Chapter 228: Scholar Nemesis: Cheng Shi

Scholar Nemesis: Cheng Shi

Cheng Shi had always felt that this mysterious scholar was plotting a game, and this game was likely not aimed at players, but at the Serius outside the door.

As for the specific content of this game, he couldn't guess it, nor did he want to guess, because he was now a "brainless" warrior of today, not that "fragile" clown who always needed to calculate others to protect himself.

This change in identity finally allowed Cheng Shi to experience what it meant to "all fear comes from insufficient firepower." He now had too much firepower, so much so that he was just missing a target to give a fierce shot.

Serius watched his assets being stolen by a thief to his face, without saying a word.

"If you don't speak, I'm leaving." Saying this, Cheng Shi stood up and wanted to leave.

Under repeated stimulation, Serius finally stopped being reserved. He sighed and said to Cheng Shi:

"I... indeed have a request.

I am indeed waiting for someone, a witness."

"Witness?" Cheng Shi frowned. Was there also 【Memory】's handiwork here?

But he realized it in an instant: the witness in Serius's mouth wasn't a profession, but simply a witness.

"Witness what?"

"Witness... my death."

"?"

Saying this, Serius took out a strange short dagger as thin as a finger from the drawer under the experimental table.

"This is the tool I used to operate slices in the experiment, 'Concentric Dagger.' If it's not too much trouble, I request you to plunge this Concentric Dagger into my heart and end this endless suffering for me...

I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being manipulated by the sponsor, whether in the Tower of Reason or in the Grand Tribunal. They can't feel the fun of the experiment, nor can they understand the purpose of the experiment. They only want a result, a result useful to them.

Even if this result has no promotion to future experiments...

Short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant, extreme!

These sponsors have always been the same face. I've seen through them, seen through these ignorant fools!"

Serius's flat tone finally had a little change. He looked at Cheng Shi with slightly excited eyes and raised the dagger.

"Don't doubt my intentions. I cannot commit suicide; this is the shackle 【Order】 has placed on me.

So I wanted to request you, please help me end all this. I've had enough.

Just let my slices continue to serve them. I have no nostalgia for this world without a soulmate.

I have waited for this moment for too long, and finally waited for an outsider.

So, young man, I beg you, help me.

Consider it for helping you open the Arena Mask."

Seeing Cheng Shi unmoved, Serius added fuel to the fire.

"I am the mastermind who manufactured all the misfortunes in your life. Don't you... want revenge?"

"Tsk."

Cheng Shi's brain, which had just stopped, started turning again. He looked at Serius thoughtfully and suddenly asked: "Why must you die by your own slice dagger? What do you want to express?"

Serius was stunned. He had never thought that someone would dwell on this.

"I... don't want to express anything. This is the thing that looks most like a murder weapon in this workshop. If you were a deathmatch prisoner, in anger, plunging the experimental tool into the perpetrator's body, it's quite reasonable, isn't it?"

"Oh, I get it. So you not only want to die, but also want the so-called witness to see a reasonable murder.

This doesn't fit your current state of mind. Why do you make so many arrangements for someone who has no nostalgia for the world?"

"......" Serius's face was extremely conflicted, "I don't want others to know I'm a coward, don't want others to know I'm afraid of being dominated by power in this world and unable to freely approach 【Them】, don't want a layer of shadow that can never be wiped clean to be cast on my name as a scholar."

"Hmm, reasonable enough, but I have a safer method."

Saying this, Cheng Shi raised his hand and fired a 【Thunder Verdict】 at the position where Li Wu had left without warning.

"Boom—"

The thunder light roasted the poker cards all over the floor until they were charred. The blinding light that flashed by made Serius's expression move, his pupils shrinking.

He was afraid!

Cheng Shi discovered that the Joy Ring, which had just consumed a layer of fear nourishment, was fully charged again.

Interesting, why would someone begging for death still be afraid of death?

Cheng Shi looked at the Concentric Dagger on the table with a playful gaze and picked it up with a smile.

"Just use this, and stab it into your heart?"

"...... Yes." Serius looked at Cheng Shi's appearance and suddenly became a bit hesitant.

"Any requirements for the posture of death?"

"...... No."

"I didn't see a clock in your workshop, so, how much longer until your witness arrives?"

"...... Probably needs another 5 minutes."

"Enough."

After speaking, Cheng Shi plunged the Concentric Dagger into Serius's heart without hesitation. One strike was fatal; the huge force even pierced through his body, bursting out jet-like blood from Serius's back.

"Cough..."

Serius died, and his final words were a heavy cough.

Cheng Shi watched this scholar fall backward on the chair with his eyes wide open, slowly withdrawing his hand.

Another one, another great scholar died before his eyes.

History is truly interesting, always allowing a clown to play various absurd roles in the absurd past.

But this time he didn't launch any shocking waves, nor was there any need to remember this boring history, because this was a trial background. No matter how much players stirred up history inside, it would never change in the old chapters of the Continent of Hope.

However, although change didn't appear, accidents were never absent.

Just as Cheng Shi withdrew his hand and prepared to throw away the Concentric Dagger, a vigorous soul power carrying 【Death】 power erupted from the tip of the Concentric Dagger, rushing straight toward Cheng Shi's face.

Cheng Shi sneered, having expected it long ago.

To be honest, the intentions hidden under Serius's calmness seemed a bit too obvious, so obvious that Cheng Shi didn't need to use his brain to see it, so he had been waiting for the moment the other party launched it.

But when Cheng Shi killed his flesh and saw no reaction, he even felt that he was measuring the gentleman's belly with a villain's heart.

But now it seemed he hadn't thought wrong. Serius really had ideas about him—no, or rather, about any outsider who could come here.

Just as he said, he might have no intention of harming him, because this soul power was very restrained, more like parasitism than plundering, temporary parasitism.

He seemed to want to use his body as a ride to escape from this prison of 【Order】, just as he had once escaped from the Tower of Reason. Under the pressure of slices and sponsors, Serius once again gave up the experiment that belonged to him.

But the problem is, whether you can catch the ride depends on whether the driver agrees, right?

Cheng Shi didn't know what Serius's means were, but he had enough backup plans and powerful combat power to deal with everything, so he had never panicked.

But when he discovered that Serius's backup plan he had waited for so long was actually 【Death】...

At that moment, Cheng Shi almost laughed out loud.

No, brother, it's a pity you didn't buy a lottery ticket before you died with this luck.

Do you know what the gold content of a 【Death】 part-time employee is?

At this very moment, as long as Cheng Shi wanted, he could sacrifice this soul that still looked vigorous as an offering to that lord on the bone throne at any time.

But he didn't do that.

Because sometimes, taking a ride depends not only on the driver, but also on whether the passengers originally on the car agree.

Thus, the driver cooperated very well and opened the car door. The new passenger couldn't wait to get on the car, and then...

The driver's mouth suddenly chewed uncontrollably.

Cheng Shi only felt a wail from the depths of his soul, and immediately heard the familiar voice that hadn't spoken for a long time.

"·Sour, doesn't taste good."

Cheng Shi smiled, smiling very happily. ===== CHAPTER 229 =====