Chapter 294: The Dense Forest Frontier

Red Cross .

The ring finger on Alex's left hand hurt as he was being changed, and when he looked at it subconsciously, the ring on his ring finger broke off out of nowhere, inexplicably cutting a bloody mark at the base of his finger.

Alex's heart choked and an unexplainable sense of dread gripped him as he stumbled to his feet in his wheelchair: " Guy! Guy isn't in the tent anymore!"

No sooner had he said this than he saw Tang Erda rush over the edge of Red Cross with a badly wounded soldier head down on his shoulders, his face covered in mud, hissing as he ran: " Guy's wounded, but not dead, come and get him!"

Tang Erda was followed by a large group of natives who were chasing them, and Spades fell far behind Tang Erda, sweeping back and forth with his whip to open up the natives who were following behind.

The native at the head of the group was almost frantic, veins bursting, eyes bloodshot, shooting at Tang Erda and the others: "Give me this damned apostate! I'll cut him into pieces for his offense against the gods!!!"

The natives followed him, some even raising heavy weapons such as rocket launchers, staring viciously and hatefully at the three fleeing men in front of them, but were unable to close the distance in the face of Spades' defences.

The Red Cross men hastily took up their weapons, drew up their defensive line, and alertly erected red signs [No attack here, no war zone] alongside them, while the defence tanks stationed here slowly raised their guns, aiming them at the indigenous people who were about to enter the Red Cross zone.

Tang Erda raced into the Red Cross area first, followed by Spades, while the natives who would not lay down their weapons were seriously stopped outside the defence line.

The unconscious Guy and the idol's head, which he was clutching, were quickly transferred to a stretcher, carried past Alex and into the tent where the wounded soldiers were being rescued.

Alex almost fell out of his wheelchair when he reached out to touch the bloodied Guy, but Bai Liu was quick to help and repositioned the distraught soldier back into his wheelchair.

"Don't worry." Bai Liu bowed and patted the dust on Alex's knee, raising his eyes to say calmly, " Guy will be fine this time.

Alex glanced at Bai Liu in a trance, looking into the man's dark eyes and somehow remembering the head of the idol on Guy's stretcher.

The eyes of the god with the compassionate smile were the same, dark, calm, reflecting the world, as if all human emotions should not melt into them, watching all the drama of this world that had been ordained by him long ago.

...... Guy will be fine this time, a statement as if Bai Liu had already arranged for Guy to be fine when he would be.

Alex shivered involuntarily as he pushed the wheelchair away from Bai Liu, gave him a long look, and then without looking back, turned the wheelchair after Guy's stretcher and went to stand guard outside the tent.

Bai Liu is not angry when Alex runs away, but looks down and rubs the dust from Alex's knee on his index finger, then calmly pats it off.

Tang Erda sat down at Bai Liu's feet to catch her breath and Spades disappeared as soon as he entered Red Cross.

He tilted his head back to take a sip of water and was about to report to Bai Liu what had happened when Tang Erda looked up at Bai Liu and was about to speak when she was struck by the indifferent expression on Bai Liu's face.

...... this look as if Bai six from another timeline is plotting something ......

He shook his head to dismiss the dreadful thoughts in his head, took a deep breath and began to dutifully report to Bai Liu what had happened on the battlefield.

"...... Guy was hit and fell into the water and Spades and I happened to be in the water, I found him breathing and dragged him to shore and started running this way ......"

"After the natives spotted us, they chased us all the way, but luckily Spades was very good at breaking up the rear and we both moved fast and still managed to get here ahead of them ......"

Bai Liu nodded, "It's pretty much what I expected."

"You arranged for me to join Assault Team One so that you could save Guy, who you lured to his death during the battle?" Tang Erda half bent her knees, leaning her back on the barrel of her gun stuck in the ground, and looked at Bai Liu, "When did you guess that Guy would defect?"

Bai Liu smiles: "The first time I met Guy, he was good at fighting but willing to be a clean-up soldier; he was either a pure pacifist, like Alex, or he didn't agree with the victory won by the side he represented."

Tang Erda exhaled, not surprised, and continued to elaborate on Bai Liu's words, "If Guy defected, Alex would not last long and would follow suit, and with the enemy camp having mainline NPCs and ownership of the lake, they have a considerable advantage in the later stages."

"You're asking why I didn't join the enemy in the first place, aren't you?" Bai Liu took Tang Erda's words and smiled, "Because I wasn't prepared to join either of the two camps."

Tang Erda frowned, "Not joining either of those two sides? Are you asking Alex to be a separate camp?"

Bai Liu nods his head.

Quickly Tang Erda cautiously offered her opinion, " Bai Liu, I'm sure you have your own ideas, but from my emotional perception of Alex just now, I feel that if Guy had been resuscitated successfully and was still alive, there is a good chance that Alex would have been successfully persuaded by a seriously injured Guy to join the indigenous camp."

"And Guy, if he died, would be completely stabilised in his own camp out of resentment that the natives had killed Guy."

Tang Erda says cautiously, " It is difficult for Alex to have the awareness and possibility to defect out and become a third party camp."

Bai Liu nodded in agreement with Tang Erda: "It is true that Alex grew up in a quiet and peaceful environment and was kind enough to choose to become a medical student against the backdrop of the war and to come to the front to save lives, without even killing anyone afterwards. "

"This kind of character is called gentle and kind, to put it nicely, but in the context of a game like this where you can't save people without killing them, it's just cowardly and incompetent." Tang Erda turned her head to Alex, who was guarding Guy's tent, bowing and burying his head in his arms, and couldn't help but sigh, " Someone like Alex who thinks war is a complete mistake, killing him isn't even going to make him stand up as a third party."

Bai Liu looked towards Guy's tent where the rescue was taking place and said in a calm tone, "It's possible."

"I've negotiated with Guy and he'll do it for me."

Tang Erda became more and more puzzled: " Guy is very badly injured, how is he going to help you when he won't make it through the night?"

"No need for Guy to wake up." Bai Liu furrows his brow, "He can do this for me without waking up."

Midnight.

The bullet in Guy's body was surgically removed and the doctor wheeled Guy into the tent after administering a little anti-inflammatory medicine.

But Guy is still under anesthesia and is unconscious with a high fever, and Alex is at his bedside with his eyes staring up at him, eyes red.

Alex's hands and voice were shaking, "The ring is broken Guy, my ring is broken and they say your ring is broken too, by a bullet ......"

"The doctor said it's not certain you'll wake up."

Alex put his head down against the edge of the bed and choked out, "Guy, now the only proof that we can be together is gone, and if we both die, I won't be able to prove to Pluto that you are my wife and stop him from separating our souls."

Tears slid down Alex's jaw, and before they could drip onto the sheets, a group of men silently lifted the curtain of Guy's tent, their stern knives and wooden spikes raised in the darkness, their voices hoarse as they spoke.

" Alex, if you want to live, get the hell out of my way!"

Alex turned sharply, pulling on the light in the dark tent, and when he saw the line of people appear before him, he paused in shock, his voice hard and unmistakable.

"You are the survivors of Raid One ......"

"Still survivors for now." The man at the head of the group was propped up with a harsh steel blade, his left leg was missing below the knee, and the bandage was still oozing blood, so it was clear that it had just been amputated.

His eyes were red as he stared at Guy in his hospital bed and he gave a vicious laugh, "Thanks to this Guy kid, I lost my left leg when he was sent against the natives and I don't know how much longer I'll live in this hellhole."

Alex's voice shook as he swivelled his wheelchair in front of Guy's bed: "This is Red Cross, what are you doing?"

"Red Cross only says we can't kill the enemy here, it doesn't say we can't punish our own men under military law." The soldier at the head with the broken leg looked fierce as he raised his hand and pointed at Guy, "This traitor is still wearing our uniform and has killed over twenty of our brothers, why can't I kill him!"

The man shouted at Alex like a trapped animal: "Alex, if you harbour this traitor, we'll kill you too!"

Alex subconsciously tried to brace himself, but with his legs injured he was soon held down by the large and powerful Raider I. With his hands cut behind his back, he struggled in vain and finally screamed at the top of his lungs, "Help! There's an attack on the wounded soldier here!"

The leader of the group made his way to Guy's bedside, he glanced back at Alex with a cold look of both resentment and complexity in his eyes, "No one will come, Alex, they know this is an internal matter for us."

"No, no, no!" Alex, flustered and terrified, was incoherent and tearful as he discouraged, " Guy shouldn't have killed you, and you shouldn't have killed Guy, and no one should have attacked each other in the first place!"

"This is wrong, this is not right!!! We should stop!"

"But the truth is, we're just attacking each other." The soldier standing next to Guy stood on one foot as he raised his knife high at the sickly Guy with an expression of undisguised cruelty, "- the war never ends!"

The snow-white blade came down hard and blood spurted out in an instant as the angry soldiers kept wielding their wooden spikes and sabres, cutting Guy in his hospital bed to pieces of blood and flesh.

Alex's heart-rending howls and pleas for mercy could be heard halfway across the Red Cross.

Bai Liu stands at the edge of another tent, his curtain raised to listen calmly to the sound, next to a stone-faced Tang Erda.

Tang Erda stopped talking several times before finally speaking up reluctantly: "...... Can't we really go and save Guy?"

"It was a deal between me and him." Bai Liu looked at Tang Erda without a ripple, " Guy didn't want to live, he wanted to die at the hands of his former teammates to atone for his sins, so I arranged this for him and in exchange, I used his death to achieve a little of my own."

Tang Erda doesn't know how she feels: "...... Both camps killed Guy outright and there's no way Alex will ever belong to either camp again."

...... This is fine, and it's just a game, but it always somehow makes Tang Erda think of Bai six.

This is something Bai six is good at, luring others willingly to death and then using that death for his own purposes.

Tang Erda hesitated, but gritted her teeth and asked, "Bai Liu, you really won't become Bai six, will you?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a few seconds before he turned his head to Tang Erda and suddenly smiled very lightly, the emotion in his eyes extremely light: "It's just a game, don't be so nervous, Tang Erda."