Chapter 218: Temporarily Eking it Out

"Don't ask, I also don't know why you need to beware of Qiu Yinong."

"This is the first piece of information the future you asked me to pass on to you."

Chen Ran widened his eyes, but then heard the fake Diwu Zeyi continue speaking: "The second piece of information is the axiom upon which this game of Chess exists."

"I said just now that this game of Chess is being played very largely. There are many who believe themselves to be Chess Players, including me, including you, including the other eight True Self players, and naturally also including the two alliance leaders. It also includes some special existences. We all believe that we are the Chess Players and the rest are Chess Pieces."

Hearing this, Chen Ran had already realized where the problem lay. Under normal circumstances, for a team or an alliance...

The most taboo thing was having too many smart people.

Suppose a team has ten people, and each person has their respective opinions to express. It means you have to persuade the other nine people before your plan can be executed.

Wanting to persuade nine people who are just as smart as yourself is harder than ascending to the heavens.

But if, among the ten people in the team, you are the only smart person, all you have to do is show your smartness, and the rest will unconditionally obey your plan.

The fake Diwu Zeyi sighed: "Fierce horses are the hardest to tame. And we, who have undergone Heart Cultivation, are all standing in a state of absolute rationality, deducing what we each consider the most perfect plans, and will not go and believe the plans of the others."

"Therefore, in the chessboard there is one and only one axiom: namely, the world exists because of me; if I die, the world perishes. Anyone who wants to destroy my layout is an enemy."

"Our layouts all possess a wall-facing attribute. Except for ourselves, no one knows."

"Don't you expect either that anyone will stand firmly on your side. Even less will anyone abandon or sacrifice themselves to fulfill you for the sake of so-called idealism, or nihilistic emotions and the like. We are a group of allies who may turn coat or backstab at any time."

"Interests are the only standard of measurement for maintaining alliances or hostile relationships."

"Heart Cultivation is the admission ticket; idealism is the law of survival. This axiom, you must remember. Otherwise, a major problem will occur."

"For example, I came to find you because we need you. By the same logic, you needing to save them in the future is also based on them being able to draw fire for you. It's just that simple."

Having said that, the fake Diwu Zeyi left time for Chen Ran to think.

Not long after, Chen Ran asked: "Since... everyone firmly believes their deduced plan is the most perfect plan, that means it's a pan of loose sand. The two alliance leaders can completely defeat them one by one."

The fake Diwu Zeyi gave Chen Ran a thumbs up and smiled: "Suppose going from point A to point B requires taking ten steps, and ten people can each only take one step. Then to reach the destination, the first person takes the first step, the second person's starting point is the second step, the third person's starting point is the third step. Even if the first nine people all fail, the tenth person will definitely be able to walk to point B."

"Don't forget, what our nation is best at is summarizing experiences and lessons."

"Therefore, we are not worried about them defeating us one by one at all."

"As for who takes the tenth step, the right to choose is not in our hands, but in the hands of the two leaders. It just depends on who crosses swords with them last."

Chen Ran narrowed his eyes.

Intuition told him that this segment of words from the fake Diwu Zeyi was a lie. He faintly had a feeling of being pitted in the future by someone in the past.

'I can only believe ten percent of his words.'

Thinking for a moment, Chen Ran asked: "How can you be sure your memories haven't been tampered with? If they have been tampered with, then the person who tampered with them could make you pass on fake information to me."

The fake Diwu Zeyi didn't speak this time, giving Chen Ran a meaningful smile.

Chen Ran quickly understood.

'This guy...'

'In the future, I might also encounter an Instance with disordered time. The fake Diwu Zeyi only needs to time it right and suddenly descend while I am using Eternal Kingdom. Then the Skills on his body will be deciphered. At that time he will know whether his memories have been tampered with, and moreover he will be the only one who knows.'

'For me, the time separated between the two Instances might be very long. But for him who can travel through time, it's merely just a few minutes. It could even be said that when he goes back this time, he can immediately time travel again.'

'Organizing the information...'

'There are problems with the two pieces of information Diwu Zeyi revealed to me. Save the four people, beware of Qiu Yinong, the axiom within the chessboard, and the general framework of their respective plots.'

'The credibility of the first piece of information is around 25%. The credibility of the rest are all below 10%. On the contrary...'

'I feel that the information he gave ultimately seems to all point to one answer: I am extremely dangerous both right now and in the future.'

'Where does this danger come from?'

'It comes from me playing the role of a lifesaver in their plans.'

'What's even more interesting is that I, this lifesaver, am still in the time of the past.'

'Simply put, even if they die in the future, as long as the past me is still alive, I will definitely be able to change their fates.'

'I am equivalent to a resurrection fountain. What's even more insoluble is that I, this resurrection fountain, still exist in the time of the past.'

'How to strangle me?'

'Catch the fake Diwu Zeyi, tamper with his cognition, and utilize the fake Diwu Zeyi's [Bright Moon of Qin] to pass on incorrect information to me.'

'But, looking at it from the fake Diwu Zeyi's standpoint, he should know this point, and must deduce this point. Otherwise, this Nine-Star Ghost Whisperer of his is too watered down.'

'Therefore, he must set up a Future Lie, forcing his memory-tampered self to first go find the future me to decipher the Skill, and then come find the present me.'

'Only this way will I, this resurrection fountain existing in the past, be safe.'

'According to this kind of logic, the words the fake Diwu Zeyi said just now, their credibility...'

'Is all above 50%!'

'He deliberately said this much just because he wanted to guide me to deduce that in the future I will also encounter an Instance with disordered time. He first went to that Instance in the future, deciphered the memory-tampering Skill, and then came to find the current me.'

'Wanting to prove this reasoning is actually very simple...'

Chen Ran lit a Cigarette, and after taking a few deep drags, slowly said: "I just thought of a question. Speak your answer."

"9527."

Hearing this, Chen Ran's pupils shrank. The answer to the question he thought of was indeed [9527].

This question was something he had just thought of.

Never mentioned before.

Yet the fake Diwu Zeyi knew the answer. It could only mean that the future Chen Ran had told him.

In other words...

The fake Diwu Zeyi had indeed first gone to the future Instance, had the future Chen Ran decipher the memory-tampering Skill, and then came to the current Instance to pass on the correct information to the present Chen Ran.

All those irrelevant things he had said before were foreshadowing this result.

'No wonder he said just now that he is a micro-expression expert, confirming the guess in his heart through expressions. Here he only said confirming the guess in his heart, and didn't say confirming my Skill effect, because he was afraid of being Judged and interrupting the conversation between us.'

'The reason why he made it so troublesome was to guide me to construct the question in my mind, and then he would give the answer, thereby letting me confirm that the information he passed on had no interference from the leaders.'

'At the same time, it was also proving to me that he had cut off the connection of the two leaders between the future and the present. I am temporarily not being targeted, nor have my Skill effects been exposed in advance.'

'In other words, the problem I am currently facing is only the First Level Floor Master.'

Seeing the look of enlightenment on Chen Ran's face, the fake Diwu Zeyi smiled indifferently, and then turned his head to look at the true Diwu Zeyi: "You won't die in this Instance. In this Instance, the person who dies in the end will be Chen Ran. Hahaha!"

Having said that, he drew his Liar-Slayer. It was a sky-colored Pistol.

"Ghost Whisperer: Bright Moon of Qin."

"Withdraw!"

The next moment, the fake Diwu Zeyi turned back into the ordinary-looking youth.