It Really Was You!

Su Yida stiffly crawled in from outside, and before he even looked up, he said to Tao Yi:

"It's... your turn... quickly, move this half-dead flesh cushion... move it out."

Um!!??

"You're awake?"

Su Yida raised his head and suddenly met Cheng Shi's Indifference gaze.

There wasn't a trace of shame or unease in his eyes about the Cheng Shi; it was as if he had forgotten about it altogether. He simply chuckled mockingly:

"We're so lucky to have a Priest in our team."

I initially thought you were Tao Yi's backup plan.

Tao Yi remained silent after hearing this.

The Believer of [Prosperity] have indeed lost a lot of Divine Power due to not eating for a long time. If Cheng Shi does not wake up soon, he may really become a reserve food.

The reason why everyone silently waited for him for so long was simply because his identity as a Priest gave them a glimmer of hope.

Cheng Shi, so he struggled to give a Healing Art.

The target is not Su Yida, but Tao Yi.

The effect of Shared Divine Grace still allowed Su Yida to feel a sense of healing comfort.

"One more shot! I'm freezing!"

Cheng Shi sneered inwardly, ignoring Su Yida's request.

He struggled to sit up, but then collapsed onto Su Yida due to his weakness.

Su Yida didn't flinch, but instead caught him.

"I know you are weak, but everyone is weak, so this method is useless. When your time comes, if you want to survive, you have to go out and take your turn guarding."

Cheng Shi also took Su Yida's arm and asked, "Did you save me?"

"If you're talking about a 'Fleeting Radiance', then it doesn't count. You should thank yourself for letting yourself live five more days."

Su Yida smiled, his smile full of amusement.

What did you see in the Void Rift?

Su Yida was still smiling, but his face turned cold instantly upon hearing these words.

"I saw death and lies. Some people told wonderful stories, but they were all lies."

Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, confirming something.

The Su Yida who killed him did not seem to be the one in front of him.

This is interesting. What kind of being appeared in the Void, impersonating Su Yida and killing him?

Or perhaps it wasn't an impersonation at all.

At this moment, Cheng Shi had the same thought as Zhao Qian before.

Is it possible that a familiar person who knows everything about you and even said "long time no see" could...

From the future?

However, this conclusion does not align with Cheng Shi's understanding, because all powers related to retrospection cannot trace back to past Trials.

This should be the generally accepted rule of the Trials, which cannot be broken by players alone.

Etc...

If the player cannot break the rules...

Does that mean that something has taken action?

A sudden realization dawned on Cheng Shi, and he felt he had guessed the answer.

At some point in the future, a special being sent Su Yida from that time back to the present, where he killed himself!

The murderer then left, returning to his own future.

However, this inference still has flaws.

So why didn't I die?

If Su Yida, who killed him, really came from the future, given Cheng Shi's understanding of the [Deception] Believer, he certainly wouldn't have simply strangled him and stopped.

If it were me, when faced with someone I needed to "go back in time" to kill, I would make sure they were absolutely dead, so that the journey wouldn't be wasted.

So... why?

"Aren't you afraid of dying?"

Cheng Shi looked at Su Yida's sneer and suddenly asked a question.

Su Yida raised an eyebrow, sensing that Cheng Shi was asking about his previous experience entering the Void Rift. He answered frankly:

"I'm afraid, but I'm even more afraid of gaining nothing."

"You really are crazy."

Cheng Shi patted him on the shoulder and crawled out of the tent beside him.

Tao Yi listened for a long time before silently following them out.

Su Yida turned to look at the gap in the tent the two had crawled out of, his face expressionless.

When Cheng Shi crawled out of the tent, he realized that the Frigid Wind he had imagined was on a completely different level from the actual environment.

He had barely stepped out when a fine layer of goosebumps rose all over his body.

His joints began to stiffen noticeably, and the air he breathed in even froze his nasal cavity and throat.

Is it so cold?

What kind of Icefield can be so cold?

Cheng Shi shakily cast a cold resistance spell on himself and then shared the buff with all his teammates.

Except for Su Yida.

Cui Ding Tian was clearly pleased to see Cheng Shi wake up, but when he thought that Cheng Shi was just like him and only had five days left to live, his smile became somewhat wistful.

Gao Yu felt the same way, but this joy no longer felt "warmth" as before; it was more like the concern between ordinary teammates.

Cheng Shi keenly noticed the Change in Gao Yu's attitude. He nodded to the two of them without making a sound, and then, like Tao Yi, dutifully and An Jing stood guard outside.

The gale tore the tent apart, so he rushed over and used his body to cover the holes and reassemble the Human Skin; Tao Yi's feet were stuck together due to the extreme cold, so he squeezed out a little strength and let a trace of healing effect leak from between his fingers to make her feel less unable to move.

The Frigid Wind was blowing fiercely, and the temperature continued to drop.

An hour or so later, Cheng Shi felt that apart from his heart still beating weakly, there was almost no part of his body that wasn't frozen.

"Is it... time...?"

Tao Yi couldn't even nod. Her face was frosty as she collapsed to the ground and crawled step by step toward the tent.

Cheng Shi followed closely behind.

Every step was extremely difficult, each step felt like crossing a frigid abyss.

However, before they could even crawl into the tent, Su Yida climbed out a little earlier than the scheduled shift time.

He kindly pushed Tao Yi inside, then kept rubbing his arm as he looked at Cheng Shi was walking over.

Cheng Shi's frozen face could no longer manage a smile. He approached with difficulty and whispered a sentence in Su Yida's ear in a trembling voice:

"I don't care which point in the future you come from, or what your purpose is. End all of this, or we'll all die together."

Su Yida was somewhat surprised:

"Are you frozen senseless, Cheng Shi? What are you saying?"

"I don't care which point in the future you come from, or what your purpose is. End all of this, or we'll die together."

I won't repeat myself a third time.

After saying that, Cheng Shi raised his hand and placed it on his face as if removing a mask, squeezing his muscles with all his might to force out a smile that didn't look like a smile.

In that instant, Su Yida's face turned extremely ugly.

His eyes flashed with surprise and doubt, his facial muscles tightened and tightened, and countless thoughts raced through his mind in just a few seconds, but in the end he still didn't dare to bet that Cheng Shi was lying.

He has a backup plan!

Sure enough, he should have had a backup plan!

Otherwise, this person could not have come so far in the increasingly cruel Trials!

Damn it! I only miscalculated one thing: Cheng Shi is just like me, a complete madman!

No, he's even crazier!

This kind of lose-lose situation is completely pointless!

But... I can't die yet!

Then...

Su Yida compromised.

He stretched out a hand and waved it gently. The raging wind swept back, the frozen soil gradually thawed, the surrounding temperature rose rapidly, and dense branches sprouted directly from the distant mountains.

[Time]!

The power of time!

With a wave of his hand, Su Yida reversed all of time, restoring the Icefield to its state before it was frozen.

Cheng Shi felt the stiffness in his body dissipate, his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground.

Su Yida's face darkened as he looked at Cheng Shi's weak appearance.

When did you find out?

Cheng Shi smiled.

He wasn't actually sure, it was just because he had made contact with Su Yida in the tent earlier, and Su Yida, who was always fanatical about the [Divinity] within him, didn't make any extra movements.

This alone made Cheng Shi begin to doubt his identity.

But he wouldn't voice his reasons for doubting it, because he needed to vent his anger.

Even though he was completely exhausted, Cheng Shi still managed to shrug his shoulders.

"I didn't realize it; you just faked it out."

"?"

"Ha, hahaha, hahaha, it really is you, it really is you!"

You are truly a complete...

Madman!"