“Won’t our hands be stained with fresh blood that way…?” Doctor Zhao asked with furrowed brows. “Once we start killing people, even if we escape, what good will it do?”

“Oh?” Chu Tianqiu looked at the two with a desolate gaze. “You two have both killed people before… what kind of sarcastic remarks are you making now?”

“But…!” Doctor Zhao’s brows were tightly knit. After thinking for a long time, he finally said a sentence. “But we indirectly caused people’s deaths… To put it bluntly, we didn’t actively kill people… The nature is different…”

“If we must argue sophistically, you don’t need to ‘actively’ kill people now either.”

Chu Tianqiu sighed. “Those people won’t die by your hands, but rather will die under ‘Echo’. So the ones killing aren’t you, but ‘Echo’. Moreover, these powers were all bestowed upon you by the ‘Land of the End’. To put it bluntly, they all die under the rules of the ‘Land of the End’. No matter how miserably they die, they’ll revive the next time, so you don’t need to have any psychological pressure.”

The two stood dumbly in place, actually finding that Chu Tianqiu’s words made some sense.

“Just treat this place as a game.” Chu Tianqiu said. “People who die in this round will return intact in the next round. You’re not killing people, you’re just eliminating them in this round. That’s all.”

Doctor Zhao still felt something was quite improper, but when he turned his head to look, Han Yimo’s eyes already contained several parts determination.

He had accepted this bizarre game.

“This is a setting that often appears in novels… Since the ‘Savior’ no longer helps the protagonist, the protagonist has a very high possibility of turning dark…” Han Yimo slowly forced out a smile, murmuring in his mouth. “I’ve seen this kind of plot device before. It really is possible to happen. So let’s give it our all… Doctor Zhao…”

“Give it our all… Simply absurd…!”

Doctor Zhao’s eyes widened greatly. When a normal person faces a madman, they might still be able to resist, but once facing two madmen simultaneously, oneself appears to be the most abnormal one.

“Then let me ask one final question…” Doctor Zhao swallowed and looked at Chu Tianqiu. “You’re having us go help you kill people, so what will you yourself be doing?”

“Me…?” Chu Tianqiu pondered for a moment and shook his head. “My hands have never been stained with fresh blood… It was like this before, and it will be like this in the future.”

“You won’t even pretend for us a little…”

“I don’t need to pretend.” Chu Tianqiu said. “When lions and rabbits cooperate, they never retract their fangs to pretend to be harmless. There’s no point to that at all.”

Doctor Zhao was completely out of words, but Han Yimo asked at this moment, “Where should we go to kill people…? And who should we start with?”

Chu Tianqiu didn’t answer. He only smiled slightly and said, “I have something to attend to outside. Do as you please from here on.”

He reached out and pushed past the two, directly walking out of the classroom. Then, under their gaze, he crossed the playground and walked out of ‘Heaven’s Mouth’.

“What exactly does he mean?” Han Yimo looked at Doctor Zhao uncomprehendingly. “When we asked him where to kill people, he just left directly.”

“The meaning is quite clear…” Doctor Zhao silently lowered his head. “The ‘Pegasus Moment’ has ended. The nearby ‘Participants’ will gradually return to ‘Heaven’s Mouth’. He’s having us take action directly here.”

“Directly kill ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ people…?”

“What a great scheme…” Doctor Zhao said. “No matter whether we succeed or fail, Chu Tianqiu as the leader won’t be here. He can pretend to know nothing, or he can tell others that we two betrayed them… It’s precisely because we’re Qi Xia’s people that no matter what we do, Chu Tianqiu will always have a way out.”

“Are you saying he already thought through this countermeasure from the start?” Han Yimo asked.

“Yes, he’s been using us from beginning to end.” Doctor Zhao sighed. “What he values is the destructive power of your and my ‘Echoes’. I’m precise and concealed, you’re grand in momentum with indiscriminate destructiveness. This is precisely why he’s drawing us in.”

“Isn’t that just right…?”

“What?”

“Being used… doesn’t that mean we still have value to be used?” Han Yimo turned his head, looking at Doctor Zhao with slightly vacant eyes. “In the real world, no one would ever use me because of my abilities. Isn’t that a good thing?”

Doctor Zhao had always felt that once he fell into the madmen’s logic, it was very difficult to extricate himself. Chu Tianqiu was like this, and so was Han Yimo.

Perhaps one day he himself would become as mad as them.

At that time… he should be able to ‘disintegrate’ humans, right?

“So are you prepared to make a move?” Doctor Zhao said with slight sorrow. “Even knowing full well that Chu Tianqiu is using you as a gun, will you still use your ability without hesitation to kill others?”

“Using me as a gun…” Han Yimo murmured these few words slightly, then slowly revealed a smile. “You’re too naive, Doctor Zhao.”

“What…?”

“In all books, what good ending do people who use the ‘protagonist’ as a gun have…?” Han Yimo’s smile became increasingly eerie. “He’s just a ‘Destroyer’. He thinks he’s manipulating the ‘protagonist’, but one day the ‘protagonist’ will grow up and ultimately make him regret it.”

Doctor Zhao felt he was trying to persuade someone who was completely unable to communicate. Han Yimo had already displayed his deranged state more than once before him.

“Doctor Zhao, don’t you want to train yourself?” Han Yimo smiled as he looked at the sky. “This is precisely a path of fighting monsters and leveling up! We can proficiently master the usage of ‘Echo’ through countless battles. If we encounter some fortuitous opportunities again, your and my strength will rise to another level. At that time, won’t we be able to kill Chu Tianqiu with our own hands and take charge of this place ourselves?”

“My god…” Doctor Zhao slowly sat down on a chair and covered his eyes with his hands. He felt his situation was extremely bad.

Han Yimo had long gone mad. He could proficiently summon a non-existent ‘sword’ to kill people, but he himself still retained a thread of rationality.

This thread of rationality made him suffer unbearably.

He knew that Qi Xia and Chu Tianqiu were clearly two madmen. Following either of them couldn’t possibly guarantee any good outcome for himself.

But besides the two of them, who else had hope of escaping this place?

“We’re clearly a perfect match…” Han Yimo said again. “As long as you’re here, my ‘Seven Black Sword’ can kill anyone under absolutely safe conditions.”