Chapter 1036: Believe it, believe it

Believe it, believe it...

Isn't this a bit too absurd?

The security scholars brought along by the Scholarly Chair Society ought to be the batch most loyal to the Tower of Rationality; how could there be people from Galiusha mixed in among them?

And not just one, but a whole group—is this reasonable?

Cheng Shi stood atop the ruins, rubbing his head as he recalled the details. He clearly remembered those few security scholars were still resisting the moles planted by Galiusha before the second explosion; how did they all become moles this time?

No, has the Scholarly Chair Society already been infiltrated like a sieve!?

Don't tell me that apart from the three Great Scholars, the entire experimental team are moles!

Then can this experiment still be considered an experiment of the Scholarly Chair Society? Hasn't it become an experiment led by 【Stupidity】!?

Wait!

【Stupidity】?

Cheng Shi had never understood why Galiusha always wanted to initiate the experiment rather than destroy it, but if he looked at it from the perspective he just had, when this experiment no longer belonged to 【Truth】 but to 【Stupidity】...

Hiss—

Could it be that Galiusha propelled the progress of this experiment!?

This speculation was too bold; it gave Cheng Shi a fright.

He hadn't forgotten that this was an experiment set up by the Great Scholars of the Scholarly Chair Society to target Galiusha and Pelaya, and it was highly likely that this experiment did not belong to the emergency contingency plans but was thought up on the spot.

If it was arranged on the spot and could still be led by Galiusha's will, that meant the assistants before the Great Scholars in the Scholarly Chair Society, or the scholars, students, and so on who were closest to them, had long since been replaced by Galiusha's people!

Only in this way could they subtly influence everything the Great Scholars did.

But if so, Galiusha's layout was too terrifying. She had infiltrated the Tower of Rationality into a sieve with her own strength and was silently influencing the decisions of the Scholarly Chair Society, and even...

That 【Desolate Walker】 abandoned in the laboratory by Great Scholar Pelaya might even be a piece in this game!

And Pelaya's betrayal was precisely the finishing touch that strung this piece from a minor spot into the overall situation.

It was they who together used all sorts of inconspicuous, subtle moves to string together the entire chess game, with the goal of guiding the Scholarly Chair Society to conduct this desperate experiment based on "retroaction" to save the building from collapse!

Then what purpose did this wise man of 【Stupidity】 want to achieve in this experiment?

This was not the most important thing; the most important thing was, if this experiment no longer belonged to 【Truth】... where should the players go?

Should they assist the experiment to make it succeed, or destroy the experiment to make it miscarry?

For a moment, Cheng Shi was stunned.

He wanted to find someone to discuss it with, but he was currently missing some key information: what exactly was Galiusha trying to do by guiding this experiment!

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi once again ran toward the west of the city with a dark face.

This time, he would no longer stop the operation of the entire experiment; he wanted to see exactly what Galiusha was trying to do!

"Snap—"

The finger snap reappeared, and his figure vanished.

Cheng Shi arrived at the channel corner again. He was already too familiar with this environment. He calculated the time, dashed out from the corner, still bumped into that unlucky scholar Asier, then stole his clothes and quietly mixed in among the scholars.

Apart from guarding, this batch of scholars in the channel were basically doing information transmission work. Wherever manpower was needed in the experimental field, scholars would come to call for people. Cheng Shi mixed in the pile of scholars for a long time before he was finally called. He went toward the vicinity of the departure platform with several scholars, looking like they were going to check the normal operation of the equipment.

Cheng Shi didn't know how many of Galiusha's moles were in this team, nor did he dare to test them easily, because he was afraid that once he tested someone's identity, these irritable brothers might take out their little finger keys and start the demolition mode again.

So he was very well-behaved this time, doing nothing, just silently working while observing the posture of the surrounding scholars.

This look really revealed quite a few clues. Just taking the dozen or so scholars who came with him in the channel, seven or eight of them looked more than once at the small door connecting to the first echelon under the departure platform, clearly waiting for Galiusha to appear.

And among the scholars who were originally guarding outside the departure platform, no fewer than ten were exchanging glances with these few people, which meant that in this team of thirty or forty people around the departure platform, at least one-third were Galiusha's "rebels"!

With this ratio, how could this experiment possibly "succeed"!?

Even if the Great Scholars had eye problems, they shouldn't have been infiltrated to this extent, right?

Or was it that they had been high and mighty for too long and didn't care at all who was underneath them?

Cheng Shi was stunned; he was even more curious about Galiusha's plan.

But good times didn't last long. The scholars maintaining the guard in the channel somehow discovered Asier himself, whom Cheng Shi had stuffed into a corner, so the alarm sounded immediately. The security scholars in the experimental field received the news and rushed toward Cheng Shi's position one after another.

"......"

My luck was a bit poor, but not too bad.

Because just then, fluctuations suddenly came from above the magic array; someone had started attacking it!

It's a teammate!

Cheng Shi glanced at the time and found that the originally scheduled meeting time had arrived. Someone must have felt their way over. Of course, being able to find this place definitely couldn't be separated from Wei Zhi's "leaking of information." It's just that he didn't know what kind of reaction the Sage would have after discovering he had disappeared.

The scholars in the laboratory were attracted by the anomaly in the magic array and revealed panicked and solemn expressions one after another, which gave Cheng Shi a chance to exploit.

With a snap of his fingers, he returned to where he had left Asier, then, amidst the other party's confusion, knocked out the only scholar supporting Asier, changed into his clothes, and supported the panicked and helpless Asier as he walked back into the laboratory.

Asier was terrified. He wanted to shout for help, but the next second, Cheng Shi pressed a scalpel against his ribs and smiled, comforting him:

"The experiment belongs to the Tower of Rationality, but your life is your own. If I were you, I wouldn't shout. Don't you think?"

Asier gritted his teeth and whispered hatefully, "The believers of 【Truth】 never yield!"

Cheng Shi was stunned; he hadn't expected this person to be so unyielding.

"Fine then, I can only send you to meet 【Truth】."

As he said this, Cheng Shi was about to stab upward, yet Asier used all his strength to grab Cheng Shi's arm and said even more angrily, "Why can't you just knock me out again!?"

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This amused Cheng Shi. He laughed uncontrollably and said, "This is 'never yielding'?"

"Not yielding doesn't mean not being flexible. 【Truth】 that cannot be flexible is just rigid dogma; how is that any different from 【Order】?"

Asier raised his head and urged with his eyes: Hurry up and knock me out, otherwise someone will discover us!

Cheng Shi rolled his eyes, delivered a hand-blade strike to the other party's neck, and then dragged him into the laboratory.

A security scholar coming toward them frowned and asked questions. Cheng Shi handled them one by one, but clearly, everyone's attention had been drawn by the huge commotion coming from the magic array. They didn't carefully check the details and let Cheng Shi drag Asier off to rest.

Cheng Shi approached the center of the laboratory again. At this moment, just like the first time, Volunt announced the state of readiness, and the first echelon of scholars walked onto the departure platform one after another.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him anymore, Cheng Shi casually threw Asier into a corner and stared motionlessly at Galiusha's position, waiting for the other party to make a move.

Sure enough, when the magic array hadn't been broken and the experiment was about to begin, Galiusha moved!

This time, without any interference from players, Galiusha still took off her hood and confronted the Great Scholars crazily, then started the experiment one step ahead of them and slaughtered all the scholars on the departure platform!

Cheng Shi watched this scene happen again and still didn't understand what the other party was doing it for, until he saw Galiusha's companion bring two scholars out from the reserve team and push them onto the departure platform. Only then did he realize that Galiusha had done all this just to send these two people back!

Unfortunately, the aftermath of the explosion and the flames obstructed Cheng Shi's line of sight, preventing him from seeing the faces of these two people clearly. By the time he found an angle again, the experiment was already complete, and those two scholars had been blasted into the space-time channel by the massive space-time cluster.

"...... Interesting. Now I've caught you."

A sharp glint flashed in Cheng Shi's eyes, and he snapped his fingers.

And before the magic array, Fang Yuan and Meng Youfang had exhausted all their strength to finally blast open the defensive array. The next second, the shattered array patterns all restored themselves, and the figures of the two people also disappeared in astonishment.

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