Chapter 32: A Story, and the Second Final Gate

A Story, and the Second Final Gate

"What?"

Bai Fei behind him was startled by him.

Cheng Shi said quite excitedly:

"Bai Fei, he mentioned a broker!

So is it possible that the guard didn't know who those dwarves were, but only recognized this ring?"

Bai Fei wasn't stupid and immediately understood Cheng Shi's meaning.

If the guard hired the dwarves through a broker, he shouldn't know what the dwarves looked like or who they specifically were; at the very least, he shouldn't know all the details.

And the dwarves in the servant's room clearly had no logical errors.

They even knew to kill the invading players to silence them.

Bai Fei widened her eyes suddenly and said incredulously: "But... but the answer has clearly appeared..."

Fang Shiqing also echoed:

"Cheng Shi, the memory maze has never had a second answer."

Heh, forbidden arts had never appeared in the 【War】 trials either, didn't they encounter one last time?

"I remember, the oracle of the clip, the points rolled were... 5?"

Hearing Cheng Shi call her "clip," Xu Lu was extremely angry, but didn't dare to make a sound.

Fang Shiqing was thoughtful: "Yes."

"So this prophecy, is it possible it's telling us we have another 50% choice."

Cheng Shi looked at Xu Lu and said word by word:

"She has 1600 points, the dice has 10 sides, 5 points, exactly half."

"!!!"

Everyone was stunned, but no one refuted, because what Cheng Shi said did indeed make sense.

And the prophecy of 【Fate】, until the end, no one knew what it meant.

"But we don't have another piece of evidence or clue to find the second answer. Cheng Shi, there are too many people in the manor, and too many people have died. Our situation is very passive."

"But we at least have time, don't we?"

Cheng Shi smiled, took a step, and said:

"I thought of someone. Perhaps, she is one of the answers."

"Who?"

Bai Fei followed closely. Fang Shiqing hesitated for a moment and also pulled Xu Lu to follow.

Xu Lu was very unwilling to follow, but Fang Shiqing gripped her tightly, and she couldn't break free.

Clearly, Fang Shiqing still trusted Cheng Shi; she didn't want Xu Lu to go to her death.

But Xu Lu clearly didn't think so. The look in her eyes toward Fang Shiqing also carried anger and sarcasm.

The former big thigh seemed to have lost her mind.

The believer of 【Time】 is bewitching people!

Cheng Shi led everyone away from the second floor and quickly searched the manor.

The banquet guests indeed hadn't left and were still laughing as usual, as if the Duke's lateness was already a convention.

He didn't pay attention to these brainless nobles, led everyone to quickly leave the banquet center, and came to the initial servant's room.

Just when everyone was confused as to why he came back again, Cheng Shi looked at the ground at the door and laughed.

Fang Shiqing looked along his gaze and found some fine sand under the threshold, which had been stepped on by someone to leave a shallow footprint.

"This is?"

Cheng Shi pointed to the ground and smiled:

"The soil in the yard.

I thought long ago that no matter who it was, for whatever reason they invited these dwarves, when they found that they failed to appear at the right time and place, they would definitely come to investigate to see what happened to these dwarves.

So I sprinkled a handful of fine sand at the door.

And now, you see it too, a footprint of a noble lady's high heels."

Bai Fei finally got it this time. I don't know if it was deliberate cooperation or if she really didn't understand, but she asked:

"What does this prove? Uh, the Duchess has been here? The Duchess has a relationship with that broker?"

Cheng Shi looked at her like she was a fool. Before he could speak, Fang Shiqing to the side pondered:

"It proves that the Duchess is not as simple as we imagined.

Cheng Shi said she had a big reaction to the Duke's death, but since these dwarves were hired to assassinate the Duke, she shouldn't have appeared here.

If I have to say it, there is only one point, and that is that she knew long ago that the dwarves would come!"

"Not bad!"

Cheng Shi nodded and said: "As the Duchess, yet being unusually concerned about the dwarf circus from the refugees recently, this already explains the problem."

"What problem?"

"I have a guess, but before I find the Duchess, I dare not assert it."

Fang Shiqing nodded immediately: "Split up and search!"

She pulled the resentful Xu Lu and left quickly. Bai Fei secretly leaned over and whispered:

"Big Boss, are you really not hiding it this time?"

Cheng Shi smacked his lips and said with disgust:

"If I hide it again, I won't be able to get out. I can't rely on you!"

Bai Fei smiled embarrassedly:

"Sorry, Big Boss, I'm too weak."

This sentence, so familiar.

Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment, looking at Bai Fei's slightly apologetic face, his gaze softened a lot.

"It's okay, Big Boss, I can lead you to win."

Saying this, he strode out of the room and began to search for the Duchess.

Bai Fei lifted her dress and hurriedly followed behind.

It wasn't until half an hour later that they found the Duchess who was "going out" on a small path behind the manor.

Looking at the Duchess who wanted to leave in a hurry, the players decisively knocked down the surrounding guards and stopped her.

The Duchess looked at these strangers and questioned angrily:

"Who are you? What do you want?

On the land of Brooks, in the suburbs of the Duke's manor, you actually attempted to attack the Duke's wife. Are you crazy?"

Cheng Shi walked to the Duchess and asked with a grin:

"Are you really the Duchess?"

Dilal's face stalled, and she said with shame and anger:

"You will pay the price for your stupidity!"

Cheng Shi didn't pay attention to her and said to himself:

"Sorry, Madam, taking up some of your time, I want to tell you a story. After I finish, you can leave.

I promise, my companion won't hurt a single hair of yours."

Dilal was stunned: "Really?"

"Really, but you cannot pursue our offense afterward."

"You... you came here just to tell me a story?"

"Yes, respected Madam, can we start?"

Dilal's expression was very hesitant, but the situation was stronger than the person, so she had to accept:

"Then tell it."

Cheng Shi bowed and said slowly:

"What I want to tell is a story about a group of dwarves polluted by underground faith who attempted to steal the town's administrative power through imitation and acting."

As soon as the words fell, Dilal ran backward without hesitation.

Fang Shiqing's expression changed. She quickly took out a page and threw it on the road where the Duchess was running, causing countless vines to trip her to the ground.

Bai Fei was quick-eyed and fast-handed, quickly flashing to her side to prepare to tie her up.

But just as Bai Fei took action, she found that the rope directly strangled the Duchess's waist and tore her skin.

And at the edge of the broken skin, a pair of huge soles and a bald head were actually revealed.

"???"

"This..."

"Dwarves!?"

Everyone looked at Cheng Shi in disbelief. Cheng Shi let out a heavy breath and smiled elegantly:

"Look, this is the story I was going to tell."

Fang Shiqing still couldn't believe it. She asked with some shock:

"When did you discover it?"

Cheng Shi thought for a while.

"Probably... when I remembered hearing them impersonate many people in the tavern?"

Fang Shiqing regretted again that he had rejected the Fire-bringer's invitation.

Cheng Shi was clearly a high-end 【Player】, a strong person who was good at observing details and mastering people's hearts.

Most importantly, from beginning to end, his heartstrings had never been dark.

Even when he killed Huang Bo.

"Big Thigh, why do you keep looking at me?"

Fang Shiqing sighed: "You know what I'm thinking!"

"You say that, I'm not the roundworm in your stomach."

Cheng Shi walked close to the "Duchess" and pulled out the two dwarves hidden under the human skin.

As soon as the two ugly dwarves saw the light of day, they covered their faces and wailed:

"It was Sanbos's idea. He let us impersonate the Duke and the Duchess to control the town. We were just following orders, don't kill us!"

"I have no interest in killing you, I just want to know, who fell into the memory?"

After saying this, two hypnosis spells hit the two of them.

This time Xu Lu didn't move her mouth, and Fang Shiqing didn't speak, so Cheng Shi had to do it himself.

After he finished asking, the dwarf playing the lower half of the Duchess exploded into countless stars with a "bang," re-condensing into a Final Gate.

The second Final Gate!

"This... there really is a second one."

"!!??"

Fang Shiqing looked at the second gate in front of her, her expression mixed.

"Cheng Shi... are you really not going to reconsider what I said?"

Xu Lu and Bai Fei's gazes refracted between the two. Cheng Shi smiled casually:

"No, thank you."

After saying this, he bowed to everyone and said happily:

"The performance is over, please leave in an orderly manner, audience."

Clearly a small interlude to adjust the atmosphere, but no one at the scene moved.

Cheng Shi looked at this awkward scene, twitched the corners of his mouth, and prepared to lift his foot to leave.

However, at this moment, Bai Fei moved.

She hugged Cheng Shi's arm with a smile, kissed Cheng Shi on the face quickly, and then rushed toward the Final Gate like a swallow returning to its nest.

Just as she was about to step into the gate, Cheng Shi suddenly said:

"Why choose Him?"

Bai Fei's footsteps stalled. She looked back, threw a wink at Cheng Shi with a smiling face, and said:

"Isn't it because I like it?"

After saying this, she rushed into the gate without looking back.

Her answer was a rhetorical question, but also an affirmative one.

Cheng Shi was stunned, and then laughed.

He wasn't laughing at Bai Fei for being straightforward, but laughing at her for lying.

As partners who had met by chance but lived and died together, he would never delve into anything.

But knowing that Bai Fei was lying was already something worth being happy about.

It was not easy to live in this world, and there was no reason to judge others.

What's more, she hadn't hurt anyone.

Watching Bai Fei disappear behind the gate, Cheng Shi's smile was radiant.

But Fang Shiqing's face didn't look good. She really wanted to make another invitation, but she also knew that Cheng Shi probably wouldn't accept it.

Helplessly, she had to walk toward the Final Gate.

Before entering, she pushed Xu Lu forward. Clearly, she still didn't want her to be left alone with Cheng Shi at the end.

However, what these two didn't expect was:

Just as Xu Lu was about to be pushed into the Final Gate, she suddenly struggled violently and ran away.

She ran dozens of meters away, looked at the stunned Fang Shiqing and Cheng Shi who was tilting his head in confusion, and shouted hysterically:

"Fake! It's all fake! He's lying!

Sister Fang, he's lying!

This is all his scam!

Don't believe him!

This gate is fake! We will all die if we go in!" ===== CHAPTER 33 =====