Deceitful Game

Chapter 276 The True and False Monkey King

[Mingpo] looked at Mingpo with some surprise.

It's perfectly normal for him to stop attacking on his own.

Although he didn't know what had gotten into that idiot surnamed Ai, suddenly trying to stop him from killing the monster in front of him... but since he had already charged over, [Mingpo] couldn't just punch him into a pulp.

But he actually realized something was wrong the moment he pulled his fist back.

Even if he stops, the monster that has taken his form won't!

So Mingpo reached out and grabbed Ai Shiping's sleeve.

To his surprise, the monster that was imitating him also stopped at the same time!

Moreover, it wasn't even a deliberate imitation made after seeing him stop...

Because the speed at which the other party withdrew their hand... or rather, the speed at which they reacted, was even faster than he himself!

The thought of 【Mingpu】took over her very quickly.

Could it be...

"That's you!"

[Ai Shiping] showed no lingering fear from nearly being smashed, but instead shouted loudly at [Ming Po], "Don't make a move yet!" "...Of course, I saw that too."

"Ming Po" said in a deep voice.

He asked his reflection in the mirror image, "Is it... the Paradox Engine?"

They still need to turn on one heating device.

But that didn't stop him from considering this possibility.

After all, he knew the principle of the Paradox Engine, but he hadn't seen what it looked like yet.

The mist-man who could open the door was watching them from the front, but at this moment, under Mingpo's watchful eye, none of them dared to speak to the mist-man. Little did they expect... that the final enemy to descend would be their future selves!

【Ai Shiping】stared intently at Mingpo opposite him, speaking at an extremely fast pace: "The so-called 【paradox】... actually has another specific meaning, which is the lingering shadow of obsession locked inside one's own mental palace."

"Deceitful people are not afraid of being sent back to the past and killed prematurely, because when a deceitful person becomes a wronged person, they have already been separated from the original timeline. It can be said that the world in which each deceitful person lives... is actually subtly different."

"But... the deceiver is afraid of being 'revived'. Of course, it's not as simple as being saved that one time. That would only lock the door to the game of deception. If you go back in time and kill that person again, you can open the door."

"But if we fundamentally make up for the regret and completely deprive him of the 'possibility' of becoming a conman, that is, completely save him... it will make the 'future self' who becomes a conman a paradox."

Paradoxes arise from the principle of self-negation.

Those who deceive the world possess countless possibilities, which is why they can wield divine authority.

The deceiver who holds the power of time is none other than the "embryo of God"!

But if the "countless possibilities" possessed by the deceiver are used to deny their own existence... then it will be like an infinite loop program without an exit point, which can burn out the machine and cause it to freeze.

...Just like Mingpo today!

For the "paradox engine," isn't that a kind of "fault"?

"Therefore, we need to fix the paradox engine..."

Mingpo spoke slowly, then suddenly tilted her head, making a rattling sound: "We need to kill you all, right?"

Kill your past self and break free from the shackles of fate.

This is... a test for those who deceive the world in the realm of "Power"!

Seeing this, Mingpo gradually understood... This was probably the difference between "power" and "slaughter".

If "戮" refers to "killing the other party," then the possibility of destroying the other party...

So what "strength" actually refers to is "victory"!

No matter how similar two fates may seem, they will eventually be determined to be superior.

The strong are superior, the weak are inferior.

Even when facing "another version of yourself" that is exactly the same as you, it's the same!

"Wait! We don't have to do it this way!!"

Ai Shiping was incredibly tense, wanting to stop the battle: "And there's another possibility... what if killing another 'self' means I die too?!"

I don't think so.

At that moment, a voice exactly like his came from behind Mingpo.

That's Ai Shiping... and Chen Bingwen.

The two of them, too, followed Mingpo from that carriage whose sequence of carriages was also reversed!

"I got a little worried when I saw you hadn't come back for a while..."

Covered in blood, Ai Shiping sneered at his other self: "So you were fooled by those idiots outside, huh?"

When he gets anxious, he even curses himself!

Ai Shiping's expression darkened.

He looked at himself across from him and knew that his delaying tactic was not going to work.

There is no doubt that the timeline for the emergence of these "copies" is in the near future.

Considering that the heating system only gave them thirty minutes to repair, and almost twenty minutes have already passed... these three people must be from some future between "ten minutes later" and "one hour and ten minutes later".

Unlike two pieces of amber that become indistinguishable when mixed together.

However, the differences between the two versions of "Ai Shiping" and "Chen Bingwen" are quite obvious.

Because Ai Shiping and Chen Bingwen, who came from the future, had bloodstains on them... clearly left from moving Mo Qian's body. And at this moment, [Mingpo] had only just put the body down.

However, the two sides' Ai Shipings were quite different: one advocated for war, and the other for peace...

The reason is also very simple.

Because the three people on the other side will definitely know more information than they do!

not to mention……

Ai Shiping glanced out of the corner of his eye at the closed carriage door and the fog-shrouded man waiting in front of it.

...These three people in the future will have one more treasure than they do.

If it can be resolved peacefully...

Ai Shiping doesn't want them to fight to the death here.

But clearly, Ai Shiping didn't think that way.

"Kill the other me first."

He gave the order without hesitation.

Although she didn't know what kind of schemes the guy was plotting, Mingpo carried out Ai Shiping's orders without any suspicion.

A sudden gust of wind swept up his body.

[Mingpo] was a beat slower, but she reacted in time.

But because he was just a fraction of a second too slow… Mingpo, moving at high speed, overtook him. He was forced to chase after him in a disheveled manner, unable to gain a better position to accelerate.

噶啦

喀拉

Two crisp sounds of bones cracking almost overlapped.

Mingpo delivered a merciless punch, exceeding even the maximum force he could withstand.

He punched Mingpo in the forearm, which was retracting to defend, breaking two of his fingers. But Mingpo's ulna was also fractured! Mingpo staggered back, but didn't cry out in pain.

He gazed at his future self, the whites of his eyes turning a hazy yellow in an instant.

Meanwhile, Mingpo, who was standing, also activated the Eye of the Demon!