The following days became tense again. I participated in various games as usual, greatly training the intensity of my own “Echo.”

I discovered that I had a hard time dealing with Xiao Xiao, so I could only entrust her to someone socially adept like Old Sun. Old Sun completely lived up to expectations and became friends with Xiao Xiao that very day.

I rarely managed to free myself and had more time to handle my own matters, but I quickly discovered a rather strange problem. Zhoumo kept saying that there were more and more strong people here, but I rarely encountered any of them.

For instance, nothing happened while I was following Xiao Xiao, but as soon as I handed her over to Old Sun, I heard she was killed in a straightforward manner by someone in a game.

The giant bell that day received consecutive massive “Echoes.” I wasn’t far away, so I hurriedly ran to check and discovered the display screen prominently showing “Tianxingjian” and “破萬法.”

These two large lines of characters suppressed other text. I could barely see that Xiao Xiao’s “Frame,” Old Sun’s “Original Object,” and Luo Shiyi’s “Forget Worries” were all among them. In the corner there were even “Attract Calamity” and “Scapegoat.” The scene was exceptionally lively.

Jiang Ruoxue told me that Xiao Xiao lost in a one-on-one fight to someone she had never heard of before, and later in the “Echo” struggle, Zhang Shan punched through her chest with one blow.

She lost completely and thoroughly.

How strange… Were these strong people avoiding me? Why was it that I frequently appeared in games yet never encountered any formidable figures?

Just as I was about to ask Zhoumo for a detailed list of strong people, I encountered an extraordinary person in an Earth-Snake’s game.

Chen Junnan.

Yes, I could only use “extraordinary person” to describe him.

Originally I thought he was just a figure I had never heard of, but who would have known that he was precisely the “Scapegoat” that had always been hanging on the external screens.

How could this be called “never heard of”? Clearly it was “thunderously famous” yet not knowing where the person was.

This person would briefly appear on the first day of every ten-day cycle, then disappear like a flash in the pan. But now “Scapegoat” no longer disappeared… and Chen Junnan had begun to show his talents.

Baiyang… Chen Junnan… various powerful “Participants” suddenly emerging…

But I really couldn’t figure it out… What exactly did Baiyang do that would cause the “Participants” here to only start slowly rising after he left?

I was too curious about Chen Junnan. I had never heard the three words “Chen Junnan” in any other place… yet he was hard to forget.

I suspected that people who had met Chen Junnan, even if they couldn’t remember his name, would definitely have an impression of his personality.

Chen Junnan absolutely had this ability.

An ordinary “Participant” whose “Echo” was the non-lethal “Scapegoat,” in a situation where he had no strategy or teammates and didn’t understand the game rules, chose to directly gamble his life with an Earth-Snake notorious for cunning.

Even with eight lifetimes of training, I couldn’t be this impulsive.

No tactics, not knowing the rules, and not knowing how to kill the Earth-Snake either—all plans almost had to rely on flashes of inspiration… Would anyone really do this?

But not only did he do it, he even truly gambled the Earth-Snake to death.

It seemed to really be as Zhoumo said—there were more and more interesting people here.

Thanks to Chen Junnan’s fortune, I entered “Heaven’s Mouth” for the first time as a visitor. I could finally meet Chu Tianqiu.

According to Yun Yao’s account, although Chu Tianqiu could maintain his memories for a long time, he rarely could activate his “Echo.” This time I wanted to go see his abilities. If he was still lacking a bit of despair, I didn’t mind killing him once.

But I never imagined that after arriving at “Heaven’s Mouth,” I experienced the most subversive event to my understanding thus far.

That was: Chu Tianqiu’s image in my heart completely collapsed. This kind of person wasn’t even worth me taking action to kill.

He was nothing like the “Good Person King” rumored by the outside world, but rather a thoroughly “Insane Person.”

Chu Tianqiu’s madness far exceeded my imagination. Not only were his thoughts crazy, but he also had an aura not much different from Qinglong’s.

That day, he activated some bizarre “Echo” in front of me, pulling the dying Chen Junnan back from the gates of hell.

From the result’s perspective, Chu Tianqiu saved the dying Chen Junnan. But from the process’s perspective, the situation was extremely complicated and bizarre. At that time, the severely injured Chen Junnan had not yet died, but a new Chen Junnan had already been reborn with partial memories.

Two identical people stood before me. If there was any difference between them, it was that the new Chen Junnan had one less day of memories than the dead Chen Junnan.

I never imagined that Chu Tianqiu’s “Echo” would be so domineering. After all, all the “Echoes” here seemed to follow certain rules. Many abilities, no matter how incredible they looked, were reasonable upon careful thought. But an “Echo” that could directly replicate and create a person didn’t need to follow any rules.

At this moment, I seemed to have discovered some doubts…

Wait a minute… What if the new Chen Junnan hadn’t seen the old Chen Junnan and was just reborn on an unfamiliar street?

I mean… if looking only from the new Chen Junnan’s perspective, he wouldn’t know why he appeared here, and his memories couldn’t connect with before either.

Wouldn’t his feeling be like… suddenly spacing out?

The image of my corpse lying in Baiyang’s office instantly flashed through my mind.

Although Chen Junnan and I had never met, we absolutely encountered exactly the same situation.

Yes… if looking from this angle, surprisingly everything could be connected.

But there was one doubt I still couldn’t understand—that was, Chen Junnan’s rebirth came from Chu Tianqiu, but my spacing out came from Baiyang. I was very clear that Baiyang and Chu Tianqiu were completely different people in both personality and appearance, so why could they achieve the same effect?

I had a premonition… as long as I figured out this layer of logical relationship, all the truth would surface.

Looking at it this way, was it possible that Brother Sheep and Chu Tianqiu had some kind of cooperation?

Although I had no way to understand all the things Brother Sheep had done, I also knew that during the seven years Brother Sheep became a “Zodiac,” Chu Tianqiu never came to find Brother Sheep, and Brother Sheep never mentioned Chu Tianqiu either.

Now I had roughly figured out the reason why my life was so chaotic.

First, Baiyang used some rare method that could “modify” me. Whether it was my life, my memories, or my abilities, they would undergo slight modifications according to his requirements. This would cause a sense of fragmentation in my self-perception.

Second, Baiyang had made me “revive” many times. Each time I revived, I would forget at least one day of previous memories. The most direct evidence was that I never remembered the “Big Reshuffle,” but Old Sun and others did.