Everyone's playing hide-and-seek: This crazy beauty has maxed-out third eyes.

Lin Sui'an led the three of them quickly inside, estimating that the nearest ice tree was about 100 meters away.

enough.

She stopped and squatted down next to a thick, brown tree root, placing her hands on the ground.

The soil was loose and moist; I pressed my finger down a bit but didn't touch any stones.

"Lina."

"Um?"

"How can a tree, without eyes, ears, or a nose, find people?"

Lina was taken aback.

Before she could answer, Lin Sui'an continued, "The last round of the eerie events relied on hearing, the round before that relied on sight, and this round it's trees. Ice trees don't have eyes or ears."

She stood up and patted the mud off her hands.

"For it to find a living person, there is only one possibility—heat."

Lina's pupils contracted slightly.

"Living people have body temperature, so a person in the forest is like a source of fire, and the ice trees can easily find the person."

Upon hearing this, Lina blurted out, "Thermal imaging!"

Lin Sui'an looked at the ground: "So we have to insulate the heat."

"How do we separate them?" Lina asked.

"Bury it."

"What?"

"Bury yourself in the ground."

Lina's mouth remained open for a long time.

Lin Sui'an stomped on the mud under his feet: "Soil has an insulating effect, so the body's heat cannot be transmitted, and the ice tree cannot detect it."

She made a digging gesture.

"Dig a hole, lie down in it, cover it with branches and soil, and hide yourself."

Lina looked at the ground, then at Lin Sui'an, without questioning.

After listening to Lina's translation, Lydia nodded, but then immediately said something.

Lina translated: "She said, 'Buried underground, completely sealed off, how can it breathe?'"

As soon as Lina finished translating, before Lin Sui'an could answer, she suddenly remembered something and pulled something out of her pocket.

Reed stalks.

There were seven or eight of them, of varying lengths.

"I prepared a lot for the last game, thinking that if Sui'an needed it, I could use it in time."

Lina held the reed stalks out in her palm, somewhat embarrassed.

"I couldn't bear to throw it away, so I've been keeping it with me."

Lin Sui'an glanced at her, reached out and took one from her hand, blew on it, and it worked.

"Lina."

"Um?"

"I like your habit of hoarding things."

Lina's eyes lit up immediately.

Lin Sui'an divided the reeds into four sections, one for each person.

"Time is running out, dig a hole."

She drew the Executioner from her waist, enlarged its size, and unfolded its silver blade.

"Move aside."

The three of them took two steps back.

Lin Sui'an raised the scythe and slashed it down onto the ground.

"Bang!"

The soil exploded, and a trench half a meter deep was cleaved in the ground.

She adjusted the angle and chopped three more times, creating four craters, each about a person's length and half a person's depth.

Soil was turned over and piled up around the pit, exposing the cut ends of the tree roots.

"One for each person, adjust it yourself, dig it a little deeper, just enough to lie down in."

Lin Sui'an shrank the murder weapon and tucked it back into his waistband.

"Build a frame with branches, cover it with fallen leaves, then cover it with a layer of soil, and insert reed stalks from inside, with the tube opening hidden under the fallen leaves."

Sergei had already jumped into the furthest pit and was digging with his hands at a very fast pace.

Lydia went down too, and with quick movements, she cleared away the loose soil at the bottom of the pit in no time.

Lina stood at the edge of her pit and glanced at Lin Sui'an.

"Sui'an, if you want to see other places, go ahead."

She squatted down and began to dig out the soil.

"I'll dig my hole bigger, big enough for two people to hide in."

Lydia poked her head out of the pit and said in broken Dragon Language, "I... will... cover for you."

Sergei stopped what he was doing and nodded to Lin Sui'an: "I've finished setting up your trap too."

Lin Sui'an looked at the three people.

"Need not."

She shook her head: "There's not enough time. Take care of yourselves."

Lina looked up: "But—"

"No buts." Lin Sui'an interrupted her. "Listen to me, prepare the pit, insert the reeds, cover it up, and don't move it or make a sound."

She paused for a moment: "I'm not sure if the ice tree's roots will extend very far. If you find any danger in the pit, just be prepared."

Lina bit her lip and handed the tinderbox to Lin Sui'an: "Here, take this. You'll be better able to use it than I am."

Lin Sui'an raised an eyebrow and took it.

Lina didn't say anything more and started digging.

The three of them got to work, working hard and diligently.

Sergei was the fastest; he had already dug his pit to waist-deep and started inserting branches on both sides of the pit opening.

Lydia was quick to act. She leveled the bottom of the pit, broke off a few thick branches from the side, laid them horizontally above the pit opening, and then covered them with fallen leaves.

Lina dug and smeared mud all over herself, getting herself covered in dirt.

Lin Sui'an didn't dig a pit. She took the murder weapon, turned around, and walked back.

Lina looked up and saw her figure disappear behind the bushes. She opened her mouth, but swallowed the words that were about to come out.

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Lin Sui'an returned to the ice tree she had just seen.

She stood in front of the tree for two seconds, then enlarged the monstrous image to its normal size.

The silver blade was aimed at the tree trunk.

"Let's see how hard you are."

She swung her knife down.

"Bang!"

The sickle struck the gray bark, sparks flying.

Lin Sui'an's hand was numb from the shock, and she looked down at the monstrous blade.

It wasn't chipped.

Look at the tree trunk again.

There wasn't even a white mark.

She slashed again, this time with all her might.

"Bang!"

The sound was twice as loud as before, making her arms ache.

The tree trunk remained completely still.

"Goodness."

Lin Sui'an withdrew his murderous intent and stared at the ice tree for two seconds.

It can't be cut, at least not now.

She wrote down the information and turned to leave.

time does not wait.

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Lin Sui'an didn't go back to the pit. Instead, she found the thickest palm tree and climbed up it in a few quick movements.

The tree canopy was large enough, with intertwined branches. She found a spot close to the trunk and wedged herself between two thick branches.

The view is excellent; you can see the ground below and the location of the ice trees in the distance.

She shrunk the murder weapon to the size of a dagger and held it in her hand.

This spot isn't for hiding, it's for looking at—the tree in my dream, its branches twisted and waving in the air.

She wanted to see if the real ice tree would move just like in her dream.

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Dragon Kingdom Live Stream Room.

An Shen, my idol: She didn't hide? She climbed a tree?

Never eaten vegetables: To calm the nerves, observe the ice tree!

A descendant of a native of Zu'an: But isn't she exposing herself to heat while perched on the tree? If ice trees really do sense temperature...

Koi: Oh God, no! An Shen, come down quickly!

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command center.

"What is she doing?" Chen Zheng asked in a low voice.

Jiang Lai didn't answer. Her fingers were on the edge of the table as she calculated how many players were hiding between Lin Sui'an and Bing Shu, and how much time these players could buy for Lin Sui'an.

Looking at the screen, Old Zhao sighed, "This child is using himself as bait to test the waters again."