# Chapter 316: Wall-Passing?
“You know about my past...?” Yun Yao asked, frowning. “You also know Sweetie’s story?”
“That’s not all...” Chen Junnan laughed. “‘Strong Luck’ and ‘Clever Object’—we can’t do without either of them.”
“Clever Object...?” Yun Yao lowered her head in thought for a moment, then said, “I understand. Let’s join forces this time. Maybe you can help me find a reason to keep living again.”
“Ha!” Chen Junnan laughed. “That’s more like it.”
“But...” Yun Yao’s tone shifted. “Although I’ve lied to you several times before... this time I didn’t.”
“Ah?!” Chen Junnan’s heart, which had just settled, suddenly leaped into his throat.
“The question I just received really is this one,” Yun Yao said. “Ground Snake really does seem to be on our right.”
“In that case...” Chen Junnan said, “it can only mean that old bastard Ground Snake is way dumber than I thought. He’s really desperate now.”
“So what do we do next?”
“This time, the answer has to be ‘No,’ otherwise the iron ball won’t return, and you’ll be in danger,” Chen Junnan said. “Leave it to me.”
The two hung up. Chen Junnan calculated the iron ball’s position and pressed “No.”
The iron ball was currently at coordinate ‘2’. It had to get back to ‘3,’ otherwise the next round would be too risky.
After all, Yun Yao was at ‘0.’
Chen Junnan thought for a moment and dialed Xu Qian’s number.
“Sister Qian...” Chen Junnan pondered. “Did you pass the question down just now?”
“Isn’t that obvious?” Xu Qian asked back impatiently. “I saw with my own eyes that Ground Snake joined the game! How could I not pass it down?”
“You’re right.” Chen Junnan felt like he was overthinking again, but after what happened with Yun Yao, he now suspected everyone of lying.
He really wished Qi Xia were here right now—that guy could see through everyone’s lies at a glance.
“Sister Qian, help me spread this question...” Chen Junnan thought for a moment and said. “‘Vote No, let Ground Snake die.’”
“This... isn’t that too direct?” Xu Qian said.
“Is being direct a bad thing?” Chen Junnan retorted. “The top priority now is to let everyone know that Ground Snake is participating, then kill him.”
There was silence on the other end of the line for a long time before Xu Qian finally spoke. “I think your reasoning might be a bit extreme.”
“What?”
“Have you considered the possibility that... not everyone on the field wants Ground Snake dead?”
These words were like a fine needle piercing a balloon, causing Chen Junnan’s thoughts to burst open suddenly.
Right!
He had made a huge mistake!
This was his bet with Ground Snake—it was like a game of betting on high or low. The outcome of their life-or-death bet was like dice in a cup, and the various participants all had different opinions on “high” and “low.” They would place their bets on whichever side they thought had the best chance of winning.
Not everyone would bet on Chen Junnan winning.
If they all attacked Ground Snake together but failed to kill him, the time ahead would be very difficult.
“So that’s how it is...” Chen Junnan laughed. “Then your boy understands. At first I thought everyone on the field was some hot-blooded hero, but now it looks like there are quite a few cowards.”
“What?”
“Sister Qian, can you do me a favor?” Chen Junnan asked.
“What favor?”
“Don’t answer the phone next time. I want to talk to the person on your left.”
“Huh?” This wasn’t the first time Xu Qian had been startled by Chen Junnan’s ideas. “Will that work? I, I’m not dead yet. If I don’t answer the phone...”
“My question has already been asked. You’re not breaking the rules—you just don’t want to pick up the phone. Don’t worry.” Chen Junnan laughed.
Xu Qian had no choice but to follow Chen Junnan’s instructions. After all, she was already an “accomplice” in the life-or-death bet against Ground Snake. At this point, not killing Ground Snake would only put her in greater danger.
At least she wasn’t one of the direct participants in the bet—even if she died, she should reincarnate.
Before long, Xu Qian’s phone rang. She didn’t answer it, letting it ring ten times.
Sure enough, on the eleventh ring, it stopped.
So the phone’s working principle was mechanical. Regardless of whether the person in the room was dead or alive, if no one answered after ten rings, the call would automatically skip to the next person.
Chen Junnan waited patiently. Finally, the phone was picked up.
“Hello? Hello?” The voice on the other end was a very nervous man, just as Xu Qian had described.
“Yo, big brother.” Chen Junnan greeted with a laugh.
“Ah?!” The man was terrified. “Who, who are you? Where’s the girl before me?”
“If you don’t mind, big brother, I can be that girl.”
The nervous man was silent for a long time, then asked with a trembling voice, “Is she... dead?”
“How could that be?” Chen Junnan realized this big brother still hadn’t figured out the rules. “Maybe she’s not dead, just feeling a little unwell and didn’t want to answer the phone. So the call came straight to you. I hope I’m not disturbing you?”
“What do you want?”
“I want to have a chat with you...” Chen Junnan laughed. “Big brother, what question did the girl before you pass down to you?”
The man was about to speak when he suddenly realized something was wrong.
“Why are you asking?” he countered. “Shouldn’t you already know what question she raised?”
“Hey, you’re pretty smart, aren’t you?” Chen Junnan laughed. “Truth be told, the girl before you is already dead. Your boy here is betting his life against Ground Snake, and I’m jumping at shadows now. I can’t let any suspicious person off.”
“Ah?!” The man was startled. “Killed? Killed?!”
He looked around his enclosed space and suddenly felt unsafe.
“Don’t believe me?” Chen Junnan laughed. “Do you know why you’re talking to me right now? Think back to the rules.”
The man thought for a moment. The rules did seem to say that only after the person in the room died and the phone went unanswered would it transfer to the next person.
“You, you really killed that girl? You...” the man said regretfully. “That girl was really nice, she always explained the situation to me...”
“Then let’s say I killed the wrong person,” Chen Junnan said. “I can kill the wrong one once, and I can kill the wrong one twice. Big brother, do you want to die?”
“I, of course I don’t.”
“But this is the critical moment of my life-or-death bet with Ground Snake,” Chen Junnan said. “Everyone has only two possible outcomes: either they work for me, or I kill them. After all, my ‘Echo’ is goddamn ‘Wall-Passing.’”
“Ah?!” The man stood up from his chair in fright. “You, you can ‘pass through walls’?!”
“That’s right.” Chen Junnan said without changing his expression or heartbeat. “Just you wait—your boy will pass through the wall right now and kill you.”
“There’s, there’s no need for that...” The man gave a dry laugh. “I feel like you’re even more terrifying than Ground Snake. I’m definitely on your side.”
“Good. Then I’ll show you mercy.” Chen Junnan leaned closer to the phone. “You’re my lackey now.”
“Huh?”
“When my phone rings again, don’t answer it.”
“This... don’t answer it?”
“Or do you want to die?”
“No, no, no...”
Chen Junnan knew this man was a coward who wouldn’t be able to sway the overall situation. He was basically negligible. He decisively started the third round of calls.