Foolish Game of the Chapter 1276: Void Is About to Take Its Final Bow, Isn'

Zhen Xin and Hu Wei departed, taking Mada Freud and Masford with them.

They stepped once more into the Void—destination unknown.

Because they weren't searching for a fixed location. They were searching for a person.

Wei Mu!

This Folly Chosen, the runaway first place on the Road to Ascension, had to possess the most unique insights into the entire Faith Ga. That was why he'd beco the focal point of the gods—and the person players believed was closest to Them.

Zhen Xin had interacted with Wei Mu a few tis. His temperant was pleasant enough. Though he was a Folly follower, he wasn't arrogant in the way those "nose-in-the-air" types were. His arrogance seed reserved for places nobody could see.

Zhen Xin had once asked Wei Mu what "perks" ca with being number one on the Road to Ascension. Wei Mu had said with a laugh that there had been so, but they'd all been stolen by one person.

At the ti, Zhen Xin had been puzzling over who could possibly steal from Wei Mu. It wasn't until she joined the Joker that she belatedly realized—that thief was Cheng Shi!

What the Fate Weaver had stolen wasn't so reward that should have belonged to Wei Mu. It was the attention that should have belonged to the number-one player on the Road to Ascension!

In this era of Void, the gods' gaze had shifted due to the Void sovereign's choices, warping the original ga's will and bypassing the Road to Ascension's chanisms to select a... clown... as the ga's answer.

This was a theory she'd ford after joining the Joker, and it had been preliminarily validated in this trial.

So the top priority was finding Wei Mu and leveraging his unparalleled perception to salvage this failing endga.

She wasn't certain Wei Mu could be relied upon. But she believed the trial's ending—or rather, the era's ending—concerned every human being.

If the world fell into nothingness, no matter how strong Wei Mu was, he couldn't survive alone.

So on the matter of survival, they still shared common ground.

But Wei Mu had always been a lone wolf. Where would they even find him?

The answer lay not with Zhen Xin, but with Hu Wei!

The reason the magician had dared to reveal such explosive intelligence in front of the Grand Marshal wasn't rely because Hu Wei was the only person available. It was because she trusted Hu Wei's connections—trusted that he could lead her to the elusive Folly Chosen.

Sure enough, the mont Hu Wei entered the Void, he charged forward like a compass locked onto true north. Zhen Xin trailed behind, feeling a touch of unease. She even wondered if the Grand Marshal was being a bit too certain—how could he be so sure this direction would lead to Wei Mu?

Hu Wei sensed the doubt behind him and laughed heartily:

"Since I learned to cleave through the Void, I've been obsessed with exploring this space that's so utterly different from reality. And let

be frank—even though you're followers of Void, your understanding of it is still far too shallow.

This is reality's flip side. It's where Void's will perates everything. And with Void ascendant, that ans enough abstraction and absurdity will manifest here.

The Mockery and Jeering may be the most absurd thing in the Void, but it's far from the only absurd thing.

Like this!"

Hu Wei halted, triple-checked his position, and brought his sword down in a vertical slash—cleaving through the Void and piercing into its deepest layer of nothingness.

Zhen Xin had been to such depths before. The Tower of Logic conducted many experints here—the Stars Dagger among them. But she truly didn't know what lay beneath even this.

Venturing too close to nothingness ant losing oneself. In a world where everyone was trying to stay alive, no one would gamble their life exploring the endless depths of the Void.

But there were those who weren't quite "people"—and who would always experience wonders that ordinary humans could never touch.

The hollow nothingness continued to fracture along the greatsword's edge, the darkness growing ever thicker, engulfing the two of them like quicksand.

If she wasn't dead certain that Hu Wei's interest in "opposing the gods" outweighed his desire to "screw her over," Zhen Xin might have thought this was the Grand Marshal's revenge for everything Zhen Yi had done.

Fortunately, the suffocating embrace of nothingness didn't last long. Before long, Zhen Xin felt herself plunge into an entirely new space. It was no longer dark, but neither was it truly light—because the starlight here alternated between bright and dim at a fixed frequency.

When dark, it was as if they'd returned to the Void. When bright, the stars blazed in dazzling splendor.

Zhen Xin was stunned. She couldn't believe that she—head of the History School—had never known this place existed. She turned to Hu Wei, only to find the Grand Marshal was similarly moved.

"Every ti I co here, nothing quite feels real.

Do you know why these stars flicker on and off?"

Zhen Xin furrowed her brow, considering: "A pattern?"

"Yes and no." Hu Wei raised his sword and pointed skyward with utmost gravity. "Wei Mu told

this isn't the stars flickering. There's a massive pointer—invisible to us—sweeping past according to so law, synchronizing ti that doesn't belong to our world.

The darkness we see is the shadow cast by that pointer."

"Lord Shi Zhen!?"

Hu Wei raised an eyebrow: "Who's that?"

"Suspected to be an envoy of Ti. But the History School has never traced its origins."

Zhen Xin's pupils contracted. She imdiately grasped the significance of this space. After all, Cheng Shi had explained the slice universe theory in great detail at the Joker Society. This place was very likely a gap in the rules of the slice universe—the juncture where each universe's experint ground synchronized its ti with the Creator's experint!

"This is Ti's domain?

He's hidden beneath the Void?"

"No—even Ti can't reach this place. This is outside the world, yet not detached from it. It's a gap in the universe, a loophole in the rules, a bug in the ga.

According to Wei Mu, the gods are blocked from entering because their 'data' is too large. We, precisely because our 'data' is small enough, can slip through.

Which ans, beneath this starry sky, no gods are watching. You, I, and he—we can speak freely."

With that, Hu Wei produced a bell carved from wood and gave it a gentle shake. It emitted the muffled sound of wood scraping against wood.

Before long, the mont the pointer's shadow swept past and plunged the space into darkness, a figure appeared at the far edge of the starfield.

Zhen Xin gazed at the distant puppet, her pupils narrowing.

"You've been in contact with Wei Mu all along."

Hu Wei waved at the puppet, laughing broadly:

"That's right. After he and I were roaming through the Void and stumbled upon this place by accident, we established a cooperative relationship free from the gods' gaze.

But I knew that until our strength was sufficient, escaping Their eyes served little purpose. So I never activated this place.

I still prefer getting together with everyone, shooting the breeze in the desert.

But everything you've told

today makes

feel the ti has co. And besides, I'd like to know what this era's Curtain Call performance truly ans.

Talk, Zhen Xin. From this mont on, you and I truly advance together and retreat together."

While Hu Wei laughed, the puppet slowly drew near. He first nodded to Hu Wei in greeting, then studied Zhen Xin—a first-ti guest in this place. After a brief mont of thought, he spoke:

"So Deceit has found its answer. Void is about to take its final bow, isn't it, magician?"

Zhen Xin's heart tightened. She almost couldn't bring herself to et those puppet eyes that seed capable of seeing through everything.

She closed her eyes, feeling the atmosphere that didn't belong to this world, and nodded:

"...I'm not certain. But I believe the Curtain Call has already begun."

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