Turning into a skeleton wasted Cheng Shi a lot of Time, so much so that He hadn't even had Time to check the information on the various channels before the new Trial arrived.
Cheng Shi stood on the rooftop, put on the ring, pinned the brooch to His chest, and then looked at the crimson notification in front of Him, cursing with an extremely ugly expression:
"Fuck!"
[Special Trial (Who Deserves Redemption [destiny]) has begun]
[Matching teammates (1 / 6)]
[Trial Objective: All parables about God are attempts by weak life to cling to Him (Time limit 3 days)]
No, if the Lord can't win an argument, go argue with the Lord, what does it have to do with the children?
Is this outrageous?
Cheng Shi secretly braced Himself, already preparing for this Trial to be difficult.
He let His vision go black, honestly and without resistance.
[Matching successful (6 / 6), entering Trial]
...
Bed, table and chairs, floor-to-ceiling windows, balcony.
Warm wind...
Wait a minute!!
Why is it a hotel again!?
I'm going to have hotel PTSD!
Cheng Shi suddenly jumped off the bed and began to sharply survey the not-so-large room.
The room layout was different, and the object placement varied.
Phew--
Fortunately, He wasn't back in Eternal Bloom Town.
Cheng Shi wiped the cold sweat from His forehead, His gaze sweeping over His hand, and found that the Shrieking Mouth on the ring had lit up halfway.
"..."
What a wonderful start, the ring was scared into charging itself.
This is good, at least suicide can be 100% successful now.
But...
Next Time, if there's no good news, you don't have to force it, thank you.
Just like last Time, Cheng Shi wasn't in a hurry to go out.
He leaned against the wall and listened quietly for a long Time.
But this Time, He neither heard any movement next door nor waited for a knock on the door.
After frowning in thought for a moment, He decided to be proactive and go out to take a look first.
He pushed open the door and walked out of the room.
Before His eyes could see anything else, He was attracted by a tall young woman standing at the doorway.
Not only because she was standing at the door, but more importantly, the beautiful young woman was dressed really...
Too revealing.
A cross-neck halter white gauze dress was slightly translucent, and when worn, it couldn't hide her graceful figure at all.
Her slender waist and fair thighs were faintly visible as the breeze ruffled the gauze dress.
Even though the young woman didn't move, she still seemed to be swaying, radiating silent temptation in all directions.
On her head were novel accessories He had never seen before, and on her feet were a pair of exquisite sandals.
Her toes, like cardamom buds, curled slightly inward, and a nervous light pink appeared between them.
If the young woman hadn't been clasping her hands tightly in front of her and her expression hadn't been slightly reserved, Cheng Shi would have thought He had entered the wrong establishment.
"Gu... Guest, hello, have you rested well?"
Listening to the somewhat unfamiliar tone, Cheng Shi furrowed His brows.
This wasn't the language of Hope Continent.
Faith Game did not make things difficult for Players in terms of language.
All Players who joined the game became language masters and could communicate with NPCs of various language systems without any hindrance.
But they couldn't read.
If they wanted to read, they had to learn it themselves.
Cheng Shi looked at the young woman's attire with some surprise, finally discerning some information from her hair accessories and the hotel style.
This Trial seemed to be underground!
The language the young woman spoke also seemed to be a mixed variant of the Underground Volcano language system and the official language of Hope Continent.
This indicated that the place He was in was not far from the entrance to the underground world, Abyss Volcano.
Cheng Shi rubbed His tightly furrowed brows, feigning a hungover look, and asked with some confusion:
"I don't seem to recognize you, are you?"
The young woman pursed her Lips and smiled, still reservedly saying:
"Hello, Guest, welcome to Yuanmu Town.
I am your personal sightseeing assistant, my name is Saman.
Did you... rest well last night?"
Yuanmu Town?
Cheng Shi nodded, His eyes darting around, while His Mouth was still responding.
"It's okay, I remember... Uh, where are the others?"
"Ah, are you referring to your tour guide?
He has already left.
Please don't worry, I will be serving you for the next few days.
When the date approaches, someone will come to pick you up to go back."
Tour guide?
Is this Town a tourist attraction?
"Oh, I see, thank you."
Cheng Shi politely thanked the young woman and then walked towards the corridor railing.
His gaze quickly leaped within the space, scanning all visible information like a laser beam.
This was a 4-story hotel.
Although the floors weren't very high, the area was very large.
The entire hotel was in the shape of a "mouth" (Mouth) character, with an open interior space and rooms all around the outside.
Looking down from the corridor, the first floor had many bars and entertainment areas.
At first glance, Cheng Shi even thought He was on a cruise ship.
Many rooms had their doors tightly closed, and outside a few rooms, there were indeed so-called "sightseeing assistants" standing quietly like Saman.
However, these assistants weren't all young women; there were quite a few men as well.
And the clothing of these men...
How should I put it, it was also quite revealing.
White gauze trousers couldn't cover their thighs, and they weren't wearing anything on their upper bodies.
Their strong muscles were shiny, as if they were participating in some bodybuilding competition.
Cheng Shi was speechless at the sight.
"..."
Is this really a proper hotel?
Just as Cheng Shi was carefully observing His surroundings, several people successively walked out of a few rooms not far down the same corridor.
The people exchanged glances, all realizing that they were teammates in this Trial.
And behind them, personal assistants like Saman followed, both male and female.
Cheng Shi smiled meaningfully, and a conspiracy theory suddenly arose in His Mind.
Are they sightseeing assistants, or close surveillance?
This Yuanmu Town seems to have a story.
A middle-aged woman wearing a suit walked forward with quite an imposing air, stepping in low heels.
Her hair was styled in small braids, an image completely mismatched with her attire.
She waved her hand to signal the handsome man following behind her not to come closer, and the male assistant understood, stopped, and returned to the front of the room door to continue waiting.
Seeing this, everyone followed suit, successively "dismissing" the people behind them.
Only Saman, because the Players' meeting point was at the entrance of Cheng Shi's room, had nowhere else to go.
To avoid suspicion, she smiled apologetically at Cheng Shi and pointed to Cheng Shi's room.
Cheng Shi nodded elegantly, allowing her to go inside temporarily.
Saman bowed gratefully and quickly hid inside the room.
After the surrounding assistants dispersed, the strong-willed woman in the suit finally spoke with a playful expression:
"Named assistants, but actually surveillance.
I imagine everyone has also noticed that this Town called Yuanmu Town is overly enthusiastic towards us foreign Travelers.
I managed to get some information from the handsome young man in the room.
The people here don't have Faith in any God we know.
They believe in a True God called eternal sun.
In my limited knowledge, I haven't found the name of this True God, and He is not a subordinate god of any Fate...
Time is limited, that's all the information.
Let me introduce myself, Li Bola, existence, Hunter, 2216."
Hunter?
Cheng Shi looked at Li Bola in her suit and thought she was a Singer or a Mage, but He didn't expect her to be a Hunter?
Isn't she afraid of inconvenient movement dressed like this?
However, this sister's aura is really strong, and her gaze is also aggressive.
She quickly finished her opening, and then her sharp eyes began to casually size up her teammates.
That feeling was like searching for prey.
Under normal circumstances, prey would want to avoid the Hunter's gaze.
But this Time, someone just met it head-on.
"Oh, opponent, nice to meet you.
Ji Ran, nothingness, Warrior, 2076."
A decadent young man in silk pajamas scratched His messy hair and lazily raised His hand to greet everyone.
His casual and relaxed posture was as if He had just been sound asleep in bed the second before, but was suddenly pulled up and forced into a class the next second.
The reactions of the others to the young man varied; some frowned, some raised an eyebrow, but only Cheng Shi's face immediately darkened after His gaze swept over Ji Ran.
This is bad, He met a "colleague" again.
Cheng Shi could tell that the reason Ji Ran dared to directly state that He was nothingness after existence wasn't because of some "excitement and courage to spar with an opponent," but rather...
A familiar aura of giving up.
He was all too familiar with this feeling of being a slacker, because He was in this state at the beginning of every game.
Cheng Shi's little Mouth drooped, and He was unhappy.
This is all my job!
And the young man's indifferent expression clearly said:
"Ah, yes, yes, yes, I'm the slacker of destiny, do whatever you want."
Yes, it's destiny.
nothingness is a very magical Fate.
Because of the Existence of Fraud, this Fate seems to have always had only one God.
The followers of Fraud won't say they belong to Him.
They like to disguise themselves as followers of others, especially destiny.
So in this general environment, as long as someone says they are nothingness, whether they are destiny or not, just treat them as if they are.
Anyway, even if they are liars, they won't admit it.
Moreover, Cheng Shi had a hunch that this young man must be someone from destiny.
As for where this ethereal feeling came from, He couldn't say.
Hiss--
Let's not talk about xx God planting a male xx in xx game.
With two slackers at the start, how do we play?
...