Chu Tianqiu had abandoned me. He not only didn’t mention anything that happened last time, he also never brought up “cooperation” with me again.

I walked desolately on the road to “Heaven’s Mouth,” with no one accompanying me.

Yes, I had been like this from the very beginning. Before joining Chu Tianqiu’s camp, I had always been alone, and now I was merely returning to my previous state.

Moreover, I originally had ulterior motives—my current fate was what I deserved.

When I arrived at “Heaven’s Mouth,” I saw a scene I would never forget for the rest of my life.

On that blood-soaked plastic playground, many corpses of Li Xiangling had piled up into a small mountain of bodies.

At this moment, Li Xiangling was still holding Li Xiangling while walking toward Li Xiangling.

One person had completely demonstrated a suffocating “Endless Rebirth” before my eyes.

It seemed Qi Xia had not only “Echoed,” but with tremendous power. Besides the corpses of Li Xiangling gathered together on the field, there were also corpses of Qiao Jiajin scattered everywhere.

Just as Qinglong had said, as long as Qi Xia hoped someone would live, then no matter what, they wouldn’t die.

Even if they died, they wouldn’t die.

One could imagine that on that day when Qi Xia was being tortured to death by Xuanwu, his final thought was “Qiao Jiajin and Li Xiangling will definitely survive,” and because of this statement, the two of them truly began a bizarre “immortality.”

So my plan barely counted as successful. Whether it was my own purpose or Qinglong’s purpose, both had been achieved through this chaos at “Heaven’s Mouth.”

What would happen next?

In this scheme created through the cooperation of three people, each person had more or less achieved their own goals. Would they be one step faster next, or would “Heavenly Dragon” be one step faster?

I watched from afar for a while before turning to leave. At this moment, Yun Yao walked up from behind me.

Yes, in her view, I was the culprit who caused this incident and also the murderer who killed Qi Xia.

She didn’t say anything, but I understood that “Heaven’s Mouth” no longer had a place for me.

I took a few canned goods from the cafeteria and came to the rooftop. No one here could see me, yet I could overlook the entire “Heaven’s Mouth.”

Around afternoon, Qi Xia’s team finally left the interview room and joined “Heaven’s Mouth.”

At this moment, Li Xiangling also began moving Qiao Jiajin’s corpses, with Qiao Jiajin stepping forward to help.

I opened a can of beer and took a light sip. The feeling right now was very strange. I didn’t know if I was still useful or if I had been abandoned.

The three people—Qi Xia, Chu Tianqiu, and Qinglong—had neither directly declared me out nor thrown me an olive branch again.

So exactly what kind of situation was I in?

Until it got dark, I was an optional member of “Heaven’s Mouth.” No one would ask if I was still around, and no one noticed I had disappeared. I had become a transparent person, standing on the rooftop waiting for the sunset.

“Qinglong, has what you wanted been realized?” I murmured the question.

As soon as the words fell, “Silence” surrounded me.

“It’s still very blurred…” A voice mixed with both male and female tones suddenly rang out behind me. “Chu Tianqiu and Qi Xia are both very interesting. I can’t give up either one.”

I didn’t turn around, just gazed ahead and took a sip of alcohol. This feeling was truly uncomfortable.

I heard him continue speaking behind me: “For now… Qi Xia has a higher score on my end.”

Qinglong came to my side and picked up a can beside me. After opening it and smelling it, he disgustedly poured it on the ground.

“Why is that?” I asked.

“Tell me, why can a person’s thoughts be meticulous to this degree?” Qinglong casually tossed aside the empty can and turned to look at me. “When he was building the giant bell, he was actually able to calculate in advance that one day in the future, ‘overfrequency’ sounds would appear that he himself would be completely unable to hear.”

“So what words exactly did the screen display that night?”

I looked at Qinglong somewhat curiously. Only then did I discover that his expression was somewhat different from before.

He was more excited than before.

“I saw the surge of ‘Endless Rebirth’…” After Qinglong finished speaking, he slightly opened his mouth, revealing a somewhat manic smile. “Too interesting. Why didn’t I know this information back then…? Did he also use ‘Silence’ at that time?”

“‘Saw’?” I was also stunned.

The display screen had shown “heard” for decades—where did “saw” come from?

“Let me think…” Qinglong reached out and touched his forehead. “Qi Xia was originally ‘Keen Hearing,’ but when he heard the three-character ‘frequency,’ he had already anticipated that he couldn’t capture the four-character ‘frequency’…”

“What…?”

“That’s it!!” Qinglong turned to look at me, his eyes wide with excitement. “When building the giant bell, he added an ‘insurance’ for himself!!”

He looked extremely excited, seeming not much different from Chu Tianqiu’s state.

If not for the completely different appearances of the two, I would almost think he was Chu Tianqiu himself.

“The ‘insurance’ you mentioned refers to…”

“It’s ‘Keen Vision’!!” Qinglong shouted. “That giant bell doesn’t just contain one person’s soul… there’s also a ‘Keen Vision’ inside… Qi Xia… you’re too interesting…”

Qinglong seemed to be reminiscing about an artwork he had once seen, his eyes constantly radiating brilliance.

“You had long calculated that relying solely on the three-character frequency couldn’t possibly shake my position and ‘Heavenly Dragon’s’ position. You had long anticipated that ‘overfrequency’ would appear, and at that time you couldn’t possibly hear it—you could only hope to let others see it. So you persuaded another person… his soul also migrated into the giant bell, willing to accompany you standing there for eternity…”

In just a few words, Qinglong had already made me understand the general course of the entire matter.

Decades ago, when Qi Xia sealed his soul into the “giant bell,” he was already paving the way for today, decades later.

I swallowed and seriously stared at Qinglong to ask: “So… did ‘Heavenly Dragon’ hear it?”

“Of course!!” Qinglong laughed. “Heavenly Dragon’ has lost his appetite and can’t sleep. Right now he’s gathering a group of ‘Heaven-level’ to discuss countermeasures. ‘Peach Blossom Spring’ is truly about to undergo a great change.”

“But ‘Heavenly Dragon’ doesn’t know who this person is, right?”

I suddenly felt that Qinglong’s scheme was actually correct—Qi Xia’s bell sound could actually make “Heavenly Dragon” lose his composure.

“‘Heavenly Dragon’ certainly doesn’t know. This is Qi Xia’s only trump card.” Qinglong smiled slightly. “Now ‘Heavenly Dragon’ has gone deaf. Qi Xia’s existence couldn’t possibly be exposed to him that easily. Next we’ll see how things develop.”

Just as I was about to say something, I suddenly felt something was off.

“Qinglong… since you’re the only ear in the entire ‘Land of the End,’ why would you activate ‘Silence’?”