Chen Junnan led the other five people to slowly turn their backs, then naturally divided into two teams.
After seeing this division, Earth-Rabbit couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
The two teams were no different from what he had imagined—six people split into two three-person teams.
This seemingly intelligent squad actually used the most mediocre tactics. Was there no better strategy?
Or perhaps… were they hiding something?
“What tricks are you playing?” Earth-Rabbit frowned at everyone. “You don’t think you can win the game like this, do you?”
“Then we’ll take it one step at a time,” Chen Junnan turned back and smiled. “You probably don’t understand your humble master. Just wait and see—your humble master never has a plan when doing things.”
“Then what are you so proud of?” Earth-Rabbit looked at Chen Junnan in confusion, feeling that the man before him was truly too strange. “Whatever, suit yourselves.”
After hearing this, everyone stopped talking and stood in two teams in front of the room door.
As the broadcast’s “game begins” voice sounded, Song Qi and Jiang Shi simultaneously opened the doors and walked toward two different rooms. After the remaining people followed them into the rooms, they also turned back and closed the doors.
The advantage of dividing each team into three people was demonstrated at this moment.
Among the three people, one was responsible for opening the door, one for closing the door, and one for locking the door. Moreover, all of them could move once. This was currently the most optimal method of movement.
Earth-Rabbit watched as both doors were locked simultaneously, then shook his head with a smile.
Even if they could keep locking doors, would that mean they could win this game?
Seeing the room door locked, Earth-Rabbit slowly walked to the door in the direction Chen Junnan’s team was advancing and waited. The broadcast also transmitted a voice at this moment:
“The Zodiac’s turn.”
After hearing this, Earth-Rabbit reached out to unlock the door in front of him, paused for a moment, then reached out to open the door.
Chen Junnan, Jiang Shi, and Cui Fourteen were now standing face to face with Earth-Rabbit.
Because the “Zodiac’s” actions were also limited, after “unlocking” and “opening the door,” he would exhaust all his action points and be unable to move, so everyone’s situation was currently safe.
“Yo, what a coincidence?” Chen Junnan stepped forward a few paces on the blue-green sticky ground, blinked his eyes at Earth-Rabbit. “What are you doing here? Do you work here?”
Earth-Rabbit took a deep breath: “Are you seeking death? Don’t you know I’ve already chosen you?”
“Yes, yes, yes,” Chen Junnan nodded. “We can say we’re rather honored. Take it easy later, don’t rush yourself to death.”
“Rush myself to death?” Earth-Rabbit sneered. “Then I’ll wait and see.”
Before long, a sound came from the broadcast—the turn to act had returned to the “Participants.”
“Let’s move,” Chen Junnan gave the other two a look, and Jiang Shi understood and closed the room door.
A few seconds later, a crisp door-locking sound came. The structure of the doors here was very special—the lock and handle could be seen from both sides.
“Oh…?” Earth-Rabbit felt a bit puzzled. Choosing to lock the door at this critical juncture—didn’t that mean someone couldn’t “move” anymore?
Was this team really different from other teams?
Among them were people willing to die.
“Haven’t you gone crazy?” Earth-Rabbit asked through the door. “Do you know what you’re doing right now?”
“Mind your own damn business!” Chen Junnan’s muffled voice also came from the other side. “Do we have to tell you our tactics? Really think you’re somebody? Come get me if you dare!”
“You’re really seeking death…” Earth-Rabbit said through gritted teeth. “But fine, go ahead and seek death to your heart’s content.”
Everyone followed their agreed-upon tactics, splitting into two routes starting from the room before them. On Song Qi’s side, he also used eye contact to signal his two other teammates to continue forward while he stayed in place, closing the door and locking it.
Now Earth-Rabbit had completely lost sight of the remaining people. Not only could he not walk out of the room at all, but even if he had a one-in-ten-thousand chance of getting out, he might not be able to catch everyone in a short time.
Chen Junnan calculated the direction. He was currently in Room “Five.” To reach Room “Sixteen” the fastest, it would take at least five turns, and Song Qi’s team was in a similar situation—they would also reach the destination in five turns.
At this moment, they could only hope to meet at the destination.
Chen Junnan walked toward the east door of the room and reached out to open Room “Six.” Before he could walk in, just one glance made him furrow his brow.
This room seemed somewhat different from the other rooms. A small table had appeared on the ground at some point, and on the table was a tuft of black hair. This tuft of hair was tied together with a red string and looked somewhat like a lock of jet-black hair with a bit of brown.
Chen Junnan and Cui Fourteen beside him looked at each other. If nothing unexpected had happened, everyone had come here before when they were “lost,” but they didn’t remember there being any small table here. Could it be that someone had placed it here just now? Or after the game started… had the room triggered some mechanism?
“Leader, what is this…?” Cui Fourteen walked forward to take a look, feeling that the situation was slightly strange.
“This…” Chen Junnan showed an expression of fearing nothing, stepped forward, and directly picked up the hair to examine it.
This roll of hair did indeed look like hair, but it felt more resilient than hair when touched.
“What is this thing?” Chen Junnan also frowned and looked carefully again and again, even lifting the hair to smell it. There was no obvious scent—what filled his nostrils was always the surrounding rot.
Too many people had died in these small rooms. The smell here was even more intense than outdoors, and even the ground was somewhat sticky underfoot.
Cui Fourteen squatted beside Chen Junnan and also boldly picked up that roll of hair, then carefully examined the red string on it. She discovered that at the end of the red string hung a very small metal tag with two small characters written on it.
“Divine Power.”
“‘Divine Power’…? What the hell is ‘Divine Power’?” Chen Junnan also saw these two characters and felt even more puzzled.
“Is this hair ‘Divine Power’?” Cui Fourteen also racked her brains thinking, discovering she had no clue at all.
A few seconds later, Chen Junnan suddenly raised his eyebrows. He felt that his mind had suddenly opened up.
“Big Sister, give me this hair. I think I have an idea.”
After hearing this, Cui Fourteen passed the roll of hair forward: “What idea?”
“This is the damn monkey hair of Sun the Great Sage—the divine power of ‘blowing hair to create soldiers’!” Chen Junnan said. “Step back a bit. I’ll throw it on the ground and summon all the monkey children and grandchildren from Flower-Fruit Mountain to let the kids open their eyes.”
“Ah?!” Cui Fourteen was clearly startled by Chen Junnan’s words. “Leader, are you serious?!”
“Otherwise what?” Chen Junnan held the tuft of black hair. “In your memory, what else could a tuft of hair called ‘Divine Power’ be?”
This time Cui Fourteen lowered her head and carefully thought about Chen Junnan’s words. Although from his perspective there was indeed no problem with his thinking, she always felt it wasn’t very realistic.
A tuft of black hair… called “Divine Power”? But Sun Wukong’s hair isn’t black either.
“Leader, this is what I’m thinking,” Cui Fourteen said. “This thing wasn’t shown when we were ‘lost,’ and it wasn’t mentioned when Earth-Rabbit explained the ‘rules.’ Obviously, he deliberately concealed it. Once we saw this tuft of hair in advance, it might increase his chances of losing.”
“Hiss…” After hearing this, Chen Junnan touched his chin and nodded. “Big Sister, what you’re saying makes some sense.”
“So why don’t we put it away first and go see if there are similar things in other rooms?”
Cui Fourteen looked toward the exit, then said, “Once we can discover other items, we’ll definitely be able to understand why this tuft of hair is called ‘Divine Power.'”
