Open the Door

"I..." The Snake Man was slightly taken aback, wanting to choose an answer, but found that no matter how he answered, it was futile.

"Hahahahaha!"

The Snake Man suddenly burst into laughter, laughing heartily until he composed himself and said, "You are quite interesting."

"Interesting?" Qi Xia looked at the Snake Man coldly, "What's so interesting about it? Haven't I already won?"

The Snake Man slowly walked to the wall and pulled down the lever.

Everyone felt a sudden drop, and then the entire ceiling began to descend slowly.

Qiao Jia Jing, with a puzzled face, turned to ask Qi Xia, "Swindler, what does it mean? Why does this count as winning?"

Qi Xia saw that everyone was indeed descending and let out a sigh of relief, saying, "Think about it, once this question is asked, no matter what, we are already saved."

"If my next question is 'Will you pull the lever?', will your answer be the same as to this question..." Qiao Jia Jing silently repeated the question, not understanding at all.

"I see..." Dr. Zhao nodded thoughtfully, "If he answers 'Yes', then the next question can only be answered with 'Yes' as well, and we are saved. After all, the next question is 'Will you pull the lever?'."

"But what if he says 'No'?" Qiao Jia Jing felt like he had discovered some loophole.

"Even if he says 'No', the next question can only be answered with 'Yes'," Han Yimo said weakly, "The beauty of this question is that if he answers 'No', he admits that he will give different answers to two questions, remember? This snake-headed man said he wouldn't lie."

Qiao Jia Jing was taken aback and turned to look at Qi Xia again, asking, "Did you just come up with all of this? What kind of monster are you?"

"I wouldn't dare to be called a monster," Qi Xia shook his head, "I'm just a swindler wandering in the rivers and lakes."

As they spoke, several people slowly descended to the ground.

Due to the long suspension, everyone's palms were a bit hot and painful, and the situation of the two injured people was even more worrying.

"Congratulations to all of you for surviving the 'interview', push open this door, a new world is waiting for you," the snake-headed man said with his hands behind his back, standing beside the wooden door.

"Damn it..."

Qiao Jia Jing walked up fiercely, as if wanting to vent all his dissatisfaction with the 'Sheep Man' and 'Dog Man' on the 'Snake Man' in front of him.

The Snake Man turned his cold eyes and looked at Qiao Jia Jing, who was in a rage, without moving.

"You're all perverts, aren't you?!" Qiao Jia Jing shouted, grabbing the Snake Man's collar, "Wearing these strange masks, trying to kill us again and again, now I've finally caught you!"

The Snake Man sneered and whispered, "Since you're still alive, I suggest you let go early."

"What did you say?!"

Qiao Jia Jing raised his fist forcefully, about to punch the Snake Man's face when he was stopped by Officer Li.

"Hey, have you forgotten the man whose skull was smashed?" Officer Li said in a low voice, "If they are all the same kind of people, how do you plan to defeat them?"

"I..." A trace of unwillingness appeared on Qiao Jia Jing's rugged face, he bit his molars and slowly uttered a few words, "But these damned..."

"Rest assured, can't we go out now?" Officer Li interrupted him, speaking in a low voice, "As long as we can get out, I will definitely give them a good show."

After hearing this, everyone stopped talking and slowly approached the Snake Man.

Looking closely at this person, they realized how eerie he was.

The temperature around the snake-headed man was lower than other places, and his old suit and the mask on his head emitted a strange stench together.

His eyes were shining from the mask, clearly a human. But the smell on his body was like that of a dead snake that had been lying for a long time.

"Everyone, welcome to the new world."

The muffled voice of the snake-headed man came from the mask, and then he turned around and opened the door.

With a light creak, the light from outside came in.

Qi Xia frowned, realizing that outside the door was not the outdoors, but a corridor.

"Where is it outside?" Qi Xia asked.

"I said, it's a new world," the snake-headed man slowly raised his hands, "The 'God' of the future will be born among you! It will be born in the new world! How exciting!"

"God again..." Qiao Jia Jing asked fiercely, "What exactly are you guys planning?"

Seeing someone asking a question, the snake-headed man obviously became interested: "A god who can do anything...! He can make all ideas come true!"

"All-powerful?" Qiao Jia Jing's eyebrows were twisted into a rope.

Dr. Zhao, standing aside, quietly waved to Qiao Jia Jing, and then said to the snake-headed man: "Okay, we understand, let's get out of here."

The snake-headed man paused, then nodded and moved aside.

Qi Xia took the lead, and the people behind him didn't seem to want to stay here any longer, so they quickened their pace and followed.

As soon as everyone stepped into the corridor, a special smell filled their nostrils.

How to describe that smell?

Heavy, a very heavy smell.

The smell was as if several billion people in the world had died, then were exposed to the air and rotted, and this rotting smell attracted countless insects to feast.

They bred in large numbers and died in large numbers, and then rotted as well.

After a period of settling, when the overwhelming rotting smell was no longer pungent, it became the heavy smell as it is now.

Qi Xia took a long time to come to his senses, then opened his eyes and looked, only to find..."

A scene of despair appeared before their eyes.

They were in a corridor that seemed to stretch on forever, with a low and oppressive ceiling that extended straight ahead.

On both sides of the corridor, countless wooden doors were slowly opening.

Just like the wooden door behind them.

Before long, figures began to emerge from the wooden doors.

Most were masked people covered in blood. From a distance, only a few appeared to be normal people.

And those so-called 'normal people' also looked exhausted and shaky.

Like Qi Xia, they had also survived.

"What's going on..." Han Yimo asked weakly, "Were more than just us nine taken?"

Qi Xia's face was extremely solemn, the situation in front of him far exceeded his imagination.

This organization had taken countless people and then conducted a game of murder?

"But... there are just too few survivors..." Zhang Chenze sighed in the dark.

Looking around, only a few people came out of the tens of thousands of doors.

There wasn't even a single case like Qi Xia's room where 'everyone survived'.

"Everyone, please."

The snake-headed man waved to the side, indicating the direction for the crowd to move forward, then stood by the door with his hands behind his back, seemingly not planning to leave.

"Let's go.

Knowing that it was not a good place to linger, the group formed a long line and slowly left.

As they passed by the dilapidated wooden doors, they saw up close those who wore animal masks.

There were cows, horses, dogs.

And the sheep and snakes they had seen before.

All of them exuded an eerie aura, filled with the smell of decay. The scenes inside the doors were mostly of corpses on the ground, and it was unknown what kind of 'game' they had participated in.

After walking a dozen more steps, the crowd was startled by two animal masks in front of them.

The person on the left was wearing a huge rat mask, leaning against the wall; while the person on the right was wearing a huge rooster mask, with arms folded across their chest.

These two masks were clearly not man-made products, but were made from actual animal heads.

But where in the world would there be such huge rats and roosters?

Like the others wearing animal masks, they only glanced at Qi Xia and the others without any other action.

"What are these animals..." Lin Qin was a bit frightened and subconsciously moved away from the two.

Qi Xia frowned slightly, as if thinking of something.

Sheep, dog, snake, rat, rooster...

"They are the Chinese zodiac signs." He whispered a few words with his lips slightly moving.

The crowd looked at each other and then at the masked people.

The animal masks worn by those dressed in old suits indeed all belonged to the twelve Chinese zodiac signs."