Chapter 36

"How do you earn 'Dao'?" Qi Xia asked again.

"We found a game involving cattle. According to the rules, you can earn a large amount of 'Dao,' but the game requires twenty people to start. We are still short of five people. Do you want to join us?"

"Short of five people?" Qi Xia was taken aback. "You've already gathered fifteen people?"

It seems there are indeed many participants here.

"That's right." The bespectacled man nodded. He pointed to the distance, where indeed a crowd could be seen, indicating quite a few people.

Qi Xia thought for a moment and nodded, saying, "Alright, let's go and see."

"Great! I'll go ahead and wait for you!" The bespectacled man tactfully walked away.

"Hey!" Qiao Jiajin felt something was amiss. "Are we going together?! What if it's a violent gang? Do you want me to show you my skills?"

"It won't be." Qi Xia said, "Each room can have a maximum of nine people. In this environment, it's still too difficult to form a group of more than ten people. Not to mention these strangers, even those who came out of the same room might not fully trust each other."

After saying that, he glanced at Lin Ping, as if there was a hidden meaning in his words.

Lin Ping seemed displeased. She didn't understand why she was being suspected. Was it because she didn't know that "leaflet"?

After walking down an old road, the four of them arrived in front of a large building.

As the bespectacled man had said, a man wearing a water buffalo mask stood at the entrance of the large building.

Outside, the participants gathered in small groups, deliberately keeping a distance from each other.

Although these people were strangers, seeing so many normal people together gave Qi Xia and his group a sense of long-awaited relief.

Even if these people looked unpleasant, they were still living beings.

"Good job, little glasses!" A middle-aged man patted the bespectacled man. "You found four people so quickly!"

Qi Xia looked at the bull-headed man and walked up to ask, "What are the rules of the game?"

The bull-headed man said indifferently, "Cattle game. Each person needs one 'Dao' as an entry ticket, and twenty people are required to start. During the game, players will be eliminated. When the game ends, each player remaining on the field will receive 'Dao' equal to the number of players who completed the game."

"Equal to the number of players who completed the game?!" Qi Xia was taken aback. "You mean, if twenty people are left at the end, each of them will receive twenty 'Dao'?"

"Yes."

Qiao Jiajin's mouth dropped open when he heard this. "Damn! Wouldn't that make us rich in one go?! That's four hundred 'Dao' right away!"

"Would it be that easy..." Tian Tian felt skeptical. "Hey, Bull, you won't cheat, right?"

The bull-headed man was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Let me correct you. I am not a 'Bull.'"

"Not a 'Bull'?" Tian Tian looked at the man in front of her in confusion. "But aren't you all called 'Bull' something?"

"I am a 'Earth Bull.'" The bull-headed man said indifferently. "If you think I am a 'Bull,' you will regret it."

Only then did everyone notice that the 'Earth Bull' in front of them was indeed different from the animal masks they had seen before. His mask was very clean, almost lifelike, and his black suit was spotless, as if it had been specially ironed. When he spoke, it seemed as if the mouth of the mask was moving slightly.

But what's the difference between a 'Bull' and an 'Earth Bull'?

"Earth Bull..." Qi Xia scratched his head, not understanding the relationship. He looked up and asked again, "Earth Bull, what is your game?"

The Earth Bull paused for a moment and said, "Pay the entry ticket, and you will know the content."

"Pay the entry ticket..."

The only thing Qi Xia was concerned about now was that if all four of them participated in the game, the tactics they had discussed earlier would be useless.

The four of them would be simultaneously thrown into an unknown game, which was extremely risky.

But if the stakes were so high, the risk and reward seemed to be proportional.

"Cheater, what do you think the type of the 'Bull' game is?" Qiao Jiajin asked.

Qi Xia thought for a moment and replied, "Probably the type I hate the most."

"Oh? You have a type of game you hate?" Qiao Jiajin became interested. "What is it?"

"'Bulls' are born to work hard. If I'm not mistaken, it will be a 'physical' game." Qi Xia glanced at Qiao Jiajin indifferently. "It might suit you, a brute."

"Ha!" Qiao Jiajin rolled up his sleeves, revealing his muscular arms. "Finally, it's my turn to show off... Wait, who are you calling a brute?"

Qi Xia shook his head helplessly and said, "If it weren't for the 'Dao,' I wouldn't enter the 'Bull's' room."

"Don't worry, just call me 'boss,' and I'll get you through the 'Bull' game." Qiao Jiajin said with a mischievous smile. "Sounds like a good deal, right?"

Qi Xia turned to look at Qiao Jiajin. "You and I are about the same age, at most twenty-six or twenty-seven. Why should I call you 'boss'?"

"If you say that, I'll have to settle this with you!" Qiao Jiajin scratched his head. "What year were you born?"

Qi Xia always felt that Qiao Jiajin had a fearless and carefree demeanor, able to laugh and joke even in such a压抑的环境.

"You might as well warm up now." Qi Xia said indifferently. "So you don't cramp up later."

"Don't be like that." Qiao Jiajin was excited. "Come on, tell me! If you're older than me, I'll call you 'boss' too!"

"Ah." Qi Xia couldn't resist Qiao Jiajin and sighed. "Fine, you go first. What year were you born?"

"1979." Qiao Jiajin said with a grin.

"1979... Funny, huh?" Qi Xia frowned. "You really went to great lengths to get this 'boss' title. I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"Hey? Why not?" Qiao Jiajin looked at Qi Xia in confusion. "Tell me what year you were born. Are you younger than me?"

Tian Tian also shook her head with a smile. It seemed that being with Qiao Jiajin was a good choice; his personality could dispel the gloom in people's hearts.

Qiao Jiajin called Qi Xia's name a few more times but found that he was completely ignoring him, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

A few minutes passed, and the number of people remained at nineteen.

It seemed that although there were many participants, they were not easily found. It was indeed difficult to gather twenty people in a short time.

"Hasn't he come yet?" The middle-aged man asked the bespectacled man. "Did he oversleep?"

"I don't know. He promised to come this morning." The bespectacled man scratched his head. "Should I go and find someone else on the street?"

"Never mind, never mind..." The middle-aged man waved his hand. "We already have nineteen people. Let's wait for him. I don't want to die without knowing why."

Their conversation was heard word for word by Qi Xia nearby.

"Die?" Qi Xia frowned. "What do you mean by 'die'? Is this game deadly?"

Before he could think it through, a lazy figure appeared in the distance.

He was bare-chested, with a body full of scars, wearing camouflage pants. He stretched lazily as he moved toward them.