Three more bell tolls rang out.
Seeing that Gil's side was still silent, Lu Li couldn't help but curl his lips and speak teasingly:
"Finished counting?"
"If you have, I assume you intend to share the answer with us."
"Of course!" Gil's excited voice came from the darkness, carrying an almost deranged exhilaration.
"After all, Lord Li Yun gave me chances again and again, extending the olive branch of cooperation and proposing that we all survive together."
"If I still refused, that would be far too ungrateful of me."
Lu Li: "..."
"Then say it. How many teeth do you have?"
"Hehe, of course it's thirty—" Gil dragged out his words as he slowly gave his answer.
"Thirty..." Lu Li raised a brow but did not immediately give an instruction.
Instead, he spoke again in a tone that sounded exceedingly strange to the others, asking in return:
"Are you sure you didn't count wrong?"
"How could I?" Gil's voice rose another octave and became somewhat shrill.
"My earlier mistake was because it had been so long ago that I'd forgotten some of it."
"But now the teeth are right in my mouth. There's no way I could get it wrong!"
"Believe me, it's thirty. Hurry up and give the instruction..."
Lu Li said nothing further.
In the gap of silence, Babayak was the first to voice his doubts.
"Gil, are you really not lying to us?"
"As a Divider, given that you clearly know the correct answer, shouldn't you tell Lord Li Yun a wrong answer if you want to obtain more survival points?"
"That way, by choosing the 'Betrayal' option, you can gain more survival points than the rest of us."
"That was true before, but haven't I already 'turned over a new leaf'?" Gil's voice became hurried, as