Chapter 120: You shouldn't have appeared here

You shouldn't have appeared here

"!!!"

Li Bola widened her eyes abruptly, looking at Cheng Shi in shock, seemingly having figured something out.

"You... you mean......"

"Thought of it, right?

If you died, wouldn't the secret be flipped through by others at will?

In that case, what is the point of guarding it so firmly for such a long time?

So, a suicidal attack is definitely not to solve the enemy in front of you!

It is very likely to hide that ultimate secret!!"

Cheng Shi's smile suddenly became crazy.

"Who said the secret must be hidden behind the door?

Why can't the secret be hidden on the guardian?

Even, why can't the secret be the guardian himself?"

"!!!"

Li Bola stared at Cheng Shi with suspicious eyes for a long time, hesitation flashed several times, and finally, not knowing what decision she made, she finally opened her mouth to ask:

"We have experienced life and death together, I don't want to doubt you again, but, Cheng Shi......

Are you really not hiding anything from me?

Why do you know so much, even knowing that he......

he is a puppet, and everything about this puppet?"

"?"

Cheng Shi was stumped by the question.

At the moment when I insightfully found clues and was so radiant and dazzling, as my most trusted teammate, you don't praise me, but why are you doubting me?

Do I look that much like a villain?

"......"

However......

If you have to ask like this, then I can only say it was all fate's doing.

I happened to find things related to this trial in the trial before last......

But this matter, how should I put it?

Coincidence?

It's also possible it's not.

Cheng Shi realized it, but he didn't dare to think too much.

He only wanted his future to be walked out by himself, rather than following some guidance toward an already determined unknown.

So he pondered for a moment and decided to be a bit more honest.

"Is it possible......

This is just a hypothesis, is it possible that I am just a little bit, a tiny bit smarter than you?"

Cheng Shi pinched his fingers, gesturing the meaning of a tiny bit.

Seeing him like this, Li Bola laughed out loud with a "pfft."

"Although this doesn't fit my criteria for judging people, I am prepared to believe you once.

Cheng Shi, don't let me down."

Just kidding, I, Cheng Shi, never lie to people!

Saying this, he leaned down again and said a name in the black-robed person's ear.

"Zain-Geer!"

This leader of creation alchemy, this great scholar of the Tower of Reason, this unprecedented creation genius!

Could it be the "restart word" that opens the answer!

Cheng Shi shouted his name and looked at the black-robed person.

And then......

"......"

"......"

"......"

Nothing happened.

Not even a fart sounded.

The smile on Cheng Shi's face froze.

Li Bola's eyes, which were surging with hope and appreciation, blinked even more helplessly.

"Ha...... hahaha...... accident, this is definitely an accident."

Cheng Shi quickly rubbed his face, squeezed out a confident smile, and silently cheered himself up in his heart.

It's okay, thought too simply, it will definitely work next time!

So he leaned over again and said:

"Ados!"

"......"

"Creation alchemy! Ah no, creation alchemy department!"

"......"

"Tower of Reason!!"

"......"

"【Truth】!!!"

"......"

"Open Sesame!"

"......"

Tired, destroy it.

"Kukukuku—"

It seemed someone couldn't hold back their laughter.

Hearing the laughter, Cheng Shi turned his head angrily and immediately saw a face flushed with holding back.

The Ranger used a small hand made of wind to pinch her back tightly, which made her face become three parts more serious.

She tried her best to keep a straight face and encouraged: "Try...... ku...... try again!"

Thanks, I was "kuku-ed."

Cheng Shi smiled stiffly and very consciously pinched his nose red.

He sat paralyzed on the ground and began to slack off.

"Laugh if you want to."

"Hahahahaha—"

Today's wind is very noisy.

And my silence is deafening.

——Excerpted from "Memoirs of a Clown"

Li Bola raised her bow, set the arrow, stood at the door of the room deep inside, and asked very solemnly:

"Are you ready?"

Cheng Shi smiled very reluctantly, but still nodded.

The Ranger felt his affirmation and then exhorted:

"We don't know what's behind the door, and we don't know what traps the Singer and the Warrior have set. You must follow me closely. If there is danger......

This key, it doesn't matter if we don't have it; escaping yourself is the most important thing."

The key in her mouth was naturally the black-robed person Cheng Shi was dragging.

After trying for a long time and failing to repair the puppet from its self-contradiction, Cheng Shi finally gave up.

He discussed with the Ranger and decided not to waste time and continue inside.

Since the choice of fate hadn't appeared yet, it meant that Qin Chaoge and Ji Ran, who had already entered, hadn't found the answer either.

There was still a chance!

This also meant that even if the black-robed person wasn't the answer, he had to be the key to the answer!

Cheng Shi firmly believed in his speculation. The Ranger couldn't beat him, so she had to agree to move forward with the key.

"Let's go!"

The moment Cheng Shi opened his mouth, the Ranger kicked the door open, and two rapid wind arrows shot into the room at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

The wind whistled past, but didn't hit anything.

Inside, it was empty.

No, perhaps it should be said that behind this door was the so-called void.

And the church they were in was more like an interlayer between the void and reality, serving as a buffer for the boundary between reality and illusion.

When Li Bola discovered that the door in front of her truly led to the void, her face was unusually ugly.

In the territory of 【Nothingness】, facing a believer of 【Fate】 who had arrived a step earlier, this was a very unfavorable thing no matter how one thought about it.

It was Cheng Shi, who regained some energy the moment he saw the void.

I said so!

How can a gambler lose every day, how can a child cry every day!

After going around in circles, I'm back on the home field!

He patted the Ranger on the shoulder, signaling the Ranger not to panic, and then dragged the heavy key and stepped into the door.

Cheng Shi's vision turned black again, and his consciousness began to blur.

This entry into the void was different from any previous time. He truly felt a transparent thin film in front of him. This film seemed to separate existence from nothingness, isolating all reality that didn't belong to the void.

Cheng Shi fell on this film for a long time, unable to struggle as if drowning.

The invisible sense of oppression and the blind sense of suffocation made his heart increasingly anxious, and a rare feeling of panic surged into his heart.

"Dying again?"

He began to have a headache.

It was as if a meteorite had suddenly fallen into his calm mind, boiling his entire consciousness.

Memories began to flash back, frame by frame, scene by scene. The past surged up from the depths of his mind like boiling bubbles.

The lonely time in the orphanage, the frugal life after being adopted, the old man's joy after getting into university, the old man's relief when finding a job......

As time drew closer, the memories changed from blurred to clear, and the details in the pictures became increasingly full.

Especially the recent trials, every scene reappeared before his eyes in vivid detail.

After looking back for a long time, Cheng Shi once felt that he had almost truly experienced a life again.

The fatigue of having lived and the panic of being unable to live on filled his whole body, making him at a loss.

Why come in?

He began to doubt himself.

The life-review lantern had started flashing; was he really going to die this time?

He died too fast in the previous few times and never had time to savor his life.

So...... one really can see the past before dying, and really can remember everything.

Old man, didn't expect it, seeing you again, it's actually at such a time.

I'm probably going to disappoint you......

So unwilling.

Just died like this.

The fall continued, and the memory seemed to freeze.

And just at this time, a call suddenly came from the distant void.

"Come, come over, I am here."

This voice pierced through the void, pierced through the thin film, pierced through everything that blocked it, and came to his ear.

Like a loud bell, it knocked awake Cheng Shi's originally fading consciousness.

He opened his eyes abruptly, and infinite strength suddenly surged out of his body, instantly breaking free from that viscous state.

Countless bubbles related to memory dissipated at this moment, annihilated in his mind.

He looked around, found the path to that voice, and then swam over with all his might.

The thin film that originally couldn't be pierced through was now as thin as paper. He rushed through and broke free from the shackles, falling back into the void.

At this very moment, beneath his feet, it could be considered the true void!

Pitch black as ink, vast and boundless.

In Cheng Shi's eyes, there was both the luck of rebirth and the gloom of trouble coming.

He looked at this familiar figure in front of him, looked at this benefactor who saved him, and his expression became more solemn than ever before.

"Surprised?"

"You...... shouldn't have appeared here." ===== CHAPTER 121 =====