Chapter 1195: The Vessel of [Annihilation]

【Annihilation】's vessel

Cheng Shi's current predicament was that he had no clue about the Nose of Discerning Falsity, and no way to deal with the Eye of Mockery.

He silently put away all the fake facial features, then took out the 【Annihilation】vessel that Luo Luo Bosi had reluctantly given him.

To be honest, the shape of this vessel was beyond Cheng Shi's expectations; it was not like the 【Annihilation】Eye that had been constantly collapsing and disintegrating, but rather half of it was undergoing violent destruction, while the drifting ashes condensed on the other half into a brand-new half of an hourglass bottle.

Until the half-bottle of destruction completely vanished, and the newly born half-bottle once again began a new destruction, cycling endlessly, life and death alternating.

From the changes in the vessel's appearance, it was not hard to discern that 【Annihilation】indeed possessed the will to bring new life to the universe. Unfortunately, in the eyes of 【Origin】, what came after 【Fallen】was not the new world dominated by 【Annihilation】as it had hoped, but a new era led by 【Order】—【Civilization】.

Cheng Shi kept sensing the aura emanating from the 【Annihilation】vessel, and felt that the "hope" bursting forth amid destruction and rebirth was unexpectedly captivating. A wild idea struck him: since 【Annihilation】could "shape" new life, then as long as it was given a tool to "shape" with, could it truly shape a "world"?

Just as the Curtain Play Sphere could reproduce a corner of the world, could the 【Annihilation】vessel perhaps reproduce even more?

Driven by this thought, he pondered for a moment, then took out a divine-grade prop he had never used before: 【Truth Instrument】!

【Truth Instrument】could dismantle the truths of all things, using the power of 【Truth】to reconstruct everything, and the 【Annihilation】vessel possessed the force of bursting forth new life. Combining these two—could they spark something new?

The answer was, yes!

And the spark was huge!

Cheng Shi held the Instrument in one hand and the vessel in the other, rubbing the two together like making fire by friction, yet saw no change in either of them.

For a moment he thought he was being fanciful, but just as he was about to give up, the Eye of Mockery suddenly spoke:

"Pfft—

I have seen fools whose experimental materials were incomplete and who reluctantly used substitutes to force an experiment, but I have never seen such an idiot with no experimental materials at all, just fiddling with two pieces of equipment.

You press them this close together and rub them this fast—do you want them to get pregnant and give birth, so you can steal the authority of 【Nativity】?

Truly, every moment you refresh the lower limit of stupidity."

"I......"

Although he had been scolded, this time Cheng Shi was not annoyed at all; instead he was very happy, because he had finally figured out a way to use the Eye of Mockery: when you cannot understand something, try probing it in the dumbest way possible. That way, Brother Eye, who cannot stand a single trace of stupidity, will scold you "awake" with contempt, telling you that you are on the wrong path.

If lucky enough, you might even find a bit of useful information amid its curses.

For instance, "experimental equipment"!

What experiment could the 【Annihilation】vessel and 【Truth Instrument】serve as equipment for?

Cheng Shi really wanted to ask, but he held back. He knew that asking further would only earn him more contempt, and probably no answer at all.

But this was enough—at least the extra vessel was not junk.

The 【Annihilation】vessel was different from the other vessels; in this faction Cheng Shi had almost no friends, so he could not use it to lay out schemes, and it was even less convenient to compete with Luo Luo Bosi—who was mired in the indefinitely postponed agenda—for that 【Annihilation】divine throne.

Swindlers must know how to cherish their reputation; once the stench of a bad name spreads, they will never be able to deceive anyone again.

Even if one must "burn the bridge after crossing the river," one should wait until the day the reputation is utterly useless.

Cheng Shi placed the vessel and the Instrument on the ground, his thoughts began to scatter, pondering the path ahead.

The Fear faction held great "authority," the universe's will to distance itself from 【Origin】 grew ever more apparent, and 【Fate】, to ensure the predetermined remained unchanged, began spreading faith widely, accelerating the predetermined.

And the schemes of the God of Entertainment were also related to the predetermined, so at least on the point of accelerating the predetermined, the two masters and one servant of 【Void】 were now "marching shoulder to shoulder."

If 【Fate】 had not lied, and the predetermined truly was related to 【Origin】, then as the party involved, the most reasonable guess Cheng Shi could make based on his current situation was that he was being shaped into an offering bearing the "aura of Origin."

The so-called "aura of Origin" was not about creating some power similar to 【Origin】's—the gods probably could not create such power either. 【Void】might simply want to gather the wills of all the gods into one body, thereby simulating the will of that Creator.

And this method of gathering into one body, as it now appeared, was very likely to find a "faithless" vessel whose will resonated with all the gods' wills, then use vessels or authorities carrying the gods' wills to "play" it, making it an offering.

As for why it had to be faithless......

When a person draws too devoutly close to one of the sixteen divine thrones, his will will undeniably lean more toward that one, which would go against 【Origin】's will, because 【*He】had never favored anyone; 【*He】was the sum of all wills, balanced and unified.

So was it precisely for this reason that 【Void】had chosen him?

Cheng Shi was not sure either, but the moment he thought that his habit of spouting blasphemy every day might actually land him on a cross piled with dry firewood, he wanted to slap himself twice.

But it was too late to slap himself now. Compared to those players who had not been chosen as offerings, although his path ahead was rugged and fraught with risk, he still held a sliver of initiative.

By virtue of this offering's identity, before the 【Void】era drew to a close, what he saw and what he could do was far more than those ordinary folk struggling blindly in the 【Faith Game】.

This was probably also the confidence that every Cheng Shi across every sliced universe had for facing 【Origin】 directly—at least before and behind him there were countless companions.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi's scattered thoughts gradually gathered. A moment later he came back to himself, remembered the matter of the Fated Ones' meeting—it was time to find these Fated Ones something to do. Since everyone was under 【Fate】's protection, then on the path of the predetermined, let them accelerate things for me.

He dialed Big Cat's number, and soon the bold, hearty voice came from the other end.

"Today?"

Cheng Shi smiled and nodded: "Today it is. Call the people—you help me contact An Shenxuan and a follower of 【Order】named Li Li Wufang; the rest I'll handle.

I've decided to take this world's script apart and explain it to everyone, so that everyone knows exactly how this game operates."

Hong Lin's voice faltered, and she said in surprise:

"Mingyu really is inside?

Li Li Wufang... I do know him, but—you're going to show your hand to the Fated Ones?

Cheng Shi, when a person's ability is insufficient to bear such a massive amount of information and such tremendous pressure, the more they know, the more they will fear—and that is not conducive to their moving forward.

Even though I know the Fated Ones are all elites in this game, don't forget—from the moment the 【Faith Game】descended to now, the only one who has been able to sit at the gods' table and play is you; everyone else is a chess piece.

They can see what's right before their eyes; the wisest among them might see two or three moves ahead, but if you want them to look up and see those chess players......

Can it work?"

Cheng Shi was silent for a moment, then nodded:

"It can work.

I believe in them, just as I believe in fear."