Only two people remained in Cheng Shi's current group: Square and Round and Meng Youfang.
Although Square and Round did not fully believe him, considering that Cheng Shi was at least aligned with Order, he decided to meet the Grand Scholars first and see what happened.
Meng Youfang needed no explanation. He had already begun calculating how to use his limited identity to strike back at Truth.
Chen Yi was there as well. He had hidden in the shadows as before and heard everything Cheng Shi said, but because of his aversion to the Followers of Deception, he was unwilling to believe him.
But if everything Cheng Shi said was true, it meant that the Grand Scholars' scheme against the players would cause him to lose his chance to continue approaching Memory completely. That was why he had followed them here: he wanted to see whether the Scholarly Council had truly discovered some so-called Wanderer.
Once he confirmed that the Grand Scholars were also obstacles in this relationship, he would eliminate them at any cost. Just as he hated Deception, he would begin an endless hunt for the followers of Truth.
Only Wei Zhi was absent from the group. Like before, the Martial Expert had vanished immediately after telling Cheng Shi the location.
Cheng Shi knew that Wei Zhi must be lurking outside, searching for an opportunity. As a "traitor" who had abandoned the players' faction to cooperate with the Scholarly Council, that madman would probably do anything to ensure the success of the Truth experiment. Cheng Shi had to stay on guard.
Before long, they arrived beside the Experiment Field in the western part of the city. By then, Galiusha's backup plan had blasted the Grand Scholars into isolated remnants, and even the entire underground Experiment Field had suffered