Chapter 152: The Dangerous Heretics Treatment Authority

Liu Jiayi's thoughts followed her, and she frowned in deep thought, "If you do smell Bai Liu, then that proves that I was right, but why isn't Bai Liu here? I don't think the group would let Bai Liu go so easily, so what's the deal?"

No sooner had she said this than an ear-splitting radio alert sounded from the base.

"Level 1 alert! Level 1 alert! Total lockdown of the base is imminent! Over 80 percent of the heretics are on the run! Please prepare your team for battle!"

"In the case of alien invaders and humanoid heretics such as Bai six, priority will be given to death rather than to internment!"

"What's that intruder humanoid heretic ......" Mu Sicheng pointed to the tip of his nose, "can't be talking about us?"

"I think so, but I think there are more important things right now." Muke looked warily behind Mu Sicheng, he held Mu Sicheng's right shoulder to keep him from turning back, "You'd better not turn back so easily now."

Mu Sicheng took a deep breath and he too felt it: "There's something behind me on my shoulders isn't there?"

A bride in a Ming and Qing dynasty bride's jacket, thickly covered with a cover embroidered with the character Xi, stretches out a pale, corpse-stained hand with blackened nails and rests it softly and bonelessly on Mu Sicheng's shoulder, the lower half of her face peeking out from beneath the mouldy cover with an eerie smile at the corners of her rigid mouth.

They had no idea when the new bride had appeared, or when she had approached them.

"What do I do now?" Mu Sicheng's tone is still subdued.

Liu Jiayi's eyes went to this new bride, then she raised an eyebrow, "...... I think I should know this monster, I've played the game she appears in."

"Her monster book name is [New Bride], and the way she attacks people in the game is by marrying the groom she picks, and you get dragged into the underworld." Liu Jiayi's playful eyes swept over to a stony-faced Mu Sicheng, "Simply put, she puts her hands on your shoulders, which means she's got her eye on you."

Mu Sicheng is cracking up: "But I don't see her! Can you tell her that we don't have arranged marriages here anymore!"

Muke was keen to pick up on Liu Jiayi's words: "She's a monster from a monster book? Then she has a weakness, what's her weakness?"

Liu Jiayi's tone calmed down: "First, you must not turn your back on her, second, you had better not be a male of her age to marry, and third-"

Before the words were out of her mouth, Liu Jiayi leapt up on Mu Sicheng's shoulders and lifted the new bride's head in a harsh movement, her gaze fierce: "--- Third, she cannot leave her head. "

The cover falls to the ground and the bride, whose face is all rotten, covers her face and lets out a harsh scream as Liu Jiayi flings away her cover, and the bride takes small steps in pursuit of the patch of red that Liu Jiayi flung away, representing the cover.

Liu Jiayi pulled Mu Sicheng up and, without looking back, sternly bellowed, "Run!"

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Tang Erda walked into the corridor and across from him was a messy, foul-smelling mass of hair that looked like it had been pulled out of a bathtub drain, and several members of the team were trembling as they prepared to go over to take it in when Tang Erda raised her hand to stop them.

He looked to the mass of hair, "Every heretic, or monster, here that has active aggression has its own weaknesses, and you must be careful to exploit these their innate weaknesses when you take them in."

Tang Erda breathed lightly as she approached the mass of hair: "This heretic, for example, number 1402, [Iron Worm Algae], looks very much like a mass of hair, but it is actually a swarming parasite that is extremely viable and reproductive, and it is best not to display the trait that it can parasitise living things when you approach it."

"But unfortunately, the human body is the subject of their host, so we'd better give it a diversionary host organism."

A member of the team ran up from behind and handed Tang Erda a Little Bai rat in a cage.

Tang Erda took the cage, then opened it and grabbed the Little Bai rat and threw it with uncanny precision towards the hair.

The parasites, which had been disguised as hairs, instantly wrapped their tentacles around and into the Little Bai's body, where they gibbered and spasmed on the ground, with countless writhing threads visible beneath the surface.

"Feeding time is its only weakness and it won't find another time to attack another creature." Tang Erda grabs the Little Bai rat with leather gloves and very quickly throws it into the glass box.

Little Bai rats explode into an instant mist of blood inside the box, and the fed-up worms stand up like centipedes, swimming around the edges of the glass box in an attempt to get out.

The sight made the rest of the team shudder a little, they couldn't imagine at all what would happen if this thing got out.

A team member took a deep breath and raised his communicator to report, "Report, heretic [1402] intake complete."

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A translucent crawling creature scuttles silently past Liu Jiayi's back.

Mu Sicheng's nose twitched, and before his brain could respond, the strange and familiar pungent smell made him draw the gun he had stripped from the patrolman without hesitation, and aim a shot at the spot.

The crawling creature made a bared, lizard-like sound, turning from colourless to a slimy, deep black, falling from the wall to the ground before sliding its limbs away again as fast as it could.

Liu Jiayi looked over in slight surprise, she hadn't even heard any movement just then.

"[Transparent Chameleon], a monster from a level one game I played, low defense but high stealth." Mu Sicheng said while rubbing his shoulder, "I couldn't figure out what the thing's weakness was by the end, but my attack value was high enough so I just killed it out."

Mu Sicheng showed his teeth and smiled, "Looks like these monsters still can't resist bullets, both in and out of the game, luckily I've played with guns in the game a few times."

Muke had already got his gun behind his waist, he had learnt to shoot, but his reflexes were not as quick as Mu Sicheng's and his mind was on searching for Bai Liu.

Muke looked pensive: "Mu Sicheng, can you smell Bai Liu?"

"Tch." Mu Sicheng rubbed his rear end a little annoyingly, "Usually it's fine, but not here, the smell is too mixed up here and all these monsters smell too washed out."

"There's no way they could have released the monsters here themselves." Liu Jiayi began to analyse clearly. Liu Jiayi began his analysis with clarity of thought, "Although I don't know where Bai Liu got all this power, I think it's probably him, now the question is, what does this man want when he's making all this noise?"

Liu Jiayi looks to Mu Sicheng and Muke: "Now that everything we've planned has been overturned, the only thing we can do is find out Bai Liu's motives for doing this."

"Once we figure that out, we'll know where he'll go. You guys seem pretty close to Bai Liu, you're willing to die for him, what do you know about Bai Liu?"

Muke hesitantly recalled for a short while, "...... His computer was an alien I lost to him, he seemed to quite like that brand of computer ......"

Mu Sicheng rubs his chin in contemplation: "He had a discounted hotpot last week, does that count as understanding?"

Liu Jiayi with a numb face: "...... That's not the aspect of understanding I'm talking about, are you guys playing together as schoolboys?!"

So these two people are nothing and they followed her here without knowing anything!

But it was only at this moment that Liu Jiayi suddenly realised that Bai Liu had already gotten a clear picture of the three men's psychological profile, their motivations, their backgrounds and even their ancestry.

If they were trapped in this base, Bai Liu knew enough about them to figure out their behavioural patterns, quickly project where they would go, the path they would take to escape, and then quickly and quickly locate them and get them out.

Bai Liu's knowledge and mastery of them gave them the illusion that they and Bai Liu had known each other for a long time and knew each other very well.

But in fact it is not.

They knew nothing about Bai Liu, or rather, Bai Liu never let them know what he was thinking.

Who can tell what Bai Liu is thinking?

This guy is devious and cunning, probably wears a thousand smiling masks on his face, and does everything to keep people completely confused.

Can anyone in the world really guess what Bai Liu is thinking, know where he's going and find out where he is?

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Lu Yizhan walks solemnly through the corridor, heading deeper into the earth, surrounded by people swimming upstream.

Someone stopped him: "Hey! Where are you going! That's the most dangerous place for heretics to be sealed! Only detachment members can go down there!"

Lu Yizhan was oblivious, he simply gripped the gun in his hand, brushed past the men as they walked out, and walked down the road with unshakable determination.

There are the most dangerous heretics there.

He knows Bai Liu too well, perhaps even better than Bai Liu himself, and he is naturally drawn to danger, to play, and the more uncontrollable and unknown things are, the more he is drawn to them.

After working at Lu Yizhan for so long, he knew another name for someone like Bai Liu, and that was [born criminal].

With low empathy, high IQ, thrill and terror seeking, no social identity and greater childhood trauma, these people are born more prone to go astray than the norm.

But Lu Yizhan always trusted Bai Liu, who had promised him that he would not commit crimes so easily, so he trusted him.

The team said that Bai Liu controlled the heretics, so Lu Yizhan believed that no matter how dangerous they were, they would not kill him because Bai Liu was the one in control.

Because Bai Liu has been Lu Yizhan's only friend for ten years.

Lu Yizhan walks alone into the depths of the earth, dull light streaking across the side of his face as countless monsters of horrific form dance hideously past him, attacking him with gaping teeth.

He does not hide, he does not run, he does not move, he just moves forward in silence, gritting his teeth and not backing down. Eventually the monsters that came like a tide also fade like a tide and Lu Yizhan staggers, bruised and battered, holding onto the wall and emerging from the darkness.

At the end of the corridor, a blinding white light falls, and Bai Liu looks quietly at Lu Yizhan, who has finally reached him.

"You shouldn't have come to me, Lu Yizhan ." Bai Liu drops his eyes.

Lu Yizhan smiled as he reluctantly braced himself against the wall and stood up straight, looking at Bai Liu with his usual gentle, all-encompassing gaze: "But you still let me find you, Bai Liu, if you really wanted to hide, I would never have been able to find you."

He held out his hand to Bai Liu, as he always did, "Come out with me."

Bai Liu looks to Lu Yizhan's bloodied and bruised, trembling hand that reaches out to him, without moving.

Lu Yizhan always reached out to him in this way, giving him food, names and friends.

Despite his cold rejection each time, Lu Yizhan would speak for himself, laughing cheerfully and unconcernedly as he approached, brutally and unreasonably plucking Bai Liu up from under the all-consuming waters and dragging him away.

" Lu Yizhan, you should know very well that it is in my nature to do very nasty things." Bai Liu raised his eyes to Lu Yizhan, "I have the power and the ability to profit from it, and I don't much care if other people live or die, I have no reason not to do it."

Bai Liu said calmly, "We can't be friends at all, and I just think of you as another person."

Bai Liu looked directly at Lu Yizhan, his eyes and tone light: "But you are not him."

" Lu Yizhan, you are a human not a monster, humans and monsters can't be friends, you have wrongly forced both of us for ten years, don't continue to do so."

"In the normal course of events, I'll be the kind of criminal you'll shoot and you'll be the kind of cop that shoots me, I'll spare you one last time, don't reach out to me when you see me in the future, draw your gun on me."

Lu Yizhan slowly lowered his head, gasped twice, clenched his hand against the wall into a fist, and then without hesitation drew his gun from his back and aimed it at Bai Liu.

The expression on Bai Liu's face was not a surprise.

I'm sure Lu Yizhan was fully aware of how harmful it would be to release him, and killing him here was the best option, being held at gunpoint by Lu Yizhan, who didn't even get his heart rate or breathing faster.

Then Lu Yizhan smiled again as he stumbled towards Bai Liu, dragging his wounded leg on the way over, and slowly placed the gun in the stunned Bai Liu's hand, then took Bai Liu's hand in his bloody, thick, shaking one, and made Bai Liu raise the gun to himself.

"I'd never pull a gun on you, Bai Liu ." Lu Yizhan smiled with crooked eyes, his face covered in all sorts of blood and scrapes so that even when he smiled, he looked woefully out of place.

Lu Yizhan opened his eyes and he looked straight at Bai Liu, then flicked the safety on his gun, "If you really want to leave this place and start hurting and killing other ordinary people, then let me be the first person you kill."

"Because the police can't turn a blind eye to what you're trying to do, but there's really no way I can pull a gun on you ...... From the looks of things today, you've reached an area where there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop you. "

Lu Yizhan held the barrel of the gun to his forehead and he didn't dodge it at all as he looked at Bai Liu: "In that case, please, before you go and do all those bad things, kill this incompetent cop without letting him see everything you're going to do."

At gunpoint, Lu Yizhan softly flashed Bai Liu the familiar, helpless smile he had seen so many times before: "But at the end of this cop's life, as long as you haven't done anything bad, you're still his friend."

[Because a policeman's friend must not be a bad guy, and if you ever do anything bad, Bai Liu, I will arrest you myself]

[So if I do do something bad, will you kill me, Lu Yizhan ?

[If you do something that deserves to go to jail, then you go to jail, and if jail doesn't make up for it and you must die to do it, then I'll fight to the death to stop you before you actually commit that crime]

Bai Liu clutches his gun and Lu Yizhan raises his hands in a gesture of surrender.

Without the slightest resistance, he calmly closed his eyes.