Chapter 414: First World Line

Cen Buming was admitted back to the hospital the day after his discharge, this time in the same ward as Lu Yizhan.

The two men stared at the ceiling with their eyes open, without a word, from darkness to dawn, and could faintly hear the noise and cries of soldiers coming from outside the door of the ward.

"Third detachment, second small regiment killed!"

"Where did the men of the 5th Regiment of the 1st Detachment go?!"

"2nd New Regiment, 3rd Defection!"

Lu Yizhan eventually drifted off to sleep to the sound of this noise in the background, awakened by the urgent shouts of Cen Buming, who was too dazed to realise that he was in the same ward as Cen Buming, when he heard someone shouting Yu Fu's name hoarsely in his sleep.

He sighed inwardly, rolled over and covered his head with the blanket, thinking that my roommate was having Team Yu's wet dreams again.

But Team Yu is dead.

Lu Yizhan woke up in a flash at this sudden thought, as if he had jumped from some peaceful routine to a nightmare, fully awake with a cold sweat on his back.

He slowly turned his head to look at Cen Buming in the other bed with his eyes closed, his brow furrowed and his forehead sweating, who was clearly having a nightmare.

I don't know what Cen Buming was dreaming about, but his voice was dry as he kept calling out Yu Fu or Team Yu, his hands clenching and unclenching as if trying to hold on to something, and tears slipping from the corners of his eyes.

" Team Yu ......" Cen Buming murmured hoarsely with a sobbing voice, "Don't die."

" Lu Yizhan, don't you die ......"

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long, long time and calmly replied to Cen Buming's dream: "Well, I'm not dead."

After Cen Buming went back to sleep, Lu Yizhan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. The bandage around his left eye was still bleeding and the doctor gave him a stern warning not to move around, but Lu Yizhan couldn't sleep and got up and started wandering around the medical department.

There were injured players everywhere and a strong smell of disinfectant permeated the corridors, but this still could not cover the strong smell of blood.

Lu Yizhan heard the injured team members whispering.

"The fleeing heretics are basically under control ...... Things should be over."

"The head of the second team of traitors, the captain of the second team, has been captured and will be tried by Team Fang himself tomorrow."

"The captain of the ...... second team is a contemporary of Team Fang, right? I remember the two of them were quite close before."

"The contemporaries who had the best relationship with Team Fang were Team Yu, right? Eh ...... now one defected to be tried and one ......"

"...... Not to mention, Team Yu dead, Team Fang seriously injured, I don't know what face I'll be using to walk past Team Yu's medical office."

Lu Yizhan's steps stop and he turns around, heading towards Yu Fu's medical office.

The area around Yu Fu's medical office was quiet and empty, except for the door, which was slightly ajar, and Lu Yizhan was just wondering who had used the key to open Team Yu's office when he heard Fang Dian's cheerful laugh.

"Yu Fu, I've come to see you for treatment, I was particularly badly injured this time, that animal from the second team almost cut my arm off, I was thinking that I was lucky I had you, otherwise this broken arm would probably not have been connected."

"When I was a trainee, me and that animal always fought and you were the one who helped me sew with him, every time you moved gently and then sewed us both grimacing, haha."

"Tomorrow." Fang Dian's voice paused, the amusement in her voice fading, "I'm about to cut that animal's head off."

"He betrayed the Heretical Authority."

"The fool who said he'd put down big words with us about going into the second team and slaying the evil in the world defected over to Bai six."

Fang Dian's voice gradually lowered: " Yu Fu, what do you think he was thinking ...... He obviously hated Bai six so much, hated the heretics so much, but yet he said to me that the heretics are absolutely impossible to kill and Bai six is absolutely impossible to overcome. "

"He said ...... I was taking the lives of second team members of the Bureau of Heresy Processing to fill this black hole of heresy that was impossible to fill, and he asked me if I knew how many second team members died every time I went out in the field, and he called me a cruel bitch."

"He yelled at me, questioned me, said that those who knew nothing about it, even insulted them, the members of the team, for interfering with their own fucking lives as ordinary people, and that the lives of so many young men in their teens and twenties in the second unit of the Heretic Authority were not lives?"

"He asked me why I should sacrifice the lives of these members of the team to save the lives of worthless ordinary people?"

Fang Dian's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible: " Yu Fu, you're a doctor, you've been saving lives, tell tell me, I want to Buming white ......"

"Why would one feel such hatred for the object of one's salvation?"

Lu Yizhan's hand pauses as he knocks on the door, unsure of whether to enter or exit.

A gust of wind blew the door open from the inside and Fang Dian turned back, "Who is it?"

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Was it his luck? It keeps happening all the time.

But when Lu Yizhan saw what Fang Dian looked like now, all the jumbled thoughts in his head emptied and he became blank.

Fang Dian's hair was loose, her black, moist, half-length hair half-hidden from her face, her face and lips unmistakably pale, her nose and the corners of her eyes slightly red, she had just cried, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes.

Her left arm was dangling in a triangular bandage, a captain's uniform draped over her shoulders and a somewhat wider blue and white striped hospital gown underneath, which made Fang Dian look a lot thinner without being straitjacketed in a full regulation uniform.

Opposite Fang Dian hangs a white coat with Yu Fu's badge pinned to it.

Fang Dian just seemed to be pouring out her confusion over this dress that had lost its owner.

The dull light of dawn strikes Fang Dian's shoulders against the backdrop, but it no longer gives Lu Yizhan the sense of oppression she felt when she first met her.

It just feels as if ...... the omnipotent Team Fang is about to shatter in the coming sunlight the next moment.

"It's Little Lu." Fang Dian smiled again, "I heard you had an eye injury, why don't you take a rest and come here?"

Lu Yizhan clenched his fist, he bowed his head and opened his mouth: " Team Yu and Team Dong died because of me, Team Fang, I ......"

"There's no need to say sorry." Fang Dian interrupted Lu Yizhan calmly, her gaze leveled at the empty white coat across the room, "This matter goes back to its roots, it's Bai six's fault, it's my fault, it's the fault of any accident in this world that caused you to take the blame for both of their deaths."

"But it's not your fault, Lu Yizhan, you're a victim too."

"One thing to remember when playing with that Bai six guy is that you don't have to beat him to win." Fang Dian looked back at Yu Fu's white coat hanging on the wall and said in a soft tone, "It's the most people who survive that wins for us."

" Yu Fu did it perfectly and the fact that you survived is the best accolade she could have received for winning the game."

Fang Dian smiled with her teeth as she came over and patted Lu Yizhan on the shoulder, where her long hair flew in the light and became shiny again, "You've done well."

"Keep up the good work, Lu Yizhan."

Lu Yizhan's fists were clenched until his fingertips turned white as he fought back a choked sob and said loudly, "Yes, Team Fang!"

The following day, the second team of rebels were all tried, with Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming both staying in the ward.

Cen Buming stared blankly at the ceiling. Lu Yizhan thought the guy might go crazy if he continued like this, so he started a conversation: "What kind of rules do you think Bai six plays games?"

Lu Yizhan didn't think Cen Buming would answer, but Cen Buming did almost as soon as Lu Yizhan opened his mouth.

"Disgustingly regular." Cen Buming replied with both eyes glazed over.

"Uh ......" Lu Yizhan tried his best to keep the conversation going, "What kind of disgusting?"

Cen Buming snorted in a trance, "Those three divisions that wanted to kill Team Yu, the traitors ...... thought they wouldn't be remembered by anyone else, that Bai six would erase everyone's memory, but everyone in this guy Bai six is naturally excluded from the audience. "

"The memories of our two viewers were not erased, so in the end we came out and identified the three traitors, and they deserved to die anyway."

Cen Buming, who identified the traitor, took the initiative, assisted by Lu Yizhan, who added details.

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a moment: "These three men from the second detachment are on good terms with you, aren't they?"

" Bai six did erase the memories of the others, and as long as you don't say anything and I don't say anything, these three [traitors] won't be found out by anyone and they don't have to be put on trial now, they can live."

"And Bai six even erased the memories of these three traitors, who themselves didn't know they had done such a thing, and thought you were deliberately framing them when you identified them, and kept looking at you in shock, thinking it was you ......"

Cen Buming clenched his back teeth and did not speak, Lu Yizhan took a moment of silence before continuing.

"I don't feel they're bad, maybe they wouldn't have done what they did if Bai six hadn't forced them to choose, and ultimately they didn't do anything bad, and if you don't identify them, they might slowly turn ......"

Cen Buming placed on the bed with his fists clenched, he hammered hard on the bed and turned his head to stare at Lu Yizhan with bloodshot eyes: "But what's done, is done!!!"

"Even if they forget themselves, even if everyone forgets, but I remember!!!"

"Would it be fair to the dead Captain Yu Fu if we let them go? Is it fair to all the team members who were seriously injured and killed in this accident?!"

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long time, the only sound in the ward was Cen Buming's ragged panting, before Lu Yizhan spoke calmly: "But they haven't done it yet, and they didn't cause these things, Bai six did."

" Team Yu did what they did because they wanted them to survive, and it always felt wrong to punish them for something they didn't do."

"But it's done in my mind!" Cen Buming retorted viciously, " Lu Yizhan, I really do still hate you."

With those words, Cen Buming leapt from the bed and left without looking back, closing the door with a bang.

Alone, with his back to the constant gunfire coming from the side of the courtroom, he walked frantically and quickly, his shoulders shaking with each gunshot, and he ran as if he were running away from this gunfire, through the wards, the training ground, and finally to the heretics' shelter.

Cen Buming came to a halt, panting and with a blank expression.

A team member guarding the heresy shelter recognised Cen Buming and asked him what he was doing here, Cen Buming was silent for a long time before he said, "I came over to see Team Yu."

The team member on guard was a bit confused: "You came to see Team Yu at the heresy shelter?"

Cen Buming opened his mouth as he remembered that these ordinary players knew nothing and said something else: "...... I came to see the heretics [0573] that Team Yu had taken in."

The guard hesitated for a moment, he glanced at Cen Buming, remembering what Fang Dian had said about not treating the remaining Team 2 members too harshly, and added: "...... Because of the previous incident, for security reasons, until the matter of Team 2 is thoroughly investigated, any person who wants to enter the heresy shelter needs direct approval from Team Fang. Anyone from the second team needs Team Fang's direct approval to enter the heresy shelter."

"But you're only half a second team member now because you're in the assessment period for entering the [Cross Judgement Army] and you've also taken it upon yourself to report your own mutinous team members, so if you're anxious to get in, you can go in with restricted movement handcuffs on and see if you want to."

Cen Buming was silent for a long, long time before he slowly held out his hands and said in a muffled voice, "Cuff yourselves."

Led by a member of the guard, Cen Buming walked through several winding corridors, was blindfolded, and came up to the heretic [0573].

The team member, who was also wearing a blindfold to avoid being seen by [0573], said, "As a reserve member of the [Cross Judgement Army], you have a fifteen minute observation period for each red high risk heretic, after which I will forcibly discharge you."

Cen Buming, wearing a black blindfold, nodded and the team member left the mouth as he pushed open the door to the room where [0573] was being held and stepped inside, then removed the blindfold.

[0573] is housed in a one-way visible glass case, meaning that the Cen Buming can see its movements inside the glass case, but it cannot see the Cen Buming outside the glass case, which provides a degree of safety for the observer.

Cen Buming looked at the heretic without saying a word, and after a long interval, he reached out with his handcuffed hands and touched the glass case gently, asking in a dry and mute voice.

" Team Yu, do you want them to survive?"

"...... Did I do wrong when I did that?"

Inside the glass case, more than half of the eyeballs on the eye-tunnel food are closed, the fat body undulating together in some sort of rhythm, seemingly in a deep sleep.

Cen Buming slowly bends his body and presses his eyes up with his eyes closed.

This one-sided glass, if pressed close enough, would allow the heretics inside to sense what was outside, and sure enough, all the eyeballs of the heretics inside opened their eyes at once and squirmed inside the glass case.

The glass case was slowly opened from inside with a certain latch and a crunching sound, and the eyed heretic inside slowly stepped out.

Cen Buming took a deep breath as he closed his eyes and began to back away slowly, then stood still with his hands up, his voice trembling a little, "...... Team Yu, you know how to open this glass case, you still have some consciousness, right?"

All the eyeballs on the eye-tunnel food blinked slowly, as if thinking about what Cen Buming was saying.

"If Team Yu thinks what I'm doing is wrong." Cen Buming's eyelids fluttered lightly as his voice calmed down instead, "I'll open my eyes later, so you parasitize me."

"On the count of one, two, three -"

Cen Buming opened his eyes.

All the eyes of the giant eyeball tun food were closed, it didn't hurt Cen Buming, but all the eyes were twitching as if they were trying desperately to open, but it was suppressed by itself.

Then slowly, an eyeball growing from the end of one of its tentacles was pushed out of its body and slowly reached out in front of the motionless Cen Buming.

It was an eye that did not flutter, it was peacefully and serenely closed, as if it did not want to open at all to harm anyone who saw it, so it preferred to remain invisible, sleeping in the body of a heretic.

--That is Lu Yizhan's left eyeball that was taken from him.

Now Team Yu wants to return it to him.

"I will exchange this eyeball with you." Cen Buming looked up slowly, tears crossing his face, "Please Team Yu take my eyeball."

The moment he received Lu Yizhan's eyeball, Cen Buming's left eye was empty, tears and blood sliding down his face.

--So this is the pain that Team Yu and Lu Yizhan felt?

Cen Buming brings back Lu Yizhan's eyeball and a confused Lu Yizhan is rushed into surgery to see if he can get Lu Yizhan's dropped eyeball back by borrowing some of the powers of an unconventional heretic.

Cen Buming was alone in the courtroom with his freshly bandaged, bleeding left eye.

Cen Buming watched calmly with his one remaining right eye as the pigeons, startled by the sound of gunfire, spread their snowy white wings across the rising morning sun, before walking towards Fang Dian, who had just emerged from the courtroom after his execution.

" Team Fang ." Cen Buming looked up at Fang Dian, "I want to stay with the second team."

"I renounce my entry into the [Cross Judgement Army]."