Chapter 412: The First World Line

Lu Yizhan had never run so fast before, panting heavily, breathing in the oxygen Dong Chenglong had hooked up to him, with an unconscious Cen Buming on his back.

The field of rose-coloured smoke was a mad dash in my head.

Until once again the back of the one carrying the heavy sword was seen.

Lu Yizhan's knees gave out and he almost stumbled to his knees in front of Fang Dian, who caught him with one hand.

He gasped, and only now did tears roll unconsciously from his eyes, unable to utter a word.

He heard Fang Dian's order very clearly in his ear, "Lu Yizhan, a member of the third detachment, led by Dong Chenglong, a member of the [Cross Judgement Army], has successfully rescued a group of members of the second detachment!"

"Next-" Fang Dian looked ahead, dusty and determined, at the Rose Factory, her heavy sword drawn and thrust hard into the ground as she stepped out behind the other members of the Inquisitorial Army, "Mission handover! "

"[Cross Judgement Army] Clear the battlefield!"

Lu Yizhan has forgotten how he got back to the Heresy Bureau, he seems to have blacked out, but he doesn't. He remembers everything that happened afterwards clearly, just as if he were a rigid shell, with his soul withdrawn from him.

Cen Buming was taken off his back and put on a stretcher, and Lu Yizhan was able to get up after only half a day in his bed and went back to the main office.

The whole of the Bureau of Heretics was in a state of chaos, full of members of the team who had been carried back with roses reflected in their pupils, wilting in pain.

With each step Lu Yizhan took against the wall, he felt as if he had crushed a petal from flesh and blood, and his ears were filled with heartbreaking howls and cries of pain, as if he were in hell on earth.

The end of the world seems to be coming the next moment.

And Fang Dian is the one who will stop the end of the world from coming.

She came back like a pin, calming everyone down, and Fang Dian stood in the middle of everyone's line of sight with her bloodstained heavy sword, looked up and said, "We took care of the rose factory, and now we've found a way to house the dried leaf rose gas."

"Get some of the team over here who are mentally fit and not easily driven mad by heresy, we need to pick up the antidote to the dry leaf rose gas quickly."

A dozen players raised their hands to sign up, Lu Yizhan being the first to do so.

Lu Yizhan followed behind Fang Dian who was walking fast with his head down, he opened his mouth several times and finally asked the question he always wanted to know the answer to: " Team Fang, has Team Dong ...... come back yet? "

Fang Dian's grip on the heavy sword tightened violently and she bowed her head, her hair falling over her forehead, her expression unreadable, "Back."

It soon became clear to Lu Yizhan in what way Dong Chenglong had come back.

Lu Yizhan's face was blank, his eyes slack as he looked at the body of Dong Chenglong, whose eyes had turned grey with rage and whose mouth was wide open, pierced through the heart by thousands of thorns in the heretical storage room he had just fought.

"Heresy 6071, Dried Rose Leaf Gas, Reception: the body of Dong Chenglong, a member of the [Cross Judgement Army]."

Fang Dian paused for a moment and continued, "Weakness and how to mitigate it, the weakness being the heart, mitigated by stripping the rose thorn segments that grow from its corpse and having the team member contaminated with dried rose leaf gas swallow it."

"One hundred and twelve members of the Heresy Processing Bureau contaminated with rose-scented water, please now cut open the body of Captain Dong Chenglong and strip the thorns from his body and send it to the hospital there for the contaminated members to swallow."

Fang Dian said and then paused, "Don't tell the team where this thorn came from, I'll classify the Rose Perfume file as a first class secret later."

"Now please move with speed."

Fang Dian was about to leave after saying that.

Lu Yizhan hung his head and clutched the oxygen mask in his uniform pocket, which Dong Chenglong had given him to hold over his face before he escaped, and which he was now clutching with his fingers so hard that it was about to be deformed.

" Team Fang." He suddenly asked in a mute voice, "If you had to choose between me and Team Dong to survive, who would you choose?"

Fang Dian's departing back paused: "I have no right to make that choice about you."

"Then again." She said, "Hasn't Dallon already made his choice?"

"Don't question his choices in front of his corpse, and watch out for him coming alive to scold you later when he thinks you're worth dying for-"

"-you're just worth it."

Lu Yizhan gritted his teeth to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall, and he raised his red eyes as he was the first of a group of stiff, motionless team members to lift his knife and slice through Dong Chenglong's skin, cutting out the thorns that were still writhing in his body.

"Come on, cut it out!" Lu Yizhan turned his head and hissed out to the players who were frozen in place, "No spirit!"

Three days later, the Rose Factory matter had subsided.

Lu Yizhan hesitated around the corner for a long time, but when he saw Fang Dian passing by after dinner, he finally plucked up the courage to go up to her and held out his file and handed it to her: "Team Fang, I want to join the first team!"

Fang Dian raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "But it's past admissions season this year."

"I'm not going down the recruitment route." Lu Yizhan slowly raised his body, "I want to apply directly to join the [Cross Judgement Army] to take Team Dong's missing position."

"It's a rarity, [the Cross Judgement Army] didn't receive a single application report in previous years, but this year we actually received two." Fang Dian waved the other side of the file in her hand and smiled, "And both are very well-qualified merit students."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Fang Dian said, "Apart from you, Cen Buming from the second team has also submitted an application, even if we want to take on someone we can only take on one person this year, do you want to talk to each other first?"

So Lu Yizhan went to Cen Buming's ward.

Before stepping into Cen Buming's ward Lu Yizhan heard a conversation from inside, starting with a young male voice with a somewhat dry tone: "...... Am I the only one who came back from the second team?"

--This is the voice of Cen Buming.

The other voice was more mature and should be a member of the second team, the other was silent for a moment before answering, "...... The others didn't survive the test of the incense test paper and didn't last until we got there before they were alienated into monsters and killed by the [Cross Judgment Army]."

After a breathless silence, the other man seemed to pat Cen Buming on the shoulder, "Cheer up." Then he pushed open the door and walked out.

Lu Yizhan waited for the man to come out and was just about to go in when he heard extremely subdued and heartbreaking shouts and cries coming from the ward, like the sound of a man with his head in a cup, hammering the bed frantically and desperately to vent his emotions, and then turning into a very small sob afterwards.

Lu Yizhan, who was waiting outside the door and just about to knock: "......"

He did understand the emotional process, after all, he had just been through it a few days before and cried with a much more spiritual voice than this Cen Buming student.

But after twenty minutes, when the noise inside had not stopped, Lu Yizhan began to think seriously about whether he had come at the wrong time today, and as he turned to leave, his foot accidentally stepped on a tile that had risen, and with a crunch, he heard Cen Buming inside asking alertly, "Who's at the door? "

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Lu Yizhan pretended he had just arrived and pushed open Cen Buming's door, "Hello, Cen Buming, I'm the other person you're competing with for an alternate spot in the [Cross Judgement Army], I'm Lu Yizhan from Team 3."

Lu Yizhan kindly offered his hand to Cen Buming.

Cen Buming gave a cool glance and did not take Lu Yizhan's hand: "You're the one who scored two points higher than me on the written test."

Lu Yizhan sensed a hint of coolness in the other man's choice of words and felt that he had come at a bad time, so he sighed inwardly and said, "Yes, it's just a coincidence."

"That's quite a coincidence." Cen Buming's tone was cold as he glanced over his shoulder, "It just so happens that you passed me on the written test once, and happened to get a perfect score, so it's not a coincidence that you usually only get 70 or 80 points-"

Lu Yizhan replied seriously to Cen Buming: "It's a coincidence, if it wasn't a coincidence I would have beaten you in every exam."

Cen Buming: "......"

As Cen Buming's eyes were already red from crying, Lu Yizhan's tears were about to roll out through his teeth, so Lu Yizhan scratched his head and said, "I didn't mean to put you down, I thought the questions were so easy, you could have gotten a perfect score.

"Don't you usually get full marks? How come this time it's 98?" Lu Yizhan was genuinely puzzled.

Cen Buming, who had coincidentally missed two marks on this written test, was so angry that his eyes began to redden and he coldly withdrew his gaze, "Get out."

Lu Yizhan also felt that it might not be a good day to talk about things, so he said to Cen Buming that you should get some rest, turned around and was ready to leave.

"Wait." Cen Buming suddenly shouted at Lu Yizhan, his voice suddenly sinking, "I was just told by the men from the second detachment that you were the first one to run from the factory and left Team Dong behind."

" Team Dong got me out, it was my incompetent waste, too unconscious to assist him at that time, but you, why did you run away at that time when you clearly had the power?"

Cen Buming's eyes were red as he stared dead at Lu Yizhan, his fists clenched tightly, "Mingming if you had stayed, you might have saved one more man from the second detachment."

" Team Dong wouldn't have had to put in all that work to protect me and die in a place like that!"

Lu Yizhan opened his mouth to say something, realising that Cen Buming thought Team Dong had rescued him and that was why he wanted to join the [Cross Trial Team].

But looking at Cen Buming's gritted back teeth, tear-stained face, and extremely resigned look, hating himself so much that he wanted to kill himself, Lu Yizhan finally swallowed the words of explanation - [I couldn't save anyone else behind your back].

"Because I'm a common loser." Lu Yizhan scratched his head and smiled, "More greedy for life and death, so he ran away, I guess."

Cen Buming, his eyes completely red, hissed: "Cowards! Deserters! Get the hell out of here!!!"

Lu Yizhan closes the door of the ward quickly to block the glass of water that Cen Buming is smashing, pats his heart with a heartbeat, and walks away.

A long time later Cen Buming asked Lu Yizhan, "Brother, why didn't you tell me that you had carried me out?

But at that time, after listening to Cen Buming's heartbreaking cry outside the door, Lu Yizhan just thought...

--Seeing you like that, I don't think you're going to last much longer if you keep hating yourself.

Then how about coming to hate me.