“This question is too easy, it’s a giveaway!” Chen Chen laughed before even answering.

Liu Hong propped up his chin, pondering, “Old Hu should know this one well.”

Qin Luo: “…”

Just when he feared something, it came. But this question was easy, they would definitely get it right!

Under the eager gazes of the other three, Rong Shi and Song Yu stood like candles in front of the virtual screen, motionless for several seconds.

Song Yu looked at the virtual screen, nudged Rong Shi with his elbow, and whispered, “You go.”

Rong Shi: “…”

The scene solidified again.

Rong Shi: “You trust me that much?”

Song Yu: “…”

The passage was eerily quiet.

Chen Chen initially thought this question would be answered in seconds, but seeing the countdown about to end, the two big shots were frozen, as if their acupoints had been pricked, motionless for a long time.

“Uh, time’s almost up.”

Liu Hong: “Are they tired of answering and need a break?”

Qin Luo: “…”

The little pickup truck seemed to be getting further and further away from them.

When Rong Shi first saw the question, his first thought was that he wanted to eat.

From the question, it could be deduced that A didn’t want to eat, and from the known conditions, that AO’s opinions were opposite, so the answer was easy to get.

In this situation, the subtext of “Are you sure you don’t want to eat?” was “I want to eat.”

But this question had a premise: these two were partners.

Substituting AO in the question with him and his little cat—although his little cat wasn’t an O.

If his little cat wanted to eat hotpot, he wouldn’t object. Conversely, if he wanted to eat, his little cat would definitely agree.

Under what circumstances would they have a disagreement just about eating hotpot? Rong Shi felt there was only one situation—mutual compromise.

If he wanted to eat but his little cat didn’t, he wouldn’t make his little cat accompany him.

But his little cat, knowing he wanted to eat, would drag him along.

If he knew his little cat didn’t want to eat but was compromising for him, he definitely wouldn’t eat.

At this point, his little cat would ask—”Are you sure you don’t want to eat?”

In this situation, the subtext of this sentence was “You don’t need to compromise for me, it’s fine to eat.”

A in the first scenario was very immature, arguing with his partner just for a hotpot meal.

A in the second scenario was clearly more gentlemanly.

Rong Shi felt the second one was more in line with his aesthetic.

In the last three seconds of the five-minute countdown, he confidently answered: “Don’t want to eat.”

[Incorrect answer, this round is a total wipeout, please start over.]

Qin Luo, Liu Hong, Chen Chen: “…”

Boss, what kind of brain circuit is that?!

Song Yu scoffed, “I shouldn’t have counted on you.”

Rong Shi: “Then why didn’t you answer yourself?”

Song Yu’s smile froze on his face: “…”

The ground suddenly cracked open, and all five fell in.

It was pitch black below, their bodies sliding smoothly down the chute, quickly landing in a place softer than cotton, then the ground below suddenly bounced, and their bodies were launched into the air.

Suddenly, it became bright. Rong Shi reacted quickly, grabbing a vine hanging from a nearby tree branch and swinging down to stand on the ground.

Looking around, he found himself behind a row of houses, and the place he was launched from was actually a well.

“Ah—! That was so thrilling!”

“Damn it! Ptooey, ptooey!”

“Ah, ah, ah, I have acrophobia!”

A cacophony of wails erupted from the well.

Rong Shi turned around, and soon four people were simultaneously launched up.

He reached out and pulled Song Yu over.

The mechanism below was cleverly designed, with just the right amount of force to launch them out of the well.

Qin Luo desperately clung to an overhead branch, curled up like a monkey, his face and body covered in chicken feathers, which fluttered down with every shake.

“So, so thrilling.”

Liu Hong and Chen Chen had no one to help them, nor any branches nearby, and landed on their butts.

Chen Chen brushed off the chicken feathers from his head and stood up: “I feel the deep malice of this world towards single dogs.”

Liu Hong spat for a long time, his features all scrunched up: “It smells like chicken poop.”

Song Yu hadn’t even seen what was happening before he crashed into someone’s arms. He tilted his head and saw it was indeed Rong Shi.

The strange smell on him made him extremely annoyed, but seeing Rong Shi’s appearance, he felt better again.

Once Song Yu was steady, Rong Shi let go and helped him pluck chicken feathers from his head.

“Those chicken feathers on your head match your hair color very well.”

“You’re bold to say that.” Song Yu looked at his disheveled appearance and laughed, “Even Chairman Rong has times when he falls into the gutter?”

Rong Shi: “It’s especially easy to fall when I’m with you.”

Song Yu: “…Don’t try to shift the blame to me.”

Seeing that Rong Shi only plucked feathers from himself, Song Yu couldn’t help but remind him, “You should clean yourself up first.”

Rong Shi said calmly, “It doesn’t matter, I can’t see it anyway.”

Song Yu: “…” But he could see it!

Song Yu’s gaze drifted towards Rong Shi’s head several times. The chicken feathers were especially obvious in his black hair, and he finally couldn’t help but raise his hand.

Rong Shi’s mouth curved upwards, then quickly flattened. He subtly lowered his head, pretending it was accidental.

After plucking three or four, there were still many large and small chicken feathers in his black hair, and Song Yu gradually became irritable.

“Why so much hair? It’s in the way.”

Rong Shi: “…”

Can’t you be a little patient?

The other five looked at them, their expressions subtle: “…”

What was their reason for being in the same group? They suddenly couldn’t remember.

Anyway, now it was just a feast of dog food.

Chen Chen walked over: “Chairman, can you tell me your thought process for solving the problem?”

Rong Shi still didn’t think he was wrong and calmly explained his reasoning.

Song Yu casually smoothed his bangs back, and another chicken feather floated down: “It’s the same as my thinking.”

Chen Chen: “…”

Qin Luo jumped down, shaking his head and sighing: “You thought too much. These questions are usually just about the surface meaning.”

When ordinary people only thought of a disc, a genius had already thought of a disc within a disc within a disc—

Being too smart wasn’t always a good thing.

Old Bai and Hu Feng sat obediently in front of the row house, sunbathing. Hearing the commotion, they all ran over.

They looked at each other, speechless.

On the league’s live stream, the bullet comments went wild—

“This brain circuit is amazing, hahaha”

“I actually think it makes some sense?”

“The military academy chairman might be a bit direct, but somehow he’s so cute hahahaha”

“No wonder Song Yu married the military academy chairman, these two are completely on the same wavelength hahaha”

“Is this CP feeling? What should I do, I want to ship them? I’m an alpha.”

“AA romance, endless fun 23333”

The second time they went underground, after discussing, they decided that Rong Shi and Song Yu would still answer.

Since they had already started over, the question must have refreshed. As long as they didn’t speak nonsense this time, there wouldn’t be any problems.

Entering the first stone chamber, the virtual screen descended.

[A pair of partners passed a hotpot restaurant. They had a disagreement about whether to eat hotpot. Finally, the omega said to the alpha: If you want to go, go, I don’t care. Please answer whether he wants to go or not.]

Rong Shi: “…”

Song Yu: “…”

The other five: “…”

Rong Shi nudged Song Yu’s shoulder: “You go.”

Song Yu: “…”

As the countdown was about to end, Song Yu mentally simulated dozens of different scenarios and found that any answer was possible.

This AI kept giving subjective questions, he wanted to smash it.

The other five were suffocating, their nerves taut, ready to be ejected at any moment.

“If you want to go, go, I don’t care.”

Rong Shi’s clear voice suddenly echoed in the quiet space.

Song Yu’s heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly had the answer.

“Doesn’t want to go.”

[Correct answer, please choose a passage to go to the next level.]

All seven of them simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief.

Safely entering the second stone chamber, the virtual screen descended.

Song Yu: “You answer this question, one each.”

[A loving couple was walking on the street when a large dog suddenly darted out from the corner. The omega was startled. What would the alpha do at this moment? A. Yell at the dog: Come at me if you dare! B. Gently say to the omega: If you’re scared, hide in my arms. C. Hide behind the omega and say: Quickly get rid of that dog, I’m scared!]

The five: “…”

This was a primary school question, it would be a huge disgrace to get it wrong.

But after waiting for a long time, Rong Shi still didn’t move.

Song Yu tilted his head to look at him, giving several suggestive glances, but it was no use.

With only one minute left for answering, Song Yu spoke in a flat tone: “Oh, what a big dog, it scared me to death.”

The five: “…” Are you reading a textbook?

Rong Shi: “If you’re scared, hide in my arms.”

[Correct answer.]

Song Yu: “…”

The old beast was just waiting here to take advantage of him?

Rong Shi tilted his head to look at him, his mouth slightly curved upwards: “Would you hide in?”

Song Yu walked into the passage with a cold face: “Get treated if you’re sick.”

Rong Shi: “…”

With simple scenario simulations, their accuracy in answering questions significantly improved.

By the eighth checkpoint, they were already thousands of meters away from the small earth house.

Assuming an average of four passages per stone chamber, this challenge area was quite vast.

The seven of them walked through the passage together to the eighth stone chamber.

As soon as they stepped through the door, Rong Shi felt something was off. He turned around, and the five people behind them were all gone, leaving only Song Yu beside him.

Song Yu followed his gaze and frowned: “Where are they?”

Rong Shi shook his head, his eyes wary: “We just walked in together.”

[Starting from this level, the split-answer mode will be activated. There will be at least two correct answers in each round.]

As soon as the rules were announced, Rong Shi and Song Yu’s terminals rang simultaneously.

Chen Chen and Qin Luo separately sent video calls.

Chen Chen, Old Bai, and Hu Feng were in one stone chamber.

Chen Chen: “You guys disappeared while we were walking, it scared me to death.”

Qin Luo and Liu Hong were in another stone chamber and had heard the rules.

Qin Luo: “We’re split into three groups. As long as two people answer correctly in each round, that’s enough, right?”

There were only two chances to answer incorrectly for three teams. One incorrect answer eliminated one team. When only one team remained, they lost.

A countdown was displayed on the virtual screen in mid-air, but the question was slow to appear. Rong Shi vaguely felt there might be other rules.

Suddenly, the stone door opposite them opened, and Lu Ming and Zhao Wan walked in.

Lu Ming looked at them, frowning deeply: “How did you get here?”

Rong Shi: “Mind your own business.”

Zhao Wan had intended to go over and say hello, but seeing them almost fighting the moment they met, he silently retracted the leg he had stepped out.

After waiting a few more minutes, the question still hadn’t appeared.

Song Yu gradually lost patience with this answering system.

Why should he, the dignified Imperial Prince, fight with chicken feathers for two barrels of diesel?

Within ten minutes, the other two stone doors opened successively, and two pairs of Royal Academy students came in. One pair, Rong Shi recognized, was Song Ke and Lin Rui.

They still had the injuries Song Yu had inflicted on them.

From a distance, Rong Shi could smell gunpowder.

Was there such a great feud between biological brothers? He couldn’t understand it.

Song Ke sneered: “Still following your husband during the competition? This clinginess really makes you seem like an omega.”

Calling an alpha an omega was mostly an insult.

Song Yu retorted, “You can’t even beat someone like me who’s like an omega, so what kind of alpha are you?”

Song Ke glared hatefully at Song Yu. Just as he was about to walk over, the virtual screen in the middle of the stone chamber descended.

There were four sides in total, each corresponding to a question for each group, and the answering times were also random, determined by chance.

Song Ke’s group answered first, it was a quantum universe question.

Coincidentally, it was the same question Rong Shi had answered in the previous round.

“This question is so difficult!” Zhao Wan, beside Lu Ming, exclaimed softly.

The other pair of Royal Academy students looked at the virtual screen, their faces showing fear.

“I can’t even understand the question, it’s too difficult?!”

“They have bad luck, they actually got this kind of question.”

There were only five minutes in total to solve the problem, which also included writing the derivation process.

Halfway through the question, Song Ke’s eyes blurred.

“Lin Rui, this question is up to you.”

Lin Rui’s face showed anxiety: “I’m not very good at quantum mechanics.”

Song Ke frowned and shouted in a low voice: “Do you want me to lose face in front of Song Yu?!”

Lin Rui pursed his lips, scribbling and erasing until the last few seconds before clicking submit.

[Please choose one of the four doors.]

The system prompt sounded, and Lin Rui’s eyes lit up.

Did that mean he had guessed correctly?!

The other few people in the room—

“So amazing, he got it right!”

“Awesome!”

Song Ke glanced at Song Yu, a proud smile playing on his lips: “This is nothing difficult, I could do it with my toes.”

Song Yu watched Rong Shi as if cleaning his eyes, too lazy to bother with that idiot.

If he saw too many idiots, he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to control himself and would want to beat them up.

Song Ke randomly chose a door and was about to enter when a hissing sound suddenly came.

Seeing the snake head darting out of the passage, Lin Rui pulled Song Ke back: “There’s a snake!”

The other three teams in the room heard this and immediately became alert.

Soon, two snakes crawled in through the open stone door, followed by five… ten… twenty…

These snakes were not large, about wrist-thick and over a meter long, not difficult to deal with, but there were simply too many of them!

The floor of the stone chamber was quickly covered with a whole mass of wriggling snakes. They were small but highly aggressive.

The four groups fell into a chaotic battle, fighting while quickly retreating in the opposite direction, but at most they could only press against the stone walls and couldn’t open the stone doors.

Song Yu’s military boots were splattered with snake blood. He frowned, quickly pulled out the military knife from his right thigh pocket, and flew it straight at the culprit.

Song Ke was struggling to deal with them, when suddenly a strong gust of wind brushed past his ear, and a military knife scraped past his ear and embedded itself in the stone wall behind him.

He tilted his head to look in the direction the knife had flown from and saw Song Yu’s cold, angry gaze.

Song Yu: “You always make others pay for your incompetence.”

Song Ke gritted his teeth, his face a mix of green and red.

Snakes were still pouring in from outside the stone door.

More than the question of whether he could beat them, Song Yu looked at the densely packed, wriggling snakes and felt a psychological discomfort.

There were simply too many. If he killed them, blood would splash everywhere. If he didn’t kill them, he would be bitten.

“Scared?”

Rong Shi’s voice suddenly came from his right rear. Song Yu tilted his head to look.

In a corner of the stone chamber, Rong Shi was scattering something from a small bottle on the ground. No snake approached within a one-meter radius.

Rong Shi put away the bottle and opened his arms to him.

“If you’re scared, hide in my arms.”

Song Yu: “…Damn it.”

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Author’s note: 

Chairman Rong: The AI answering system even comes with tips for chasing your wife, five-star review.

Song Cat: Are you sure it’s not a trick to get beaten up by your wife?

Chairman Rong: QuQ [Weak/Helpless/Clinging to himself]