I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today
Chapter 988: Sphinx 8

Chapter 988: Chapter 988: Sphinx 8

I don’t know how much time has passed.

The scenery before my eyes seems to be floating, the Sphinx also carries a double image, and the straight stone swords are blurry and distorted in my view...

Daniel closes his eyes, waits a few seconds, and then slowly opens them.

He lies atop the flat summit, his physical strength completely depleted, the water in his body gradually seeping out, the glaring sunlight stinging his eyes, the scorching sun threatening to bake the air through.

I can’t go on like this...

Continuing this way, death will come sooner or later.

I don’t know how the other games are progressing, in my current state, at least this game... I probably can’t win...

Daniel once again strains to open his eyes, his gaze wandering between the few stone swords.

Should I try again?

Perhaps there will be a turning point.

Such as changing the question, or a hint might appear...

He really wants to try! But when he is about to make up his mind, his heart is overcome with timidity again!

Bruce’s terrible state is still before his eyes, Daniel is afraid, so he prefers to endure the baking of the harsh sun rather than facing that life-and-death decision and fear!

He recalls Pan Xiaoxin’s curses before leaving: Idiot! Waste! Coward!

"Damn it..." His lips are cracked, salty and metallic tastes seeping into his mouth, only bitterness, "The damn brat, dares to curse me like that..."

In his mind, shadows of his childhood float up, his younger self being pushed around, bossed, and scolded by his parents, having to obey, to listen, to let them manipulate him! Just like a slave!

"I hate it... Kids, they are just so annoying..."

The windless summit is quiet and peaceful, only the immovable giant stone figure hears his murmur.

A series of clicking sounds, like pebbles falling down the steps, bring a trace of clarity to Daniel’s muddled brain.

He forces his head to turn and looks towards the edge of the stone steps, to his utter disgust he sees the kid he loathes climbing up once again!

Daniel watches Pan Xiaoxin, he is so thirsty and so weak that his face is devoid of any expression.

Pan Xiaoxin is also very exhausted, but compared to him, he is in much better shape.

"You spent so much time, and you haven’t guessed the riddle?" Pan Xiaoxin is barely able to comprehend this man, if there’s no hope, wouldn’t it be better to come down from the top and rest in the tree shade? Better than staying here and getting roasted into a dried husk, right?

Ultimately, he can’t let go of this one little advantage he holds.

"You... came back, what for?" Daniel asks, "Don’t tell me, you little brat... know what the answer is?"

Pan Xiaoxin grips a stone sword from the ground and forcefully pulls it out, "If you don’t try, you’ll never know what the answer is."

"You little brat..." Daniel props himself up onto his upper body, "Are you lecturing me?"

"Don’t look down on kids!" Pan Xiaoxin suddenly raises his voice, "Always calling me little brat! You’ve only lived a few years longer than me! Even if you’ve lived those extra years! You’re still nothing! You scum!!!"

Daniel: "You!...."

The giant Sphinx rises and walks over, cutting off Daniel’s anger, the stone figure issues a solemn, deep voice in front of Pan Xiaoxin:

"One kind of animal, four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs walking in the evening."

Pan Xiaoxin deliberately waits for a moment, then raises the stone sword in his hand and stares at the Sphinx as he answers: "The answer is, three thousand... three thousand five hundred and sixty-seven!"

Daniel is shocked, the question escapes him: "What kind of answer is that! Hey! It’s asking about an animal! You were supposed to guess an animal!"

"There wasn’t!" Pan Xiaoxin shouts, his little face taut, "The Sphinx never posed any question! From the beginning to the end, the only one that posed a question was the staircase itself! The question I answered, it was also posed by the staircase itself!"

"What..." Daniel can’t accept it, "What nonsense are you talking about! This is impossible, when did the steps ever pose a question?!"

"It did ask." Pan Xiaoxin answers with certainty, "How many layers of the heavenly stairs must one climb to see the deity?... The Sphinx is the deity of this heavenly staircase!"

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