"You want to eliminate me." Mingyue caught the falling chips and looked at Scotland. Her tone was very calm, as if she was not talking about herself. "After all, there is no loser resurrection match in this round of elimination, and the eliminated people will not be punished. Is that what you think?"

Scotland sighed, knowing that with Mingyue's intelligence, this plan would definitely not be kept secret. However, he did not expect that Mingyue would have discovered the plan before it was fully implemented. He wanted to explain something, but the girl's voice accompanied by a whistle came into his ears.

Mingyue looked up at the speaker above her head. "The second round has begun. Aren't you going to find a chair? It's not enough to just find a chair in this game. You also have to find a way to hide the chair so that it can't be discovered by others. Otherwise, you will most likely be eliminated in the next few rounds. And the more chairs you find in this round, the better."

"Maybe being a spectator is also a good choice." Scotland raised the corners of his lips slightly, his eyes gentle.

"Don't follow me, go find a chair." Mingyue turned her head away awkwardly, not looking at Scotland. "I know that without your help I will be eliminated in this round of the game. After all, I can't move those chairs at all, so becoming a spectator is basically a foregone conclusion."

Scotland opened his mouth, and the words he had discussed before were useless at this moment. He originally thought that Mingyue would cry and ask for a bargaining chip, and he was ready to exchange the chips, but he didn't expect that things would not develop according to the expected script. He couldn't help but wonder if Mingyue had other plans.

After the melodious whistle on the radio ended, there was a very rhythmic music, like a chorus, but I couldn't hear it clearly. The singing seemed to come from the bottom of the sea, like the siren in the legend.

Mingyue glanced at Scotland and saw his hesitation. "Don't you want to eliminate me? You can't do it with just those two. Don't talk about being eliminated with me. No matter who among you three becomes the final winner, I will tell him the organization's plan. After all, the tasks assigned by the organization must be completed."

Scotland's eyes darkened. He knew that the organization's plan was tempting enough, but the more tempting it was, the more likely it was a trap. "He arranged for me to take good care of you. This is my mission."

"Then if I fail to complete the task and get punished, will you, Brother Little Cake, take the punishment for me?" Mingyue tilted her head slightly and smiled brightly.

Just as Scotland was about to agree, Mingyue said again: "I don't want to be punished, and I don't want to see Brother Cake being punished. I also want to see those caterpillars turn into butterflies, and I also want to eat the little cakes you made."

"How will they punish you?" Scotland felt as if his heart was being grabbed by an invisible big hand.

Mingyue looked away and said indifferently, "Don't ask so many questions. Go find a chair. But be careful, that chair is not simple."

Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong...

Scotland's heartbeat overlapped with the exciting drumbeats. He squatted down, looked at the gray rabbit mask, and asked in a low voice: "What do you know?"

Mingyue rolled her eyes and whispered in Scotland's ear, "The chair will restrict your movements, so be careful."

"Is this why you decided to become a spectator?"

"You know, I hate being bound." Mingyue looked away, looking at the rolling waves outside the window, "Go and tell them quickly. I'm afraid I'm the only one who knows about this, except for the host."

Scotland clenched his back teeth, his Adam's apple rolling but he didn't respond. The continuous messages made it difficult for him to make a decision for a moment, but the melodious piano sound in his ears reminded him that time was running out.

"This game does not allow violence, not even pushing or shoving. I won't be in danger." Mingyue gave Scotland a bright smile, "I'll just wander around the cruise ship. There are so many chairs, I can just find one and sit down."

"No..." Scotland took a deep breath and swallowed the unfinished words. If Mingyue became a spectator in the first round, then others would not think that Mingyue did not find the chair, but would suspect that Mingyue concealed information, and then this suspicion would grow like a snowball.

Mingyue looked at Scotland with a firm gaze, "I can't be eliminated so quickly. Don't worry, I will find the right opportunity. By the way, I am also going to exchange a few chips. In case you can't win, then I still have a chance."

"There's no need to provoke me." Scotland exhaled, slowly stood up, looked around at the gamblers and black-robed believers running around, and then his eyes fell on Mingyue again, "After saying so much, you actually want to separate from me, what are you going to do? Is it something I don't want to know?"

Mingyue secretly admired the calmness of the undercover agent in front of her. Perhaps only in this way could she survive longer in the organization.

"It seems that Brother Little Cake doesn't believe what I said," Mingyue pouted and looked away disappointedly, looking aggrieved, "I'm so safe now, but you still treat me like a child. Or does Brother Little Cake have other plans?" After saying that, Mingyue looked at Scotland's blue-gray phoenix eyes.

Zhu Fujingguang was very perceptive and noticed the inquiry in Mingyue's eyes. His heart skipped a beat. Am I also suspected? Whether it was the plan made with Zero or the undercover mission, there was no reason for him to stay here. Separation had become an inevitable option.

The music echoing in the corridor was like a horn urging Scotland to leave, reminding him all the time that time was running out.

"Take care of yourself. If you encounter any danger, go to room 4, or shout. I will rush over as soon as I hear you." Scotland still reminded him worriedly.

Mingyue nodded in response, watching Scotland's back as he left with a slight curl of her lips, listening to the melodious piano music on the radio and humming an unknown song softly, but at the corner she met a scalper girl running towards her carrying a chair.

"Get out of the way!" The scalper girl saw the gray rabbit.

Mingyue just glanced at the chair on the yellow scalper girl's shoulder and decided to stop her, "Wait a minute!"

"Get out of the way!" The yellow scalper girl didn't want to get entangled with the gray rabbit, but the gray rabbit seemed to be able to predict her next move and always blocked in front of her accurately, "Will you get out of the way?!"

"Put the chair down first." Mingyue looked at the chair on the yellow scalper girl's shoulder and further assessed the strength of the person in front of her.

The yellow cow girl looked at the gray rabbit warily, "You want to steal my chair?"

Mingyue gave a friendly smile, "That chair was not moved from room 4."

“It has a number on it.”

"That was written with a marker. It might fall off if you rub it a few times."

The scalper girl put the chair on the ground doubtfully, looked at the number "8" on the back of the chair, glanced at the gray rabbit, reached out and rubbed it with her thumb, and sure enough, a part of it was wiped off.

Mingyue turned her head and looked at the fork in the road not far away. A fat figure flashed past her eyes. Was it the girl who was following the scalper and wanted to know where the Apocalypse Sect hid the chair?

“I…” The scalper girl rubbed her hands embarrassedly, but the ink on her fingers spread.

"Someone is following you." Mingyue said calmly, "Maybe they want to find the place where you hid the chairs through you."

"Who?! Is it him, or him?" The scalper girl looked around with her eyes wide open. Every gambler who passed by her made her feel uneasy.

Mingyue walked to the chair and stretched out her hand to pull the armrest, but the chair did not move at all. "That person may still be hiding in the dark, or has already left. This chair is probably a trap designed by that person."

"I'm going to inform the leader, the chair..."

"Don't be impatient!" Mingyue once again stood in front of the yellow scalper girl, "Your leader should be where the chair is hidden now. If we go now..."

"No, I can't go back..." The yellow cow girl murmured to herself, and she looked up at the gray rabbit.

Mingyue raised the corners of her lips slightly, glanced at the fork in the road not far away, and suggested: "I can't find a chair either, why don't we go together. As proof of our partnership, I am willing to exchange chips with you."

The scalper girl looked at the chip with the letter "M" engraved on it that was handed to her...

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Preview of the next chapter: Who will be the one having the final say in the first round of the musical chairs game?