Chapter 61 – Pig's fate

"You fucking lunatic..." Old Lv was so scared that he almost couldn't stand. "Isn't it just winning ten 'Dao'? Is it necessary to play this big?"

"Do you think I want to be a pig in this haunted place, relying on luck to live every day?"

Pig of Human reached out and touched the pig mouth on the mask. Although the mask had no expression, it always gave people a creepy feeling.

"You don't understand me... Only by 'gambling with one's life'... Only by gambling with powerful people, can life here have meaning."

Pig of Human's eyes gave Qi Xia a feeling - he has always been pretending to be a pig, waiting for the day when he can eat the tiger.

"Really a lunatic..." Old Lv looked at Qi Xia with some difficulty. The Pig of Human named him to gamble with his life. Even if he wanted to escape now, it was too late.

"Pig of Human, let's change the way." Qi Xia thought for a moment and said, "I will stay here and gamble with you, I don't need their help."

"Huh?" Old Lv and Lin Qin were both stunned.

"Kid, what are you doing?" Old Lv was puzzled. "I brought you here for this game. What does it mean for you to stay here and gamble with your life?"

Qi Xia also looked at Old Lv in confusion and found that he had some prejudice against him before, but he didn't expect Old Lv to be unexpectedly reliable at a critical moment.

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

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

"I fucking won't leave either." Old Lv shook his head. "Kid, the Pig of Human named you. In theory, me and this little girl are safe... But don't worry, if you die, I will personally collect your body."

Qi Xia helplessly scratched his head. Although his opinion of Old Lv had changed a bit, he still spoke harshly.

"It sounds really ominous... Since that's the case, I won't advise you anymore." Qi Xia sighed and looked up at the Pig of Human. "You said there's a new way to play, what is it?"

Pig of Human showed an excited expression again and pushed two pairs of glasses to them. "Here, put them on! Put them on!"

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qin and Old Lv put on the glasses.

In the next second, two mechanical arms extended from the ends of the glasses legs, clicked together behind their heads, and connected them.

Lin Qin felt something was wrong. She wanted to take off the glasses, but found that these small glasses had complex mechanisms and were tightly attached to her head like a golden hoop.

"What's going on..." Lin Qin was about to speak, but the Pig of Human interrupted her.

"Beauty, don't speak casually." Pig of Human smiled and said, "Now, only by following my rules can you be safe."

"Rules..."

"Now your glasses have started to 'take effect'." Pig of Human explained, "One of you will feel the glasses are a bit cold, and the other will feel the glasses are a bit hot. From now on, the person who feels the glasses are cold can only tell lies, and the person who feels the glasses are hot can only tell the truth."

Qi Xia had a bad feeling. This game mode seemed familiar.

"If you have any crooked ideas or speak before the game..." Pig of Human pointed to his forehead, "This place will be pierced. Do you understand?"

Lin Qin immediately closed her mouth when she heard this.

Because she found that something seemed to be triggering on her forehead. The inside of the glasses was wound up, possibly a bowstring or a laser.

Old Lv's face turned pale and purple. He knew that the more he said, the more mistakes he would make. He couldn't be sure which sentence would trigger the mechanism.

Seeing the two of them fall silent, Pig of Human turned his head and looked at Qi Xia, and said, "As for the game that you and I are going to play, the general rules are the same as last time, but this time... I will assign them."

"You assign?" Qi Xia looked at the chess pieces on the table and thought for a moment. "After you assign... I will choose?"

"That's right." Pig of Human nodded. "Doesn't it sound unfair to you?"

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"Of course it's unfair." Although he said so, Qi Xia knew that the "rules" were not over yet. After all, the rules about "truth" and "lies" had not yet been introduced.

"So I kindly add a rule for you..." Pig of Human smirked and hummed a few times. "After you finish choosing, you need to ask these two people for color confirmation. But no matter who you choose, you can only ask once in total."

After speaking, he looked up at Lin Qin and Old Lv and said, "To ensure fairness, you two can only answer 'black' or 'white'. Any questions?"

The two of them nodded in panic.

Qi Xia seemed to understand that this rule was outrageous.

Now he couldn't know who would tell the truth between Lin Qin and Old Lv, and asking a question would make the situation even more complicated."The Watch Theorem..." Qi Xia closed his eyes and murmured, "When a person only has one watch, they can clearly know the time. But when they have two watches showing different times, they can't trust either one..."

"Are you ready, Qi Xia?" Pig of Human asked.

Qi Xia took a deep breath, lifted his head and looked at Pig of Human: "I want to ask you the same question. This is a battle where we gamble with our lives. Are you ready?"

"Lives? Hehehe..." Pig of Human chuckled, his body shaking with laughter, "Living here, there's no such thing as life... Only when I 'die', can I feel that I have lived."

Qi Xia nodded. He knew that Pig of Human had been living here for a long time, and ordinary thinking could not persuade him.

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

Pig of Human quietly started to distribute the chess pieces.

Lin Qin and Old Lv watched the two men who were calm and composed. They were the main characters in this life-or-death gamble, yet they seemed indifferent to what was about to happen.

In contrast, Lin Qin and Old Lv were so nervous that their legs were shaking.

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

"What?" Pig of Human didn't lift his head, answering casually.

"Have you ever thought about escaping, other than dying here?"

Pig of Human's hand paused in mid-air for a moment, then he replied, "Escape to where?"

"Go back to where you came from." Qi Xia, wearing the blindfold, spoke seriously, "Don't you want to go back?"

Pig of Human pondered for a moment, then said, "If I didn't want to go back, why would I willingly become a 'pig'?"

"What?" Qi Xia felt as if he had just obtained an important clue.

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

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