"I..." Snake of Human hesitated for a moment, trying to choose an answer, but found that no matter how he answered, it would be in vain.

"Hahaha!"

Snake of Human suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard that he bent over. After a while, he stopped laughing and said, "You're really interesting."

"Interesting?" Qi Xia looked at Snake of Human coldly. "What's so interesting? Haven't I already won?"

Snake of Human slowly walked to the wall and pulled down the lever.

Everyone felt their bodies drop, and then they began to descend slowly.

Qiao Jiajin looked puzzled and turned to Qi Xia, asking, "Trickster, what does this mean? Why is this considered winning?"

Qi Xia noticed that the rope was indeed descending and breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "Think about it. As long as this question is asked, no matter how he answers, we are already saved."

"If my next question is 'Will you pull down the lever?' Will your answer be the same as this question..." Qiao Jiajin repeated the question silently, unable to understand.

"I see..." Dr. Zhao nodded thoughtfully. "If he answers 'yes,' then the next question can only be answered 'yes,' and we will be saved. After all, the next question is 'Will you pull down the lever?'"

"But what if he says 'no'?" Qiao Jiajin felt like he had discovered a loophole. "Can't he just say 'no'?"

"If he says 'no,' the next question can only be answered 'yes'," Han Yimo said weakly. "The brilliance of this question lies in the fact that if he answers 'no,' he admits that he will give different answers to two questions. Remember? This snake-headed man said he wouldn't lie."

Qiao Jiajin was stunned and turned to Qi Xia again, asking, "Did you just come up with all this... What kind of monster are you?"

"I wouldn't dare to call myself a monster." Qi Xia shook his head. "I'm just a wandering trickster."

As they spoke, they slowly landed on the ground.

Due to the long period of hanging, everyone's palms were burning, and the condition of the two injured people was even worse.

"Congratulations, everyone, for surviving the 'interview'. Push open this door, and a new world awaits you." Snake of Human placed his hand behind his back and stood beside the wooden door.

Qiao Jiajin walked up aggressively, seemingly wanting to vent all his dissatisfaction with the "Goat of Human" and "Dog of Human" on the Snake of Human in front of him.

Snake of Human turned his cold eyes and looked at Qiao Jiajin without moving.

"Are you all perverts?!" Qiao Jiajin shouted loudly, grabbing Snake of Human's collar. "Wearing these strange masks, trying to kill us time and time again, and now I finally caught you!"

Snake of Human sneered and said in a low voice, "While you're still alive, I advise you to let go."

"What did you say?!"

Qiao Jiajin raised his fist with force, about to hit the Snake of Human's face, but Officer Li grabbed his arm.

"Hey, have you forgotten about the man with the smashed head?" Officer Li said in a low voice. "If they are all the same kind of people, how do you plan to defeat them?"

"I..." A look of unwillingness appeared on Qiao Jiajin's tough face. He clenched his teeth and slowly uttered a few words, "But these damn..."

"Don't worry, aren't we able to get out?" Officer Li interrupted him and said in a low voice, "As long as we can get out, I will make them pay."

After hearing this, everyone fell silent and slowly approached Snake of Human.

Looking at this person up close, they realized how strange he was.

The temperature around this snake-headed man was lower than in other places. His old suit and the mask on his head emitted a strange stench.

His eyes were shooting out from the mask, clearly human. But the smell on him was like that of a snake that had been dead for a long time.

"Welcome to the new world, everyone."

Snake of Human's muffled voice came from the mask, and then he turned around and opened the door.

With a creaking sound, the light from outside entered the room.

Qi Xia frowned. He realized that it wasn't the outdoors outside the door, but a corridor.

"Where is this?" Qi Xia asked.

"I've already said, it's a new world." Snake of Human slowly raised his hands. "The future 'gods' will be born among you! They will be born in the new world! How exciting!"

"Gods again..." Qiao Jiajin asked angrily, "What are you planning?"

Seeing someone asking, Snake of Human clearly became interested. "An all-powerful god...! He can make any idea come true!"

"All-powerful?" Qiao Jiajin furrowed his brows tightly.

Dr. Zhao calmly waved his hand at Qiao Jiajin and said to Snake of Human, "Okay, we understand. Let us out quickly."

Snake of Human paused, then nodded and stepped aside.

Qi Xia took the lead and walked forward, and the others seemed unwilling to stay here any longer, so they quickened their pace and followed.

As soon as they stepped into the corridor, a special smell filled their nostrils.

How to describe that smell?

Heavy, a very heavy smell.

This smell was like billions of people in the world dying and their bodies rotting in the air. The smell of decay attracted countless insects to feed on them.

They reproduced in large numbers and died in large numbers, and then they rotted.

After the overwhelming smell of decay settled for a while and no longer stung the nose, it became the heavy smell it was now.

It took Qi Xia a long time to recover, and when he opened his eyes and looked ahead, he found a despairing scene in front of him.They were in a seemingly endless corridor, where the ceiling was low and oppressive, stretching out in front of them.

On both sides of the corridor, countless wooden doors were slowly opening.

Just like the wooden door behind them.

Before long, figures began to appear from the doors.

Most of them were masked people covered in blood. From a distance, only a very few doors had normal people coming out.

And those so-called "normal people" also looked exhausted and shaky.

Just like Qi Xia, they had survived.

"What's going on..." Han Yimo asked weakly, "Were there more than nine of us captured?"

Qi Xia's face was particularly grave, the situation before him far exceeded his imagination.

This organization had captured countless people and then conducted a killing game?

"But... there are too few survivors..." Zhang Chenze sighed quietly.

Looking at the thousands of doors, only a handful of people came out.

In the room where Qi Xia was, there was not even a single case of "everyone surviving".

"Ladies and gentlemen, please."

The snake-headed man waved his hand to the side, indicating the direction for everyone to move forward, then stood by the door with his hands behind his back, seemingly not intending to leave.

"Let's go."

Everyone knew they shouldn't stay here for long, so they formed a line and slowly left.

As they passed each dilapidated wooden door, they got a close look at those people wearing animal masks.

There were cows, horses, dogs.

And the sheep and snakes they had seen before.

They all exuded a strange aura, filled with the smell of decay. The scenes inside the doors were mostly full of corpses, it was unknown what kind of "game" they had participated in.

After walking a dozen more steps, everyone was startled by two animal masks in front of them.

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The man on the left was wearing a huge rat mask, leaning against the wall; the man on the right was wearing a huge rooster mask, with his arms crossed over his chest.

These two masks were clearly not man-made, but were made from actual animal skulls.

But where in the world would there be such huge rats and roosters?

These two, like the others wearing animal masks, just glanced at Qi Xia and the others, without any other actions.

"What are these animals..." Lin Qin was a bit scared, and subconsciously distanced herself from the two.

Qi Xia frowned slightly, as if he had thought of something.

Sheep, dog, snake, rat, rooster...

"It's the Chinese Zodiac." He murmured a few words.

Everyone was taken aback and looked over.

Indeed, the animal masks worn by those in tattered suits were all within the twelve Chinese Zodiac signs.