Chapter 488: A Fate that the World can only watch from the side
Translator: CKtalon Editor:
Liu Yu's expression immediately turned stiff as beads of sweat oozed out from his forehead.
Just as he was about to say something, Sunless said coldly, "On the way back, Shi Xiaobai's hair had always been black."
Liu Yu said with a wry smile, "Benefactor Ye, why are you saying this? How are you so sure?"
Sunless said with a deadpan expression, "I was watching him constantly."
Liu Yu was slightly dumbfounded before he immediately understood what she meant. Her eyes had been staring intently at Shi Xiaobai on the way back. Without parting her eyes from him, she had not seen Shi Xiaobai's hair turn silver during that fateful period.
With Sunless's personality, it was definite that she would place all her attention on the unconscious Shi Xiaobai even if with an injured shoulder that would emit pain with every step.
Liu Yu sighed before saying, "Benefactor Ye must be mistaken. This Penniless Priest previously mentioned that Benefactor Shi Xiaobai's hair only turned silver for an instant. It was so short that This Penniless Priest even suspected that it was a mistake.”
“Even if you were staring at him the entire journey, there might be instances you miss when you blink your eyes. This Penniless Priest really did not lie. Benefactor Ye, you must have seen wrong."
Sunless said affirmatively without any emotions, "I do not blink."
Liu Yu was surprised as he examined her carefully. He realized that Sunless's glazed eyes looked glazed not because they seldom revealed emotions, but because she never blinked.
She actually did not need to blink?
What sort of darn special effect is that!?
Liu Yu smiled wryly inwardly. He knew that she wasn't joking. She had really managed to stare at Shi Xiaobai intently without blinking once on the way back. It could be said that she did not miss a single instant.
What a terrifying girl.
Liu Yu sighed and said, "You might have seen wrong, or it might have been a mistake of This Penniless Priest. Benefactor Shi Xiaobai's hair might not have turned silver and This Penniless Priest could have been mistaken, but there is absolutely no reason to lie. Furthermore, with you staring at Benefactor Shi Xiaobai all the time, you should know better than This Penniless Priest as to what had happened, right?"
Sunless glanced at Liu Yu with an emotionless expression and said, "I saw it, but I didn't see everything. At that moment, you happened to block my vision. It was as if…you did it on purpose."
Liu Yu's expression changed as he said in a deep voice, "Benefactor Ye, your words seem a bit too harsh. This Penniless Priest had been hit by Benefactor Shi Xiaobai's elbow, lost control of my body and had accidentally blocked your vision. Everything was just a coincidence. This Penniless Priest knows you are worried about Benefactor Shi Xiaobai, but how can you malign This Penniless Priest in such an unreasonable manner?"
Liu Yu's expression appeared agitated, as though he was expressing his indignation.
Sunless calmly glanced at him and said expressionlessly, "I did not tell you when you blocked my vision. Yet, you seem to know it better than me?"
Liu Yu's heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He cursed in his heart. He had been anxious and he had neglected such a simple logical line of thought. Wasn't this equivalent to him giving an unsought confession?
Sunless said coldly, "You had indeed lied."
Liu Yu pretended to remain calm as he said in a deep tone, "You claim that This Penniless Priest was lying, but why would This Penniless Priest lie? What reason is there for This Penniless Priest to lie?"
"You want to hide a particular truth."
Sunless's eyes were dull but they emitted an overbearing glimmer. She said, "There are two possibilities for this truth. First, you are helping Xiaobai hide the truth. Xiaobai was awake when he killed Speechless. Second, you are lying for yourself. The person who killed Speechless wasn't Xiaobai, but you. You pushed the blame on to the unconscious Xiaobai."
It was a rare moment for Sunless to say such a long sentence. Furthermore, she had used her words to express the logic extremely clearly. Obviously, she had been pondering over the matter for some time. She might have been having mixed feelings about this for the past three days.
Liu Yu smiled wryly in his mind. He knew that Sunless was very intelligent, but he never expected her to be another 'monster' with a freak intelligence. What seemed like a perfect 'plan' had apparently been seen through by her.
Liu Yu's mouth suffused a bitter smile as he said, "Out of the two possibilities, it's likely you are more willing to believe in the latter, right?"
Sunless said, "From my point of view, the possibility of the former doesn't exist."
Sunless obviously did not believe that Shi Xiaobai would deliberately feign unconsciousness to kill Speechless.
Therefore, from her point of view, everything was Liu Yu's scheme. He had sneakily killed Speechless and then push the blame on Shi Xiaobai. Although it was unknown how Liu Yu had managed to do it, that was the only possibility Sunless had come up with.
Liu Yu sighed and said, "Benefactor Ye already has an answer in her heart. It appears like it is beyond dispute for This Penniless Priest."
Liu Yu knew Sunless's personality. Nothing he said could change her mind.
"Benefactor Ye, what do you plan on doing?"
Liu Yu looked at the area around him. At that moment, they were on a forest trail with no one around them. It was a place that few people passed, so it was apparent that Sunless had deliberately led him there.
But what was she planning to do?
Kill him? It was clearly impractical. He was no match for Sunless, but he could escape with the exit command.
Use her strength to force a confession from him? He could similarly use the exit command to escape the calamity.
Was she planning to use her 'mouth' to exhort him to confess? Sunless was obviously not that naive.
Then, what did she want to do?
What is she trying to do?
"Keep lying."
Sunless made known her intention as she calmly said, "I wish that you do not tell anyone the truth. Do not expose a single flaw. Keep this a secret forever."
When Liu Yu heard her, he was first shocked before he quickly understood Sunless's intentions.
Sunless did not believe that Shi Xiaobai would feign unconsciousness to kill Speechless. However, she had no evidence that could reject such a possibility with a hundred percent certainty.
Hence, this possibility still existed, even if it was 1%, 0.01% or a trillionth of a percent, it was still possible.
And in order to completely stem out this possibility, the only way was to hide the truth forever.
She would rather let the true murderer escape scot-free than let Shi Xiaobai take any risk.
That was Sunless's intention.
Liu Yu was astounded but he felt respect and fear for her.
To Shi Xiaobai, Sunless was definitely the cutest girl in the world.
But to others, Sunless could become a most terrifying enemy at any time.
Her reason was too unreasonable.
"This Penniless Priest is innocent. Benefactor Shi Xiaobai is not at fault either, but This Penniless Priest cannot tell the truth for now."
Liu Yu sighed and said solemnly, "There will come a day when the truth will be revealed. Now, what This Penniless Priest can do is to first say…sorry."
Sunless glanced at Liu Yu nonchalantly before she silently turned around and walked out of the woods.
Regardless of the truth, the outcome she wanted was for Shi Xiaobai to not be harmed.
At that moment, a familiar voice resounded in the sky and spread throughout the world.
"The person to clear the Transcendental World is born. Participant, Shi Xiaobai, has been sent to the eighth level. The remaining seven trial-takers will be forcefully expelled in thirty seconds. "
The person to clear the seventh level had been born?
Shi Xiaobai had obtained the assessment program's recognition?
How did he do it?
Sunless's eyes flashed a hint of surprise as a guess arose in her mind, but she immediately wiped it away.
Liu Yu turned to glance at the Infernal King's chamber as he sighed secretly.
Was everything finally about to end?
…
…
The world of the eighth level.
Shi Xiaobai descended with a golden beam of light. He had arrived in a world that only a few mighty figures in human history had reached.
Before the system's voice that conventionally introduced the world to the eighth level sounded, a familiar fiery voice rang in Shi Xiaobai's mind.
"Absolute Choice completed. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining a 'B-level reward'—Psionic offensive skill: Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms."
The corners of Shi Xiaobai's mouth twitched slightly as he remained expressionless. His eyes were somewhat dull.
The way the Absolute Choice announced its completion was identical to the Absolute Choices that required him to save Little Fatso and Chen Lingcun, as well as preventing Kali from raging. It was a choice without any hints.
As he recalled, the content of the choices was:
[ Choice 1: Complete the King’s Mandate (B-level reward) ]
[ Choice 2: End the Age of Bravehearts (B-level reward) ]
[ Choice 3: Leave the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower (No reward) ]
When the Absolute Choice suddenly appeared, it left Shi Xiaobai completely dumbfounded. He did not know what choice one and two really meant.
At that moment, he finally understood what the two extremely well-concealed choices represented.
Completing the king's mandate was to complete the Infernal King's mandate by killing the Celestial King, which also meant…killing Speechless.
Ending the Age of Bravehearts meant killing the six leaders that came to the Age of Bravehearts—the Hexstar Bravehearts, which also meant…killing Sunless, Pulp Farmer, and the rest.
These two choices were cruel for Shi Xiaobai and they were difficult to complete. And it was because of the cruelty of the two choices that there was a third choice that allowed him to avoid everything…leaving the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower.
If Shi Xiaobai had known the true meaning of the three choices when they first appeared, he would not have hesitated to choose option three.
And because of that, the Absolute Choice had deliberately used 'text' to do a few layers of concealment.
Everything was in order to push the story to the present situation.
With the story developing to the present moment, the Infernal King had killed the Celestial King.
Shi Xiaobai had killed Speechless Li.
It was set in stone.
The cruelest situation!
…
Shi Xiaobai's expression was deadpan as his eyes glazed over. He had been silent for a very, very long time until the Infernal Queen slowly approached him from afar.
She smiled coquettishly as she walked with a seductive gait. Every step she took left an ice lotus blooming at her feet.
She produced lotuses with every step, but they withered nearly instantly.
In another world, Kali watched the scene with a pair of cold eyes. A blob of darkness suddenly appeared in front of her as she raised her elegant hand, prepared to extend it into the darkness.
If she wished, she could easily penetrate the darkness and snap the Infernal Queen's neck.
But eventually, her fingers came to a stop just as it was about to touch the darkness.
Her constantly changing expression eventually transformed into a hint of melancholy and a light sigh.
Kali looked at Shi Xiaobai quietly before she muttered to herself, "Sorry."
"Only your Fate is something that even the World can only watch from the side."