Chapter 140: Wish Trial! Begin!

Wish Trial! Begin!

(Holiday Cha Yao Tai Zhang)

Three days had already passed since the last trial.

In those three days, Cheng Shi had pulled himself together again, and once more bore witness to Xie Yang's love.

When last night he heard the third girl's name from this 【War】 believer's mouth, Cheng Shi had already thought of how she would die in the very first instant.

"Xiao Yuan is a really wonderful Miss. She loves reading, loves drawing, loves singing in the sun, loves cooking with her own hands.

She's simply my moonlight, my fated other half.

The only pity is she lives on the first floor, too far from me, so we can only have a long-distance relationship for now.

Buddy, tell me, haven't I found true love?"

To this, Cheng Shi offered no opinion.

When he learned that the method Xie Yang used to find this moonlight was tossing a few phones downstairs and ending up with one picked up, he felt he didn't understand love at all.

His own understanding of love was too shallow, too outdated.

Look at this guy — this is love in the new era.

Pick up a phone and you get matched, basically Bluetooth 10.0.

"Buddy, do you have a camera? Can you help me take a photo? I want to see what Xiao Yuan looks like.

Of course, I'm not a looks person, I care more about the inner side.

But without a photo, my heart will be missing her outer beauty, and that makes my love feel like it's missing a piece.

She lives in Unit 107 on the first floor, facing your building — you should be able to see her.

Please, just consider it me owing you another favor.

I still have a corpse at home...... I can trade you something else."

Cheng Shi looked at Xie Yang speechlessly and nodded.

Fine.

For the sake of the corpse, taking a photo is nothing.

So Cheng Shi walked back to the warehouse, took out a camera, leaned out from the edge of the rooftop, and aimed at the neighbor in Unit 107, snapping away.

Whether by accident or by the meddling of fate, Cheng Shi had originally only wanted to find an excuse — say Unit 107's window was closed and he couldn't see anyone — to brush it off, but right at that moment, the player in Unit 107 opened the window.

He pushed open the room's window and stretched toward the street.

Cheng Shi was on a very high floor; even with the camera zoomed in many times, he couldn't capture his face.

But sometimes, you don't need a face — by looking at other parts of a person's body, you can reconstruct their general appearance.

Armpit hair, chest hair, and a beer belly, bare upper body, tiny shorts.

Enough.

Simply gorgeous.

Cheng Shi's hand trembled, and he nearly dropped the camera.

Xiao Yuan?

Mm, what a fine name.

That belly sure is nice and round!

His expression instantly became extraordinarily colorful. Xie Yang, seeing Cheng Shi's face from afar, waved and asked in extreme agitation:

"Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you see my moonlight?"

Cheng Shi forced out an even more excited smile and nodded frantically.

"I saw her, but I didn't get the shot!

My camera's broken, but don't worry, I took a look for you.

She really is beautiful.

Just like...... a true moonlight!"

Looking at that belly, round as a full moon, Cheng Shi couldn't help but think of a person from the past.

"......"

Setting aside her belly, which puffed out every single moment, Hu Xuan really was beautiful.

And it was precisely this tiny affirmation of Hu Xuan's beauty from Cheng Shi that Xie Yang caught with pinpoint accuracy!

The necromancer across the building hadn't lied!

Xiao Yuan really was beautiful!!

Xie Yang excitedly threw a punch, the whole man worked up into a frenzy.

"Yes!

I knew it, Xiao Yuan is my destiny! She's the one I've been waiting for!

Thanks, buddy, I'm going to queue up right now, wish for a camera, wait for me, buddy, I swear before tonight, I have to meet her!

Xiao Yuan, wait for me, I'm coming!"

"......"

Cheng Shi scratched his head, feeling he'd dug his own pit.

Sure enough, the holes torn open by one lie always need countless more lies to fill.

When the camera arrives, how is he supposed to take the photo for him?

"Forget it, take it one step at a time, if it doesn't work I'll hide out for a couple of days."

But speaking of wishing......

It had been a long time since Cheng Shi had actively wished for anything.

Not because he feared death, but because his supplies were plentiful—there was no need...

Forget it, no more lying—he was just afraid of dying.

In today's world where special trials grew ever more arduous, as long as supplies were still barely sufficient, there really was no need to risk venturing into other instances.

But after experiencing this trial of 【Fate】, a different thought finally sprouted in Cheng Shi's heart.

The current situation was extremely dire; it no longer supported him sitting and waiting for death.

Not to mention that a 【Fate】 belonging to the same 【Void】 was watching covetously from the sidelines, now even the opposing 【Memory】 had started pulling tricks.

Under the encirclement of dual pressures, no matter how careful Cheng Shi was, he could not guarantee he wouldn't make a single mistake.

But the moment he erred, whichever of Them seized the chance could very likely plunge him straight into an abyss of no return.

Therefore, to escape this predicament, to eke out a little more time alive, Cheng Shi felt he had to do something.

He would take the initiative, first eliminate one of the two troubles, and win himself a sliver of breathing room.

Even though this "elimination" might be temporary, even though the way to eliminate it wouldn't happen overnight.

But it was time to act.

He began carefully recalling the reasons he had fallen into this situation, sorting through every entanglement between himself and 【Fate】, between himself and 【Memory】.

Actually, there wasn't much to sort out with 【Memory】—opposing faiths, just fight, that's all there is to it.

But 【Fate】 was different.

It was a 【Divinity】 belonging to the same 【Void】 as his Patron.

Logically speaking, between Them who shared the same Path, the relationship generally wouldn't be too bad.

Their respective believers were, in a sense, half-brothers.

But the problem lay not with the two 【Divinities】, but with Cheng Shi himself.

When he plucked that mask from the starting point of the Path, his own fate began its dramatic transformation.

He was abandoned by 【Fate】, and he himself began to loathe fate.

No, or rather, when the 【Faith Game】 had not yet descended, a life that was never happy had already made Cheng Shi resent fate.

It was just that the choice at the Path's starting point, and the subsequent defiance against fate, only deepened this attitude.

Like two enemies who hated each other, hatred like this only grew with the passage of time, never dying out.

So Cheng Shi once felt he was walking farther and farther down the road of defying 【Fate】.

But when this trial of 【Fate】 ended, a new thought suddenly sprouted in Cheng Shi's heart.

Was there a possibility for him to ease relations with 【Fate】?

Logically speaking, from the standpoint of a mortal and a god, Cheng Shi now was nothing.

But from the standpoint of...

Ahem, but from the standpoint of liars and whores, neither of them was anything good, and neither should despise the other.

Originally Cheng Shi wouldn't even dare think of such a thing, but the attitude It showed during this trial let Cheng Shi glimpse a sliver of hope!

In the previous trial, 【Fate】 had placed all the answers in the deep void beyond the players' reach—the purpose was obvious: It never intended to let a certain player walk out of the trial alive.

Whether out of jealousy turned to hatred, or a fit of whorishness, in any case, the trial's intent was surely punishment.

But when Cheng Shi cleared the trial, the rating and rewards he received were both S!

This proved that an unexpected change had occurred during the trial, causing It to retract Its punitive measures and switch to... rewards.

Yes, rewards.

Although the word "reward" felt strange to use, an S rating was indeed the highest reward a 【Divinity】 could bestow upon a player who cleared Its trial.

Cheng Shi thought it over carefully—his performance throughout the whole run was actually hard to deserve an S; that S should have gone to Seeing Zhen Xin, to that Zhen Xin who had deceived everyone and still tricked out the final answer.

But since he had received an S, it meant that during this trial, he had let It, let 【Fate】, gain satisfaction, gain sufficient benefit, and thus abandon Its punitive purpose.

As for what that benefit was...

Recalling the information revealed by Hu Xuan's ambiguous attitude at the end of the trial, Cheng Shi guessed that it was probably his final choice that had diverted fate toward the unknown, thereby drawing several of 【Them】 into the game.

And 【Fate】, precisely in this 【Divinity】's contest, had gained the upper hand.

No, it should be said to have gained every advantage!

Otherwise It would not have forgiven a clown who babbled in Its ear day after day, and given him an S rating.

Therefore, he probably truly had a possibility of easing relations with It, and the reason this possibility had appeared was:

The benefit his choice brought It far exceeded all his previous blasphemies!

The steps were already there; next, he had to think about how to walk.

Cheng Shi racked his brains for two days, and finally decided to go look for inspiration.

To go into a trial and look for inspiration.

Thus, Cheng Shi, who had long figured out "how to avoid overly difficult Wish Trials," initiated his first Wish Trial in a month!

"Discern not the true from the false, judge not the real from the unreal.

Your devout believer prays to You, to commence a trial...

A trial of 'observing the mutual compromise between a pitiful person abandoned by fate and fate itself'!"

Yes, observe!

This word was very useful—useful to the point that whenever Cheng Shi wanted to find a certain answer in the past, he chose to be a passerby in a trial, watching how others resolved it.

Because once you prayed to resolve some trouble, the trial's difficulty would be unimaginably high.

But if you only watched others resolve it, this kind of trial that merely added a spectator seat was almost without difficulty.

Cheng Shi never pinned his hopes on overnight success; he felt he should still have some time to slowly sort everything out, so he chose to first find some inspiration.

And so...

【Wish Trial (Crime Without Evidence 【Order】) has commenced】

【Matching teammates (1/6)】

【Trial Objective: When order is not observed, sin is still sin (Time limit: 3 days)】

It's actually the Order's game!

His trials are generally quite civilized, as long as you don't break the order.

This one's in the bag!

Cheng Shi wore a smile, letting his consciousness sink into the void.

【Match successful (6/6), entering trial】