The words are a bit convoluted, but simply put, it’s using magic to defeat magic.
Wen Xishu had always been convinced that the molding clay in Ah Miao’s hands had some miraculous use.
And just now, he got his confirmation. He saw that in the eyes of the Shoe Woman, the threat level of Ah Miao’s molding clay could actually reach level nine.
In other words, the Shoe Woman believed that the jar containing her organs, stacked by Oceania... had the same threat level as the molding clay Ah Miao just created.
"Both are level nine threats. This threat level should be decisive for victory or defeat. It depends on how I use it..."
Opening jars continued.
Since Wen Xishu and the others didn’t disclose the facts, everyone remained confident.
Wen Xishu thought that even if they opened a dangerous item, they could explain it by saying that the dangerous items on the Shoe Woman numbered more than twenty.
The old, weak, sick, and disabled obviously didn’t have much luck with the next few jars. Oyel’s miracle of opening ten jars in a row didn’t happen again.
The three shadows freed the three suffering souls who had struggled in the Bunker for so long.
Soon, forty-nine of the sixty jars were opened.
Although among those forty-nine jars were numerous items, the only truly useful item for humans was the parchment.
There were still eleven jars left.
After opening the final eleven jars, today’s jar opening quota would be completed. The last eleven jars were to be opened by Wen Xishu’s team members.
Wen Xishu quickly designated the people to open the jars.
This time, the number of empty jars was unusually high, which, in a way, was bad news for Wen Xishu.
Empty jars were consumed quickly... and as the remaining jars increased, the probability of opening items also increased.
Wen Xishu thought this, and he knew the Shoe Woman’s attack would soon come again.
But this scene came too quickly.
Zhang Xiaoheng, a Bunker worker assigned to Wen Xishu’s team, was chosen to open the fourth jar, which was when there were seven jars left.
The first few jars were uneventful, all empty.
But with the seventh-to-last jar, everyone gasped.
Another part came out.
As Zhang Xiaoheng cracked open the jar, the two recorders’ legs went weak, and they fell to the ground in fear.
"A hand! He opened a hand!"
At that instant, everyone’s scalp tingled.
Even Wen Xishu was taken aback. A hand?
It’s over...
Humans had already lost!
Opening the Shoe Woman’s hand meant the game was over, didn’t it?
[Item Name: The Shoe Woman’s Left Hand.]
[Effect: The goddess is left-handed, which coincides with her love for crime. She prefers using her left hand to destroy evidence, just as she loves toying with her prey with it.]
[The game enters the next stage, and the goddess’s left hand can transfer items from one jar to another.]
The goddess’s eyes saw through what was in every jar.
The goddess’s ears denied the fact she was being played.
Now, the goddess’s left hand was going to transfer jars...
In other words, the former empty jars might no longer be empty, or just as you were about to throw an empty jar...
The goddess’s left hand might transfer items at that moment, and the once empty jar might suddenly contain parts of the goddess.
Wen Xishu could imagine what comes next... the Shoe Woman could make ears appear crazily.
She could make people keep opening the Shoe Woman’s ears to deny each fact.
Checkmate...
The current situation was like checkmate in chess or a live four in Gomoku.
You can’t avoid opening jars, but unless the jar originally contained something good...
If all the remaining jars are empty, the Shoe Woman would arrange them.
All humanity’s efforts would be nullified by the Shoe Woman’s ears.
Or the Shoe Woman might grow tired of toying with humans and directly produce more deadly items... to wipe out humanity directly.
In any case, the current situation was almost a dead end.
Scramble?
No, scrambling would only result in self-defeat...
But it wouldn’t change the outcome for the Shoe Woman.
What else could be used?
Wen Xishu was on high alert.
No doubt, until they opened an item good enough to counteract... opening the left hand was a dead end.
"Ah Shu... you don’t look so good? What’s wrong? Is this hand hard to deal with?" Ah Miao asked.
Everyone had seen the hand too.
The hand lay motionless on the ground.
Ling Fu, Lang Haidu, Zheng Zai, everyone looked at Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu said:
"Ah Miao, can your molding clay replicate this hand?"
Ah Miao was unsure:
"Should I give it a try?"
Wen Xishu suddenly realized... no.
Even if he replicated the Shoe Woman’s left hand and could transfer the item from one jar to another...
But that required knowing which jar had items inside.
The Shoe Woman knew through her left eye, but he didn’t know. Even if he replicated the right hand... it would only be a blind transfer.
Moreover, the items copied by Ah Miao wouldn’t change alliances, meaning the items he could transfer would only be useful for humans but uncertain in nature.
It would be like a "washed goddess’s left hand," not necessarily less effective than the original... but it required knowing what was inside the jar.