“Good!” Qiu Shiliu nodded. “With Jiu Jie here, I can relax. But you just said… where did I have a flaw?”

“It should be that the ‘direction of movement’ had a problem. It’s not ‘bring the most important door closer to me’…” Bai Jiu pondered. “That statement is too general. I suspect it might be able to reveal the ultimate secret of the ‘Land of End’ to you, but we don’t need that kind of information right now.”

“The ultimate secret…?”

“Yes, only the ‘ultimate secret’ would be the most important thing to everyone. But right now, we want to kill Xuanwu or find Xuanwu’s weakness.”

“So you mean…”

“I think…” Bai Jiu answered seriously, “it should be ‘bring the door most important to Xuanwu closer to me.'”

“I see…”

Qiu Shiliu’s mouth squirmed within Jiang Shi’s eye, but soon she thought of a rather troublesome question.

“Jiu Jie…”

“What?”

“I want to ask you something.” Qiu Shiliu’s ethereal voice drifted back and forth, her tone seeming somewhat hesitant.

“Why so formal? Just say it.” Bai Jiu asked with a furrowed brow in confusion.

“You know… from your perspective, I’ve appeared bizarrely in Jiang Shi’s eye, but from my perspective, you’ve appeared out of thin air inside Xuanwu’s body…”

“That’s right.” Bai Jiu nodded.

Although this statement seemed abstract from both sides, it had indeed happened this way.

After those words fell, Bai Jiu and Jiang Shi were both silent for several seconds.

Yes, under the current circumstances, how could they prove that what both sides were seeing wasn’t a hallucination?

“Your suspicion is correct.” Bai Jiu paused and said, “From your perspective, we could indeed be a hallucination.”

“Right now, I even have to rely on my conviction to maintain my breathing.” Qiu Shiliu added, “In this situation, I could easily fall into madness, so I really hope you’re all real… I need real teammates to strengthen my conviction…”

“I have a method.” Bai Jiu said.

“What…?”

“Theoretically speaking, you should be able to touch me.” Bai Jiu extended a finger. “If I’m not mistaken, your finger can emerge from Little Jiang Shi’s eye.”

“Huh?!” Jiang Shi was startled. “Wait… Lady warrior, hold on!!”

After hearing this, Qiu Shiliu felt it made some sense. Although this scene might look slightly horrifying, it was also the only way to confirm that Bai Jiu and the others weren’t hallucinations.

Thinking this, she slowly extended her hand, reaching toward the opening in mid-air. Then her finger gradually disappeared into the air. The sensation on the other end felt ice-cold, as if she had arrived in another space, or as if she had reached into water.

Bai Jiu thought to herself that the scene before her was indeed somewhat too horrifying.

On Jiang Shi’s helpless face, one eye still held teardrops, while a slender finger extended from the other eye socket.

That finger twisted and moved on Jiang Shi’s face like a worm.

Bai Jiu thought to herself that this matter was fortunate to happen to “Cat.” If it were replaced with any “Participant” without memories, they should have gone directly mad by now.

“Jiu… Jiu Jie…”

“Little Jiang Shi, does it hurt…?” Bai Jiu asked with some concern.

“It… it doesn’t hurt…” Jiang Shi answered. “But this is too frightening… My right eye can see a finger extending from my left eye!!”

“Good boy, close your eyes.”

Bai Jiu walked forward and gently touched Qiu Shiliu’s finger, then picked up a small handful of sand from the ground, “liquefied” it, and dripped it onto Qiu Shiliu’s fingertip.

“Shiliu, I not only touched you, I also left a mark that only I would leave behind.” Bai Jiu said. “Don’t worry, we’re not a hallucination.”

Whether or not Qiu Shiliu actually heard was unclear, but her finger trembled for a moment, then slowly retracted.

Before long, her eye was once again exposed, and from the look in it, it seemed some of the fear had diminished.

“Little Shiliu, go ahead. Perhaps killing Xuanwu this time really will depend on you.” Bai Jiu said.

“Wait… Jiu Jie, there’s something I still don’t think I understand…”

“What?”

“If I switch to a different door… how will I communicate with you?” Qiu Shiliu said somewhat hesitantly. “When the time comes, I’ll go to another place. Won’t I be unable to find you?”

Bai Jiu thought for a while and felt this was indeed a problem.

The place Qiu Shiliu was going to next was “the door most important to Xuanwu.” This kind of command would definitely make her leave her current position.

What exactly would happen then? Would she still need to provide strategies?

In such an uncertain situation, even if Qiu Shiliu really found the thing most important to Xuanwu, how would she carry out her actions?

“This…”

“How about…” Qiu Shiliu thought for a moment. “Jiu Jie, you can be like Shan Jie and tell me in advance about several situations I might encounter, and then I’ll handle it myself.”

“No…”

After thinking for a long time, a strange idea popped into Bai Jiu’s mind—

“Shiliu, can you take this ‘door’ in front of you with you?” she asked.

“Huh…?” Qiu Shiliu was stunned for a moment.

“I mean this circle of light in front of you…” Bai Jiu thought again. “Can you move it?”

Qiu Shiliu felt that Bai Jiu had raised a question she had never thought of before. Could these strange doors actually be moved?

“You… wait a moment.”

After Qiu Shiliu finished speaking, she began to shrink her body backward, then extended her palm forward.

From Bai Jiu’s perspective, Jiang Shi’s eye no longer displayed strange patterns, but simply returned to pitch blackness.

In the next second, a flesh-colored thing covered Jiang Shi’s eye, then turned back into pitch blackness.

“Wow! Jiu Jie, you’re truly amazing!” Qiu Shiliu’s intermittent voice came from the other end. “This thing can actually be taken away by me…”

“I thought so too…” Bai Jiu nodded. “If nothing unexpected happens, someone here has even used these traversable doors to build something, so they must be movable.”

“Now it’s great!” Qiu Shiliu’s voice began to become clearer. “It’s like I’m holding a phone and video calling with you.”

Hearing this, Jiang Shi was stunned, then raised his head. “What do you mean by video calling?”

“Children shouldn’t ask random questions.” Bai Jiu patted Jiang Shi’s shoulder, then looked at his eye again.

Qiu Shiliu’s face was revealed in Jiang Shi’s eye. Just as she had said, it was like a display screen that could video call.

As long as one looked carefully in Jiang Shi’s eye, they could see Qiu Shiliu’s figure.

“Jiu Jie, I’m going. Let’s coordinate from inside and outside to see what exactly Xuanwu is.”