## Chapter 938: I Want You Dead
As Chu Tianqiu finished speaking, tears streamed down his smiling face.
His mouth was wide open in a grin, yet tears rolled down like beads.
Wen Qiaoyun's expression softened with pity. She furrowed her brow slightly, stepped forward, and gently took hold of Chu Tianqiu's arm. "Don't cry..."
Chu Tianqiu stared at Wen Qiaoyun, his expression incredibly complex.
"So I can't leave." Chu Tianqiu gently pushed aside Wen Qiaoyun's hand. "How many 'participants' in the entire 'Land of the End' came in with their lives already on a countdown, like me?"
"Is it a terminal illness?" Wen Qiaoyun asked again.
"A brain tumor," Chu Tianqiu replied. "Only in this place of infinite cycles can my lifespan be effectively extended. No medical treatment in the world can save me. Only this bizarre land can."
Chu Tianqiu's words carried weight. Wen Qiaoyun suspected he might not be lying.
"Infinite... cycles...?" Wen Qiaoyun's mind raced, piecing together the whole situation.
No wonder she felt an overwhelming familiarity with this man before her. Could it be that the 'lover' he spoke of was...
Wen Qiaoyun simply couldn't figure it out.
Even with the man in front of her so delirious, she could tell he was rather handsome, and his clothes looked expensive.
For him to become a leader of a faction, he must be an extremely intelligent person.
Yet she herself was not only plain-looking... her real-world identity was a convenience store cashier.
So how in the world had two people with completely mismatched lives, experiences, intelligence, and even economic status become lovers?
Especially in a hopeless place like this?
"Qiaoyun..." Chu Tianqiu continued, "I clearly liberated my lover from the cycle, but she came back. What should I do?"
Chu Tianqiu's words undoubtedly confirmed Wen Qiaoyun's speculation.
"But how do you know... that your lover wanted to leave?" Wen Qiaoyun asked. "Could it be that she feels the same way you do?"
"No, because she has always been striving to get out," Chu Tianqiu replied. "For a long time, I couldn't find a reason to keep going. Then I realized that if I could help her realize her dream... it would fulfill one of my wishes."
"Did she... know you had a brain tumor before?" Wen Qiaoyun pressed.
"No," Chu Tianqiu answered. "We were the most important people to each other. If she had known... how could she have continued striving to leave?"
"So you plan to stay here and let your lover go out." Wen Qiaoyun let out a bitter laugh. "Even killing her is to let her leave?"
"Yes." Chu Tianqiu smiled. "I have no other choice... I can only stay here, but she still has a wonderful life ahead of her. As absurd as it sounds, killing her is truly to protect her. She has suffered too much. She should have been liberated long ago."
Wen Qiaoyun was silent for a moment after hearing this, then said, "But she did come back. What do you plan to do now? Kill her again?"
Chu Tianqiu was silent for a few seconds as well. "That's right. I still want her dead."
The air fell silent between them. Neither spoke again until the sun slowly set.
"Tell me the truth..." Finally, it was Wen Qiaoyun who broke the silence. "If I die, will everyone be liberated?"
The air grew still once more, as if even Chu Tianqiu hadn't expected Wen Qiaoyun to ask that.
She seemed the same as before, yet somehow different.
"I can't say for sure," Chu Tianqiu shook his head. "I can only say there's a certain probability. After all, in this place, no one knows the true method of liberation. Everyone is just trial and error. It's not about who will succeed now; it's about who makes fewer mistakes."
"A certain probability is fine," Wen Qiaoyun said. "I can tell you're a smart person. If you've truly thought of a way, it could save me a lot of time. I'm willing to try it directly."
"But there are many smart people in this world..."
"No." Wen Qiaoyun shook her head. "In this world, there are ten percent smart people, ten percent fools, and the remaining eighty percent are all muddled people."
"Muddled people...?" Chu Tianqiu raised an eyebrow.
"Yes. These muddled people will blindly follow either the smart or the foolish, swaying back and forth. They don't have clear thoughts of their own," Wen Qiaoyun explained. "So the person leading them is crucial. If I had the chance, I'd like to try leading them once myself."
Chu Tianqiu sighed softly after hearing this.
"But I'm just a muddled person," Wen Qiaoyun said with a smile. "Everything I've done in my life has sometimes been clever and sometimes been foolish."
Chu Tianqiu remembered that back then, Wen Qiaoyun had resolutely established a massive organization without any certainty of success.
And just as she said, the organization's decisions were sometimes right and sometimes wrong. But that couldn't overshadow Wen Qiaoyun's determination to help everyone.
"So if you have an idea, just go ahead and try it," Wen Qiaoyun said. "You've been trying for a long time, haven't you? Since there are smart people helping me trial and error, there's no need for me to be stubborn."
Seeing that Chu Tianqiu remained silent for a long time, Wen Qiaoyun spoke again. "How do you want me to die?"
That single sentence pierced Chu Tianqiu's heart like a dagger.
Perhaps if he killed Wen Qiaoyun again... he could truly reach the state of a 'god.' This feeling of losing something regained would be even more painful than gritting his teeth and killing her.
Qi Xia... you make me tear my own heart apart, time and again. Is this your plan?
Chu Tianqiu couldn't even tell whether Qi Xia's 'Endless Cycle' this time was helping him or tormenting him.
He only knew that after this, he would be even more insane than before. If he let Wen Qiaoyun live, all his previous efforts would be in vain.
"Qiaoyun... I want you to die completely." Chu Tianqiu's face was filled with despair.
Another long silence of dozens of seconds.
"You know I've lost my memory," Wen Qiaoyun said. "Since you just said this place has 'infinite cycles,' does that mean it's hard for a normal person to die?"
"Yes." Chu Tianqiu nodded.
"Then how do I 'die completely'?" Wen Qiaoyun asked again. "Once I'm dead, how will you liberate me?"
"There are many ways to die completely... and tomorrow happens to be an opportunity," Chu Tianqiu said. "Qiaoyun, you are the most important person to me in the 'Land of the End.' Once you die, the remaining plan will be carried out by me. But I can't guarantee there's a way to liberate everyone. I only know that as long as I keep breaking the barriers of being human, I can vaguely touch the threshold of a 'god.'"
Wen Qiaoyun was silent for a long time, then spoke. "Alright..."
"Tomorrow, I'm going to participate in a game," Chu Tianqiu said. "Come with me."
"A game..." Wen Qiaoyun nodded. "You want me to die in the game?"
"Exactly," Chu Tianqiu said. "No matter who the referee is, I want you to 'bet your life' against him."