Like my Adam's apple? I'll give it to you.

2502?

Hearing this score, the heat in Cheng Shi's heart was instantly extinguished.

Another 2400+, even reaching 2500 points.

Good news, there are many powerful players.

Bad news, there are too many powerful players.

The score of the Player in this game seemed to be a bit too high.

And he himself was...

What was his score again?

The Memory Traveler was a Mage of [Memory].

And [Memory] faithfully recorded everything that happened, making it the sworn enemy of [Deception].

With such an opponent ahead, it would be a lie to say Cheng Shi felt no apprehension.

But it wasn't necessarily fear.

After all, he wasn't unfamiliar with Players of this score, just that they were rare.

Du Xiguang was tall, at least 1.9 meters. Wearing glasses, he looked refined, but the flesh and blood beneath his trench coat were clearly powerful.

Du Xiguang, [Memory], Mage, 2502

Cheng Shi's gaze briefly swept over him, then he calmly looked at the young lady with the dagger.

"Yun Ni, Disciple of Silence, 2491."

Huh?

She was actually a follower of [Annihilation]?

[Annihilation] was the third Deity of the Life Path of [Depravity], the epilogue of depravity, the collapse of all living beings.

It firmly believed that life would eventually disappear, the universe was doomed to destruction, everything would pass away, and finally return to silence.

Therefore, its followers, influenced by it, were often extremely indifferent to life.

In their eyes, survival was merely a process leading to disappearance, and death was just the beginning of the ultimate silence of all things.

The meaning of the world's operation was to await the final judgment, and then, under its gaze, crumble into dust.

He hadn't expected that such a seemingly delicate and lively young lady would actually believe in [Annihilation]?

Oh right, she was an Assassin!

The Disciple of Silence was an Assassin who believed in [Annihilation].

That made much more sense.

Assassins were all about contrast.

Yun Ni, [Annihilation], Assassin, 2491

Cheng Shi chuckled inwardly and looked at the next person.

The one knocking on his door.

This handsome long-haired guy, who had changed into the inn's clothes, had a very cold gaze. His slender eyes openly revealed his contempt for others.

Sorry, I equally despise all of you.

It was that kind of feeling.

Cheng Shi actually had a guess about his identity.

"Wei Guan, Hunter of Fools, 2450."

As expected, the Hunter of Fools, the Hunter of [Foolishness].

[Foolishness] was not actually foolish. On the contrary, it considered itself closer to Truth than [Truth].

Due to being too close to Truth, it had a generational gap with all things in the world, so it considered all other existences in the world to be foolish.

This was its will.

It believed: All life is foolish, all civilization is ignorant.

And its followers inherited this viewpoint from their patron very well, to the point where all [Foolishness] Players always looked down on others.

From the moment they began believing in their patron, their thinking became more active than other Players, their minds turned faster, and their knowledge accumulated more.

Compared to the followers of [Truth], apart from their offensive attitude, they were top-tier existences in terms of both knowledge reserves and incremental thinking, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Wei Guan, [Foolishness], Hunter, 2450

Cheng Shi silently watched the group of powerhouses introduce themselves. When it was finally his turn, his brow furrowed.

Three men and one woman, plus himself, made a total of five people.

Where was the last person?

Wei Guan seemed to have noticed Cheng Shi's thoughts. He snorted coldly and shifted his gaze to the end of the corridor.

Cheng Shi and Yun Ni, who came out last, followed his gaze and saw a burly man with his upper body bare, standing there silently with his eyes closed and resting, his expression blank.

Cheng Shi's heart leaped, and he immediately understood the situation.

Silence!

He was a believer of Silence.

From its divine name alone, one could discern this deity's Edict of Passage.

The Players who believed in Him had likely abandoned speech from the moment the Faith Game officially began.

They followed, observed, listened, and thought, but never communicated with others.

They lived like solitary monks.

And this muscular big brother at the end of the corridor clearly looked like an Ascetic.

An Ascetic, a Warrior of Silence.

X, Silence, Warrior, X.

Wei Guan spoke again, confirming Cheng Shi's guess.

"An Ascetic is not worth wasting time on."

"..."

Even Cheng Shi, who was accustomed to the believers of Foolishness, was not quite used to this kind of disdain.

Perhaps no one liked it when an unfamiliar person constantly looked down on them.

Especially since this trial would last a full 7 days, with ample time.

Cheng Shi spread his hands and smiled, saying casually:

"Cheng Shi, Reason Corroder, 2401."

As soon as he spoke, Fang Jue raised his eyebrows in surprise, while the others frowned.

Reason Corroder, a Priest who believed in Chaos.

Time returned to the previous trial.

The moment Cheng Shi killed Huang Bo and severed his head.

A'ming, who was in the first act, immediately died as well.

The story of the Executioner and the Maestro of Lost Rhythms should have ended there.

But in the last second before A'ming's soul vanished, Cheng Shi snapped his fingers.

This snap represented a true disdain for death from a Doctor of Forgetfulness.

He made Death forget A'ming.

State Reversion!

Cheng Shi had secretly recorded everyone's state at the first time point of the first act.

In that moment before death, Cheng Shi had tricked the self-assured and infallible Huang Bo into believing that he and A'ming had died together.

But after Huang Bo died, he used Reversion to revive A'ming.

Death took away the believer of Chaos, who disappeared from the world with his confusion and unwillingness.

The believer of Order managed to survive.

Therefore, today's Cheng Shi was a believer of Chaos, the Reason Corroder.

In fact, the talent Lies Like Yesterday was not restricted by "the most recently deceived believer."

This meant that as long as Cheng Shi wished, he could arbitrarily choose the faith of any teammate he had deceived in the previous round.

But he still firmly chose Chaos.

After all, Chaos was the sworn enemy of Order.

And the reputation of Chaos believers was not good; few people liked them.

But it was precisely for this reason that Cheng Shi chose Him.

Because more controversial topics would divert everyone's attention.

This way, everyone would focus on his faith, and the fabricated score he had made up would naturally be subconsciously ignored.

In a high-stakes game where everyone else had scores of 2400 or 2500, Cheng Shi could not truthfully tell them his score of 2100.

The consequence of doing so would be only one: being hunted without hesitation by this "Hunter of Fools" the moment he stated his score.

After all, in the eyes of the Foolishness believers, too low a score was also a form of foolishness.

And the Hunter of Fools specialized in hunting foolishness.

Falsely reporting a low score could hide one's strength, while falsely reporting a high score could preserve one's life.

This is the charm of Deception.

Cheng Shi understood this from a young age.

But even considering all of this, the unexpected still happened.

Before the Law Giver Fang Jue could say anything about Cheng Shi's identity, the Assassin young lady who had interacted with Cheng Shi flashed in front of him, her gleaming dagger once again close to his Adam's apple.

Cheng Shi was slightly stunned and laughed carelessly:

"You like my Adam's apple that much? Should I give it to you?"