Xie Yang's last Trial was conducted in a Town in the Kanrivard Empire called Hanlin Town.
This wasn't something Cheng Shi asked; he read it in a Book.
The seventeen Books he brought back were not history Books at all, but miscellaneous Books the Town pig farm Boss bought to pass the Time.
They even had his own reading notes and bored little doodles.
The types of Books were numerous, from love stories like "That Beautiful Town Girl," to suspense novels like "Kill That Untouchable," to professional reference Books like "The Life of a Pig Beast"; there was everything.
But there were absolutely no proper history Books about the humanities, geography, and political environment of that period.
Perhaps history is called history precisely because it is written by those who come later to commemorate the past.
And at that Time, people living in the present probably didn't care what they would be written as after they died in the future.
Although no useful knowledge was gained, it was good for passing the Time.
At least in the past few days, in the Books, Cheng Shi met a pig beast breeder who had Faith in Birth, a farm Boss who had Faith in prosperity, and a butcher who had Faith in Death.
Seeing the Life Fate being applied to practical Life in this way indeed broke Cheng Shi's stereotype of Faith being lofty and distant.
One couldn't help but sigh, Their will is everywhere.
In the past few days, besides reading, several major events also occurred.
The biggest one was the shocking discovery made by colleagues in the professional channel.
[Professional Channel]
"Sorry, 'Only Carve Rotten Wood' has reached the top, the big brother of decay has been taken down, dropping to 10th place, hahahaha."
"For prosperity, cheers!"
"LOL, where are the people of decay, can you tolerate this?"
"What a coincidence, the Grand Marshal has also dropped in rank, falling to 4th, the mutes have moved up, so annoying."
Grand Marshal is the respectful title given by war believers to the war God Chosen. From the moment the Faith game descended and the Ladder to the Audience began ranking, on the war/silence list, the Grand Marshal was always first.
But who would have thought that just 2 days after the last special Trial ended, he would lose 5 Trials in a row, dropping directly to 4th place.
"+1, Order has also dropped, but first place is still Order, but it's a new Order."
"Holy crap, what's going on, the Fate fortune teller has also dropped, now Time is first, they dropped points at the same Time, did they get ranked together?"
"Awesome, awesome, a group of God Chosen playing ranked matches, it's simply a battle of Gods, just thinking about it is exciting."
"I don't know about others, but at least the Fate God Chosen didn't drop voluntarily, he lost to me."
"? I looked up and this is the professional channel, the way you talk makes me think the Faith channel is open, buddy wake up, don't deceive yourself."
"Upstairs is Fraud? What do you guys usually talk about in your Faith channel? Deceiving each other?"
"This is a matter for cultured people, how can you call it deceiving? I haven't looked in a long Time, let me go back and take a look..."
"I'm back, some are playing landlord with the Gods, some are creating worlds, and some are changing the scores on the Ladder to the Audience in the backend."
"..."
Looking at these unreliable statements, Cheng Shi smiled and let it pass.
But the collective drop in points by the God Chosen, he instinctively felt something was wrong.
When a strange thing happens often enough, it should attract people's attention.
Why did the God Chosen, who had been rock-solid for years, start dropping points one after another just in these few days when the Trials became more difficult?
Cheng Shi's score hadn't reached that level, so perhaps he couldn't guess the reason.
But thinking carefully, it's nothing more than two directions:
One is simply failing the Trial, but many Times, which means they might be aiming for something, relentlessly pursuing it, even if they fail and drop points.
The other is that the first place position might face rules that ordinary Players cannot fathom, causing it not to be as easy to hold as people perceive.
Since the Trials are changing, there's no reason the difficulty for the God Chosen wouldn't change.
To know what happened, perhaps more Time is needed for observation.
But no matter what, moving forward conservatively is always correct.
"When the big wave hits, some are riding it, some are drowning, tsk, hard to comment."
Cheng Shi opened his Ladder to the Audience again.
The ID called "True Heart and Sincerity" had now dropped to 47th place, calculating it, he would need to lose dozens of matches in a row and not die to reach this position.
Even more surprising than this was that the memory God Chosen, Li Jingming, had also started dropping points.
[Ladder to the Audience (Existence - memory) / (Nothingness - Deception)]
1. First again brothers (Deception) 204
2. This Love Can Be Waited For (memory) 201
3. Li Jingming (memory) 199
4. Still Like A Dream (memory) 198
5. He Runs, He Chases, He Can't Escape Even With Wings (Deception) 196
...
46. Watch Big Brother's Escape Route ↓ (Deception) 179
47. True Heart and Sincerity (Deception) 179
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62. I Never Lie (Deception) 164
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Time is like a wild horse that has broken free, never to return.
Seven days passed in a hurry, and it was Time for the Trial again.
But this Time, Cheng Shi woke up with a smile to welcome the Trial.
The reason was that the green tea next door seemed to have disappeared.
She didn't pay attention to Xie Yang for a full seven days, causing the young man to become disheartened, thinking that his beloved girl had died in the Trial.
Cheng Shi was stunned when he heard this news, gripping his thighs tightly with both hands to keep himself from laughing out loud in front of Xie Yang.
But it must be said, Xie Yang was a devoted person; he grieved for Xu Lu's disappearance for three or four days.
It wasn't until the fifth day that he recovered, tying the love letter he had originally written to Xu Lu to a string and lowering it to the window of a young girl named Fan Tingting who lived below Xu Lu's apartment.
He called it, using love to stop the pain.
Cheng Shi sneered twice, cursing himself for misjudging the person.
Then he turned his back and gave Xie Yang a huge thumbs up.
You are much more entertaining than me, little Xie.
My latter half of Life depends on watching your continuous drama.
Cheng Shi thought and laughed, and as he laughed, his vision turned red.
[Special Trial (That Vanished World annihilation) Has Started]
[Matching Teammates (1 / 6)]
[Trial Objective: Break free from constraints, abandon shackles, embrace destruction, gain salvation (Limited to 3 days)]
annihilation!
It's actually an annihilation match!
Cheng Shi looked at the prompt in front of him in astonishment, immediately got up, and stuffed all the survival tools in his warehouse into his personal space.
It had been a long Time since he had seen an annihilation match; the last Time seemed to be when his score was below 2000.
The content in the Trial grounds He bestowed was extremely monotonous.
There was only one objective, and that was to survive the terrifying natural disaster in the world that was about to be annihilated!
[Match Successful (6 / 6), Entering Trial]
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