Chapter 811: Stay Away From Them

Stay Away From Them

The intensity is here!

Sure enough, once it involved the ear, things started to become complicated.

I don't know if the jacket Cheng Shi opposite discovered something. Being able to point out the name Long Jing meant that this trial had produced more variables.

Could Long Jing impersonate himself?

It wasn't impossible. This acrobat was also good at playing, and he and he had met before.

So, who exactly the two people in front were was truly hard to say.

Cheng Shi's eyelids jumped wildly, his face slightly solemn as he looked at the two of them. If this trial happened elsewhere, he would have the most convenient way to expose the identities of the two, which was to offer the Tongue of Lying and eat the two's disguises.

But he came to this trial for the ear, and the two "selves" in front of him were also highly likely here for the ear. This created a very uncomfortable situation, which was that he couldn't easily show the Tongue of Lying to others, lest the other party turn their covetousness for the ear to his tongue first.

Thus, after thinking it over, Cheng Shi rolled his eyes and raised the hand with the ring.

But at the same time, the windbreaker Cheng Shi sneered, used a dagger stained with 【Decay】 aura to cut his left arm, and then turned his entire left arm into a withered 【Decay】 arm.

And the other jacket Cheng Shi even threw out a die and held it in his palm, then curled his lips and opened his stance. That posture was clearly to convince people with force.

For a time, the scene fell into silence again.

Cheng Shi looked at the 【Decay】 arm that didn't grow on his own body with a dark face, and then looked at the die held in someone else's hand, his eyelids

Good, good, good, you've investigated very thoroughly!

You came prepared, didn't you!

You even used the exact same method to break the deadlock and prove your identity as I had in mind.

Since you're so good at acting, why don't you go play Zhen Yi!?

What's the point of playing a clown?

To make people laugh!?

Cheng Shi was truly so angry he laughed; he pointed at the two of them: "Tsk, interesting, but don't you two have any self-awareness about whose hands the real items are in?"

The jacket-wearing Cheng Shi smiled playfully, his gaze toward the other two slightly disdainful: "You act like me so well, you couldn't have studied me on purpose, could you? Tell me, you two, what's the matter, are you interested in me?"

The trench coat-wearing Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow even further, looking at the jacket-wearing Cheng Shi with an unfriendly expression:

"I thought he was the real Zhen Yi, but looking at it now, you seem even more like it?

Zhen Yi, if you really have the strength, why don't you let me see if you can replicate the combat style I used in the experimental field.

An illusion is an illusion after all; it's fine to fool others, but don't fool yourself."

"......"

Before the jacket-wearing Cheng Shi could react, the suit-wearing Cheng Shi got anxious.

Come on, buddy, don't fool yourself either; you really think you're Cheng Shi, don't you!

If you're Cheng Shi, then who am I!?

Cheng Shi's eyelid twitched even more violently, but no matter how much they mocked each other, no one on the scene made a move, because everyone knew that fighting here was meaningless; even if they exposed each other's identities on the spot, what then?

As soon as one person disappeared, another Cheng Shi would appear when they returned.

This situation was clearly no longer just a simple matter of identifying identities; the moment the three Cheng Shis saw each other, whoever was stripped of the Cheng Shi persona first would be equivalent to admitting they were inferior to the other two.

Therefore, in this "competition," only the winner might possibly reveal their identity; the losers, whoever they were, would only ever be Cheng Shi.

"......"

It was precisely because he had figured this out that Cheng Shi was even angrier.

However, anger did not disrupt his thinking; to identify who the others were, he had to first study why they were playing him.

The possibility of it being Zhen Xin was very low; she had just owed him a favor, so there was no need for her to appear here to impersonate him; even if it really were her, he believed he had the confidence to recognize her when the three of them separated later.

Zhen Yi...... there was no reason; this kind of thing was too normal for her; it would be abnormal if she didn't cause trouble. Furthermore, she knew he had taken the Tongue of Lying, and since she wasn't afraid of being exposed even then, she must be planning to play a big game.

Don't forget, she also controlled her sister's information channels in the Historical School, so it was reasonable for her to know about the Sandlais incident.

However, the attitude of Long Wang appearing here was a bit intriguing; what exactly did this believer of 【Memory】 want to do?

As for Long Jing...... heh, this one in the jacket was most likely really him.

In that 【Truth】 experimental field, the combat ability of the Fate Weaver was obvious to all; since even Ai Si knew the outcome of the experimental field, it meant that everything there had long since spread among the players.

Well, that's great, he was completely famous now.

And Long Jing might have seen this opportunity and taken the chance to play him here; after all, who would dare to disguise themselves as a warrior with superb strength in front of the real one?

Unless he himself was a warrior!

He knew about the Tongue of Lying, so he could naturally find out about the Ear of Secret-Peering, but the timing of his appearance here was quite coincidental, happening exactly when he himself had also come to Sandlais.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi's gaze toward Long Jing held a hint of mockery.

He had a way to handle this acrobat.

However, there was no need to identify any identity issues here at this moment; in front of another person, two liars could never have a moment of sincerity, so it would be a better time to break them one by one after everyone dispersed.

Thus, Cheng Shi withdrew his hand, and coincidentally, the other two Cheng Shis thought the same, so the standoff that had been tense just a moment ago inexplicably fizzled out.

The three of them looked at each other, each smiling with deep meaning.

On the other side.

Zhang Jizu frowned and stopped his steps; he heard Ai Si's footsteps ahead disappear, disappearing just as she turned the corner of the fork not far ahead.

Although this Supervisor had never lied from beginning to end and her personality seemed like a normal person's, he had to be on guard for the sake of stability.

So he gripped his scalpel again, erased the sound of his footsteps, and walked toward the passage.

But before two seconds had passed, Ai Si's voice rang out in the passage again, only this time, her tone was somewhat solemn.

"Found it, but I'm too late; the person is already dead."

Zhang Jizu frowned but did not change his pace of approach due to the unexpected appearance; he walked slowly until he had a clear view of all directions at the fork, and only when he confirmed there were no problems did he squint his eyes and walk toward Ai Si and the corpse at her feet.

The last teammate was dead, having died silently in a place far away from everyone else.

"Male, early 20s, also a priest; what a coincidence, this round not only has three Cheng Shis, but also three priests.

Looking at the Grand Court of Judgment emblem on this clothing and the legal texts in his arms, he should be a Justice Official.

The only believer of 【Order】 died at the start of the trial; does this mean this trial will have no order at all?

Interesting, truly very interesting.

As for the cause of death......"

Ai Si tapped the corpse lightly with her blade; the corpse looked normal, but under this light force, the chest and abdominal cavities still caved in directly. This scene made Zhang Jizu squint his eyes tightly, frowning as he said:

"【Annihilation】."

"Correct, it looks like 【Annihilation】; a believer of 【Annihilation】 annihilated all the internal organs of this Justice Official.

Interesting; so in a trial of only six people, where did the seventh believer of 【Annihilation】 come from?

Could it be that among those three Cheng Shis, there is a player of 【Annihilation】 fishing in troubled waters?"

It wasn't impossible, but it didn't seem likely; at least judging by the scene when they met earlier, none of those three Cheng Shis had the time to do all this.

However, there was another possibility.

Zhang Jizu walked up and began to carefully observe the corpse; not long after, he reached a conclusion:

"The corpse is indeed fresh, but the time of death is far earlier than the start of the trial.

So this is not a player who died in this trial."

As he spoke, he reached out toward the corpse, but the corpse had no reaction, so the squinty-eyed man became even more certain of his speculation; he raised an eyebrow and said:

"The corpse cannot be resurrected, which means our teammate made very sufficient preparations; he seems to want to leave behind a corpse to cover up the truth of his departure.

This is indeed a player who wanted to hide and become a lone wolf, but since he chose to hide, why were his methods so crude?

Even if it weren't in a round like this, this eye-catching method would be very difficult to truly cover his tracks.

So his meaning in throwing this corpse here is probably not as simple as just disguising himself."

Hearing this, Ai Si understood.

"Intimidation, deterrence, watching from the shadows?"

"Correct; she not only notified us that she had left, but also told us that she would be watching us from the shadows.

I have indeed seen this kind of method before, but I had thought...... she was already right in front of us."

"Who is it?"

Just as Ai Si's doubt was voiced, a cold snort came from the main passage behind the two of them.

"Of course it's Zhen Yi, what a master of trickery repeating old tricks!

But this is even more interesting; if the one who ran away is Zhen Yi, then you two...... who are you?"

The trench coat-wearing Cheng Shi walking at the very front turned his head abruptly, looking at the other two trailing far behind.

The brief separation just now had caused the images of these three Cheng Shis to change again; now, the suit-wearing Cheng Shi was gone, and there was one jacket-wearing Cheng Shi and two trench coat-wearing Cheng Shis in the field.

It seemed someone had had a devious idea and secretly changed clothes, but this method of changing clothes seemed to have been exposed given the current situation.

But not necessarily, because no one knew exactly how many Cheng Shis had changed clothes.

Zhang Jizu looked at the corpse in front of him and the Cheng Shis behind him, his temples throbbing faintly.

Sure enough, a trial that could be linked to 【Fraud】 would definitely not be simple.

"What now?" Ai Si's posture was still relatively relaxed; she considered herself to have watched a great show.

Zhang Jizu pondered for a moment and made the most correct decision for the moment:

"Stay away from them."