Tong Guan understood Li Guanqi's intentions. Even while suffering under two different punishments, a considerable stir rose in his heart.
He suddenly realized that, without anyone noticing, even Li Guanqi had been changed by the environment.
Looking at the young man whose determined gaze carried utter madness, Tong Guan decided, beneath the countdown to death, to take a desperate risk—to use an apparently irrational idea to make a decision that gambled everyone's lives.
The Li Guanqi of the past had lofty aspirations. Even in the most extreme circumstances, he always possessed the calmness and composure of water.
But time had quietly changed many people.
Tong Guan knew that what Li Guanqi intended was far more than activating the countdowns of Wang Xian, Ming Qi, and the final person at the same time. In the last half minute, he intended to drag everyone, Yao Li included, into the game.
The last employee, who had never appeared in anyone's memories, was named Mo Jialin.
This plainly named man seemed much like the current situation. He had always been exceptionally ordinary; even Tong Guan had very few impressions of him.
It seemed that Mo Jialin was neither especially outstanding nor particularly flawed—just an average person, neither high nor low, neither good nor bad.
Such a personality likely reflected his role in Wang Xian and the others' earlier actions. He might have been the one who was overlooked, and the only one who did nothing.
Then, among the final remaining sin in the current chain of death—pride—the death route corresponded to its antonym: "humility."
Mo Jialin, who had done nothing, was regarded as humble for neither fighting nor competing, yet was instead convicted of pride.
And what Li Guanqi intended was to place Wang Xian, Ming Qi, Mo Jialin, and even Yao Li under