"I ..." Man Snake was slightly stunned as he tried to choose an answer, only to realize that it was futile no matter how he answered.
"Hahahahahaha!"
The Man Snake suddenly laughed out loud and laughed his head off, and it wasn't long before he collected his laughter and said, "You're really interesting."
"Interesting?" Qi Xia coldly looked at Man Snake, "Where is it interesting? Haven't I already won?"
Man Snake slowly came to the wall and reached out to pull down the lever.
The crowd only felt their bodies plummet, and then the entire ceiling began to slowly descend.
Qiao Jiajin's face was filled with confusion as he turned his head and asked Qi Xia, "Liar, what does it mean? Why is this considered a win?"
Qi Xia realized that the crowd was indeed descending, and secretly sighed in relief as he said, "Think about it, as long as this question is asked, we've been saved no matter what."
"If my next question was "Would you pull down the lever", would your answer be the same as this one ..." Qiao Jiajin silently repeated the question, simply unable to think about it.
"I see ..." Dr. Zhao nodded with a thoughtful face, 'If he answered 'yes', then the next question can only be answered 'yes' as well, so we will be saved. After all, the next question is 'Will you pull down the lever'."
"But what if he's going to say 'No'?!" Qiao Jiajin felt like he had found some kind of loophole, "Wouldn't it be enough for him to say 'No'?"
"If he says 'No', he can only say 'Yes' in the next question as well." Han Yimo said breathlessly, "The beauty of this question is that if he answers 'no', he's admitting that he'll give different answers to the two questions, remember? This Snakehead said he wouldn't tell lies."
Qiao Jiajin was stunned, once again turning his head to look at Qi Xia, opening his mouth to ask, "Is this all that you just thought of ... What kind of monster are you?"
"Monster dare not be." Qi Xia shook his head, "I'm just a wandering liar."
Between words, several people had slowly fallen to the ground.
Due to the prolonged hanging, everyone's palms were a bit hot and painful, while the two injured people's condition was even less optimistic.
"Everyone, congratulations on surviving the 'interview', push open this door and a new world awaits you." The snake-headed man put his hands behind his back and stood next to the wooden door.
"Puff Boy ..."
Qiao Jiajin stepped up viciously, seemingly wanting to take out all of his frustrations with the 'Human Sheep' and 'Human Dog' on the 'Human Snake' in front of him.
The Human Snake turned around with cold eyes, looking at the imposing Qiao Jiajin but not moving.
"Are each and every one of you perverts?!" Qiao Jiajin bellowed as he stepped forward and grabbed Human Snake's collar, "Wearing these strange masks, trying to kill us over and over again, and now I've finally caught you!"
Man Snake sneered a bit and whispered, "While you're still alive, I advise you to let go early."
"What did you say?!"
Qiao Jiajin raised his fist hard, and when he saw it about to fly into the snake-headed man's face, he was pulled by Officer Li's arm.
"Hey, have you forgotten about the man whose head was cracked?" Officer Lee whispered, "If they're all the same, how are you going to beat them?"
"I ... "A trace of resignation surfaced on Qiao Jiajin's hardened face, he bit his back teeth and slowly spat out a few words, "But these god damned... ..."
"Don't worry, weren't we able to get out?" Officer Li interrupted him and said in a low voice, "As long as we can get out, I will definitely give them a good look."
The crowd stopped speaking after hearing this and just slowly arrived in front of the human snake.
Looking at this person up close, they realized how bizarre he was.
The temperature around this snake-headed man was colder than the rest of the world, and his old suit smelled eerily fishy along with the mask he wore on his head.
His eyes were shooting a gaze from within the mask, clearly human. But then he smelled like a long dead snake.
"Everyone, welcome to the new world."
The muffled voice of the snake-headed man came out of the mask before turning back and opening the door to the house.
With a soft creak, bright light from outside the house came in.
Zixia frowned as he realized that outside the door was not outdoors at all, but instead a hallway.
"Where is outside?" Zixia asked.
"Like I said, it's the New World." The snake-headed man slowly raised his hands, "The future 『God』 will arise among you! Will be produced in the new world! How exciting!"
"God ... again," Qiao Jiajin asked viciously, "What the hell are you guys planning?"
Seeing someone ask a question, the snake head man was obviously interested, "An omnipotent god ...! He can realize all ideas!"
"Omnipotent?" Qiao Jiajin's brows were knitted together.
Dr. Zhao didn't move aside and waved his hand at Qiao Jiajin, then said to the snakehead, "Alright, we get it, quickly let us out."
The snakehead gave a beat, then nodded and stepped aside.
Qi Xia took the lead and walked up, and the crowd behind him looked like they didn't want to stay here for much longer, and they all sped up their steps to follow.
As soon as the crowd took a step into the corridor, a special smell filled their nostrils.
How should I describe that smell?
Heavy, a very heavy smell.
It smelled like billions of people all over the world had died and were then exposed to the air to rot, and this rotting smell attracted countless bugs to compete for food.
They multiplied in large numbers, died in large numbers, and then rotted as well.
Precipitating this overwhelming smell of decay for a period of time, when it became less pungent, it became this heavy smell now.
Qi Xia took a long time to regain his senses, then opened his eyes to look, only to find another despairing sight in front of him.
They were in a corridor that could not be seen, the ceiling here was low and depressing, and it was spread out all the way forward along this corridor.
And on both sides of the corridor, countless wooden doors were slowly opening.
Just like the wooden doors behind them.
It wasn't long before figures began to gradually appear from the wooden doors.
Most of them were masked people covered in blood, and from afar, only a very few doors had normal people coming out of them.
And those so-called 'normal people' all looked tired and trembling.
Like Zixia, they had survived.
"What's the situation ...," Han Yimo asked weakly, "Are there more than just the nine of us who were captured?"
Qi Xia's face was extraordinarily heavy, the situation in front of him was far beyond his imagination.
This organization had captured countless people and then engaged in a killing game?
"But the number of people who ... survived is just too few ...," Zhang Chenze sighed darkly.
Looking around at the thousands of doors, only a handful of people walked out.
Like in the room where Qi Xia was in the 'all survived' situation not even one person was seen.
"Everyone, please."
The snake-headed man waved his hand to the side, signaling the direction of the crowd's advancement, then stood by the door with his arms folded, looking like he wasn't going to leave.
"Let's go."
Knowing that this place was not a good place to stay, the crowd left slowly in a long line.
As they passed through a worn wooden door, the crowd saw up close those wearing animal masks.
Among them were cows, horses, and dogs.
There were also sheep and snakes that had been seen earlier.
They all, without exception, exuded an eerie aura and filled the air with the smell of decay. And most of the sights in the door were full of corpses, wondering what 'game' they were actually involved in.
After another dozen or so steps, the group was startled by two animal masks in front of them.
The one on the left wore a huge rat mask, leaning against the wall; while the one on the right wore a huge rooster mask, with his arms wrapped around his chest.
These two masks were obviously not man-made products, but were made of actual animal heads.
But where in the world could there be such huge rats and roosters?
These two, like the other people wearing animal masks on their heads, just looked at Qi Xia and the others faintly without any other action.
"What are these animals ...," Ringo was a bit startled and subconsciously moved away from those two.
Zixia frowned slightly, as if she thought of something.
Goat, Dog, Snake, Rat, Rooster ...
"It's the Chinese Zodiac." His lips moved slightly and spat out a few words.
The crowd was stunned and looked over.
The animal masks worn by those people in shabby suits were indeed all within the twelve zodiac signs.