The youth’s accent and grammar were both strange, leaving everyone somewhat confused.

Qi Xia carefully pondered the situation before him. This youth was clearly from “Heaven’s Mouth,” but why would he appear here?

“You are…?” Officer Li asked.

“Brother, my name is Jin Yuanxun.” A smile appeared on the youth’s handsome face as he bowed again to Officer Li, then raised his head and asked, “May I ask which brother is called Qi Xia?”

Everyone turned to look in Qi Xia’s direction.

Qi Xia could only helplessly step forward and say: “That’s me.”

“Excellent, brother, I’ve been waiting here for you for a long time.”

“Waiting for me?”

“Yes.” Jin Yuanxun nodded. “I want to ask you a question.”

Apart from Qi Xia, no one present had ever seen Jin Yuanxun, and they all looked puzzled.

At this moment, Xiao Ran slowly took a step backward and asked cautiously: “Brother Qi, why do you have an acquaintance here?”

Qi Xia ignored Xiao Ran and was instead considering Jin Yuanxun’s motive.

“You’ve been waiting here for me just to ask me a question?”

He seemed to already know what the other person was going to ask.

“That’s right.” Jin Yuanxun nodded. “Brother, can we speak privately?”

Qi Xia nodded and followed Jin Yuanxun a few steps away.

“Brother, someone asked me to ask you, ‘which day did you arrive here?'”

Hearing this question, Qi Xia thought briefly, as if calculating something.

Could “Heaven’s Mouth” be trusted?

If they were still like last time, running around the “Land of the End” like headless flies, their ending probably wouldn’t be too good either. If that was the case, he might as well trust Chu Tianqiu once.

Qi Xia answered in a low voice: “My body has been here for the eleventh day, but my mind has only been here four days.”

“Aish ssibal…” Jin Yuanxun cursed under his breath. “Brother Chu really is a god-like man…”

“What did you say?” Qi Xia was startled and looked at the youth before him.

“Brother, to be honest, we’re all supposedly on our first day here, but today following Brother Chu’s instructions, I asked several people this question, and not a single one answered ‘first day’… Don’t you think Brother Chu knows something?”

Chu Tianqiu certainly knew something.

If his guess was correct, Chu Tianqiu also retained memories from last time.

But what concerned Qi Xia was a second matter—why had Chu Tianqiu already asked this question last time? Had he already retained his memories last time?

Could it be…

They had come here even earlier than him?

Qi Xia had experienced two cycles, but Chu Tianqiu had experienced even more?

He could retain his memories every time, so he selected teammates based on those memories?

This meant “Heaven’s Mouth’s” power should exceed Qi Xia’s imagination.

Seeing the two whispering continuously, Xiao Ran walked over very inappropriately. She pretended to ask casually: “What are you two talking about?”

Jin Yuanxun smiled slightly and said: “Brother, let’s go over there. The next words need to be told to all of you.”

…

Jin Yuanxun came before everyone again and asked: “Everyone, we are currently gathering a group of capable people to establish an organization to conquer the games together. Now Brother Qi Xia has passed the leader’s question and been permitted to join. Do you have such an interest?”

“This organization you mentioned… what does it do?” Officer Li asked carefully.

“Ah, it’s like a strategy group that participates in games together, brother.” Jin Yuanxun said. “Games are divided into many categories, and we can let certain people participate in certain games in a targeted manner.”

Officer Li stared at Jin Yuanxun carefully for a long time, then asked: “Are you Korean Chinese?”

“Yes, brother.” Jin Yuanxun nodded. “In the area where I lived in Yanbian, people rarely spoke Han Chinese, so I’m not very skilled at it. Please forgive me if I don’t speak clearly.”

Officer Li nodded. There were also many Mongolians in his city.

“Who sent you to find us?” Qiao Jiajin asked.

“The brother who walked out of the room with me, called Chu Tianqiu.” Jin Yuanxun answered very seriously. “He’s a very intelligent person, and I’m currently executing one of his orders.”

Qi Xia reached up to stroke his chin, carefully considering this matter.

To be honest, he didn’t really understand Chu Tianqiu.

All his knowledge of this person was limited to “he has a notebook that can allow escape from this place.”

“Jin Yuanxun, did Chu Tianqiu only invite me alone?” Qi Xia asked.

“Yes, but not entirely.” Jin Yuanxun patiently explained. “Brother Chu invited you like this, but you can freely bring your own people. A big brother named Zhang Shan just came, and he also brought his own people.”

“Zhang Shan…” Hearing this name, the faces of Old Lu and Little Glasses suddenly surfaced in Qi Xia’s mind.

He now somewhat understood why Zhang Shan would bring these two along to join—the two of them were indeed worthy of being teammates.

Qi Xia looked back at the eight people beside him and suddenly had an idea.

Taking these eight people to rashly participate in games would naturally have many variables. Since the numbers had already become so large, he might as well take everyone to join “Heaven’s Mouth” together.

This way he could both shake off the deadweight and find a way to obtain the notebook.

To make a drop of ink disappear, the best method was to throw it into the ocean.

“Then can the nine of us join together?” Qi Xia asked again.

“Yes, Brother Chu said that as long as you agree to join, we’ll try our best to satisfy any requests you make.”

Now everyone began to hesitate.

They were willing to join Qi Xia’s team because they had witnessed Qi Xia’s methods with their own eyes.

But could this “Chu Tianqiu” who hadn’t yet appeared be trusted?

“Everyone, I’m going to join Chu Tianqiu’s organization.” Without waiting for everyone to think it through, Qi Xia spoke. “If you agree, you can follow. If you don’t agree, you can also act on your own.”

After hearing this, everyone showed hesitant expressions.

“Oh right.” Jin Yuanxun added. “According to what Brother Chu said, in the coming days you’ll have great difficulty obtaining food and water sources, but our organization will try our best to ensure food distribution for everyone.”

“That good?” Qiao Jiajin was still somewhat suspicious. “You’re letting us eat and drink for free—what’s your purpose?”

After hearing this, Jin Yuanxun looked around at everyone and said: “Our goal is to conquer all the games. The organization doesn’t support idle people, so all members must obey Brother Chu’s command. He will lead us out.”

“All games…” Everyone was stunned. Wasn’t it supposed to be that collecting 3,600 “Dao” would let them leave? Why conquer all games?

“How will ‘Dao’ be distributed?” Xiao Ran asked.

“More work, more reward.” Jin Yuanxun answered. “Brother Chu doesn’t really care about ‘Dao,’ so you don’t need to worry.”

Qi Xia discovered that Chu Tianqiu seemed to be walking a very strange path.

All of this was probably related to that “notebook” in his hands.

Could it be that the method for leaving recorded in the notebook wasn’t collecting “Dao,” but conquering all the games?

“Brother Qi Xia, what do you say?” Jin Yuanxun confirmed Qi Xia’s intention one last time.

“No need to say more, I’m joining.” Qi Xia said.