Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 376 - 172: Petty Tricks, Daring to Show Off in the Expert’s Door!_1

Chapter 376: Chapter 172: Petty Tricks, Daring to Show Off in the Expert’s Door!_1

Whoosh!

Several of those questioned all turned their heads toward Lin Baici in unison, awaiting an answer.

Lin Baici’s eyebrows furrowed; illuminated by the ghostly oil lamp, he saw that the number of black cats beside each person differed.

"There couldn’t be more traps, could there?"

Lin Baici counted carefully, sixteen.

He was still not reassured, so he widened his eyes and perked up his ears, even activating A Sip of A Hundred Flavors to engage all his senses in an attempt to confirm the exact number of black cats around him.

"Stop looking at me, I can’t take care of you guys!"

Lin Baici bluntly said, "Ask someone else for help!"

The three couples and the sales guy despaired at his words.

"Lin the great, you can’t just stand by and watch us die!"

"Please!"

"My family is very rich! I’ll give you money! A lot of money!"

The seven of them pleaded with tears, and seeing that Lin Baici truly couldn’t attend to them, they turned to Bai Hefugu to implore him to take action.

"Hehe, I can indeed see the black cats around, but why should I tell you?"

Bai Hefugu chuckled with malicious amusement, "Wait to die, bye-bye!"

"You son of a bitch!"

A man was enraged and lunged at Bai Hefugu.

Bai Hefugu sneered, and his right fist, filled with pent-up rage, slammed violently into the man’s face.

Bang!

The man was sent flying, his jawbone half shattered, his face caved in by a third.

"Anyone else want to try my fist?" Bai Hefugu sneered nastily, "Cat God, I’ve got eleven cats around me, do you want to ask me their colors again?"

He was continuing to exert psychological pressure on Lin Baici.

"I have sixteen, black seven, yellow three, white six."

Lin Baici replied, stating the colors of the cats afterward.

Bai Hefugu’s expression turned regretful and grave when he heard Lin Baici reveal this, thinking, my attempt at psychological warfare may have inadvertently reminded him.

"I’ve got black five, yellow four, white two!"

Bai Hefugu added hastily.

"Lin the great, you’ve finished your answer, now can you help me look?"

The sales guy cried out.

Lin Baici didn’t tell him the answer.

Since everyone’s answers had been the same until now, it posed no problem to echo them. But, asking Lin Baici to provide the answer alone, what if there were hidden rules against this kind of assistance?

Better to be cautious!

"..."

The black cat was displeased, wanting to hiss, why do you have to answer correctly?

Do I lack your answer?

What I’m missing is delicious canned fish!

"The third question, how many cats are around you!"

The black cat forcefully nudged the golden scales.

"..."

Lin Baici thought, will this ever end?

Are you really picking a fight with a cat?

"Help! Help..."

The sales guy and the three couples all turned into cat statues, their faces etched with lifelike expressions of struggle.

No one cared about their lives; all eyes were on Lin Baici and Bai Hefugu.

"Fifteen!"

Lin Baici scanned the area and listened intently, "No, it’s seventeen. There’s noise behind those two cat statues, obviously each hiding one!"

Lin Baici was ready to call out his answer, but when he caught a glimpse of the sales guy out of the corner of his eye, he closed his mouth again.

Wait a minute!

He is a God Hunter, possessing Divine Grace and Taboo things. By calling me out to answer, he had already made an enemy of me—how could he not scheme against me?

Or to put it another way, had the scheming already begun?

Lin Baici folded his arms across his chest with his right hand touching his chin.

Putting himself in the other’s shoes,

If the key to finding the black cats on Lin Baici’s side was clearly this oil lamp, he would definitely focus on attacking it. If the lamp were broken, the opposition would be powerless.

So why hadn’t he done it?

It showed that the adversary had tampered elsewhere.

From this, it could be inferred that the noises behind the two cat statues might be a faux presence created by the adversary.

"Fifteen!"

Bai Hefugu confidently gave his answer, not looking at Lin Baici, but his expression revealed a determination to win.

Kid, you’re done for.

"Why is Student Lin not answering?"

Cai Wenqi was anxious, "He couldn’t possibly not know, could he?"

"Don’t panic, it’s a battle of wits!"

Xia Hongyao was confident, Lin Baici had the intellect to easily best this young man.

"Sixteen!"

Lin Baici provided his answer.

He had Clay Human scouts at his disposal.

"..."

The black cat was frustrated; he answered correctly again.

"Next question!"

Before the black cat could finish, Bai Hefugu interrupted, "Wait a minute, this quiz isn’t fair, you’re favoring him!"

"I’m not!"

The black cat retorted.

"We don’t know the right answer anyway, isn’t it up to you?"

Bai Hefugu taunted.

"Count for yourself!"

The black cat sat up and clapped its tiny paws together.

Clap clap!

All the cats around Lin Baici, previously invisible, were now revealed.

"Isn’t this fifteen?"

"He got it wrong!"

"It seems it really is unfair!"

People murmured among themselves. To be honest, although Lin Baici had saved them, there were a few with dark hearts who were actually quite displeased with him.

They relished the thought of his downfall.

Why should everyone else be trembling with fear while he acts with aplomb?

"Xiao Bai couldn’t be wrong!"

Hua Yue Yu shouted loudly.

"Absolutely, Oppa couldn’t possibly be wrong!"

Kim Myungjin’s icy gaze fixed on the crowd.

Lin Baici pointed at a statue about ten meters away at two o’clock, "There’s one behind that one!"

Everyone turned to look.

Meow!

A black cat walked out from behind the statue.

"..."

Bai Hefugu’s expression fell; he knew that his trap had been spotted.