"What...?" Qi Xia turned his head, looking at Jiang Ruoxue with a calm demeanor.
"Although I don't know the reason, I'm not foolish," Jiang Ruoxue said with a smile.
"If you're afraid that I'll stop you, why did you leave me behind?"
Qi Xia covered his wound, his face gradually turning pale.
"Let me guess, you hope I'll inform the other 'Ultimate Path followers' that 'Qi Xia has given up', that's why you spared my life, right?"
"Ultimate Path followers?" Lin Qin and Zhang Chenze looked at each other, completely confused by her meaning.
"You are indeed very smart," Jiang Ruoxue nodded, "but you've miscalculated one thing: I don't care whether you will gather three thousand six hundred 'Paths', and I won't stop you."
Qi Xia's face was extremely gloomy, not expecting that all his thoughts were seen through by the other party.
"Although we are all 'Ultimate Path followers', each of our pursuits is different," Jiang Ruoxue took a rubber band from her wrist, tied her loose hair into a bun, and then said, "Some people are keen on sabotaging the competition, some like to destroy 'Paths', and others swagger around on the streets pretending to be the original inhabitants, but I am different."
"What's your difference?" Qi Xia asked.
"I like to experience different games and watch people scheme against each other," Jiang Ruoxue replied without hesitation, "Although 'Ultimate Path followers' are all a group of madmen, liars, and gamblers, everyone is guarding this place with their own strength.
And my way of guarding this place is to incite those good people to participate in the game."
"So... you are a 'Shill'?" Qi Xia asked to the point.
"Shill...?" Jiang Ruoxue pondered for a moment, then nodded, "According to what you say... I really am a shill, but no one pays me."
For a moment, Qi Xia was speechless, and in his heart, he could only constantly ponder a question - 'What exactly is the Ultimate Path?'
"So what about you?" Jiang Ruoxue asked, "Are you really going to give up?"
"What do you think?"
Qi Xia released his hand from the wound and showed Jiang Ruoxue the blood between his fingers: "Can you make me heal?"
"I really can't do that," Jiang Ruoxue shook her head, "I can't figure out the 'logical relationship' to make you heal, otherwise I would definitely save you... after all, you just saved my life."
Seeing that Qi Xia and the other two were still looking at her warily, Jiang Ruoxue no longer sought trouble, she stretched lazily, revealing her sexy curves, and then asked: "Are you going to kill me? If not, I'm leaving."
The three were not vicious people, naturally there was no reason to kill Jiang Ruoxue, and upon further thought, they didn't even have a reason to keep her.
"I'm really leaving?" Jiang Ruoxue confirmed again.
Seeing that everyone still didn't respond, she helplessly shook her head, setting off a distant bell sound.
Hearing this soul-stirring sound, Qi Xia finally couldn't help but ask: "What does the bell sound represent?"
Jiang Ruoxue turned her head, pondered for a while, and said: "Considering that you saved my life, I can make an exception and answer your question, but you also have to answer me one question."
"Okay," Qi Xia nodded.
Seeing Qi Xia's agreement, Jiang Ruoxue spoke: "It is currently known that only two situations will make the bell ring, the first is 'hearing the echo', the second is 'the echo disappears'."
"What is 'echo'?" Qi Xia asked again.
"This is the second question," Jiang Ruoxue shook her head, "Are we that close?"
Qi Xia looked at the wound, his face gradually darkened.
Jiang Ruoxue seemed to feel a bit reluctant, so she said: "Qi Xia, this time I'll make an exception and answer one more question for you. 'Echo' is a very abstract thing, some people can't understand it all their lives, and some people even if they understand it, they can't exert the power of 'echo'... Today I'm very lucky, I succeeded twice in a row with 'echo', and that's why you are still alive."
Zhang Chenze seemed to think of something: "So... the person I killed with glass was manipulated by you..."
"If your cognition is still stuck on 'manipulation', I'm afraid you will never understand 'echo'." Jiang Ruoxue turned to leave, after taking three steps, suddenly thought of something again, stopped and said, "Qi Xia, don't suppress your own sadness, people will hear 'echo' in extreme emotions."
With that, Jiang Ruoxue pushed open the hotel door and walked onto the street.
"Hey, don't you have a question to ask me?" Qi Xia shouted from afar.
"I'll owe it," Jiang Ruoxue didn't turn her head, just waved her hand.
Her words made everyone confused, but Qi Xia felt like he had grasped some clues.
According to Qi Xia's understanding, 'echo' seems to be some kind of superpower.
This superpower will randomly appear on some people.
And at this time, the huge bell will also ring, and the screen will prompt 'I heard the echo'.
In other words, every time the bell rings before, it means someone has obtained this superpower named 'echo', and the second bell rings, it represents to make use of it.
"Officer Li is an 'Echoer'..." Qi Xia muttered to himself.
"Officer Li?" Lin and Zhang Chenze looked at Qi Xia at the same time.
"Officer Li rang the first bell before he died, and the second bell rang after he died." Qi Xia tried to combine Officer Li's strange actions at that time with this superpower, "This indicates that he obtained this ability before he died, but his performance was very strange."
Qi Xia took out the old metal lighter from his pocket and said to Lin Qin and Zhang Chenze: "He was like a magician at that time, took out a cigarette from an empty cigarette box, and took out a lighter from an empty pocket."
"What?" Zhang Chenze looked puzzled at Qi Xia, "Aren't these two things you brought to him?"
"No." Qi Xia shook his head, "At that time, I was afraid that your energy would pay too much attention to these issues, so I didn't mention it, but now think about it, he did briefly obtain this superpower."
"So you're saying..." Lin Qin extended his hand to gesture, "This superpower called 'echo'... can make things appear out of thin air?"
"No." Qi Xia shook his head again, "If you carefully understand Jiang Ruoxue's words and combine all the things that have happened before, let's make a bold assumption... This thing called 'echo' has many categories, and the abilities each person obtains are also different. The known ones so far include 'disaster attraction' and 'scapegoating', as well as Officer Li's 'object teleportation'."
Zhang Chenze also nodded and interjected at this time: "Jiang Ruoxue's ability is also not quite the same as Officer Li's... It seems that she can control the 'logical relationship' of a matter...