In the early morning of the next day, in order to avoid decay and infection caused by the remains of the body, Guy’s corpse would be collected and burned by the Red Cross people. So before dawn, Bai Liu collected all of Guy’s body parts and waited quietly for Alex, who was still struggling to decide what to do.
“Have you thought about it?” Bai Liu asked.
The emotions in Alex’s eyes were extremely complicated, “… If the resurrection is just a body, a monster, what should I do?”
Bai Liu glanced at Spades standing next to him from the corner of his eye, “It depends on how much emotion you can put into this body.”
Alex gritted his teeth, as if he had gained some kind of determination: “Okay, I agree with your proposal, let’s go!”
Bai Liu glanced at Alex’s legs, took out a potion bottle from his pocket and tossed it to him: “Use the potion to solve your own leg problem first.”
Alex took the potion, looked at Bai Liu, then took a deep breath and poured the liquid on the injured leg – the wound did not heal, but turned into a corpse-like grey colour.
He stood up quickly, picked up the backpack full of body parts, and looked at Bai Liu: “What is your next plan?”
Bai Liu smiled: “Do you want to resolve this war?”
Alex was startled, but he quickly retorted: “Now that the fight is like this, the sneak attack this morning was disastrous for both sides, it’s impossible to stop it.”“Of course.” Bai Liu looked at Alex levelly, “Unless they have a common third-party enemy that scares them more, in that case they can stop the war and cooperate with each other.”
Alex was stunned: “Where can such a powerful third-party enemy come from?”
Bai Liu glanced at the backpack which Alex was holding: “Does the army of the living dead you once imagined count?”
Alex was silent for a long time, and then he spoke in a hoarse voice: “…I know what you want me to do, but I don’t have that many potions and corpses to create a third-party army.”
“You don’t have to worry about this.” Bai Liu smiled and pointed at his feet, “Isn’t the Red Cross where we are located a perfect production site for potions and corpses? There will be a steady stream of potions and corpses delivered here for your use.”
Alex refuted in a low voice: “But the Red Cross will not give the corpses and potions to an ordinary soldier like me to use casually. Listen, Bai Liu, I know what you want to do, but this is impossible, you are just an ordinary soldier. The Red Cross is not your back garden. It is strictly guarded and only insiders can get the potion…”
“I agree with you.” Bai Liu pointed behind Alex and said meaningfully, “Maybe you can turn around and take a look?”
Liu Jiayi, who was wearing a nurse’s uniform, twirled her keys around and leaned against the tent. She raised her eyebrows and looked at Alex: “I just went to solve the problem of the corpses and the potions. I am responsible for the key to the potion warehouse and the disposal of the corpses. You can use it all as you wish.”
Alex glanced at Bai Liu with wide eyes as if he had seen a ghost. He felt an uncontrollable chill running down his back: “…When did you plan all of this?”
Guy’s death, his collapse and compromise, and the subsequent potions and corpses, this guy had it all handled before it happened!
Bai Liu even took the time to get married! He never left his sight from beginning to end, and Alex never saw him do anything!
God, how on earth did Bai Liu do all this!
Bai Liu looked at him with a smirk: “Do you really want to know the answer? Believe me, you won’t be happy after hearing this.”
Alex rubbed the goosebumps on his arms and swallowed: “…I swear, you are one of the best time managers I have ever met.”
While cleaning his gun, Tang Erda asked curiously: “One? Is there anyone who is better at using time than Bai Liu?”
“It’s Guy…” Alex sighed faintly, “When I first met him, he could maintain a ‘good’ relationship with seven or eight guys at the same time, and he could have private contact with at least three guys in one day without being discovered by others.” ɌΆ₦öＢƐŞ
The word [good] was spat out hard by him.
Alex’s eyes were deep, and he glanced at Spades who was next to Bai Liu meaningfully, “You know, Bai Liu, I found something in common with Guy and you. You can both contact others under the eyes of your partner without being found out.”
Bai Liu, who had contacted team members many times behind Spades’ back to do things: “…”
Tang Erda who was contacted: “…”
Liu Jiayi who was also contacted: “…”
Spades stared at Bai Liu suspiciously with squinted eyes.
The Judge, who had been contacted privately by Bai Liu from a distance, sneezed loudly and rubbed his nose in confusion: “Who is scolding me?”
“There are too many people who want to scold you. Do you want me to screen them for you on the spot?” Bai Yi suggested excitedly.
The Judge waved his hand: “Thank you for your kindness, but I don’t want to hear something like this that makes me heartbroken while playing games.”
Bai Jiamu held his chin beside him in a daze: “Judge, do you think that the Bai Liu guy has cheated you? Now Alex has not defected, and our main line NPC Guy is still dead. The traditional traditionalist faction is about to make trouble.”
“Let them make trouble. The more trouble they make, the quieter it will be here.” The Judge said unconcernedly, “Guy’s death must have been deliberately brought forward, but it’s not a big deal.”
Bai Jiamu asked in confusion: “The situation is in such chaos, isn’t it a big deal?”
“No.” The Judge replied affirmatively, “The more chaotic it is, the better it is to reshuffle the cards and control the situation. Players who play this set must be very greedy. Although there is no more than 80% possibility, I generally don’t take it easy. I have to make a judgement, but after contacting him, I feel that the player who disrupted the situation should be Bai Liu, and this is how he played the game before.”
Bai Jiamu frowned: “Then you cooperated with him so easily before?”
“I’ve seen the video of his small TV, and his skills are related to money transactions.” The Judge said, “It seems that the higher the points transaction, the more he has to execute the transaction.”
Bai Yi next to him suddenly realised: “So you gave him five million points when we cooperated?”
“Part of it is for this, and another part of it is…” The Judge’s eyes wandered, he clenched his fists and coughed, “For the money, he is married to Spades. As a tactician, I should give a gift on behalf of the whole team no matter what.”
The Judge calculated solemnly with his fingers: “Except for Xiao Bai [1] who is underage and refuses to rush the gift, the four of us adults should give 1.2 million points each which adds up to 4.8 million points, plus the transaction payment — Five million is just right.”
Bai Jiamu: “…==You are good at calculating, Judge.”
The Judge continued as if nothing had happened: “However, did you pay attention to the wrong thing? Bai Liu said that he would help us make Spades lose, but he did not say anything about helping us win.”
“Alex’s defection was just a cover proposed by Bai Liu. He didn’t tell the truth, which means that he cannot be included as part of the transaction.”
Bai Jiamu stood up and looked unhappy: “He lied to us?”
The Judge glanced at Bai Jiamu: “To be more precise, we were deceived. Deception has always been an important part of this game. The game for players is whether they can prevent themselves from being deceived.”
“There is nothing wrong with lying to others. It is us who were deceived and are in the wrong.”
Bai Yi muttered: “The Judge, you have a very good temper, aren’t you angry if someone lies to you?”
The Judge gave Bai Yi a meaningful smile: “If I get angry because I was cheated then shouldn’t I be angry when I entered this game?”
“This game is a huge scam.”
The sky was about to brighten.
There were many stiff figures walking in the woods, their faces interlaced with stitched threads. Flesh and blood sections were faintly visible as they moved. They emitted strange whining sounds, like a bunch of puppets made of real corpses, twisting their limbs unfamiliarly to move forward.
Bai Liu and his group fell far behind the group of corpses.
Liu Jiayi couldn’t help complaining: “It’s only now that I realised it was actually a zombie book.”
“But it’s not about fighting zombies.” Tang Erda added, “We are the sweepers responsible for creating zombies. We will pick up a lot of corpses when the war starts.”
“There are still too few corpses from the Red Cross.” Liu Jiayi stared at the corpses in front of her, “I don’t know how long we can last with these two camps holding us hostage.”
Bai Liu was very calm: “Don’t worry, as long as the war between the two parties does not stop, our camp will continue to grow.”
“Yes.” Liu Jiayi squinted at Bai Liu, “You would think that as long as there are dead people on the other side, our zombie army will continue to grow. In the end, they will try their best to avoid casualties on both sides in order to prevent us from continuing to grow. Thus achieving the goal of the war stopping forever.”
“This is how you convinced that indecisive mainline NPC, right?”
Liu Jiayi withdrew her gaze: “Bai Liu, sometimes I really don’t understand what you are thinking. You can always achieve the goal of peace with an extreme and evil approach.”
“You say you are a good person, but you are indeed doing things in an extremely anti-human way. You do not have any compassion for these innocent soldiers. You will use them to do things for you even if they die.” Liu Jiayi stared at the broken zombie soldiers in front of her and said, “I would say you are a bad person, but judging from the results, you have done something that surpasses the efforts of all the good people.”
Liu Jiayi asked: “Sometimes I wonder, why on earth do you do this?”
Bai Liu smiled: “Because I’m curious.”
Liu Jiayi asked, “What are you curious about?”
Bai Liu lowered his eyes: “I was curious about what kind of ending Alex wanted, whether it was peace or endless war, so I included both possibilities in the plan.”
“The ending that Alex wants?” Liu Jiayi frowned. She realised there was something in Bai Liu’s words and asked keenly, “What do you mean?”
Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: “Don’t you think Alex accepted our proposal to form a third camp and attack the other two camps too quickly?”
“This is not the normal behaviour of a person who would reject someone who harms others. Alex complied with my offer with almost no struggle, which was strange.”
“According to Alex’s previous performance, the emotional impact of Guy’s death on him should have been strong, but he calmed down very quickly and immediately threw himself into the production of the living dead.” Bai Liu opened his eyes and looked at the large zombie army in front of him, “And the zombies are being produced too fast.”
“Alex’s identity is set as a medical student who has not yet done an internship, but he is very skilled at finding a certain part of the same person among a pile of broken limbs and then sewing them together.”
“…It feels like this isn’t the first time he’s done something like this.”
Liu Jiayi’s steps forward paused, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Bai Liu: “Do you still remember the function of Alex’s potion?”
Bai Liu spoke calmly: “Yes, the function of his potion is to freeze people in the state they were in before death.”
“…The state before death.” Liu Jiayi murmured to herself twice, then she suddenly looked up at the zombie army in front of her and her expression changed, “The potion this guy invented is not a biological healing potion at all. It’s a time potion that can turn back the time of an organism! It’s a resurrection in the true sense of the word!”
“These things are not zombies at all, they are the living dead who are going back and forth to their pre-death state!”
Before Tang Erda could react, he lowered his head and approached Liu Jiayi and asked doubtfully: “A time potion?”
Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and turned Tang Erda’s head around, “You will understand when you see it.”
As the group of originally swaying, stitched-up corpses continued to march, the fractures on their limbs gradually opened and closed, and the injured sites that were originally covered with various gunshot wounds gradually grew open then healed. The various wounds on the corpses creepily turned into bloody fresh wounds, and then healed bizarrely.
These corpses that were originally pale then became rosy and moved more and more flexibly, as if they were alive.
Tang Erda was completely stunned: “What on earth is going on?!”
Bai Liu was not surprised. He looked at the corpses that were “coming to life” as if he had expected it, and said flatly, “Sure enough.”
Tang Erda immediately turned his head and stared at Bai Liu, “You already knew this?!”
Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes and said breathlessly, “Of course he already knew.”
Tang Erda pointed at Bai Liu and said with condemnation: “Then why didn’t he tell us? He is a tactician, why did he hide it from us!”
Liu Jiayi held her forehead: “Of course it’s because he wants to play. Didn’t you notice that he was in a bad mood? Haven’t you been playing this game seriously all the time? It’s all about playing games. Where’s the fun? If Bai Liu doesn’t tell you, it’s because he’s just playing with his teammates…”
“Tang Erda, sometimes it’s not a good thing to rely too much on tacticians.” Bai Liu quickly interrupted Liu Jiayi’s words and said seriously, “I prefer that you, as my best main attacker, think about the information gained on your own first.”
Tang Erda’s eyes flickered between Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu twice, then he cautiously took two steps back, crossed his arms and looked at Bai Liu: “First tell me what’s going on in this game.”
Bai Liu asked: “Do you still remember the time limit of this game?”
“Seven days.” Tang Erda answered quickly.
Bai Liu continued to ask: “Do you remember what day it is now?”
“In the early morning of the third day.” Tang Erda replied.
Bai Liu smiled: “Don’t you think it’s strange? A game with a time limit of seven days has reached its third day and is halfway through. No player has gained points yet.”
Tang Erda replied cautiously: “This situation is not impossible.”
“Yes, but it is impossible for top players.” Bai Liu said, “The players in this game, me, you, Liu Jiayi, and Killer Sequence can be said to be the top players in the entire system. If these top players haven’t even gotten a single point halfway through the game, it can only mean one thing.”
Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Tang Erda: “First, the design of this game is very poor. It doesn’t allow players to experience a sense of gain even halfway through.”
“Second, these three days are not the real three days at all. The game is not halfway through, and we found the wrong time reference.”
“Then what is the real time reference?” Tang Erda asked.
Bai Liu said: “I gave my radio equipment to Spades and asked him to find it. If he finds it, he should use the equipment to send you a message.”
Liu Jiayi asked in disbelief: “Bai Liu, did you just say that you gave our team’s communication equipment to an outsider?!”
Bai Liu replied calmly: “It’s not for nothing. I sold it to him. I sold him 73 points for 10,000 points. It’s not a loss.”
Liu Jiayi: “…”
Tang Erda: “…”
Yes, that’s something only you can do.
Not long after, Tang Erda’s radio equipment rang. He lowered his head to check, then looked up at Bai Liu: “He said he found it.”
Bai Liu asked: “Where?”
Tang Erda called back: “The military mass cemetery built behind the town.”
Bai Liu found a broken down truck that was abandoned in the mud on the road. Tang Erda used brute force to get it out and got under the truck to repair it. The three of them then tied up the pile of living dead and loaded them on the truck.
“The road here is not easy to drive.” Tang Erda, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, lifted up his vest and wiped off the mud on his face with a serious expression, “I will drive a little faster to make it less likely to get stuck. You guys sit tight.”
From polar planes to battlefield tanks to this old truck…
Bai Liu slowly looked at Tang Erda: “I’m curious, what means of transportation do you not know how to drive?”
Tang Erda really thought for a few seconds, and then answered Bai Liu seriously: “If fits the means of transportation in your definition, I will not use Mu Sicheng.”
Bai Liu: “…”
Liu Jiayi: “…”
Who taught Tang Erda to tell cold jokes?
It took about a few hours to drive from the Red Cross to the small town. Fortunately, Tang Erda drove very fast and quickly arrived near the small town.
Tang Erda got out of the car and covered the writhing living dead on the back with cloth, then found a place to hide the car. When he was about to take out the skill revolver, he jolted. His head popped up from behind the car. “Hey,” he called Bai Liu.
Bai Liu turned around.
Tang Erda hesitated for two seconds: “Do you want to use my skill gun? I won’t take it out if you want to use it.”
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows in surprise, “No, but I’m curious about why you suddenly thought of this?”
Tang Erda has fought with his skill weapon for so long. Using his own skill weapon is as easy as drinking water and eating. To be able to consider Bai Liu, who shared his skill, before using it was honestly quite difficult.
At least among the current Wandering Circus, only Mu Ke could do this.
Tang Erda paused strangely for a few seconds. He seemed to realise something from Bai Liu’s reaction: “You didn’t tell Spades about your skills?”
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows: “Why do you think I would tell him?”
Tang Erda paused again and said, “Spades and I have been working together for a while. He forbids me from using skill weapons. He said that you might want to use them, and that he will beat me if I draw the revolver.”
“…I thought you told him.”
Bai Liu was quiet: “I didn’t tell him, did you ask him how he knew?”
Tang Erda nodded: “I asked, he said he didn’t know, it was intuition.”
“Ignore him for now.” Bai Liu brushed off the topic calmly, “Go find the cemetery first.”
The cemetery is actually easy to find. The signs in the town all mark the cemetery. But the strange thing was that every time Bai Liu and the others went in this direction, they encountered a very thick and strange fog, and then after passing through the fog, returned to the same intersection.
“Is this a ghostly wall?” Liu Jiayi raised the poison spray vigilantly, “No matter how you go around, it’s the same place.”
Tang Erda also took out the Rose Revolver and stood behind Bai Liu: “Do you need to do something to get out?”
“There should be certain conditions before you can get out. According to the popular process, we should decrypt it first.” Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi, “But now there is a more direct way.”
Liu Jiayi quickly put down the spray and turned on the wireless device: “Send a message to Spades and ask him how he got out, right?”
The news from Spades came back quickly. Liu Jiayi frowned after reading it: “——Can you use a whip to clear the mist and come out?”
“Weapon attack?” Tang Erda cautiously fired twice at the fog directly in front, and then a crackling sound came from directly behind. His pupils shrank and he quickly pushed down Bai Liu who was standing in front.
The bullets flew over their heads and hit the sign with a loud bang, leaving a huge hole.
“The spaces are in a state of close contact with each other. Weapon attacks are ineffective and can’t break it. They will reappear in the same place.” Tang Erda shook his head solemnly.
Liu Jiayi frowned: “How did Spades break it? Is it possible that his whip can even break space-“
She paused suddenly when she said this, and then looked up at Bai Liu who was patting off the dirt on his knees.
Bai Liu stood up and looked back at Liu Jiayi with calm eyes: “——And maybe break time.”
Liu Jiayi pursed her lips: “It has the same function as the bone whip you destroyed before.”
“Then how do we get out now?” Tang Erda asked.
Bai Liu looked at Liu Jiayi: “Send a message to Spades and ask him to pick us up.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a needle cut across the side of Bai Liu’s face, and a line of blood was drawn.
The needle fell to the ground, and the curved tail was still wrapped with silk thread – it was a hooked needle used for suturing.
Tang Erda turned his head abruptly. Just as he was about to shoot, he suddenly remembered that the space here was closely connected and it would be easy to shoot directly here. He had to grit his teeth and switched his gun to a military knife: “Who’s there?”
In the white mist, several figures that looked like women wearing wide skirts were looming, approaching Bai Liu and his group at the centre of the intersection from all directions. They held long guns in their hands, dragging them on the ground and making rustling sounds on the gravel.
Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda arranged themselves to the left and right in order to protect Bai Liu who was in the centre, both of them scowling.
Tang Erda took a deep breath and said, “You can’t attack casually here. Because the space is closely connected, we don’t know where our attack will hit. We can only fight hand-to-hand.”
“—But you two are not good at it so I’ll count to three and when the physical fight starts, you two run back.”
Liu Jiayi nodded simply and threw two bottles of antidote to Tang Erda, “Be careful.”
The women’s figures were getting closer and closer, and only then did Tang Erda see clearly that the dresses these women were wearing were not just any other clothes, but beautifully sewn old white wedding dresses with many blood stains on them.
These wedding dresses seemed inexplicably familiar to Tang Erda. He looked up at the dresses, and when he saw the person wearing the wedding dress, his expression finally froze.
These weren’t women at all, they were all Guys.
These Guys were sutured with surgical stitches, and there were countless scars on their faces. In some places, the suture threads had not yet been cut. The smile at the corner of his mouth was weird but sweet, his skin was grey, and his eyes were completely black, with no white visible at all. The wedding dress on his body was stained with countless blood spots.
[Congratulations to player Tang Erda for triggering the second page of the “Monster Book of the Jungle Border” – Corpse Bride]
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[1] Little Bai, nickname for Bai Jiamu.
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