Chapter 312: The chips on the table can also be scooped up

The chips on the table can also be scooped up

Countless metal eyeballs radiating blue ghostly light suddenly rose from under the rotten leaf ground all over the Sighing Forest. They pierced through the soil and stuck out of the rotten leaves, rotated mechanically a few times, and then looked together at the place where the contract reappeared.

Yes, these mechanical eyeballs didn't care about the whereabouts of the Twisted Giant Pythons; they just sensed the reappearing contract, then lit up with ghostly light, pointing the way for the "companions" looking for the contract in the forest.

After sensing the place where countless ghostly lights gathered, more than a hundred mechanical giant pythons, like Twisted Giant Pythons, slowly crawled out from their sleeping places underground, hissing and twisting, blending into the rushing python group without any sense of incongruity, and rolled crazily toward the place where the contract was.

At the same time, on the other side.

Cheng Shi disappeared, but he didn't re-board the void. Instead, he used the die he had hidden in the mushroom-foot tribe earlier to return to that tribe that was looking forward to the return of the God's Envoy.

When he and Xiang Honglin finalized all the plan details in the void, this poor mushroom-foot tribe abandoned in the Sighing Forest was never mentioned again.

Both of them tacitly skipped over them because they both knew that in the face of trials, the lives of NPCs don't count as lives.

Sacrifice is sacrifice. The death of thousands of people in the past history cannot stir up a ripple.

But Cheng Shi knew Xiang Honglin was not a cold-blooded player. She thought of them, just hindered by her own plan and unable to attend to them, so she chose silence.

Actually, Cheng Shi himself thought of them. This is a group of innocent lives that shouldn't become sacrifices for experiments or bets.

When choosing between two evils, Cheng Shi had no choice but to take the lighter one, but if he could scoop them up, this "asset" that might turn into extra chips on the table, he was also willing to scoop them up.

So after finding an opportunity, he came back to take a look.

Cheng Shi wasn't sure if the mushroom-foots were already exposed in the Sighing Forest the moment the contract was torn up; nor was he sure if Oupusika had already killed the mushroom-foots in anger before guarding the place where they disappeared when they boarded the void; nor was he sure if the mushroom-foots had already been eaten up by countless 【Decay】 creations when night fell just now...

But what if?

Holding this fluke, Cheng Shi appeared in the main house of the mushroom-foots, and then he saw countless trembling and terrified mushroom-foots surrounding the main house circle after circle, praying in low voices in the name of 【Prosperity】. The old patriarch was holding a blazing white lamp, standing in the middle of the house, constantly soothing these clansmen who were "withering" with 【Decay】 on their bodies.

He said: "The God's Envoy will not abandon us. Amir's disappearance doesn't mean He has taken back His forgiveness. This might be the fourth test, and the content of the test is our courage.

We must gather our spirits, stimulate the power of 【Prosperity】, and prove to our Patron with our bodies and flesh, prove that we mushroom-foots are His most pious followers!

Even at the last moment, we will not turn into 【Decay】, we are still 【Prosperity】's people!

My fellow clansmen, don't give up, the God's Envoy is already on his way back!"

But this sentence had almost been said to rot from the beginning of the night until now, and almost no clansmen believed the old patriarch's words anymore.

They felt that Amir's performance angered the Patron, causing Him to take back His protection, and the mushroom-foots who lost 【Prosperity】's protection were like rabbits thrown to the mouths of wild beasts, with no chance of living anymore.

The spread of 【Decay】 is not terrible; what's terrible is that despair is raging in people's hearts.

And just at this time, Cheng Shi appeared!

He listened to the old patriarch's trembling and hoarse voice fall. As soon as he landed, he shouted loudly to the mushroom-foots in front of him:

"Praise 【Prosperity】!"

All the mushroom-foots were stunned, and then looked up in disbelief at this God's Envoy who had returned, Lord Baldy!

He appeared again!

He appeared again when the tribe needed him most!

Cheng Shi's appearance instantly ignited the mushroom-foots' piety. They were so excited they didn't know what to do, crying fanatically, countless people covering their mouths and noses, sobbing, prostrating on the ground, shouting the name of "Lord Baldy" and the God's name of 【Prosperity】, hysterically venting the fear and gratitude in their hearts.

The old patriarch didn't dare to believe what he said was true. Seeing the God's Envoy really return, he "thumped" and fell down, crying more mournfully and loudly than all the clansmen.

"Lord Baldy, you finally returned. He didn't abandon us, what I said was true, He didn't abandon us!"

Didn't abandon? Sigh, maybe.

Cheng Shi sighed in his heart and helped the old patriarch up from the ground.

The old patriarch hurriedly leaned close to Cheng Shi's face and asked in a low voice:

"Lord Baldy, is this really His test?"

Cheng Shi smiled and nodded, but what he said next stunned the old patriarch on the spot, and even wiped out the sky-shaking cheers of the mushroom-foot tribe, making all the mushroom-foots who were shouting praises dumb and speechless.

Only hearing him clear his throat, he shouted mysteriously and sacredly:

"The next test you all will undergo is the fourth test, the courage of obedience!

In the time to come, please all His people...

Give up resistance, embrace 【Decay】, turn into a part of this Sighing Forest, and prove that you have the determination and... courage to firmly return with absolute obedience and piety!"

"Ah!!??"

"What!?"

"Lord Baldy, is the God's Oracle... wrong?"

"How could it be like this... how could it be like this..."

The old patriarch was also stunned. His brain was roaring and he had completely lost the ability to think. After being shocked for a long time, he grabbed Cheng Shi's hand and said in disbelief:

"Lord Baldy, we are 【Prosperity】's people. If we are exposed to 【Decay】 and do not resist at all, we won't become 【Decay】's creations, we will only be eroded by 【Decay】 and die directly in this forest land...

Has He... finally abandoned us?"

Cheng Shi looked at everyone's performance and sneered:

"Do you know why your tribe was exiled here?

It was because when you were conquering 【Decay】, you didn't follow the military orders and escaped without permission, so our great Patron exiled you forever to this battlefield of conquest, to atone for your sins in this enemy Sighing Forest.

But He is merciful, He still gave you a shelter, and now that the test is about to end, you can no longer get His protection. You need to prove your courage in this Sighing Forest, and the way to prove it is to firmly believe in the Patron's forgiveness, firmly believe that 【Prosperity】 will eventually come.

The moment you embrace 【Decay】, He will protect you and let you never die in this erosion of 【Decay】.

Believe, or don't believe, the choice is in your hands."

After speaking, Cheng Shi stepped back a few steps with a cold face and retreated into the corner.

Countless mushroom-foots looked at the serious God's Envoy, feeling anxious and panicked.

The old patriarch's expression changed again and again. After glancing at Cheng Shi several times, he finally made up his mind to accept the test.

"Clansmen! We are 【Prosperity】's most pious believers, we must have confidence, He has never abandoned us!

And Lord Baldy's arrival is the best proof of this forgiveness!

Since the topic of the test has been issued, then...

Everyone, give up resistance, embrace 【Decay】!"

As soon as the words fell, the old patriarch cut off his extremely weak "Prosperity" power and let the 【Decay】 aura pour into his body.

Seeing the patriarch like this, the mushroom-foots outside the house gave up resistance in terror and wailing, letting their bodies rot and age.

And just at this time, watching almost all the mushroom-foots starting to struggle on the edge of death, Cheng Shi, who was standing on the side with a cold face, finally showed a smile.

A playful smile.

Heh, that high and mighty Patron of yours, I'm afraid He can't save you...

But it doesn't matter, there's still God's Envoy me.

Regardless of what kind of God's Envoy I am, being able to save you is a good God's Envoy.

Thinking this, he secretly pinched the Die of Fate behind his back, his lips moved slightly, and he whispered:

"Lies are like yesterday, sneering at today.

Yesterday I deceived the believer of 【Death】, so today...

I am the believer of 【Death】."

As soon as the words fell, a ghostly green gradually ignited in Cheng Shi's eyes. He looked at the crowd prostrating in front of him and whispered with a light laugh:

"Today my mouth is the Book of Life and Death in the hands of the King of Hell, but anyone who is obedient will not die.

I guard the gate of 【Death】 for that Lord, selecting offerings, and none of you will be offerings presented to Him today.

Sorry for deceiving you, what makes you not die has never been 【Prosperity】, but... the great 【Death】!

Praise that Lord, we...

See you later."

After speaking, Cheng Shi dropped a die, snapped his fingers, and disappeared again. ===== CHAPTER 313 =====