Chapter 1323

All memories surged into Chen Jun Nan's embrace like children who had been away from home for a long time.

They were mixed with nearly every emotion in the world, making Chen Jun Nan feel as if he had lived through a long and desperate life in an instant.

This was no ordinary "Tianji Moment" that could kill someone... it was clearly a key that plunged people into the deepest despair.

It opened a terrifying Pandora's box, pouring out all the lost emotions and allowing a person to experience joy, anger, sorrow, and the full spectrum of desires in just one second.

After an indeterminate amount of time, when Chen Jun Nan opened his eyes again, he could barely remember the names of the two people standing before him, whom he hadn't seen in seventy years.

In the hallway, everyone remained silent for a few minutes before gradually opening their eyes.

Their gazes had all changed.

The entire hallway fell into an unusual silence; whether it was the "Zodiac" members or the "participants," they all looked at each other with complex expressions. There was no hostility, no fighting spirit—just silence.

As dawn approached, a long-absent sunrise seemed to rise in everyone's eyes.

"What... joke...?"

Chen Jun Nan said, his whole body trembling as he whispered to himself, "Qi Xia... you schemed against me...?"

His mind felt incredibly chaotic, with countless memories rushing to the forefront.

He remembered how all his teammates in the room had been driven away one by one by uncontrollable forces, leaving him alone for an entire year. The next time he opened his eyes, he had become Qi Xia's teammate.

"Damn it..."

Chen Jun Nan didn't know what to feel; he just couldn't stop shaking. Qin Ding Dong and Jin Yuan Xun were still hanging their heads in silence. If they were going through the same thing, would they soon remember everything too?

"This is wrong... damn it... hell..."

Chen Jun Nan gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell got into me... I was so determined to help Qi Xia escape from here... but what about my innocent teammates... my old friends... who will pay for their lives?"

With a face full of anger, Chen Jun Nan turned to look around the room.

"Qi Xia... you played us all... I willingly risked my life for you, but you ended up killing everyone important to me..."

While Qin Ding Dong and Jin Yuan Xun were still immobilized, Chen Jun Nan picked up a thigh bone from a corpse on the ground and began chipping away at the wall.

Thud—

Thud—

His emotions were deeply conflicted at that moment.

He knew he had spent over seventy years in the "Zhong Yan Zhi Di," and only the last ten had been with Qi Xia.

So, what right did he have to abandon all those friends from the previous sixty years and blindly help Qi Xia escape?

How could those people escape? Where would they go?

Qi Xia claimed he wanted to take everyone away, but he had already killed countless people.

Thud—

Thud—

Why him?

Why was he the one acting as the "scapegoat"?

"You knew all along I wasn't your teammate... Qi Xia... you've hidden so much from me... you manipulated Lao Qiao and me completely..."

Thud—

Thud—

Since neither he nor Qi Xia originally came from this room...

What exactly was this room?

Chen Jun Nan quickly smashed a hole in the wall, tossed the thigh bone aside, and reached out to pry open the boards.

What he saw outside made him fall silent once more.

It wasn't a dark starry sky or the next room...

Instead, it was a vast expanse of yellow-white, jelly-like substance.

The "jelly" was slightly pulsating, as if it had a life of its own.

With the hole in the wall, the sounds of fighting outside became clearer.

What was enclosing the room? And who was fighting out there?

Chen Jun Nan realized that no matter what the truth was, he couldn't change anything in Qi Xia's scheme. Even if he had to die here, he wanted to die with some understanding.

He enlarged the hole and looked up toward the source of the fighting sounds. Through the "jelly," he could vaguely make out a few dark figures.

What was going on... Were people fighting inside the "jelly"?

"I can go take a look."

A voice sounded behind him, startling Chen Jun Nan.

When he turned around, he saw that Jin Yuan Xun had awakened from his silence. His eyes no longer looked like those of a teenager; they were more like those of a very old man.

The two exchanged glances and remained silent for a long time.

"Alright."

Chen Jun Nan knew no further explanation was needed; he just nodded.

Jin Yuan Xun sighed, and in the next second, he vanished from sight, reappearing inside the "jelly." It seemed that regaining his memories had made his "Hui Xiang" ability even more effortless.

About a minute later, Jin Yuan Xun returned to the room. In his left hand, he held one person; in his right, another; and he had a third on his back.

"Found some familiar faces, bro."

Chen Jun Nan looked over and saw that Jin Yuan Xun was holding Jiang Ruo Xue in his left hand, Lin Qing in his right, and Yan Zhi Chun on his back. All three were unconscious, and it was unclear what had happened to them.

"What is that 'jelly'?" Chen Jun Nan asked. "And what were these three doing in there?"

Jin Yuan Xun laid the three on the ground and said, "Bro, I'm not entirely sure, but they weren't inside the 'jelly'—they were on its surface, like a vast, slightly glowing yellow-white ground. A 'Di Gou' was fighting someone else up there. Both were injured; it probably won't last much longer."

"The outside must be the 'Zhong Yan Zhi Di'..." Chen Jun Nan knew that since they could hear the bell sounds in this room, they weren't far from the "Zhong Yan Zhi Di." But was there really a vast, slightly glowing yellow-white ground there?

"Wait a minute..." Chen Jun Nan's eyes widened as he suddenly turned to look at the "jelly" exposed through the broken wall. His thoughts cleared in an instant. "Damn it... this can't be that abstract, can it...?"

Chen Jun Nan pondered for a while but still couldn't figure anything out.

Not only were people fighting on the sun of the "Zhong Yan Zhi Di," but their interview room was also hidden inside it.

Add to that the flickering memories, and Chen Jun Nan's mind grew even more chaotic. He decided to stop his train of thought for now.

After all, dawn was coming, and everything was about to end.

He turned his head and looked gravely at the three women in front of him. Invisible threads began to stir their hair and touch their foreheads.

It wouldn't be long before they, too, experienced that fleeting life.

"Bro..." Jin Yuan Xun turned to him. "Why are you so angry? Isn't regaining memories a good thing?"

Chen Jun Nan opened his mouth and then shook his head. "Xiao Jin... my anger has nothing to do with you. It's just some personal grudges."