Chapter 130

The choice of fate, why can't there be one more?

He knew Zhen Xin wasn't dead, and he also knew she couldn't die.

Not to mention her life-saving means as the 【Deception God-Chosen】, the "Law of Pregnancy" planted in her by Hu Xuan alone was enough to let her die and be reborn once.

Yes, she had replaced Qin Chaoge, so naturally, she also had the "Law of Pregnancy" on her!

So, back in that room in the Dark Church, she chose to abandon Cheng Shi, likely because she had long known that Cheng Shi wouldn't die either.

Everything was within her calculations.

Except for the fact that Cheng Shi didn't follow the script and deceived himself.

Looking at the charred corpse on the ground, Cheng Shi couldn't help but wonder: since the big Cheng Shi was fake, were all those things about the "future" that Zhen Xin mentioned earlier just fabrications?

Did she make up so many people and events just to guide him into imagining her as the real big Cheng Shi?

And what about the history of Zha Yinji'er and the Scholarly Chair Society?

That part must be true, because the Star Dagger was right before his eyes, and His talent couldn't allow believers to conjure 【Divinity】 out of thin air!

At least not yet.

Truth and falsehood, illusion and reality.

This skill of deception had truly been mastered by her.

Cheng Shi's heart was filled with emotion.

The moment Zhen Xin died, the "Pocket of False Memories" she had laid out finally collapsed on its own, and the two teammates trapped in the void fell onto the platform one after another.

The battered Ranger and the solemn-faced Warrior.

Li Bola looked at everything before her that defied imagination, her brows knitted into a knot.

She seemed to want to speak and ask what had happened outside during the time she was trapped? And where was this?

Who was the one dead on the ground? Qin Chaoge, or Hu Xuan?

But in order to guard against Ji Ran, she chose to suppress the doubts in her heart.

Ji Ran carried his greatsword and looked at Cheng Shi, his expression somewhat surprised.

"Tsk, you killed her?

Well killed!"

Cheng Shi looked at this 【Fate】 believer who had collaborated with Zhen Xin and gave a disdainful smile.

Since the corpse was left behind by Zhen Xin, the Warrior's identity as the murderer was naturally cleared today.

Now it seemed he was merely chosen by Zhen Xin to become the deceiver's partner.

Heh, he played the murderer quite convincingly.

"Even a dog knows how to cry for its master; she just died, and you're already impatient to change masters?"

So Cheng Shi also set an ending trigger word for his own hypnosis.

"Master?

Easy there, brother, she's not my master; I don't have that fortune, I was forced too.

She took away my other die, and I had no choice but to play along with her.

Now that you've killed her, aren't we teammates again?

Haha, aren't you going to have a welcome ceremony to welcome me back to the team?"

Ji Ran laughed wantonly, seemingly feeling very pleased about Zhen Xin's death.

Cheng Shi and Li Bola heard his words and finally understood why this Warrior of Today had been able to walk so far.

Dice!

He actually had two dice!

No wonder he was so confident; two dice gave his strength a very high error tolerance.

It seemed he could also be considered a favored child of 【Fate】.

"Sorry, I generally don't play with bitches, male bitches included."

After saying this, Cheng Shi suddenly flicked his right hand, and an unexpected bolt of thunder lunged directly at the opponent.

The Ranger followed closely, wind arrows firing one after another, locking down all space for Ji Ran to move forward, backward, left, or right.

Yet even so, Ji Ran still dodged it.

He snapped his fingers and disappeared from where he stood, appearing beside Zhen Xin's corpse.

He reached out and fished a gray-white die from the charred remains, laughing crazily as he retreated.

Just as he retreated, the second bolt of thunder struck Zhen Xin's corpse again.

Corpse-whipping, but not intentional.

Cheng Shi looked at the fleeing Ji Ran with a solemn expression, his heart skipping a beat.

A 13-point Warrior was already hard to deal with; if he were to roll that die again...

Now, he could only hope his talent was re-roll, not stacking.

However, the things one least wants to happen often have the highest probability of occurring.

The moment Ji Ran got the die, he threw it, and the die rolled twice on the platform, happening to land on a...

1 point.

1+13=14.

Great Success!

Ji Ran's smile widened to its maximum, he hummed a laugh, and dragging his greatsword, he charged up without hesitation.

Even though the trajectory of the charge was so clear, Cheng Shi and the Ranger just couldn't lock onto his position.

At that moment, they were like stationary targets standing there, foolishly waiting for the greatsword to strike their heads.

"Boom!"

Silver light wrapped in immense force smashed in front of Cheng Shi; thanks to the Ranger's agility in turning into a gale to whisk him away, Cheng Shi didn't have to drink hatred under the blade again.

The wind lifted the Clown to retreat continuously, the Warrior brandished his sword with a grin and pursued fiercely; the three of them staged an absurd chase and kill on this ancient "Star Dagger."

"Come on, didn't you want to kill me?

Why aren't you making a move?

Priest, where's your thunder?

Misfired?

Ranger, run faster, I'm about to catch up to you!"

The distance between the two sides was still closing; Li Bola's heart sank slightly; she had already run to the edge of the platform, and any further, she could only walk along the arm toward 【Eternal Day】.

"Cheng Shi! Think of something!"

Thinking, thinking, the CPU is already overclocked!

Cheng Shi gritted his teeth, self-mutilating while restoring the Ranger's stamina; he was terrified that if the healing stopped, the two of them would be caught.

A full-point Warrior of Today simply didn't play by the rules; you can't face a madman head-on whose divine power is at its peak and who won't be tired for a day.

In this situation, at most a few more minutes, and the two would become souls under the Warrior's blade.

And this time, there was no "Law of Pregnancy" to use.

"What, out of options?

Fine, I'll take a step back.

As long as you stop, I'll give you a few minutes to recover your state, and we'll do it again.

1v1, whoever loses dies.

As for the other one, forget it, I'll let you go, how about that?"

Ji Ran was no longer satisfied with hunting prey; he began to toy with it.

A very straightforward sowing of discord, but straightforward often means effective.

Unfortunately, the wind didn't like this kind of straightforwardness.

Neither did the Clown.

"Cheng Shi! Watch out, I'm going to fly onto the arm!"

Just when the two were forced into a dead end by Ji Ran, Cheng Shi suddenly had a flash of inspiration and shouted at Li Bola:

"Choice! The choice of fate!

Opening the choice can plunge everyone into voting time; we might still have a chance!

Take advantage of Zhen Xin not being revived yet, hurry!"

Li Bola was stunned, realizing that this was the only path left to take now.

Although she hadn't heard the name in Cheng Shi's mouth, seeing the corpse on the scene, she could undoubtedly guess that this name was likely the original Qin Chaoge.

Because only her behavior seemed like she had become a different person.

And Cheng Shi's meaning was easy to understand.

The number of people on site was 2 to 1; as long as the choice was opened now, the vote won, and the change of fate activated, perhaps fate would evolve in a direction favorable to them, and then the crisis would resolve itself.

Of course, this was the most optimistic situation.

So she roared:

"Are you sure you've found the answer?

I'm completely in the dark, it's all up to you, Cheng Shi!"

Such frank reliance really put a lot of pressure on Cheng Shi's shoulders; he began to think about how to choose.

Residents, Travelers, God's Messengers, Zha Yinji'er, the Scholarly Chair Society...

Cheng Shi didn't want to choose any of them.

Because he knew that no matter which one he chose, fate would head toward an uncontrollable direction and never return.

Choosing Residents, Travelers, or God's Messengers, the evolution of fate would likely interrupt the experiment directly, and then what they would face—whether it was the confrontation of out-of-control dual pseudo-gods or intervention from the Scholarly Chair Society—no one knew.

Choosing Zha Yinji'er, not to mention the consequences, just the fact that it would fulfill the wishes of Zhen Xin, who had played everyone in the palm of her hand from start to finish, made it impossible to choose.

As for the Scholarly Chair Society...

If the evolution of fate allowed them to successfully complete the experiment, then there was no need to say what the outcome would be for small fry like players who had witnessed them stealing the authority of 【Gods】.

So, the choice was not easy to make.

Who should be redeemed?

I'm the one who should be redeemed the most!

Just as Cheng Shi's brainstorming reached its limit, Ji Ran's sword light arrived, a massive force tearing through wind and thunder poured down, smashing directly toward the Clown in the wind.

At the critical moment, a flash of inspiration struck Cheng Shi's mind, and he suddenly shouted loudly:

"Open the final choice!

The person I choose to be redeemed is!

Hu Xuan!"

"!!!"

"???"

Hearing this name that shouldn't have appeared in the options, even the wind stopped.

Of course, not because Li Bola was stunned, although she was indeed stunned.

More importantly, because the final choice of fate recognized this option and, at this moment, officially opened.

Everything in the void stagnated.

Even the 【Blood-Slaughter Moon】 emitting ghostly light seemed to have its radiance trapped in place.

The wind elongated its form, the greatsword landed on the Clown's nose tip, the Warrior leaped high and stared wide-eyed as he swung, the charred corpse... raised a finger.

A multiple-choice question appeared before all players, and the only option in this question came from Cheng Shi's mouth.

Hu Xuan!

She had changed from a player into an option.

Lost the right to vote, but gained the qualification to be voted for.

Li Bola froze in mid-air, looking at this familiar name before her, her heart shaken.

What on earth had happened to make this crazy Life Sage become the person who should be redeemed?

She couldn't figure it out, and couldn't even begin to think.

But she still decided to trust Cheng Shi.

Even if the last time she trusted him, it resulted in her laughing until her stomach hurt.

But she always felt that this blood-swapping priest who had lived and died with her had an indescribable sense of trustworthiness.

The Clown would be stingy with his trust, but the wind wouldn't.

So, she cast her vote.

The options for the final choice didn't increase, but Hu Xuan's vote count increased by one.

Cheng Shi looked at Hu Xuan, who had 2 votes, his spirit still tense.

This was still a massive gamble!

Betting that the fate about to evolve could save the two of them from fire and water.

Before the moment of opening the final choice, Cheng Shi had never thought that a player could become an option.

But when he excluded all the options that could lead to survival, he looked at Zha Yinji'er hanging upside down in the starry sky, and another equally crazy person suddenly flashed through his mind.

Life Sage, Hu Xuan!

Where was she?

Zhen Xin once said she was trapped in a tug-of-war with Zha Yinji'er's unconscious 【Divinity】.

If this sentence wasn't a lie, then it meant Hu Xuan was already entangled with Zha Yinji'er.

Looking back at the rules of the Fate Trial:

The options for 【Fate】 must hit the proposition; since the truth was related to pseudo-gods, then the side being redeemed could only be a person or thing entangled with pseudo-gods.

And Hu Xuan perfectly satisfied all these requirements.

Except for the fact that she was a player.

But Cheng Shi never confined himself to these rigid things, so he had a sudden whim and sent a player onto the options!

Because even if Zhen Xin was lying, even if he didn't vote for Hu Xuan, he probably couldn't bear the other endings anyway.

Since death was ahead and behind, he might as well bet big!

What if he won?

The moment Hu Xuan's name opened the final choice, half of the stone in Cheng Shi's heart landed.

My luck has always been terrible, but...

My gambling luck seems to have always been pretty good.