Chapter 483

"Dead men tell no tales"

"If the scroll you mentioned depicts the future, I can responsibly tell you that we have a high probability of witnessing this scene with our own eyes.

But if that gathering happened in the past..."

Jiang Chi sighed and said.

"You all know that 【Time】 is not 【Memory】, and backtracking is not a reenactment. Once it happens in the past, this matter will become very tricky.

But in any case, we must first determine one thing, and that is whether the current time is in the front or the back.

Miss Poison, although our cooperation content is not this 【Gift of Scars】, if you rewrite the matter of helping you find this dagger into the agreement, I can also accept it.

Of course, the price... will rise slightly."

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow upon hearing this; he was very interested in the price mentioned by this 【Time】 believer.

Poison curled her lips and nodded, accepting it without doubt: "It should be so."

"Damn it, stop blathering, take out that puzzle and let us see it first. If it's real, the first thing isn't to locate the time, it's to kill that annoying madman Gong Yangjiao first. Otherwise, living in fear every day, how can we find anything?"

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Cheng Shi looked at Da Yi in astonishment, thinking to himself: Didn't you say yourself to walk around him when you see him, brother? Why are you going back to kill him now?

No, you 【War】...

Jiang Chi also frowned slightly upon hearing this. Only Poison, who never defied Da Yi's wishes, nodded readily and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."

Da Yi hummed and laughed, seemingly very satisfied with Poison's response, but in an instant, he darkened his face, turned his head, and spat.

"Damn it, don't give me that."

Poison pursed her lips: "Can't I listen to you?"

"... No, no, yes... Damn it, it's really troublesome to be with you. Hurry up and take out the puzzle, let's set off once we've seen it, don't waste time."

Cheng Shi watched the clash between the two with great interest, having a realization in his heart.

So Poison was showing... obedience to Da Yi.

Interesting, Da Yi has a desire for control?

Cheng Shi had matched with Poison a long time ago. In the review after that trial, he saw that this 【Corruption】 assassin was like a top-tier salesperson, but she wasn't selling products, she was selling emotions.

She had many faces to deal with different "clients." She would provide different emotions tailored to different "clients," making her "clients" fall into the enjoyment of these emotions and thus generate different desires in their hearts.

And the price of these emotions was to let the "clients" indulge their inner desires.

Yes, she never asked for anything, only hoping you would be happy!

But that is the most terrifying part!

Sinking, sinking—once you sink into it, you become a plaything of desire!

It was very clear that Da Yi appreciated Poison's obedient attitude, but he had to be wary of the other party's intentions, because once you fall into Poison's emotional trap, you develop an addictive feeling that clings to your bones, making it hard for him to escape this bed of depravity woven by 【Corruption】.

It's not that his willpower isn't strong enough, but that Poison has enough means to corrode his willpower. After all, if one falls into a trap even when sober, how can someone lost in the trap have the strength to climb out?

And this is also the reason why Cheng Shi is wary of her.

Even though the other party had long known that he lacked trust and was willing to "sell" trust to his face, Cheng Shi really didn't dare to buy this kind of trust.

He was also afraid of falling into it himself.

So this is why top players have mixed reviews of Poison; those who love her think everything about her is good, and those who hate her do so because everything about her is good.

Although she walks on the path of 【Corruption】, she has opened up a track that no other 【Corruption】 believers have explored, which is "catering" without leaving a trace.

Everyone who knows her knows that her attitudes and emotions are fake, yet they are unconsciously attracted to her, because they know that even if Poison is fake, her fakeness is truer than anyone else's truth.

She shows friendliness to the mummy, obedience to Da Yi, and trust to Cheng Shi... This 【Corruption】 God-chosen can always provide the right emotion at the moment the "client" needs it most, and then silently wait for the other party's desires to surge.

It is because of this that she was able to surpass a crowd of terrifying 【Corruption】 believers and ascend to the Ladder of Audience in a "seemingly weak" posture.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi suddenly became curious: what would the current Poison show to Jiang Chi?

Seeing Da Yi urging her constantly, Poison's expression finally changed slightly.

Her expression became somewhat uneasy, and her eyes began to wander, but when Jiang Chi also looked at her suspiciously, the curled corners of her mouth finally couldn't curl up anymore. Not only that, but a trace of awkward flush also stained her cheeks.

"It's gone."

"?" Da Yi's gaze sank, and he said coldly, "Gone? Damn it, Poison, I suggest you look again."

Poison pursed her lips, her expression becoming somewhat complicated.

"I can't find it, because that bandage puzzle has already been snatched away by Mr. Horn."

"!!!" Jiang Chi was dumbfounded, "Gong Yangjiao?"

"Yes..." Poison's expression was even more awkward, "I couldn't beat him, and he snatched the girl's relic from my hands... isn't that normal?"

"Then doesn't he also know the whereabouts of the 【Gift of Scars】!?"

"No, the madman swallowed the bandage the moment he snatched it, saying that even if a person dies, they must die in his stomach.

So, that picture now only exists in my mind and in Gong Yangjiao's stomach.

Of course, the second possibility is more demanding; it probably requires that from the time he ate the bandage until now...

He hasn't excreted it."

"......"

"......"

"......"

The room instantly fell silent.

Cheng Shi could understand that reality is absurd, but what he didn't understand was that Poison didn't do any artistic processing—everything she said was true!

6.

What a "dead men tell no tales."

"If you don't believe me, I can draw it."

As she spoke, Poison actually took out a pen and began to draw on the floor.

Watching her furrow her brows while recalling and moving the pen slowly, everyone felt that it would probably take ten days or half a month to finish the drawing.

But the trial only lasts 5 days; who can wait for this drawing to be finished?

Cheng Shi rolled his eyes and made a suggestion: "I have quite a few props that can reproduce 【Memory】. If not, stop drawing, suffer a little grievance and let me flip through the past."

As soon as he finished speaking, the hand Poison was holding the pen with paused, but she quickly covered it up, looked up at Cheng Shi with a wronged face and said:

"Then you come, remember to be gentle."

"......"

Cheng Shi curled his lips. Naturally, he didn't have any ghost 【Memory】 reading props; he just saw that Poison was acting to gain sympathy, so he wanted to expose it. Seeing that the other party agreed, he instead laughed it off:

"I was just talking nonsense to adjust the atmosphere. However, don't you two have any 【Memory】 props?"

Jiang Chi looked at Cheng Shi thoughtfully and shook his head with a smile. Da Yi frowned, secretly thinking it was bad luck.

He looked at Poison with gloomy eyes, scrutinized her for a long time, then gritted his teeth and said hatefully:

"Damn it, I'll trust you once, Poison. Don't treat me like a sucker, otherwise don't blame me for turning around to help Gong Yang and raising his ranking."

Poison lowered her head and eyes, very grateful: "I never lie."

"?"

Stealing lines, are we?

Cheng Shi was stunned. He really didn't expect an interrogation to end like this, but looking at Da Yi gritting his teeth, he had to re-evaluate the importance of this dagger to Da Yi.

It wasn't just him; Hu Wei's determined look was also fresh in his memory. So how did two people who both wanted to obtain the 【Gift of Scars】 reach a cooperation agreement so peacefully?

Could it be... they weren't looking for this thing for themselves?

Cheng Shi frowned and noted this matter in his heart, but just as he looked up again, he clearly saw the corners of Poison's mouth curling up slightly again.

His heart sank, but he smiled.

Look, a "client" has already taken the bait.

So, was the decision made by this 【War】 assassin influenced by 【Corruption】?