When Qin Dingdong, Earth-Ox, and Jin Yuanxun were destroying the “doors” on both sides, Chen Junnan had been staring intently the entire time in the direction they had come from.

He felt that something unusual seemed to be happening in the distance. The entire corridor was gradually becoming still.

“Something doesn’t seem quite right…”

“Not quite right?” Qin Dingdong and Earth-Ox simultaneously stopped what they were doing and looked at Chen Junnan.

Chen Junnan found this feeling very difficult to describe. Although there was nothing in the corridor, he just felt that something was coming.

This was a kind of “intuition” without any evidence, but Chen Junnan knew that his ability to survive until now relied on “intuition.”

He walked to a “door,” took down a piece of wooden fragment from it, then gathered all his strength and threw it far in the direction they had come from.

The wooden chip flew farther and farther in the view of several people. It glided quietly through the air, and nothing strange happened.

But after a few seconds, the entire body of the wooden chip suddenly began to shake, as if it had collided with something invisible.

Immediately after, more and more things struck it, knocking the wooden chip in midair this way and that, producing a “crackling” sound.

Those things had no shape and were extremely fast.

“Run!!”

Chen Junnan shouted loudly, turned back and pulled Qin Dingdong along as he ran. Although they couldn’t see anything, those things had clearly already caught up behind them.

Jin Yuanxun used “Leap” at the critical moment and fled closely behind the two of them.

The remaining Earth-Ox wasn’t so lucky. She was merely a second slower and felt something touch her brow. It instantly controlled all her movements, then her brain began to become chaotic, and she stood in place and lowered her head.

Many “Participants” and “Zodiacs” at this moment were actually standing motionless in the distance like sculptures. Something major that neither “Zodiacs” nor “Participants” could control must have occurred.

But where should they run to now?

And how far had those things chased them?

Because they had completely no visibility, he knew being caught up with was a matter of sooner or later. At this time, if they wanted to escape, they could only use some clever tricks.

Chen Junnan raised his head and looked at the corridor ahead that was almost bottomless, then looked at the doors on both sides that hadn’t been completely destroyed yet. This was already the “Interview Area.”

In his moment of desperation, he suddenly had an idea.

“Little Jin!” He pulled Qin Dingdong along while running and said, “Keep your eyes on this master!”

“Huh?”

As soon as the words fell, Chen Junnan immediately changed direction, ran to a door and rushed inside.

Jin Yuanxun hurriedly followed right after, “Leaping” into the door. Chen Junnan took the opportunity to close the door.

The three of them nervously blocked the door, but still didn’t know what they were fleeing from.

“Oh my… bro…” Jin Yuanxun said with a puzzled expression. “What was that thing? Is that Earth-Ox sister still alive?”

“Shh! Don’t make noise first!” Chen Junnan interrupted Jin Yuanxun’s words, turning his ear sideways to carefully listen to the movements outside the door.

But the area outside the door itself was particularly quiet. They had no idea whether those things were still there or not.

“This master also doesn’t know how that Earth-Ox is…”

“Doesn’t this seem like… a ‘Heavenly Horse Moment’?” Qin Dingdong asked from behind.

After hearing this, Chen Junnan nodded, turned around to look at the two of them and said, “It indeed is somewhat similar, but how could a ‘Heavenly Horse Moment’ even affect the ‘Zodiacs’… Holy shit!!”

Before Chen Junnan could finish his words, his gaze was attracted by something in the room.

The two were startled by Chen Junnan’s shout and hurriedly looked back following his gaze, but this room was empty and bare, basically an empty room. However, there were some spikes on the ground, and some very old white bones in the corner of the wall.

If there was anything strange about this room, it was that standing here, one would always hear certain faint sounds of fighting.

“What are you being all jumpy for?” Qin Dingdong asked in confusion. “I thought there were people in this room…”

“No, if there were people in this room, that would be troublesome.” Chen Junnan looked at the spikes on the ground, then raised his head to look at the ceiling and a strange pull handle next to the door. “What a coincidence, this damn thing seems to be our ‘interview room.'”

“Your interview room…?”

“This master really stumbled into this by accident, coming full circle.” Chen Junnan raised his head to look at the ceiling that hadn’t shattered yet and said, “I’m about to die and still haven’t forgotten to return to my damn roots.”

While the several people were talking, they didn’t notice at all that the bottom of the door was beginning to show some strange signs, as if something invisible had slipped in through the crack at the bottom of the door.

“This room seems to already be prepared…” Chen Junnan raised his head to look at the ceiling and said, “As expected… if we fail, next time we’ll just be sitting here on the second floor again.”

As Chen Junnan’s words fell, he discovered that the two people behind him didn’t respond to him. An ominous feeling rippled through his heart, then he slowly turned around to find that Qin Dingdong and Jin Yuanxun had already lowered their heads in place and stopped moving.

He cried out in alarm and wanted to escape immediately, but his brow suddenly felt cold as something touched his forehead.

Chen Junnan only felt that everything was finished. His brain gradually became completely chaotic, just like he had just opened his eyes after sleeping for three days, unable to remember who he was or where he was.

That’s right… who exactly… was he?

He had desperately rushed about on something like a “train,” and what was it all for?

He felt himself falling into pitch-black water. All his senses and rationality stayed on the shore. He sank deeper and deeper, becoming more and more distant from those things called “people.”

But wasn’t this fine?

Chen Junnan gradually sank in the black water surface, looking at the increasingly smaller light before him, feeling his thoughts beginning to gradually relax.

No need to worry about those things that had always been troubling. No need to wake up every day to see many scheming faces.

Also no need to rush about day and night in a dim and foul-smelling world.

He wanted to rest, and he also wanted to eat exploded tripe.

If that really wouldn’t work… soybean milk with fried dough rings would be fine too.

Chen Junnan closed his eyes in this pitch-black water. All sorrowful thoughts stayed on the water surface. Just as he was thinking of peacefully resting for a bit, he felt some bright lights beginning to appear in the pitch-black water.

They surged from all directions, like sharks that had been searching for food in the water for a long time. Chen Junnan felt something wasn’t right and immediately opened his eyes wanting to swim away in this pitch-black water, but after he turned around slightly in a circle, he discovered that all four directions were completely filled with glowing small orbs. Those light orbs were about the size of basketballs and surrounded him tightly.

There was no place to hide, much less any position to escape to.

A few seconds later, those light orbs rapidly approached him. When the first orb touched Chen Junnan’s finger, it exploded with a “pop” like a soap bubble, and countless images began to surge crazily into his mind.

Then all the light orbs gathered together and merged into Chen Junnan’s body.

At this time his feeling was very strange. Every time he was about to completely lose his rationality, a large number of light orbs would appear to touch his body, using a large number of bizarre images to pull him back somewhat from the state of complete madness. But the more things he remembered, the more he wanted to throw away his rationality.

Thus in this pitch-black water, Chen Junnan went mad then awakened, awakened then went mad again.

Between this pulling and tugging, his memories spanned across more than seventy years.