The Fool of the Gods

Two fingertips touched each other, one flesh-colored, the other... black.

Cheng Shi sat cross-legged on the ground, the sun was blazing above his head, and cold sweat was pouring down his body.

He looked at the black shadow hand in front of him that had left the ground and was touching his fingers, and he didn't recover for a long time.

Ah?

Brother, you're making me a little scared.

What can't you say properly? You're so anxious that you've left the ground?

Or you can lie down first and we can talk later?

I don't know why, Cheng Shi's brain twitched, and he suddenly grabbed the shadow's wrist and tried to force it back to the ground.

But at the moment he made a move, the shadow suddenly reached out and grabbed his wrist, and the two hands, one black and one white, held each other like this, and then...

They started to wrestle.

Don't tell me, hey, don't tell me, this shadow looks thin, but he's quite strong.

The two "people" wrestled for a long time, but no one won.

This absurd scene almost made Cheng Shi laugh, but the next second he let go of his hand with a pale face, crawled backwards two steps, and left the shadow far away and asked in doubt:

"Who are you?"

"......"

"Speak!"

"......"

"Are you a fruit?"

"......"

"What, you dare to arm wrestle but not to speak?"

Cheng Shi tried cautiously, and at the same time tightly grasped the [Death] Fun Ring in his hand, just in case.

However, after waiting for a long time, the shadow did not reply, but Cheng Shi "himself" spoke again.

"·I have never seen an idiot who talks to his own shadow."

"?"

Cheng Shi was shocked. He touched his mouth and said:

"I have never seen a mouth that scolds itself."

"..."

Foolish Lips was choked and couldn't speak. Cheng Shi took the opportunity to stop and immediately lowered his posture to ask:

"Brother Mouth, what's going on?"

Foolish Lips rarely took the initiative to talk to Cheng Shi. At this moment, Cheng Shi already had an idea in his mind:

That is, this shadow lying on the ground with the same movements as himself is probably not dangerous.

But where did it come from?

Is it really the conjugate whispering fruit that he ate?

Only that fruit can have this effect, right?

The virtual and the real blend together, born from conjugation, the manifestation of this will in people is like a person and a shadow!

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi gradually became bolder.

He slowly crawled towards the other person, carefully looking at the shadow that was also crawling towards him with a pair of cautious eyes.

Its current state is not so much a shadow as a pure black, three-dimensional transparent "person" without any surface texture details.

When Cheng Shi looked behind the shadow, his eyes could easily penetrate the "black" person, but when his focus turned back to the shadow itself, the transparent shadow seemed to solidify into an "existence" with a physical collision volume.

This feeling was so novel that Cheng Shi couldn't help but start to touch his own shadow.

He began to carefully study the mirror shadow in front of him that had become a three-dimensional existence from the two-dimensional ground.

It couldn't speak, nor did it have self-awareness. All the actions it made were replicas of Cheng Shi's actions. The two people were like mirror images, exactly the same and opposite from left to right.

But apart from these, it seemed no different from the two-dimensional shadow.

When Cheng Shi took out a frying pan from his portable space, the shadow couldn't take out a "shadow version" of the frying pan.

Not only that, but what was even more outrageous was that the pan had its own shadow, and its shadow was right where it was supposed to be.

Only Cheng Shi's shadow stood in front of him, waving a non-existent "pan" in his hand, like a mental patient wrapped in black cloth.

Cheng Shi looked at the inexplicable shadow in front of him with a strange expression, and couldn't help but hit it with the bottom of the pan.

As expected, the bottom of the pan passed through the shadow's body and fell to the ground.

Cheng Shi didn't stop, he continued to take out all kinds of things from the surroundings, from the warehouse, and from the portable space to hit the shadow, but these messy things didn't leave any traces on the shadow.

Until!

He hit a mask on the top of the shadow's head, and this time, it hit it hard!

The mask didn't pass through the shadow, but was buckled on its head!

The body that even the dice of fate couldn't hit was hit by the mask at this moment!

Cheng Shi was shocked, and his pupils immediately shrank!

Could it be...

He thought of something, stretched out his two hands and trembled slightly to straighten the mask on the shadow's head, covering it tightly.on its face.

And at the moment when the mask was close to it, with a "whoosh", Cheng Shi's consciousness was taken away again.

It was taken away without any time to react.

...

It was another sunny afternoon, and it was this familiar space again.

When Cheng Shi opened his eyes again, he was shocked to find that he was back to...

The starting point of his life!

Yes, the starting point of his life! And in front of him, it was still the laughing mask and the motionless dice.

But this time, the dice was 6.

"?"

Looking at this incredible scene, Cheng Shi seemed to have a guess in his heart.

A bold guess that he dared not say out loud.

He didn't dare to think too much, nor did he dare to think about it. After taking two deep breaths to calm down, he asked the first question after entering the "Faith Game" to the two [God] tokens in front of him according to his memory.

"What should I choose?"

However, unlike last time, the mask in front of him did not respond.

Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat, and his back instantly straightened.

He subconsciously touched his mouth, and kept calling the name of the lips of foolishness in his heart, but the mouth that always liked to lie to him was silent at this moment.

It seemed to be gone.

Cheng Shi swallowed nervously, and the premonition in his mind became stronger and stronger.

There seemed to be no [fraud] here, and there seemed to be... only [fate] here!

Because the mask of [fraud] had probably been "given" away by himself, to his own shadow!!

Cheng Shi's face was ugly and he was uneasy.

He carefully moved forward two steps, and his cautious eyes jumped back and forth between the two tokens.

When he got closer, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, then opened them again and squinted slightly, and touched the mask floating in the air as if to cover his ears and steal the bell.

But when his fingers touched the mask, his hand passed through it out of thin air!

! ! !

This is not a mask!

This is just an illusion!

Just as Cheng Shi guessed, in this "new" starting point of destiny, there is no [fraud], only... [fate]!

With such an obvious hint, such a clear guide, and such a unique choice, it seems that the answer that person wants needs no further explanation.

"......"

Cheng Shi looked at the "empty" mask in front of him, and then at the "solid" dice in front of him, and his heart was extremely complicated.

He remembered the words of [memory] again:

"Have you ever thought about getting back on the right track of [fate]?"

So...

What He wants is to get back on the right track of [fate]?

Cheng Shi realized it, and he suddenly realized it.

So this is a compromise, and He has already given the answer.

Swallow the bitter fruit of [fate], and then get back on the right track of [fate], so that "fate" will "let go" of oneself.

"......"

But I don't want to be a forsaken oath.

Cheng Shi thought so, but he didn't dare to say it out loud.

Not only that, he demonstrated with his actual actions what it meant to say "If it happens again, I will still be greedy."

Although he knew that the mask was fake, and that he had no choice under His gaze, Cheng Shi still reached out to touch the mask again.

And at the moment when his hand passed through the mask again, the motionless dice moved!

It suddenly jumped from 6 o'clock to 1 o'clock.

Then a terrifying pressure surged from all directions!

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