Chapter 31: The Death of Huang Bo, and the Final Gate

The Death of Huang Bo, and the Final Gate

"It really was you!! Huang Bo!!! Then where is the real A-Ming?"

"How could it be?"

"Big Boss, this..."

Cheng Shi smiled and capped the potion in his hand, feeling relieved in his heart.

"The Truth of Confession" was naturally fake.

There were only four people present besides Cheng Shi, so 【Offering to the Void】 could definitely not be activated.

But this didn't prevent it from tricking the "truth" out.

Truth within falsehood, falsehood within truth—that is the principle of victory.

Cheng Shi's conspiracy succeeded, and he continued to guess with a clicking sound:

"I guess you used some means of delayed death or a life-saving prop to control A-Ming in the tavern, right?"

Huang Bo no longer hid it. He wore A-Ming's face and laughed wildly like a madman:

"Not bad. The S-rank talent bestowed upon me by my Lord, 'Shared Appearance, Shared Heart.' Cheng Shi, you are very smart, but you can't do anything to me."

Huang Bo's tone was very crazy and confident.

"If I live, that little assassin can live too.

But if I die, he will die too!

So what if you found me?

The feeling of being played in the palm of someone's hand isn't good, is it?

Hahahaha, is it very frustrating?

The only thing I underestimated was that this poet could actually resurrect you guys.

But so what? I calculated you, but you couldn't..."

"Ssh—"

"Cheng Shi!"

"Big Boss!"

"You guy surnamed Cheng!!??"

Before Huang Bo could finish speaking, Cheng Shi took out a knife from somewhere and stabbed it directly into his heart.

Feeling the sharp weapon pierce his heart, Huang Bo looked up in disbelief, gasping in shock:

"... You... are crazy... he... will die..."

Cheng Shi sneered:

"Whether he dies or not is none of my business. Since you made me take a knife, I'll let you taste the feeling of having your heart stabbed too."

After saying this, Cheng Shi skillfully pulled out the knife and stabbed it into Huang Bo's throat again.

Until he saw Huang Bo stop breathing, he skillfully cut off the corpse's head, lit a fire, and finally snapped his fingers in relief.

Dust to dust, earth to earth.

If you can still resurrect after this, you're awesome.

The three female comrades watched all this in a daze, their minds in chaos.

Fang Shiqing was the first to recover. She looked at Cheng Shi with complex eyes: "You..."

"What about me?" Cheng Shi touched the blood on his hand and smiled, "I told you long ago, I'm not a good person."

Fang Shiqing didn't speak. She took a few deep breaths, looked at the time on her hand, and returned to the "big thigh" state.

"With two people missing, our scouting work will become very difficult..."

"Sister Fang, wait."

Xu Lu suddenly pulled on Fang Shiqing's sleeve.

Fang Shiqing turned her head back. The coldness in her eyes startled Xu Lu, but Xu Lu still gathered her courage and said:

"There is one problem that is very wrong. That... Cheng Shi is a priest, Bai Fei is a weak... not-so-powerful hunter. With Huang Bo's ability, he didn't need to be so troublesome to kill them. Why did he borrow the hands of an NPC?"

"?"

Indeed, Xu Lu was right.

Cheng Shi was also stunned. He didn't expect that the first one to react would be Xu Lu.

Perhaps it was because Fang Shiqing and Bai Fei both wore rose-colored glasses when looking at him, so his neat killing actions had a greater impact on them.

And Xu Lu, who had been watching coldly from the sidelines, became the one to solve the problem.

Fang Shiqing pondered for a moment, seemingly thinking of something. She suddenly looked into the room.

"【Chaos】 might give Huang Bo an oracle to get rid of us, but it wouldn't give him the answer to the trial. So, it's not that he didn't want to do it, but that he needed to rely on others to find the answer.

And this answer... is...

That guard?"

She looked at Cheng Shi, seeking an explanation.

Cheng Shi clapped his hands, expressing appreciation, and told the whole story of the cause and effect and his own guesses.

"Smart. Perhaps he heard the conversation between the guard and me outside the door, or perhaps he saw that ring long ago, just waiting for me to solve the puzzle.

I did find an answer. If I'm not mistaken, that guard didn't die. Huang Bo's next step was to take him to a place you couldn't find and leave here himself.

Of course, I don't know how he knew this was the final act, or perhaps his Lord gave him clues for the next act in advance."

Fang Shiqing's eyes were complex:

"Did you guess from the beginning that 'A-Ming' had a problem? Even earlier than in the fog?"

Cheng Shi smiled: "Just a guess."

Saying this, he glanced into the room.

Bai Fei understood and immediately rushed into the room to start checking the guard's vital signs.

Sure enough, a touch of "turbid light" protected the guard's heart pulse, preventing him from dying immediately.

"He can still be saved!"

Fang Shiqing followed closely behind. She looked at the guard who only had one breath left and turned her head:

"Cheng Shi, it's your part again."

Cheng Shi didn't refuse. He cast a healing spell on the person who killed him, and just as he was about to wake up, he hit him with a hypnosis spell.

This time it wasn't Fang Shiqing's turn to speak; Xu Lu shouted anxiously:

"Hey, you, is it a memory? Hurry up and say it!"

Such crude guidance made everyone's faces darken, but fortunately, the fragile guard had already lost his clear mind. He was dazed for a long time and nodded.

Immediately after, the guard who had just been saved exploded with a bang, turning into stars all over the sky.

The stars re-condensed, turning into the Gate of Memory.

It was just that this time, there was an extra golden door frame on the Gate of Memory compared to before.

The Final Gate!

Its appearance meant that the trial was about to end.

Stepping out from here, everyone would survive and receive rewards.

"Is... is it over?"

Xu Lu hadn't expected this time to be so simple. With plenty of time left, they had found the final exit.

At this time, only 8 hours had passed since the trial began, and even nearly a third of the time remained.

"Sister... Fang?"

Xu Lu looked back happily, but didn't expect to face Cheng Shi's frowning face.

She was scared and took two steps back.

A person who killed others at will, a person with an opposing faith, would he do something to her in front of the exit?

She didn't dare to think, so she wanted to leave here immediately.

Xu Lu's gaze swept over everyone's positions, and she gritted her teeth and rushed directly toward the Final Gate.

But just as she was about to jump out of the trial, a powerful hand grabbed her arm and pulled her back from the gate.

"Ah!!!!"

Xu Lu screamed in terror, instinctively releasing a singer's skill to hit Cheng Shi on the head.

Cheng Shi didn't dodge. With a dark face, he metabolized these negative states and then threw her onto the ground to the side.

Seeing this, Fang Shiqing blocked in front of Xu Lu with slight anger.

"Cheng Shi, that's enough!"

Bai Fei was startled. She didn't know why Cheng Shi wouldn't let Xu Lu go, but she still moved her steps, drew her bow and arrow, and stood behind Cheng Shi.

Fang Shiqing looked at this scene, her brows tightly locked.

"Sister Fang, save me!"

"Cheng Shi, you..."

"Wrong!"

Cheng Shi didn't pay attention to the chaos at the scene. He frowned and thought:

"Wrong! If this leads to the next act, there might be no problem.

But if this is the Final Gate, the answer is too simple.

The prophecy of the clip hasn't been realized yet. Where is that hand holding the teacup?"

Fang Shiqing was stunned. Hearing him mention this, she let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed Cheng Shi didn't want to kill anyone; he seemed to be doubting the correctness of the answer?

But the memory maze had always had only one Final Gate. How could it be incorrect here?

Xu Lu fell to the ground, trembling. Her eyes were full of fear and hatred, staring fixedly at Cheng Shi.

Fang Shiqing looked back at her, sighed, and silently explained to Cheng Shi:

"We climbed over the outer wall to the second floor and found the Duchess's room. We did see that cup.

Cheng Shi, what the prophet saw is not necessarily the scene of the current timeline. The Duchess might have indeed used that cup.

But I think, compared to the scene of the prophecy, it is more like pointing us here.

The Duke's death scene, or going to find the Duchess's lover."

Cheng Shi frowned and shook his head:

"Something's not right. What about the Duchess?

We wasted nearly an hour here. Is the banquet not starting?

Or is it that everyone is still patiently waiting for the Duke's arrival?

The guests don't seem to have left. Why?

What method did the Duchess go out to find to cover up the news of the Duke's death?"

Cheng Shi's doubts grew larger and larger.

Everything in front of him seemed like an invisible hand had delivered the answer to their mouths, impatiently letting them swallow it.

But Cheng Shi didn't like this slightly forced feeling.

Where exactly did the problem arise?

He began to think carefully.

The entire Eternal Night Maze was not complicated.

They found the tavern waiter in the first act. He probably recalled the night at the tavern because he saw many wine guests he had seen before.

Then in the second act, they found the Duke's coachman, York.

The reason they found him was because they saw the true face of the service worker "Orc Girl" and saw several dwarves under the animal skin.

York was controlled by the dwarves to enter a memory, and they did indeed see the corpses of these dwarves in the third act...

Then, he found the guard's token, that ring, and confronted the guard.

The guard admitted the existence of the ring and was guided to become the Gate of Memory.

It seemed there was no problem.

But...

This guard seemed to mention a broker when admitting it?

A flash of inspiration struck Cheng Shi's mind, and he suddenly realized he had entered a blind spot in his thinking!

"That broker!" ===== CHAPTER 32 =====