Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

The logic is simple, Qin Shang knew it a long time ago.

In other words, I guessed the disadvantages of this prop from the beginning.

If its prophecy fails, it means that it is something that does not exist.

Then this sentence will not become a "recording".

Its functions, playing [recording] and playing [prophecy] are two different rules.

Its playability is limited to the two skills of the item...

Play the "recording" and play the "prophecy".

On April 2024, 4, which is tomorrow, Qin Shang will tell Jiang Qiqi that he is a Godly Road player. This is something that has not happened yet, so when he is asked to repeat his words for the first time, and he repeats the sentence with the date, it is a [prophecy].

Logically speaking, it is unrealistic to play it back in the form of a recording.

Because tomorrow has not yet arrived, this is a matter without a conclusion, similar to a hypothesis...

Just like tomorrow Young Master Yin will wear black stockings to confess her love to Qin Shang.

If Qin Shang could meet Jiang Qiqi tomorrow and repeat this sentence, then the answer of the recorder would be "On April 2024, 4, King Qin Shang told Jiang Qiqi that he was also a Godly Road player"...

But what Qin Shang asked it to play was a "recording", a recording of today, April 2024, 4.

The rule for [recording] is that it must be something that has happened, that is, an established fact, an event that has already occurred.

And today is the 14th, which means that "today's Qin Shang" cannot travel through time to "tomorrow" and tell "tomorrow's Jiang Qiqi" about this matter "tomorrow".

In other words, this event does not have the conditions to take place.

So he shouldn't, and couldn't, become a [recording]...

Its [recording] can only play back what has already happened.

For example, if Qin Shang asked him to repeat "On April 2024, 4, (a wrong time is given here intentionally) Qin Shang cleared the copy of Lin's House No. 10"

Then if you ask it to play the recording, it will definitely delete the previous time and continue to repeat the events at the suffix.

Because Qin Shang had indeed completed the "Lin's House No. 37" copy.

This is an anchored established fact.

Qin Shang's passing through No. 37 Lin's House was an event. As long as an event has occurred, it will be recorded and can be played back using the [Recording] function.

'Qin Shang told Jiang Qiqi that he was also a Godly Road player' belongs to the "Event".

If the incident had not happened, it would not have played all of its recordings on the 14th when Qin Shang asked it to do so.

Play this sentence.

It was like the first time Qin Shang asked him to play his [recording] of today.

The answer I got was "Sorry, the recording function cannot play back things that didn't happen."

But regarding the fact that "Qin Shangfa told Jiang Qiqi that he was also a God Road player."

It was actually played in the form of a recording, with the time deliberately deleted.

This means that this playback belongs to the "recording" function.

In other words, this event has already happened.

Therefore, it can be played.

It’s just not tomorrow, but the past… Qin Shang said to Jiang Qiqi.

This message became one of the recordings that Qin Shang asked the recorder to save on the 14th.

Wow!

"I am the King of Thunder and Lightning. I am the one who really licks cockroaches' jade feet. The fraudsters of the internal test from the beginning to the end are all Qin Shang and me. I am the fraudster of the internal test who caused the great incident on the Divine Road..."

Countless thoughts burst out at this moment, but Qin Shang found that his heart was surprisingly calm.

The shock actually only lasted for a brief moment before disappearing, replaced by calmness and tranquility.

Yes, actually, I should have suspected this matter since I became a Divine Path player and from the moment I was able to use the beta Trickster character card, which logically did not belong to me.

But later, due to the interference of various new clues, Qin Shang gave up this speculation again and again.

And until now, with the confirmation of the prophecy pen, he was completely sure of this matter.

"A max-level boss returned to the Novice Village with all his equipment. He wanted to bully the noobs and show off, but he found that he had lost all his memories..."

Qin Shang laughed at himself.

The former beta fraudster 'Licking the Cockroach's Jade Feet' is a player in the Rule Realm, so it's not an exaggeration to say that he is a max-level boss.

So... my memory was probably taken away by Shenlu?

Now, here comes the key question.

Since I didn't die in the 17 Shenlu event, why was my character card reset?

In 17, both Licking the Cockroach's Jade Feet and Guarding the Center Line with Kindness are players at the Rule Realm.

Since I didn't die, it should mean that I didn't trigger the mechanism of the fraudster's exclusive skill [Fake Death] to roll back the game. In other words, in 17, Jiang Qiqi and I escaped from the global reputation plummet, and I didn't go back to the past timeline.

Then why, after I got my character card back in 2024, I became a first-level fraudster instead of a rule-level player?

Memories can be deleted, but the data on the character card...

and many more!

"If we enter the Divine Path in the form of data, does that mean that the things stored in the character card can be deleted? Including the super powers that the Divine Path grants to players?"

Because the essence of God's Road is a virtual reality game!

But this idea just came to my mind not long ago.

Qin Shang immediately shook his head in denial;

"But this is not right..."

"The fact that skills can still be used in the real world cannot be explained, so the special group of "God Path" players does not exist in the form of data, and the God Path has its own balance mechanism. "

"That server has been trying to find a way to coordinate the balance mechanism. Its purpose is not just to kill ordinary people who accidentally obtained the character card."

"Otherwise, this balance mechanism is actually unnecessary. The more unfavorable the conditions are for the players, the happier the God Road should be. So what exactly does its server want?"

He adjusted his mindset quickly, and almost instantly adapted to the fact that he had once been a big shot in the Rule Realm.

After all, his wives are all players at the Rule Realm. If Qin Shang were really just an ordinary person, wouldn’t this be a bit hard to explain?

He narrowed his eyes at the thought;

"There are still a few questions!"

"I was born in 98. I was only seven years old in 05. There is evidence of this. It is impossible for my mother to hide my real date of birth."

"Besides, if I'm really much older than other people my age, wouldn't it be obvious that it would be exposed?"

"Isn't it disgusting that a young man in his 20s is sitting in a classroom with a group of seven or eight-year-old children? The picture is so weird that the teacher is afraid that he can't continue teaching, right?"

"So... is the timeline of this world modified?"

Qin Shang frowned. He did not gain any memory about 'licking the cockroach's jade feet' or 'the Thunder King'.

But he was certain that he was the internal test fraudster.

In fact, from the last part of the copy [Changteng Ghost School]... Qin Shang lowered his voice rarely in his life, deliberately showing an expression of choosing someone to devour, and spoke softly.

Qin Shang suddenly felt that the echo in the empty room was surprisingly familiar...

It was then that he realized for the first time that his hoarse voice when he spoke really sounded like the sound of the beta fraudster licking the cockroach's feet.

He paused;

"Wait, if everything started with the Death Train instance, then that means the last time I faked my death and went back to the game, I went back to 05 and got my character card."

"What if we assume that the death train was not the beginning of everything?"

Thinking of this, Qin Shang's pupils suddenly widened.

Yes, in Jiang Qiqi’s recorder, it was only mentioned that she first encountered the King of Thunder and Lightning on the Death Train.

So what if Jiang Qiqi got the character card earlier?

【Faking Death】Can go back to any time period in a person's life.

But if you go to the time before you became a Shenlu player, then you don’t have a character card.

Your first copy will also be refreshed, and nothing will be the same as you have experienced before.

Well, if there are other tricksters who also [faked their deaths] and went back to 05... no, it should be a timeline that is even earlier, and took away the character card of the beta trickster in advance, does that mean that the King of Thunder can no longer get the character card in the original timeline according to the procedures?

From the original guess, Qin Shang knew a little bit...

The King of Thunder and Lightning, no, it’s myself… I have experienced a retracement across an ultra-long dimensional long time line at least once.

Here, the world of the Thunder King, before he changed his name to Licking the Cockroach's Jade Feet, became a player in the Rule Realm.

A world referred to as "First Round".

What if I had gotten the character card in 98?

So in this hypothesis, in the first "actual week", that is, in the first timeline before Qin Shang returns to the game in the first "actual week", Qin Shang was already a young man in his twenties before 2000.

Then he once got his own internal test character card in the world of the first round in 98.

After seven or eight years of going according to plan, Qin Shang needed to go back in time in 2020, or at some other time, for some reason. This time, an accident occurred, and another fraudster in the Rule Realm also went back in time with him.

Back to the timeline of 98.

Because he knew Qin Shang well enough in the "first week", he took away his beta test fraudster character card in advance.

So, will there be a lag in the timeline, or will it continue to develop as planned?

"The Thunder King is obviously a modern man. No, using the word modern man is too one-sided."

"During the period of King of Thunder, which is the first week, I was obviously a person from after 2012."

Because there is a line in the recorder that after the Thunder King met Jiang Qiqi in 05, he subconsciously asked if he could add her on WeChat. So during the "first round", there was probably no one like Jiang Qiqi among the internal test players...