Facing an Ancient God for a Year

Chapter 2122: Chapter 2117: Forcing a Response Regardless of Attitude

It’s often said that when honest people get angry, it’s the most terrifying, but in truth, nobility blackening is just as unsettling.

As the Dream realm senior who has been expressing goodwill and navigating the maze, even when facing rude offenses, Brother Liang Thief remains courteous and patiently guides.

Unfortunately, the two youths are indeed obstinate, not only ignoring guidance but directly questioning the determination to seek the truth.

For a moment, Brother Liang Thief seemed to bear an unbearable insult, and his tone became completely serious.

Ah, is it truly impossible to change one’s nature?

Though for Fu Qian, what impacted him most was the content of the questions being rebutted.

It took a lot to guide this individual to slightly understand what effective communication means, yet his emotions rise and he asks such time-wasting questions.

”Actually, that’s genuinely a neutral question because I truly just arrived, don’t understand you, and don’t understand this place.”

Of course, using people as mirrors, Fu Qian promptly explained.

”But I think one thing is absolute; your attitude must be binary—you might want to find the ’sea,’ or you might not want to, maybe hope we move the monument or not.

”And because the situation is unknown, your words don’t provide enough reference for me, I need more information to discern—unfortunately, I’m not ready to waste time discerning.”

Facing the kingly countenance of Brother Liang Thief, Fu Qian pointed to his own temple.

”Now we are faced with a dilemma; we must go out to confirm if there is a sea, but the way out, including moving those monuments, might directly collapse everything and we see nothing.

”Therefore, in response to such a situation, I offer a suggestion for next actions—I will open the passage in a minute, and you can use this time to come up with a suggestion that maximizes my success rate, or offer a sufficiently convincing opposing reason.”

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One doesn’t need extensive experience; if you’ve played games even a bit, you know characters can have two faces.

In unfamiliar environments with unknown people, blind trust and belief is quite irresponsible.

And Fu Qian’s words are not deceit; he truly intends to proceed.

Brother Liang Thief, nightmare’s only communicable entity so far, has a mysterious origin and unpredictable purpose, appearing suspicious and untrustworthy to Fu Qian.

But everyone has limitations, and giving someone such an impression might just mean poor communication skills.

To discern truth from lies requires grasping lots of relevant information—yet time is limited.

Besides moving those monuments that are likely to crash the Dream realm directly, the Witch also mentioned a fundamental issue at the beginning—

Due to inherently placing the ’blood loss’ effect on herself and Fu Qian, this nightmare is rapidly becoming overwhelming.

So even doing nothing but standing and waiting here, it won’t take long for this place to collapse.

So facing this flimsy predicament, no matter how suspicious Brother Liang Thief is, Fu Qian wouldn’t easily let him off.

The specific usage pattern is as mentioned before, directly informing forthcoming actions, allowing Brother Liang Thief to perform freely—

Some things I will certainly do, whether you agree or oppose, you need to come up with your substantial content.

There’s no room for equivocating, if someone doesn’t want to be firm, then you help make them firm.

”Are you threatening me? Are you crazy?”

Unfortunately, Brother Liang Thief’s aptitude isn’t very high, even after reminders, the realization was rather slow, for a while only conveying firmness through a cold smile.

”If you’re willing to think a bit more, you should know this rather reflects the spirit of communication, I haven’t even threatened to harm if no cooperation right—here’s a friendly tip, you have forty seconds left.”

Admittedly, Fu Qian never expected him to do better, immediately guiding gently with countdowns.

”Even if not said, why would I believe you won’t act later... Plus I think you’re bluffing cause even according to that person beside you, opening a passage would result in nothing.”

Good, no longer just venting emotions, learned to apply logic.

Although Brother Liang Thief sounded still unwilling to cooperate, Fu Qian remained somewhat relieved.

”Thirty seconds.”

Without much talking, he continued the countdown.

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The hall here was quiet, the Resentful King was caught in intense ideological struggle, subconsciously gazing at the Witch beside.

Unfortunately, the latter mentioned earlier showed no intention to stop the subordinate’s atrocities, instead, just smilingly watching.

And she simply started eyeing the insects deeper in the passage.

In this scenario, after short silence, Brother Liang Thief instinctively shrank back.

Plop—

However, this action was interrupted by an unclear sound.

An iron black metal chain link casually dropped into the red sand on the ground.

”...Did you kill them?”

The item was certainly thrown by Fu Qian, taken from Negative Monument King’s body as a memento before.

Sadly, held till now without any special effect, better used as an educational tool.

Brother Liang Thief’s action was actually predictable—keeping distance and attempting to call for help.

Facing threats, resisting with violence could be considered entirely normal.

Probing small tricks to utilize brainless beasts would be an instinct of a warrior who loves strategizing.

Such behavior is evident at successful persuasion this moment.

”Twenty seconds.”

And Fu Qian didn’t say much, continued timing.

...

”Hehehe... You wanna know the truth, right? Alright...”

After a heavy few seconds passed, something seemed to erupt from the weary royal face.

To describe, it became evocative of a few victims’ faces in Blind Eye Association’s underground ruins.

Facial features swiftly shifted, movements almost non-human, within less than a second assembling into an exaggerated smile, even really laughing aloud.

”Truth is simple, which is you’re all fools! Fools filled with delusions! There was never any sea there!”

Not only did expressions turn 180 degrees, the viewpoint did too.

In the blink, Brother Liang Thief transformed into a conservative, showcasing strong disdain for the idea of going outside.

”I know you guys don’t believe, now then—take a good look!”

No waiting for Fu Qian’s reaction, he continued climbing to the central dome of the hall at an astonishing speed, aggressively crashing into it.

Crimson splattered, but appeared like a stone flowing.

Ever adept at accepting advice, Fu Qian was genuinely observing at that moment.

He saw as that large head fiercely collided with the central dome, truly using the tough skin to break it open.

Cracks like severed carotid artery, blood gushed out from them.