Chapter 655

The abnormality of "not getting beaten"

"She was in too much pain. I helped her get a temporary release, so now we have three units of manpower.

It's just a pity about my ball of yarn; it was a bit of a waste.

What are you looking at? I've always been this kind. No need to praise me; dedicate all praise to our benefactor. It was He who guided me to do this.

Let's go, my friends. Now, this is the most efficient plan.

As for you, Aromani, I believe you will be obedient and stay here to help us collect some useful information within your power, right?"

Aromani was terrified; she nodded frantically with a deathly pale face, like a chick pecking at rice.

"I like the shack area because the people here are really easy to communicate with."

Is that how "easy to communicate with" is calculated?

The Blind One was somewhat helpless; she shook her head and sighed: "Every time my impression of you becomes a little clearer, you promptly subvert and erase it. Cheng Shi, are you always this careful?"

"Careful, what careful? Are there enemies here?"

"... Forget it. Perhaps you have always been this cautious, but Fire-Bearers aren't worth you spending so much energy on. Qin Xin, let's go."

As she spoke, the Blind One took the lead and walked out of the shack, but after walking two steps, she suddenly turned back and asked Cheng Shi in confusion:

"By the way, this time, why didn't you use the 【Memory】 of 【Death】 to confirm what you just asked?"

Cheng Shi was stunned, then the corner of his mouth curled into a playful smile: "Why show off one's skill before an expert? With a believer of 【Memory】 here, he hasn't made a move, so why should I make a fool of myself? Am I right, Qin Xin?"

Qin Xin smiled slightly, glanced at the Xiluolin in his hand, and shook his head: "No need to waste effort. I trust our friend; your questioning was comprehensive, and 【Memory】 has no use here."

As he spoke, it was his turn to lead the way out of the shack. The Blind One raised an eyebrow and followed closely behind.

Seeing this scene, Cheng Shi frowned as well.

This believer of 【Memory】 was becoming more and more mysterious. Judging from the start of this trial, he seemed... not to have used the power of 【Memory】 yet.

Of course, what Cheng Shi considered "using" was personally using the power of faith, not borrowing some tool of 【Memory】.

But that wasn't the strangest thing. The strangest thing was the Blind One's attitude. This question asked by the prophet after she paused didn't look like it was aimed at him at all.

Hiss—

She also had suspicions about Qin Xin's identity?

Could it be that the founder of the Fire-Bearers and the Salary-Seeker still kept undisclosed little secrets?

Cheng Shi was amused. He silently noted this matter, then randomly chose a direction and walked toward the depths of the shack area.

But just as he stepped out of the door, he suddenly realized he had almost forgotten the time, so he hurriedly looked at the watch in his hand and found, coincidentally, that it would be the top of the hour in a few seconds.

Cheng Shi's gaze focused, and he instantly looked up. Seeing the Blind One had already walked a long distance and was about to turn the corner, he shouted to stop her, pointed at his own wrist, and said: "You two, be careful."

The Blind One understood, nodded with some relief, but when she turned back to look for Qin Xin, she found that this leader had already turned the corner and left with peace of mind.

It seems there was no danger here.

She smiled slightly, performed a brief divination, and then, holding a 2-sided die, continued forward with a strange expression.

The direction she chose herself seemed to be wrong?

Cheng Shi naturally couldn't see all this from behind. He also acted immediately, returning to the edge of the shacks along the path he came, enduring the filthy and unbearable noise around him, and throwing the dice in his hand one by one at the door of every shack he passed.

Yes, he had exited the central area and intended to re-explore the peripheral areas.

Two Fire-Bearers were enough for the central area. Cheng Shi was more concerned about these mud houses that looked like sentry posts on the outskirts of the shack area. These buildings were like tentacles surrounding the shacks, closely contacting other sectors, forces, and crowds of the Inverted Gate. Investigating here would clearly pull out more relationship networks and expand more circles of clues.

So he set his goal and began to scout the outermost edge of the shack area.

He had originally thought that even if this shack area was rotten and unbearable and believed in 【Filth and Depravity】, there should be some people doing serious work in the sentry towers acting as eyes, right?

As a result, Cheng Shi turned half a circle and found he was wrong, wrong to an outrageous degree.

The outside was no different from the inside at all. There were those playing, those drinking together, those whipping, those being punished; the complexity of the patterns and the multitude of names were breathtaking.

These members of the Extreme Desire Brotherhood didn't treat this place as a sentry post for keeping watch at all, but treated it as a novel experience area different from the shack style.

Look, they could even serve guests while on rotation; how professional.

"..."

Cheng Shi was numb. He walked while rinsing his eyes with water, thinking to himself that this faith of 【Filth and Depravity】 really shouldn't be touched at all.

Fortunately, he stuck to his original intention and would never bow to desire.

After exploring another stretch of road, Cheng Shi arrived at the other side of the shack area. Not long after walking northeast from here was the prison cell where Yaderike had been held before. He thought if there were no gains, he might as well bring Xiluolin's brother back on the way. Mastering two local snakeheads at once might make the actions of the next few days go more smoothly.

But just at this moment, just when Cheng Shi no longer held any illusions about the shack area, an abnormality appeared.

Just as Xiluolin said, when everyone is getting beaten and you are not getting beaten, you are the abnormality.

And in this mud house in front of Cheng Shi, there were two such people who "weren't getting beaten."

It was too quiet here. When others were busy with other things while on duty, how come you two were actually working here?

Cheng Shi smiled. He felt he had finally discovered something interesting, so after throwing a die outside the door, he knocked and stepped inside.

The two sturdy men inside were stunned at the same time upon hearing someone knock, and when they saw Cheng Shi's unfamiliar attire, their expressions turned to joy. They rushed to Cheng Shi in one stride, grabbed Cheng Shi's hand without a word, their words full of excitement.

"Mr. Morabik? It's been three days, finally waited for you. If you didn't come, my regular customers would have all run away!"

"???"

What the hell?

Cheng Shi was stunned.

He suddenly felt somewhat conflicted, not knowing whether he should respond or not.

According to his usual practice, if he encountered a situation where someone mistook him for someone else, he would definitely put on the persona of the person he was mistaken for at the first opportunity and quickly get some information out of the other party's mouth.

But today, he was facing two men from the shack area, and they were very likely people from the Extreme Desire Brotherhood. In front of such people, could this persona be worn?

They shouldn't strip off my persona completely... right?

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Without further ado, the January ninety-chapter mode is activated. Starting from New Year's Day, three chapters a day until the end of January. If there are no accidents, to be precise, it should be ninety-three chapters in January.

Of course, if there are accidents, I mean if... I will guarantee a bottom line of at least two chapters a day. The owed chapters will all be made up in February, and for every one owed, two will be made up. I will never deliberately delay updates (and I can't afford to delay them...)!

Finally, thanks again to all the friends who like "Foolish Play"! Bow, bow, bow!

New Year, new atmosphere, Tomato newcomer's ninety chapters in January, it's coming!