Chapter 314: The Game Pool

Bai Yi opened his mouth to answer Spades' question at the questioning look in his eyes, but in that moment, not a single word came out of his throat.

The definitions of friend, family member and lover are all very simple, but for some reason Bai Yi feels that the answer to the question ...... is cruel to Spades.

Although Spades himself doesn't care.

When Bai Yi didn't answer him, Spades shifted his gaze back: "[Friends, family, lovers] are things that, like [reality], you can't say what's important, right?"

"Then there's no need to tell me the answer." Spades gave a knee to the whip dangling in his lap, dropping his eyes, "It doesn't feel relevant."

Bai Yi was quiet for a long time before he smiled sadly and hmmed, "...... Indeed, none of this should matter to Spades."

"Because these things, like [reality], are just tender places for us weak people to escape to."

Bai Yi murmurs in awe.

Since then, Spades hasn't asked anyone any reality-related questions, and has gone about his game alone, as he always does.

The people in the killer sequence also have a common goal of not telling Spades anything about reality.

Spades does not like to live in the central hall and usually sleeps in the game, and if he finds a game he likes after all, he will often go to sleep or rest in it.

For example, for a long time before that, Spades was sleeping in Ice Age.

Bai Yi was once shocked to learn that you actually like to sleep there, don't you feel cold when the temperature is so low?

Spades calmly stated that it would not.

Bai Yi asked in horror, "Why? Isn't it better to sleep in a warmer place?

Spades glanced at him and said, "I have a cold body temperature and I can't sleep anywhere warm, so it's all the same.

So Bai Yi stopped talking again and watched in awe as Spades left with his whip to go to bed in Ice Age.

In fact, Bai Yi knows in his heart that all the sympathy-like emotions he feels for Spades are not needed by the other side.

Spades doesn't care what they, the average human player, think, not being of the same species as they are, and judging the world and its future by a completely different standard.

Spades is more like a monster that stumbles out of the game and enters the player's ranks by mistake, if you must say so.

It would be foolish to look at Spades through human eyes.

But occasionally ...... Bai Yi really feels sad when he finds that very slightest hint of something close to human in Spades once in a while.

--sad Spades This guy can be quite human at times, so why can't he come into reality?

But Bai Yi knows in her heart that this sadness is unnecessary.

Because keeping Spades out of reality is the consensus of all players who exist in reality.

Bai Yi didn't understand why the Reverse Gods had banned everyone from coding Spades so harshly, but he has since come to understand.

At one point, when Bai Yi was meeting in the lounge, the door was half covered and the moment he was about to reach out and push it open, he heard Spades' voice coming from inside.

"Against the gods, were you the one who forbade everyone from giving me the code of reality?" Spades inquired calmly.

Bai Yi's hand stopped right there as he tried to push the door open.

It took a moment before the Reverse God replied, "Well, I forbade it, what, you want to enter reality?"

"No." Spades paused, "But why can't I go?"

The Reverse God smiled a little and Bai Yi could see through the doorway that the Reverse God was leaning back on the couch, his head tilted back to look at the ceiling as if in contemplation, " Spades, it's not that you can't go to reality, you can."

"But not now."

Spades asks, "Why?"

The Reverse God said, "Because in a situation where [reality] has no meaning to you, [reality] is just a copy of your game, and you will look at [reality] in the same way you look at the game."

"If there comes a time when [reality] has lost its meaning to you as a game, or if [reality] is unpleasant to you, you will not hesitate to choose to destroy [reality], you have the ability to do so."

"But the most essential reason is because [reality] doesn't matter to you."

"Then in that way, you will become a monster in this copy of [Reality]." The Reverse God lifted his head as he looked levelly at Spades, "You will destroy the [reality] that others have tried with all their might to protect."

Spades looked up: "Isn't [reality] a copy of the game?"

The Reverse God stroked his chin in thought for a moment, "You could say yes."

Spades goes on to ask, "So isn't destroying copies of the game something [players] do all the time?"

"I've met players who hate all copies of the game, who dread them and often break down and hiss to destroy them completely."

"Why is [reality] a copy that these players are going to protect?"

Spades looks to the Reverse God: "Is it because these players like [realistic] copies?"

"No." The Reverse God thought for a moment, he seemed to find it amusing as he smiled a little and looked at Spades, "On the contrary, many of the players who come here to the system hate [reality]."

"There must be something in [reality] that makes them very unpleasant and greatly excites them to get into the game, and for many players, [reality] is probably no less terrifying than any of the games here."

Spades stared straight at the Reverse God, "Then why are they protecting reality? Shouldn't they destroy it by any means possible?"

The Reverse God smiled, "Hard to understand, isn't it?"

Spades paused for a moment and hmmmed.

"It's not the copy [of reality] itself that they're trying to protect." The Reverse God looked to Spades, "It's certain specific people in this copy."

"So even if this copy of [reality] is as hateful and horrible and insidious as it is, forcing them to suffer and torturing them to survive, they will protect [reality] for these people."

"Humans, or rather Spades the player you see is such a creature."

"One will instinctively go after existence, feelings and values in other people themselves, and the desire that arises from this pursuit will often be tougher than the desire that arises from oneself."

"By profiting for themselves alone, people will become subjects of desire and spiritual needs, and the game will soon drive such people mad, which is normal, because people are products of groups, and it is difficult to rely entirely on themselves to satisfy their emotional and spiritual needs; they have to look to other people to do so."

"You should have seen quite a few players who just got into the game for themselves and then died quickly in the game."

"So most of the advanced players in this game are not in it for themselves, but they are in it because of someone, or some very important person in [reality]."

The Reverse God mopped his jaw and looked at Spades with a grin, "But they're still hard for Spades to understand right now, so just listen."

" Spades, if you want to enter reality, you have to make it irreplaceable for you to do so." The Reverse God patted Spades on the shoulder.

"When there is someone, or certain people in reality who are so important to you that you would be willing to destroy reality for them, no matter how much [reality] torments you, that's when you can enter reality."

Spades was quiet for a long time, and the moment the Reverse God stood up to leave, Spades spoke again abruptly: "Are those important people, friends, relatives, lovers?"

Bai Yi, standing outside the door, and the Reverse God, inside the door, both startled at the same time.

The Reverse God sat back down with some amusement, " Bai Yi and you said that?"

Spades ummed and he bowed his head, "But these are what he didn't tell me."

"In a layman's sense, a relative is someone you are related to by blood, a friend is someone who is close to you and willing to help you and be there for you at all times, and a lover is -"

When speaking of [lover], the Reverse God clenched his fist and coughed, his face a little red with distress, "Lover this well ...... although I already have a wife, but this thing is hard for me to explain to you clearly."

Spades squints at the Reverse God, "Is it complicated, lover?"

"It's not complicated to say." The Reverse God scratched the back of his head and said, embarrassed, "I fell in love with my wife at first sight."

"But it's complicated to say it's not." The Reverse God sighed a long, helpless sigh, "I'm my wife's I don't know how many boyfriends she's had, and she's been nice to each one, and each one has been okay, but for some reason, maybe it's just almost luck, it never works out."

"I was so anxious before the wedding that I didn't sleep for days." The Reverend God folded his hands in devotion and prayed, "I thank God for making it possible for her and me to get married."

Bai Yi, who was outside the door when she heard such a big gossip, winced - wow, even a highly intelligent person like the Reverse God is worried about his marriage.

Bai Yi thought only a fool like himself would be worried.

"You intellect point 96, and you can prophesy." Spades looked at the Reverse God, "If you really want to know about the future of your marriage to her, there is always a way."

Slowly the Reverse God sat up straight, resting his hands on his wanting knees and crossed them, lowering his head in silence for a long time before speaking, "...... I have no way to prophesy to her."

Spades looked at the Reverse God, "Your skills are not limited, why not?"

"Because I am afraid." The Reverse God slowly looked up at Spades, "I can prophesy the future of my friends, the future of my loved ones, but I can't prophesy to her."

Spades looked at the gods of the reverse: "What do you fear?"

The Reverse God paused, "Of all the relationships that according to common sense one needs, love relationships are the most special, you can expect something from your friendships, kin relationships are mostly innate, only love is hard to pin down."

"Before I met her, no matter how high my intelligence value was, it was difficult for me to deduce what kind of love relationship I would have for myself and how it would progress."

"Love relationships are full of unknowns."

"You don't know what you will love, or which one will or will not love you, and for how long." The Reverse God half-closed his eyes, "I don't know how far I can go with her either, so while I still love her, I fear a future where I don't see her."

"I'm not going to make any prophecies about my lover."

"For me then ......" said the Reverend God softly in a dazed voice as he leaned back into the sofa, "a lover is probably the one person who can make me fear a future without her."

Spades was quiet for a moment, seemingly thinking, before giving his serious assessment, "Hard to understand."

The Reverse God put his hands behind his head, looked sideways at Spades and smiled, "Indeed, it's hard for Spades to understand, whether it's a friend, a relative or a lover, isn't it?"

"Your birth is different from a normal human, you have no relatives who are naturally related to you, and the words of a friend ......"

" Spades the players around you are scared of you, let alone being friends." The Reverse God sighed, "Those of us on the team know your background of origin, but there is no way to empathise with you, and all we can do is not fear you."

"It's also hard for us ordinary humans who exist in [reality] to understand what you think, and it's hard for you to understand what we think."

"There's no point in having a relationship if friends can't understand each other."

The Reverse God glanced seemingly at Bai Yi outside the doorway, "It's disrespectful to be friends with someone on the basis of superficial sympathy, and the other person doesn't need it."

Bai Yi's fingers on the door contracted and he slowly lowered them.

"The words of a lover ......," the Reverse God sighed at length, "are a relationship I really can't penetrate, and I'm still too distressed myself to explain more to you."

Spades was silent for a moment: "If I had [a family member, friend, lover], would you give me the code to enter reality?"

"I won't give it to you." The Reverse God looked at Spades and smiled, "But at that time, Spades your [friend, loved one, lover] will give you the code."

Spades gave an oh, nodded as if he had an answer, and got up to go.

When Spades pushed the door open he saw Bai Yi standing outside, who smiled and greeted Spades, who nodded that I saw him and walked away without saying hello back.

Bai Yi quieted down and walked into the lounge.

He walked in and sat down on the sofa, the smile on his face quickly fading as he sat in silence for a moment, then pulled out a box of cigarettes, took one out for himself and held it in his mouth, and handed the box to the Reverse God across the room.

"I'm sorry." Bai Yi paused for a moment and said, "Reverse God, I was wrong, I didn't think it through, I won't think twice about secretly coding Spades' reality."

The Reverse God lifted his eyes, held out his index and middle fingers to clasp a cigarette from the box, pulled it out and lit it.

Then the Reverse God spoke slowly: "Don't help the object of your deep fear out of a moment of sympathy, and naively think of befriending it."

He exhaled a puff of smoke, and the white smoke dispersed densely over the side of his face.

The Reverse God turned his head and smiled with a slight arched eyebrow, "It's easy to get your comeuppance, Bai Yi."

Bai Yi was barely able to understand at that point why the Reverse God forbade everyone to code Spades' reality.

But Bai Jiamu Buming, who had asked the Reverse God several times why he couldn't give the code to Spades, said that he was not a good person.

[Spades, this guy is an idiot! He's not going to do anything to destroy reality! So what if we give it to him! At least let this guy sleep in a normal, warm bed for once! Bai Jiamu shouted.

The Reverse God always snickers and laughs at the much younger Bai Jiamu, saying [he can give it to him, but not now, and not from you].

[Wrong time!] The god of inversion always says to Bai Jiamu in a very quirky tone.

It was only at this moment, with the God of Reverse covered in blood and Spades lying battered and bruised on the ground, that Bai Yi's realisation dawned.

When a monster has the power to destroy [Reality], it is never allowed to enter this copy of [Reality] until that monster has a weakness.

It's unfair to the monster though.

Bai Yi took one look at Spades, lying face down in a pool of blood, before withdrawing his gaze and being pulled out of the room by Bai Jiamu.

After a few moments, the door to the conference room was opened again and Liao Ke came in carrying a cross-shaped medical kit.

Liao Ke is a very non-existent member of the team, his looks do not match the name Killer Sequence at all, he is very gentle, with slender eyebrows, flat presbyopia glasses and a bit of unintentional fine lines at the corners of his eyes, but to the eye he looks only twenty-seven or eighteen, not thirty.

But actually the second child is in high school.

Liao Ke looks young and does not look old at all, but she is actually forty-eight years old and her eldest son graduated from university a little over a year ago.

"Oh, Liao Ke you're here." The Reverse God rubbed his shoulders and made casual small talk, "Is your youngest daughter a senior next year?"

"It's not easy for you to remember this." Liao Ke teased, before half kneeling next to Spades and turning him over to be strapped in with the restraints.

The Reverse God crouched down to help.

Liao Ke tied Spades' hands and feet to the wall with restraining straps, then bandaged Spades' wounds, looked up at the Reverse God and smiled, "My daughter reads quite hard, but she has something she wants to do, and it's good to work hard for what she wants to do."

The Reverse God smiled a little too, "How nice to find what you want to do at such a young age."

Liao Ke glanced at the Reverse God: "Aren't you too? Getting into the game at a young age for what you want to do."

After a few seconds of silence, the Reverse God smiled again as if nothing had happened, "Enough about that, I asked you to come here today to counsel Spades."

"I do have a harmless skill that can be used directly in the central hall." Liao Ke half-kneels in front of Spades, who is suspended by his restraints, with a slightly peculiar expression, "But it's the first time I've used this skill on Spades, are you sure this guy won't come to his senses halfway through and punch me?"

The Reverse God sat down next to him, "Can't beat you up, his whip was chopped up by me."

Liao Ke smiled, "Then I'm relieved."

Liao Ke's gaze sinks as he looks directly at Spades, whose head hangs in front of him, and pulls out a stethoscope, a pen, and a notepad from his hand.

[System Alert: Player Liao Ke uses his personal skills (Asking Questions) and (Medical Record Writing)] on player Spades.

The stethoscope is suspended and extended, the stethoscope head is pressed against Spades' heart and the ear hook floats in the air, emitting a regular thumping heartbeat like an amplified stereo.

Liao Ke pulls out a pen and writes down on the paper, "Patient Spades, what are your main psychological symptoms? How long has this been going on?"

"Tell me with your heart."

The sound of the heartbeat on the stethoscope becomes disturbed, gradually reversing from a regular thumping sound to the sound of a bad contact current and finally to the sound of Spades himself.

Spades' voice came out calmly from where his ears were hanging, "I feel happy and sad that it lasted a copy."

Liao Ke nodded: "Why are you happy and why are you sad?"

"Happy because I met Bai Liu, sad because I met Bai Liu." Stethoscope said.

"Do you have this happiness and sadness all the time, or are you sometimes happy and sometimes sad?" Liao Ke asks.

The stethoscope was quiet for a moment: "Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes side by side."

Liao Ke writes on her notepad, the tip of her pen rustling on the paper, "Can you give me a list of some of the different scenes where you were happy, sad, and coexisting?"

"Happy when I slept with Bai Liu, his body was warm, happy when I drank with Bai Liu, which I hadn't done before, happy when I got married to Bai Liu, he hugged me ......" The stethoscope suddenly went quiet went down, "Sad scenes, I'm struggling to list."

Liao Ke's pen stopped writing: "Why?"

"Because I don't actually feel very sad, but then again I do." Stethoscope said.

Liao Ke asks, "If there is a scene where you don't feel very sad, but you do feel very sad, then that sadness might come from someone else, who is that person?"

" Bai Liu ." The stethoscope replied smoothly this time, "He was sad, but I Buming white why."

Liao Ke asked softly, "In what way would Bai Liu be sad enough to make you feel sad too?"

"The time to hug me." The stethoscope said, "When you cut out my heart, when you married me, when you said goodbye to me, when you performed the evil god ritual and fought me ......"

The stethoscope was quiet for a long time: "He seems to be upset all the time."