Faith Game: At the Start, Inheriting a Laboratory

My hopes were dashed; all my expectations were misplaced.

This cold-blooded, Lips of Foolish Play offers no clues whatsoever, only lies.

And after he converted to the belief in "Destiny," his mouth gradually began to resemble that of the Riddler. Alas, his big mouth couldn't hold back his words.

I wonder what the Deception will think.

Cheng Shi's repeated efforts, he was unable to get the Lips of Foolish Play to speak again, and had no choice but to compose himself and prepare to leave the Experiment.

But as he reached the entrance of the Experiment, a question suddenly occurred to him:

Why should I go out?

I go outside to seek safety when it's unsafe inside the Experiment.

But now that all the unsafe things in the Experiment are dead, what's the point of me going out?

Cheng Shi instantly realized what was going on and grinned at the locked Experiment door.

Why can't I, Cheng Shi, be the head of the Experiment, even for just four days?

Where in all of Montrani is it safer than this hidden underground Experiment?

Furthermore, according to the laws of historical development, those who overthrow "tyranny" should "inherit the great throne"!

Therefore, I should be the person in charge of this Experiment now!

Absolutely reasonable!

I'm not leaving!

Having Cheng Shi figured it out, Cheng Shi turned around and walked back. As he passed the mountain of corpses and sea of corpses in the Experiment Field, he even began to plan how to clean it up.

"Well, we can't pile them up in the hall. The problem of the strong smell is acceptable, but the main issue is that it's unsightly and affects the reputation of the Honesty Experiment."

We might as well sweep them all into the workshop.

Perfect timing! I can use this free time to study how to perform Slice Experiment. The Experiment has so many Experiment rooms and Experiment, and my teammates haven't even woken up yet. If I can familiarize myself with the entire Experiment process in the next two days, wouldn't that be a great surprise for them when they wake up?

Clap clap clap!

"Great job! I'm such a little genius!"

Without hesitation, Cheng Shi rolled up his sleeves and began making his first contribution to the Experiment that was temporarily his own.

Well, it's not the first time, after all, overthrowing the old regime's tyranny counts as one.

And so, Cheng Shi actually started playing a well-organized simulated Experiment game in a chaotic Trials.

As he had predicted, nothing unexpected happened in the following three days, and not even a single visitor knocked on the Experiment door.

He himself was constantly switching between cleaning up the corpses at the Experiment Field and attempting to perform Slice Experiment.

Normally, a player who is neither "Truth" nor "Folly" would find it difficult to get started with the complicated and difficult-to-understand Experiment procedures, but Cheng Shi is different; he has Mouth Brother.

Although the Lips of Foolish Play doesn't always tell the truth, as long as it can speak, Cheng Shi can completely interpret its words in reverse and then continuously master the Experiment process by observing the Experiment feedback.

So the most difficult part is not the Experiment itself, but how to get the Mouth Brother to talk.

So, in order to improve, Cheng Shi started talking to himself, frantically talking to Mouth Brother.

After a day and a night of relentless bombardment, even the Lips of Foolish Play had converted to the "silence" couldn't take it anymore and, in desperation, offered a few casual pointers.

Cheng Shi started doing the opposite with a look of excitement, and then, unsurprisingly...

Several Experiment materials were blown up.

The good news is that the Experiment subjects who were killed were native to the Isle of Hope, so they were definitely not teammates.

The bad news is, Mouth Brother has started lying to people while telling the truth...

Heh, it's me, the Clown.

The pleasant time flew by. Cheng Shi had never found doing Experiment so fun. On the last day, he even began to pray that the Trials could be extended, because the Slice Experiment he had been working on from start to finish was about to succeed. Well, it looked like it was going to succeed, it was just a little short of time.

However, Cheng Shi never expected that on the last day of the Trials, the script that was about to end would give him a huge surprise.

My teammate woke up.

The first teammate survived the Slice Experiment under Cheng Shi's careful care, taking 4 days and 16 hours.

In the Slice Experiment, if the personality of the Experiment subject is successfully sliced, the slicing personality will not leave the body, but will still exist in the consciousness of the Experiment subject, waiting for the next step of Memory slicing.

Cheng Shi could not change the process of the Slice Experiment, nor could he interfere with the Experiment that had already been carried out. He could only carefully maintain the Experiment so that the Experiment material suspected to be his teammate would not die unattended.

Mastering a personality Slice Experiment in three days is already Cheng Shi's limit, so for the Experiment subjects in this Experiment, retaining their own personality profile is the best outcome.

But this result is not good either, because in that fantasy about evolution, the more "players" live, the more personality fragments remain in their consciousness.

So when the first teammate woke up, he looked at the stark white Experiment and operating table and sat up abruptly.

Where is this?

"Who are you?"

"And who are you?"

"Experiment? Why am I in Experiment? And who are you two?"

This wasn't Cheng Shi talking to his awakened teammates, but rather... talking to himself.

Yes, he split. In his fantasy, three personalities were unable to overcome each other, so he split.

Cheng Shi stared blankly at the scene before him, then suddenly threw the Concentric Dagger in his hand onto the Experiment table.

What I'm saying is... I don't know anything about it.

"And who are you?!" The teammate who woke up was a burly man. He frowned tightly, rubbed his temples, and looked at Cheng Shi with an unfriendly expression.

The moment Cheng Shi looked at him, he immediately got into character.

Where is this?

"Who are you?"

"And who are you?"

Why are you inside my body?

He muttered strange things to himself, one hand still touching his nose, the other hand gripping his neck, his face flushed and scolding:

"Get out of my body!"

"You're the one who should get out!"

"..."

After this series of actions, the burly teammate was completely dumbfounded.

He connected the dots between what had happened before and seemed to have guessed something. It turned out that the chaotic battle that had just taken place in the arena was just a personality Slice Experiment.

Is everything right in front of you right now the only real thing?

This schizophrenic, seemingly foolish person might actually be his teammate?

Ouch—my head hurts!

My condition was too bad, which was dangerous, but fortunately, the only teammate who woke up was in even worse condition and didn't seem to pose any threat.

Comparing the two, he gradually calmed down, but it was the main personality that calmed down, not the other personalities. So the argument started again, and this time the physical actions were much more intense than before.

Different personalities reenact the gladiatorial battle that just took place in the fantasy Trials in their current consciousness, and thus, the battle for control of the body begins.

"Clang—"

The burly man collapsed with a ferocious expression, one hand mimicking Cheng Shi's grip on his own neck, the other hand preventing the other arm from exerting force, his whole body twisted into a ball as he began to hit himself.

Just then, the second teammate woke up.

The situation was exactly the same, and the statements were almost identical. After seeing the state of Cheng Shi and the first teammate who woke up, he joined the ranks of those who were attacking themselves without hesitation.

They've gone mad, they've all gone mad.

Cheng Shi rolled around on the ground, occasionally slapping himself, while his darting eyes secretly observed his teammates.

These two teammates clearly have three personalities living in their heads, and their two hands aren't enough to handle them all.

Fortunately, they're all men, so they have enough legs to spread out...

Cheng Shi had a bunch of random thoughts on his mind and was just about to take advantage of the two being tired to make some contact with them when the third and fourth teammates woke up one after another.

These two are even more outrageous. They clearly only have two mouths, but the noise they make is like they've entered a market, and even their conversation sounds like they're fighting.

Clearly, neither of them managed to eliminate any of their personalities; the group was almost entirely composed of them.

"..."

Besides the players, other Experiment materials also began to awaken one after another. It seemed that the Slice Experiment had reached its end, so the small Experiment instantly turned into a chaotic cradle, indescribably messy.

Cheng Shi continued to lie on the ground, whipping himself, but as he did so, he turned toward the door. He knew he wouldn't be able to stay there much longer; if this continued, his teammates might not even recognize him before a fight broke out.

Imagine a room full of schizophres; who could stand that?

But just as he was about to climb out of the Experiment, his last teammate slowly opened his eyes. His sharp gaze swept across the scene, and then he frowned and said:

"Slice Experiment... I didn't expect the Trials just now to be Slice Experiment. Interesting. Where are the Therius? Why aren't they here?"

"And who are you!? Why haven't you split into two!?"

The last teammate glanced at the one who had spoken and gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"Me? Split?"

Sorry, I just found out myself. It turns out I was a slice of something.

"Don't panic, I'll go find the Concentric Dagger; it might save your lives."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a nimble hand held up Concentric Dagger and extended it in front of him.

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