On the clay platform, many travelers were trembling and their faces were drained of blood, like prey caught by a fierce beast.

This…

This method of death is too cruel, right?

Song Li leaned in close to Lin Baici and tightly grabbed his arm.

To be drowned alive in the mud?

How terrifying!

The aunt with diabetes was motionless, like a dead fish, soaking in the rotten mud pool.

The clay figure grabbed her hair, lifted her up to check if she was really dead, and then threw her aside.

The fifty or so travelers who hadn’t finished kneading the clay were all running towards the mud pool, trying to escape, except for those who were caught off guard.

“Don’t run! You can’t escape! Kill that clay monster!” the big-bellied man roared.

He was afraid, but he could still think.

The mud pool was endless at a glance, and there were no obvious landmarks. If they ran in, they would definitely get lost and die.

Kill these long-armed clay figures?

They were all monsters summoned here, and Lin Baici estimated that no matter how many of them he killed, the clay monster could summon even more.

So the only way out was to kill the clay monster.

That being said, courage wasn’t something that everyone had.

Only three men looked at the big-bellied man after hearing his words and said, “Let’s charge together!”

The clay monster looked at the big-bellied man, and its expressionless face suddenly grinned.

Full of sarcasm!

“Get him!” the big-bellied man charged forward.

The travelers all stepped aside.

Xia Hongyao clenched her fists and took a step forward, looking like she was going to help.

“Don’t go, it’s useless!” Lin Baici held Xia Hongyao back.

【A group of people who don’t know any better!】

Gourmet’s comment: 【They’re doomed!】

From a distance of thirty meters, the big-bellied man rushed forward and appeared in front of the clay monster. Then he realized that this two-meter-tall clay monster was really too burly.

The clay monster swung its arm.

Whoosh!

Its right hand, like a wheel battle axe, slapped the big-bellied man’s left face with a sharp sound of breaking wind.

Bang!

The big-bellied man’s head shattered like a cherry smashed by a giant’s hand, directly turning into debris.

Red blood, gray-white brain matter, bone fragments, and countless pieces of flesh were scattered in a fan shape and smeared on the clay platform.

In the air,

Some black hair was slowly falling.

The other three male travelers who planned to attack the clay monster saw this and were afraid, losing all their courage and turning to run.

The long-armed clay figures didn’t chase after them, but they couldn’t run fast either.

No way!

The red clay pool was too muddy. The shallowest part was ankle-deep, and the deepest part was up to the knees, making it impossible to speed up.

Plop! Plop!

The three of them took a few steps and suddenly sank down.

Their feet couldn’t be pulled out!

“Help!”

“Give me another chance!”

“Fuck you, I won’t let you go even if I become a ghost!”

The three travelers cursed and struggled, but in less than a minute, their whole bodies sank into the mud pool as if they had never existed.

On the red clay platform, it was silent.

The bodies soaking in the mud pool reminded them of what fate awaited those who were eliminated!

“Considering that this is your first time making clay figures, I’ll lower my requirements for this step. As long as your clay figure has hands and feet, and looks like a humanoid, it will be considered qualified!” the clay monster announced.

The travelers breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

The man with glasses looked at the clay monster, his heart pounding.While the long-armed clay figure was dealing with the eliminated contestants, he took the opportunity to shape a person out of clay. He didn’t know if he would be accused of cheating.

“It’s okay!”

“It will definitely be okay!”

The pregnant woman held his arm and comforted and prayed incessantly.

This time, the goddess of luck seemed to favor them. The clay figure monster did not investigate but instead returned to its slate and picked up the clay figure.

“The beating of the clay embryo seems simple, but it’s not. The strength doesn’t matter, but it must be held high above the head because it shows respect for clay sculpture and adds a sense of ceremony. Only then will the red clay come to life in your beating and become alive!”

The clay figure monster explained.

“Isn’t this hindsight?”

18D complained softly.

“Alive?”

Lin Baici frowned.

“Next is the third step, face sculpting!”

The clay figure monster explained the essentials: “Life is full of joys and sorrows. As long as people are alive, they must constantly taste the sweetness and bitterness of life!”

“Sweet enough to be unforgettable for a lifetime, bitter enough to make you drink your sorrows!”

“In addition to carving the clay figure’s facial features, hair, and eyebrows to resemble yourselves as much as possible, you also need to give it an expression.”

The clay figure monster carved a smiling mouth on one side of the clay face and a tearful expression on the other.

“One smiling face and one crying face, you choose!”

The clay figure monster scanned the audience. “Time is fifteen minutes, let’s begin!”

“Fifty-seven people have died!”

Xia Hongyao gritted her teeth!

All 826 people who were contaminated by the rules and regulations were passengers on the G1955 train. Now, only 769 people survived.

“Is it time to worry about the death toll? Even if we fail this step, we still have to die!”

Song Li felt that the girl with the high ponytail was too confident.

Why wasn’t she afraid?

“This level seems simple!”

18D looked at Lin Baici. “Are you ready to carve a smiling face or a crying face?”

Both expressions were relatively simple. A smiling face had an upward-curved mouth and crescent-shaped eyes, while a crying face had an open mouth, wailing, and tears flowing down.

“I think a smiling face is easier to carve!”

Song Li suggested, “Let’s choose this one?”

After experiencing the pitfall of choosing the clay embryo in the previous step, Ma Yuan was more cautious this time and waited for Lin Baici to make a decision.

“I choose the crying face!”

As an official department dedicated to dealing with divine taboos, the Nine Provinces Shield Security Bureau, Xia Hongyao felt powerless seeing so many passengers die in front of her. She felt that carving a smiling face was too ironic.

Xia Hongyao picked up the clay figure and carving knife and prepared to start.

“Wait a minute!”

Lin Baici stopped her. “What if we choose the wrong expression and die?”

“What?”

Song Li was shocked. “Is that possible?”

Lin Baici thought about what the clay figure monster had said and recalled the process of facial sculpting. He tried to find some clues from the details to determine which expression to choose.

Among the passengers, there were people who were meticulous in their thinking.

The programmer with heavy dark circles asked loudly, “Will we die if we choose the wrong expression?”

Whoosh!

Many people looked up in surprise and then turned their heads to stare at the clay figure monster.

The passengers who had already started carving their expressions were scared and stopped.

One second!

Two seconds!

Three seconds!

…

Ten seconds later, the clay figure monster grinned again.

It laughed!”You’re quite clever, that’s right. If you carve the wrong expression on the clay figure, you’ll die!”

Whoa!

The words of the clay figure monster instantly caused a commotion.

Many people didn’t expect that there would be a pitfall here!

They were so close to falling for it.

“…”

Song Li felt a chill down her spine. This rule was too terrifying, right?

It was simply impossible to guard against!

She subconsciously glanced at Lin Baici and found that his expression was unchanged, as calm as ever.

Judging from Lin Baici’s previous performance, he wasn’t scared out of his wits, but rather had a strong heart that could withstand such pressure.

What a strong ability to withstand pressure!

Song Li’s eyes were filled with admiration.

“Don’t look at me, I won’t tell you the answer. It’s a fifty-fifty chance of survival!”

The clay figure monster made it clear.

The difficulty in this step of face molding was not in carving the facial features, but in choosing the expression.

If they chose wrongly,

They would die!

The atmosphere on the platform once again became dead silent and oppressive.

Everyone thought they could easily pass this step, but they didn’t expect such a huge pitfall!

No one dared to make a move.

Everyone hesitated!

Lin Baici pondered, looking for the key to breaking the deadlock.

【Don’t bother thinking, this step is all about luck, there’s no pattern to follow!】

Chewing God suddenly spoke.

“Relying on luck?”

Lin Baici frowned.

【One’s fate, two’s luck, three’s feng shui, four’s accumulating virtue, five’s studying. Some people just have good luck, finding money while walking, encountering noble people to help them in their careers…】

【Ordinary people can’t envy that!】

“Then I’ll choose the smiling face!”

Lin Baici simply didn’t like crying, thinking that such an expression implied something bad, either too weak or too sentimental!

【Hehe, men smile and women cry. Congratulations, your luck is not bad, you passed!】

Chewing God congratulated.

“You mean men should choose smiling faces and women should choose crying faces? It’s different?”

Lin Baici was astonished.

This divine taboo game was really damn deceptive.

Lin Baici was really screwed.

Most of the time, a small group would choose the same expression, which meant that someone in the group was definitely doomed.

Chewing God didn’t answer.

“What should we choose?”

18D was entangled, “Brother Lin, can you say something?”

“I suggest choosing the smiling face!”

Xia Hongyao was very decisive.

“Don’t rush, think about it some more!”

Ma Yuan’s right hand touched his chin, racking his brains to figure out the correct answer.

“We only have fifteen minutes for face molding, and five minutes have already passed!”

Xia Hongyao reminded, “We still need to leave time for carving expressions, at least seven or eight minutes, right?”

Everyone became more nervous because of Xia Hongyao’s words.

Indeed,

They still needed time for carving.

“Listen to me, choose the smiling face, smile at life, and let the hardships go away!”

Xia Hongyao picked up the iron carving knife and clay figure, ready to start working. She didn’t care about others, she was going to carve a smiling face anyway.

“Alright!”

Ma Yuan couldn’t find the correct answer, and felt that Xia Hongyao’s reasoning was not bad.

So, they chose the smiling face.

“Brother Lin, what do you think?”

18D still decided to listen to Lin Baici.

Song Li was anxiously grasping her hair.

Lin Baici looked at Xia Hongyao.

You have both A-level strength and speed, D-level intelligence, and E-level luck, right?

“What’s wrong?”

Xia Hongyao blinked her big eyes.

Her eyes were spirited, divine, innocent, and pure. She was the kind of girl who hadn’t been beaten by society’s iron fist, carefree, optimistic, and cheerful.

“If you choose wrong, you’ll die!”

Lin Baici reminded.

“No, I believe in my reasoning!”

Xia Hongyao was very confident.