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Chapter 1405

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Wise Men Always Have One Slip

Su Yi Da got up in a second and retreated quickly.

Death is too terrible; he doesn't want to experience it again.

That suffocating despair was still lingering in his mind, so much so that his struggling movements were a bit distorted and deformed.

But even if he was weak, he still retreated crazily until he couldn't retreat anymore, leaned against the corner of the wall, and then looked at the... puppet that made the sound with trembling all over and suppressing the fear in his heart?

It turned out to be just a puppet?

Su Yi Da thought of the Puppet Master at the first time, but the problem is that 【Silence】 believers would not speak so generously, at least he had never seen it, and other associations related to puppets... too many, his brain was chaotic and he couldn't think of the other party's identity for a while.

He could only ask uneasily: "Who... are you?"

The puppet didn't care about Su Yi Da's reaction. He jumped off the experimental table, bowed slightly, and introduced himself:

"Wei Mu, nice to meet you."

Who!?

Wei Mu!!?

That top-ranked person on the path to godhood, the behind-the-scenes actor known by players as the closest to the gods, Wei Mu!?

Su Yi Da was stunned. He couldn't believe it: "Are you... with them?"

Obviously, the previous death scared the Trickster Master.

The puppet shook his head expressionlessly:

"No, you were just swallowed by fear and lost your reason. Otherwise, you should be able to see that it was I who saved you, not I who harmed you.

You are very bold.

To be honest, with your means and strength, facing one of them, you would most likely suffer.

But you dared to fight five alone, and even when the road ahead was unclear, you dared to come here just with the 'desire to become a god'...

I can only say, no wonder Jieshu took a fancy to you. Your unique distorted desire-driven power is indeed a good characteristic for experimentation."

"?"

What is this puppet babbling about?

Su Yi Da was confused.

He admitted that his consciousness was abnormally chaotic under the stimulation of death, and his understanding of everything at the moment was a bit difficult, but why did this chaos have no trend of stopping, why did he feel more and more confused, and why were his eyelids getting heavier and heavier, and even his vision became blurred?

Su Yi Da is not stupid, but it depends on who the comparison object is.

In front of Wei Mu, the shrewd Trickster Master is as simple as a piece of white paper.

He didn't even figure out why he was saved by Wei Mu before he completely lost consciousness in Wei Mu's laboratory.

That's right, this is a laboratory.

The puppet watched Su Yi Da slowly close his eyes and nodded:

"The dosage is just right. Next, it's time to analyze how to escape this starry sky."

Saying that, the puppet climbed onto the experimental table and began to operate.

Bursts of roars came from the large laboratory one after another, countless experimental equipment began to work, various data jumped before his eyes, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, until...

"Boom—"

A violent and distorted space-time fluctuation exploded in front of the experimental table without warning. Immediately after, countless experimental equipment began to make strange noises, as if they were exploded by electromagnetic interference, and warning sounds came one after another. The scene was in chaos.

And in this unbearable chaos, a embarrassed figure was squeezed out by the space-time channel and fell directly in front of the puppet.

He turned his back to the puppet and didn't notice the puppet's existence at first, but after seeing that the person lying on the ground in front of him was the Trickster Master, his back felt cold and he turned his head suddenly.

Then, he met a pair of emotionless eyes.

Wei Mu!!!

It turned out to be Wei Mu!!!

The figure's pupils shrank, and he stood stiffly on the spot.

The puppet was also quite surprised by this, but soon he said "Oh" lightly, as if he had figured everything out instantly.

"I have always known that there is a problem with your identity, but I didn't expect the root to be here.

No wonder He said my foolish act was about to begin. It turns out that I was also locked into this predestined cage.

I believe you should understand too. Seeing me here, you are very surprised, right... Jieshu?"

That's right, the one who fell from the space-time channel was Jieshu who had just disappeared on the top of the mountain.

Jieshu never expected that he would see Wei Mu here. He knew what this meant, so he sneered self-deprecatingly and lowered his proud head.

Laughing at others eventually leads to laughing at oneself. A Wise Man thinks for a lifetime, but eventually stumbles at the end.

And to explain all this, we have to start from Jieshu's experimental purpose.

Cheng Shi guessed half right; Jieshu is indeed not a rootless duckweed, but where his roots are, he doesn't know himself!

In his earliest memories, he woke up in the real universe with a Trickster Master beside him. Limited memories told him that in the escape before the world was destroyed, he used every means to escape from that disaster. Although his life was saved, his memories had gaps.

The remaining memories told him that he was looking for a world without Cheng Shi, and the Trickster Master beside him was the key to his search for that safe world. The reason for doing so was because the Fate Weaver represented destruction, and all starry skies where He existed were eventually heading toward collapse.

As a Wise Man who believes in 【Dementia】, if he realized that his self-memory was disordered, he would never believe the remaining memories, because memories are easily faked, especially for "experimental subjects."

Jieshu knew this point, so he remained suspicious of everything in his memories. Even if the Trickster Master's fragmented memories could verify each other with his memories, he still didn't believe it.

Until in the process of drifting in the real universe, he witnessed the destruction of countless worlds, and the destruction of every world was more or less related to the Fate Weaver...

He finally believed it.

But what he believed was only the logic of finding a "safe world," not that he was a complete and independent individual.

Compared to finding a safe world, Jieshu, as a Wise Man, wanted to figure out what memories he had lost, and whether these fragmented memories were his own memories.

So he quietly started his verification plan. The first step was to deceive the Trickster Master who was traveling with him.

Actually, it couldn't be called deception. The Trickster Master's shrewdness seemed a bit childish in front of him. He just guided him slightly to stimulate the other party's distorted hatred for Cheng Shi, and then took the Trickster Master to constantly shuttle across different pig bridges, contact different Cheng Shis, and start preparing for the plan.

For this, he fabricated a complete plan, telling the Trickster Master that their only chance of winning was to find a Fate Weaver who was still weak and kill him, and then go to that world together. But in fact, he was preparing for the tracing of his own identity.

He said that Cheng Shi, who could appear in the real universe, was already very powerful, and he alone could not resist at all, so they needed to fall into a relatively safe world first, improve the Trickster Master's strength, and then the two would join forces to plan slowly.

Regarding this, Su Yi Da, who was eager for strength, believed it deeply and descended to this world with Jieshu.

Next was what happened in this world. Jieshu prepared for the plan, collected information, and searched for traces of his possible existence. In this process, the first two had gains, but the last item never made progress.

The Wise Man became more and more curious about his origin, so after planning for a long time, a bold plan took shape.

He designed to use Cheng Shi's means to find a way to "trace the source," and then launched a tracing experiment similar to "Memory of the Past Self" without stopping.

The safe return of another Su Yi Da provided Jieshu with enough experimental data. By fitting the data and imitating the divine power ratio in the space-time channel, he successfully opened a space-time channel that could find a deep connection with his past self.

Not only that, he also added some ingenuity to the experiment.

Jieshu believed that if he were really an independent individual who escaped from a certain world, then that world might have already collapsed. Tracing back at this time would very likely be buried with the world.

So he locked the space-time destination in this world. As long as he found traces of his existence in this world, he would have a way to retrieve his memories.

But the lack of gains in searching for his self-identity outside the experiment had already made him have some bad thoughts, and now, this bad thought finally came true.

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