Chapter 1033: Trial Failed [1033

Trial Failed

No one knew how Galiusha had snuck in.

However, it was easy to guess. After all, the underground faith had long since spread to the surface through the efforts of the Desire Brotherhood, and as for what kind of people were mixed in among the refugees pouring from Gasimela into the territory of the Tower of Reason and Quality, the Tower of Reason and Quality itself probably hadn't investigated clearly.

So as long as there was enough preparation time, Galiusha, who possessed both truth knowledge and slicing methods, could certainly manage to be omnipresent.

But the fact that she could sneak into the team of scholars that the Scholarly Chair Society took with them when they fled was truly admirable.

No wonder the other party had no reaction to the news of the Scholarly Chair Society's escape when meeting Galiusha; everything was probably within her expectations.

Fortunately, she was caught at the last moment!

Cheng Shi let out a long sigh of relief, but the next second...

No, wait!

His smile froze on his face instantly, because he suddenly realized that if Galiusha could really sneak into the experimental field to sabotage the Great Scholars' experiment, why would she keep her own appearance so that people could recognize her at a glance?

The first city pushed over in the underground counterattack on the surface was not Tusna. Long before the Gasimela World Tree burst into flames, Galiusha's information should have been on the desks of the Scholarly Chair Society.

Every Great Scholar knew this madwoman who wanted to destroy the Tower of Reason and Quality, and they had no reason not to screen these reserve scholars. So why was Galiusha able to hide until now before being found by him?

And how did she dare not to disguise herself?

If she had changed her face, wouldn't this experiment have inevitably headed toward failure?

Once this thought emerged, Cheng Shi knew he had fallen into a trap. This Galiusha in the crowd was definitely a decoy, meant to attract the attention of everyone present!

"Bad! There's more than one of them!"

Cheng Shi threw off Galiusha's hand and turned his head, wanting to warn the Great Scholars, but his action was a step too late.

Because the moment he grabbed Galiusha, the very instant all eyes in the experimental field were drawn by this unexpected farce, several scholars with bowed heads and sunken faces silently walked toward the control consoles of each experimental platform. In that one sliver of an opportunity before the three Great Scholars could stop them, they directly started this backtracking experiment!

Yes, they didn't destroy everything here; instead, they started this experiment ahead of schedule!

Now even Cheng Shi, who had cautiously retreated a good distance, was stunned.

He couldn't figure out why Galiusha hadn't stopped this experiment, but had instead started it. Was she so certain that she wouldn't be affected?

Or was it that the scholars in the first echelon about to be sent back to the past all had problems!?

There was no time to think, because the moment the experiment started, a massive beam of space-time energy had already shot toward the departure platform. The security scholars who didn't belong to the first echelon scattered in panic, jumping off the platform as if fleeing. The scholars of the first echelon were also filled with doubt and fear, not knowing whether they should continue to execute the mission under this unexpected turn of events.

But just then, another accident occurred.

Galiusha glanced at Cheng Shi with a sneer, then even more provocatively extended her little finger toward the three Great Scholars on the high experimental platform.

Then, under the eyes of everyone, as countless space-time energy beams bombarded her, she violently thrust that little finger into her own eye socket.

"Puchi—"

Blood splattered, thunder and fire roared!

"Boom—"

The entire departure platform exploded directly. The violent impact even snapped the tubes on the experimental materials, throwing Pelaya and the 【Desolation Walker】's shell to the ground.

The roaring flames immediately melted everything near the platform, and the scattered heat forced Cheng Shi to turn back into the passage to hide.

But Cheng Shi's reaction was fast. He only dodged the first and strongest wave of the impact, and then quickly returned to the experimental field through his dice. Braving the lingering heat of the explosion and carrying the erosion of the flames, he watched helplessly as the only two lucky survivors left on the departure platform were teleported back to the past anchored by the Great Scholars.

The experiment actually succeeded!

But the plan had clearly failed...

Not to mention whether relying on just two lone survivors could save the entire Tower of Reason and Quality, just looking at their charred state, Cheng Shi knew there was absolutely no hope.

Not dying in the space-time passage was the best result for them. As for reversing the defeat of the Scholarly Chair Society?

Heh, keep dreaming!

And once the Great Scholars' plan failed, the collapse of the Tower of Reason and Quality would naturally be inevitable. The path of 【Truth】 would be severed, and it would soon become a limited 【Truth】...

The trial had gone too far.

"Damn."

Cheng Shi never expected that in a 3-day trial, he would lose before even surviving the first day. But fortunately, he had the habit of keeping a backup plan. If everything could start over, there might still be a chance for a comeback!

So Cheng Shi, with a gloomy face, decisively snapped his fingers at the moment he was almost melted by the flames.

This snap no longer represented the favor of 【Fate】, but displayed the mercy of 【Time】.

At this moment, time stood still, the universe froze, everything flowed backward like a tide, like watching a horse in reverse. The flames were retracting, the explosion was gathering, the figures were flashing, and Cheng Shi... returned to the starting point.

He opened his eyes abruptly, listening to the phrase "Fictional laws, the universe is a joke" still echoing in the sky, looking at the posture of his fingers having just finished snapping, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

He was back!

This is why the noble 【Chaos】 agent, the behind-the-scenes manipulator of the Afterglow Church, and the mysterious Mr. Ultraman had to desecrate 【Chaos】 here to summon 【Order】!

Because he had to ensure that the time battlefield opened at a conflict-free hour. Only in this way would he have the opportunity to try continuously!

That's right, Cheng Shi entered the trial as a Time Walker. When he learned that this trial was bestowed by 【Truth】, he put on a mage's mask.

【Truth】 requires trial and error, and 【Time】 allows trial and error!

So the means by which he blocked the attacks of the three Great Scholars in the underground passage naturally came from his other profession, the mage of 【Fate】, a screenwriter.

For a screenwriter without relevant talents, Cheng Shi might not be able to rewrite the opponent's will or influence the enemy's actions, but he could change the state of inconspicuous items in the script.

Making a blade miss, making magic deflect—as long as his hand speed was fast enough, these little tricks could rewrite everything.

And now, having regained the opportunity, Cheng Shi's eyes narrowed, and he ran directly toward the west of the city. This time, he would nip all crises in the bud before the assembly time.

If once wasn't enough, then twice, three times... even countless times!

In any case, under the protection of 【Eternal Imprisonment Time】, this 【Time】 believer would never get lost in the long river of time.