Heavenly-Snake shuttled back and forth through the corridor, continuously knocking on the doors of “Heaven-Level” beings.

Aside from Heavenly-Ox not being present, he notified the remaining few “Heaven-Level” beings one by one.

After learning the news, everyone’s expressions were different. Heavenly-Snake stared into their eyes and read all their thoughts.

Just as Heavenly-Dog had said, the current situation was truly rather dire. Among the few remaining “Heaven-Level” beings, not many genuinely wanted to go suppress those “rebels.” Various invisible cracks had already spread among the “Heaven-Level” beings.

Heavenly-Mouse had been injured and beaten, making him easily angered now. When Heavenly-Snake conveyed the information to him, his mind was full of thoughts about killing his own students to vent his rage. Heavenly-Snake knew he had no way to interfere with this old man, so he could only briefly explain the situation before leaving and finding Heavenly-Tiger.

Heavenly-Tiger was wearing a belly warmer, sitting on the ground in his room eating corpses. He ate with blood all over his mouth and seemed not very interested in Heavenly-Snake’s arrival. After Heavenly-Snake briefly stated his purpose, Heavenly-Tiger only vaguely said “Got it.”

Next were Heavenly-Horse and Heavenly-Rabbit. The old woman Heavenly-Horse’s state of mind was slightly firmer than the others—she was indeed thinking about how to expel the “rebels.” But Heavenly-Rabbit, who had just awakened not long ago, was completely opposite. Before Heavenly-Snake even started speaking, Heavenly-Rabbit’s heart was already hesitating. By the time Heavenly-Snake finished explaining about bringing people to expel the “rebels,” her mind was already full of thoughts of giving up.

Finally there were Heavenly-Monkey and Heavenly-Rooster. These two were meditating in the same room. When Heavenly-Snake entered, neither of them opened their eyes. Heavenly-Snake could only speak as if talking to the air, blurting out everything he had to say, but in the end neither of them gave any response.

Besides Heavenly-Mouse, Heavenly-Tiger, Heavenly-Horse, Heavenly-Rabbit, Heavenly-Monkey, and Heavenly-Rooster, Heavenly-Snake had no one else to notify.

Not to mention Heavenly-Dragon and Heavenly-Sheep, Heavenly-Pig was already dead, Heavenly-Dog knew the full story, and the last one remaining was himself.

Heavenly-Snake asked himself… if he had heard this news, would he lead people to resist at a time like this?

This was indeed a very difficult choice.

Because they needed to bring “Earth-Level” beings to suppress the “rebels,” but all the “Earth-Level” beings hoped the “Heaven-Level” beings would step down. This was equivalent to making everyone bring wild dogs to drive away wolves.

If they went, they might get injured or die. If they didn’t go, they might anger Qinglong and still possibly die.

So why couldn’t those “Participants” just peacefully and dutifully accept oppression?

Heavenly-Snake closed the door to Heavenly-Monkey and Heavenly-Rooster’s room and came to his own room’s entrance. Before he could enter, he saw from a distance that on the other side of Qinglong’s room, what appeared to be a large group of people approaching.

The group was far from him, but they seemed unwilling to enter Qinglong’s room. Instead, after reaching Qinglong’s room, they turned left and entered the horizontal corridor opposite him.

Leading them was a black sheep, bringing along a crowd of “Participants.”

“The ‘Cargo Hold’…?” Heavenly-Snake frowned and thought for a few seconds, feeling the situation was still difficult to understand.

Why would these people who truly wanted to “rebel” go to the “Cargo Hold”?

Why wouldn’t they try to enter Qinglong’s room and kill Qinglong?

They should at least make an effort for it.

As long as Qinglong died, not only would everything end, but he himself wouldn’t have to be caught in this difficult choice.

“That’s not right…” Heavenly-Snake shook his head, feeling his thoughts were dangerous.

Once the thought “it would be good if Qinglong died” lingered in one’s heart, based on his experience, one would suffer greatly sooner or later.

This place had countless rebellions, betrayals, and uprisings of all sizes, but Qinglong had survived every single time.

Although Heavenly-Snake also wanted Qinglong to die—he also wanted to raise his head, open his eyes, and live his life looking straight ahead—he couldn’t make plans for it in advance right now.

What needed to be done still needed to be done, and orders that needed to be carried out still needed to be carried out.

He could only pretend he hadn’t seen Black Sheep’s vast and mighty procession and turned to open his own door.

Xiao Ran was sitting inside in the same posture as when he left, arms crossed and legs crossed.

Heavenly-Snake glanced at Xiao Ran indifferently, then walked to a corner of the room and took a water cup from a “human piece of furniture,” pouring himself a glass of water.

“Gone mute?” Xiao Ran asked. “What did those ‘Heaven-Level’ beings say? Are they following my orders?”

Heavenly-Snake didn’t answer, only drinking water while pondering the current situation.

This trip out had only yielded one useful piece of information—that Heavenly-Dog wanted him to kill this woman.

But at this point, things were still a bit difficult to advance.

After all, this woman was sent to his room by Qinglong. If he killed her… wouldn’t that be unilaterally choosing to resist Qinglong?

But Heavenly-Dog wouldn’t let him look into his eyes, so Heavenly-Snake didn’t know what he was worried about. The only thing he could confirm was that Heavenly-Dog wanted to stay out of this storm.

He wouldn’t join the “Participants,” nor would he truly come forward to suppress them. He was just waiting for an outcome.

“Wait a moment…” Heavenly-Snake slowly tightened his grip on the water cup, feeling that having considered things to this point, he roughly had some clarity.

Since Heavenly-Dog chose not to care about anything and let the situation develop… then he was already standing on the opposite side.

After all, Heavenly-Snake had no way to let the situation continue developing. He wanted to live. He not only wanted to survive the “Participants'” hands but also survive Qinglong’s hands.

So at this time, was the plan given by Heavenly-Dog, who stood on the opposite side… really a plan that was beneficial to him?

Heavenly-Snake turned his head back, looking at Xiao Ran with a cold gaze.

Killing her would indeed just be a matter of moving his fingers. The only reason she was still alive and well was because of one word from Qinglong.

That being the case… was it possible Heavenly-Dog was deliberately leading him toward the abyss?

No matter how the situation developed next, Qinglong would only remember him as the one who defied him and vent all his fury on him.

Heavenly-Snake nodded, feeling this line of thinking aligned with Heavenly-Dog’s philosophy of “staying out of trouble.” Only this way could he remain absolutely safe in this chaos.

Merely choosing to “watch the fire from across the river” wasn’t enough for him—he also wanted to personally set the fire from the opposite bank.

Seeing Heavenly-Snake not speaking for a long time, Xiao Ran slowly came behind him and patted him on the shoulder.

“Playing deaf and dumb, are you?” Xiao Ran said. “Slighting me is the same as slighting Qinglong, understand?”

Heavenly-Snake turned around and stared into Xiao Ran’s eyes. That familiar yet bizarre feeling came over him again.

This woman wasn’t lying. She genuinely believed from the bottom of her heart that she represented Qinglong. This powerful confidence even made Heavenly-Snake feel inferior.

He knew that even when doing things for Qinglong, he never dared claim he represented Qinglong.

So this woman… couldn’t be killed.