Seeing Heavenly-Snake take a chair for himself and sit in front of her in a contemplative pose, Xiao Ran only felt even more angry.

“You’re just going to sit by yourself?” Xiao Ran asked.

“Hmm…?” Heavenly-Snake didn’t understand what Xiao Ran meant. “Am I preventing you from sitting?”

“Attitude!” Xiao Ran said. “The main thing is your attitude! First, I’m a guest coming to visit your room. Second, I represent Qinglong, coming to convey orders to you. By all rights and reason, you should have offered me the chair first.”

Heavenly-Snake stared into Xiao Ran’s eyes for a long time, feeling the situation was indeed difficult to fathom.

Because this woman truly thought this way in her heart. She didn’t feel she was bluffing, nor did she have any nervousness after lying.

Heavenly-Snake had read countless minds, but this one was far too unusual. Although she had just lied, now she inexplicably began to be consistent in word and deed, making it impossible for him to get a proper read.

“I don’t… I mean I don’t have the habit of being courteous like that,” Heavenly-Snake answered ambiguously. “Sit down yourself.”

Xiao Ran irritably dragged over a chair and sat down, then crossed her legs and folded her arms across her chest.

“Come on, give me a report,” Xiao Ran said.

“Report…?”

“Yes, report on what you ‘Heaven-Level’ beings are doing and how you’ve made Qinglong so irritated and troubled,” Xiao Ran said with a frown. “We’re all on the same side now. To deal with those ‘rebels’ outside, we must unite as one.”

“Oh, I was just… wait… ‘rebels’?”

Heavenly-Snake paused and hurriedly searched through Xiao Ran’s line of sight for what he needed.

He quickly discovered the situation was even more bizarre than he had imagined.

Because Zhu Que had died, a large number of “natives” regained their rationality. Then someone who looked like an old con man instigated them and sent them onto the “Train” in a confused state.

This was the “rebellion”…

Although the situation was absurd enough, these people needn’t alarm Qinglong at all. Just a few “Earth-Level” beings coming forward would be sufficient to handle it, right?

For such a motley crew of scattered soldiers, just randomly killing ten or twenty of them would send the rest fleeing in disarray.

Because they had no sufficient conviction in their hearts to support their advance, nor any clear goal to make them “fight to the death.”

The only problem that needed solving was that besides replicating Xuanwu, they also needed to create a new Zhu Que.

“So you saw people ‘rebelling’…” Heavenly-Snake pushed up his glasses and looked at Xiao Ran with some doubt. “So you came to inform on them to Qinglong… and then Qinglong assigned you to me?”

“Pretty good at guessing,” Xiao Ran smiled. “Now you know why Qinglong values me so much, right?”

To be honest, Heavenly-Snake didn’t know.

According to Qinglong’s temperament and nature, he should have torn this woman to shreds on the spot.

But why was she perfectly fine and alive? To survive from Qinglong’s hands with this attitude… what an incredible thing that was?

Wait… that’s not right.

After thinking for a while, Heavenly-Snake felt that Qinglong must have already heard about people “rebelling” on the train. Even if he was too troubled to hear it, after all this time, Heavenly-Dog would definitely have gone to report it.

So Qinglong sending this woman to him was definitely not because she had merit in informing, but because of something else.

“Your ‘Immortal Art’…” After saying this, Heavenly-Snake paused. “I mean… what is your ‘Echo’?”

Since Heavenly-Snake didn’t read anything about an “Echo” from Xiao Ran’s eyes, he couldn’t help but ask directly.

If this woman had chaotic thoughts, minimal usefulness, and was pretentiously clever, yet Qinglong still wanted to send her here, it could only mean her “Echo” was enough to make up for all these shortcomings.

“‘Echo’…?” Xiao Ran’s eyes darted around randomly, then she quickly recovered and said, “Why are you asking about this? Right now you’re supposed to be following my orders, yet you’re interrogating me. Do you believe I’ll go report you to Qinglong right now?”

After hearing this, Heavenly-Snake fell silent once again.

Because he discovered this woman still wasn’t lying.

She truly wanted to go to Qinglong and embellish a few “kind words” about him, and this woman’s mind even imagined the scene of Qinglong coming to question him.

If she didn’t have an absolute trump card… why would she be so confident?

“Anyway, just do what you’re supposed to do,” Xiao Ran lowered her head and picked at her nails with a contemptuous expression. Having stayed at Earth-Snake’s place for many days, she was filthy all over, even with dirt under her fingernails.

“But what exactly am I supposed to do…?” Heavenly-Snake asked in confusion, since he hadn’t read any instructions from Xiao Ran’s memory.

“Oh, right,” Xiao Ran looked up. “Now I’m giving you your first order. Tell the other ‘Heaven-Level’ beings who can still move to bring the ‘Earth-Level’ beings to suppress those rebels. After you’re done, come back here. I’ll wait for you here.”

While Xiao Ran was speaking, Heavenly-Snake kept staring into her eyes to check. He discovered that Xiao Ran still wasn’t lying—this statement truly came from Qinglong’s mouth.

In that case, the situation couldn’t be delayed. He must immediately go notify the other “Heaven-Level” beings.

Heavenly-Snake only felt that his “Mind Reading” hadn’t reached perfection yet. Once the other party’s mind wasn’t thinking about something, he couldn’t capture it.

Fortunately, it wasn’t too late yet, so he hadn’t delayed Qinglong’s orders.

“Next time there’s something like this, please say so earlier,” Heavenly-Snake muttered softly, then turned and left the room.

Seeing her orders were so effective, Xiao Ran sat in Heavenly-Snake’s room and smiled.

This situation was far more wonderful than she had anticipated.

Although Heavenly-Snake’s room was also somewhat foul-smelling and filthy, at least Heavenly-Snake looked cleaner than that reeking Earth-Snake.

Now she had transformed from a “Participant” into someone who could command “Heaven-Level” beings. This feeling truly made her feel incomparably wonderful.

Recalling her experiences in this filthy place, it could be described as full of ups and downs and obstacles.

She had thought she could attach herself to a brain surgeon, so after getting out she could maintain contact and make up for some of her losses in money and connections. But unexpectedly, that doctor couldn’t be put to good use and couldn’t even stand up for her. Later, she set her sights on Qi Xia. Although this person seemed hard to approach, everyone else seemed to treat Qi Xia as their leader. Once she could attach herself to Qi Xia, she could boss everyone else around. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out in the end either.

Later, whether it was “Heaven’s Mouth,” the “Zodiacs,” or the “natives,” her good days only lasted a short day or two. Every time she felt she was about to succeed, some fool who didn’t know any better would come interfere with her happy life.

But now everything was getting better.

She had attached herself to the biggest figure here—Qinglong.