That was right. Li Wufang, who had teamed up with Qin Xin to kill Wu Cun earlier, was indeed Cheng Shi.
The Clown was cautious. Even though he had come up with the most foolproof method for having Qin Xin investigate the truth behind temporal dissonance, at such a crucial juncture, he still would not believe an "outsider" without seeing it with his own eyes—especially not an outsider from another timeline.
So not long after Qin Xin set out, he bid farewell to the Blind Man and followed after him. According to his plan, even if the Abyssal Crystal truly was the cause of all the anomalies, and even if Qin Xin could really trigger temporal dissonance at the places where Li Wufang and Wu Cun had once mutated, he still had to witness everything himself and make sure Qin Xin had not been affected by anything else on the way there or back.
This concerned whether the Clown could find his way home, so he was being exceptionally cautious.
But what he had not expected was that, despite hiding far enough away, he was still caught in the unreasonable believer of annihilation's destruction of the entire hill in front of him. Thus, at the moment he was about to be exposed, he had no choice but to use the Chaos Acting Method to "present" himself as Li Wufang. He then pulled out the only wooden bow in his storage space and put on a cosplay performance in front of two peak players.
To be fair, the performance had been a great success. And the reason for that success was not that Cheng Shi had chosen the right moment to act in battle, but that he had to thank the Dragon King.
He had to thank the Dragon King for