Three days had passed since the last trial.
During those three days, Cheng Shi gathered his thoughts and once again bore witness to Xie Yang’s adventures in love.
Last night, when he heard the na of the third girl from the mouth of this [War] follower, Cheng Shi imdiately envisioned her death.
“Xiaoyuan is an amazing girl. She loves to read, she loves to paint, she loves singing in the sun, and she loves cooking with her own hands. She’s like my shining moonlight, my destined soulmate. The only downside is that she lives on the first floor, far away from . So, we have to deal with a long-distance relationship for now. Dude, tell , have I found true love?”
Cheng Shi couldn’t be bothered to comnt.
When he learned that Xie Yang had “found” this shining moonlight by throwing multiple phones out of his window, one of which was picked up, he realized that he truly didn’t understand love at all.
His understanding of love was too shallow, too outdated.
Look at this guy. This is the modern-day version of love.
Dropping a phone gets you paired up, like Bluetooth 10.0.
“Bro, do you have a cara? Can you take a picture for ? I want to see what Xiaoyuan looks like. Of course, I’m not superficial—I care more about inner beauty. But without a picture, it feels like her outer beauty is missing in my heart, and that makes my love feel incomplete. She lives on the first floor, apartnt 107, facing your building. You should be able to see her. Please, just consider it a favor. I still have… other things I can trade with you if needed.”
Cheng Shi gave Xie Yang a speechless look and nodded.
Fine. For the sake of that corpse. It’s just a picture, right?
So, Cheng Shi went back to the warehouse, grabbed a cara, leaned over the edge of the rooftop, and aid at the neighboring apartnt 107.
He didn’t know if it was an unfortunate coincidence or just fate playing tricks, but Cheng Shi had been planning to use the excuse that the window was closed and no one was visible. Just as he was about to say that, the player in 107 opened their window.
The man stretched his arms wide, leaning out the window toward the street.
Cheng Shi’s building was quite high, and even though he zood in with the cara, he couldn’t see the man’s face clearly.
But sotis, you don’t need to see soone’s face to get a pretty good idea of what they look like.
Armpit hair, chest hair, and a beer belly, wearing nothing but shorts.
That was all he needed.
A masterpiece.
Cheng Shi’s hand shook, and he nearly dropped the cara.
Xiaoyuan?
Hmm, what a lovely na.
And what a beautifully round belly!
His face was a complex mix of emotions. Xie Yang, seeing Cheng Shi’s expression from across the rooftop, waved excitedly and shouted:
“Did you get it? Did you get it? Did you see my moonlight?”
Cheng Shi forced a more excited smile and nodded enthusiastically.
“I saw her, but I didn’t get a picture!
My cara broke. But don’t worry, I got a good look at her.
She’s truly beautiful.
Just like… a real full moon!”
Staring at that perfectly round belly, Cheng Shi couldn’t help but rember an old acquaintance.
“……”
Setting aside her constantly swollen belly, Hu Xuan was indeed beautiful.
And it was precisely Cheng Shi’s acknowledgnt of Hu Xuan’s beauty that Xie Yang picked up on imdiately!
The necromancer across the rooftops wasn’t lying!
Xiaoyuan was really beautiful!!
Xie Yang pumped his fist in excitent, nearly losing his mind with joy.
“Yes!
I knew it! Xiaoyuan is my destiny! She’s the one I’ve been waiting for!
Thanks, bro! I’m going to start a matchmaking prayer right now and request a cara. Wait for , bro! I’ve got to see her tonight!
Xiaoyuan, wait for , I’m coming!”
“……”
Cheng Shi scratched his head, realizing he had just dug himself into a hole.
Indeed, a single lie often requires countless more to cover up.
What should I do when he gets the cara? How am I going to take a picture for him?
“Forget it, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it. Worst case, I’ll lay low for a few days.”
Speaking of prayers…
Cheng Shi hadn’t initiated a prayer for a long ti.
It wasn’t because he was scared of dying, but because he had enough resources. There just hadn’t been a need…
Alright, no more lies—it was because he was scared of dying.
With special trials becoming more and more dangerous these days, as long as he barely had enough supplies, there wasn’t much point in taking extra risks in other trials.
But after experiencing this trial from [Fate], Cheng Shi started to have different thoughts.
The current situation was growing increasingly dire. He couldn’t afford to sit by idly any longer.
Not to ntion that a certain [Fate], also a god of the void, had been watching him like a hawk. Now, even [mory] was coming up with tricks.
With pressure from both sides now, no matter how cautious Cheng Shi was, it was impossible to guarantee he wouldn’t make a single mistake.
And if he made even one mistake, whichever one of them caught the opportunity would likely push him into a disastrous situation.
So, to get out of this predicant, to buy more ti to survive, Cheng Shi decided it was ti to take action.
He needed to take the initiative and deal with one of these two problems, even if only temporarily, to buy himself a mont to catch his breath.
Even if the solution would be temporary, even if it couldn’t be achieved in one fell swoop, it was ti to act.
He began reflecting on how he had ended up in this ss, sorting through his entanglents with both [Fate] and [mory].
There wasn’t much to analyze about [mory]. Their faiths were in direct opposition—there was nothing to do but fight.
But [Fate] was a different story.
[Fate] was a fellow god of the void, just like his Patron.
Logically speaking, gods of the sa path usually wouldn’t have such poor relations. Their followers could even be considered brothers-in-arms.
But the problem didn’t lie with the two gods—it lay with Cheng Shi himself.
Ever since he had taken that mask from the starting point of his fate, his destiny had been on a dramatic course.
[Fate] had abandoned him, and Cheng Shi, in turn, had begun to reject fate.
No, to be more precise, even before the [Faith Ga] descended, Cheng Shi had already resented fate, thanks to an unhappy life.
The mask he’d chosen at the start and his subsequent defiance of fate had only deepened that stance.
It was like a mutual hatred between two enemies. Hatred like this only grew with ti; it didn’t fade.
For the longest ti, Cheng Shi thought he would continue down the path of abandoning [Fate] more and more.
But after this latest trial, a new thought sprouted in Cheng Shi’s mind.
Was there perhaps a chance to nd his relationship with [Fate]?
Logically speaking, from the perspective of both humans and gods, Cheng Shi was insignificant.
But from…
Ahem, but from the perspective of a trickster and a sellout, neither of these two gods were saints. They shouldn’t hold grudges against each other.
Normally, Cheng Shi wouldn’t have dared to even consider such thoughts. But in this trial, [Fate]’s attitude gave him a glimr of hope.
In the last trial, [Fate] had placed all the answers in layers of the void that players couldn’t reach. The purpose was obvious—it was never the intention for a certain player to walk out alive.
Whether it was out of jealousy or just a grudge, the trial was clearly ant as punishnt.
Yet, after Cheng Shi passed the trial, his rating and rewards were both S-rank!
This indicated that sothing unexpected had occurred during the trial, causing [Fate] to retract its punishnt and instead offer… rewards.
Yes, rewards.
Though the word “reward” seed strange in this context, an S-rank score was the highest reward a god could give to a player who completed their trial.
Thinking it over carefully, Cheng Shi realized that his performance throughout the trial didn’t really seem worthy of an S-rank. That rating should have gone to Zhen Xin, who deceived everyone and uncovered the final answer.
But since Cheng Shi had received the S-rank, it ant that he had sohow satisfied [Fate], that his actions had benefited [Fate] enough for the god to abandon its intention of punishing him.
As for what those benefits were…
Recalling the ambiguous information revealed by Hu Xuan at the end of the trial, Cheng Shi guessed that his final decision had shifted fate toward an unknown path, drawing several gods into the ga.
And [Fate] had co out on top in this divine conflict.
No, not just on top—[Fate] had dominated!
Otherwise, the god wouldn’t have spared the annoying little clown who constantly whispered in His ear and even awarded him an S-rank rating.
So, there was now a real possibility of reconciling with [Fate], and the reason for that possibility was clear:
Cheng Shi’s choices had benefited [Fate] far more than any previous blasphemy could have.
The opportunity was there. Now he just had to figure out how to walk this delicate path.
After two days of intense thought, Cheng Shi made a decision.
He would go looking for inspiration.
He would enter a trial to find inspiration.
Having long since mastered the art of “how to avoid excessively difficult Wishing Trials,” Cheng Shi activated his first Wishing Trial in over a month!
“Do not discern truth from falsehood, do not debate reality from illusion.
Your devoted follower prays to You, requesting a trial…
A trial where I can ‘witness the compromise between an unfortunate soul abandoned by fate and the fate that spurned them.’”
Yes, witness!
That word was key. It had proven useful many tis before when Cheng Shi sought answers in trials by simply observing how others solved their problems.
Because when you specifically pray to solve a particular problem, the trial’s difficulty skyrockets to an absurd level.
But if you’re just there to watch soone else solve it, trials that only add an observer are nearly effortless.
Cheng Shi never expected things to be resolved in one go. He figured he still had ti to slowly work through everything, so he chose to seek inspiration first.
And so…
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[Wishing Trial (Unlicensed Cri [Order]) has been activated]
Matching teammates (1/6)…
Trial Objective: When Order is unseen, cri still remains (Ti limit: 3 days).
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It’s an Order trial!
As long as you don’t disrupt the order, His trials usually remain quite civilized.
This should be safe!
A smile spread across Cheng Shi’s face as his consciousness sank into the void.
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[Match complete (6/6), entering trial.]
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