Chapter 766: The True Mad God
Qiao Jiajin naturally had no idea what to do. He scratched his head and looked at Chen Junnan. "Junnan, my boy..."
"Alright... alright..." Chen Junnan said. "Hear what you're saying, Sister Dong. We were planning to come get you anyway, so there's no need to talk about 'joining us' or not, haha!"
Even Qiao Jiajin was seeing Chen Junnan wear such an awkward expression for the first time, and he couldn't help feeling a bit curious.
Just who was this girl?
Chen Junnan hadn't even shown this kind of expression when facing the Ground Monkey, but when he saw the girl in front of him, it was like he had run into his natural enemy. Not only did his mouth become clumsy, but even his expression seemed a little dazed.
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 off together.
The three of them walked out of the classroom together, and at the school gate they saw several girls led by Yun Yao. They seemed to have woken up early as well and were about to head out with Zheng Yingxiong.
"Oh, the big star." Chen Junnan greeted Yun Yao.
Yun Yao looked like she was pressed for time, her expression perpetually absentminded. She only nodded symbolically before hurrying off with her group.
The members of "Heaven's Mouth" left their base early in the morning, heading off in different directions.
Chu Tianqiu stood on the rooftop, scanning the people below.
He was expressionless, lost in thought.
Xu Liunian walked up to the rooftop step by step, standing not far away, gazing at Chu Tianqiu's back.
"What's up?" Chu Tianqiu asked softly without turning his head. "Found a way to destroy this place?"
"I can't find that path..." Xu Liunian replied in a low voice. "I'm completely out of options now."
"Is that so..." Chu Tianqiu nodded. "Then what do you want from me by coming here?"
"I've already given up." Xu Liunian said. "I don't have any close relationships with anyone here. When I think about it, only you and Yun Yao have spoken a few extra words to me, so I came to say goodbye."
"Goodbye...?"
"Chu Tianqiu, you know..." Xu Liunian lowered her head silently. "The reason I can appear in your room every time is because 'Qinglong' promised me the identity of a 'Participant.'"
Chu Tianqiu nodded after hearing this. "Yeah, so what?"
"I don't want to seek this opportunity anymore..." Xu Liunian said. "Maybe in the next cycle, I'll disappear completely... and never appear again."
"Interesting." Chu Tianqiu sighed expressionlessly. "I thought you and 'Qinglong' were on equal footing, but it turns out you're under his control?"
"You remember all this too...?" Xu Liunian frowned.
"Yes. Those two dragons want to kill everyone here to 'become gods,' and you want to kill everyone here too. My memories are growing more each day, and I imagine Qi Xia is the same." Chu Tianqiu said. "If you disappear here, does 'Qinglong' have a way to explain it?"
Xu Liunian paused for a moment, then slowly looked up at the sky. "Who does he need to 'explain' to...? They've already disobeyed their own master's orders. Do they still need to fabricate lies to give their master an explanation?"
"Yeah..." Chu Tianqiu nodded. "No one is coming to save us anymore... Those two kill 'Participants' to 'silence them,' so they will absolutely never let anyone leave. To break these cycles, we have to rely on ourselves."
Xu Liunian pondered for a while, then spoke. "Not on ourselves, but on you. Whether it's you or Qi Xia... whoever it is, just destroy this place."
"And you?"
"I just want to complete my 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 disobeyed my superior's order, took this place for themselves, and want to become 'gods.' That's wrong in the first place."
Chu Tianqiu let out a soft laugh. "So they have no way out either. If they walk out of this place without becoming 'gods,' what awaits them is the crime of rebellion."
"That's the logic." Xu Liunian said. "So I have to do everything I can to destroy this place."
"Don't be foolish." Chu Tianqiu turned around and said. "Xu Liunian... Do you really know what you're doing?"
Xu Liunian thought for a moment after hearing this, then said, "I know. I'm just executing orders. I don't care about anything else."
"Orders...? But hey..." Chu Tianqiu turned to face her, meeting her eyes on the empty rooftop. "How can you not see this logic? Your 'superior,' the one they call their 'master,' that person trapped tens of thousands of souls here, used them up, and then ordered everyone killed. Could he possibly be any kind of good person?"
"Don't say that..." Xu Liunian's face darkened as well. "The tens of thousands of souls brought here were all guilty people to begin with. He just gave them a chance to 'become gods.'"
"Guilty...?" Chu Tianqiu let out an angry laugh and took a couple of steps forward. "Xu Liunian... What crime have I committed?"
"I don't know..." Xu Liunian shook her head. "I don't understand each person's sin here, but when I drove the 'train' to this place, I knew that every person here carried enough sin to go to hell."
"Isn't that absurd?" Chu Tianqiu laughed wide-eyed. "If you're not lying, then your superior took a bunch of sinners who were supposed to go to hell and let them try to 'achieve enlightenment and become gods' in this damn place. Am I crazy, or is he crazy?!"
"He is the true 'god' who stands above those two..." Xu Liunian replied. "The things he does are simply beyond the comprehension of mortals like us..."
"Bullshit 'god,' bullshit soul-management bureau." Chu Tianqiu sneered coldly. "Who do you think is really responsible for our current situation? Is it really those two dragons?! If someone hadn't carefully built this place that can hold tens of thousands of souls... how would we be trapped here?!"
"But you really can't blame him..." Xu Liunian said. "I heard with my own ears him say, 'This place is useless, disperse all these people.' Theoretically, your lives should have ended seventy years ago..."
"Hahahaha!" Chu Tianqiu burst into loud laughter. "That's even more absurd. Xu Liunian, Xu Liunian, from my perspective, those two dragons are incredibly good people. They actually gave us seventy more years of life. Your 'superior' is the real devil through and through."
"What...?" Xu Liunian, upon hearing Chu Tianqiu's point of view, slowly widened her eyes, as if she felt her entire world was collapsing.
"Or..." Chu Tianqiu's face turned cold as he asked again, "Is it that every being in this world called a 'god' is equally insane?"