After being reprimanded, Mo Shuwan watched helplessly as two tall and burly clansmen took away the dazed Yang Zhou. Instinctively, she sensed something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.
Mo Shuwan is now standing in a thick fog. She has no outside help and can only fight alone. She also has to save her companions in the remaining two days. It's a difficult situation.
After staying in place for a moment, seeing Yang Zhou being led into the desert by two tribesmen, Mo Shuwan silently memorized the direction they left in, squatted down and began to diligently pull weeds.
About ten minutes later, the clan leader announced a break. Mo Shuwan stopped what she was doing and lay down on the spot before anyone else could look over, allowing her breathing to become steady in a very short time.
Wen Zuo, Liu Dongcheng, and Chen Jiaxu also fell asleep. After staring at them for a few seconds, A Xiang and the others stood up and walked in the direction where Yang Zhou had been taken away earlier.
The footsteps around her faded into the distance. Mo Shuwan opened her eyes, took a deep breath, and quietly got up to follow them. After walking for about five or six minutes, she suddenly heard a beast's roar, followed by a series of other beast roars.
"Was it Yang Zhou? Then who was that just now? What exactly happened?"
A large herd of beasts quickly came into view, and the sounds of Ah Xiang and the others rushing back followed. In order not to give away any clues, Mo Shuwan immediately rushed forward, "I was just woken up by the sound of monsters. How could there be monsters at a time like this?!"
"Quickly! It's an animal attack! We must leave immediately!"
Mo Shuwan followed them back, but her speed clearly slowed down. By the time the clan leader and the others returned to the oasis with their prey, she had fallen so far behind that she could no longer be seen.
This time, her departure was perfectly reasonable. The game rules did not restrict her. Ah Xiang and the others were only thinking about escaping from here and did not bother to check whether she was still in the team.
Mo Shuwan breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang Zhou ran to Mo Shuwan's side and anxiously held up two fingers, but one of them was bent.
"I know there's no time, come with me first."
With Ah Xiang and the others no longer threatening her, Mo Shuwan felt much more at ease. Although the footprints they had left behind were extremely messy from the monsters' trampling, it wasn't difficult to find where they had just gone by following the footprints. It only took her about three or four minutes to bring Yang Zhou to the place where Ah Xiang and the others had stood.
It was a huge pit, and inside, the emaciated Yang Zhou stared blankly at the sky, his lips trembling slightly, as if he were saying something.
Mo Shuwan frowned and squatted on the edge of the pit. "Look, I saw him when I was in the oasis. Logically speaking, you have already escaped reincarnation, so there shouldn't be another version of you here."
Yang Zhou squatted down beside Mo Shuwan, silently watching 'Yang Zhou' whose body was already stiff from the cold in the pit.
He held up a finger and wrote on the ground—Captain, what do you think?
Mo Shuwan shook her head helplessly. "I haven't thought of it yet. There are many details in this cycle of reincarnation that I still haven't figured out. Do you remember when we first entered this cycle of reincarnation?"
—I remember it was on the third day after we entered this level.
"Yes, the third day. By then, we had entered the cycle of reincarnation. We had lost all our memories and were like puppets, endlessly reincarnating here. But at another point in time, we thought we had just entered this level because we never doubted the black text. We thought our mission was to build a desert city."
Yang Zhou looked at Mo Shuwan in silence.
Mo Shuwan frowned and pondered for a moment, then stood up and jumped into the pit, enduring the icy cold as she walked to 'Yang Zhou'.
"I haven't figured out exactly how this cycle of reincarnation created by the game works yet, but I do know three things."
"First, each of us at each node is the real us. It's not that there are multiple us, but rather that the reincarnation world created by the game has brought us back to that point in time. Second, the purpose of the people who created the game is to assimilate us, to make us a part of this world, to turn us into puppets. Third, when we are sent to the 'past' by the reincarnation world, the events that happened in the 'past' can affect the present."
Yang Zhou, who had been quietly crouching above the pit, stood up and looked down at 'Yang Zhou's' wrist, who was about to reach out to check the blank stare at the sky. He sighed softly, "Didn't I tell you before that if you don't die at your own or your teammates' hands in the cycle of reincarnation, you will die completely?"
Mo Shuwan paused slightly, looked down at Yang Zhou who had a blank look in his eyes, and then slowly turned her head to look at Yang Zhou, who was standing above her in the shape of a monster. "So you're the fake one."
“I should have been telling the truth. You are smart, but also stupid. Even if you guessed something, you shouldn’t have said these things. It’s true that I tried hard to pull you out.”
Mo Shuwan pursed her lips and didn't answer. She reached out and patted Yang Zhou's face. "Yang Zhou."
Yang Zhou, with a blank stare, did not react. Mo Shuwan looked down at his hand, narrowed her eyes, and whispered, "Am I going to die?"
"Yes, you're going to die. I'll kill you."
The other monsters around them also gathered around Yang Zhou, who looked like a monster. Mo Shuwan said, "I know I can't escape now. Before you die, you have to make me understand why you did this."
“I want freedom. I will succeed after tomorrow. I will be free, and you—oh no, you will die, and the rest of you will be trapped here forever.”
Mo Shuwan nodded, glanced at Yang Zhou, released his hand, turned and climbed up. The monster didn't attack her. In the cycle of reincarnation, she couldn't take out a weapon, so resistance was out of the question.
Mo Shuwan, who had climbed up, looked at the monster and asked, "What do you plan to use to kill me?"
My hand.
"Please go ahead."
Mo Shuwan shrugged, watching as several sharp spikes appeared in the monster's hand. If positioned accurately, they could definitely kill someone in one strike. She sighed, and as the hand swung towards her neck, she suddenly grabbed his wrists with both hands, forcefully changing the direction of the monster's attack.
Several extremely long, sharp thorns, propelled by Mo Shuwan's own doubled effort, suddenly pierced her heart.
The monster stared in shock at Mo Shuwan, who had almost died instantly. He kicked the corpse twice in a panic, "What exactly do you want to do?!"
The monster, whose attention was entirely focused on Mo Shuwan, did not notice Yang Zhou's pupils suddenly contracting in the pit. This change only lasted a second before he continued to stare blankly at the sky.
"roar!!!"
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