The three people who walked out of the chess club couldn’t calm down for a long time.

Although it was the “Man-Goat” who died, no matter how you looked at it, the Man-Goat was a flesh-and-blood human being.

He wasn’t a monster, wasn’t a lunatic, and even less so an evil organizer.

Qi Xia kept his head down, constantly pondering something. Lin Qin followed beside him, never leaving his side.

Old Lu kept looking back into the room, where the Man-Goat’s corpse lay. But he didn’t seem to care about it at all and was instead searching for something else.

“What’s wrong?” Qi Xia turned his head to ask.

“Well… although it’s a bit inappropriate to say this now,” Old Lu said, “but you won the ‘life-or-death gamble,’ so the opponent’s ‘Dao’ should be ours.”

“Don’t be foolish.” Qi Xia shook his head. “The Man-Goat couldn’t possibly have any ‘Dao’ left. The ten he gave you were all he had.”

“What?” Old Lu’s eyes widened, then he shook his head exaggeratedly. “Impossible. I don’t believe it.”

He hurried into the room, trying his best not to look at the Man-Goat’s corpse, then began searching through his drawers.

The originally clean and tidy chess club was turned completely upside down in moments.

Just as Qi Xia had said, there wasn’t a single “Dao” left here.

Qi Xia shook his head outside the door and said, “If he still had any remaining ‘Dao,’ why would he choose to ‘gamble with his life’ against us?”

“Isn’t this fucking cheating?!” Old Lu cursed in exasperation. “Getting something for nothing!”

“Something for nothing?” Qi Xia couldn’t quite understand Old Lu’s logic. “Didn’t he pay with his ‘life’?”

“Uh… that’s true.” Old Lu clasped his hands together and bowed toward the Man-Goat’s corpse. “This humble one spoke hastily. No offense, no offense.”

After bowing a few times, Old Lu still felt somewhat shortchanged. After all, he didn’t want the other party’s life.

“I need to see if there’s anything valuable left.”

Old Lu began searching the room again, but this was originally an abandoned chess club. Besides the chess pieces scattered everywhere, the only things that could be considered valuable were the tables, chairs, and benches.

“Such a loss…” Old Lu shook his head in frustration. “Kid, we lost big! You nearly died here, and we’re leaving empty-handed.”

As he was speaking, Old Lu suddenly noticed the pig-head mask the Man-Goat had left on the ground.

“The mask…” Old Lu’s mouth moved slightly, and he suddenly remembered something. “Damn… isn’t this the most valuable thing here?!”

Qi Xia frowned and slowly stepped forward to ask, “What are you planning to do?”

“Run a business!” Old Lu picked up the filthy, foul-smelling mask from the ground and held it in his hands like a treasure. “Little Qi, with this mask, can’t we run the ‘Go Club’ business?!”

“Wha…” Qi Xia’s pupils flickered. This didn’t seem reliable. “Old Lu, you want to become the ‘Man-Goat’?”

“Bah, bullshit Man-Goat!” Old Lu waved his hand. “Impersonate! Do you understand impersonation?”

“You…”

Old Lu lifted the mask and pretended to put it on his face, then made a muffled voice saying, “Hmph hmph, someone finally came to play with me! Distribute quickly! Distribute quickly!”

Qi Xia kept frowning. This matter sounded far too dangerous.

The “Zodiacs” were under unified management by those administrators. How could they possibly be impersonated at will?

“Old Lu, you should know that ‘killing to seize Dao’ doesn’t work, right?” Qi Xia asked.

“I heard Zhang Shan mention it, but this isn’t ‘killing to seize Dao.'” Old Lu pushed the mask forward. “We didn’t kill him, and this isn’t ‘Dao.'”

“That’s not what I mean.” Qi Xia took the mask and placed it on the table. “I advise you not to touch this thing. At best, this is called ‘impersonation.’ At worst, this is ‘usurping authority.’ This is even more serious than ‘killing to seize Dao.'”

“Usurping authority?!”

Qi Xia nodded. “Is there an evaluation process to become a ‘Zodiac’? What are the rules for designing games? If you put on this mask without understanding these questions, I’m afraid you’ll be sanctioned by the administrators.”

After hearing this, Old Lu seemed somewhat disappointed. Just a moment ago, he could see the beautiful picture of himself earning dozens of “Dao” every day, but in the blink of an eye, it shattered.

“Little Qi, aren’t you being too cautious?” Old Lu asked reluctantly. “Maybe anyone can wear this mask, as long as they can set questions.”

“I don’t know.” Qi Xia said. “I’m just telling you my opinion. If you still want to wear this mask, I won’t stop you anymore, but before that, first tell me the whereabouts of those two people.”

After thinking it over several times, Old Lu said to Qi Xia, “Wait a moment.”

After saying this, he twisted his fat body and ran around the room holding the mask. In no time, he found a corner piled with discarded table boards.

He hid the mask behind the table boards, then carefully covered it layer by layer with waste materials.

“I’ll hide it here for now. A person should at least keep one card up their sleeve…” Old Lu patted the dust from his hands and turned around to say, “Little Qi, I’m a man of my word and never go back on it. Come with me!”

The three left the heart-pounding chess club and headed toward the dilapidated streets.

Old Lu pulled them along the road they had come from.

“By the way, Little Qi, why didn’t you choose me just now?” Old Lu asked.

“What?”

“During the ‘truth and lies’ part.” Old Lu scratched his chubby face. “You chose this little lady called Lin Qin. Why didn’t you choose me?”

Qi Xia said helplessly, “To be honest, I felt Lin Qin was a bit smarter than you.”

“Pfft…” Lin Qin, who had been somewhat sad just now, suddenly laughed out loud. Although Qi Xia was a liar, many times he simply didn’t lie.

“What kind of talk is that…” Old Lu was somewhat speechless. “Little Qi, you don’t understand me. The more critical the moment, the smarter I become.”

“Right.” Qi Xia nodded. “At critical moments, you even think to grab the iron plate and shrink into the corner.”

“Huh?” Old Lu was suddenly put in check and looked somewhat embarrassed. “You can’t blame me for that. At the time, I didn’t know you had so many ideas.”

“True, we’re even now.” Qi Xia said.

Old Lu shrugged helplessly, then looked at the aluminum pot Lin Qin had been holding and asked, “Did you eat that bear meat?”

“We ate it.” Lin Qin answered. “It was particularly bad.”

“Sigh…” Old Lu nodded somewhat disappointedly. “Although bear meat tastes bad, at least it fills the stomach. What a pity Zhang Shan didn’t get to eat any. In the end, he still became a starving ghost.”

“Why didn’t he eat?” Lin Qin asked casually.

The next second, her eyes suddenly widened.

Qi Xia also realized something, and the two looked at Old Lu together.

“Starving ghost?”

Old Lu’s eyes showed some disappointment. He sighed and said, “Zhang Shan is dead.”

“Dead?!” The two exclaimed in unison.

“Yeah… otherwise, why would I be out here alone?”