Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

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[Feign Death] + [Locked Operation]!

This is Qin Shang's first experience with a long-term rollback and a faked death.

He went three months ago.

He wanted to give it a try first...

After a long period of pullback, he wondered what perspective he was living from, especially since the Bad Commander had just given him a 'drive,' a core authority he had never encountered before. He wanted to see how to use this thing.

On a side note, not every player in the Rule Realm possesses core authority or authority, just as not every player in the Rule Realm is necessarily a "developer" or "observer." Therefore, Qin Shang's purpose in leaving Yin Shisan with items like the "Feng Shui Turntable" and the "Nightmare Guardian Cloak" was also to ensure that... if the Bad Commander suddenly changed his mind and didn't want to shut down the Divine Road server, his boss, with these authority, would no longer have to be oppressed or bullied within the Bad People organization.

When Yin Shisan was out of favor, he was constantly reprimanded by the Grand Secretaries...

Qin Shang did not want to see such a thing happen again in the future.

I don't want to see Young Master Yin criticized because of his own actions. In this world, might makes right. Young Master Yin was able to persevere despite being suppressed by the elders time and time again because of his hard power, and I hope that the future will be the same...

He hadn't really seen clearly what happened when Fang Mo, the Bad Commander, made his move. He just felt a sudden darkness before his eyes and realized he was probably killed. As expected of the famous Bad Commander, he killed people cleanly and efficiently, leaving them stunned without hurting their brains, and his strength was just right.

Anyway... before long, his consciousness gradually faded, and his thoughts drifted into the distance.

Time seemed to be wound up in the opposite direction, making a 'click-clack' sound. This was the only sound Qin Shang's consciousness could hear in the darkness. He didn't know how much time had passed before Qin Shang regained the ability to clearly control his body.

[Fake death; revert to three months prior]

When Qin Shang opened his eyes again, he could see the world around him and found that the place he was in had changed dramatically. In front of him was a commercial street, and he was still holding a character card tightly in his hand. He first glanced at the description of this [faked death] on the attribute panel, and then glanced at the other annotation boxes. He was surprised to find that the nickname displayed on the attribute panel was 'Thunder King'!

"hiss!"

"So, it's because the Divine Path can't have two identical IDs in the same timeline at the same time. Oh right, indeed, Divine Path IDs can't be duplicated; it's an unspoken rule of the server. Three months ago, in whichever world I know, I would most likely have already become a Divine Path player. And the past I can return to is the known past. What I can change is the future at a specific point in the known past, thus creating a new parallel universe. In that sense, this is still the past I've experienced, just three months ago. Anyway, this is just an experiment. Hmm, three months is indeed too short; it seems like we can't see anything..."

"However, in the instant of feigning death, the passive ability called 'Locked Execution' was triggered..."

Qin Shang clicked his tongue, his gaze sweeping over the commercial street as he couldn't help but marvel inwardly.

"This is most likely the core authority that the Bad Commander gave me, the 'Drive' passive skill, right?"

"Could you allow me to maintain my current state and enter my past?"

"Hey!"

Thinking of this, Qin Shang suddenly had a wicked idea.

If I were to go and find myself from three months ago right now, wouldn't I give him a huge shock, like a real-life Monkey King story?

Hahahaha...

Immediately, he rejected and suppressed this idiotic idea.

Qin Shang wished he could raise his hand and slap himself.

Damn it, I'm really annoyed. Why did I go and scare myself for no reason?

If we were to actually bump into each other, things could get complicated. So, in other words, I should actually avoid him. I should avoid my past self, avoid meeting him, avoid causing a butterfly effect, and avoid impacting the future. After all…

This is an experiment!

The next one will be a true long-term pullback.

Thinking of this, he noticed a strong sense of surprise in the gazes directed at him. This shopping street, which he had traveled through after faking his death, still had some foot traffic. It was just that Qin Shang couldn't immediately recall what he had been doing there. It was like randomly grabbing someone on the street and asking them what they ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday. With a little thought, they might be able to answer, but if you asked them if they ate little last weekend, most of them would have to start thinking. Similarly, this was especially true for Qin Shang, who had been there for months…

Qin Shang was still somewhat self-aware. Given his current disheveled appearance, he didn't even need makeup. He could just find a cosplay gathering place, claim that he was cosplaying a character from an anime who had been beaten up and covered in blood, and no one would suspect a thing!

"Boss, how much is the baseball cap?"

He immediately went into a shop and glanced at the clothes hanging next to him. They were old-fashioned autumn clothes, pure black, with long sleeves and trousers. It was still summer, and it would be rather strange to wear such clothes on the street. However, Qin Shang didn't have a chance to take a shower, so it was better to cover himself up completely. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if others saw the bloodstains on his body. Thinking of this, he casually picked up one of them. "Both of these!"

After paying the bill, Qin Shang changed his clothes and looked in the mirror.

The old-fashioned autumn coat he wore somehow gave off the feel of a nighttime outfit, making his slender figure look like that of a spy named 007.

In his current state, even Jiang Qiqi would likely have a hard time recognizing him, let alone himself. Satisfied, he walked out of the clothing store, preparing to wait for the cooldown to pass before starting the next long-term fake death rollback. The purpose of changing clothes wasn't to conceal his identity, since he wouldn't be staying in this timeline for long anyway. Even if he scared passersby, it wouldn't matter. What Qin Shang was worried about was running into himself. He could only fake his death rollback to places he had been in the past timeline. In other words, three months ago today, his true self was most likely in the vicinity. In just three months, an adult's appearance and physique wouldn't change much. If he bumped into his three-month-younger self, Qin Shang really wouldn't know how to explain it. The other party might mistake him for a shadow and start a fight.

Just then, an electronic notification sounded in Qin Shang's ear.

[Attention all nearby criminals! Please proceed immediately to the tunnel on the southern section of Zhongshan Road. A wanted player is inside the tunnel and is moving rapidly.]

The player who changed their name currently has a "reputation" of 50, which is the baseline for being wanted by the server.

[Player name: 'A Martial Artist with Brains']

Wow!

The electronic notification immediately snapped Qin Shang out of his reverie. Looking at the streets around him, he finally felt a sense of familiarity. "Damn, I know where I am. This is the street in front of Yin Shisan's house..."

His lips twitched uncontrollably as he suddenly thought of a lot of funny things.

Qin Shang remembers this day.

The day the martial arts master with a brain became a wanted player, he came to apologize to Young Master Yin. He had fooled Zhang's father, causing her to end up living in Young Master Yin's house by mistake, which had caused Yin Shisan a lot of trouble. In particular, Zhang Xiaofang's father had gradually become satisfied with Yin Shisan during the two weeks they spent together, and then planned to have Yin Shisan and Zhang Xiaofang get married. Young Master Yin was completely fed up, so he called Qin Shang and said, "Either you deal with today's matter, or... you can wait until I get the marriage certificate and then I'll collect your corpse."

As soon as they arrived at Young Master Yin's house, before they could even exchange a few words, they both heard the electronic notification that "A Martial Arts Master with Brains" had become a wanted player. So they rushed to the scene.

"Did the rollback just happen to occur on this day?"

Qin Shang washed his face at the clothing store, wiping away the bloodstains on his face and neck. Perhaps because he had returned to the past, all the wounds on his body had disappeared, leaving clean skin after wiping away the bloodstains. Of course, he dared not swagger out on the street with his face exposed, for fear of causing some butterfly effect.

"If I remember correctly, the reason why a smart martial artist became a wanted player was because of the Eagle of Justice. This bastard even wanted to help Elder Chen get rid of the safe house in the hands of the smart martial artist..."

"Indeed, times have changed. Looking at the current situation, if Elder Chen were to take this item away, it would cause me a lot of trouble. Oh no, even if it isn't taken away, it would still cause a lot of trouble for any intelligent martial artists in the future. It would even put intelligent martial artists on Elder Chen's target list for a long time to come!"

Qin Shang smacked his lips, then suddenly had an idea; "Then let's go cause some trouble!"

"Hehe, take that item with us. In the future, Grand Secretary Chen won't covet it anymore. Besides, if the Eagle of Justice witnesses it and spreads the news, Grand Secretary Chen won't have anything to say. At most, he can only blame it on a smart martial artist acting too ostentatiously after obtaining the dungeon attribute item, perhaps attracting the attention of other high-level Divine Path players. Anyway, no one can recognize me with my current appearance. Leaving this item here would only cause trouble. I'll take it with me..."

Zhongshan Road South Section Tunnel.

Qin Shang narrowed his eyes, then found a quiet corner in the alley. He figured that in this timeline, he was probably still in the next alley with Young Master Yin, preparing to set off. He raised his hand and crossed his thumb and forefinger.

He snapped his fingers.

[Sky Rift]!

The silvery-white spatial rift enveloped Qin Shang's slender figure, and the young man vanished from his spot.

In the dense forest, beside the quiet ring road, a figure appeared.

"Alright, enough nonsense. Since he's unwilling to hand over the items, then arrest him and torture him severely. After all, it was a player from the Divine Path who injured an ordinary person, and this happened within our Bad People's ranks. To the outside world, we'll say that before we figure things out, we won't kill him on the spot, but take him back for questioning first..."

"I'm going to torture him until he voluntarily hands over the 'safe house'!"

In the shadows, Qin Shang, who had just appeared, couldn't help but sneer upon hearing these words. He really was exactly the same as he remembered, not a single change. That bastard, the Eagle of Justice.

Not far away, the square-faced man leading the group looked down at the fleeing, disheveled youth with a superior posture. The youth being chased was full of despair and hopelessness. Hearing the other man shouting the banner of justice and saying, "This kind of thing still happens in our ranks of the Bad People," Qin Shang, hiding in the dense forest, couldn't help but twitch his eyelids.

The next moment, he couldn't take it anymore.

Then, from deep within the dense forest, a slightly mocking voice rang out.

"You dare call yourself a 'bad guy'?"