Chapter 318: An Impossible Possibility
Shi Xiaobai was certain that all the rookies had already left Dragon Mountain Valley because he had specially checked the valley before he left. He had confird that everyone had left.
Furthermore, the valley was open and expansive, even if a rookie had been playful by playing hide and seek, it was impossible to hide.
But at this very mont in ti, the Absolute Choice had failed. It ant that a rookie had died without Shi Xiaobai’s knowledge.
How did this rookie die?
Why did the rookie die so silently?
Shi Xiaobai was completely clueless. This was more mysterious than the rookie being killed by invisible monsters.
Shi Xiaobai could only use for speculation the remaining ti before he had to choose.
Maybe there was really soone left behind in Dragon Mountain Valley? For example, the person was swallowed whole by a monster, dying only a period of ti later?
Or a rookie did not wait outside after leaving the valley and had instead ran off sowhere before encountering an accident?
Maybe a rookie had suddenly died silently because of a disease or virus which nobody noticed?
Everything was possible, even if the possibility was minimal.
Shi Xiaobai sighed in his heart. Blindly guessing was not an option. All he could do was repeat it again.
…
He returned to the sa point in ti for a fifth ti.
Shi Xiaobai did the sa things as the first four tis. He hurriedly got everyone to leave the valley, and again, he repeated the important matter of “Do not fart” three tis.
This ti, Shi Xiaobai specifically reminded everyone to wait outside the valley and not run far off.
The rookies were very obedient and walked towards the valley’s exit.
Shi Xiaobai took this ti to confirm the number of people in the valley. He quickly repeated the count thrice and finally confird that there were forty-eight people in the valley, including him and Ka Xiaozi.
The rookies left the valley in droves and this ti, Shi Xiaobai was faster than before. When the last rookie left the valley, he and Ka Xiaozi followed closely behind and left the valley.
Following that was a loud sound of a fart.
Man, having co out earlier this ti, he was just in ti to catch the rookie farting.
Everyone covered their noses and exclaid “slly” before they distanced themselves repulsively from the rookie. This slly fart had induced a massacre before, so its powers were obviously redoubtable.
Shi Xiaobai reacted extrely fast. At the instant he heard the fart, he had used ‘Unleaking Turtle Aura’ to block his sense of sll. This was the greatest advantage of a ti loop, but it sure was depressing thinking about it.
The mont Shi Xiaobai ca out of the valley, he began a head count. He finished the count quickly thrice and confird that there were forty-eight people.
Everyone had left the valley.
Furthermore, everyone was waiting outside the valley. No one had ran afar.
“Sorry, I couldn’t resist it.”
The rookie’s embarrassed apology was heard. It was the sa sentence, but this mont in ti had happened earlier because of Shi Xiaobai’s suggestion to co out earlier.
Shi Xiaobai had no ti to care about him. He carefully looked at every rookie and their expressions.
Without a doubt, all of their expressions were terrible. Whoever got hit by these ‘toxic gases’ probably would not be having a good mood.
However, all of them looked in the pink of health. The light in their eyes did not lessen at all. No one looked sick or poisoned. There was definitely no signs of soone dying.
Suddenly, Shi Xiaobai saw soone’s back. It was a girl standing at the peripheral. The girl had her back bent, with one hand on a tree. Her back was facing the crowd, as though she was suffering so form of pain.
“It’s her!”
Shi Xiaobai’s eyes lit up. He rushed towards the girl at an exceedingly fast speed.
This girl could have been inflicted with so form of disease and would suddenly die silently.
Shi Xiaobai was feeling anxious as he held the girl’s shoulder and shouted, “Bear with it!”
The girl was startled as she looked up to realize it was Shi Xiaobai. She imdiately heaved a sigh of relief, but at the mont she relaxed, the girl’s expression changed drastically. Covering her mouth with her hands, her pale expression turned even paler as her shoulders trembled.
“I can’t…hold it in!”
The girl scread and hurriedly flung Shi Xiaobai’s arms away and ran to the back of the tree. She leaned down and began…
“Eugh!”
The girl began vomiting. Shi Xiaobai watched nervously but he did not see the blood he had imagined. It was only the usual vomit.
After vomiting a few tis, the girl quickly took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her dirty mouth. When she turned to see everyone looking at her after hearing her, her face imdiately blushed.
Shi Xiaobai asked with concern, “Are you alright? Are you sick?”
The girl shook her head and shyly said, “No, I’m only…it was so slly that I could not help but throw up.”
Shi Xiaobai was appalled. It was the fault of that slly fart again?
However, Shi Xiaobai gave the girl a few serious glances and noticed that although her expression looked terrible, she was not weak. She simply wanted to throw up.
“It’s not her!”
Shi Xiaobai realized this point.
“Ti is almost up!”
For so reason, Shi Xiaobai was very sensitive when it ca to ti. It was as though there was a clock in his heart that allowed him to accurately keep track of ti. In another ten seconds or so, the mont of the Absolute Choice’s failure would happen.
Shi Xiaobai quickly turned his head to look at the rookies. At this mont, the rookies were looking curiously at him.
“Shi Xiaobai, you seem…a bit strange?”
“Lord Shi Xiaobai, did sothing happen?”
“Why did you urge us to leave the valley so quickly? Did you discover sothing dangerous?”
“I’m more eager to know why we can’t fart. Please explain…”
“…”
The rookies clearly had a multitude of questions on their minds which they inundated him with the mont the first question was asked. The scene imdiately turned noisy.
Shi Xiaobai had no ti to explain. He could only treat it with silence as he swept his gaze across every rookie.
Shi Xiaobai confird three tis once again that there were forty-eight rookies here including him.
Due to the flurry of discussion, it was conducive for Shi Xiaobai’s observations. All of them appeared energetic. Although a number of quiet rookies did not speak, they appeared very healthy.
Shi Xiaobai turned his head to look at the girl beside him. After vomiting, the girl felt much better. Her face was becoming ruddy again, but her cheeks had turned as red as an apple because of the embarrassnt, but she did not have any signs of dying the next mont.
Shi Xiaobai scanned everyone.
There was no one among the forty-eight people that had any signs of dying. They were filled with vitality, more vibrant than a forest.
“Three.”
There were three seconds left before the mont the Absolute Choice failed. Shi Xiaobai turned slightly nervous as he carefully studied the expressions of everyone, afraid that he would miss the slightest of details.
“Two.”
A final confirmation, there was only forty-eight people including him at the present location. There was no one missing!
“One.”
Ti was up.
Shi Xiaobai’s heart raced slightly.
Could it be that by leaving earlier, he had inadvertently changed the outco from before. A rookie that would sohow die had suddenly survived?
“Make your choice, youth!”
The fiery voice resounded in his brain
as though it was telling Shi Xiaobai—
No, there was no accident.
…
…
“Make your choice, youth!”
This was the sixth ti he was facing the choice.
Although he had failed the first three tis, he was able to obtain so information through each failure, allowing his actions to progress with each successive round.
However, after failing a fourth and fifth ti, Shi Xiaobai was sowhat dumbfounded..
He had not only failed to obtain any information in the past two failures, the situation seed to be at a dead end.
There were a total of forty-eight people in the valley.
There were still forty-eight people outside the valley after they left.
At the final second, the forty-eight people, including him, all appeared extrely healthy. There was not the slightest hint of an impending death.
If it were anyone else, they might have believed that they had missed sothing, but Shi Xiaobai was very confident of his observational skills. While he was observing every rookie’s expression, he had simultaneously determined the count. He had even rembered every rookie’s appearance.
Shi Xiaobai was a hundred percent certain that he did not miss a person.
Therefore, that person was still healthy at the final second. Even if the healthiness was just an illusion, it was impossible to suddenly die in a fraction of a second, right?
Yet, the situation which was currently—no one dying, no one being eliminated—resulted in the failure of the choice, [ Save all rookies ]!
What was going on with this contradictory situation that did not seem to have a solution?
“There is no such thing as a lack of a solution.”
With this in mind, Shi Xiaobai’s slightly perplexed gaze turned resolute.
He must have missed sothing.
What did he miss?
Shi Xiaobai was lost in thought. Ideas churned through his mind extrely quickly, with all sorts of possibilities flashing in his mind. Even if it was an extrely unlikely possibility, he was considering it carefully.
But it appeared as though there was no ‘possibility’ that could perfectly explain the present situation. Each and every ‘possibility’ was rejected by Shi Xiaobai, as though he would never find the answer.
There was no ‘possibility’ that could result in the present situation.
Then, what else could it be?
Shi Xiaobai did not give up as he dismissed all his existing ideas.
Since no ‘possibility’ could crack the situation.
Why shouldn’t he think about those ‘impossibilities’?
“Could it be…”
Shi Xiaobai fell silent for a long while before his eyes suddenly lit up. He thought of a seemingly impossible possibility.
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