The Fool of the Gods

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"You don't welcome me?"

"Should I welcome you?"

"You should welcome me."

"I don't welcome you."

Cheng Shi stared at the person in front of him for a long time, until the other party shrugged helplessly and rubbed his nose red, his solemn expression finally eased, and he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"You are very tired, it seems that the road ahead is not easy."

The visitor smiled:

"That's my road, not yours."

"【Existence】The scattered state, right? Well, that's right, so...

Which state of me are you?

Cheng Shi!"

Cheng Shi looked at the other party with burning eyes, and following his line of sight, the person standing in front of him was...

Cheng Shi!

Another Cheng Shi!

A Cheng Shi who came from nowhere...Cheng Shi!

This Cheng Shi is 90% similar to the current Cheng Shi, but his face is more vicissitudes and his temperament is more refined.

Time has carved marks on his skin, and every line and texture seems to be full of hardships and difficulties that ordinary people cannot understand.

There is a terrible scar on his neck, from the collarbone to behind the ear, hideous like a crazy twisting centipede, terrifying.

His left shoulder is sunken three points, making the clothes that could show perfect posture wrinkled into a ball, losing the symmetrical beauty.

His right hand trembles uncontrollably, his legs look a little lame, and there is almost no intact part on his body, but only those eyes!

Only those eyes are still bright!

At this moment, the fraudulent eyes that should be full of lies, ridicule, teasing, and disdain are filled with sincerity, nostalgia, memories and calmness!

He looked at Cheng Shi and smiled brightly.

"If you insist on asking this, I probably can't answer, because I don't know where I come from.

Maybe, it's your past, or maybe, it's your future.

You know, it depends on how [they] define it."

Cheng Shi's eyes fixed.

"Did they send you here?"

"No, no, no, they don't care about me anymore, I came here by myself."

What do you mean they don't care about you anymore?

What do you mean you came here by yourself?

How did you come?

Did you muffle [memory] or mess up [time]?

Cheng Shi saw Cheng Shi's confusion and laughed.

"Don't think I'm that awesome. Although I have the confidence to face them, they are still them after all, and I am not them yet.

I just saw a gap in the collection of [Memory], and then I jumped in to take a look.

I didn't expect to see you.

Hahahaha, it turns out that this gap appeared because of you.

Interesting, too interesting, have you encountered something interesting recently, tell me about it and make me happy."

Looking at the other self laughing, even laughing to tears, Cheng Shi's face was very dark.

"Did you come here to laugh at me?"

"Although I didn't at the beginning, but now I am, hahaha."

"Why are you the same character as him?"

"This question is not up to par. If I am not the same character as him, you should ask."

"......That's right."

The two Cheng Shi suddenly looked at each other, and then laughed out loud at the same time.

The tacit understanding from the same soul resonated to a climax at this moment. I don’t know whether it was to find joy in suffering or to be heartless. Anyway...

One laughed until he hit the ground, and the other laughed until he crowed.

The laughter lasted for a long time, until a while later, both of them were tired of laughing, and then gradually subsided.

Cheng Shi’s doubts were slightly dissipated, and he vaguely felt the intention of another Cheng Shi.

He was not here to help himself, nor to spur himself, nor to hinder himself.

He may have just found a fun, and then found that behind this fun was his past self.

No matter how [they] define it, in short, in Cheng Shi’s eyes, the Cheng Shi in front of him is indeed the self at the other end of the long river of time.

How interesting.

He saw his "future" self.

He shook his head and laughed, relaxed his body, and sat down in the void.

Cheng Shi on the opposite side looked at him with interest, his eyes full of feelings.

"It hurts, right?" Cheng Shi said to Big Cheng Shi.

"Huh? You mean this?"

Big Cheng Shi reached out and touched the horrible scar on his neck and smiled.

There was something evil in his smile.

"It was left from a fight with Du Yao. Well, I don't know if you've seen her, but anyway, it's better not to see her."

Cheng Shi stared at Big Cheng Shi.After a while, he complained with a somewhat speechless expression: "Tell the truth!"

"Alas, it's boring to be like this. You should learn to find joy in adversity.

Okay, don't stare at me. It's fake, fake, okay, I asked someone to tattoo it.

How about it, does it look very difficult to mess with? I suggest you get a tattoo too, so that you can save a lot of trouble every time the trial starts."

"......"

I knew it.

When Cheng Shi saw a smile flashing in his future self's eyes, he felt that Cheng Shi was going to be dishonest.

Although the talent of the master of deception will be invalid when they meet, making him always feel that what the other person said is true...

But, it doesn't seem too difficult to see through himself.

"You are not pretending to be so miserable just to make me give you some sympathy?"

"What do you mean, I only have this one tattoo."

"What about your shoulder?"

"Herobus took off my shoulder bone at the second [Gathering of the Gods]."

Cheng Shi raised his eyebrows and thought to himself.

After all, it's my future self!

Even though his mind has never changed like mine, and he doesn't want to interfere too much with his past self, he still can't help but secretly leak some information.

This has nothing to do with anything else, it's just a person who stumbles forward, feels sorry for his past self, and doesn't want him to walk so muddy again.

Cheng Shi listened silently, without asking any more questions.

"He is the messenger of [Annihilation], avoid it if you can."

"Here," Da Chengshi pointed to the fist-sized scar under his ribs and continued, "Qin Xin stabbed him. Of course, he is not a bad person, but his fate is too bad, so avoid it if you can."

"Here, you should be familiar with the [Death] Fun Ring. I haven't held the wine glass steadily for a long time. This is the side effect of relying too much on it. Pay more attention."

"Here, Jia Liusha crushed my legs. I pulled her arms and made a new pair, but unfortunately, they don't match.

But I heard that the big guys are all lame, and they are also very stylish, aren't they?

She is a paranoid lunatic, the black hand that buried the Tower of Principle. Remember, stay away from her."

"..."

Da Chengshi said a lot, and his face became gloomier every time he mentioned a name.

In the end, a strong murderous intent overflowed from his eyes, sweeping across the entire void like a flood, making all the tangible things in the void almost stagnant.

Even Cheng Shi himself was locked in by this murderous intent, with sweat on his back and a pale face.

But it didn't take long for Cheng Shi to realize that something was wrong. He laughed at himself and restrained his terrifying momentum.

"Sorry, stress reaction.

There will always be tragedies of one kind or another as the times progress. Although I have gone further than others, I am still an actor in this tragedy.

Before the show is over, I always want to try it.

Alas...

Forget it, why say these things, it's extremely boring."

Cheng Shi's gloomy face instantly disappeared without a trace. He looked at Cheng Shi and smiled again.

"Tell me about you, I'm curious, how did you open that gap now."

Cheng Shi's mind was churning because he received too much information. He pondered for a long time before speaking.

"I didn't open that gap, it was..."

He wanted to say [memory], but suddenly he felt that if it was [memory], there seemed to be nothing to say, after all, Da Chengshi jumped back from his collection.

So he changed his words and said a name.

"Su Yida."

"Who is that?"

"..."

Cheng Shi was now sure that Da Chengshi was not the person who came back from the future line before him, as for which future he came from.

Who cares.

"A trickster who has never been noticed by him."

"Oh?" Da Chengshi's tone suddenly became strange. He looked at Chengshi thoughtfully, and rarely made a sharp comment.

The scene suddenly fell silent.

Cheng Shi curled his lips and felt that he was stupid.

Such a good opportunity, not asking for help, but wasting time here, it was simply sick.

So he put aside the messy information in his mind and asked seriously:

"Is the ranger with me still alive?"

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