Chapter 1167: Call the Parents In

Call the Parents In

(Surprise~)

When the mysteries piled up with no clue in sight, Cheng Shi stopped fretting over the present.

He disposed of Zhao Xishi's corpse, then stepped into the void with Ji Yue to go meet up with the teammate no one really wanted to meet up with.

But when they reached the battlefield of Chen Shu and Mo Shu, the scene before them left the two of them dumbfounded on the spot.

The two warriors were not, as imagined, fighting desperately in the void; instead, each sat cross-legged, gazing at each other from afar, not uttering a word, as if waiting for something.

Until Cheng Shi and the other burst in — Chen Shu's face lit up, Mo Shu's brows darkened, and the standoff between the two finally reached its conclusion.

"I told you I'd definitely win, and you didn't believe me. Believe it now?

Call me daddy."

"......"

The entire void fell silent.

Cheng Shi's eyelid twitched violently; Ji Yue's mouth corner twitched hard.

What is this, a father-and-son match?

How does this unlucky bastard manage to claim kinship everywhere he goes?

And with Mo Shu's temperament, how could he possibly have agreed to such a wager?

Cheng Shi and Ji Yue exchanged a glance, each seeing the answer in the other's eyes: this poor Sweeper had probably been "tacitly consented" to again.

Seeing Mo Shu rise with a cold face without responding, Chen Shu cheerfully tossed in a line:

"Ah, my good big son."

That sentence instantly ignited the other's fury. Mo Shu's expression chilled; he hurled a punch at the space before him, and while Chen Shu was busy parrying, Mo Shu directly annihilated his own figure and left behind a line:

"The self-conceited are indeed unworthy of plotting with."

The three of them naturally wouldn't let such a perfect chance slip, so they gave chase together — except Mo Shu pulled the same old trick, leaving three decoy arrays after returning to reality, making it clear he meant to split the Torchbearers' forces.

Chen Shu looked at the three streams of 【Annihilation】 force drifting off in three different directions before him, paused his steps, scratched his head, and said:

"This thing still has to depend on my brother-in-law.

Brother-in-law, where are your dice? Take them out and give it a try — odd goes left, even goes right, standing upright goes down the middle. If Comrade Sweeper is fated to die, the three of us will definitely catch up to him."

"......"

Hearing this, Ji Yue rolled her eyes, shoved Chen Shu aside, and carefully sensed the strength of the residual 【Annihilation】 force.

Seeing no one paid him any attention, Chen Shu clicked his tongue and turned back to say:

"Brother-in-law, why aren't you saying anything, you......

Hmm!?

Where's my brother-in-law?"

Ji Yue froze, turned to look back, and saw that Cheng Shi, who had fallen to the rear of the three, was now nowhere to be seen — long gone.

Her brow furrowed, and she sighed.

"We were never the same kind of people after all."

Chen Shu grew anxious: "It's precisely because we're not the same kind of people that we need to pull him in. You too — you're someone who fought Zhao Xishi alongside him, that's a life-and-death bond, so why won't you talk some sense into him?"

Talk some sense?

How am I supposed to talk sense?

I'm the one he talked into joining, and now you're telling me he's not even in this thing — how many versions of the Torchbearer are there?"

Ji Yue had just recovered her memories, her heart in turmoil, and truly didn't want to deal with Chen Shu, so she shook her head and said:

"Let's split up and walk too."

Chen Shu blinked: "You want to quit the Torchbearers?"

"......"

Ji Yue nearly exploded.

She whipped out her long spear, pointed the spear-tip at the ground beneath Chen Shu's feet, and said:

"I'm talking about the path under your feet!

I go left, you go right. Once you spot the person, use a flame as the signal. We absolutely cannot let the Weaver fall into danger."

Having said that, regardless of Chen Shu's reaction, she flashed away directly.

Chen Shu looked left and right, scratched his head, and finally chose not to follow Ji Yue's arrangement, taking the middle path.

He felt he was very middle.

And while the Torchbearers split up to search, Cheng Shi had already found Mo Shu!

The moment he left the void, he broke away from the group and returned to the place where Zhao Xishi had breathed his last. He figured that if Zhao Xishi and Mo Shu really came from the same embryonic group resembling an organization, Mo Shu would definitely come here first to confirm the Historian's death.

Sure enough, when he arrived, Mo Shu was already wiping away every trace at the spot with an ashen face.

The Sweeper knew he was at a disadvantage, but upon seeing Cheng Shi's arrival he did not rush to leave; instead he asked in a low voice:

"You know?"

Cheng Shi smiled casually: "Naturally. I have ten thousand ways to pry what I want to know out of her mouth, but I chose the simplest one — letting the dead speak."

As he spoke, he also showed Mo Shu the finger-bone brooch in his hand.

Don't forget, 【Death】 and 【Annihilation】 are rivals — this move of his was clearly provocation.

Yet Mo Shu kept his composure. His face shifted, and he asked again:

"So, beyond this world, are there truly countless other worlds?"

"?"

Cheng Shi's gaze sharpened, and he suddenly realized that this small group centered on Solutions seemed to know far, far more than he had anticipated.

As a Chosen One, Mo Shu could not possibly be unaware of parallel worlds, so what could make him raise such a question could only be those sliced universes within the real cosmos!

He actually even knows about this?

Did Jie Shu tell him?

But how would Jie Shu know about it?

They sought him out just to verify this?

Could it be that in that world reset, a follower of 【Folly】 slipped through the cracks?

No, that shouldn't be it, otherwise Jie Shu would have known the answer directly instead of still seeking verification, but as a player, how does he know all this?

Cheng Shi's mind was filled with many guesses, but on the surface he remained perfectly calm, even retorting, "If you think so, then so be it."

Mo Shu's expression grew colder: "How did you discover all of this?"

Cheng Shi gave a contemptuous snort:

"Worry about how I discovered it.

Better start worrying about yourself instead.

Since there are so many worlds beyond this one, then the so-called will to annihilate the world held by your patron will probably never be realized in this lifetime.

I'll tell you straight — beyond our world, the 【Annihilation】 of many worlds is already dead..."

"Nonsense!"

"Tch, triggered.

How can a frog at the bottom of a well know the vastness of the world? I've seen more worlds than the number of people you've laid eyes on.

Let me tell you another secret — the 【Annihilation】 of our world is also about to be gone.

Otherwise...

Why would He be in such a rush to annihilate me?"

The speaker had no intent, but the listener took it to heart. Although Cheng Shi was bluffing, the words were too leading to resist, so much so that Mo Shu immediately felt that his patron's fall would be inextricably tied to the Fate Weaver before him.

But how could a mortal influence the fall of a true god?

His train of thought fell straight into Cheng Shi's trap, so much so that he never once considered whether Cheng Shi's words might be false.

After all, the news was too shocking, and besides, a god issuing a divine oracle to hunt down a player was also unprecedented. With so many coincidences piling together, Cheng Shi's words only grew more credible.

Of course, Cheng Shi's words weren't entirely false either. He really was working hard to make 【Annihilation】 disappear — only what was disappearing wasn't the god Himself, but the divine throne beneath Him. And the key step of this plan was to first meet that sole Emissary of 【Annihilation】, Heluobosi.

So, seizing the moment of Mo Shu's shock, Cheng Shi laughed:

"You're too low-ranked; telling you all this is pointless.

If you want to save your patron, call in the big shot.

We're all smart people here, no need to hide things. Heluobosi, I know you can hear me — come out, and I'll teach you how to save your patron."

The moment his words fell, reality above Mo Shu's head split open, and a giant hand tore through the void, grabbing toward Cheng Shi. Cheng Shi didn't move a muscle, watching that 【Hand of Purifying Rot】 inches from him with utter mockery, and tilted his head up:

"I'm standing right here. Do you dare make a move?"

"!!!"

Under Mo Shu's utterly astonished gaze, that massive hand brimming with savage 【Annihilation】 power actually stopped, three inches above Cheng Shi's head.

Then a cold voice came from the void.

"You have one minute. Explain."

Cheng Shi recklessly shoved aside the hand above his head and sneered:

"I'll give you one minute — stand obediently in front of me.

Otherwise, no deal."

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