The meal times here were a mystery. It was seven hours after lunch when the dinner announcement finally sounded.

When Chi Yao went out, the corridor was already full of people.

The players who passed by couldn’t help but secretly look at him. After they were a few steps away, they started whispering.

“That charlatan has something going on. He actually figured out the gun was hidden in the sculpture.”

“What do you mean ‘figured out’? I think he just guessed.”

“But he used the ring to block the bullet. An ordinary person can’t do that.”

“His ring is powerful. I wonder where I can buy one.”

Seeing Jing Xi come out, Chi Yao was about to go over and tease him when he suddenly heard an annoying voice.

The curly-haired Alpha limped past him and mocked in a low voice, “You useless old man, you only use dirty tricks. You won’t be so lucky next time!”

Chi Yao: “Then I’ll tell you now that I’m going to trip you and then break your other leg.”

The curly-haired Alpha didn’t expect this reaction at all. He paused. “Wha—ah!”

Before he could react, he was tripped and fell to the ground, a sharp pain shooting through his leg.

The players in the corridor heard the scream and turned back. They saw the hairy-faced charlatan stepping over the person on the ground, and they could vaguely hear a cracking sound.

Chi Yao walked to Jing Xi’s side as if nothing had happened. He raised his chin. “Let’s go, old one-eyed miner.”

Jing Xi: “…”

He glanced at the curly-haired man rolling on the ground and followed Chi Yao out.

This was Chi Yao’s normal state. Deliberately answering incorrectly to save people was impossible.

It was the same restaurant, but this time, it was a sit-down meal. The large hall had forty square tables, and the dishes had already been served.

After the mental trauma of lunch, the players walked in cautiously, unconsciously looking at the ceiling, afraid that the metal ball would come down again.

There were a total of 160 seats, just enough for 160 people.

When the robot said they could sit wherever they wanted, they couldn’t see any hidden meaning in it and each found a seat.

Chi Yao’s group of four chose the same corner table as they had at noon.

Lu Meng specifically filled a bowl of chicken soup and placed it in front of his boss.

“Boss—Master, have some soup to nourish yourself.”

He also placed a plate of stir-fried cabbage with vinegar next to the chicken soup.

“Your favorite.”

The pungent sour smell hit his nose. Chi Yao sneezed three times in a row. “Take it away!”

Lu Meng: “…”

He looked at the plate of stir-fried cabbage with vinegar in his hand and then placed it in front of Jing Xi.

“Thanks for the last round.”

Jing Xi expressionlessly accepted it and picked up a piece, putting it in his mouth.

It wasn’t as good as what Grandma made.

“Hiss—”

Li Yuan watched, his teeth bared in a grimace.

He remembered that their boss never touched anything sour. Why was his appetite so unusual these past two days?

He saw Chi Yao sneak a tenth glance over, and Jing Xi’s wrist turned. He held the piece of cabbage he had picked up to Chi Yao’s mouth.

“Want to try some?”

Clatter.

Li Yuan was so startled that his chopsticks fell on the table.

Boss, show some restraint!

Lu Meng, with a face as big as a bowl, looked up with a “swish.” He chewed while staring at the piece of cabbage, his eyes vigilant.

Something was wrong.

As soon as the sour smell got close, Chi Yao felt a little unwell.

But since this sour cabbage was picked up by Jing Xi, it was a challenge that needed to be met.

He had gone through big storms. There was no way he would capsize on a single piece of cabbage.

He squinted, observed for a moment, and stretched his neck, opening his mouth.

“Hey yo!”

“Hey ha!”

The two muscular cross-dressers suddenly stood up and shouted at the same time.

Jing Xi’s hand trembled, and the cabbage happened to fall into Chi Yao’s bowl.

“…”

Chi Yao, who watched the cabbage fall from his mouth into his bowl: “…”

The food in the bowl was no longer edible.

The atmosphere in the restaurant was already tense. With this shout, everyone looked over.

Li Yuan/Lu Meng: “…”

Seeing their boss look over as well, Li Yuan swallowed the meat in his mouth and said with a chuckle, “The weather is so nice today!”

Lu Meng, thinking he should help ease the awkwardness, heard him and replied in a proper broadcasting voice, “Spring is here. The flowers have bloomed. It’s the season of everything coming back to life.”

Everyone turned their gazes back: “…”

They’re crazy.

Halfway through the meal, quiet discussions started to fill the restaurant.

“There’s no number on the bottom of my plate.”

“Mine doesn’t either.”

“Mine neither. Maybe it’s under these food plates?”

Bang!

The ceiling of the hall cracked open again, and a familiar metal ball descended.

[The second round of the game officially begins—]

They were led out of the castle by robots.

As soon as they left the main door, a cold wind hit them, piercing their skin like an ice pick.

“Damn! It’s so cold!”

“Can’t we play tomorrow?”

“We don’t even need to play. Just staying out here for a little while will eliminate a bunch of people.”

Chi Yao and Jing Xi walked at the back of the line.

In such cold weather, Chi Yao finally felt the benefits of having a full beard.

It was damn warm.

Thinking of the cabbage that fell into his bowl, he said seriously, “Did your taste buds mutate?”

Jing Xi: “…”

He put his hands in his pockets and consciously changed his walking posture.

“You’re the one who mutated, aren’t you?”

Chi Yao’s eyes flashed, and he lowered his gaze in self-mockery. “I did mutate.”

Jing Xi just thought he was being argumentative. He said with a seemingly comforting sarcasm, “You’re not even a human anymore, so of course your tongue isn’t a human tongue. It’s normal.”

Chi Yao gave him a deep look and scoffed. “Did your mouth get sharper recently?”

Jing Xi tilted his head to look at him. “It’s still far from yours.”

Chi Yao smiled confidently. “Of course.”

Jing Xi: “…”

I wasn’t complimenting you.

They walked around most of the amusement park to a steep slope.

The only light was from the dim streetlights on both sides of the road. Everything else was swallowed by darkness.

Chi Yao and Jing Xi were bickering back and forth. Their peripheral vision scanned both sides of the road.

Those areas were covered with anti-light material. Even with his vision, he could only see a rough outline.

All the players rode a conveyor belt to the top of the steep slope. The lights on the path they came from all went out, and it became completely dark.

It felt like they could be grabbed by the ankles by something unknown and dragged into the endless abyss at any moment.

Cold wind, darkness, and fear spread through the crowd.

Bang!

The area in front of them suddenly lit up.

A path of light spiraled down the steep slope, with multiple layers extending in all directions.

Where the light reached, one checkpoint after another was illuminated.

“Is this… is this telling us to slide down?”

“What’s that over there? A pendulum ride?”

“That pair of scissors is so big!”

“A… a guillotine!”

After seeing the checkpoints clearly, everyone’s faces turned pale.

The path of light in the darkness led to either heaven or hell.

The metal ball flew in front of them again.

[Second round of the game—Extreme Bumper Cars! Now, please remember the rules.]

As the voice fell, a virtual screen was enlarged in front of them.

The screen played an animated simulation.

Everyone was divided into groups of four based on their dinner seating. Two people would be in one bumper car. One person would control the direction, and the other would control the speed.

The bumper car needed to pass all the checkpoints on the light path to reach the final destination.

The destination had forty parking spots. Before the countdown ended, the bumper cars had to be parked in the spots without touching the lines.

If one car in the team was parked outside a spot, the entire group of four would be eliminated.

After watching the rules, some people had already collapsed on the ground.

Putting aside the light path floating in the air and the cruel checkpoints, even if they successfully reached the finish line, they could still be bumped out of the parking spot.

In the most ideal scenario, only 80 people would successfully advance to the next round.

This meant that at least half of them would die in this round.

After the rules were played, the lights on one side turned on. 80 bumper cars were lined up on a multi-level metal parking rack.

Metal ball: [Please get into the cars within three minutes.]

But after it finished speaking, no one dared to go up.

The animation only showed two checkpoints. There were more than a dozen unknown checkpoints.

Whoever went first would die first.

“I’ve never played bumper cars before.” Chi Yao was the first to walk out and chose a hot-pink one.

Lu Meng was about to follow, but he saw his boss beckoning to the one-eyed old miner.

Chi Yao: “Come on, big brother will take you for a ride.”

Lu Meng’s extended leg retracted. “…”

Did the boss really fall for this miner?

What kind of taste is that?

Jing Xi, who was about to get in the same car as Li Yuan: “…”

Li Yuan grabbed Jing Xi’s wrist. He looked at Chi Yao with a vigilant expression. “Don’t go. I think he’s up to no good.”

Jing Xi: “…He can’t do anything to me. You two sisters go together.”

Li Yuan and Lu Meng, who were forcefully made into sisters, looked at each other and almost threw up their dinner.

Jing Xi sat in the other driver’s seat. The control panel in front of him only had a steering wheel. The speed control was on Chi Yao’s side.

“I’ll control the speed.” Jing Xi wanted to switch with him.

Given Chi Yao’s reckless personality, letting him control the speed could lead to an accident.

Chi Yao leaned on the low car door and said slowly, “Do you really want me to control the direction?”

Jing Xi: “…”

If this guy kept turning around and messing around, that didn’t seem good either.

Li Yuan and Lu Meng sat in a fluorescent green car next to them. Their smeared heavy makeup combined with the fluorescent green gave off a wild nightclub vibe.

Li Yuan gripped the steering wheel to get a feel for it. “Listen to my command later, Big Sis.”

Lu Meng’s face was stern. “Just drive straight for me, Big Bro.”

By the time they reached the starting point, the others had pushed and shoved their way into their cars and stopped far behind them.

In a blue bumper car, the curly-haired Alpha kept gasping.

Although his legs had been treated in an emergency, bending them like this still pulled at his injuries.

“Hey, I’m warning you. If you don’t cooperate, I’ll throw you under the blade,” the dreadlocked Beta sitting next to him warned.

The curly-haired Alpha was furious but gritted his teeth and didn’t dare to speak.

He was injured, so no one wanted to be in the same car as him. He was also slower than others, so he couldn’t get the seat to control the direction.

The light on the metal ball flashed, and a countdown appeared on the windshields of all the bumper cars.

As soon as the time was up, Jing Xi felt himself fly out.

It was already a downhill slope, and Chi Yao had the gas pedal floored.

With this acceleration and the weight of the car, Jing Xi had no doubt that they would be thrown off the road halfway.

Jing Xi: “Slow down!”

Chi Yao: “Beg me.”

Jing Xi frowned and slightly turned the steering wheel.

The car immediately tilted and hit the guardrail on the side of the road.

The bumper car was wrapped in a circle of highly elastic gel material. It bounced back with the collision.

Because of the high speed, it bounced directly to the guardrail on the other side.

The little green car drove behind the little pink one.

Li Yuan and Lu Meng watched as their boss’s car went crazy, crashing back and forth on both sides of the road in a “Z” shape, sliding down as it crashed.

They: “…”

Just watching was enough to make them carsick.

Inside the car, Chi Yao and Jing Xi’s bodies swayed back and forth with the collisions.

Chi Yao was whipped in the face by his braid several times. He cursed and simply wrapped the braid around his neck. “Do you know how to drive?”

Jing Xi said with a cold face, “It’s my first time driving a kiddie car. My skills aren’t good. Just bear with it.”

Chi Yao: “…”

He dared to tease him?

Chi Yao chuckled. “Didn’t you have a childhood?”

Jing Xi retorted, “My childhood was spent mining.”

Chi Yao mocked, “What a coincidence. I was a Popsicle from birth. I didn’t have a childhood either.”

Jing Xi: “…………”

For Chi Yao, this level of game was just a game.

Seeing the pendulum ride approaching, he was considering whether to slow down to accommodate his rival’s terrible driving skills when he heard the other person say softly, “I did have a childhood, but it ended after he left.”

Chi Yao froze.

Him? That “Yao” who had the same name as him?

Seeing the pendulum ride getting closer, Jing Xi was about to tell Chi Yao to slow down when he heard the other person let out a cold snort. He sounded a little unhappy—