Everyone nodded and helped Qiao Jiajin onto the cart. Qiao Jiajin felt like he could finally rest for a bit.

“Ah, everyone…” Qiao Jiajin leaned back in his chair with a smile on his face. “I haven’t ridden in many carts, so I get a little dizzy. Drive slowly and steadily, everyone.”

“Jiu Ge, don’t joke around…” Everyone looked at him with some worry. “We don’t have your kind of skills. What if you get hit?”

“Me, get hit?” Qiao Jiajin smiled faintly and suddenly spoke up. “Little ones, I suddenly have a new idea!”

Everyone felt a bit uneasy hearing this.

Although they had been through life and death together for a while and knew Qiao Jiajin’s character somewhat, this man came up with new ideas in every round.

Was he really reliable?

“What idea, Jiu Ge?” Out of politeness, Bai Jiu still asked with a sweet smile on her face.

“I want all six of you to push the cart together,” Qiao Jiajin said. “Push it slowly and try to keep the cart as stable as possible.”

“Ah?!” Bai Jiu felt that the phrase she had said most often since entering this game venue was “Ah?!”

“Then who’s going to block the balls?!” Qiu Ershi also widened his eyes and asked.

“I will, myself,” Qiao Jiajin said. “I won’t worry about the ice pucks flying at you guys, but I’ll handle the ones flying at me. I’ll catch the ones I can catch, and dodge the ones I can’t. I should be fine.”

Bai Jiu thought for a moment about the feasibility of what Qiao Jiajin said and felt something wasn’t right.

“Jiu Ge… I think this method sounds workable, but the margin for error is too low.”

“Margin for error?”

“Right. If you fail to catch even once, you’ll be ‘eliminated,’ and ‘elimination’ means death.”

“Oh, I guess so.” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “I only need to fail once to be ‘eliminated,’ and ‘elimination’ means death, doesn’t it?”

“Right.” Bai Jiu nodded. “Jiu Ge, don’t take risks. If it’s just ‘ice pucks,’ it’s not a big problem for us to handle them.”

“But…”

“Don’t try to take everything upon yourself,” Bai Jiu said. “This is a team game. Jiu Ge, you’ve already done enough for us. Let us protect you this round.”

Qiao Jiajin couldn’t help but smile. In his twenty-plus years of memory, no one had ever said they would protect him.

“Is that so…?” He nodded and then sat back down in his chair again. “Then I’ll trust you all.”

Seeing everyone nod, Qiao Jiajin added, “This round, I’m putting my life in your hands. Even if I die, it’s fine.”

Bai Jiu naturally knew that Qiao Jiajin wasn’t speaking lightly, but rather expressing his “trust.”

“Understood.” Bai Jiu also smiled. “Jiu Ge, if you die this round, I, Bai Jiu, will be the first to slit my own throat.”

The remaining few also smiled after hearing this. “We can do that too.”

“Ha!” Qiao Jiajin nodded. “That’s really nice. ‘Cat,’ are there really this many righteous people here?”

“Jiu Ge, sit tight. We’re starting.”

Everyone began pushing the cart forward. Qiao Jiajin was the third person to sit on the “Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse.” Among them, quite a few had pushed the cart for three consecutive rounds, and their ability to control the stability of the cart had greatly increased.

Bai Jiu gave Qiu Ershi and Ning Shiba a look. The two understood immediately, left the cart, and walked toward the “Wenqu.” They didn’t get as close to the “Wenqu” as Qiao Jiajin had, but instead kept a distance of several meters.

“Why are you letting the angry guy and the astrology girl go over?” Qiao Jiajin looked at Luo Shiwu and Yun Shijiu beside him. “Is the handsome duo tired?”

“No.” Bai Jiu shook her head. “Ershi and Shiba have the best skills in our small team. Having them go is more reassuring.”

“I see…” Qiao Jiajin nodded, then gazed at the distant “Wenqu.”

“‘Wenqu’… is that the ‘Wenqu Star’?” Qiao Jiajin stroked his chin. “If the Wenqu Star descends to earth, wouldn’t that be the ‘White Paper Fan’ in a triad?”

Thinking of this, he seemed to feel something wasn’t right.

It was as if some hidden clue was circling in his mind. The “Pojun” from the first round was also “water,” but it represented the vanguard army, the disposable “lackeys” in a team. But the “White Paper Fan” was different.

Both were “water,” but what was the difference with the “White Paper Fan”?

The “White Paper Fan” and the “Red Pole” were the pillars of a triad. In that case…

“Don’t catch it!” Qiao Jiajin suddenly raised his head. “Hey! The ‘White Paper Fan’ kills invisibly. You absolutely can’t catch it!”

Everyone obviously didn’t understand what Qiao Jiajin meant. What did this game have to do with a “paper fan”?

“Whoosh”!!

A white ball suddenly flew out from “Wenqu.” This white ball was pure white and seemed to be wrapped in layers of mist, flying straight toward Ning Shiba on the side.

Ning Shiba’s eyes turned cold. She immediately mimicked Qiao Jiajin and reached out to strike the white ball.

“Crack”!!

Just like the coal ball, when the white ball shattered, it also made a crisp sound.

But the difference was that the coal ball released black smoke, while the white ball released billowing white smoke.

Ning Shiba raised her right hand to look at it. Layers of white mist were actually rolling on it, but there was no unusual feeling.

She gently rubbed the white mist on her hand with her fingers. The next second, she let out a heart-wrenching scream: “Ahhh!!”

She hugged her right hand and wailed, her expression extremely painful.

“Oh no!” Qiao Jiajin immediately stood up, wanting to go check on Ning Shiba’s injury, but suddenly remembered he couldn’t leave the cart.

Qiu Ershi also quickly bent down to look at Ning Shiba’s right hand. The situation didn’t look good. Her fingertips were covered in layers of white frost, as if they had been instantly frostbitten.

“Is… is this dry ice?” Qiu Ershi frowned and picked up a white fragment from the ground to examine it. He immediately felt an extremely cold sensation from his fingertips. “No… but why would dry ice cause instant frostbite…? Is it really this cold?”

He hurriedly threw away the white fragment in his hand. Rolling cold air was emanating from it, but it was far from enough to cause instant frostbite. So what exactly was it…?

Ning Shiba only felt that her right hand had completely lost all sensation.

“The ball… there’s something inside the ball…” Ning Shiba said through gritted teeth. “This ball is just a shell… there’s something inside!”

Only then did Qiu Ershi notice that the ground nearby was covered in white frost, as if something had indeed been sprinkled within a one-meter radius.

Bai Jiu frowned and thought for a while, feeling like she had figured it out. Although she didn’t understand the specific situation, based on her guess, the Earth-Horse had used a dry ice ball to wrap some extremely cold liquid that could instantly injure whoever broke the white ball.

“It really is a ‘White Paper Fan’…” Qiao Jiajin frowned and said. “Pure white and cold on the surface, but sinister and vicious to the core.”