Chapter 320: Reality

"It is unknown at this time why Russell Cemetery forfeited their mid-season berth, but all in all this team is our number one pre-season opponent."

Wang Shun clicked on the panel and a bloody lamb's head popped up on the PPT:.

"Aside from Russell Cemetery, the other team we need to focus on is called the Fever Lambs, the last place team from last year's mid-season tournament."

"This team was the first place team in the pre-season the year before, the team they met in the challenge was the Deer Hunters, the tactician was still the Reverse God, and unsurprisingly, the Fever Lambs lost the challenge, but still made it to last year's mid-season tournament."

Wang Shun looked up, "I mention this game specifically because it was the first time that the notoriously mild-mannered tactician of the Inquisitor of the Gods killed someone in the game, he killed the opposing tactician."

"But because this tactician was a popular player that year, with a get-out-of-jail-free card, this man is still currently the tactician for the Fever Lambs and continues to be active."

"During the Fever Lamb Challenge, the entire Deer Hunter team was injured, including the Reverse God, and when I looked into it later, I found out that the injuries were not in-game injuries, but injuries brought in from reality."

"Then I went and looked up the Wild Lambs pre-season games, and found something very strange."

"I found that whenever the Fever Lamb opponent was a very strong or reputable team, the team's warriors would have accidents in reality, competing with injuries."

"There have even been a couple of occasions when a core member of the Fever Lamb's opponents died on the eve of the competition."

Wang Shun said seriously, "So I made a guess that there are information gatherers in this Frenzy Lamb with similar skills to mine, who can somehow get the exact address of a player in reality and then attack them in reality."

Mu Sicheng couldn't resist tsking, "What a bitch, you can't beat them so you do it in reality."

"It's a bitch, but in reality you're not as powerful as you are in the game, you're just normal people." Wang Shun stressed, "You've been a very bright pre-season team, make sure you keep yourselves safe in reality."

"Especially Bai Liu."

Wang Shun looked to Bai Liu: "Mu Sicheng is a registered university student, Liu Jiayi has just been through a big incident and is under multiple surveillance, Captain Tang is very capable of defending himself, Muke's family is a big plutocrat, and you are the only one."

"You're a socially marginal person now."

All eyes moved to Bai Liu.

"I said Bai Liu." Mu Sicheng came over and held Bai Liu's shoulders, "Do you want to stay in my dorm?"

Tang Erda frowned, "The security features of the university dormitory are not good enough, Bai Liu, that small rental house of yours is not safe, I have a flat near the base, why don't you move in with me ......"

"Not near the base, something will happen to your base and he will be blamed for it." Liu Jiayi rejected Tang Erda's proposal and looked to Bai Liu, "I think you could talk to Muke and stay with him, it's easy to get money and move around."

Bai Liu thinks: "It's not convenient to live alone."

Several people came over at the same time and looked straight at Bai Liu: "So who do you live with?"

Bai Liu smiles: "At the moment my idea is to bring Du Sanying over to live with me."

A few people were silent for a while, then Mu Sicheng was the first to question, "Huh??"

After the meeting, Bai Liu logged out of the game from his rented house.

He took off his white shirt, which was covered in blood, and threw it into the laundry basket, undid the locking buckle on his belt and took off his trousers and threw them in the basket with him.

Bai Liu walked naked into the bathroom, turned on the shampoo, hooked off the hair rope, tilted her head back with her eyes closed and let the warm water wash over her face, then reached for the shampoo sitting next to the mirror.

The mirror is filled with water vapour, reflecting Bai Liu's upper body in a faintly visible manner, and Bai Liu looks at his own hazy reflection in the mirror and pauses.

There are some visible changes in his body than when he first entered the game.

Bai Liu never orders takeaway, milk tea or anything like that after work because it's too expensive.

The most he does is to go to the next restaurant with Lu Yizhan every month with a coupon. He usually eats the cheapest set meal of meat and vegetables for eight yuan, and the meat dish includes scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

From early childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Bai Liu has never experienced a period of food abundance, and his lack of intake has always seemed to make him the most underdeveloped in the population.

As a child, Bai Liu was the smallest of his peers. As an adolescent, he was the thinnest of his classmates and as an adult, he was almost stuck in a job search because of his height.

This year, Bai Liu is 24 years old and he looks at himself in the mirror and feels as if ......

Grew a little taller.

Tang Erda wrestled Bai Liu with great intensity for over a month and the changes to Bai Liu's body did not stop there.

Bai Liu's complexion, which had been pale in the office for years without sunlight, now shows a bit of blood, with his shoulders, neck and back spreading backwards, and his originally lean limbs and abdomen now showing muscle tone.

Especially in the shoulders, back and abdomen, a thin layer of muscle wraps around Bai Liu's torso, making these areas look much more powerful.

Although he still doesn't have the six-pack of Tang Erda, Bai Liu's rectus abdominis is now shallowly indented on both sides, and he feels that with a little more exercise he will soon see his abs in shape.

Mr Bai Liu, an adult of almost 25 years of age, eerily feels as if he has regrown.

After the shower, Bai Liu suddenly paused as he was drying his body.

He touched the whip marks on his back where Spades had left them.

But there was only a pause, and Bai Liu dressed as if he hadn't touched anything, still in his white shirt and suit trousers - the only two items of clothing in his wardrobe.

Bai Liu had to pick up Du Sanying from the nursing home later and, in a rare move, he wore a tie to make things more formal.

After going to the nursing home and having Du Sanying sign all the paperwork, Bai Liu was able to get Du Sanying out to the questioning and frightened eyes of the people in charge.

"Sorry to trouble you to pick me up." Du Sanying scratched his head apologetically, "It was still a hassle to pick me up from the nursing home because I was judged to be incapable of personal mobility, did Bai Liu get help?"

Bai Liu hmmed and took Du Sanying's suitcase, " Captain Tang helped find the man."

It was actually Su Yang who helped out.

Su Yang felt that Du Sanying's presence in the nursing home was not in the best interest of either Du Sanying or the nursing home, as it would lead to accidents for the people around him.

Su Yang was going to apply for Du Sanying to be sent to a training camp near the base, but when Bai Liu offered to take care of Du Sanying, Su Yang was surprised and simply helped to do so.

Du Sanying walks behind Bai Liu with his head bowed, occasionally stealing glances at his suitcase in Bai Liu's hand.

Bai Liu walked ahead and said without looking back, "If you have anything to ask, just ask."

Du Sanying hesitated for a moment before asking very quietly, "...... Is it true that it won't affect you if I live with you?"

"I'm better off living alone in isolation ......" Du Sanying's voice became faint.

Bai Liu pushed his suitcase onwards, his tone flat: "Do you want to live alone?"

Du Sanying looked down at the corner of his shirt, "I've lived alone since middle school, and the people I lived with ...... whether they were friends or my mum and dad or my sister, and then something happened."

"Well." Bai Liu said calmly, "I've read your file, I've learned all these things."

"So you want to live alone?"

Du Sanying scowled and whispered, "No."

Bai Liu dragged his suitcase and swept Du Sanying back, "You won't hurt me by living with me, you can help me, you don't want to live alone and I can solve all your worries, so are there any other questions?"

Du Sanying His eyes were red as he straightened his chest and his voice suddenly got louder, "No, no more!"

"Thank you Mr Bai Liu for being willing to put me up with you!"

"Oh no!" Du Sanying suddenly tapped his head and asked apprehensively, "One more question, Mr. Bai Liu, are you allowed to have parrots in your home?"

Bai Liu thought for a moment, "It should be possible, the landlord didn't say it wasn't."

Du Sanying's eyes widened: " Mr Bai Liu, do you live in a rented house?"

Bai Liu let out a hint: "Don't you like rented houses?"

Du Sanying hastily waved his hand: "No, no! I also rented a house when I was in junior high school, I just thought that people like Mr. Bai Liu ......"

Du Sanying racked his brain trying to describe how he felt when he heard Bai Liu was living in a rented house: "It's weird to live in a rented house."

Bai Liu looks sideways at Du Sanying: "What's so strange about that?"

"It's not strange ......" Du Sanying asked in a different way, "Why does Mr Bai Liu live in a rented house?"

Bai Liu replied naturally, "I rented a house because I couldn't afford to buy one."

Du Sanying was shocked: " Isn't Mr Bai Liu very rich!"

"I'm laid off, I don't have much money." Bai Liu squinted at Du Sanying, "Although I saved some later in the game, I would feel bad if I used it to buy a house."

Du Sanying asks curiously, "Why?"

Bai Liu says: "Because I don't like to spend money on highly premium items."

Du Sanying let out a puzzled, non-comprehending sound and then looked at the suitcase in Bai Liu's hand, " Mr. Bai Liu you let me take it myself."

"Wait, Mr. Bai Liu is taking a taxi home, right?" Du Sanying cautiously pleaded, "I don't like to take a taxi, can I walk back by myself?"

Bai Liu asks blandly, "Is it because you've been in a lot of traffic accidents?"

Du Sanying nodded and looked downcast again, "...... I'm accident prone in a car, and the drivers who meet me are too unlucky, so I usually walk."

"I don't like to take a taxi either, so I'll walk back with you." Bai Liu said.

Du Sanying's eyes lit up for a moment, then they turned into sunny, wavy eyes as she looked at Bai Liu with tears streaming down her face: "Oooh, Mr. Bai Liu, you're so nice."

Bai Liu gave Du Sanying a sidelong glance: "I really don't like taking a taxi because it's too expensive."

Du Sanying: "......"

Bai Liu said he wouldn't take a taxi to walk with Du Sanying, so he did. Du Sanying would consciously take the paths that were less crowded on his way back, and he would get nervous at the slightest contact with others.

Because of this, Bai Liu and the others walked through the older streets, with the kind of old stalls on the side of the street.

Du Sanying, for example, saw a height and weight measuring device with an old man sitting next to it and a sign at his feet saying [three measurements for one dollar].

"It's so cheap." Du Sanying said to Bai Liu, "All I've seen before is a dollar at a time."

Bai Liu then stopped abruptly in front of the stall.

Du Sanying reacted for a moment and exclaimed, "Bai, Mr. Bai Liu, are you going to test it?!"

Bai Liu gave a little cry, took a dollar out of his pocket and bent down to hand it to the old man next to the scales, then without hesitation he lifted his foot and stood up.

The measuring rod of the gauge slowly descended, touched the top of Bai Liu's head and slowly moved up again.

The loud speaker on the measuring device emitted that flashing red light and broadcast loudly, "- height 176.5 cm, weight 58 kg, normal thin!"

Bai Liu stood on top of the scales for a while, until the loud speaker had finished shouting all three announcements, and then he slowly walked down.

On three occasions, when Bai Liu came down, Du Sanying subconsciously wondered if he had to go up and take the measurements himself.

But it wasn't to be, Bai Liu walked down and then slowly walked back up and took another test.

Du Sanying: "????"

When all three measurements had been taken, Du Sanying followed behind Bai Liu, who inexplicably felt lighter on his feet, confused: "Mr. Bai Liu, why did you have to take three measurements?"

Bai Liu said calmly, "Re-confirm the established fact that my product adds value."