"It's over, it's over, it's over..." little glasses muttered in despair while stumbling around the room.
"Mom... I'm really going to die this time..."
In less than ten steps, the black bear had already cornered little glasses against the wall. Little glasses' legs completely refused to obey him. He slumped on the ground, unable to move even a fraction of an inch.
He leaned against the wall, looked back, and an extremely terrifying black face filled his entire vision. Ugly, ferocious, and reeking. The black bear stuck out its snout and sniffed little glasses' face.
Little glasses' face was deathly pale. He stared blankly ahead, not daring to move a muscle even when the black bear brought its mouth close to his neck.
"Mom..." little glasses muttered.
"I can't go back... Mom... don't wait for me..."
The black bear opened its mouth, which emitted a rotting stench. Just as it was about to bite down, Qiao Jiajin, who was lying on the ground, suddenly let out a loud shout.
"Hey!! Time is up!! Dammit!! Are you guys going to cheat?! Stop killing people!!"
The crowd turned their heads to look, and sure enough, the electronic clock on the wall had finished its countdown and stopped at "0". In the next second, the iron door in the distance suddenly opened, and the black bear's whole body stiffened. Immediately after, a powerful suction force burst forth from the iron door.
The black bear was like a piece of paper swaying in the wind. It let out a painful howl and was then dragged into the door at an extremely fast speed by an invisible force. The game was over.
The crowd survived.
"It's, it's over..."
Several minutes passed before a girl spoke tremblingly.
"The black bear is gone..."
The girls slowly stood up, hugged each other, and wept tears of joy. Little glasses seemed to be frightened silly, only able to sit on the ground and pant heavily.
"Damn it..."
Qiao Jiajin stretched his sore body, clutched his abdomen, and said with an exhausted face, "That was really not easy. Con man, it's all thanks to your Eagle Catches the Chicks." Qi Xia stood up and did not speak, but his expression showed some worry.
"What's wrong?"
Qiao Jiajin asked.
"Tell me..."
Qi Xia opened his mouth and asked, "Did the two of them survive?"
"Them..."
Qiao Jiajin naturally knew that Qi Xia was talking about Tian Tian and Lin Qin, but he did not dare to make wild guesses. No one knew what had actually happened in the other room. Were they in the same situation as here, being chased by a black bear?
Could their teammates unite and come up with the strategy of Eagle Catches the Chicks? The crowd turned around and found that the stairs they had come from had appeared behind them.
"Stop thinking about it, let's just go and see directly."
Qiao Jiajin patted Qi Xia's shoulder.
"Let's go."
Old Lu helped little glasses up. The group supported each other and slowly walked up the stairs, arriving at the room where the chairs had been placed earlier. Earth Bull stood quietly here, waiting for the crowd's triumphant return.
"Nine survived?"
Earth Bull paused slightly.
"Not bad."
"Bastards..."
Qiao Jiajin cursed in a low voice.
"One day I'm going to beat these people up."
"Please rest for a moment, the people in the other room have not returned yet."
Earth Bull waved at them, gesturing for them to sit down. The crowd did not stand on ceremony and sat down on the chairs one after another. For those who had just narrowly escaped death, nothing here could be more terrifying than that black bear.
After waiting for about two minutes, Qiao Jiajin could no longer sit still.
"Hey, old Bull. Is their game not over yet?"
"Both of your sides started at the exact same time, so it should be over by now, but they have not returned here yet."
"Wh..."
Qi Xia frowned, feeling as if his headache was about to act up. He hurriedly clutched his forehead and asked the bull-headed man, "The game is over but no one came back, doesn't that mean they all died...?"
"I do not know."
The bull-headed man shook his head.
"Please sit for a moment, do not be anxious."
Saying not to be anxious is one thing, but who wouldn't be? The teams were randomly shuffled this time. In other words, almost all the participants present had a teammate assigned to the other team.
Qi Xia turned his head and saw little glasses sitting not far in front of him, who was whispering something to the middle-aged man next to him.
"Ah?! How can that work?!" the middle-aged man exclaimed.
Little glasses hurriedly 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.
"Absolutely not, no matter what you say."
After he finished speaking, he turned his head and happened to meet Qi Xia's gaze, but he immediately shifted his eyes away, as if he had seen nothing. He then continued to say in a low voice, "If that's really the case, I'll have to let Zhang Shan make the decision for me!"
"Heh."
Qi Xia sneered, roughly guessing the content of their conversation. After waiting for a full five or six minutes, the crowd finally heard a heavy set of footsteps gradually emerging from the door on the side.
"They're coming..."
After this set of footsteps, a large number of other footsteps sounded out. It sounded like the number of survivors in this team was quite high as well. A burly man slowly emerged from the pitch-black doorway.
His face was stern, and he quickly scanned the crowd before a smile slowly appeared on his face.
"Damn... you're all alive?"
"Zhang Shan! Zhang Shan!" little glasses excitedly ran forward.
"That's great! You're alright... holy shit!!!"
Little glasses cried out loudly and hurriedly took a step back. The scene before him was truly too terrifying. Just now, this burly man named Zhang Shan was standing in the dark, and his full appearance could not be seen.
But as he continued to walk under the light, his terrifying wounds were revealed. His entire body was covered in bloodstains, and there were three deep scratch marks on his chest. His right arm held two pitch-black objects tucked under his armpit, looking like two thick tree trunks.
Meanwhile, Tian Tian and Lin Qin also gradually revealed their figures from the doorway.
"Pretty lady!"
Qiao Jiajin looked the two of them up and down.
"Are you alright?"
"We're fine..."
Tian Tian smiled bitterly.
"How about you guys?"
"Same old."
Qiao Jiajin shook his head helplessly.
"Relying on the con man's idea, we managed to survive."
"Ah?"
Tian Tian looked at Qi Xia in disbelief.
"We can rely on Qi Xia for this game too?"
Lin Qin also felt it was a bit unbelievable.
"Qiao Jiajin, didn't you say you were going to handle the Bull game yourself?"
"Damn, don't mention it..."
Qiao Jiajin cursed.
"If the opponent was a person, it would have been fine, but that was a black bear! Who in this world can beat a black bear in a fight?"
Tian Tian and Lin Qin looked at each other and said somewhat awkwardly, "Maybe... there really is someone who can beat a bear to death..." Hearing the two of them say this, Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin looked at that strong man named Zhang Shan. Could it be that he... beat a bear to death?
They saw teammates continuously walking out from behind him. The two counted, and there were exactly ten people. Obviously, no one in their team had died.
Zhang Shan tossed the two objects tucked under his arm onto the ground, and then sat down on a chair with an exhausted face.
"Damn... Old Bull, you really don't hold back at all. Did you even prepare something like a bear?"
The crowd looked down and found that the things he threw on the ground were not tree branches at all, but two bloody black bear forearms.