Chapter 172: No result

No result.

Seeing Cheng Shi's shocked expression, the Great Scholar finally revealed a hint of a smile.

"Why would I not be a believer of His?

No, I should say:

I can only be a believer of His.

I was born to seek the laws of the world, grew up under the radiance of 【Truth】, and have poured all my heart's blood into this Conjugate Whisper...

My entire life has been spent practicing His will.

So, how could I possibly not be a believer of 【Truth】?"

"..."

Huh?

So you weren't talking about 【Fate】?

That's a relief.

Cheng Shi wiped the sweat from his forehead and let out a heavy breath.

But just as he exhaled halfway, he froze.

That's not right. If you aren't a believer of 【Fate】, yet you knew I was coming, that's even more wrong!

Brother, you wouldn't happen to be saying that 【Truth】 told you I was coming, would you?

Cheng Shi looked at the Great Scholar again. Ke Wei seemed to see through his confusion and nodded, saying:

"Do not doubt, do not panic. It was 【Truth】 who told me you would come.

Therefore, I have been waiting for you."

Cheng Shi's brows furrowed, looking slightly uneasy.

I already have enough gazes upon me; couldn't you all go look at someone else? Stop always looking at me.

You have to know that gazes have weight; if you keep looking, you'll crush me to death!

I'm just an honest, simple swindler; what is there to look at?

"Hmm? It seems you have some misunderstandings. I need to clarify something for my Lord:

Your arrival is not because of Him, but because of...

Me."

Huh?

Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment, blinked, and didn't understand.

Ke Wei gave a bitter smile and said unhurriedly:

"Or rather, what I was waiting for was not 'you', but a result.

Because 【Chaos】 is about to arrive, and the madmen ringing the bells have already surrounded the high walls!"

He turned around and pointed to the giant tree behind him.

"But it, and the heart's blood of dozens of generations of the Void Mass-Energy system, cannot be destroyed just like this under the iron hooves of the funeral bells.

I cannot imagine countless people's hundreds of years of effort falling right before the door when they were only one step away.

Even less can I imagine us struggling to push open that door, only for the giant hand of 【Chaos】 to cover our eyes, preventing us from catching a glimpse of that brilliant, magnificent scene through the crack.

Therefore, in this final moment, on this last step of the ladder to insight into truth, I betrayed the belief I had upheld my entire life...

For the first time, I begged Him, my Lord, 【Truth】, for an answer...

But He never responded to me.

I had thought He had long since abandoned us, His dull followers.

But today, just now, He suddenly responded to me.

He let me come here to wait for a result.

I didn't know what the result was, but after seeing you, I know.

The all-knowing 【Truth】 sent you to me."

Cheng Shi widened his eyes, feeling he had heard wrong.

Who exactly sent me here?

Shouldn't it be my Lord? How did it become your Lord?

No!

Let me sort this out.

Cheng Shi's brows locked tight as he began to think.

【Deception】 letting go of 【Giggling and Mocking】 to let him travel through the void certainly wasn't because of some special purpose; He probably just couldn't suppress His fun-loving nature and simply wanted to watch a show.

But the prerequisite for watching a show is that someone writes the script.

And this play... was clearly written by Him.

So the truth should be that 【Fate】 provided the script, and 【Deception】 pulled up a small stool to watch as an audience member.

But what does this have to do with 【Truth】?

Why, in 【Fate】's arrangement, would there be an extra 【Truth】?

!!??

Wait!

Hu Xuan!

Cheng Shi suddenly widened his eyes. This sister's name flashed through his mind, and then a flash of inspiration connected the three "He"s she had spoken of in the previous round.

He recognized my identity, He corrected my trajectory, He unlocked my shackles!

When he was on the scene back then, Cheng Shi had been wondering who the last "He" was.

And now, through the facts before him, he suddenly realized.

It's 【Truth】!

In that must-kill game in the void, behind the nothingness of the Star Dagger, in that game of chess involving 【Gods】, 【Truth】 was there too!

After all, the Star Dagger was the experimental ground of the Tower of Reason and Quality, and the Tower of Reason and Quality was the place that worshipped Him!

This way, it all makes sense.

And as for the outcome of that unknown game, he could now guess a thing or two.

【Birth】 didn't know what price was paid to protect Hu Xuan.

【Fate】 promised 【Truth】 and 【Birth】, but it's unknown what massive benefits were gained.

【Truth】 liberated the 【Eternal Sun】, and what was exchanged for it might have been His chance to appear in 【Fate】's script.

Or rather, the bargaining chip He obtained was very likely letting 【Fate】 send himself to this Great Scholar Ke Wei.

But what is the point of sending me here?

To retrieve this fruit for the Tower of Reason and Quality, change this tragic and bitter history of the Void Mass-Energy system, and let the experimental results be passed down!?

So... 【Fate】 wanted me to pick the fruit, not for Him, but for 【Truth】?

But if one thinks this way, did they already calculate that I would have the ability to change history in this trial?

And does that also mean 【Memory】 was already calculated into it?

No, that's still not right.

Although he had only met 【Memory】 once, Cheng Shi could feel that this 【God】 of 【Existence】 was skilled at calculation.

Perhaps He didn't passively enter the game, but after seeing the "future memory," or learning of the script about to be performed from 【Time】...

He actively entered the game and sent out that ring.

What did He want to gain from this game!?

"..."

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi broke into a cold sweat.

Without knowing it, he had already become a tool in the eyes of countless "Them".

This matter cannot be thought about in detail; before one can resist, being a good tool is the right path.

So Cheng Shi exhaled a heavy breath, collected his thoughts, and focused his attention back to the present, back to the Great Scholar before him.

The situation was urgent, surrounded by strong enemies, so he didn't waste time and went straight to the point:

"So... next, are you going to hand over the great results of the Void-Reality Conjugate experiment for me to take away?"

Ke Wei heard Cheng Shi's words, nodded in slight astonishment, and then shook his head.

"I have never mentioned the name of this experiment, and you are not our scholar, yet you can name it so accurately...

Sure enough, His guidance is not something we fools can understand.

However, you were wrong about one thing.

The Void-Reality Conjugate experiment is indeed worthy of being called 'great', but this great experiment...

Has no result yet.

This Whisper Tree is still far from the time to bloom and bear fruit!

Half a year—if the chaos from the Afterglow Church had come half a year later, I would definitely have been able to make the results of this great experiment public to the world.

But now...

It's too late.

No, it's not too late, because under my prayer...

You have come."

"...?" ===== CHAPTER 173 =====