Qi Xia pondered for a moment and closed the safe door. Just as he turned around, Baiyang’s figure appeared before him again.

“Annoying or not?” Qi Xia asked.

“I suddenly thought of something…” Baiyang reached up to stroke his chin.

“If you can’t figure it out, take your time thinking.”

“No.” Baiyang shook his head. “In my view, asking you about this matter will yield a faster answer.”

“Ask.”

“When the time comes… how will you leave?”

Upon hearing this, Qi Xia looked coldly at Baiyang and said: “What do you mean?”

“Don’t play dumb when you know the answer.” Baiyang’s expression also became stern. “I’ve thought for a long time without finding an answer… Have you arranged an escape plan for yourself this time?”

“No.” Qi Xia said decisively. “I’m destined to die here.”

“Just as I thought.” Baiyang stroked his chin with his hand. After a moment, he narrowed his eyes. “I thought my logic had some oversight… After all, I couldn’t see a way for you to survive. Turns out you truly never planned to leave alive from the very beginning.”

“So what?” Qi Xia asked again.

“If you die, it means I die completely.” Baiyang answered. “So ‘whether you can live’ is probably the only question about you that I care about.”

“But you’re already dead long ago.” Qi Xia sneered and pointed at his own temple. “You’re just a trace of hallucination remaining in my mind. You really think you’re a person?”

“But have you considered…” Baiyang’s voice suddenly became cold. “Why would I deliberately leave behind this trace of hallucination?”

“You’re smarter than the vast majority of people here, so naturally you know my scheme.” Baiyang’s illusory figure turned slightly, pointing at the black safe behind him. “How could my ‘ultimate weapon’ be that ‘door’ behind me? That’s merely something I should reasonably prepare for you.”

“Reasonable.”

“So are you prepared to fall for it?” Baiyang asked again.

“Interesting.” Qi Xia nodded. “Because people here will continuously lose their lives, you believe I’ll repeatedly use ‘Endless Life.’ This will cause me to become increasingly insane.”

“That’s right.” Baiyang smiled. “If at some instant you completely go mad, then I’ll no longer be a hallucination…”

“But a real person.” Qi Xia nodded as if suddenly understanding. “What a scheme.”

“Do we two still need to hypocritically praise each other’s schemes here?” Baiyang asked.

“Not really necessary.” Qi Xia shook his head. “But I can’t blindly unleash the domineering power of ‘Endless Life’… After all, you also remember what happened with Yan Zhichun. Once your or my sanity is affected, all those people who were reborn with memories because of ‘Endless Life’ will experience confusion. We still need them.”

“Also reasonable.” Baiyang said. “Right now there are probably countless casualties outside. Are you prepared to just leave it alone?”

“If they want to live, they can only use my subconscious, just like the trick you’re using.”

“It’s just an ordinary open strategy. It’s impossible you wouldn’t discover it, but you have no way to refuse.” Baiyang laughed lightly and said. “You disdain treating yourself as me, and I also disdain treating myself as you. Even the ‘Man-Snake’ who transcends the time dimension will tell you ‘he is he and I am I.’ Under these circumstances, once you separate the two of us from the bottom of your heart, I can only be forced to manifest on the spot. And if you completely treat me as you, you’ll have no choice but to accept all my memories.”

“What a fine ‘forced manifestation.’ So as I said… what a scheme indeed.” Qi Xia moved his somewhat fatigued shoulders and slowly sat down in the chair. “For this kind of thing, having Man-Snake transmit a message to me across time… is it worth it?”

“The reason he remembers this phrase is based on his feelings toward me.” Baiyang answered. “His subconscious also doesn’t acknowledge that we two are the same person. Among those few disciples of mine, only he would transmit this phrase to you word for word.”

“Worthy of being an open strategy. You can use this opportunity to utilize my subconscious to achieve rebirth, conveniently replacing a me who has gone mad. Although you died, you inserted a needle in my mind. This needle makes me have to be extremely careful even when controlling my own thoughts.” Qi Xia said. “Looking across the entire ‘Land of Terminus,’ besides myself, only you have the audacity to insert a needle in my brain.”

“That was the original plan.” Baiyang said. “But I didn’t expect you wouldn’t leave yourself a way to survive.”

“Is this strange?” Qi Xia asked. “I relied on my subconscious to turn myself into a monster. The current me is both terminally ill and cold-blooded and heartless, so I can’t leave. In other words, this path to survival never needed to be left for myself in the first place.”

After hearing this, Baiyang sneered coldly. The white fur on his face trembled slightly: “In front of me, you say you’re a monster?”

“Becoming a monster in appearance is merely the most superficial change. Now I’m not even human from the inside out.” Qi Xia said again. “Under these circumstances… you’re still prepared to use ‘Endless Life’ to be reborn and replace me?”

“Good question.” Baiyang pondered and nodded. “Since you haven’t left yourself a way to survive, it means even if I appear I’ll inevitably die. This indeed greatly dampens my enthusiasm.”

“But even you yourself can’t stop this plan.” Qi Xia said. “After all, even the current you isn’t the real you, but rather the you in my subconscious. When you manifested here, my consciousness had already divided you and me into two people.”

“Strange…” Baiyang narrowed his gray eyes, looking at Qi Xia with a complex expression. “It sounds like… you seem to be admitting defeat.”

“Not admitting defeat, but seeing through.” Qi Xia answered. “To be frank, whether you’ll be reborn is completely unimportant to me. But this time I must let everyone except me leave.”

“So what have you finally decided to do?” Baiyang said.

“I will board the ‘Train’ together with Heavenly-Dragon and head to distant places.”

“Oh…?” Baiyang nodded. “How rare. Isn’t this exactly what Heavenly-Dragon has been anticipating all along? Going to a brand new space, creating a brand new world.”

“Heh…” Qi Xia sneered coldly. “Sounds the same, but the actual situation is vastly different. Being able to ask that question only proves you’re not the real Baiyang, merely a trace of my hallucination.”

After hearing this, Baiyang revealed a slight smile. His entire figure became illusory in the room.

Qi Xia also took the opportunity to shake his dizzy head. Seeing Baiyang more frequently could only mean his own rationality was gradually disappearing.

This wasn’t a good sign.

He steadied his mind and walked out of the office, closing the room door. The next second, he discovered Yun Yao had appeared at the bank entrance.