It looks like you can pass the game by killing your companions, but in fact there must be a bigger trap hidden at the end.

With its tiny eyes fixed on Fu Wenduo, Big Huo Ji looked at Fu Wenduo for two seconds, then cooed and smiled sinisterly, "Is there a second question?

Big Huo Ji's expression and demeanor when he asked this question was exactly the same as when Xiao Jitong had asked it before, and no one could tell what had changed. However, both Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo clearly understood that the question of Lao Ying's Chicken Scratch game was just as important to Big Huo Ji as the puzzle of the right way to pass the game. Perhaps even more so.

Tang Mo looked at Huo Ji, deep in thought.

At first he didn't realize it, but when Fu Wenduo asked the question, he too noticed something was wrong.

In the hour-long Lao Ying Chicken Catch game, except for Xiao Jitong, who was hiding very well, all the other six players had a head-on fight with Big Huo Ji. Big Huo Ji seems to attack every player fairly and brutally, but the person it really targets most is the cold-faced, long-haired Ningning.

This is most clearly seen in Big Huo Ji's final counterattack, when he is caught in a series of traps designed by the boy and nearly killed by the blue drop. Huo Ji was caught in a series of traps designed by the boy, and was nearly killed by the blue droplet. When it got out of the traps, instead of attacking the boy who almost killed it, or Fu Wenduo who wounded it with his dagger, it aimed at Ningning, who stood at the end of the group of five.

It shouldn't have attacked Ningning in terms of hate value or position, but it chose to go farther away and plucked out a piece of flesh from Ningning's chest with one claw.

It's targeting Ningning.

This fact hints at a very important clue: something is very wrong with the Lao Ying Chicken Scramble game.

Tang Mo thought carefully about how to ask the second question, and before he could think of the most appropriate question, he only heard a male voice ringing out from the side: "...... The second question, Qiao Zhi Edward is in the first place. "

Tang Mo's eyes widened as he looked at the man who opened his mouth in dismay. Not only him, Fu Wenduo's brows furrowed as he looked at Xiao Jitong as well.Even his teammates Ningning and Xiao Qiao stared at him in astonishment, not understanding how he could ask this question.

The first question was posed by Fu Wenduo: Is there a deeper meaning to Lao Ying's game of chicken scratching?

The second question was posed by Xiao Jitong: Where did his teammate Qiao Zhi Edward come in?

The question is selfishly obvious, though knowing one's ranking has no bearing on the final outcome, and even if the boy knows where he is, he will still be dragged into Lao Ying's game of chicken as long as the other six are not in the right place. But Xiao Jitong's question came out of nowhere, and seemed like a wasted opportunity.

Tang Mo quickly calmed down and thought about why Xiao Jitong had asked the question. He believed that the latter would not ask such a question so recklessly, perhaps after some consideration. Unfortunately, the information he knew now was too little, and it was difficult for him to understand the other party's reason for doing so.

The Great Huo Ji was also a little surprised when it heard this question. Soon it laughed, "My lovely boy, you actually forgot your place?" It walked over to the little boy and stretched out its wings to try and touch the little boy's head. Blood was still dripping from its wing, which Fu Wenduo had just cut. The little boy wanted to slap the disgusting chicken's wings away, but he held back and stood beside Xiao Jitong without saying a word, somewhat aggrieved.

Tang Mo: "So what's the answer?"

In any case, the question had been asked and they now needed answers.

Big Huo Ji flapped his wings, "Where is the deep meaning in the game of Lao Ying catching chicks, isn't it just a disgusting Lao Ying trying to catch my lovely children. Don't worry my children, mommy is here, mommy won't let that hateful Lao Ying catch your coo." After a pause, Big Huo Ji continued, "As for the child your place in line ......"

Big Huo Ji stroked the little boy's head and laughed, "Gu Gu, you're in second place ah my lovely child, have you forgotten this?" After saying this, Big Huo Ji let out a hefty laugh as it stood up and looked at the collapsed high school girl on the ground. It looked meaningfully at the dying girl, and in the next second it twisted its huge body around to look at the big green bug on the ground that had completely broken.

An ear-piercing scream rang out. Why is this worm dead! How can I give a dead worm to my child? It'll give him diarrhea if he eats it. Damn bug, can't you live a little longer, how come it's dead. Now mommy has to go find food for the kids again."

Da Huo Ji turned his head and looked sympathetically at all the players, "My children, are you hungry?"

Xiao Jitong nodded, "Mom, we are very hungry."

Big Huo Ji exclaimed, "Mommy's going to get you food goo!"

With a fat body and a dexterity that belies its appearance, the big Huo Ji quickly disappeared from the supermarket, humming the quirky rhyme, "Chickens eat worms, I eat chickens". As all players know by now, the big Huo Ji is simply acting. At one point he plays the role of a loving mother chicken, and at another he reverts to his true nature and becomes the vicious Lao Ying, playing the players for fools, acting himself, but more like he is watching the jokes of the players.

The off-key song echoed through the supermarket, and when Big Huo Ji's figure disappeared completely, the short-haired high school girl couldn't hold back her tears any longer.

This poor girl hugged her companion, whose life and death were uncertain, and let loose with tears. After a few minutes of crying she gritted her teeth to hold back her tears, hugged her companion, fed her water, and gently called her name, hoping she would wake up soon.

These two players are weak, and without a few Tang Mo's, they would most likely end up as these broken pieces of meat on the ground, torn apart by the Great Huo Ji.

After the two questions were over, and making sure that Big Huo Ji was walking away, Tang Mo looked over to Xiao Jitong, his voice calm, "It the first question was lying, then the second question was correct. Mr. Xiao, I would like to know why you are asking this question."

Tang Mo did not know Xiao Jitong, but after a short contact he knew that the other party was a smart man. Passed the second floor of the Black Tower, 1 very famous smart person in Nanjing. Such a person shouldn t ask useless questions.

Xiao Jitong smiled, "There is indeed a reason for me to ask this question, as I have slightly more information than you guys. But before that, I prefer to ask this ...... Mr. Don first." Xiao Jitong didn't dismantle Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo's pseudonyms as he looked towards Fu Wenduo : "What do you think is special about this Lao Ying Chicken Scratch game?"

Fu Wenduo faintly said, "If you just want a penalty for queuing up incorrectly, you can just say 'queuing up incorrectly, Big Huo Ji catches the player for an hour', there's no need to purposely design a branch game." Unless the game itself is a clue.

Fu Wenduo didn't say the latter words, but Tang Mo already understood. He looked at Fu Wenduo and gently smiled, "Yes, I've also wondered why I purposely created a side game called 'Lao Ying Catching Chicks'. It's just that if you want to kill players, there's no problem calling it whatever game you want."

"And it had a murderous aura. That murderous aura was directed at her." Fu Wenduo pointed at Ningning.

Ningning The injuries on her body had mostly healed, but her face was still a bit pale. She pursed her lips and didn't speak.

The little boy was disgruntled, "Why does it only target Ningning-sama? Is it because Ms. Ningning is a woman? Ah yes, wasn't that sister also scratched by it, and she hasn't woken up yet. Is it really targeting women the most?"

"Of course not." Tang Mo shook her head, "Lao Ying is a very common game of catching chicks, and I'm sure most of us have played it when we were young. There are two characteristics of this game, the first is that there is an old mother hen who protects the chicks, and the second is that Lao Ying can only catch the chick at the end of the queue at a time. We, the players, have to queue up in order, and the game itself has an order - Lao Ying has to catch the chickens from the last chick in order to catch them. "

The little boy thought for a while, and then suddenly exclaimed, "Do you mean that Ms. Ningning is the last chicken in the queue?" The boy was very clever, and soon he thought, "Wait a minute, just now, Ningning Sister was the fifth in line, and it was him who was at the end of the line." He pointed at Fu Wenduo, "That big Huo Ji is catching Ningning Sister, not him, does it mean that the order in which it is catching people is not the order in which we players are queuing up, and that it is catching the chick that is really the last in line, and that Ningning Sister's correct queuing position is the last one?"

A lot of things need not be said, and when the little boy explained it, everyone understood what he meant. In fact, Tang Mo and Fu Wenduo had already thought of this answer, otherwise Fu Wenduo would not have asked that question. Most likely, Xiao Jitong had guessed it as well.

Big Huo Ji is clearly aimed at Ningning, and considering that it's lying, Lao Ying's Chicken Scratch game has a deeper meaning, it's clear that the order in which it catches people has to do with the correct order in which the players are lined up.

Tang Mo : "Eight out of ten|nine, this ......" Tang Mo didn't know what to call Ningning, after a pause, he directly said, "She should be in the last place. Based on this clue, we can basically determine who the last player is, which is the reason we asked the first question. So now it's your turn." Tang Mo laughed, "Mr. Xiao, why did you ask that question, and what was the information you said you had that we didn't know about?"

When Fu Wenduo realized that Ningning was being targeted by Big Huo Ji, the first thing he thought of was the special rules of the game Lao Ying's Chicken Catch. When Big Huo Ji's answer proves that the game does have a deeper meaning, they are able to determine Ningning's position in the queue.

Not to say for sure, but at least an 80% chance that this female player is in last place.

So now it's Xiao Jitong's turn.

Fu Wenduo stands next to Tang Mo, who seems to have little interest in Xiao Jitong and the others, and looks on calmly without speaking. Tang Mo waits patiently for Xiao Jitong to give him a suitable answer.

"I must have a reason for asking that." Xiao Jitong looked at his teammate Ningning, and then surprisingly directed his gaze at Fu Wenduo, who was standing beside Tang Mo. He let out a laugh and got right to the point: "Mr. Don, you're a stowaway, aren't you?"

Fu Wenduo's expression remained unchanged and he did not reply.

Tang Mo asked back coldly, "Is that the message you're talking about, Mr. Shaw?"

Xiao Jitong: "I think you have misunderstood, I have no intention to target stowaways. I can see from the hour-long game of Lao Ying's Chicken Catch that you didn't mean to kill anyone. This game has a very obvious loophole, the fifth rule of the game, once a chicken died, triggering the 'heartbroken big Huo Ji ' effect, temporarily lifting the schizophrenic state. In fact, this is saying that as long as a player dies, the Lao Ying Chicken Catching Game will end immediately. If you really don't want to be hunted down by Big Huo Ji, there's a very simple way."

Tang Mo faded, "Kill someone, end the game."

Xiao Jitong: "Yes. But you didn't. I was far away when Ningning was being chased by that big Huo Ji, I wanted to come and help, but I didn't make it, I saw you guys fight. There are many kinds of stowaways, some of them kill like crazy, and when Earth comes online they are even more unrestrained, participating in any game and going on a killing spree without a care in the world. I've seen stowaways like that."

Tang Mo has seen stowaways like that, too, and a total of ten players died in the Circus of Wonders game. Four of those stowaways were hanged by Tang Mo and others, and six players were killed by those four stowaways.

Tang Mo said, "This loophole is more likely to be a trap. If killing someone can really end the punishment, then someone must have made that choice among the players who died here before. In the end, there will only be one person left in the game. One person doesn't need to be in line, he is the line. But he didn't pass this copy of reality. It seems like you can pass the game by killing your companions, but in fact there must be a bigger trap hidden at the end ...... Mr. Xiao, maybe we didn't choose to kill because of this"

"I play any Dark Tower game second by virtue of strategy and first by virtue of feeling. I've always trusted my intuition, and every game I've cleared is recognizing my intuition as well." Xiao Jitong smiled slightly, "Stowaways are not necessarily bad guys, nor are full players or preppers necessarily good guys. The fact that you can say what you just said, Mr. Victor, already proves that you are not bad guys."

Tang Mo didn't say another word.

Xiao Jitong continued, "I didn't notice at first that Ningning was being targeted until this Mr. Don asked a question about Lao Ying's Chicken Scratch game and I realized the clue. And that's when I thought of another question."

Tang Mo: "What's the problem?"

"The first thing that is recognized is that we all believe, with 90% probability, that the queuing order for this game is not haphazard and follows some sort of pattern. Otherwise it would be too difficult to win, and it also lacks a hint of strategy. Continuing from what that little girl said earlier," Xiao Jitong looked over to the short-haired female high school student sitting on the ground, "this game might be lined up according to the number of tower attacking floors each of us players have. So now it is known that these two girls have not attacked the tower, and Xiao Qiao is the Black Tower Tier 1 player. You Mr. Victor, and your companion Mr. Don, plus Ningning and I. We are all Black Tower Tier 2 players."

Tang Mo immediately understood: "...... You asked the question about the little boy's queuing order to rule out the speculation that 'queuing order is related to the number of floors a player has attacked the tower'?"

"Not bad." Xiao Jitong laughed, "But there's one more thing that you guys don't know that I do. The biggest reason I asked this question about 'Xiao Qiao's ranking order' was because of this clue."

"What?"

Xiao Jitong looked to his companion. Ningning, a cold, long-haired woman, stood off to the side with her arms wrapped around her, expressionless.

Xiao Jitong withdrew his gaze and said, "In this game, these two girls are reservists. I used to be a reservist, and now I'm a full-fledged player, but technically, I'm more of a reservist. Then Xiao Qiao comes in second place. As long as he's not in third place, this game is definitely not lined up in order of the number of floors a player attacks the tower. Taking the liberty of asking ...... Mr. Victor, are you an official player?"

Tang Mo was startled in his heart. His brain worked quickly, and he had thoroughly understood what Xiao Jitong meant. But this guess was incorrect, there was still one last loophole. Unless ......

"She's a stowaway?!" Tang Mo looked at Ningning in surprise.

Xiao Jitong smiled and nodded, "Yes. I'm a reserve, Xiao Qiao is a full player ...... Ningning is a stowaway."