Chapter 280: The Dense Forest Frontier

Tang Erda tapped her forehead with her index finger in a serious manner, gesturing to Bai Liu to think of something.

Alex, who was staring at Tang Erda, sneered, "Is he saying he's not right in the head by making that gesture?"

Bai Liu: "......"

Good strong hostility.

Bai Liu approached Tang Erda as Alex went up to meet Guy who jumped off the platform.

He glanced around the room, " Where is Jiayi?"

Tang Erda rubbed her brow in pain, "This is a battlefield, Jiayi is not allowed on the front line, she was taken away by Red Cross people here after she was found and not allowed to come over at all."

"But she should be safe." Tang Erda reassured calmly, "I've searched the map of Red Cross after her, there are no high kill npcs or monsters there, it's just that she'll have to think again before she rejoins us."

Bai Liu nodded, "Just leave this to her."

"I also think that Liu Jiayi has always had a lot of ideas, and the rules here don't stop her." Tang Erda then looked at Spades, who was standing next to Bai Liu.

Out of complete trust in the tactician, Tang Erda did not initially question Bai Liu's approach to bringing Spades in, or even avoid Spades reporting information to Bai Liu.

The moment Bai Liu brought Spades to him, Tang Erda realised that at least in this game, Spades was on their side, otherwise Bai Liu would not have brought him here so openly.

As for how Bai Liu did it, it's not his turn to ask questions of a leading attacker.

Tang Erda's critical eyes flickered over Spades and then immediately returned to Bai Liu's face, "What's with the main quest? Why am I being rejected without doing anything?"

After Bai Liu explained to Tang Erda, Tang Erda couldn't help but glance at Spades, who was standing with no emotion on her face, and her tone became subtle: "You said, you got that Alex npc to accept you by pretending to be a couple with Spades?"

"Yes." Bai Liu looks very calm, " Guy would be friendly to most male players and that would cause Alex to have a jealous reaction."

Bai Liu scanned Tang Erda from top to bottom, then settled on Tang Erda's tightly wrapped uniformed chest, with her sleeves rolled up to reveal her firm little arms, and said with a smile, "-especially if you're like this."

Tang Erda was uncomfortable, he looked tense and covered his bare arms, and buttoned his uniform to the first button: "...... Does this look better?"

"Well ......" Bai Liu's eyes fell on Tang Erda's throat knot rolling up and down with tension and her shoulder and chest looking even more striking with all the buttons up, and replied honestly, "it looks even more wrong It does."

Tang Erda was speechless, and he unbuttoned it again in silence.

"But there is no way to change our appearance data in the game pool, and I don't have any props here to change our appearance." Tang Erda frowned, "How can I make Alex less hostile to me?"

"The fastest way to do that is to find yourself a ......" Bai Liu's eyes glanced meaningfully at Spades next to him.

Tang Erda slowly shifted her gaze to Spades and the two stared at each other speechlessly for a moment.

Spades: "?"

Spades reacted for a moment, thinking he understood what Bai Liu meant, and then rightly rejected Tang Erda: "No, you can't call me, I have Bai Liu."

"We are in a very special male-male relationship, one-on-one, no third person."

During the education on physical hygiene, the Adversary taught very seriously that two people in a special relationship such as Spades are one to one and must be devoted to each other and must never have second thoughts.

Bai Liu took a deep breath and raised his hands to look away.

Tang Erda: "......"

Bai Liu, I can see you holding your smile even when you turn your head.

"You can't just ask me to pretend to be a random NPC, can you?" Tang Erda was helpless and amused, "There's no way I can get the other person to cooperate with me, why don't I tell Alex that I have someone back home?"

Bai Liu shook his head and laughed, "He won't believe it, and even if he did, a persona like yours is too common for his goodwill towards you to go back up."

Tang Erda frowned, "What about it? If Alex's favorability rating stays this low, I won't be able to get into his main quest even if I get into Assault One."

Bai Liu stroked his chin as he gave Tang Erda a thoughtful glance before smiling, "I do have a way to get Alex's good opinion of you up."

"But it's just a bet that his goodwill towards me might drop a bit."

Tang Erda asks, "What's the solution?"

When Alex led Guy through the crowd and found Bai Liu, he was mingling with Tang Erda and seemed to be talking about something.

Tang Erda looks calm, but her ears and face are red, clearly repulsed and ashamed of Bai Liu's actions, but for some reason, the man who looks like he could have pushed Bai Liu away with his bare hands doesn't.

Bai Liu, on the other hand, looked like he was very comfortable with the situation and naturally let go of Tang Erda's shoulder when he saw Alex coming, waved and greeted them with a smile.

Alex wanted to cringe at the sight of Tang Erda, but there was that subtle vibe between Tang Erda and Bai Liu that made him think that something was wrong with .......

It was as if his hostility was directed at the wrong person, a strange sense of dissonance.

On the way back to the town for a rest, this sense of disconnection is heightened.

Bai Liu, Spades and Tang Erda, the three new recruits who signed up today, needed to be allocated tents and accommodation, and two large parcels were delivered.

It is likely that all three recruits will take part in the assault mission and will go straight into battle after a day's rest. As a pacification for those of them who are likely to die, all three are staying in relatively good conditions in the town today, and the packages allocated to them are quite rich in supplies and heavy in their hands.

Without a word, Alex pulled an enthusiastic Guy back slowly to allow Bai Liu, the three men in a row, to walk in front of him and then asked Guy in a low voice, "Do you think there's something wrong with these three men?"

"What's not right about that." Guy is completely oblivious, smiling as he says, "Bai Liu and Spades are a couple, Tang Erda and Bai Liu have known each other for a long time and they're both good lads."

Alex's eyebrow twitched as he pointed to Bai Liu, who was walking in the middle with empty hands, and said, "Didn't you notice that Bai Liu's parcel was carried by Tang Erda? Would a normal couple let a foreign friend carry their lover's stuff?"

Spades walks to Bai Liu's side with his two parcels in one hand, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Bai Liu's parcels have been taken over by Tang Erda, and seemingly unaware of the need to help Bai Liu carry them.

Tang Erda walks on the other side carrying four packages for himself and Bai Liu, his eyes occasionally glancing at Bai Liu as if waiting for instructions - as if Bai Liu is above him.

This is a habit Tang Erda has developed as a lead attacker to protect the tactician - carrying the Buming bag and being aware of the tactician's position.

But this seems to have taken on a different meaning in Alex's eyes.

" Tang Erda ...... is there a crush on Bai Liu ?" Alex muttered to himself.

Guy next to her winced and raised his voice: "You're saying Tang Erda wants to interfere with Spades and Bai Liu's love affair?!"

Alex covered Guy's mouth in annoyance: "We haven't gotten this far yet, so keep your voice down! What if Spades hears you!"

Tang Erda, next to her, endured her shame and approached Bai Liu in the middle: " Alex's good sense has gone up, I really have to talk to him again ......"

"To." Bai Liu lazily scanned his system panel, "My side of Alex's favorability rating is down, but it's still within range."

Next to her, Spades looks at the two Bai Liu parcels in Tang Erda's hand, purses her lips, says nothing and moves her fingers restlessly.

-- By status, this package should have been picked up by him ......

But Bai Liu took the initiative and gave it to Tang Erda.

When it came time to go their separate ways, Tang Erda was about to hand the package to Bai Liu, but Spades suddenly reached out and took it.

"I'll deliver it for him." Spades said blandly.

Tang Erda looked at Bai Liu inquiringly for a moment, and only when he saw Bai Liu behind Spades nodding with a smile did he let go and say politely, "Please."

Spades paused for a moment, "Oh."

Then he turned to Bai Liu and pointed at Tang Erda like a complaint, saying indifferently, "He said you were trouble, Bai Liu, so don't mention it to him next time."

Tang Erda: "......"

Bai Liu: "......"

After Spades finished his complaint, he took the parcel without any emotion on his face, weighed it and said that it was light and not a problem, then turned his head and took Bai Liu's hand and left.

Tang Erda, who stayed behind, inexplicably had the feeling of having been shown up by Spades.

It was arranged by Alex that Guy would show the couple, Spades and Bai Liu, the way to their residence, and he would show the way to Tang Erda, who was not a very comfortable figure.

But when it was Alex's turn to lead the way, he was on pins and needles.

Because behind him Tang Erda had been staring at him with a very tense, strange, lustful look.

The closer we got to the door, the deeper and hotter Tang Erda's eyes became, and Alex was almost tempted to run away.

When he reached the door, Alex put his things down and turned to leave, Tang Erda grabbed his wrist as quickly as she could and then began to stare at Alex again with that lingering look.

"I ......" Tang Erda was almost pushing himself hard to say those words, but the more he pushed, the less he could say them, his whole body was about to set itself on fire in place, "I... ..."

Alex frantically pulled his hand back, "- if you have something to say, say it to Bai Liu! I'm not the one you like!"

Tang Erda took a deep breath, "But not me and him."

Alex couldn't pull back and started trying to shake off Tang Erda's hand: "You can't do it with him, and you can't do it with me! I have a partner too!"

He was wary, "You can't hit on Bai Liu and you can't hit on Guy! They're both owned!"

"No, I couldn't have hit them ......" Tang Erda closed his eyes as he blushed and the words almost popped out of his teeth, "... . me, I'm just like them."

Alex is confused: "????? What you are like them, what can you be like them ......"

In the middle of his sentence, Alex's words stalled eerily as he remembered Tang Erda's inexplicable shyness and submissiveness in front of Bai Liu.

Then after an unknown interval, Alex, with a blank expression, looked up at the six-foot-two Tang Erda and opened his mouth shakily, "...... you're the one down there too?!"

Tang Erda's eyelids quivered and his whole body turned red as he gave an extremely difficult nod.

"You don't ......" Alex's pupils continued to quake, "originally had a crush on Bai Liu, but because you and Bai Liu are both down there, you can only be friends with him? "

Tang Erda pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

This falls in Alex's eyes as a sitting duck, and he, being a 1, simply cannot help but feel a twinge of pity for the 0 who has had a crush that has gone nowhere, followed him obsessively into battle, and is still 5'2".

He patted Tang Erda on the arm, a figure that had made him hostile now only made him sigh and pity as Alex reassured, "Hey, cheer up, man, there's always someone here who can fuck you."

Tang Erda: "......"