"What's out there?"
"What did he see? A blood-red eye?!"
"Could it be what I think it is?"
The viewers in the live stream grew anxious along with him.
Yet, amidst their anxiety, a strange excitement began to brew.
Many were already in the group chat, speculating about various terrifying entities.
Great terrors, in horror stories and films, were always the stuff of nightmares.
But what if a great terror encountered a ghost messenger...
The thought alone was enough to make one's blood run cold, yet strangely thrilling.
...
"Holy crap!"
Fu Jie pressed himself against the tin door.
He could say he saw nothing, or he could say he saw everything.
Because, through the gap in the door, all he could see was a colossal leg.
How thick was that leg?
It was so thick that two people hugging it couldn't even embrace it fully.
He could also see the thick, shiny leg hairs dancing in the wind, some as long as half a meter.
"We're finished, we're finished!"
Fu Jie stumbled back two steps, muttering, "...This question is too difficult!"
The more ferocious the demons, the harder the questions they posed.
The previous questions from the workers were relatively simple, and he could still escape.
But this...
How could they possibly escape this?
With the two of them being sports idiots, they definitely wouldn't be able to answer.
"If only Han Sisi were here."
Fu Jie swallowed, straightened his clothes.
Then, he lay down peacefully.
Jiang Lin: "???"
"What are you doing?"
Summoning a teammate?
Fu Jie opened his eyes, "We can't escape, brother. Learn from me, just lie down."
"It's going to hurt later, just bear with it. Who told us we're uneducated?"
"This is the price of being uneducated."
Otherwise,
Who wouldn't want to use their knowledge to decimate the enemy, leaving the demons no room to retreat, no courage to approach?
It was just that their minds... lacked culture.
As soon as Fu Jie finished speaking, the roof of the tin shed where they were located suddenly made a 'creaking' sound.
As if something was violently demolishing it.
*Bang!*
Light from outside streamed in as the entire tin shed was ripped from the ground.
And Fu Jie finally got a full view of the giant.
It was still the same yellow hard hat, the sweat-soaked clothes, and the pants with a hole in them.
Those long leg hairs fluttered in the wind...
But this worker was at least ten meters tall, and at his waist hung a giant wrench he'd somehow acquired.
The wrench was stained with blood, looking incredibly terrifying.
*Thump!*
The giant worker grabbed the tin shed and with a flick of his hand.
The entire shed was thrown aside, reduced to a pile of scrap metal.
He looked down at Fu Jie and Jiang Lin, exhaling a gust of hot air from his massive nostrils.
His voice was deafening.
"Given the function f(x) = 12 - x²."
"Question 1: Find the equation of the tangent line to the curve y=f(x) where the slope is -2."
...
The giant worker opened his mouth and rattled off a string of questions.
Fu Jie below felt his head buzz.
Giant Worker:
"Question 2: Let s(t) be the area of the triangle formed by the tangent line to the curve y=f(x) at the point (t, f(t)) and the coordinate axes. Find the minimum value of s(t)..."
"One, two, run!"
Before the giant worker could finish his questions, Fu Jie rolled off the ground and jumped up.
Dragging Jiang Lin with him, he ran in the opposite direction of the giant worker.
Jiang Lin paused, "…Didn't you say you were going to lie down?"
Fu Jie blurted out, "That was a strategy to confuse the enemy!"
"For these big questions, once they start asking, they'll ask for at least half a minute, and then they'll repeat it."
"After that, they'll leave about two minutes for us to struggle for our lives. That's enough time for us to make a last stand."
Facing these gargantuan questions, based on Fu Jie's past experience...
If he couldn't solve them, he definitely couldn't escape.
Lying down was the correct approach.
But!
He didn't want to die!
Even though he knew he would reappear here again after dying, dying itself was incredibly painful!
If he died a few more times, he feared his sanity would be compromised!
Why not just lie down?
Because his strong will to survive made him tremble and struggle for his life!
Didn't you see his legs were already trembling?!
Jiang Lin ran beside Fu Jie, glancing back at the giant worker who was already repeating the question not far behind them.
He asked, "Only by answering the questions can we stop them?"
"That's right! As long as you can answer, everything is negotiable."
Fu Jie replied against the wind, the hem of his blue school uniform jacket fluttering behind him.
"Knowledge is power here! Teachers never lied to us."
"But, we're both athletes, what the heck can we answer! Running is the only way!"
They hadn't run for long before a large number of workers emerged from the unfinished buildings.
Holding various tools, they began to surround them.
Fu Jie slammed on the brakes, changing direction twice as he fled.
But no matter where they went, these workers would appear from all sorts of places.
It was as if they were ubiquitous.
Moreover, accompanying them were questions about mathematical concepts.
Fu Jie's head swam from the constant barrage of questions.
However, what truly made his head ache was the 'rumbling' sound coming from behind them.
He looked back and nearly fainted.
He saw the giant worker, estimated to be ten meters tall, carrying a concrete slab five meters long and two meters wide in one hand, running towards them at full speed.
The flying yellow sand, the bulging muscles, and the clearly defined leg hairs...
All of it showcased the opponent's overwhelming strength.
As the giant worker ran, the entire ground began to shake.
Cold sweat beaded on Fu Jie's forehead.
With a horde of workers in front and a giant demonic worker behind, where could they escape?
Would they be surrounded and attacked, or crushed by a concrete slab?
Fu Jie trembled, "Bro-brother, this time we're really going to lie—Ahhhhh!"
Before he could finish speaking, he was suddenly sent flying.
As the world spun, the surrounding scenery rapidly receded.
Jiang Lin threw Fu Jie into the air, then kicked away the concrete slab the giant worker had swung.
*Bang!*
The concrete slab was reflected back towards the giant worker with even greater speed and force.
It sent the giant worker flying back more than ten meters.
Jiang Lin performed these actions very quickly. By the time he turned back, Fu Jie hadn't landed yet.
He floated over, grabbed Fu Jie by the back of his collar, and continued running forward.
After they had disappeared from sight.
The surrounding ordinary workers slowly came to their senses.
They looked at the giant worker rolling and howling on the ground, then at the spot where Jiang Lin and Fu Jie had been.
What just happened?
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(PS: The questions in the text are from Baidu. If any of you are skilled, feel free to try solving them~
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