The Dead [Silence] Believer

"So, you call this nature?"

Qin Chaoge looked at Hu Xuan's tight-fitting halter dress, which barely covered her body, with a mocking expression. He was practically pointing at her forehead and saying, "You're just being horny."

Hu Xuan remained unconcerned about her attitude and even reached out her hand to beckon Qin Chaoge.

"Come, let me show you how to experience nature."

Do you think I'm afraid of you?

Qin Chaoge sneered, stretched out his muscular arm, which even Cheng Shi would be ashamed of, and grabbed the soft little hand in front of him.

The brutal force even made Hu Xuan's palms turn red.

But Hu Xuan maintained her smile; she seemed oblivious to the pain, and instead murmured with her eyes closed:

May anger dissolve, may differences be bridged, may we be of one mind, relax, for He is watching over you.

As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Chaoge, looking shocked, shook off Hu Xuan's hand, frowned, took two steps back, and asked uncertainly in a deep voice:

"What did you do!?"

Hu Xuan smiled gently, withdrew her hand and touched her rapidly swelling belly, saying softly:

"Look, our children."

That one moment left everyone present stunned.

"Huh? No... huh?"

Cheng Shi's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

His gaze darted back and forth between Hu Xuan and Qin Chaoge, occasionally glancing at Hu Xuan's stomach.

His eyes widened, while the corners of his mouth curled up more and more pronounced.

Is it that exciting?

Why make such a big deal out of it?

Now that she's pregnant, does that mean the Edict of Passage is over?

Li Boli, standing nearby, was also observing the Newborn in Hu Xuan's belly with great interest. Ji Ran, who had been blasted Ji Ran, crawled back on all fours, looking at her slightly bulging belly and sighing in amazement:

"Wow, sister, how did you do that?"

Hu Xuan nodded and smiled, extending her hand to Ji Ran:

"Come."

"..."

Cheng Shi had never felt that the word "come" was so magical. He instinctively took a step back, only to find that Ji Ran was running faster than him.

"Alright, alright, you're already pregnant, I won't be a burden to you."

"..."

Everyone else was having a good time, but Qin Chaoge's face was gloomy, and he looked as uncomfortable as if he had eaten shit.

She couldn't be sure what the Newborn in Hu Xuan's belly was, nor could she be sure if Hu Xuan had any "special" means to influence her through this Newborn. Leaving such a flaw right at the beginning would be frustrating for anyone.

But there was no use in being upset; this Life Sage was clearly stronger than the others.

At least before, Cheng Shi had never heard of getting pregnant just by touching someone's hand.

"Alright, the introductions are done, and the fruit of our love has been witnessed. Now it's time to get down to business."

Li Boli finally spoke up, ending the incredibly chaotic situation. Suppressing a laugh, she looked at Qin Chaoge and asked a meaningful question:

"Miss Storm's Voice, can you tell us now where the last teammate is?"

Everyone looked at Qin Chaoge with slight surprise, only to see her grit her teeth angrily, then lower her voice with a complicated expression and say:

"He's dead. He's right next to my room. He's already dead."

"???"

Cheng Shi blinked in shock, seemingly not understanding what was going on.

"Dead?"

"Yes, he died before I woke up."

With that, Qin Chaoge walked toward the room of his dead teammate with a dark expression.

The group followed behind, bewildered, their minds racing with a myriad of thoughts.

Cheng Shi's mind was buzzing.

No, a teammate died next door, and you're still here being all enthusiastic with us?

Girl, you've got a really big heart.

That makes sense; if you don't have a big heart, you can't have a child with a beautiful woman you've just met.

The Hunter sister is pretty fierce, how did you tell?

"..."

When the players reached the room next to Qin Chaoge's, their tour assistants followed them again. Qin Chaoge clearly didn't want these people to know that a murder had occurred inside, so she stopped the assistants again, telling them to stay aside and not disturb her.

The group filed in, and upon entering the room, they saw two corpses lying at opposite ends.

One of them was clearly a tour guide at the hotel.

And another one...

"It was him, the Believer in [Silence]."

?

No wonder you dared to openly declare your Faith; you knew all along that your rival was dead, didn't you?

Cheng Shi chuckled inwardly, wanting to ask if Qin Chaoge had killed the person.

"I didn't kill him. When I woke up, I heard that there was no sound of wind in the next room, so I strongly suspected that I had been matched with someone of an opposing Faith."

So I climbed in through the window, wanting to get to know them beforehand.

"..."

These words silenced everyone.

You'd be a fool to believe that. If someone wants to get to know you beforehand, they probably just want to test your strength by fighting you first.

Then I saw his body.

He... has committed suicide.

My entrance broke the Silence Domain. The assistant outside heard the noise and came in to check. Afraid of alerting others, I killed him.

Everyone's gaze sharpened as they looked at the other corpse.

She said she killed someone, but the person she killed was from Yuanmu Town.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow in surprise.

The tour assistant's posture at the time of death clearly resembled suicide. If Qin Chaoge hadn't confessed beforehand, people might have analyzed it in other directions.

But what was her purpose in confessing?

Seeing is believing, and the players didn't completely believe Qin Chaoge's words, so they started looking around.

Li Boli was Hunter, skilled at examining traces. After looking around the room, she immediately drew her conclusion:

What you said is true.

All the clues match the Singer's description, as for this deceased teammate..."

She walked up to the corpse, crouched slightly, and pulled open the collar of the [Silent] Believer.

"Male, between 40 and 50 years old, with calluses on his hands and marks on his shoulders, he is an old hunter."

The wound was on his chest. Judging from the marks, he must have used his right hand to grip the Daggers and stabbed it into his heart.

The action was decisive, without any hesitation, and the positioning was precise, consistent with the style of the "Silent One".

But...

He didn't commit suicide!

Like this unfortunate tour assistant, although they both seem like they committed suicide, they weren't!

As soon as Li Boli finished speaking, everyone in the room looked at Qin Chaoge, and the atmosphere became tense.

Indeed, if Qin Chaoge could stage a suicide scene, she could naturally stage a second one. Her preemptive confession was perhaps to go against everyone's wishes.

Qin Chaoge's face darkened upon hearing this. He stared intently at Li Boli and said, word by word:

"Reason."

Li Boli was not afraid of Qin Chaoge's scrutinizing gaze. She pointed to the corpse's left hand and said:

"The murderer was in such a hurry to stage the scene that he overlooked a crucial issue:"

The calluses on this "silent" Believer's left hand are clearly thicker than those on his right, and his left arm is also slightly thicker than his right arm, all of which indicate that he is left-handed.

I can't imagine why a left-handed Hunter would commit suicide with a knife in his right hand.

Also, his chest and the floor were covered in splattered blood, but the inside of his right hand was not;

His right hand had bloody marks from being pressed, and his finger bones were broken, clearly indicating that they were forcibly broken after his death.

So... this was an extremely poor forgery.

In contrast, the tour assistant's staged scene was more elaborate.

If the Singer hadn't confessed beforehand, we might have wasted even more time.

What a pity...

The Hunter's fate is likely to be to become prey for other Hunter.

Cheng Shi frowned as he listened to Li Boli's analysis.

Indeed, it was a very crude suicide forgery, so crude that it was almost entirely riddled with flaws.

No matter the skill level, such a clumsy cover-up cannot fool the teammates, so why would the murderer go to such lengths?

Is it really Believer in "war" using a counter-intuitive mindset to attack logical fallacies?

Isn't that a bit too risky?

The eerie atmosphere at the scene silenced everyone. Cheng Shi pondered for a moment, still feeling something was off.

Logically speaking, while the Trials of [Destiny] are exciting, they shouldn't result in people dying at the very beginning.

His Trials test the human heart and manipulate human nature, but He does not covet life.

In the game of Destiny, the players' goal is to understand everything that happens, to figure out the threads of Destiny, and at the final point of Destiny, to choose whether to maintain Destiny status quo or to change the course of Destiny.

Then offer the entire field of Destiny to Him as the answer.

However, the right or wrong of these choices depends on the specific requirements of the Trials and cannot be generalized.

But in any case, regardless of whether the final choice is right or wrong, what will decrease is the Ladder score, not the number of players.

Unless the choices made affect the Destiny of the player, in turn, the tragedy that no one wants to encounter will occur.

But now, losing a teammate right at the start is not a good sign.

Surely death won't be the answer this time?

The Destiny's Choice will appear before each player at the same time. Since Cheng Shi did not receive a prompt for the choice, it means that the death of the [Silent] Believer was really an "accident"!

"What do we do now?"

In the past, most of the people who asked this question were Cheng Shi.

But someone is faster than him today.

As soon Ji Ran entered, she lazily sat down on a stool at the table. Seeing everyone looking worried, she had no choice but to remind them, since the assistants were still waiting outside.

He frowned and voiced the doubts in everyone's minds.

"Don't you think this town is strange? It's just a few ordinary travelers, yet each of them has been assigned a sightseeing assistant."

What kind of scenery requires such meticulous care?

No one responded to him, or rather, no one could respond to him.

The Trials has only just begun, and it will take time to uncover the secrets hidden in this town.

While everyone remained silent, Hu Xuan, stroking her belly, suddenly said:

"I felt His power in these tour assistants."

"!?"

Cheng Shi was taken aback. "[Birth]?"

Yes, [Birth].

"Is the Eternal Day His Emissary?"

Hu Xuan said with great interest:

"I do not know His name, but we can seek it out."

Perhaps sightseeing isn't really sightseeing, and surveillance isn't really surveillance. We don't even know this town yet, so why rush to conclusions?

Perceive it, understand it, recognize it, and then evaluate it.

This is the way of nature.

Therefore, I suggest we leave here and take a stroll around town.

Qin Chaoge snorted coldly.

"Where's the body? Just leaving it like this?"

"Why not? They all committed suicide, didn't they?"

The attitude of law enforcement towards the bodies is also useful information we need to know. So, since they committed suicide, what does it have to do with us?

Hu Xuan, with her slightly protruding belly, knelt beside her dead teammate and gently touched the corpse's hand.

He murmured again:

May the pain pass away, may the confusion be gone, may we be reunited. Relax, for He is watching over you.

"???"

While everyone else was dumbfounded and wondering what this woman was doing, she gathered up the hem of her skirt, which barely covered her thighs, and slowly stood up.

Touching her now larger belly, she smiled and said to everyone:

"Look, the continuation of life."

"..."

The expressions on everyone's faces instantly turned extremely ugly.

Cheng Shi lowered his head, a serious look flashing in his eyes.

A scoundrel, a reckless fool, a madman.

This game is going to be interesting.