Chapter 265: Ice Age

The moment Spades' hand passed through Bai Liu's chest, the heart that Bai Liu had fastened to his veins slipped out of his back.

Bai Liu's eyes were half-closed, he knew it was useless, but he couldn't help himself from reaching out for the heart that had disappeared into the deep blue-black sea.

Slender fingers open and close feebly in the cold seawater.

Spades grabbed Bai Liu by the ribs and lifted him upwards for a moment, while he turned and chased him towards the depths, apparently to grab the heart and destroy it.

Bai Liu spreads his limbs in a dazed manner, slowly, passively floating upwards under the force of the lift, to the surface of a fine phosphorous glow.

The sun is silent below the horizon, with only a vague, silvery frame of shimmering light gilding the edges of the infinite waters.

Glaciers and ice floes, souvenirs of a planet that has cooled and warmed, or rather wreckage, graze the perimeter of Bai Liu suspended in the sea, following the currents far away.

The pure black sky is free of clouds, and only the countless stars of the universe flow through it, glowing with a mesmerising light, dazzling, dazzling, like large carats of crushed diamonds, like strings of pearls scattered on a velvet cloth.

Like all the luxurious and unforgettable things in this world, the moment they break, they blossom into heartbreak and mad beauty.

And this beauty is overshadowed by a light green veil shaking from the south-eastern sky - the aurora borealis.

The aurora borealis flows through the night, its fluorescent hues floating like a cheap curtain at the beginning of a dream.

Bai Liu's eyes were half open, his spirits and life levels were dropping so much that it was as if his ears were hallucinating the sound of Edmond's mournful exhortations.

[Child, never test your beloved with truth or falsity. I did that too, and I persevered through that experiment, but the only conclusion I came to was-]

[They can tell the difference.]

Even if they have the same memories, the same body, and the same structure as us, like another us in parallel time and space, they are still not us in the eyes of those who love us.

[What exactly is it that separates them from us?]

[The experiment I wanted to do in the beginning was to explore whether these monsters that were produced could actually become indistinguishable from us humans by passing the Turing test, and how they were really different from us humans.

[If it's the same, then are we humans really human?

[Perhaps we are just the same kind of monsters placed on this planet, in this game, carrying the memories that have been injected into us, from other people, a species produced for war and self-destruction - like my superiors asked me to do with these monsters].

I understand all the misfortunes that have been happening to me, to my friends, and around me all along - because we are born that way, and there is a higher dimension than us, or God, as he is more aptly called, who has determined the fate of the world to be so cruel.

[If different, where do these differences come from when the body, the core, and the memories are the same, and how can anyone recognize the real us when we can't even tell the real from the fake?

[The people at Tarzan Station gave me the answer, and in you I have verified it once again, but I am still Buming white why.

[Where does this difference come from?

[Before you came here, there were many guests who I experimented on, some of whom left in the middle of the process, some of whom stayed here forever - and under every ice fissure here are the "corpses" of those guests' failed experiments.

[Time and time again, the people at Tarzan Station erase their memories and read their files and start over, but they still recognize each other no matter who the guests are that come, and sometimes the guests that come can recognize each other.]

[But why?]

[Why can some people be identified and others not? Why is it that the people at Tarzan Station are always recognizable, but the guests who come can't do so with such constancy?

I couldn't find out what was affecting the results, so no matter how many times I ran the experiment, I still couldn't manipulate the results - until I met Spades.

[He was the fastest guest I've ever met to identify a teammate, he was willing to talk to me and gave me the answer - intuition.

[That's the strangest experimental variable I've ever heard of - if my student handed me a lab report with those two words on it, I'd make him jump into the Ross Sea in shame].

[I saw you, Bai Liu, in the memories of Spades' friend, the Reverse God, and you would make an experiment a thousand times more extreme and insane than the one I've done so far - you would make an insoluble game with thousands of copies of yourself, to test another person's perception of you. to test another person's perception of you.

[I know you do, and I'm sure you know the consequences of that, but you want to see it again, as I do, to verify that result one more time -]

[These Bai Liu have the same appearance, memories, and core as you, and you have even been alienated into one of these monsters, the monsters themselves - so can Spades still find you?

[Thank you for finally letting me know the answer to this unsolved puzzle].

[I always thought it was the side as a human that identified the side of the monster, but it wasn't really like that, it was the side as a monster that couldn't give back the special emotions that the human side wanted.

Though you are a monster, you love him, Bai Liu

[So you can't hide Tavel's heart in another "Bai Liu" body, because it's a heart that belongs to you].

[Your response reveals yourself.]

[Love turns you from a monster to a human being, love gives you a weakness, love makes you clutch his heart and float in the deep, love makes you stand out from the millions of monsters and become the most special one for Spades].

[So he found you.]

[But do not grieve child, it is not fate that brings you to your destiny, but love.]

[Love has kept you apart, but will bring you back together in the end].

The ice melts away in large chunks, and the pale "body" of the frozen monster inside floats on the surface, mixing with the broken ice as it swims past Bai Liu, his eyelashes condensed with very fine ice particles, glowing fluorescent green in the aurora borealis as the water rushes back and forth from his empty chest.

Someone emerged from under the water and Spades wrapped his arms around Bai Liu's waist and knees and lifted him, seemingly unconscious, to the shore, holding two hearts in his hands.

One was crushed and torn, but still beating faintly, and the other was frozen in a block of ice, so fresh it looked as if it had just been removed from the chest cavity - it was given by Spades from the body of a [Bai Liu].

Spades moves carefully to thaw out this heart.

"This is your real heart." Spades looked down at the motionless Bai Liu and placed the newly thawed heart inside Bai Liu's body, "Back to you."

Bai Liu's already Edmond-altered body rapidly grows to unite the pulses of his heart, the muscular skin of his thin heart instantly heals, and a slow, faint beat begins to appear in his otherwise cold, stiff chest.

Spades turned around, took out the fuel and acid he had stocked in the warehouse and without a pause began to work on the heart that was still beating weakly in his hand.

The heart was reduced to ashes amidst the roasting fire and the corrosive sound of acid.

Bai Liu's frozen fingers gripped together slightly, his dark eyes reflecting the beautiful night sky and nothing else.

Bai Liu's chest, which had resumed its heaving, stalled for a moment as the other heart was processed until it stopped beating.

It was as if his heartbeat had stopped with the complete cessation of the other heart.

[System Alert: Player Spades has destroyed the last corpse, achieved the true end line achievement, all players have passed the game, the copy will be closed soon ......]

As the snowfield collapses behind him, Bai Liu's system panel jumps out of the game, and Spades sinks to his knees beside the ashes and the seemingly dead Bai Liu, looking up slightly at the melting ice world.

Only after Bai Liu had disappeared in a puff of light at his side did Spades stand up and prepare to exit the game.

He also Buming why he had to wait for Bai Liu to quit the game before he did.

It seems to be a deep-rooted, intuitive habit.

Spades felt as if he had watched this man exit the game many times as a point of light and then fall into a long darkness waiting to see this man again at the start of the next game, so he did the same this time.

It's like a subconscious instinct that must come here to destroy all the corpses.

Spades has a vague sense that whoever designed the game was using the body parts and hearts to trap Bai Liu forever, leaving him cold and alone in the snowy plains as a monster for the rest of his life.

This is a very likely scenario, and Liu Jiayi is even glad that the person they logged into the game with was Spades.

Because there is nothing anyone can do to stop Bai Liu from going crazy.

If Bai Liu logs in with other players and finds out that the main quest here is to destroy the corpse, the [true end] line is triggered as soon as one player finds the corpse and destroys it.

Even if you kill these players and Edmond, the game is not over.

Because the game is already on the [true end] line, the game will not pass until you play the final ending that destroys all the corpses.

Bai Liu can also just quit the game, but at that point the game will be realistic and will load in reality.

After exiting Ice Age, Bai Liu will also enter a copy of Ice Age in the real world, essentially the same as if he had stayed in the game.

And in the real world, with the method of destroying the body parts already known, the destruction of these particle weather devices forever is inevitable.

The body parts will definitely face the end of being completely destroyed and there will be countless people trying to do this in any way possible.

Bai Liu knew he couldn't be an enemy of the world forever, which is why he made the choice to stay in the game at that time.

In this way he prevents the game from ending, from reaching its true end, and from being loaded into reality.

It can be said that the game is a trap designed from the beginning to the end, and the moment Bai Liu steps into the game, he has only two choices in front of him -

--either become a monster forever and stay in the snowy plains.

--Either ...... destroys Tavel's heart, destroys the only emotion, love, and weakness in his psyche, becomes ruthless, becomes cruel, unscrupulous, calculating, and then passes the game as a winner.

Let Bai Liu change from Bai Liu to Bai six.

This is what the people behind the curtain have been doing.

Liu Jiayi thanked from the bottom of his heart that the player they met in this game was Spades.

Because the other players can't stop Bai Liu from doing what he wants to do, but Spades has the ability to beat Bai Liu, and as long as he wins, Bai Liu doesn't need to choose.

As soon as Spades destroys the heart, Bai Liu will have to emerge from the snowfields.

Liu Jiayi wonders where Spades' obsession and instinct to destroy this heart came from and who gave it to him.

Although Spades' intuition was cruel to Bai Liu, destroying the heart of the person who was important to him.

But he did save Bai Liu.

Because he has completely destroyed Bai Liu's only weakness, the man behind the game will no longer be able to exploit it.