Su Yida crawled in stiffly from outside. Before even lifting his head, he said to Tao Yi:
"It's... your turn... Quick, move this dying meat cushion... move it out.
Huh!!??
You're awake?"
Su Yida raised his head and met Cheng Shi's cold gaze.
There wasn't a trace of shame or unease in his eyes about having killed Cheng Shi before. He even seemed to have forgotten about it, merely sneering:
"Turns out we have a Priest in our team. How lucky.
I thought you were Tao Yi's backup food."
Tao Yi didn't say anything after hearing this.
Under prolonged periods without food, the worshippers of prosperity indeed suffer significant loss of divinity. If Cheng Shi hadn't woken up, he might really have become backup food.
The reason everyone silently guarded him for so long was solely because of his identity as a Priest, which offered a glimmer of hope.
Cheng Shi knew this well, so he struggled to cast a healing spell.
The target was not Su Yida, but Tao Yi.
However, the effect of Grace of Sharing Gods still allowed Su Yida to feel a hint of the comfort of being healed.
"Another one! I'm freezing!"
Cheng Shi sneered inwardly and ignored Su Yida's request.
He struggled to sit up, but due to weakness, he fell towards Su Yida.
Su Yida didn't dodge and helped him up.
"I know you're very weak, but everyone is very weak, so that excuse won't work. Time is up. If you want to survive, you have to go out and take turns guarding."
Cheng Shi also held onto Su Yida's arm and asked, "Did you save me?"
"If you're talking about Shuhui Reversal, no. You should thank yourself for giving yourself five more days to live."
Su Yida smiled, his smile full of playfulness.
"What did you see in the Void Rift?"
Su Yida was still smiling, but upon hearing this, his expression instantly turned cold.
"I saw Death and lies. Some people tell wonderful stories, but they're all fake."
Cheng Shi raised an eyebrow, confirming something.
The Su Yida who killed him did not seem to be the one in front of him.
This was interesting. What kind of Existence appeared in the Void, impersonating Su Yida to kill him?
Or perhaps, it wasn't an impersonation at all.
At this moment, the same thought that Zhao Qian had before arose in Cheng Shi's mind.
A familiar person who knew everything about him and even said "Long Time no see," could it be...?
From the future?
But this deduction did not align with Cheng Shi's understanding, because all powers related to backtracking could not trace back to past Trials.
This should be a recognized rule of the Trials; it was impossible for a Player to break it.
Wait...
If a Player cannot break the rules...
Does that mean that some Existence took action?
A flash of inspiration went through Cheng Shi's mind, and he felt he had guessed the answer.
At a certain point in the future, a special Existence sent that future Su Yida back to the present to kill him!
Afterward, the murderer left, returning once again to his future.
However, this deduction still had a loophole.
That was, why didn't he die?
If the Su Yida who killed him truly came from the future, based on Cheng Shi's understanding of the worshippers of Fraud, he would certainly not have simply choked him to Death and stopped there.
If it were him, when facing someone who needed to be "backtracked to the past" to kill, he would definitely ensure that the person was dead beyond any doubt, only then would the journey not be wasted.
So... why?
"You're not afraid of Death?"
Cheng Shi looked at Su Yida's cold smile and suddenly asked.
Su Yida raised an eyebrow, thinking Cheng Shi was asking about him entering the Void Rift earlier. He said frankly:
"Afraid, but more afraid of gaining nothing."
"You're really crazy."
Cheng Shi patted his shoulder and crawled out of the tent beside him.
Tao Yi had been listening for a long Time and silently followed him out.
Su Yida turned his head to look at the gap in the tent where the two had crawled out, his face expressionless.
...
When Cheng Shi crawled out of the tent, he realized that the howling cold wind he had imagined was not at all on the same level as the current environment.
Just stepping out, a layer of fine goosebumps appeared all over his body.
His hands and feet joints began to stiffen noticeably, and the inhaled air even froze his nasal cavity and throat.
This cold?
What kind of ice plain could be this cold?
Cheng Shi shakily applied some cold resistance to himself and shared this buff with all his teammates.
Except for Su Yida.
Cui Dingtian was clearly happy to see Cheng Shi wake up, but when he thought that Cheng Shi was now like him, with only five days left to live, his smile held a hint of melancholy.
Gao Yu was the same, but this joy was no longer the "familiarity" from before, but more like the concern between ordinary teammates.
Cheng Shi keenly noticed the change in Gao Yu's attitude. He calmly nodded at the two of them, and then, mimicking Tao Yi, dutifully and quietly stood guard outside.
When the strong wind tore the tent, he rushed over to cover the hole with his body and re-gather the human skin; when Tao Yi's feet were stuck due to excessive cold, he squeezed out a little strength and let a trace of healing effect leak from his fingers, making it less difficult for her to move.
The sky-high cold wind blew relentlessly, and the temperature continued to drop.
An hour or so later, Cheng Shi felt that apart from his heart still beating weakly, there was almost no part of his body that wasn't frozen stiff.
"Is it... Time... yet?"
Tao Yi couldn't even nod her head anymore. Her face covered in frost, she lay on the ground and crawled towards the tent step by step.
Cheng Shi followed closely behind.
Every step was extremely difficult, every step was like crossing a cold abyss and chasm.
However, just as they were about to crawl into the tent, Su Yida crawled out a little earlier than the scheduled shift.
He kindly pushed Tao Yi in, then constantly rubbed his arms and looked at Cheng Shi who was walking towards him.
Cheng Shi's frozen face could no longer form a smile. He walked closer with difficulty and said something to Su Yida in a trembling voice:
"I don't care which point in the future you came from, or what your purpose is. End all of this, otherwise, we'll die together."
Su Yida was a little surprised:
"You're frozen silly, Cheng Shi, what are you talking about?"
"I don't care which point in the future you came from, or what your purpose is. End all of this, otherwise, we'll die together.
I won't repeat it a third Time."
After speaking, Cheng Shi raised his hand, placing it on his face in the gesture of taking off a mask, and squeezed his muscles with all his might, forcing out a smile that didn't look like a smile at all.
Just this one action, Su Yida's face instantly became extremely ugly.
The look of surprise and doubt in his eyes flickered repeatedly, the muscles on his face tightened again and again. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in just a few seconds, but in the end, he didn't dare to gamble that Cheng Shi was lying.
He had a backup plan!
Indeed, he should have a backup plan!
Otherwise, this person couldn't have gone so far in the increasingly cruel Trials!
Damn it! He only miscalculated one thing, and that was that Cheng Shi, like him, was an absolute lunatic!
No, he was even crazier!
This kind of mutual destruction was completely meaningless!!
But... I still can't die!
And so...
Su Yida compromised.
He extended a hand and gently waved it. The sky-high strong wind reversed, the vast frozen land gradually melted, the surrounding temperature rapidly rose, and dense branches even sprouted directly from the distant mountains.
Time!
The power of Time!
With just a wave of his hand, Su Yida reversed all Time, turning the ice plain back to how it was before it was frozen.
Cheng Shi felt the stiffness in his body melting. His legs went weak, and he directly fell to the ground.
Su Yida looked at Cheng Shi's weak appearance, his face as dark as ink.
"When did you find out?"
Cheng Shi smiled.
He wasn't actually sure, it was just because he had had a brief contact with Su Yida in the tent earlier, and during that contact, Su Yida, who was usually fanatical about the divinity within him, didn't have any extra movements.
Just this point made Cheng Shi start to doubt his identity.
But he wouldn't say the reason for his suspicion, because he wanted to vent.
Even though he was completely weak, Cheng Shi still managed to shrug his shoulders.
"Didn't figure it out, just bluffed it out."
?"
"Haha, hahaha, hahaha, it really is you, it really is you!
You are truly an absolute...
Lunatic!"
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