Chapter 674: Adric? That

Adric? That's my father!

"???"

Gers was also stunned. He was startled by Adric's words and hurriedly shook his head:

"Impossible, Adric is the same age as me, how could he have a son this big?

What is your father's name? I mean before he changed his name, I know he once changed his name!"

"Hanks, his name was Hanks before he changed it!"

"!!!"

Upon hearing this name, Gers completely fell into a daze.

Oh ho, finally matched!

However, the time was wrong.

Seeing this reaction from the smuggler, a flash of light crossed the eyes of Cheng Shi and Li Wu at the same time. They looked at each other and reached the same conclusion in their hearts: a discrepancy of the past!

If nothing went wrong, this smuggler who knew Adric's father was likely someone thrown out of the past by 【Time】 and dropped into the present.

But he clearly said he fell from the 【Abyssal Volcano】. Could it be that all these "discrepancies" were related to the 【Abyssal Volcano】?

The 【Abyssal Volcano】 of the past connected the underworld and the surface at the same time. Could it be that the volcano in this trial connected the past and future of the same location?

It wasn't impossible. If one inferred this way, Adric's changes and Xiluo Lin's abnormalities might also be related to the Abyssal Volcano.

Both players clearly realized this problem, but the investigator's curiosity was far stronger than Cheng Shi's. He smiled, lifted Gers in his hand, and asked Adric kindly:

"Have you been to the 【Abyssal Volcano】 recently?"

"?" Adric was stunned, feeling that the other party had asked a nonsense question. As a miner, apart from the days he was imprisoned, he was almost every day at the 【Abyssal Volcano】, though he was just mining lava crystal ore on the periphery, not in the hinterland.

But he certainly didn't dare to say that, so he could only say honestly: "My lord, if you mean 'recently' as this week, then no, because I was locked up by Arad. But if it was a week ago, I worked on the mine almost every day."

"A week ago? Did Xiluo Lin come to find you a week ago?" Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow and continued to ask.

"Xiluo Lin?" Adric quickly recalled for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes, she did come once. She wanted to bribe me to help her steal Abyssal Color Crystals, but I am so loyal to the Hand of Agency, how could I......"

"If you lie again, I'll split you open." Cheng Shi sneered.

"I'm telling the truth! I can't even touch the Abyssal Color Crystals, so naturally, I couldn't agree to her......"

"......"

Hearing this, Cheng Shi didn't know why, but a "flash of inspiration" suddenly "twitched" in his brain, instantly connecting all the clues and figuring out the whole story.

"So after you refused her, she went to find your workmate, that miner who was locked up with you?"

Adric was stunned, his face awkward as he nodded, "Yes."

"But he was also just an ordinary miner, how could he steal crystals for Xiluo Lin?

However, your workmate was greedier than you. He still agreed to Xiluo Lin's request and took the opportunity to put forward his own requirements.

But his requirements were exactly the manifestation of admitting desire in Xiluo Lin's eyes, so she wouldn't refuse at all.

And just when they were cheering for desire, you, Adric, you loyal miner of the Hand of Agency, stole Xiluo Lin's money and took that money to the shantytown to get drunk and indulge, and even dragged Aromanini to the crystal pool to take a walk for a whole night, and finally, beat the person up before dawn.

This...... is the whole reason why Arad locked you two in solitary confinement, right, Adric?"

Cheng Shi's speaking speed became faster and faster. By the end, the words he said amused even himself.

And Adric, upon hearing this, nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice, confessing to the "crimes" he had committed, and even tactfully flattered him twice.

"My lord, you are truly amazing, you guessed everything."

"......"

Cheng Shi was numb. He only had one thought in his mind now, which was that he wanted to drag Chen Shu to the Gate of Inversion. He really wanted to know, with Chen Shu's level, after coming here, would he accept continuing education, or could he preach and solve puzzles for the residents here, letting their thinking level reach a higher level!

But these were just idle thoughts. At the moment, the most important thing was that the players seemed to have encountered another "discrepancy," and the clues proving this discrepancy were very clear, almost like a free gift.

This kind of thing was unimaginable in a trial of 【Time】. Cheng Shi and Li Wu looked at each other again, and in their emotion, they didn't know what to say for a moment.

After a long silence, Cheng Shi sighed faintly: "This is 【Fate】. He is always so...... magical."

Li Wu laughed loudly upon hearing this, and at the same time put his hands together and bowed to the air: "Praise 【Fate】! Sure enough, He has always been favoring us."

This sentence seemed to have no problem, but when Cheng Shi heard it, although the smile on his face didn't fade, his heart skipped a beat.

Something was wrong. This feeling of something being wrong came again.

He clearly remembered that during the second meeting and discussion at the inn, this investigator had personally said he didn't believe in fate. Why was he willing to shout praise for 【Fate】 now?

Do you also have a flexible bottom line like me?

No, no, that's not right. Li Wu...... he changed, but it seems he changed back.

Cheng Shi frowned, and recalled the scene when everyone first met at the beginning of the trial. Before leaving, the other party had asked the blind woman for a divination about the trial. At that time, he looked like he really needed the guidance of 【Fate】.

So, the investigator should have always believed in fate. But why, when they met for the second time, did the Master of Deception not tell him that he had told a lie?

Does he also have a means to deceive the Master of Deception?

Or is it that he just said it casually, and he was overthinking it?

Something is wrong, something is very wrong. When there were too many abnormalities in a trial, Cheng Shi instinctively became alert. He began to recall everything he had experienced within this day, constantly dismantling the details, wanting to find some clues in these memories to wake himself up, to see if he had unknowingly stepped into some trap.

But thinking back and forth, apart from individual players' words and actions not matching, there didn't seem to be anything worthy of attention.

Words and actions not matching...... why would words and actions not match......

The room gradually became quiet with Cheng Shi's silence. His gaze glanced over everyone in the room, and then swept over the watch in his hand, only to find that at this very moment, the next hour was about to arrive.

He was shocked, instinctively sending the scalpel in his hand toward the investigator. Li Wu was stunned at the sight, directly clamping the tip of Cheng Shi's knife with his fingers. A flash of astonishment crossed his eyes, and then he sighed helplessly:

"No way, Boss, you're even guarding against me?"

As soon as the words fell, Cheng Shi's heart shook violently, and thunder roared in his brain!

What...... is he saying!!?? ===== CHAPTER 675 =====