This was the first time I’d met such a fierce girl. She appeared short in stature, but had an intimidating aura.

“Um… I haven’t even said who I’m looking for, and you’re already saying you don’t know?” I asked.

“Tch, no matter who you’re looking for, I just don’t know anyway.” The girl said. “I’m used to acting alone, I don’t know anyone.”

“Ah… okay…” I nodded, inexplicably feeling that the girl before me seemed somewhat similar to me.

But she was far more assertive than I was.

At this moment, a middle-aged man walked by. I could only stop pestering that girl and let her leave, then pulled the middle-aged man aside and asked: “Big brother, do you know a participant named Jiang Ruoxue?”

“Who…? Jiang Ruoxue?” The man was slightly stunned. “I seem to have heard that name, but I’m not very familiar with her.”

What made me curious was that after I said Jiang Ruoxue’s name, the girl in leather clothing walked a few steps and also stopped not far away.

“Alright then…” I smiled at the man. “I’ll ask someone else.”

After the man left, I looked somewhat curiously at the leather-clad girl’s back. Her head was lowered silently, as if she was saying something.

But there was no one else here—what was she muttering to herself about?

I shook my head, thinking that encountering one or two strange people in the “Land of the End” was in itself a common occurrence.

Just as I was about to leave, the leather-clad girl turned around and called out rudely: “Hey!”

“Hmm?”

She walked toward me step by step, her expression looking somewhat troubled. After holding it in for a long time, she finally spoke: “Tch… robbery, hand over all the ‘Dao’ on you.”

Was this sudden robbery for real?

Looking at the girl’s expression, it was clearly as if someone was forcing her.

“Can you tell me the reason?” I said. “If you really wanted to rob me, couldn’t you have made your move when we first met?”

The girl before me didn’t answer, just lowered her head silently and said in a low voice: “Tch, be quiet. What am I supposed to do if I don’t rob… you’re telling me to detain her, what am I supposed to detain her with?”

“What…?” I suspected this girl probably had some split personality issues.

“Tch, it’s nothing. Just hand over the ‘Dao’ first. If you don’t have any, I’ll just detain you for now.” The girl raised her head again and said, “No rush, take your time.”

“Take my time…?”

I truly hadn’t encountered this kind of situation in a long time. Sure enough, adventuring alone would be quite interesting. I slowly reached up to brush my hair, and the girl before me also uncontrollably raised her right hand, also brushing the dreadlocks on her head.

This action startled her herself.

Needless to say for her—even if thirty people were standing nearby, as long as I could still move, they couldn’t possibly touch me.

“I think we should forget about the robbery.” I said. “You’ll probably die before you can touch me.”

“Impressive…” She looked up at me, then looked into the distance. “Tch, incredible, the bell didn’t even ring—a veteran ‘Echo’ user?”

I didn’t speak, just shook my head.

“Let’s shake hands.” The girl extended her hand in front of me. “My name is Zhoumo, let’s be friends.”

The girl before me called Zhoumo could say the words “veteran Echo user,” so she must also be an “Echo” user. I wasn’t planning to touch her.

After all, among the many “Echoes” I’d seen, touching the other party was one of the activation conditions—like Jiang Ruoxue or Auntie Tong. I couldn’t possibly touch a stranger carrying an “Echo.”

Seeing that I didn’t extend my hand, Zhoumo lowered her head again and muttered quietly: “Tch, I really have no other way. I can only try to touch her somehow. Come or don’t, up to you.”

Her mental state seemed worrying… only I was standing before her, yet she seemed to be talking to two people at once.

“I don’t want to cause trouble.” I said. “Whatever power struggles you have here have nothing to do with me. I just want to find someone.”

“What do you mean I should figure it out myself?!” She shouted. “Tch, don’t be too unreasonable. Being able to help to this extent is already pretty good, okay?”

“Huh…?”

Good heavens, she seemed to have started completely ignoring me.

“Um…” I asked somewhat uncertainly, “Zhoumo, are you okay?”

“Tch, hurry up and get over here!” The girl said again. “That Gu Yu isn’t some important person anyway. Let him get lost sooner.”

I looked at Zhoumo somewhat helplessly, completely unsure what to do.

“Gu Yu, I’m talking to you, did you hear?” She said again with her head lowered.

Alright, the people participating in this conversation seemed to be increasing.

I should just take my leave.

“Um… I still need to find someone, so I’ll be going.” I said. “You go ahead and…”

“Tch…” Zhoumo finally raised her head to look at me, then let out a deep sigh. “Where are you going?”

“I…”

“Tch, I really can’t keep pretending. I’ll be honest with you—that bitch Jiang Ruoxue and I came from the same room.” She said. “Just now she couldn’t swallow her pride, so she told me to find a way to keep you here. This is too fucking difficult.”

“Huh?” I quickly thought through the situation just now. “What do you mean… you can communicate with Jiang Ruoxue remotely?”

“‘Sound Transmission’ Zhoumo.” She extended her hand. “Are you the ‘Extreme Path King’?”

“I…”

There truly weren’t many people who knew the identity of “Extreme Path King.” After all, when I recruited everyone, I never said I was the “Extreme Path King.” Only Jiang Ruoxue would call me that.

Thinking of this, I extended my hand and clasped it with Zhoumo’s.

“Yan Zhichun.”

I had to say, the name “Zhoumo” was quite interesting—you could remember it after hearing it just once.

“Anyone I’ve touched can receive my ‘Sound Transmission.'” Zhoumo said. “Just now I already told Jiang Ruoxue about your situation coming here. That bitch wants to make up with you but also wants to save face, so she’s planning to pretend she doesn’t know anything about the situation and then ‘coincidentally’ run into you. Wait here for a bit, then watch her performance and improvise accordingly.”

“Im-improvise…?”

Zhoumo’s words contained too much information—I didn’t even know how to respond.

“Tch, by the way, this area hasn’t been peaceful lately.” Zhoumo said. “There’s an organization that just moved here and is quite aggressive. They’re gambling their lives with ‘Human-level Zodiacs.’ It doesn’t matter if you wander around here, but try not to participate in ‘Human-level games,’ or you’ll easily get caught up in life-or-death gambling scenarios.”

I nodded, then stared into her eyes and asked: “Zhoumo, are you ‘Extreme Path’?”

“I…” Zhoumo looked at me. “Whether I am or not doesn’t matter anymore…”

“Doesn’t matter…?”

“Tch, there was a game in our interview room that required us to touch each other, so every time I’m reborn I can use ‘Sound Transmission’ with Jiang Ruoxue.” Zhoumo shook her head helplessly. “That bitch unilaterally considered me part of it even before ‘Extreme Path’ was really established. I can’t escape even if I try.”

Alright… this was indeed something Jiang Ruoxue could do.