“You’re saying…” Qi Xia frowned as he looked at Chen Junnan. “Your memory only goes up to before today.”

“Yeah.” Chen Junnan nodded. “After I came out, I discovered it was already evening. I thought I had sleepwalked or lost my memory, but who knew that when I returned to the classroom, I saw another me…”

Qi Xia knew the rest.

Based on the known information, two Chen Junnans appeared today.

One went according to the original plan to risk his life against the Earth-level, while the other inexplicably appeared in Chu Tianqiu’s basement.

In that case… the Chen Junnan who risked his life against the Earth-level died in the classroom like an abandoned pawn.

Qi Xia felt his head hurt a little, so he could only reach up to rub his brow.

Yes, who exactly was the Chen Junnan before him?

Was he different from the previous Chen Junnan?

Over such a long time, these two only differed by one day’s worth of memories.

“This ability that sounds the same as ‘Endless Life’…” Qi Xia muttered softly. “How did Chu Tianqiu activate it…?”

“What…?” Chen Junnan and Qiao Jiajin both questioned simultaneously.

After a moment, Chen Junnan asked tentatively, “You’re saying I was… created by Chu Tianqiu using ‘Endless Life’? But isn’t that your ‘Echo’?”

After hearing this, Qi Xia didn’t speak, merely rubbing his brow.

This matter was indeed worth scrutinizing.

If Chu Tianqiu could activate “Endless Life,” then theoretically he could do many more things. Why did he only revive Chen Junnan?

After a while, Qi Xia said in a deep voice, “What I can be certain of is that I don’t have an ‘Echo’ right now, so the person who activated this ability wasn’t me… Among everyone present at the scene, the only one who could make such a crazy move is Chu Tianqiu.”

Hearing Qi Xia’s deduction, Chen Junnan also lowered his head and fell silent.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t at the scene when Chu Tianqiu activated this “Echo.” What exactly happened at that time?

“Chen Junnan, your memory goes back further. I want to ask you, what exactly is Chu Tianqiu’s ‘Echo’?”

“Him?” Chen Junnan snorted coldly. “This young master always thought that guy was an ‘Unfortunate One,’ but it turns out he definitely has an ‘Echo.’ However, the trigger for his ‘Echo’ is very chicken. He has to wait until the tenth day and see everyone start to scatter before it triggers…”

“Wait a minute.” Qi Xia interrupted Chen Junnan. “I have a question.”

“What?”

“Two people have already told me that the trigger for Chu Tianqiu’s ‘Echo’ is ‘Witnessing the End.’ I want to ask how exactly you all know this?”

“Isn’t that simple?” Chen Junnan said. “As long as that kid survives to the tenth day, he’ll have memories in the next cycle. If he dies at other time points, we need to reintroduce ourselves to him next time. So naturally his ‘trigger’ is staying until the last day, which sometimes forces us to protect this kid. Besides, he himself has said that his ‘trigger’ is ‘Witnessing the End.'”

Qi Xia felt there seemed to be a paradox in this.

If Chu Tianqiu only retained two years of memories, he shouldn’t be this crazy. This far exceeded the normal range.

There were quite a few people driven mad by the “Land of the End,” but very few went crazy in just two years.

Yun Yao retained two years of memories. She didn’t go crazy.

Everyone in the “Cat” team retained two years of memories. They didn’t go crazy either.

Could their psychological resilience be stronger than Chu Tianqiu’s?

“I feel like Chu Tianqiu has been planning something from a long time ago…” Qi Xia found it terrifying the more he thought about it. “He didn’t lose his memory, and has always known me…”

“What?” Chen Junnan paused.

“Tell me if there’s this possibility…” Qi Xia said. “Chu Tianqiu didn’t lie, but ‘Witnessing the End’ doesn’t refer to witnessing the ‘Day of the End,’ but rather witnessing the ‘Land of the End.'”

“Ah…?” Chen Junnan paused, then also narrowed his eyes in thought. “If that’s the case… wouldn’t he ‘Echo’ as soon as he arrives? He knows me too?”

Qiao Jiajin was stunned for a long time before asking, “Does he know me then?”

Neither of them paid attention to him, just lowering their heads to recall something. If Chu Tianqiu’s “Echo” trigger was truly “Witnessing the End,” then the memories he retained were far too many.

Zheng Yingxiong listened for a long time but didn’t understand the content of their conversation. He could only boringly raise his nose to smell Chen Junnan’s scent, then frowned and muttered to himself, “It’s the sweet fragrance of ‘Scapegoat’…”

As soon as he finished speaking, he reached out and wiped the nosebleed surging from his nose.

The atmosphere was silent for a long time before Qi Xia looked up and said, “Chen Junnan, tell me about it.”

“What?”

“Your ‘earliest memory.'”

Chen Junnan thought for a moment, then said, “Old Qi, there’s no need to hide these things. I can tell you, but once you hear it, you’ll know that besides letting you get to know a few more people, these things have no other use.”

Under Chen Junnan’s narration, those sealed memories finally surfaced.

His memory began ten years ago.

The “Land of the End” at that time wasn’t significantly different from now, except the sky wasn’t as dark red as it is now.

Back then, an earthen yellow sun still hung overhead. The sun’s surface had traces of black lines spreading from the outer edge toward the inner circle. The air was filled with a nauseating rotten stench. Just staying here for half a day would make this smell penetrate to the bone marrow.

Four giant bells sat at the four corners of the city, displaying the “Echoes” that had manifested to everyone.

The two most common lines on the screen were nothing more than “Scapegoat” and “Calamity.”

“Actually, that kid Han Yimo was pretty decent,” Chen Junnan said to Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin. “It’s just that he spread false sexual rumors. This young master has always held a prejudice against him.”

In Chen Junnan’s description, Han Yimo hadn’t gone crazy yet.

He had always been worried about the girl about whom he spread the false sexual rumors. Every time Han Yimo died, he would return to reality to try to seek that girl’s forgiveness.

Unfortunately, this incident ruined that girl’s entire life. She would absolutely never forgive him.

In her view, she had only rejected Han Yimo once, but Han Yimo clearly remembered being rejected countless times. This caused his mentality to change imperceptibly.

“Old Qi, among our nine people, two were ‘Unfortunate Ones,'” Chen Junnan continued. “Among all the rooms, our ‘Echoes’ ratio was already very high.”

Later, under the leadership of Qi Xia, Chen Junnan, and Qiao Jiajin, everyone continuously participated in games and once became the most famous room in the “Land of the End.”

Because Chen Junnan and Han Yimo’s “Echoes” were easily triggered, the two of them could retain their memories for a long time. Combined with Qi Xia’s meticulous arrangements, all seven people in the room awakened their “Echoes.”

These included:

Qiao Jiajin, “Breaking Ten Thousand Laws,” breaking any person’s “Echo” with conviction and subconsciousness.

Li Shangwu, “Pocket Probing,” taking out things that the subconscious believed existed.

Han Yimo, “Calamity,” summoning disasters that the subconscious believed in and could occur.

Chen Junnan, “Scapegoat,” transferring others’ misfortunes with the subconscious, actively taking their place in death.

Zhang Chenze, “Soul Migration,” transferring the souls of living beings with conviction.

Tiantian, “Clever Objects,” creating and making precise items that one understood with the subconscious.

Zhao Haibo, “Disintegration,” disintegrating lifeless objects with the subconscious.

“What a powerful team this was…?” Chen Junnan smiled bitterly. “Among most rooms we’ve seen, the ratio of ‘Echoes’ is very small. Having four or five people would already be a top-tier team, but we had a full seven people.”