"A God War!!?"
"Not long ago?"
"For real?"
Exclamations erupted below. Under the repeated bombardnt of blockbuster revelations, the assembled diocre people could no longer contain themselves. The shock they'd been suppressing since the beginning all burst out at once.
Doubts and speculation ran rampant. Accusations and argunts nearly drowned the entire hall.
Cheng Shi keenly noticed that his big brother Hu Wei's expression had turned startled too. Clearly, he hadn't expected the man on stage to say such a thing.
President Gong gestured for quiet and continued with a smile:
"That's right — a 'God War.'
Don't question the reliability of my intel, because a certain friend of mine — who wishes to remain anonymous — witnessed it firsthand.
Of course, God Wars aren't visible to mortals. He rely deduced it from the clues found within a trial.
But I believe his deduction is entirely sound."
The hall erupted into discussion again. The Folly followers sneered with contempt. The Decay followers unleashed another torrent of abuse. But the loudest voice belonged to the mystery Deceit follower whose body was never found.
That location-shifting voice mocked with a laugh:
"Oh, Mr. Gong, this 'anonymous friend' who doesn't want to be nad — that's not just you talking about yourself, is it?
Are you literally inventing a friend out of thin air?"
President Gong shook his head with a wry smile and imdiately countered:
"If it really were , I'd have said it with way more conviction. Unfortunately, it genuinely isn't .
After all, so people have their reasons for not wanting to step into the spotlight. Isn't that right?
Rather like... a certain soone who keeps hiding in the shadows."
"..."
That struck a nerve. The bodyless voice hesitated and didn't respond.
So in the audience even cheered the rebuttal.
Cheng Shi watched the farce with great interest, thinking: President Gong's diocre Person Society... was basically a done deal.
Because a fair number of "diocre people" had already been won over by his charisma.
The question was whether this Society really served the diocre, or whether it was a wolf in mutual-aid sheep's clothing coming to fleece them!
Once the taunting voice fell silent, President Gong continued:
"To put your doubts to rest, I'll lay out everything I know.
What's certain is that a massive, unexpected event occurred during my friend's trial. He never learned what that event was, but he witnessed its aftermath:
The Gods — all of Them — descended simultaneously into that single trial!"
"Whoaaah—"
Faces changed throughout the room.
President Gong was masterful at "storytelling." Even behind his mask, the audience couldn't see his face, yet his bearing and tone carried a hypnotic quality that made every word feel like sothing you wanted to believe.
But for Cheng Shi, this wasn't just stunning — it was jarring!
Piercingly jarring!
Because this scene of all gods descending together sounded all too familiar.
'Could President Gong's "friend"... be one of my forr teammates?'
'And that trial was the Prosperity trial, Dying Embers?'
'No — too little information. I can't confirm that.'
Cheng Shi's pupils contracted. Without a flicker of change on his face, he kept listening.
"You heard right — They descended into a single trial, all at once.
And in that history-worthy trial, two beings fought.
I don't an Existence's Ti and mory had a civil war. I an Life's Prosperity and Descent's Decay — two gods of opposing faiths — erupted into a full-scale battle!
Think about it, friends. Under the watchful eyes of all the assembled Gods, two deities ca to blows over faith conflict and authority disputes. If that's not a 'God War,' then what is?"
The mont President Gong finished, the Folly followers started another wave of contempt:
"Drivel. If two gods fighting qualifies as a 'God War,' then I can only say the diocre Person Society is nothing but a laughable organization playing word gas. And you, President Gong, are rely a clown on this absurd stage, making fools laugh."
'?'
Keyword triggered!
Cheng Shi — who'd been frowning hard, trying to figure out which teammate from his trial was President Gong's friend — found himself slightly losing composure at that remark.
'What's wrong with being a clown?'
'Why drag clowns into your insults?'
'And talking about "drivel" — it's Folly followers who are the real drivelers!'
'Clowns are smarter than all of you!'
The real point of President Gong's speech obviously wasn't "two gods fought." It was "all the Gods assembled!"
That was the key!
If nothing catastrophic had happened, why would They all descend into a single trial?
Heh — things were getting interesting again. Cheng Shi's gaze turned grave.
He was thinking: among the teammates who'd gone their separate ways after that trial, which one had made this deduction — one that was only half correct? The suspects numbered only four.
First, he could eliminate the Decay Rank 4, Zhen.
If the Rot Chanter whom Big Cat had duped into going to the Septic Final Tomb was still alive, he surely wouldn't blasphe his own Benefactor by making such an unfavorable guess.
The remaining three could really be counted as two, since An Jing was Zhen Xin's person. So she and Zhen Xin could be treated as one unit.
As for Zuo Qiu, whom Zhen Xin had replaced...
Though Cheng Shi had left that trial as a Fate follower — making it impossible to use masks to determine if Zuo Qiu was alive — based on his assessnt of Zhen Xin, the historian most likely survived.
Because even her unpleasant sister apparently didn't kill indiscriminately. So the more "orderly" elder sister was probably the sa.
Even if Zuo Qiu's faith was diatrically opposed to hers, at Zhen Xin's level, ideological opposition probably ranked below pragmatic interest.
So President Gong's friend was either Zuo Qiu or Zhen Xin.
And then there was a third possibility: his friend was Zhen Yi — or rather, President Gong himself... might be Zhen Yi!
Because these words sounded exactly like sothing a professional liar would say. Half truth, half fiction.
Others might not know, but President Gong couldn't fool Cheng Shi.
Cheng Shi had personally witnessed that God War and participated in the Assembly of Gods Convention — a gathering no player was supposed to attend!
He knew President Gong was half right. A God War had indeed erupted. But it wasn't Decay who'd fallen — it was Prosperity!
And Prosperity hadn't died from battle. He'd died from... self-destruction!
Drawing such a conclusion from the limited perspective available in that trial wasn't wrong per se — but it ant his "friend" was extraordinarily bold!
Because no sane person would dare speculate about the life and death of a deity!
Looking at it that way, the "friend" seed more like Zhen Xin.
But was what he was saying true?
If that friend really was Zhen Xin, then how had she dared guess it was Decay who fell?
More importantly — did that friend really exist?
'President Gong, is your real surna Gong... or Zhen?'
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