"How do I know?" Qi Xia asked rhetorically.

"It's your own "echo" and what you've done, but you pretend you don't know?" Chu Tianqiu asked.

After hearing this, Qi Xia shook his head helplessly: "Chu Tianqiu, don't say that I don't know, even if I can't even read the 'Heavenly Snake' in my own mind." ”

"Oh......?"

"He's a lot more sober than I am." Qi Xia said.

Chu Tianqiu frowned slightly after hearing this: "So when I wrote these two notes, was I also confused by your thoughts?" ”

"You have to ask yourself." Qi Xia replied, "I'm not you, I don't know what you're thinking. Maybe I'm hiding nothing, but you're crazy. ”

"I ...... Lose your marbles? Chu Tianqiu nodded, "That's right, I didn't go crazy after killing Wen Qiaoyun, I was already crazy before I killed her." ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Qi Xia again and asked, "Then when did you go crazy?" ”

"I'm not crazy." Qi Xia replied, "My spirit has never been so good as it is now. ”

"I see." Chu Tianqiu smiled dumbly, "A real madman never thinks he's crazy, it seems that I'm a little worse than you." ”

"You can't say that." Qi Xia shook his head and said, "You have a natural advantage over me, as long as you are 'reverberating', then you can become a sane madman, but I can't." I would never have been where I am today unless I had destroyed all my psychological defenses and rebuilt them with the most horrible things. ”

"...... destroy all your psychological defenses?" Chu Tianqiu was slightly stunned, "And then use the most terrifying thing to rebuild ......?" ”

"That's right."

"Is this something that a normal person can do?"

"We ...... Are you still a normal person? Qi Xia asked.

"We ......" Chu Tianqiu smiled bitterly after hearing this, "yes...... Maybe we don't even count "people", right? ”

"Yes, no one can get out here." Qi Xia said.

"So how did you break your "psychological defenses"?"

"You...... Ever felt fear? Qi Xia asked again.

"Fear?" Chu Tianqiu felt that this word was a bit interesting, he stretched out his slender finger stained with blood and pointed to the dark red sky here, "Qi Xia, do you know why the sky is dark red?" ”

Qi Xia raised his head: "Because there is floating there the rotten flesh and blood of all the people who have been turned into powder for decades. ”

After hearing this, Chu Tianqiu stretched out his finger and pointed to the corpses scattered all over the playground: "Then do you know why those people are lying there?" ”

"Because if someone needs them to die, they will die."

"Exactly." Chu Tianqiu said, "There is neither 'common sense' nor 'law' in this place, and everyone can kill people for their liking. We live here to die, but we die to live. The people who want to keep you may want you to die, and the people who want to kill you may want you to live......"

"That's right."

"Walking on this land where even the streets are sticky, you ask me if I ever feel 'fear'?" Chu Tianqiu grinned, "Qi Xia, every day I am here, my back is cold, my scalp is numb, I am really scared." ”

"Oh?"

"But does that work?" Chu Tianqiu shook his head, "There are many people pinning their hopes on me, I can only pretend that everything is okay, pretend to be stronger than anyone else, and then tell everyone that there is hope ahead, wandering around in this hellish city all the time, but you ask me if I have ever felt 'fear'?" ”

"But that's not enough." Qi Xia said, "It's just that the back has been cold for decades and the scalp has been numb for decades, how can it be regarded as 'fear'? ”

Chu Tianqiu snorted lightly after hearing this, turned his head to look at Qi Xia's eyes and asked, "Then you tell me...... What is "fear"? ”

Qi Xia said expressionlessly: "The fear I am talking about is about people who love each other. ”

"Huh." Chu Tianqiu smiled dumbly after hearing this, "People who love each other? Someone who loves each other has been taken captive? Or was the person in love killed? Is this one thing that scares you? Qi Xia, I killed Wen Qiaoyun with my own hands. ”

Qi Xia took a deep breath and said, "If Wen Qiaoyun is uncontrollably copied into countless pieces, one of whose eyeballs are "giantized" and hung in the sky as the sun, the others are dismantled into flesh and bones and recast into a city, her flesh is spread on the ground, her bones are cast into walls, and her blood is merged into the river here, even fish will not be able to breathe in this river. And you walk on it every day, your every step tramples on her broken flesh, making her miserable, and you can smell rust every day. The city beats all day long, as if it were a huge living thing, but you don't know how to save her, and she doesn't know how to save you. And Wen Qiaoyun, the only one who can act, in order to keep you from going crazy...... Pretend that nothing has happened, and take maggots and the flesh on your body every day to make a meal for you...... How? ”

Chu Tianqiu fell into silence for a long time after listening to Qi Xia's words.

If what he is talking about is "fear", then the scene described by Qi Xia can no longer be described as "fear".

There's no word in the dictionary to describe the feeling.

How would you feel if you were standing in a city made of Wen Qiaoyun's flesh and blood?

Aghast? Thriller?

No, I can't describe the feeling at all.

"Qi Xia, do you still say that you are not crazy?" Chu Tianqiu asked.

"I've probably gotten past the 'crazy' stage." Qi Xia replied expressionlessly, "I feel like I've reached a realm I've never set foot in before, and it's no longer enough to deal with thoughts in this realm. ”

"Is that what you said...... After destroying all his psychological defenses, he built it with "the most terrifying things", and those things are Yu Nian'an's flesh and blood? ”

Qi Xia nodded after hearing this: "Yes." ”

"But even the Echoers can't do that." Chu Tianqiu slowly frowned, "How the hell did you do it?" ”

"This is a long story, I can't do this kind of miracle on my own, I need not only a "god" who can destroy the entire city, but also a "dream" who can reforge the city."

"The two people you are talking about ......" Chu Tianqiu was slightly stunned, "No, this is obviously a person, right?" "He" alone can do it all...... Not only did you take control of the "Green Dragon", but you even calculated the "Celestial Dragon"? ”

Qi Xia slowly closed his eyes: "Chu Tianqiu, there are several places in our "battlefield", and I can't control the other "battlefields", only one is under my control. ”

"...... battlefield under your control?"

"It's none of your business, it's my own business." Qi Xia said.