Chapter 119: The Clown and the Wind

The Clown and the Wind

Cheng Shi had very little clear consciousness left.

He had gradually lost the ability to think, only feeling the scalpel in his chest sinking deeper and deeper. Even if he avoided the heart, if he didn't receive treatment now, he might die directly from excessive blood loss.

His peripheral vision barely captured Qin Chaoge's position, and watching her stagger toward him, he smiled with relief in his heart.

The moment to exchange sincerity for sincerity had finally arrived.

Throughout this trial, Cheng Shi had maintained an attitude of open cooperation and sincerely shared everything, just for this moment.

In order to win the trust of orderly players, making them willing to pull him at the most critical moment.

He had used this trick many times, no, it should be said he had gambled many times, and hadn't lost yet.

This was not only because his gambling luck was good, but also because he saw through human nature.

Just like this round, he saw through Qin Chaoge, and also saw through Li Bola.

These two were both very trustworthy partners.

On the premise of his own contribution, he could definitely get a return.

But Cheng Shi, who had been overly eroded by the desire to kill, overlooked a fatal problem at this moment, which was:

Why wasn't Qin Chaoge affected by this dazzling red light!

From the moment she entered the door, she treated all restrictions as nothing, and even if her steps were staggering, she still walked into the room step by step.

But as she got closer and closer to Cheng Shi, her hunched body became straighter and straighter, and her pace became steadier and steadier.

By the time she walked in front of Cheng Shi, Qin Chaoge's state had almost returned to its peak. The confident light flashed on her rosy face, and her eyes also became more and more playful.

Cheng Shi watched her walk past him calmly with blurred vision, walking past with a smile......

Past him, past the Ranger, and then......

Stopped beside Ji Ran.

She leaned down and whispered a few words in Ji Ran's ear, and Ji Ran instantly broke free from the control of the crimson light, roared, pulled out the giant sword from his chest while gasping for air, and lay down on the ground with a miserable smile.

"Clang—"

"Whoosh—whoosh—

You came later than the agreed time......

I thought our cooperation...... had ended."

Qin Chaoge hummed with a smile and reached out her hand toward Ji Ran.

"Let's go. How much we can gain depends on how big a secret is hidden behind this door."

"What about them...... why not kill them......"

"Not saving is killing; there is no need to waste energy."

After saying this, she pulled up Ji Ran and pushed open the door at the end of the room without looking back.

Cheng Shi heard the sound of the door closing and sneered at himself.

"I really am a...... clown......"

Misjudged the person.

But why misjudge?

This sound of closing not only closed the door in the room but also the door of hope for the two to survive.

As the sound of the door closing gradually dissipated in the air, the sound of corpses falling to the ground came from the room.

"Thump—"

"Thump—"

The clown was tired, and the wind was weary.

So the clown died, and the wind stopped.

I don't know how much time passed, and I don't know where I was.

The moment consciousness returned, Cheng Shi opened his eyes in disbelief.

He felt a vigorous vitality in his body repairing all his vitality.

He was very familiar with this power because he had used it before.

The power of 【Birth】.

He looked at his hand, looked at the "rhythm of pregnancy" planted by Hu Xuan, that strange bulge on his arm was slowly shriveling at this moment, and what overflowed along with its shriveling was the power that was absolutely like new life!

"This is......"

He heard an exclamation. Hearing the sound, he looked back and saw the Ranger struggling to lift her head. Two confused people, at this moment, met a pair of equally confused eyes.

Cheng Shi suddenly smiled.

Sincerity failed to win the favor of the Singer, but it won the gratitude of the Sage!

This believer of 【Birth】, this Sage of 【Life】, this newborn old friend!

Used this method to give Cheng Shi a new life.

He laughed loudly, and as he laughed, tears flowed out.

Li Bola was also deeply touched. She shook her head and laughed, pulling her own bow out of her stomach.

Cheng Shi shared a Healing Spell with her and then asked a ridiculous question:

"Did I...... gain an extra mother?"

Li Bola was stunned, then laughed loudly:

"If that's the case, then you also gained an extra sister."

"Hahahaha—hahahaha—"

The clown laughed, and the wind joined in.

So the clown woke up, and the wind rose.

Cheng Shi picked up all the scalpels left on the ground and hid them in his newly changed clothes.

He and the Ranger organized everything and prepared for the upcoming battle again.

One Hunter and one Priest against one Warrior and one Singer, the outcome might be fifty-fifty.

But considering that Qin Chaoge likely hid something, it was hard to say who would win.

Why did she want to do this? What benefits could she get from cooperating with Ji Ran?

Cheng Shi was puzzled.

Not only him, Li Bola was also deeply confused.

She prided herself on judging people correctly, even if she always experienced betrayal, almost every betrayal had a sign.

Only this time, the betrayal came too suddenly.

The two looked at each other again and decided to deal with the present first.

Looking at the time, only half an hour had passed since they "just died." The black-robed person at the door who was fighting his own desire to kill still had a pair of terrifying claws inserted into his own chest.

The crimson light in his eyes had already disappeared, but he seemed to have fallen into a strange state from which he couldn't extricate himself, whimpering and clutching his heart, neither able to die nor wake up.

The two looked at this scene, and confusion arose.

"Is this the price of invoking 【Filth】?"

The Ranger asked aloud, and Cheng Shi shook his head.

He didn't think so; he felt that the black-robed person's current state was more like falling into a self-looping bug.

After all, he was a puppet!

A puppet refined from flesh and blood!

Cheng Shi cautiously reached out and took off the black-robed person's hood. An ugly face covered in scars instantly jumped into his field of vision, causing both of them to frown.

The scars on this scalp were like the self-mutilation of an ascetic, striking and eye-catching.

"【Decay】!?"

"No," Cheng Shi shook his head again, "It's obsession. People refined into flesh-and-blood puppets cannot act 100% according to the action methods designed before death, because their flesh and blood carry obsession and will always make some moves outside the rules."

"Puppet? He is a puppet?"

The Ranger looked at Cheng Shi in shock, seemingly wondering if Cheng Shi was just talking nonsense.

In the battle just now, she did find that the black-robed person's behavior was slightly decisive, but she didn't think in the direction of "he is not a person" at all!

"Re-introducing, creation alchemy enthusiast, Cheng Shi."

These words were not Cheng Shi talking nonsense, but what he had seen from Ados's creation alchemy notes.

Things like refining oneself into a puppet might look cool, but after a long time, a series of unexpected "faults" would appear.

And obsession is one of them.

The original body of a puppet is a person, and all people have obsessions, but in order to achieve a certain goal, they must abandon obsession, so they refined themselves into puppets that only act according to rules.

In the designed rules, everything related to obsession is forbidden.

But when the puppet becomes old with the accumulation of time, the rules in the body begin to loosen, and the obsession before death becomes increasingly uncontrollable due to the accumulation of time.

Thus, at a certain opportunity, once it breaks through the designed rules and begins to satisfy its own obsession, the puppet is very likely to fall into a cycle of self-confrontation and be unable to wake up.

This is the content in Ados's alchemy notes, a conjecture he made when he was studying at the Tower of Reason.

Because at that time, he, or rather, the creation alchemy department at that time, hadn't found a way to refine themselves into puppets; everything was their hypothesis based on the "truth of creation."

Right now, this hypothesis seemed to have been confirmed.

And there was another line recorded in Ados's notes, which was a footnote he wrote after he later found a way to refine himself, recording the method of how to make a puppet exit this state:

Set a "restart word."

Whenever the flesh-and-blood puppet hears this restart word, the rules in the body will temporarily refresh their obsession again, but this only treats the symptoms, not the root cause.

Obsession will still accumulate, waiting for the arrival of the next opportunity.

Thinking of this, a bold idea sprouted in Cheng Shi's mind.

He leaned toward the black-robed person's ear.

The Ranger was startled by his action and also saw his intention, so she hurriedly pulled him and said in a deep voice:

"There is still a fierce battle ahead, you have to think clearly, Cheng Shi."

Cheng Shi stared at the Ranger with burning eyes and suddenly smiled.

"Ranger, if you were the guardian of a secret, when you couldn't determine how many people would come to explore the secret later, would you choose a suicidal attack just to eliminate the enemy in front of you?" ===== CHAPTER 120 =====