“What is this…?”

Qi Xia was so shocked he couldn’t speak.

“Hey! Come help!” Qiao Jiajin said while moving “himself.” “Don’t just stand there!”

Officer Li, Han Yimo, and Doctor Zhao snapped out of it after hearing this and walked over.

Yu Nian’an felt a bit scared seeing the corpses covering the ground and turned her head to say, “Xia, are we going to live here?”

“This…”

Looking at the mountain of corpses piled up and emanating a pervasive stench, Qi Xia also felt somewhat dazed.

The last “Heaven’s Mouth” had only thirty people total, yet the corpses of just Qiao Jiajin and Li Xiangling alone numbered thirty.

This truly was “corpses strewn everywhere.”

Lawyer Zhang kept backing away. She felt this place was extremely strange.

The people around her were also very abnormal.

Did they not notice the problem?

People had died here!

One by one… why were they moving corpses as if nothing had happened?!

Why didn’t they find it terrifying?!

Those corpses lying on the ground… and the two people standing… didn’t they have the same faces?!

“No… I… I can’t take this…” Lawyer Zhang vigorously shook her head. “I, I can’t stay any longer…”

Just as she was about to leave, Lin Qin grabbed her.

“Lawyer Zhang, if you wander around here on your own, you’ll starve to death within a few days,” Lin Qin said with a frown. “Although we seem crazy, you’ll understand soon enough.”

Meanwhile, Tiantian stood behind everyone silently trembling but hadn’t said a word.

Were these people really good people?

She gently hugged herself, feeling somewhat cold.

Whether it was because the scene before her was chilling, or because she was wearing too little, in any case she couldn’t stop shivering.

At this moment, a piece of clothing was gently draped over her.

Tiantian was startled and hurriedly turned to look, discovering an extremely beautiful girl standing beside her, currently smiling at her.

“Hello, miss,” the girl said with a smile. “Aren’t you cold wearing so little?”

Tiantian swallowed and quickly took off the clothing draped over her. “Don’t, don’t do this… I’m very dirty! If I dirty your clothes…”

“No, you’re not dirty,” the girl shook her head and firmly wrapped the clothing around her. “Miss, my name is Yun Yao. What’s yours?”

“My name is Zhang… my name is Tiantian,” Tiantian said somewhat self-consciously, lowering her head. She felt the girl before her was simply too bright and radiant, forming a sharp contrast with herself.

“Tiantian…” Yun Yao smiled and nodded. “That’s a very pleasant name.”

Hearing this, Tiantian’s expression became even dimmer. “No… it’s not pleasant. Actually, this name… is from when I worked as…”

“Before coming here, I was unemployed at home!” Yun Yao reached out to put her arm around Tiantian’s shoulder, trying to make her warmer. “What about you? Are you also unemployed at home?”

“I… ah, yes… unemployed, right,” Tiantian carefully nodded, afraid of saying the wrong thing and being looked down upon by others.

“Then we need to help each other,” Yun Yao smiled warmly. “I’ll take care of you from now on.”

Tiantian didn’t know what the girl’s motive was. Who would be so nice to someone upon first meeting?

Could she be a scammer?

But in this world… would there be such a beautiful scammer?

“Yun, Yun Yao Jie, you don’t need to specially take care of me,” Tiantian said with a bitter smile. “I’m a worthless person, not worth others being so nice to me.”

“Shut up,” Yun Yao said. “Don’t call yourself worthless, and don’t call me ‘Yun Yao Jie.’ Call me ‘Xiao Yao.'”

“Xiao Yao…?” Tiantian was still somewhat confused. What was going on with this girl before her?

“Come, I’ll take you to eat something,” Yun Yao said, pulling Tiantian’s hand and walking around the people in front of them.

Yun Yao glanced at Qi Xia. “I won’t bother with you—do as you please.”

Although her words were contemptuous, Qi Xia felt Yun Yao’s eyes had changed. Her originally bright and sparkling eyes now contained a trace of bewilderment.

Qi Xia helplessly shook his head. He knew he owed Tiantian, so this time he would let Yun Yao protect her.

Before long, except for Lawyer Zhang, everyone stepped forward to help Qiao Jiajin and Li Xiangling move the corpses.

“What on earth is going on?” Qi Xia asked Chu Tianqiu while dragging one of Qiao Jiajin’s bodies. “Why are there so many identical corpses?”

Chu Tianqiu wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, “Qi Xia, this is your masterpiece.”

“What…?” Qi Xia paused. “My masterpiece?”

“Qi Xia, I feel my decision at that time wasn’t wrong,” Chu Tianqiu revealed a strange smile. “‘I must make Qi Xia obtain an Echo’—this statement is one hundred percent correct… As long as you’re here, we can do almost anything we want.”

Qi Xia placed Qiao Jiajin’s corpse on the ground and asked with a frown, “What exactly is my ‘Echo’?”

“Qi Xia…” Chu Tianqiu excitedly grabbed Qi Xia’s hand. “It’s ‘Life After Life’!! This is too wonderful! As long as you’re here, is there anything we can’t accomplish?! I want to be your good friend for life!”

The person with a face full of smiles before him had indirectly caused Qi Xia’s death last time.

Although he didn’t know what exactly he and Xu Liunian had discussed, this matter must be inseparably connected to him.

It was quite ironic. In this “Land of End” filled with murderous intent everywhere, Qi Xia had died twice in succession, but neither time was because of a “game”—it was because of “people.”

The “people” here were far more terrifying than the “Zodiacs.”

After all, everyone had their own purposes. Even the most harmless-looking person might be harboring murderous intent.

“Life After Life…” Qi Xia muttered these four characters again, finally understanding everything completely.

The reason this place was covered with Qiao Jiajin and Li Xiangling’s corpses… was precisely because of his “Echo.”

Even though he had already died, he had returned to the real world with the power of his “Echo.”

In his subconscious, he had always hoped for Qiao Jiajin and Li Xiangling to survive, so the two of them really “survived”…

But anyone who saw this result would get goosebumps.

No matter how many times those attackers killed them, they would appear as if nothing had happened, until they killed the last enemy.

So Yu Nian’an… was also created under this premise?

Qi Xia turned to look at Yu Nian’an in the distance.

But something still wasn’t quite right…

He cautiously shook his head, feeling that if he continued thinking he would collapse again.

Chu Tianqiu beside him spoke up again at this moment. “Qi Xia, I swear I’ll never harm you again. You’re the greatest helper on my path to ‘becoming a god.'”

“Oh?” Qi Xia turned to look at him. “How can I help you?”

“Suppose I fail to ‘become a god’… you can let me start over!” Chu Tianqiu’s face rippled with a happy smile. “No matter how many times I die, as long as you’re here…”

“But would the ‘me’ I ‘create’ still count as you?” Qi Xia asked.

“Of course!” Chu Tianqiu nodded. “No matter which me it is, as long as he possesses my thoughts, then he is the real me!”