All memories, like children who had been away from home for a long time, surged crazily into Chen Junnan’s embrace.
They were mixed with almost all the emotions in this world, making Chen Junnan feel as if he had spent a long and desperate lifetime in an instant.
Where was this some life-threatening “Heavenly-Level Moment”… It was clearly a key that plunged people into the deepest despair.
It opened a terrifying Pandora’s box, pouring out all the lost emotions completely, allowing one to simultaneously possess joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and the seven emotions and six desires all within a single second.
Not knowing how much time had passed, when Chen Junnan opened his eyes again, he could barely remember the names of the two people before him whom he had been separated from for seventy years.
In the corridor, after all the people had been silent for several minutes, they began to open their eyes one after another.
All their gazes had changed.
The entire corridor at this moment was surprisingly silent. Whether “Zodiacs” or “Participants,” they all began to look at each other with complex expressions on their faces. They had no hostility and no will to fight, only silence.
At the hour when dawn was about to break, the eyes of all present welcomed a long-missed sunrise.
“What kind of… joke is this…” Chen Junnan’s entire body was trembling as he muttered to himself quietly. “Qi Xia… you schemed against me…?”
He felt his brain was extremely chaotic, with countless memories beginning to scramble to make him remember.
He remembered that all the teammates in his room had been driven away one by one by force majeure factors, and then he stayed alone in the empty room for a full year. The next time he opened his eyes, he had become Qi Xia’s teammate.
“Damn it…” Chen Junnan didn’t know what his mood was at the moment. He was just trembling uncontrollably all over. Qin Dingdong and Jin Yuanxun before him seemed to still be lowering their heads in silence. If they were the same as him, would they soon remember everything?
“This is wrong… damn it… damn it all…” Chen Junnan said through gritted teeth. “What the hell did this master get possessed by… single-mindedly wanting to help Qi Xia escape from this place… but what about those innocent teammates of mine… those friends I once had… who will pay for their lives?”
Chen Junnan turned his head with an angry expression and looked around this room.
Taking advantage of Qin Dingdong and Jin Yuanxun’s inability to move, Chen Junnan picked up a thigh bone from a corpse on the ground, then began to excavate the wall here.
*Thud—*
*Thud—*
His mood at this moment became especially conflicted.
He knew that in his seventy-plus years in the “Land of the End,” only the last ten years were spent with Qi Xia.
If that was the case… what reason did he have to abandon all his friends from those sixty years and help Qi Xia escape without looking back…?
How were those people supposed to escape? Where were they supposed to go?
Qi Xia said he wanted to lead everyone to escape, but he had already started killing countless people long ago.
*Thud—*
*Thud—*
Why was it him?
Why was it him, this “scapegoat”?
“You knew long ago that I wasn’t your teammate… Qi Xia… you’ve hidden too many things from me… you played Old Qiao and me like fools…”
*Thud—*
*Thud—*
Since he himself didn’t come from this room, and Qi Xia originally didn’t come from this room either…
Then what exactly was this room?
The wall surface was quickly smashed open by Chen Junnan into a gap. Chen Junnan threw aside the thigh bone in his hand, then reached out to pull apart the wooden planks.
What was outside made Chen Junnan fall silent once again.
There was neither the dark starry sky nor the adjacent room…
Instead, there was a large expanse of yellowish-white, jelly-like substance.
Those “jellies” were still slightly wriggling, as if they had their own life.
After the wall was broken open with a hole, the sounds of fighting outside became even clearer.
What exactly was the room wrapped inside… and who was fighting outside?
Chen Junnan knew that no matter what the truth was, he had no way to change anything within Qi Xia’s arrangement. Even if he truly had to die here… he at least wanted to die understanding why.
Chen Junnan expanded the broken hole, then raised his head to look in the direction the fighting sounds were coming from. Looking upward through these “jellies,” he could vaguely make out several dark figures.
What was this situation… people were fighting inside “jelly”…?
“I can go take a look.” A voice rang out behind him, startling Chen Junnan.
When he turned around, he discovered that Jin Yuanxun had also awakened from the silence. His gaze no longer resembled that of a teenager in his teens, but rather like an elderly person in their twilight years.
The two looked at each other and remained silent for a long time.
“Alright.” Chen Junnan knew there was no need to explain anything further and just nodded.
Jin Yuanxun sighed. In the next second, he disappeared from before his eyes and similarly appeared inside the “jelly.” It seemed that after recovering his memories, his “Echo” had become even more proficient.
About one minute later, Jin Yuanxun returned to the room again. He was pulling someone with his left hand, pulling someone with his right hand, and carrying someone on his back.
“There are acquaintances, bro.”
Chen Junnan looked over following the sound and discovered that Jin Yuanxun’s left hand was pulling Jiang Ruoxue, his right hand was pulling Lin Qin, and he was carrying Yan Zhichun on his back. All three of them were unconscious, and it was unclear what had happened.
“What is that ‘jelly’?” Chen Junnan asked. “And what were these three people doing inside it?”
Jin Yuanxun laid the three people down on the ground, then said, “Bro, I’m not too sure, but the three of them aren’t inside the ‘jelly,’ but rather on the ‘jelly’s’ surface—like a large expanse of yellowish-white, faintly glowing ground. An Earth-Dog is fighting another person up there. Both of them are injured, so I estimate it’ll be over soon.”
“Outside must be the ‘Land of the End’…” Chen Junnan knew that since they could hear the bell in this room, it meant they weren’t far from the “Land of the End.” But was there really a large expanse of faintly glowing, yellowish-white ground in the “Land of the End”?
“Wait a minute…” Chen Junnan’s eyes suddenly widened. He abruptly turned his head to look at the “jelly” exposed in front of the broken area, and his train of thought instantly became clear. “Damn… it can’t be this abstract, can it…”
Chen Junnan pondered for a long time but still couldn’t figure out any clues.
Not only were people standing on the sun of the “Land of the End” fighting, but even their interview room was hidden inside the sun.
Adding to that the constantly flickering memories made Chen Junnan’s brain even more chaotic. He could only suspend his train of thought here.
After all, dawn was about to break, and all of this was about to end.
He turned around with a heavy expression and looked at the three girls before him. Strands of invisible threads began to stir their hair and touch their brows.
It seemed that before long, they too would experience that momentary lifetime.
“Bro…” Jin Yuanxun turned his head to look at him. “Why are you so angry? Isn’t recovering memories a good thing?”
After hearing this, Chen Junnan opened his mouth, then shook his head and said, “Little Jin… my anger has nothing to do with you. It’s just some personal grudges, that’s all.”
