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The hooded girl commented, "As for eternal infamy..."

She shook her head, unsure how to comment.

Modern people generally have a tolerant mindset and are not extreme.

Some people might think it's worth it, while others... just see it as a joke.

So she passed the buck back: "What do you think?"

"I feel I have failed in my principles! I fully deserve to be infamous for all time!"

Fan Xiao said, "Because I am not a modern person, my values ​​are neither flexible nor tolerant. I am from ancient times. In that era, everyone valued integrity. Even courtesans spoke of moral principles and knew the greater good. How much more so should I, a leader of the literati? If I don't drown myself to prove my integrity, tell me, do you think I am worthy of my status?"

"..." Hooded girl: "What does your story have to do with the matter of the true King Caesar?"

"Don't rush me, I haven't finished yet."

Fan Xiao continued, "This time, I'm not a leader of intellectuals anymore; I've become a general. Well, I'm in the same era as my previous identity as an intellectual."

"At this time, the dynasty is nearing its end, and the enemy has launched a massive invasion. The demise of the country is inevitable and irreversible. In fact, the enemy has encountered no decent resistance as they march south. Everyone has surrendered and given up."

“But I will not surrender. I have lived a life of high moral character. How can I be a coward who surrenders? I wrote my last letter and led the soldiers and civilians to defend the isolated city to the death. The city is there, and I am there; the city is gone, and I am gone.”

“The enemy sent me surrender letters many times, promising high-ranking positions and generous rewards, but how could I agree? I burned the surrender letters to show my determination. I knew that if I continued like this, I would die sooner or later, but I was not afraid at all.”

"In the end, I was defeated. The city was breached, and the enemy entered and began to slaughter the people. I did not run away. I stood up and identified myself, hoping that the enemy would spare the innocent people."

"At this point, the enemy leader again urged me to surrender, saying that if I surrendered, he would grant me some of my demands."

"But I refused with righteous indignation and loudly denounced the enemy. In my opinion, there are always things that are more important than life, and I upheld my integrity."

"Then, I was killed. The enemy had been besieging the city for a long time without success, and had accumulated deep resentment. In addition, in order to intimidate other cities and other generals, they did not want to be as tough as me. So, the enemy launched a ten-day massacre in the city. The entire population was slaughtered and almost all of them died."

At this point, Fan Xiao looked at the hooded girl: "I have gained eternal fame, do you think I deserve this reputation?"

"..."

The hooded girl—I still don't know how to evaluate her.

"Look at your expression," Fan Xiao clicked his tongue and said, "What? You really think I did something wrong?"

"The people are not tools for you to uphold your integrity!" the hooded girl said coldly. "They have blood and flesh; they are living, breathing people, not just a bunch of numbers."

“Don’t get the target of your hatred wrong,” Fan Xiao shrugged. “Did I massacre the city? I was just resisting. Is resisting wrong?”

He paused, then grinned and said, "Does being a good person mean you should have a gun pointed at you?"

Hooded girl: "..."

"Of course, that's not what I meant."

Fan Xiao concluded directly: "What I want to say is that you are being a scoundrel by commenting on people's right and wrong without considering the historical context."

"Times have changed. After killing and massacring a city, composing a poem can be considered a true expression of one's feelings. But leading the people across the river... can be seen as hypocrisy."

"What was Caesar's background? What were his values? And what are your values?"

"If you want to evaluate him, you should at least consider the environment in which he grew up, right?"

“…Even if Carmen were to avenge his wife, he wouldn’t be able to kill many people,” the hooded girl argued.

"The Demon King can't kill many people, but the true King Caesar is very stubborn. In his worldview and understanding, extraordinary races cannot slaughter ordinary people. This is the firm bottom line that this era has given him."

Fan Xiao said, "Moreover, the power disparity between extraordinary races and humans is too great. If he sets a precedent for the Demon King Carmen, then after that... there will probably only be zero times or countless times."

"Why don't you put yourself in the shoes of the people of this era and ask yourself honestly, would you be willing to be slaughtered by the Demon King because of the sins committed by unknown high-ranking people and the hatred they have brought upon you?"

"..."

"If I were a human in this instance, I think... I would try to kill the Demon King. After all, his personality is too much of a threat... cough, I'm getting a bit off-topic."

Fan Xiao noticed that the hooded girl's aura had become even colder, so he changed the subject and got down to business, saying, "You asked me before what caused our deaths in the last reincarnation... Well, I have the answer now."

"What?" The hooded girl's attention was diverted.

As Fan Xiao traveled, he laughed and said, "After learning about the existence of Hell, I had a plan in mind—to trick you into coming with me to lure the true King Caesar to Hell for a campaign against him."

"Of course, my main purpose is not to attack the true king, but to test whether he has any problems."

"However... because I was a bit annoyed by the déjà vu of hell, I gave up on fooling you. But in the last cycle... I probably did it."

"You mean...we died at the hands of Caesar the True King?"

The hooded girl frowned.

In Hell, item access isn't restricted, and with talents and psionic abilities... how could it still fail?

"Not necessarily, let me finish what I have to say first."

Fan Xiao continued, "It's almost 7 p.m. now. I think it was probably around this time when we said goodbye to Lina and Melissa in the last cycle. Hmm, it's getting dark."

"Extremely dangerous at night - this is the second game warning, so in the last loop, we most likely spent the night at a villager's house in Longxi Village and did not act rashly."

"As for the dangers of the night... Surely we won't be in danger of being wiped out on the very first night? Besides, I believe that with my strength, it's impossible for me to die on the first night, and I'm sure you feel the same way."

"So, there's a high probability that we'll still be alive by the next day."

"besides……"

He paused, then added, "Although I want to trick you into participating in my campaign, I'm not in such a hurry."

"Therefore, I will most likely wait until 3:20 pm tomorrow to confirm whether the number on the back of my hand has decreased before taking any action."

"During this time... well, I might even persuade you to come with me to the territory of the Demon Clan, to deal with a high-ranking Demon Clan member, and interrogate him for information—because I do have this idea now."

"What makes you think your plans will all succeed? That the other players will listen to you?"

The hooded girl's voice carried a slight hint of sarcasm.

“I’m very confident I can convince you,” Van Shaw grinned. “If I can’t convince you… I’ll probably force you, and the result will be the same.”

“Hmph,” the hooded girl said, “You’re talking big, aren’t you afraid of biting your tongue?”

"Never mind whether I'm exaggerating or not, just follow my plan."

Ignoring his junior sister's sarcasm, Fan Xiao continued, "We didn't get any useful information from the Demon Clan, so I stuck to the original plan. After 3:20 PM, I will lead you to launch the expedition."

"How do you know we didn't get any useful information?" the hooded girl asked suspiciously. "Do you still remember the memories of the last reincarnation?"

"Guess."

Fan Xiao replied, "If we obtain useful information, learn about the 'Tomb of Guilt,' and have basic protection, we will most likely not start a new cycle."

"So, the information we can get from the Demon Race... I think it's nothing more than the true purpose of the Demon Race and the Celestial Race's schemes behind the scenes, and... who the mastermind is."

"They most likely don't know anything about the 'Tomb of Guilt'."

At this point, he launched into a round of "putting himself in someone else's shoes".

"If I were a high-ranking member of the Demon Race or the Celestial Race, what would my purpose be in secretly instigating a war among humans?"

"Demands stem from needs. As someone at the top of the food chain in this instance world, my needs... seem to be met on my own. What else do I need to pursue?"

"Hmm...right! If Carmen the Demon King and Caesar the True King are educated to be too upright, they might become obstacles on my path to pleasure. So my needs...most likely are to eliminate them and then return to my former extravagance and debauchery, raising humans like pigs."

"To eliminate them, the first step was that my high-ranking friends and I secretly instigated internal strife among humanity. The second step..."

He began to let his thoughts turn dark, and the evil thoughts in his belly started to run wild.

"The second step is to have humanity expand the battlefield to Longxi Village and kill Carmen's two daughters... Hmm, feasible!"

"So, the death of the Demon King's wife two years ago was also a masterpiece orchestrated by me... no, by the higher-ups of the Demon Race or Celestial Race?"

"Tsk tsk, these people are really insidious..."

After thinking it through, Fan Xiao collected his thoughts and continued, "At 3:20 pm, we launched the punitive expedition."

"The true king Caesar's abilities are unknown, and anything can happen. Therefore, I will most likely fall to the back of the group, responsible for stalling for time and successfully leading him into hell... This job may also be done by you."

"Once we enter Hell, with the help of a large number of items and the combined attacks of the Hell monsters, along with my talent and your bizarre abilities... well, I can't think of any reason why we would fail."

“But we failed,” the hooded girl reminded us, “otherwise we wouldn’t have entered a new cycle.”

"Yes, we failed..."

Fan Xiao said thoughtfully, "Since the instance has released the elimination of King Caesar as an achievable task, it proves that the opponent is not invincible."

"Logically speaking, with our strong lineup, we shouldn't have failed... but we failed."

Accepting this contradiction, I pondered for about ten seconds...

He had a sudden flash of inspiration and came to a somewhat absurd conclusion: "The most likely cause of our deaths is... the destruction of the world!"

"Just like the prophecy given by the inhabitants of this instance, because we failed to stop the invasion of Hell, the world was destroyed and we all died."

"..." The hooded girl's eye twitched slightly: "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, seriously."

Fan Xiao's tone turned serious: "We must stop Hell from invading by 3:20 PM tomorrow. Otherwise... we'll most likely all die this time too."

Chapter 428 Fan Xiao, an old liar.

"No, not before 3:20 pm."

After Fan Xiao gave his conclusion, he realized that it was a bit too presumptuous, so he corrected him: "We can't determine exactly when we died in the last cycle, we can only determine the general cause and then work backward to deduce the approximate time."

"If... before luring the true King Caesar into Hell, Hell has already completely invaded and swallowed up the outside world, causing the destruction of the world... then we might die even earlier."

"So, to be on the safe side, we'd better start tonight! Resolve the Hell invasion crisis as soon as possible."

"..."

The hooded girl acquiesced to the suggestion.

Although she still found it hard to believe, ... after eliminating all possibilities, the remaining conclusion, no matter how outrageous it sounded, was very likely to be true.

In other words, there is a very high probability that they really did die in the world destruction caused by the invasion of Hell.

Otherwise... she felt that even if she couldn't defeat the true King Caesar, she could still survive for seven days by running away.

Only the destruction of the world, with no escape, could bring her a certain death crisis.

The hooded girl sighed inwardly and reminded Fan Xiao, "Nighttime is extremely dangerous. Are we really going to act at night?"

"Does 'extreme danger' refer to the night in hell, or the night in the outside world?"

Fan Xiao asked a question he himself didn't know the answer to, and then said, "In the absence of a clear answer, we can assume that both spaces are extremely dangerous at night, and then weigh the pros and cons to see which one would be better to stay in at night."

"The dungeon hints only stated that the night was extremely dangerous, but didn't explain how to deal with the danger. The only clue was 'Tomb of Guilt'."

"If the danger is the night outside, it will probably be of no use for us to hide in a house for the night."

"If the danger is Hell... although there will be an additional threat of monster armies in Hell, the right to use items will be restored. We will essentially have five more... no, considering that items can be replaced, we will essentially have many more C-level and D-level talents. Undoubtedly, our defensive measures will increase, and we will have the initiative in our own hands."

Upon hearing this, the hooded girl thought about it seriously and weighed the pros and cons.

Compared to staying in the outside world, staying in hell... both the means of attack and defense become considerably more abundant.

If a dozen or so players cooperate and dozens of items work together, it does seem safer.

She nodded and said, "I'm fine. With reincarnation as a safety net, we can indeed be more aggressive and proactive in our actions."

"We've already failed once; if we continue to be passive, we'll probably fail again."

She paused, then asked, "How do you plan to convince the others? They might not be willing to go into hell at night... no, I guess most people aren't willing to take the risk."

"First, lure them in, then find a target to shoot at to make an example of them and threaten them into obeying."

Fan Xiao said nonchalantly, "The situation is urgent, we don't have the time to persuade them one by one."

Hooded girl: "..."

She frowned slightly and said, "I won't help you threaten others!"

"Heh... You're not the only one who's confident in your abilities."

Fan Xiao grinned and said, "Don't worry, I'll handle this myself. Even if things go wrong, you don't need to bail me out."

"The main threat to us from the monster army is the aberration damage. If 14 players can tank this damage together, the pressure on each person will be much less."

"If we combine this with defensive items, as long as we operate properly and things go smoothly, we probably won't have any problems even if we stay in hell forever."

"So...they have to go in together."

Why resort to deception?