Chapter 305: The Borderlands of the Dense Forest

Deep in the jungle.

Spades leaps above the tree trunks with Bai Liu on his back, getting closer and closer to the other side of the lake, with the faint sounds of Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi coming from below.

"The corpses are still after us, after you, to be precise." Tang Erda said.

Liu Jiayi asks, "Bai Liu, are you trying to lure these bodies directly into the bottom of the lake as they cross, and then score points?"

Bai Liu gave a vague hmm, Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda looked at each other, they looked ahead to the lake and acted apart for an instant.

Behind them, a dense mass of corpses crawled from the ground to the branches of the trees, mixed with semi-formed bodies, hideous and frantic, their teeth and claws raised in a snarl at Liu Bai above.

Spades' left foot hit the trunk of a tree and he took off, followed by a number of black corpses bouncing up behind him, hissing and lunging at Bai Liu behind Spades.

Spades turned indifferently to shield Bai Liu and, with a whip, knocked all the pieces off the body and steadied himself on one knee on another branch.

The branch swayed twice and Spades suddenly asked, "Bai Liu, I think you know why these bodies are chasing you and can easily disrupt that pursuit, so why do you deliberately let them keep chasing you?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Didn't Liu Jiayi just say, as long as these corpses keep chasing me, I can logically lure them into the point accumulation point at the bottom of the lake, as long as these corpses are recovered at the bottom of the lake, they will count as my points, that's what I want."

Spades didn't pause for a moment: "You're lying, that's not what you're about."

Bai Liu paused, loosening his grip slightly around Spades' neck, and spoke with a casual smile in his voice: "Spades, your instincts about me aren't always accurate."

"Listen to what I say to you once in a while, instead of trusting your own instincts."

Spades was quiet for a short while, his brow frowning slightly as if adjusting to not trusting his instincts in this state, then spoke, "Just lure the corpses to the bottom of the lake and you'll voluntarily release these corpses from following you, won't you?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "Yes."

Spades paused for a moment, jumped up on one knee and swung his whip to knock off the approaching body parts, getting closer and closer to the lake.

Bai Liu leans against Spades' shoulder as he glances at the blue lake approaching him, his fingers curling in a slight clench and folding into a fist.

The wind with its burning embers blew through their hair as Spades approached the lake faster and faster.

Bai Liu's head rested against the middle of Spades' shoulder blade, his eyes half-closed in silence for a moment, and then he suddenly spoke in a chatty, flirtatious manner, "Spades, your intuition is really an amazing thing, can you tell me what your intuition is telling you right now?"

"My gut tells me you're scared, that you're lying." Spades spoke calmly, "You don't like jumping into the water, you hate the environment after this burning, you hate the body parts after these burns, you hate seeing the bodies sinking in the water."

"You didn't jump into the lake for any points at all either, it was for something else, something more dangerous, and you were sick of doing that, but you decided to jump in anyway."

Spades' voice paused for a moment, "I Buming understand why you're going to do something you hate."

"Do you hate to deny your instincts?" Bai Liu asks softly.

Spades ummed and ahhed, "Not like that."

Bai Liu gave a very soft laugh, "Then why are you willing to trust me by denying your instincts for me? You can clearly sense that I'm lying to you, and you're doing things you hate."

Spades paused for a moment: "...... because that's what you asked for."

"Will you do what you are asked to do?" Bai Liu smiled, "Will you do what is asked of you?"

Spades retorted instantly, "No."

Bai Liu murmured, "So why are you willing when I ask for it?"

Spades was quiet for a moment, and when he spoke again there was a confusion in his voice: "...... don't know."

Bai Liu opened his mouth as if to say something, but eventually just smiled and explained, " Spades, has anyone ever taught you that people are sometimes willing to do things they hate willingly for someone?"

Spades shook his head honestly, then asked, "Why?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, then said, "Because I love this man."

He whispered in a voice so soft it was uncanny, then the next second, released the hands circling Spades' back and fell backwards.

Spades was swinging his whip at an approaching group of corpses when he noticed Bai Liu falling behind him and immediately turned around, ignoring the corpses that were coming at him.

Bai Liu descends into the burning woods and the wrecking wind, his pure black eyes reflecting no emotion, like mirrors, on the Spades approaching him.

The body parts around him kept approaching Bai Liu and although most of them were opened by Spades wielding his whip, there were too many and a small number still crept up on him.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu was attacked by a monster (Living Dead Corpse), his spirit level is dropping ......]

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu's mental value dropped below 60, about to see hallucinations ......]

Spades stared as he tried several times to loop the whip around Bai Liu's waist and pull him up, but stopped the moment he did so.

--He was not sure.

Spades uses any weapon to fight monsters without thinking about the force, and although it seems he has pretty good force control, he's not sure of himself.

For he had never saved a man with a whip.

He didn't know if the whip would bring Bai Liu up in one piece, or if it would break him into two unbroken sections.

Spades, for the first time, found what the Reverse God had said to him useful.

--Practice your whip well, or sooner or later you'll be in a situation you want to use it but can't handle it.

[At that point, you will lose to another person who is good with a whip].

Spades used his whip to open up the approaching body parts around him, stepping intently on the surrounding wood trunks and dropping fast, reaching close to Bai Liu who had fallen close to the surface of the lake.

Just as Spades' hand was about to grasp Bai Liu's shoulder, Spades saw Bai Liu turn his head slightly sideways and give him a smile.

The smile is clean and mischievous, and Spades is reflected in his eyes, as if water is flowing through them.

Bai Liu looked at Spades with that smile and whispered, "Xie Ta, I miss you so much."

"Bye."

Spades was stunned and his hand about to grab Bai Liu slipped out of his grasp and fell into the cold lake.

This was followed by the fall of Spades.

The corpses around them crawled madly into the lake, pouring blackly into the bottom and instantly blackening the blue-green surface of the lake.

Even the corpses and dried corpses from the ritual ceremony of the new evil god were drawn away, fighting their way to the bottom of the lake.

Only a few corpses that had wanted to run but were held in place by some force were left wailing and screaming as they carved the new evil god wooden sculpture in a twisted position.

Alex laughed out loud in a trance after seeing all the body parts run away, " Bai Liu finally came over and I could finally be relieved."

The Reverse God changed his expression, "Not good, this reaction, Bai Liu has chosen to accept the gift of the Evil God."

With these words, he raised his hand to break the ropes binding his hands, and the other three players followed suit, breaking their own ropes and jumping off the stake.

Bai Yi also snorted in confusion, "What the hell? I just fell asleep and now I've collected all the [true end] line information to pass the game?"

Bai Jiamu couldn't help but roll his eyes, "How can you fall asleep in this situation? Are you a pig?"

Bai Yi justified: "I don't understand a word of the [true end] line every time I push it against the gods, so why not take the opportunity to rest?

Bai Jiamu is speechless: "...... You're the only one who can talk about being stupid so frankly."

"Did you just catch what the Reverse God was saying?" Bai Yi gave Bai Jiamu an impish shrug with his shoulder and squinted at him.

Bai Jiamu: "......"

I didn't actually understand it, I almost fell asleep at the end.

The Reverse God waved his hand helplessly, interrupting the two men's bickering, "Well, let's get on with the main business first."

Hearing this from the Reverse God, Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi finally grew serious, and they drew their weapons in unison.

[System Alert: Player Bai Yi has used his personal skill (Cooking God) to select a high-speed egg beater].

Bai Yi pulls out a half-high whisk and casually slings it over his shoulder.

[System Awareness: Player Bai Jiamu uses personal skill (Failed Scalpel)]

Bai Jiamu pulls several scalpels with a loop at the end from his own heart and slips them over the roots of his fingers in a circular motion, spinning them around in a bizarre manner without hurting the fingers around him in any way.

Then he lifted his hand to grip the hilt of his sword and looked to the Reverse God and nodded, indicating that he was ready.

The Reverse God paused and raised his hand to pull something from his back, but eventually dropped it again, "Let's go."

Bai Yi wondered, "Eh, Reverse God, don't you use your skill weapon? Your skill weapon is the strongest among us, and with that Bai Liu's deviant personality, your skill should work wonders on him."

The Reverse God turned his head over to him and smiled, his eyebrows arched in total tenderness, "Yeah, so save it for the official league to use it on him to get the most value out of it."

"It's a bit big and slightly stupid to take the killer out so easily now."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu who have easily brought out their skill "killer": "......"

Each time they could not figure out whether the Reverse God was deliberately mocking them or if he was seriously analysing the current situation.

The Reverse God walks straight ahead.

Bai Jiamu followed closely: "To where?"

"The lake." The Reverse God said without hesitation, " Bai Liu's chosen final battleground is definitely there."

Bai Jiamu wonders, "Why?"

The Reverse God turned his head and replied, "Because he made a deal with us that he was going to make Spades fail miserably out of the game at the lake."

"The man is not one to renege on a deal easily and he will deliver the Spades fiasco to us at the Lakes as promised."

The other end.

After Spades followed Bai Liu into the lake, Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi also jumped in without hesitation.

The dark, cold surface of the lake was murky beneath, and only long black corpses could be seen swimming vaguely, a steady stream of them crawling into the water, filling the lake from its edge to near the centre.

The bottom of the lake gushed like boiling asphalt mud, swallowing up the pieces of bodies.

Tang Erda got in front of Liu Jiayi and kept shooting at the approaching body parts, but still got hung up on a few of them and Tang Erda's left shoulder and Liu Jiayi's left foot started to get corporealised.

The visibility under the water is so low that the speed of bullet fire can be hampered, making this a map that limits Tang Erda as a gunner.

Not to mention Liu Jiayi, whose poison is an offensive weapon that kills a thousand and kills eight hundred in this water.

Before she could locate Bai Liu, she was unable to provide him with the antidote in time, and she was likely to kill him by accident if she misused the poison.

Liu Jiayi curls back his corporeal left foot and frowns in contemplation.

...... I don't know if it was just her, but she always felt like Bai Liu in this copy was always intentionally separating her and Tang Erda from herself, or bringing them into some game scenario that would limit the play of their weapons.

For example, Bai Liu allows Spades to take himself away at the start, later dispatches them to the Red Cross and Assault One teams respectively, and then, after a good rendezvous, takes her and Tang Erda to the secret border where they can't use their skills.

-- and now this murky lake where both she and Tang Erda will be limited by their skills.

Liu Jiayi believes that Bai Liu would not have been unable to understand the design of the game, and that normally, Bai Liu would have gambled on some extreme tactic and ended the game.

But ...... he has dragged it out and used the map again and again to limit her and Tang Erda's skill set ......

This is not at all the tactical style of Bai Liu, a guy who excels at maximising each individual's skills, not at keeping them pinned down in this way.

...... It felt to her like ...... it was like Bai Liu was waiting for something extremely dangerous, and that something was something they would definitely prevent Bai Liu from touching, and that was why Bai Liu was isolating them in every way possible, limiting That's why Bai Liu had isolated them in various ways, limiting their skills and preventing her and Tang Erda from stopping them.

Liu Jiayi stares at the black bottom of the lake with a frown on his face and a growing sense of unease in his heart.

Bai Liu, what the hell are you doing counting everyone out like that?

Against the gods they rushed to the edge of the lake, where black body parts fell into the water in clusters, looking from afar like a dense swarm of black ants crawling towards a large puddle.

Bai Yi got goosebumps, "Holy shit, what's going on in the lake?"

The Reverse God looked sideways at the gushing lake not far away, "The only way to find out is to go down there."

After saying this, he jumped first without hesitation, followed by Bai Jiamu and another team member. Bai Yi rubbed the goose bumps on his body, pinched his nose bitterly and followed suit.

In a flash, Tang Erda Liu Jiayi, a line of assassin sequences led by the Reverse God, all swam towards the bottom of the lake.

The more bodies swallowed, the thicker the mud on the ground, and Bai Liu is lying right in the middle of this swallowed body.

Bai Liu's face is calm and pale, her eyes half-closed, the pale complexion above her neck a hazy shimmer in the darkness of the lake.

Bai Liu's shoulders, left hand, right hand, left foot and right foot are all completely corporeal, with an abnormal greenish-white colour.

He lay there peacefully on top of the body parts that surrounded him, like a corpse that was about to be buried with them.

Spades had a firm grip on his shoulders and was pulling Bai Liu out, but ended up watching him sink deeper and deeper into the body.

It's not that he couldn't pull it out, but-

Spades' wrist lashes out and he clearly hears the snapping and tearing of Bai Liu's bones as he lets go, bubbles spilling from the corners of his mouth as he looks indifferently at the mass of bodies beneath him -

--The body parts have grown completely with Bai Liu.

Unless Bai Liu wanted to come out himself, Spades had to bloody rip Bai Liu's shoulders off his body rather than pulling Bai Liu out whole.

But Bai Liu clearly did not want to come out and he lay on top of the body as if asleep.

The corporeality has permeated the heart.

Spades' resistance panel is so high that these blocks are not a threat to him, so he is not corporealised yet.

Bai Liu finally opened his eyes and he looked at the Spades on him: "You didn't have to go this far for me."

"I'm not doing it for you." Spades' voice was muffled, a lot of bubbles coming up when he opened his mouth, "I just think I just did it wrong."

Bai Liu asks, "What did you do wrong?"

Spades' voice was a little depressed, "I should have trusted my instincts over your words, you really are lying to me."

Bai Liu let out a soft laugh, "Yes. Didn't the Reverse Gods teach you that the smarter you are, the more you like to cheat."

"Hmm." Spades responded faintly as he hugged Bai Liu a little tighter, "I know."

As Bai Liu is dragged further and further down by the corpses, his body and the corpses form an impermeable boundary, leaving less and less space for Spades to protect, and finally Bai Liu is left with only one exposed eye and a right hand that has not been corrupted.

Spades clutches Bai Liu's only remaining right hand in a death grip, not daring to not push at all, or too hard, and stares into Bai Liu's fading eyes with a pair of good black eyes.

Bai Liu's laughing voice came out of the body parts, " Spades, you know, I once held a man's hand like that and tried to get him up."

Spades asked, "So did you save it?"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Saved."

"Now, it's his turn to hold my hand hard enough to get me up."

Bai Liu's voice faded: "- but I suddenly wondered what the world that belonged to God was like after he was buried underwater."

"-whether I can enter that world which belongs to God, find him again, kill whatever imprisons him, and then bring out his soul again."

As Bai Liu's words dissipate, the writhing body parts finally stop and the bottom of the lake becomes clear again.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda, who had been obstructed, and the killer sequence finally saw the location of the Spades at the bottom of the lake.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda were next to Spades almost instantly.

She watched in disbelief as Bai Liu was swallowed up to the point where only one right hand was left exposed.

The right hand was gradually being corporealised, and Liu Jiayi immediately tried to use the antidote.

Spades shook his head, "It's a mental value monster attack, your healing potion won't work."

Tang Erda was almost ready to pull out her gun and hit the huge, writhing body at the bottom of the lake, but Spades clutched the gun.

He stared at Tang Erda without a trace of emotion in his eyes: " Bai Liu is down there, he has grown with the corpse, you hit the corpse and he will get hurt too."

Liu Jiayi stared motionlessly at his right hand, which had only two fingers left untouched by the corpse, his expression approaching distortion for a moment.

--Do something! Do something! There must be something we can do to stop Bai Liu from alienating!

There is no way.

It was Bai Liu's own desire to alienate, she couldn't stop this Bai Liu guy from doing whatever he wanted to do, she even wanted to Buming white Bai Liu why he did it!

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda watched as their right hands were swallowed up, corpse by corpse, as Spades let go finger by finger.

Eventually, this right hand also became completely corporeal.

[System Alert (for all players): Player Bai Liu's mental value has been reduced to 0. His body has been 100% alienated and he is out of the game.