Chapter 151: Life and Death Puzzle

The malevolent entity behind Du E sniffed around Du E's neck, its posture somewhat lewd and somewhat terrifying.

Wu Xian's brain was running wildly.

Without the reminder from the people below, the moment he saw the figure, he guessed the general situation.

Since turning the head was not allowed.

Then Du E could not know that there was a malevolent entity lurking behind her.

"How should I remind Du E? The thing behind her walks without a sound; she might not even realize that danger has arrived."

Wu Xian's body suddenly felt cold, and his heart twitched violently.

"That's not right..."

If there was a malevolent entity behind Du E, then what about behind him?

Wu Xian subconsciously wanted to turn his head to look behind him.

But just as his head turned slightly, he forcibly stopped himself, his face covered in sweat under the mask.

According to the rules of the program, he was not allowed to look back. If he had turned his head just now, the program would have ended, and both he and Du E would have become a meal for the malevolent entities below!

So he looked at Du E, wanting to judge his own situation by observing Du E's expression, but he could only see the two small holes in the mask through which her eyes looked, completely unable to see her eyes.

So the mask and the rule of not being allowed to turn the head were used here. What was worse was that the mask blocked his vision; he could only see forward through the two holes, and even his peripheral vision was blocked!

So was there a malevolent entity behind him?

If there was a malevolent entity, what was the malevolent entity doing?

Biting him?

Licking him?

Or had it already prepared to cut off his head to use as a urinal?

Was it the same as the malevolent entity behind Du E, or different?

A well-known novelist once said.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the unknown.

At this moment, Wu Xian knew nothing about his own situation.

His imagination made the thing behind him infinitely terrifying and disgusting, as if it would take his life at any moment. Every second, he had an urge to just run away.

"No!"

Wu Xian shook his head slightly, forcibly stopping the fear.

No matter how afraid he was, he had to continue the program, because he only had a pitiful 180 seconds!

How could he remind Du E of the danger behind her while also letting her complete the requirements of the program?

Wu Xian casually said an idiom to the Liu mansion servant and wrote and drew on the whiteboard. He planned to convey the information through patterns first and then guess the idiom separately.

Ginseng, monkey...

Just as he finished drawing the monkey, the Liu mansion servant next to him reminded Wu Xian.

"I am also guessing along. If what you draw has nothing to do with the idiom, I can judge you as cheating."

Wu Xian's face stiffened.

"Then can I change the idiom?"

"Of course you can, as long as the total is ten."

Wu Xian erased the original drawing and changed to an idiom. This time, he drew on the board:

Scholar, mango, child, and seashell.

These four patterns were somewhat difficult to understand, but Wu Xian had no other way. Du E hesitated for a long time before finally saying the idiom Wu Xian wanted.

"Like thorns on one's back!"

This idiom was telling Du E.

There is a malevolent entity behind you, so it's like a thorn in the back!

Du E understood what Wu Xian wanted to express and replied to him with "misery loves company."

Wu Xian guessed Du E's idiom.

But he didn't say it out loud.

Instead, he stared at the moving clock, his brain thinking constantly. He had to use the remaining short time to consider what to do next.

Life and death were at stake; he couldn't afford to be careless.

This program was different from Wei Dian's two-person program earlier. In that program, even if Wei Dian was stabbed to death, Liang Fang could still throw darts at his corpse to complete the program.

But Wu Xian and Du E's task was to guess ten idioms.

As long as one person failed, the other would also fail at the same time, so Wu Xian not only had to ensure his own safety, but also ensure that Du E had the ability to continue answering.

Regarding what the malevolent entity behind him could do, Wu Xian guessed there were only three possibilities.

The first was to make various scary movements and strange sounds to increase the fear of the two, so as to interfere with the rhythm of the two guessing the idiom.

If it was this possibility, then it would be too lucky.

Neither he nor Du E were people who would easily collapse from fear.

Another possibility was to use some ability to interfere with the drawing. This would be very troublesome. Once the drawing was interfered with, it would be very difficult to guess the correct idiom.

The third possibility...

Was that the malevolent entity behind them would launch an attack on them!

This possibility was the worst, but also the most likely one.

Wu Xian thought about the rules he had heard earlier: not allowed to leave the light circle, not allowed to launch attacks, and the person guessing the idiom not allowed to move. Wu Xian believed that the malevolent entity behind him would likely launch a sneak attack!

And they had to survive the attack of the malevolent entity under the harsh conditions of Pictionary!

Wu Xian's mouth couldn't help but twitch: "This is too difficult for people."

After clearing up the logic.

Wu Xian said the idiom 'shared sorrow', and the next round of timing began!

At the same time the countdown began.

Wu Xian saw that the malevolent entity behind Du E moved.

The malevolent entity took out a brown, sharp small knife from its tattered clothes, moved its elbow backward to prepare to stab, and the target of this knife was the left side of Du E's abdomen. Its other hand was held between its lips, signaling Wu Xian to shut up.

Wu Xian's heart sank.

The worst possibility had appeared; the malevolent entity would really launch an attack!

And he only had one chance to remind her.

This chance also depended on whether Du E could grasp it.

Wu Xian racked his brains to flip through all the idioms he had learned.

When he was in school, he never dreamed that one day he would have to rely on idioms to save his life. Now he hated his younger self for not studying seriously.

Finally, Wu Xian drew a few new patterns.

Two circles, clouds, lightning symbols, teacup, knife.

Among them, the circle on the left was larger, which predicted that the position of the malevolent entity's attack would be on the left, and the knife was drawn extra large, which meant that there would be more than just an idiom, there would also be a real attack.

Wu Xian hoped that Du E could understand his meaning.

After showing the drawing.

Du E stood in place for a long time, always maintaining a motionless posture.

Wu Xian didn't know what she was thinking.

He was so anxious that he was sweating, wishing he could run to Du E's side now and stuff his brain into Du E's skull so she could understand his thoughts.

If Du E had interpreted this as a simple idiom guessing game and only said "stabbed in the ribs" without any other actions, Wu Xian would have been finished here tonight.

Wu Xian's life and death.

Depended entirely on Du E's wisdom.

This feeling made Wu Xian extremely uncomfortable.

He felt as if he had lead weights tied to his body, standing on a thin ice surface in the middle of a large lake. He could already hear the cracking sound; the ice surface could break at any time, and the lead weights on his body would drag him into the cold lake water.

After waiting for a long time, just as the three-minute deadline was about to arrive.

Du E finally spoke.

"This idiom is... stabbed in the ribs!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the clock reset, and the person guessing and drawing switched.

Du E suddenly darted to the right, her movements very agile. At the same time, the malevolent entity behind her suddenly stabbed out with the knife.

Whoosh!

The forward thrusting movement carried a gust of wind; one could imagine how much strength it used.

The knife tore Du E's clothes, leaving a small wound on her side abdomen, and a few wisps of blood flowed out from her smooth side abdomen...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 152 =====