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Chapter 1163

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The plan begins

Cheng Shi, who returned to the trial, didn't dare to rashly launch his plan.

He wasn't sure about the attitudes of 【Decay】 and 【Memory】, thinking it would be better to ask his Benefactor for the sake of stability.

After all, such a big matter had to be discussed with the Entertainment God. Otherwise, if he didn't get those two votes from 【Deception】 at the Divine Covenant Assembly, the name of the Joker would probably resound throughout the universe.

So Cheng Shi recited the prayer, calling for his Benefactor, but his Benefactor had no response.

After waiting for a long time without the Entertainment God's summons, Cheng Shi's heart sank, and he began to call for another Benefactor, 【Time】.

As expected, 【Time】 still had no time to pay attention to him.

Cheng Shi didn't believe in evil and boldly called for 【Fate】, but what was strange was that 【Fate】 was also "not home" today!

Just like those two "I know"s, his three Benefactors tacitly chose not to answer the phone today.

Cheng Shi's face collapsed.

What did I say? It's useless to have many Benefactors if they are unreliable!

But Cheng Shi was not a person who gave up easily. After not being summoned, he decisively changed his thinking, learned a trick from Chen Shu, and comforted himself that they had all tacitly agreed, so there was no need for further summons and communication.

With this mentality, Cheng Shi nervously began his plan.

He knew that Mo Shu and Zhao Xishi were hunting him, so he deliberately left some traces all over the town to guide them to find him, so that he could use Mo Shu's methods to see the key person in the plan, 【Annihilation】's messenger, Herobros.

However, what he didn't expect was that Ji Yue's recovery speed was faster than expected, and the Fire-Spreaders' attitude toward finding people was more active than Mo Shu's.

When Mo Shu and Zhao Xishi discovered Cheng Shi's tracks and were still judging whether this was a trap set by the other party, Chen Shu had already brought Ji Yue and was rushing toward Cheng Shi.

The Fire-Spreaders were also very worried. They were worried that Mo Shu would find the lone Cheng Shi first, thereby putting this friend of the Fire-Spreaders in danger.

But their rushing, in Cheng Shi's view, affected his plan, because Mo Shu and Zhao Xishi would definitely not launch an attack when the three of them met.

At this time, he didn't know that Ji Yue had already become a nail "buried" by Zhao Xishi, so helplessly, he could only avoid the Fire-Spreaders and continue to leave traces on the circuitous road.

This back-and-forth allowed the hunters to discover the clues.

Zhao Xishi stood on the roof of a residential house, feeling the imperceptible 【Fate】 force on the eaves, glanced at the direction where the figure disappeared, and sneered:

"Sure enough.

Just by looking at the direction the Fate-Weaver is moving, you can tell he is avoiding the Purgatory Bishop. He really has a guilty conscience.

It's just that I don't know what's so good about this Purgatory Bishop that even Chen Shu has taken a fancy to her.

But it doesn't matter, soon they will be able to 'meet frankly'.

Revenge for revenge, grievances for grievances. I'd like to see what a brilliant memory this is.

Why don't... we help them again."

Mo Shu was very smart; he heard the subtext of Zhao Xishi's words.

"You want me to lure Chen Shu away?

Are you sure you can deal with the other two?

Don't forget, the Fate-Weaver still has a trump card that can control shadows. Don't die at the hands of his shadow again.

If you die this time, history won't be able to save you."

"No, no, no, you're wrong." Zhao Xishi frowned at the thought of the pain when her substitute died, but immediately shook her head and smiled lightly, "It's not me 1v2, but me and the Purgatory Bishop 2v1.

Don't worry, a person won't fall for the same trick twice. This time I will only be the fisherman, letting them fight for a while first.

You don't have to worry about me; just do what you have to do.

Pull that unlucky thing far away. Even if you can't take him down, as long as we can kill the Fate-Weaver, we can know if what the solution said is true."

Mo Shu pondered for a moment, feeling that this was indeed the best solution at the moment. If Chen Shu were missing from this game, this hunt might be very easy, but the problem was that this unlucky thing was extremely tricky, and wanting to annihilate the Fate-Weaver couldn't bypass him at all.

He nodded, left a "take care of yourself," and then hid and went in the direction of Chen Shu.

Chen Shu was no fool. Wanting to lure the tiger away from the mountain could never be accomplished by a sudden attack, so Mo Shu tried every means to make many arrangements.

He forged two traces of fighting with the Fate-Weaver in the completely opposite direction, utilized Chen Shu and Ji Yue's eagerness to find Cheng Shi, successfully separated them, and tore open the void on the only path Chen Shu had to pass, dragging this ascetic directly into the void far from reality.

And Chen Shu did not refuse. He stepped into it, his face full of determination.

At that moment, those who didn't know would have thought that this ascetic was holding a "no return" attitude, prepared to fight to the death.

But in fact, his running into Mo Shu was also part of the Fire-Spreaders' plan!

As the number one on the 【Silence】 list, Chen Shu was very sensitive to the expression of "environmental language." He had long discovered that there was a third party in this "chase game," and those two brother-in-law hunters had also come.

He informed Ji Yue of this news. Ji Yue calculated for a long time, and when she discovered that there were traces of fighting in two opposite directions, she said with confidence:

"A strategy of dividing troops.

It seems they also know you are not easy to deal with.

In that case, Zhao Xishi also wants to defeat them one by one, which is exactly what I want.

The biggest threat between the two of them is the Scavenger. Zhao Xishi is arrogant and conceited, which makes her the easiest to break through.

As long as there is no Scavenger influence, I think it's not difficult to take down Zhao Xishi.

Even if her ranking is far higher than mine, a singer is still a singer, far inferior to a mage on the frontal battlefield.

Chen Shu, if you believe me..."

"I believe." Chen Shu wiped his bald head and said firmly, "At worst, if I die, I'll find my brother-in-law to save you."

"......"

What kind of belief is this?

Ji Yue was choked, speechless, and pointed to the direction where the 【Annihilation】 force was more intense:

"Then you go and drag the Scavenger. The longer you drag, the more chances we have of winning.

Don't worry about me, I still have a backup plan."

Chen Shu naturally believed that Ji Yue could defeat Zhao Xishi in a frontal confrontation, but he also knew that a person like Zhao Xishi would never confront a mage head-on. However, out of trust in his fellow Fire-Spreaders, he still nodded and stepped directly into the trap Mo Shu had prepared for him.

Seeing Chen Shu leave, Ji Yue's gaze condensed, and she picked up her gun and rushed to the other side.

However, she never expected that what was waiting for her there was not Zhao Xishi, but the Fate-Weaver she was looking for!

The moment she saw Cheng Shi, Ji Yue was stunned, and her heart skipped a beat.

She knew that if Cheng Shi had the intention to avoid the Fire-Spreaders, he would never take the initiative to see her. Since the two met, it meant that either Cheng Shi was in danger and had to ask for help; or, everything in front of her was Zhao Xishi's trap.

No matter which situation it was, it meant that their current situation was extremely dangerous.

So Ji Yue made a decisive decision, directly waving her gun to set fire, first burning this place into a purgatory to facilitate her own fighting, and then retreated slowly with her back to Cheng Shi, looking around, guarding against unexpected attacks.

Cheng Shi was also surprised to see Ji Yue appear. He clearly hadn't found any traces of Fire-Spreaders in this direction and felt that the 【Annihilation】 force seemed to be entangled with other forces, thinking that the Fire-Spreaders had attracted Mo Shu away, so he wanted to take the opportunity to take down Zhao Xishi.

But he didn't expect not to see Zhao Xishi, but to see this Ji Yue, who didn't know if she had regained her memories.

And the moment he saw Ji Yue leaning toward him with her back to him, Cheng Shi's eyes flashed, and he suddenly connected everything!

The memories that flashed through Ji Yue's mind when she was dying could never be a real dream; it was very likely Zhao Xishi's method with those azure threads. As for why the Historian would take action to affect the memory of this Fire-Spreader...

She wouldn't want to use Ji Yue's hand to deal with him, would she?

Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows, his heart drumming. He still remembered the scene in the earlier trial where Ji Yue personally took care of the only priest in his team.

The scholar's temper is truly explosive. Once she finds out that he had deceived her...

But she is already a mature Fire-Spreader, she should be able to suppress her temper...

Right?

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