The group followed Qian Wu into the room, while the Earth-Dog stood reluctantly at the doorway.

Chu Tianqiu thought for a moment, then found a chair in the room and sat down.

After all, both he and Zhang Shan needed to go to the “train head.” The best method right now was to wait for Qian Wu’s “Twin Flowers” to be successfully cast, then head there together with Zhang Shan and Qiao Jiajin. This way he could definitely reach the “train head” and then rendezvous with Qi Xia.

Speaking of Qi Xia, Chu Tianqiu suddenly froze. Now that Qiao Jiajin was already acting alone, wouldn’t Qi Xia’s side encounter danger?

After having the two sit cross-legged on the ground in a relaxed position, Qian Wu began explaining the precautions.

He said that “Twin Flowers” was, after all, copying a body, but bodies strengthened by “Heaven’s Vigor” had almost departed from the category of human bodies—copying them took a long time and was highly difficult.

Before the copying was completely successful, the two needed to remain as still as possible. After hearing this, both nodded in agreement.

Qin Dingdong told everyone she had other matters to handle. Without waiting for anyone to ask her to stay, she left the room and merged into the many “Participants” wandering outside, immediately disappearing from sight.

The Earth-Mouse took this opportunity to come to the doorway and stand face-to-face with the Earth-Dog.

The Earth-Dog felt irritated the moment he saw that shifty-eyed face and naturally didn’t want to deal with him. But the Earth-Mouse was clearly very interested in him—no matter how the Earth-Dog’s gaze tried to avoid him, the Earth-Mouse kept staring at his eyes.

“Hey, fence-sitting dog,” the Earth-Mouse called out.

“Who the hell is a fence-sitting dog?” the Earth-Dog retorted.

“You know what, once I call you ‘fence-sitting dog,’ it instantly feels like you’re one of us,” the Earth-Mouse said with a smile. “Dog Leader, things have already reached this point—why don’t you just directly join us? The label of ‘rebel’ has already been stuck on you. How can you not be tempted by the identity of a ‘rebel’?”

“I’m not joining, don’t talk nonsense.” The Earth-Dog’s eyes glanced toward outside the door as he spoke cautiously. “Everything I’m doing right now is under coercion. Once discovered, I know nothing.”

“What a coincidence, Leader,” the Earth-Mouse smiled even more happily. “I’m also being coerced! What you’re saying—who would voluntarily ‘rebel’ here?”

“‘Coercion’ is a very subjective thing,” the Earth-Mouse said with a smile. “As long as I say I’m being coerced, then no one can prove I’m doing it willingly. Am I right?”

“Get lost,” the Earth-Dog waved his hand. “I definitely can’t join. Everyone on this ‘Train’ knows that whoever mixes with you definitely won’t have a good outcome.”

“I understand, I understand,” the Earth-Mouse nodded. “After all, my reputation precedes me. Everyone knows what kind of person I am, but they misunderstand me—I’m actually very sincere.”

“What ‘reputation precedes you’—yours is called notorious,” the Earth-Dog snorted through his nose. “We’re only two-faced on the surface and actually afraid of death, but you kid are for real… Really rebelling against Qinglong and Heavenly-Dragon—you wouldn’t have enough lives. You call this ‘sincerity’?”

After hearing this, the Earth-Mouse reached up to stroke the mouse whiskers on both sides of his mouth and said, “Leader, I won’t dare say whether I’m sincere or not, but just now when you led us through the door, many ‘Zodiacs’ nearby saw it. How are you going to prove you were coerced?”

“I…” The Earth-Dog paused. “I don’t care. Anyway, ‘being coerced’ is a very subjective thing. If I say I was coerced, then I was coerced.”

“You really are a dog who understands human nature,” the Earth-Mouse said. “You learn things so quickly.”

“What does how fast I learn have to do with you?” The Earth-Dog rolled his eyes at the Earth-Mouse. “Even though you’ve made such a big commotion, you still look like a scattered mess right now. You actually need to recruit people on the spot for your ‘rebellion.’ I don’t need to say what your success rate can be, do I?”

“That’s not right,” the Earth-Mouse said. “Dog Leader, didn’t you just say that many of our actions look like they were planned from the beginning?”

“So what?”

“The one leading this ‘rebellion’ isn’t me, but Baiyang,” the Earth-Mouse said. “Otherwise, who else would dare create such a big commotion on the ‘Train’?”

“Baiyang…” The Earth-Dog paused, then said with curled lips, “What about Baiyang? I see Baiyang has just been overhyped. It’s just that I don’t have enough time. If I had plenty of time, I could do these things too. Baiyang isn’t even worth looking at.”

“Leader… Do you normally just narrate your dreams directly like this?” the Earth-Mouse asked, staring with a pair of innocent eyes. “When others hear it, which sentence do they usually start laughing at?”

“If you don’t believe it, forget it,” the Earth-Dog said unhappily. “Am I the only one who feels Baiyang is courting death? I’m truly laughing to death—he’s brainwashed all of you. Things were perfectly fine on the ‘Train,’ and now you don’t even want to live your days anymore.”

After hearing this, the Earth-Mouse looked at the Earth-Dog with extraordinarily sympathetic eyes. After all, people who are pretending to sleep can never be awakened.

But many times one had to admit that personalities like the Earth-Dog’s were not few in this world.

They always wanted to demonstrate their uniqueness and liked to begin speaking with “am I the only one.” They didn’t like acknowledging others’ strengths and didn’t like facing their own shortcomings.

Over time, they found it difficult to learn better qualities and couldn’t reflect on their own problems, gradually falling into a vicious cycle and fixed mindset.

“Admitting that others are better than yourself… is very difficult in many situations, isn’t it?”

This one sentence left the Earth-Dog speechless.

The Earth-Mouse shook his head and continued, “Even if Baiyang’s game design earns enough each day to match your monthly income, kills enough to match your monthly quota of deaths, he’s helped many ‘Earth-level’ design games, making many ‘Earth-level’ utterly devoted to him, and now he’s also the leader of all ‘Participants’—even so… he’s still inferior to you in every aspect. Is this logic reasonable?”

“I admit, I admit Baiyang does have that little bit of merit,” the Earth-Dog shrugged. “But he hasn’t helped me design a game. How would I know what his level is? Do I need to worship someone I’m not familiar with?”

“Forget it.” For the first time, the Earth-Mouse felt that the differences between people could be this great. He could only shake his head and say, “Dog Leader, even if you were crying and begging to ‘rebel’ now, we wouldn’t acknowledge you as one of us.”

“Whatever, as if I really want to rebel,” the Earth-Dog said with curled lips. “I wasn’t interested in the first place anyway.”

The Earth-Mouse turned back around to see that Qian Wu’s “Twin Flowers” had already begun to activate. Qiao Jiajin’s body started to slowly expand like a balloon.