“‘Scapegoat’?” Qi Xia looked at Yun Yao with confusion.

Wasn’t it “Disaster Attraction”?

Wait a moment…

Qi Xia silently lowered his head.

The first person to have an “echo” wasn’t Han Yimo, but that “tenth person” with a peculiar smile on his face!

He was the “echo” of “Scapegoat.”

But what did “Scapegoat” mean?

“The second one was ‘Disaster Attraction’ written on the screen,” Yun Yao continued explaining. “I rarely see two ‘echoes’ triggered on the first day. Even among ‘echoes,’ most people choose to activate their abilities in the later days.”

“After that, it seemed to be… ‘Frame-Up’?” Yun Yao recalled. “This ‘echo’ only appeared for a very short time. I might have seen it wrong.”

Upon hearing this, Qi Xia nodded with a heavy expression. That was Xiao Xiao’s method.

“Next was ‘Stimulation,’ and then…”

“Wait!” Qi Xia hurriedly stopped Yun Yao.

Stimulation?

Based on the chronological sequence, Qi Xia knew that the person with this “echo” was Officer Li.

But what did “Stimulation” mean? After thinking for a long time, Qi Xia couldn’t find any connection between “Stimulation” and producing items out of thin air.

“Go on. What came after?” Qi Xia asked.

“The ‘echo’ after that was quite interesting… I vaguely remember it was the first half of an idiom.” Yun Yao lifted her head, constantly pondering. “What was it…?”

“Ah! I remember!” Yun Yao said with a smile. “It was ‘Reaching into the Bag’!”

“‘Reaching into the Bag’…?”

“That’s right.” Yun Yao nodded. “It’s the ‘Reaching into the Bag’ from the idiom ‘as easy as reaching into a bag to retrieve something.'”

Qi Xia silently repeated these two words several times, slowly feeling a sense of unease rise in his heart.

This was Officer Li’s “echo.”

But why wasn’t it “Creation”?

Could it be that Officer Li’s ability wasn’t creating items out of nothing at all, but rather “retrieving existing items”?

This was indeed very abstract.

In other words, Officer Li could only “take out” things, not “conjure” things.

When he pulled out the metal lighter from the “Land of the End,” the lighter in the real world would disappear.

This was what “Reaching into the Bag” meant.

So before his death, it would be impossible for him to pull out thirty-six hundred “Dao”… unless he actually had that many.

“Looks like I need to find an opportunity to tell him this news…” Qi Xia muttered to himself. “Otherwise, that man will definitely keep seeking death.”

Speaking of which… between Officer Li and Xiao Xiao, why was there an additional “Stimulation”?

Who had activated that ability?

Qi Xia felt quite puzzled. Having just arrived at the “Land of the End,” he was very attentive to the timing of each bell sound.

He remembered that Officer Li’s bell came immediately after Xiao Xiao’s.

“No, that’s not right…”

Qi Xia cautiously furrowed his brow.

After Xiao Xiao had consecutively killed Qiao Jiajin and Tiantian, Qi Xia had briefly passed out from excessive headaches.

If there really was an “echo” who appeared, it could only have been during that brief period.

But who was it?

Qi Xia thought for a moment, then shook his head.

It seemed he had fallen into a misconception.

Who said the “echo” had to be someone he knew?

There were countless people in this city playing their respective games. Anyone could have heard an “echo.”

“The last time was someone I knew.” Yun Yao stroked her cheek and said, “A person from ‘Extreme Path.’ Their ‘echo’ was called ‘Causality.'”

“Causality…” Qi Xia nodded silently. This was the “logical relationship” that Jiang Ruoxue constantly mentioned.

Looking at her ability comprehensively, it seemed she could first determine the “result” of something, then create a “cause” that fit the logical relationship.

When she had modified the password in the iron box, she had said something similar.

Because the letter inside the iron box was the door password, and the letter said “Long Live Extreme Path,” therefore “Long Live Extreme Path” was the door password.

In other words, no matter what the original password was, once Jiang Ruoxue activated her ability, whatever was written in the box would unconditionally become the password.

These abilities sounded more bizarre than the last.

But fortunately, Jiang Ruoxue seemed to have a weakness. If she couldn’t think of the logical relationship between two things, she couldn’t establish “Causality.”

The most direct example was when she had wanted to save Qi Xia, but had personally said she couldn’t do it.

Because a person who suffered serious injuries would die, so she also couldn’t forcibly change the logic within.

“I’ve never encountered such a dense concentration of ‘echoes’ at the start before.” Yun Yao smiled. “It made me think for a while that ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ and ‘Extreme Path’ had entered into all-out war early.”

“Have your two organizations had wars before?” Qi Xia asked.

“Probably not.” Yun Yao thought for a moment and said, “I’m not sure, because I’ve also lost memories before. After all, people can’t possibly obtain ‘echoes’ one hundred percent in a single cycle. So aside from Chu Tianqiu, everyone in ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ has lost their memories to some extent. For example, Zhang Shan… last time he almost died suddenly on the night of the second day and had no opportunity to obtain an ‘echo.’ But it doesn’t matter. As long as one person still remembers what happened before, ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ won’t fall.”

Though Yun Yao was smiling, Qi Xia heard a trace of sadness in those words.

Speaking of which, “Heaven’s Mouth” should be the saddest place in the entire “Land of the End.”

Because most of the people here retained their memories. They knew clearly that they simply couldn’t get out.

Who knew how long they had struggled mentally before finally being willing to stand together and face death courageously.

Those ordinary people without “echoes” were different. Each experience was fresh to them. They forever believed they had just arrived here, so they naively thought there must be a way to escape.

Perhaps this was the reason “Heaven’s Mouth” chose the school as their location—because they wanted to pass down their memories “from generation to generation.”

“What is Chu Tianqiu’s ‘echo’?” Qi Xia asked again.

“I don’t know,” Yun Yao answered.

Qi Xia felt like he had misheard and asked again, “What did you say?”

“I said I don’t know,” Yun Yao repeated.

“You don’t know…?” Qi Xia felt this was a very peculiar answer.

“Not only do I not know, even Chu Tianqiu himself doesn’t know.” Yun Yao said with a smile. “The trigger for his ‘echo’ is extremely unique. Unfortunately, every time he ‘echoes’ he inevitably dies, so even he himself doesn’t know what his ability is.”

“Oh?” Qi Xia suddenly thought of something and asked, “Could it be that Chu Tianqiu’s ‘echo’ trigger is also near-death?”

“Of course it’s not that simple.” Yun Yao gave a bitter smile. “Qi Xia, Chu Tianqiu’s ‘echo’ trigger is ‘Witnessing the End.'”