Chapter 607

An unexpected joy! New news about the shattered mask!

Cheng Shi was anxious. In his heart, he kept harassing the Lips of Envoy Envoy Yu Xi, wanting to know if what Long Wang said was really true.

There's a reason he's called Long Wang; even the second-ranked follower of 【Deception】 becomes a sycophant to the Messenger upon hearing the name 【Envoy Envoy Yu Xi】, but this guy, in just a few sentences, directly denied this identity he had fabricated for himself and pointed straight to the core of the problem: the mask is the true body!

You're so right, brother!

I made up so many things just to figure out what kind of existence Mouth Brother really is!

Now, hearing your words is better than asking Mouth Brother for ten years!

Mouth Brother, say something, Mouth Brother. I know you're listening. If you have the ability to lie to me, why don't you have the ability to respond?

Someone pointed out your identity, so you're too afraid to make a sound, right?

Good, good, good. I knew that playing heart-to-heart with Long Wang would yield great results. I am just too clever!

Cheng Shi was happy. He felt he had found the right direction. The Lips of Envoy Envoy Yu Xi and the Tongue of Lying must be parts separated from a 【Deception】 creation, and that complete mask might truly be a mysterious existence like the 【Truth Ritual】.

But the surprise Long Wang gave Cheng Shi went far beyond this, because before Cheng Shi could get a response from Mouth Brother, the other party said again:

"Speaking of which, my memory seems to have recorded an object similar to a part of a mask."

"Of course, before I knew of the existence of the Lord 【Envoy Envoy Yu Xi】 you mentioned, I only thought it was a strange extraordinary item. Now it seems, hmm, it is very likely a part of the mask you are looking for."

"!!!"

Cheng Shi immediately straightened his body, took a step forward to Long Wang, grabbed Long Wang's hand, and said with incomparable seriousness:

"Where is it? I can exchange any memory you want to know for its location."

Li Jingming was taken aback. He looked at his hand being gripped until it turned white, and said with a laugh that was not a laugh:

"The memories you have given are already enough, Cheng Shi. I am not a person who hoards things, but that place is indeed not easy to go to."

"It is a city located in the mid-era of civilization, called Sandlais."

Cheng Shi frowned, remembering this place.

This city belonged to the Tower of Rationality. Its location was very remote, close to the northern snowfields. Because the land was vast and sparsely populated and it was cold all year round, it was often used by the great scholars of the Tower of Rationality as a dumping ground for various experimental waste. It is said that it only prospered for a period of time before it was completely abandoned.

"Can you be more specific?"

"There are no additional memories. You have to thank the fact that this memory came from another follower of 【Memory】. If it weren't for him collecting the memories of merchants from the Tower of Rationality out of piety, perhaps I would never have known that such a thing could still be there."

"?" Cheng Shi was stunned. "Then how are you sure it's related to the mask I mentioned? The clues are too few, aren't they?"

"Because it looks very much like something created by 【Deception】, and even more like a part of a mask."

"It is a pair of ears. In the ghost stories of Sandlais, it is called..."

"The Ear of Secret Peeping."

The Ear of Secret Peeping!!!

That's right, it must be right. Just hearing this name, Cheng Shi knew that this Ear of Secret Peeping was definitely a part of the mask!

Although the talk of the shattered mask was just his own fabrication at first, now it seems that he might have guessed it right. Mouth Brother and Tongue Brother are ninety-nine percent likely to be fragments of a mask!

So Cheng Shi began his bombardment of Mouth Brother again, and this time Mouth Brother responded, but it didn't seem like it was responding to Cheng Shi; it was more like it was lamenting some past.

Most importantly, it did not respond in consciousness, but spoke directly.

"·Sandlais, huh... what a distant memory."

"!!!"

Cheng Shi was dumbfounded. Mouth Brother dropped a vague sentence and ran off, leaving him with twitching cheeks, not knowing how to respond.

Fortunately, this sentence aroused Li Jingming's curiosity. He raised an eyebrow and asked with a smile: "It seems you have been there, and it seems something interesting happened?"

I've been there, my foot!

Cheng Shi was numb. Good, good, good. Mouth Brother, oh Mouth Brother, you really have to find me something to do, don't you.

He twitched the corner of his mouth and quickly clarified: "Just a casual remark. I heard people mention it in a previous trial. That trial took place near Sandlais. Looking at it this way, I accidentally missed it."

Li Jingming nodded thoughtfully:

"Perhaps it was not accidental. 【Fate】 is formless, traceless, and nowhere to be found. When you are not supposed to know these things, He might not lead you to the right place."

"You are a follower of 【Fate】, you should understand this better than I do."

Understand? Heh, I don't just understand, I... I understand too well. Isn't this just predestination!

Cheng Shi smiled slightly, shielding some blasphemous whispers in his heart in time.

Seeing the other party smile strangely, Li Jingming shook his head: "State your conditions, Cheng Shi. I don't want to bear a blank check that I can't fulfill and add unnecessary pressure to myself for no reason."

Cheng Shi rolled his eyes: "First tell me what Zhen Yi did to you."

"This is your condition?"

"No, this is the exchange for you hearing about the 'era'."

"?" Li Jingming was stunned, his expression becoming somewhat helpless. "Many people exchange memories not to remember, but to..."

"Gossip!" Cheng Shi's eyes lit up, and he smiled happily. "I'll lay my cards on the table. I just want to gossip, but this gossip is something you promised to cut, so hurry up. After you finish, we'll move on to the next topic."

"..."

Li Jingming gave a wry smile, nodded, and said: "Exchanges should indeed be fair, but this matter is indeed... bad luck."

Soon, Long Wang gave a rough account of what happened between him and Zhen Yi. This was something that happened shortly after the establishment of the Historical School. At that time, Long Wang found people from the Historical School in order to exchange memories.

At that time, he still appreciated the pragmatic style of the Historical School, so he paid a high price to get a referral from someone else and met the helmsman of the Historical School, Yi Zhen.

Of course, at that time, Long Wang didn't know that this "Yi Zhen" was neither remembering nor true, and was not the founder of the Historical School, but the founder's younger sister, that swindler whose reputation had not yet been ruined, Zhen Yi.

The time he went to meet her was very unfortunate. At that time, Zhen Xin happened to have her account taken over by Zhen Yi, so the person who met Long Wang became the younger sister who liked to tease people.

To join the Historical School, in addition to having profound knowledge of history, one must have personally witnessed a major event that occurred in the Continent of Hope. These conditions were not difficult for Long Wang, so he recounted an experiment that took place at the Tower of Rationality and passed the basic assessment.

It's just that this examiner was particularly harsh on him, and after the basic assessment, he had to "sit and discuss history" with him.

But Long Wang did not reject this kind of in-depth communication, so he began the memory exchange with the "examiner" just like today.