Chapter 28: Death Chainsaw

Bao Lei: The rules of the game are now being announced.

Any student who has won more than five hundred in red packets, please come up to the platform.

Zhang Xiaofan glanced at the amount on his phone. It was only a little over three hundred. He let out a quiet breath of relief, thinking that this time, at last, it had not come for him.

But the next instant, his nerves snapped taut. Su Qianqian and Lin Rou rose at the same time and walked toward the podium. Besides the two of them, fourteen other students also stood trembling and went up as well.

Bao Lei: A total of sixteen people, divided into eight groups. Group One, Zhang Chao and Sun Yu. Group Two, Ma Yongxiang and Xu Zhong. Group Three, Sun Lei and Zhang Hua... Group Eight, Su Qianqian and Lin Rou.

Zhang Xiaofan kept staring at his phone. When he saw that Su Qianqian and Lin Rou had actually been assigned to the same group, his heart sank to the bottom of an icy abyss. How could this... be happening?

This game was definitely deliberate. Su Qianqian and Lin Rou were now closely tied to him, and the game had intentionally made them participate.

A swift turmoil rose in Zhang Xiaofan's mind, but after thinking it over, he felt only a deep, helpless despair. Even if he knew, what could he do? He still could not change the rules of the game.

At that moment, Bao Lei sent another message:

Groups One and Two, stand before the first machine. Groups Three and Four, stand before the second machine. Groups Five and Six, the third. Groups Seven and Eight, the fourth.

Now, students from Groups One, Three, Five, and Seven, please stand on either side of your machine and grip the handles.

"No, no, this has to be the chainsaw killing game. I don't want to play. No, I won't do it!" Ma Chao collapsed first, shaking his head repeatedly.

Ding!

Bao Lei: Anyone who refuses to play will die. Please take your positions within one minute. No one is allowed to unplug the machines, or death will be the penalty.

Once the message was sent, even though none of the students wanted to play, the threat of death forced them, one by one, to go up and take their places.

Zhang Hua shoved Zhou Liping, who had been in her arms, aside and said coldly, "What a nuisance. What useless game is this now?" Even as she spoke, she stepped before the second machine and placed her hand on the handle.

But then Zhang Hua's expression abruptly changed. She discovered that her hand could not be pulled away at all.

"What is going on? My hand is stuck." Even Zhang Hua broke into a cold sweat. With her strength, she could not tear her arm free; her palm seemed glued to the handle, impossible to remove.

"Me too. What is this?"

"No... no, what are we supposed to do?" One boy actually burst into tears and wet himself.

But at this moment, no one wanted to laugh at him. In their hearts, they were already imagining themselves in his place, and realized that if they were the ones up there, they would probably be no better.

Ding!

Bao Lei: Game instructions. In a moment, the machines will begin to operate. The students on either side of each machine must forcefully push the lever until one side is completely severed and dies; the other side wins. Time limit: thirty minutes.

The game begins now!

Szzzzzz...

As Bao Lei sent the final line, all four machines started up at once. The shrill roar of the motors hammered into the students' ears, driving them back in terror.

"So it turned out to be like this..." Zhang Xiaofan stared nervously at the scene before him. In a moment, Su Qianqian and Lin Rou would be on the same team. Did that mean they would have to kill each other?

And in this game, there could be only one winner. Why? Why? Why did it have to be this way?

Zhang Xiaofan's mind was in complete chaos, and Su Qianqian and Lin Rou seemed to have realized something as well. They both turned to look over.

Tears glimmered in the corners of Su Qianqian's eyes as she said, "Lin Rou, Xiaofan is mine. Don't you dare try to take him."

"Hmph. I was with Xiaofan first. It's all because of you, because you stole him from me. If it weren't for you, I would definitely be happily with him now," Lin Rou said viciously.

"Lin Rou, all you're doing is trying to cover up the fact that Xiaofan broke up with you. Why won't you face yourself? Do you think saying all this will make Xiaofan accept you? Wake up," Su Qianqian said coldly.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Xiaofan will be mine sooner or later."

Lin Rou and Su Qianqian both stared wide-eyed, completely lacking any awareness that they were standing on the brink of a life-or-death game, and Zhang Xiaofan himself was also in utter turmoil.

Only then did he realize that in his heart, Lin Rou had always remained. The times he had broken up with her, insulted her, and told her to leave had all been the result of his own vanity. He had been taking revenge on her.

He dropped heavily onto a stool. Hu Xiaotian and the others were deeply worried, and said, "Zhang Xiaofan, don't lose heart. What if... what if there's a turning point?"

Even Hu Xiaotian himself did not believe those words, but in order to comfort Zhang Xiaofan, he could only say them.

Zhang Xiaofan clenched his fist hard. He remembered the fortune-telling scene from last night. Today, something had truly happened to Lin Rou and Su Qianqian. What should he do? One of them would die. What was he supposed to do?

The roar of the machine still filled the air. The first group was Zhang Chao and Sun Yu. They were both from the first-year class. Sun Yu was taller and sturdier, and at a glance it was obvious that Zhang Chao would be no match for him.

"Zhang Chao, you're my brother, but this game has already chosen us. There's nothing we can do," Sun Yu said painfully as he gripped the handle.

"Sun Yu, we swore brotherhood. You said that when you got married, you'd invite me to drink at your wedding. Don't tell me you've forgotten already," Zhang Chao said, trying a few times to force the machine, only to find it pressed down with great strength. His heart tightened; sure enough, he was not stronger than Sun Yu.

"I know. But this is a death game. It's either you die or I perish. We have no choice," Sun Yu said, shaking his head.

"No, there is a choice. Do you remember that night we drank together?" Zhang Chao said.

"What about it?"

"Think back. That night, you said..."

As Sun Yu recalled the memory, Zhang Chao's expression suddenly turned fierce, and he shouted savagely, "Go to hell!"

With that, he abruptly shoved the lever.

Sun Yu had been lost in thought, never expecting his good brother to strike like this. In an instant, the lever was forced over. By the time he reacted, the saw blade had already torn into his chest.

Szzzzzz...

"Ah..."

Blood and flesh flew with the whirring blade. When the girls saw it, they screamed in terror. They had seen many dead bodies before, but watching a man be sawn apart alive before their eyes still exceeded the limits of what they could endure.

Not only them, but even some of the boys were so frightened they cowered in the corners, and many of them soiled themselves.

"You bastard..." Blood trickled from the corner of Sun Yu's mouth.

"Sun Yu, don't blame me. When you die, I'll take care of your girlfriend. Hahaha. Blame yourself for looking down on me, you bastard. From childhood until now, you've always been better than me. Your grades were better, you're stronger than me, and the woman I liked liked you too. Why? Go die. Die! Once you're dead, no one will fight me for her anymore..."

But at that moment, from nowhere, Sun Yu seemed to summon a burst of strength. He pushed back with all his might. Under Zhang Chao's horrified gaze, the saw blade cut him cleanly in two.

The difference in their strength had simply been too great. Even though Zhang Chao had struck first and left Sun Yu gravely wounded, the final struggle of a dying man was still not something Zhang Chao could compare with.