Chapter 845: Cheng Shi? Or Zhen Xin?

Cheng Shi? Or Zhen Xin?

Upon hearing the name Zhen Xin, Cheng Shi let out a scoff, shook off Clown's hand, stepped back two paces, and clapped his hands as if in admiration.

"Clap, clap, clap."

"Impressive, truly impressive.

Although I have told myself more than once not to underestimate your tricks, I was still shocked by your wild imagination.

This plan is good, no, it should be called perfect.

Since you replaced Clown to perform in Sandless's play, the real Clown was probably hidden by you long ago, right?

Indeed, those extra hours gave you ample time to set everything up.

What an impeccable scheme!

You risked your life alone, even willing to die before our eyes, precisely for this very moment; you calculated that someone would not let your corpse go, would turn back to resurrect you, so you directed that chase just now, luring all unrelated people away.

I guess Old Zhang the Squint and Ai Si could cooperate with you so well because of me, right?

You played me in front of them, didn't you?

You had my memories, you know me, you knew I would definitely return, and even more, you knew that even if I guessed there was a problem with Clown's corpse, I would not let this opportunity slip.

But as long as I return and appear here, the others in this trial will learn through your mouth that I secretly came back and took Clown's corpse, but what they don't know is that Clown was swapped long ago.

You found all the truth, yet you dumped the blame entirely on my head.

Even at the moment I discovered the truth, you used your sister's name to mock me...

Heh, you dog, I was right, Zhen Yi!"

After saying these words, Cheng Shi frowned slightly; he had indeed instantly figured out everything that happened today, but the only thing he couldn't figure out was why the other party would "mock" him at this very moment. He understood the motive, after all, a bad-luck thing has no logic; it just goes with the flow of bad luck.

But what about the timing?

This timing is way too off.

You must know the trial hasn't ended, which means I still have a chance to turn the tables; how does the person surnamed Zhen dare to lay all their cards on the table right in front of me?

Isn't she afraid I will find that Clown she hid?

For a moment, Cheng Shi's eyes showed suspicion as he fell into deep thought.

And just as Cheng Shi frowned and pondered, Clown on the ground stood up with a strange expression, brushed the dust off his clothes, and said with an indescribable look:

"Zhen Xin, don't be like this, I'm scared.

It's fine to fool others, but don't fool yourself too.

You really think you are me, you..."

The words had just reached this point when Clown froze; he suddenly thought of something, pulled out a mirror with a shocked expression, and looked at himself in the mirror.

Reflected in the mirror was Cheng Shi's face; messy hair, arched eyebrows, round eyes, and shrunken pupils all showed that the person holding the mirror right now was Cheng Shi, and a shocked version of Cheng Shi at that.

But since my disguise has already ended, then this "Cheng Shi" across from me... why is she still performing?

Who is she performing for?

There are no audience members on the field anymore, and I certainly cannot be an audience member for a liar who plays herself.

When everything becomes unreasonable, the most unreasonable option undoubtedly becomes the answer, so Cheng Shi immediately figured out one thing: that Zhen Xin, just like Zhen Yi, must have a talent for playing others, and Zhen Xin's talent is even more terrifying, because she...

Even fooled herself!

That sentence just now might have been a lucky shot; this "Cheng Shi" does not believe she is Zhen Xin, because she fooled even herself; she always believes she is the real "Cheng Shi," a Cheng Shi with Cheng Shi's memories, Cheng Shi's personality, Cheng Shi's perspective, and the Zhen sisters' talent... Cheng Shi.

Thinking of this, Clown's expression became even more spectacular.

Correct, the Clown on the field is indeed Cheng Shi, the real, genuine Cheng Shi, and to explain all of this clearly, it probably needs to start from before the trial.

Cheng Shi's purpose for coming to Sandless was not for sightseeing or guest performances; he came to take the Ear of Secrets.

And to gain something in a trial approaching a "【Deception】 Creation," not preparing a bit more won't do, so Cheng Shi called for many helpers before the trial and formulated his trial plan early on.

And this plan, speaking of it, was actually learned from Zhen Yi: that is, at the very beginning, forge a scene of player death, and take the opportunity to break away from the team and blend into the background of the trial, approaching the truth with the identity of "enemy" in the open while I am in the dark!

Correct, the corpse at the very start was not left by the Zhen sisters; it was left by Cheng Shi, and as for how this corpse came to be...

Do you remember Cheng Shi's deal with Big Cat?

Cheng Shi once asked Big Cat to find him something, and that thing was the corpse he wanted to set up in the next trial!

Plus the Coffin of Molten Fire given to him by Xie Yang, he easily brought this unresurrectable corpse in.

This was the fallback plan he built for himself; first, he was carrying the Lip of Foolery and the Tongue of Lie-Eating on his person, so during the process of approaching the Ear, who knows what "guidance" or what "dragging the legs" words and deeds these two big brothers might have; if there is anything strange in the crowd at that time, it is very likely the teammates will see through him.

Although he called for many helpers, no one could be certain that teammates praying simultaneously would definitely enter the same trial; moreover, the Clown knows himself well; he knows not every trial can go exactly as he wishes.

Second, this trick of the golden cicada shedding its shell once fooled himself, which means this tactic is indeed useful; Cheng Shi understands the principle of "learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians"; the growth of deception is itself a process of constant refinement.

But what he didn't expect was that in this trial, he really encountered the "barbarian" in "learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians"; the person surnamed Zhen also came, and the other party even played him.

Of course, these are all things that happened later; it was only after Cheng Shi met his teammates that he discovered the teammates in this round were each more capable of making a scene than the last.

The perspective continues to move with the real Cheng Shi; when Cheng Shi left a corpse and departed from the underground passage, he immediately touched the surface above, finding a group of Qin Qin Shi Huang gathering to keep warm.

Breaking into an NPC group is for a liar even simpler than eating and drinking, so very quickly, a newly arrived Qin Qin Shi Huang blended in, listening to almost all the news of Sandless.

And when Cheng Shi heard that the Land of Piety was shrouded by a mist, he almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

What's going on?

This round... a guaranteed pass?

Why is there a mist blocking outsiders from entering, why is the end of this mist exactly the place hiding the secret; you are leaking the answers so blatantly, isn't that making others think I, who possess the 【Muddy Water Fishing】 talent, am cheating?

Oh, others don't know?

Then it's fine.

Continue cheating, continue having fun!