Chapter 314: Chen Junnan's Path

Yunyao felt that Chen Junnan was completely insane. "You're gambling your life with a 30% win rate against a 'Di Ji'..."

"Is 30% that low?" Chen Junnan said seriously. "In my view, 30% is already a good outcome."

"What?"

"Big star... If every 'Di Ji' can be challenged with a 30% win rate, then theoretically, three 'Can Yu Zhe' could take down one 'Di Ji'."

Yunyao listened and felt something was off. "You can't calculate it that way, can you...?"

"Fine, even if I'm bad at math and got it wrong, would four be enough? Five? Would that work?" Chen Junnan's tone grew increasingly serious. "Ten 'Can Yu Zhe' in exchange for one 'Di Ji's life—is that enough?"

"What are you trying to say?"

"'Di Ji' only number around twenty or so, but how many 'Can Yu Zhe' are there?" Chen Junnan asked pointedly. "If everyone could unite and keep pressing forward, the 'Shengxiao' would have been wiped out long ago. So what if losing turns you into a 'Yuan Zhumin'? As long as this cursed place gets destroyed, everyone can still escape, right?"

Yunyao knew Chen Junnan was making a lot of sense. If they really wanted to gamble everything to eliminate all the 'Shengxiao', the best approach would naturally be for everyone in the 'Zhongyan Zhidi' to band together.

But that optimal solution still couldn't escape the flaws of human nature.

Everyone knows that charging ahead leads to victory, but who wants to be in the front line?

"You know that's just a concept," Yunyao sighed. "All the 'Can Yu Zhe' aren't a disciplined army—they each have their own ideas, and there are plenty of cowards and selfish people among them."

"So I'll be that selfless one." Chen Junnan laughed. "I don't even know if gambling to kill all the 'Shengxiao' will work... but let's test it out on the 'Dishi' first."

On the other end of the phone, Yunyao fell silent, deep in thought. She felt that Chen Junnan seemed to know a lot about the 'Zhongyan Zhidi', but he was hiding quite a bit, and she wasn't sure what his real motives were.

"You don't need to worry about that earlier question," Chen Junnan said. "The 'Chu Tizi' is 'Xuanwu', and she's probably not using the 'Dishi's equipment. That question was just her messing around, and I bet every future question will be like that."

"Then... what are you planning to do?"

"What else can I do?" Chen Junnan laughed. "We don't have a 'Chu Tizi' anymore, so this game has turned into a complete 'left or right' game, with everything controlled by the players."

Chen Junnan gave a few more instructions before hanging up the phone.

Now, he had a more important task—

To pinpoint the location of that old pervert, 'Dishi'.

Things had gotten a bit tricky.

The room to his left had been empty originally, so in theory, making a call should confirm whether 'Dishi' had chosen that room.

But 'Dishi' knew the game rules well.

He understood that after 'Xuanwu' took over, the "questions" didn't matter anymore—what counted was taking control of "yes" and "no".

So, he might choose not to answer the phone to hide his location.

That would make it impossible to determine whether his coordinate was "-2" or "3".

Chen Junnan dialed the number and waited a moment. As he expected, there was no answer from the room to his left. The ringing went to the eleventh tone before Xu Qian picked up.

"Hello?"

"Qian Jie..." Chen Junnan said, "I'll tell you the question, and let's see how everyone else reacts."

"Okay..."

Chen Junnan closed his eyes and thought for a bit. Assuming 'Dishi' was in the room to his left but not answering, that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

It meant 'Dishi' couldn't interfere with the "question," so his own idea would get through to Xu Qian accurately.

And since 'Dishi' had joined the game, everyone no longer needed to kill each other—as long as they could take down 'Dishi', they could split all the "Dao" he had, so unity should improve.

Chen Junnan slowly opened his eyes and said, "Qian Jie, the question is: 'Someone has gambled their life against 'Dishi'—let's all kill 'Dishi' together?'"

"This is good..." Xu Qian nodded. "If we spread this question around, the 'Can Yu Zhe' might take the initiative."

"Not necessarily," Chen Junnan disagreed. "To others, it's just an ordinary question—no one can prove it's real, but... let's go ahead and spread it like that."

"Okay."

After they hung up, Chen Junnan glanced at the personnel distribution map he had drawn on the wall.

Now, the room to his left and the third room to Yunyao's right were empty.

'Dishi' was hiding in one of those two rooms.

The iron ball was currently hanging above the third room to Yunyao's right. If the answer to this question was "yes," the iron ball would keep moving left.

Chen Junnan had already decided on his strategy.

Answer "yes" this time, "no" next, to bring the iron ball back to "3."

Then, for the third question, "Should it drop?" choose "yes," and smash it down hard.

No matter if 'Dishi' was in that room or not, they'd smash it a few times first.

But all of this depended on the 'Can Yu Zhe' staying united. As long as no one tampered with the question, his information would reach at least six people, plus himself and Yunyao—that made eight people who knew about 'Dishi' joining the game. No matter what, they'd be the majority, and 'Dishi' would be done for.

If they got lucky, 'Dishi' wasn't in "3" but in "-2," then he wouldn't have any chance to change the question, and everyone would learn about his participation.

Next, the iron ball would drop ten more times. The best scenario would be for all of them to land on 'Dishi's head— no matter how tough he was, he'd be dead for sure.

After a long wait of a few minutes, the screen in front of Chen Junnan flickered to life.

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

"Hmm..." Chen Junnan hesitated and nodded slightly. Just a single "yes" wasn't enough to figure out the whole picture—did everyone know about 'Dishi' joining?

It all depended on what happened next.

"The next question is the eleventh one..." Chen Junnan looked at the distribution map on the wall and slowly furrowed his brow.

The eleventh person... was exactly at "3"!

"Ha!" Chen Junnan couldn't help but laugh out loud. According to the rules, the first person to receive the question had to pass it on by phone.

If he played dead, he'd definitely break the rules.

"You old thief, 'Dishi'—this will drag you out for sure!"

All that was left was to wait, to see how the question was passed along. If 'Dishi' wanted to survive, he'd have to pass it on and change it.

The phone rang sharply—!!

The moment it rang, Chen Junnan already had it to his ear.

"Speak."

"Chen Junnan!" Yunyao called out, her voice mixed with excitement and tension. "'Dishi' has shown himself—his coordinate is '3'!"