The other side.
Time needs to go back a certain distance, to when the last trial just ended.
Cheng Shi opened his eyes and found that he had not returned to the rest area but appeared in a dimly lit space.
Looking at this environment, it seems...
Is it emptiness?
But why is there light in the dark void?
And this dim light seemed to be coming from behind him.
The weirder the scene, the faster the audience will be.
Who will it be this time?
Although he was already familiar with the process of audience with the gods, Cheng Shi still felt nervous at this moment. He instinctively wanted to turn around to find out what was going on, but as soon as his muscles tensed up, he stopped cautiously and began to carefully sense any abnormalities around him.
However, there was nothing unusual around. Perhaps the only abnormality was that it was too quiet here, so quiet that it seemed like falling into true nothingness.
【nothingness】?
Gulp...
Cheng Shi swallowed nervously, wondering if the person behind him could be the benefactor who punished him and left angrily, [Fate]?
Does the fact that He is standing silently behind me mean that He is angry again?
Who are you angry with?
I've been very honest recently, you can't get mad at me again...
Bar?
Oh no, why are my legs starting to feel weak?
Cheng Shi's brain was working frantically. He reviewed his actions over and over again, examined his words, and screened his behavior, fearing that he had done something blasphemous and angered this angry benefactor.
But after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any blasphemous behavior on his part, so he pondered for a moment and decided to take the initiative and try to get a chance for "leniency" by using a "submissive attitude."
Cheng Shi took two deep breaths, put on a perfect smile, and then turned around abruptly. Before he could see who was in front of him, he praised loudly:
"May the light of [Destiny]... shine... forever... on... the world..."
However, after he had said only a few words, he felt as if a huge rock was pressing on his throat, making it extremely difficult for him to pronounce words. And not only his throat, but his mouth, nose, and ears seemed to be bound by a strange force, becoming no longer clear. Even his vision began to blur, and the difference between light and darkness became closer and closer. The entire field of vision seemed to be slowly fading, fading into black and white, and even the boundary between black and white was no longer obvious.
And it was during this process of gradual loss of his five senses that the terrified Cheng Shi suddenly discovered that his body was also rapidly stiffening. His muscles became stiff and mechanical, and his body became solidified and rigid.
He finally realized that the person in front of him was not the benefactor of Nothingness at all, but a huge, lifeless puppet that he had never seen before, hanging in the void.
He couldn't even sense what the puppet was made of. He just saw a stiff figure floating silently in the void, staring at him blankly, as if observing some secret.
Cheng Shi's heart suddenly tensed up, and he seemed to realize who was in front of him, but gradually, even the fear in his heart began to become blurred, and all perceptions and emotions were quickly stripped away from his consciousness.
Every thought seems like the swan song of life, and every delay seems like the final sound of consciousness.
A vibrant life seemed to be completely bleached into a dead object by this horrifying silence, without even a trace of vitality left.
The laughing clown blended silently into the space and became one of the countless small puppets hanging in front of this huge puppet.
Then, silence fell.
Yes, this huge puppet is one of the incarnations of the ubiquitous "Silence" in the world.
[Silence] is a very difficult god to understand.
His believers only know to carry out His will, but no one actually knows what His will is, because He never gives out decrees, let alone any guidance. He interprets His divine name with practical actions, so His believers follow suit and remain silent as much as possible.
Of course, this does not include some believers who are so noisy that they silence others.
This was undoubtedly Cheng Shi's first audience with [Silence], but it could hardly be called an audience in this situation. After all, his senses were leaving him, and except for a trace of impression of the puppet in the deepest part of his consciousness, everything else... nothing was left, nothing could be left.
The world seems to no longer need expression, yet the world is full of expression everywhere.
Just like now, just now, when the clown was about to completely turn into a puppet, a pair of extremely cold eyes opened in the void!
As soon as He appeared, the cold wind from nothingness blew up like piercing steel needles, smashing all the puppets into pieces, followed by a sharp explosion.
The rising and falling syllables echoed throughout the universe, making this area, which was once filled with silence, no longer peaceful.
Those eyes looked coldly at the largest puppet in this space, and every word they spoke was like a chilly wind:
"[Silence], who gave you the courage to assimilate my followers?"
At this moment, the Him who once protected believers wholeheartedly...seems to be back again.
As he questioned, the entire void began to be filled with changing colors, as if a giant hand that would not tolerate disobedience had poured a bucket of colorful paint from the sky, splashing all the black and white colors in the world into a psychedelic bright color.
Upon seeing this, the huge puppet machine raised its head sluggishly, staring blankly at the pair of angry starry eyes, and began to retreat at an imperceptible snail's pace.
It can be seen that He does not want to go against Fate, but His reaction is so slow that it is difficult to tell whether He is retreating or preparing to counterattack.
However, no matter what, [Fate] had no intention of letting him go. The Lord of [Nothingness] attacked in anger and sealed off the entire void in the blink of an eye. Then, he used the momentum of the [Nothingness] civil war, detonated the unpredictable power of [Fate], and dragged the entire space into the battlefield of [Nothingness].
However, no matter how violent the power of "fate" was, when the attack mixed with terrifying divinity approached the puppet, it turned into a non-threatening and obedient aura and dissipated to the surroundings. The storm from nothingness seemed to form a blank area in the center of the battlefield, creating a relatively safe buffer zone.
All attacks were silenced before Him.
"......"
Seeing this scene, [Destiny] also fell silent.
He knew that this was the true [Silence]. The other party never expressed anything and was never forced to express anything. It had been silently observing everything in the universe since its birth, and remained the same regardless of the changing times and the passing of eras.
Just like the stubborn rock at the top of the mountain or the bottom of the valley, it has witnessed countless vicissitudes of life, but has never been eroded by them.
The world does not need to be expressed, the past is also the same, the future is also the same, this...
That is His will.
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