A Fine Spectacular Absurd Circus
Since someone has died on the field, according to the rules of the final showdown, another Death Sentence criminal needs to take their place.
The knights who had dragged away the corpse soon returned, preparing to drag the next "challenger" to the arena.
However, to Cheng Shi's surprise, when these knights walked over, they were not facing Zhao Si, but him!
They actually ignored Zhao Si and put their hands on their own shoulders!
!!
Cheng Shi was startled. He looked at Zhao Si abruptly, only to find that the screenwriter had already turned his head away.
He rewrote the script?
When? What was rewritten? Why did these knights so brazenly choose me? Are they planning to disregard the rules of Death Sentence?
Even that high-ranking knight didn't dare break the rules of the Death Sentence, so why should these knights?
Just as he was about to be dragged away by the knights to the arena, Cheng Shi he stood up:
"Why was I chosen, bypassing number 4? This doesn't comply with the rules of the Death Sentence!"
As soon as he finished speaking, both the two Iron Law Knights were holding his shoulders and the Punishment Knight who were guarding and watching over the prisoners sneered and looked down at the numbers on the broken cages in front of them.
Cheng Shi clearly saw that the wooden sign at his feet was number 6, but he heard something different from what the knight said!
"Playing dumb now? Too late."
Fear is a self-destructive Poison. If you want to survive, fight on, Number 4. Don't pin your hopes on nonsense.
Number 4!??
He called me number 4!?
Cheng Shi's body stiffened, and then a chill rose from his tailbone straight up to the top of his head!
He realized something terrible, because everything before him told him that Zhao Si wasn't using the screenwriter's tricks!
Screenwriters can only rewrite scripts to influence the course of Destiny, but they cannot blur the script to make the false become the true.
Mage who possesses such abilities and claims to be Believer in "Destiny" can only be...
Mage of Deception, Master of Trickery!
Zhao Si is truly a Master of Trickery!
He truly is His Believer!
This is already the second person to Trials in this trial... No, wait!
Cheng Shi was stunned. He quickly went through everything that had happened in the past half day in his mind and carefully recalled everyone's actions and words. Then, an extremely absurd idea arose in his mind.
Is this game truly the one with the highest degree of "Destiny" involved?
If Deception often lurks in the Destiny, is it possible that this particular game has the highest level of Deception?
By the time he realized this, Cheng Shi had already been dragged away. He didn't struggle excessively; instead, he calmly looked around.
He was confirming something, something he had previously overlooked: the rats in the prison seemed to...
It disappeared.
Since the fog cleared, these rats that used to forage for food have disappeared.
You know, when the Punishment Knight were active so frequently, these rats dared to openly forage for food. Now that the prison guards are so An Jing, they have disappeared. Is that reasonable?
It makes sense, but there's a prerequisite: that a special Hunter once existed in this prison, or rather, in the previous prison.
He can communicate with mice, learn information unknown to humans, and tame mice to serve him.
He could even switch identities with the rats he controlled, turning himself into a rat and swaggering away from the place under everyone's watchful eyes!
He is the Hunter and Beast Tamer of Deception!
What a fine Su Wu, what a "The Final Stroke"—it's all fake, a complete lie!
No wonder he was chasing away the mice at his feet as soon as he opened his eyes; perhaps it wasn't chasing them away, but rather a form of communication!
Indeed, all of "Destiny" is Deception!
Acrobat, Master of Trickery, Beast Tamer, Magician! This Trials has already seen four Believer of [Deception] from different professions!
Wait a minute! No, my Acrobat is fake, so it doesn't really count...
But are there really no Acrobat in this Trials?
The Gao San who died in Ji Er's Ji Er claimed to be Believer in "Truth," and his every move indeed seemed to align with the actions of "Truth." But Cheng Shi then recalled a point that had always puzzled him:
This Believer in "Truth" seems to have performed rather poorly.
He knew far too little about the history of the Isle of Hope, or rather, about the Grand Inquisition and Montrani, to be able to add anything at all.
Students who perform poorly should not be excessively questioned simply because of their "bad grades." But what if they are not even "students"? Is it possible that they are not Believer in the "Truth" at all?
Normally, such Nothingness speculation wouldn't serve as a logical basis for reasoning, but today, when Cheng Shi thought about how he died...
Limbs twisted, neck turned backwards...
Cheng Shi laughed, a self-deprecating laugh at his own slowness.
Ha, what a coincidence! Do you remember what the Believer of "Truth" once said? He said that Acrobat were given superhuman flexibility by Him, enabling them to perform all sorts of incredible physical movements.
So, are limb contortions and neck reversals considered bizarre physical actions?
Yes, of course it counts!
Therefore, the identity of this teammate number 3 is obvious!
Using his agility, he feigned defeat and fled the arena during the final duel, faking his death and escaping, almost completely deceiving the audience and the knights in various positions!
What a great Gao San! What a fantastic Acrobat!
At this point, three of the six players have disappeared from the prison beneath their feet, vanishing in full view of everyone.
Magician escape by making people disappear, Beast Tamer escape by turning into mice, Acrobat escape by performing physical acrobatics!
Another Master of Trickery is setting up a scheme to escape, and his method of escape is to put himself on the field to buy himself time!
This is incredible! This is an absolutely brilliant Deception performance, an absurd circus filled with scams from beginning to end!
But how could such a wonderful circus be complete without Clown?
When Cheng Shi realized this, he understood.
The Ji Er who claimed to be the Battle Marshal, the Ji Er who was mistaken for Clown, the Ji Er whose personality had drastically changed, was not Clown at all.
The only Clown is yourself!
Having lost the protection of "Deception," he became the only true Clown in this game full of Believer in "Deception"!
But if Ji Er isn't the Clown, what would he be?
The answer is actually quite simple: if there hadn't been so many lies and so much deception in this case, Cheng Shi have realized it much earlier.
The knight captain Apol, once said that he did not see any offensive, yet he was stabbed three times during the fight. Moreover, he clearly stabbed the so-called "assassin" hidden in the War Fog, but the other party still escaped.
Why?
Because he was deceived, because he was facing a conman protected by Deception, a Deception Assassin, and a victim!
Ji Er is clearly a victim!