Free Web Novel“Qiao ge...”
“Brethren.” Qiao Jiajin scanned the group. “I’ve definitely overestimated myself, but there is no time for apologies. I have a new plan.”
They all stood with difficulty and looked toward him.
This was the man who had once, like a sun, shattered three stars with a single effort; now their hopes rested on whatever scheme he could devise. This was not a test of strategy alone; if even he could not solve it, the sharpest minds among them would be of no use.
“Qiao ge... go on.” Bai Nine clutched her hurt chest and said.
“I will do everything within my power to protect this wheelbarrow,” Qiao Jiajin said. “But this time I dare not say I can {protect everyone}. I can only promise that the rider will not be eliminated. As for the others—”
“Isn’t that enough?” Bai Nine interrupted. “If we can ensure the riders are not eliminated, we will win the game.”
“But you all may die...” Qiao Jiajin ground his teeth. “I hate this feeling, helpless and unable to protect those beside me. In the past, at any moment, if anyone dared lay a hand on my people I would repay them in kind tenfold. But this time, the gap between me and those monsters is too great...”
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Bai Nine rubbed her chest, then forced a sweet little smile. “Qiao ge, don’t be silly, weren’t you protecting us the whole time just now?”
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Qiao Jiajin paused for a few seconds, then nodded coldly. “I will continue to do everything I can.”
The group reformed their positions, pushing the wheelbarrow forward once more.
After only a few steps, Ning Eighteen gave a subtle signal: “It’s coming...”
Everyone immediately stopped, bracing themselves.
{Whoosh}!!
On the left side of the straight track, {Abundant Fortune} launched a stone ball at the pushers immediately. Then the other six mechanisms followed, as if prearranged, firing one stone sphere after another.
Qiao Jiajin, after a brief calculation, met the balls heading toward him, striking one from the side and using a perfectly measured force to redirect it straight into another.
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{Bang}!
The two stone spheres collided midair and shattered, sending shards of rock flying in all directions, making it hard for the group to keep their eyes open.
The balls flew too fast for Qiao Jiajin to intercept all of them for the others. Only Qiu Twenty and Yun Nineteen, who had prepared in advance, barely managed to block some of the stones, while the rest were struck.
Feng Seventeen was struck squarely on her back by a stone that had come from who-knows-where. She had never imagined these projectiles could be so forceful; her body uncontrollably surged forward several steps, teetering on the edge of falling onto a row of incredibly sharp shards of glass.
“Ah! Flash gal!!” Qiao Jiajin shouted. “Watch out!”
In that instant, a thought flashed through Feng Seventeen’s mind: she was about to die. If she fell headlong onto the glass, survival was all but impossible.
In barely a second, her entire life flashed before her.
She still had not triggered her {Reverberation}, was she going to forget everything now? Would all the memories she had accumulated about {End Point} vanish just like that?
Just as she was about to hit the ground, she remembered what °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° Qiao Jiajin had said before the game began: “If you ever find yourself about to fall, curl your body in, push off with your legs, and use a forward roll to throw yourself clear.”
Throwing caution to the wind, Feng Seventeen immediately adjusted the position of her legs. She bent her knees and thrust off the ground, soaring forward dozens of centimeters while lifting her legs to avoid the glass.
But Feng Seventeen was not a physical-focused team member. Though she cleared most of the shards, one leg remained uncontrollable on landing, landing directly onto the glass. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
“ARGH!!” She stifled her groan, suppressing the scream in her throat.
“Seventeen jie!”
Qiu Twenty and Yun Nineteen rushed forward to check her, noting that although the shards on the ground seemed scattered without pattern, careful observation revealed they had been beveled deliberately—to pierce anyone who fell on them.
Qiao Jiajin, still in shock, glanced at her, but at the same time noticed Ning Eighteen beside him.
From his perspective, it was clear that she shouldn’t have been hit by the stone ball, yet she turned her body around and took it squarely with her ribs.
At that moment, the stone seemed to bury itself entirely into her side, as though it had shattered her ribs to pieces. Her flank caved inward, and the sphere dropped heavily to the ground a second later.
“AHHHH!!!” Ning Eighteen let out a heart‑wrenching scream the instant the sphere fell. She collapsed to her knees, bowing her head as she smacked the frozen ground again and again, desperate to drown out the agony.
“Damn!!” Qiao Jiajin hurried forward to shield her, afraid another sphere might come flying her way. “Star gal, what’re you doing? Are you trying to die?”
“Cough—argh!!” Ning Eighteen tried to speak, but another mouthful of blood burst forth. Her fractured ribs must have pierced her organs; she could only cough and splutter, “Cough, cough!!”
Qiao Jiajin, unused to such sights, was about to say more when a distant toll suddenly rang out.
{Dong}!!
Ning Eighteen’s {Growth Acceleration} had been triggered.
“Cough, cough...” She spat out the last traces of blood and gave a wry smile. “Qiao ge... if you hadn’t trusted me so much, I wouldn’t have resorted to this...”
At that moment, Qiao Jiajin recalled that Ning Eighteen’s {Reverberation} was triggered by {extreme pain}.
“Whether I live through this or not... you can consider the mission accomplished.” Supporting herself, Ning Eighteen shifted to the side and slowly lay down. “Only, I doubt I’ll survive this time... I’ve endured too much pain already... now it takes something far more violent to make me trigger my {Reverberation}... this time... cough, cough... this time it worked in my favor...”
Qiao Jiajin glanced at Ning Eighteen’s previously frozen right hand and felt that her words were no exaggeration.
If having an entire hand frozen didn’t even count as {extreme pain}, then how helpless must she feel every time she needed to trigger her {Reverberation}?
Qiao Jiajin hadn’t anticipated that just two attacks in the fourth round would cripple the team. Two women had already been seriously injured; their bodies could no longer continue pushing the cart.
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“What the hell...” Qiao Jiajin’s lips trembled as he looked at the pristine ice now stained with his comrades’ blood. “Big ol’ Horse, you’ve gone too far... don’t you have any humanity?”
Bai Nine glanced at the fallen pair and felt the situation was grim as well.
At present, every trigger released seven stone balls, each aimed at one of the seven people on the field. If someone was taken out, the remaining members would have to face the same number of attacks with fewer people.
