Chapter 1130: I Have Found the Answer

"I have found the answer."

This ordinary-looking man was none other than Wei Mu.

Cheng Shi knew this absolutely could not be his true body, because his true body was a puppet wooden dummy, and the flesh-and-blood, pain-fearing body before him could only be his real puppet.

Where had he hidden his true body?

Cheng Shi instinctively looked around, while Wei Mu smiled and nodded to the crowd, then swept his gaze in a circle, pinched up some soil from the ground to study for a moment, and leaned out from the gap in the cliff to take a look, saying with great certainty:

"Red volcano ash, Gaoshan prison, machine-woven rough clothing, sacrificial garments—if my guess is right, this should be near a civilization solitary tower in the four-hundreds sequence.

To be more precise, given the extreme punishment inflicted on you and me, the ranking is likely quite high, within the top four hundred twenty.

Originally, the historians' school sorted the civilization solitary towers of the Chaotic Epoch precisely to quickly locate trial positions and historical information. Now it seems they succeeded—at least it's very useful for players who enjoy researching 【Foolishness】."

Wei Mu's presence was overwhelming; even though he knew Cheng Shi was the Fool's Play, he showed no reaction whatsoever, simply going about what he ought to be doing.

Until he had finished saying all this, standing at the cliff's edge, he turned to face the crowd and waved, then—under everyone's shocked gaze—fell straight backward.

He had thrown himself off the cliff!

Leaving behind only one line: "I have found the answer."

Not long after, a "boom" of impact rang out from the bottom of the cliff, making everyone tremble. Chen Shu, unable to mind his wounds all over, sprang up from the ground with a kip-up and rushed to the gap, gripping the cliff wall as he peered down.

As he peered, he muttered:

"No need for that, no need for that—getting ranked with me isn't shameful, why take it so hard?"

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The shock Wei Mu's cliff-jumping had brought instantly soured, and the scene fell silent at once.

But the believers who did not worship 【Silence】 fell silent, while the true 【Silence】 believers were still yapping away.

Chen Shu turned his head, looked at his teammates in the cell, stepped aside, pointed at the gap and said:

"If you lot feel it's shameful too, you can jump—don't worry about my feelings, really, I'm very strong."

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Whether you're strong or not I don't know, but whether you're shameless I could give you a review or two.

Cheng Shi was already too weary to speak. He rolled his eyes and shot Chen Shu a glance, but kept all his attention on Mo Shu.

This Sweeper had far too many buffs stacked on him—a behavior-warped pâtissier, a deliveryman for 【Fraud】 props, a life-and-death rival who was a notch below, a lapdog of the 【Annihilation】 faction...

Cheng Shi had to be careful about what trick Mo Shu might pull with that wooden box of his. At the same time, he was wondering—since Mo Shu's memory power had already vanished, would that "little trick" for testing whether others possessed 【Annihilation】 will still work?

Just as he was thinking this, Mo Shu, stone-faced, opened his suitcase and stuffed all six cakes from inside into his own mouth.

And with every swallow, the injuries on his body healed a little more. After finishing them all, he was completely recovered.

Seeing this, Cheng Shi was full of doubt.

What was this supposed to mean?

No need to test anyone else's 【Annihilation】 will anymore?

But as the cakes were annihilated, your body is recovering—doesn't this run counter to the will of Annihilation?

What, have you also grasped the truth that "the ultimate piety is blasphemy"?

Mo Shu glanced up at Cheng Shi, seeming to see through his confusion, and snorted coldly:

"This isn't recovery—it is the annihilation of my own pain.

Weaver of Fate, you have indeed strayed from my Lord's will."

"?"

Hearing this, Cheng Shi chuckled.

Sorry, I suppose I've never once been close to the 【Annihilation】 will—but your benefactor, shamelessly clinging on, insisted on getting close to me.

If you say that eating a few pieces of butter cake earlier was getting close to Him...

Then I can spit them back out and return them to you.

Of course, mocking him like this before the situation was clear would only bring trouble. Seeing Mo Shu had no intention of striking immediately, Cheng Shi also held his position and continued observing the relationship between the strange woman and Mo Shu.

It was obvious they knew each other.

Because right after Mo Shu ate a whole case of small cakes, he pulled out another suitcase—and it looked like this new case was prepared for that female player.

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No, bro—you running a wholesale operation here?

Mo Shu was also very cautious at this moment. He pulled that female teammate close, fed her the cakes from the case to annihilate her wounds, but before he'd fed her two, when he raised his hand again he found the case was already empty!

His brow darkened and his gaze sharpened. He turned his head at once to look back, only to see Chen Shu had somehow already been standing behind him, mouth wide open, crammed full of cake, frantically swallowing while gesturing:

"Ick th... ge wo ze ze bei."

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The scene was extremely awkward for a moment; Cheng Shi nearly failed to hold back his laughter.

But just because he could laugh didn't mean the parties involved could.

Mo Shu's face instantly went cold. He straightened up and threw a punch straight at Chen Shu's face, but Chen Shu didn't dodge at all—instead he opened his mouth and met it head-on.

"Boom—"

The fist landed square on Chen Shu's mouth, sending him flying. The violent 【Annihilation】 force also annihilated all the cake in his mouth.

Chen Shu tumbled across the ground, completely unhurt, yet still said with heartache:

"What a pity, such a fine cake, all wasted.

Comrade Scavenger, from now on you're not allowed to waste food anymore. If you choke me to death it doesn't matter, but wasting food is shameful!"

"Die!"

Mo Shu couldn't stand it any longer — or rather, for a Scavenger, matters that could be settled with force were best settled with force — so the two warriors soon crashed into each other.

The two were evenly matched, locked in a deadlock; they had only been fighting for a moment and hadn't been able to get the better of the other, yet they had nearly torn apart the cage built into the cliff face.

Cheng Shi saw the situation turning bad, frowned slightly, found an opening, and slipped straight out through a broken railing.

He knew well that he still had a mission here, and couldn't afford to be entangled with these people for too long.

Ji Yue, who had fallen and couldn't get up, watched the two fighters itching to try, seemingly wanting to join in as well, but after weighing it for a long time, still chose, like Cheng Shi, to flee through the broken fence and then vanish without a trace.

The wounds on her body seemed never to have affected her; even under the "watering" of fresh blood, this Bishop of Purgatory moved with the agility of a warrior.

She left decisively, lingering on no one at the scene.

And Chen Shu also seemed to have no reaction to her departure, only single-mindedly using his body and words to fend off Mo Shu's attacks.

"Comrade Scavenger, I see you......

Why do you......

Hey, I say......

You really are so unreasonable...... let me finish......

Wait!

Brilliant! Annihilating the words of others — isn't that exactly what we people of 【Silence】 do? How about joining 【Silence】 right now? You and I together, plus my brother-in-law, we could surely...... hmm?

Why aren't you annihilating anymore?

Scavenger, have you already strayed from my Lord's will so quickly?"

"......"

The boomerang's return was too sudden, catching Mo Shu completely off guard.

He had never imagined he could be this conflicted in a single moment — annihilating the other's words wasn't right, and not annihilating them wasn't right either; in short, he could neither advance nor retreat, only left with disgust.

What rotten luck!