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Chapter 44: Zhang Shan

The originally orderly team almost instantly fell apart; everyone fled in all directions, but the black bear only chased Little Glasses.

"It's over, it's over, it's over…" Little Glasses muttered despairingly as he stumbled around the room. "Mommy... I'm really going to die this time..."

Within ten steps, the Black Bear had already cornered Little Glasses against the wall.

Little Glasses's legs completely gave out; he collapsed to the ground and couldn't move an inch.

He leaned against the wall and looked back—an extremely terrifying black face filled his view.

Ugly, hideous, stinking.

The Black Bear stretched out its nose and sniffed Little Glasses's face.

Little Glasses's face was pale, his eyes staring blankly ahead. Even when the Black Bear brought its mouth close to his neck, he didn't dare move.

"Mom..." Little Glasses muttered. "I can't go back... Mom... don't wait for me..."

The Black Bear opened its foul-smelling mouth. Just as it was about to bite down, Qiao Jiajin, who was lying on the ground, suddenly shouted.

"Hey!! Time's up!! Damn it!! Are you trying to cheat?! Stop killing people!!"

Everyone turned to look—the electronic clock on the wall had indeed finished its countdown and stopped at "0".

The next second, the iron door in the distance suddenly opened. The Black Bear froze.

Then, a powerful suction force burst out from the iron door. The Black Bear fluttered like a piece of paper in the wind, let out a painful howl, and at great speed was pulled into the door by something invisible.

The game was over.

Everyone had survived.

"It's... it's over..." After several minutes, a girl spoke shakily. "The Black Bear is gone..."

The girls slowly stood up, hugged each other, and cried tears of joy.

Little Glasses seemed scared senseless, sitting on the ground gasping for air.

"Holy crap..." Qiao Jiajin stretched his sore body, clutching his stomach with a tired expression. "That was no joke, Liar. Thank goodness for your 'Eagle Catching Chicks' trick."

Qi Xia stood up and didn't speak. Instead, he looked worried.

"What's wrong?" Qiao Jiajin asked.

"Do you think..." Qi Xia began, "those two made it?"

"Them..."

Qiao Jiajin naturally knew Qi Xia was referring to Tiantian and Lin Qin, but he didn't dare guess.

Who knew what had happened in the other room?

Had they also been chased by a Black Bear in the same situation?

Had their teammates been able to band together and come up with an "Eagle Catching Chicks" strategy?

Everyone turned around and saw that the staircase they had come from had reappeared behind them.

"Don't think about it. Let's go check it out directly." Qiao Jiajin patted Qi Xia on the shoulder. "Let's go."

Old Lyu helped Little Glasses up, and the group supported each other as they slowly climbed the stairs and returned to the room with the chairs.

The Earth Ox stood there quietly, waiting for everyone's "triumphant return."

"Nine survived?" The Earth Ox paused slightly. "Not bad."

"Damn it all..." Qiao Jiajin muttered under his breath. "One day I'm going to beat the crap out of these people."

"Please wait a moment. The people from the other room haven't returned yet." The Earth Ox waved a hand at them, signaling them to sit down.

Everyone didn't stand on ceremony and sat down on the chairs. For them, survivors of a narrow escape, nothing here was scarier than that Black Bear.

After waiting about two minutes, Qiao Jiajin couldn't sit still.

"Hey, old ox. Isn't their game over yet?"

"Both of your games started at the same time. They should all be over now, but they haven't returned here yet."

"What—" Qi Xia frowned. He felt a headache coming on and quickly pressed his hand to his forehead, asking the Ox-head man, "If the game is over and no one comes back, doesn't that mean they're all dead...?"

"I don't know." The Ox-head man shook his head. "Please sit a while longer. Don't rush."

Saying "don't rush" was easy, but who could stay calm?

The teams had been randomly shuffled. In other words, almost all the participants present had teammates assigned to the other group.

Qi Xia turned his head and saw Little Glasses sitting not far in front of him, whispering something to a middle-aged man beside him.

"Huh?! How can that be?!" The middle-aged man exclaimed.

Little Glasses quickly waved his hand at him and explained a few words in a low voice.

"No, no, I disagree!" The middle-aged man shook his head like a rattle-drum. "No way, no matter what."

As he spoke, he turned his head and accidentally met Qi Xia's gaze. But he immediately looked away as if he hadn't seen anything, then continued in a hushed tone: "If that's really the case, I'll have Zhang Shan make the decision for me!"

"Heh." Qi Xia sneered, roughly guessing the content of their conversation.

After waiting a full five or six minutes, everyone finally heard a heavy footstep gradually emerging from a door on the side.

"Here they come..."

After that footstep, many more footsteps followed.

It sounded like this team also had a considerable number of survivors.

A big man slowly emerged from the pitch-black door. His expression was cold. He quickly scanned the crowd and slowly broke into a smile: "Damn... you're all alive?"

"Zhang Shan! Zhang Shan!" Little Glasses ran up excitedly. "Great! You're okay... Holy crap!!!"

Little Glasses yelped and quickly stepped back.

The sight before him was truly horrifying.

This big man named Zhang Shan had been standing in the darkness, so they hadn't seen his full appearance.

But as he kept walking into the light, his terrible wounds became visible.

His whole body was covered in blood. There were three deep claw marks on his chest. Under his right arm, he was holding two dark objects that looked like thick tree branches.

And Tiantian and Lin Qin gradually emerged from the door as well.

"Pretty girls!" Qiao Jiajin looked them up and down. "Are you two okay?"

"We're fine..." Tiantian gave a bitter smile. "Are you guys okay?"

"Same as ever." Qiao Jiajin shook his head helplessly. "Thanks to the Liar's idea, we survived."

"Huh?" Tiantian looked at Qi Xia in disbelief. "You managed this game too?"

Lin Qin also found it hard to believe: "Qiao Jiajin, didn't you say you'd handle the 'Ox-type' game on your own?"

"Hell, don't even mention it..." Qiao Jiajin grumbled. "If it had been a person, that would be one thing. But it was a Black Bear! Who in this world can beat a Black Bear?"

Tiantian and Lin Qin exchanged glances, then spoke with some difficulty: "Maybe... someone really can kill a bear..."

Hearing this, Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin looked at the strong man named Zhang Shan.

Had he... killed a bear?

Then they saw more teammates coming out from behind him. The two of them counted—exactly ten.

Clearly, their team had suffered no deaths.

Zhang Shan tossed the two things he was holding under his arm to the ground, then sat down on a chair with a tired look: "Damn... Old Ox, you really don't hold back. You actually prepared something like a 'bear' for us?"

Everyone looked down and saw that what he had thrown to the ground weren't branches at all—they were two bloody black bear forelimbs.