Prayer Trial! Begin!

(Taichiro, hands on hips on holiday)

Three days have passed since the last Trials.

During these three days, Cheng Shi sorted out her emotions and witnessed Xie Yang's love once again.

When Cheng Shi heard the name of the third girl from this Believer in "war" last night, Cheng Shi immediately began to plan how she would die.

"Xiaoyuan is a very good girl. She likes reading, drawing, singing in the sun, and cooking by herself."

She is simply my ideal woman, my destined other half.

The only pity is that she lives on the first floor, which is too far away from me, so we can only have a long-distance relationship for the time being.

Dude, do you think I've found true love?

Cheng Shi neither confirmed nor denied this.

When he learned that Xie Yang found his "white moonlight" by throwing several cell phones downstairs, and that one of them was found, he felt that he didn't understand love at all.

My understanding of love is too superficial and outdated.

Look at them, this is what love in the new era is all about.

It can be paired with any phone you find; it's a full Bluetooth 10.0 device.

"Hey buddy, do you have a camera? Can you take a picture of me? I want to see what Xiaoyuan looks like."

Of course, I'm not a looks-obsessed person; I value inner qualities more.

But without photos, I feel a lack of her physical beauty in my heart, which makes my love feel incomplete.

She lives on the first floor, unit 107, of the building facing yours; you should be able to see her.

Please, just consider it another favor I owe you.

I still have a corpse at home... I can trade you something else for it.

Cheng Shi looked at Xie Yang speechlessly and nodded.

Okay.

For the sake of the corpse, it's just taking a picture.

So Cheng Shi went back to the warehouse, took out a camera, leaned out from the edge of the roof, and took a bunch of pictures of the neighboring 107 apartment.

Whether it was an unexpected coincidence or the work of Destiny, Cheng Shi just wanted to find an excuse to say that the player in 107 didn't open the window and couldn't see anyone, but just at this moment, the player in 107 opened the window.

He opened the window of the room and stretched towards the street.

Cheng Shi was on a very high floor, and even with the camera zoomed in many times, his face couldn't be captured.

But sometimes, you don't need a face; you can reconstruct a person's approximate appearance by looking at other parts of their body.

Armpit hair, chest hair, and a beer belly, shirtless and wearing shorts.

That's enough.

Absolutely stunning.

Cheng Shi's hand trembled, and he almost dropped the camera.

Xiaoyuan?

Yes, that's a really good name.

That belly isn't quite round!

His expression instantly became incredibly complex. Xie Yang, seeing Cheng Shi's expression from afar, waved and asked with extreme excitement:

"Did you get the picture? Did you get the picture? Can you see my white moonlight?"

Cheng Shi forced an even more excited smile and nodded frantically.

"I saw it, but I didn't take a picture!"

My camera is broken, but don't worry, I've checked it for you.

She is indeed very beautiful.

Like... a true white moonlight!

Looking at her round, full-moon-like belly, Cheng Shi couldn't help but think of an old friend.

"..."

Putting aside her ever-present protruding belly, Hu Xuan is indeed very beautiful.

It was Cheng Shi's slight affirmation of Hu Xuan's beauty that Xie Yang accurately captured!

The Mage upstairs across the street wasn't lying!

Xiaoyuan is so beautiful!!

Xie Yang excitedly clenched his fist, his whole body going wild with excitement.

Yes!

I knew it! Xiaoyuan is my destiny! She's the one I've been waiting for!

Thanks, bro. I'm going to play some matches now. I'm praying for a camera. Wait for me, bro, I have to see her before tonight!

Xiaoyuan, wait for me, I'm coming!

"..."

Cheng Shi scratched his head, feeling like he had dug himself into a hole.

Indeed, the loopholes exposed by one lie often require countless more lies to fill.

When I get the camera, how should I take photos for him?

"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time. If it doesn't work out, I'll hide for a couple of days."

But speaking of making wishes...

Cheng Shi hasn't made a wish on his own initiative for a long time.

It wasn't because he was afraid of dying, but because he had plenty of supplies and didn't need to...

Forget it, I won't lie anymore, I'm just afraid of dying.

With Special Trial becoming increasingly difficult, as long as resources are still barely sufficient, there is really no need to venture into other dungeons.

But after experiencing this Trials of "Destiny," Cheng Shi finally had other ideas.

The current situation is extremely dire, and there is no longer any option for me to sit idly by and wait for my doom.

Not to mention that Destiny, which also belongs to the Nothingness, has been eyeing us covetously from the sidelines, now even Memory of Home is starting to pull some tricks.

Under the dual pressure, no matter how careful Cheng Shi, he cannot guarantee that he will not make any mistakes.

However, if a mistake is made, and whichever of them seizes the opportunity, it is very likely to plunge them into an abyss of no return.

Therefore, in order to escape this predicament and to survive a little longer, Cheng Shi felt he needed to do something.

He needs to take the initiative and resolve one of the two troubles first, giving himself a chance to catch his breath.

Although this "solution" may be temporary, and although the solution is not something that can be achieved overnight.

But it was time to take action.

He began to carefully recall why he had fallen into this situation and to sort out his entanglement with Destiny and Memory.

Actually, there's not much to sort out about [Memory]. It's about Faith Opposition, so just do it.

But their Destiny were different.

He is a deity belonging to the same Nothingness as the Lord of Grace.

Logically speaking, those who share the same Path of Fate should not have a bad relationship.

The Believer among them are considered half brothers.

The problem wasn't with the two "gods," but with Cheng Shi himself.

After he removed that mask at the Path of Fate's Beginning, his Destiny began to take a dramatic turn.

He was rejected by Destiny, and he began to reject Destiny in return.

No, or rather, before the [Faith Game] even arrived, Cheng Shi's unhappy life already made Cheng Shi resent Destiny.

However, the choices made at the Path of Fate's Beginning and their subsequent resistance against Destiny deepened this attitude.

Like two enemies who hate each other, hatred only grows with the passage of time, it never disappears.

Therefore, Cheng Shi once felt that he was going further and further away from the path of "Destiny".

But after this Trials of "Destiny" ended, a new idea suddenly sprouted in Cheng Shi's mind.

Is it possible for me to ease my relationship with Destiny?

Logically speaking, from the perspective of both gods and men, Cheng Shi is nothing at the moment.

But standing at...

Well, from the perspective of a liar and a bitch, neither of them is a good person, and neither should look down on the other.

Cheng Shi would never have dared to even think about such a thing, but His attitude during this Trials gave Cheng Shi a glimmer of hope!

In the previous Trials, [Destiny] placed all the answers in the deep Void beyond the players' reach, with the obvious purpose of not wanting any player to leave the Trials alive.

Whether it was out of jealousy or a fit of masochistic behavior, the purpose of the Trials was undoubtedly punishment.

However, when Cheng Shi passed the Trials, he received an S rating and a reward!

This means that an unexpected Change occurred during the Trials, causing Him to withdraw the means of punishment and instead... reward Him.

Yes, it's a reward.

Although the word "reward" sounds strange, an S rating is the highest reward given by the "gods" to players who pass their Trials.

Cheng Shi consideration, Cheng Shi realized that his performance throughout the game was hardly worthy of an S grade. The S grade should go to Zhen Xin, the one who fooled everyone and even tricked them into revealing the final answer.

But since I obtained an S, it means that in this Trials, I satisfied Him and [Destiny], and received enough benefits, thus abandoning the purpose of punishment.

As for what the benefits are...

Recalling the information revealed by Hu Xuan's ambiguous attitude at the end of the Trials, Cheng Shi guessed that it was probably his final choice that led Destiny to the unknown, thus involving several "them" in the game.

However, Destiny gained the upper hand in this game between the gods.

No, it should be said that they had the upper hand!

Otherwise, He wouldn't have forgiven a Clown kept chattering in His ear every day and given him an S rating.

Therefore, I probably do have a chance to reconcile with Him, and the reason for this possibility is:

The benefits that His own choice brought Him far outweighed all the previous blasphemy!

The steps are there; now we need to figure out how to walk them.

Cheng Shi racking his brains for two days, Cheng Shi finally decided to go look for inspiration.

Go to the Trials and find some inspiration.

Thus, Cheng Shi, who had already figured out "how to avoid the excessive difficulty of the Prayer Trial", began his first Prayer Trial in a month!

"Do not distinguish between truth and falsehood, nor discuss the reality and the illusion."

Your devout Believer pray to you, beginning a Trials...

A Trials where one can witness the pitiful, abandoned by Destiny, compromise with Destiny...

Yes, it's about being a bystander!

This word is very useful. In the past, when Cheng Shi wanted to find a certain answer, he would choose to be a passerby in the Trials and observe how others solved it.

Because once you pray to resolve a problem, the difficulty of the Trials will be unexpectedly high.

But if you're just watching others solve the problem, it's nothing more than adding a spectator seat to the Trials, with almost no difficulty.

Cheng Shi never hoped to achieve success overnight. He felt he should have some time to sort everything out, so he chose to first find some inspiration.

Then...

The Trial of Prayer (The Crime Without Evidence [Order]) has begun.

[Matching teammates (1/6)]

[Trial Objective: When Order is not observed by bystanders, even sin is sin (3-day time limit)]

It's actually a scheme to Order!

His Trials, as long as they do not disrupt Order, are generally quite Civilization.

This is in the bag!

Cheng Shi smiled, letting his consciousness sink into Nothingness.

Match successful (6/6), entering trial mode.