Chapter 234: Better to arrive early than to arrive coincidentally

Better to arrive early than to arrive coincidentally

Cheng Shi feinted, but actually didn't leave.

Because the acrobat hadn't come out yet.

Since one stake could kill one rabbit, there was no reason it couldn't kill a second one.

But a fable is a fable; the ancients had already proven the accuracy of fables with their own wisdom, which is that one stake indeed cannot kill a second rabbit.

Cheng Shi waited bitterly here for 5 or 6 hours without waiting for that acrobat; he estimated that it was already dark outside, which was just the right time to escape, so he reluctantly gave up the idea of continuing to wait and left the mine.

"Could the one who took the blame be Gao San?

Although he is a bit stupid, he doesn't seem to be a fool...

Maybe he crawled back along the pipe he came from?"

Cheng Shi thought back and forth and felt it made sense.

In that case... might as well go to the ruins of the arena to block him.

Come to think of it, Cheng Shi seemed to have no grudges with Gao San; it was perfectly normal for liars to deceive each other, and as long as it wasn't a fatal pit, there was always a possibility of future cooperation.

So his trip to the arena ruins wasn't purely to block Gao San, but for another teammate, Zhao Si.

This clever master of trickery had pushed himself into danger for the sake of self-preservation; this account also needed to be settled.

It was funny to say, this trial hadn't exceeded a day so far, but three of his five teammates had already died, and all had died at his own hands.

Can't help but lament the impermanence of fate.

Cheng Shi shook his head and laughed.

Although the trial time wasn't long, after experiencing so much, he had some special thoughts about this extremely chaotic trial, but these somewhat absurd thoughts still needed verification, and the method of verification happened to be related to that master of trickery.

So he had to find him.

Cheng Shi spurred his horse and left the abandoned mine, returning to the surface.

The surface corresponding to this mine obviously wasn't outside the city, and the size of the laboratory couldn't be compared to a city. When Cheng Shi climbed up the last wooden ladder and pushed open the shaft board, he found himself in a civilian house in the city.

It was late at night, and the moonlight was cold but not dim.

Cheng Shi examined the surrounding environment by the moonlight, at least confirming that no one lived in this civilian house; it looked like a disguise.

But no one living in the courtyard didn't mean it wasn't lively outside the courtyard; on the other side of the wall seemed to be an assembly point for city guard knights, and many knights were holding magic lamps and calling their companions, looking like they were going to take over rescue work.

His eyes rolled, he secretly climbed over the wall, knocked out a lucky guy at random, changed into his armor, picked up his cavalry lance, and followed the main force back to the arena.

It was just that the arena at this time had already become a sinkhole, and under the light of the connected magic lamps, one could see broken wood, residual iron, and gray stone remains everywhere in the pit.

Countless twisted corpses were lifted from the ruins by the knights; being able to retrieve a whole corpse was considered the luckiest thing that happened in this unfortunate disaster.

Wails and sighs resounded through the sky, and misery and misfortune hovered.

The scene was too tragic, so much so that the air was full of sorrow, and as one of the "culprits" who created this disaster, Cheng Shi was also full of grief.

It was a pity that the sadness on his face wasn't because of anything else, but for disguise; after all, the expressions of the whole team weren't good, and if he didn't fit in at this time, his identity might be exposed.

He listened silently for a long time, and finally, with red eyes, asked the person beside him sadly:

"Has the cause of the explosion been found out?"

"It is said that it has been found out, but it hasn't been announced yet. The captain heard the Iron Law Knights reporting to the inquisitors when receiving orders tonight, saying that there was a problem within them."

"Ah?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down, do you want to die? The Grand Inquisitor hasn't left yet, and the Iron Law Knights are all around you and me. Do you want them to know we are speaking ill of them?"

"..." Brother, I only asked one sentence, the rest was all said by you; why do you have so much drama?

Cheng Shi was speechless and expectant as he leaned over, trying his best to pretend to be very interested, listening to this teammate who was very willing to share continue sharing his hearsay.

"At first, it wasn't discovered by the Iron Law Knights, but by us. The brothers of the city guard knights found unexploded explosives in the ruins, and sampling found that the ratio of the explosives was like the common formula of the Iron Law Knights, so they reported it up."

"As a result, guess what? When the Iron Law Knights investigated, they found that someone had been buying gunpowder materials in the city, and this person happened to be one of their own, what was it called, Green..."

"Grind!"

"Ah yes yes yes, hmm? You know?"

"I don't know, just guessed."

"Then your guess is quite accurate, it is him!

He had been on duty in the prison for death-row inmates for a period of time, and the explosion points excavated at the scene could match the places where he was on duty. You say, isn't it a coincidence."

"Coincidence, too coincidental."

"There is an even more coincidental one. This Grind was obviously rescued, but as soon as he turned his head, he disappeared. Now the Iron Law Knights are crazy, and the whole city is looking for him. Isn't this, in the case of insufficient manpower, we were arranged to dig pits."

"So that's how it is..."

Cheng Shi understood; he had always thought that his teammate had done something to blow up the arena, but looking at it now, it turned out that the players were just coincidentally there. It was just that he didn't know why Grind buried explosives under the arena.

Which side was he from?

Was it to create chaos, or for the laboratory under the arena?

Cheng Shi vaguely felt that it was highly likely the latter. In that case, was he looking for himself also for this explosion?

He wanted to use himself as a gun, to become the fuse that ignited the explosives? But why did he blow it up hastily before he had finished the death duel?

Someone triggered his explosives?

Who, a player?

Did a player accidentally trigger his explosives?

No, perhaps it wasn't an accidental trigger. Substituting into the perspective of this group of liars, if they accidentally found such a pile of explosives in front of them while escaping, if they didn't take the opportunity to light a fire, they would be sorry for the protection of the God of Fun above their heads.

So it was highly likely that a player ignited Grind's explosives, but the question was: who was it?

The answer seemed to only be Zhao Si.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi became more and more impatient; he really wanted to meet this master of trickery again, have a match with him, and see whether his art of hoodwinking was more superb or his fists were bigger.

However, thinking about it this way, Grind's story was probably also very exciting.

Interesting, it turned out that the protagonist of this trial wasn't just the players; it turned out that this was the truth of 【Chaos】!

Countless hands were playing games in the quagmire, each searching for what they wanted. No matter who won or lost, in the end, the hands of everyone participating in the game wouldn't be clean.

Under the orderly lake surface, disorderly undercurrents were surging, just as the stage of 【Order】 was performing the drama of 【Chaos】.

This was 【Chaos】, ah; he seemed to be closer to Him.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi lowered his head again and walked silently.

"I say brother, I don't seem to have seen you before. Do you have relatives or friends... uh, sorry, I mean you are crying so sadly, even your nose is rubbed red, I just feel whether the people you care about have encountered... sigh, you should understand what I mean."

"Yes, nothing to avoid, I have 5 brothers, three died, and two are missing."

"Ah this..." The accompanying city guard knights cast sympathetic gazes one after another, "My condolences."

These warm-hearted companions began to comfort Cheng Shi and indicated that they would definitely try their best to help him dig out the people, at least the corpses, completely.

"Can you describe the characteristics of your brothers so that it is convenient for us to identify them."

"One is a spineless coward, one is very insidious."

"?" The knight teammate was stunned for a moment, "Is this used to describe brothers? Are you really... brothers?"

"Yes, genuine."

"..."

The knight looked at Cheng Shi's sad appearance of constantly rubbing his nose and believed it.

Not long after, the city guard knights arrived at the disaster scene and handed over with some Iron Law Knights who had been digging here, starting their journey of "brothers looking for brothers."

It was also at this time, when Cheng Shi had just stepped on the edge of the sinkhole and looked down, that his gaze was instantly attracted by that eye-catching red figure in the ruins.

Zhao Si, this teammate who was still wearing a prisoner helmet and a red prisoner uniform, was being dragged backward by a city guard knight toward the corpse pile outside the pit like a rag.

The corpses of citizens might need to be identified and claimed by relatives, but prisoners didn't; they only deserved a fire of judgment, letting their broken bodies and dirty souls repent for their past sins in the firelight of 【Order】.

Cheng Shi saw this scene and laughed again.

A master of trickery, how could he die in an explosion he triggered himself?

So...

"Better to arrive early than to arrive coincidentally."

The dungeon is almost over, but the book is still early, hope you know. ===== CHAPTER 235 =====