[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-gods-foolish-game":3,"chapter-the-gods-foolish-game-the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-951":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Gods' Foolish Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2362079,4617,"Chapter 951: The Cunning Rabbit Has Three Burrows","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-951",951,"\u003Cp>The cunning rabbit has three burrows\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was strange—on the way out of the mountain hollow’s dense forest, Cheng Shi saw not a single animal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although most creatures on the Star Fall Continent are naturally hyper-alert and might have sensed the impending storm of war, the two sides hadn't even started fighting yet; for them to vanish entirely felt exaggerated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, even if all real animals had fled, what about the tamed beasts? Didn’t Little Seven, who wanted to profit from others’ strife, care at all about how his battle with Lin Xi was progressing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can you seize an opportunity if you don’t understand the battlefield? And how can you act if you don’t seize the moment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or had Sun Miao, the vice-chairman of the History School, truly carried out his plan and already killed Little Seven, preparing to trade for the information in Cheng Shi’s hands?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Cheng Shi frowned slightly—he always felt that even if Sun Miao wanted to kill him, his childhood friend wasn’t an easy target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, as he was still thinking, Sun Miao suddenly sprinted toward him from another direction; though the Silent Master still wore her usual blank expression, the clear disappointment in her eyes told Cheng Shi her assassination had failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi grew curious and asked casually, “What, was the target tough?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao said nothing for a long while; only when they reached the left flank of the Bolo Heights camp did she silently pull out her electronic beeper and type:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The cunning rabbit has three burrows...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, I was thoroughly taught a lesson by a tamer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me more,” Cheng Shi suddenly stopped walking and smiled at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao’s eyelid twitched; she fell silent again for a long while before finally recounting her humiliating ordeal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guess how many tamed beasts I eliminated?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi blinked. “How many?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seventeen—excluding wild beasts, just human tamed beasts, there were seventeen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tamer is a master—and a hidden one. His vigilance is extreme, his control unparalleled. I’d guess he still has at least five or six humanoid tamed beasts under his command. And when I say humanoid tamed beasts, I don’t mean the people of Star Fall Continent—I mean...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao paused, pointing at herself and Cheng Shi. “Us.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Players!” Cheng Shi’s gaze sharpened instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly—players. Your old friend seems to love chaos; he has a whole group of ‘followers.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he loves dressing up his tamed beasts—they’re all disguised as himself, used to lure enemies and counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tracked one bird on the periphery of your fight, followed it backward, and killed dozens of tamed beasts, yet still couldn’t find his true body...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi, no wonder you didn’t want to make this deal with me. You knew he’d be hard to handle, so you didn’t want to trade information worth matching his threat, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know nothing. But given Little Seven’s lifelong habit of lying, if he were easy to handle, that’d be the real miracle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi gave a stiff, awkward smile and didn’t respond.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was still thinking about Little Seven using players as tamed beasts. After all, tamers aren’t like necromancers—their logic aligns more with Desire Lords: they must subjugate living beings to wield them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the fact that Little Seven had so many “doubles” meant he’d already left countless lives behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder he dared to partner with the infamous Lin Xi—looks like a venomous snake paired with a rat, a perfect match.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a tamer who takes pleasure in controlling people... why does this remind me of what Xie Yang described?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Cheng Shi furrowed his brow. Same behavior. Same profession. Even similar caution...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, could that person be Little Seven?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed... not quite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Little Seven claimed he had 2600 points, anyone with eyes could see at least 800 of them were fake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True, he escaped a vice-chairman of the History School’s pursuit—but that likely stemmed from some unique evasion or escape technique. After all, passive survival and active offense demand entirely different strengths. The tamer Xie Yang described was undoubtedly a formidable master—his profile still differed greatly from Little Seven’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But could it really be such a coincidence that I’d encounter two tamers who take pleasure in controlling people so close together?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, Cheng Shi couldn’t tell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps sensing what Cheng Shi was thinking, Sun Miao typed again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“By the way, I noticed something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I suspect this tamer paid a price to enhance his control over tamed beasts—otherwise, with his level, he couldn’t manage so many and still appear so effortlessly in control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I hunted him, I noticed that with each tamed beast’s death, his combat prowess grew stronger, his battlefield judgment improved, his strategies and counters became sharper—like he’d become an entirely different person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t suddenly gain wisdom or unlock a new combat technique during this hunt, then his method of taming must differ from other tamers’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seems to have scattered his strength and intellect across different tamed beasts; so as each dies, he regains a portion of his true power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, I suspect this isn’t intentional suppression—he has another reason...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, Sun Miao suddenly stopped typing. She looked at Cheng Shi with deep meaning, as if his very presence held the switch to her next words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi blinked, his gaze toward her now tinged with exasperation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One must admit—the Cult of Folly’s followers are formidable. Just from one confrontation, they can dissect an opponent down to the bones. Such insight isn’t common.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Cheng Shi knew these observations weren’t free information. She’d paused here because she wanted to trade for something else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Little Seven not suddenly connected to the tamer Xie Yang described, Cheng Shi wouldn’t have cared what happened to him—but now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi hesitated, then revealed one piece of intelligence: “Lydia was killed by Kynlaor himself—with a crimson greatbow called ‘Startled Bow.’ And that bow is likely what my old friend is searching for.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao shuddered and immediately typed: “You did enter the dream’s consciousness exchange! I knew you lied earlier!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh. So she’d suspected all along—she hadn’t fully believed his lie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perfect. Use this intelligence exchange to settle this matter once and for all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi curled his lips into a wry smile but said nothing, clearly passing the ball back to her—my turn’s over. Now it’s yours to fill in the gaps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao took a deep breath, suppressing her curiosity, and laid out everything she’d observed about Little Seven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...That’s the price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I noticed that as his combat power increased, his emotions visibly turned violent and volatile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I killed his last tamed beast, he could barely control himself—he ranted curses at heaven and earth, repeatedly plunging himself into danger from rage. Had his combat instincts not held him together so long, I’d be bringing you a surprise now, not a warning...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I suspect he didn’t voluntarily split his true power among his tamed beasts—he did it to suppress emotions he couldn’t control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more tamed beasts he tamed, the more he could appear ‘normal.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, ‘normal’ has limits—you and I have seen his true face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t this strange? The stranger the player, the more dangerous. But I repeat: I can eliminate him for you, if you’re willing to share more of what interests me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao paused, giving Cheng Shi time to think, then raised a hand and typed with one finger:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, my payment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did you enter that consciousness exchange? Did you witness that history?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheng Shi shook his head with a smile. “No. Everything I just told you was what Lin Xi told me before he died. As for how he knew... sorry—he’s dead. Even his corpse vanished. No one knows now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Miao stared at Cheng Shi. Her face was blank, but her eyes burned with the clear intent to kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She marveled at his audacity—and was stunned by how swiftly he’d eliminated Lin Xi. After all, Lin Xi had survived Chun’s pursuit and the Cult of Prosperity’s encirclement to reach the top of the Chosen—meaning he was among the absolute elite of this game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet in such a short time, she hadn’t even dealt with Du Qiyu, and Cheng Shi had already killed a Chosen. What other deadly tricks did this Weaver hide?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Add to that his “achievement” of eliminating Zainjir, and Sun Miao’s gaze sharpened—she suddenly entertained a bold theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aside from Gorylis, could there be another Envoy standing behind Cheng Shi?\u003C\u002Fp>",1426,"2026-06-21T06:05:16.216Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6a8b20620b3d3199500c2486c2bb7f22d9776b6cae75309c4613455f2ba55b0f","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-952","the-gods-foolish-game-chapter-950",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-gods-foolish-game-cover.jpg"]