“Weak-legged…!” Earth-Chicken’s sharp beak moved slightly, unable to even produce sound anymore.
“The ‘train’ will be much quieter without you, right?” Earth-Horse said, holding her completely fractured right hand.
“Tie up… and kill…!”
Earth-Chicken slowly knelt down, then pitched forward headfirst to the ground, his sharp beak stabbing into the floor. He became completely still.
The dust settled. Earth-Horse raised her head to look at those several students of Earth-Chicken and asked, “What do you say?”
“We…”
“Don’t cause trouble,” Earth-Horse said. “We’re doing something to liberate the entire ‘train.’ Now go tell all the ‘participant-level’ people that as long as they do nothing, they can wait for liberation.”
The several “participant-level” people before her clearly felt something wasn’t quite right. One man-tiger stepped forward and stammered, “Do nothing… but if those above blame us…”
“Those above won’t blame ‘people who do nothing,'” Earth-Horse replied. “Little Man-Tiger, even if they blame someone, they’ll blame us. What does it have to do with you ordinary ‘participant-level’ people?”
“This…”
Man-Tiger felt that what Earth-Horse said made sense. At this moment, “doing nothing” was actually the safest option. After all, being a “rebel” would result in death, and opposing these “rebels” could also result in being killed. Besides doing nothing, was there a better choice?
“Tell more people this message,” Earth-Horse said. “We’re not asking for anything, only asking that you don’t die for no reason. Can you do that?”
After hearing this, the several “participant-level” people all nodded, then scattered in different directions.
“Is this really okay…?” Earth-Pig said. “If one day they make a comeback… what if they seek revenge on you for killing their teacher?”
“There won’t be such a day,” Earth-Horse shook her head. “Now is a time when everyone is in danger. After all, all the ‘participant-level’ people don’t really understand what the current situation is. In other words, they are divided and we are united. We might not even live until tomorrow, much less worry about ‘making a comeback.'”
“You should go back and rest,” Earth-Horse said. “Remember not to die.”
“Where are you going?”
“To kill Heavenly-Horse,” Earth-Horse took a deep breath and said. “‘Matched assassination’—isn’t this the tactic we agreed upon?”
“Those attacks of yours…” Earth-Pig pointed at her hand. “Each time you use one, there’s one less, right…?”
“Yes,” Earth-Horse said with a heavy expression. “My teacher stored two hundred ‘zodiac-level’ attacks in my body. Now I’ve saved one hundred times for Heavenly-Horse.”
“But your hand…”
Earth-Pig pointed. Earth-Horse’s left hand was pierced through by a dagger, her right hand was completely fractured, and now she also had an injury on her foot. She looked like she had completely lost any means of attack.
“Even if I have to use my head to ram, it doesn’t matter,” Earth-Horse shook her head. “As long as I can catch Heavenly-Horse, I have a way to make her die.”
“Compared to you all…” Earth-Pig sighed. “Right now I’m really…”
“Your memories are very long, aren’t they?” Earth-Horse changed the subject.
“What?”
“Teacher told me that if there really comes a day of full-scale resistance, we must at least leave one person with very long memories on the ‘train,'” Earth-Horse said. “Thinking about it now, everything is just right. That person can only be you. You must remember all of us.”
After hearing this, Earth-Pig furrowed his brow and looked at her. “What do you mean… what are you saying? My memories being long… what does that have to do with me staying here?”
“I don’t know,” Earth-Horse shook her head. “I’m a very stupid person. I often can’t figure out what Teacher says, but I completely trust her decisions. She told me I must let the person with very long memories survive.”
“This…”
“I’m leaving,” Earth-Horse waved her hand and turned to walk away.
“Then you must pay attention to…” Earth-Pig raised his head to look at her.
“I will.”
“…safety.”
…
More and more “zodiacs” gradually began gathering in the corridor. Everyone’s situation was indeed somewhat difficult now—they were in a dilemma. They discovered that “zodiacs” had already started fighting each other, but what exactly was the current situation?
In the distance, an Earth-Tiger and an Earth-Dragon were fighting fiercely, and the “participant-level” people under them were also slaughtering each other.
Combined with the fact that both sides of the corridor were almost entirely filled with “participants,” the scene instantly became chaotic.
Looking further into the distance, it seemed other “zodiacs” had also started fighting, and “zodiac” corpses were gradually beginning to appear on the ground.
Who exactly had shouted that phrase “rebellion” just now?
Whose rebellion was it? And who was the enemy?
Looking at it together with that phrase “heavenly-level come out and die”… if the “rebels” only wanted to kill the “heavenly-level,” then why help stop them?
Which “zodiac-level” here didn’t hope the “heavenly-level” would die?
Many “zodiac-level” individuals came out and stood together looking at each other blankly. After all, they had preserved their memories for too long. As long as they hadn’t gone mad, they would naturally know that this resistance war had absolutely no harm and only benefits for them.
Other “zodiac-level” individuals were using their own lives to resist the “heavenly-level”—they could watch from the sidelines. Wasn’t this an enormous blessing?
As long as Qinglong and the “heavenly-level” didn’t speak, they had no need to take action.
So up until now, the “rebellion action” had already been going on for a while. Almost every “zodiac-level” who came out saw “participants,” but those who struck to kill were very few.
A seemingly enormously tall fat rabbit was leading Aunty Tong forward in quick steps, only feeling more and more panicked the more he ran.
There was already a large group of “zodiacs” watching the excitement nearby, but why wasn’t anyone paying attention to him?
While running, a door ahead opened, and a female Earth-Ox also led a group of “Extreme Path” members out.
She pushed aside the “participants” before her and also began running through the corridor.
“Hey!” Earth-Rabbit waved from behind and called out. “Hey hey! Who’s that!”
Earth-Ox didn’t acknowledge him, only leading Old Deng and his group forward at high speed.
“Hey hey!” Earth-Rabbit shouted again. “Sister Ox! It’s me!”
Earth-Ox still didn’t turn back.
“Oh my!” Aunty Tong said to Earth-Rabbit while running. “You child have no manners, calling people ‘hey hey.’ With such a big body, you call people ‘sister’?”
“But I don’t know how to address her…” Earth-Rabbit said.
“You child don’t have a partner, do you?” Aunty Tong asked again. “You don’t know how to chat.”
“Auntie, just run properly,” Earth-Rabbit replied irritably.
Earth-Rabbit ran in two or three steps to Earth-Ox’s side and said to her breathlessly, “Sister Ox, it’s me.”
Earth-Ox turned her head to glance at him and said softly, “Oh, it’s you.”
“What a coincidence, right?” Earth-Rabbit said. “The corridor is really lively today!”
Earth-Ox slowly furrowed her brow. The corridor was lively indeed, but she always felt they were a bit too safe.
So many “zodiacs” on both sides were only staring at them—no one was blocking them.
In almost the blink of an eye, the two teams arrived before Black Sheep without any obstruction.
