“You…” After hearing this, Bai Jiu’s lips trembled. “You’ve also realized… that right now you’ve very likely already…”

“Jiu Jie.” Qiu Sixteen sighed. “Every step I’ve been able to take to reach today, from the major battles to just now not falling into the abyss, has been inseparable from every person in Cat. So don’t speak polite words with me here. Let me find a way to save everyone.”

“You…”

“Now we’ve all reached this point. The worst case scenario is that everyone enters Xuanwu’s body together and finally arrives at this small mountain village,” Qiu Sixteen said. “We’ve already found a way out, so now is precisely the time to go all in.”

After hearing this, Bai Jiu nodded. Things in this world were always like this.

If she told Qiu Sixteen that world was fake, then Qiu Sixteen would very likely become suspicious. Even if she agreed, there would definitely be a trust gap in the future. But when she gave up on this thought and wanted to let Qiu Sixteen escape alone, Qiu Sixteen chose to help the entire “Cat” team instead.

If she had to describe it, this was a “trust” that they mutually conveyed to each other.

“So Jiu Jie, just tell me what I should do.”

“Sixteen, first I need to state…” Bai Jiu said. “No matter what you’re seeing right now, without evidence, we have no way to confirm what’s strange about the world you’ve entered, and we have no way to confirm whether it’s the real world. After all, in the ‘Land of Finality’ there are many methods that can make you produce similar feelings.”

“I understand. Whether it’s entering a dream, spirit manifestation, illusion, or even a Clever Object, all of them could make me mistakenly believe I’ve returned to reality,” Qiu Sixteen said decisively. “So now I’ve also thought it through. Only by following Cat’s plan is the safest choice.”

“Good.” Bai Jiu nodded. “Since you understand this point, I think you can go back to the previous room to take a look. After all, ‘the most important door’ pointed to that building.”

“Alright, then I’ll… wait.” Qiu Sixteen said. “Jiu Jie, it seems someone is coming up the mountain.”

“Hmm…?”

Qiu Sixteen flipped the “door” in her hand around to point at the only road up the mountain. She saw a thin figure walking up from the foot of the mountain.

Just as Bai Jiu was about to speak, she suddenly heard a strange sound.

At the same time, Luo Shiyi, who was guarding in front of Xuanwu, was struck head-on by a punch and flew backward more than ten meters before crashing heavily to the ground.

Fortunately, Luo Shiyi always possessed “Forget Worries.” After being sent flying, he only let out a muffled grunt. He felt that several of his ribs had broken, but so far he couldn’t feel any pain.

“Damn…” Luo Shiyi stood up from the ground nonchalantly. “This crazy woman is too sudden…”

“Why…” Xuanwu suddenly spoke. “What exactly are you trying to do?”

Before anyone could answer, Xuanwu once again swung her hand at Luo Fifteen. Luo Fifteen had no time to defend at all. Her neck was instantly broken, and her entire body froze in place for a second before kneeling straight down on the ground.

“This is bad…” Bai Jiu murmured. “Something happened on Xuanwu’s side… I need to go take a look…”

“Jiu Jie! Then what about my side?!”

“Sixteen, I suspect that person climbing the mountain must be going to the house behind you!” Bai Jiu said to Jiang Shi’s eye. “Find a way to hide in the house and see what that person is actually going to do!”

“Okay… okay!” Qiu Sixteen said.

Bai Jiu stood up and was about to leave when Jiang Shi reached out and grabbed her.

“Little Jiang Shi…”

“Jiu Jie, take me with you,” Jiang Shi said. “Right now I have both ‘Forget Worries’ and ‘Undying,’ so I can still withstand some attacks.”

Bai Jiu naturally didn’t want to continue bringing Jiang Shi to a dangerous area. This would only accelerate his death.

“Moreover… you still need to contact Sixteen,” Jiang Shi said. “The current situation is already very strange. Only my eye can contact Sixteen, but I myself can’t see anything.”

“This…” Bai Jiu looked at Jiang Shi somewhat sadly, then nodded. “Alright… thank you for your hard work…”

As soon as her words fell, Bai Jiu reached out and whistled. Then a figure floated down from the sky.

“Jiu Jie, what are your orders?” The person who came was Wu Thirteen with “Air Suspension.”

“Thirteen, help me bring Jiang Shi to the battlefield. We’re going to block Xuanwu.”

“This…” Wu Thirteen looked at Jiang Shi, who was almost on the verge of death, then said, “Can Brother Shi really handle this in his condition?”

“Don’t ask anymore. Let’s hurry.”

Seeing Luo Shiyi sent flying, Wang Ba quickly stood in front of Xuanwu, blocking the others behind him. His short, stout, and chubby figure appeared especially comical.

But in the next second, his body grew with the wind, instantly doubling in size.

“Xuanwu… isn’t the reason we’re standing here to kill you?”

“Kill me…?” Xuanwu’s ethereal voice came out.

“That’s right.” Wang Ba, who looked like a giant, took a step forward. The enormous footsteps made the ground shake along with them. “What, having second thoughts now? Not planning to give us a chance anymore?”

After hearing this, Xuanwu didn’t speak. She simply vanished from her spot in an instant and appeared next to Wang Ba in the next second, fiercely swinging a punch at his lower abdomen.

“THUD”!

Wang Ba immediately reached down to block. Although he blocked the attack, his entire body retreated four or five steps in succession, and his expression also began to turn painful.

Everyone frowned when they saw this scene.

In another space, Qiu Sixteen didn’t know what had happened on the other end. She hurriedly turned around and ran toward the dilapidated house.

She looked around the dilapidated house for a long time. Perhaps only behind the several bundles of dry grass placed in the corner could she conceal her form, so without another word she hid there and tried her best to hold her breath.

After all, she didn’t know whether this space counted as the real world or not, and she didn’t know whether the person walking in was actually human.

It was very possible they would be like the faceless person from before—seemingly human but not human.

Before long, light footsteps came from far to near, and Qiu Sixteen’s heart rose to her throat.

Immediately after, the door was pushed open with a “creak,” and an extremely thin figure walked through the door.

It was a small girl with disheveled hair. She wore extremely tattered clothes. Her hair looked like it hadn’t been washed in many years, nor had it been groomed. Her messy hair made her look exactly like a wild person.

She carried a tattered small bag on her back. After entering the door, she slowly put down the small bag, then walked to the stove and began to start a fire.

Qiu Sixteen stared at the other’s back, not yet having emerged from her disbelief, when she heard the little girl slowly speak—

“You can kill me, but you cannot disintegrate me.”

…

“You can kill me, but you cannot disintegrate me.”

Xuanwu raised her head and spoke to Wang Ba in front of her.

Her voice was extremely distant, as if it came from another space.