Deceitful Game

Chapter 277 The Shepherd's Secret Prelude

The two identical people were less than a meter apart, and Mingpo, who had been fighting fiercely just moments before, suddenly stopped moving at the same time!

In their own perspective, the world around them had shattered in an instant!

The moment the powers of the two pairs of [Eyes of the Wraiths] came into contact, everyone's body suddenly trembled.

A dim, yellowish aura emanated from the area, and that ominous power spread violently outward, transforming into an invisible mental storm.

It was as if someone had placed a lit firecracker next to their ear and then covered it with a bowl.

In the instant of the power eruption, they even lost a brief memory. For a fleeting moment, their minds went blank.

Immediately afterwards, the four people covered their foreheads, eyes, or temples.

Even a small fraction of this overflowing power is enough to cause them intense hallucinations.

The world they see begins to distort and deform.

It's like eating mushrooms or hallucinogenic herbs.

The world before my eyes began to become bizarre.

Deep purple, bright red, vibrant green… these utterly impossible, exaggerated colors were incongruously applied to the surface of everything in sight. The concept of size was shattered, becoming blurred. In one moment, everyone else seemed as large as giants, yet in the next, they were as small as sprites that could only hover at the tip of a finger.

The boundaries of objects become blurred, and people and the scenery behind them... for example, the seats merge together, becoming a single entity. It's like when you start painting, before the lines are fully closed.

They began to swell and twist, and meaningless language filled the air. Children's screams, laughter, and soft, murmuring chatter like insects were the first things to bring him back to his senses. The first to snap out of it all was [Ai Shiping].

He staggered forward, but after only two steps, he fell heavily to the ground due to the lingering hallucinations before his eyes.

Because in his world, the ground is melted.

It's like looking down, pulling your ears, and spinning around in place fifty times.

The world before him seemed to shrink and expand, and the ground beneath his feet felt as soft as a rubber trampoline. He completely lost control of his strength, and his head slammed heavily against the armrest of the chair, letting out a muffled groan.

The pain brought him to a slightly clearer state of mind, but a violent nausea surged in his stomach, causing him to dry heave without vomiting.

Just then, Ai Shiping suddenly moved.

He actually woke up at the same time as his other self, but he waited two seconds longer in the same spot. Or rather, he didn't move because he guessed he might fall.

Wait patiently for your counterpart to make a mistake first!

His judgment was correct.

After Ai Shiping fell to the ground, he roared and lunged at himself.

He was a little luckier, and his lunge was relatively accurate.

His left knee pressed against Ai Shiping's stomach, while his right knee slammed heavily onto the ground.

The pain caused his whole body to twitch, but it made him feel a little more alert.

Straining his strength, Ai Shiping delivered a powerful punch to Ai Shiping's face!

That's where the chin meets the earlobe. Injury to this area can cause intense dizziness and may even be fatal.

Ai Shiping gritted his teeth. He clenched his fist with tremendous force, his entire right arm trembling.

This feeling is like having a nightmare where you feel completely powerless.

No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to exert any force. Or rather, the force cannot be transmitted correctly.

Even if your fists are clenched so tightly that your arms are trembling, your fingers can still be easily pried open.

That's how Ai Shiping feels right now.

He threw a punch, but it wasn't as fast or as powerful as he had imagined. Instead, it was somewhat clumsy, as if he was only using his upper arm to move his fist while his forearm wasn't exerting any force at all.

But as time goes by, their senses are being rapidly restored.

Ai Shiping clearly felt that he was gaining more and more control over his body, and realized that others were probably in the same boat. Therefore, he dared not slack off, and could only grit his teeth and fight with all his might, punching his past self again and again!

"Pfft!"

When he threw his third punch, he finally regained some of his strength.

A powerful punch landed on the ear!

Along with his left knee, which he was pressing tightly against his chest, Ai Shiping finally couldn't hold back and vomited.

But Ai Shiping showed no mercy.

The bridge of the nose, ears, temples, eyes, throat... Ai Shiping's attacks were all incredibly ruthless.

Every attack is aimed at the most fatal or painful spot.

Looking at the face that was exactly the same as his own, he showed no mercy whatsoever.

Of the three people present... or rather, of the six people, the most ruthless and the most determined to kill was Ai Shiping.

Because he possesses the most information.

Ai Shiping has memories of his past life as well as memories of ten minutes later.

Then he clearly realized one thing…

Mingpu would definitely overlook this detail.

Because the basic education systems in the two worlds are different!

In Mingbo's memory, "paradox" refers to the paradox engine.

It's like someone knowing "television" but few knowing "why it's called that" or "why it's translated that way." This is a concept embedded deep within our thinking, becoming a blind spot in our thinking.

However, this was not the case in Ai Shiping's memory.

The main means by which charlatans create paradoxes is the "grandfather paradox".

In other words, if a person went back in time and killed his grandfather before his father was born, then his father would not have been born, and he himself would naturally not have been born. But if he were not born, he would not have gone back in time to kill his grandfather.

This is essentially the same as a conman altering the past and resurrecting himself!

but……

Another situation is when you go back to the past and see your past self, which also triggers a paradox!

Because the past self has no memory of seeing the future self, the answer is that the world itself has been disturbed.

When you encounter yourself, the possibilities instantly expand to countless levels due to the unpredictability of each person's thinking.

The past might kill its future, and the future might kill its past, or they might exchange information... In the same place, there can be both a "self" who has seen its future self and a "self" who hasn't, creating a spacetime paradox. So how do we fix this paradox?

The answer is naturally to restore this "overlap".

The simplest way to restore it is to "delete".

That is to say...

None of them are actually sure what their "true self" is.

Only one "person" can live.

It's not necessarily a matter of "the future self killing the past self"... because at this moment, they are the same, of equal weight! Therefore, those three people from the past will also possess complete personalities and memories, because in their eyes, they are the real "Ming Po," "Ai Shih-ping," and "Chen Bing-wen"!

Whoever survives... whoever leaves here alive, that is who is truly themselves!