Chapter 227: Why is your shadow in every rotten thing?

Why is your shadow in every rotten thing?

"I know you're miserable. Your tragedy has already scared away my two teammates; they are... 'assets' I value very much, so you have to compensate me."

Cheng Shi turned the scalpel in his hand, dragged a stool from in front of the table, and placed it under his butt.

Actually, it didn't matter whether players were experimental material prototypes or not. Even if they were before, it was impossible after the players descended. This kind of experimental background was nothing more than adding a layer of 【Chaos】 filter to the trial, just like what Li Wu said—it was His will pushing everything.

Cheng Shi recognized this statement, but why did Li Wu and Gao San still run?

Because they had long wanted to run.

No one liked being controlled by others, especially being controlled by someone they couldn't resist. So these two liars had always been looking for an opportunity, until Serius spoke such shocking experimental secrets. They seized the moment when each other was dazed and ran away.

The reason Cheng Shi didn't leave was that he had had enough of this prisoner helmet that couldn't be removed. Seeing that Serius's sharing was unfinished, he reached out and interrupted this old man.

"I do like listening to stories, but before continuing, you have to clear my compensation first."

Serius understood Cheng Shi's meaning and also knew his intention for coming here, so he looked at Cheng Shi, nodded, and then took out a stone flowing with pitch-black luster from his bosom.

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"Tomb-End Stone, produced in the ruins of an underground tribe that believed in 【Decay】. It is a rare mineral condensed from the faith erosion of that special stone material over millions of years.

In order not to let the prisoner helmet be broken by external force, I added '【Prosperity】 Leaf Ye Mai' in the production of the prisoner helmet. It will always flow with the power of 【Prosperity】 until the 【Prosperity】 Leaf Ye Mai are exhausted, but this deadline is not a time a human can survive.

So if you want to take it off, you can only use the 【Decay】 power accumulated over a longer time.

Put this Tomb-End Stone on your prisoner helmet, and before long, you can take it off yourself."

Saying this, Serius placed the stone on the desktop.

Cheng Shi hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn't dare to believe it completely. He first used the scalpel to touch this stone, and only after the scalpel began to show signs of rust did he determine that it truly contained the power of 【Decay】.

Then he used two scalpels as chopsticks, clamped the Tomb-End Stone, and brought it close to his prisoner helmet.

Not long after, he felt the pressure on his neck become lighter. Cheng Shi frowned and gripped this prisoner helmet with the divine power of today's warrior.

But he didn't expect that with just such a simple grab, this prisoner helmet that had troubled him for so long was actually torn apart like crisp paper.

"Just this?"

Cheng Shi finally smiled; he had shaken off the shackles of 【Order】.

He only took two or three strokes to pat all the fragments off his head, and then suddenly became very patient and looked at Serius:

"Very well, I am quite satisfied with this compensation. Now you can continue your story."

Serius truly hadn't adapted to the change in Cheng Shi's attitude, which had a huge gap before and after. He stared at Cheng Shi's face for a long time, and pondered for a long time, before slowly opening his mouth again:

"Although I am a god-worshipping believer of the Life Church, I am indeed a scholar of the Tower of Reason. Supported by the Scholarly Chair Committee, the project I presided over made rapid progress.

At that time, I was full of confidence and enthusiasm for 'gestating' the true 【Germinating Divinity】.

So much so that in a moment of head-heating, I made some decisions that I regret immensely now, which was...

To slice myself and hatch, and then participate in the experiment with my slices to accelerate the research.

However, I never expected that the Scholarly Chair Committee would take a fancy to the personality of me that was crazy. They saw greater hope in that crazy personality, so they poured more effort into him, and washed him from an experimental slice into the real me.

And I, then became an experimental slice that was dispensable..."

Okay, this is very Tower of Reason, or rather, this is very Scholarly Chair Committee.

Because they were originally such a group of people.

When you are useful, you will get ungrudging support; and when you are useless, you will soon be abandoned by them, and even become one of the "funds" for the next star project they support.

Serius's story was still continuing. He was like a "left-behind old man" who hadn't found anyone to confide in for a long time, slowly telling all the stories about him and the Divinity Germination Experiment.

"At that time, I had almost given up. But what I didn't expect was that an invitation letter from the Grand Tribunal saved me from falling into the abyss and allowed me to find the opportunity to continue the experiment again.

So I took advantage of everyone's focus on that slice, used all my resources in the Tower of Reason to escape the laboratory, disguised myself, left Tusnat, and came to Montelani. With the help of the sponsor, I rebuilt my laboratory and continued to start my research."

"Let me interrupt, is the person you are waiting for coming?"

"...... Not yet......"

"Good, continue, while I still have patience." Cheng Shi waved his hand, signaling the scholar to continue.

"...... In order to continue the experiment, this sponsor even promoted the promulgation of a law in Gaoshan County and built an arena for this law. And that place, you should be very familiar with it.

The Constitution of the Grand Tribunal doesn't allow life experiments on prisoners, but the deathmatch final has to be performed legally. So I crafted a prisoner helmet that ordinary people couldn't break for these experimental materials about to step onto the arena.

In this way, the mutual recognition problem of identity can also be covered up as a cognitive conflict of prisoners, aggravating the conflict between the two sides.

The existence of the deathmatch final not only solved the funding problem required for the experiment but also turned the experimental process into a reasonable and legal performance. Under the 'enthusiastic' pursuit of the Montelani public, they even looked forward to the Tribunal sentencing more and more deathmatch prisoners to satisfy their growing spiritual entertainment needs."

Hearing this, Cheng Shi was speechless for a while.

Okay, this is also very public, because the public is originally a group of ordinary people who only like excitement.

They don't need to distinguish right from wrong, nor do they want to distinguish right from wrong. They only want to use their limited energy to see enough fun.

"Thus the experiment accelerated. The sponsor started to expand the scale of the experiment without my consent, but manpower is limited. I alone could no longer support an experiment of such scale, so..."

"So you walked the old path you took in the Tower of Reason, and started slicing yourself." Cheng Shi was speechless again this time. He looked at this "pitiful" scholar playfully, tsk-tsking and mocking, "You don't learn your lesson, do you? That Serius outside the door is afraid that he wants to replace you, but you don't seem to fear him as much as you fear the slice that stole your identity in the Tower of Reason...

Oh, I get it, you learned your lesson. You did something to your slice experiment!"

Serius smiled:

"Correct. In the process of slice peeling and hatching, I did something to it, utilizing the methods provided by the brothers of the 【Life Church】 within the Grand Tribunal to add some 【Death】 means to the experimental material."

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow: "What means?"

"If my slice sees me, then based on the 【Death】 curse of 'mutual recognition,' under the suppression of personality, he will immediately die and become a sacrifice to 【Death】.

This is a tribute to Him, and also a curse I begged for with my own hands..."

"......"

So you have a hand in this too, that lord on the bone throne?

Why is your shadow in every rotten thing?

Cheng Shi smacked his lips and understood.

This curse was Serius's confidence. He was no longer afraid of that slice clone, while that slice clone was afraid of him.

No wonder the one outside didn't dare to come in.

And no wonder that slice Serius couldn't wait to take himself to remove the helmet. Perhaps the price of removing this helmet was to kill this experimental material prototype for him?

"Then what? You've told me so much, and in such detail—what exactly is this for?"

I don't believe you are a good professor, specializing in clearing doubts for confused people.

Who are you waiting for? Where has he arrived?

Or, do you want me to help you do something?

Anything is fine, as long as...

You are willing to pay more." ===== CHAPTER 228 =====