Since he didn’t understand any of the prerequisite knowledge, Yang Shuo stood there in a daze, unsure of what to do for a moment. He instinctively looked toward Wan Qianhong.
Wan Qianhong frowned but eventually spoke up.
“Just listen to her for now.”
Yang Shuo nodded and accepted the order. With a face full of confusion, he walked over to the hole Aries Hong Jiu had smashed open, spreading his arms to brace himself against the edges.
He looked like a giant crucifix.
Xu Mo looked at the group, particularly at Wan Qianhong, who was staring intently at him. He took the initiative to speak.
“Alright, stop staring at each other.”
“To put it simply, Wu Xin was a mole sent by the Inner City to follow you. His goal was to lead you to irrelevant places to waste time.”
“If you actually discovered something significant, he was to lead us into dangerous areas to ensure everyone suffered a ‘natural death.’”
“And if that failed, he was to use the final resort: activating the ultimate killing machine of this coal mine to finish everyone off. Yeah, that’s pretty much it.”
Xu Mo dumped all the information about Wu Xin’s various actions from before the rewind onto Wan Qianhong.
Wan Qianhong’s eyes widened further and further as she looked at “Bai Feifei” in disbelief.
The sheer volume of information was a bit too much; she couldn’t process it all at once.
She had previously noticed that “Bai Feifei’s” attitude toward Wu Xin was off and had asked her about it, but Bai Feifei hadn't said anything back then!
Li Gui, listening to Xu Mo’s words, was filled with shock.
Wu Xin was a mole? How did he not know about this?
He immediately spoke up. “This is just your side of the story. He’s just a lowly Outer City Scavenger. What kind of means could he possibly have to kill all of us?”
“Did I say it was his own power? Are your ears just for decoration?”
Xu Mo looked at Li Gui rudely, then tapped the ground with his foot.
“He certainly didn’t have the strength, but the thing down here does.”
“In a few minutes, the surrounding walls will turn into meat-like matter and press inward. By then, everyone will be more or less dead.”
Hearing Xu Mo mention the thing “down here,” Li Gui’s expression changed completely. He instinctively asked, “Then how do you know all this?”
“How do I know? I know plenty. I even know why you’re here,” Xu Mo said, looking at Li Gui.
“Aren’t you just the toilet paper sent by the Li family to wipe their asses? You’re here to trigger an aberration riot so outsiders will mistake this event for a simple tide of aberrant corpses.”
“In the process, you’re supposed to erase the evidence of all the foul things you’ve done over the years and take the Crown of Time Lag back with you, right?”
“Unfortunately, you won’t achieve a single one of those goals. I’ve already killed Huang Cheng, so you can forget about that aberration tide.”
If the flood of information earlier had been hard for Wan Qianhong to accept, what he just said to Li Gui made the man feel like his brain was about to explode!
In his sunken sockets, his eyes looked like they were about to pop out!
“You! ...What did you say?!”
His instinct was to say she was talking nonsense, but he knew “Bai Feifei” was right about everything!
His mission had been assigned in the Li Family Head’s private room. How could an Outer City woman he had never even met know about it?!
“Im... impossible.”
“Stop with the ‘impossible’ and accept reality. You think you’re important? You’re already a discarded pawn,” Xu Mo mocked with a smile.
“The people behind you sent Wu Xin because they feared a useless person like you might fail. He was the insurance policy for the final stage to kill everyone and finish the job.”
Li Gui’s face turned ashen. He had no choice but to believe that the “Bai Feifei” before him truly knew these things.
The Li family had believed these deepest secrets were completely undetected.
“You... how exactly do you know these things...”
For a moment, he didn’t even want to argue. He only wanted to know how such information had leaked. Their proud security protocols had been laid bare just like that?
“Hey, I already told you I’m the only true Prophet.”
Xu Mo didn’t explain, naturally spouting nonsense on that front.
How did he know? Because of the rewinds, of course! Did he really have to tell them he was using a precognition hack?
If Wu Xin could still speak, he would probably be cursing: “Those are my lines you’re stealing!”
But now, Wu Xin’s head had already rolled, so he had no complaints.
While Li Gui was too shocked to speak, Wan Qianhong looked over in astonishment.
“The Li family is involved in this too?”
“They are. It’s mainly the Huang and Li families. There might even be higher-ups involved that I don’t know about.”
Wan Qianhong and all the people from the East District stared at “Bai Feifei” in a daze.
—If you knew everything, why didn’t you say so earlier?!
What was the point of us coming down here?!
“Splendid, truly splendid...” Aries Hong Jiu, the brute, had been standing nearby, forcing himself to watch the drama for quite a while. Now, he began to clap.
Curling his lip, he said with utter disdain, “Your Dawn City is indeed corrupt to the core. I didn’t expect to see such a mess when I came here.”
Xu Mo listened to the clapping and said with some exasperation, “You’re not taking my words seriously, are you...”
“Forget it, hurry up. Don’t just stand there. Use your fists to smash a hole right in the center of this floor.”
Aries was stunned for a moment. He hadn’t expected that interjecting would lead to him being ordered around.
Looking at “Bai Feifei,” he said curiously, “Whether the things you said are true or false only concerns you Dawn City people. It has nothing to do with us Rangers.”
“As for what you call the thing down here...”
“Stop rambling,” Xu Mo interrupted impatiently. “There won’t be time soon.”
“If you don’t want your most valued successor to be buried here alongside your ignorance, then get moving!”
As he spoke, Xu Mo raised a hand and pointed at someone in the Ranger team.
Aries Hong Jiu: “?!”
Now, he became the third person to have his eyes bulge out, following Wan Qianhong and Li Gui.
How did she know he had already chosen the next Aries?
“Don’t ask me how I know,” Xu Mo said with his hands behind his back, looking invincible. “The Masked Hermit Society knows everything it wants to know.”
In reality, the reason he knew was naturally because he had already played through many cycles...
As the words fell, flames instantly erupted and burned around Aries Hong Jiu. Then, he lunged forward and slammed a fist—hard—against the ground!
Boom!
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