It was not until this moment that Xiangnan realized that he was lucky to be assigned to a separate team.

Because he didn't have to participate in the game between people's hearts, the words "Congratulations on your advancement" automatically appeared in front of his eyes at this moment. By some strange coincidence, he got a bye in the second round, and he was so moved that he thanked God.

But the rest of the teams were not so lucky. They saw with their own eyes that the girl who had just advanced disappeared into the rose maze out of thin air. There was no need to guess, she had most likely been transferred to a safe place.

Many people were watching with envy, and even the mutual assistance and friendship that had just been established in the two-person team seemed to disappear in an instant, and the gazes they gave each other were filled with seven parts of complexity and three parts of viciousness and hesitation.

Only by killing the other person can you survive.

The men in the team clenched their fists, and their naked eyes frequently glanced at the roses in each other's hands—

Suddenly, a bright color rushed into Si Mo's eyes. The petals of the rose were a bright red, and underneath the stem was a pair of hands with distinct joints but extremely pale.

"What?" His eyes moved up along the hands and fell on Shao Yan's face.

"Leave it to you," Shao Yan smiled innocently, leaned over slightly to Si Mo's ear, and said, "This flower is like my lifeline, Madam, please keep it well."

The atmosphere in other teams was tense at the moment, and they only needed a spark to set the whole thing on fire. However, Shao Yan was different from them. He gave his roses away casually, making it seem so easy.

Si Mo was stunned for a few seconds, then took the rose that represented the other person's "lifeline". He loosened his index finger, and the stem slid down his palm, and the blooming rose was held in his hand.

The correct thing to do after getting the rose is to crush the beautiful rose heart, but he didn't do that for the time being.

"Aren't you afraid that I will really kill you?" Si Mo looked at the face so close to him, with a hint of temptation in his words.

"As the madam wishes," Shao Yan shrugged after hearing this, "After all, I just want you to know that I won't pose any threat to you."

This time the silence lasted a bit longer. Si Mo's eyes moved slightly. When Shao Yan's charming smile became more and more wide, the young man's action made him pause for a moment.

Si Mo quickly tightened the hand that was holding the rose, allowing the petals of the rose to be squeezed and crushed in his palm.

In just one or two seconds, the person on the other side was fine.

This further confirmed his guess—what Shao Yan gave him was just an ordinary rose. It was not that he didn't want it, but that Shao Yan didn't have one.

"Can you kill him?" Si Mo stared at Shao Yan's eyes with amusement and repeated this sentence which sounded more like a statement.

"Shao Yan, or should I call you... Master?"

Shao Yan was speechless for a moment.

"I'm sorry, but your temptation doesn't work on me." The young man's ferocious fox eyes seemed to melt into the sea, revealing a gentle blue: "After all, I like to expose other people's routines and traps on the spot."

Si Mo patted his hands that were stained with petal debris, and retracted his gaze with a calm attitude: "So now I should be more careful of you."

Shao Yan curled his eyes, not showing any embarrassment after being exposed, and asked back: "How did you guess that?"

In fact, many small details are enough to prove that as long as you are not like Xiangnan who doesn't think with his brain, you will probably find clues.

Si Mo said, "What do you think?"

"...Our wife is really smart." Shao Yan smiled and said, "I really did not choose the wrong person."

"In fact, I noticed you since the first night you stepped into the manor."

Si Mo: “…” Thank you so much.

At this moment, there was another bang from somewhere, and petals scattered all over the sky. The word "advanced" flashed above the head of the man next to him who was looking nervous and dazed. Then he cheered loudly, feeling lucky that he had survived another round.

This sound was like the gunshot that signaled the start of a running competition. The others came back to their senses from their daze, and in the next second they made a ruthless decision, rushing towards their teammates like crazy.

Compared to them, these two leisurely ones seemed out of place.

While waiting for the end, Si Mo was bored and randomly found a clean open space to sit.

Regarding what Shao Yan said just now, he casually asked: "Why choose me?"

"Because you are beautiful. Madam, you should have some self-awareness." Shao Yan also moved closer to him, swept the dust off the stone slab with his hand, and then sat down.

Si Mo: “You are quite straightforward.”

"uh-huh."

Shao Yan raised his head to face the sun, squinting his eyes comfortably like a Persian cat with heterochromia. Although there were bursts of noisy sounds around him, he still enjoyed this moment.

A red light flashed in Si Mo's eyes. When he turned his head and saw this scene, he was unable to recover for a long time.

The thirty-minute countdown ended quickly, and as the cold reminder tone rang in people's ears again, everyone's figures flashed, and when they opened their eyes again, they appeared at the gathering point at the entrance of the maze at the same time.

The butler of the manor waited for a long time until they all came back. After scanning the area, he smiled and bowed to everyone: "Time is up. Congratulations to everyone for completing the second level of the trial."

Everyone was confused at the moment, because some of them were competing with the people around them on equal terms just a second ago, and there was no winner at all, but now they were said to have all passed.

"What does that mean? Why, why did they both advance alive even though they were on the same team?!"

The person who was speaking was a woman. If you looked closely, you would see that her whole body was trembling. She was trying her best to suppress her unsteady voice. There was a streak of undried blood on the side of her cheek.

The others had different looks in their eyes but were silent at this moment. It was obvious that she had killed her teammates to buy herself a chance to survive, but maybe because it was the first time she had done such a thing, her nerves had been compressed to the limit of her endurance.

With this kind of endurance, even if she is lucky enough to get out alive, she will probably suffer from self-blame for the rest of her life.

"Huh?" The butler turned around and said, "When did the rules say that two people can't advance together?"

……

"What, what?" The woman was choked and stepped back in disbelief.

"Indeed, not really. Isn't that just your own guess?" Xiang Nanyu folded his arms and spoke nonchalantly.

"It was only after I came back here that I realized that if I were an individual, I could indeed know about my advancement earlier, but this is not worth being happy about."

"In fact, there could have been no casualties in this stage." He sighed, "What a pity! Why were you so impulsive and let your hands be stained with blood?"

This feeling is not pleasant. Most of them come from different regions of the same modern world and have received the same legal education. If they had not been tortured to the point of losing their minds in the past few days, no one would easily ruin their future.

After hearing Xiang Nanyu's words, the woman collapsed on the ground, big tears falling from her sore eyes. She stared at her hands blankly, as if that was the original murder weapon that brought her unforgivable crime.

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