Chapter 129: You have your way, I play my way, neither gets in the other's way

You have your way, I play my way, neither gets in the other's way.

Cheng Shi lied to himself.

Ever since he walked past the starting point of his destiny and became a believer of 【Deception】, he had been pondering a question.

Since 【Memory】 is an opposing faith, and He likes to faithfully record everything, then when he encounters His believers, how should he deceive them?

Players with a lower score than him are fine, but if they have a higher score than him...

It is hard to imagine what kind of hellish talent He would bestow upon His believers to expose lies.

So the answer is, it's very difficult.

Deceiving a believer of 【Memory】 is not easy.

But...

If one changes their line of thinking:

Since all they pursue is the truth of memory, does that mean there is a possibility that when I tamper with memory, I have effectively deceived them!?

Cheng Shi had considered this problem long ago and began taking precautions.

Thus, in the early 【Prayer Trials】, he performed prayers in multiple stages and batches, with only one goal for each trial:

To pray for a professional book on psychology.

Such a simple request matched trials with almost no difficulty, so not long after, Cheng Shi became an "expert" who had read all kinds of psychology books.

When knowledge had accumulated sufficiently, a qualitative change occurred.

He performed a small surgery on himself.

A hypnotic surgery.

He recorded several segments of memory that were the hardest to distinguish, then rewrote the causality of those memories and hypnotized himself, making him believe that the memories he wrote down were the real ones.

Just like Cheng Shi's probing just now.

The old man indeed did not give Cheng Shi any advice on work, but he also never felt gratified that Cheng Shi found a job!

Because he had already passed away before Cheng Shi found a job!

He raised Cheng Shi, but he never got to see the moment Cheng Shi could live independently!

This matter had always been a regret in Cheng Shi's heart, so he rewrote this memory, deceived himself, and made himself feel that the old man had died in comfort.

But while this can deceive enemies, it also truly deceived himself; under the hypnotic suggestion, he even forgot the original facts.

As a result, a new problem arose.

How should he know if an enemy has tampered with his memory and disguised themselves as him or the old man he is familiar with?

However, this problem was clearly not as difficult as the previous one.

Any hypnosis in the world has a day when it wakes up.

Therefore, Cheng Shi also set a termination trigger word for his own hypnosis.

And this trigger word is nothing else, but the very memory segment he changed himself.

When someone says this smeared memory to his face, the hypnosis ends!

Thus, when "Big Cheng Shi" said that sentence, "What you should miss is the smile on his face after he learned you had a job, not some ethereal advice," Cheng Shi's heart was filled with agonizing grief.

His hypnosis was broken.

So...

The old man had left long before he found a job.

He had worked hard to raise him, but he didn't get to look at him one more time after graduation.

Ha, destiny!

But leaving this backup plan here still had a fatal problem:

How can one make someone attempting to read his memory say the memory segment he smeared to his face, to act as the ending trigger word and break his hypnotic state?

Thus, Cheng Shi modified the surgical plan again.

He added a self-suggestion into the hypnosis.

When he discovers that the person opposite might be involved in his memories, the probing he instinctively makes will definitely revolve around these smeared memory segments.

Thus, he possessed three versions of memory.

The true history, the lie to deceive himself, and the false words to probe the other party.

The former is the truth, the latter two are both fake.

The logic seemed to have closed the loop.

But in fact, there were still flaws.

Because the act of tampering with memory is itself a memory.

It would also be read.

But this level of deception was no longer something Cheng Shi could achieve.

So, he begged a "person."

He handed the implementation of the hypnotic surgery to someone else.

The Lips of Foolish Play!

When this mouth that only wanted to deceive people heard that it could deceive a believer of 【Memory】, it gladly accepted Cheng Shi's request.

Then, it hypnotized him.

Thus, in Cheng Shi's memory, there were only segments of silently reading psychology books.

But for a believer of 【Deception】, wanting to make their deception more sophisticated, isn't it very reasonable to read some psychology books?

Based on all the above, at this very moment, deception is seen through, and the trick is reversed!

Cheng Shi raised his head, looked at Seeing Zhen Xin in front of him, and sneered.

"You want to know?"

"Mmhmm~"

"Heh, I'm not telling you."

"..."

The smile on Seeing Zhen Xin's face instantly froze; she blinked in disbelief, staring blankly at Cheng Shi, the confusion between her brows almost identical to Cheng Shi when he was choked up above the void back then.

Those stiff eyes also seemed to be saying:

"Are you a dog?"

The friendly exchange belonging to two believers of 【Deception】 had ended before it even began.

But this look of being thwarted did not last long, and then she seemed to have thought of something, nodding in sudden realization.

"You are very sad, hmm, I understand, so that's how it is.

How pitiful, even deceiving yourself.

It seems you are even more miserable than what I saw in the memories.

But it doesn't matter, having no family means having no burdens; in this game, being alone is also quite good."

The seemingly comforting words made Cheng Shi's face even darker; his facial muscles twitched, and he retorted:

"Is that so? Then I also wish you have no burdens."

"Oh my~

No need to be so polite, I never had any burdens to begin with."

"..."

Six of one, half a dozen of the other; neither should look down on the other.

Seeing Zhen Xin's personality was clearly more jumpy than Sha Man's, but wearing Sha Man's appearance always made Cheng Shi feel like he was standing in front of a big bad wolf in lamb's clothing.

This torn image contrast made one feel incredibly uncomfortable.

"Enough, I have already seen through your identity; the illusion created out of thin air is no longer effective, there is no need to disguise yourself."

Cheng Shi looked at Seeing Zhen Xin, his sharp eyes scanning back and forth over her body.

Seeing Zhen Xin chuckled, amused:

"There is no disguise, this is my original appearance; how about it, does it look good?

Is the figure very good? You've hugged it, how does it feel?"

"..." Cheng Shi was stunned, his brain not quite turning fast enough. "Impossible, you used your original appearance, how could you deceive the local residents in the town?"

"Ah~ you mean that, hmm, that girl Sha Man was usually quite reclusive, and not many people paid attention to her, so, I just acted it out."

"She..."

"Is dead, is it a pity? No need to feel pity, I look better than her.

You don't believe it?

Then there's nothing to be done, I didn't keep her photos.

I am not a believer of 【Death】, I don't have so many strange hobbies, like taking a photo as a souvenir before killing someone...

However, I am curious about one thing, do you really like women?"

As she spoke, Seeing Zhen Xin moved her lotus steps lightly to Cheng Shi, took his hand, and slid it along her arm toward her chest.

This scene seemed to have happened somewhere before.

Shyness overflowed in her eyes, her lips pursed in nervousness, and a hint of playfulness hung on her slightly flushed face as she said affectionately:

"Honorable guest, there is no charming scenery here, only... charming people."

As she spoke, the small hand pulled the large hand along the arm to the chest.

However, at this very moment!

A playful smile curled on the corner of Cheng Shi's mouth, and he struck with a heavy punch without any hesitation!

The result can be imagined!

The force of this blow was surprisingly great, to the point that the fabric of the clothes spilled between his fingers.

"!?"

The amusement in Seeing Zhen Xin's eyes instantly froze, and her complexion gradually turned dark.

Looking at this gloomy little face that seemed to be pondering "where did it go wrong," Cheng Shi was amused.

"Wasn't it you who let me touch it?

Why aren't you laughing anymore?

Do you not like it?

Then should I switch hands?"

As he spoke, Cheng Shi released his left hand and extended his right hand.

That settled it, both cities fell.

"Heh, I did underestimate you."

Seeing Zhen Xin didn't dodge either, just stared curiously at Cheng Shi, seemingly wanting to see something in his eyes.

Cheng Shi laughed out loud and once again pulled her into his arms.

"What, want to have a winner's joy here?

Not to mention that the choice of destiny hasn't started yet, Cheng Xiaoshi, you don't think that after exposing my illusion, I have no ability to deal with you, right?"

"Yes, you certainly do, how could a 【God's Chosen】 have no ability.

But you have your way, I play my way, neither gets in the other's way."

As he spoke, Cheng Shi's hand began to wander on her back, just like in Sha Man's house during the day, his palm once again stroked Seeing Zhen Xin's... spine.

"You..."

"Boom—"

Without any warning, a giant thunderclap bloomed in his arms.

Before the mocking Seeing Zhen Xin in front of him could finish her sentence, the roaring plasma enveloped her entire body, blasting her flesh and blood into charred carbon.

And Cheng Shi was also thrown away by this violent explosion, rolling a few times on the platform enclosed by the hands before barely stabilizing his figure.

In his arms was charred paste and blood, and in the distance was broken flesh and charred remains.

Cheng Shi patted the dirt off his body, stood up, looked at the dead Seeing Zhen Xin, and sneered:

"We're even."