“Hero, little brother… you……”

“I don’t know if my thinking is correct, but if you, big brother and big sister, don’t have my help… you’ll have a very difficult time controlling the fierce beast that is ‘Jade City.’ After all, those people need me.” I continued to say with a smile. “You also don’t need to keep treating me like a little child. If there’s anything you need me to do, just tell me directly.”

When Siwei Jie and Guyu Gege heard what I said, they glanced at each other, and the scent of “guilt” appeared on both of them.

“But……”

“Now is not the time to play around.” I continued. “I don’t want to drag everyone down. If I can help all the people in this city… then let me become a true ‘Hero.'”

“He’s right.” Guyu Gege nodded. “To let him become a true ‘Hero,’ now is the best opportunity. Let him send Wan Gege off on his final journey. And as for that ‘jade’ inside those safes… I’ve already thought of a better destination for it.”

That day, the scents on both Siwei Jie and Guyu Gege were very sorrowful. They brought me to the plaza downstairs and let me witness with my own eyes Wan Bobo dying under the rules he himself had designed.

Wan Bobo struggled the entire time, unwilling to say “bet your life” to the Ox-Head Sister. So everyone began to beat him, but without inflicting fatal wounds—just making him crawl on the ground with his whole body bleeding. They continuously trampled on Wan Bobo’s fingers.

Seeing the three of us approaching, he lifted his head in disbelief and looked at Guyu Gege, instantly seeming to understand something.

“Damn it… Guyu…?”

“Long time no see, Wan Gege.” Guyu Gege smiled. “How have you been lately? Do you have any missing items you need me to help you find?”

“You fucking…” He crawled forcefully on the ground, slowly moving toward Guyu Gege bit by bit. “Surnamed Gu, it was you who stole my ‘jade’!! It was you!!”

“What are you talking about, Wan Gege.” Guyu Gege shook his head. “Only you knew the password to that safe. Now that something’s gone wrong, you want to frame me?”

Wan Bobo thought carefully for a while, his body filled with the scent of confusion. It seemed he truly didn’t know what was going on.

Although he suspected Guyu Gege, he had absolutely no evidence.

I saw that Wan Bobo’s teeth were filled with blood, but not only was I not afraid, I also didn’t feel any sympathy.

Why was this…? Every time I returned to the real world, whether I saw Dad and Mom or Xu Jiahua die, I would cry bitterly in grief. But I had been family with Wan Bobo for four years, yet I didn’t feel anything at all.

“Xiao Li… save me!” Wan Bobo said to Siwei Jie. “You know I’m innocent! You know that ‘jade’ is useful to me—I couldn’t possibly hide it away at such a critical moment!!”

Siwei Jie walked forward and slowly crouched down, pressing her face close to Wan Bobo’s and speaking very softly: “Wan Cai, I love everyone in this world, but unfortunately, you don’t even count as human. The sins you’ve committed are truly too many. It’s time to pay with your life for those victims whose families were destroyed.”

After speaking, she stood up and asked: “Hero, now that Wan Gege has lost everyone’s ‘jade,’ what should we do?”

I let out a deep sigh and said: “Just deal with it according to the ‘family rules’ that Wan Bobo established.”

That day, Wan Bobo disappeared from our big family.

From then on, I never saw him again.

Jie said he would become a “Wanderer” who walked randomly around here, possibly starving to death suddenly one day, but that had nothing to do with us anymore.

“Everyone.” At this moment, Guyu Gege suddenly spoke up, addressing the crowd. “You should have seen it too—even someone as virtuous and respected as Wan Gege will suffer the same fate if they break the family rules.”

Most of the people present didn’t know Guyu Gege, and at this moment, the scent of confusion also spread through the crowd.

“Are you… that Little Gu from a few years ago?” An auntie asked.

That auntie happened to be one of the people from my room—she remembered Guyu Gege.

“That’s right, it’s me.” Guyu Gege said. “To be honest, Hero invited me back this time.”

“Hero…?” Everyone began discussing among themselves.

“He sent someone to find me and told me about Wan Cai’s conspiracy.” Guyu Gege said to the crowd in a loud voice. “He discovered long ago that Wan Cai wanted to privately embezzle that ‘jade,’ so he specifically had me rush back to deal with him. But I didn’t expect Wan Cai to act so quickly—before I returned, he had already transferred all the ‘jade’ away.”

Someone in the crowd quickly noticed something unreasonable about this matter.

“Wait… why would Hero go find someone outside the ‘family’ to handle this? Why didn’t he tell us?”

Siwei Jie smelled somewhat nervous—she seemed not to know how to answer this question either.

Guyu Gege smiled slightly and continued: “That’s because you trusted Wan Cai too much. You simply wouldn’t believe he could do such a thing.”

When the crowd heard his words, they began to fall silent.

“If Hero had told you a day in advance that Wan Cai was going to transfer that ‘jade,’ how many of you present would have believed him?” Guyu Gege asked again.

Several consecutive questions made everyone’s expressions change, and the scents on their bodies also became complex.

“So stop being foolish. Who should you really trust?” Guyu Gege said in a deep voice. “Is it someone who suddenly popped up one day preparing to rule over you as ‘family’… or is it this city’s true ‘Hero’?”

At this moment, nearly a thousand people surrounded the area, yet not a single sound emerged.

“But… but Wan Gege had been leading us all along…” An auntie said. “If it weren’t for him…”

“Leading you to do what?” Guyu Gege asked. “Leading you to earn ‘jade’ for himself so he could use it to escape?”

That auntie stopped talking again.

“Let me emphasize once more.” Guyu Gege said loudly. “In this city, you can distrust me, you can distrust Li Siwei, but you must trust ‘Hero.’ Only he is the one who constantly thinks of you. Don’t follow the wrong person.”

I could smell it… I could smell that they were just one final step away from believing what Guyu Gege said.

But how should they take that final step?

“I still feel something’s not right…” An uncle said. “Even if the situation is exactly as you say… our ‘jade’ is still lost… There’s no point in us staying here now…”

“Hero has already thought of that!!” Guyu Gege smiled, his expression filled with confidence.