Chapter 313: The Game Pool

The Reverse God staggered out of the play pool dragging Spades with one hand.

He was covered in blood, barely a patch of it, and Spades, whom the gods had dragged out of the play pool, was in worse shape than he was, lying in a pool of blood, almost unrecognisable.

The Reverse God dragged the unconscious Spades like a mop, two steps at a time, in the direction of the Slayer's Guild.

As the players next to him watched in awe, the Reverse God used the Spades Mop to mop up a long bloody trail on the floor of the game pool.

When they reached the killer sequence, the Reverse God took a long breath, choked and coughed twice, looked back at the motionless Spades, sighed, and then with difficulty helped Spades up the stairs.

After knocking on the back of Spades' head for an unknown number of times, the Reverse God finally climbed exhaustedly up to the first floor conference room.

The Reverse God rapped weakly on the door of the conference room, calling out hoarsely, "Is anyone there? Open the door, your tactician and lead attacker are dying."

The door to the meeting room was opened and Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu, who were bandaging themselves, looked on in disbelief at the bruised and battered gods and Spades.

Bai Yi drew a cold breath, "How did you get hurt like that?

"In a nutshell." The Reverse God slumped on the couch, flinging the corpse-like Spades to the side, eyes drained to the ceiling, "-I judged both Bai Liu and Spades, drained."

Bai Jiamu stepped forward and handed a bandage to the God of Reverse, but he refused it with a wave of his hand: "I'm fine, although the fight was fierce, but my mental state is stable, I didn't carry the injury out of the copy, just my state is more depleted."

Bai Jiamu was stunned: "The blood on you is all ......"

"The blood is all Spades'." The Reverse God pointed to Spades and let out a long sigh, "After I judged Bai Liu, this guy went crazy for some reason and fought with me in the copy, causing me to vomit blood, almost dying on the spot, and crashing the world line that was being repaired again."

Bai Yi crouched curiously next to Spades' 'corpse' and poked it: "It's the first time I've seen Spades take a wound out of a copy, and such a serious one at that."

"I had a hard time knocking him out." The Reverse God gave Bai Yi a sidelong glance, "If you poke him, Spades' weapons can attack people in the halls, and he'll beat you up in the halls if he gets mad."

Bai Yi instantly withdrew his guilty hand and crawled on all fours to a corner far away from Spades, looking at him in horror: "You haven't beaten Spades into submission yet?

"No, Spades was so mad this time that if I hadn't stopped him, he would have gone after Bai Liu as soon as he logged out of the game." The Reverse God was quiet for a moment before adding, "But Spades' skill weapon was chopped up by me, so he won't be able to go crazy and beat people up in the lobby for a while."

Bai Yi slapped his heart in defeat, "Against the gods didn't you tell me you were going to get a weaponsmith to come over and fix Spades' weapon?"

The Reverse God looked at Spades' face down 'corpse' for a moment and then suddenly spoke, "Get Liao Ke to come over and show Spades before you get the weapons master."

" Liao Ke ?" Bai Jiamu paused, "You want Liao Ke to counsel Spades on the game?"

The Reverse God hmmed wearily from his nostrils.

Bai Yi scarcely says: " Spades is the only one of us who hasn't done game psychology, I think."

" Liao Ke, that counselling was a pain." Bai Yi looked at Spades with glee, "You've had your day!"

"Stop laughing, tell Liao Ke to come over here, and get out, all of you." The Reverse God waved his hand feebly.

Bai Jiamu pulled Bai Yi, who was still laughing at Spades, and was about to leave when the Reverse God suddenly called out to them, "Hey, wait, there's one more thing I haven't told you."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu turned back to the Reverse God, his eyes calm to the point of no ripples, "I've told you many times, but I'll remind you once more."

"Spades should never be given the code to leave the game and enter the real world."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu were both stunned to see this look on the Reverse God's face.

The Reverse God rarely puts on such a serious expression, although he is the tactician who coordinates the whole situation, he is mostly smiling and not very angry, and rarely pulls down his face to accuse the other team member even if they are playful when talking about business.

But it also means that when the Adversary does speak in this way, the matter is usually very important.

[No codes for Spades to enter the real world] was the first injunction issued in this tone to all members of the Reverse God after he entered the Slayer sequence.

This is a very strange ban.

How is that strange?

When a normal player logs into the game from a location in the real world, the game automatically generates a twelve-digit code for that location. When a player wants to leave the game, they simply need to enter this twelve-digit code into the system and the player can log out of the game from that location.

Spades, on the other hand, is not coded.

All the locations in the real world are coded, none of which he has.

So he was never able to log out of the game.

Spades is a very special player who doesn't even know reality exists, and even Bai Yi only realised late on that Spades was a completely different player from the rest of them.

"You don't have a code?!" Bai Yi looked at Spades in shock, "Then where did you log into the game from? Even if you go in and out of the same place all the time back there, you always have one when you log in to the game, right?!"

Spades played with the whip in his hand, head down, "I logged in from the town of Siren, the game didn't give me a code."

Bai Yi reacted for two seconds before asking back in a trance, "You're a player who logged in to this lobby from a horror game, you didn't log in from reality?!"

Spades looked up at Bai Yi: "Reality, what is it?"

Bai Yi was speechless, racking his brain trying to explain what [reality] meant: "Reality is ...... players who have played the game and are scared and tired, they will leave the game together and go back to reality, back to where they are no longer scared and no longer need to play the game, and then they will cuddle their wives. Or if they don't have a wife, they'll hug their dog and sleep beautifully and peacefully."

Spades listened intently and then asked, "Is this my reality that when I want to sleep I also find a copy of the game and kill the monsters in it and then lie on their corpses to sleep?"

"No!" Bai Yi immediately retorted, "Reality and games are not the same!"

Spades looks at Bai Yi: "Why is it different?"

Bai Yi felt his brain twisting together as he rubbed his chin and looked serious, trying to further explain the meaning of [reality].

This is a completely philosophical topic for Bai Yi.

"It's, it's, ehm, how to say it ......" Bai Yi said while gesturing, "Reality is the real thing, it's different from a game copy, reality doesn't have things you have to do and there's What [true end] and other messy lines for you to follow, and generally speaking, there are no monsters to encounter, you can always stay in it without worry."

"It's the same way after the game is through." Spades comments calmly, "There are no monsters or things I have to do, I can stay in it all the time."

Bai Yi was once again speechless as he began to frantically pull at his hair: "Ahhhhhhhhh! Anyway reality is just different, everyone prefers to stay in reality rather than the game, and reality is good and important! It's a thousand times better than the crap copies of the game here!"

"If I had a choice, I would never go into this game and stay in reality all the time."

Spades was quiet, lowering his eyes and shaking his whip: "Reality, how is it better than the game?"

"There are so many good places Fang Ke." Bai Yi drones on as if pouring out bitterness as he compares fingers and counts, "Firstly, not having to fight monsters with fear."

Spades pursed his lips, "I don't fight monsters without fear."

Bai Yi continued, "Don't be afraid to die yourself."

Spades: "I don't just die."

Bai Yi glares: "Don't bother trying to collect the monster book to pass."

Spades: "I don't have to set it all to get through."

Bai Yi cited a long list of items, each of which was dismissed by Spades with a flick of the wrist, and Bai Yi was finally deflated, muttering with his eyes glazed over, "For you, it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with games compared to reality."

Spades shot a bemused glance at Bai Yi: "You like copies of reality because you're too weak."

"That's not true!" Bai Yi stood up and jumped twice in resignation at this veiled taunt from Spades, "Even if I were as strong as you, I'd prefer to stay in reality!"

Spades paused for a moment and asked, "Why?"

Bai Yi slowly sat back down next to Spades, and after a moment of silence, his face softened: "Because my loved ones, my friends, my family, the people who are important to me, they're all in reality."

"Living with them is different." Bai Yi blinked suddenly, his eyes reddening as he raised a hand to wipe them hard, "Even if the reality of living with them is as scary as a horror game, then I'll try to become as strong as you are and go back to protect them."

Bai Yi sniffled like he was trying so hard to hold back his tears, but in the end he couldn't and whimpered, "Oooh wow - I miss my wife so much -!!!"

When Bai Yi had almost stopped crying, Spades asked his questions.

Spades asks slowly, as if genuinely confused, "Friends, family, lovers, these-"

Spades turned his head and asked seriously, "-what is it?"

Bai Yi is stunned.