Chapter 302: The Dense Forest Frontier

Spades carries Bai Liu on his back, jumping along the branches with less body parts, moving so much that Bai Liu wobbles on his back, Spades' hands at first pulling on Bai Liu's calves, then moving up to pull on his thighs, and then ......

Halfway through Bai Liu unobtrusively lowered both legs, going from riding Spades to being on Spades' back, putting the hand that was about to move up to his buttocks to Spades' side: "I can hold it steady, no need to break up to secure me."

Spades let out an unconscious cry, and his whip became cold in an instant. The black, shiny black bone whip was flung out in a strange manner, twisting and turning like a viper in the air, and hit the corpse that jumped from the branch with a fierce blow, almost breaking it in half.

Bai Liu looked at the corpse monster that had fallen through the air with a dent in the middle of its torso: "Did you deliberately save your strength not to break your opponent in half?"

"Hmm." Spades responded.

Without turning his head, he lashed backwards, again with almost the same force, only to dent a body in the middle, making movement difficult but not damaging the body's overall structure.

Spades took the time to briefly reply to Bai Liu: "These things can't be beaten to death, and it's not good to break them to increase their numbers."

Bai Liu suddenly became interested and asked him, "You were so reckless in the game before, just killing monsters, not caring about the quantity or quality of the monsters, why are you being careful with them in this game?"

"Because these monsters aren't coming for me." Spades looked back at Bai Liu faintly, "They're coming for you."

Spades did not say everything, but Bai Liu already understood what the man meant.

Bai Liu.

No sooner had Spades said this than a gutless belly fluttered up behind Bai Liu and was sent flying by Spades with an unceremonious whip.

Even with such a decaying open abdomen, Spades' strength control managed not to let a single organ fall out, ensuring that the monster's numbers did not increase.

Bai Liu was quiet for only a moment before digressing as if nothing had happened, "Aren't you going to ask me why Reverse God and the others were tied up? It's a strange thing to happen to your teammates, with their strength."

"Oh." Spades nodded as if he'd only just remembered there was such a thing, not quite going along with Bai Liu's words, "They're tied up, but what's that got to do with me?"

Bai Liu: "......"

Bai Liu said slowly, "You are league teammates and for all intents and purposes you should show a modest concern for your teammate's well-being at this time."

Spades, quick to comprehend, immediately said, "I'll care for them now."

He pulled out a golden bell, half the size of his hand, from the side of his waist, and when Bai Liu looked at it inquiringly, Spades explained, "It's a bonus item from an ancient copy of the game, called the Twin Bells, one vibrates and the other vibrates."

"We brushed three copies, a total of six bells, all bound to the vibration relationship, one vibrates the other five will also all vibrate, in some ancient, or near-modern copies that can not be communicated with modern instruments, the Reverse God asked us to use this bell to communicate."

Spades says: "The Reverse Gods also developed a code for the frequency of the bell's vibrations, with different vibrations representing different meanings."

Bai Liu comments with amusement, "It's a good prop for communication."

Without saying a word, Spades took out a bell from the system panel and handed it to Bai Liu: "I have two, here's one for you."

Bai Liu smirked and swept the bell away, not picking it up either: "Your team's exchange prop, you're just going to hand it over to me?"

Spades looked at Bai Liu with a very matter-of-fact tone, "You gave me your team prop too, so why shouldn't I give it to you?"

Bai Liu was subtly silent for a moment - he actually sold it to Spades for 10,000 points.

Spades tossed the bell straight backwards into Bai Liu's arms, then shook it rapidly with the whip in one hand and the bell in the other.

The sound of bells ringing in Bai Liu's arms, and in the distance at the same time, startled a number of corpses in the woods to lean towards the place where the bells were ringing.

The Spades were shaking so hard and violently that Bai Liu couldn't see the pattern after a while, the pattern of Spades shaking didn't match any of the codes Bai Liu knew, and he had to ask, "Are you using the Reverse God's bell code to tell them something?"

Spades said, "I don't remember the bell code that the Reverse God set."

Bai Liu paused for a moment as his eyes shifted to Spades' still rapidly ringing bell, "So what is this you're ...... doing?"

Spades replied matter-of-factly, "Didn't you ask me to care about them? I'm just concerned about them."

Bai Liu: "......"

His eyes shifted down to the bell and then farther to the members of the killer sequence who were tied to the stake and screaming in agony as the unusual ringing of the bell drew a mass of body parts closer.

Bai Liu silently withdrew his eyes and looked over at Spades who had finally stopped ringing the bell.

Spades turned his head to look at him, "Do you need me to care for them again?"

Bai Liu: "No need."

He finally understood why the Reverse God was willing to give him five million points to help educate Spades.

Across the lake.

Bai Yi looked at the body parts that kept coming closer and closer to him and screamed like a screaming chicken being pulled by the arms and legs by four butchers to have its head slaughtered, "Grrrrrrrrrr! Who the hell is ringing the bell!!!"

Bai Jiamu broke down and interrupted Bai Yi's screaming, "Will you stop now? The sound of you and the bell mixed together is giving me a fucking concussion!"

"Only one of me and the bell can stop the sound of one thing!" Bai Yi kicked at the body parts crawling up from below and yelled at the top of his lungs, "Reverse God, Tactician, which one of us is ringing the bell! Make him stop!"

The Reverse God, who was tied to the stake, let out a deep, deep, long sigh, "It's like this Bai Yi, all four of us have our hands tied so tightly that, by definition, we don't have the ability to ring the bell, so the person who rang the bell shouldn't be here."

Bai Yi had a moment of clarity, and he choked out a sad sob: "Was it our sixth bell that was stolen? I said at the beginning that five bells would be good, and that one more should be destroyed instead of kept, and that if this sixth bell fell into someone else's hands it would be a great hidden danger, but the Reverse God insisted on leaving this one behind, saying that this bell belonged to itself, and see, now something has happened to it ......"

Bai Jiamu rolls his eyes and interrupts Bai Yi's crumbling, "Silly fork, it's not the sixth bell, it's Spades ringing the bell."

Bai Yi instantly curbed his miserable expression and retorted seriously, "No way, I've never seen Spades shake the bell since he got it, he doesn't shake it."

"Just because you never will doesn't mean you won't now." Bai Jiamu returned breathlessly, "It's not going to be easy, Spades, if you can't pass it yourself contact us at ......"

Bai Jiamu says this and also stops at Bai Yi's subtle [do you think this could happen? at the look in Bai Yi's eyes.

"I once saw Spades stepping on this bell, whipping it, trying to break it." Bai Yi recalls, "I was so shocked that I went up to him and stopped him and asked him why he was doing that?"

The Reverse God was also very shocked, "This is an important prop that I have saved up from my hard work over the game to use for team contact, why would he do this!"

Bai Yi replied slyly, "Because he found it annoying that it kept vibrating and he couldn't turn it off, so he wanted to just break it."

Reverse God's entire face split open, "That's because he doesn't even reply to our messages, okay! That's all just people exchanging intense game messages!"

Bai Yi smashes his lips: "Actually, Spades hates the bell, I'm not incapable of understanding it, it's like being in a work group with lots of people chatting and you can't check out of the group and you can't block the leader's messages, the phone just keeps vibrating."

"But Spades is on his own and having fun playing the game and he doesn't want to be disturbed ......"

The Reverse God stared blankly, like an old father who was devastated after his own rebellious son bought a toy he didn't like: "...... So he just tried to smash the bell I gave him?"

Bai Yi stomped hard on the corpse below a few times, gave the Reverse God a sympathetic look twice and decided to skip the subject, "So I don't think it's Spades who's shaking, he reckons he didn't even take the bell out this game."

The Reverse God shook his head, "No, it must be Spades who is shaking."

Bai Yi asked suspiciously, "No, where did we put the sixth bell? Is it possible that this person is ringing it?"

The Reverse God's eyes glazed over, "It must be Spades shaking ......"

"The sixth bell was originally in storage, but the last time Spades told me that his bell was broken and he couldn't participate in the team discussion, so I opened the storage before this game and gave Spades the sixth bell, telling him that it was a hard prop for me to get and that he should take good care of it and not break it again, not realizing that he broke it of his own accord ......"

The Reverse God looked sad at the end of his words.

Bai Yi: "......"

Bai Jiamu: "......"

...... What's going on is this pathetic story of the honest dad who works hard to earn money to buy his son a toy, and the white-eyed son who throws it away because he doesn't like it and casually messes it up, and has to lie to his dad that he was careless.

"But Reverse God." Bai Jiamu turned his head to look at the Reverse God next to him, "Why do you know that when those indigenous living dead come to capture us, instead of attacking them and choosing to be tied up by them, they won't fuse and devour us again any time soon?"

The Reverse God looked calmly at the wooden statue of the evil god he was facing: "Because the old statue of the evil god broke down, a new one was needed to rotate it, and this rotation generally meant that a rift had appeared in the powerful old evil god, and he was looking for the next generation of successors for himself, the new evil god."

"This rotation of religious deities is supported by a very large ritual and ceremony, and in times of particularly violent conflict between the old and new deities, this rotation is usually accompanied by great warfare as well."

The Reverse God lowered his eyes to the charred bodies and continued.

"At the ceremony of the birth of a new evil god, there is a need for sacrifices and witnesses, the sacrifices being those who oppose the evil god and the witnesses being those who have experienced the history of the evil god."

The Reverse God said faintly, "There is no better sacrifice and witness than us, the new faction, who will not fuse us away so easily; they need us to remain conscious to witness the rituals of the new gods, as a sign of respect."

As they talked, Alex, who had been keeping his head down on the fifth stake next to them, as if in a coma, slowly opened his eyes.

He lifted his head and looked straight at the wooden statue of the evil god he was facing, and the corner of his mouth curled into a smile that was meaningful and full of anger and sadness.

The wooden statue of the evil god standing in the centre shows obvious signs of repair, and the head, which has been chopped up with a scalpel and shot once more, is standing with a smile on its wooden body, looking down with bruised and compassionate eyes at the corpses dancing before his eyes, and the five sacrifices tied to the stake.

In front of the wooden carving of the evil god stands another huge piece of wood, split down the middle, which can be seen in cross section to be of the same material as that used to carve the wooden carving of the evil god.

Already the outline of a new wooden sculpture can be seen in this cross-section, from which the corpses shake their hands and carve with axes and chisels, becoming more and more lifelike and realistic as the corpses advance in their carving work, a wooden sculpture born out of the log.

The wooden sculpture of the new evil god gradually takes on a human form.

Bai Yi looked twice at the eyes of the wooden carving, and for the first time in all the games he had experienced, he felt an unspeakable creepiness. -"

The Reverse God took a deep breath as he looked to the smiling wooden statue of the new evil god, "- Bai Liu, right?"