The Gods' Foolish Game
Chapter 1178

I Choose to Abstain

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The source of this voice was not two Nothings, but one Nothing and one Civilization.

When Truth shouted "Agreed" and placed an unbalanced weight on the scales, Annihilation's expression turned extremely ugly.

It was not the only one. Quite a few of the gods present were also surprised.

Only Folly silently watched the foolish act unfold, his eyes filled with disdain.

Annihilation did not understand. Although he had no need to care about Truth's vote, he still asked Truth:

"Deception has interfered with your experiments and ruined your pursuit of Truth so many times. You're actually voting for him? Truth, are you insane? Or is Prosperity's son about to become Deception's son again?!"

At this, Deception's expression turned strange, while Truth offered no comment.

Hong Lin, however, was startled into a shudder. Half reclining in her chair, she kept thinking:

I don't have a son that big...

Seeing how indifferent Truth was, Annihilation's eyes flickered. It was hard for him to imagine how chaotic the universe would become if Truth, the one most prone to causing trouble, joined forces with Deception, the most reckless of them all.

Of course, what he found even harder to imagine was that even without Deception's help, Truth alone was capable of tearing a hole through the heavens—and had already done so once.

The voting continued. The next few votes were utterly unsurprising.

Birth whispered, "Child... child..." and abstained;

Death cast an affirmative vote without hesitation;

Iron Rule of Order solemnly expressed his opposition to Nothing's disruption of order and voted against it;

Chaos said nothing and simply raised his hand to cast an affirmative vote;

Folly abstained, just as expected, the mockery in his eyes growing even stronger;

Destiny cast two affirmative votes without a word.

When they saw Destiny cast two votes, all

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