Chapter 296: The Borderlands of the Dense Forest

By the next morning, Guy's body would be collected by the Red Cross men and incinerated to avoid decay and infection, so before dawn, Bai Liu had gathered up all Guy's body parts and was waiting for Alex, who was still debating whether to do so.

"Thinking about it?" Bai Liu asked.

Alex's eyes were complex: "...... What if what comes back to life is just a shell, a monster, then what?"

Bai Liu's eyes glanced imperceptibly at Spades, who was standing next to him: "It depends on how much emotion you can put into this body."

Alex gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind of some sort, "Okay, I agree with your offer, let's go!"

Bai Liu took one look at Alex's leg as he pulled a potion out of his pocket and tossed it to him, "Use the potion to fix your own leg first."

Alex took the potion, looked deeply at Bai Liu, then took a deep breath and collapsed onto his gunshot wounded leg - instead of healing, the wound turned a corpse-like greenish white.

He quickly stood up, picked up his backpack full of body parts and looked at Bai Liu: "What's your next plan?"

Bai Liu smiles: "Do you want to settle this war?"

Alex was stunned, but he quickly retorted, "It's already been fought, the sneak attack this morning was a fiasco for both sides, and there's no way it could have stopped."

"Of course you can." Bai Liu looked levelly at Alex, "When they have a common, more fearful third enemy, they can stop fighting and cooperate with each other."

Alex froze: "Where did such a powerful third party enemy come from?"

Bai Liu glanced at the package on Alex's back: "The army of the living dead you once envisioned, does that count?"

Alex was silent for a long time, then he spoke in a muffled voice: "...... I know what you want me to do, but I simply don't have that many potions and bodies to create a third party army."

"You don't have to worry about that." Bai Liu smiled, gesturing at his feet, "Potions and corpses, isn't Red Cross, where we are, a ready-made production site? There will be a steady stream of potions and corpses coming here for you to use."

Alex whispered, "But Red Cross won't give me a body and a potion for a common soldier to use, look Bai Liu, I know what you're trying to do, but it's not going to happen, you're just a commoner, Red Cross isn't your backyard, it's heavily guarded and only insiders can get the potion ......"

"I agree with you." Bai Liu pointed behind Alex, who said meaningfully, "Maybe you could turn around and look?"

Liu Jiayi, dressed in a nurse's uniform, turned the key and leaned against the tent, raising an eyebrow at Alex: "I've just gone and sorted out the problem with the bodies and the potions, I've been given the keys to the potions store and the destruction of the bodies, you can all use them as you wish."

Alex looked at Bai Liu with wide eyes as if he had seen a ghost, and he had an uncontrollable chill down his back: "...... When the hell did you premeditate all this?"

Guy's death, his crumbling compromise, and the subsequent potions and bodies, this guy had it all handled before it happened!

Bai Liu even took the time to tie the knot and never left his sight from start to finish, Alex never even saw him go for anything!

God, how on earth did Bai Liu do all this!

Bai Liu looked at him with a smirk, "You really want to know the answer? Trust me, you won't be happy to hear it."

Alex rubbed the goose bumps on his arms and gulped, "...... I swear, you're one of the best time managers I've ever met."

Tang Erda followed up with a slightly curious question while cleaning her gun, "One of them? Is there anyone here who is better at using his time than Bai Liu?"

"Yes Guy ......" Alex sighed quietly, "When I first met him he could be on good terms with seven or eight nice lads at the same time, and in one day could be in private with at least three nice lads contact and not be noticed by anyone else."

The word [good] was bitten by him.

Alex's gaze was dark as he gave a knowing glance at Spades next to Bai Liu: "You know, Bai Liu, I see something in you that you have in common with Guy, you can both sneak around with other people under the nose of your partner without being noticed."

Bai Liu, who has carried Spades on his back many times to contact the team members for work: "......"

Tang Erda who was contacted: "......"

Liu Jiayi who was contacted: "......"

Spades stared at Bai Liu with squinty eyes and an upturned tone.

In the distance, the Reverse God, who had been privately contacted by Bai Liu, sneezed loudly and rubbed his nose in confusion, "Who's cursing me?"

"There are so many people who want to scold you, do you need me to screen them for you on the spot?" Bai Yi offered gleefully.

The Reverse God waved his hand, "Thanks for the kind words, but for the time being I don't want to hear something like that while I'm playing a game that gives me a heart attack."

Bai Jiamu was staring at his cheek, "Reverse God, do you think that White Willow guy has pigeonholed you? Now Alex hasn't even defected, our main npc Guy is dead, and the traditionalists are about to fall out."

"Let them make a fuss, the more they make a fuss the cleaner our side will be." The Reverse God was unimpressed, " Guy's death should have been deliberately brought forward, but it's not a big deal."

Bai Jiamu wondered, "Isn't it a big deal that the situation is in such a mess?"

"No." The Reverse God gave an affirmative reply, "The more chaotic the better to reshuffle and control the situation, the heart of the player playing this set should be very greedy, although I usually don't make judgments easily without an eighty percent or higher chance, but I contacted down, I feel that this player who stirred up the situation should be Bai Liu, his previous path of playing the game is like this. "

Bai Jiamu frowned, "So you worked with him so easily before?"

"I've seen videos of his little TV and his skills have to do with money transactions." The Reverse God said, "It seems like the higher the points deal, the more he has to execute the deal."

Next to him, Bai Yi dawned on him, "So you gave him five million points in the partnership?"

"Partly for this, partly ......" The Reverse God's eyes wandered and he coughed with a clenched fist, "A share of the money, he's married to Spades, and I, as a tactician, should give a gift on behalf of the whole team. I'm a tactician, I should give a gift on behalf of the whole team."

The four of us should pay Spades a monthly bonus of 1.2 million points, so the four of us should pay 4.8 million points, plus the points from the trade to make it 5 million."

Bai Jiamu: "...... == You're good at counting, Inverse God."

The Reverse God went on as if nothing had happened, "But aren't you paying attention to the wrong thing? Bai Liu said he would help us make Spades lose, not help us win."

" Alex's defection over was just a front put forward by Bai Liu, he was not telling the truth, which means it could not be counted as part of the deal."

Bai Jiamu stood up and looked unhappy: "He lied to us?"

The Reverse God swept Bai Jiamu: "To be more precise, it's us who are being cheated, cheating has always been an important part of this game, and the game for the players lies in being able to prevent themselves from falling for it."

"There is nothing wrong with deception as such; it is we who fall for it."

Bai Yi muttered, "Reverse God, you are too good-tempered, aren't you angry when someone lies to you?"

The Reverse God gave Bai Yi a meaningful smile, "If I was angry at being cheated, I should have been angry when I entered this game."

"This game, it's one big scam."

It will be light.

Walking through the woods are a number of stiffly poised figures, the stitches on their faces interlaced, the fractured flesh and blood faintly visible as they move, their mouths making strange whimpering sounds like a pile of string puppets made from real bodies, twisting and turning their limbs forward in a rusty manner.

Bai Liu and his group crashed far behind the group of bodies.

Liu Jiayi couldn't help but spit out, "I didn't realise it was a zombie book until I played it."

"But not fighting walkers." Tang Erda added, "We're scavengers who are responsible for creating walkers and will be picking up a lot of corpses after the battle starts later."

" There are still too few bodies in Red Cross." Liu Jiayi gazed at the bodies in front of him, "I wonder how long I can hold these two camps hostage."

Bai Liu was calm: "Don't worry, as long as the war between the two sides doesn't stop, our camp will keep growing."

"Yes." Liu Jiayi squinted at Bai Liu, "You are quite good at thinking, as long as there are dead people on the other side, the army of zombies on our side will continue to grow, and eventually they will try their best to avoid casualties on both sides in order to prevent us from continuing to grow, thus achieving the goal of stopping the war forever."

"That's what you used to convince that indecisive mainline NPC, isn't it?"

Liu Jiayi withdrew her eyes: " Bai Liu, I really don't understand what you are thinking sometimes, you always manage to achieve peace in an extreme and evil way."

"Call you a good guy, but you are indeed doing something in an extremely anti-human way, nor do you have any compassion for these innocent soldiers, dying to use each other to do your work for you." Liu Jiayi said as he stared at the fractured zombie soldiers in front of him, "But call you a bad guy, but judging by the results, you've done another thing that surpasses the efforts of all good guys."

Liu Jiayi asks, "I sometimes wonder why on earth you do this?"

Bai Liu smiles: "Because I'm curious."

Liu Jiayi asks rhetorically, "Curious about what?"

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "Curious as to how Alex wanted to end up, in peace or in endless war, so I worked both possibilities into the plan."

" The ending Alex wants?" Liu Jiayi wrinkled her brow as she realised that Bai Liu had something to say and said sharply, "What do you mean?"

Bai Liu looked to Liu Jiayi: "Don't you think Alex is too quick to accept our offer to form a third camp to attack the other two camps?"

"This is not the behaviour of someone who normally rejects hurting people, and it's odd that Alex complied with my offer with barely a struggle."

"Based on Alex's previous performance, the emotional impact of Guy's death should have been strong, but he also calmed down very quickly and immediately threw himself into the production of the living dead." Bai Liu lifted his eyes to look at the large army of zombies in front of him, "And producing zombies at an excessive rate."

" Alex's identity is set as a medical student who has not yet practiced, but he is very skilled at finding a particular part of the same person in a pile of broken limbs and sewing it back together."

"...... It just feels like, not the first time he's done something like this."

Liu Jiayi paused in her steps as she suddenly turned her head towards Bai Liu: "Do you remember the effects of Alex's medicine?"

Bai Liu spoke in a calm tone, "Remember, the effect of his potion is to freeze a person in the state they were in before they died."

"...... state before death." Liu Jiayi muttered twice before she snapped her head up to look at the army of zombies in front of her and her expression changed, "The potion this guy invented isn't a biological healing potion at all, it's a time potion that turns back the clock on the organism! It's resurrection in the true sense of the word!"

"These things aren't even walkers, they're the living dead that are going back and forth to their pre-mortal state!"

Tang Erda did not yet react, and looked down close to Liu Jiayi and asked suspiciously, "What time is the potion?"

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and turned Tang Erda's head around, "You'll understand when you see it."

The group of otherwise wobbly, stitched-up corpses gradually opened up as they continued to march, and the wounds that had been covered with various gunshot wounds gradually grew closed, or more precisely, the various wounds on the bodies all turned into bloody fresh wounds in a creepy way, which then eerily healed.

These corpses, which had been blue and white, became rosy and moved with increasing agility, as if they were living beings.

Tang Erda was completely baffled: "What the hell is this, what's going on?!"

Bai Liu was not surprised, he looked at the corpses that were "coming to life" as if he had expected it and said flatly, "Indeed."

Tang Erda immediately turned her head away and stared at Bai Liu with a deadly stare: "You knew all along?!"

Liu Jiayi rolled her eyes and said breathlessly, "Of course he already knew."

Tang Erda pointed at Bai Liu and condemned him, "Why didn't he tell us? He's a tactician, why did he hide it from us?"

Liu Jiayi held his forehead: "Of course because he wants to play ah, you do not find him in a bad mood, into this game has been playing without doing anything serious? What's the fun in playing a game that says it all, Bai Liu not telling you is playing you as a teammate ......"

" Tang Erda, sometimes it's not good to rely too much on the tactician." Bai Liu interrupted Liu Jiayi quickly, with a serious backhandedness, "I would prefer that you, as my best lead attacker, think about the information you get on your own first."

Tang Erda's eyes wandered between Liu Jiayi and Bai Liu twice before taking two cautious steps back and looking at Bai Liu with her hands on her chest: "You tell me first what's going on in this game."

Bai Liu asked, "Do you remember how long the time limit was for this game?"

"Seven days." Tang Erda answered as quickly as she could.

Bai Liu continued, "Do you remember what day it is?"

"Early morning of the third day." Tang Erda replied.

Bai Liu smiles: "Don't you think it's strange? A game with a seven-day time limit is on its third day, halfway through the process, and not a single player has earned any points yet."

Tang Erda cautiously replies, "It's not impossible that this could happen."

"Yes, but it's impossible for the top players," says Bai Liu. Bai Liu said, "The players in this game, me, you, Liu Jiayi, the killer sequence, are arguably the top players in the whole system, and if a game is going to progress to the halfway point and all these top players still haven't got a single point, that can only mean one thing."

Bai Liu looked up at Tang Erda: "Firstly, the game is poorly designed and doesn't allow the player to experience a sense of access until halfway through."

"Secondly, the three days are not real three days at all, the game is not even halfway through and we are looking at the wrong time reference."

"And what is the real time reference?" Tang Erda pursued.

Bai Liu said, "I gave Spades my radio equipment and told him to look for it, so if he finds it he should use it to send you a message."

Liu Jiayi asked back incredulously, " Bai Liu, did you just say you gave our team contact device to an outsider?!"

Bai Liu calmly replied, "Not for nothing, I sold it to him, I sold him 10,000 points for 73 points, not a loss."

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Tang Erda: "......"

Yes you can, it's something you can do.

It wasn't long before Tang Erda's radio went off, he looked down to check it and looked up to Bai Liu: "He said he found it."

Bai Liu asks, "What place?"

Tang Erda back: "The military mass cemetery built behind the town."

Bai Liu found a lorry that had broken down and been dumped in the mud on the road, Tang Erda got it out by brute force, got underneath and fixed it, and the three men bundled the pile of living dead onto the wagon.

"The roads here are not good." Tang Erda, in the driver's seat, lifted her vest to wipe the mud from her face, her expression serious, "I'll drive a little faster so I don't get stuck, so sit tight."

From polar planes to battle tanks to this old van ......

Bai Liu looked slowly at Tang Erda: "I'm curious what other vehicles you don't know how to drive?"

Tang Erda really pondered for a few seconds before seriously replying to Bai Liu: "I wouldn't make Mu Sicheng if it was a vehicle in your definition."

Bai Liu: "......"

Liu Jiayi: "......"

Who taught Tang Erda to tell jokes.

It was a couple of hours drive from Red Cross to the town, but Tang Erda drove very fast and soon arrived near the town.

Tang Erda got out of the car and covered the writhing living dead in the compartment with denim, found a hidden place to hide the car, and was struck by a pause as he was about to take out his skillful revolver, when he emerged from the back of the car with an eep and shouted Bai Liu.

Bai Liu turns back.

Tang Erda hesitates for two seconds, "Do you want to use my skill gun? I won't take it out if you use it."

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "No, but I'm more curious as to why you suddenly thought of this place?"

A player like Tang Erda, who has been with his skill weapon for so long that using his skill weapon is as easy as drinking and eating, can consider Bai Liu, with whom he shares his skill, before using it, which, to be honest, is quite difficult.

Only Muke can do this, at least for the time being, in the circus.

Tang Erda paused eerily for a few seconds as he seemed to realise something in Bai Liu's reaction, "You didn't talk to Spades about your skills?"

Bai Liu raised his eyebrows, "What makes you think I would talk to him?"

Tang Erda paused again and spoke, " Spades and I were in action together for a while and he forbade me to use a skill weapon, saying that if you wanted to use it, he would beat me up if I drew a revolver."

"...... I thought you had spoken to him."

Bai Liu was quiet: "Didn't talk to him, did you ask how he knew?"

Tang Erda nodded: "Asked, he said he didn't know, it was a hunch."

"Let's ignore him for now." Bai Liu swept past the subject without moving, "First, let's find the cemetery."

The cemetery was easy to find, the town was marked with signs indicating the cemetery, but strangely enough, whenever Bai Liu went in this direction, they encountered a very thick and strange fog, and then after passing through it, they came back to the same junction.

"Is this a ghostly wall?" Liu Jiayi alertly raised the poison spray, "How to go around in the same place."

Tang Erda also drew her Rose Revolver and stood behind Bai Liu: "Is there something you need to do to get out?"

"There should be some sort of condition to be met before we can get out, and by common process we should decrypt it first." Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi, "but now there is a more direct way."

Liu Jiayi quickly put down the spray and switched on the wireless device, "Message Spades and ask him how he got out, right?"

The news from Spades came back quickly and Liu Jiayi frowned at it: "- you can open the fog with a whip and get out?"

"Weapon attack?" Tang Erda cautiously fired two shots into the fog directly in front of him before a cracking sound came from directly behind him, his pupils flinching as he quickly held down Bai Liu who was standing in front of him .

The bullet flew over their heads and hit the indicator marker with a thud, punching a large hole.

"The space is in a state of dense connection with each other; weapon attacks are ineffective, cannot be broken, and will reappear in one place." Tang Erda shook her head with a stony expression.

Liu Jiayi frowned: "So how did Spades break it, can't that whip of his break space-"

She suddenly paused at this point and then looked up at Bai Liu who was patting the dust on his knees.

Bai Liu stands up, his eyes calm as he looks back at Liu Jiayi: "- and maybe break time."

Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, "The same function as the bone whip you had destroyed earlier."

"So how do we get out now?" Tang Erda asked.

Bai Liu looked to Liu Jiayi: "Send a message to Spades and ask him to come and pick us up."

No sooner had the words been spoken than a stitch was cut into the side of Bai Liu's face, grazing him with a bloody mark.

The needle fell to the floor, with silk thread still wrapped around the curved end - a tail needle for stitching.

Tang Erda snapped his head around and was about to fire when it occurred to him that the space was dense and that a shot could easily hit directly here, so he had to grit his teeth and switch to his sabre: "Who?"

In the white haze several figures of women in what looked like wide skirts loomed up, approaching Bai Liu's group in the middle of the intersection from all directions, dragging a long gun in their hands, which trailed to the ground and made an ominous rustling sound on the gravel.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda protect Bai Liu in the centre, left and right, both of them looking extremely uncomfortable.

Tang Erda took a deep breath, "We can't just attack here because the space is so dense and we don't know where our attacks will come out of to hit ourselves, we have to stay close."

"But neither of you are good at it, so wait until I count one, two, three and you run back when the physical fight starts."

Liu Jiayi nodded dryly and tossed Tang Erda two vials of antidote: "Take care of yourself."

The women drew closer and closer, and it was only then that Tang Erda saw that the dresses the women were wearing were not anything else but beautifully stitched, old, white wedding dresses with many bloodstains on them.

The wedding dress inexplicably looked familiar to Tang Erda, who looked up the dress and his expression finally froze when he saw the person wearing it.

These people are not women at all, but all Guy.

These Guy was finished being surgically stitched up, his face staggered with an unknown number of stitch scars, the stitches still uncut in some places, the smile on his lips weird and sweet, his complexion blue and white, his eyes all black, not a bit of white left to be seen, his wedding dress splattered with uncountable spots of blood.

[Congratulations to player Tang Erda for triggering the second page of the Dense Forest Frontier Monster Book - Zombie Bride]