Chapter 492: Come Kill Me
"Even if what you say is true... that you can't die or be destroyed, so what?" Earth Rabbit lowered his head, looking at the head in Jiang Shi's hand and asking, "I'm going to go kill your teammates one by one right now... what can you do to me with that broken body of yours?"
"You..." Upon hearing this, Jiang Shi finally showed a hint of panic. "You rabbit demon, are you too presumptuous? Isn't this part of your game rules? You're in this room but you haven't killed me... isn't that a violation?"
"Violation...?" Earth Rabbit shook his head. "I never said I had to kill everyone in the room. What I said was, 'I will take direct action.'"
"'Direct action'...?"
"Now I've taken action, and you've turned into a mess neither human nor ghost." Earth Rabbit slowly took a few steps forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with the diminutive Jiang Shi. "Your head is off, your leg is broken, what else can you do? If you have the guts, come and kill me. Otherwise, I'll go kill the others."
Jiang Shi's lips trembled slightly. He felt this was the first time someone had disregarded him so completely.
But after all, the "Zodiac" game wasn't the "Cat's" battlefield. These "Zodiacs," who were even more monstrous than himself, only followed their own game rules. Most of the time, the "Zodiacs" weren't about "life and death," but "victory and defeat." As long as everything stayed within the rules, whatever Earth Rabbit did was reasonable.
Earth Rabbit slowly walked a few steps forward, arriving at the doorway, and looked at Chen Junnan through the threshold.
A cold sweat was now slowly trickling down Chen Junnan's forehead. What followed was probably the most difficult situation for everyone. Earth Rabbit was no longer bothering with Jiang Shi in the room; he would begin his formal pursuit in the next round.
"Going to lock the door?" Earth Rabbit said. "There are so many of you... aren't you going to lock the door to keep me out?"
Chen Junnan frowned, thinking. At this moment, "locking the door" was indeed the correct choice. Otherwise, in the next round, Earth Rabbit could move twice in a row, catching up to the group that was fleeing for their lives.
But once someone chose to "lock the door," that person couldn't move for that round. In the next round, Earth Rabbit would perform "unlock" and then "open the door." That person's chances of survival would still be very low.
Considering everything, this round would require sacrificing a teammate to "lock the door."
Just as Chen Junnan was hesitating, he saw Jiang Shi holding his sword and slowly creeping up behind Earth Rabbit. Before Earth Rabbit could react, Jiang Shi swung his sword down fiercely.
"Stop!"
*Whoosh!!*
"Ah!" Earth Rabbit screamed in pain, whirled around, and casually swung his hand, sending Jiang Shi flying.
The sword and the head flew in two separate directions. If everyone hadn't seen it so clearly, anyone would have thought Jiang Shi was the one injured this time.
Unfortunately, Jiang Shi only had one hand to swing, and his age was too young. The size difference between the two was obvious. This sneak attack only sliced open the back of Earth Rabbit's suit, leaving a shallow but visible bloody gash on his body.
"Kid... I was going to let you off, but you're still asking for death...?" Earth Rabbit, furious, strode forward but didn't know whether to confront the head or the body, so he just stood between the two.
"Cough, cough..." Jiang Shi's head coughed weakly. His head and body seemed to have a strange connection. Even though they were far apart now, every reaction on his body was reflected in his head. "Rabbit demon, I said I want to die... If you don't kill me today, I'll take this sword and keep chasing you, hacking at you..."
Earth Rabbit sneered and walked toward Jiang Shi's body. "Now that you don't have your 'protective artifact'... what can you do?"
As he spoke, he raised his foot and stamped hard on the broken part of Jiang Shi's knee.
"Ahhh!!"
Jiang Shi's childish voice let out a piercing scream on the ground until his throat was hoarse.
"Acting up, are you?" Earth Rabbit ground his foot against Jiang Shi's knee as if he were stubbing out a cigarette. "You want to die... but I'll make you wish you were dead instead..."
"Hey!!" Chen Junnan's expression instantly changed. He wanted to step forward and reason with Earth Rabbit.
"What?" Earth Rabbit turned his head, sneering at Chen Junnan. Whenever he sneered, his two yellow rabbit teeth stuck out from his mouth, looking absolutely disgusting. "What... feeling sorry for your teammate?"
Chen Junnan frowned. "We're human beings, at least. You're torturing a child right now... If I turned into a ruthless, muscle-bound spicy rabbit head, I probably wouldn't feel sorry either."
"What did you say...?"
"Let the kid go. Come kill me." Chen Junnan forced a faint smile. "I'm a much easier target than him..."
"Oh...?" Earth Rabbit stomped on Jiang Shi's knee one more time to make sure he couldn't stand up, then turned and walked up to Chen Junnan. "Do you know how much I want to kill you?"
Before answering, Chen Junnan glanced over at Jiang Shi's head and saw that the boy was almost passing out from the pain.
"Of course I do... I've always been the most punchable guy in this land..." Chen Junnan let out a dry laugh through the doorframe. "Can I... just walk in there now and let you kill me?"
"Unfortunately, that won't work..." Earth Rabbit shook his head, deliberately looking troubled. "It's not your turn... If you show up in another room, that would be against the rules..."
"Oh...?" Chen Junnan gave another cold smile, then reached up to pick his ear. "My ears might be having a problem today—I didn't hear that very clearly..."
"What?"
"If it's not your turn... and you move into another room... that's against the rules?"
"That's right." Earth Rabbit nodded. "Is there something unclear about that rule?"
"No, it's clear as day..." Chen Junnan took half a small step forward, getting closer to Earth Rabbit. "But there's something I want to ask you on behalf of a friend of mine."
"Ask me?"
"Yeah." A sly grin crept onto Chen Junnan's face. "Brother Rabbit, you ever thought about 'rebelling'?"
Hearing this, Earth Rabbit's head twitched slightly. His expression shifted, and then a smile spread across his face.
"You're telling me... to 'rebel'?" He slowly parted his three-lipped mouth, revealing his yellow teeth. "Ha... haha. Ridiculous."
"What's so funny?"
Earth Rabbit shook his head, fixing his cold, red eyes on Chen Junnan's. "I suppose you'd call this 'negotiating terms'?"
"Something like that." Chen Junnan nodded. "More precisely, my friend wants to negotiate terms with you."
"I've never seen such an unequal negotiation." Earth Rabbit took a step back, stripped off his clean black suit, revealing a tight dark blue shirt underneath, showing off the muscular contours of his body. "If my calculations are correct... in two or three minutes, I'll have beaten all of you to death. And at this moment, you think of 'negotiating terms'?"
"Oh? Is that what you think?" Chen Junnan asked back ambiguously. "No wonder you find it laughable."