Chapter 308: Breaking the Game

Listening to Chen Jun Nan's lazy voice, the girl was furious.

"I say... can't you be a bit more serious? We might die at any moment..."

"Will being serious stop us from dying?" Chen Jun Nan scratched his ear. "Miss, what's your name?"

"I..." The girl sighed. "Xu Qian."

"Hey, I have an old classmate named Xu Qian too. What a coincidence!"

Xu Qian fell silent for a moment before saying helplessly, "My name is pretty common, so if you're not high, stop forcing small talk. What are you really trying to say?"

"I just feel this game is making me a bit drowsy." Chen Jun Nan sighed. "How about we make it more interesting?"

"More interesting?" Xu Qian didn't quite understand. "When we could die at any time, you're still worried about whether it's interesting or not?"

"Of course." Chen Jun Nan said with a smile. "You're a girl, so you can call Di She over, right?"

"That's not right..." Xu Qian was stunned. "Di She said before that you can only contact him when you feel like you're about to die..."

"Seek help." Chen Jun Nan interjected. "Yeah, go ahead and seek it."

"Seek my ass!" Xu Qian was already tempted to hang up for the umpteenth time. "Why should I seek his help?"

"To help me call him over!"

"Why don't you call him yourself!"

"I'm a guy!"

Although they had only spoken on the phone a few times, the two were already on the verge of arguing.

"What's wrong with you being a guy?!" Xu Qian looked thoroughly annoyed. "Does calling the referee depend on gender?"

"That old pervert wouldn't listen to me. Qian Jie, just help me out here."

"You just called him an old pervert!" Xu Qian shouted. "And Di She just said that as long as women 'perform well,' he'll help them. That doesn't sound good at all! Why should I call him?"

"Ah! Don't worry!" Chen Jun Nan laughed. "Once you call him over, I'll handle the chat with him. I absolutely won't let anything happen to you."

"But you don't seem trustworthy at all..." Xu Qian sighed. "You can't even leave your room. How can you guarantee my safety?"

"Then how do you want me to guarantee it?" Chen Jun Nan was at a loss. "I'm only able to contact you right now."

"How about this... after a few more rounds." Xu Qian said. "If you can keep me safe, then I'll help you call Di She over."

"Ah, alright." Chen Jun Nan nodded regretfully. "I'll hang up for now. Stay in touch."

Xu Qian hung up without another word, and Chen Jun Nan reluctantly put the phone down.

He walked over to the chair and sat down, naturally placing his hands on either side of the screen.

As his hands touched the two buttons, a strange sensation gradually emerged.

"Ah...?"

He positioned his thumbs on the two buttons, and it felt just right.

"This... this is..."

While he was hesitating, the phone suddenly rang.

"Ring ring—!!!"

"Oh my god!" Chen Jun Nan jumped in fright again. "Damn it, one of these days I'll rip out that phone line..."

He picked up the receiver: "Hello? Jun Nan Di She service office, how can I help you?"

"Chen Jun Nan, what's going on over there?" Yun Yao asked, puzzled. "The line was busy just now."

"Busy? Oh, it was a nuisance call." Chen Jun Nan shook his head. "Is there a question?"

"That's right." Yun Yao nodded. "This time's question is 'Does a year have four seasons?'"

"This... damn it, is this for kids?" Chen Jun Nan cursed. "I really want to have a good chat with that old thief and see if he has any culture at all."

"And... I asked around about the person before me. That impatient girl said the one before her was a man with a rather muffled voice, but she didn't know who exactly."

"Is it that Zhong Zhen you mentioned?" Chen Jun Nan asked.

"Probably not." Yun Yao denied it. "You should have heard that man's voice. He's over thirty, but he sounds fairly young."

Chen Jun Nan agreed while using his fingernail to carve the new name "Muffled Voice Man" onto the surface.

"It's getting close; we have position info on eight people now." After carving, Chen Jun Nan said to Yun Yao, "Big star, let's go with 'no' for this question."

"No...?" Yun Yao thought for a moment and asked, "Chen Jun Nan, the question is 'Does a year have four seasons?' Are you sure you want to answer 'no'?"

"Definitely." Chen Jun Nan replied.

"But that would be wrong, right?" Yun Yao pondered. "Is it okay to answer wrong?"

"To be honest, I got the first question wrong." Chen Jun Nan paused and said, "For the second one, I didn't even understand the question, so I probably got that wrong too."

"Ah?"

"For the first question, I chose 'yes,' admitting I was a girl, but I didn't get any punishment. There were five girls here in total, but the final answer was 'yes.' What does that mean?"

Yun Yao followed Chen Jun Nan's line of thinking and replied, "There are two possibilities: first, at least two men lied, or second, someone changed the question afterward."

"Exactly." Chen Jun Nan continued, "Just like I thought from the beginning, whether it's 'right' or 'wrong' in this game doesn't matter. After all, for the second question, I directly changed it and got most people to choose the same as me. If that answer was wrong, you all should have been penalized by now."

Yun Yao still didn't fully understand: "But why are you choosing 'no'?"

Chen Jun Nan slowly tilted his head, holding the phone with his cheek, and stretched the cord as he walked to the display screen, placing his hands on the buttons on either side.

"Big star, did you play Xiao Bawang when you were a kid?"

"Xiao Bawang...?" Yun Yao was taken aback. "Sorry, I've never even heard of it."

"Oh, looks like we've hit a generation gap." Chen Jun Nan thought for a moment and said, "I remember you're a post-2000s kid?"

"What's with post-2000s? Am I that old...?" Yun Yao sighed. "I was born in 2011."

"Oh, 2011?" Chen Jun Nan nodded. "Then your chances of seeing Xiao Bawang were pretty slim. By your time, PS was already on its fourth generation, right?"

"Chen Jun Nan... can you get to the point?"

"Hey!" Chen Jun Nan laughed. "Big star, I just had a sudden idea."

He reached out and pressed the "yes" button on the left and the "no" button on the right, then said, "What if these two buttons on our screen are actually 'left' and 'right'? Maybe what we're calling 'right' and 'wrong' is really just the 'left' and 'right' of some massive geometric shape?"

"What...?" Yun Yao furrowed her brow and thought quickly, soon widening her eyes.

That direction made complete sense.

Yun Yao quickly did some mental calculations and said, "Assuming I'm at '0,' choosing 'yes' would be '-1,' and 'no' would be '+1.' Then, the person who died should be at '-2,' and the giant ball is now at '+1.'"

Chen Jun Nan was stunned for a while after hearing this and said, "Big star, slow down a bit; I'm having trouble keeping up."