"Mutual Pursuit"

Cheng Shi then transformed into an infinitely extending spider web.

He was very curious about his own appearance, so he tried to follow the God of Merriment's line of thinking to figure out whether the spider web was just for fun or had some deeper meaning.

But I couldn't come up with a solution even after thinking about it for a long time.

Later, I was drawn to the figures of the people behind me.

Ji Yue was the first to come down. With the heart-to-heart talk having progressed this far, she had almost completely let her guard down around Cheng Shi.

In fact, putting aside the heart-to-heart talk, the sheer act of opening the entrance to [Giggle and Mock] is enough to make a Scholar is passionate about studying the Void abandon all his reservations and jump in.

After all, for them, research is more important than anything else.

The moment she jumped down, she immediately looked around, her intense interest and desire to study evident in her eyes.

Of course, Cheng Shi didn't see it that way.

All he saw was a black gauze scarf dripping with blood, trembling incessantly, and as it trembled, the blood dripped even faster.

A veil covering her face!?

Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment. For some reason, this image immediately brought a word to his mind:

Thief!

Does He think Ji Yue is a thief?

A bloodied thief?

That makes sense, after all, Scholar of the Void Energetics are constantly studying the Void under the protection of [Truth].

The ownership of the Void belongs to Him, uh, to them.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call these Scholar thieves.

But what about bleeding?

Because she was involved in "war"?

Hmm, that seems to make sense.

Cheng Shi instantly understood:

Hiss--.

The image of all beings in the "Giggle and Mock" doesn't seem so difficult to understand.

Then this spider web of mine...

Could it be a metaphor for his identity as a scoundrel?

Waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump?

After all, spiders catch their prey by letting flying insects walk right into their webs.

Holy crap, now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense.

Before long, Passing the Flame and the other two also jumped down.

Cheng Shi looked up and saw that the thigh was a blazing torch, the Bailing was a small black bird with white spots almost covering its entire body, Cui Qiushi...

Even more outrageous than Yan Chun, he actually turned into a stone, a perfectly square stone.

As for the prisoner who jumped last, it was a rusty French horn.

Cheng Shi observed everything with great interest, searching for the points of convergence between each person's image and their persona, attempting to understand the concept of "Deception."

But not everyone is as composed as him; every player who jumps into the [Giggle and Mock] area is stunned by what they see.

The Bailing flapped its wings and chirped:

"What is this? It's amazing! I've really turned into a bird! Haha, I can fly!"

"Why... did I turn into stone?"

"The black veil is... Ji Yue?"

"Beep... beep... beep..."

"Bird? Stone? Torch? French horn?"

Gauze scarf... blood...

"Interesting. It turns out that what those old Experiment records said was all true."

Hearing the gasps of surprise around him, Cheng Shi not only failed to show his previous "I know this place very well" attitude, but instead stood there dumbfounded.

Ah?

Why can I hear other people talking again this time?

[Giggle and Mock] Shouldn't people's voices be distorted?

Can mechanisms be changed?

My Lord of Grace benefactor, you weren't secretly watching from the side, were you?

Cheng Shi quickly scanned his surroundings, but finding nothing, he scratched his head in bewilderment. To others, this action appeared as a spiderweb that had been unraveled being draped back over the net.

But he quickly regained his composure, looked at Ji Yue with interest, and asked:

"What did the record say?"

Ji Yue did not hide it.

"The seventy-fourth student of the Scholar Glow, the Scholar Setavman, wrote in his record of the Void Experiment:"

He created a kingdom in the Void, called "Giggle and Mock," and everyone who entered this kingdom became a foreign joke, used to amuse the natives of this kingdom.

Although this record seems more like a fairy tale than Experiment discovery, it has been circulating in the archives sealed in the Tower of Reason for decades.

Every student in the Void Energetics has heard of this country, but few have actually entered it.

It wasn't until the centenary of the death of the Scholar Setavman that his student Bruno, a generation later, stepped into it again, proved the Grand Scholar's discovery, and corrected the form of "Giggle and Mock".

Because he discovered that this was not a country, but a River, a River that could traverse the Void.

Scholar Bruno shattered a mirror in this River filled with reality, and then he appeared in the far north, the country of Kanliwal, a place he had never been to in his entire life.

So, Cheng Shi, are you trying to use this method to lead us into that Void Experiment Ground No. 69, which is separated by the Wall of True Knowledge?

"..."

Girl, you've already shown off enough, what else can I say?

Cheng Shi pursed his lips, and could only nod; he had nothing to say.

"But it's said that the mirror appears without any pattern, and its teleportation location is untraceable. How can you be sure you'll find it, and how can you be sure it leads to where we want to go?"

The black scarf trembled even more violently, Cheng Shi was delighted to see the frequency of the trembling, which was full of longing and curiosity.

Oh, you didn't know? Well then, don't blame me for giving you a lesson.

"Cough cough..."

Cheng Shi cleared his throat and said:

"The Scrying Mirror you are talking about is actually His Scrying Mirror."

Joy... [Deception] is always watching the Void, watching all the interesting things in the Void. In order to see these interesting things, He has created countless Scrying Mirror.

Each mirror corresponds to an interesting event in the Void.

And I..."

In fact, what Cheng Shi was thinking was:

And at this moment, we are the greatest source of amusement in this Void.

For Him, the greatest pleasure in this history might be to send His followers, the three Fire Keeper, and the Scholar of the Void Energy Department into the high walls to compete for that one and only fruit.

He certainly wouldn't miss this feast, and might even open the back door to the Stage right next to Him.

Just so that the Clown in this show wouldn't be absent.

The thought had barely crossed his mind, and before he could finish speaking, a Scrying Mirror silently appeared behind Cheng Shi.

The mirror surface was filled with black light flowing towards Nothingness, spiraling around and soon converging into a bottomless spiral staircase.

Cheng Shi felt a sudden jolt in his heart as he watched the figures of the people in front of him suddenly freeze in place. He turned around and looked back.

"..."

What did I tell you?

The God of Merriment is always on the front lines of gossip.

Especially since this scandal involves me personally.

Cheng Shi was numb.

Although he had even taken his Deception nature into account, putting on a show of strategic planning and mystery in front of his teammates, he unsurprisingly fell into Lord of Grace benefactor's trap and willingly became His source of amusement.

The so-called "two-way journey" is just a rough estimate.