Chapter 304: Want to Sit?

Before Chen Junnan could finish scolding, the words on the screen had already disappeared.

"I swear..." Chen Junnan quickly reached out and tapped the screen. "Hey! Wait a minute! Teacher, I haven't finished reviewing the question!"

Di She, listening to Chen Junnan's muffled shouts in the central round square, couldn't help but smile knowingly.

Chen Junnan sighed deeply and began stroking his chin in thought.

This ghostly question was something most people wouldn't know the answer to. Even if he could figure it out, how would he pass it on?

"Damn it, whatever." After thinking for a while, Chen Junnan suddenly laughed. "Anyway, just throw out a question and make everyone match my answer."

He decisively pressed "yes," then picked up the phone and dialed the next room.

"Hello...?" The man answered the phone again.

"Hello, how are you?" Chen Junnan laughed.

"I'm... I'm fine..."

The two fell silent for a moment.

The man on the phone seemed to sense something was off: "You... your question?"

"I've asked it already," Chen Junnan said. "I said 'How are you?'"

"Ah?!" The man was clearly stunned. "What kind of question is that?!"

"Isn't it a judgment question?" Chen Junnan touched his nose, a bit embarrassed. "Anyway, just pass it on. The question is 'How are you?', okay, I'm hanging up."

After hanging up decisively, Chen Junnan leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed to rest. He felt this game was a bit strange.

Since it's not about right or wrong, what's the point of answering questions?

Even someone at his level can set questions; what's the purpose of setting them?

After about a few minutes, everyone had finished answering, and the screen lit up with text again.

"The final answer for this question is—yes."

"Clang clang—" The huge chain sound rang out again from above. Chen Junnan looked up, feeling as if some massive thing was moving overhead.

"What the hell?" Chen Junnan stood up, stepped on the chair, and knocked on the ceiling, only to find that the ceiling was unexpectedly thin, seemingly just a layer of flimsy wood.

This thin ceiling contrasted sharply with the completely soundproof walls around it.

"This..." Chen Junnan slowly got down from the chair, squinting his eyes in thought for a while.

But after a few seconds, he gave up.

"Really troublesome..." Chen Junnan shook his head. "Thinking is such a hassle. Hurry up and start the next round."

After sitting for about ten seconds, the screen showed that they had entered the next round, but Chen Junnan didn't receive a question.

Who had the question this time?

The first round was Yun Yao, the second was himself, so it seemed the participants were taking turns clockwise as the "first person." If he was right, now it was the man to his left who got the question.

In that case, he would be the last one to receive it.

Since questions were passed via phone, even a simple "Have you eaten?" could get distorted after so many passes.

After waiting about seven or eight minutes, the phone finally rang.

Although Chen Junnan was prepared, he was still startled by the loud ring.

"Ding ling ling—!!"

"Oh my..." Chen Junnan jumped in fright and quickly answered the phone. "Chen Junnan here, go ahead."

Yun Yao thought for a moment and said, "Chen Junnan, I'm not sure if this question is correct... but that's what I heard..."

"Go on."

"The question is 'Do you want to sit down?'"

"Hmm?" Chen Junnan was stunned. "Sit down?"

"Yes..." Yun Yao hesitated. "I suspect there might be a participant with a heavy accent up front, which changed the question..."

"Hiss—" Chen Junnan took a deep breath.

As for accents... the phrase "Do you want to sit down?" could mean countless things; it was too hard to guess.

Moreover... maybe it wasn't about the accent at all, but someone like him deliberately changed the question.

"What did you choose?" Chen Junnan asked.

"Ah? Is that allowed?" Yun Yao was stunned.

"Is it not allowed?" Chen Junnan asked doubtfully. "Did the game rules mention that?"

"This..." Yun Yao thought for a moment; it seemed there was no such rule. "I chose 'no'."

"Oh?"

"Because I feel this question was altered, so it probably has nothing to do with 'chair.' No matter why the previous person changed it, it seems they want us to choose 'yes,' but I don't know their motive, so to be safe, I chose 'no'."

"I think you made the right choice." Chen Junnan nodded. "Then I'll also choose 'no' to support you."

The two hung up, and Chen Junnan sat in his chair thinking.

"Sit down...?"

Although they had only gone through two questions before, those at least had some logic, but this "Do you want to sit down?" had no subject and no direction.

Who was sitting down?

Was it really "sit down"?

Chen Junnan knew he was the last one to answer this question; once he made his choice, the round would end, so he needed to be more careful.

The previous two rounds ended so casually, but this one gave Chen Junnan a bad feeling.

"Damn, Lao Qi... help me out." Chen Junnan rubbed his forehead, thinking about the situation like Qi Xia would.

He imitated Qi Xia, stroking his chin and muttering to himself: According to the rules... first this, then that, finally...

After ten seconds, he gave up again.

"Brilliant, what crappy rules, completely can't figure it out... Screw it."

Chen Junnan shook his head and decisively pressed "no."

No matter who wants to sit down, let them stand for now.

A few seconds later, the words on the screen flashed.

"The final answer for this question is—yes."

"Oh ho..." Chen Junnan smiled. "Looks like everyone still can't bear to leave their chairs..."

Before he could finish, a loud "boom" echoed.

The entire room shook visibly, and Chen Junnan, chair and all, toppled to the ground. It felt like a brief, intense earthquake.

"What the heck?"

He got up and looked around, sensing that something had changed.

Then, the wall to his left was hit hard, and a smell of dust spread.

"Wait a minute..." He looked up blankly and realized that after this round, instead of the chain sound, there was this loud noise.

"Could it be..."

Chen Junnan frowned, his heart racing.

"Go to hell with 'Do you want to sit down?'..." He cursed as he stood up, then knocked on the wall of the left room. "Who the hell is so scheming, already making a move?"

The chain sound was clearly activating some mechanism, with something huge hanging above everyone, and that question just now made that huge thing fall.

The question wasn't "Do you want to sit down?"

It should have been "Do you want to fall down?"