Qiao Jiajin naturally had no solution. While scratching his head, he looked toward Chen Junnan: “Junnan…”

“Alright… alright then…” Chen Junnan said. “Look at what you’re saying, Sister Dong. We were originally planning to call you along anyway. What’s this about ‘following’ or not? Haha!”

This was even Qiao Jiajin’s first time seeing Chen Junnan show such an awkward expression, and he couldn’t help but feel curious.

What exactly was this girl’s background?

Chen Junnan hadn’t shown this kind of expression even when facing the Earth-Monkey, yet upon seeing the girl before him, it was as if he had encountered his natural enemy. Not only had his silver tongue become clumsy, even his expression had become somewhat dull.

Qiao Jiajin naturally didn’t know what had happened between the two of them. He could only agree to Qin Dingdong’s request to set out together.

The three of them walked out of the classroom together. At the school gate, they encountered several girls led by Yun Yao. They seemed to have risen quite early as well and were preparing to head out together with Zheng Yingxiong.

“Yo, big celebrity,” Chen Junnan greeted Yun Yao.

Yun Yao appeared to be pressed for time, with an absent-minded expression throughout. She only nodded symbolically before hurrying along with everyone.

The people in “Heaven’s Mouth” all left their base early in the morning, heading off in different directions.

Meanwhile, Chu Tianqiu stood atop the rooftop, scanning down at everyone below.

His face was expressionless, seemingly deep in thought about something.

Xu Liunian walked up to the rooftop step by step, standing at a distance and gazing at Chu Tianqiu’s back.

“What is it?” Chu Tianqiu asked softly without turning his head. “Have you found a method to destroy this place?”

“I can’t find that path…” Xu Liunian answered in a low voice. “The current me has no methods left whatsoever.”

“I’ve already given up,” Xu Liunian said. “Here, I have no real connections with anyone. Thinking carefully about it, only you and Yun Yao have spoken more than a few words with me, so I came to bid you farewell.”

“Farewell…?”

“Chu Tianqiu, you know…” Xu Liunian silently lowered his head. “The reason I could appear in your rooms every time was because Qinglong promised me the identity of a ‘Participant.'”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu nodded: “Yes, so what?”

“I don’t want to seek this opportunity anymore…” Xu Liunian said. “Perhaps in the next cycle, I’ll completely disappear… never to appear again.”

“Interesting.” Chu Tianqiu sighed with an expressionless face. “I thought you and Qinglong were on equal footing, but it turns out you’re under his control?”

“You’ve even remembered these things…?” Xu Liunian furrowed his brow.

“Yes. Those two dragons want to kill everyone here to ‘become gods,’ and you also want to kill everyone here. My memories are becoming more complete day by day—Qi Xia is probably the same,” Chu Tianqiu said. “If you disappear here, how will you explain things to Qinglong?”

After listening, Xu Liunian slowly raised his head to look at the sky: “To whom does he need to ‘explain’…? The two of them have already violated their own master’s orders. Do they still need to deliberately fabricate lies to give their master an explanation?”

“Indeed…” Chu Tianqiu nodded. “No one will come to rescue us in this place anymore… Those two are killing ‘Participants’ to ‘silence’ them, so they absolutely cannot allow anyone to leave. If we want to break these cycles of reincarnation, we can only rely on ourselves.”

Xu Liunian pondered for a moment before speaking: “It’s not relying on ourselves, but on you all. Whether it’s you or Qi Xia… anyone will do—destroy this place.”

“What about you?”

“I only want to complete my own mission,” Xu Liunian said. “If those two are killing all the ‘Participants’ to silence them, then I’m the same. My superior once ordered them to destroy this place, but they violated my superior’s command, occupied this place for themselves, and want to become ‘gods’ themselves. This was wrong from the start.”

Chu Tianqiu chuckled softly: “So those two have no way out either. If they haven’t become ‘gods’ when they leave this place, what awaits them is the crime of treason.”

“Exactly,” Xu Liunian said. “So I must find every possible way to destroy this place.”

“Don’t be foolish.” Chu Tianqiu turned his head. “Xu Liunian… do you truly know what you’re doing?”

After hearing this, Xu Liunian thought for a moment and said: “I know. I’m merely executing orders. I don’t care about other matters.”

“Orders…? But…” Chu Tianqiu turned around to face Xu Liunian on this empty rooftop. “How can you not understand this principle? Your ‘superior’—that is, the so-called ‘master’ of those two—that person captured tens of thousands of dead souls and imprisoned them here. After using them up, he then ordered everyone killed… Could he possibly be a good person?”

“Don’t you dare speak of him like that…” Xu Liunian’s complexion also darkened. “The tens of thousands of dead souls he captured were all guilty people to begin with. He merely gave these people an opportunity to ‘become gods.'”

“Sinners…?” Chu Tianqiu laughed angrily and stepped forward twice. “Xu Liunian… what crime have I committed?”

“I don’t know…” Xu Liunian shook his head. “I don’t understand where each person’s sins lie here, but when I drove the ‘train’ to this place, I knew that everyone here carried sins grave enough to send them to hell.”

“Isn’t this absurd?” Chu Tianqiu stared with wide eyes as he laughed. “If you’re not lying, then your superior is having a group of evil people who should have gone to hell attempt to ‘attain divinity and become gods’ in this godforsaken place. Tell me—am I the one who’s gone mad, or has he?”

“He is the true ‘god’ who stands above those two…” Xu Liunian answered. “The things he does simply aren’t something we mortals can fathom…”

“Bullshit ‘god,’ bullshit ghost management organization.” Chu Tianqiu sneered coldly. “Do you think our current predicament was truly caused by those two dragons?! If someone hadn’t meticulously established this place capable of containing tens of thousands of ghosts… how could we have been trapped?!”

“But you truly cannot blame him…” Xu Liunian said. “I personally heard him say ‘this place is useless now, scatter all these people’… Theoretically speaking, your lives should have already ended seventy years ago at that time…”

“Hahaha!” Chu Tianqiu laughed loudly several times. “This is even more absurd! Xu Liunian, oh Xu Liunian—from my perspective, those two dragons are tremendously good people. They actually gave us seventy extra years of life. Your ‘superior’ is the one who’s a devil through and through.”

“What…?” After hearing Chu Tianqiu’s viewpoint, Xu Liunian’s eyes gradually widened, as if he felt his entire world collapsing.

“Or perhaps…” Chu Tianqiu’s expression turned cold as he asked again, “In this world, are all those called ‘gods’ equally insane?”