Rabbit’s kick landed squarely on Fauster’s face, and a glob of silver liquid immediately spewed from Fauster’s mouth and nose, along with two silver teeth.

More than the physical pain, Fauster was concerned about the confusion in his heart—why?

“Cough…spit…” Fauster spat out the blood in his mouth, widened his eyes, and said in astonishment to Feng Bujue, “This…what’s going on? You clearly just put them…”

“That was naturally a show for you,” Feng Bujue said.

“Impossible, Rabbit’s phantom I…” Fauster only said half a sentence.

Rabbit interrupted, “That’s the real body.” It rubbed its paws on the ground and said, “I know you can distinguish between phantom people and real people, but you’ve never seen me use a local illusion applied to the real body, right?”

As Rabbit spoke, it made a throat-cutting motion with its rabbit paw. A gaping bloody wound appeared on its neck, and blood gushed down like a waterfall. “If you want to see it, I can even perform an illusion of tearing out my heart.” Before the words fell, the scene it created disappeared into thin air. The wound and bloodstains vanished without a trace. “What you saw just now…was just a harmless bullet flying towards my face, and I immediately created the illusion of my head being blown apart. Billy’s ‘injury’ was the same.”

“One of your mistakes was being overly confident in your mud puppet trick. Every time, you easily let this mud puppet be killed by them, so you only had a general understanding of their three abilities,” Feng Bujue continued. “If you had been more attentive in those remote-controlled mud puppet battles in the past, instead of just wanting to get it over with, you could have grasped more information about these three prisoners…especially the details and changes in their abilities during combat.”

“This is all your own fault,” Billy said at this moment. “After we were deceived by your tricks several times, you uttered the so-called ‘Curse of the Lord of Time.’ Since then, you have seemed more careless in the face of our escape attempts, often resisting symbolically before being easily killed.” He paused. “I also suspected why your strength as a new jailer was so different from Samodier’s, but unfortunately, I was still deceived by your curse…”

Fauster said, “You…you had already meticulously arranged this deception before entering?”

“It’s not a meticulous arrangement,” Feng Bujue said casually. “This isn’t a particularly complicated performance. I just made this suggestion with a try-it-and-see attitude. It turns out I guessed right. Of course, even if I didn’t guess right, we wouldn’t have lost anything. It would just have been a performance in vain. If everything was really as you said, they would come in later, give me the gun, and then I would kill you.”

…………

Ten minutes ago…

Feng Bujue glanced at the three people beside him, shrugged, and walked forward.

He took a few steps to the prison door, his hand already on the doorknob, but just as he was about to push the door open, he suddenly stopped.

He froze there, lost in thought.

“Hey! What’s wrong again? Are you ever going to be done?” Rabbit shouted.

“Something’s not right…” Something flashed in Feng Bujue’s eyes. “You’ve been tricked!”

“What? You want to take the reward and…” Rabbit’s voice rose.

“Shut up,” Billy stopped it and continued in a tentative tone, “He means something else.”

Feng Bujue released the doorknob and returned to the side of the large desk. “The ‘reincarnation’ you mentioned is indeed possible, but it’s triggered every time by ‘killing’ Fauster. There’s a problem with that…”

“The ability to obtain infinite resurrection in a specific space is a very normal thing. Even you can…” Olden said.

“I’m not saying there’s a problem with him being able to resurrect,” Feng Bujue denied and interrupted. “If it’s a curse from the Lord of Time, why didn’t he set the effect to trigger reincarnation as soon as any one of you three discovered and walked out of that door?” He scanned the three of them. “That might even cause infighting among you.” He pointed to the door over there. “Why did he set it to trigger reincarnation after Fauster is killed?”

“When the jailer is alive, he relies on the jailer to guard the prisoners. When the jailer dies, reincarnation is triggered. Isn’t that reasonable?” Olden retorted.

“Ha!” Feng Bujue laughed. “Of course it’s reasonable if that jailer is stronger than you.” He turned to look at Billy. “But the actual situation is that Billy alone has the ability to kill Fauster. If you two join forces, I think it’s a sure thing, right…”

Billy said, “You mean…”

“The one who told you this reincarnation theory was Fauster himself, right?” Feng Bujue asked.

“That’s right, it was him,” Billy replied.

“Before Fauster became your jailer, did you understand his strength?” Feng Bujue asked again. “How does he compare to Samodier?”

“Although we haven’t fought in the past, it’s well known that Fauster is the strongest after the ‘Twelve Time Officials.’” Billy thought for a moment and said, “Samodier…was originally ranked tenth among the ‘Twelve Time Officials.’ When he was guarding the prison…there were no monsters, and there was no reincarnation. The three of us stayed in small cells. Resistance was impossible. Even if we joined forces and relied on sneak attacks, we couldn’t compete with Samodier.”

“Hmm…” Feng Bujue crossed his arms in front of his chest and nodded. “That settles it then…If the person the Lord of Time sent to replace the jailer couldn’t do the job at all, why would he send him? Wouldn’t it be enough to just cast a curse?” He raised his head. “Since Fauster came, it means that the Lord of Time recognized that he had the ability to watch over you. It’s just that…Fauster’s way of guarding you doesn’t purely rely on strength. He has his own methods…”

Feng Bujue curled his lips. “Besides…does that kind of curse really exist? From the perspective of a visitor from another world like me, if it really existed, the Lord of Time would just put a highly aggressive pig at the door. What’s the point of putting a guard?”

“So!” Feng Bujue raised a finger. “I think the curse thing was fabricated by Fauster.”

“Then why…” Rabbit wanted to ask a question.

To save time, Feng Bujue said directly, “I have a plan. Listen to it.”

…………

Time returned to the present, less than ten minutes away from Feng Bujue’s poisoning.

“Of course, I also have some selfish motives,” Feng Bujue continued to say to Fauster, “Although I think the remaining bottle of potion should be with you, I’m not entirely sure whether I’ll get the item after killing you…Therefore, I have to think of a proper way to trick your bottle of potion into my hands.

The possibility of negotiating with you is very low. You yourself said that according to your deduction, when I open the prison door and come here, I must be in an opposing state with you. Your deduction is correct, but if I know it in advance, it can be used by me.

I have already learned a lot of information from Billy and the others. I know that when you obtained the potion, you already grasped my information, and you will use this to speculate on my strength and actions. Since you have already recognized that I will cooperate with the three of them, I will put on a show of betrayal in front of you, subverting your point of view.

What you see with your own eyes is more convincing than any language. So after the gun attack, I also used a technique of the level of Evil King’s Flame Kill Black Dragon Wave.

At that time, Billy’s gun wound was just a pretense. He was actually in a healthy state. Moreover, we had all discussed it in advance. If I successfully cast it, he would take the hit, and then escape with the cover of the black flames and illusion.

And the last few words of Olden were to subtly make you feel that my betrayal was beyond their expectations and real.

Sure enough, this costly performance worked. Seeing Olden retreating, you had to believe that all of this was true.

Therefore, after Olden retreated back into the door, you lowered your guard, gave me the potion, and proudly appeared in front of me in your real body. Because you couldn’t wait to share your clever trick with me, someone who was in the same camp as you and who would never be able to come here again to leak the secret. After all, you have been deceiving them with this trick for so long. If you don’t find someone to brag about it, wouldn’t it be like casting pearls before swine?”

Fauster showed a fierce expression and said, “Tch…aren’t you doing the same thing now?”

“This is different. You want to show off,” Feng Bujue laughed. “And I’m providing end-of-life care, so you don’t die in confusion.” As he spoke, he used the Antidote. A system notification sounded immediately:

[Current quest completed, all main quests completed]

[You have completed this scenario and will be automatically teleported in 60 seconds]

“He’s right,” Olden leaned close to Fauster’s ear and said gloomily, “You’re dead, and I guarantee that before you die, you’ll fully experience what ‘terror’ is.”

Rabbit was also grinding its teeth and claws, looking like it was about to practice rabbit boxing.

Fauster also knew that he would die here. He glared at Feng Bujue with resentment and said, “Why are you helping them? Do you know the price of being an enemy of the Lord of Time?”

“I also have a question,” Billy actually turned to Feng Bujue at this time and said, “Why didn’t you defect on the spot?” He said in a deep voice, “If you had chosen to push the door in directly more than ten minutes ago, instead of discussing it with us beforehand…I think you would have succeeded, and the result of suddenly defecting wouldn’t have been much different from what we acted out. For you, wouldn’t that have been a way to clear the scenario? And it would have saved you the trouble of making an enemy of the Lord of Time.”

“Hehe…” Feng Bujue laughed. “Regarding the matter of making enemies, I’ve considered it…If you don’t say it, and I don’t say it, who will know that this prison break was related to me?” He spread out his hands. “I’m just a traveler from another world, an insignificant little person. You kill Fauster and then run away. If no one leaks the news, it’s like it has nothing to do with me.”

Feng Bujue said in a relaxed tone, “Speaking of…what did I do? It wasn’t me who caught Fauster, and I didn’t kill him. It has nothing to do with me, right?” He actually tried to shirk responsibility with a few words, shamelessly. “As for why I want to help you, I’ve already explained it…” The corner of his mouth curled into a smile, and that smile revealed a kind of madness. “I’m not someone from the Lawful alignment in the first place.”