Old Lu finally reached Qi Xia’s side at the last moment before being caught.

“Little Qi!! There’s a murder happening!!” Old Lu pushed Qi Xia in front of him. “You’ve got to save me…”

“What happened?” Qi Xia asked in confusion.

Seeing Qi Xia blocking his path, A’Mu was obviously furious beyond measure.

“Get out of the way!!”

Qi Xia didn’t move aside. Instead, he reached out to block A’Mu.

“Brother, let’s talk this through. What exactly happened?” he asked somewhat anxiously. “Did my teammate anger you?”

A’Mu gradually stopped in his tracks and looked at Qi Xia suspiciously: “Are you their leader?”

After hearing this, Qi Xia scratched his head but didn’t answer A’Mu’s question. Instead, he asked: “In any case, don’t make a move yet. Tell me the situation first.”

“Fine, since you have questions, I’ll let him die with understanding.” A’Mu said viciously. “Just now, this old dog…”

Before he could finish speaking, a metal box flew toward A’Mu’s face.

He never expected the man before him would suddenly attack. For a moment, he couldn’t dodge in time and was hit on the nose.

In just a single stumble, A’Mu quickly adjusted his stance.

“Damn… you really got me there.”

Although his nose was still very sore, A’Mu already understood that the man before him wasn’t easy to deal with. If he was careless, he might very well be killed before the “sanctions” arrived.

He had just steadied his footing and hadn’t yet assumed a counterattacking stance when Qi Xia swung a punch that hit him in the face once again.

A’Mu saw that Qi Xia’s punching form was very amateurish and thought this punch wouldn’t have any real power, but unexpectedly, he was directly knocked to the ground, and his entire temple was throbbing with pain.

Qi Xia immediately followed with a fierce kick to his chin, and A’Mu couldn’t get up from the ground.

Seeing that his opponent had lost fighting capability, Qi Xia slowly dropped the lock he was holding in his hand. Being hit in the temple with this thing, an ordinary person wouldn’t be able to get up.

“Who cares what happened?” Qi Xia said coldly. “You even dared to touch my teammate… if you’re willing to gamble, you must accept your losses.”

Just then, Baldy and Blondie also arrived at the scene.

Qi Xia felt somewhat strange. Why had their cabinet door also opened?

Could it be that they had also deciphered the password right after?

“A’Mu!”

The two ran forward anxiously and discovered that A’Mu had already been knocked to the ground.

“Kill them…” A’Mu said weakly. “If we don’t act now, we’re going to be sanctioned…”

“Damn it!” The two stood up and each pulled out a folding knife from their pockets.

Seeing this, both Qi Xia and Old Lu took a step back.

Although Qi Xia’s strikes were quite vicious, facing two highly alert thugs with knives, he still couldn’t think of any countermeasure.

“Hey! Earth-Dog!!” Qi Xia gritted his teeth and shouted. “Players fighting each other—aren’t you going to do anything?!”

After a few seconds, Earth-Dog’s weak voice came from the distance: “Yes, of course I’ll do something! But please wait a moment everyone. I’m currently tidying things up. I’ll come later.”

“Heh…” The bald thug slowly raised his knife and said, “The ‘Zodiacs’ hope for us to kill each other in the games anyway. How would they step in to stop us?”

Qi Xia’s expression darkened to the extreme. He had never imagined that players killing each other was also tacitly permitted by the “rules.”

Previously, when they had fought fiercely with Zhang Shan at Earth-Ox’s game venue, Earth-Ox had only intervened to stop them at the very end.

It seemed the situation this time would only be worse than before.

“Old Lu… take Zhang Chenze and run.” Qi Xia said in a low voice. “There’s a window in the room I was in. Break the window and run.”

“Little Qi… what about you?!” Old Lu asked somewhat panicked.

“I’ll figure out a way to deal with them.”

“You…” Old Lu’s eyes rolled around, and he quickly made a decision. “Then be careful!”

He turned back, pulled Zhang Chenze’s hand, and rushed into the room. He yanked Jiang Ruoxue away from the chair, then lifted the chair and smashed the window.

“Quick, go!” Old Lu shouted to Lawyer Zhang. “Those people are desperados. They’ll really kill!”

Jiang Ruoxue on the side watched the two with great interest, a faint smile rising at the corners of her mouth.

“No, I can’t leave.” Zhang Chenze said. “Uncle, please don’t touch me.”

“What the hell time is it for this?!” Old Lu felt that the girl before him was really too stubborn. “We’re fleeing for our lives right now! What’s wrong with me touching you a bit?!”

“If Qi Xia doesn’t leave, I won’t leave either.” Zhang Chenze said. “If you want to flee for your life, flee by yourself.”

After speaking, she picked up a thin, elongated glass shard from the ground, gripped it with the blade facing back in her hand, and turned to walk toward the doorway.

“Girl, have you lost your mind?!” Old Lu was nearly driven mad with anxiety. He stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Chenze’s wrist. “What are you going to do with this broken thing? They have knives!”

“Please don’t touch me.” Zhang Chenze’s eyes revealed a trace of coldness. “In a place like this, if you want to survive, just running is useless. I’m going to fight them with my life.”

Listening to their conversation, Jiang Ruoxue couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

“You two are really so interesting…” She covered her mouth, laughing very inappropriately.

The two looked at her simultaneously, but neither responded.

Old Lu continued trying to persuade Zhang Chenze: “Little girl, you’ve watched TV dramas, right? Originally, escaping would have been fine, but some people insist on going back to throw their lives away… aren’t you exactly this kind of person who causes trouble?”

Zhang Chenze thought carefully for a moment and said: “If it’s only Qi Xia alone, his probability of death is indeed very high. But if I join the battle with a weapon, the survival probability for the two of us will increase exponentially.”

“What the hell…” Old Lu was completely confused. “You’re saying that just by charging up with a glass shard, it increases exponentially?”

Jiang Ruoxue was tickled pink and laughed out loud from the side.

“What exactly are you laughing at?” Zhang Chenze asked.

“I…” Jiang Ruoxue walked to Lawyer Zhang’s side and asked, “Can you tell me how you plan to deal with those two people?”

“I don’t know either.” Zhang Chenze looked at the glass shard in her hand. “If I’m lucky, I can use this thing to pierce through one person’s throat.”

Jiang Ruoxue slowly reached out her hand and grasped Zhang Chenze’s hand, saying word by word: “Sister, you need to understand the ‘logical relationship’ here.”

“Logical relationship?” Zhang Chenze was somewhat puzzled.

“That’s right, just like you said yourself…” Jiang Ruoxue smiled at Zhang Chenze. “It’s precisely because of your participation that yours and Qi Xia’s survival probability becomes higher. So your appearance will definitely kill one of them. And for you to kill one of them, you must pierce his throat with the glass. All of this is predestined, so don’t say things like ‘if I’m lucky.'”

“What do you mean…?” Zhang Chenze still didn’t understand. “Miss, aren’t you working together with the other side?”

“I’m about to die—do I still care who my teammates are?” Jiang Ruoxue slowly released Zhang Chenze’s hand and said, “Go. A human life is waiting for you to take it.”