Pain.

A deep, bone-piercing pain.

Qi Xia gritted his teeth and squatted on the ground, groaning in pain.

He felt like he really had some serious psychological problems.

Every time someone died around him, he would have a splitting headache.

What could be causing this? Does it happen every time he sees a dead person?

No, Qi Xia has seen dead people several times in the game already.

Not everyone's death gives him a headache.

After half a minute, Qi Xia finally took a deep breath and stood up expressionlessly.

The three people outside the door finally noticed the situation inside the room.

They rushed into the room to check, only to find Officer Li dead with a cigarette in his mouth.

Zhang Chenze covered her mouth, wanting to cry but not daring to make a sound.

"Damn it..." She slowly walked to the corner of the wall, grabbed her hair, and squatted down. The overly standard Mandarin she used before had now turned into dialect. "What the hell is going on... What are they doing..."

Her emotions seemed very unstable, as if she had been greatly shocked.

Before Qi Xia could speak, the sound of a bell rang in the distance again.

"Dang!!"

Lin Qin and Old Lv were startled, looking towards the direction where the sound came from.

Although they didn't know what the bell represented, they had heard this sound many times when someone died.

Lin Qin calmed herself and went to Zhang Chenze's side, gently patting her shoulder, and said, "Zhang Lawyer, you have to pull yourself together."

"How can I pull myself together..." Zhang Chenze looked up with a tired face, despair in her eyes. "Officer Li died for me... to save me..."

"What exactly happened?" Lin Qin held Zhang Chenze's cold hand. "Don't keep it in your heart at a time like this, tell me."

She seemed to know how to talk to someone who had lost control of their emotions. In just a few sentences, Zhang Chenze relaxed her guard.

"It's all because of that rabbit..." Zhang Chenze shook her head. "That crazy rabbit... she wanted to kill both of us... If it weren't for Officer Li, we would both be dead... They are all lunatics... They have no regard for the law..."

Zhang Chenze slowly recounted what happened after Qi Xia and the others left.

Their experience was different from what Qi Xia had deduced. It wasn't Officer Li who discovered the game mode of this haunted place, but Zhang Chenze.

After Qi Xia and the others left, Zhang Chenze decisively started talking to the Ox of Human across the convenience store.

As she said herself, she needed to gather enough information to make the right judgment.

After learning that this place's game wouldn't cost lives but could win "Dao," she explained the situation to Officer Li, Xiao Ran, and Dr. Zhao. However, only Officer Li supported her view and decided to gamble with the remaining "Dao."

Xiao Ran strongly opposed this approach. She knew that "Dao" was the "chip" used in the game and insisted on keeping it with her, even if it meant wasting this opportunity and not allowing it to be used for gambling.

Officer Li, hindered by the fact that she was a weak woman, had been advising her kindly, but Zhang Chenze didn't indulge her.

After several logically clear and sharp arguments, she left Xiao Ran speechless.

After all, when it came to "arguing," how could a kindergarten teacher possibly win against a lawyer?

The game designed by the Rabbit of Human across the convenience store was a simple obstacle race.

There were many old tires and wooden walls in the restaurant. As long as they could complete the track within the specified time, they would win two "Dao."

This game was almost tailor-made for Officer Li. He had a background in the police academy and had often practiced obstacle races during his student days. Although it had been many years and he was a bit rusty, he still had more than enough ability to complete the track within the specified time.

One "Dao" for a ticket, and winning would earn two "Dao."

Officer Li seemed to have found some loopholes. He participated three times in a row, and their "Dao" became four.

They only left the game area when he was really exhausted.

This experience greatly boosted their confidence. They believed that they had a chance to collect enough "Dao" before meeting Qi Xia.

Later, they stumbled upon the game area of the Rabbit of Human.

It was a "Escape" type of game, and they thought the difficulty of this game wouldn't be too great.

In a small room, they were trapped in two corners of the room.

Zhang Chenze was tied up in a huge transparent fish tank, which was being filled with water.

Officer Li was handcuffed to the wall on the other side of the room.

He had a wooden stick within reach.

The key to Officer Li's handcuffs was placed in Zhang Chenze's fish tank.

And the switch to fill the fish tank with water was not far from Officer Li.

Both of them had a way to save each other.

But Zhang Chenze was tied up with wire and couldn't untie the rope or throw the key to the handcuffs out of the fish tank.

Although Officer Li was very close to the water valve, his right hand was locked, and there was always a two-step distance from the water valve.

Neither of them could save the other in the first place.

How cruel was this game?

It wasn't an "Escape" type of game at all, but a game that thoroughly tested human nature.

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It seemed that both of them were trapped and needed to escape, but if you thought about it carefully, Officer Li's situation was completely different from Zhang Chenze's.

As time passed, Zhang Chenze would definitely drown, but Officer Li wouldn't.

She said without hesitation, "At that moment, I thought I was done for."

Next, Officer Li tried many methods to free himself from the handcuffs.

Ordinary handcuffs were not difficult for him to open, but he didn't have any lock-picking tools. The only thing that could be useful was a wooden stick."Officer Li is really foolish..." Zhang Chenze sobbed, lowering her head, "Why didn't he throw the stick and break the fish tank...? Instead, he broke his own..."

Upon hearing this, Qi Xia sighed helplessly: "He had a mental struggle."

"What?" Zhang Chenze lifted her lifeless eyes, "You're saying this is the result of his consideration?"

"Mm." Qi Xia nodded, "He should know that using a stick to break the glass is not a wise choice."

"But he didn't even try..." Zhang Chenze started crying again, "He could have at least tried..."

"What if he had tried?" Qi Xia said, "If the stick didn't break the glass, but fell next to the fish tank... what would you do then?"

Zhang Chenze was choked up, Qi Xia's question hit the nail on the head.

If the stick didn't break the fish tank, but fell far away, the two of them would have completely lost any hope of escaping from there.

In Zhang Chenze's shocked face, Officer Li used the stick to break his own palm.