Chapter 266: Reality

Reality.

Liu Jiayi took Tang Erda out of the game as soon as they logged out, and had him call Su Yang to ask about the plane.

"Contact was lost while crossing the sea over the Antarctic." Su Yang's voice tightened, "Captain, you've ...... [seen] it again, haven't you?"

This is a question of whether Tang Erda, like before, [the prophet] generally sees this future.

"...... sort of." Tang Erda rubbed her brow, sounding tired, "But this time when I [saw] it, it was too late, sorry."

"There's no need to say sorry to me, Captain." Su Yang smiled bitterly, "It's my fault."

Liu Jiayi jumped up and grabbed Tang Erda's phone and said into it, " Captain Su, things may not be turning around either."

Su Yang's voice was suddenly a harsh one, "Is there anything I can do?"

Liu Jiayi spoke quickly, "Help us find out if there is a Du Sanying, Du Jie, the number three, the parrot, in Mirror City."

"Okay, that's a rare name, you guys don't hang up, I'll get right back to you."

Then came the sound of Su Yang's feet hurrying away, and soon he returned at a trot, panting, "There's no Du Sanying in Mirror City, do we need to widen the search?"

Liu Jiayi knitted her brows, and she realised - Du Sanying had actually changed his name in the game.

Finding a player who doesn't know his original name is like looking for a needle in a haystack in the real world.

Su Yang understood this too, and his voice took on an urgent tone: "Is there any other special information about this person? We will do everything we can to help you."

The plane over the Antarctic could make an emergency landing at any moment, and any moment is as precious as five lives at this moment.

But unfortunately - Liu Jiayi pursed her lips and spoke, "This man does have special points."

Su Yang followed up with, "What special point?"

Liu Jiayi: "He was very lucky."

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Bai Liu left the pool, and within a second of standing still wet, he quickly logged out of the game to meet up with Liu Jiayi's group who were looking for Du Sanying.

The meeting place is at Bai Liu's house.

Bai Liu looks as normal as ever, except for some unkempt creases on the collar and cuffs of his shirt, and is in the best condition of the group.

Bai Liu took one look at Liu Jiayi and said with a start, "You've changed your name, haven't you? That's going to be a problem to find someone."

Talk about trouble, but there was not a hint of a troubled expression on this man's face, which remained relaxed and at ease.

And this ease gives Liu Jiayi an indescribable sense of dissonance.

Bai Liu logged out of the game, that means that heart was disposed of ......

She knows what that heart means to Bai Liu, who is not normal in this [relaxed and comfortable] state.

But there was no way she could ask, as Bai Liu soon steered her thoughts in the right direction.

Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi: "What's your next idea for finding someone?"

"Find people around us who are relevant." Liu Jiayi's face was stony, "As you said, according to what you know about yourself, that is, [Bai six ], if a character like [Du Sanying ] existed with 100 per cent luck, you would never let him go."

"He was quite outstanding and very valuable."

"Yes." Bai Liu lifted his eyes and smiled at Tang Erda, "So this is the time to ask our Captain Tang to patiently remember if there was such a cute and lucky character in a wandering circus in other times and places?"

Tang Erda quickly realised what Bai Liu was up to, his brow furrowed in thoughtful recollection, and after a long, slow interval, he said.

"The Wandering Circus, for most of its time, consisted of you and four others, and I rarely saw anyone else other than those four on the league field or exist around you."

"But ...... does have one if it's not a roving circus, but a supernumerary associated with a roving circus."

Bai Liu gestures with his eyes for Tang Erda to continue.

Tang Erda has to think very hard to recall the low presence of the character.

"He rarely plays, but you ...... Bai six will take him a lot, but take him ......"

--what to do?

The face of the boy who appeared on the field from time to time, sitting on the bench with his head shrunken, is completely blurred in Tang Erda's memory.

It's a bit strange to say that Bai six never takes worthless people and this boy Tang Erda was not impressed at all - because Bai six never put this boy on the field.

It's like Bai six seems to be deliberately pampering him ......

But what else is the value of a reserve player if not on the field of play?

Why Bai six brings him to every game ......

Tang Erda jolted as he remembered a rather brief moment - the boy standing cowering in front of Bai six, helping him draw the hostile cards from the box.

Drawing hostile cards is a very important part of the league.

The league is divided into three parts of the competition: pre-season, mid-season and post-season.

The pre-season tournament is a mixed competition, also known as a rookie tournament.

This part of the tournament features older teams that did not finish before thirty-two in last year's league, as well as new teams that have registered for the league for the first time this year.

Only two teams will emerge from the competition, but these two teams will have direct access to the playoffs.

Mid-season games are also known as star games.

The teams in this part of the tournament are those that finished before the 32nd place in last year's tournament. They are highly capable and strong, and most of them will have star players, making it the most interesting round of the tournament.

These teams will go through several rounds of back-and-forth play against each other, with the eight highest point totals advancing to the playoffs.

And the playoffs are divided into a challenge and a main competition.

The challenge is for the two winning pre-season Rising Stars teams to randomly challenge two of the eight teams entering the playoffs, and if they win, they enter the playoffs instead of the other team.

If they lose, then the fate of these two teams ends here.

The main event is a single-legged final between the eight teams that remain in the tournament, with the winner advancing and the loser being eliminated, leaving no room for manoeuvre and the most exciting part of the tournament - both for the players and the punters' audience.

Usually by this point in the game, all the spectators have almost gone crazy and it's not uncommon for people to fight each other within the game after a match.

And card draws are an important part of the pre-season as well as the post-season challenges - because in both of these more random fixtures, teams rely on randomly deciding their opponents by drawing cards from a box.

If your side is lucky enough to draw an opposing team with poor form, low ability, or a skill match, you will be quite lucky for your side.

And this kind of luck happens a lot with Bai six - but this guy is a 0 luck player!

Tang Erda's account corroborates Bai Liu's suspicions.

Since Du Sanying has been seen in the vicinity of Bai six in other worlds, there must be some sort of intersection with Bai Liu in this world.

After all, the one who wanted to change him from Bai Liu back to Bai six, or rather God, would not give up trying to modify any of the points of difference between them.

This god had simply and directly sent Du Sanying to him before, but Bai Liu did not control Du Sanying, presumably because of the special nature of Du Sanying as a person.

With 100 per cent luck, it was too easy for this guy to escape Bai Liu, the unfortunate man.

But in that case, [God] must have placed Du Sanying in a place within Bai Liu's reach, so that Bai Liu could [use] the reserve team member that God had prepared for him at any time.

Over the years, due to work and other reasons, Bai Liu has been living on the move and has even changed his rental properties, so he has been living in a lot of different places.

Only one place is relatively permanent for him.

But the place has been knocked down and rebuilt.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, "Have Su Yang check out the patients, caregivers, and doctors at the nursing home that was built after my orphanage was knocked down and rebuilt."

Tang Erda dialed the number and Su Yang, the caller, asked, "What kind of person do you need to check inside?"

Bai Liu: "I'm very lucky myself, but the people around me are particularly unlucky."

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Shrine.

The man in the hood opposite the prophet snorted in boredom as he propped his palms up and looked at the werewolf card on the table, shaking his head slightly regretfully, "- Shame, I thought I'd see Bai Liu corrupt the heart himself."

"After all, it was a game of metamorphosis that I had so carefully prepared for him."

The prophet said, " Bai Liu will not do that."

The man raised his eyes with amusement as he gazed at the seer, "But my purpose was achieved nonetheless."

"You see, Bai Liu is not repelled by water now, he will even take the initiative to dive in and use this to his advantage to deter his opponents, nor will he linger too much over a fading heart, or even-"

The prophet interrupted him sternly, "That was not his heart!"

The man added the second half of the sentence without haste, "-and would even offer to take the [lucky man] I had prepared for him."

He smiled, "What a transformation, Bai Liu's eyes had begun to not see the people around him as human beings, his feelings stripped away with the death of that heart, his flesh alienated with those corpses, his eyes only seeing the league and the ultimate desire for money."

"Tome, he's only one win away from Bai six."

"Although the process wasn't quite what I expected, I was going to draw away from his only feelings once he was fourteen with the help of Xie Ta's death, unfortunately ......" the man lowered his eyes and brushed the red eyes of the werewolf brand with the hollow of his index finger:. "-but it doesn't matter, he'll soon be what I want him to be."

The prophet's petrification had reached his waist and his chest rose and fell weakly: "What you do is not the way of God."

The man laughed: "That's right, because I'm an evil god."

"Playing with humans, gaining profit, slaving them, is what I like to do most."

"Like this idiot card." The man casually flung out a card, "I'm not a big fan of these purely good guy cards that wolves can't even knife with tempo, but this one does seem interesting and valuable for a Bai six team."

On the face of the card flung out by the man on the table was a boy in a hospital gown scowling a little as if he were afraid of someone, a little freckle scattered across both cheeks and the base of his nose, and a pair of boxy flat glasses on the bridge of his nose.

The man looked at the card with downcast eyes and folded his hands, "Idiot with 100 percent luck, nice setup, all the Bai six in the world line love him, I'm sure the Bai six in this world line do too."

The prophet spoke hoarsely, "Because he saved Bai six."

"Save?" The man smiled as he shook his head slightly, "I prefer to call this process destiny."

He stretched out a few fingers and nodded casually on the idiot card, his gaze scattered, " - during a conflict with the Heretic Handling Bureau in reality, because the mad hunter used a weapon with targeted skills and attacked Bai six in a suicide attack, leaving him seriously injured. "

"Accidentally injured wandering circus ringmaster has the misfortune to hide out in the heart of a car accident."

"And the only person who survived the crash at the heart of it was Du Sanying, the lucky one."

"He was too lucky to survive a car accident in which everyone was killed instantly." The man folded his fingers carelessly, "but his good fortune must be accentuated by the misfortune of others, must invite the misfortune of those around him."

The man looked up at the prophet with a smile, "For God is fair, and misfortune and fortune should be kept constant."

The prophet's voice was mute beyond words, "...... Du Sanying's father, mother, sister, and older siblings all died in the crash."

"It was Quan family's trip to celebrate the end of his senior year, but you let them all die, die in front of Du Sanying, even for such a teenager to know that these people died because he was lucky."

The man spreads his hands, "One should always be aware of how high a price one has paid for one's good fortune, otherwise they would not appreciate it."

"It is a blessing from God." He smiled lightly, "-and the price I charge will only be higher."

The prophet stared straight at the man, "But he has paid, you made him save the wounded Bai six, isn't that enough to pay the price you want?"

"No, no, no." The man shook his head slightly, a smile in his eyes, "I didn't ask him to save it."

"It was Du Sanying himself who took the initiative to save it."

"Du Sanying's life was surrounded by people who paid for his good fortune and he seemed to be incredibly fortunate to have a good family and good brothers."

"But Du Sanying could not prevent the unfortunate fate of anyone associated with him - even though it was caused by him."

The prophet said in a cold voice, "It was caused by you."

"One could say the same." The man raised his eyes, smirking, "-and Bai six, a man with a luck value of zero, is the only one whose misfortune is not caused by Du Sanying."

" Bai six's misfortune is innate and has nothing to do with Du Sanying, whose presence will instead bring him luck, so Bai six is the only person in the world that Du Sanying can use his luck to prevent his misfortune."

The man under the hood smiled, "- so Du Sanying will definitely put his life on the line to help Bai Liu, to save Bai Liu, and even become the most obedient pawn and puppet under him without having to trade souls."

" Du Sanying is desperate to protect the Bai six he meets at the centre of the crash in every world because he no longer knows the meaning of his existence other than to protect the Bai six he can only protect."

The prophet interrupts him, "provided Du Sanying remembers that this has happened to him."

"He'll remember soon enough." The man lowered his eyes to the idiotic card on the table, "- his destiny has come."

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Within five minutes, Su Yang returned the call, reporting at a rapid pace.

"We should have found the person you're looking for, original name Du Ying? He's the third in the family, with an older brother, an older sister and a younger sister below, their family is an ethnic minority and not restricted to family planning, so it's a big family."

"The family has always been relatively smooth but strangely unlucky, for example, Du Ying's father, a lawyer, has been in some very dangerous situations from time to time, but whenever Du Ying goes to him, he is bound to have a major confrontation and then get injured, while Du Ying is unharmed."

" Du Ying used to enjoy going to wait for her father to finish work and after realising the trouble she would cause, she never went back."

"In primary school, Du Ying's class was attacked indiscriminately by vengeful people and all the children sitting in front of and behind Du Ying's seat were stabbed to death, except Du Ying, who is still alive."

"After that, no one dared to make friends with Du Ying, and he sat alone in the corner of the class where the rubbish bins were kept, with no one in front of or behind him, just the bins."

"When he got to junior high school, his class master, Mr. Ren, was a paedophile and had been watching for quite some time to lay hands on Du Ying, but one day Du Ying's sister volunteered to pick up her brother from school and was seen by the class master, who then moved on."

Su Yang takes a deep breath: " Du Ying's sister was almost sexually assaulted after a period of stalking, but Du Ying found out just in time."

" Du Ying got into a heated physical confrontation with his teacher and was forced to transfer to another school, but after the transfer Du Ying never had any contact with his family and felt he was in trouble and moved out on his own when he moved to another school."

"But the family felt that this was a falsehood and felt that Du Ying had saved his sister and was reluctant to give up on Du Ying, always trying to reconnect with him, even his sister used to come to his brother to open up to him."

"She thought her brother was brave and that it was the class teacher's fault, and she felt her dad had used the law to get her justice, so the incident left her no harm and spared her brother a disaster."

"It was a lucky thing - I looked up that my sister had sent such a text message to Du Ying."

"Then Du Ying gradually came around, he moved back home in his senior year and decided to study law and become a lawyer like Du's father to put an end to the injustice that these misfortunes had incurred."

Su Yang let out a long breath, " Du Ying overachieved in the entrance exams, scoring extremely high marks, being number one in the city, but he usually gets average grades, so the Quan family were all very happy."

"After filling out the application form, the family decided to celebrate Du Ying by preparing a graduation trip."

"But the family's car was involved in a series of crashes on the motorway and none of them survived, except Du Ying, who was unhurt."

"Du Ying suffered from a peculiar mental illness called amnesia, after which he could only remember the events of the last week and everything that had happened before that."

"A year ago he was unable to maintain a normal life due to renewed memory loss and his doctor recommended that he be hospitalised and Du Ying entered the nursing home where he now resides in room 906."

"This is all information from his medical records."

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi look at each other - this is the nursing home room where Bai Liu stayed in 'Love and Welfare'.

It seems that from that time onwards, those behind the scenes had already arranged for Du Sanying to take his place.