Chapter 369: Pre-season

"I'm serious, I'm not kidding you." Fang Dian gave Bai Liu a playful pat on the head and burst out laughing, her face haggard and pale but her expression energetic, her eyes shining up at Bai Liu, "I've always raised you like a son anyway."

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, and he slowly moved his eyes aside: "I am past the age of adoption."

Fang Dian was stunned, and soon she burst into laughter.

"I don't care!" Fang Dian smiled with her eight teeth showing, her smile was so bright and shining, she was so happy from the bottom of her heart, she reached out and took Bai Liu's head and rubbed it with a purr, "Say daddy!"

Lu Yizhan, who was next to her, stopped her in tears: "Be careful!"

Bai Liu was pinned under Fang Dian's crevice, his head squeezed so tightly that his features were distorted, and he opened his mouth, "...... Get some rest and get well soon."

After Fang Dian has fallen asleep, Lu Yizhan and Bai Liu walk out of the ward and they walk in silence to the corner of the stairs.

There is a high and narrow window at the corner of the stairs.

Lu Yizhan takes out a cigarette, which he holds in his mouth unlit, and leans against the wall to look out of the window through which daylight falls on Lu Yizhan's face, making his face look haggard and tired after a long night's sleep.

His eyes drifted off, and he said, as if to himself, "...... Everything is my fault."

Bai Liu looked to Lu Yizhan, his tone cold: "Do you need me to repeat for you here how your wife comforted me?"

Lu Yizhan was amused as he removed his cigarette and coughed twice, turning back to Bai Liu with a look so complex that it seemed to combine the extremes of all human emotions.

For a moment, Yang Zhi felt that Lu Yizhan was looking at another person through Bai Liu.

With just one glance, Lu Yizhan restrained himself from averting his eyes and said softly, "It's really my fault that I made the wrong decision and let Fang Dian and you get hurt."

Bai Liu sensed that Lu Yizhan's tone was off and asked calmly, "Is it something you're working on?"

"Sort of." Lu Yizhan held the cigarette back to his lips again, his head bowed, unable to read his expression, "...... The person who retaliated against you and Fang Dian is sort of a prisoner I chased, he was recently released from prison and said he wanted to get back at me, at first he only sent me Fang Dian's picture, I warned her to attention."

"But I didn't expect to be listed on the other side?" Bai Liu asked rhetorically, "Did they?"

Bai Liu asked calmly, "Something as simple as a prisoner retaliating against someone close to the police, Lu Yizhan, I can't believe you wouldn't have thought the other side would have put me on the list too, why didn't you warn me?"

"They're not just criminals, are they?" Bai Liu looked pale as he dissected the layers, "Organized and disciplined, not the first time they've done this, attacking people in the street with impunity, excitedly taking pictures as they attacked them, clearly performative and entertaining, always talking about how they're going to win some kind of contest, get something, seemingly treating it all like some kind of competitive game competition ."

"I think this group of people is more like a terrorist group with some kind of unified purpose and common beliefs than the ex-prisoners you just casually perfumed me with, and such terrorist groups generally carry religious attributes."

"Terrorist groups of this nature usually like to attack on a large scale without any regularity, and from this point of view, it is again too clear that the target of the opponent's attack is precisely the people related to you, and that you told Fang Dian about this, but kept it from me."

"Putting all this information together, the only conclusion I can draw is that Lu Yizhan, you were working undercover in some kind of highly profitable, highly staffed, and recreational religious organization with some kind of faith, or as I think is a more accurate description - this game, and should have also achieved position of no lesser status."

"Because of this, you know that this game is about me, so you are doing your best to avoid me knowing everything about this game, while the other side knows everything about me and even wants to lure me into this game and join their religious sexual organisation."

"With me knowing nothing about this organisation or the game, then there are two most likely scenarios as to why the other side is doing this."

"The first one, is the need to develop me as one of their believers."

Bai Liu gazed quietly at Lu Yizhan: "The second one is the need to develop me as their [god], right?"

Lu Yizhan was silent for a long, long time before he finally lifted his head to look levelly at Bai Liu and laughed hoarsely: "...... Sometimes I think it's not a good thing to have a friend who is too smart."

"Now you know this thing exists." Lu Yizhan let out a breath, "What would you do?"

Without hesitation, Bai Liu replied, "I would join the organisation."

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes as he gave a look of relief that he had known this would happen, "...... is the choice you would make."

"I can promise you not to do anything excessive when you go in." Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan, his expression and tone calm, but what he said was cruel.

"But I don't like to put the initiative in someone else's hands, like right now, the scenario I'm more comfortable with is Fang Dian driving his motorbike into it and then the other person lying in hospital, or in a funeral home."

Lu Yizhan looked straight at Bai Liu and he asked him point blank, "So you want to kill someone, do you?"

Bai Liu was silent, and Lu Yizhan knew he had acquiesced.

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he forced himself to calm down, "Okay, you're going to kill, how many people are you going to kill, how are you going to kill them, and in what way are you going to settle them afterwards."

"I know that while I'm talking about this, your mind is probably already thinking of ways to solve everything, and I know that you could totally handle all of this and even get this organization and use this tool to ride back and forth in the world with god-like freedom, killing people at will, untold amounts of money, and satisfying the limits of every human desire. "

Lu Yizhan looked into Bai Liu's eyes: "But then what?"

He reached out to hold Bai Liu's shoulders, his eyes reflecting Bai Liu in a warm plea, "Are you going to keep being that kind of god?"

"Fang Dian and I both want you to be an ordinary person who can go to and from work, have birthday dinners, have friends, have a job, cry, laugh, get hurt, love and be loved."

"I've seen the way you have everything." Lu Yizhan's hand supported Bai Liu's shoulder and tightened, "...... but that's all you get by depriving others, you wouldn't be happy, no one would be happy in a world like that."

" Bai Liu, I watched you grow up, don't let me watch you go down that road again."

Lu Yizhan reached out and hugged the silent Bai Liu's shoulder and closed his eyes, " Bai Liu, I promise you that you will one day execute these people who hurt Fang Dian in a way that is legal, compliant, and in accordance with my moral rules and your moral rules."

"But not now." Lu Yizhan stroked Bai Liu's head, then slowly raised his hand, a strange white light on his hand, his eyes filled with mixed emotions, and he said softly, "I forgot to tell you before, happy birthday, Bai Liu."

[System Prompt: Do you use the Divine Rule Skill (World Memory Folding)?

[This modifies the memory line of everyone in the entire world, overwriting special events so that no one will be able to remember that an event happened or find traces of an event happening, everything can be seamlessly overwritten, the highest level of the Memory skill].

[The memories after the reset are the base facts of the world line and are axiomatic to all world line inhabitants and cannot be erased or distorted by any prop or skill].

[System Prompt: Player has used this world line twice (World Memory Fold), only the last skill use count left, do you use it?

Lu Yizhan closes his eyes: [OK.

A dazzling white light blossomed and the memory of Yang Zhi faced the skill head-on.

The world memory overlay skill allows Yang Zhi's mind to switch back and forth rapidly.

Yang Zhi's memory skill is only a basic skill, he can't handle this kind of high-dimensional memory skill, after devouring so many people's memories and then being forced to fold and modify them by the rule skill, Yang Zhi is going crazy!

Yang Zhi fell to his knees, looking in excruciating pain, covering his stomach where he was digesting his memories and vomiting blood in great gulps.

The confusing and painful memories of everyone swallowed by Yang Zhi came flooding back to him all at once, rushing from side to side in the stomach sac of his mind, making it feel like a knife was stirring back and forth in his own gut.

In a confused attempt to relieve the cramping pain in his abdomen, Yang Zhi grabbed the mud from the ground and shoved it into his mouth, chewing it down without chewing it, trying to suppress the feeling of having eaten a stomach full of glass, but the pain got worse.

Yang Zhi rolled on his belly, screaming, his limbs spasming and jerking out, his face snotty and his eyes pupils dilated.

[System Alert: Player Silent Lamb has zero spirit value, alienation is complete, exit the game ......]

Kong Xuyang was still struggling for his life, fearfully rummaging through the panel in an attempt to find some prop to reverse his fate, but no matter how much he struggled, it was just useless and only made the illusion before him more and more real.

He went back to his university days when those people laughed at him and trampled on him, saying he was a poor man who couldn't afford $500 shoes and would be an inferior person for the rest of his life.

"I won't!" Kong Xuyang yelled as he fought his way through the mud, crawling upwards, his eyes red, nails sprouting from his hands and feet, scratching himself with blood.

He hissed in the muddy water, "It's not fair! For what reason!"

"I'm so much better than you guys! I could have beaten you all! Why should I be trampled under your feet when you're obviously just a bunch of losers!"

Kong Xuyang was on the ground, struggling to get up. He looked around him and everyone was wearing expensive shoes on his face, looking down on him as if he were a clown, saying contemptuously, "You've lost, you're the loser now.

"I will win!" Kong Xuyang jerked up in a frenzy as he reached for the men's shoes, his pupils spreading as his eyes looked up at a point of nothingness in the air, blood spilling from his mouth and nose, "I win!"

"I can afford to buy the same things you guys do!!! No looking down on me!!!"

[System Alert: Player Kong Xuyang has zero spirit value, alienation is complete, exit the game ......]

[System Alert: Player Mu Sicheng, Bai Liu won the double match, accumulating 3 points]

[System Alert: Player Silent Lamb, Kong Xuyang has become a monster and remained in the game forever due to his spirit value being cleared in the game ......]

[...... confirms that his reality is dead and the game of "Yinshan Village" is over.]