Chapter 782

End? This play, it's only just begun!

At this moment, Cheng Shi also suddenly realized that the chips the other party wanted to snatch from the so-called transaction were not Ke Wei's finger, but actually...

Himself!

It was Cheng Shi himself!

Oh no, it turns out they were aiming for the authority on him!

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi's face sank.

Correct, Cheng Shi guessed right, at least half right.

Ke Wei did indeed take a fancy to Cheng Shi, but he didn't see that Cheng Shi had authority on him. In the end, he was just a thief who stole divinity and "assembled" himself into a false god. Before truly stepping into the threshold of becoming a god, he couldn't feel the existence of true authority.

He just saw that Cheng Shi's body was far more suitable for his "descent" than 0221, who had spliced faith, so he changed the steps on the fly, wanting to occupy Cheng Shi's shell.

Little did he know, the suitability in Ke Wei's eyes was simply because Cheng Shi was acting as the authority for 【Prosperity】 and 【Decay】!

He couldn't feel the existence of authority, but that didn't mean he couldn't perceive the harmony of these two powers on Cheng Shi. The harmony of authority on Cheng Shi was far more perfect than the so-called faith-splicing on 0221. If he merged with Cheng Shi, perhaps he could preserve more of the power he had accumulated in the Doomsday Hanged Man.

So it's no wonder Ke Wei had crooked thoughts about Cheng Shi.

No 【Truth】 believer, seeing a more perfect "data" at the final moment of an experiment, would likely choose to turn a blind eye. Thus, Ke Wei changed the experiment on the spot, slowly leading this "shell" more suitable for him here by manipulating the attack frequency and appearance locations of the tentacle clusters in the testing ground. This was also why 0221 had been so "candid" earlier.

Of course, there was no "candor" in this candor; it was all calculation. Ke Wei had no intention of asking for Cheng Shi's consent at all. After confirming that the Fate Weaver was not on the same path as him, he had already begun preparing the shell replacement procedure, and 0221's appearance was precisely to buy time for Ke Wei's final preparations!

Yes, Ke Wei was indeed already in reality. This great scholar of the Creation Alchemy school, who should have disappeared from the history of the Hope Continent, was now going to seize Cheng Shi's body!

He would bring the will of a false god, stolen divinity, a longing for 【Truth】, and the madness carved into his genes, and become one with this perfect body to complete the experiment!

After that, there would be one less clown in the world, but one more scholar closer to 【Them】!

So the moment the preparations were completed, 0221, who received the signal, moved—or rather, the Weird Mother Tree moved. At this moment, that huge tumor suddenly disappeared from Big Jiang's field of vision and abruptly appeared beside Cheng Shi. It could have teleported within the testing ground, but it had put on a show of being hindered in a thousand ways when returning for support earlier!

Perhaps all the concealment was for the current surprise attack, and the sudden appearance of this tumor left the Fate Weaver and the Doctor unable to react in time.

"Boom—"

The tumor exploded without warning.

Its sudden appearance was already shocking enough, but 0221 didn't give the two people below any chance to react, letting this tumor, comparable to a land-based sun, explode directly before their eyes.

The two were blown away without surprise. The Doctor spat out a mouthful of blood, immediately drank the bottle of life-saving Past Prosperity that Cheng Shi had just given him, and then decisively pulled up the Fate Weaver, turning and diving into the shadows where flesh and blood were splattering.

But when he appeared in the shadow plane, he realized that he had actually... grabbed empty air?

There was no one beside him! Cheng Shi was gone!

Wang Mou widened his eyes, his brows sank, and he immediately drilled out of the shadows to search everywhere. But in the sky full of debris and blood mist, it was not easy to even distinguish directions, let alone find someone. And what was even more worrying was that the location where the tumor exploded was not empty, but had somehow grown a huge, towering tree.

That explosion did not completely obliterate the tumor, but rather seemed to vent its huge internal pressure, allowing countless tentacles to extend completely from within, intertwining together to become a thick, sturdy trunk, connecting all the tentacles between the sky and the ground in this space.

At this moment, countless tentacles shook and spread in unison. They intertwined and wove into a prison, tightly wrapping the entire reality space inside.

Not only that, the horror from 【Birth】 was far from over, because Wang Mou clearly saw countless eyes and mouths opening on the countless shaking and twisting tentacles. These human-like organs were not some twisted mutations spliced from newborns, but more like the remains of organs from real players!

At this moment, he finally realized how this so-called Weird Mother Tree was spliced together.

It was not a pure 【Birth】 newborn splice, but also spliced countless 【Birth】 players!

So every murmur, every whisper, and every roar in this testing ground was perhaps a dirge sung by these 【Birth】 players who died with their eyes wide open.

Seeing this scene, the Doctor's face turned even worse. He could barely see the path ahead or hope; the road leading to 【Truth】 seemed to be blocked by a polluted "Truth."

And just at this moment, just when he was at a loss, a familiar voice sounded behind him.

"Tsk, I say, Doctor, are you fighting or not?

If you're not fighting, could you please move aside a little? You're blocking my way to fight."

Wang Mou woke up with a start. Looking back, he saw Cheng Shi had appeared behind him at some point. The other party was covered in blood and scars, looking very disheveled, but the fiery fighting spirit in those eyes could not be hidden no matter what.

"You..."

"Me what me?

Thought I was dead?

Heh, kidding. If I fell here, then I'd be a hell of a Fate... Clown!

Don't worry, this good play, it's only just begun!"

As he spoke, Cheng Shi sneered and kicked off the ground, his explosive momentum clearly indicating that he was no longer a Thief of Another Day, but had become a Pointer Warrior!

Yes, Cheng Shi had changed his mask.

The moment he was blown away, he escaped into the shadows, tore off his mask, and put on a new one. In any case, when dealing with this kind of combat situation, the Today Warrior was the fiercest.

Especially after merging with the Pointer Knight, Cheng Shi's combat intuition began to soar. He could always catch the gaps in the tentacle cluster's lashes, positioning himself in advance or dodging quickly. In short, under the storm-like output of the tentacles, he was like a small boat swaying wantonly in the wind and waves but still breaking through the waves. Even if he was rolled into mid-air by a huge wave, he just didn't capsize!

Soon, he rushed toward 0221 along the tentacle steps leading to the middle of the building. Facing Cheng Shi, whose strength had suddenly increased, 0221 was not panicked either.

He was just becoming more and more curious about this body that the mentor had taken a fancy to, to the point that he started thinking about whether he could quickly conduct an additional experiment before this experiment ended, and the content of this additional experiment was...

To splice this "perfect" shell with himself again!

In this way, on the road to approaching 【Truth】, he might be able to "walk side by side" with the mentor again.

"Hehehe—well come, well come indeed!

Fate Weaver, there has never been a moment when I needed you as much as I do now."