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Chapter 466 - 465: Fine, I Accept My Fate

The people had already been pulled apart, and to prevent Guan Yu and the others from continuing to "duel" in this manner, the director quickly announced the end once again and said:

"The Transposition Game is over! The guests’ control locks are temporarily lifted!"

Now can we have a conversation without barriers, without communicating in this way?

Of course not.

Maybe they had been restrained for too long; it had become a temporary habit. The limping person continued to drag their leg, the blind one still kept their eyes closed, the mute didn’t speak, and naturally, the deaf kept talking to themselves.

Guan Yu: "Mu Qiu! Was it you who pinched me?! No need to explain, I can’t hear and don’t want to hear. It must be you!"

Mu Qiu broke free from Li Yang’s hold, rushed out, and retorted: "My hand was on Sister Shu Ran’s leg, how could I have pinched you?! It was Sister Shu Ran!"

Shu Ran: "??? Do you all have no shame?! You touched my leg, and now you’re justified? I was being pushed and squeezed around in there, okay?! And even if I did pinch someone, it was a lean and long leg, not a plump thigh!"

From next door, a hand trembled and rose up: "So it was you, Sister Shu Ran, pinching me..."

Shu Ran opened her eyes to glance at Wei Yi next door, coughed, and then turned back as if she hadn’t said anything just now.

Li Yang also asked: "Then who was it just now, constantly grabbing my clothes and tugging them? It’s almost torn apart."

No one spoke; Mu Qiu silently raised her left hand and glanced at it: "Could it be this hand?"

She suddenly realized why she had one hand free, grabbing Shu Ran’s clothes and why Shu Ran hadn’t been pulled over—it turned out she had grabbed the wrong person.

Li Yang: "I’d rather make a mistake than let it go, chop it off."

She retracted her hand instantly and glared at Li Yang: "Chop what?! Did you follow the rules and stay silent? Is that how someone both deaf and mute behaves?!"

Li Yang had already mastered the art of being indifferent, saying: "It was such chaos just now, I couldn’t tell who was talking. What if this AI didn’t recognize it was me? Besides, if points are deducted, they’ll be deducted from everyone."

"No!"

Guan Yu had something to say: "I wouldn’t lose points. I’ve been following the game rules the whole time!"

Shu Ran folded her arms with a fake smile: "Yes, you reportedly follow the rules, hitting higher and higher notes, all the while being moved by your own actions and tormenting others."

Li Yang and Wei Yi began a duet of laughter.

The director somehow found a small broken gong and rang it to call them over to stand properly.

"Two hours of Transposition Game is over, now publicizing everyone’s final control lock status and point deductions."

Mu Qiu followed the person beside her, turned to the left, went forward, step by step, walking towards the director, while chattering with those around her.

"This little broken gong is quite loud."

Shu Ran: "Still not as loud as Guan Yu’s voice."

Guan Yu: "Hey, hey, hey, why mention me again?"

Li Yang: "Can you all walk properly? You’re walking so slowly that you’re blocking me."

Mu Qiu: "There are so many paths here, can’t you walk? Are you blind?"

Li Yang: "I’m not blind anymore, Sister Shu Ran is."

Shu Ran: "I’m not blind either."

Mu Qiu: "?!?!"

Shu Ran: "Didn’t you see? Brother Cheng plastered my face with a handkerchief."

Wei Yi: "I saw it, but since it was an internal exchange, I didn’t help."

Guan Yu: "I was wondering why I couldn’t see your face for two minutes. I thought Mu Qiu had stepped on you."

Qiu Shuang: "If you really were stepped on... how terrifying would that be?"

Mu Qiu: "So now Brother Cheng is blind?! What are you all thinking?!"

Li Yang: "What am I again?"

Guan Yu: "Certainly not a human."

Li Yang: "......"

A few heads huddled together, with whispered conversations, not even looking at the road.

Fortunately, Cheng Zhirang and Jiang Lu, who led the way ahead, were reliable enough that when Shi Yuhuai finally herded them like ducks, they all managed to stand in front of the cameras before the director hit the gong a second time.

Though it wasn’t sunny in the basement, running so long meant sweating was inevitable. Mu Qiu raised her ice sleeve to wipe her forehead, fanning herself with her right hand, and casually checked out the points deduction on her electronic bracelet.

Points silently deducted by four. It was a headache just looking at it.

Mental states change; initially feeling that their group definitely wouldn’t lose a single point, now it seems that as long as no one was demoted to a roaming NPC on the spot, it wasn’t so bad.

Mu Qiu wears a difficult, fake smile.

With everyone in position, the director lowered the megaphone and small broken gong, creating a bit of space, revealing a small whiteboard behind.

It was the kind used in meeting rooms, a mobile writing whiteboard, but this one was more high-tech.

"Each person’s control lock status and point deduction records are being transmitted to the whiteboard. Since this was purely a Transposition Game without assigned tasks, there was no task completion evaluation.

But there were deductions, so this round of the game also has winners and losers. The group with the fewest deductions gets first pick of keywords, followed by the other two groups in order. Congratulations to everyone, as no one lost all their points in this round, and no one was downgraded to a roaming NPC.

You can look at the whiteboard information, as some guests in the game don’t even know their control lock status, so check if your status matches your memory."

The whiteboard displayed a startup screen, and then a high-definition display of the electronic bracelet’s panel contents.

I guess it didn’t have an automated reading function, so the director provided a voiceover.

"Shu Ran Group: Shu Ran is mute, 2 points deducted, Cheng Zhirang is blind, 1 point deducted, Jiang Lu is limping, 2 points deducted, total deductions: 5 points.

Guan Yu Group: Guan Yu is deaf, 3 points deducted, Shi Yuhuai is mute, 2 points deducted, Wei Yi is limping, 4 points deducted, total deductions: 9 points.

Mu Qiu Group: Mu Qiu is deaf, 4 points deducted, Li Yang is deaf, 4 points deducted, Qiu Shuang is limping, 3 points deducted, total deductions: 11 points.

So, Shu Ran Group wins, and gets first pick of keywords. Mu Qiu Group comes in last and picks keywords last."

Seeing the results announced, Mu Qiu was still bewildered. Her first instinct was to widen her eyes and say something, but when she opened her mouth, she didn’t know what to say.

The control lock had switched too many times, leaving her dazed. Her thoughts were as tangled as an elaborate ball of yarn, knowing it could be unraveled but hesitating to begin.

In the end, she could only sigh helplessly, thinking to just let it go, accepting that she was thoroughly defeated, understanding the cause and effect wouldn’t change that fact.

However, one party wasn’t having it.

Li Yang, equally baffled and upset, asked: "Why am I deaf?! Why did I lose so many points?!"

"Because they’re all liars," Mu Qiu said softly.

Qiu Shuang carefully analyzed: "We can infer, if no one swapped with you in the last few minutes, then earlier Shu Ran was deaf, and she likely swapped with Brother Cheng, then Brother Cheng should have been......"

Li Yang covered his ears: "So complicated, forget it, I accept my fate."

In just two seconds, reality taught him to accept his fate.