After hearing this, I suddenly became interested. Indeed, even if Jiang Ruoxue was moving together with these people, she wouldn’t forget her ultimate mission.

“Tsk, Jiang Ruoxue, you should go test him yourself.” Zhoumo said. “Even if you die, it’s fine. There aren’t many days left anyway.”

“…”

“Tsk, what do you mean ‘what to do next’?” Zhoumo said. “I already have the list, am I still afraid he’ll run away?”

“…”

“Tsk, why leave a ‘surprise’…” Zhoumo shook her head helplessly. “Our ultimate goal is to let him know how great our abilities are. A smart person should know how to make choices. If you discover he’s really like the information the ‘Cat’ team collected, then find a way to get him to join ‘Extreme Path.’ That seems like a pretty good route too.”

“…”

“Mm, I’ll also tell Xiao Xiao about this in a bit. You go ahead and do your thing.”

Seeing that Zhoumo’s conversation with Jiang Ruoxue had ended, I walked to her side and asked with a curious expression: “How is she… was she bullied?”

“You’re really underestimating her.” Zhoumo said. “From that tone, it didn’t sound like she was bullied. Instead, it sounded like she ‘played enough.’ She’ll probably be back soon.”

“So right now she’s…?”

“Tsk, she’s taking those few weird species to participate in games.” Zhoumo said. “Probably after seeing a formidable figure, her hope was reignited.”

“That sounds like her style.” I nodded. “Was it a very formidable person she encountered?”

“Hard to say.” Zhoumo said. “Tsk, you should know that here, any slightly formidable figure has already been digested and absorbed by various organizations. But the person Jiang Ruoxue encountered is an unheard-of figure.”

“Unheard-of? That’s truly rare.” I said helplessly. “There’s still new blood in this godforsaken place?”

“Wasn’t he picked up quite a while ago?” I asked. “What happened to him?”

“Tsk, you don’t often go look at the screens, so you probably don’t know.” Zhoumo said to me with a mysterious expression. “That person is like you—his ‘Echo’ has a full three characters.”

“Oh?” I raised my eyebrows. This was indeed a rare situation.

“Tsk, you can control the intensity of your ‘Echo,’ but he can’t.” Zhoumo continued. “So for outsiders, he’s the only one here with a three-character ‘Echo.'”

What Zhoumo said was correct. I would only possibly let the screens detect me during the early period when I wasn’t proficient at mastering my “Echo,” but it had already been ten years since then. Very few people could remember my “Echo.”

“Wouldn’t this be very strange…?” I said. “This person possesses a three-character ‘Echo,’ yet not only was he not discovered by anyone for a very long time, but he also completely can’t control the bell sounds… These are two paradoxes.”

“Tsk, I’m curious too.” Zhoumo said. “If his ‘Echo’ makes the giant bell ring every time, then theoretically he should be a very famous figure here. After all, once you see a three-character ‘Echo,’ you can’t forget it. But truly no one has seen him before.”

I nodded, suddenly feeling a bit excited.

“Moreover, I heard that person engages in frontal combat every time, so the probability of activating his ‘Echo’ is also very high.” Zhoumo continued. “Tsk, I originally thought it was because his ‘Echo’ was too difficult, which was why he’d never been noticed by anyone. But recent rumors say that person controls his ‘Echo’ very skillfully. As long as it’s a frontal confrontation or martial combat, he can definitely activate his ‘Echo.'”

Right… this was another paradox.

I lowered my head, and after a few seconds, slowly revealed a smile.

This feeling had finally returned.

This was an emotion I could only feel when Brother Sheep was in his peak state.

That was the emotion of having “a large number of unsolved mysteries” swirling in my mind.

Why was this deputy leader so strange?

He was simply like a newcomer who descended from the sky—unable to control the giant bell, yet able to control his “Echo.” So where did he learn the method of “Echo”? Did the people where he came from only know how to fight honorably and straightforwardly?

If his “Echo” was so easy to trigger, then how could he have remained obscure?

Although this matter seemed to have nothing to do with Brother Sheep, my intuition told me that Brother Sheep must have been involved.

During the seven years I spent with Brother Sheep, I came to a very useful conclusion: whenever inexplicable matters appeared in the “Land of the End,” Brother Sheep’s figure would definitely appear among them.

“The strange things aren’t limited to just this deputy leader either.” Zhoumo continued. “Tsk, there’s also some Qin something Winter… something about feeding sheep… that what’s-her-name Shan in our room… anyway, many formidable figures have been quite active recently.”

After hearing this, I felt somewhat speechless: “Zhoumo… it’s one thing if you can’t remember strangers’ names, but how can you not even remember the names of people in your own room…?”

“Uh…” Zhoumo curled her lip. “Mind your own business. I have little contact with her, so I’ve long forgotten what she’s called. Our rooms don’t require self-introductions.”

I could only go along with her and nod: “Alright, alright, alright.”

However, Zhoumo’s words did remind me of something. In the “Land of the End,” ninety-nine percent of rooms didn’t require self-introductions. After all, in many games, “names” wouldn’t be of any help to us “Participants” who walked the line between life and death, so even after many people left the room, they still remained strangers to each other.

But the strange thing was… in the “Liar” game that Brother Sheep designed himself, not only did everyone need to report their names to each other, but they also had to talk about their previous experiences. This game not only allowed us to quickly understand each other but also enabled us to roughly judge the other party’s character.

Since it was a game designed by Brother Sheep personally, he must have had his considerations. Could it be that for him, having the “Participants” in the room understand each other early was better for entering the “Land of the End”?

“Tsk… this should be a good thing too.” Zhoumo said. “No matter what, if there are more formidable figures here, in the future they’ll all be absorbed by our organizations. Even if they join ‘Heaven’s Mouth,’ it’s fine—we have our own people there too.”

How to describe “Extreme Path” in one sentence…?

That would be: no matter which organization these strong people ultimately chose to join, they couldn’t escape “Extreme Path.”

“This feeling seems to have returned…” I said. “Everyone is working hard, so I can’t slack off either.”

“You’re slacking off?” Zhoumo curled her lip. “Last time Little Eighteen told me she encountered you in a game. She just wanted to obtain an ‘Echo,’ but you, this bitch, almost killed everyone in the venue.”

“Really…?” I revealed a smile as if I’d been praised. “This is all what I should do. I feel that Brother Sheep is about to return soon… Zhoumo, what we’ve been doing is finally about to bear fruit.”