The barrage of questions drew everyone's attention to Wen Xishu. Granny Wu and the others had been listening too, but they had merely marveled at Ding Dong's bizarre origins and peculiar experiences.
They had also been thoroughly confused. Wen Xishu's questions, however, helped them recognize the crucial points in Ding Dong's stories.
Ding Dong was not surprised that Wen Xishu would ask these questions, and he did not avoid them.
"Actually, to put it accurately, I'm Ding Dong now. I wasn't Ding Dong before. Ding Dong was the nickname my father gave me."
"My real name used to be Phoenix Constellation."
Seeing that Wen Xishu was not particularly surprised, Ding Dong began pondering his true identity.
He knew that "Airplane" had completed the Ritual, allowing him to be remade. Having obtained "five ※," Ding Dong was naturally very grateful to "Airplane."
But Ding Dong had also recognized the knife with a scorpion motif tucked at Wen Xishu's waist. Throughout his story, Ding Dong had kept his eyes almost exclusively on Wen Xishu. He had deliberately recounted his experiences at the research institute to observe Wen Xishu's reaction.
He had not sensed the slightest hostility from Wen Xishu. This led Ding Dong to a favorable guess about his identity. He continued:
"First, let me explain how to escape the Scorpio Curse. It's actually very simple. I needed to 'die' once."
"In my earlier account, there were twelve severe cases and five mild cases. The five of us with mild symptoms were actually prey."
"We had to keep a low profile and constantly evade those twelve severe cases, but unfortunately, they still found me. The Compass gave me that dream. I used it to project events 907 times, and the outcome was that I couldn't escape death. The difference in our power