Qi Xia turned the table while saying, "The positions of 'Ning Xia' and 'Shan Dong' can be connected in a horizontal line."

"'Inner Mongolia,' 'Si Chuan,' and 'Yun Nan' can be connected in a 'slant.'"

"And the four points 'Guang Xi,' 'Guang Dong,' 'Shan Xi,' and 'Jiang Su' can be connected in a square, which forms the character 'right.'"

"No matter where Han Yimo's hometown is, as long as it is either Guang Xi Province or Taiwan Province, it will form the character 'mouth.' So the answer has been determined from the beginning."

As everyone accelerated their movements, they showed strange looks.

Qi Xia's thinking was too unconventional, but he had revealed the answer twice in a row, which made everyone start to doubt.

Qi Xia also understood this, so he spoke to everyone, "Don't misunderstand. If the next game is about abandoning yourselves to survive, I will also do whatever it takes to survive."

Upon hearing this, everyone could only remain silent and grit their teeth while turning the table.

Nine people sat around the table, continuously turning it to the right.

"How many rounds?" Qiao Jiajin asked.

"Twenty-six rounds," Lin Qin answered.

"You can count that?" Qiao Jiajin blinked his eyes. "The tables all look the same."

"I counted based on the bloodstains on the table," Lin Qin said seriously. "Counting is important for us psychological counselors."

Qi Xia frowned. "It's not even thirty rounds yet. We need to hurry."

Everyone quieted down and accelerated their movements.

But as they reached the later rounds, the table became harder to move, as if the internal chains were getting tighter.

"What the hell? Why is it so heavy?" Qiao Jiajin gritted his teeth. "It's too heavy."

"Keep going... Maybe it really connects to the door!" Tian Tian said, grinning.

Her words gave everyone a glimmer of hope amidst despair.

The door.

Since this room could create holes out of thin air, why couldn't it create a door?

Everyone's arms were a bit sore, but they continued to rotate the table round by round.

"Don't give up! Only five rounds left!" Lin Qin shouted loudly.

At this moment, everyone clenched their teeth and exerted their strength, not daring to slack off.

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"Kara, kara."

As the final round ended, the table was clearly embedded into something.

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the soreness in their arms gradually emerged.

At this moment, there were only three minutes left.

"Where's the door?!" Qiao Jiajin anxiously shouted.

The surrounding walls remained unchanged, and within the dark void, they could still see the cold light emitted by the harpoons.

"What the hell! There's no door!" Qiao Jiajin's voice carried a hint of despair.

"We were wrong! We guessed wrong!" Xiao Ran screamed, "We should have turned left, right? We shouldn't have believed that liar! We're all going to die here!!"

Qi Xia furrowed his brows slightly...

Wrong?

Before everyone could react, the mantel clock in the center of the table suddenly acted strangely.

It trembled slightly and then shot out eight beams of light.

The eight beams of light emitted from the mantel clock gradually moved to the edge of the table and stopped.

Perplexed, the mantel clock accurately divided the table into nine equally sized sectors like a pizza.

"Crash!"

With a loud noise, the table shattered into pieces.

The central mantel clock now stood on a small wooden stake.

Time was running out, and everyone was in a frenzy.

"What is this?" Han Yimo exclaimed. "Why did the table break?"

Officer Li noticed that there were handles on the back of each sector of the table, and his years of professional experience instantly made him understand.

"It's a shield!"

He picked up a sector of the table and held it in front of himself.

"We can use this shield to block the harpoons!"

Upon hearing this, everyone raised their own table sectors.

But after just a dozen seconds, they discovered the problem.

"How do we block them?!" Lawyer Zhang Chenze showed rare panic. "If there are harpoons coming from all directions, we can only block one direction."

"We need to cooperate," Qi Xia regained his senses and said, "We should form a circle and block each other's backs."

Upon hearing this, everyone quickly adjusted their formation and waited silently.

At this moment, all they could hear was the sound of each other's breathing.

Nine strangers had become teammates, and each one was indispensable.

At this moment, Qi Xia unintentionally turned his head and glanced at the writer Han Yimo. He found that his face was covered in sweat, and his whole body was trembling, looking particularly nervous.

At this moment, a distant sound of a clock rang outside the room.

"Are you okay?" Qi Xia asked.

"N-No... nothing..." Han Yimo shook his head.

"Hey! Dr. Zhao, turn your sector upside down!" Zhang Chenze suddenly spoke up.

"Why?" Dr. Zhao looked at his sector, with the pointed end down and the wider end up.

"You won't be able to block my legs like this!" Zhang Chenze said nervously. "I'll get hit!"

"If I turn it upside down, I won't be able to block my head!" Dr. Zhao retorted. "Which is more important, the head or the legs?"

After hearing the argument between the two, some people thought Dr. Zhao made a valid point and began to turn their sectors upside down.

Pointed end down, wider end up.

This created a bizarre situation.

That was, the harpoons flying from all directions would only be blocked by the upper half, and everyone's legs would be injured.

"Is this really the right way?" Xiao Ran hesitated for a moment. "Even if we can hide our legs in the pointed end and block the front, what about the harpoons flying from above? What about the harpoons flying from the sky?"

"Let me block the top!" Officer Li raised his sector. "Get closer, I'll protect you all."

Lin Qin quickly pondered and said, "The remaining people should be placed one above the other. We can be arranged in a staggered manner!"

"Right! That makes sense!" Qiao Jiajin also agreed."No, that's not right." Qi Xia interrupted the two, "If everyone's table top is perpendicular to the harpoon, it's too easy to be pierced through..."

"Pretty boy, what do you suggest then?" Qiao Jiajin asked.

Qi Xia's gaze landed on the sheepskin mask on the ground.

"Why isn't the spring bamboo shoot afraid of the rain?"

The last hint made Qi Xia thoughtful.

"Hold on... give me a little more time." Qi Xia furrowed his brows.

Everyone held their breath, watching as time ticked away, with only one minute left until the harpoon was launched.

"Forget about him for now!" Dr. Zhao coldly shouted, "Just do as Lin Qin said, stagger the placement!"

"Shut up, you idiot!" Qiao Jiajin also yelled, "I believe in what the liar said."

"You!" Dr. Zhao gritted his teeth, swallowing his words.

"I've got it!" Qi Xia suddenly widened his eyes, "Everyone, point upwards!"

Although everyone was slightly doubtful, most of them were blank-minded and could only follow his instructions for the time being.

After a moment of contemplation, Dr. Zhao also turned his point upwards.

"Everyone, bend down!" Qi Xia continued, "Move the point backwards, lean them together. Officer Li, you don't need to block the top anymore, join us!"

Under Qi Xia's command, everyone slowly aligned all the fan-shaped tables, forming a cone.

No one had ever thought that all the fan-shaped tables would fit together perfectly, blocking the gaps from all sides and directly above.

From a distance, the cone looked like a spring bamboo shoot, waiting for a heavy rain to come.

In the pitch-black space, everyone's hearts were pounding, with only the sound of breathing echoing among them.

"It's coming..."

Qi Xia calculated the time in his heart and signaled softly.

The next second, everyone only heard the wind breaking, and something invisible hit hard on the table top in Qi Xia's hand.

Immediately after, the sounds from all directions swept over like a storm.

The force of the harpoon was surprisingly strong, and everyone only felt their arms being shaken painfully, as if they were about to lose their grip on the table tops.

Fortunately, everyone's table tops were leaning against each other at this moment, forming a delicate balance.

"Ah!"

The table top in front of Xiao Ran was suddenly pierced by a harpoon, causing her to scream.

Qi Xia turned his head and found that the harpoon had stopped just two or three centimeters away from Xiao Ran's eyes.

Thankfully the table top was hard enough, otherwise Xiao Ran would have been dead by now.