Chapter 585: Make a Friend

Make a Friend

(Although there are no three chapters today, it's a super large cup!)

Cheng Shi couldn't see what talent Li Jingming was preparing, but he could feel that this move was very strong.

So, he used a curve-saving-country move to force the other party to stop.

He knew that before the situation had a turning point, the other party would definitely not tear his face off. The fanatic of 【Memory】 could never give up this memory about the 【Iron Law of Order】, so as long as he held onto Chen Shu, the only one in this bottom-most dungeon who had faced the 【Iron Law of Order】 face to face, he could hold the Long Wang's lifeline and force the other party to stop.

Sure enough, Li Jingming stopped. Seeing Cheng Shi holding a 'hostage,' his eye twitched violently, and he said coldly: "Kill him, and you will also lose the chance to understand Him."

"I don't want to understand."

"You want to."

"Are you a repeater? A Long Wang-brand repeater?"

"..." Li Jingming was originally pulling with Cheng Shi in a board-and-eye manner, but when he heard the words 'Long Wang,' his eye twitched even more violently. "What do you want?"

"What do I want?" Cheng Shi laughed, laughing holding his belly. "Shouldn't I ask the Long Wang what you want?"

"It's very simple. You and I cooperate, relight the Dream-Peering Candle, and go into Chen Shu's memory to find some secrets lost in the long river of time."

"Cooperate? Is this how you cooperate? Playing an investigator and tricking me down from above?"

"I couldn't trick you; you wanted to come down anyway." Seeing that the situation seemed to have stabilized, Li Jingming's face softened.

Cheng Shi sneered:

"You are a God-Chosen of 【Deception】, how could you not trick me? If I hadn't grown an extra heart, I might have been tricked to death by you by now.

Why, do you want me to go into Chen Shu's memory to scout the way for you?"

"..." Li Jingming didn't say a word.

"No, you dog thing, you really want to!" Cheng Shi laughed angrily. He pointed at Li Jingming. "You followers of 【Deception】, your hearts are all dirty."

"..." Li Jingming sighed lightly. "I am not a follower of 【Deception】, I am a follower of 【Memory】."

"Oh, should I praise you for being pious to your old master, or should I scold you for being an ungrateful white-eyed wolf on behalf of the God of Fun?"

"You on behalf of the God of Fun? From what position do you scold me on behalf of Him?" Li Jingming frowned, suspicion rising in his heart.

"Uh..." Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately made up for it. "As 【Void】, after all, He is the sibling god of my benefactor, and you, as an impious 【Void】 walker, deserve to be scolded."

Li Jingming sighed again. He had already seen that Cheng Shi would not continue to fight. The other party was just worried about his own safety during the cooperation, so he had not let go.

Of course, he also saw Cheng Shi's indignation at his hiding his identity. He did have the intention of letting Cheng Shi scout the way. In his plan, after understanding this Weaver of Fate, he would immediately enter the dream and try his best to help the other party in the possible danger of the dream, selling a good favor to reconcile the misunderstanding of hiding his identity before.

But now it seemed that the plan was all messed up.

The other party's overly cautious attitude made Li Jingming unable to find a way to break the situation for a while.

How could this person be more careful than that squinting-eyed person who believes in 【Death】?

Cooperation between peak players is often like this: one second you trick me and I deceive you, but the next second you might agree to fight the enemy together because of common interests. How could this rhythm fail completely on Cheng Shi?

Li Jingming changed his view of Cheng Shi's personality again, adding another one besides cunning and madness: cautious.

A Weaver of Fate who is clearly strong but overly cautious.

He frowned and glanced at the time, finding that there wasn't much left. If they continued to stalemate, all surprises in this trial with unexpected joys would be smoothed out by time.

So Li Jingming pondered for a moment and chose to make concessions, concessions for the sake of collecting 【Memory】.

"I can compensate for my deceptive behavior just now." Li Jingming looked at Cheng Shi quietly, his expression seemingly certain that the other party would be moved.

Sure enough, the moment he finished speaking, Cheng Shi's eyes lit up immediately.

What? Compensation?

That... if you compensate enough, the little, little, little misunderstanding between us just now... ahem, it's not impossible to understand each other.

After all, we don't know each other without fighting, and fighting is also a way to warm up feelings quickly, right?

Seeing Cheng Shi's excited gaze, Li Jingming nodded thoughtfully, and recalling the scene where the other party extorted his teammates above the dungeon, he completed Cheng Shi's image again:

A cunning, crazy, powerful, warrior-mage dual-cultivator, overly cautious... and greedy Weaver of Fate.

"It seems the misunderstanding between us is resolved?"

Cheng Shi shook his head quickly:

"That depends on what you can compensate.

I tell you, there will be sequelae after being deceived. I have never been deceived by anyone. Being deceived for the first time is inevitably more hurt, and it will become very difficult to trust others in the future.

So..."

"Need to add money?"

Cheng Shi's eyes lit up: "Thoughtful! So you have to calculate an extra portion of mental consolation money."

"..."

He wasn't greedy, he was very greedy.

Li Jingming was speechless. He even wondered how greed could be expressed at the same time as caution in one person.

But thinking too much is useless. At this moment, saving time is saving time. He quickly took out a page from his personal space, a page flowing with azure light, extended from 'never-breaking water foam.'

"One of His 【Time Notes】, originally could use 【Past Reappearance】 three times, but now there is only one left.

I think you should understand the value of 【Past Reappearance】."

Understand! I understand too well!

The brilliance in Cheng Shi's eyes flashed and disappeared. He slowly withdrew his hand reaching toward Chen Shu to show friendliness, nodded satisfactorily, but shook his head quickly:

"This can only be considered the commission for Li Zhen hiring me. What follows is the compensation for you, Long Wang Li Jingming."

"..." Li Jingming's eyelid jumped, and he only felt a fire rising in his heart. "Cheng Shi, I have to tell you, sometimes memory is not necessarily something that must be collected."

"Is that so?" Cheng Shi sneered and reached out the hand he had just withdrawn.

Seeing this, Li Jingming gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath: "I originally thought we could become friends."

"Indeed we can, just add a friend's meeting gift."

"..."

The fist hardened.

Li Jingming had never felt so powerless in a negotiation. The person opposite him was soft and hard to eat. The most important thing was that he was clearly so interested in the 【Iron Law of Order】 matter, and even returned from the void to the Howling Iron Prison, but he just refused to cherish time, confronting himself meaninglessly for a little bit of petty profit.

What is he doing?

Whose will is he practicing?

Is the path of 【Fate】 walked like this?

How does it feel like the path of 【Deception】? Where is he asking for compensation? Isn't this clearly creating fun?

Li Jingming was dazed. At this moment, the images of those two 'Thems' in 【Void】 seemed to overlap slightly in his mind.

Could this be the true path of 【Fate】? Otherwise, why would he be favored and summoned by 【Fate】?

But if what Cheng Shi walked was the real one, then why could the blind man become the number one on the 【Fate】 list?

Just as Li Jingming was frowning and thinking, Cheng Shi coughed twice thoughtfully.

"Ahem, pay attention to the time, class is almost over."

"..." What a 'class is almost over.'

Li Jingming opened his eyes suddenly, gritted his teeth, and took out two more things from his personal space.

A hazy thread that seemed to exist or not, and an exquisite wooden small hammer two fingers long and one finger wide.

"【Memory】's 'Reflection of the Past' and 'Sea of Memory Appraisal,' one can let you leave the shadow of the past, and one can give you historical enlightenment about the space-time you are in.

Two S-level props, plus one SS 【Past Reappearance】, enough to offset the commission, compensation, and consolation money, right?"

Cheng Shi looked at the three high-level 【Memory】 props in Li Jingming's hand with fiery eyes and gasped.

Hiss—

What a local tyrant behavior!

No wonder he could always exchange memories with others. If the Long Wang is always so generous, who wouldn't like to exchange memories with him!

Since ancient times, the dragon race has loved jewelry. I'm afraid I've met a real Long Wang this time.

Cheng Shi tried his best to hide the shock and satisfaction in his eyes, nodded nonchalantly, but shook his head quickly:

"This can only be considered the commission for Li Zhen hiring me. What follows is the compensation for you, Long Wang Li Jingming."

"..."

"..."

"Fine, fine, fine!"

Li Jingming didn't know what tone these 'fine' words were squeezed out of his throat. He handed over the things in his hand one by one with a dark face, while Cheng Shi put all the compensation he deserved into his personal space with a cheeky face.

Tsk, another full harvest day!

When the 'fair' transaction ended, the Weaver of Fate, who was happy in his heart, raised his head with a gentle face and smiled:

"That... Long Wang, are we still making friends?"

"?"

The sound of fists clenching rang out in the dungeon again. ===== CHAPTER 586 =====