[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-gods-foolish-game":3,"chapter-the-gods-foolish-game-the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-68":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Gods' Foolish Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2361196,4617,"Chapter 68: The Disappeared [Chosen by the Gods], and the New Trial","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-68",68,"\u003Cp>The Disappeared [Chosen by the Gods], and the New Trial\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xie Yang’s last trial took place in a small town called Hanlin, in the Kaniwal Empire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not something Hu Wei asked out loud—it was something he deduced from reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seventeen books he brought back were not historical texts at all, but trivial books bought by the pig farm owner for his own amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They contained his own handwritten reflections and childish doodles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The books covered many genres: from romantic tales like “That Beautiful Little Town Girl,” to suspense novels like “Kill That Commoner,” to specialized reference works like “The Life of the Pigbeast,” all present and accounted for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not a single proper historical text on the period’s human geography, politics, or social environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps history is called history precisely because it is written afterward by later generations to commemorate the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, those living in the moment likely did not care how they would be portrayed after their deaths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he gained no useful knowledge, it was decent enough to pass the time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least during these few days, Hu Wei, through the books, met a pigbreeder who worshipped [Birthing], a farm owner who worshipped [Prosperity], and a butcher who worshipped [Death].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way [Life] was applied to everyday life truly shattered Hu Wei’s rigid impression of faith as lofty and distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could not help but marvel: Their wills were everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During these days, besides reading, several major events occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest one was the shocking discovery among peers on the professional channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Career Channel]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sorry, ‘Only Carve Rotten Wood’ hit the top—[Decay]’s big bro got knocked down to #10, hahaha.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“To [Prosperity], cheers!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Laughed to death—where’s [Decay]’s crew? Can you really tolerate this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Funny thing, the Grand Marshal also dropped in rank—to #4—now the Mutes are on top, so annoying.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grand Marshal was the respectful title given by [War] believers to the [War Chosen]; since the [Faith] game arrived and the Ascension Ladder began ranking, the Grand Marshal had held #1 on the [War]\u002F[Silence] leaderboard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who could have expected that just two days after the last special trial, he lost five trials in a row and plummeted straight to #4?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“+1, [Order] dropped too, but #1 is still [Order]—just a new one.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit, what’s going on? Even [Fate]’s soothsayer dropped—now [Time] is #1, and they tied in points?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Amazing, amazing—a bunch of [Chosen] fighting in ranked matches, pure divine warfare, just thinking about it gets me excited.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know about others, but [Fate]’s Chosen didn’t drop on purpose—he lost to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“? I looked up and realized this was the Career Channel—why are you talking like this? I thought you opened the Faith Channel. Buddy, snap out of it, don’t fool yourself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lying? What do you guys talk about on your Faith Channel? Lying to each other?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How can you call it lying when it’s a cultural thing? Haven’t seen it in a while—wait, let me go check...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Back. Some are playing UNO with [The Gods], some are creating worlds, others are tweaking the Ascension Ladder scores in the backend.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing these unreliable posts, Hu Wei smiled faintly and moved on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the collective drop in rank among the [Chosen] made him instinctively feel something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When an odd thing happens often enough, it deserves attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why, just as trials grew harder, did the once-unshakable [Chosen] begin to lose points one after another?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Wei’s score wasn’t high enough to guess the reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after careful thought, there were only two possibilities:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One: they simply lost trials—many times—which meant they might be chasing something, relentlessly pursuing it even at the cost of losing points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other: the #1 position might be governed by rules beyond ordinary players’ comprehension, making it far harder to hold than people assumed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the trials were changing, there was no reason the [Chosen]’s difficulty wouldn’t change too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To find out what was happening, perhaps more observation was needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no matter what, moving forward cautiously was always right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A great wave is coming—some ride it, some drown. Hmm, hard to judge.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Wei opened his Ascension Ladder again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ID “Sincere and True” had now dropped to #47—meaning he must have lost dozens of matches without dying to reach this spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More astonishing still, the [Memory Chosen], Li Jing, had also started losing points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Ascension Ladder (Existence-Memory) \u002F (Void-Deception)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>1. Again #1, guys (Deception) 204\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2. This Feeling Can Wait (Memory) 201\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>3. Li Jing (Memory) 199\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4. Still Like a Dream (Memory) 198\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>5. He Runs, He Chases, He Can’t Escape (Deception) 196\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>46. Watching the Big Guy’s Escape Route ↓ (Deception) 179\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>47. Sincere and True (Deception) 179\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>62. I Never Lie (Deception) 164\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time raced like a runaway horse, never returning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seven days flew by, and it was trial day again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Hu Wei woke up smiling to face the trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason: the girl next door seemed to have vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t spoken to Xie Yang for seven straight days, leaving the boy heartbroken, convinced his beloved had died in a trial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Hu Wei heard this, he was stunned—he gripped his thighs so hard he almost didn’t laugh out loud in front of Xie Yang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Budebushuo , Xie Yang was a devoted man—he grieved for Xu Nuo’s disappearance for three or four full days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only on the fifth day did he recover, tying the love letter he’d written for Xu Nuo to a clothesline and lowering it to the window of Fan Tingting, a little girl living below Xu Nuo’s building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called it “using love to heal pain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Wei snorted two laughs and cursed himself for misjudging the man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he turned his back and gave Xie Yang a huge thumbs-up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re way more entertaining than I am, little Xie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m counting on your soap opera to carry me through the rest of my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Hu Wei thought and laughed, his vision turned red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Special Trial (The Vanished World [Annihilation]) Has Started]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Matching teammates (1\u002F6)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Trial Objective: Break the bindings, shed the chains, embrace destruction, attain redemption (3-day limit)]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Annihilation]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an [Annihilation] trial!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hu Wei stared in shock at the prompt, then leapt up and stuffed every survival tool from his storage into his personal space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t seen an [Annihilation] trial in ages—the last one was probably before he reached 2000 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trial arena was extremely simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one goal: survive in a world on the verge of annihilation, beneath terrifying natural disasters...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survive!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Match successful (6\u002F6), entering trial]\u003C\u002Fp>",1101,"2026-06-21T06:05:06.137Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","87ce3cef085299d054844f725f40578f09cb6a80dee599f9ec157b2f2093c48e","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-69","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-67",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-gods-foolish-game-cover.jpg"]