Chapter 861

You play yourselves, I will play Envoy Envoy Yu Xi.

"You... are playing Envoy Envoy Yu Xi again?" Zhen Xin looked at Cheng Shi in astonishment, her eyes unreadable.

Hearing the word "again," Zhang Jizu narrowed his eyes slightly and asked thoughtfully: "When else have you played Him?"

"..." Cheng Shi's expression stiffened slightly.

There have been too many times; which one do you want to ask about?

But Old Zhang's questioning wasn't over; he followed up immediately:

"I remember you met Him at the end of the fourth month, so you have played Him since then?"

The end of the fourth month?

Hearing this specific time, both Cheng Shi and Zhen Xin were stunned.

Zhen Xin had the memory of Cheng Shi's first half-year of trials, so naturally, she could deduce that even if the other party had met Envoy Envoy Yu Xi, it could only have been within the last two months, so the time Zhang Jizu mentioned could not possibly be true.

Cheng Shi was even more surprised as to why Old Zhang would suddenly tell such a lie to him. This could neither resolve Zhen Xin's current doubts nor form an effective set of excuses. Thinking it over, he could only attribute it to Old Zhang doing a bad deed with good intentions.

The other party didn't know Zhen Xin had his memories, so this lie was exposed—not only exposed, but it might even trigger a chain reaction.

For a moment, Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat.

Disaster. One who walks by the river often gets their shoes wet, but he never expected the water in these shoes didn't come from the river, but rather bubbled up from inside the shoes themselves.

What to do?

Although the atmosphere was slightly awkward, Cheng Shi stabilized his expression. He glanced at Zhang Jizu with a forced smile, and when he saw a flash of scrutiny in the other's narrowed eyes, he suddenly realized that Old Zhang's remark didn't seem unintentional—the other party seemed to be probing him!

Did Old Zhang know something?

Cheng Shi was too sharp; he immediately thought of the Supervisor who had not appeared again in this trial, thought of the identity he had exposed to her, and thus recalibrated the inexplicable time point of "the end of the fourth month" back to "the end of the third month."

He remembered telling Old Zhang that Envoy Envoy Yu Xi had guided him to split off another personality, so if Old Zhang had obtained this time point from the Supervisor, then for Old Zhang, his personality had undoubtedly already split by the time he deceived Ai Si.

But the problem was, that was fake.

Zhen Xin also knew it was fake.

If this matter couldn't be turned over today, the time of Envoy Envoy Yu Xi's appearance would clash, thereby letting his two shrewd allies perceive his lies regarding Envoy Envoy Yu Xi.

One slip in a hundred; no, it should be said that too many lies are ultimately difficult to complete.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi sighed silently in his heart.

It seemed Old Zhang couldn't be fooled anymore. His momentary hesitation and scrutiny had likely already been seen by him, so the top priority was no longer to block both ends, but to cover Old Zhang's mouth and let him think whatever he wanted, as long as he didn't let Zhen Xin become suspicious.

Thus, Cheng Shi immediately threw a "liars understand" smile at Zhen Xin, signaling that he had just told a small lie to deceive Old Zhang in an emergency, which was harmless, and then, while Zhang Jizu was silent with his eyes closed, he responded to Zhen Xin's first question.

He said: "Miss Magician, what do you think piety is?"

"?"

What does this have to do with Envoy Envoy Yu Xi?

Zhen Xin frowned. She didn't waste time expressing her own views, but gave a "please continue" look, signaling Cheng Shi to go on.

Cheng Shi didn't stand on ceremony and directly brought out the draft he had prepared long ago to "recite":

"Regardless of which He it is, piety should be the meticulous practice of His will.

Therefore, when we practice the act of 【Deception】, it is naturally the greatest offering to Him.

Especially since Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi is one of the existences closest to Him, so acting in His name to deceive is an even greater piety.

Of course..."

Halfway through, Cheng the Steady didn't forget to add a patch to prevent the liar or the liar's sister in front of him from secretly applying his theory.

"This kind of piety is also conditional; the premise is that one must obtain Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi's consent.

When I first met Him, I asked Him: What can I learn from You?

Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi was very generous; He said you can learn whatever you want.

So, according to that, me learning His appearance shouldn't... count as wrong, right?"

"..."

Zhen Xin had been familiar with various sophistry techniques since childhood and was rarely shocked by robber logic, but at this moment, she had to admire Cheng Shi's shamelessness.

He was indeed a clown, and a clown with a great ability to stir things up.

However, Zhen Xin didn't quite believe this, especially after Old Zhang's reaction; she felt there might be something fishy in the meeting between Envoy Envoy Yu Xi and Cheng Shi. But as a new ally who had just exchanged inner secrets, she didn't need to expose anything on the spot, so she agreed, only asking one extra question:

"You want to use your identity to suppress Long Jing and extract something from his mouth?

The idea is good, but... how do you plan to play Envoy Envoy Yu Xi?

You must know that Long Jing is not Poison; without some means, he won't blindly believe you."

Cheng Shi heard this and smiled mysteriously.

"Rest assured, the mountain man has his own clever plan."

The two dragons were naturally played.

When Li Jingming stopped and told Long Jing that Cheng Shi, who had been chasing Zhen Yi and Old Zhang in front of them, was problematic, Long Jing still refused to believe it.

Perhaps this acrobat had long seen the flaws, but the fact that he had been played for a fool was simply too embarrassing, so he had no face to "expose himself."

Because he knew that when he realized he had been played, the scales of victory had already tilted toward others, so he no longer needed to race against time, and naturally, there was no need to face his own foolish actions.

But Li Jingming was different. He hadn't just realized that this chase was problematic; he was just playing along with Long Jing. And the purpose of playing along was because his attention had never been on this chase that only existed in an illusion, but on the stage where Klaus was torn apart at the very beginning!

Although he was off-stage, he had been paying attention to the developments on stage. As for how he could know what happened on the stage far away from him...

That naturally required praising the power of 【Memory】.

Remember the scene where Li Jingming covered Klaus's corpse with different body parts before leaving the stage?

It was at that moment that he unobtrusively slipped a small memory prop into a corpse part of an unrecognizable, unknown NPC. In this way, even if he left the scene, he could pay attention to the changes on the stage at any time.

This method was not ingenious, but it had the advantage of being silent and difficult to detect. The only side effect was that the transmission of memory had a delay; after all, only when the present becomes the past does the story transform into memory.

Or do you think you have already seen through this world?"

There was clearly something in these words. Zhen Xin wasn't stupid either; she heard Cheng Shi's meaning. Her brows raised, and with a wave of her hand, she fabricated two figures out of thin air in this empty theater.

One was the resurrected Clown, and the other...

Was actually her sister Zhen Yi!

Only to see Zhen Yi wrap Clown in a small pocket, then run out of the theater giggling and disappear, leaving countless "visible" traces in the theater.

After all this happened, Zhen Xin took out a slender hard pen and wrote and drew in front of her. After a while, these traces truly landed in every corner of the theater.

In this way, whoever comes to see these traces will know that they were deceived by Zhen Yi. She had already succeeded and taken Clown away, so the secret inside this theater must also have been pocketed by this first unlucky person.

Seeing this scene, Cheng Shi blinked in confusion.

He knew this was Zhen Xin showing her sincerity. This should have been his finishing work, but now, Cheng Shi even saved various steps of making up lies to others later, and could push everything to Zhen Yi.

But... isn't she your sister?

No! Isn't she you?

Sister, are you not afraid of being bitten by having too many lice, or do you simply not care about bringing trouble upon yourself? ===== CHAPTER 852 =====

This acrobat had already guessed the answer; perhaps all the truth lay in Klaus's corpse on the stage. It was just his excessive obsession with Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi's ear that caused him to make a misjudgment. But just this one time caused him to lose everything, with no chance of a comeback.

Losing is losing. Long Jing didn't dwell too much on winning or losing. Now he just wanted to slightly redeem his image the next time he saw Lord Envoy Envoy Yu Xi, or at least salvage the results of his efforts, letting the Lord know that one of the ears He had when resurrected was found by His most loyal follower, Long Jing, with his own hands.

But he never expected that the "next time" he thought of would come so soon!

When Long Wang, with a hooked mouth, and the dejected Long Jing walked back into the theater, they were shocked to find that the winner on the stage did not seem to have left, but the situation before them far exceeded their expectations.

Because they saw that at this moment, on the stage, there was a thin and extremely tall masked man, standing on the stage with an eerie smiling face and a high-and-mighty posture, looking down at the three players at his feet.