An Invitation from the Void

Meanwhile, on the other side...

After being released by Cheng Shi, the Puppeteer walked alone in the Sighing Forest.

But the "one person" here actually outnumbers the three people over there.

The wandering puppet led the way, followed by the Historian puppet and the Mature Sister Puppet. The Puppeteer's true form was, as always, held in the Mature Sister Puppet's arms, her large, bright eyes blinking as she gazed at the Historian beside her.

She hadn't walked far when she arrived at the edge of a place of Sighing Tide. Gazing at the thick, impenetrable fog deep within the forest, the wandering knight-errant at the forefront spoke calmly:

"We've arrived. We've gone far enough, there's no one around, and we're safe now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zuo Qiu smiled and nodded. He turned to look at the Puppeteer, but not at the little girl in the puppet's arms. Instead, he looked at the mature Mature Sister Puppet standing next to him.

"Thank you, Aunt Jing, for acting with me."

The slightly stiff face of the Mature Sister Puppet suddenly "came to life," and her expression became incredibly vivid, almost like a real person. She revealed a warm smile, like a kind mother.

"Did you find what you were looking for?"

Zuo Qiu frowned slightly and shook his head.

No, I was scammed.

"?" The Mature Sister Puppet was taken aback. "You were tricked? Didn't you say that Yi Yi told you where the thing you wanted was? How could she lie to you?"

Zuo Qiu shook his head again.

"It wasn't Zhen Yi who lied to me; it was the 'person' I was looking for who lied to me."

He set a trap for Zhen Yi and tricked Zhen Yi. Then I took away Zhen Yi's Memory, so I was also tricked.

He..."

As he spoke, Zuo Qiu glanced in the direction where Cheng Shi and Hong Lin were, and pursed his lips.

"Perhaps it has already been discovered."

Seeing Zuo Qiu like this, the Mature Sister Puppet chuckled and patted his hair. This touch transformed the Historian, who wore glasses and a windbreaker, into a girl with long, flowing hair and bright, lively eyes!

She was wearing a short black casual blazer, white straight-leg pants, a white shirt, and a purple scarf over her double-breasted vest. Her outfit was mature and composed, yet exuded an undeniable youthful vitality, which was completely out of place in the decaying and desolate Sighing Forest.

The Mature Sister Puppet stroked the long hair of the girl in front of her and sighed:

"Xin Xin, are you very tired?"

Indeed, this girl with shrewdness and cunning in her eyes is none other than Zhen Xin, the first collectible of [Deception]!

"Tired?" She shook her head again. "Not tired, just a little disappointed to be used as a messenger."

There are always some very good liars in this world.

"You too?" The Mature Sister Puppet smiled.

"Yes, me too." Zhen Xin did not deny it at all.

"Him too?"

"He... may not be now, but he definitely will be in the future."

Zhen Xin shook her head and smiled bitterly, her thoughts gradually returning to the moment she stepped into the Void!

Let's rewind to before the confrontation between the group in the main house.

The Historian played by Zhen Xin is still wandering around the tribe. She has discovered many objects related to the Tower of Reason. Although most of these objects have been disassembled and remade into daily necessities, they can still be identified from the materials and styles as originating from an Experiment of the Tower of Reason.

In addition to her knowledge of certain Grand Scholar at the Tower of Reason, Zhen Xin quickly guessed which Scholar was driving the Experiment and what the Experiment entailed.

But she didn't tell her teammates, because her purpose wasn't the Experiment itself, but the prophecy from the Blind Man man!

The prophecy did not come true. The Blind Man's public statement was made at Zhen Xin's behest. This "Chosen of God Destiny" lied to the outside world at the behest of the "Chosen of Deception," and the two of them joined forces to deceive all the Chosen of God back.

Just as Cheng Shi had thought, when Zhen Xin learned that he had impersonated Zhen Yi and eaten a Conjugate Whisper Fruit, and that he had also uttered a false prophecy through Xiao Bai's mouth, she vaguely felt that something unknowable must have Change to Cheng Shi.

Because the Blind Man had told her that the future she saw in this prophecy was a blurry blackness, and considering the interplay of reality and illusion in the Conjugate Whisper, she quickly locked onto Cheng Shi's shadow.

Meanwhile, Zhen Xin, who was pretending that her score had rebounded, began to wait for an opportunity. She knew that the probability of being Cheng Shi with Cheng Shi was very small, so she began to mobilize her network of contacts.

So, during this Trials, the moment her Aunt Jing was matched with Cheng Shi, the Puppeteer pulled Zhen Xin from another Trials and had her replace the Historian who was only interested in studying underground changes!

Therefore, Cheng Shi's judgment was correct. After the gathering, the Historian's identity was changed, but not into a puppet, but into Zhen Xin!

The rest is not detailed here. Until that morning, Zhen Xin, who was wandering around, discovered that the abandoned lights had not been reset. So she came up with a plan that could both hide her identity and find out the Cheng Shi. That was to use shadows to complete a Void login plan that was just like "Shadow Shuttle"!

Then she used the incident of the abandoned lamp to cause the old clan chief to panic and rush to the main house. Before the Fungus-Footed People arrived, she pushed open the door of the main house. As planned, her Aunt Jing turned the doomed Dream-Peeking Ranger into her own puppet.

Yes, Zhen Xin had already seen that the wandering knight wouldn't survive the second night. She didn't believe that Cheng Shi hadn't noticed the anomaly in her dream. When she tried to pass on a message to Cheng Shi and was rudely changed the subject by Cheng Shi, she knew that Cheng Shi must be trying to do something in his dream.

A conman like him would never let others know about his past, because in Zhen Yi's Memory he was that kind of person. Therefore, Zhen Xin was certain that the wandering knight would die, and she had long ago made a plan with the Puppeteer to shift the focus to the wandering knight's death.

The purpose was to hide his true identity, so that Cheng Shi could only think of Aunt Jing's puppet no matter how hard he tried.

But she never expected that the so-called prophecy spoken by the Blind Man was actually just a trap set by that "future"!

She was scammed too!

When she quietly ascended into the Void using the location of Cheng Shi's shadow, she noticed nothing.

The pitch-black Void remained as An Jing as ever, devoid of any figures.

Zhen Xin stood in the Void, her brows furrowed as she looked around. After a moment, she spoke softly, almost as if talking to herself:

"I've come, I've come as promised, come out."

But the Void has yet to respond.

She frowned again and muttered to herself:

"Is this... a test?"

"Alright, since you want to hear it, I'll tell you."