[Deception]'s script
After Cheng Shi made some guesses about [Origin's] identity, he kept thinking about one question:
If the [Origin] is Predestination, then under what circumstances would [*He] resolutely initiate another Experiment that repeats Despair?
Now, Cheng Shi seems to have found the answer.
Perhaps not for the world, perhaps only for [*He] Himself.
The future promised by [the Deception] was good, but unfortunately it didn't satisfy Cheng Shi.
To explain all of this, we probably need to go back to the time after the False Curtain Call fell.
After the False Curtain Call, [Deception] did not erase the Change in [Destiny], but instead hid all the Memory of the Cosmos during the False Curtain Call fell in the junkyard of [Memory], and then handed them over to the Hope's Flame after leaving.
It was the departure of [Deception] that made the Hope's Flame realize its identity. At that moment, the "awakened" "Destiny" did not continue its obsession with the Predestination order, but quietly picked up the Pen of Destiny and began to continue writing the rebellion left by the Twin Gods.
He remains Hope's Flame; He still hopes this tiny world can have a future, and that future has been found by [Deception]:
False Curtain Call!
[Time] is indeed researching ways to escape the gaze of [Origin], and [Deception] is indeed searching for a way away from [Origin], and everything in the False Curtain Call is the final script He wrote for this world.
It's important to understand that [the Origin] is invincible, which means there's no possibility of overturning this Experiment.
[Deception]'s revenge was no longer possible. He could only turn his rebellious will into a final lament, using all his strength to drag this world out of [Origin]'s Experiment Field, in order to express his Unyielding.
So, after the Gods’ Graveyard in the True Universe, He wrote a False Curtain Call.
In His script, the Cosmos witnessed the following:
The [Faith Game] found a Predestination to please [the Origin], but [the Origin] rejected the offerings of the gods, leading to the abandonment of the entire world.
Thus, the gods either died or departed, the [Faith Game] came to a standstill, and the Cosmos was devoid of gods!
This is very important: in the future He sought for the world, there was no longer a single god!
Because He knew that the gods were merely a reflection of the [Origin] will, and to some extent represented the [Origin] as well, or at least a part of it, He eliminated all the gods from that "new" world.
However, the Old Gods are long gone, New God are taking the stage. To have all the gods perish would mean that the New God have no way to survive... But since death is inevitable anyway, why bother with the New God ascending to the throne?
Because of the alternative!
"Similarity" alone is not enough; the key to the future is "substitution."
The world was constructed by [the Origin]. It can be said that [His] will is the foundation of the world. Without the watchful eye of [the Origin], the Cosmos would immediately fall apart.
Therefore, a new "Origin" must be created to replace the gaze of the original [Origin]. However, finding a substitute is not easy. To obtain a status similar to the [Origin], one must first gain the Faith of the entire world.
But with such a chaotic mix of Faith, how can everyone be Faith the same deity, especially one so little known Cosmos as the [Origin]?
The answer isn't difficult, in a way.
All we need to do is use the gods as a springboard to bridge people's Faith in them to "the Origin"!
Therefore, in the future depicted in [The Deception], people Faith gods, and the gods Faith "the Origin." However, "the Origin" abandons the world, the gods disappear, and people begin to live in fear...
At this point, all that is needed is for "Origin" to return to the world and forgive all living beings, and he will naturally gain the Faith and gratitude of the world.
Once the connection between [Origin] and the world's Faith is stolen by "Origin," then the plan to steal the world will have succeeded!
So what "Origin" has to do is, in the instant that [Origin] "blinks," descend upon the world, forgive all living beings, comfort the Cosmos, and then steal the world!
However, this raises another issue: how to convince people that the god who descended to earth was "the Origin"!
The blink of an eye in [Origin] is so short that "Origin" has no time to explain it to the world. Moreover, the Creator cannot explain anything to Mortals beings. Therefore, that moment of "self-proof" is extremely crucial and is related to the success of the entire replacement plan.
This may seem like an impossible task, but in reality, [Deception] had already paved the way for this moment.
Do you still remember those eyes that flashed across the Cosmos at the very last moment before the False Curtain Call fell?
Whether human or divine, all believed it to be the eye of the [Origin].
However, that's not it!
It's obvious that once [Origin] is truly involved in the False Curtain Call, how can the falsehood truly be false?
So it's fake, fake from beginning to end, including that fleeting glimpse of the [Origin] Eye!
That wasn't the real Eye of the Origin at all; it was Deception that magnified the eyes of a certain Clown and displayed them to the world just before the Cosmos collapsed!
Yes, those are Cheng Shi's eyes!
Of course, in a sense, it was indeed the "Origin" eye.
The world is unaware of the truth and only believes Wei Mu's words. Therefore, the image of "Origin" is also anchored in the minds of the people. Those who know the truth are close to the Predestination, and all that awaits them is the ending of the script.
In this way, apart from "Origin", no one else in the Cosmos knows the truth. A performance of deception is about to begin. As long as "Origin" is willing, he and the Cosmos can have a future!
A future without the gaze of [Origin]!
[Deception] passed on this False Curtain Call Memory the Hope's Flame after his death, and the Hope's Flame, after his death, passed it on to Cheng Shi through Li Jingming.
That's why the Dragon King said he shouldn't have known all this. As the [Memory], as the Clown, and as the true knower of that False Curtain Call, he had to die at the end of the old world. Otherwise, when the future arrives, he will become a stain on Faith in the new world.
Even if he trusted and Faith Cheng Shi Cheng Shi, he knew that Cheng Shi was just Cheng Shi, and never some "Origin".
No one can guarantee whether a single stain will have an impact on countless anchors of Faith. In order to avoid any risk of the entire plan failing because of him, Li Jingming decisively had Cheng Shi erase this Memory and chose to give up on himself.
So from beginning to end, the future promised by [Deception] is a new world with only "Origin" and humankind, but no other gods. "Origin" sits firmly behind the scenes, protecting the evolution of the world, while humankind, or rather, the survivors of [Faith Game], face a world abandoned by the gods and forgiven by [Origin], and must rebuild themselves and their homes.
It's like a star that has strayed from the crowd and is traveling alone among countless stars. It has broken away from that terrifying Creator's Experiment and severed all ties with the past.
The good news is that Cheng Shi is still alive and has escaped the gaze of [Origin].
The bad news is that only Cheng Shi is alive, and the world he protected is no longer the one he wanted to protect; all his connections with this world have been severed in the past.
Cheng Shi was unwilling to accept this future, but he also knew that this was the only explanation for the countless people and gods who had struggled and resisted to this day!
So when faced with such a choice, he hoped that everything could "stop".
However, the farewells continued.
In his endless silence, Zhen Xin and An Mingyu arrived hand in hand.