“Not exactly.” Earth-Rabbit shook his head. “My action method is similar to yours. The only difference is… my ‘unlocking’ consumes two action opportunities, while ‘moving’ only consumes one action opportunity.”
“I see.” Song Qi nodded, then looked toward the only female in the team. This girl seemed somewhat silent, not having spoken since entering the room. Her skin was extremely fair, making her seem almost luminous. “Fourteen, what do you think?”
The girl called Fourteen lowered her head to ponder for a moment, then raised her head to ask, “In other words… we can ‘unlock’ and ‘move’ normally… but if we ‘close a door’ and then ‘lock a door’ within the same turn, we won’t be able to ‘move.'”
“Exactly, that’s what I mean!” Earth-Rabbit nodded. “As I said, except for the first turn, you have three action opportunities per turn, but ‘locking a door’ and ‘moving’ both consume two opportunities.”
“Except for the first turn?”
“Yes.” Earth-Rabbit nodded. “In the first turn, you have four action opportunities. You can choose to move a long distance, or turn back to ‘lock a door.'”
Fourteen knew that what needed to be considered right now wasn’t this issue, but another matter of life and death. “Rabbit, if you enter the same room as us, will you directly kill us?”
“Yes.” Earth-Rabbit nodded. “No matter how many people are in the room, I’ll directly attack.”
After hearing this, Fourteen let out a cold laugh. “Then may I ask, can we attack you?”
“Attack… me?” Earth-Rabbit gave a cold laugh. “If you have the guts, you can try.”
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shi slowly yawned, then looked toward Fourteen. “Little Fourteen… what are you… ah ah… saying?”
“Tenth Brother, I’m asking for you.” Fourteen said respectfully. “Always ‘running away’ really doesn’t fit the ‘Cat’ style.”
“No.” Song Qi shook his head. “I’m the highest ranking here, everyone listen to me. This mission should prioritize stability…”
“No.” Chen Junnan also shook his head. “It seems like I’m actually the highest ranking here, everyone listen to me. This mission should prioritize aggression…”
“Huh?” After listening, Song Qi’s eyes slowly widened. “What are you saying, Chen Junnan?”
“Hmm?” Chen Junnan also nonchalantly scratched his head after hearing this. “To be honest, I’ve wanted to gamble my life with an Earth-level ‘Zodiac’ for a long time, it’s just that I’ve never found the opportunity…”
“You…” Song Qi felt there was something odd about Chen Junnan’s statement. “That doesn’t seem right? You haven’t gambled your life with an Earth-level before?”
“No.” Chen Junnan answered very firmly. “Wouldn’t I know myself whether I’ve gambled or not?”
Song Qi still felt something was off. “But that won’t work, right? In this game we’ll almost certainly have a head-on confrontation with an Earth-level. If you want to ‘gamble your life,’ we’d have to beat him to death. Is that really feasible…?”
“Tsk… you have a point.” Chen Junnan sighed. “How about we discuss tactics instead.”
After listening, several people slowly gathered together. They could set aside the matter of “gambling their lives” for now—at least they needed to survive this game first.
Before anyone could speak, Chen Junnan turned back to glance at Earth-Rabbit, then asked impatiently, “May I ask what you’re doing standing there with your two tender white ears up?”
“Huh…?” After hearing this, Earth-Rabbit’s ears twitched, not knowing what Chen Junnan meant.
“The brothers want to discuss tactics. Are you just going to stand there and listen?”
“I…” Earth-Rabbit felt Chen Junnan was being somewhat unreasonable. “I also have to start the game from this room, so I can only stand here.”
“Hasn’t the game not started yet?” Chen Junnan pointed to the door beside them. “Go to the next room and avoid suspicion. Otherwise, if we lose, we’ll come after you for compensation.”
“You…” Earth-Rabbit furrowed his brows, and his pair of bright red eyes also flickered. “Don’t go too far. Although I can’t kill you now, that doesn’t mean you’ll be safe after the game starts.”
“I know, I know.” Chen Junnan put on an extremely punchable expression, deeply nodding his head twice at Earth-Rabbit. “Just go to the next room now. If we die later, we’ll accept it. You won’t get lost anyway, so consider it exercise.”
After hearing this, Earth-Rabbit looked around at everyone, then walked over to Chen Junnan’s side with an angry expression. Everyone thought he would say something harsh, but unexpectedly he just roughly pushed Chen Junnan aside and walked out of the room.
“This fat rabbit is quite obedient…” Seeing him walk out of the room, Chen Junnan nodded and muttered quietly, “Let’s start discussing tactics too.”
After Chen Junnan finished speaking, he stared at the five people beside him, but unexpectedly none of them spoke up.
“What, telepathic communication?” Chen Junnan was stunned. “Aren’t we discussing tactics? You all should speak.”
“But you’re the team leader…” Song Qi muttered quietly. “We have to wait for you to speak first.”
“I did speak. I said ‘let’s discuss tactics.’ Aren’t you discussing?”
“Well…” After hearing this, Song Qi gave a bitter smile and shook his head. “Alright, alright, respected team leader, then we’ll start discussing.”
“Good, good, good.” Chen Junnan nodded, then felt something was off. “Don’t you want to introduce yourselves first? I don’t understand your abilities at all.”
“Huh?” After hearing this, Song Qi’s expression froze. “No way? Didn’t Fifth Brother give you a note before we set out? It had our information written on it…”
“I get dizzy when I see words.” Chen Junnan waved his hand. “Just speak directly, keep it brief and to the point.”
The others couldn’t help but laugh at Song Qi’s expression. Among everyone, Song Qi, who had considerable prestige and was always aloof and deep, seemed to have met his Waterloo, repeatedly showing helpless expressions in front of Chen Junnan.
“Then… then I’ll introduce us first.” Song Qi nodded. “I’m ‘Explosive Combustion’ Song Qi. Objects I touch have a probability of becoming explosives. I’ve already ‘Echoed’ now.”
“Got it, next one.”
“This is ‘Immortal’ Jiang Shi. We like to call him Little Jiang Shi.” He pointed at the bowl-cut youth. “His ability is to be immortal and indestructible for a certain period of time.”
“Hmm?” Chen Junnan was slightly stunned after hearing this. “Little zombie?”
“What ‘zombie’…” Jiang Shi didn’t seem to like this title. He originally wanted to angrily condemn Chen Junnan with great momentum, but his sentence was still interrupted by a yawn. “If you dare spread… ah ah… rumors again, I’ll… bite you.”
“Don’t… ah ah… bite me.” Chen Junnan also yawned along, feeling that looking at this child made him terribly sleepy.
Since he was never afraid of death, Chen Junnan already had the problem of yawning after entering games. Now he had the misfortune of being teamed up with this Jiang Shi, almost doubling his drowsiness.
The two of them very synchronously reached up to wipe their tears, making even Song Qi feel a bit awkward.
“Little Song, continue.” Chen Junnan said.
“Alright.” Song Qi nodded. “Besides us two ‘Echoers,’ the remaining people are… ‘Displacement’ Ma Twelve.”
The bearded man nodded at Chen Junnan. “My ability is to move objects.”
“‘Aerial Suspension’ Wu Thirteen.”
The man in his forties or fifties also nodded, even smiling and clasping his hands. “I can stay in the air for a while.”
“And ‘Traverse’ Cui Fourteen.” Song Qi pointed to the exceptionally fair-skinned girl behind everyone.
Chen Junnan nodded along and asked, “Wait, what does ‘Traverse’ mean?”
Cui Fourteen smiled slightly. “I haven’t developed more powerful abilities yet, but I can ‘pass through walls.'”
