After being pushed off, the barrel Xie Mi sat in slid leisurely to the middle of the course, still halfway from the circle, but as steady as a rock.
Yu Jinche couldn't help looking down at his palm, a rare expression of confusion crossing his face.
He had clearly pushed with all his strength just now, yet somehow it had felt like pushing a boulder.
Unusually heavy.
Xie Mi calmly climbed out of the barrel, pulled out the three large bricks hidden in her clothes, and raised an eyebrow at Yu Jinche.
"Get ready. You're up next round."
Yu Jinche's expression shifted slightly. He could probably guess what Xie Mi planned to do next.
So while the other two pairs pushed their barrels, he quietly slipped away.
Xie Mi pretended not to notice and focused on those two pairs.
Xiao Jingxi took the game seriously. Learning from the first two pairs, he tried hard to find the right amount of force and finally managed to leave Lai Bingxuan just one step short of the circle.
They were currently the closest of the three pairs.
It was Shen Yeqing's pair's turn.
Xu Shuangrong sat in the barrel. Just as Shen Yeqing was about to push, she deliberately covered the microphone on her clothes and lowered her voice so that only the two of them could hear.
"Mr. Shen, what happened with the system had something to do with you, didn't it?"
Shen Yeqing paused slightly in the act of pushing the barrel and gave her a meaningful look.
The corners of Xu Shuangrong's lips lifted slightly, her gaze drifting toward Xie Mi a short distance away.
"Was it to protect Xie Mi?"
"Otherwise, you could have kept pretending you knew nothing and run circles around us."
"Xie Mi should be the