Chapter 144: Rapidly Lightening
Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin slowly turned their heads and saw Tian Tian tremblingly holding the knife in the air.
Tears were streaming from her eyes endlessly, her expression extremely complicated.
It looked like she didn’t want to die, but she also didn’t want to live.
“I, I…” Tian Tian’s lips quivered as she spoke. “I have a way…”
“Hey…” Qiao Jiajin stretched out his hand and slowly stood up. “I know you have a way, but put the knife down first.”
Qi Xia also stood up and slowly approached Tian Tian. “Your method won’t work… Listen to me first…”
“Don’t come any closer…” Tian Tian took a step back. “I’m sorry, this is the only way I can do it…”
“No!” Qiao Jiajin cut her off. “I just looked at the size of that hole. Even if you cut off your hand, you can’t throw it out! We still need time to chop your hand into pieces! But we don’t have any time left!”
Qi Xia swallowed his saliva and said to Tian Tian, “Qiao Jiajin is right. Doing this is useless.”
“But you can’t cut through the iron mesh either!” Tian Tian cried out loudly. “I have a better way!”
“There is no better way!” Qi Xia also shouted. “Cutting the iron mesh is the only way!”
“No…!” Tian Tian fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably. “Actually, you already thought of it, didn’t you, Qi Xia… This is the only way…”
“That method won’t work!!” Qi Xia took another step forward. “Let’s try something else!”
“Qi Xia… I don’t want to become a charred corpse. I’ve been filthy my whole life; I want to look pretty when I die.”
“Qiao Jiajin! Take the knife from her now!!” Qi Xia screamed. “Hurry!”
Before Qiao Jiajin could take a single step forward, Tian Tian suddenly raised the knife and placed it against the artery on the left side of her neck, slashing down fiercely.
She didn’t hesitate at all.
A sound like a burst water pipe suddenly erupted.
Blood spurted more than a meter high, instantly like a summer mist blowing in, carrying heat that stained everyone’s faces red.
The knife fell to the ground, and Tian Tian collapsed face-first onto the floor.
The blood in her body surged out uncontrollably, raining red onto the ground.
“Tian Tian!!”
Qiao Jiajin and Yun Yao both rushed over and pressed down on the wound on her neck.
But the blood couldn’t be stopped; it slyly slipped through the gaps between their fingers.
Yun Yao was so anxious that tears the size of beans rolled down her face.
She had experienced countless situations where teammates died in games, but this was the first time she felt like crying.
Were there really such foolish girls in this world?
Even if she knew she would come back to life after dying, who would willingly die?
“F*ck!” Qiao Jiajin pressed both hands against Tian Tian’s neck, only to see her face visibly turn pale. “Girl… What the hell are you doing?!”
Qi Xia slowly covered his forehead.
That familiar pain was back again.
“Uh…!”
Qi Xia fell to his knees, clutching his forehead in agony.
“Conman!”
“Qi Xia!”
Yun Yao hurried over to check on him, only to find him trembling all over in pain.
“What’s going on?” Yun Yao asked. “Does Qi Xia have some kind of illness?”
“I don’t know…” Qiao Jiajin said. “Conman, what’s wrong with you?”
Qi Xia didn’t answer. He just curled up on the ground, waiting for the intense pain to pass.
The balance of weight had been broken again, and the room began to rise.
Qi Xia knew the key to clearing this level was “bloodletting.”
An adult human body carries about 5,000 milliliters of blood, weighing roughly ten jin (about 5 kilograms).
That was something even cutting off both hands couldn’t compare to.
The weight difference between the two rooms was already very small. If one side could quickly “lose” a few jin, victory was certain.
If you wanted to release a large amount of blood in a very short time, cutting an artery was the only way.
A full half minute passed before Qi Xia stood up expressionlessly.
“You…” Yun Yao felt that Qi Xia’s expression was off. “Are you okay?”
“Do I look like I’m okay?” Qi Xia retorted, then continued emotionlessly, “Watch. We’re going to win.”
Qiao Jiajin and Yun Yao exchanged glances, not understanding.
Qi Xia, who had been in such pain moments ago, suddenly seemed like a different person.
He showed neither sadness nor panic. He was like a stagnant pool of water, indifferent to everyone’s death.
Qi Xia walked to the wall, glanced at the other side still struggling in its death throes, and threw away the knife.
Just as Qi Xia had said, they were going to win.
As the blood inside Tian Tian’s body flowed out in large quantities, their room slowly rose, distancing itself from the flames below.
The other side seemed to have tried something, but they failed.
The distant room was like a moth, charging resolutely into the fire.
The screams came again.
The flames had completely engulfed the room.
Qi Xia turned his head indifferently and noticed that the countdown on the wall had ended.
The moment the countdown ended, their room suddenly shook violently, as if flying at great speed.
The three of them held onto the walls to steady themselves, and it was a long time before the room stopped shaking.
“What’s going on?” Qiao Jiajin asked.
Qi Xia looked down at his feet. Beneath the iron mesh floor, there was now a wooden floor. It seemed they had arrived at a strange new place.
*Click!*
*Creak!*
A faint sound came from behind. Everyone turned to see that the wall had turned back into a door, now open.
Beyond the door was a corridor.
And directly opposite was another iron door.
Qi Xia was the first to step out of the room and looked back. Sure enough, there was an elevator behind him.
But where had this elevator just led to?
Was the iron door across the way another elevator?
“Congratulations.” Ren Long stood to the side and spoke. “You won the game.”
Qi Xia turned his head to look at him. He stood in the middle of the corridor, with a cabinet on each side containing some clothes.
“My games are very service-oriented. I’ve already collected everything you threw out and put it here.” Ren Long chuckled. “Hurry and put on some clothes. Don’t catch a cold.”
Everyone felt a little bitter inside, but they silently walked over, picked up their clothes, and put them on.
Yun Yao’s bag and shoes had been chopped to pieces, but she retrieved her makeup.
“Ren Long… Playing with me like this—you’re going to regret it,” Qi Xia said after putting on his clothes.
“Playing with you?” Ren Long blinked behind his mask. “How am I playing with you?”
Then he walked over to another iron door and knocked. “Is anyone else coming out?”
The iron door was steaming hot. No one answered.
“How strange… I invited you to play on a seesaw, and it turns into a deadly game?” Ren Long looked meaningfully at Qi Xia. “Why do you think that is?”
“What?”
Qi Xia frowned and stared intently at Ren Long.
Ren Long smiled and replied, “This game’s rules are very simple. If everyone just stayed still, you could have come out when the countdown ended.”