Chapter 1470: Character Side Story: Wei Mu · The Simplest Trial

Character Side Story: Wei Mu · The Simplest Trial

Reality, a mountain peak in an unknown province.

The figure lying on the ground slowly opened his eyes, looking up at the cloudless clear sky, listening to the lively shouting at the foot of the mountain, and was lost for a moment.

Gods descending?

Starting Point of Destiny?

What had he just chosen?

And... who was he?

He searched through his chaotic memories for a while and finally remembered his name.

Wei Mu?

Yes, that's right, it was Wei Mu.

But why were his memories so chaotic?

Wei Mu sat quietly for a moment, carefully sorting through the fragmented images in his mind. A long time later, when the excitement and wailing at the foot of the mountain played to a climax, he finally remembered some things.

His memory was fine; it was just that his choice had gone wrong.

He remembered that in that pure white Starting Point of Destiny, there seemed to be... how many tokens were there?

Five? Six? Or...?

The shapes of the tokens flashed back into his mind: a mask, dice, a photo, a watch face, a bone badge, a phantom of a hiss, and a white-eyed wind chime that emitted a sound very similar to a sneer.

That's right, it was these seven things.

Then why did he choose that "ugliest" wind chime?

No, that wasn't his choice; he had bumped into it unintentionally.

Wei Mu remembered; he hadn't chosen anything!

As a teenager who had been called a genius since childhood, he completed his studies in a very short time and, after graduation, joined a think tank that could not be spoken of to the outside world, serving as a consultant.

His keen intuition and precise judgment told him that the game lowered by the gods might not be that simple, so he wanted to find a more "accurate" answer outside these seven choices.

So he groped around in the Starting Point of Destiny and tried to step out of the Starting Point of Destiny to find clues outside the existing choices.

However, he failed.

The walls of the Starting Point of Destiny were like a trampoline, bouncing him back when he tried to "break out of prison." This bounce also caused him to bump into that string of wind chimes, inexplicably becoming a 【Foolish】 believer.

He didn't have much resistance to this, especially after feeling the will of 【Foolish】; he instead felt that "Heaven's will is like this," which was also appropriate.

It was just that this attempt to challenge the rules by "breaking out of prison" did not receive the forgiveness of the gods. That bounce seemed to have shattered quite a bit of his memory.

So much so that he could only vaguely remember his past but could not accurately describe the details of every moment. He remembered that he clearly had a superior memory, but now...

Forget it. The descent of the gods had built theology on top of science. Since the world had become different, let the knowledge of the past be buried in the past.

This was also good; there was no need to spare time to mourn for those old friends and relatives.

He heard the wailing at the foot of the mountain and knew that many people must be unable to accept the pain of separation and the fear of unknown dangers. However, these meaningless outbursts would only slow their steps even more. If you want to reunite and live, you must first understand this game and understand the so-called gods.

All things have their principles; only by insight into the fundamentals can one understand all things and even transcend all things.

So Wei Mu, who had regained his senses, opened his first trial without hesitation. The content of his prayer was:

Participate in the simplest trial in the 【Faith Game】!

That's right, the "simplest" trial. He handed the definition right to the gods; he wanted to know how the gods understood the attribute of "simple"!

This choice came from Wei Mu's consistent subtraction philosophy since childhood. He always believed that the reason people couldn't see the truth was that they were blinded by too many dazzling illusions, and constantly doing subtraction helped exclude wrong options, prompting people to get closer to the truth.

He was incredibly glad that what he lost was just some memories, not logic, which allowed him to find the key to "breaking the game" at the beginning of the 【Faith Game】.

The facts were as he thought. The gods responded to his prayer and granted him the simplest trial.

That was a 【Foolish】 trial. Of course, as the first trial for a 【Foolish】 believer, the god who granted the trial was his benefactor 【Foolish】, but the players in the trial were not all 【Foolish】 believers. Two of the six were not participating in a trial for the first time.

One of them was a 【Time】 believer who told everyone that he had discovered the biggest secret of the 【Faith Game】: this game was definitely not the destruction brought by the gods, but a reward brought by Them, because he discovered that the length of each trial would not affect the time in reality, which meant that as long as someone kept praying for trials, he could live longer than people sitting in reality... more than just one lifetime.

Everyone suddenly realized and was ecstatic. Only Wei Mu shook his head rationally: "The premise is that you have to survive the trial."

The 【Time】 believer laughed and said he had long thought of this point, so every time he prayed, he would pray for a trial he would survive. These trials were very simple, so up to now, this was already his eleventh trial.

Everyone was shocked. After all, four of the six present were participating in a trial for the first time, while this person had already participated in eleven and was still alive.

This was not a bad way to "extend life," but Wei Mu's intuition told him that this was not the key to "clearing" the game, because blindly surviving in the game like this could not make any contribution to this game, or rather, to the gods.

He didn't think that the gods lowering this game for the world was a simple reward. Even if there really was a reward, at least there had to be "payment."

But he didn't over-remind that 【Time】 believer. Stopping at the right point was the way for smart people to communicate. If the other party didn't understand, they weren't a smart person, and not being a smart person meant foolishness. Wei Mu was a 【Foolish】 believer; he felt he couldn't get close to foolishness.

The other of the two was a 【Birth】 believer, a singer of 【Birth】, singing the Throat of Night.

Interestingly, this singer was also a researcher in a relevant field before the game descended, so she was very interested in the so-called "Birth" of the gods. She had been looking for suitable teammates to verify the magic of the power of 【Birth】.

When everyone heard this, their expressions were different. Only Wei Mu nodded and said: "I am willing to try."

The singer finally waited for her ideal experimental subject. Looking at this man with an ordinary appearance but deep eyes, she sang a song for him, an out-of-tune pop song.

Facts proved that under the mixing of divine power, even out-of-tune songs could cause people to have the urge to give birth. However, just having the urge could not complete the act of birth, so this "experiment" failed without a doubt.

The singer was only interested in the effect of the power of 【Birth】. In the current situation where order had not yet collapsed, she could not accept sharing birth with a stranger in public.

However, this failed experiment still gave Wei Mu some inspiration. Feeling the influence of divine power for the first time, he suddenly felt that the flesh and blood body was still too weak. If just one song could stir up people's desire for birth, what kind of traps would be waiting for him in the future?

Seeing one and knowing three, drawing inferences, calculating three while walking—at the opening of this trial, at the place where the 【Faith Game】 began, Wei Mu had already begun to consider the direction of his future path. ===== CHAPTER 1471 =====