Chapter 888: The So-Called Whispering Tide

The So-Called Whispering Tide

"Then Crown..." Cheng Shi stopped mid-sentence.

Reasonably speaking, Crown's experience was quite miserable. Mentioning him was equivalent to uncovering the scars on Brother Mouth and the others. Cheng Shi had no intention of hurting anyone, but if he didn't figure out the problem of the Whispering Tide, he couldn't see the road ahead, and naturally couldn't solve the current crisis.

Hearing Cheng Shi mention this name again, the Whispering Tide sighed:

"·He is not the Him you think."

Cheng Shi was stunned, then looked at the ear instantly, and seeing that the Secret-Peeking Ear didn't move, he looked slightly surprised and said:

"You're willing to talk? I asked about your identity, and you never paid attention to me. I mentioned Crown, and you're willing to talk instead?

Brother Mouth, Crown... isn't that your past?"

"·Not really. He is him, I am me.

The Crown of Sandlais was at most a budding believer of the Patron, a confused good person, a clown who hit the jackpot, but ultimately a mortal.

And we are His creations, the manifestation of 【Deception】's power, and also...

Forget it, I don't know if my guess is right, so I won't mislead you.

You can equate us to Crown, but a failed Crown.

He missed the best opportunity to follow the Patron. By the time he woke up... it was already late."

Late?

Hearing this word, Cheng Shi couldn't help but think of the words the two said when confronting 【Time】 at the gate of Afros. So Crown's failure was ultimately counted on Brother Mouth and the others?

And looking at it this way, Brother Mouth seemed to have let go of the past and admitted its failure?

Although Crown missed the opportunity to follow the God of Fun directly, his "fragments" unexpectedly became the God of Fun's creations. Isn't this another kind of following?

"Then Brother Mouth, what is the 'found the right path' that you and Brother Ear mentioned?

Me?

No, it's me playing the Whispering Tide! Right?"

As Cheng Shi spoke, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, and he seemed to understand something. He straightened his body abruptly, sizing up the ear and tongue before him, flashes of light crossing his eyes one after another.

"I understand, I seem to understand, so that's it, so this is the Whispering Tide.

Brother Ear, you can hear my heart, so am I right?"

The ear was silent. The one that responded to Cheng Shi was his mouth.

"·Yes, too right. You're so smart."

"..."

Cheng Shi's expression, which had just been excited, collapsed instantly upon hearing this "affirmation."

Brother Mouth, this dog thing, wouldn't be doing it on purpose, right?

Using a plausible affirmation to deceive himself, thereby achieving the result of making himself deny himself?

Cheng Shi was also silent. He silently sorted out his logic, constantly recalling what 【Deception】 said as relayed by Mi Lao Zhang, and the more he thought, the more certain he was that he had touched the threshold of 【Whispering Tide】, just not knowing how to further translate this uncertainty in his heart into reality.

He raised the container again, thinking that perhaps to become a true 【Whispering Tide】, he must first expand the influence of the Whispering Tide.

Just as he was thinking this, Cheng Shi suddenly found that the divinity dripping speed of the 【Deception】 container was actually a bit faster than just now.

This negligible difference wasn't easy to discover, but Cheng Shi's mind was all on this at the moment, so he naturally saw the clues, but he didn't think much about it, only thinking that perhaps someone had spread the name of the Whispering Tide again. After all, after this battle, the Whispering Tide had probably become a bargaining chip for many high-end players to exchange information.

This was also good, at least the previous layouts had fallen into place, and the past road had been paved into a ladder leading to the future.

Seeing Cheng Shi lost in thought, the Whispering Tide moved, still giving some guidance.

True guidance.

"·Remember, fear has never been an obstacle, but a driving force."

The tone of this sentence was very much like the Clown of Sandlais, which stunned Cheng Shi, making him suddenly think of the scene where Crown learned that the world was fake in the underground passage.

It was precisely the fear at that time that gave the Clown the driving force to survive, finding the opportunity to approach 【Deception】, so Brother Mouth was right; fear was indeed not an obstacle, but a driving force.

This sentence undoubtedly awakened Cheng Shi, letting him completely break free from the state of shrinking and stopping, recalling everything he had woven with lies, his gaze becoming increasingly bright.

His fear actually didn't come entirely from the approach of 【Annihilation】, but also partly from another Patron, 【Fate】. Although 【Deception】 kept comforting Cheng Shi, saying that 【Fate】 had no malice, Cheng Shi only believed his own feelings. He felt that 【Fate】 at this moment no longer had believers in Her eyes, only the 'fixed' path.

But the 'fixed' path had never been a grave, but a weapon!

At this moment, Cheng Shi suddenly fed the pancake he had drawn for the Big Cat to himself. Why did the destined person exist? Precisely because of the so-called "fixed" path.

So as long as this era hadn't reached the final act, and the final chapter of the universe's play hadn't been staged, then under the 'fixed' script, 【Fate】 would definitely not let him be annihilated by 【Annihilation】!

No matter how She looked at him, no matter how She looked at the 'fixed' path, in short, he didn't need to care about what She was obsessed with, just use the fact that "he is the 'fixed' path" well.

Was this probably what 【Deception】 meant by "rest assured"?

Thinking this through, Cheng Shi was full of emotion, sighing for a long time.

The destined person at this moment finally became the true destined person, and 【Deception】's lies finally solidified 【Fate】's 'fixed' path.

Cheng Shi silently put away the ear and tongue, then asked with a complex expression: "If... if one day, I really become the Whispering Tide, and the world only knows the Whispering Tide but not me, am I still me, Brother Mouth?"

The Whispering Tide pondered for a moment and gave the most serious answer since it fused with Cheng Shi.

"·Everyone has a mask, but that is not you.

You are just playing it, remember, don't be addicted.

And don't let it become you!"

Cheng Shi was shocked, his expression moved. The thought that "Brother Mouth will never pit himself" suddenly began to grow in his brain. He had never felt that a mouth full of lies would be so reliable, because this sentence didn't sound like a lie at all.

But the fact is...

In the next second, the Whispering Tide told him what a Whispering Tide was.

"·Why are you so excited? I was just reciting the Clown Performance Regulations of the Joyous Theater. Where did your thoughts go?"

"..."

Cheng Shi froze. Soon he took out more than a dozen cans of mucus drink and began to punish himself suicidally.

"Gulp gulp gulp—"

"·......"

Let you talk too much, let you lie, give me back my emotion!

The scorching sun was still high, the heat was still roasting, but the chill that quietly dissipated in the Clown's heart had nothing to do with the temperature of reality.

Who said lies couldn't heal others? If they couldn't, then why would 【Deception】's priest be crowned with the name of "Clown"?

Ultimately, it was because His first believer used a pious lie to save the residents of a "world," so the Clown became the synonym for 【Deception】's priest, becoming an unknown savior. ===== CHAPTER 889 =====