Chapter 238: How to prove you are you?

How to prove you are you?

Which one am I?

Cheng Shi laughed.

Scholar, you are too limited; why can it only be one of them?

Why can't it be both?

I am both a crazy liar and a pure lunatic, can't I?

But Cheng Shi didn't say this, because at this moment he had fallen into deep thought.

He was thinking about what exactly what he experienced before waking up in this laboratory counted as.

A dream? Or a preview of a trial?

【Chaos】 seemed to have placed a fictional fantasy, a fake trial, at the beginning of His trial.

The basis of this fake trial was the slicing experiment under Serius, and every player in this fantasy was himself, himself with another personality!

So that's it! It really was himself!

He slowly came to his senses, and the more he thought, the more he felt that the so-called civil war of 【Deceit】 was bullshit; it was clearly him fighting himself!

The bystander sees clearly; he should have thought of it earlier!

That farce-like "trial" should have been fake from the start; Li Yi, Ji Er, Gao San, Zhao Si, Su Wu—they were all fake, all his fantasies.

Even their professions, their abilities, and even the props in their hands were all things that existed in his own cognition and memory.

No wonder there were five liars!

No wonder there were five masters of deceit!

No wonder the magician was so much to his taste!

No wonder these "teammates" didn't even know how to read!

Because all of this was his own imagination; they all came from his own memory, and they couldn't transcend his own cognition!

Under the push of 【Chaos】's will, he had fabricated five opponents for himself out of thin air, and they were five cunning, insidious opponents with minds full of schemes!

If it weren't for having the 【Death】 Fun Ring in hand and 【Fate】's divine power filling his body, it would be hard to say who won or lost this imagined civil war...

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi suddenly laughed, a self-deprecating bitter laugh; he suddenly remembered the prophecy Li Yi had said:

Thinking is different, but of one mind with me!

A good "thinking is different, but of one mind with me"; they were all himself, so of course they were of one mind!?

This is chaos, true 【Chaos】!

Making people unable to distinguish between false and real, unable to distinguish between self and other.

Recalling the events of this day, it was like having a dream during a trial, and it was also like conducting a trial in a dream.

What a dream within a dream, what a play within a play, what a game within a game!

If this trial didn't have the divine name of 【Chaos】 hanging on it, Cheng Shi would have even thought his former benefactor had made a move!

If... this was a 【Deceit】 game, Cheng Shi wouldn't be surprised at all.

Because the God of Fun likes such fun the most—faking, deceiving people.

If it weren't for him quickly killing all the "selves" under the favor of 【Fate】 and waking up early before the slicing experiment succeeded, then the current situation might be even more complex and terrifying.

Cheng Shi felt a chill in his heart; he couldn't help but think if he hadn't been able to kill all the personality slices, would he really have been made into a "death-duel prisoner" when he woke up?

At that time, in this trial, would there really have been a few identical selves?

!!!

So this was the so-called "In the questioning of others, how do you prove you are you"!

When several slices really appear, among the many slices of six players, who should believe whom? And who dares to believe whom?

In order to pass the trial, these slices who identified themselves as players would definitely try various methods to prove themselves, and would use every means to obtain the affirmation of others, because they had experienced a "trial" that couldn't be self-proven and knew that every self was hard to deal with!

And these methods and means, needless to say, would definitely trigger enough chaos in the real trial.

So this was the true purpose of 【Chaos】!!!

He was brewing a chaos that didn't distinguish between you and me, didn't distinguish between true and false, didn't distinguish between virtual and real!

Too ruthless.

Cheng Shi couldn't even imagine, if he hadn't been able to wake up early, but instead brought the five liars who only existed in fantasy into the trial, plus the other slices of other teammates, how on earth could he win this trial.

Relying on the semi-artifact in his hand again?

No, if he had already lost once, it was even more impossible to win this real trial.

So, if the one who finally passed the self-proof was a fake cultivated by some personality slice, what would happen to himself?

Would he die? Would he disappear? Would he just vanish?

The answer is obviously yes!

But also no, because perhaps in the eyes of others, Cheng Shi had already won.

They didn't know that the person who won the trial and returned to the rest area was just a slice of Cheng Shi, and even he himself wouldn't think he was a slice; he would only think he was Cheng Shi, the Cheng Shi who had never changed.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi was full of lingering fear.

Not that I'm saying, brother, I'm at least related to you, how could you be so ruthless?

Do you know that six liars together will kill people!

What if the one who dies is me?

Or is it that in the will of 【Chaos】, it doesn't matter which Cheng Shi lives?

"..."

Not to mention this point, just talking about that "slicing war" in consciousness, did 【Time】 really not intervene in the form of this fantasy and the method of unfolding?

This was clearly the evolutionary authority of 【Time】!

Everything experienced in the fantasy and the information heard could be verified as correct in the conversation with Serius at this moment, which meant that this wasn't a completely fake hallucination; at least all the stories and details in the "trial" were consistent with reality and logic.

But why did 【Chaos】 use 【Time】's deduction so skillfully!?

Did He steal 【Time】's authority?

How could He steal 【Time】's authority?

Brother, is your intensity a bit over the standard?

Haven't seen you pluck 【Civilization】's wool, but you've plucked quite a bit of 【Existence】's wool.

Wait, 【Deceit】 turning me into your "Messenger," wouldn't it be because of this?

Ah?

Have you two reached a unified front on disgusting 【Existence】?

"..."

Fine, really fine.

But in this way, was Brother Mouth's awakening also his own fantasy?

Would it be affected by this degree of deduction?

Brother Mouth?

Brother Mouth?

Hey?

No response, but still couldn't be sure.

After all, it likes to play dead.

"..."

Cheng Shi, who had figured everything out, finally calmed down from his ever-changing wonderful expressions; he looked at Serius in front of him and said:

"Never mind which one I am; since there is no problem, let's proceed to the next step.

Let's talk about your wanting to escape from here.

That little girl has already told me a complete jailbreak method, and you only need to cooperate with me unconditionally to leave here, so, are you ready?"

There didn't seem to be any excitement about being about to escape the sea of misery in Serius's eyes; he looked at Cheng Shi, who kept touching his nose, and frowned slightly:

"How should I cooperate with you?"

"Very simple, cooperate with me to die once.

I can take your soul out and find a new body for you outside Montrani.

But before that, I still need to confirm one thing, which is:

How do you prove that you are Serius himself, and not that slice who is trying to replace him?"

Hearing this, Serius's calm expression finally turned gloomy.

At this moment, Cheng Shi threw the trial's question back to the NPC in this trial. ===== CHAPTER 239 =====