Chapter 290: The Dense Forest Frontier

It's not a good idea to play the bullshit game with a player with 91 intelligence.

Bai Liu paused for less than three seconds before choosing to tell Liu Jiayi the truth about what had happened.

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Liu Jiayi sneered, as a member of the team who had seen and suffered from Hearts' love of Spades, she was keenly aware that something was wrong with Bai Liu: "So you simply married him? That's not your usual approach, do you have something in mind for Spades ......"

Bai Liu calmly interrupted Liu Jiayi and changed the subject: "The battle will start in less than three hours, this is an important plot point, I've already set up the Counter God's side, Tang Erda, who has descended to Assault Team 2, will meet him during the battle and try to keep casualties on the Counter God's side to a minimum. "

"On your side, I need you to heal Guy and get him into battle as soon as possible."

Liu Jiayi stared at Bai Liu lightly for a moment before mercifully choosing to pass over his words.

She nodded in understanding, "Because he's a mainline NPC, he can't be missing key plot points, otherwise the plot will go awry, I'll find a way to wake him up and maintain basic mobility."

Bai Liu looked to Alex who was leaning against the bed: "I'll take Alex back, there's going to be a lot of shooting from both sides, and you need to be safe here in Red Cross."

"Red Cross is not a completely neutral and safe place in the eyes of those who don't play by the rules. Bai Liu cautions lightly, "In an overwrought dispute, unless there is a long geographical separation, there is no such thing as a completely neutral place, and any zone can be caught in it."

Liu Jiayi wrinkled his brow: "You mean the natives who were just about to take on Guy at Red Cross?"

Bai Liu shook his head, "Not really."

He gazed calmly at Liu Jiayi: "I mean all those who took sides in the war."

The night will be light before it is light.

In the damp, dank jungle, the armoured vehicles in front lined up to flatten the road and vegetation vines, allowing the tracked tanks behind to move forward.

The dismantled parts of dozens of heavy artillery pieces crashed heavily onto the tow hooks at the back of these armoured vehicles and were pulled along for transport, their muzzles looming grimly.

The soldiers moved forward in silence and orderly fashion with their sappers' shovels, occasionally clearing away some of the branches and leaves that had caught in the tyres.

The jungle floor had an indescribably sticky feel after the rainstorm and the march was not very fast, but thanks to a year and a half of war experience, the group had long been used to walking in the rainforest in such terrain and there were no major changes.

Tang Erda, wearing his helmet and holding his allocated gun, stood guard next to the lead armoured vehicle, keeping his eyes off the Spades who had been staring at him for a long time with a blank expression.

The man had been staring at him with a [you must be hiding something from me] look the whole way, but Tang Erda was patient and never said anything.

And Spades didn't ask, just looked at him slyly, without making a sound, and every now and then Spades would raise his gun and tune it, pointing it at him.

Tang Erda: "......"

Aren't Spades in the clean-up team? Why did they get promoted to Assault Team 2?

The reason why Spades has suddenly become a Raider II is not clear until the early hours of this morning.

Assault II was still confused and less crowded when the marching party assembled before setting off because of the commander's sudden mixed orders.

When the members of Raid 1 came to find Alex, who had signed up for Raid 2, to meet up, they did not find him in the tent.

Desertion is punishable by law, but looking at the tents of bodies of Raider I comrades carried back by Alex, these men could not have reported Alex for desertion.

Alex had experienced two major changes in one night, his mood was tentative, and it was likely that he was also injured. At this time, even if he was strong enough to go up, he probably would not have the strength to fight.

In desperation, they dragged away the only one nearby and were sitting motionless on the bed looking at the other side of the empty bed Spades filled.

Spades was not very obedient, and when they were talking nonsense about him, someone said that Bai Liu was there, and Spades looked at the person who said that and followed him.

But then Bai Liu wasn't even there.

After looking around, Spades stared at the soldier who said Bai Liu was here, his face expressionless and his tone light, but inexplicably oozy looking, " Bai Liu is not here."

The soldier was frightened and said, "Why don't you ask Tang Erda, he has a good relationship with Bai Liu, if Bai Liu came here, he must know where Bai Liu is.

So Spades stared at Tang Erda the whole way, and Tang Erda felt like her back was about to be pierced.

But since Spades, too, had no idea what was at stake and kept his lips tightly pursed, Tang Erda wasn't sure why he was being targeted - he just couldn't figure out the league-leading player's brain.

It wasn't until a break in the march that Tang Erda stole a couple of glances at Spades, who was sitting next to him with his head down eating a pie, that he deliberated for a long time before opening his mouth tentatively, "...... Bai Liu isn't with you?"

Spades replied in seconds, "You speak first, you lose."

Tang Erda is full of questions, "......?!? What?"

Spades gave Tang Erda a cold look, "You were just competing with me to see who would speak first, and you spoke first, you lost."

Tang Erda: "......"

He was indeed trying to wait for Spades to speak first so he could make a pre-emptive strike, but how did this man's mouth turn into a contest of whoever speaks first loses?

Tang Erda couldn't understand it, but he managed to keep his composure and decided to go along with the man's words, "Count me out, Bai Liu how come you didn't talk to you ......"

Spades interrupted him, emphasizing, "You just lost."

Tang Erda: "......"

Tang Erda rubbed her face and took a deep breath, "Okay, I lose, what about Bai Liu?"

Spades clutched the gun leaning on his shoulder, one eye peeking over the edge of the barrel and staring straight at Tang Erda: "Someone told me he ran off with you halfway through sleeping with me last night."

The soldiers who were eavesdropping on the gossip next to them drew back a breath of shock.

Tang Erda: "......"

How on earth did you come to that conclusion!!!

Tang Erda held her forehead helplessly, " Bai Liu didn't run with me, I've been training since last night and haven't seen him."

Spades lowered his eyelashes and clutched his gun, "So Bai Liu must have run off with Alex, he's been very concerned about Alex since Guy's accident."

"He seems to enjoy focusing on this kind of fighting force that just died on the subject." Spades says calmly, "He also hugged Alex, who took Bai Liu's placating completely and ran off with him betraying his own camp."

Tang Erda who somehow felt connoted: "......"

The soldier next to him choked and coughed in horror - weren't Alex and Guy a couple!

I had no idea that Bai Liu, the seemingly innocent young man, was so heavy-handed behind the scenes that he was into widowed husbands!

Is this the special hobby of the traditional Eastern emperors!

After a short rest, the whole party started to move forward again, the mud becoming increasingly slippery and the ground becoming dense with puddles, as well as small unformed rivers and already waterlogged riverbeds.

The heavy armour and tanks were no longer able to move forward and it was decided to stand still, with the soldiers filling up the nearby riverbed while the members of Assault 2 continued to move forward.

"The general plan was that we would arrive near Pluto Lake, ambush and clear the lake of boats and fire points to prevent them from spreading around the rainforest in their boats to stockpile warfare, attack around the back, and then pounce with artillery fire from this side."

Tang Erda explained to Spades next to her as she walked along, "They are not as heavily armed as this side and the commanders have put their money on the line this time - thousands of guns and more than 200,000 shells to be all fired by 10am."

"This rainforest will be blown to rubble and burned to a crisp." Tang Erda tasted a bit of blood in the air, and his expression was cold and solemn, "The resources have all been destroyed by the pollution, he has no intention of allowing the surrounding population to survive here in the rainforest, and the subsequent consumption will kill each other."

Although it was just a game, Tang Erda instinctively disliked the direction it was taking, it reminded him of something that had happened, something bad.

Tang Erda couldn't help but comment mockingly, "The war was started to fight for the resources here, but in the end they would rather destroy them than let the original natives continue to enjoy them."

This careless approach to destroying what you can't have reminds Tang Erda of a very familiar person - Bai six.

Early on this guy is still doing things for profit, but the later it gets, it's as if he's got an excess of profit, an almost lazy boredom that overflows when his endless, black hole-like desire for money is satisfied.

Bai six began to indulge in new pastimes and entertainments, he began to enjoy exciting games that put his life on the line, chasing victory and collecting people's soul notes - money in another sense.

But then it came to a point where victory could not satisfy him.

Bai six began to relish the idea of revealing the cracks, erecting opponents for themselves, and even consciously or unconsciously letting people in their hands get out of hand -

--then get rid of them.

Tang Erda, a certified toy who hasn't gotten tired of being played with by Bai six for over 300 world lines, understands all too well how bad this guy really is.

Mu Sicheng, Liu Jiayi, Joker, and even Muke, and in later world lines, Bai six kills one or two of his own men in almost every world line on the grounds that they have betrayed him or have lost control and no longer obey him completely.

But for the likes of Bai six, it doesn't depend on the other person whether they will betray them or not.

Rather, it depends on whether Bai six is willing to give these people the opportunity to betray.

Bai six As the only believer recognised by the evil god, this man, if he had bones, a heart, any structure like a human being, would have been dug up rotten and black and smelling of disgusting money.

The whole course of this war is really too much like the handiwork of Bai six.

The conflict between the two parties should not have erupted so early.

Had it not been for the death of that plant manager, this dispute, in which so many people had died, might have been resolved more peacefully under that manager's leadership, especially when that manager had already achieved a lot.

But it was that coincidence that this key figure died tragically, and all the contradictions were rolled into a bigger deadlock, and all possibilities for peaceful development were cut short.

Tang Erda's mind ebbs and flows for a moment, then settles down again as they make their way to the lake and put on their wetsuits to sink.

Before going into the water, an experienced veteran warned, "Be aware that the lake here may be full of pythons, and that the traditional natives here believe in a dreadful sect of evil gods that like to keep reptiles with limbs."

"That factory manager was also supposedly also killed by these traditional natives following the instructions of the evil gods."

Tang Erda's pupils flinched and he jerked forward and grabbed the soldier: "How do you think the factory manager died?"

The soldier was frightened, but returned Tang Erda's words, "-I heard that the oracle came from the evil gods that these natives believe in."

"- To execute this factory manager in a brutal manner."