Chapter 1114

The Mystery of No Path

Soon, Cheng Shi arrived in front of the seventh fork.

There were no figures in front of this fork; it was pitch-black and deep. At a glance, even his line of sight fell into boundless darkness, as if the path ahead led to a man-eating abyss.

Anyone with a discerning eye wouldn't choose this fork that lacked any 【Memory】 characteristics, but Cheng Shi felt that this path was the true answer.

It was the reason the God of Fun sent him in!

The God of Fun would never have stuffed him in just to swap out Li Jingming. There must be a deep meaning behind such an action. Although he didn't know why yet, the answer seemed to be not far off.

Think about it: inside a 【Memory】 creation, how could a path that seemingly leads to 【Nothingness】 appear?

Pitch-black, silent, unknown... aren't these the characteristics of the void?

The wonder of 【Existence】 doesn't manifest in this form. Just like the gaps of 【Existence】, they are mixed together, colorful and dazzling. Only 【Nothingness】 is this hollow, dead, and meaningless.

Cheng Shi stood in front of the fork for a long time, frowning deeply as if pondering whether to go in.

But in fact, he had already gone in!

It just wasn't his main body, but Shadow Cheng Shi.

When darkness connects into one, the shadow with its own protective color would be the uncrowned king in the darkness. When Cheng Shi saw these forks on his first lap, he had already guessed the choice the God of Fun had left for him, so the shadow had walked into that fork long ago to scout the path for him.

At this moment, his brows were locked tight only because he was wondering if this path had an end, as he had already been walking inside it for a long time.

This seventh path had nothing but mirror walls on the left and right. Ahead was void darkness, and behind was the same. There weren't even any forks; it was so straight it didn't seem like a labyrinth.

After walking for so long, the unchanging environment made Cheng Shi almost feel like he was walking in place.

But whenever he changed direction and walked back for a stretch, only to find he couldn't get out, he would resolve himself once more to move forward.

Time passed slowly, and Cheng Shi's brows furrowed tighter and tighter. He even began to doubt his choice, thinking that perhaps he had overthought it and the God of Fun actually had no deep meaning, just wanting him to pluck some memories from this 【Memory】 creation.

But the problem was that he had already walked for so long. If he were to give up at the doorstep of the answer, only to find the answer was just two steps away, that would be too much of a clown move.

So, amidst this tangled and irritable mood, Cheng Shi gritted his teeth and continued to trudge forward.

He got tired of looking at the unchanging darkness, so his main body would go to the other forks to look at those memory bubbles to wash his eyes; the process of exploration was too boring and stifling, so he would drive the shadow to run, jump, or even do somersaults and walk upside down; not knowing how long he had walked, he would touch the carvings on the mirror wall and count the number of times the patterns repeated...

In short, he did anything that could kill time and divert his attention.

Yet the path ahead remained dark, as if it had no end.

At this moment, Cheng Shi felt he had been set up.

He felt his own devotion had trapped him!

This didn't look like a path leading to a secret, but more like the ellipsis among the seven options—it had no meaning at all.

The shadow stopped, leaning against the mirror wall and panting. Cheng Shi was also leaning against the mirror wall at the starting point, thinking about how to break the deadlock.

Both Cheng Shis were rubbing the carvings on the mirror wall, looking worried. But breakthroughs often come from inadvertent details. When he felt the uneven texture of the carvings, which were magnified several times over, a flash of inspiration struck Cheng Shi's mind, and he widened his eyes abruptly.

Grooves!

He immediately turned his head to look at the sky-piercing mirror wall of stone, constantly touching the patterns on it, thinking that although the labyrinth's walls couldn't be destroyed, since there were grooves, it meant this wall surface... could be used for leverage!

Since it could be used for leverage, is there a possibility that the exit of the labyrinth isn't at the end of the path underfoot, but outside this wall!?

Otherwise, how could a straight path be called a labyrinth?

That's it, it must be this!

Cheng Shi suddenly became excited. To speed up the scouting efficiency, Shadow Cheng Shi had been in Assassin form. At this moment, he directly put on a Warrior mask, transforming into a Warrior of the Day, grabbed the grooves with both hands, and began to climb up the wall.

He was very fast, and before long, the path below was out of sight. However, there was also no end in sight above this wall. He climbed for a long time—so long that even a Warrior of the Day's mental energy showed signs of slight decay—before he had to stop halfway, hanging in the high air and falling into deep thought once again.

The labyrinth's deadlock had returned, only this time it had changed from one-dimensional to two-dimensional.

Looking up at the infinitely high wall hidden in the darkness, then looking at the original direction of the paths to the left and right, the darkness from all sides acted like a cage, trapping Cheng Shi in place.

The previous excitement was gone, replaced by his initial furrowed brows.

He kept weighing how to move forward but couldn't make a decision. Judging by the current situation, the mirror wall didn't seem to be the answer either. Then how was he supposed to escape from this labyrinth?

At this moment, Cheng Shi's steady heart began to rise, and the thought of choosing a memory path to walk already existed in his mind. He even crossed those memory bubbles and walked in a little to see what the situation was inside those forks:

A very ordinary labyrinth, completely different from the seventh path.

He guessed that walking along those labyrinth paths might lead to different memories of the chosen person, and then, based on the clues in the memories, he could successfully find the exit. But the seventh path had no clues; it only had endless darkness and two unchanging walls.

What should he do?

Hmm? Wait.

Another wall?

Cheng Shi frowned slightly and drove Shadow Cheng Shi to leap with all his might in the high air of the wall, jumping onto the other wall. However, after climbing along it for several dozen minutes, there was still no result.

He was lost again, but this time the confusion came and went quickly, because the tactile sensation of gripping the grooves of the mirror wall made Cheng Shi suddenly have another conjecture.

If the seventh path was also a labyrinth, it must have clues. But darkness didn't seem like a clue, so the clues could only be the walls.

At first, Cheng Shi felt the walls could be used for leverage, so he guessed the exit might be above the walls. But what if the walls themselves were the labyrinth!?

Does that mean the carvings on the walls actually have a pattern to follow?

Although he had touched these carvings thousands of times while exploring the ground and climbing the walls, and found nothing special besides the repetition, who could guarantee that when the wall becomes a labyrinth, these carvings wouldn't form something!?

After all, the elements of a labyrinth are just a combination of horizontal and vertical paths and forks in different directions—it's also a kind of repetition!

After thinking of this, Cheng Shi tried again. Shadow Cheng Shi stopped climbing upward and instead began to piece together the paths of the carvings in a circle around him. He wanted to see clearly if these carvings could form a giant labyrinth.

And after spending who knows how much time, Shadow Cheng Shi, hanging on the high wall, and Cheng Shi's main body, standing at the starting point, simultaneously curled their lips and laughed out loud.

Found it!

This boundless wall was indeed a giant labyrinth map, but the true labyrinth wasn't boundless; it was just countless identical labyrinths pieced together, making people feel that these carvings were always repeating.

And according to the labyrinth's guidance, Shadow Cheng Shi soon found the center of that bit of labyrinth on the mirror wall. It was a very ordinary carved groove; even when Cheng Shi pressed his hand onto it, there was no reaction.

But Cheng Shi knew the deadlock of 【Memory】 was always like this. Even the exit would definitely not be placed in plain sight, just like His trials, which also required the person in the memory to realize they were remembering.

But the mirror wall is an inanimate object, so naturally, it has no memories. Thus, Cheng Shi, who possessed no 【Memory】, thought of a wicked trick:

He began to recite the pasts of the clowns he knew to the "exit," and while reciting, he also recalled his own past in his heart.

Making the memories of others "public" and hiding his own memories in his heart—this was the closest means to 【Memory】 he could think of at the moment!

Perhaps because the "password" was correct, or perhaps the individual's memories truly stirred the 【Memory】 power of the labyrinth, as Cheng Shi kept reciting, the area corresponding to the mirror wall groove collapsed abruptly. Violent 【Memory】 power surged from the shattered wall, engulfing Shadow Cheng Shi and plunging him into the unknown space behind the wall.

"!!!!!"

After sensing this scene, Cheng Shi... was stunned.

"No, are you kidding me?

What about me?

Why am I still here?"