Reality, an unknown city in China, an office building.
After returning, Ji Yue lay on the bed without moving. She was sorting through her thoughts and memories.
She remembered why she had joined the Fire Keepers in the first place: to ensure humanity's continuation and free the world from suffering, and to uncover the secrets of godhood so she could challenge those sixteen lofty deities.
However, choosing to join the Fire Keepers later had not completely betrayed her original intention. At the very least, the existence of the Mutual Aid Society had proven that she was a good person willing to protect the weak.
But that was not what troubled her now. What troubled her were the things Cheng Shi had said and done when he first "recruited" her.
He had said that the Fire Keepers had a good relationship with Deception, expressing the same meaning both openly and covertly: Deception had protected the Fire Keepers.
Of course, Cheng Shi had been working with Fang Shiqing to deceive her at the time, so he might very well have been lying. But verbal lies could deceive people—could the reactions of a god deceive her too!?
She clearly remembered Cheng Shi leading them to Giggle and Mock, then using the "Scrying Mirror" that Deception had left inside Giggle and Mock to reach the Void Experiment Ground in the Tower of Reason. If all of that had been fake, where had Cheng Shi gotten the ability to conjure Giggle and Mock in the void?
That was something only a god could do, right?
So Giggle and Mock could not be fake, and Deception's reaction could not be fake either!
That meant Deception definitely knew about the Fire Keepers. Perhaps the group's exchanges in the void had long been known to Him. Only then