Chapter 61

"Damn, you're really a lunatic..." Lao Lu was so scared he almost couldn't stand, "It's just that I won you ten 'Dao,' is it really necessary to go this far?"

"Do you think I want to live like a pig in this hellhole, relying on luck every day?"

The Pig-Man reached out and touched the pig snout on his mask. Although the mask had no expression, he always gave off a sinister feeling.

"You don't understand me... Only 'betting with life'... Only betting with life against formidable opponents makes life here meaningful."

The Pig-Man's eyes gave Qi Xia a feeling—he had always been pretending to be a pig, waiting for the day he could eat the tiger.

"Really a lunatic..." Lao Lu looked at Qi Xia with some difficulty, as the Pig-Man had specifically named him to bet with life, and it was too late to run away now.

"Pig-Man, let's change the way." Qi Xia thought for a moment and said, "I'll stay here and bet with life with you, without their help."

"Eh?" Lao Lu and Lin Qi were both stunned.

"Kid, what are you doing?" Lao Lu was taken aback, "I brought you into this game, what does it mean for you to stay here and bet with life?"

Qi Xia also looked at Lao Lu in confusion, realizing he had some prejudice against him before. He didn't expect Lao Lu to be so reliable at a critical moment.

"Uncle." Qi Xia said, "The more people who stay, the more dangerous it is. If I die, you take my friend to find that man and woman."

"No, I won't leave." Lin Qi shook her head, "Qi Xia, have you forgotten what I told you?"

"I'm not leaving either." Lao Lu shook his head, "Kid, the Pig-Man named you, so in theory, the little girl and I are safe... but don't worry, if you die, I'll personally bury you."

Qi Xia scratched his head helplessly. Although his view of Lao Lu had changed, his words were still...

"Sounds ominous... Since that's the case, I won't persuade you." Qi Xia sighed, looking up at the Pig-Man, "You said there's a new way to play, what is it?"

The Pig-Man showed an excited expression again, pushing two pairs of glasses to them: "Come on, put them on! Put them on!"

Lin Qi and Lao Lu hesitated for a moment before putting on the glasses.

The next second, two mechanical arms extended from the ends of the glasses, wrapping around their heads and clicking together.

Lin Qi felt something was wrong. She tried to take off the glasses but found that the small glasses had complex mechanisms, now tightly encircling her head like a golden hoop.

"What's going on..." Lin Qi was about to speak, but the Pig-Man raised his hand to stop her.

"Beautiful lady, don't speak casually." The Pig-Man said with a smile, "From now on, only by following my rules will you be safe."

"Rules..."

"Your glasses have now 'activated.'" The Pig-Man explained, "One of you will feel the glasses are cold, and the other will feel them are hot. In the time to come, the one who feels the glasses are cold can only tell lies, while the one who feels the glasses are hot can only tell the truth."

Qi Xia had a bad feeling; this game mode seemed familiar.

"If you try to think of any tricks or speak before the game starts..." The Pig-Man pointed to his forehead, "You'll be pierced through here, understand?"

Lin Qi immediately closed her mouth.

Because she felt something triggering at her forehead, the inside of the glasses was wound up, possibly a bowstring or a laser.

Lao Lu's face turned green and purple. He knew that "the more you talk, the more you err," and any word might trigger the mechanism.

Seeing the two fall silent, the Pig-Man turned to Qi Xia and said, "The game we're going to play has the same basic rules as last time, but this time... I'll be the one to allocate."

"You allocate?" Qi Xia looked at the chess pieces on the table, thinking for a moment, "After you allocate... I get to choose?"

"Exactly." The Pig-Man nodded, "Doesn't it sound unfair to you?"

"Of course it's unfair." Although he said that, Qi Xia knew the "rules" weren't over, as the rules about "truth" and "lies" hadn't been revealed yet.

"So, in my great mercy, I'll add a rule for you..." The Pig-Man chuckled, "After you choose, you need to ask these two to confirm the color. But no matter who you choose, you can only ask once."

He then looked up at Lin Qi and Lao Lu, "For fairness, you two can only answer 'black' or 'white.' Any problems?"

The two nodded in fear.

Qi Xia seemed to understand; this rule was absurd.

Now he couldn't know who among Lin Qi and Lao Lu would tell the truth, and asking would make the situation even more complicated.

"The watch theory..." Qi Xia closed his eyes and muttered, "When a person has only one watch, they know the time clearly, but when they have two watches showing different times, they can't trust either..."

"Are you ready, Qi Xia?" the Pig-Man asked.

Qi Xia took a deep breath, looked up at the Pig-Man, and said, "I want to ask you the same thing. This is a bet with life, are you ready?"

"Life? Hehehe..." The Pig-Man chuckled, soon shaking with laughter, "We live here, where is there any life... Only in 'death' can I feel that I have lived."

Qi Xia nodded, knowing that the Pig-Man had lived here for a long time, and ordinary thinking couldn't persuade him.

So, Qi Xia reached out and put on the blindfold.

The Pig-Man silently allocated the chess pieces.

Lin Qi and Lao Lu watched the two calmly, who were the main characters in the bet with life, yet remained composed, as if they didn't care about what was about to happen.

On the contrary, Lin Qi and Lao Lu were so nervous their legs were shaking.

"Do you want to get out?" Qi Xia suddenly asked.

"What?" The Pig-Man didn't even look up, speaking casually.

"Besides dying here, have you ever thought about escaping?"

The Pig-Man's hand paused in mid-air, then he answered, "Where to escape to?"

"Where you came from, go back there." Qi Xia, wearing the blindfold, said seriously, "Don't you want to go back?"

The Pig-Man thought for a moment and said, "If I didn't want to go back, why would I willingly become a 'pig'?"

"What?" Qi Xia felt he had learned something important.

"But I don't plan to 'escape,' Qi Xia." The Pig-Man placed all the chess pieces and said solemnly, "I plan to walk out of here openly."