This time, Li Si indeed did not give the cold shoulder again and quickly replied:

[First, I must clarify—canceling 'Pain Sharing' at this moment absolutely does not harbor any malicious intent towards you. On the contrary, it is the wisest decision under the current circumstances.]

[Not only must Chen Cang and I cancel 'Pain Sharing' now, but it would also be best for you not to use this skill again during this period.]

[Because the announcement about the birth of the moon infant was not only directed at all Moon Person players. Even the Sun Person players in the Qiankun Land have all received the announcement!]

[Then, I probably don't need to say more. You should also realize what the announcement of this 'birth of a moon infant' news means...]

[You are staying within the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh, so you can't feel it. However—I'm afraid the Qiankun Land has already completely exploded by now!]

This situation was indeed something Jiang Ye hadn't realized...

However, after a brief contemplation, he directly asked:

[This situation... didn't you anticipate it?]

Li Si's reply clearly revealed a tone of speechlessness: [How could I possibly have anticipated it?]

[Didn't you hear the announcement say it was the 'first' moon infant born?]

[I could anticipate that, with the help of Chen Cang's 'Protagonist Halo', there might be a probability of a moon infant being born...]

[But I truly did not anticipate that the birth of a moon infant would trigger this kind of mass announcement to everyone!]

Oh...

Jiang Ye realized it now.

This Li Si probably intended to proceed with the 'birth of a moon infant' matter in secret.

He was planning to secretly develop the moon infant under the radar.

Yet he never expected that the birth of the moon infant would directly trigger an announcement!

If only the Moon Person players knew about this announcement, it wouldn't be a big deal.

They'd probably just be shocked that the Old Moon was shifting towards the Land of Exile and then look forward to the changes this shift would bring to the Land of Exile.

However, this announcement would be nothing short of a bolt from the blue for the Sun Person players!

The Qiankun Land, which originally enjoyed the 'sun and moon'... in this situation... is probably about to lose the 'moon'!

Could the high-and-mighty Sun Person players tolerate this kind of 'loss'?

Obviously not!

They'd probably spring into action in minutes!

And given the Sun Person players' absolute overwhelming advantage over the Moon Person players...

Jiang Ye, realizing this belatedly, now understood what kind of mountain torrents and tsunamis the announcement of the moon infant's birth... or more accurately, the announcement of this news, would trigger!

If the situation became even more severe, it's possible all Moon Person players could go extinct because of this disaster?!

Thinking this, Jiang Ye's entire body tensed up.

However, he soon realized again...

Perhaps this moment of extreme disaster was precisely when Chen Cang's [Protagonist Halo] would shine most brilliantly?

Chen Cang is also a Moon Person player...

And the birth of the moon infant is closely related to him.

Then, the crackdown actions the Sun Person players would take targeting the 'birth of the moon infant' should end in failure... right?

According to this reasoning, in a situation where such a terrifying crisis descends, it's indeed not suitable to use [Pain Sharing] on a large scale.

But considering it from the angle of the [Protagonist Halo], Chen Cang canceling the [Pain Sharing] mark essentially still stems from not wanting Jiang Ye to bask in his protagonist's glow.

And with this 'protagonist' Chen Cang canceling the [Pain Sharing] mark, Li Si, who wanted to ride on the coattails of the [Protagonist Halo], naturally also had no need to maintain it.

Jiang Ye felt a slight twinge of discomfort about this matter, but he wasn't actually that bothered by it.

The discomfort only lay in the fact that he had endured the shared pain for Chen Cang, yet Chen Cang was burning the bridge after crossing the river.

The lack of concern was because he didn't want to let 'Dependence on Luck' control his brain like Chen Cang and He Yuliang.

So, not trying to ride on the so-called [Protagonist Halo] was just fine.

However...

Jiang Ye's gaze fell upon the little skeletons cutting off their own flesh to feed the giant skull...

Combined with the voice he just heard.

He directly asked Li Si again: 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

[What exactly is your purpose in luring me to the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh?]

[How much do you know about what's happening in the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh right now?]

Li Si still replied quickly, but with a question:

[?? What's happening in the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh right now? Did you explore the burnt smell? Discover something?]

Jiang Ye wasn't sure if this guy was pretending not to know or really didn't know.

After a moment of silence, he directly replied:

[After the moon infant was born, the skeletons around the Blood Pool all grew flesh and blood, and the giant skeleton even grew a Pure Black Body.]

[Then, those little skeletons directly started the mode of cutting flesh to feed the skeleton. The flesh and blood they grew was all actively fed by them to the giant skeleton with the Pure Black Body...]

After simply describing the situation, he added an extra pointed remark:

[Also, just now, a voice suddenly emerged in the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh.]

[Does that voice belong to the moon infant? Or is it some ghostly thing that already existed in this Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh??]

After this description, Li Si seemed stunned, not replying for quite a while again.

Just as Jiang Ye suspected this guy was giving him the cold shoulder again, he finally replied in a tone of disbelief:

[This... this is impossible!]

[You—you try taking out my 'Target Anchor' crystal chip and point it at the scene you described!]

[I need to see it with my own eyes, otherwise I can't believe it!]

"..."

Jiang Ye was speechless, but he complied anyway.

He was also inwardly amazed at how convenient this [Target Anchor] crystal chip was to use.

He quickly summoned this chip from his eyeball.

After it shrank to the size of a fingernail, he pointed the side with Li Si's portrait towards the scene of skeletons cutting flesh to feed the skeleton.

At this moment, the dark purple crystal chip floated up by itself.

It hovered in the air, trembling slightly.

As if the Li Si behind it was deeply shaken by the scene before his eyes.

After taking out this chip, Jiang Ye didn't know how to contact Li Si anymore.

So, after letting the chip float for a moment, he stored it back into his eyeball.

Then, he continued using the dark purple light screen in his field of vision to send a message to Li Si:

[Well? Do you believe it after seeing it with your own eyes?]

[What does this scene mean? Is it necessary to be so shocked?]

Li Si didn't answer immediately, but first asked:

[Besides those resurrected skeleton people in the Blood Pool, there seem to be two living people?]

This referred to Du Yuheng and He Yuliang.

Clearly, just now through the [Target Anchor] crystal chip, he not only saw the scene of skeletons cutting flesh but also saw He and Du.

So Jiang Ye didn't hide it anymore and directly probed: [Do you know them?]

Li Si: [Should I know them?]

Just this one rhetorical question...

Clearly, he didn't know.

But he seemed to have some vague guesses.

Li Si finally couldn't help but ask again:

[What exactly did you mean by that sentence?]

Jiang Ye was also quite blunt: [Wasn't that something you said? How would I know what it means.]

[Why don't you tell me what it means?]

[...] Li Si sent a string of ellipses.

Now finally not acting anymore, he directly confirmed:

[Is it you who experienced Reincarnation? Or is it one of those two people?]

[Since it's something I said... then, what else did I say?]

Reincarnation...

Clearly, at this moment, Li Si interpreted Jiang Ye's prior knowledge as Reincarnation.

He probably thought that among Jiang Ye or He and Du, there existed a so-called Reincarnator.

The Reincarnator had contacted him in the previous Reincarnation cycle;

and also heard that sentence from his mouth in the previous Reincarnation cycle.

That's why he said that sentence was something he said...

Thus, it wasn't hard for Li Si to guess...

That the him from the previous Reincarnation cycle was trying to give some guidance to the him in this Reincarnation cycle.

His understanding was quite logical.

Jiang Ye didn't offer any additional explanation, nor did he answer Li Si. Instead, he stated directly:

[You haven't answered my earlier question yet.]

Li Si was silent for a moment before finally replying again:

[If you're asking about the little skeletons cutting flesh to feed the big skeleton, I don't know what that means either.]

[And if you're asking why I suggested you feed flesh and blood to the big skeleton...]

[I just knew—doing so could completely erode your consciousness.]

[Turning you, a Sun and Moon Person with self-awareness, completely into a Sun and Moon Person without self-awareness, just like the others.]

Looking at this text, Jiang Ye's eyes flickered.

Understanding it simply, it wasn't too surprising.

He quickly asked again: [So, from being a so-called 'variant eyeball', to becoming a normal eyeball among the peeled-off eyeballs that cannot reflect images?]

[And the reason you could 'know'... should be because—you've conducted this kind of experiment on other Sun and Moon People with situations similar to mine before?]

Though phrased as a question, Jiang Ye's tone was very certain.

From the light screen with Li Si's portrait, a frank sentence soon popped up: [Yes.]

[You should also be able to guess that after that experience in Exile City during the 'solar eclipse' period, I paid special attention to special cases similar to yours.]

[I don't dare go to Exile City anymore; such cases are rare in the Qiankun Land.]

[But in the misty Forest of Oddities and various Prisons of the Land of Exile, I indeed discovered such cases again.]

Meaning, Jiang Ye... or rather 'Cheng Lin', was not the first Jiang Ye clone Li Si encountered after that Exile City incident.

He had encountered other Jiang Ye clones before!

In fact, he should have 'studied' Jiang Ye clones in his own way!

And one of the research plans was this feeding of the giant skeleton in the Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh!

This time, he encountered the Jiang Ye clone 'Cheng Lin' again.

Thus, he launched his 'research' again!

However, this research wasn't about capturing Jiang Ye alive and directly using him as a lab rat.

It was a guiding type of research...

He lured Jiang Ye to this Blood Pool and Forest of Flesh.

Hah, so Jiang Ye's premonition was absolutely right!

Li Si indeed had designs on him.

This guy had actually treated his clones as lab rats for research before!

What's more, even though Li Si in this period didn't seem to be particularly insistent on this research...

Li Si from the future version specifically wanted Jiang Ye to play this lab rat through Du Yuheng...

Didn't Du Yuheng just now try to persuade Jiang Ye to feed flesh and blood to the giant skeleton?!

No wonder this guy said telling the truth might invite a death sentence.

Jiang Ye was now a bit tempted to kill him on the spot!

However, although being treated as a lab rat for experiments was indeed grating.

To be honest, Jiang Ye suspected—

That the Jiang Ye clone who was treated as a lab rat by Li Si before and ended up having its consciousness eroded...

Perhaps wasn't completely stripped of consciousness.

There was probably some kind of connection between the Jiang Ye clone and this giant skeleton.

And this connection was probably something even Li Si himself hadn't fully researched or understood.

At the same time, Jiang Ye's gaze fell on Du Yuheng.

It wasn't hard to see that after the little skeletons started cutting flesh to feed the giant skeleton, Du Yuheng's face had noticeably turned ashen.

Jiang Ye initially thought this guy, like Li Si, was just shocked or creeped out by this scene.

However, after sorting out his thoughts, he realized belatedly—

"The Li Si you contacted in the 'deduction simulation' hoped you could persuade me to feed a large amount of flesh and blood to this giant skeleton..."

"Yet right now, whether due to the birth of the moon infant or He Yuliang's actions... the task Li Si entrusted to you was not completed."

Jiang Ye's tone of statement carried a complex, hard-to-describe flavor.

Du Yuheng met his gaze, his eyes equally complex and inscrutable.

After a long while, he couldn't help but speculate:

"So perhaps... this means that such fateful, crucial junctures cannot be changed?"

"I was confident I could persuade you, but I truly didn't anticipate the birth of the moon infant, nor this bizarre scene..."

Du Yuheng's tone now sounded somewhat helpless.

He lowered his eyelids for a moment, then looked at Jiang Ye again, couldn't help but tentatively suggest:

"Otherwise, why don't you try now? Ask Li Si for a large amount of flesh and blood, and compete with those little skeletons to feed the giant skeleton?"

"..."

Jiang Ye was speechless, giving him a look:

"But the problem is, you didn't persuade me."

"The 'crucial fate' Li Si wanted to change might not necessarily be related to me."

Du Yuheng fell silent for a moment, sighed lightly. He was just about to say something more.

Suddenly, they saw the giant skeleton, whose Pure Black Body was becoming increasingly solid, slowly stand up from its original sitting posture by the Blood Pool!

At this moment, those little skeletons that had grown flesh and blood had almost fed all their flesh and blood to the giant skeleton.

They turned back into skeletons, nothing but bones.

The corners of their mouths were still stretched into a bizarre smile.

Then, as the giant skeleton stood up, they all crowded towards it...

Their pure white skeletons then melted into the Pure Black Body one after another...

Immediately after, the entire giant skeleton, now presenting as a Pure Black Body, visibly grew pure white bones within that expanse of pure black!

Even...

It wasn't just simple 'pure white'!

It was more like a white with a sense of light!

Thus, at this moment, the entire giant skeleton presented itself as having pure white bones with a luminous quality growing inside, and those pure white bones were covered by a layer of Pure Black Body that also had a luminous quality.

The so-called Pure Black Body before could only be seen as black.

The giant skeleton now could be seen as having both the pure black outer body and the pure white bones inside!

At this moment, gazing at such a giant skeleton, white inside and black outside, standing tall...

That sentence surfaced again in Jiang Ye's mind—

The martyr's skeleton, in the abyss, glows like a stele...