Deep in the jungle.
Spades was jumping on the tree trunks with Bai Liu on his back, getting closer and closer to the other side of the lake. The voices of Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi could be heard faintly from below.
“That group of corpses are still chasing us. To be more precise, they are chasing you.” Tang Erda said.
Liu Jiayi asked: “Bai Liu, do you want to lure these corpses directly to the bottom of the lake when crossing it, and then accumulate points?”
Bai Liu hummed vaguely, Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda looked at each other, then they looked towards the lake in front of them, and instantly went their separate ways.
Behind them, from the ground to the branches, there were densely packed corpses, mixed with some half-formed corpses, looking ferocious and crazy, with fangs and claws bared, raising their heads and roaring at Bai Liu above.
Spades stepped on the tree trunk with his left foot to gain leverage and flew into the air. Immediately behind him, a number of black corpses jumped up and roared as they pounced towards Bai Liu behind him.
Spades turned around indifferently to protect Bai Liu, knocked down all the corpses with his whip, and knelt steadily on one knee on another branch.
The branch shook twice, and Spades suddenly asked, “Bai Liu, I think you know why these corpses are chasing you, and you can easily dissolve this pursuit. Why do you deliberately let these corpses chase you?”
Bai Liu smiled: “Didn’t Liu Jiayi just say that as long as these corpses keep chasing me, I can naturally lure them into the lake bottom to accumulate points. As long as these corpses are recovered by the lake bottom, they can be counted as my points. This is my goal.”Spades said without hesitation: “You lied, this is not your purpose.”
Bai Liu paused for a moment, and his hand around Spades’ neck loosened slightly. He spoke with a casual smile in his tone: “Spades, your intuition about me is not always correct.”
“Occasionally listen to what I say to you instead of trusting your own instincts.”
Spades was silent for a while, frowning slightly, as if he was getting used to not trusting his own instincts. Then he said, “As long as we lure the corpses into the bottom of the lake, you will take the initiative to stop them from following you, right?”
Bai Liu lowered his eyes: “Yes.”
Spades paused, jumped up on one knee, swung his whip to knock away the approaching corpses, and got closer and closer to the lake.
Bai Liu leaned on Spades’ shoulder. He glanced at the blue lake that was getting closer and closer to him, clenched his fingers slightly and curled them into a fist.
With the wind carrying burning embers blowing through their hair, Spades approached the lake faster and faster.
Bai Liu rested his head on the center of Spades’ shoulder blades, half-closed his eyes and remained silent for a while. Suddenly, he spoke in a joking manner as if chatting: “Spades, your intuition is really an amazing thing. Can you tell me what your intuition is telling you now?”
“My intuition tells me that you are afraid and you are lying.” Spades said calmly, “You don’t like jumping into the water. You hate this burning environment, these burnt body parts, and you hate seeing bodies sinking in the water.”
“You jumped into the lake not for points, but for something else, something more dangerous. You hate doing it, but you decided to jump in anyway.”
Spades paused for a moment: “I don’t understand why you want to do something you hate.”
“Do you hate denying your intuition?” Bai Liu asked softly.
Spades hummed, “I don’t like it.”
Bai Liu laughed softly: “Then why are you willing to deny your intuition for me and trust me? You can clearly feel that I am lying to you, and you are also doing things that you hate.” ꭆἈ₦Ꝋ₿ĘṦ
Spades paused for a moment: “…Because you asked for it.”
“Are you willing to do what is asked of you?” Bai Liu smiled, “Will you also do what others ask of you?”
Spades instantly retorted: “No.”
Bai Liu whispered softly: “Then why are you willing to do it when I ask you to do it?”
Spades was silent for a moment, and when he spoke again, there was confusion in his voice: “…I don’t know.”
Bai Liu opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just smiled and explained: “Spades, has anyone ever taught you that sometimes people are willing to do something they hate for someone else?”
Spades shook his head honestly, then asked, “Why?”
Bai Liu was silent for a long time, then said: “Because I love this person.”
He whispered in an incredibly soft voice, and the next second, he released his hands from around Spades’ back and fell backwards.
Spades was whipping open a group of corpses approaching him. When he noticed Bai Liu falling off from behind him, he immediately turned around. He ignored the corpses rushing towards him and whipped open the corpse next to Bai Liu. He jumped down with Bai Liu and reached out to grab Bai Liu.
Bai Liu fell wantonly in the burning woods and the residual wind. His emotionless pure black eyes reflected the continuously approaching Spades like a mirror.
The corpses kept approaching Bai Liu. Although most of them were blown away by Spades’ whip, there were too many of them and a small part of them still crawled onto his body.
[System Alert: Player Bai Liu is attacked by a monster (Zombie Corpse), and his spirit value is decreasing…]
[System Alert: Player Bai Liu’s mental value has fallen below 60, and he is about to see hallucinations…]
Spades stared intently. He tried several times to use the whip to circle Bai Liu’s waist and pull him up, but he stopped at the moment of whipping.
——He was not sure.
Spades used any weapon to hit monsters without thinking about the strength. Although it seemed that he had good control over the strength, he himself was not sure of it.
Because he has never used a whip to save anyone.
He didn’t know whether this blow of the whip would bring Bai Liu up intact or break him into two pieces.
For the first time, Spades felt that what The Reverse God said to him was useful.
——Practice with the whip well, or sooner or later you will encounter a situation where you want to use the whip but cannot handle it.
【At that time, you will lose to another person who is good at using a whip. 】
Spades used his whip to push away the corpses that were approaching him. He concentrated on stepping on the surrounding wood trunks, descended rapidly, and reached out to Bai Liu who was falling close to the lake.
Just when Spades’ hand was about to grab Bai Liu’s shoulder, Spades saw Bai Liu turn his head slightly and smile at him.
That smile was pure and naughty, and his eyes were full of the reflection of Spades, as if there was water flowing in them. It was obviously full of pure joy that could not be concealed, but it always made people feel that he would cry in the next second.
Bai Liu looked at Spdes with that smile and said softly, “Xie Ta, I missed you so much.”
“Goodbye.”
Spades was startled, and when he was about to grab Bai Liu’s hand, Bai Liu slipped from his palm and fell into the cold lake.
Then Spades fell.
The corpses all around were crawling towards the lake frantically as if they had gone mad. A black mass poured into the bottom of the lake, instantly dyeing the blue-green lake surface black.
Even the corpses and dried firewood fragments used in the sacrificial ceremony for the new evil god were attracted away and rushed to the bottom of the lake recklessly.
There were only a few corpses left who wanted to run, but were fixed in place by some unknown force. They howled and screamed while carving the new evil god wooden sculpture in a distorted posture.
After Alex saw all the corpses run away, he laughed in a trance: “Bai Liu finally came, I can finally be free.”
The Reverse God’s expression changed: “Not good, with this kind of reaction, Bai Liu chose to accept the gift from the evil god.”
After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and cut the ropes that bound his hands. The other three team members also cut the ropes that bound themselves and jumped down from the wooden stakes.
Bai Yi yawned in confusion: “What’s going on? I just fell asleep. Have I collected all the [true end] line information and cleared the level now?”
Bai Jiamu couldn’t help rolling his eyes: “How can you fall asleep in this situation? Are you a pig?”
Bai Yi said confidently: “I can’t understand a single word every time The Reverse God pushes the [true end] line, I might as well take this opportunity to have a good rest. I still have to do housework after I log out of the game. Do you think it’s easy for me, a househusband, to find time to train every day?”
Bai Jiamu was speechless: “…You are the only one who can talk about your stupidity so openly.”
“Did you understand what The Reverse God said just now?” Bai Yi shrugged Bai Jiamu maliciously and looked at him sideways.
Bai Jiamu: “…”
Actually, I didn’t understand it and almost fell asleep afterwards.
The Reverse God waved his hand helplessly, interrupting the two people’s bickering: “Okay, let’s do the main thing first.”
Hearing what The Reverse God said, Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi finally became serious, and they drew their weapons at the same time.
[System Alert: Player Bai Yi uses his personal skill (Cooking God), and selects a high-speed egg beater as the tool]
Bai Yi pulled out a half-person-high egg beater and casually carried it on his shoulder.
[System Alert: Player Bai Jiamu uses personal skills (Failed Scalpel)]
Bai Jiamu pulled out several scalpels with a loop on the end from his chest, put them on the base of his fingers, and turned them several times smoothly in a strange way without hurting the fingers around him at all.
Then he raised his hand to grasp the hilt of the knife, looked at The Reverse God and nodded, indicating that he was ready.
The Reverse God paused, raised his hand to pull something out from behind, but finally put his hand down: “Let’s go.”
Bai Yi asked curiously, “Hey, Reverse God, don’t you use your skill weapon? Your skill weapon is the strongest among us, and according to Bai Liu’s rebellious personality, your skill should have a miraculous effect on him.”
The Reverse God turned around and smiled at him, his eyebrows curved and full of tenderness: “Yes, so we have to save him until the official league to maximize his value.”
“It’s a bit of an overkill and a bit stupid to use the trump card so easily now.”
Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu who both easily used their “trump card” skills: “…”
They could never figure out whether The Reverse God was deliberately mocking them or seriously analyzing the current situation.
The Reverse God walked straight forward.
Bai Jiamu followed closely: “Where are you going?”
“The lake.” The Reverse God said without hesitation, “The final battlefield chosen by Bai Liu must be there.”
Bai Jiamu was puzzled: “Why?”
The Reverse God turned around and answered, “Because he made a deal with us, saying that he would make Spades lose miserably and quit the game at the lake.”
“This man will not break his deal easily. He will definitely deliver a crushing defeat to us at the lake as promised.”
On the other end.
After Spades followed Bai Liu into the lake, Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi also jumped in without hesitation.
The dark, cold surface of the lake was murky and unclear, and one could only see long black corpses vaguely swimming. A steady stream of corpses crawled into the water, spreading from the edge of the lake to near the center.
The bottom of the lake seemed to be boiling with asphalt-like mud, swallowing up the corpses.
Tang Erda stood in front of Liu Jiayi and kept shooting at the approaching body parts, but he was still hung with several body parts. Tang Erda’s left shoulder and Liu Jiayi’s left foot began to turn into corpses.
The visibility under the water is too low and the shooting speed of bullets will also be hindered. This is a map that greatly limits Tang Erda’s performance as a gunner.
Not to mention Liu Jiayi, her poison is an attack weapon that can kill one thousand enemies but only eight hundred in the water.
Before she found Bai Liu’s location, she was unable to provide Bai Liu with the antidote in time, and she might kill Bai Liu by mistake if she abused the poison.
Liu Jiayi curled up her corpse-like left foot and frowned in thought.
…She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that in this copy, Bai Liu always separated her and Tang Erda from himself intentionally or unintentionally, or brought them to some game scenes that would limit the use of their weapons.
For example, at the very beginning, Bai Liu allowed Spades to take him away, and later sent them out to the Red Cross Team and Assault Team 1 respectively. After they finally reunited, they took her and Tang Erda to the close border where they could not use their skills.
——Now it’s this turbid lake where both her and Tang Erda’s skills will be restricted.
Liu Jiayi believed that Bai Liu would be able to figure out the design rules of the game “Jungle Edge”. Normally, Bai Liu would have used some extreme tactics to gamble once and then ended the game.
But… he dragged it until now, and repeatedly used the map to restrict her and Tang Erda’s skills…
This is not Bai Liu’s tactical style at all. He is good at maximizing the skills of each person instead of restricting them everywhere.
…This gave her the feeling that… it was as if Bai Liu was waiting for something extremely dangerous, and this thing was something they would definitely prevent Bai Liu from touching, so Bai Liu would use various methods to isolate them, restrict their skills, and prevent her and Tang Erda from stopping them.
Liu Jiayi stared at the black bottom of the lake with a frown on her face, and the uneasy feeling in her heart grew stronger and stronger.
Bai Liu, what on earth are you trying to do by scheming against everyone like this?!
The Reverse God and his men rushed to the lakeside, and saw clusters of black corpses falling into the water. From a distance, it looked like groups of black ants crawling towards a large puddle.
Bai Yi got goosebumps all over his body. “Wow, what happened in the lake?”
The Reverse God turned his head to look at the surging lake not far away: “We can only know when we go down.”
After saying that, he jumped down first without hesitation, followed by Bai Jiamu and another team member. Bai Yi rubbed the goose bumps on his body, pinched his nose bitterly, and followed them down.
In an instant, Tang Erda beat both Liu Jiayi and the Killer Sequence led by The Reverse God’s speed as they all swam to the bottom of the lake.
The body parts were continuously swallowed by the lake bottom, forming a large whirlpool. The more body parts were swallowed, the thicker the mud on the ground became. Bai Liu was lying in the middle of the body parts being swallowed.
Bai Liu clasped his hands together in front of his abdomen, his face calm and indifferent, his eyes half-closed with no light, and the fair skin above his neck glowed dimly in the dim lake bottom.
Bai Liu’s shoulders, left hand, right hand, left foot and right foot had all completely turned into corpses, revealing an abnormal bluish-white color.
He lay peacefully on the corpses that surrounded him, like a body that was about to be buried with those corpses.
Spades grabbed his shoulders tightly and was trying to pull Bai Liu out, but in the end he could only watch Bai Liu sink deeper and deeper into the corpse.
It’s not that he can’t pull it out, but——
Spades exerted force with his wrist, and he clearly heard the sound of Bai Liu’s bones breaking and tearing. He loosened his grip, bubbles overflowing from the corners of his mouth, and looked at the corpses under Bai Liu with an indifferent expression——
——These body parts have completely grown together with Bai Liu.
Unless Bai Liu figures it out himself, Spades can only tear Bai Liu’s shoulders off his body bloodily instead of pulling Bai Liu out entirely.
But Bai Liu obviously didn’t want to come out. He lay on the corpse as if he was asleep.
The corpse-transformation has spread to the heart.
Spades’ resistance panel was ridiculously high, and these corpse parts posed little threat to him, so no part of him had been transformed into a corpse for the time being. He stared at Bai Liu for a long while, and suddenly leaned over and hugged Bai Liu tightly, using his body to block the constantly rising corpse parts.
Bai Liu finally opened his eyes and looked at Spades who was on his body: “You don’t have to do this for me.”
“I’m not doing this for you.” Spades’ voice was muffled, and a lot of bubbles came out of his mouth. “I just feel that I did something wrong just now.”
Bai Liu asked: “What did you do wrong?”
Spades’ voice was a little depressed: “I should have trusted my intuition instead of your words. You really are lying to me.”
Bai Liu chuckled: “Yes, didn’t The Reverse God teach you that the smarter people are, the more they like to lie.”
“Yeah.” Spades responded calmly. He hugged Bai Liu tighter. “I understand.”
Bai Liu was dragged deeper and deeper by the corpse parts. His body and the corpse parts seemed to form an airtight barrier. The area that Spades could protect became smaller and smaller. In the end, only a pair of exposed eyes and a right hand of Bai Liu were left that had not yet been transformed into corpses.
Spades tightly grasped Bai Liu’s only remaining right hand, not daring to use any strength at all, nor to use too much strength. He stared at Bai Liu’s gradually disappearing eyes with his pair of black eyes.
Bai Liu’s voice with a smile came out from the corpse: “Spades, you know, I once held a person’s hand like this and tried to save him.”
Spades asked: “Did you save him?”
Bai Liu smiled and said, “He was saved.”
“Now, it’s his turn to hold my hand tightly and rescue me.”
Bai Liu’s voice gradually faded away: “——But I suddenly want to know what the world belonging to God is like after he was buried underwater.”
“——Can I enter the world that belongs to God, find him again, kill everything that imprisoned him, and then bring his soul out?”
As Bai Liu’s voice faded away, the wriggling corpses finally stopped and the lake bottom became clear again.
Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda, who had been obstructed, finally saw the location of Spades at the bottom of the lake.
Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda rushed to Spades almost instantly.
She looked at Bai Liu in disbelief as he was swallowed until only his right hand was exposed.
Moreover, this right hand was gradually turning into a corpse, and Liu Jiayi immediately wanted to use the antidote.
Spades shook his head: “This is an attack by a spirit monster. Your healing potion is useless.”
Tang Erda was about to pull out his gun and shoot the huge, wriggling corpse at the bottom of the lake, but Spades grabbed the muzzle of the gun.
He stared at Tang Erda without a trace of emotion in his eyes: “Bai Liu is down there, he and the corpse have grown into one, if you hit the corpse he will also be hurt.”
Liu Jiayi stared motionlessly at her right hand, which had only two fingers left that had not been turned into a corpse. Her expression almost twisted in an instant.
——Think of a way! Think of a way quickly! There must be a way to stop Bai Liu from becoming alienated!
There is no way.
This was Bai Liu’s own desire for alienation. She couldn’t stop Bai Liu from doing anything he wanted to do. She couldn’t even understand why Bai Liu did this!
Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda watched helplessly as their right hands were devoured and turned into corpses, while Spades released his fingers one by one.
In the end, the right hand also completely turned into a corpse.
[System Alert (for all players): Player Bai Liu’s spirit value has dropped to 0, and his body has been completely alienated. Exit the game.]
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