“It might be a way of dying you’ve never experienced before.” Song Qi slowly extended his hand and placed it before Ma Shi’er’s eyes. “That is, being blown to pieces by me.”

“Blown to pieces…?” Ma Shi’er looked at Song Qi with furrowed brows. “Sounds quite pleasant actually.”

Ma Shi’er nonchalantly extended his hand and grasped it together with Song Qi’s.

What Song Qi needed to do next was difficult if you said it was difficult, but easy if you said it was easy.

That was to treat Ma Shi’er’s body as a whole, then transform him into a freely moving human bomb.

“Twelve, only the two of us know about this.” Song Qi said. “Not only must we keep it secret, but we also need to think of a foolproof countermeasure. Once Zhu Que knows that we know… he will very likely make preparations against it.”

“Seventh Brother, your brain works better than mine.” Ma Shi’er said. “You think. After you’re done thinking, teach me.”

“Alright… I need you to find every possible way to touch Zhu Que.” Song Qi said. “Especially when he’s on the verge of suffering major harm.”

“I think I understand…”

“I’ll be responsible for attacking Zhu Que with full force, putting him into a near-death state.” Song Qi said. “If what Baihu said is true, Zhu Que will definitely transfer his consciousness out when he’s near death.”

“Holy shit, brilliant!” Ma Shi’er laughed. “Son of a bitch… after he transfers into my body, we’ll blow him up directly!”

Song Qi nodded, then withdrew the hand he had been grasping together with Ma Shi’er’s.

The deployment of “Explosive Combustion” was already complete. Now, with just one thought from himself, his close teammate before him would transform into fireworks on the spot.

Although he felt he had a trump card, Song Qi still hadn’t fully comprehended the meaning of “Puppet.”

The teammates were currently using their bodies to intercept Zhu Que. Would there still be time for him to continue comprehending afterward?

Song Qi slowly clenched his fist, feeling that he needed to add one final layer of insurance for the entire “Cat” team.

This layer of insurance couldn’t even be told to Ma Shi’er.

After all, Ma Shi’er would die in the “first ring.” He only needed to know that his death had value.

And he himself would be the “second ring” of this assassination plan. This time he could only gamble—gamble that Zhu Que, like Xuanwu, was in a strange state that was difficult for normal people to understand.

Only in this way could he, as the “second ring,” have a certain probability of killing him.

The probability of winning this gamble was truly too small. Even Song Qi didn’t have the slightest confidence.

…

Song Qi looked at Ma Shi’er before him, who was letting out a maniacal laugh, and slowly extended his hand.

“You think I’ll die just like this…?” Ma Shi’er said with a laugh. “You really are disobedient… I’ve used that body for so many years… and you actually riddled it full of holes for me…”

Song Qi nodded, staring at Ma Shi’er and asking: “Originally it was flashing to someone’s side to kill them, but now it’s changed to using ‘Displacement’ to kill. So you no longer have ‘Leaping’… right?”

Ma Shi’er’s face trembled slightly, then squeezed out a trace of a smile: “What do you mean?”

“I mean that the current you… can neither dodge nor escape.” Song Qi stretched out his hand, then slightly pinched his fingers.

At this moment, Ma Shi’er’s body began to twist and expand. He had never imagined that this body had been pre-cast with an “immortal technique.”

“Wait… wait a moment…” Ma Shi’er’s gradually fattening body began to squeeze out an unpleasant sound. “Wait a moment first…”

His expression gradually became flustered. He began to extend both hands wildly grasping, but there wasn’t a single person beside him.

“Filthy thing… get out of my brother’s body.” Song Qi said.

“Let’s negotiate…” Ma Shi’er said trembling. “We can negotiate! I can give you…”

*BOOM!*

Before Ma Shi’er could touch anyone, his body exploded like a balloon filled with water, instantly emitting a muffled explosion.

Everyone only felt a rain of blood spraying onto their faces, warm and reeking of blood.

The few remaining people raised their hands to shield their faces, feeling that before them was nothing but flying flesh and blood. Perhaps this was the “Land of Terminus.”

This time… had Zhu Que finally vanished into smoke and dispersed?

“Old Seven… you two just now…” Qian Wu at the side looked at the scene before him with lingering fear.

“Don’t worry, Fifth Brother, everything is within the plan.” Song Qi’s gaze didn’t relax at all. Instead, he stared at the nearby flesh and blood.

What came next was the “second ring.” As long as this “second ring” was bet correctly, “Cat” could win.

“‘Cat’ could originally eat ‘Sparrow.'”

After just a few seconds, Song Qi indeed discovered a small piece of strange flesh at the position where Ma Shi’er had just exploded.

This piece of flesh didn’t look the same as the other flesh. It was wriggling.

Qian Wu instantly felt something was strange. Just as he was about to step forward, Song Qi reached back with his hand to block him.

“Fifth Brother, thank you for taking care of me all these years.” Song Qi said. “I hope there’s still a chance to drink with you.”

“Old Seven…” Qian Wu slowly furrowed his brow.

“I didn’t expect I’d bet correctly.”

Song Qi walked forward, reached out to pick up that lump of flesh from the ground, then turned his hand to look. On the flesh were three eyeballs rolling around chaotically. Around those eyes were almost entirely tooth marks.

“The ‘eyes’ are the true body, right?” Song Qi looked down at the flesh in his hand and asked with a smile. “I was puzzled before—why would gnawing on the eyes in your mouth deepen your ‘conviction’… So it turns out you weren’t gnawing on eyes at all, but on yourself. Deepening your conviction in a state of extreme pain and panic—that makes sense.”

After hearing this, the three eyes on that lump of flesh all looked toward Song Qi. Then a crack opened between the three eyes, as if a mouth was opening.

An unpleasant voice came out hoarsely from that mouth: “Really… so disobedient…”

“If I’m not mistaken… these three eyeballs of yours are ‘Soul Capture,’ ‘Puppet,’ and ‘Soul Migration,’ right?” Song Qi clearly felt that the piece of flesh in his hand wasn’t being honest, but at this moment he gripped the flesh tightly, making it unable to move. “In your own mouth, you controlled yourself through ‘Puppet’ to achieve a floating effect… quite interesting.”

Only now did Zhoumo realize what Earth-Pig meant by “distant.” After all, what he had touched wasn’t the “Echo User’s” true body at all.

“…So you knew everything…” The piece of flesh opened its mouth as if laughing.

“Your original host’s body had ‘Leaping.’ In your near-death stage, you ‘Leaped’ this lump of flesh out, then ‘Soul Migrated’ onto Nineteen’s body, and finally made contact with Ma Shi’er.” Song Qi increased the force in his hand viciously. “Unfortunately, this lump of flesh of yours has been strengthened. Even if Twelve’s entire body was blown to pieces, it wouldn’t necessarily be able to blow you to death.”

“Ha… haha…” The piece of flesh continued to grin. “Although you know my secret… so what? My ‘Soul Capture’ and ‘Soul Migration’ are still here. You… can’t move now… and I’ve touched you…”

“No…” Song Qi denied. “Zhu Que, it’s not that you touched me, but that I touched you.”

“What…?”

“You’ve already entered a dead end.” Song Qi said. “Now your body has been infused with my ‘Explosive Combustion.’ My own body will also be destroyed in one minute… this is your ending.”