Chapter 1049

The Standoff Before the Laboratory

There were only two people left in Cheng Shi's current team: Fang Yuan and Meng Youfang.

Although Fang Yuan didn't fully believe him, considering that Cheng Shi was still somewhat orderly, he decided to meet the Great Scholars first before saying anything else.

Meng Youfang went without saying; he had already started calculating how to use his limited status to counterattack 【Truth】.

Actually, Chen Yi was also there, but just like before, he hid in the shadows and heard everything Cheng Shi said. However, out of aversion to the believers of 【Fraud】, he was unwilling to believe it.

But if everything Cheng Shi said was true, it meant that the Great Scholars' scheme to calculate the players would make him completely lose the opportunity to continue approaching 【Memory】, so he followed along, just wanting to see if the Scholarly Chair Society had really discovered some so-called wanderers.

Once he confirmed that the Great Scholars were also stumbling blocks on this emotional path, he would spare no cost to clear the obstacles and, just like his hatred for 【Fraud】, start an endless hunt for the followers of 【Truth】.

Only Wei Zhi was not in the team. This combat expert, just like before, disappeared directly after telling Cheng Shi that location.

Cheng Shi knew that the other party must be lurking outside looking for an opportunity. As a "traitor" who abandoned the player camp and chose to cooperate with the Scholarly Chair Society, for the success of the 【Truth】 experiment, this madman could probably do anything, and he had to be careful and guarded.

Soon, everyone arrived at the side of the West City Laboratory. By this time, the Great Scholars had already been blown into isolation by Galiusha's backup plan, and even the entire underground laboratory had been damaged on a large scale. The Scholarly Chair Society's fake experiment was clearly bankrupt.

The Death Knell Knights surrounded the perimeter in circle after circle. They were ready to go, waiting only for their lord to give them the final order to charge.

However, Cheng Shi was in no hurry to launch an offensive. He knew that defeating or even killing the Great Scholars at this time was useless because they were just puppets. As long as the truth limit of this experiment couldn't be found, no matter how many times the Great Scholars died, the players could never win.

So instead of using force, it was better to extract information during the standoff.

He firmly believed that old foxes were also human and would always have flaws; otherwise, he wouldn't have realized by now that all of Tusnat was a scam.

With this thought in mind, Cheng Shi stepped forward, stood on the edge of the collapsed pit, looked down at the six Great Scholar puppets with different expressions in the pit, and started speaking sarcastically:

"Give up, you old things. Perhaps revealing the truth will make you feel desperate, but the fact is that you are already yesterday's news, sunk into the silt of history and become waste.

I am indeed a wanderer, but not one wandering outside this world, but wandering outside this period of time.

The Tusnat you see before you has long since become a past sealed in dust from our perspective. Do you want to know the ending of the Scholarly Chair Society? Do you want to know how the Tower of Rationality collapsed?

Look here."

As he said this, Cheng Shi pointed at Galiusha with a grin.

"It was the great believer of 【Foolishness】 who personally strung your skulls together and ended all this by steaming away your wisdom.

Tsk, how pitiful. Even while watching their own believers suffer, 【Truth】 never chose to protect you, and you never sought the true 【Truth】.

Perhaps even He doesn't know what the truth of this universe is, so, the path of the Tower of Rationality was wrong from the start.

Struggling more is just blindly moving forward on a wrong path. What awaits you won't be the 【Truth】 you have been longing for for thousands of years, but a high wall called ignorance. It will only make you crash and bleed, and then realize one truth:

It turns out the world is just a huge cage, and 【Truth】 is just the tallest would-be prison breaker in this cage."

As soon as he finished speaking, all the Great Scholars' faces became extremely ugly. Only Galiusha had a strange glint in her eyes, and she asked with a wild laugh:

"Is what you said true?"

"?"

No, sister, is that important? Can't you see I'm putting pressure on the other side? Why did you join the conversation?

Do you want to string up Great Scholar heads that badly?

Cheng Shi secretly rolled his eyes and ignored Galiusha, then looked at Volunt and advised him earnestly:

"Great Scholar Volunt, speaking of which, I have some connection with you.

Sandlais can be considered my second hometown, so the Department of Consciousness Belief can also be said to be my professional direction. Then you, as the leader of the Department of Consciousness Belief, naturally count as half a teacher to me.

Teacher, I have a kind heart, so I'll give you a chance.

I know you all have secretly reached an agreement with my companion Wei Zhi. No matter what he thinks, the fact that he has betrayed the wanderer camp is a reality, so he won't survive this experiment.

If Teacher Volunt can repent, lead us to pierce through this illusion of 【Truth】, and see the coldness of 【Truth】, then I can guarantee that after this experiment, no matter the result, I will lend Wei Zhi's identity to you, let you step out of history, escape from ignorance, and join us, join the great wanderer camp.

【Truth】 is not the end of the universe. Only by joining us can you discover that this world is far broader than you imagine.

How about it?

I'll give you time to consider. I hope Teacher will seize this opportunity."

"......"

"......"

"......"

Cheng Shi's output was naturally very seductive. Not to mention that the gazes of the other five scholars toward Volunt had changed, even Galiusha, who was beside Cheng Shi, had her eyes flickering.

The pie drawn by the wanderer was too tempting, to the point that even this wise woman wanted to try this foolish act.

"Mr. Prisoner, are there any other traitors among you?"

As she spoke, Galiusha's crazy eyes began to scan Fang Yuan and Meng Youfang, and even Chen Yi, who was hiding in the shadows in the distance.

"......"

Cheng Shi's expression stiffened. He felt that Galiusha's posture wasn't asking a question at all, but thinking about which of his teammates she should force into rebellion.

Oh no, this pie can't be drawn anymore. If he keeps drawing it, he won't have toppled the Scholarly Chair Society before he smashes his own feet first.

Cheng Shi coughed twice, ignored Galiusha again, and after a moment of silence, shouted at the Great Scholars:

"How has Teacher Volunt considered it?"

"Not considered."

The one responding to Cheng Shi wasn't Volunt, but Wei Zhi, who crawled out from under the ruins around the laboratory.

The combat expert had to appear. If he kept hiding, his identity would become Cheng Shi's bargaining chip.

His current situation was very bad. Although the fragmented memory information had made him vigilant early on, before seeing Cheng Shi pierce through everything, he hadn't figured out how he could have been discovered by the other party when he had hidden so well.

But discovered was discovered. This president of the Rationality Association didn't regret his cooperation with the Scholarly Chair Society, and at this very moment, he still wanted to persuade Cheng Shi to join him in this glorious fusion.

"Fate Weaver, you are indeed extraordinary.

Yes, I am very interested in the Great Scholars' invitation. Think about it, when a Great Scholar who has mastered the knowledge accumulated by the Tower of Rationality for thousands of years wants to fuse with you, why wouldn't you be tempted?

The fusion of flesh and blood is the direction of life evolution. As long as consciousness is independent, what is hard to accept?"

Cheng Shi sneered directly:

"Only flesh and blood? I think the Great Scholars' appetite is more than that. When the time comes, if the one who reaches the top of the Ladder of 【Truth】 becomes a Great Scholar of the Scholarly Chair Society, can you still laugh?

Oh right, by then you would have already been swallowed, so you definitely wouldn't be able to laugh.

Wei Zhi, I'm just puzzled. All your knowledge and all your understanding of the experiment come from the Tower of Rationality, so why do you think the Scholarly Chair Society, which has managed the Tower of Rationality for so many years, would lose to you in a scheme?

Just by that brain of yours that even 【Foolishness】 doesn't look at?"