Qi Xia licked his dry lips and picked up a piece from his hand.

Lin Qin’s pupils dilated instantly when she saw it.

It was a white piece.

“Qi Xia… I can only tell lies… you must not believe me…” Lin Qin shouted loudly in her heart, hoping a miracle would happen so that Qi Xia could hear her.

She was extremely frightened now, afraid that Qi Xia’s trust in her would cost him his life.

“Please don’t believe me…” Lin Qin repeated over and over in her heart.

She saw Qi Xia ponder for a while without asking anything, but instead took out the black piece.

Lin Qin’s brows furrowed tightly. She knew that whether it was the black piece or the white piece, she could only give the opposite answer.

She watched as Qi Xia slowly raised the black piece, brought it before Lin Qin’s eyes, and said, “Lin Qin, tell me…”

Lin Qin covered her mouth with her hand, on the verge of a complete breakdown.

She didn’t want to tell Qi Xia at all that “this is a white piece,” but if she didn’t tell a lie, the mechanism on the glasses would trigger.

Qi Xia seemed to sense something and said calmly, “Don’t be nervous, Lin Qin. Keep your brain working. Everything isn’t over yet.”

After hearing this, Lin Qin nodded desperately.

After confirming that her emotions had become relatively stable, Qi Xia asked, “Lin Qin, tell me, what color would Old Lu say this piece is?”

“Huh?”

Both Lin Qin and Old Lu were stunned at the same time, and the Man-Goat’s eyes also shifted.

“Listen carefully to my question, Lin Qin. I’ll ask again.” Qi Xia repeated, “What color would Old Lu say this piece is?”

Old Lu…?

Lin Qin turned her head to look at Old Lu, her mind racing.

Her glasses felt cold to the touch, so she must be the one telling lies. And the Man-Goat hadn’t lied up to this point, which meant his rules were absolute, so Old Lu would tell the truth.

In that case, Old Lu would say this piece is “black.”

Just as Lin Qin was about to blurt out the word “black,” she suddenly thought of something—

She was the one telling lies, so she couldn’t tell Qi Xia the answer “black.”

Even if Old Lu said “black,” she had to change it to “white.”

This way, wouldn’t everything return to square one?!

The key to this game wasn’t with Old Lu at all, but with her!

Lin Qin bit her lip and finally said with difficulty, “White.”

At this moment, she felt like she was the one strangling the throat of “truth.” All truths, as long as they passed through her mouth, would ultimately become lies.

Old Lu clutched his forehead in frustration, feeling that everything was finished.

“White…” Qi Xia turned his head as if looking at the piece in his hand, then the corners of his mouth lifted slightly as he said, “I see.”

The Man-Goat pondered for a moment and thought to himself, “What will you do, Qi Xia? The person you trust most has told you the piece in your hand is white. What choice will you make?”

He watched as Qi Xia slowly set aside the black piece in his hand, then picked up the other white piece.

He extended the white piece forward and handed it to the Man-Goat.

“Oh? You’ve made your choice?” the Man-Goat asked.

This time, having learned from his previous mistake, the Man-Goat deliberately kept his tone completely flat.

This way, Qi Xia would be unable to judge the color of the piece in his hand from his speech.

“Yes, I’ve made my choice,” Qi Xia nodded. “But it’s not the one in your hand. That white piece is yours.”

“What?”

Qi Xia didn’t pay attention to the Man-Goat. Instead, he grasped the black piece before him and said, “This black piece in my hand is ‘life,’ the white piece in your hand is ‘death.’ The game is over.”

While everyone was dumbstruck, Qi Xia slowly removed his blindfold.

Everything was exactly as he had anticipated.

For him, the only thing that felt uncomfortable now was that after wearing the blindfold for so long, his eyes were somewhat sensitive to the light.

“You…” The Man-Goat trembled all over with agitation. “What kind of joke are you playing…”

Qi Xia opened his eyes to look at the Man-Goat and said, “I’ve gambled my life with you. How could this be a joke?”

After saying this, he pointed at Lin Qin and Old Lu. “Let them go. A bet is a bet.”

The Man-Goat stared wide-eyed in a daze for a long time, then finally sighed in frustration. He took out a remote control from the drawer and pressed it in a state of distraction.

Old Lu and Lin Qin heard a “click,” and the mechanisms on the glasses were released.

The two quickly removed these deadly devices and casually tossed them aside.

“Qi Xia! You little bastard, you’re really something!!!” Old Lu shouted excitedly and walked up to slap Qi Xia on the back. “Have you won the lottery before?! What kind of luck is this?!”

“Luck…” Qi Xia shook his head. “In this life-or-death gamble, I didn’t rely on any luck at all. The Man-Goat just underestimated his opponent.”

After hearing this, the Man-Goat silently turned his head and said, “I underestimated you…?”

“That’s right.” Qi Xia straightened his clothes and slowly stood up. “I told you long ago that smart people don’t rely on luck, but you didn’t take it to heart.”

“So you’re saying…” The Man-Goat also stood up in disbelief. “Everything just now… was all planned by you?”

“Yes.” Qi Xia nodded. “My strategy was very simple. As long as you selected one black and one white piece to give me, then I would win—and I would win with one hundred percent certainty, without any possibility of accident.”

The Man-Goat’s eyes widened, his pupils dilating continuously.

This was the first time since becoming a “pig” that he had lost so thoroughly.

“To get you to smoothly select one black and one white piece for me, I even specifically told you ‘after you’ve chosen, I can choose better.'” Qi Xia reached out and picked up two black pieces and two white pieces from the table, holding them separately in his hands as if simulating the Man-Goat’s mental process at the time.

“You must have struggled mentally for a while, right? Then you discovered that no matter how you chose, giving me one black and one white was the safest option.”

An incredulous voice came from inside the Man-Goat’s mask. “You even calculated this…”

“Should I say you were too cautious or too careless?” Qi Xia weighed the two white pieces in his hand. “If you had trusted your first instinct and given me two white pieces directly, I would already be dead.”

The Man-Goat said nothing more, only stared at Qi Xia with resentment.

Qi Xia continued, “When I held two different colored pieces, as long as I asked the question the way I just did, I would know with one hundred percent certainty the color of the piece in my hand.”

After hearing this, Lin Qin quickly thought it through.

A moment later, her mouth fell open.

The question Qi Xia had asked was simply too clever.

He asked “what color would the other person say this is?” No matter whether the person being asked would tell the truth or lie, as long as Qi Xia held the black piece, they would all answer “white.”

When he asked Lin Qin, Lin Qin knew Old Lu’s answer would be “black,” but due to her characteristic of telling lies, she changed it to “white.”

When he asked Old Lu, Old Lu would directly state Lin Qin’s answer—”white.”

Taking it even further, even if the answer Qi Xia received wasn’t “white” but “black,” he would immediately know that the other piece in his hand was the correct answer.