Chapter 208: The Rose Factory

Tang Erda's breath stopped for a moment, and he remembered - the godlike NPC with closed eyes inside the mirror when Bai Liu broke the mirror in the Burst Last Train video.

Wasn't that one already in the copy, but mapped out because of Bai Liu's fear?

Bai Liu ruffled the hair that had clotted in Tang Erda's ears from the plasma, so that Tang Erda could not break free and lean on his shoulder, and then whispered, "Do you want to face my fear?"

As he said this, Bai Liu's hand slowly moved upwards and a huge mirror with a diamond light appeared in front of him, the ripples in the mirror surging as if something was about to emerge from it in the next moment.

"No...!" Tang Erda lamely tries to turn his head, not wanting to see the mirror again, and he is so close to Bai Liu that he turns his head right into the crook of Bai Liu's shoulder - a somewhat dependent position, which makes Tang Erda, who is not used to relying on anyone, subconsciously try to pull his head out of Bai Liu's shoulders.

"It's okay." Bai Liu's tone was as gentle as it had ever been, his fingers plunging through the bloodstained hair at the back of Tang Erda's head, kneading it apart soothingly as if he were calming a large, frantic pet dog, "I'm the one using the mirror this time, your Su Yang will be fine."

Weakly, Tang Erda stops struggling in a trance under Bai Liu's soothing touch. Bai Liu gently tilts his Tang Erda's face and lifts his chin so that he is facing the mirror - Tang Erda's pupils crinkle violently the moment he sees the mirror.

--He saw a man, a child drowned countless times in the water, sealed in a marble sculpture to be viewed, saw this child drawn and bound and covered in needle holes, saw this man crushed and cut up, brutally dismembered and then gutted of his still beating heart, placed in a factory room to be continuously filled with boiling hot The man had been cut to pieces and then brutally dismembered to remove his heart, which was still beating, and left in a factory room to be pumped with hot liquid.

The perfume pumped into the heart like blood, forcing it to beat spasmodically under the pain - the heart he had seen in the factory room was actually ......

The cruelty of the scene exceeded Tang Erda's tolerance level and he shuddered, dry-heaving and turning his face away from it.

He thought he had experienced the limits of torture for the living, but he never knew that it could not stop until after death.

Bai Liu does not allow Tang Erda to turn his head, but holds his head forcefully in his hands, forcing him to look at the scene in the mirror.

"You see, we are the same." Bai Liu whispers next to Tang Erda, whose expression is blank, "We are both terrified, angry, uncontrollably empathetic because of someone's torment."

"I can feel other people's pain." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, he dropped to both knees and leaned forward slightly, the moment Tang Erda leaned back to avoid him, Bai Liu unexpectedly embraced Tang Erda hard, "I know you're in a lot of pain, as much as I am, Captain Tang."

"Please believe me that I will not cause you any more pain, let all the pain that I caused before stop here."

"Although I'm not one of those Bai six, I know you probably want to hear me say these three words to you - sorry, and for all the hard work that's been done." Bai Liu patted him on the shoulder.

The embraced Tang Erda raised his head in a dazed, unbelieving way, tears slipping unstoppably from his grey-blue eyes.

Bai six ...... No, it was Bai Liu who apologised to him?

In the mirror, Tavel's eyes lifted, silvery blue like a sheet of ice melting in the sunlight, and Tang Erda was dazzled by their gaze, a white light appearing on his forehead that made him faint.

The white light spread far and wide, floating like an aurora borealis before Tang Erda's eyes, and he seemed to become lighter for a moment, floating endlessly in the light, in which he saw Su Yang's smiling face, standing in front of him, stubbornly, persistently questioning him.

"Captain, why are you so obsessed with convicting Bai six? There's obviously no evidence yet, is there?"

He seemed to have said something that angered Su Yang, who had never been so angry before, and he shouted at him, "Captain, if we work purely on emotions and desires, what's the difference between us and those heretics!"

"Whenever possible, always use your eyes and evidence to determine whether this person is a monster or a human being!"

After yelling, Su Yang bowed her head somewhat helplessly.

He seemed to want to leave, but was stopped by Su Yang, and the two men just stood there in the narrow aisle of the Heresy Bureau, and then after a standoff of some time, Su Yang suddenly took a deep breath and looked up.

"If the day comes when the captain really can't hold out and is as tainted as the others."

"I will get you back."

Su Yang smiled as if he hadn't lost his temper with him, and he took a step forward and seemed to open his lips to say something softly, "--"

Bai Liu's eyes dropped and he whispered on the side of Tang Erda's head, "--"

The two voices overlapped indistinguishably in Tang Erda's ears, " Captain Tang, if it really doesn't hold up that well, leave the rest to me."

Bai Liu held Tang Erda's head and gently said, "Give me your wishes, give me your soul, give me your pain, and let me, who was the culprit, take it all for you, as I should."

Tang Erda, dying, breathing weakly and with half a face, leans on Bai Liu's shoulder, his eyes looking up as if his soul has been drained from him, his hands falling without any force, unresponsive.

After an unknown period of time, a tear dripped down Tang Erda's jaw, his fingers moved, his arms lifted with great slowness, effort and struggle, and he hugged Bai Liu back as if he was going to die the next moment, choking back a sob through clenched teeth.

" Bai Liu, this is the last time, the last time I trust a deal with you."

Bai Liu's face broke into a comforting smile, "You won't regret it."

Tang Erda closed her eyes: "I give you my soul in exchange for granting my wish."

Bai Liu smiles: "I've left you the money, so I won't pay more."

Tang Erda was stunned, before realising that Bai Liu was talking about the roomful of dimes the man had left behind to escape at the Bureau of Dangerous Heresy.

While speechless, Tang Erda finally relaxes, he looks far, far away and wonders what has occurred to him, a subtle smile appears on his face and his tone drifts.

"You're still ...... as stingy as ever."

"I hope you don't mind my little habit too much, after all it looks like --" Bai Liu holds up a soul note with Tang Erda's head on it and raises an eyebrow with a smile, " --we're supposed to be working together for a long time."

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has purchased the soul of player Tang Erda using RMB*@&@ (the amount is cumbersome and is being calculated)]

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Shrine.

The Hunter card on the tabletop floated and turned face up the moment Tang Erda agreed to the deal, changing from a weeping hunter to a werewolf hooded, fierce-eyed hunter and floating from the side of the seer, to the side of the hood.

The man in the hood held the card floating in the air with two fingers as he looked across at the prophet with a smirk in his voice, "Your last devolvable god card, Hunter, has also switched sides to Werewolf, now what are you going to do?"

The prophet's eyes rested motionless on the werewolf card, "The game is not over yet."

The hooded man looked with a smirk at the rose card that he had placed under it, "Soon."

"All the clues have been assembled, and Bai six won't let this game go on for long."

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Bai Liu came out of the corridor and Liu Jiayi looked down at the time: "Sixteen minutes, you've finished with the idiot?"

"There." Bai Liu straightened his shirt and cuffs, which were covered in the blood stains left by hugging Tang Erda, but it was a good thing he didn't care much.

He turned to Liu Jiayi: "Go in and treat him."

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes and walked in holding up two vials of antidote, "Not that you mind much what he's done."

"If I minded that in the first place I'd have a problem with you." Bai Liu smiles and locks eyes with Liu Jiayi for a moment, "Obviously I'm not like that, it's not in my best interests to do things that way."

Liu Jiayi silently withdrew his eyes and honestly carried the antidote inside.

Bai Liu added: "He'll be needed later on to fight the monsters in the inner world, try to get him to recover completely - he's my personal property now and I don't really want to see him fighting for me in a wounded state."

"Got it!" Liu Jiayi waved her hand impatiently.

Qi Yifang watched in amazement as Bai Liu naturally called on the little witch - a witch is on the same level as the Queen of Hearts in the King's Guild and has such a privileged position that even the Queen would not call on the little witch like a soldier.

Bai Liu also saw Qi Yifang and nodded to him unapologetically, and hypocritically reached out to shake Qi Yifang's hand and said, "I really like your skills, jump in and play for our team sometime."

Qi Yifang: "......"

What a fucking opener!

Just as Qi Yifang is wondering what Bai Liu means, Tang Erda comes out after Liu Jiayi.

Captain Tang, who has just switched sides, is clearly not too comfortable with the situation and tries to draw his gun at the sight of Bai Liu, but soon recalls that he has just been saved by the little witch sent by Bai Liu with a grim grunt from Liu Jiayi.

Tang Erda looked at Liu Jiayi, who was looking him up and down with an extremely mean look, and Bai Liu, who was standing next to him, and felt uncomfortable - these were real, real enemies, the kind he had fought and died for!

He almost killed Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi with a single shot just before he entered the game.

Tang Erda, who had only just finished dealing with Bai Liu for ten minutes, was already regretting it - he felt that he must have been brainwashed by something ten minutes ago, or hypnotised by Bai Liu with some kind of prop.

He must have been too crazy to make the choice to trade souls with Bai Liu!

While Tang Erda was secretly regretting his impulsive spending (?), Bai Liu suddenly reached out to him. While Tang Erda was secretly regretting his impulsive spending (?), Bai Liu suddenly extended his hand to him, which made Tang Erda, who was alert and conditioned to Bai Liu, once again subconsciously draw his gun and point it at him.

Bai Liu, who is clearly reaching out for friendship, and Tang Erda, who has a stern gaze as she draws her gun right at him.

The atmosphere stagnated for a moment as Liu Jiayi gripped the bottle of poison with a grimace: "Bai Liu, are you sure you've trained this guy?"

"He doesn't trust me much." Bai Liu shrugged his shoulders as he indifferently continued to take a step forward, completely unafraid to part Tang Erda's gun and take hold of Tang Erda's other hand that was clenched into a fist close to her side, lifting it up and shaking it before smiling at Tang Erda, "It's okay, I trust your abilities just fine."

Bai Liu moves like a patient owner teaching a hand-shake to a dog who is new to a place and still wary.

Tang Erda, who had just been a little disoriented by the action of drawing her gun, slowly lowered her own gun and locked eyes with Bai Liu for a moment, her eyes still alert but tentatively shaking Bai Liu's hand back.

It is like a big wolf dog that has just been tamed, with its fangs collected and its tail and ears drooping down.

The smile on Bai Liu's face deepened considerably.

Not very clever, but certainly very deceptive, which is a plus.