Chapter 591

Brother Narrator still needs more time to settle.

No wonder!

No wonder Zhen Yi knew so much history, no wonder every name she mentioned could almost be matched with a corresponding existence. It turned out she wasn't making things up at all, but recounting them!

It's just that the characters she recounted were correct, but the stories were all fake!

So, is that Herobros, whom I haven't heard of yet, also a real existence?

Cheng Shi's gaze sharpened, and he whispered to Xiang Honglin again, "Have you heard of Herobros?"

"Herobros?" Xiang Honglin frowned slightly and nodded. "【Hand of Cleansing Bookworms】, Messenger of 【Annihilation】. Why, have you encountered him?"

Cheng Shi was stunned. Was he really a Messenger of 【Annihilation】?

"【Hand of Cleansing Bookworms】 is the leader of the World-Destroyers of the Fallen Era, and also the guide who led the entire era toward annihilation.

He believes that everything in this world is a filthy bookworm, gnawing at the primordial universe every moment, so he annihilates everything to restore the original state, attempting to please his Lord through this."

These words were not spoken by Xiang Honglin; Long Wang had opened his history lecture hall once again.

But hearing this, Cheng Shi was completely bewildered, and his expression changed slightly. He remembered the group of World-Destroyers outside Kannar City in the previous trial and the leader surrounded by them, thinking to himself, could that person be Herobros?

But this was not the only reason for Cheng Shi's shock; what shocked him even more was that Li Jingming had actually mentioned the word "primordial."

Although "primordial" was not "origin," wasn't the meaning within it too similar?

Did he know something and was testing him on purpose, or was this kind of thing already in the story of Herobros?

However, Cheng Shi dared not ask this question, so he could only mask the shock in his eyes and return his attention to Chenosli.

Seeing that Cheng Shi did not follow up on his words, Li Jingming also raised an eyebrow, lost in thought.

He liked to discuss history with people; only through massive communication and exchange could he constantly complete his past memories, so he never hesitated to provide topics during trials.

But now it seemed that this Fate Weaver was still too guarded against him.

The three players fell silent again. Chenosli was still discussing with Mo Qiusi how to bypass the Grand Judgment Court and face the 【Order Iron Law】 directly.

Although the security of the Grand Judgment Court was not as tight as the Howling Iron Prison, not everyone could master the patrol and shift-change times of the Iron Law Knights.

As First-Rank Judges who had not yet entered the Grand Judgment Court, the two could only try their best to complete the timeline of the Iron Law Knights' guard duties based on their impressions, in order to choose a suitable opportunity to sneak in.

Chenosli's plan was for Mo Qiusi to stand guard at a crucial shift-change point on the outermost perimeter to keep watch for him, while he would take advantage of the shift-change gap to bypass all the knights and enter the depths of the Grand Judgment Court.

The entire plan was almost entirely made by Chenosli. He did not allow Mo Qiusi to speak, just to avoid dragging his junior into the water, but Mo Qiusi clearly cared about him, so he would always cough twice at critical points as a hint.

The process of discussing the plan was very boring, and Cheng Shi's mind wandered as he listened.

Although the time flow of the dream was inconsistent with the real trial, it was still wasting trial time. He wanted to urge Li Jingming, who held the power of 【Memory】, to speed things up, but Li Jingming was clearly very interested in every frame of the memory, so Cheng Shi curled his lip and began to space out, becoming dazed.

Xiang Honglin was the same; she was even more anxious than Cheng Shi, but she knew Long Wang better and knew that being anxious was useless, so she closed her eyes early and took a nap.

Li Jingming felt the changes in the two, his eyelids twitched. Perhaps to liven up the atmosphere, or perhaps to continue the previous topic, he suddenly asked Cheng Shi:

"You encountered Herobros?"

Cheng Shi was counting sheep. Being asked out of the blue, he instantly forgot where he had counted to. He looked at Long Wang with a speechless expression and said irritably, "You owe me sheep."

"?"

Li Jingming was bewildered. He now had a bit of a stress reaction to the word "compensation." As soon as Cheng Shi finished speaking, the anger suppressed in the bottom of his heart leaked out quite a bit.

Cheng Shi was just saying it to annoy him; naturally, he couldn't really want compensation. But he didn't answer Long Wang's question either, instead asking a question in return:

"Brother Narrator, in which era did Herobros become a god?"

"?"

Brother Narrator!?

Hearing this term, Li Jingming's eyelids twitched. Xiang Honglin, who was napping on the side, woke up with a start, grabbed Cheng Shi's shoulder, and scanned his entire body sharply.

"Who are you!?"

Cheng Shi was suddenly restrained, his eyes widening, but he immediately realized what had happened.

Oh no, he bumped into Zhen Yi's nickname again!

She also called Li Jingming Brother Narrator!

This is truly like bad luck's mother opening the door for bad luck—bad luck to the extreme!

However, there was no need to explain anything this time, because Cheng Shi knew that the Big Cat was purely stressed out and wouldn't fail to understand, so he put on an expression of "how can you not even tell a joke" and looked at the Big Cat with eyes full of teasing.

"No, Sis, I'm just annoying him, how did it make you stressed out?"

"..."

Xiang Honglin was indeed stressed. Her face first turned sheepish, then she looked Cheng Shi over again, recalled all his actions in this trial and in Dolgode, and only then pretended to be nonchalant as she released Cheng Shi's shoulder, forcing herself to say:

"What stress? Who's stressed? I was just training your reflexes to see if you were not cautious enough."

"..." Cheng Shi was so angry he laughed.

Fine, fine, I'm not cautious enough.

Even if I'm not cautious, I wouldn't be like some people who dismantle the door of the Howling Iron Prison and then turn around to fight the High Judge!

Seeing the Big Cat awkwardly turn her head away, Cheng Shi stopped paying attention to her and looked at Li Jingming, who was listening intently, repeating the question he had just asked.

Because he discovered that when the word "era" was mentioned, the other party rarely failed to answer.

Long Wang didn't stop speaking just because he was called by an unlucky nickname; he seemed... to have been asked into a blind spot of knowledge by Cheng Shi.

"Interesting, I knew you must have unique memories." Li Jingming chuckled twice, looking very happy. "Let's make a deal, Cheng Shi. Tell me what your so-called 'era' is, and whether it's the thing I imagine."

Li Jingming indeed didn't know about "eras," but after collecting a sufficiently large volume of memories, he discovered that some historical memories were abnormally chaotic due to different perspectives.

He had never been able to figure out why, until he heard that question from Cheng Shi today; he suddenly realized that those chaotic memories didn't seem to be linear.

Era... which era... this sounded like some parallel times, so could it be that memories were also parallel, which is why different memories appeared conflicting and chaotic?

Li Jingming's curiosity was piqued. He turned his head and looked at Cheng Shi with burning eyes, his eyes filled with a desire for new memories.

And Cheng Shi... refused the other party's deal.

He hadn't intended to tell Long Wang anything in the first place; he had deliberately said the word "era" just to make Li Jingming scratch his head...

Ahem, not entirely.

His own speed of collecting information was limited after all. To know more about eras, the right way was for many people to collect it together.

Cheng Shi had intended to contact the History School, but upon hearing that the founder of the History School was Zhen Xin, he backed down.

As for the reason... those who know, know.

So he set his sights on Long Wang again. As a 【Memory】 believer, Cheng Shi found it hard to cooperate based on this faith identity alone, but it just so happened that the other party was nominally a believer of the God of Fun.

Cooperating with a player who often blasphemes the God of Fun, isn't that a bit of fun in itself?

Since it is, it can count as an offering to Him!

Out of this "confidence," Cheng Shi acted; he gave the other party a small hint.

Of course, it was only a hint; otherwise, with his understanding of eras, he probably couldn't satisfy Long Wang's appetite for memory.

Once the fact that he was equally ignorant was exposed, the bluff he had just pulled would turn into a face under someone else's feet.

One must not do such a stupid thing.

"I have no interest in deals; I'm only interested in compensation.

It seems Brother Narrator's knowledge reserve is also average. I suggest you go down and settle some more."

"..." Li Jingming's smile froze, he frowned, and then nodded thoughtfully.

He seemed to understand.