"You are a fucking lunatic..."
Old Lu was so scared he almost could not stand straight.
"Didn't we just win ten Dao from you? Do you have to play this big?"
"Do you think I want to act as a pig in this hellhole, relying on luck to get by every day?"
Human Pig reached out and touched the pig snout on his mask. Although the mask had no expression, it always gave off a ferocious feeling.
"You guys do not understand me... Only life-gambling games... only gambling my life against formidable people gives meaning to life here."
Human Pig's eyes gave Qi Xia a certain feeling. He had been playing the pig all along, waiting for the day he could eat the tiger.
"A real lunatic..."
Old Lu looked at Qi Xia with some difficulty. The Human Pig in front of them had specifically called him out for a life-gambling game, and it was too late to run away now.
"Human Pig, let us change the method," Qi Xia thought for a moment and said.
"I will stay here alone and gamble my life with you. I do not need the help of these two."
"Eh?"
Old Lu and Lin Qin froze at the same time.
"Kid, what are you doing?"
Old Lu was stunned.
"I was the one who dragged you into this game. What kind of sense does it make for you to stay here alone and gamble your life?"
Qi Xia looked at Old Lu with equal confusion, realizing that he indeed had some prejudice against him before. He did not expect Old Lu to be surprisingly reliable at critical moments.
"Uncle," Qi Xia said, "The more people stay, the more dangerous it is. If I die, you take this friend of mine to find that man and woman."
"No, I will not leave."
Lin Qin shook her head and said, "Qi Xia, did you forget what I told you?"
"I am not fucking leaving either."
Old Lu shook his head.
"Kid, this Human Pig singled you out. Logically speaking, this little girl and I are safe... But do not worry, if you die, I will personally collect your corpse."
Qi Xia helplessly scratched his head. Although his opinion of Old Lu had changed a bit, his words were still very unpleasant to hear.
"That sounds really unlucky... Since that is the case, I will not try to persuade you anymore."
Qi Xia sighed and looked up at Human Pig.
"You said there is a new way to play. What is the way to play?"
Human Pig revealed an excited expression again and pushed two pairs of glasses toward the two of them.
"Come, put them on! Put them on!"
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qin and Old Lu put on the two pairs of glasses. The next second, two mechanical arms extended from the ends of the glasses' temples. They wrapped around the back of the two people's heads with a click, locking together end to end.
Lin Qin felt that something was wrong. She wanted to take the glasses off, only to find that these small glasses contained complex mechanisms. At this moment, they were tightly locked onto her head like a golden headband.
"What is going on..."
Just as Lin Qin was about to speak, Human Pig reached out and interrupted her.
"Pretty lady, do not speak so casually," Human Pig said with a smile.
"Starting now, you will only be safe if you follow my rules."
"Rules..."
"Right now, your glasses have already taken effect," Human Pig explained.
"One of you will feel the glasses getting a bit cold, while the other will feel the glasses getting a bit hot. In the time that follows, the person who feels the glasses are cold is only allowed to tell lies. And the person who feels the glasses are hot is only allowed to tell the truth."
Qi Xia had an ominous premonition. This game mode seemed familiar.
"If you try to pull any tricks, or if you open your mouths to speak before the game starts..."
Human Pig pointed his finger at the space between his eyebrows.
"Here will be pierced through. Do you understand?"
Hearing this, Lin Qin immediately closed her mouth. Because she noticed that some mechanism seemed to be triggering at the spot between her eyebrows. The inside of these glasses was wound tight.
It could be a bowstring, or it could be a laser. Old Lu's face also turned pale and then purple. He knew that speaking more meant making more mistakes, and he was not sure which sentence of his might trigger the mechanism.
Seeing the two of them fall silent, Human Pig turned his head to look at Qi Xia and spoke, "As for the game you and I are going to play, the general rules are the same as last time. It is just that this time... I will distribute."
"You will distribute?"
Qi Xia looked at the game pieces on the table and thought for a moment.
"After you distribute... I will choose?"
"Correct."
Human Pig nodded.
"Does that not sound very unfair to you?"
"Of course it is unfair."
Although he said this out loud, Qi Xia knew the rules were not over yet. After all, the rules regarding the truth and the lies had not yet come into play.
"Therefore, I am showing great mercy and adding one rule for you..."
Human Pig chuckled foolishly and snorted a few times.
"After you finish choosing, you need to ask these two people to confirm the color. But no matter who you choose to ask, you can only ask one time in total."
After speaking, he raised his head again and said to Lin Qin and Old Lu, "To ensure fairness, you two can only answer with two choices: black and white. Do you have any problems with that?" The two nodded with panic on their faces.
Qi Xia seemed to understand. This rule was completely outrageous. Right now, he had no way of knowing who between Lin Qin and Old Lu would tell the truth.
Asking a question would only make the situation even more complicated.
"The watch theorem..."
Qi Xia closed his eyes and silently chanted to himself.
"When a person has only one watch, they clearly know the time. But when they have two watches with different times, they cannot trust either one..."
"Are you ready, Qi Xia?"
Human Pig asked. Qi Xia took a deep breath, raised his head, and looked at Human Pig.
"I want to ask you the exact same thing. This is a battle that gambles with our lives. Are you ready?"
"Lives? Hehehe..."
Human Pig snorted and grunted, revealing a smile, and soon began laughing so hard that his whole body trembled.
"Living here, what lives do we even have left to speak of... Only at the moment of death can I feel that I have truly lived."
Qi Xia nodded. He knew that Human Pig seemed to have lived here for a very long time. Ordinary ways of thinking simply could not persuade him.
Thus, Qi Xia reached out, picked up the blindfold, and put it on. Human Pig, on the other hand, silently began to distribute the game pieces. Lin Qin and Old Lu watched these two calm and composed people from the side.
It was obvious that they were the main characters gambling their lives, yet both of them maintained a calm expression from beginning to end, as if they completely did not care about what was going to happen next. On the contrary, Lin Qin and Old Lu were so nervous that their legs were shaking.
"Do you want to get out?"
Qi Xia suddenly asked.
"What?"
Human Pig did not even lift his head, speaking absentmindedly.
"Besides dying here, have you never thought about escaping out of here?"
Human Pig's hand paused in mid-air for a moment, and he answered, "Escape to where?"
"Go back to wherever you came from."
Qi Xia was wearing the blindfold, but he said with a serious face, "Do you not want to go back?" Human Pig thought for a brief moment and said, "If I did not want to go back, why would I willingly become a pig?"
"What?"
Qi Xia felt as though he had just learned some important clue.
"But I do not plan to escape out of here, Qi Xia."
Human Pig finished placing all the game pieces and then said solemnly, "I plan to walk out of here openly and honorably."