Lin Qin also silently furrowed her brows upon hearing this question.

Yes, only ‘Participants’ had ever been able to be reborn—’Residents’ and ‘Zodiacs’ could not.

So why could Xu Liunian, who had changed from a ‘Resident’ back into a ‘Participant,’ be reborn?

Had she become completely immortal?

Tiantian couldn’t understand what these two were talking about. She simply walked quietly to the side, picked up a canned food item, and forcefully opened it.

It was a canned fish meat. It looked fairly well preserved. Tiantian lifted it to her nose and sniffed—the smell hadn’t spoiled either.

She slowly walked with the can to the front of the female shopkeeper and placed it on the counter before her.

Qiaoyun turned around, swallowed, and said: “Are you only buying this…?”

“Yes.” Tiantian nodded, “I’m just buying this. Ring it up.”

Qiaoyun stood dazed for a long time, reaching out to touch the scanner, but the scanner was completely broken.

“This… this thing won’t scan…” Qiaoyun said somewhat dejectedly, “Please choose something else.”

“Then just consider that I stole it.”

“What…?”

“I said I stole something.” Tiantian said softly, “It’s fine if it won’t scan. You can find a way to report it to the police later.”

“Ah…?” The female shopkeeper was startled, “You, you’re stealing?”

“Mm.” Tiantian nodded, “This thing was stolen by me, but I’m giving it to you now.”

“Giving it… to me?”

“Yes, don’t worry. If the police come to arrest someone, they’ll only arrest me. I won’t implicate you.” Tiantian said with a smile, “I only stole for fun. I don’t like eating it myself. But wasting food isn’t good either, so I can only give it to you.”

Qiaoyun was clearly frightened by what Tiantian said.

“Like this, like this, you’ll really get arrested.”

“It’s fine.” Tiantian shook her head, “I’m already a regular at the police station anyway. Getting arrested doesn’t matter. They’ll just criticize and lecture me a bit, then let me out. Go ahead and eat it.”

After hearing this, Qiaoyun slowly extended her hand and picked up that old can.

The canned fish was a full bowl with soup and all, some oil floating on the surface of the fish broth. It smelled especially rich and aromatic.

“Can I, can I eat this?” Qiaoyun asked somewhat incredulously.

“Of course.” Tiantian nodded, “I stole it, not you. What are you afraid of?”

Yun Yao saw this scene and sighed deeply. It seemed that the female shopkeeper hadn’t eaten any of the cans that Chu Tianqiu had delivered before—instead, they had been stolen by many people who frequented this place.

Unfortunately, the law enforcers in this place wouldn’t care about such trivial matters at all. For this female shopkeeper who had lost her rationality, she could only accept her losses again and again.

Under everyone’s gaze, Qiaoyun extended her filthy hand and picked up a piece of deboned fish meat. She stared at it for a long time, then tremblingly put it into her mouth.

Only three seconds passed before she burst into tears, crying extraordinarily sorrowfully.

That expression was like she had completely surrendered.

No matter how formidable this woman had been many years ago, no matter how many ‘Participants’ she had led to fight against the ‘Heavenly-Dragon,’ today she had lost to a can of expired fish meat.

The several people present felt somewhat sad seeing this scene.

What ‘Resident’… what ‘Zodiac’…

She was just an ordinary person. She just wanted to eat something, yet she had been starving for so many years.

With just that small piece of fish meat going down, Qiaoyun immediately began to retch violently.

Long-term malnutrition had caused all the organs in her body to begin failing. This clearly wasn’t something that could be remedied with just one can.

But no one could dissuade her. This girl called Qiaoyun just kept eating and vomiting, vomiting and eating.

She desperately wanted to swallow these things down, but her body wouldn’t allow it.

Just how strong would one’s physical constitution need to be to survive?

“Thank you… thank you…” Qiaoyun said while vomiting acidic water and crying, “Thank you so much…”

After hearing this, Lin Qin’s face also showed a trace of sadness. She turned and went to the shelves to open all the cans there.

“Consider all of these as things I robbed.” Lin Qin continued, “I’m storing them with you now. You must remember to only eat one can per day, otherwise we’ll implicate you in front of the police.”

Qiaoyun nodded vigorously, tears streaming down her withered face.

“Thank you… thank you so much…”

She sobbed as she spoke, and before long she was retching repeatedly again.

Everyone felt that what they were doing was like pouring a bucket of water on a building that was about to burn down completely. Just how much magic would this bucket of water need to have to extinguish this great fire?

Yun Yao watched this scene, and only after a long while did she say: “Let’s split into two groups…”

“What?” Lin Qin asked.

“Originally I didn’t want to bother with ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ affairs anymore, but it seems now that Xu Liunian and Chu Tianqiu still have their own secrets…” She turned to Lin Qin and Lawyer Zhang and said, “The three of us can’t go back. Can you help by going back to gather information?”

After hearing this, Zhang Chenze looked at Lin Qin’s injured right leg, then pondered for a moment and said: “You all move together. I’ll go back by myself.”

“By yourself?”

“Mm…” Zhang Chenze nodded, “I said before that before I have a complete understanding of something, I won’t rashly make any choices. But now that three or four days have passed, I already have some understanding of this place, so you can leave the matters that follow entirely to me.”

“But Chu Tianqiu is very calculating…” Yun Yao said, “Even if he doesn’t want to kill you, you won’t be able to get any information out of him. It would be better to have Lin Qin go with you… At least she’s retained many years of memories.”

“There’s no need.” Zhang Chenze shook her head, “As long as the other party can be reasoned with, I won’t lose.”

“What…?” Lin Qin felt that Zhang Chenze’s aura was different from when she first met her. Thinking carefully about the questions she had asked and the things she had done these past days—could she really have been collecting intelligence as much as possible?

“Lin Qin’s leg is seriously injured. You should take her to set the leg bone first.” Zhang Chenze smiled and said, “You all must not have any mishaps. I really like you all. I like all the strong, kind-hearted girls in the world. Leave the remaining matters to me.”

Everyone felt that the Zhang Chenze before them was very much like a gentle and reliable big sister.

“Then… you must be careful yourself.” Yun Yao said, “Recently it seems there have been ‘Heaven-level’ Zodiacs moving around everywhere. This is something that has never happened before. In all my many years here, I’ve never seen a ‘Heaven,’ to the point where I once thought ‘Heaven’ didn’t exist here…”

“I understand.” Zhang Chenze nodded, “Draw me a map, and I’ll find you all afterward.”

Yun Yao found a piece of waste paper in the convenience store and quickly sketched out how to get from here to Earth-Snake’s game venue. After giving a few more instructions, she finally left with everyone.

Zhang Chenze also looked at Qiaoyun, who was earnestly eating in front of her, her face showing sadness.

She felt this girl was very much like her former self, but she had arrived too late and couldn’t help at all.

That man called Chu Tianqiu appeared gentle and refined—could he also be like the Butcher Ma of the past, imprisoning this girl here?

Zhang Chenze’s expression gradually grew cold. She then walked out of the convenience store and headed toward the direction of ‘Heaven’s Mouth.’