Chapter 417: First World Line

Bai six stood on the highest step of the temple, Lu Yizhan held Fang Dian in his arms and looked up in a daze, Bai six's expression obscured by the collar of his shirt shaken by his long, wind-blown hair.

Lu Yizhan can only be seen smiling and chuckling, "I will design archive points in each world line and drop you off there."

"Are you ready?"

Lu Yizhan heard Fang Dian in his arms say very softly, "Get ready."

Bai six smiled, "Then the game begins."

"Worldline 0002 landing."

Lu Yizhan felt the temple he was standing on sink into the sea, and all of them fell into the water, Fang Dian in his arms and him slowly dispersed in the water, no matter how hard he tried, he could not hold on to her hands.

...... always felt that if I let go now, I would never be able to be with her again.

The next time Lu Yizhan came to his senses again, he was sitting in the office of the Bureau of Heresy.

Lu Yizhan found everything around him as familiar and unfamiliar as before. His mind went blank, he stood up and stumbled twice, vaguely feeling as if he had something important to do, but he couldn't remember anything.

He had players running around him who, when they saw him, would nod and bow to him in greeting, "Hello, Lieutenant Lu!"

Lu Yizhan reacted slowly, looking down at the left breast of his uniform, on which was pinned a badge - [First Detachment Vice Captain: Lu Yizhan].

...... something doesn't seem right ......

He doesn't seem like he should be a vice-captain.

The vice-captain is ...... who is it again?

Lu Yizhan enters the office of the captain of the first detachment with a confused look on his face, and the moment he opens the door, he sees Wu Ruishu looking back at him from behind his desk, on which a sign reads: [Captain of the first detachment: Wu Ruishu].

"Deputy Lu, what can I do for you?" Wu Ruishu asked him solemnly, pushing his eyes a little.

Lu Yizhan shook his head with a blank expression and withdrew, hearing a strange electronic tone flash through his head.

[System Alert: Desire detected, congratulations to player Lu Yizhan for logging into the game].

[Game loading ......]

By the time Lu Yizhan had cleared the first game after nine deaths and received his personal skill, he was sitting in the already crowded lobby with a completely dull expression, tears slipping down his face.

He remembered, all of it, he remembered.

Fang Dian's presence is completely obliterated by Bai six.

The army of the Cross of Judgement no longer exists in this world, and he does not even know where the rest of the team has gone, while everyone he meets seems to be enjoying this game with the evil god who smilingly writes in the prophecy given to him.

[At the 658th worldline, all of you Inquisitors will sell your souls to my derivatives, Bai six.]

[- That will be your last world line.]

Lu Yizhan stands up on his knees, his head bowed, his eyes red -

--He had to find Bai six immediately and kill him.

He would never let this prophecy come true!

"Lieutenant Lu." Wu Ruishu turned his head to Lu Yizhan with a serious look, "Focus, we're going to search for a major heretic with a danger rating close to red today, at the orphanage."

Lu Yizhan was a bit depressed from his all-night game last night, but nodded vigorously, "Yes!"

Wu Ruishu frowned at Lu Yizhan for a moment, " Lu Yizhan, have you ...... been working too hard lately?"

"After leading a team that brought back 127 high-risk red-level heretics in a week all by yourself, why don't you go back and rest first if you're not in good shape today?"

"No way!" Lu Yizhan interrupted Wu Ruishu almost with a kind of anger, "I absolutely cannot rest!"

He was the one who knew the most about the Bai six plan and if he rested, every one of them could have been in trouble because of it.

Wu Ruishu pushed his glasses in silence: "As your captain, I still hope you can strike a reasonable work-life balance, and besides, I've already compiled and sent you the information about the name [Bai six] that you entrusted me to look up before."

"There's a child called Bai sixteen at the orphanage we went to today, I'm not sure if it's the person you're looking for."

Lu Yizhan frowned at this: "Do you have a photo?"

"There are only group photos, and they're all four or five years old." Wu Ruishu says, "If you're going today, you can check in person."

Lu Yizhan nods with a frown.

Wu Ruishu turned to leave and paused as he pushed the door open, "I sense that you have great ill will towards this person you are looking for called [Bai six], so I want you to check that this child is the person you are looking for."

"Whatever this Bai six man has done, I hope you will do your duty as captain of the first detachment and not spread your hatred and malice on innocent people."

"Never make yourself look like a heretic with hatred, Lu Yizhan ."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Wu Ruishu calmly pushes the door open and leaves.

Outside the door of the Caring Orphanage.

Frowning, Wu Ruishu and Lu Yizhan, along with three other team members, sneaked in through a side door and saw a church from a distance, with a strong smell of blood coming from it.

Lu Yizhan's heart beat faster as he looked at the reverse cross at the top of the church.

Wu Ruishu told him that the orphanage was a private one and that the Bureau of Heresy had found out that there was a possibility that the children and some items were being auctioned off in stages within the orphanage, but it was not clear what exactly was being auctioned, except that the auctions were usually on Wednesdays.

"Lieutenant Lu." Wu Ruishu ordered calmly, "The orphanage auction is behind the church, let's rush in and save lives as a first priority, the rest will be postponed."

Lu Yizhan nods.

Even though he was prepared for it, Lu Yizhan's heart stopped when he entered the church and saw the fully dressed, human-looking investors sitting down, with incredibly long arms and legs, clearly in the form of monsters.

All sorts of deformed children in white christening gowns stood on the baptismal font holding candles, with various tubes for taking blood.

And the biggest source of blood was the baptismal font behind them, which was full of blood and blood curled around a teenager with a slit wrist that was obviously dripping blood.

Without saying a word, Lu Yizhan threw himself into the battle of the investor monsters.

Wu Ruishu, on the other hand, jumped up onto the platform and, after allowing the other team members to evacuate the children who were still mobile, he lowered his head, took the child out of the baptismal pool and darted outside with an anxious face: "Call an ambulance!"

The frail teenager curled up in Wu Ruishu's arms opened one eye, his voice so dry that it was inaudible: "...... Uncle, are you here to save me?"

"It'll be all right soon." Wu Ruishu's jaw tightened in a quick reassurance, "You'll never be okay again."

Lu Yizhan's mind was suddenly empty as he heard the evil gods raining down prophecies and oracles in his ears.

[The derivative of the evil god pretends to be weak and curls up in the arms of the good judgment army who has lost its memory, what a righteous soul, he gives a greedy smile-]

[So he stole the other man's soul].

Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank to a tiny dot as he heard the child say weakly, "This is all the money I have, I'll give it all to my uncle."

"Thank you, Uncle Xie, for saving me."

Wu Ruishu took the money in order to appease the boy: "You're welcome, it's what I should do."

The bloodied child suddenly hooked his mouth, "Then ask your uncle to take the money."

"Just sell your soul to me."

Lu Yizhan turned and drew his gun, pointing it at the boy and shouting hoarsely: "Wu Ruishu! Let him go! Let me kill him!"

"He's the one I'm looking for, Bai six!"

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, Lu Yizhan fired without hesitation, and Wu Ruishu instantly curled up and wrapped his body around Bai six in his arms, using his own body to block the shot.

Blood spurted out of his back.

Bai six leapt lightly out of the arms of Wu Ruishu, who had fallen to the ground, raised an eyebrow and held up a soul note to the lax-eyed Lu Yizhan, then, with a soft laugh as if in derision, logged into the game and disappeared before him, leaving behind only the words

"Stupid lord who thinks he can save everything."

Lu Yizhan picked up Wu Ruishu and ran outside, running fast, sweat and tears sliding down the corners of his forehead: "Captain Wu, hold on a little longer, the ambulance will be here soon."

"But it's no use, is it?" Wu Ruishu suddenly smiled very weakly, "I remember Lu Yizhan, I just went to the shrine when my deal with Bai six was successful, Bai six unsealed my memory and made me remember everything."

"I saw my soul begin to petrify."

Wu Ruishu's voice grew soft: "...... Bai six so cunning, it's so unfair for you to be the only one to remember all this."

"It's been hard on you, Lu Yizhan."

Lu Yizhan gritted her teeth: "It's all my fault, I'm sorry, if I had found out earlier that the child was Bai six, it wouldn't have been ......"

Wu Ruishu interrupted Lu Yizhan: "I don't regret saving him."

Lu Yizhan a lag.

"I was also a bad boy in my family when I was saved by Fang Dian, our Quan family all gave up on me, they all said I was worthless to save and would definitely go to jail in the future, so I might as well use the blood to make blood lingzhi for my dad to live forever, it's still the only contribution I can make." Lu Yizhan could feel the blood on the front of Wu Ruishu's chest behind him sizzling warmly on his back and stopped him mute: "Stop it!"

Wu Rui was still smiling as he went on, "But Team Fang still saved me."

"She and I said that if we didn't get the person down, how would we know if he was a good guy or a bad guy."

"There is no good or bad in the dead."

"From that point on, I hoped I could be like Team Fang and one day handsomely save people who were judged to have no rescue value."

Wu Ruishu's voice was as soft as if it was about to dissipate in the next second: "...... If I had to do it all over again, I would still save him too."

"What if Bai six of this world line is a good boy?"

"Until he kills me and is a bad person, I want to believe he is the good guy."

Wu Ruishu's voice finally stops and he closes his eyes, sliding slowly off the top of Lu Yizhan's shoulder.

"...... Don't let hate change your beliefs."

"Good will surely triumph over evil."

Lu Yizhan's expression is blank, and he falls motionless on his knees, next to a fallen Wu Ruishu, with a system beep in his ears.

[System Alert: Inquisitor Wu Ruishu's soul is petrified, confirmed dead, disqualified from the game].

[Before death Inquisitor Wu Ruishu transfers his rules skill (Taiji Bagua) to player Lu Yizhan].