What Exactly Triggered the "Discrepancy" in Time

The road leading to the mine warehouse was short, but during this brief period of solitude, Cheng Shi had an unusually large number of things to think about.

With every step he took, he sorted through everything he had seen and heard during the trial. The details he had previously overlooked became clear again as he struggled to recall them.

When had Li Wufang started to change?

If every tiny difference was treated as a sign that a "discrepancy" had appeared, then without a doubt, the trial must already have become abnormal before the first group discussion.

And the first "abnormality" he had personally "witnessed" had not actually been Investigator Li Wufang, but that believer in Truth—Doctor Assassin, Wang Weijin!

Wang Mou had deliberately concealed his identity at the beginning, yet when the Ember Annihilator created the Calamity of Annihilation, he exposed himself without the slightest concern. Afterward, he had even openly revealed his name.

In Cheng Shi's view, although the change in Wang Mou's attitude was puzzling, it could still be explained by a shift in his state of mind. But now, it seemed things were not that simple.

Perhaps before the Calamity of Annihilation, Wang Mou had already fallen into the trap of time and become another "Wang Mou" who did not belong to this timeline.

The same went for Li Wufang. At the beginning of the trial, he had still been seeking Destiny's guidance from the Blind Man, yet during the first group discussion, he had said, "I don't believe in fate." Clearly, he was no longer the same person.

Judging only from the abnormalities in the two of them, the first abnormality in time seemed to have occurred during the first few hours of the trial.

That was right—The first one!

Cheng Shi remembered that Qin