No need to answer verbally, someone came in person.

It is an alien.

In the dim night, Gu Mian watched as a strange silhouette slowly approached him.

The figure has a human body, but their head is larger than usual, shaped so perfectly round that Gu Mian almost doubts there's a watermelon sitting atop the neck.

Could it be that the ones guarding this place aren't the Upper Class People, but aliens with watermelon heads?

But this place is so crucial, Gu Mian doesn't think the Upper Class People would leave other "species" to guard it.

The watermelon-headed figure passed through several 'Fatty' and 'Chu Changge', drawing closer to Gu Mian.

Only when within ten meters did Gu Mian realize that the figure wasn't a watermelon person but a normal human wearing a round helmet.

This circular helmet is unlike any Gu Mian has seen before; it appears steel-made, covering a large area and enveloping the entire head, with just a horizontal rectangle cut out at the eye position for vision, protected by a layer of glass.

Thanks to the helmet, Gu Mian couldn't immediately distinguish whether the wearer was an Upper Class Person or another species.

The design is quite peculiar.

Could it be they're afraid I'd shoot them in the head? 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

If they were worried about that, they'd be fully armed.

Gu Mian looked at the helmeted person's attire.

Although the headwear was odd, the clothing was unmistakably formal.

He wore a fitted black suit, with silver-rimmed buttons reflecting the moonlight, dazzling Gu Mian a few times. But what caught the most attention wasn't the shimmering silver buttons, but rather the green brooch clipped on his silver-gray shirt collar.

A green leaf brooch.

The helmeted figure halted a few meters away from Gu Mian.

Gu Mian carefully examined the leaf brooch on his shirt's collar, then looked down at the green brooch pinned to his lab coat.

Identical.

Facing each other, the two identical leaf brooches seemingly mirrored some mysterious token of affection.

This brooch is a special item limited by the Evil God, not a wholesale from Yiwu Small Commodity City.

Gu Mian doesn't believe the matching brooches are coincidental.

Is the person opposite an agent of the Evil God? Then communication should be possible.

"You have this leaf too, it seems you truly are Gu Mian." The voice from the eyelid on the branch echoed again.

Gu Mian looked up at it, then turned towards the helmeted figure ahead.

It must be the helmet muffling the sound, as the person communicates only through the overhead eye.

Gu Mian repeated his previous question: "Who are you?"

"Me?" The man gestured at himself with one hand.

Gu Mian noticed the hand looked excessively white, almost glowing in the darkness.

The man seemed somewhat dazed, shaking the helm, as if trying to recall his name.

After a long time, his voice emerged from the eye on the tree, imbued with palpable uncertainty: "I... my name is Slaughter."

On hearing this, Gu Mian first thought of the Slaughter game, then visualized a white little person clad in a pink shirt, the host of the Slaughter game—Teacher Slaughter.

Immediately responding to Gu Mian's invocation, Teacher Slaughter spontaneously appeared by his side.

The fictional Teacher Slaughter's temperament closely mirrored the real one; upon appearance, he noticed the "lower-class" Gu Mian standing beside him.

Rolling his eyes, he repeatedly muttered to Gu Mian: "lower class! lower class! lower class!"

The fabrications weren't very smart, and it seemed Teacher Slaughter wasn't either.

Gu Mian picked him up and tossed him aside.

Even embedded in the ground, Teacher Slaughter incessantly shouted "lower class."

Yet speaking of "Slaughter"... Gu Mian did know an authentic "Slaughter."

The Evil God.

Real name "Slaughter," alias "Xu Xingcheng," scientific name "Evil God."

But this pale-handed man in front also claims to be "Slaughter."

This gets strange; is he the Evil God?

Doesn't particularly seem so.

He also has a leaf brooch and says his name is "Slaughter," given his hand's complexion, he might be an Upper Class Person.

Leaf brooch... Slaughter...

Wait?

When connecting these two words, Gu Mian suddenly recalled something.

Last time in the Circus instance, when he joyfully allied with Lu Yi and Teacher Slaughter, Teacher Slaughter spotted the leaf brooch on his coat.

At that time, Teacher Shi Shilu made a strange expression and said something—"This, this isn't... slaughter..."[Chapter 607]

At that time, Gu Mian thought that this leaf might be some sort of token.

Now, it seems it really is.

Teacher Shi Shilu has evidently seen the leaf brooch before and knows it belongs to "Slaughter".

It seems the person in front isn't lying; he is indeed called "Slaughter".

But isn't that supposed to be the name of the Evil God?

Why does the Evil God have an Upper Class People doppelgänger here?

"Are you the Evil God?" Gu Mian stared into the person's revealed eyes, "Or a doppelgänger?"

But those eyes look nothing like Xu Xingcheng's, completely different.

This time, "Slaughter's" tone was much more certain: "I'm neither."

The current situation is really puzzling; in front of him is a man named "Slaughter", wearing the Evil God brooch as an Upper Class People, but he adamantly claims he's neither the Evil God nor a doppelgänger.

"You're here to find his statue, right? Well, he probably left a statue here to be found by someone. Did he and you agree to have you come to find it?" Gu Mian was contemplating the relationship between the two when the eye on his head made a sound.

Actually, no.

The main mission of entering the Paradise World this time is to rescue Lu Yi.

I just incidentally came here to visit the statue.

Before Gu Mian could reply, "Slaughter" spoke to himself: "Right, you must have arranged this, after all, you have the brooch..."

Gu Mian looked down at the green leaf brooch pinned on his clothing.

Could it be that the Evil God agreed with someone that whoever wears this brooch can visit that statue?

The leaf brooch was given by the Evil God the first time Gu Mian entered this world; could the Evil God have planned all of this back then?

"Slaughter" sighed lightly and turned to walk toward the forest: "Let's go, I'll take you to see the statue."

Gu Mian stared at his back, not moving.

The man had walked a few steps, and noticing that Gu Mian hadn't followed, he immediately understood Gu Mian's concern: "Afraid I'll trick you there and then shoot? You can use your saw... I remember you have a saw in your guitar bag, right? Keep it across my neck, if anything goes wrong, saw open my neck immediately. And if anything does happen, my corpse can shield you from bullets, isn't that convenient..."

Since you said so, I won't hold back.

Before he finished speaking, a shiny saw crossed over his shoulder.

"Slaughter's" voice stopped abruptly, seemingly surprised by Gu Mian's quick action.

Shouldn't there be some mutual politeness, and then Gu Mian pretends to say, "I trust you, but for safety's sake, I must do this" while putting the saw on?

This process feels somewhat off, missing a lot of steps.

Oh well, the result is the same anyway.

Slaughter felt the cold touch on his neck, it was the teeth of the saw sneakily brushing against him.

Realizing this, he steadied his head; if he moved his head around, he'd probably find himself with a hole created by the sharp saw teeth.

But the heavy helmet he wore made it hard to keep his head completely balanced, and Slaughter, fearing for his life, had to use both hands to support the helmet.

At this moment, a mechanical voice suddenly came through his ears.

"Are you happy?" "Are you happy?"

With the custom helmet on, he couldn't directly hear outside sounds, relying on the tracker on top of his head to transmit the sound into his headphones, then hear external sounds through them.

What's that? Slaughter wanted to see what was making the sound, but with the helmet, his vision was really limited; he couldn't see what was making the sound and only felt the voice was familiar.

Gu Mian looked down and saw a mechanical dog from the delivery truck had somehow jumped off and was following them.

Now its bravery seemed to grow, compared to its previously scared demeanor; no, it's like two different dogs.

Gu Mian looked through the glass, seeing Slaughter's eyes scanning the surroundings, seemingly searching for the source of the sound, but with the mechanical dog at their feet, it was hard for Slaughter to see it without looking down.

Right, this helmet...

"Why did you bring this thing out?" Gu Mian looked at Slaughter supporting the helmet with both hands, "It seems pretty inconvenient."

Gu Mian could somewhat guess the helmet's purpose.

It should be related to the Evil God's statue.

"You saw it too," Slaughter tried to move his head to look at Gu Mian, but a slight movement made him feel the saw teeth were a bit too intimate with his neck, so he promptly stopped, "saw these people."

He said, gesturing forward with one hand, ahead were the backs of the 'Fatty'.

"You should realize, these people are 'created' by you." Slaughter pointed forward, then quickly retracted his hand to support the helmet again, looking very wary.

"I realized it." Gu Mian nodded looking at the backs ahead, "I guess it's related to the complete Evil God statue in the forest, right?"

After all, he didn't have this passive skill before.

"You've guessed right," Slaughter seemed to want to nod, but his head only slightly moved, "A long time ago, an Upper Class Person came to the forest intending to dig an underground cave to imprison lower-class people..."

This part had been briefly related to Gu Mian by Lu Yi, so Gu Mian spoke: "I know what's ahead; this Upper Class Person while digging discovered the Evil God statue, and when the statue emerged, there were many broken statue fragments around it, later you moved those fragments out to create second-hand Evil God statues, right?"

Slaughter was stunned by Gu Mian's words, he was dazed for several seconds before finding his voice: "You know all this? Do you also know about the world's rollback?"