“Huh?!” Earth-Rabbit was stunned, then showed an expression of complete disbelief. “What?! Why isn’t a single thing right?! Wasn’t this your scheme?”
“Not at all.” Everyone shook their heads one after another.
“But that scheme of yours sounds really cool… completely like Old Qi’s style…” Chen Junnan nodded. “It should indeed be planned that way. That way, when you win, you can make the opponent completely convinced…”
“You, you wait a minute…” Earth-Rabbit felt his entire worldview collapse. “If you didn’t use this scheme… then what scheme was it?”
“Let me put it this way… rabbit boy big brother.” Chen Junnan stepped forward and very frivolously patted Earth-Rabbit’s chest, which was covered in blood-stained fur. “Whoa… doesn’t that hurt?”
Earth-Rabbit’s face was full of angry expressions, just looking at Chen Junnan without saying a word.
Chen Junnan wiped the bloodstains on his hand on the wall, turned back and said: “Rabbit boy big brother, you think we went to a room we’d never been to before and left carved words in the room, but is that realistic? Calculate our number of actions—could they support us getting there?”
“You…” Earth-Rabbit felt he somewhat understood, but the situation he envisioned was simply a wild fantasy.
Seeing the other party’s thoughtful expression, Chen Junnan couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Rabbit boy big brother, which room exactly did you encounter Song Qi in? Think back on your route—which room did you come out of?” Chen Junnan asked with a smile. “Did we really never mention that room?”
Earth-Rabbit carefully recalled his route to “Room Thirteen,” and his eyes slowly widened.
This situation made him feel very strange. He discovered that pushing back along his route, the room he came out of wasn’t “Room Six” at all. His judgment had been wrong from the very beginning!
“I was in… ‘Room Seven’? I was fighting with this guy called Song Qi in ‘Room Seven’ the whole time?!”
“You only just realized.” Chen Junnan smiled with furrowed brows. “This young master only told one lie in this entire game, and that was that my sense of direction was surprisingly bad… This young master is a child who grew up in the hutongs of true north and south. Even if I spun around a hundred times in this venue, I wouldn’t get lost.”
“What…” Earth-Rabbit felt he had been deceived by this man from the very beginning. “You knew from the start that I was leading you all on a detour?”
“You… wait a minute…” Earth-Rabbit quickly discovered the problem. “The room where I beat up that kid was clearly ‘Five’! How could I possibly have moved to ‘Room Seven’?”
After saying this, Earth-Rabbit also discovered the problem. At that time, he had been overwhelmed by a surge of killing intent. When he came to his senses, he was already standing in the room. He thought he had already reached “Room Six,” but never expected he had shifted over one more space, arriving at “Room Seven”?!
“If you were in ‘Room Six’…” Chen Junnan said with a smile, “how would Song Qi have come to your room? He had already started moving long ago.”
Earth-Rabbit’s expression had already sunk to the bottom. He had thought of countless countermeasures, yet never imagined he would lose for such a simple reason.
“Are you this generation’s ‘Soul Seizer’?” Earth-Rabbit asked. “Your use of your ability has reached perfection. I admit I’m inferior. This time I’m completely convinced of my loss.”
“What the hell?” Chen Junnan’s brow instantly furrowed. “Who the fuck is ‘Soul Seizer’… This young master walks without changing his name or sitting without changing his surname. My Echo is fucking ‘Wall Penetration’!”
Cui Fourteen slowly shook her head after hearing this: “Leader… ‘Wall Penetration’ is mine…”
“Oh oh, my mistake.” Chen Junnan turned back with an embarrassed smile. “Got used to bragging, forgot the real owner was right beside me. Let me say it again.”
He turned back with a serious expression and said to Earth-Rabbit: “Listen well. This young master is ‘Scapegoat’.”
With that one sentence, everyone beside him froze.
“Leader… you’re the ‘Scapegoat’ that’s been hanging on the big screen outside all this time…?” Cui Fourteen asked quietly.
“That’s exactly this young master.” Chen Junnan nodded with a bit of pride.
“You’re ‘Scapegoat’… yet you can control my movements…?” Earth-Rabbit felt the man before him was still lying. “You think I haven’t seen ‘Scapegoat’ before?! Where do you have such powerful ability?!”
“I’ve never controlled your movements.” Chen Junnan smiled. “It’s just that when I activate my ability, no matter who you want to kill, you’ll travel far and wide to come kill me. That’s all. This young master’s head has been blown up several times—don’t I understand even this basic principle?”
“You…” Earth-Rabbit gritted his teeth. A trace of fresh blood slowly flowed from his mouth.
“Rabbit boy big brother, your mouth is already blown to pieces. Stop gritting your teeth.” Chen Junnan said. “You can’t blame anyone. If you must blame someone, blame yourself for being too murderous, and this venue of yours also restricts movement. Combined with the right time, place, and people—otherwise, this young master’s ability couldn’t be used at all.”
After hearing this, Earth-Rabbit still wanted to open his mouth to say something, but after a moment, he became completely resigned.
In this world, the only stories that circulate are success and failure. No one cares why one succeeds or why one fails. Results can explain everything.
“I want to ask a question.” Earth-Rabbit said somewhat disappointedly.
“Please speak.”
“Are you trying to find suitable opportunities in every game… to activate this worthless ‘Echo’ of yours?”
At this moment, an enormous bell sound came from the distance. This sound was so loud that everyone in the room was caught off guard. Only Chen Junnan’s expression remained unchanged.
In his memory, there weren’t many “Echoes” that could cause such a loud bell sound. It seemed Old Qiao was also fighting with all his might.
“A worthless ‘Echo’? How presumptuous?” Chen Junnan shook his head, then stretched lazily. “Rabbit boy big brother, do you really think there are ‘worthless Echoes’ in this godforsaken place?”
That short sentence left Earth-Rabbit dumbfounded in place.
Were there “worthless Echoes” on this land?
The “Explosive Combustion” he had seen before was stronger than the previous generation’s owner. The “Scapegoat” he encountered now was also stronger than the previous generation’s owner.
The same ability could unleash infinite possibilities in different owners. These two people had both proven this point to him.
Earth-Rabbit sighed and said: “You said if you won, you’d have me agree to one thing. What is it?”
After hearing this, Chen Junnan happily raised his eyebrows. Just as he was about to speak, Earth-Rabbit reached out to interrupt him: “If what you’re about to say is ‘rebellion,’ then I suggest you can all leave right now.”
