The Clown Has Arrived

The scene fell silent again. Morabik looked at Allen Doyle with a face full of anger, his eyes filled with contempt that he wanted to smash him into the dirt. His expression clearly said, "Can you keep a secret or not?"

But Allen Doyle didn't care; he wasn't afraid of exposing his past.

"Piety needs no cover-up of the past. Our roots do indeed come from the Tower of Reason, but at the end of knowledge, there is no place for the Tower of Reason."

However, you are wrong about one thing. It wasn't us who came from the Tower of Reason, but our forefathers. They saw that the Tower of Reason had no future, so they abandoned the pursuit of "Truth," leaped from the "Abyssal Volcano" into the earth, and raised the torch of knowledge, single-mindedly wanting to spread the light of wisdom throughout this dark underground.

Upon hearing this, the Blind Man frowned, feeling that the "Folly" aspect was correct, but the core of the Faith was somewhat off.

Their version seems a bit too old-fashioned.

Budding Believer?

Some thoughts flashed through her mind, and then, while recalling them, she wondered:

"I remember the Tower of Reason seems to have a form of exile called 'Sunken Abyss.' It's said that the Scholarly Council periodically review all Experiment teams within the Tower of Reason. If someone was found to have misappropriated forbidden Experiment resources without producing corresponding results, the entire team would be disbanded, and the person in charge and the misappropriator would be imprisoned in Gasmella's prison, waiting for the [Abyssal Volcano] to erupt and sink them in..."

"Your parents didn't come down from there, did they?"

"..."

"..."

Now, the two "Folly" Believer fell silent. They exchanged a glance, awkwardly looked away, and after a moment, Morabik sighed and looked at the Blind Man, saying:

"You are indeed a lucky one blessed by wisdom."

"I am indeed a lucky one, but my protection is not wisdom, nor is it your Lord of Grace whom you have never seen [Folly].

"So, the refining method you mentioned was brought down from the Tower of Reason?" the Blind Man continued to ask with interest.

"..."

"Moreover, it's a method that has been verified and failed in the Tower of Reason."

Given the erudite and sometimes obsessive nature of the Scholarly Council, if your fathers' Experiment had even the slightest chance of success, they probably wouldn't have held the Experiment team accountable. Therefore, their Experiment would have been a complete failure long ago, wouldn't it?

"..."

"Then I'm even more curious. If you're so certain that you can successfully extract Divinity from the Abyssal Crystal, then that means the Experiment was probably modified by you. How did the exiled prisoners manage to do that?"

You're lucky you didn't die after falling into the ground. How can you talk about improvement when you don't even have resources?

Moreover, the most important reference criterion for determining the punishment of Sunken Abyss is the wanton misappropriation of forbidden resources, which means that the Experiment could not be completed with ordinary materials or common instruments; forbidden Experiment resources were one of the necessary Experiment materials.

Therefore, it is only possible that your ancestors deceived the Tower of Reason and brought down the most crucial tool of that Experiment from the ground, so that they could restart the Experiment underground and even improve the process.

He's a smart man; even after being exiled, he managed to keep his Experiment going.

So, Wise One, I would like to ask you, what was that thing that your fathers stole from the Tower of Reason?

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"..."

Allen Doyle fell silent, no longer daring to confront his past. Morabik sighed repeatedly, looking up at the gentle-faced yet sharp-tongued blind woman, his expression incredibly complex.

"Who... who are you?"

"Were they sent by the Tower of Reason to deal with us?"

"No, we're here to help you!"

"!!!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present except Qin Xin was taken aback, because these words were not spoken by Blind Man, but by Cheng Shi!

The Clown arrived, finally found the Fire Keeper, and discovered an unexpected surprise.

In fact, Qin Xin had already noticed Cheng Shi approaching, but he did not react. At least in his mind, Cheng Shi was not considered an enemy.

Cheng Shi did indeed follow the direction the two of them had taken. If it weren't for a few people in the shantytown noticing the two strangers, he really wouldn't know how to find his way out of this murky mire of desire.

The Believer of "Filth and Decay" are terrifying. Unless you go all out, you have no idea whether your harm is a harm or a reward to the other person.

It could even be seduction...

Fortunately, Cheng Shi eventually found the person and even ran into Mr. Morabik, whom he had just been "thinking about"!

How lucky! It turns out that this "Folly" Believer had already arrived in the shack area. If I hadn't run into Xilolin's contact person a little earlier, they probably would have made contact with each other by now.

Praise be to Destiny, for everything is His guidance.

Cheng Shi smiled brightly at the two Fire Keeper and briefly recounted what had happened at the rendezvous point. Then, he looked at Morabik on the ground and helped him up with a smile.

"Mr. Morabik, I have a business deal I'd like to discuss with you. Of course, before we talk about business, we can first talk about matters of Faith."

We have long admired [Folly] and yearned to embrace Him, but had always struggled to find a way. Today, we have finally encountered His Believer. Who can say this is not a blessing from [Destiny]?

Cheng Shi started bluffing again. After all, high-end academic talents are not comparable to ordinary henchmen. He was still counting on these two to extract his Divinity from that so-called Abyssal Crystal, so naturally he couldn't play hardball with them.

In Experiment, besides the steps and processes, feel and experience are very important. If you can't guarantee that you can replicate the operation 100%, keeping the core personnel of the Experiment on the side is the safest approach.

Cheng Shi was quite knowledgeable about this approach. The "approach" here is not the skill of negotiation to win people's hearts, but rather a dazzling array of deceptive tricks.

So he started to get closer to them, and in the process, he didn't forget to use his eyes to signal the Fire Keeper next to him to cooperate.

The Blind Man was alright; being a fellow charlatan of "Destiny," she simply smiled and handed the Stage to Cheng Shi. However, Qin Xin's expression was quite strange. He looked at Cheng Shi several times, then at the Blind Man several times. When he noticed that the Blind Man seemed to trust Cheng Shi quite a bit, he subtly raised an eyebrow and remained appropriately silent.

Morabik was flattered. He didn't understand the relationship between the three, but that didn't stop him from seeing that Cheng Shi "had a favor" to ask of him. However, this person's way of "asking for favors" was more subtle and hypocritical than the previous two.