Chapter 310: Triangle

Chen Junnan knew that no matter what, his coordinate was “-1,” which meant he wasn’t far from this round’s questioner.

Only four people stood between them.

In other words, the majority of the remaining participants would be affected by the question he posed.

Wasn’t that a good thing?

If he could collaborate with the questioner this time to eliminate that “3,” Xu Qian would fall into the trap and summon Earth Snake, allowing his plan to proceed to the next stage.

“Things are finally getting interesting…”

Before long, Yun Yao called, but her tone sounded off.

“Chen Junnan…” she said hesitantly, “something seems wrong…”

“What is it?”

“This… this question is really strange…”

“How so?”

After a pause, Yun Yao replied, “The question this time is, ‘Does a week have six days?'”

“What?”

Now Chen Junnan understood why Yun Yao sounded so uneasy.

According to their earlier deductions, the question should have been, “Should it fall?”

So why had it changed?

“Do you think we guessed wrong… or did someone alter the question?”

Chen Junnan lowered his head, carefully considering the situation, but he couldn’t make sense of it.

Previously, the third and sixth questions had been “Should it fall?”—yet the ninth question had changed.

Had they misunderstood the pattern?

“Wait a minute…” Chen Junnan suddenly realized something. “Speaking of the sixth question, since everyone chose ‘No,’ we never actually found out if the iron ball would drop.”

“Ah…” Yun Yao recalled that moment as well. “So you’re saying… we were misled back then?”

Chen Junnan couldn’t say for sure—after all, everything was just speculation.

“Big star… I still trust my instincts.” He decisively stopped overthinking; sometimes, the more you analyze, the more complicated things get. “I think the original question was still ‘Should it fall?’—it’s just that the person who was supposed to die didn’t want to, so they changed it.”

Yun Yao nodded. “That makes sense. ‘Does a week have six days?’ is clearly designed to make us choose ‘No,’ so they can survive.”

“Exactly.” Chen Junnan grinned. “I’ve said it before—none of these tricks work on me. After all, I’ve used this question-changing tactic myself plenty of times.”

“Ch-Changing the question?” Yun Yao was stunned. “Chen Junnan… did you change the question earlier?”

“Ahem, ahem—” He coughed awkwardly. “No way, big star. I just… polished the wording a little.”

Yun Yao sighed in resignation. “Fine… So this time… you’ve decided to kill someone?”

“Yep.” Chen Junnan chuckled. “Everyone who comes to ‘The Endgame’ is already living on borrowed time. Even if I don’t kill them, they’ll die here eventually. So I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty.”

“I… I see…” Yun Yao hesitated before hanging up.

Chen Junnan turned back and selected “Yes,” then sat down and lowered his head.

He was thinking about how to get everyone else to choose “Yes” as well.

What could he do to make them all unite?

After a moment, a sly smile crept onto his face as he pressed the call button.

After a dozen rings, Xu Qian picked up.

“Go ahead.”

“Qian-jie… this question is interesting.”

“Interesting?”

“Yeah.” Chen Junnan laughed. “Our moment of unity has arrived.”

“What… what’s the question?”

“The person before me said… ‘Should the final distributed chips be doubled?'”

“Huh…?”

Xu Qian was clearly taken aback, but before she could voice her doubts, Chen Junnan spoke first.

“Qian-jie, do you think this could be a trick?” he asked.

“Uh…” There was a noticeable pause on the other end before she replied, “What did you choose?”

“Of course I chose ‘Yes.'”

“You don’t even know if someone altered the question, and you still chose ‘Yes’?”

“Yep. Even if I don’t know whether the question was changed, picking ‘Yes’ doesn’t hurt me.” Chen Junnan sighed. “We’re all here to earn ‘Dao’—don’t you want to take the chance?”

Xu Qian thought it over and found his reasoning persuasive.

“You’re right… Even if it’s a trick, choosing ‘Yes’ won’t cost me anything.”

The corner of Chen Junnan’s mouth curled up. Fortunately, the iron ball hadn’t fallen during the sixth round—most people were still uncertain about the rules. They only knew that someone had died in the third round for choosing “Sit down,” and the pattern remained unclear.

“Exactly, Qian-jie,” Chen Junnan said. “I’m just telling you what I know. We’re all risking our lives in this game—might as well try to earn as much as we can.”

“Alright, I get it…” After another moment of hesitation, Xu Qian hung up.

Chen Junnan returned to his seat, settling in for a long wait.

To pass the time, he made another bold assumption.

This time, only four people stood between him and the questioner.

One of them had altered the question.

It probably wasn’t Yun Yao—she had no reason to do so. That meant the “question-changer” had to be one of the other three: the “anxious girl” to Yun Yao’s right, the “silent man,” or the person to the silent man’s right.

Chen Junnan glanced at the diagram he’d drawn. For clarity, he had sketched a square above the person to the silent man’s right—the one currently under the iron ball, this round’s “lucky” victim.

“One of these three lied…?”

But seconds later, he realized something—no, there was one more.

To the square’s right, he drew a triangle and circled it.

“Triangle… You’re this round’s ‘first person.’ You could’ve also changed the question the moment you received it… right?”

Just then, the screen lit up.

Chen Junnan focused intently on the words appearing before him.

“The final answer to this round’s question is—’Yes.'”

**BOOM—!!!**

Before he could even finish reading, a deafening explosion erupted.

Somewhere to his right, not far away, a person whose face he’d never even seen had died.

This murder had no target, no motive, no bias.

He had killed—just because he could.

Chen Junnan slowly smiled.

He had thought one misstep would lead to disaster.

Yet this time, he had been right.

Sometimes, being human means you can’t afford to be too cautious. When it’s time to trust yourself, you just have to go for it.

“Square… go home early. We’ll meet again.”

Chen Junnan stood up and leisurely walked toward the phone.