Earth-Monkey rushed forward to cover Jiang Ruoxue’s mouth.

“Oh shit…” Earth-Monkey was so scared he looked out the window for a long time, only slowly lowering his hand after confirming it hadn’t triggered “thunderous roar.”

“Don’t cover my mouth!” Jiang Ruoxue reached up to wipe her mouth with a slightly disgusted expression. “Did you wash your hands?”

“Who still cares about washing hands…” Earth-Monkey said. “If you all want to die, don’t drag me down with you. I still have other important things to do. Go, go, go—go rebel on your own outside.”

“You’re already on the rebellion list.” Jiang Ruoxue said loudly. “After we leave, you’re still a rebel.”

“Damn it!” Earth-Monkey wanted to step forward again to block Jiang Ruoxue’s mouth, but Jiang Ruoxue dodged back two steps.

“Really! Didn’t you see the list?” Jiang Ruoxue questioned. “The ‘rebel’ Shen Monkey is you, right? We came here following the map!”

“Stop fucking talking!!”

“You probably haven’t received the news yourself yet.” Jiang Ruoxue continued raising her voice. “But in our ‘Extreme Path’ rebellion plan, you’re the contact person. Now…”

“Fine, fine, fine!!”

Earth-Monkey shouted loudly, struggling to suppress Jiang Ruoxue’s volume, then lowered his voice to say to her, “You bastard… forcibly dragging me into the water, huh…”

“Hehe.” Jiang Ruoxue also lowered her voice with a mischievous smile. “Certificate of allegiance. My apologies.”

“I fucking told you to persuade me.” Earth-Monkey said. “Not to intimidate me.”

“The effect is the same.” Jiang Ruoxue said. “At dusk, open the door and let everyone behind me board the vehicle together.”

Earth-Monkey pondered for a few seconds, then asked, “What do I get out of it?”

Earth-Monkey nodded, his brain racing, then asked again, “Can you all create a crack?”

After hearing this, Jiang Ruoxue was stunned, seemingly not understanding the meaning of this question. “Create a crack where? What kind of crack?”

Earth-Monkey sighed. It seemed the woman before him also couldn’t accomplish his goal.

Of course he knew he was a “rebel.”

It was just that back when Qi Xia assigned Earth-Monkey his task, he had told him to wait—wait for a “crack.”

Qi Xia had also said that theoretically this crack wouldn’t appear. Even if someone had the gall of heaven, they couldn’t possibly create a crack here.

Now riots had already begun appearing everywhere, even the “Zodiacs” had started gathering in rooms for meetings, yet the “crack” still hadn’t appeared.

“Was I deceived…?” Earth-Monkey said with a frown. “Without the ‘crack,’ when can I join the action? Am I even part of this plan?”

Jiang Ruoxue seemed to catch some key point from Earth-Monkey’s words.

“Only with a ‘crack’… can you act?”

Before Earth-Monkey could speak, Jiang Ruoxue immediately lowered her head and busied herself for a moment, took off her leather shoe, then struck hard at the old table with the heel.

The table was already old and worn. Under Jiang Ruoxue’s forceful pounding, a crack immediately appeared.

“Shit! What are you doing? This is solid wood!”

“Look, a crack.” Jiang Ruoxue said while holding her shoe. “Can you act now? Can we use the ‘door’?”

“That’s not what I fucking meant at all!” Earth-Monkey said somewhat anxiously.

“Got it.” Jiang Ruoxue nodded. “One isn’t enough, right?”

She leaned forward to look at the gambling table behind Earth-Monkey. “Old fat man, just wait.”

“Stop, stop, stop!” Earth-Monkey hurried forward to pull Jiang Ruoxue back. “The ‘crack’ I’m looking for theoretically shouldn’t exist…”

“Right, which ‘participant’ would theoretically crack the table you normally use?”

“No…” Earth-Monkey thought for a moment and said again, “That ‘crack’—even if the other party had the gall of heaven, they absolutely couldn’t create it…”

“Then what?” Jiang Ruoxue raised an eyebrow. “Isn’t my gall big enough?”

Earth-Monkey was now speechless. Although he knew the “crack” definitely couldn’t appear so abruptly, what other options were there now?

If he didn’t hurry to take a stance, this plan truly wouldn’t include him.

“Fine, stop hitting…” Earth-Monkey said. “You all rest here for now, but I’ll say this first—my old eyes are dim, I didn’t see anything. Once Xuanwu and Zhu Que appear to block you all, I’ll expose you on the spot.”

After hearing this, Jiang Ruoxue was slightly stunned. “Wait… Xuanwu and Zhu Que appearing to block us?”

“Aren’t you asking the obvious?” Earth-Monkey said. “Such a serious ‘violation’ must be handled by one of those two. Though this kind of situation has never occurred before, so I can’t say for sure who should come.”

After hearing this, Jiang Ruoxue nodded. “So it really is a death ‘gate’… only encountering Zhu Que would be true death.”

…

Zhoumo and the short Earth-Pig before her had argued for a long time before both sides realized the other was their teammate.

The scene became somewhat awkward for a moment. No one spoke, and Zhoumo could only walk to the side and begin using “sound transmission” to confirm the situation on each side.

She first transmitted sound to Song Qi, generally asking about the overall battle situation with “Cat.” Whether everyone would kill Xuanwu or not was almost all within Zhoumo’s plans. As expected, “Cat” had actually killed a Xuanwu who seemed to have no weaknesses.

However, Song Qi could never explain the method of killing clearly in “sound transmission,” only telling Zhoumo to “rest assured about everything.”

Zhoumo tried to transmit sound to Wang Ba again—the other end was completely empty. The same situation occurred with Jiang Shi. The sounds transmitted to them were like dropping into a hole without echo.

She quickly calmed her emotions and turned to send sound transmission to Qian Wu.

“Fifth Brother, how are things on your end?”

Qian Wu took a long time before slowly sending out a voice that sounded extremely exhausted.

“Today, the whole day, I’ve visited all the ‘Zodiacs’ who owe ‘Cat’ favors.” Qian Wu said. “Only one person agreed to ‘flee in defeat,’ but the remaining few said they would provide help in other areas, striving to severely injure Zhu Que.”

“Are they trustworthy?” Zhoumo asked again.

“We have to make it work even if not.” Qian Wu said. “I’m guessing there will be casualties on Xuanwu’s side. The next battle with Zhu Que will depend on me and Old Seven. What about your end?”

“Going smoothly for now…” Zhoumo said. She paused, then as if remembering something, “Fifth Brother… are you really planning to board the ‘Train’ from my location after it ends…?”

“Yes.” Qian Wu answered. “Just like we agreed last night, but keep it secret for me.”

“But why…?” Zhoumo said. “I know you don’t want to live, because the probability of death after boarding the ‘Train’ will be higher than killing Zhu Que… So why is it necessary to board this vehicle?”

“This is also something agreed upon with another person long ago.” Qian Wu said. “I’m still needed to kill ‘Qinglong.'”