Chapter 1004: Cheng Shi · Nightmare (bai) Shadow (lan) Edition

Cheng Shi · Nightmare (bai) Shadow (lan) Edition

Although Cheng Shi had thought it through well, things went contrary to his wishes. As Long Wang's gaze lingered on the mirror surface for longer, the mirror seemed to recover, and a Nightmare Shadow with a face identical to Long Wang's slowly walked out from the black mist within the mirror.

This Li Jingming's eyes were clearly colder and more venomous than the original's. He scanned the surroundings, deliberately avoiding Cheng Shi's gaze, and then said to the Li Jingming who was close at hand:

"Still want to go there? If you do, come in, I'll take you.

That place hides memories belonging solely to Him. You... don't you want to engrave this memory?"

The Jesters frowned upon hearing this, and Li Jingming ignored it entirely. He looked at himself in the mirror and said to the group:

"The memory it speaks of is the greatest secret hidden in this mirror. Cheng Shi, it's your turn.

I don't think the prop for shielding the gods' senses is without a time limit. Speed it up; otherwise, with the current Jesters, we cannot bear the risk of exposure."

This sentence struck the vital point, and Cheng Shi pursed his lips, unable to refuse.

He then smiled at the group, stood before the Dream-Self Nightmare-Mirror as if he didn't care at all, and in the next second, black mist swirled up from the mirror's surface, gradually solidifying into an identical Cheng Shi.

The Nightmare Shadow Cheng Shi just glanced impatiently at the people outside the mirror, then lay directly on the ground, crossing his legs and saying:

"Look, look, look at what? The world is ending, what's the use of looking at me?

Lie down and wait for death; that way you can save some effort."

"......"

"......"

"......"

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this, and even Li Jingming was taken aback. He had never seen such a "non-aggressive" Nightmare Shadow.

One must know, a Nightmare Shadow is a person's dark side, a collection of reflected desires, so it can reflect the part of a person's heart that never sees the light of day. Everyone's Nightmare Shadow is treacherous and unmasked, but what is going on with this Cheng Shi's Nightmare Shadow?

Why does it look like he's given up?

So, this Fate Weaver, who is currently in the spotlight and watched by the gods, having insight into the truth of the universe, has as his greatest inner desire nothing more than not wanting to work hard?

Is this right?

It's not that it can't be understood. At least Zhen Xin could understand, because she had accessed Cheng Shi's memories and knew that Cheng Shi was originally a person who didn't seek advancement. The various actions of this Fate Weaver in the game currently could hardly be said not to be self-numbing efforts made to compensate for certain emotional regrets.

But even if they could understand, the others wouldn't, because at the same time they saw this scene, they had already sensed a large amount of 【Pollution】 aura gathering in the opposite direction toward Cheng Shi's original body.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was another of Cheng Shi's means to counter the Nightmare Shadow, but how did this Fate Weaver have so many means to influence this 【Memory】 divine relic?

Just because he is a believer of 【Memory】's rival, 【Deception】?

But we are also 【Deception】 believers, why don't we have so many gadgets?

Indeed, Cheng Shi was indeed countering the Dream-Self Nightmare. Of course, it couldn't be called countering; it was just a sudden thought before looking in the mirror, wanting to try if the 【Pollution】 container had any effect on the other self in the mirror.

Didn't expect it to actually work!

The moment the 【Pollution】 container was taken out from his sleeve, the Nightmare Shadow Cheng Shi's eyes became clear. Its desires were all absorbed by the container, appearing in a sage-like state of universal void, directly giving up.

And interestingly, because the Nightmare Shadow is part of the Dream-Self Nightmare, its desires are far greater than the original Cheng Shi, which meant the speed of divinity dripping after the container absorbed the desires was faster.

But this wasn't over, because the Nightmare Shadow also counts as Cheng Shi, so the divinity dripped by the container still belonged to Cheng Shi...

Good news: found a bug for farming divinity.

Bad news: the divinity is 【Pollution】.

"......"

How to put it, this feeling is a bit like discovering a secret passage to a vault, only to push open the door and see that the vault is piled high with hell money...

Is this a vault? Isn't this an ancient tomb?

Cheng Shi was numb, and the others looked at him with expressions more colorful than the last.

If you say this Fate Weaver doesn't share his heart, he can share things even the gods don't know with you; but if you say he shares his heart, there isn't a single truthful word when it concerns himself, and he's full of little tricks everywhere.

People of great courage grasp the big and let go of the small, but when it comes to this Fate Weaver, it's the other way around: grasping the small and letting go of the big, highlighting a "I'll lead you in revolution, but don't ask me which side I'm on"...

Seeing this, Li Jingming was also speechless, but since Cheng Shi had already looked in the mirror, it wasn't good to force this Jester convener to show the desires in his heart too much, so he nodded helplessly and just asked one question:

"What is that in your hand?"

Cheng Shi naturally couldn't say it was a container, so he once again brought out the set of lies he used on Sun Miao.

"Fear Tree Core, a 【Pollution】 prop that fell off Lele'er, can absorb a person's desire and emotions. I usually use it to assist in meditation; it gets twice the result with half the effort."

"......" Not a single word from this liar is credible, but the name should be true.

Zhen Xin was stunned after hearing the name Lele'er, and then suddenly asked: "Does the fall of 【Prosperity】 have any impact on Lele'er?"

Smart!

Cheng Shi didn't hide this point; he stated directly that Lele'er was dead, and the cause of death was the fall of 【Prosperity】.

"So we have lost all means to approach the only vacant divine seat, do I understand it correctly?" Zhen Xin frowned.

Right, and also not right.

We indeed cannot approach the divine seat of 【Prosperity】 anymore, but it's not because we lost the means, but because there is already a candidate waiting under that throne.

It's a pity that this matter cannot be spoken of either; at least we have to wait until Big Cat truly climbs onto that chair before this secret can be made public.

Otherwise, the covetousness brought by inheriting the divine seat would bring endless trouble to Big Cat. Even if Big Cat's strength is enough to trample all covetous ones, desire will not stop because of proximity to death. Those lunatics attempting to become gods should turn to destruction if they can't get it, and this is also the fundamental reason why 【Pollution】 causes the gods to be wary.

An inescapable maggot on the bone.

Originally, this matter would have passed with a mention, but the Jesters present were far more sensitive than he imagined. The Doctor, who is sensitive to all data anomalies, stood behind the crowd and suddenly spoke:

"Things might be more complicated than we imagined. I suspect someone has already stolen the divine seat of 【Prosperity】 through certain means, even if not, at least they have obtained a part of it."

As soon as this theory was proposed, Li Jingming and Zhen Xin said in unison: "【Prosperity】's Ladder of Audience."

"Correct, it is 【Prosperity】's Ladder of Audience." The Doctor nodded and analyzed calmly, "Although the score growth of 【Prosperity】 believers currently is not as crazy as it was a while ago, as long as one observes enough, one can still see that all 【Prosperity】 believers are intercalating their scores.

Large changes in high-score segments will attract attention, so the 【Prosperity】 believers who are scoring massively this time are basically in the low-to-mid score segments, especially players hovering around 1600 and 2000, most of whom have reached another level recently.

One must know, these two score positions can obtain an extra talent slot, so it is not hard to guess that the person behind the scenes who stole 【Prosperity】's divine power is consciously increasing the strength of the 【Prosperity】 faction.

Although I can't guess what the purpose of this is, I think it must be beneficial to this person behind the scenes. Perhaps this is one of his means to stabilize his divine seat.

It's just that I can't understand how a player could find such a loophole. After all, with the 【Convention】 in place, how could divine power fall into the hands of an outsider?"

"Are you so sure he is a player?"

Cheng Shi wanted to steer the topic, but failed.

"The gods don't look like the black hands capable of doing such a thing. 【Prosperity】 has fallen, and protecting its believers has no meaning. Besides, 【Decay】 believers have long found it hard to see their benefactor, so the conjecture of supporting 【Prosperity】 to counter 【Decay】 doesn't hold up..."

"Aren't you doing experiments? How are you so clear about what happened in the outside world? Doctor, you weren't fobbing me off before, were you?"

Wang Mou's eyelid twitched, and he continued to explain seriously: "It was precisely out of experimental considerations that I made anonymous inquiries on the 【Truth】 channel regarding several steps and data I wasn't sure about.

While collecting feedback, I accidentally saw the analysis of the mages on the channel. I just happened to have the slices do some other work while waiting for the results, and thus had this discovery."

"......"

Sure enough, in this 【Faith Game】, the old mages are the primary productive force. ===== CHAPTER 1005 =====