Chapter 224: Serius

Serius

Li Wu fell silent, his expression complex and uncertain.

Cheng Shi saw that he didn't speak, and turned to Gao San: "Scholar, explain the experiment here?"

"...... I said I'm a warrior, damn it!"

"Oh? Your mother being a warrior doesn't affect you being a scholar."

"......" Gao San's voice gritted his teeth again. He looked at Cheng Shi, then at Li Wu, "Who exactly are you, and who are you?"

Li Wu pondered for a moment and said:

"Don't be anxious. Judging from the current situation, I am more inclined to believe that 【Chaos】 is at work. He might be affecting our cognition.

Brother Gao San should have the Master of Deception talent like me. Although I cannot prove myself through your Master of Deception, Cheng Shi... can let my Master of Deception tell me that he is not me.

Don't ask me why the word order is: he, not, me...

Because whether from general laws or experimental sequences, No. 1 is always the first, and even... the one being copied.

So I think our state has nothing to do with these clones, and what I can be 100% sure of is that my surname is indeed Li."

Gao San tasted Li Wu's words, frowned deeply, and said to Cheng Shi in a low voice:

"Then is your surname really Cheng?"

Cheng Shi nodded: "Genuine and authentic."

Truth.

Gao San frowned and said in a low voice:

"If that's the case, I probably understand.

The experimental products here might all be the same, but the clones in this group of our experiment have become the targets of 【Faith Game】's deployment.

Thus, we each became one of the clones in the same group.

This situation seems to be guiding us to believe that we are just Li Wu's clones, thereby prompting us to compete for identity like other prisoners, but...

Still the same sentence, since the game opened, there has never been a trial with confrontation as the main melody. Considering this round is a trial of 【Chaos】, I agree with Li Wu's point of view!

He is indeed affecting our cognition, confusing our concepts of each other, because he wants to make this trial more chaotic!

We... must remain clear-headed."

That's what he said, but Gao San's attitude remained cautious.

Indeed, 5.5 【Deception】 was already chaotic enough. If this happened again, it simply couldn't be more 【Chaotic】...

However, were Li Wu and Gao San's inferences really correct?

Cheng Shi had doubts in his heart. A different thought suddenly arose in his mind, even startling himself, but this absurd thought quickly dissipated.

Scaring oneself wasn't a good habit.

Thus, he shook his head and chuckled, asking tentatively again:

"So, am I not Li Wu again?"

"Cheng Shi, you know who you are yourself, no need to pretend to deceive.

Under the Master of Deception, you have no lies to tell.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, you can see the clues. If—I mean if—you are my experimental clones, how could you be stronger than me?"

"Maybe you're hiding your strength?" Cheng Shi asked back with great interest, "Who knows if you're playing with us? Don't magicians like to play with the audience?"

"No need to test. You being able to 'condescend' to cooperate with me shows that my life is still controlled by you until now.

Although the mouse cage is gone, another invisible cage has probably long been placed on me. I'm right, Cheng Shi?"

"......"

Guessed quite correctly.

Cheng Shi curled his lips and continued to ask: "Then is there a possibility that you are all my experimental clones?"

"Impossible!" Before Li Wu could speak, Gao San became anxious, his answer decisive, "I know who I am myself, and I have nothing in common with you, except... both being liars."

"Tsk, so heartless. Then let's go back to being ourselves. If that's the case, cooperation...

Continue?"

Gao San didn't respond, but his attitude was clear. Li Wu nodded and pointed to the depths of the laboratory.

"This hidden laboratory is full of strangeness. I don't believe that such a big commotion of ours couldn't attract any attention.

In the depths of that laboratory, perhaps someone has long been waiting for us. So, shall we continue forward, my teammates?"

Cheng Shi smiled, stepped back, and extended his hand, making a gesture of invitation.

"Old rules, warrior first."

Gao San's eyelids twitched, a bit unable to suppress his fire. He squeezed a few words out of his mouth:

"When did the old rules start? Also, wasn't I a scholar just now?"

"You are a warrior, your mother is a scholar, the rules were just established. Any more questions?"

"......"

Huff—huff—

If he couldn't beat him...

Gao San breathed deeply twice to suppress the urge to tear his face off, and walked toward the depths without saying a word.

Cheng Shi didn't move, waiting for Li Wu to follow. Li Wu put away his dagger poker, cautiously following behind Gao San. Until these two walked a sufficient distance, Cheng Shi withdrew his posture, looked around, and silently followed at the very end.

This road leading to the depths of the experiment was very long. Gao San walked anxiously for a long time, and when a common wooden door finally appeared in his field of vision, his heartstrings, which were tense to the extreme, tightened by another three points.

"Careful, in front..."

Before he could finish, a huge sound suddenly came from somewhere on the right side of the three.

"Bang!"

"Clatter—"

Something was smashed.

Immediately afterward, yellow-green liquid spilled out from the ground between several experimental culture dishes.

Cheng Shi's nerves tightened, and he immediately held the scalpel in his hand, arching his back and crouching, ready to go.

Magician Li Wu instantly conjured a glowing poker card from thin air, threw it casually, and a shining butterfly flew out from the poker card, flapping its wings toward where the sound occurred.

Sound-Seeking Butterfly, Cheng Shi had seen it in his own ladder end-of-month settlement, a B-rank creature of the Continent of Hope. The glowing powder sprinkled when flapping its wings would reproduce the scene it saw in mid-air.

And because this kind of butterfly likes to fly toward sounds, it is usually used for reconnaissance and enemy-seeking in suppressive battlefields.

Gao San also reacted immediately. He didn't make a defensive posture, but took advantage of the moment Cheng Shi and Li Wu stopped to sprint toward that wooden door.

And just at this moment, just as Cheng Shi was frowning and thinking about whether to give Gao San a 【Thunder Verdict】 to solve a variable, a heavy cough came from the side.

Cheng Shi's heart tightened, and he immediately turned his head.

Then he and Li Wu saw an old man with a full head of silver hair slowly walking out from behind that pool of yellow-green liquid not far away.

There was no need for the Sound-Seeking Butterfly to explore at all; the person who made the sound had already stood out himself!

Cheng Shi's pupils shrank, recognizing his identity.

Serius, a great scholar from the Life Extension Department of the Tower of Reason, the true person in charge of this underground laboratory.

"Cough, cough... Sorry, I'm old and my hands and feet are a bit clumsy, breaking the culture dish. But it doesn't matter, these liquids don't have volatile toxins, no need to be nervous."

He smiled and walked toward Cheng Shi and Li Wu, but after only a few steps, Li Wu stopped him with an exceptionally solemn expression.

"Don't come over, otherwise I'll have to make a move."

Saying this, Li Wu smashed a fist toward the experimental device beside him.

However, the experimental device hidden behind the black cloth only made a muffled "thump" sound and then had no reaction.

"I'm very curious, Mr. Serius, how did you break such sturdy experimental glass?"

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow and quietly raised his hand wearing the ring.

"I was just checking the status of the experimental material, didn't expect to accidentally press the wrong button..."

"Enough, no need to say such lame excuses. I just observed these culture dishes carefully; there isn't a single external interface or control button on the glass. Who exactly...

are you?

And what do you want to do?"

"Heh heh, young man, you know me, know my name, and know that I am a scholar here, so why ask these meaningless nonsense questions?

Furthermore, this is my laboratory. Even if I have to ask, it should be me asking you.

You shouldn't have appeared here, especially since on your heads... you are still wearing the 'Arena Mask' I personally crafted."

Arena what?

Cheng Shi touched his prisoner helmet in astonishment, laughing in his heart.

How come everything can be called a mask now? If calculated this way, wouldn't he have already surpassed a two-faced person and become a three-faced person?

It wasn't impossible.

Ha, really not bad. A liar should have enough masks.

At the same time, on the other side.

The moment Gao San rushed into the room, he immediately turned around and closed the door, standing tightly against the wall to prevent Cheng Shi from using that terrifying thunder again behind him.

But he waited for a long time and didn't wait for the sound of pursuit, so he let out half a breath and began to anxiously size up this incomparably dark room.

However, just as he was preparing to grope forward one step, the light turned on.

A beam of warm light hit the experimental table not far away. Opposite the experimental table, an old man with a full head of silver hair slowly raised his head, looked at this uninvited guest, and smiled kindly.

"It seems there are guests in the laboratory. Hmm, and a guest who shouldn't have appeared here."

The first time Gao San saw the old man, he was horrified, because he had seen this old man, or rather, he had seen this scholar.

"It's you!

Serius!" ===== CHAPTER 225 =====