Chapter 671: [Truth] The Worst-Reviewed Episode

【Truth】The Worst-Reviewed Episode

The crowd, hearing this, turned curious glances toward Allendur, but Allendur fell silent again, and the one who spoke up in response was Morabik, who had been quiet a moment ago.

"Lunzor is my father. Scholar, the portrait you saw may have been mislabeled."

Wang Mou was stunned, and kept shaking his head:

"It can't be wrong!

To find clues, I forced scholars of the Tower of Substance to draw their likenesses for me, and to prevent mistakes, I found several scholars from different eras. I..."

"Hey hey hey, that's not important, not important!" Cheng Shi grew anxious—he'd meant to warm up the room, not freeze it. How had the chat taken such a wrong turn?

The great scholar who looked like Morabik was Allendur's father; the scholar with the same face shape as Allendur was Morabik's father...

Wait—are you guys doing some kind of cross-family genetic mixing here?

If that's the case, who is whose father—do you really want to think about it in detail?

I thought you people of the Tower of Substance were so obsessed with research you ignored worldly affairs, but looking at this now—hiss—you're no less impressive than the Inverted Gate!

Cheng Shi was dumbfounded. He immediately cut off Wang Mou's words, and, forcibly suppressing the urge to gossip inside, pressed his hands down toward the crowd:

"Let the past be the past, 【Memory】 isn't much fun—we should enjoy the present.

Quick, let's start the experiment. The moment to witness a miracle is right before our eyes. Once this experiment is done, I personally concede that 【Folly】 has temporarily won a round against 【Truth】.

As for you, Doctor—if you want to keep watching, kindly shut that mouth of yours that's getting close to 【Truth】. This is 【Folly】's home turf now."

"..."

No fool was present; the only two non-player NPCs were both extraordinarily wise believers in 【Folly】. Everyone knew the true nature of the discussion just now, but everyone fell silent at the conclusion in their hearts.

Morabik and Allendur began preparing for the experiment with single-minded focus. The five players each mulled over the attitude of these two sages in their replies—they didn't seem to think it was anything unspeakable, and had even emphasized their blood relation themselves. So in the Tower of Substance, was this perhaps not something shameful at all?

Several players' eyes went wide. They sized up the two sages with amused smiles, then cast meaningful glances at the only 【Truth】 believer in the room. Even the quiet blind man couldn't hold back the smile at the corner of his mouth, lowering his head as his shoulders twitched.

This was simply the worst-reviewed episode of 【Truth】!

The experiment began. Morabik replicated his earlier operation, dutifully serving as the experimental support. Allendur carefully manipulated the fingers of that legendary great scholar. Wang Mou stood closest, holding his breath and focusing as he observed the scene, carefully noting down every operational detail under the two sages' hands.

But the time required to extract divinity was far too long. Allendur had also said that pulling the divinity out of this head-sized Abyssal Color Crystal would take at least an entire night.

The players really had no need to waste a whole night here, so after enduring two full hours together, they came up with a new shift plan.

Wang Mou certainly wouldn't leave—he wanted to observe the entire experiment from start to finish. Among the remaining four, the Inquisitor proposed a suggestion: as long as one person kept an eye on the Doctor, a two-person team could basically guarantee no accidents caused by players' private motives during the experiment.

But Cheng Shi played it safe, suggesting it was best to have three people together. That way, no matter how the remaining four grouped, there would always be one person from their own faction watching on site—and that was the most reliable method.

The two Torchbearers naturally had no objections, and voluntarily took the first round of "watching." This way, the free Cheng Shi and Li Li Wufang could take the chance to rest for a while, then come over in a few hours to swap shifts with them.

Cheng Shi was very pleased, because he also wanted to free up time to probe this Inquisitor who had inexplicably shown him goodwill, and ask what exactly had happened in this mine to cause such a change in them.

However, to dispel the others' suspicions and to make his approach less abrupt, Cheng Shi smiled and invited Li Li Wufang to go with him to meet that commission target of Xi Luolin's—Arad.

He wanted to borrow the Inquisitor's hand to deal with this Proxy's spokesperson.

Li Li Wufang gladly agreed. So the two players, fake smiles on their faces, left the mine outpost warehouse designated as the experiment site one behind the other, heading toward the cabin where Arad was held.

By now it was nighttime. Although the sky in the extreme distance had visibly darkened to the naked eye, the entire Inverted Gate, illuminated by the inverted lava waterfall of the 【Abyssal Volcano】, couldn't be called bright as day, but was at least "lit up by mountain fire."

The Fateweaver and the Inquisitor walked one behind the other like this, neither speaking first, neither making any extra moves.

Cheng Shi frowned slightly, constantly sensing Li Li Wufang behind him, but this Inquisitor simply showed no reaction. He looked as though he were merely responding to the invitation, following along with a smile on his face, utterly relaxed in both expression and posture. He didn't even quicken his pace to walk shoulder to shoulder with Cheng Shi, nor did he show any desire to speak.

This eerie atmosphere made Cheng Shi even more suspicious inside. Seeing that they had already walked some distance from the experiment warehouse, and the place where Arad was held was right before them, Cheng Shi felt that if he didn't speak now, bringing it up later would seem a bit too deliberate. So he thought of a reason, paused his steps, turned and asked with a smile:

"You..."

But the words had barely left his mouth when this quiet mine night was broken by a rustling of footsteps.

Cheng Shi and Li Li Wufang exchanged startled glances, their expressions suddenly stern. They instantly turned to look at the back wall of the house holding Arad—that crunching of soil was coming from behind it!

Someone!

From the sound, it didn't seem like a cautious person, yet the other party had somehow bypassed the Shrieking Servant's vigilance and circled up from the back of the mine.

Cheng Shi's brow furrowed slightly as he looked toward "Gong Gong Yangjiao," who was still standing guard at the outpost gate. "Gong Gong Yangjiao," sensing his master's summons, immediately sped around toward the back of the house.

Li Li Wufang, seeing this, clicked his tongue: "【Death】's things are handy, huh?"

"?"

Are we that close?

Brother, aren't you being a bit too familiar?

Cheng Shi muttered inwardly, but gave a calm smile on his face, pointed at where the sound had come from, and said with a grin: "What, were you expecting a priest to scout the way for you?"

Li Li Wufang, hearing this, instantly froze, the smile in his eyes turning serious. Without a word he went "whoosh" and followed the Shrieking Servant's footsteps, sweeping toward the intruder's location. Watching this strange reaction, Cheng Shi's slightly furrowed brow tightened another three degrees.

Why is this Inquisitor... so easy to talk to?