“This…” Qiao Jiajin looked at the field and found the situation was indeed similar to what Qi Xia said.

Even if this cart had a slight deviation, the glass standing on both sides would pull it back on track. As long as it didn’t rush straight toward the glass, it should be difficult for it to derail.

“Worthy of you.”

Qiao Jiajin nodded at the people beside him. After everyone retreated a few steps, they exerted force simultaneously and sent the cart forward abruptly.

At this moment, all the mechanisms on both sides of the track also rapidly turned their directions. It seemed everything was as Qi Xia had predicted—these mechanisms were never aiming at “people,” but at the cart.

The magnet at the bottom of the cart should be triggering the mechanisms along the way.

And just as Qi Xia had said before, when people slowly pushed the cart forward to deal with the flying “balls,” it was no different from “asking to be hit.”

After letting go, several people retreated a few steps and looked at Luo Shiwu sitting on the cart.

“Oh my!!”

Luo Shiwu probably never imagined that when this cart was suddenly pushed out, it would have such fast speed. But the feeling of sitting on this “Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse” was completely different from sitting on other carts. Not only did Luo Shiwu have no place to hold onto, there were also no fixings or safety measures on the cart.

Before he could even scream, he heard whooshing sounds by his ears.

Many stone balls almost flew past grazing his scalp. He quickly lowered his head and buried it in his knees.

At this moment, everyone was far from the cart. The scene they saw was even more shocking.

The moment the “Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse” passed through, this straight track seemed to become a battlefield of flying bullets. More than a dozen fist-sized stone balls flew chaotically in the air without any rules. Some collided with each other, some flew to the outside of the track and struck other mechanisms. The scene was in complete chaos.

Luo Shiwu on the cart felt like he had walked through the gates of hell. This feeling was even more terrifying than being directly hit by a stone ball.

Before everyone could react, Qi Xia immediately began to say, “Leave one person to clear the track. Everyone else go push the cart.”

After hearing this, Bai Jiu volunteered to walk onto the track and pushed all the scattered stones and stone balls to the side. During this time, she indeed saw words written on an iron ball—”Spiked Shoes.”

What a ridiculous yet real reward?

“At this point, you’re still misleading the ‘participants’…” Bai Jiu couldn’t help but feel that Earth-Horse’s scheming was quite deep. After participants went through countless hardships and risked getting their heads broken and bleeding to obtain “Spiked Shoes,” not only would they not think to speed up, but they would walk even slower and more steadily on the ice surface. That would be their death.

Indeed, just as Qi Xia said, if you could clearly see the “path” to victory, don’t do unnecessary things and try to take shortcuts.

Bai Jiu roughly cleared the debris on the straight track. Everyone also walked to the finish line, turned the handcart around, and came to the back of the cart.

“Jiu Jie, ready?” Someone asked from a distance.

“Ready!” Bai Jiu clapped her hands and stood to the side of the track.

Everyone once again took a deep breath, pushed the handcart forward with force, and then left the track one after another.

For them, this matter wasn’t difficult at all. Compared to using their bodies to fight against various dangerous “balls” just now, it was already much easier.

All of this, besides being attributed to Qi Xia’s “brain,” also required thanks for the stability of the “Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse.” No matter how far or fast it moved forward on this icy track, it always maintained left-right balance. At most, it would make the cart body rotate slightly, but there were no signs of tipping over at all.

So after modifying the spherical wheels, the “Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse” could no longer be called an ordinary “handcart.”

“Hey!” Qi Xia said to Bai Jiu in front of him. “Just to be safe, go to the starting point to catch it.”

“Are you afraid the cart will fly off the track?” Bai Jiu asked.

“No, I’m afraid the cart won’t fly off the track.” Qi Xia answered.

“Ah? Okay, okay!” Bai Jiu nodded. Although she didn’t understand what Qi Xia meant, she still hurried to the end of the track.

All along this way, sand and stones flew chaotically. Since most of those stones were aimed at the back of Luo Shiwu, he could only hear crackling sounds behind him and didn’t dare to look back even once.

The cart arrived at the starting point in about seven or eight seconds, but its kinetic energy had also greatly decreased. It looked like it was about to stop before the starting point.

Bai Jiu immediately stepped forward. She clearly remembered that before the cart returned to the starting point, it would encounter the last round of attack. If the cart stopped now, Luo Shiwu would definitely die.

“What a terrifying person…” Bai Jiu reached out to grab the cart and looked toward Qi Xia without showing any emotion. “Saying ‘afraid the cart won’t fly off the track’… did you calculate even this?”

Bai Jiu pulled the cart and retreated several steps abruptly. Using the cart’s own momentum, she sent it across the line. The last wave of attacks also fell behind Luo Shiwu as expected.

Seeing this scene from a distance, Qiao Jiajin couldn’t help but shout loudly, “So sharp, liar boy!”

Qi Xia nodded and said to the people in the distance, “Everyone return to the starting point. The next round is crucial.”

After hearing this, everyone didn’t dare to slack off. They carefully moved their feet on the ice surface. In just a few seconds, they arrived at the starting point. Along the way, Qiao Jiajin helped up Ning Shiba beside him and handed her over to Zhou Liu.

“Liar boy, what about the next round? Is it the same?” Qiao Jiajin came to Qi Xia’s side and asked.

“Yes.” Qi Xia nodded. “But we need to change things slightly…”

He turned back to look at the teammates beside Qiao Jiajin and asked again, “Who hasn’t ridden this cart yet?”

Yun Shijiu and Qiu Ershi raised their hands at the same time.

After seeing this, Qi Xia frowned slightly.

This team seemed to have used the wrong tactics. They prioritized placing the easiest people to transport in the early stages, resulting in all the tall men now needing to be transported.

“This is also inevitable…” Qi Xia instantly thought that when he wasn’t here earlier, everyone’s reliance was entirely on Qiao Jiajin.

And Qiao Jiajin had indeed used his unique tactics to protect everyone before him. It’s just that now that he was here, the tactics also needed to change.

“This is now the sixth round. I need both of you to get on the cart together.” Qi Xia said. “As long as we transport both of you at once this round, we can skip the seventh round and directly achieve victory.”

Before everyone could react, Earth-Horse in the distance slowly stood up.

“What a headache…” She looked toward Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin with a fake smile. “The people I least want to face have actually come together. Are you two really trying to drive me crazy?”

Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin also looked at Earth-Horse. Neither of them had any memory of this strange zodiac before them.

“So what?” Qi Xia asked. “How does it matter that you don’t want to face us? Just a few minutes ago, you said you would take action in the ‘seventh round.’ Are you going back on your word now?”

Earth-Horse looked at Qi Xia. Her expression gradually turned cold. Her thick lips moved, and she finally squeezed out a few words, “Not going back on it. I will indeed take action only in the seventh round.”

“Then please step aside.” Qi Xia said. “Don’t interfere with our game.”

“But I now want to announce a rule that was never mentioned before…” Earth-Horse snorted coldly. “This ‘Wooden Ox and Gliding Horse’ can only carry one person at a time.”