Chapter 392: Thief of Life!

Thief of Life!

(School opening day, 6000 words to ease the suffering~)

Zhang Jizu is a pragmatic person.

Although Cheng Shi knew this, he still underestimated the other party's degree of pragmatism.

After he finished saying these bluffing words, Zhang Jizu weighed them in his heart for a moment, then took out a pile of things he had never seen before from his personal space.

Cheng Shi watched him squat down and fiddle with the props, stunned:

"Old Zhang, what are you..."

"Regardless of whether He really thinks so, I suddenly feel that what you said makes some sense.

If my second faith is 【Deception】, then when others are racking their brains and repeatedly pondering what I say, their energy has already been consumed invisibly. In this way, it can be considered an extra layer of protective color on the path of saving one's life.

Since 【Prosperity】 has had no response for a long time, currently, 【Deception】 can be considered a good choice.

But given the situation, I am afraid that some incredible accident will really happen after this child is born, so I have to make some preparations.

Bet, sure.

But I prefer to add some weights to my chips, so that I can add some burdens to the winner when I lose the gamble, making him not win so happily.

Wait for me a moment; before the child's vitality is completely cut off, I can finish."

Saying this, Zhang Jizu took a pile of things and set them up in the cell filled with dice.

Cheng Shi looked at this graveyard manager like a priest painting here and drawing there, and really couldn't help but ask:

"What are these things?"

"I don't have your talent for instant teleportation. To be safe, I need to roughly calculate how many contingencies I can use to leave here before being sucked dry and dying instantly.

This is an ancient totem teleportation array from the Natural Alliance of the Civilization Era. Because the means of engraving totems are too complex and the materials for setting up the array are not easy to find, few people study it anymore.

But I like it because it is stable enough. Although it is troublesome to set up, it is very convenient to trigger, suitable for use as an escape route during positional warfare.

In addition, adding other prop elements to the totem can combine and fuse different powers, integrating some resurrection props into it; it's essential for saving one's life."

"..." Cheng Shi was dumbfounded. He watched Zhang Jizu skillfully setting everything up, swallowed his saliva, and asked, "Old Zhang, how many times have you drawn this to be so proficient?"

"Three times per round on average. Coincidentally, this round has also used three times."

"????"

Cheng Shi was stunned, disbelieving: "This round?"

"Hmm, set it up once in the outer courtyard of the Tribunal before setting the fire, set it up quietly while you were resting the night we escaped to the Tribunal to keep watch, and currently, it's just the third time...

Alright, finished drawing. This array currently has two functions: one is to instantly teleport yourself to a random area outside the array, and the other is to indiscriminately resurrect the life whose vitality is cut off within it and randomly teleport it to other places.

Both are means of saving one's life. The trigger method for the former is to press your handprint on the ground with your own blood, and the trigger method for the latter is death.

I hope we don't need the latter, but I suggest you cut your hand first, in case you don't have time to act when you need to use blood."

"..."

Cheng Shi was completely convinced.

No wonder the Squinting One said he couldn't die; you shouldn't be called Zhang Wenjian, you should be called Zhang Wensheng!

Listen to Wensheng, let's bleed yourself a bit first.

Cheng Shi honestly cut open the palms of both his hands, then took a deep breath and said:

"In that case, I'm going to start. Before that, I still need a prop."

Zhang Jizu raised an eyebrow and took out a new symbiotic strap from his personal space.

Cheng Shi was surprised: "You guessed it?"

"Hmm, I guessed you might need this thing when I heard you say you could make up for its vitality.

You are not a person who leaves danger alone; if the danger cannot be controlled, I'm afraid you wouldn't bet either.

But I'm even more curious.

What kind of prop do you have that can provide massive vitality to it, and in its half-dead state, how can you make it 'voluntarily' become a 'slave' to your strap, a sharer of vitality?"

Cheng Shi's expression was strange after taking the strap, and he automatically ignored Old Zhang's first question, laughed, and said:

"The mountain man has his own clever plan. Now you just need to help me stabilize its state, and then I will try to deliver it with my method."

Zhang Jizu squinted. Seeing Cheng Shi wouldn't say, he didn't pursue it, but directly held Tulading's hand, conducting an extremely rich healing spell through her corpse to the life in the belly.

"Do it, I look forward to your performance."

Really?

Since the audience is in place, the good show is about to begin!

Cheng Shi curled his lips into a ghostly smile, then squatted beside Tulading's corpse and began to chant some messy things.

Zhang Jizu listened to these things he couldn't understand, and couldn't even be sure if they were human words, and felt even more confused. But he had no idea that all this was Cheng Shi's smoke screen.

The trick to close-up magic is to divert the audience's attention. Just when Zhang Jizu was squinting and focusing on the changes in Tulading's belly, a mask suddenly appeared in Cheng Shi's hand behind his back, then slowly lifted to his neck, skillfully slid to his cheek, and covered his face.

At this moment, this priest of 【Fate】 silently became a...

Thief of Life!

Assassin of 【Fate】, Thief of Life!

Yes, what he put on was an assassin's mask.

When Cheng Shi confirmed that the child in Tulading's belly needed a lot of vitality to be born, he already had a plan in his heart, and the key to this plan was an assassin's mask and the remaining symbiotic strap in the Squinting One's hand!

The symbiotic strap can transmit vitality, but it has a fatal flaw: it requires the subject to voluntarily accept the sharing. But the child in Tulading's belly couldn't possibly accept this "aid" at this time. Even if it were awake, in the instinctive survival reaction of a life form, it couldn't possibly accept an outcome of being slaughtered.

After all, in a sense, it was no longer an ordinary baby.

That's why Cheng Shi put on an assassin's mask and turned himself into a Thief of Life.

As the name suggests, a Thief of Life is specialized in stealing others' fates. Under the blessing of 【Fate】, these assassins of 【Fate】 hide in the shadows, constantly examining the fates of all living beings. When they encounter a fate they are interested in, they appear and steal these people's fates, temporarily playing the protagonist of the script in this fate they have taken a fancy to.

Simply put, they can temporarily replace someone else's identity.

But how long they can replace and how deep they can replace depends entirely on their talent combination.

For Cheng Shi, he didn't have a shred of talent related to stealing fate, but this didn't prevent him from using the most primitive and basic skills to steal that fetus's fate, allowing himself to temporarily, even for a moment, become that fetus.

Then, he could replace the fetus and "voluntarily" become the other end of the strap, sharing vitality with his original self.

After that, it was time for the "Vitality" authority to shine.

The plan was perfect and went smoothly. Although Cheng Shi was startled by this freak in the belly, he encountered no obstacles when replacing it.

So Cheng Shi used the Squinting One's props to connect his vitality with the fetus's vitality. Under the other party's crazy absorption...

Nothing happened.

Facts have proven that Cheng Shi, who possesses 【Endless Life】, is basically immune to continuous damage.

Before long, Tulading's belly was visibly fuller. This state of plump flesh even fed back to her corpse, smoothing out the withered skin.

Zhang Jizu looked at all this, his pupils slightly condensed, his face full of disbelief.

You know, he is a priest, almost one of the top priests in the 【Faith Game】, but he had never heard of any prop that could continuously transport vitality to others like this!

Could it be an S-rank holy artifact?

No, he also has holy artifacts, but the effect wouldn't be this terrifying.

It couldn't be an SS-rank quasi-divine artifact. Most of these props are consumables containing power at the level of a god's relic. Using an SS-rank prop to save a child who will soon be annihilated in history is a bit too wasteful.

Unless...

Cheng Shi knows that this child will definitely not be annihilated in the trial background!

It can continue to live!?

Zhang Jizu was stunned, and then guessed in his heart:

Cheng Shi must know some secrets he doesn't know, even secrets related to 【Them】, so he is willing to consume props of this level to win this trial.

And this means that the child in Tulading's belly might have a great background!

Is it really the Holy Infant of 【Filth and Fall】?

Did Cheng Shi come to this 【Birth】 round with the will of 【Filth and Fall】?

Hmm, it seems to make sense, because he has been guiding the birth of this child from the very beginning. He used 【Filth and Fall】 to break the problem, preached to Tulading, and even laid everything out, just for its birth!

But there is still a problem in the middle of this, and that is whether the accident of 【Time】 was also in his expectation, and whether he quietly influenced the little assassin to make that decision?

Doesn't look like it; this little assassin looks really not very smart.

Then how could Cheng Shi be sure that this accident would not affect his own plan?

Thinking about it, Zhang Jizu became even more curious. He looked at Cheng Shi, who was sweating profusely and didn't dare to relax, with his peripheral vision, and thought:

How many secrets related to 【Them】 does this believer of 【Deception】 know? ===== CHAPTER 393 =====