Compared with the puzzles Qin Manjiang had faced before, this could hardly be called a difficult one.
The method of passing had been made very clear to everyone.
There were fourteen ghosts blocking the way. As long as they pushed fourteen people forward and handed them over, they could pass without trouble.
But this sort of open scheme was precisely the most impossible to counter.
This meant fourteen people were certain to die. The contest had shifted entirely from humans against ghosts to humans against humans.
Their habitual thinking shifted from looking for loopholes in the rules to simply making sure they were not among the fourteen chosen.
And pointing that out would accomplish nothing.
As for the people around him, Qin Manjiang saw absolutely nothing about them worthy of trust.
This was not Fu City's [Eye Realm]. Everyone had selfish desires. These people had come here and risked their lives precisely so they could live longer. Having come this far, with "God" already so close, who would willingly die here in someone else's place?
Suspicious, wary looks gradually spread through the crowd.
"There are only fourteen of them. Should we try forcing our way through?"
"You going first?"
"..."
"Why don't we go back? Weren't there two paths earlier? Let's try the other entrance."
"Take a look behind you. Is there even a way back...?"
Someone had already checked. In this eerie underground cavern, once everyone had entered, the passage they had come through had been completely sealed off, turning into a wall. The way back had long since vanished.
So now... there was only one way forward.
Hand over fourteen people and buy passage with their lives.
Twenty years later, Moon City.
Mei Sijun followed Yi Lianhai around the entire Paleontology Research Association.
Although Yi Lianhai's words