The robust Earth-Rabbit paced back and forth in the room. He first walked to the door on the left side to look at it, then walked to the door directly ahead to look at that one.

“Right now…” He reached up with his stout arm to scratch his large head. “Do any of you remember which direction we came in from? Did anyone bring a compass?”

“Are you sick or something?” Chen Junnan said while picking his nose. “Compass my ass. We’re in a hurry.”

Jiang Shi also slowly opened his mouth and yawned. “Yeah… we’re in a… ah ah… hurry.”

Earth-Rabbit turned his head in confusion. He had never seen these two people as being particularly anxious.

“Then how about you all wait here…” Earth-Rabbit waved at everyone somewhat embarrassedly. “I’ll go find the way by myself first… and after I find it, I’ll come back to call you, okay?”

Song Qi was about to agree when Chen Junnan suddenly stepped forward. “How can that work? Fat Rabbit Bro, how can we let you go through the trouble alone? Since we’ve already entered your game venue, let’s go together.”

Although Earth-Rabbit had a rabbit face, everyone still clearly felt his eyes change.

“Go together?”

“Yeah, Earth-Rabbit Bro.” Chen Junnan nodded and pointed at the somewhat blackened walls all around. “Every room here is covered in blood and smells awful… Just how many people have you killed here?”

“Ah… not that many…” Earth-Rabbit said. “Before you all, at most a hundred or so.”

“I see.” Chen Junnan nodded. “One game can only have six people enter. You’ve killed a hundred or so, so how many games have you participated in?”

When Earth-Rabbit heard this, his eyes obviously became cold and stern.

Seeing that Earth-Rabbit didn’t speak, Chen Junnan asked again, “Let’s say you killed sixty people… this game has been held at least ten times… yet you tell us you’re ‘lost’?”

“Oh…?” Earth-Rabbit slowly crossed his arms in front of his chest, the muscles on his arms almost bursting through his suit. “Since I’m not lost… then what do you think I mean?”

“Heh…” Earth-Rabbit’s eyes gradually turned cold. “You really don’t look like someone with such meticulous thinking…”

“Yeah, originally I didn’t want to be this meticulous either.” Chen Junnan nodded. “But you insisted on leaving us behind to find the exit yourself… so would you suddenly announce ‘the game has started’ at some point? You think that by then we’ll be lost and won’t know which direction to run.”

“Isn’t that the case?” Earth-Rabbit asked with a cold smile. “If you knew the way to the starting point, why would you waste so much time following me?”

“Because I wanted to see what you were up to.” Chen Junnan also let out a cold laugh. “You might not know this, but I’m a kid who grew up in the alleyways. I’ve had a good sense of direction since childhood. With your clear north-south layout here, I could never get lost in my life.”

“You…” Earth-Rabbit’s large head trembled slightly, feeling that he’d been played even before the game started.

In the past, every time he accepted “participants,” he would lead everyone around the rooms in circles. After going through a dozen or so rooms, ordinary people would completely lose their sense of direction. After all, every room here looked exactly the same. Once they forgot which direction to escape in, Earth-Rabbit would tear everyone apart one by one.

“What a cunning and naughty little rabbit.” Chen Junnan reached out to pat Earth-Rabbit’s muscular chest. “Don’t waste time. My team member here is about to fall asleep. Let’s go quickly.”

“Heh.” Earth-Rabbit let out another mirthless snort, then came to the door on the left side of the room and pushed it open. “It doesn’t matter. Even if you know the escape direction, I’ll still slaughter you all to the last man.”

It seemed Earth-Rabbit truly could distinguish directions. He kept turning left and right in the rooms, leading everyone forward.

Song Qi also asked in a low voice from behind, “Chen Junnan, your thinking is really meticulous. You were actually observing directions from the moment we entered the room… If it weren’t for you this time…”

“I was observing jack shit for directions.” Chen Junnan said in a low voice with furrowed brows. “I got lost ages ago.”

“Huh?”

“That whole analysis just now was clearly Old Qi’s style. I didn’t expect it would actually work.” Chen Junnan said in a low voice, covering his mouth. “I got lost in the alleyways seven or eight times when I was a kid. Every time the neighbors sent me home. If I had that kind of sense of direction, would I have gotten lost seven or eight times?”

Several members of the “Cat” team beside him all heard Chen Junnan’s whispers, and whatever bit of admiration they had just developed turned into deep speechlessness at this moment.

During their advance, everyone felt that this building seemed to have been a medical facility before. The floor was painted blue-green, but all the facilities inside the rooms had been removed, leaving only empty rooms.

After passing through about eight or nine rooms, Earth-Rabbit finally arrived at the last room.

This room was somewhat different from the other rooms. Of the four walls, only two adjacent walls had doors. It seemed this room was indeed the “upper left corner.”

“Everyone…” After Earth-Rabbit steadied himself, he turned around and said to everyone, “My game is very simple. It’s called ‘Penglai.'”

“Penglai…?” Chen Junnan scratched his head, feeling this name seemed to have nothing to do with the game before them.

“Simply put, it’s a type of ‘sixteen-square chess game.’ It’s just that the chessboard has become rooms. This venue has a total of sixteen rooms, four in each row, four columns total, and each of us is a chess piece. As long as you move from the current room to the diagonally opposite room at the farthest point and escape, it counts as your victory.”

“Got it.” Chen Junnan nodded. “You mainly explain how the ‘pieces’ move.”

“I mentioned this before entering the venue.” Earth-Rabbit surveyed the six people in front of him and said, “As the ‘prey,’ you can have three action opportunities per turn. Actions include ‘opening a door,’ ‘closing a door,’ ‘unlocking,’ ‘locking a door,’ and ‘moving.’ But note that… ‘locking a door’ and ‘moving’ both consume two action opportunities.”

“Wait a moment, let me sort this out.” Chen Junnan raised his hand to interrupt. “I’m already getting confused.”

He turned back to look at everyone and asked, “Do you all understand?”

Jiang Shi opened his mouth. “I don’t… ah ah… have.”

“Tsk…” Chen Junnan looked at Jiang Shi with furrowed brows. As soon as he talked to this kid, he felt like yawning himself. This was really troublesome. “I now have one more life goal. Besides making Zhoumo stop starting sentences with ‘tsk,’ I also need to make you stop adding yawns when you talk.”

“Oh? Really?” Jiang Shi nodded indifferently. “Good luck to you.”

“I pretty much understand.” Song Qi said. “But I still don’t quite get it.”

“Speak.” Earth-Rabbit stared at Song Qi and said, “I’ll answer all questions before the game starts. Once we begin the slaughter, I won’t care about your lives anymore.”

“Okay.” Song Qi nodded. “You just said we can ‘open’ or ‘lock’ a door, so if we ‘lock’ a door, you can’t open it anymore?”