Life Assimilation Experiment!? Bullshit, this is clearly...

In the Experiment Field.

Li Yi and Cheng Shi exchanged a glance, both seeing the confusion in each other's eyes.

They were puzzled by Therius's attitude. Logically speaking, the Scholar should not have been so calm when he encountered two outsiders who should not have been there.

If it were just Li Yi alone, it wouldn't be so bad, since his current body belongs to a knight. But Cheng Shi is clearly still wearing Prison Helmet!

He was Death Sentence criminal created by this Experiment!

It is important to understand that when a person discovers that their life trajectory is being controlled by another stranger, this "controlled person" will instinctively resist, and therefore the destructive and harmful desires that arise are often the greatest.

Therius was clearly not afraid of Cheng Shi, the prisoner. Based on this alone, the two realized that this Experiment was probably not so simple.

At the very least, Therius must have had a backup plan to save his life, and they may have already fallen into the Scholar's trap.

But in this situation, overthinking is useless; Cheng Shi by testing the waters can one obtain the desired result. After pondering for a moment, Cheng Shi picked his nose and said:

"Mr. Therius, our intrusion was an accident. I was simply pushed here by the aftershocks of the arena explosion, and happened to meet this knight. I also discovered that the Experiment subjects here are somewhat similar to me..."

That's why I've taken the liberty of searching here, hoping to find a way to unlock the prison... the Gladiator's Mask, that's imprisoning us.

Li Yi hearing this. He had seen liars who told lies, but he had never seen a liar who could lie with his eyes open, no, lie by touching his helmet and make it sound like this.

Therius observed Cheng Shi with great interest for a while, then replied with a smile:

"Then you've come to the wrong place. This is the Experiment Field, the place where Experiment materials are generated. To remove the Gladiator Mask, you need to go to the Experiment workshop next door. If you really want to take it down, then come with me."

After saying that, Therius turned his back and walked slowly forward, seemingly not regarding Cheng Shi and Li Yi as a threat to the Experiment, but rather as visitors to the Experiment.

Li Yi frowned and said softly, "Be careful, it might be a trap."

Even a fool would know there's a trap.

Cheng Shi had no intention of paying any attention to the Scholar. He pointed in the direction that the Gao San had run off to, turned around and left, gesturing for Li Yi to follow.

Li Yi understood and followed silently.

Strangely, Therius, who was leaving, did not turn back to stop them. He only sighed with disappointment after hearing that Cheng Shi and the others had left.

Cheng Shi and Li Yi ran for a while with their hearts pounding, until they reached the wooden door. After hearing the faint sounds of Gao San coming from inside, they confirmed that there was no danger inside and decided to push the door open and go in to take a look.

But the moment they pushed the door open and saw the two familiar figures inside, their pupils constricted.

Because sitting at the warmly lit Experiment table were none other than Gao San and... Therius.

Another Therius.

"You..."

"You..."

Seeing the two stunned people, the Gao San actually tried to explain for Therius, saying, "Don't do anything, Mr. Therius means no harm."

"..."

Cheng Shi would never have believed that the person who said those words was not a con artist with the talent of a "Master of Deception".

What do you mean by "no malice"? The appearance of Therius just now was already the greatest malice.

"There are so many guests today. I didn't expect the Iron Law Knight to join this game as well."

Is this person... also here to remove the Gladiator's Mask?

Cheng Shi was silent for a moment, then uttered a single word. "Yes."

"Then what brings this knight here?"

Why did you come here? Aren't you asking a lot of questions?

Cheng Shi frowned, pulled a sharp Scalpel from his sleeve, and with a flick of his wrist, stuck it into the Experiment table.

"Stop playing the wise old man. Let's get straight to the point. I just saw another you, another Therius. So, are you the real one, or is he the real one, or perhaps...?"

"None of you are real?"

"Another... Therius?"

Before the Scholar could react, the soldier was already in shock.

He took a step back and assumed a fighting stance, his gaze towards Therius no longer so friendly.

Therius looked at Cheng Shi thoughtfully and nodded.

"So you've met him before. That's right, he's Therius like me, but he's also different from me because he's a substitute."

"?"

"Alternatives? What alternatives? You mean those... Experiment clones?" Li Yi blurted out his question, instinctively taking a step from the doorway into the house.

Seeing this, Cheng Shi glanced back slightly, and seeing that no one was behind him, quickly followed him into the room and closed the door.

Just as the door closed, a Scholar with gray hair walked out from the walkway between the Experiment devices, looking at the wooden door with an inscrutable expression.

Inside the room, Therius's gaze swept over the two of them for a moment before looking towards the door, but Cheng Shi closed the door too quickly, so he didn't see what he wanted to see.

He then sighed softly and addressed the crowd:

"Yes, the Experiment clones you're referring to have a more academic name, which we generally call..."

Slice."

"!!!"

The air in the room suddenly froze, and the three swindlers once again became cautious and wary of each other because of those two words.

"Slice?"

"Yes, slice it." Therius didn't seem afraid of the atmosphere. He smiled and took out a small wooden figure from the drawer under the table. Everyone's eyes were fixed on him as they followed his movements.

This is not actually a small wooden figure made from a single piece of wood, but rather a wooden figure composed of more than a dozen cross-cut pieces of wood of different sizes.

Therius deftly disassembled the wooden figure, then laid each cross-section out on the table, patiently explaining to the three of them as if he were instructing his students.

"Look, this is a slice, but it is not a slice of flesh and blood in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a slice of life containing the life foundation, Faith consciousness, and fragmented Memory of the Experiment material."

You can think of it simply as a personality split off from Experiment material, except that this personality has a physical body of flesh and blood, so after cultivation, it can grow back into a complete... 'him'.

Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat. He glanced at the door out of the corner of his eye, wondering if all the countless Experiment devices outside were cultured from these slices.

"So, the Death Sentence inmates weren't captured at all, but rather nurtured through dissection, right?"

"Yes, and no, the Death Sentence criminals were indeed captured, but what was created through dissection and cultivation were the rest of 'him'." Therius pointed to the door and said meaningfully:

"The Experiment requires a large number of slides, but if these slides are taken from only one person, then the traces of that person's existence will become increasingly faint, because you cannot control the losses during the Experiment. Even if you peel off the most perfect slide, it will inevitably take away a trace of the original person's personality or Memory..."

Therefore, in order to complete this Experiment, the Grand Inquisition's funder used the rules of the game of "Order" to establish a new method: the Death Sentence. In this way, the Experiment could legally and legitimately capture enough Experiment material.

"Sponsor... what a novel term. So why would the sponsor of the Grand Inquisition fund a Scholar from the Tower of Reason, and why do you, Scholar, have to explain these things to us!"

What are you planning, or what are you delaying?

As Cheng Shi finished speaking, Li Yi and Gao San took a slight step back again, cautiously looking around.

"I didn't plan anything."

"You're lying!" Li Yi bluntly exposed him, because the Master of Deception had told him that Therius was lying.

"Oh? Well, I am indeed plotting something," Therius chuckled, seemingly unconcerned. "But what I'm plotting has nothing to do with any of you here. Relax, I have no intention of hurting you."

Cheng Shi frowned and looked at Li Yi Li Yi nodded silently.

This time it's the truth.

The Scholar did not appear to be hostile.

"So, what exactly is this Experiment doing? And what's this 'final showdown' all about?"

"Perhaps when I tell you the name of the Experiment, you will be able to guess what this experiment is all about."

Because its name says it all, it's called...

Divinity Sprouting Experiment.

"!!!!!"