Chapter 145: The Dangerous Heresy Treatment Authority

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1.30am, Dangerous Heresy Bureau base.

Despite being caught, Bai Liu slept soundly against the wall, undisturbed, the footsteps of the patrols coming and going outside the room being loud but largely unobtrusive to Bai Liu.

His eyes were closed and his eyelids didn't move, to the dismay of patrol members who had been instructed by Tang Erda several times to check on Bai Liu's condition.

"This man is also too mentally fit ......"

"I'm beginning to wonder if he's really a heretic ......"

"Eh, do you think he really solved the problem with that dried rose leaf gas? The Bureau says the problem has gotten so bad that most of us in the Heresy Bureau have been transferred out to deal with it, there aren't many people left at the base, and a lot of the team members are broken inside ......"

"Tomorrow is the third detachment to investigate that perfume production factory, right?"

"Yes, I heard Team Su was leading the team, many members of the first two detachments started to wither away not long after they came back, this time the heresy is horrible, it's already a heavy third degree red heresy ......"

Bai Liu, who they had thought was sound asleep, opened his eyes silently not long after they had left, counting the seconds in his mind - the patrolmen here patrol once every fifteen minutes, which is almost nine hundred seconds.

Bai Liu took the Game Manager coin out of his neck and he narrowed his eyes.

With the loss of the cross and scales, most of his special items are not available to him in reality.

But there is one thing he can continue to use, Bai Liu has props that fit his core desires and can be used in reality - and that is money.

This [Magic Space] controls the entry and exit of people, but not of matter, i.e. money can come and go freely in this space.

What if [Bai Liu] is also a piece of money?

This kind of extraordinary prop, which can trap people in and out of the game, is supposed to work on the soul level. If [Bai Liu] leaves this [magic space] in the form of a soul note, does this space in a sense release him, and there is no way to trap him anymore?

Bai Liu slowly extracts a soul note out of his pocket.

The soul note is printed with the cold, astringent face of little Bai Liu - a coin generated from the half-soul of Bai Liu, who was imprisoned in his wallet after a trade default in the previous round.

Bai Liu looked down at this soul note he held in his fingertips, his head bowed and his mouth hooked.

The only problem then, was to get these patrolmen to open it for him voluntarily.

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As another fifteen minutes passed, the patrolman opened the small window to check on Bai Liu's condition, but instead of seeing Bai Liu's sleeping face on the side of the bed as before, coins were pouring out of the small window in a steady stream.

A few cents and a dollar in notes interspersed with various amounts of coins poured out of that small window in a frenzy, as if the patrollers had opened not a room where Bai Liu, the heretic, was imprisoned, but the bottom bin of a game machine stuffed to the brim with coin drops.

The coins and notes mix together and pour out through the small window, forming a fountain made of coins.

A coin folded into a triangular shape also mixed in with this fountain followed.

There is not much difference between this note and the others, except that this one is no longer printed with the normal coinage, but because it is folded into a triangular shape, this slight difference has been thoroughly concealed.

The moment this note gushed out, Bai Liu, lying on a mountain of coins of his own making that gradually descended as the window opened, licked his lips with pleasure.

He realised that he was out of some control.

But because of the presence of these ordinary patrollers, Bai Liu could not yet enter the game directly; he had to get out of this environment where there were many [onlookers] present to do so.

Outside, the patrolman panicked and called out to his superiors over the comms: "Report to the night watchman! Room number 006 is now pouring out so much coin that the humanoid heretics it was holding can't even see! It's drowning in coins!"

"What?!" The night watchman's voice on the comm was also surprised, but he quickly calmed down, "Open up and look for the Humanoid Heretic, make sure you find him! Team Tang is very concerned about this humanoid heretic, and has requested the use of heretic number [2617] [Magic Space] for this room, this heretic can control the entry and exit of the people inside, so you don't need to panic too much, I'll transfer you to Team Tang now!"

The patrolman nodded, "Yes, I'll search on!"

The moment the patrolman opened it, his transfer signal came through.

Tang Erda's unprecedentedly serious scolding came over the communicator: "Don't open it!

Tang Erda gritted her teeth and cut: "Once this man started spending money, then he must have found a way to recover it, he found a way to get out!"

"Eh...?" The patrolman was a little confused, "But I've opened it? It should be fine, using 2617 a creature trapped inside is never going to get out easily-"

The patrolman with his back to the door of the room made a muffled sound, like something east falling to the ground, and then the patrolman's voice disappeared with his unapproached words.

After a burst of electricity, Tang Erda heard the sound of the communicator being picked up again.

Bai Liu's laughing voice rang out unhurriedly on the other end of the line, "Team Tang, how about we talk about a deal?"

Tang Erda blasted the throttle to the floor as he forced himself to calm down and talk to Bai Liu to stall the man: "What deal? If you're talking about a money-for-roses solution for dried leaf gas, we've already talked about that deal ......"

He paused at this point, and seemed extremely resigned to grinding his teeth, "I can give you the solution to buy the dried leaf rose gas at the original price, but you swear that you will never smuggle this stuff back in again! Nor cause anything that looks like an accident or mishap that would make dried rose leaf gas popular again! "

The rapid footsteps and shouts of alarm soon came over Tang Erda's communicator as patrolmen from the base spotted Bai Liu fleeing: "There's a heretic out there! "

Bai Liu followed suit and the voices on the comms shook noisily.

"Oh? " but the chased Bai Liu is not at all flustered and is in the mood to chat with Tang Erda, who asks, rather amusingly, "Sounds like I backtracked on the deal I made with you guys earlier? "

Tang Erda closed his eyes, his blood rushing to the corners of his forehead at the sound of this guy's voice.

Yes, this time Tang Erda was not prepared to deal with Bai Liu with money in the first place, because Bai Liu had backtracked on his last deal with them.

Bai Liu did help the Bureau of Dangerous Heresies with the then dried rose leaf gas after he was paid for it.

However, Bai Liu did not disclose the specific treatment method to the Heresy Board on the grounds that the treatment protocol was his exclusive patent and needed to be protected. After dealing with all the people who were endangered by the dried rose leaf gas at the time, and at Su Yang's insistence, he found Bai six not guilty and Bai six was eventually released.

But a year later, a factory that had been shut down to produce dried rose leaf gas perfume was up and running again, and some people began to suffer from the stuff, and the Bureau of Dangerous Heresies had to bring Bai Six back in and pay him to help with it.

Bai six agreed and he was driven to the factory in a car by the 3rd detachment to investigate the exact cause.

Then this man went to the top of the factory and he suddenly looked down and smiled and asked the team member next to him who was in charge of guarding him, "Do you want to know what the gas made of roses, the explosion smells like?

The players were bewildered, they didn't know what Bai six was talking to him about.

Bai six raised his hand in a gesture of a bomb going off and he smiled, seemingly with great pleasure, his eyebrows arched and his mouth mimicked, "BOOM! And then you can all smell it, the smell of burning roses, it's beautiful."

The factory exploded in response to the sound.

Rose-coloured smoke with burning sparks flooded the area and poured out in all directions.

Su Yang's home was in the vicinity of the smoke explosion that killed the entire 3rd detachment.

It was Tang Erda who led the survey of the perfume factory.

Tang Erda will never forget when the smoke exploded and he was looking at the large field of brightly coloured roses in front of him with his back to the factory, then a moment later, as the smoke spread, Tang Erda looked back and he saw Bai Liu.

The man stood at the top of the rose-petaled factory, his hair and coat tossed by the wind from the explosion, as if he was about to fall from that spot with the roses in the next moment.

So far away, but Tang Erda remembers very clearly, he saw Bai six gazing at him idly and lazily, one hand in the pocket of his trench coat, smiling and mouthing to him.

"Does it smell good, Captain Tang ?"

Tang Erda took a deep breath and forced the memories that had been blown to pieces to come back to her.

He steadied himself and continued his conversation with Bai Liu: "I can make a deal with you as long as you don't back out, and I can request a considerable amount of money for you."

"I must say I'm impressed." Bai Liu replied honestly, "But what you must have in mind right now is to kill me once you've got that solution out of my hands, right? There's no better way to prevent me from backtracking than that, and only the dead can never backtrack."

Tang Erda's teeth clenched as he swept out the car window - he could already see the circular building that was the base, he was almost there!

"Captain Tang, you cared so much about me, but after you caught me, you left me alone in the house all night waiting for you. "Bai Liu's tone was scattered and Tang Erda could hear Bai Liu's fast moving footsteps.

"That's not the way of a grown man... Let me guess, you went behind my back to see who?" Bai Liu's tone has an indefinable ambiguity and coldness to it.

"You found it hard to control me and didn't want to deal with the money and me out of that Rose Gas deal because [I] backtracked on it, so you wanted someone, more than money, who could hold me in check to interrogate me."

" Lu Yizhan ." Bai Liu said the answer calmly, "You got him here, didn't you?"

Lu Yizhan, sitting in Tang Erda's passenger seat, is sleepy-eyed and her hair is sticking out.

He watched in confusion as Tang Erda drove a bus like a race car, grabbed his seat belt a little nervously and tried to speak up to stop the Officer Tang who had caught him out on overtime and racing with his police officer's license: "Long, sir! You're going too fast!"

Tang Erda slams the steering wheel with one hand and he gives a vicious, madcap smile.

"I've always wondered why you're like this in this timeline, I've repeatedly but looked up your biography and compared it to other lines in my memory, and to be honest, I actually don't want to remember this disgusting and hateful face of yours, or the things that are associated with you, but after I thought back, I realized that your life has created a point of deviation, and that point of deviation is this guy sitting in my This guy in the passenger seat - Lu Yizhan, is it?"

Lu Yizhan looked over with a confused look, his ears ringing from the ride: "Huh? Did you call me, sir?"

Tang Erda slammed his foot on the brake as he quickly swiped the access to the base's car park with his work permit and continued driving inside again.

Tang Erda drove fast even into the car park, backing into the parking space at high speed, his tyres scraping the ground with dust, before shutting the door and getting out, pulling Lu Yizhan, already a little dizzy, out of the passenger seat by the back of his collar.

Lu Yizhan, who had been working overtime for a few days to get a good night's sleep and was now in a car race, was so uncomfortable that he slumped against the car door and dry-heaved as soon as he stepped out.

Tang Erda clamped her shoulder over the comm and squinted at Lu Yizhan who was still dry heaving, took off her own gloves and threw them into the driver's seat and snorted into the comm, " Bai six, you actually have a friend you're willing to change for, what an eye-opener for me, huh?"

Lu Yizhan, who had just recovered, had the strength to stand up by the door, wiped the corner of his mouth and looked at Tang Erda with confusion and concern: "Sir, you were talking about Bai Liu, right? What's wrong with Bai Liu? Is he okay?"

Tang Erda raised an eyebrow and trailed off as she spoke into the comms, " Bai six, what do you think will happen to your upright police officer friend when he finds out who you really are?"

The sound of Bai Liu's feet running and moving quickly down the corridor stops, and only the sound of his slightly rapid breathing can be heard.

But the footsteps stopped for less than a second before they quickly started up again, Bai Liu's tone not changing at all, even a little flirtatious but saying to Tang Erda, "Team Tang, don't you think he knows who I am?"

"What makes you think that he can be my friend for ten years?"

Lu Yizhan stood up straight before stealing several glances at Tang Erda's tense expression.

Lu Yizhan, who had been deceiving himself, finally realised that Bai Liu might have committed a crime, and with a devastated expression, he grabbed his face and pulled it down: "Sir, it's not Bai Liu who has committed something, is it? He's my half-brother, and police relatives can get their sentences reduced, right?

"He didn't commit murder and arson, did he?!" Lu Yizhan looked nervously at Tang Erda, "Officer, he's a bit of that anti-human social personality, but his crimes shouldn't be intentional! He usually still has strong self-management skills, usually it's still fine if you don't mess with him ......"

Tang Erda's eerie silence obviously made Lu Yizhan think the worst.

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but cover his face and said in a grief-stricken tone, "Has he turned into a psychopathic serial killer or is he involved in some international financial crime, for God's sake, I've only worked overtime for two days without looking at him and he's turned into this- "

"It's all my fault. I should have known I wouldn't have worked late tonight." Lu Yizhan is in a state of guilt like never before.

Tang Erda: "......"

FUCK!!! What's wrong with this guy!!!

Bai Liu tsked twice, "You see what I'm talking about?"

"Why don't you think about making a deal with me?" Bai Liu dodges the patrolmen chasing behind him while chatting with Tang Erda as if they were talking business at a dinner table.

Tang Erda looked dark and sullen as he dragged Lu Yizhan by the back of his collar towards the lift in the underground car park. When he reached the lift door, he swiped it open with his work pass without hesitation and pressed the special warning button inside after stepping into the lift.

"I can pay, you name the price, and you give me the solution for the rose gas!" Tang Erda's tone began to grow annoyed.

As Tang Erda pushed the alarm button, a piercing siren sounded in Bai Liu's corridor, and the bright white light changed to a dark red flashing alarm light.

"Warning! Warning! There are heretics on the loose!"

Bai Liu turned unhurriedly into a side corridor, evading those who came after him.

Fifteen minutes of patrol rules and a long enough night of waiting had been enough for him to figure out one thing - that there wasn't much of a crew on this base, or it wouldn't be the same patrolman checking on him every time.

In this case, Bai Liu's escape seems to have been a calm one. He would not have been too anxious, and it was the other side that would have been anxious, because the fact that he, a heretic, had managed to escape proves that he is difficult to handle, and that ordinary patrolmen might not have dared to approach him, or that they would not have known where to put Bai Liu if they had caught him.

But this was also before Tang Erda arrived.

Bai Liu listens to the sound of the lift entering from Tang Erda's communicator, listens to the beeping of the lift on each floor and counts in his mind - one, two, three.

This would be either three levels down or three levels up from the car park where Tang Erda was located, but Bai Liu's impression is that the circular building is not very high and is more likely to be down.

This must be around the fourth basement level - Bai Liu muses in his mind.

Bai Liu casually stuffed the soul notes he had retrieved from the mountain of coins into his pocket, Bai Liu continued into his communicator, "I'm not going to talk to you about a money deal, I can give you the solution to the dried rose leaf gas, but I want you to give me something else. "

Tang Erda, who first heard Bai six refuse the money that had come to her, frowned: "What do you want?"

"I want you to sell your soul to me and join my team." Bai Liu quipped, "I'm going to play in the league this year, but my team is still gelling at the moment and they need an experienced coach to take them through."

"You've won the league, you have a lot of experience in the league, and you should know a lot about the team you're playing now." Bai Liu gave a heartfelt compliment, "There is no better coach for our team than you, Captain Tang."

"I've left a room full of money for you to use to buy your soul, so how about you think about it? I haven't been this generous with people in a long time." His tone was loose and flirtatious, with a very immodest grin, like he was molesting a small pet.

Tang Erda was clearly angered by Bai Liu and he took two deep breaths, " Bai six, you better not get caught by me."

Tang Erda hung up her communicator with a cold look on her face as it dinged with the sound of the lift arriving.

He tugged Lu Yizhan out of the lift while his face was cold as he continued to dial his communicator, "Report, 3rd detachment leader Tang Erda, in pursuit of escaped heretic 006, requesting to close all base entrances and exits, he can be seen on the surveillance right ...... "

Here he paused, Tang Erda's deep blue eyes turning an almost blue-black hue from the fierce, hateful emotions that stained them, and his tone became low, but his face became strangely placid.

"Heretic number 006's weakness is water, request to use room 1087 [Devouring Fountain] of Heretic ...... I will use this room for the interrogation of heretic number 006 tonight after capturing him."

Tang Erda licked his canines, his pupils dilated and his breathing slowed by an impending killing excitement, "Need I report on the interrogation style now? Heretic 006 hates having his head held down and repeatedly dipped into water, that's how I interrogate."

Lu Yizhan slowly looked towards Tang Erda, whose face was as normal, and his face changed.

Lu Yizhan looked at Tang Erda with a very serious look, he held Tang Erda's hand back to stop him from moving forward, "You can't do that, even if he did commit a crime, he still has human rights."

"You're not allowed to do that?" Tang Erda gave a nervous laugh, his eyes amazingly bright but his face not at all expressive, he raised his eyes to Lu Yizhan and grabbed his pulling wrist and pulled it away, "You know, I've said that [you can't do that] to Bai six countless times too, even if he didn't really do it once, I wouldn't be in this place."

Tang Erda yanked Lu Yizhan's hand away so hard that the veins on the back of his hand throbbed, but Lu Yizhan gritted his teeth and didn't let go, but the next moment Tang Erda gave Lu Yizhan an expressionless look as he squeezed the wrist bone and folded it downwards with ease.

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but hiss with a frown.

"Human rights?" Tang Erda's deep blue eyes lit up with a shocking light as he moved closer to Lu Yizhan, gripping his loosened wrist and snapping it back with a crisp click, Lu Yizhan's wrist was restored.

Lu Yizhan's face turned white and cold sweat seeped from his forehead.

"All the world can live, but the heretics cannot." Tang Erda's pupils quivered and he curled his mouth in a maniacal manner, "Because we are not human, we are monsters."

"Monsters have no human rights."