Foolish Game of the Chapter 906: Time, Deceit, Experiment, Answer

Long Jing left.

His grin had been too radiant. Lord Shi Zhen booted him off the platform, and he plumted back to reality.

Cheng Shi was livid.

Having just kicked the Acrobat away, he was preparing to haggle with his Benefactor about why his own fusion hadn't co with a weapon — when a pair of black-hole eyes opened at the center of the enormous dial, gazing at him with unfathomable depth.

"Cheng. Shi."

Ti had appeared. But Cheng Shi showed zero panic — even a hint of disdain.

"Benefactor, please drop the act. Don't think pretending to be Ti will make this go away!

I believe I've worked hard enough on the Void path, so why didn't I receive a weapon of Ti?

Since You can grant faith on Ti's behalf, surely gifting one more weapon isn't... no — an ordinary weapon can only count as a past reward, not as current compensation!

How about You just grant

another identity instead? That shouldn't be hard for You.

Or we don't even need to go that far."

Cheng Shi whipped out his container, eyes gleaming.

"Just activate this thing for . The faith itself — I'll scam it out of people using Shi Zhen's identity. Deal?

And the deception process still counts as an offering to You. When you think about it, You're coming out ahead."

Cheng Shi delivered his proposal with visible excitent. But the eyes atop the dial didn't move. Like an unchanging eternity, they simply regarded Cheng Shi with cold detachnt, saying nothing.

"Benefactor, please say sothing! You—"

'?'

Cheng Shi froze. His brow furrowed. Sensing the eerie atmosphere, sothing lurched in his gut.

'Wait — hold on!'

'This Benefactor — which Benefactor is He?'

'He couldn't possibly be...'

'No way. When would He have the ti?'

The wild, terrifying thought had barely surfaced before Cheng Shi shuddered head to toe. Before he could even process whether this was the genuine article, a pair of starlit eyes — brimming with surprise — opened above the enormous dial. Spirals reversed, star-points flickered, and a click of the tongue rang out:

"Well, isn't this rare — you actually have the ti to grant your followers an audience?"

'!!??'

'WHAT?!'

The black-hole eyes shifted upward, replying at an unhurried pace: "Deceit."

The single word detonated Cheng Shi's brain.

As if struck by the infinite power of Ti, his mind launched into a flashback of his entire life. He frantically reviewed everything he'd said and done on this enormous dial, scrutinizing every blasphemous remark he'd made after assuming this was the Fun God...

rcifully, his dialogue with Long Jing while playing Shi Zhen had contained relatively little blasphemy. Unfortunately, virtually everything he'd said after Long Jing's departure had been pure, undiluted profanity against a god.

'The sky is falling...'

By the ti the ntal replays ended, Cheng Shi was numb. He forcibly rejected his own deduction and firmly convinced himself that the eyes before him could not possibly be Ti!

'This has to be so new Deceit trick. He split Himself in two just to watch His follower humiliate himself!'

'That's definitely what's happening!'

'Ti doesn't have the ti to descend!'

Cheng Shi refused to accept reality. He even began hypnotizing himself. But when those black-hole eyes turned back to him, and he felt within them the purest, most infinite essence of Ti...

In that mont, it was as if all the ti in the universe twisted around Him.

'It's over. It's all over.'

'It really is Him!'

'It really IS Ti!'

But if He was Ti, then why had He been "duped" into granting Long Jing a second faith?

And why had He allowed a mortal to impersonate His creation's will on His own platform?

Had Ti, who had fused with Fate, also absorbed Fate's generosity?

"..."

In this mont, Cheng Shi was terrified beyond asure.

Not only was he anxious about Ti's reaction, but he was simultaneously cursing the Fun God in his head.

'This is all the Fun God's fault!'

'If He hadn't played the Universal Clock once before, if He hadn't flung

out of the Chaos Temple only to set this scene up right away — how was I supposed to NOT assu the platform beneath my feet was His creation?!'

'This is all His fault!'

'Deceit has ruined !'

But silence wasn't going to help here. The Fun God — unreliable as He was — would just sit back and enjoy the show the mont real entertainnt appeared. He had to save himself!

Cheng Shi gritted his teeth. His brain kicked into overdrive, desperately searching for an excuse to explain away his behavior.

Just as Cheng Shi was racking his brain in a panic, the starlit eyes above burst into belly-shaking laughter:

"As expected — a clown is hilarious no matter where he goes.

Alright, your performance is over. Get off the stage. But there's no reward this ti."

A gust of Void wind blew him straight off the platform. Cheng Shi's taut nerves went slack in an instant. He looked up with a mixture of relief and confusion, feeling that today's Benefactor was sohow unusually unfamiliar.

'He actually wasn't in the mood for entertainnt?'

'Praise the Fun God!'

And when the Clown vanished into the starry sky, those starlit eyes did sothing uncharacteristic — the upturned corners smoothed out, the amusent faded, and His voice took on a rare weight.

"Things seem far more complicated than I imagined."

The black-hole eyes offered no comnt. After a pause, the starlit eyes continued:

"Whether this Experint is a true experint remains unclear. I originally thought everything was tied to faith. But now it seems... perhaps He was right all along.

The universe will ultimately walk into Void."

Ti still said nothing. Only after a long silence did He ask a single question:

"Which tiline's Deceit are you?"

The starlit eyes blinked, genuinely surprised.

"You can't even recognize ?

Ti — if you can't even identify an ally under the sa starry sky, how am I supposed to trust you?

How is our plan supposed to proceed?"

"Without the full picture, what is there to plan?

Stop fishing. I'm busy. If you won't speak the truth, then we're done here today."

With that, the black-hole eyes truly began to dim. The Universal Clock platform itself started to warp, its ti flowing outward in all directions. The starlit eyes panicked, snapping irritably:

"Wait!

You have ti to watch a clown's performance but can't spare a mont to strategize with ?

Are we still allies under the sa sky or aren't we?"

"Whether we are or aren't — you know the answer yourself.

When I saw Mockery and Jeering's course rerouted to connect to the Existence gaps, I knew the restless you had gone to another world.

As for where you ca from...

I'm sorry. Another Ti's fall may have left you backed into a corner, feeling the pressure. But if I spend too much ti here with you, the version of you belonging to this starry sky will also be backed into a corner.

When this universe's 'ti' can no longer synchronize with the whole Experint, our 'sample' will be flagged as an anomaly. And then we'll have no sky left above us.

You... should understand this better than I do."

"Tch — his luck is sothing else."

"No. He's as Unfortunate as you. When—"

"Enough!" The starlit eyes broke free of their reverie, voice turning cold and mocking. "Blathering on and on, saying you'll leave but never going. Wasting ti. Utterly boring."

With that, the eyes simply dissolved from the platform.

And with His departure, Ti also gradually faded from view. He truly had no ti to linger. As for the earlier clown performance... that hadn't been a waste of ti. It had been a search for answers.

Ti never held any answers.

The one who provided answers had always been Fate. Ti rely followed Fate's guidance, searching for new ones.

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