"What?! Royt isn't dead?!"
Upon hearing that, Qin Siyang immediately demanded, "We saw his corpse, and you and Zhong Dingming verified his strength. Kyle and Zoff both disappeared. If you didn't kill Royt, then who died?"
Old Johnny said, "With that terrifying strength, either Zhong Dingming or I would have died fighting him alone. We had to join forces. There's no way he wasn't Royt. And he definitely died."
Then he shook his head. "But I might not have been the one who killed him."
"What does that mean?"
"Zhong Dingming and I killed Royt together, but Royt only had one life. I've been wondering: if two or more people kill the same enemy at origin sequence level five, would all of them be considered to have fulfilled one of the conditions for breaking through to domain sequence?"
"If that's really how it works, couldn't we just find someone at origin sequence level five and have hundreds or thousands of people each stab them once? Wouldn't all those people fulfill one condition outright?"
"Taking it a step further, we could have everyone in the Safe Zone nick them with a knife, then let one person deliver the final stab. Wouldn't that fulfill one condition for breaking through to domain sequence for the entire population?"
"Obviously, that makes no sense."
At this point, Old Johnny's gaze grew somber. "So I think only one person would receive credit for Royt's death. I remember that Zhong Dingming delivered the last blow before Royt died. Maybe that's why Royt's death was attributed to him, while I gained nothing."
"It was credited to Zhong Dingming...? That's trouble." Qian Wendao looked worried. "Things in the Safe Zone have more or less settled down now. If anyone in the Safe Zone is likely to become an unexpected