Chapter 409: Pre-season

The night after Bai Liu's coma, Tang Erda stayed behind to keep watch.

Fang Dian was going to stay and keep watch, she didn't mind the gender difference at all, when Bai Liu was in high school she and Lu Yizhan also took turns to keep watch, but she had to work the next day, after Tang Erda's stiff request, Fang Dian said with a big smile that it was fine, Bai Liu would take care of you.

Muke went home to deal with the handover of the Sunshine property, Liu Jiayi was picked up, Mu Sicheng wanted to stay, but...

"Shit, I have a make-up exam the next day?!" Mu Sicheng opened the group and was devastated to find the timetable for the make-up exam sent to him by his tutor, "I haven't finished studying for this subject yet, dammit!"

The tutor also politely said, "Mu Sicheng, your absenteeism rate this semester is also slightly high, so if you don't want to make up the exams next semester, you are advised to play less games and attend classes properly.

Mu Sicheng clutched his head in agony and went back to his revision with a scream.

1am.

Tang Erda is relieved when the nurse comes to remove Bai Liu's IV, but soon looks with a frown at the small white scar at the centre of Bai Liu's collarbone, under his slightly open collar.

The markings of the marker have not yet faded, so the scars are inconspicuous under the black marker, and Tang Erda found them by chance.

He frowned intently at the white scar in the centre of the black reverse cross - an obvious burn mark from the head of a hot bullet that had just discharged and hit his skin.

Bai Liu is not the kind of person who would be unconscious after a minor injury, and is still unconscious. Tang Erda now suspects that the bullet may have grazed Bai Liu's heart when Bai six fired the first shot at him, leaving the scar.

Bai Liu would have been hit by the bullet if the gods and Spades hadn't been able to block it in time.

But the impact of a soul crushing gun ...... something that rubs even just a little is incalculable.

...... Bai Liu, don't let anything happen to you.

Tang Erda rubs her temples, one hand on the hospital bed, one on the side of the chair, leaning wearily against the bedside table, her eyes half-squinted in a shallow mirth.

Bai Liu's breathing is weak, and his right hand, which is resting on the quilt, is suddenly held by a cold, translucent hand with bruises all over its back.

Bai Liu's right finger twitches very slightly.

But Tang Erda, who was on guard and not at all asleep, did not seem to notice the sudden appearance of this ghostly Spades, who did not open his eyes.

His eyes are opened by Bai Liu in his hospital bed, his eyelids drooping as he looks back at Spades, his fingers curling as if to grip back, but the clenched fingers pass through Spades' translucent palm and only catch the shadow.

Spades bowed down, his head resting against Bai Liu's heart at the spot of the anti-cross, rubbing it from side to side before closing his eyes in contentment.

Bai Liu heard Spades and said to himself, "Is this what Bai Yi said about human dreaming?"

"So this is what dreaming is like, so dreaming can also be dreaming about Bai Liu ......"

Spades closes his eyes.

"Then I want to keep on dreaming."

Spades' body emits a faint luminescence, then as his eyelids close and go out, his ghostly body, encircling Bai Liu, becomes increasingly transparent, almost disappearing into thin air.

"No." Bai Liu answered Spades in a breathy voice, a hoarse whisper, tears slipping from the corners of his eyes, but his demeanour remained calm, "I hate it when people sleep in front of me all the time."

"So wake up and meet me, Spades ."

Spades opened his dark eyes and he looked at Bai Liu and said seriously, "Yes."

His transparent body solidified for a moment, and the ward swirled around Spades' body in a cold, wind-like vortex, and Tang Erda awoke with a start as the swirl of wind dissipated and the ghost of Spades disappeared in the middle of the vortex.

Tang Erda glanced around alertly with her gun in her hand, finally snapping her eyes and then looking blankly at Bai Liu, who had somehow managed to sit up in the hospital bed.

Bai Liu, still looking a little frail, smiled at Tang Erda: "Good evening, Captain Tang."

Tang Erda slowly lowered the gun in his hand as he let out a long breath and smiled, "Not a good night, you're awake really late. "

"Is that so?" Bai Liu glanced afterwards at where the just translucent Spades stood next to his bed and suddenly let out a soft laugh, "Probably because I just had a somewhat time-consuming beauty dream."

Killer Sequence Warehouse.

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu, who were poking the frozen Spades one by one, seemed to have realised something.

Bai Jiamu squints at Bai Yi: "Didn't Liao Ke tell us never to let anyone near Spades?"

"Yeah." Bai Yi poked boredly at the ice cube on Spades' shoulder, "How are we going to stop people from getting closer if we don't keep watch?"

Bai Jiamu's forehead popped with veins and he took a deep breath, "I mean, aren't we human? Shouldn't we keep our distance from Spades too?"

Bai Yi stopped moving with a sudden realization, "Right!"

But the next moment they knew it was too late.

The frost blew from Spades' body in the form of a storm that blew wildly in all directions, sending Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu straight up into the air, plucking at the warehouse door before they were blown against the wall.

Bai Yi Yi's mouth was blown right into a jiggling, wavy pocket gag by the hurricane wind pouring in, still making chortling sounds, "Fuck~ so~ cold~ ah~!"

Bai Jiamu gritted his teeth and turned sideways against the wall, squinting to block the blowing frost with one hand as he looked towards the slow-rising Spades standing in the centre of the blizzard.

He could hear the crisp sound of the ice crust on Spades' body clearly cracking and falling to the ground.

By the time Bai Yi felt his face drift a dozen degrees before freezing, the wind finally stopped and he shook off his face full of ice and his blown-up features before looking curiously at Spades standing in the centre.

Bai Jiamu patted the broken ice on his shoulder and pulled Bai Yi, who was about to walk that way, into a wary shout to Spades, whose back was to them: " Spades ?"

Spades turned around, his expression normal, and spoke, " Bai Yi, I just had a dream."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu were both stunned, one by this jump start to the conversation, and the other by -

"-- Spades, you're actually dreaming?!" Bai Yi was shocked, "You're a lizard, how can you dream?!"

Bai Jiamu rolls his eyes breathlessly.

Sometimes Bai Jiamu wonders, against all odds, whether Bai Yi really has the basic intelligence of an adult.

--The only person in the entire killer sequence who truly believes that Spades is really a lizard is Bai Yi.

But Bai Jiamu did find it a little strange that Spades was dreaming, because he was vaguely aware of Spades' special status. Unlike their human-formed counterparts, Spades were more akin to monster-formed players, with no background, no origin, no place to go, and no access to reality.

Bai Jiamu sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night and is scared to death to see Spades staring at something with his eyes wide open, thinking that some kind of monster has attacked him.

Only later did I realise that this guy couldn't sleep with his eyes closed!

Bai Jiamu was really shocked at the time.

It took a long time for Spades to learn to sleep with their eyes closed, but every now and then they would fall asleep and their eyelids would open, staring straight at something and continuing to sleep, which was really creepy.

For a guy who needs to learn even to sleep, he naturally has no idea about activities like the more advanced [dreaming].

Once they didn't know what game they were playing where the monsters were dream-related, and several of them all logged into the dream world and were chased half to death by the monsters, then Spades couldn't dream and couldn't log in, so he had to keep a serious watch on their bodies as they were chased by the monsters in their dreams showing all sorts of hideous expressions.

In the end Spades came to the conclusion that people look ugly when they dream.

So when Spades said he had a dream, Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi's first reaction was disbelief.

Bai Yi first asked Spades about his health, and after making sure it was okay, his eyes narrowed and as the human Spades rated as having the ugliest dreaming posture, he was the first to hit out: "Dreaming is difficult, it's a higher level of human consciousness, you're dreaming for a lizard! "

At this point, Bai Yi sneered, "First, what did you dream about?"

Spades recalls, "I dreamed that Bai Liu was lying in front of me in very loose clothes with his collar open, then I took his hand and he took mine and I was lying on top of him and he was holding me and smiling at me, then I buried my head in his shoulder ...... "

Bai Yi calmly interrupts Spades' narrative: "That's enough, you're supposed to be dreaming, we have minors here, you pause."