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Chapter 1287: Distant Bell Chimes

Although his face was written all over with confusion and reluctance, Jin Yuanxun understood Chen Junnan all too well.

Under his persistent coaxing and pestering, he could only accept the task of dismantling all the doors together with him.

Jin Yuanxun quickly discovered that this task wasn’t actually very difficult. After all, all the doors here already looked dilapidated and broken. Some doors could even be shattered with just one forceful kick.

But even so… Jin Yuanxun turned his head to look at the seemingly bottomless corridor and still felt the task was long and arduous.

“Bro…” Jin Yuanxun paused. “You said this ‘Train’ is divided into three parts like that… So what’s the third part?”

“Didn’t I just say you don’t have a single brain cell with you?” Chen Junnan said. “Do you even need to ask?”

“Huh?”

“The third part is the ‘Interview Area.'” Chen Junnan said in a low voice. “In the depths of that darkest and most damaged corridor are all of our ‘interview rooms.’ We were guided to walk out from the other end of the corridor and arrive at different areas. If we had been dead set on walking in the opposite direction back then, we would have been able to see the Heaven-level ones.”

After hearing this, Jin Yuanxun paused and raised his own question: “Then do we need to break the doors of our ‘interview rooms’ like that too?”

“There…” Chen Junnan pondered for a while, seeming to feel that this question had stumped him.

“Bro, based on the strange layout here and the previous ‘Cangjie Chess’…” Jin Yuanxun also thought about it. “Our ‘interview rooms’ might be in various places and not on the ‘Train,’ right?”

“Right… That’s about what it means.” Chen Junnan nodded. “It seems like we came from the ‘interview rooms’ to the corridor, but where the ‘interview rooms’ really are is hard to say—maybe in Afghanistan, maybe in the Taklamakan Desert.”

“Bro, try to say things I can understand…”

“Anyway, these ‘doors’ make us traverse very long distances and finally arrive at the same corridor…” Chen Junnan said. “And that ‘door’ at the end of the corridor is also strange. Different teams will arrive at different locations after going out. Plus, the time it takes for each of our rooms to clear the game is different, which causes us to arrive at the ‘Land of the End’ in batches within a single day.”

“Oh, that’s definitely true.” Jin Yuanxun nodded.

“Yes, bro. Brother Chu also said that although everyone arrives at the ‘Land of the End’ at different times, they all arrive within the same day.” Jin Yuanxun agreed. “This day doesn’t count within the ‘ten days.’ Brother Chu called it ‘Arrival Day.'”

“Old Qi calls this day ‘Day Zero’…” Chen Junnan nodded. “These two guys actually understood everything so early…?”

“So…” Jin Yuanxun still didn’t quite understand. “Do we actually need to destroy those ‘doors’ of the interview rooms or not…”

“I feel it doesn’t matter either way. After all, the spaces inside those ‘doors’ are all in various places, far away from us…” After Chen Junnan finished speaking, he paused, feeling as if an invisible thread had suddenly passed through his mind.

“Wait a minute…” Chen Junnan blinked. “Holy shit…”

“What’s wrong with you?”

“Wait… Let me sort this out…” Chen Junnan murmured. “This young master thought of something. Why does this feel so strange…”

Jin Yuanxun felt that what Chen Junnan had just said was already strange enough. Could there be something even stranger than this?

“Little Jin! Little Jin!” Chen Junnan patted Jin Yuanxun’s shoulder. “Help me think about this… Our ‘interview rooms’ might be in Afghanistan and the Taklamakan Desert… Theoretically very far from the ‘Train,’ and even fucking farther from the ‘Land of the End’… Right?”

“Yeah…” Jin Yuanxun nodded. “Isn’t this what you just deduced yourself, bro…?”

“Then this is really fucking outrageous…” Chen Junnan’s expression gradually became confused. “Why have I never realized before that these things are very far apart?”

“Hm?” Jin Yuanxun paused. “What bro means is…”

“I stayed in that stupid room for over seven years… With my intelligence, why didn’t I think of this?” Chen Junnan asked. “I always thought the ‘interview room’ was in the ‘Land of the End.’ I thought they were very close to each other… With my intelligence…”

Jin Yuanxun really wanted to say “Could it be that you don’t have intelligence,” but after thinking it over and finding it impolite, he changed his words instead:

“Then what do you think is the reason?”

“It’s because I fucking heard the bell chimes…” Chen Junnan’s expression changed instantly. “Damn it… Why could I hear bell chimes inside our interview room?! Does this make sense?!”

“What?!” Chen Junnan’s statement made Jin Yuanxun’s expression also change. “Bro… No way, you could hear bell chimes inside your room?”

“You guys couldn’t hear them, right?” Chen Junnan said. “If I haven’t guessed wrong… There probably aren’t many rooms in the entire ‘Land of the End’s’ ‘interview rooms’ that can hear them… Because this simply doesn’t make sense… This means our ‘interview room’ is very close to the giant bell… You can’t even hear it in the ‘corridor,’ but you can hear it in the ‘interview room.’ This means that if we want to go to the ‘Land of the End,’ we might not need to go through the ‘Train’ at all…”

“Bro, I’m getting confused again…”

“My fucking head is also very messy…” Chen Junnan said with furrowed brows. “Does Old Qi not know about this… Why would we hear bell chimes in our room…”

Chen Junnan closed his eyes and thought for a long time, feeling that although this situation was very suspicious, he couldn’t think of any clues.

Qi Xia must surely know that room was strange. Based on what had happened in the past, that strange room was even arranged by him… But what was the purpose of doing this?

Chen Junnan suspected that their “interview room” was even directly located somewhere in the “Land of the End,” hidden among the many ruins standing throughout the city.

But that room was also completely sealed. Logically, it couldn’t be entered from the outside, so where could it be hidden?

He felt that the more he thought about it, the more confused his mind became. At this moment, the best method would be to find Qi Xia. If Qi Xia knew about this matter, he could ask him face to face for clarity. If he didn’t know, he would naturally be able to analyze some clues as well.

But this “Train” was really too long. Going to look for Qi Xia now would delay things for too long. They only had one night to destroy all the “doors.”

“Although my head is full of questions, this young master probably doesn’t have time to worry about it now.” Chen Junnan looked at Jin Yuanxun. “If we have enough time, we’ll destroy all the ‘doors,’ including that ‘exit’ at the end of the corridor. I want to make the ‘Train’ and the ‘Land of the End’ completely lose contact with each other.”

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