Everyone fell silent.
There was no way out!
"What do you think God Lin is doing right now?"
Big Ocean Horse was full of hope, "Could he be close to finding a way to purify that oven?"
"It’s so hot outside, he’s probably dead by now?"
Barth felt there wasn’t much hope.
Everyone’s expression was grave, but soon they were too preoccupied to worry about that anymore and started to urge again.
"Hurry, hurry, get out, let me soak for a bit!"
Jilu gasped in pain, unable to bear it any longer, his body continuously breaking out in blisters, as if he had been scalded by steam.
"It’s not my turn yet!"
Huang Jinxiang refused.
"By the time it’s your turn, I’ll be dead!"
Jilu, seeing Huang Jinxiang not moving, took a step forward and squeezed into the bathtub.
Dorisan, seeing this, also started to squeeze in.
The boyfriend didn’t squeeze in, but this smart kid pulled out all three drawers of the freezer and crawled inside.
"You moron, you’re going to melt all the ice doing that!"
Huang Jinxiang cursed loudly.
Li Yintong stared at the boyfriend, his fingers tightened, grasping the cleaver fiercely.
The boyfriend, unfazed, suddenly stiffened like a straw puppet in a wheat field, walking out with limbs rigid, got some water from the tap, poured it into the freezer, and then closed the fridge door.
Huang Jinxiang was shocked and immediately fixed his gaze on Barth, eyes filled with wariness, "Did you do this?"
Barth’s doll on his shoulder also soaked in the ice water, comfortably squinting its eyes, seemingly emitting a faint humming noise.
"Someone has to make ice cubes for us!"
Barth stroked the doll’s head with the tip of his index finger.
The boyfriend wasn’t very useful, and he didn’t hold a high status in Lin Baici’s heart; besides, his strength was also one of the weakest, so Barth took the opportunity to attack him.
Big Ocean Horse swallowed nervously.
"Hehe, that’s right!"
Huang Jinxiang forced a laugh, "My niece is quite fond of God Lin, I wonder if she can get him to join Nine Dragons Hall!"
This statement seemed out of the blue but was actually hinting at Barth.
I’m a member of Nine Dragons Hall, you may not care, but once Li Yintong brings Lin Baici in, he and I will be family. If you want to kill me, you’ll have to consider the consequences and whether you can afford them.
"You’re overthinking it, I respect God Lin a lot!"
Barth tried to reassure him, but feeling a wave of annoyance within, without Lin Baici, he would have been at the top of the food chain formed by these people, able to decide their life and death.
In this floor that seemed to have turned into an air fryer, everyone was enduring the agony, feeling like years were passing with each day.
Rotating for a minute-long soak in ice water turned into 30 seconds, and quickly shortened to just ten seconds, because the room’s temperature was just too high. Once away from the water, blisters would form on their skin, as if they were being branded on a red-hot iron plate.
"God Lin is probably dead, right?"
Big Ocean Horse felt a bit of regret for not having slept with that man.
Barth nodded, "God Lin definitely didn’t find a way to stop the oven from working, otherwise, he would have come back by now."
"Soaking in ice water can guard against high temperatures. Even if God Lin lost his mind, he’d come back. So, there’s only one answer left: he’s dead!"
Jilu disliked Lin Baici, but upon confirming his death, he felt a twinge of regret because it meant that in the coming games of Divine Wrath, there would be no powerful protector to rely on.
"He couldn’t have found some other method to avoid the rules’ contamination, could he?"
Huang Jinxiang suddenly spoke up.
Everyone was startled.
That couldn’t be possible, right?
Otherwise, that would be too defying of heaven, terrifyingly so.
"It’s better if he doesn’t come back!"
Apachai suddenly interjected.
Everyone glanced at this Siamese man, whose skin was already dark. Now, roasted as he was, he resembled something charred, and his skin was covered with grape-like blisters. Chapters first released on NoveI~Fire.net
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There wasn’t a single fool present, so everyone understood the subtext of Apachai’s words: if Lin Baici came back, with his prestige and power, he would take away the rights to distribute the ice water.
Then, things would be even worse than they were now.
After all, no matter how one thought about it, Lin Baici would never let the Goryeo girl and the Hong Kong Island girl suffer.
A second was very short, but now, everyone felt a second was as long as a century.
The entire 10th floor had become a complete oven, with no place to stay. Everyone was huddled in the bathtub, and even there they kept scooping water to pour over themselves.
"Huang Jinxiang, it’s your turn!"
Huang Jinxiang pretended not to hear.
"Fuck, I said it’s your turn to get the ice cubes!"
"Is there any damned ice left? It’s long been used up!"
Even if there were, Huang Jinxiang was definitely not going to go.
Though it would take at most three seconds to go from here to the fridge and get out ice cubes, in just those three seconds, a person might die.
Because it was too hot outside.
Everyone’s skin exposed outside the cold water was already covered with burn blisters, oozing pus, definitely severe burns!
The man from the couple, controlled by Bath with Divine Grace, deprived of his senses, had never entered the bathtub to soak in the ice water. Now he had turned into a charred corpse.
A stench of burnt fat drifted from his body, filling the entire bathroom.
"But the water’s getting hotter!"
Big Ocean Horse was anxious: "We must freeze some more ice cubes!"
Everyone knew this couldn’t go on, but nobody wanted to sacrifice themselves for others!
Just as everyone was scheming, figuring out how to survive, suddenly a metallic ding sounded from the room outside.
Everyone immediately went wild with joy.
Dorisan was ecstatic; usually, an oven timer ending would make such a sound.
Bath licked his cracked lips, but the burn blisters made him suck in pain sharply: "Who’s going to check?"
"No need to check, we made it through!"
Huang Jinxiang let out a breath of foul air: "Although it’s miserable, we’re still alive after all!"
"Yeah, compared to God Lin and the others, we’re much luckier!"
Big Ocean Horse felt like crying; this had been too difficult.
Apachai thought of the Goryeo girl named Kim Myungjin and sighed, her fine figure probably turned into a piece of char by now?