Chapter 310: Triangle

Chen Jun-nan knew that no matter what, his coordinate was "-1," and he wasn't far from this round's question setter.

They only had four people between them.

In other words, more than half of the remaining people would be affected by his question.

Wasn't this actually a good thing?

As long as he could team up with the question setter this time to kill that "3," then Xu Qian would fall for the trap, summoning the local snake, and his plan would move to the next stage.

"Finally, things are getting interesting..."

Before long, Yun Yao called, but her tone was off.

"Chen Jun-nan..." Yun Yao called out,

"it seems there's a problem..."

"What is it?"

"This... this round's question is really strange..."

"What's strange about it?"

Yun Yao hesitated for a moment before saying,

"This time's question is 'Does a week have six days?'"

"What?"

Chen Jun-nan finally understood why Yun Yao felt so uneasy.

Based on their previous deductions, the question should have been "Will it fall?"

But why had it changed to this?

"Do you think we guessed wrong... or someone changed the question?"

Chen Jun-nan lowered his head and carefully thought through the situation, but he couldn't make sense of it.

The third and sixth questions had both been "Will it fall?" but the ninth one had changed.

Was the pattern not what they thought?

"Wait a minute..." Chen Jun-nan suddenly realized something. "Come to think of it, for the sixth question, since everyone chose 'no,' we never found out if the iron ball would actually fall."

"This..." Yun Yao also recalled that experience. "So you're saying... we were misled back then?"

Chen Jun-nan didn't dare to conclude, since everything was based on guesswork.

"Big star... I'm still going with my gut feeling." Chen Jun-nan decisively stopped overthinking, as sometimes thinking too much just made things more complicated. "I believe this question is still 'Will it fall?' It's just that the person who was supposed to be hit didn't want to die, so they changed it."

Yun Yao nodded after hearing this. "That makes sense. This 'Does a week have six days?' is obviously meant to make us choose 'no,' so he can survive."

"Exactly." Chen Jun-nan nodded in agreement. "As the young master said, no tricks work on me—after all, this idea of changing questions is something I've used several times before."

"Chang-changing questions?" Yun Yao was stunned. "Chen Jun-nan... did you just change the question?"

"Ahem, ahem..." Chen Jun-nan coughed awkwardly. "Of course not, big star. I just polished the question a bit."

Yun Yao sighed helplessly. "Alright... so this time... have you decided to kill someone?"

"That's right." Chen Jun-nan laughed. "Everyone who comes to the 'End Place' could die at any moment. Even if I don't kill them, they'll die here anyway. So I've long since lost any sense of guilt."

"I-I understand..." Yun Yao hesitated and hung up the phone.

Chen Jun-nan turned back and selected "yes," then sat in his chair with his head down.

He was thinking about how to get everyone else to choose "yes."

What method could unite the remaining people?

A moment later, he flashed an sly smile and pressed the dial button.

After a dozen rings, Xu Qian answered the call.

"Go ahead."

"Qian jie... this round's question is interesting."

"Interesting?"

"Yeah." Chen Jun-nan laughed. "The time for us to unite has come."

"What... what kind of question is it?"

"The person in front of me said it like this... 'Will the final chips to be divided double?'"

"Ah...?"

Xu Qian was clearly startled by the question, but before she could ask, Chen Jun-nan spoke first.

"Qian jie, you don't think this is a trick, do you?" he asked.

"This..." Xu Qian on the other end paused, then asked, "What did you choose?"

"Of course I chose 'yes.'"

"You chose 'yes' without even knowing if someone changed the question?"

"Yeah, exactly. I don't know if anyone changed it, but choosing 'yes' doesn't cost me anything." Chen Jun-nan sighed. "We're all here to earn 'Dao.' Don't you want to give it a try?"

Xu Qian thought for a moment and found Chen Jun-nan's reasoning quite sound.

"You're right... Even if it's a trick, choosing 'yes' won't cause any loss."

Chen Jun-nan's mouth curved into a smile. Luckily, during the sixth round, the iron ball hadn't fallen, so most people were still unclear about the rules. They only knew that someone died in the third round for "sitting down," and it was hard to pinpoint the pattern.

"That's right, Qian jie." Chen Jun-nan said, "I've told you what I know. We're all risking our lives in this game, so if we can earn a bit more, that's the best."

"Okay, I get it..." Xu Qian thought for a while and hung up the phone.

Chen Jun-nan returned to his seat and settled in for the long wait.

Taking advantage of the downtime, he made another bold assumption.

This time, there were only four people between him and the questioner.

One of them had changed the question.

It was unlikely to be Yun Yao, as that wouldn't serve any purpose, so the "question changer" was probably among the other three: the "anxious girl" to Yun Yao's right, the "quiet man," and the person to the "quiet man's" right.

Chen Jun-nan looked at the diagram he had drawn. For easier analysis, he had drawn a square for the person to the "quiet man's" right, with an iron ball hanging above their head—they were this round's lucky one.

"Among these three, someone lied...?"

But a few seconds later, he spotted the issue—wait, there was one more.

He drew a triangle to the right of the square and circled it.

"'Triangle'... you're the 'first person' this time, so you could have modified the question the moment you got it... right?"

Just then, the screen lit up.

Chen Jun-nan stared intently at the words.

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

"Boom—!!"

Before he could finish reading, a massive explosion erupted.

Not far to Chen Jun-nan's right, a person whose face he didn't even know died.

This murder had no motive or bias; they didn't even know who the victim was.

It was just a kill.

Chen Jun-nan slowly smiled.

He had thought one wrong step would lead to more,

but this step turned out to be right.

Indeed, as a human, you can't be too cautious—you have to trust yourself when it's time.

"'Square,' time to go home. We'll meet again next time."

Chen Jun-nan stood up and slowly walked toward the phone.