Chapter 307: The Borderlands of the Dense Forest

Bai Liu turned his head to the half stained white bone whip and reached for it, only to be stopped in fear by the crouching corpses: "Not, not yet, neither your soul nor this whip is fully attuned to the vessel ......"

He lowered his eyes to the bone whip, the blood-coloured paint dripping onto the bones turning a black hue the instant it was applied, as if it had been coloured by corroding the bones.

"I like the white ones." Bai Liu said with a pale expression, and was about to cross the body to fetch the whip, "No need to dye it."

The moment Bai Liu reached out his hand, a stern cry came from behind him: "The ritual is not quite finished, stop Bai Liu from taking the whip!"

A scalpel whirls rapidly over to interrupt Bai Liu taking the whip.

Bai Liu drew his whip and whipped it away without looking back.

Bai Jiamu raised his hand to retrieve his scalpel, his face sinking, "- chipped my scalpel, or at least a weapon of Spades' whip's calibre."

The Reverse God flew forward, and he just glanced at Bai Liu, a rare look of seriousness appearing on his ever-smiling face: "- really, the Evil God has directly delegated the world line design rights to Bai Liu, the successor."

Turning back to Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda behind him, he said with unprecedented seriousness, "To tell you the truth, if you want your former Bai Liu tactician back, you'd better stop this guy's whip from going all black."

"Otherwise, next time Bai Liu will not be as simple as sacrificing your pain."

The Reverse God said coldly, "The real evil god rituals are all about sacrificing souls, and you two have his souls in his hands, don't you?"

With that said, the Reverse God turned his head and gave a quick order, " Bai Yi outflank from behind, Bai Jiamu don't interrupt the attack, interrupt Bai Liu's movement."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu said in unison, "Yes!"

Bai Yi lifts the whisk high in the air, leaps a few times, almost a dozen stories, and then holds it up and swings it down with gritted teeth, "--High speed whip!"

The eggbeater, half the size of a man, spins rapidly, almost like a chainsaw with a beeping sound, and on its way down it spins so fast it almost cuts the air, creating a vortex of air in the air.

Bai Yi raised the whisk above his head and dropped it almost as if there was no obstruction, slicing through all the waist-thick branches of the trees and landing hard on Bai Liu.

"BANG--!!!"

Almost the entire foundation sank several dozen centimetres where Bai Yi struck, erupting in a huge puff of white smoke.

At the same time, Bai Jiamu's hand continued to wield a harsh scalpel, moving swiftly around the trees in the rainforest, making a few precise "plop, plop, plop" sounds in the mist.

A hidden grunt of pain emanated from the white mist.

The black and white whip twitches daintily, dispersing the mist, and Bai Liu stands in the centre, his eyes raised to look across at the Reverse God, his face placid, his hand holding up a Bai Yi struggling in pain.

The whisk was left in tatters and the body of the mixer had long since been whipped.

Bai Yi's neck was lifted by Bai Liu's whip, and it was getting tighter and tighter.

He also had several scalpels sticking out of him and blood was trickling down his body, obviously having just been used as a shield by Bai Liu.

Bai Jiamu's pupils flinched: "- Bai Yi!"

Without hesitation he was about to step forward when he was stopped by the Reverse God, saying only a quick, "You can't beat him." And he disappeared from the spot.

In the next second, the Reverse God appeared behind Bai Liu, his gaze cold, raising his hand in a Tai Chi starting stance, shaking his hand and pushing it against Bai Liu's shoulder.

[System Alert: Player Against the Gods' Inquisitor uses the Body Art skill (Taiji Bagua)]

Bai Liu glances back and sidesteps it, the reverse god's thrusting hand misses Bai Liu's jaw.

The Reverse God turned his palm into a hooked hand and pulled back without hesitation, aiming for the reverse cross pendant around Bai Liu's neck.

Bai Liu immediately let go of the whip trapping Bai Yi and lifted his wrist with force, the whip flying between the two men, and the Reverse God instantly withdrew his grip, looking like he was going to get through the encounter safely.

The bone spikes of the whip opened up, hardening the back of the Reverse God's hand and leaving a deep, bone-chilling blood mark.

Under the cover of the Reverse God, Bai Yi rolled and crawled out of range of Bai Liu's whip.

Bai Jiamu immediately helped him up, Bai Yi patted his chest in fear, his eyes straightened: "Shit, I thought I was going to die, couldn't you have seen it before you sent the knife! It's all over me!"

"I just see what I'm doing before I do it!" Bai Jiamu cursed, "Who let you get caught and not know how to hide!"

Over there, the Reverse God and Bai Liu were still fighting, and these two were able to match each other at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

Still, gradually, the wounds on the Reverse God's body became more and more numerous, and he was clearly losing ground, but his tone was still calm as he took the time to instruct Bai Jiamu: "Go and get Spades, Tang Erda Liu Jiayi and the others, Bai Liu has rewritten the world line and has just mobilised them elsewhere. "

Bai Jiamu was stunned as he looked around and realised that he and Bai Yi were the only ones left around at some point.

Tang Erda, Liu Jiayi and Spades, who had been at the front of the pack, all disappeared into thin air at some point.

The Reverse God looked steadily at Bai Liu across the room, his posture changing rapidly in his hands, pushing and pulling very fast and very slowly, several times holding the whip close to his grip and shaking it back, his hands already full of holes from bone spikes, bloodstained, but his face did not change at all.

He got close to Bai Liu and fought him with physical techniques, using a somewhat rogue and flexible form of Tai Chi, which largely limited the use of Bai Liu's whip and stopped the mass of corpses from continuing to stain Bai Liu's whip.

Bai Liu looks at the Reverse God flatly: "Nice strategy."

The Reverse God smiled and was in the mood to make small talk with Bai Liu, "Right? I figured out during my time with this Spades guy that the Body Sticker Technique works wonders on you guys with whips, so I went ahead and got a Tai Chi skill on purpose."

"But speaking of which." The Reverse God spoke as if he were talking to a family, but raised his hand and struck Bai Liu's spine with such force that the wind ran with it, "- are you afraid to face Spades, Tang Erda and Liu Jiayi with that face? "

The Reverse God smiled very amiably, "It was obvious that they were all about to meet such an awesome you, yet you temporarily changed the world line to send them elsewhere in the game copy, unwilling to let them see you."

"Are the young people too embarrassed to meet their friends after the change of face?"

The expression on Bai Liu's face fell silent as he raised his hand without looking back, deflecting the hand of the Reverse God coming from behind.

"I guess so." Bai Liu replied blandly, "What, I can't be embarrassed?"

As he uttered these words, the whip Bai Liu held in his left hand was half black, half white, and the black paint on the lower part of the junction began to climb upwards.

Seeing this change the Reverse God's face staggered and he wanted to smack himself twice in the face!

Bai Liu, this guy has turned into an evil god to be so honest about his desires!

The more honestly he confronts his feelings and desires, the deeper the desires will penetrate. The two words that the Reverse God just provoked Bai Liu with were intended to make Bai Liu reject his desires, but instead they had the opposite effect, making Bai Liu psychologically accept himself with his feelings, desires and negative emotions.

Bai Liu lifted his eyes and the black of the lower part of his whip spread upwards in a silky way like blood: "Personally I actually prefer a white bone whip, but for killing I think black is good too."

"Dirty resistant."

Bai Liu smiled up as he looked towards the whip that was spreading blood upwards, "Why don't we just wait until it's finished converting and then end this copy of the game?"

Even the last hint of a smile finally disappeared from the Reverse God's face.

The other end.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu (owner of the Dense Forest Frontier worldline) has modified the worldline to send player Tang Erda and player Liu Jiayi to Red Cross.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has modified Red Cross to a looped docking space that cannot be stepped out of, limiting the use of player Tang Erda and player Liu Jiayi's skills.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu activates a mass of living dead bodies and corpses on the Red Cross map, forcing player Tang Erda, and player Liu Jiayi to voluntarily exit the game.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda look warily back to back at the misty Red Cross around them.

One minute they were on the shore of the lake, having just listened to the Reverse God's instructions to them, and the next they were inexplicably sent to this Red Cross, which was full of white mist, and they couldn't get out no matter how hard they walked.

The mists continued to shake and hiss as corpses attempted to approach them.

"Ten minutes at most and these undead corpses will have alienated us completely." Tang Erda gazed left and right, "- by then we'll just have to quit the game."

"I haven't found the obvious decryption point either." Liu Jiayi gritted her teeth, still reluctant, "But Bai Liu is still here."

"I heard his voice but didn't see him."

Tang Erda was silent for a moment: "I heard that too."

He raises his hand and the revolver in his hand changes form, eventually becoming a long, rose revolver with a bullet belt.

Tang Erda lifted her head, held her gun up to the body parts and exhaled a long, slow breath.

"-then give it all we've got and hold out until we can't, and see if we can break this boundary that's trapping us and see Bai Liu."

[System Alert: Player Tang Erda equips "Monster Book Status: Faded Rose Hunter"]

At the edge of the town, the crossroads to the cemetery is heavily shrouded in mist.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has changed the face setting of the Zombie Bride from npc Guy to Bai Liu's face]

[System Alert: In order to confuse Spades' recognition of the monster, the status of the Zombie Bride (Bai Liu version) has been changed to the drunken version, panel value is being changed ......]

[System Alert: Boost the Zombie Bride's Composite panel, pulling the attack power attribute to the highest set value for that monster.]

[Player Bai Liu's modified "Dense Woods Borderlands Monster Book: Zombie Bride" setting set is loading ......]

Spades gripped the whip and he was to be the first to ascend to the other side of the lake, but was inexplicably sent here.

He looked around indifferently, and without hesitation he drew his whip to tear through the dense space and time, to break out of the place that could not trap him at all.

But the moment Spades' whip was swung, out of the white fog came a grey figure in a veil, and the whip split the rolling fog.

A smiling Bai Liu, wearing a long veil and holding a bouquet, appeared in front of Spades, looking as if she were alive, except for her pale complexion.

Next, several zombie brides in intermittent "Bai Liu" states appear, with Fujimori clustered around Spades, smiling with arched eyebrows, "I'll stay with you."

"I'll never hate you."

"We will be together forever, until death do us part."

"I will never say goodbye to you again."

Hidden behind the bouquet, "Bai Liu" gazed intently at Spades with those drunken eyes and a spring smile: "I miss you, Spades."

"- not to see Xie Ta, but to see Spades."

At these words, Spades' pupils fluttered slightly as he held up his whip.

Knowing that Bai Liu was a fake, these words gave Spades a pause in his whip swing.

At that very moment, a zombie "Bai Liu" came around and grabbed Spades' wrist.

" Bai Liu" smiled a blissful smile, but did not pause in his hands, "-all the things you want to hear me say, right?"

"Want to keep listening? --run away from this game with me and be together forever."

Spades swung his whip back coldly and without any effort, and the moment he ended up hitting this zombie " Bai Liu ", all he heard was the sound of his system alerting him.

[System Alert: Player Spades has been attached to the Zombie Bride, attacking the attachment is equivalent to attacking the player's own body].

[System Alert: Player Spades has been attacked by himself and has lost 7 life points]

Spades slowly moved his eyes down and he saw that the zombie, Bai Liu, had grown completely with him where he held his wrist and was still spreading corporeally upwards from the deadly clutch.

The bride " Bai Liu " laughed with an eerie cruelty and sweetness: "I am united with you, one, and to kill me is to kill yourself."

"Let us all become monsters completely and stay here, so that we will never be separated again."

A steady stream of " Bai Liu" zombie brides smiled as they ran past with their guns attached, Spades finally corpsed his back and left shoulder and he frowned a little.

[System Alert: Player Spades is declining in mental value due to necrophilia ......]

By the lake.

Bai Liu's swinging of the whip continued at a moderate pace, as the god's pushing and pulling slowed and blood spilled from the corners of his mouth, and he remained motionless and slow against the god.

"I'm actually quite curious." The Reverse God was coughing up blood while laughing and chatting with Bai Liu, "Since you are so ruthless in using the Spades, sacrificing their pain, and setting up a death trap for the Spades, it seems like you don't care about them at all."

"But why the preference to not let them see you as you are now?"

"If you are really as you say you are generally perfectly fine with being completely evil-"

The Reverse God snapped Bai Liu's neck with a sharp push and pull, "-and what exactly are you running from that fear?"

Bai Liu leaned back and threw his hand to loop the whip around the wrist of the Reverse God, the bone spines of the whip opening up and embedding themselves in the flesh of the Reverse God before he took hold of the handle and pulled it lengthwise.

The Reverse God's hand was ripped away hard, and blood and flesh splattered between the Reverse God and Bai Liu.

"I can accept this look for myself, and it's a different thing from what others can accept." Bai Liu shook the whip up and down twice, shaking the blood froth off the whip and reining it in.

Bai Liu looked calmly at the Reverse God who took several steps back, covering his wrist: "It is too self-conscious to ask others to accept your own utilitarian and lust-filled negativity."

The Reverse God covered his wrist, which was dripping blood, and looked straight at Bai Liu: "- what are you afraid of, since you don't expect them to accept you as you are, and have accepted the reality that they won't accept you?"

The Reverse God laughed up, " Bai Liu, you're not afraid of another possibility are you?"

Bai Liu's hand clutching the whip closed with a slight inward snap, blood dripping down the edge of the bone spur.

The Reverse God bore the sharp pain in his wrist, showed his teeth and smiled broadly as he continued, "-you're not afraid that they'll still accept you even after this, are you?"

"You're afraid they have real feelings for you and what you're doing is failing them for everything they've done to pull you back, aren't you?"

"You'd rather they hate you than accept you when they see you."

The Reverse God raised his eyebrows, " Bai Liu, I've never seen you such a strange and contradictory player."

"So do you want them to accept you, or not?"

Bai Liu The blackness of the lower part of the whip hanging at his side paused for a moment as the Reverse God's words began to slowly continue spreading upwards again.

The Reverse God extends his hand, lifting and pushing outwards, a typical Tai Chi starting stance.

His palms picked up the wind as the wheel spun, blowing his robe and hair away from his face.

There was a vague yet gentle smile in the Reverse God's eyes and a calm look on his face, "I may not be too sure about your teammate."

"-but there's an intuitive wild animal on my team, and I know he just has to identify who-"

Bai Liu stared at the Reverse God without a ripple, the whip in his hand once again spreading, the blood-coloured paint on it creeping upwards in a hideous boil.

The Reverse God sprinted forward, closing in on Bai Liu almost before the blink of an eye.

He raised his hand and flipped around to dodge Bai Liu's whip that came straight at his face, dipping his shoulder in a fluid motion, flipping his wrist inward and outward to strike Bai Liu hard in the ribs, but there was a smile in the Reverse God's voice: "- you can't expect him to let you go."

"You're being paid to help me with this guy."

Bai Liu raises his whip to block the reverse god's palm strike.

The moment the palm and whip struck each other, a huge white mist exploded in place with a thud.

Red Cross .

Tang Erda choked and coughed and carried her gun as the bodies in front of her got more and more fragmented and beaten up. Liu Jiayi's poison over there corroded the corpses, and as long as it didn't finish corroding them, the scattered corpse foam was easier to sneak up on them instead.

In the later stages, Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda both simply abandon their skills in favour of the dumbest of physical attacks, which are easily 'stuck' to the body parts and then simply possess them as one.

After downing the last bottle of psycho-bleach, Liu Jiayi shakes a little, almost 50 per cent of her body corporealised, and now just gritting her teeth to hold on.

With the mental bleach restoring spirit levels and her healing potion restoring life levels, they could reasonably have lasted longer.

But there were simply too many corpses, the mental bleach was quickly running out, and her healing potion skills took time to recover, so it was within ten minutes that she had come to this point of being almost out of ammunition.

--The people behind the design of this game map have taken the scenario's limitations on their skills almost to the extreme.

"No more, you need to quit." Tang Erda gripped Liu Jiayi's shoulders and lifted Liu Jiayi, who was half on his knees and gasping for breath, and said calmly, "I can hold out a little longer, you quit first."

Liu Jiayi was just about to shake his head no when an extremely strong wind swept across from the outside, hitting a gap in the densely connected space and jamming it.

The incoming wind stuck for less than two seconds and space shattered.

A pure black whip cracked the entire boundary right through with a cleaving stance, then shook and swept away all the body parts and corpses on the ground, sweeping the whip directly outside Red Cross.

The fog lifted and Spades, covered in blood and wounds, stood at the exit of Red Cross without a trace of emotion on his face.

Spades held the whip in one hand, which was stained with blood, wrapped around some wedding dress scraps and a few fragments of bouquet, then Spades wrapped his other hand indifferently around the back of his neck and pulled off a still-moving zombie hand that was stuck to his shoulder.

[System warning: Attacking an attached zombie is equivalent to attacking yourself!

[System Warning: Player Spades attacked 23 zombie brides attached to him, dropping to 37 life points]

This zombie still has a wedding ring on its hand, broken off as if it had been torn open by Spades, with strands of flesh pulled out.

After ripping the zombie's hand off, blood poured from the break at the back of Spades' neck, and he gave it a little squeeze when he realised he couldn't.

Spades turned to Liu Jiayi and Tang Erda and asked casually, as if he had accidentally walked by, "I'm going to look for Bai Liu, are you coming?"