third round.
But at this time, Qiao Jiajin felt he had a new idea.
“Astrology girl.” Qiao Jiajin called.
“I’m here, Ge.”
“What is the third round?” He looked at the several wooden boxes in the distance. If things continued according to the current situation, it seemed like there would be a bit of trouble.
“It should be ‘Incorruptible Purity.'” Ning Shiba pointed to the third wooden box in the distance and said, “This round might be even more dangerous than the last round.”
“More dangerous than iron balls?” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “What’s its material?”
“I can’t say for sure.” Ning Shiba shook her head. “But ‘Incorruptible Purity,’ as the third star of the Big Dipper, belongs to ‘Yin Fire.'”
“Yin Fire…?” Qiao Jiajin furrowed his brow and instantly widened his eyes. “Fire balls?”
“This…” Ning Shiba sighed and said, “I can only say it’s possible… but honestly, those mechanisms are all made of wood. No matter how you think about it, they couldn’t possibly shoot out fire balls, right?”
“Is that so…” Qiao Jiajin nodded thoughtfully, then touched his own chin.
The chin was indeed a very magical thing. As soon as he touched it, his mind was full of stubble.
“Forget it, I won’t think about it.” Qiao Jiajin raised his head and said to everyone, “Originally I wanted to get on the cart this round, but now it seems that still won’t work.”
“Ah?” Bai Jiu was startled. “You want to get on the cart? Qiao Ge, didn’t we say before that we should have the capable people get on the cart last?”
After these words, everyone understood what Qiao Jiajin meant.
This was like the Horse Racing Strategy of Tian Ji, but they were using the wrong choice.
It seemed that the difficulty of the “balls” in each round was soaring. In this situation, could they let Qiao Jiajin ride the cart last?
“But this round still won’t work. I still need to block the balls.” Qiao Jiajin said with a heavy expression. “‘Fire balls’ and such are really too much for you all…”
Although he couldn’t imagine how that wooden mechanism would shoot out fire balls, getting on the cart now was definitely not a good idea. These young people would die.
“Astrology girl, will there be any safer ‘balls’ in the next few rounds?”
“Yes.” After hearing this, Ning Shiba lowered her head and calculated with her fingers. “The next fourth star ‘Literary Music’ belongs to ‘Yin Water,’ the fifth star ‘Salary Preservation’ belongs to ‘å·± Earth,’ the sixth star ‘Giant Gate’ belongs to ‘Yin Earth,’ and even the last ‘Greedy Wolf’ also belongs to ‘Water Wood.’ These all sound less dangerous than ‘Yin Fire.'”
Qiao Jiajin felt he understood. If the next “Literary Music” belonged to “Yin Water,” it would most likely shoot out ice balls like the first round. This might be a buffer round, and the difficulty for everyone wouldn’t be too great.
The best method now was for him to figure out how to counter “Incorruptible Purity’s” “Fire,” and in the next round let these youngsters counter “Literary Music’s” “Water” themselves.
“Alright, A… A Feng?” Qiao Jiajin looked at Feng Shiqi. “I can’t remember your name. What’s your ‘Echo’?”
“Ah?” Feng Shiqi looked a bit socially anxious and smiled awkwardly. “My ‘Echo’ is ‘Flash Bang’…”
“Flash girl.” Qiao Jiajin said decisively. “Now that you’ve said it, I suddenly find it much easier to remember.”
“This…” Feng Shiqi seemed completely unable to handle Qiao Jiajin’s cheerful personality and could only keep nodding with an awkward expression. “Whatever you say is right, Qiao Ge.”
“Flash girl, you get on the cart first. Everyone else continue to advance according to the previous tactics.” Qiao Jiajin twisted his neck. “I don’t know what kind of temper ‘Incorruptible Purity’ has. I’ll go meet it.”
Earlier, Qiao Jiajin had already defeated “Military Music” with his own power. Everyone naturally believed his strength was extraordinary. But this time it was extremely likely to be “fire balls.” This kind of thing couldn’t even be touched—how could he catch it?
Qiao Jiajin didn’t consider these problems at all. He was seen moving his muscles and bones while coming in front of “Incorruptible Purity.”
Looking carefully, he discovered this mechanism was indeed quite different from the other mechanisms. Its color was deeper.
“‘Incorruptible Purity,’ what does your heartbeat look like…?”
Qiao Jiajin made a fist with one hand and turned the other into a palm. He straddled his horse stance, stood firm with his body turned to the side, then extended his fingertips forward, slowly touching “Incorruptible Purity.”
“Incorruptible Purity” was not good. Its touch was warm.
“Let’s set off!” The people pushing the cart also said at this time.
As the cart gradually advanced, Qiao Jiajin felt “Incorruptible Purity’s” heartbeat changed. Its interior began to become frantic.
“Incorruptible Purity” was worthy of being “Incorruptible Purity.” It was pure and fiery like its own name.
“A very fervent heartbeat…” Qiao Jiajin’s expression gradually became heavy. For a moment he truly seemed to feel this wooden box could spray out flames. “A bit troublesome, damn it.”
With every second that time advanced, Qiao Jiajin felt his fingertips become hotter by a degree.
When the cart had just advanced to a distance of six meters, the entire “Incorruptible Purity” sprayed out a thick smoke, then a black “ball” flew out. This ball even carried silky red threads.
Qiao Jiajin felt extremely dangerous and immediately withdrew his hand before being burned, but that ball still flew toward his face.
He immediately twisted his waist, his entire body falling backward. His hands also raised to his ears. Just as the back of his head was about to hit the ground, he propped his hands behind his head in a carp kip-up stance.
Although he dodged this “Yin Fire,” what about the people pushing the cart?
Qiao Jiajin didn’t have time to think. He immediately lay on the ground and suddenly extended his leg to kick, using the back of his foot to fiercely strike toward that black with red “ball.”
“Crack!”
A crisp sound rang out. Qiao Jiajin felt the back of his foot become burning hot, and the material of this ball also seemed quite different from the other balls.
It was more brittle than “ice.”
Countless sparks scattered open in the air. In an instant, everyone only saw thick smoke rolling above Qiao Jiajin, black mist splattering everywhere, and a fierce heat also transmitted from the shattered black smoke.
“Ah! Damn it!”
Qiao Jiajin felt countless fire points fall on his body, making him hurriedly roll several times on the ice surface.
“What the hell?!” Qiao Jiajin stood up very angrily and scratched his hair, pulling out several sparks. “Big horse woman, what the hell are you doing?”
Only at this time did Earth-Horse finally reveal a satisfied smile. “What’s wrong?”
“Damn…” Qiao Jiajin shouted. “Aren’t these burning coal balls? Is this how you play games?”
“I reminded you all early on that if you don’t want to die, you’d better dodge these balls.” Earth-Horse helplessly shook her head. “It’s you yourself being too clever and insisting on going forward to catch them. What can I do about it?”