“Holy shit…” Chen Junnan slowly widened his eyes, as if thinking of something. “Are you saying…”

Chen Junnan almost shouted out “your teammate became a Mole,” but after thinking for a long time, he still swallowed the words.

If even the “Mole” was hiding this matter, he probably shouldn’t blurt it out carelessly.

“Chen Junnan, you said it yourself… the eight teammates in my room were all reorganized,” Qi Xia said. “So where do you think the previous eight people went?”

Although Qi Xia didn’t state it very clearly, Chen Junnan had already completely understood the meaning.

If the eight people drawn on this map were all Qi Xia’s former teammates, and they became “Zodiacs” following Qi Xia’s instructions, then what happened next was worth pondering.

Among them, the one who climbed the fastest and highest was promoted to “Dragon.”

The person who could become “Dragon” should have been Qi Xia’s most capable teammate—otherwise it would be impossible to become the chief of the “Zodiacs.”

But this “Dragon,” whether because his identity was exposed or due to some other violation, had now been demoted to a “Mole.” He not only lost everything he had now but also lost the opportunity to fight alongside Qi Xia.

Now the “Dragon” who had become a “Mole” came before Qi Xia to tell him to be careful of the current “Dragon.”

With this reasoning, everything made sense.

“Old Qi… could it really be true?” Chen Junnan asked.

“Just like I said before…” Qi Xia sighed. “He doesn’t even count as ‘human’ now. There’s absolutely no need for him to take such a great risk to come here and warn me. He could have completely ignored me, but he still had to convey this information to me. This can only make me believe this information is crucial to him. Who would risk conveying false information that has no benefit to themselves?”

“Hiss…” Chen Junnan slowly lowered his head and pointed at “Dragon” on the map. “So if this person… really has been replaced… what are you planning to do?”

“I plan to pretend I don’t know,” Qi Xia said.

Chen Junnan and Qiao Jiajin simultaneously showed puzzled expressions.

“Pretend you don’t know? Why?”

“Because I want to wait for the other party to make their move,” Qi Xia answered. “If I prepare all my defenses in advance, I’ll never know what this ‘Dragon’ wants to do.”

“This…”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan silently glanced at Qi Xia. In his impression, Qi Xia had always been this kind of person.

He not only predicted the current situation in advance but also thought ahead to formulate a countermeasure against this predicted situation.

If the other party really wanted to scheme against him, they would need to think at least two steps further than him.

“Won’t this be a bit dangerous?” Chen Junnan asked again.

“No,” Qi Xia answered. “Before this ‘Mole’ appeared, I was in the light and the enemy was in the dark. Now he’s reversed my position with the other party’s. This is already my biggest gain today.”

After hearing this, Chen Junnan and Qiao Jiajin both nodded, but judging from Qiao Jiajin’s expression, he clearly didn’t understand at all.

“This method sounds fine, but it still feels very dangerous,” Chen Junnan said. “Knowingly jumping into a trap… that means your opponent at that time won’t just be Little Chu, but the referee too? What if he blows a biased whistle?”

Qi Xia chuckled softly. “But if you want to know where the opponent will attack, you must let the opponent make their move.”

The two knew that anything Qi Xia decided had definitely been thoroughly considered and was beyond their ability to interfere with, so they could only nod.

The room fell quiet again, but none of the three had any desire to sleep. Qi Xia turned to look out the window, where it was still pitch-black.

The nights at the “Land of the End” had no moonlight at all. In this darkness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face, the bonfires lit in various rooms at “Heaven’s Mouth” illuminated the surrounding area for several hundred meters.

Qi Xia sat in his chair staring blankly at the darkness until the earthy-yellow sun rose.

He stared at the slowly rising sun for a long time, then slowly supported his forehead with his hand.

Now whenever he saw this sun, his forehead would ache slightly. It seemed the aftereffects from “Heavenly-Dragon” hadn’t dissipated yet.

“I haven’t had a headache in a very long time…” Qi Xia murmured to himself. “‘Heavenly-Dragon,’ oh ‘Heavenly-Dragon’… did you use my dream to construct ‘The End,’ or did you use ‘The End’ to invade my dream?”

This cycle was already on its seventh day. Qi Xia knew he still had many things to do and must seize all the remaining time.

It was just early morning, but sounds of movement could already be heard from some classrooms in the school.

Outside the gate, scattered figures also gradually began gathering here. A new day was becoming lively.

Qi Xia stood up and stretched his waist. Qiao Jiajin and Chen Junnan also stretched along with him. Due to the unexpected visitor’s arrival during the night, the three had been awake all night and were not in very good spirits.

“Where should we go first today, Old Qi?” Chen Junnan asked. “Should we just wait here for them to bring back Wen Qiaoyun and that Yan… what was it, Zhichun?”

“No… I still have many people to see,” Qi Xia said. “You two wait here for me. I’m going to walk through the map once.”

“Huh?”

Chen Junnan clearly didn’t understand. “Old Qi, aren’t the people on your map all ‘Zodiacs’? You’re going by yourself?”

“Yes,” Qi Xia said. “But I probably won’t participate in games anymore—I just want to chat with them.”

“Right now outside is full of ‘Echoers,'” Chen Junnan said. “Don’t die inexplicably on the street.”

“Don’t worry. Unless it’s the tenth day, no one can kill me,” Qi Xia said softly.

“You kid…” Chen Junnan frowned, feeling that Qi Xia’s mind was brewing a very bold idea. “You can’t possibly ‘replicate’ yourself, can you…?”

“In any case, I’ll be back,” Qi Xia said. “Don’t worry about the rest.”

As the three were talking, someone knocked on the classroom door.

They turned to look and discovered Lawyer Zhang standing there, smiling and nodding at them.

“Yo?” Chen Junnan was startled. “What a coincidence! The big lawyer is here.”

“Excuse the intrusion,” Lawyer Zhang said. “I just ran into Qin Dingdong in the hallway and suddenly remembered something I need to relay to Qi Xia.”

“Me?” Qi Xia raised an eyebrow. “What is it?”

“Before… Su Shan and I participated in a game,” Lawyer Zhang said with a sad expression. “A ‘Zodiac’ wants to see you. We agreed and were planning to exchange information about you with a ‘Zodiac’ for small cakes and fruit…”

Lawyer Zhang’s words left the three people in the room completely baffled.