Chapter 1074: Disaster Begins

"Ah...?" Zhao Yisheng was stunned. "Go tell Chu Tianqiu...?"

"That's right." Qi Xia nodded. "Just relay it truthfully. I won't make things difficult for you."

"No, no, no... I understand the rules," Zhao Yisheng said. "As long as you stay away from my side, I'll agree to anything."

"No, go tell him that I've made my move," Qi Xia added. "If he keeps staying in the Bei Zhan Qu and just waits for doom, it's no different."

Zhao Yisheng pursed his lips and didn't dare speak. Qi Xia paused for a moment before asking, "Do you want to come in?"

"No, no... I won't."

Seeing Qi Xia nod and turn away directly, Zhao Yisheng finally let out a slow breath of relief.

Entering the same room as Qi Xia... what would that be any different from handing over the zi to him?

This place still represented the "cunning" and "question-and-answer" She.

Unless every question from the She inside was about neurosurgery, he had no chance of winning at all.

"This is getting complicated..."

Zhao Yisheng hurried back to the Bei Zhan Qu and found Chu Tianqiu, where Wen Qiaoyun was talking to him.

"Tianqiu, look at this." Wen Qiaoyun held up a jin character for Chu Tianqiu to see.

Upon seeing the zi, Chu Tianqiu's face gradually darkened.

"Qiaoyun... how did you get this zi?"

"The informant on the other side handed it over voluntarily, as a gesture of goodwill," Wen Qiaoyun said. "What's wrong with this zi? Is there a problem?"

Chu Tianqiu knew exactly what the issue was. This jin character was one he had personally given to Chen Junnan, and now it had been brought back by the informant... what did that mean?

"So, the so-called 'informant'... is Han Yimo, right?" Chu Tianqiu asked.

"Yes, the writer named Han Yimo," Wen Qiaoyun replied.

Chu Tianqiu furrowed his brow and asked, "Did you promise him anything?"

"No," Wen Qiaoyun answered. "He asked for a promise that I'd accept him as one of our own, but I couldn't respond, so I told him to go back and stay calm, saying I'd contact him soon."

"That's absurd," Chu Tianqiu said. "This zi isn't some gesture of goodwill from Han Yimo... it's clearly a challenge from Chen Junnan."

"What...?" Wen Qiaoyun and Zhao Yisheng both paused.

"This zi was with Chen Junnan... why would he give it to Han Yimo?" Chu Tianqiu frowned deeply. "Could it be that Han Yimo snatched it from Chen Junnan's hands?"

"Tianqiu... don't get too worked up..." Wen Qiaoyun said. "What are you worried about?"

"How can I not worry?!" Chu Tianqiu gritted his teeth. "Exactly who pulled Han Yimo in as our informant?"

Wen Qiaoyun was taken aback, realizing she had never thought about this question. Han Yimo had sworn he was an undercover agent, but how did he become one? And when?

Was he pretending to be an undercover to gain trust...?

But Wen Qiaoyun quickly dismissed that idea.

With Han Yimo's cunning... how would he dare use such a strategy?

"It was... me..." Zhao Yisheng said awkwardly from the side. "What's wrong with Han Yimo...? Hasn't he always been on our side?"

"If he had always been on our side, that would be fine," Chu Tianqiu said. "But he's with Qi Xia now. How dare you bring him in as an undercover?"

Neither Zhao Yisheng nor Wen Qiaoyun understood what Chu Tianqiu meant, but it was clear he was furious.

He snatched the jin character from Wen Qiaoyun's hand and said with a heavy expression, "Besides, just now, Qiaoyun didn't promise Han Yimo anything... He's already handed over two zi on his own, but got no response, so his mind must be full of doubts. If he realizes he's not a real undercover, that might be okay, but if he truly believes he is... the situation will get even more dangerous."

He slowly placed the jin character on the Feng Huang Xian Shu Tai, only to see four astonishing words light up on the screen:

"Creation failed."

"As expected..." Chu Tianqiu sighed again. "The situation is starting to change..."

He rotated the jin character on the Feng Huang Xian Shu Tai several times, but no matter what, the screen only displayed "Creation failed."

"What's going on?" Wen Qiaoyun asked, puzzled. "It's such a clear jin character..."

"I thought that Jin Yuanxun winning a bao character from Chen Junnan meant we were advancing toward victory, but now a huge obstacle has blocked our way."

Chu Tianqiu's face grew increasingly grim, and the two beside him could feel his anger.

"Is there really such a way to win...?" he gritted his teeth. "The limits of turning the tables are nothing compared to this..."

"Tianqiu, calm down," Wen Qiaoyun said. "If there's any issue, you can tell me, and we'll solve it together."

"Qiaoyun..." Chu Tianqiu said. "Earlier, when you and Han Yimo were in the game, you must have noticed the strange ability he has."

After Chu Tianqiu's reminder, Wen Qiaoyun recalled the oddity of that game—every answer Han Yimo chose was wrong.

To win the game, you had to avoid his choices as much as possible.

Did this strange ability have no limits...?

Whichever team he joined, would that team lose?

"This is ridiculous..." Wen Qiaoyun said. "As long as he thinks he's an undercover, we can't win...?"

"That's the logic," Chu Tianqiu said. "Han Yimo probably doesn't even know his Hui Xiang is called Zhao Zai. He triggers disasters that he believes in and that can actually happen."

At this point, Zhao Yisheng also caught on: "So, the disaster Han Yimo can think of right now is 'the undercover has to lose'...?"

"What else...?" Chu Tianqiu turned back and asked coldly. "When you convinced him to be an undercover, why didn't you think of that?"

Zhao Yisheng knew that even if he had planned everything carefully, he couldn't have anticipated that Zhao Zai and "undercover" were incompatible.

"But that doesn't make sense..." Zhao Yisheng said. "We could just stop working with Han Yimo and make him think he's been abandoned, so he'd go back to Qi Xia's side, right?"

"If it were that simple, that would be great," Chu Tianqiu said. "The problem lies with Han Yimo himself... Based on what I know about him, no matter how unbelievable things get, he'll use his novel-writing experience to fill in the logic and believe it completely."

"Ah...?" Although it was Wen Qiaoyun's first time hearing this, recalling her time with Han Yimo, she felt Chu Tianqiu was spot on.

No matter how bizarre the situation, Han Yimo would find a way to explain it to himself. He only believed what he wanted to believe.

So, even if you told him outright that the undercover role was invalid, he'd think it was a test from the other side.

How do you handle someone this tricky...?

Chu Tianqiu made a decisive decision: "Zhao Yisheng... Go find Jin Yuanxun right away. Your next goal is to kill Han Yimo with all your might."