Chapter 291

Puppet Master, quiet!

Cheng Shi did not get up immediately; he was sensing the changes around him.

After Jiang Wu Mei died in the dream, his body would become an unconscious shell, but to prevent the Ranger from having any dirty means of resurrection, Cheng Shi had to supplement the corpse to be at ease.

So he sat up quietly and took out his scalpel.

But just as he was about to get up, a strange thing happened!

Jiang Wu Mei actually woke up too!

He opened his eyes under Cheng Shi's gaze, then stood up directly, greeted Cheng Shi as if nothing had happened, and walked to the other side of the room.

Cheng Shi's pupils shrank sharply. He jumped up and looked at the Ranger, only to find that the Ranger had walked straight to the front of the Puppet Master, and then slowly...

Knelt down.

Just like the mature-style puppet in her hand, he knelt in front of the little girl, facing Cheng Shi!

Cheng Shi's pupils shrank again. This unbelievable scene before him undoubtedly indicated that Jiang Wu Mei had already been refined by the Puppet Master into her own puppet!

When!?

Just now?

Right after the Ranger died, in the split second before he opened his eyes?

It was too coincidental, so coincidental that it felt a bit wrong.

Did the Puppet Master refine a resurrected Ranger, or an unconscious body?

Or was this just a puppet show, and Jiang Wu Mei hadn't become a puppet at all, and the resurrected him was acting with the Puppet Master?

Cheng Shi didn't dare to bet on whether Jiang Wu Mei and the Puppet Master were working together, so his peripheral vision swept over the equally shocked Xiang Honglin, and he quietly gripped his ring.

Today, the warrior must prepare for a massacre.

But just at this moment, Jiang Wu Mei spoke!

He raised his head and faced the two of them with a smile, opening his mouth to say:

"Sorry, I scared you. I can explain."

Although the voice was Jiang Wu Mei's own voice, this attitude and tone...

Was the Puppet Master speaking!?

Cheng Shi looked at the Puppet Master in shock. Xiang Honglin, who was on the side, stood up with a sharp gaze and said, "You can speak, Puppet Master!"

The little girl nodded, but the voice still came from Jiang Wu Mei's mouth:

"Yes, every time I make someone who doesn't understand 【Silence】 become silent, I can exchange for the right to speak for a period of time.

Let me introduce myself: Quiet, Puppet Master, 2467."

Truth!

A 2400-point Puppet Master.

It seemed Jiang Wu Mei was indeed dead.

Cheng Shi's gaze narrowed slightly as he looked at Quiet and asked in a solemn tone, "Why kill him? Do you have a grudge against this Trap Master?"

Quiet shook her head and controlled Jiang Wu Mei to say:

"Cheng Shi, you don't need to trick me.

You were the one who killed him. You knew he was a Dream-Peering Ranger and killed him in the dream, while I have nothing to do with this Dream-Peering Ranger.

I just discovered that he had become more 【Silent】, so I found an opportunity to turn him into a puppet. Making use of waste, isn't it?"

Once these words fell, the whole room was silent.

Although that was how it was said, for a Ranger who had just died to say in person that he wanted to "make use of waste" of himself was truly too eerie!

"You're quite the scavenger." Xiang Honglin sneered and turned her head to look at Cheng Shi again. "But I'm a bit curious, Cheng Shi, what did Jiang Wu Mei see in your dream that made you want to kill him?

Don't tell me he really discovered some unspeakable story between you and Zhen Yi?"

"......"

I thank you, big sister, let's not bring up these unlucky things at this time...

Cheng Shi's eye twitched, his gaze toward the Puppet Master deepened, and he said, "What do you want to do?"

The Puppet Master controlled her puppets, and all three heads turned toward Cheng Shi, smiling eerily.

"I have no other thoughts, I just want to preserve a combat force. More people naturally mean more strength.

Besides, if the Mushroom-Footed People know that someone died in the God's Messenger's team, it won't be good for the progress of the trial, will it?"

Lie!

Cheng Shi's brow furrowed, his expression sinking. He couldn't tell Xiang Honglin that he had a Deception Master who saw through the Puppet Master's lies, but sometimes not everything needs to be said; actions represent everything.

Since this Puppet Master had other intentions, it might be better to have a fight in this safe place first, to save energy while exploring the Sighing Forest.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi revealed his scalpel. His attitude was very clear: I don't trust you!

Since you won't tell the truth, don't blame me for making a move.

Seeing Cheng Shi suddenly become so tough, Xiang Honglin raised her eyebrows in surprise, but then she smiled and stretched her hands and feet, the meaning even clearer:

The Fate Weaver might not be able to beat you, but I can.

The Puppet Master watched the two people in front of her ready to strike, and drove the two puppets to block her main body behind them.

The scene suddenly became tense.

And just at this moment, Zuo Qiu, who hadn't appeared all night, suddenly pushed the door and walked in. He was startled by the tense situation in the room, then quickly closed the door and brought a piece of bad news to everyone with a solemn face.

"It's bad, the Never-Disappearing Wild Lamp didn't reset, the Wild Lamp on the altar is gone."

!!??

Everyone was shocked and looked at Xiang Honglin, the player who had last touched the Wild Lamp yesterday.

Xiang Honglin was also stunned. She frowned, rummaged through her personal space, and sure enough, discovered that the Wild Lamp she had casually thrown into her space yesterday was still inside!

So she took the lamp out with a solemn face. When everyone saw that the lamp was still in her hand, their hearts skipped a beat.

The granting rules of 【Prosperity】 had changed.

And change meant new risks.

So, why didn't this Wild Lamp reset?

"The Mushroom-Footed People are panicking. The old patriarch is bringing people here to see you, the God's Messenger. I say, if you have a conflict, can you...

Solve the trouble in front of you first?

God's Messenger, there isn't much time left for you to make up excuses..."

Cheng Shi frowned and looked at Zuo Qiu for a moment, then shifted his gaze to Quiet. He suddenly thought of a question: if Quiet could still speak after controlling a puppet, then could the Zuo Qiu in front of him also be her puppet?

After all, on the first day when the two of them teamed up, Zuo Qiu was dragged over by a bunch of puppet threads. This unmasked behavior didn't make Cheng Shi suspicious, but thinking about it now, if the Historian had been refined by the Puppet Master at that time, was it possible that there were only three living people left in this team?

Xiang Honglin, himself, and this Puppet Master who possessed three puppets!

Was she... collecting puppets?

Did she want to turn everyone into her puppets?

Cheng Shi's expression was somewhat solemn. He had never encountered such a crazy Puppet Master. But then again, this was still just his conjecture, but there was a very good way to verify this conjecture, which was to grab Zuo Qiu and cut him open to see!

So, in the midst of the room's shock, Cheng Shi didn't say a word, kicked the ground without warning, and rushed toward Zuo Qiu alone.

But the Puppet Master's reaction was fast. The moment she saw Cheng Shi move, she drove the two puppets to fly toward Cheng Shi's side together, but her reaction was not as fast as Xiang Honglin's.

This 【Prosperity】 God's Chosen one's gaze was like lightning, seemingly having long anticipated that Cheng Shi wouldn't "deal with external threats" first, so the moment the puppets made a move, she flashed past the head of Cheng Shi, who was flying toward the Historian, and stretched out her two iron hands, pressing the two puppets onto the ground one by one.

All of this happened in a flash. One second the four people were in the four corners of the room, the next second they were confronting each other in pairs, colliding together.

Zuo Qiu was very terrified by the sudden attack, but his movements were not slow at all.

The Historian retreated nimbly, first pulling open the tightly closed door behind him, then dodging Cheng Shi's first grab with a sideways move. The moment Cheng Shi sneered and swung back, he actually disappeared by using the shadow that the Dark Sun had drawn on the ground for Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi only saw a blur before his eyes, and Zuo Qiu's figure disappeared!

Shadow Travel!

He really was the Assassin's puppet!