Cheng Shi was naturally not in a hurry to find the trace of the great scholar.
Not to mention that the three-day time limit of this trial already means that the players still have time. After all, he still controls the Church of Afterglow. The imperial edict issued still contains some serious matters, and finding the traces of the great scholars is one of them.
The Death Knell Knights may have already taken action now. The only thing Cheng Shi has to do is to find a place to avoid that lunatic with [Memory] and then wait until the gathering time to meet up with the sage and the bard.
Of course, there is another important thing to do in the meantime.
He walked the streets in the city center and witnessed with his own eyes how the will of "Chaos" swept across this land of "Truth". The Knights of the Death Knell, with their spears raised, brought trauma and death to the people and scholars of Tusnate. The resistance forces had almost collapsed. A large number of scholars gathered under the Tower of Truth of Tomorrow, vowing to defend the last glory of "Truth" to the death.
Galausa stood on a platform made of scholars' heads, looking at the floor where the Scholarly Chairmanship was located, ready to give the order to launch a general attack at any time.
And at this moment, an old man from the Afterglow Church walked up to Galausa and shook his head at her.
Galausa frowned, with dissatisfaction on her face, but she still took a step back to make room for the old man.
The old man stood on top of the scholars' heads and said something to the knights at his feet. The Death Knell Knights looked puzzled but still obeyed the order and put down their spears at once.
Not long after, the whole city gradually quieted down from the chaos, and even the smoke became less dense.
And at this moment, the whole city suddenly rang out with the sound of prayer that resounded through the sky.
"Imaginary rules, a joke to the world!"
At this moment, the believers of Chaos abandoned chaos, resonated in unison, and presented their piety to the supreme Chaos with a pre-prepared orderly ceremony.
The players scattered around the city were startled by the sudden sound of prayer. They were very confused when they saw the Death Bell Knight in front of them raising his head to salute and pray to the sky. They thought that the Afterglow Church was activating some kind of crazy world-destroying magic circle.
Only Cheng Shi hid in a corner in the city center, smiled secretly and snapped his fingers.
"It's done!"
Without hesitation, he ran towards the west of the city, but he did not go straight to the place Wei Zhi mentioned. Instead, he used his agile movements and sharp vision to complete the investigation puzzle of the city.
The west of the city is a slum area. The scale of buildings and the condition of the streets here are obviously different from those in other districts. The intricate alleys should have been the biggest obstacle to the investigation, but the Death Knell Knights had already solved these troubles for the "boss".
After a brief intermission of [order], chaos spread again and the entire city was plunged into war again. Cheng Shi witnessed with his own eyes the west of the city being reduced to ruins under the trampling of the Death Knell Knights, but he still couldn't find a place that seemed like he could hide.
There has been no news from the Yuhui Church, which means that the search is not going smoothly. In desperation, Cheng Shi had to shift his attention to the place that Wei Zhi just mentioned: the timber market warehouse.
In fact, during the previous search, Cheng Shi had already looked at that place from afar. It had long been razed to ruins, and the so-called wood had all been burned to ashes. At first glance, there was no place to hide people.
But the fact that people cannot hide on the ground does not mean that they cannot hide underground. Especially in a place like Tusnate where there are many laboratories, it is very normal to have some experimental sites or large spaces buried deep underground.
So after a round of searching, Cheng Shi began to shift his focus to the underground space. Searching underground is much slower than running wildly on the ground. Without the help of the big cat rushing around, Cheng Shi could only find the entrance to the underground bit by bit.
Not long after, he actually found an entrance under the collapsed corner of the wall on the side of the timber warehouse!
However, there are faint traces of magic circle fluctuations at the entrance. If you don’t look closely, you will never find that there is a hidden world under the corner of the wall.
"Really here?"
Cheng Shi frowned, feeling that something was wrong about this matter.
Wei Zhi was definitely not a fool. After seeing his distant attitude, he was able to reveal the specific location where the learned chairman would hide. This was already strange, and coupled with the other party's identity as the president of the Physical Society...
Don't forget that the Society of Reason and Quality was, to a certain extent, an organization founded under the influence of the Tower of Reason and Quality. Although this organization has chosen a completely different path from the Tower of Reason and Quality on the road to madness, it is undeniable that crazy people will always try every possible means to achieve their wishes.
So Wei Zhi would never be so kind.
Judging from the fact that he wanted to keep all the corpses to eat at the beginning, this person might not take the trial seriously at all. All he wanted was to gain the greatest benefit from this trial. After all, not everyone is lucky enough to be included in the doomsday of the Erudite Chairmanship.
Thinking this way, he told himself that there was only one possibility for this place...
"Take me as a scapegoat?
Tsk, what a good calculation."
Cheng Shi smiled, he noted the location, and then pretended he had never been there and left.
Soon after he left, a ruined house not far away suddenly collapsed, with rubble and dust flying everywhere, falling and piling up. In the hole of the ruins made up of broken wood and stones, a pair of blood-stained eyes quietly opened, and a snort of laughter was heard from under the ruins.
"What a cautious man, but who doesn't come?"
...
Cheng Shi did not place all his hopes on the underground of the timber warehouse. After he left, he still circled around the west of the city. Along the way, he discovered quite a few underground spaces, but unfortunately, most of them were destroyed by the Death Knell Knight. Only a few were intact, and there was no aura fluctuation inside.
As time went by, Cheng Shi knew that this was probably the place, but he was still steady and waited until the time for everyone to gather and returned to the vicinity of the Tower of Truth yesterday.
At this time, Galausa had led the team to attack Tomorrow's Truth. The lower floors of the tower had become a meat grinder. Countless Death Knell Knights poured in like a wave, and were then pushed back by the howling magic. After a back and forth, corpses were piled up everywhere.
Of course, the scholars had an even worse time. The death of the Death Knell Knights was at least considered a corpse, but if any scholar died, Galausa would chop off his head and string it together.
She set fire to the tower wantonly, burning the scholars' heads to pieces, as if she wanted to drive the truth out of people's minds in this way.
This scene made the scholars in Tomorrow's Truth horrified and angry. They launched magic attacks on the Church of Afterglow, but what Galausa launched on them was also a "magic attack", and it was a "magic attack" that destroyed their sanity.
“This is an out-and-out madwoman. I don’t deny that time has precipitated wisdom in her, but it has also distilled her madness.
Stay away from her, or else madness is contagious."
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