Game of Deception Chapter 149: Absolute Sacred Timeline

This was an incredibly important test.

Establishing this fact resolved one of Ming Po's doubts.

Naly, that this world possessed an "Absolute Sacred Tiline," which was the "present." This was the "real ti" in which the Ga of Deception operated.

This tiline could be influenced, altered, or even destroyed by people modifying the past. It was also possible to use chips for limited foresight to predict the future, but it was not a case of "Deceivers in the past and future simultaneously altering ti."

Only a Deceiver within this "Sacred Tiline" had the right to use Ti Chips to change history!

Therefore, the possibility of a "future Deceiver using chips to return to the past" and "telling a past Deceiver to continue using chips to return to an even earlier past" simply did not exist. If soone truly used a chip to return to the past, that Deceiver in the "past"—unless they were the sa "person from the future"—would be completely unable to use Ti Chips!

Based on this situation, another fact was indirectly proven—

Second, a Deceiver from the future could not return to the [present]!

Even if this happened, his future self would have already beco the past by then.

Even if the past were altered, if his "current self" did not rewind ti and return to the past with them, he would have no idea.

If one did not use chips to return to the past, they would never encounter an enemy from the "future"!

Thus, there was no need to worry about things like "a hostile Deceiver from the future traveling through ti, returning to the past, and killing his weak present self." In other words...

"...The future of this world has not been determined."

Ming Po whispered softly.

This conclusion deeply encouraged him.

It ant that this chaotic world still had no "destiny." The future was completely chaotic and unknown... The "limited foresight" conducted using chips represented futures that could be changed; they were purely deductions.

The space-ti structure of this world was also much simpler than he had imagined.

It was not a loop... Nor did the past and future exist simultaneously.

It was more like a river.

A newly born river coursing across an infinitely vast plain, where any influence upstream would imdiately affect the downstream. When the river flowed forward from its source, from a higher elevation...

These Deceivers were like people on a boat.

They could scoop up a ladle of water, a basin of dirt, or a pile of shit, then use Ti Chips to instantly teleport upstream and dump them in. Due to the influence of so power, this impact on the upstream would imdiately take effect downstream—this was the essence of Ti Chips altering history and thereby changing the present. Ti Chips allowed them to return upstream to add pollution or purify it... They could also allow them to look ahead to see where the river would flow next.

But they could not directly add pollution to the downstream or release a fish into it.

Because the river at this ti had not yet decided where it would definitely go. There was no water "downstream" yet; everything was rely speculation. As the water quality changed—such as its viscosity, volu, and the number of fish in the water—the direction of the river would change.

When all the Deceivers were altering the past, the direction this river flowed was collectively influenced by these people who "teleported back and forth" with nothing better to do.

The collapse of space-ti was very likely caused by it "deviating too far off course."

It could no longer flow forward endlessly, but instead turned into a stagnant lake.

Consequently, a doubt arose in Ming Po's mind—

As everyone knew, Deceivers could be forced to exit by ans of "modifying the past."

...Moreover, killing them prematurely would not work. They would still simply be dead.

However, saving the dead instead worked. Keeping them alive and helping them make up for their regrets could cause them to lose their motivation to join the Ga of Deception.

That ant, if the variables altered in the past were significant enough... wouldn't all these sufficiently ancient Deceivers be "kicked out of the ga"?

Because the past they were familiar with would have long been altered beyond recognition!

Perhaps they would inadvertently disappear. And if they were altered before they were born, causing them to have never existed in this world in the first place... would they beco a Paradox?

For example, an eighty-year-old Deceiver modifies history seventy-five years ago, triggering a massive fire that causes the father or grandfather of a twenty-year-old Deceiver to burn to death in a mountain fire during their youth...

He would never have even been born!

Did this count as a Paradox?

Could he still exist?

Could he return to a "past" where he had never existed?

If he couldn't... didn't that an an Hour's Red Copper level Deceiver, as long as they were old enough, could easily kill an expert at the Ti Gold level?

This was highly unlikely.

Because if this were the case, "elderly Deceivers" would beco a very powerful resource. But clearly... neither the Divine Cody, the Tea Party, nor the Brothers Grimm Society went out of their way to recruit elderly Deceivers.

But if it were possible...

Combining this with the "Immortality Severance" of the Blade of Silver Mistletoe, Ming Po ford a bold hypothesis—

Perhaps after reaching a certain stage, Deceivers would beco a terrifying existence.

Like demons, nightmares, or gods. They were fairies existing in the tistream, and conventional thods could no longer kill them... They might not even have any connection left to their own "past."

So, what was this stage?

Silver of Moon? Ti Gold? Or... that "Final Trial"?

Or perhaps... simply creating one's own palace was enough?

Furthermore, this also allowed Ming Po to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

Since the past had already been altered beyond recognition, there was no need to deliberately recall his mories anymore.

Knowing he was still alive on January 1st and already dead by February 1st... Ming Po directly started from January 15th, using a binary search thod to confirm his life or death. The process was swift.

Moreover... Ming Po did not consu a single chip.

January 15th, unable to rewind.

January 7th, unable to rewind.

January 3rd, unable to rewind.

January 2nd... unable to rewind.

Ming Po fell silent.

The situation was already very clear.

He died on January 1st.

The random ti Ming Po had initially chosen... happened to be the very last day he was alive.

A day that completely did not exist in Ming Po's mory, a day he had no recollection of at all.

...That was fine too.

Since he had no mory of it whatsoever, he would just experience the whole thing from the beginning.

Ming Po's gaze turned resolute.

This ti, Ming Po took out a piece of Day's False Gold.

He was going to live through this entire day all at once.

Ming Po issued a command again: "[Let return to January 1, 2026, at 14:20.]"

This was the ti the high-speed rail arrived at the station, so he would not have to wait too long.

Ti was money, and he should save it wherever possible.

This ti, Ming Po successfully crushed his Ti Chip.

Amidst the spread of brilliant golden fire, the space-ti before Ming Po's eyes rewound once more.