Chapter 418: First World Line

Less than a week after Wu Ruishu's death, Lu Yizhan discovered that the blood lingzhi that had been circulating from the Love Welfare Home was spreading around the world at a bizarre rate, no matter how much Lu Yizhan tried to stop it, no matter how much he told these people that they could not grow it, that it was made from the blood of children, that it was a very dangerous heresy.

And the planters just looked at Lu Yizhan lazily and said, what, was it the blood of a child that was poured over it? We thought it was pig's blood, but we really don't know anything about it.

--All I know is that it's worth a lot of money.

No one cooperated with Lu Yizhan's investigation, and even if Lu Yizhan had found all the blood lingzhi, they would have hidden a lot of spores, and then cultivated them again.

The world seems to have been invisibly forged into a blood vessel by the Blood Reiki, sending the young [lives] of poor and abandoned children through the blood, to the rich investors.

These children are also grateful to their investors for nurturing them and giving them a good life before they were selected as "blood bags".

And no matter how much Lu Yizhan tried to stop it, to cut off this blood vessel, there were countless people who were eager to keep it running, most of the time even despising Lu Yizhan's insensitivity and stupidity, looking at him with an arrogant look and saying -

--do you know how much this is worth?

Those chosen [blood bags] didn't say anything, what do you care if it's a matter of choice?

Most of the children who are chosen as [blood bags] have a fairly high standard of living, so they are mostly happy and don't resist at all, just need a pain every week and get good food, fun toys and a very soft bed for a week.

"Mr. Investor is very nice." A child with several pinholes in his hands and a thin face looks at Lu Yizhan and smiles sweetly, "He'll buy us milkshakes."

Lu Yizhan stood alone outside the orphanage, looking up at the orphanage sign for so long that the daylight almost made him dizzy, and he heard a beep in his ear.

[System Alert: 0002 world line contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

[The Judges of the Cross lost the game].

Third world line.

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

[Before death Inquisitor Ren Yuxin transfers his rules skill (Memory Folding) to player Lu Yizhan.]

[System Alert: 0003 world line contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

......

Fourth World Line.

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

[Su Lan, Inquisitor Before Death, transfers his Rules skill (Worldline Overlap) to player Lu Yizhan.

[System Alert: 0004 world line contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

......

By the time the fifth world line failed, the Inquisitor was dead with only Lu Yizhan and two other Inquisitors left, and he returned to the Temple for the first time after that tournament.

Bai six sat at the card table propping his jaw up and smiling at him, surrounded by five grotesque stone statues that had been completely petrified.

Lu Yizhan sat calmly across from Bai six: "What do you want from me?"

"There are only two Inquisitors left." Bai six smirked, "The game is over so much faster than I thought it would be, your absolute execution of justice, which sometimes borders on stupidity, is just so good to keep in check."

Lu Yizhan looked up calmly at Bai six: "So what do you want to play?"

"Can you play werewolf?" Bai six placed a pack of cards on the stone table top as he smiled at Lu Yizhan, "How about we play identity set werewolf?"

"I'll set to a set of card characters with werewolf identity settings, set them down to a certain number of people in the next world line, and then see who they'll be drawn to and who they'll actively gather next to."

"The deck has witches, hunters, thieves and so on." Bai six nodded at a card of a little girl in a witch's costume as he smiled, "Knowing what I know about your tastes, you'll be partial to fringe characters who have had a miserable time, so to keep you in the game, I'll try to pick such fringe characters who haven't had a good time and whose experiences and skills fit the werewolf kill card set. "

"And such marginal figures will rightly be more attracted to the light according to the logic you believe in."

Bai six raised his eyes and smiled, "Then let us see if they are more easily attracted to your light or to my evil."

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai six: "How do you want to play?"

"How about a team match?" Bai six placed a few cards on the stone table and placed them face down, the smile on his face deepening, "Add an in-game team match-up to the rules of the game already in place."

"If you lose the Worldline match, but win the in-game team match against my derivatives, then I can grant you a wish."

Bai six lazily lowered his eyes, "Simply put, it's a team rivalry between the villains and the villains, and I want you to be competent enough as a pillar type character for the villains to sharpen my team of villains to a point."

"Otherwise this game, it's just so boring."

"Boring game, the sooner it's over the better."

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a few seconds before he agreed, "Okay."

But Lu Yizhan had no idea that Bai six would pick the hunter's deck.

Lu Yizhan's pupils clenched as he looked at Cen Buming standing in front of him, eyes intact, and he clearly heard a cold, mechanical beep in his head.

[System Alert: You have found the (Hunter) deck, please take him under your wing as soon as possible].

Cen Buming frowned at him, " Lu Yizhan, you are now the leader of the first detachment, don't make me scold you, why are you looking at me like that?"

Lu Yizhan turned his eyes away hastily, he inclined his head for a moment in silence, squeezed his palms, opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end said nothing: "Nothing ......"

Cen Buming swept him off his feet, "I lost the competition with you for the First Squad Leader position and I won't hold it against you, any position is for those who can afford it and now I'm the Second Squad Leader, so I'll do my part."

Cen Buming lowered his head and began to read the paperwork, "Recently it was discovered that students in the high school would suddenly have their eyes gouged out, but afterwards, these students would also yell and scream that their eyes hurt and feel something, someone over there reported it to our side, I suspect it's a red level heresy and may need a captain to lead a team over to take in the heretic. "

"Will you go or will I go?" Cen Buming asked.

Lu Yizhan immediately said, "I'll go with you!"

"A red rank heretic is all." Cen Buming was starting to get a little annoyed, "One detachment leader is enough, are you insulting me Lu Yizhan ?"

Lu Yizhan had a hard time saying that this heresy, this message, if it hadn't been deliberately arranged by Bai six, he would have eaten his own eyes out on the spot.

But Cen Buming is a very stubborn man, a donkey's character, and if Lu Yizhan says anything that goes beyond his status, this man will dig up Lu Yizhan's ancestors' graves.

...... Actually, if you want to bring Cen Buming in, it's not impossible to tell him all about it.

But Lu Yizhan has not yet decided whether to bring Cen Buming into the picture.

Cen Buming looked at Lu Yizhan who was hesitant and torn, his eyes narrowed and he asked keenly, "Captain Lu, do you know something that you are not telling me?"

Lu Yizhan immediately waved his hands in fear: "No, no, no!"

Cen Buming stared at Lu Yizhan's face for a moment and sneered, "You better be."

Cen Buming turned around and left, with Lu Yizhan behind him sighing with mixed feelings, Cen Buming's back stopped: "I'll deal with this heresy, follow it if you want to, don't give me any trouble."

Lu Yizhan was stunned for a moment, then said, "Okay, Team Cen ."

The next day, Lu Yizhan and a group from the second team led by Cen Buming went to the high school where the incident took place.

Lu Yizhan sits shakily with his knees together in the middle of a pile of second team members, covered in cold sweat.

...... Many of the people in this group are people who rebelled in the first world line, so is it true that nothing will happen to him if he stays here?

And ...... Lu Yizhan stole a glance at the three men next to Cen Buming.

Cen Buming was whispering to the three men with his head down, and Lu Yizhan looked a little removed from the world.

--These three men were the three members of the First World Line who were executed in the Inquisition after being reported by Cen Buming, Cen Buming's brother.

Sometimes Lu Yizhan feels that reincarnation is not all painful, that there are brief moments that give him the illusion that nothing has happened and that there is a chance to start all over again.

For example, now.

It was a Sunday and Lu Yizhan had contacted the school earlier to clear the site.

The sound of footsteps coming out at this time is strange.

Lu Yizhan turned around warily. Footsteps were coming out of different parts of the school intermittently, and the sound of the soles scraping against the ground suggested that they were all the same pair of shoes, running with a slightly deeper sound and a slightly larger pace.

But -

Lu Yizhan heard an ear-splitting "squeak" of footsteps above his head, and the next second, the sound appeared on the third floor of the opposite school building. Lu Yizhan's eyes narrowed afterwards.

If he was right, the heretic here would be 0573, the Eyeball Tuner Eater, so what was this footstep noise?

The heresy value is 0, which means that the odds are that this guy is not a heretic, but a human being.

A man appeared above his head, ran two steps and then reappeared on the opposite side?

Then there is only one possibility.

The moment the footsteps reappeared on the first floor, Lu Yizhan made a couple of jumps, he flipped over and climbed up to the first floor, landing firmly over the fence.

The ground was empty, except for a few footprints on the ground, Lu Yizhan's eyes scanned the ground and spoke calmly: "You are a player, right?"

"You log into the game from different locations in this school, and with the coordinates of the different locations, you are free to move around this school."

"Why disturb us with the sound of footsteps?"

The air in front of Lu Yizhan twisted and a black hole-like gap appeared.

First a head with monkey headphones poked out of the gap, then a young man in a school uniform came out of his pocket inside and looked at him with a nasty grin, "Of course it's because the boss has ordered that you should never be allowed to walk out of here alive."

"Do you think I've only put one heretic into the school?"

Lu Yizhan's pupils flinched.

[System Alert: You have found the (Thief) deck and regret to inform you that (Thief) has been subsumed into the Bai six camp].

There was a loud bombardment in his ears and Lu Yizhan had no time to think before jumping off the building and darting towards the area where Cen Buming and the second detachment were.

Behind the twisting eyeball tunnels of food floats a small toy helicopter, which is slowly rising, the lower end of which is dropping miniature toy bombs that are constantly being magnified as they hit the ground, exploding with a splash of mud and dirt the moment they fall to the ground.

Lu Yizhan could barely contain his expression the moment he saw that toy helicopter - Heresy [0922]!

[Equally scaled bomber]!

The further away from the ground this thing is, the bigger and more powerful the bombs will be when they fall, and if they are far enough away from the ground, the bombs that fall will be enough to blow the campus they are in to pieces, and the people inside will not even be found in pieces.

"Fuck!" Even Lu Yizhan couldn't help but blurt out a foul word.

This thing should have only just been released by the [Thief] card. The information previously investigated by the members of the second detachment had no information at all about Heresy 0922, and they were caught off guard by the blast, and were almost killed outright.

Cen Buming reacted in time to shield them, but he himself was nailed to the spot by a steel bar that blew up diagonally through his lung and was choking and coughing bloodily.

At the same time, a bunch of eyes slowly rose up behind Cen Buming, eyes that did not look at Lu Yizhan, but at Cen Buming.

If all the eyeballs had locked eyes with Cen Buming, he'd have been parasitized straight away!!!

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and shouted, " Cen Buming, close your eyes!!!" With that, he closed his own eyes and drew his heavy sword, raising it high and swinging it down at those two heretics.

[System Alert: Player Lu Yizhan uses Evil God's Judgment.]

[Heretic 0922, 0573 stopped behaving and is in a brief sheltered state, after using the Evil God Judgement skill, player Lu Yizhan will be in a seven-day stasis].

Lu Yizhan rushed up to Cen Buming, his gaze cold as he thrust his heavy sword hard at the eyed heretic behind Cen Buming, and after both heretics stopped moving, Lu Yizhan's mind went blank and he released his grip on his heavy sword and slowly fell forward.

Cen Buming, stuck on the steel, caught him, his mouth covered in blood, and with a glance at the end of his eyes he swept the unconscious Lu Yizhan and the heavy sword beside him, as well as the two heretics who had stopped moving, choking and coughing as he scoffed, "You really are hiding something from me, Captain Lu."

Seven days later.

Lu Yizhan woke up with a start and sat up from his bed with a bandaged Cen Buming watching over his left eye.

Lu Yizhan was about to ask, when Cen Buming went on as if he was reporting a job, "The heretics were all housed, and I called for backup when I noticed something was wrong, which came quickly.

"What's wrong with your left eye?" Lu Yizhan asked.

Cen Buming touched the bandage over his left eye and said nonchalantly, "Blind, the cement piece was blown through when it came through."

"You've finished asking, my turn?" Cen Buming looked at Lu Yizhan with the right eye of an eagle, "I am a hunter, what is a hunter?"

Lu Yizhan's scalp tingled: "How did you know?

Cen Buming said flatly, "I guarded you for seven days, you had nightmares at night and screamed for seven days of no hunters."

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Looking straight into Cen Buming's eyes, Lu Yizhan scratched his head, realising that further concealment was unlikely, and sighed quietly, "I'll leave the choice up to you, then, and you can decide for yourself whether you want to join after you've heard it."

After Lu Yizhan had said everything, Cen Buming sneered sorrowfully: "You said I would call you brother? Why don't you dream of something else?"

Lu Yizhan: "......"

This man has such a strange focus.

After saying this, Cen Buming turned his head to look out the window of Lu Yizhan's ward, silent, and waited until Lu Yizhan, lying in bed, was almost asleep before he spoke slowly.

"You're saying that the Hunter card is something that both you and Bai six can fight for?"

Lu Yizhan nodded confusedly, "That's how the game works."

"If which world line, you didn't win me over and let me go over to Bai six." Cen Buming said very calmly, "Then you'll kill me."

Lu Yizhan was startled and completely awake: "Why did you have to be killed?!"

Cen Buming didn't look at Lu Yizhan, he looked out of the window: "Because I find it disgusting, very disgusting, to be used by people like that, to be in a camp."

"Those who work for the tiger deserve to be tortured as well." Cen Buming said coldly as he rose to his feet, "I'm in your camp, Team Lu ."

"I'll be a qualified card in your hand, a good trap hunter."

With that, Cen Buming closed the door and left without looking back.

Lu Yizhan stared blankly at Cen Buming's closed door, then lay back down on the bed and muttered to himself, " Fang Dian ......"

"Is this really the right choice for me?"

Unsurprisingly, the sixth worldline continues to fail.

Lu Yizhan is once again called back to the temple.

Bai six was still sitting behind the card table, absently playing with the cards on the stone table, when he saw Lu Yizhan coming he gave him a smile: "Long time no see, prophet."

"Actually, I just met with your derivative three minutes ago." Lu Yizhan said without skipping a beat, "I killed him."

"That's the first time you've killed one of my derivatives, isn't it?" Bai six's eyes curled in a smile, "It's different with the aid of a hunter, isn't it?"

Lu Yizhan did not speak, a latent unease growing in his mind.

Bai six tapped the cards on the stone table with downcast eyes, "Hunters are not the same as the absolute righteous like the Inquisitors; after they know everything, they must actively interfere with the world line."

"But accordingly it is difficult for me to interfere with absolute justice such as the Inquisitors, who do not change their beliefs because of events external to my design, and the hunters I can interfere with."

"Be well protected by your hunter's faith." Bai six smiled up, "Don't ever let him fall away."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he looked levelly at Bai six: "That's not for you to bother with."

"As a reward for the first time you killed my derivative." Bai six stood up from behind the stone table, he smiled and looked at Lu Yizhan, "I'll take you to meet the person you want to see once."

Lu Yizhan shuddered as he looked up at Bai six with a jerk.

Bai six lowered her eyes and smiled lightly, "I know you listened to her and never tried to check up on her these worldlines even though you missed her more, but now we're outside the worldlines."

"You can go and see her."

Lu Yizhan followed Bai six up the steps of the temple in silence.

It was the first time he had ever set foot in this shrine, and there was a shadow of fear lurking in the shadows of each step he took as his feet fell.

The unknown, the unknown is the most frightening thing of all.

He dreaded the thought of seeing Fang Dian, who had paid the so-called [painful] price, when he could not see her.

--what is it that can make Fang Dian suffer?

"Are you wondering what it is that could cause someone like Team Fang pain." Bai six walked slowly in front of him, a smile in his voice, "I've wondered the same thing, what is it that can make someone close to [God] suffer?"

Bai six walks up to the dark, underwater pool in the temple, his eyes downcast and his hand raised, the water in the pool rolls apart and a wet, moist, marble pathway of strange green underwater plants appears.

Everywhere there is a dark sea, the sound of the surging waves is empty and deep, and apart from that there is not a sound or a ray of light, just being locked in here is a difficult torture.

Lu Yizhan's heart lifted little by little.

He finally met Fang Dian, trapped at the bottom of the sea, hanging by her hands in chains, her head hanging down and her hair cascading to the ground.

Bai six waved his finger and the sea floor was instantly illuminated by a strange halo of white light, and a wall of water was erected in front of Lu Yizhan, through which Bai six walked.

Fang Dian in the centre of the light slowly lifted her head, her eyes out of focus as she looked at Bai six who had come forward and opened her dry mouth as if to say something.

But before he could say anything, Bai six chuckled lightly and said, " Team Fang, I'm sorry to inform you that your team has lost another world line."

"As is customary, I will bring to you your favourite person in this world line."

"I remember you fell in love with a construction worker in this world line, you almost got smashed while crossing the road from a construction site, he saved you, you helped him a lot in return, he soon fell in love with you, but minding his poverty couldn't give you a good life, only dared to like you silently, you didn't mind at all, confessed your love to him first and went out with him. "

"A week ago, this man got down on his knees on a construction site with a bouquet of roses in his hat and asked you to marry him, and you said yes."

Bai six snapped his fingers and a man of twenty-seven or eighteen appeared in front of Fang Dian, wearing a work uniform.

"Dottie, how did you ......"

"What a shame, he loved you so much and you loved him so much, you could have been so happy."

Bai six laughed: "It's a pity Lu Yizhan lost the game."

"Pop-!"

Bai six snaps his fingers.

The man who was tearing at Fang Dian's chains burst into a flash of grey-white flame and he howled in agony before Fang Dian's face before burning to ashes.

Fang Dian's chained fists were clenched to death as she slowly, allowing the chains to tug at her shoulders lowered her head against the pile of ashes in front of her, tears dripping down little by little.

She cried out.

Lu Yizhan stood motionless, his face a look of stagnant thought, his eyes completely disoriented.

"That's the price Fang Dian pays." Bai six looked at this with a light brow as he curled his mouth, "I found it."

"Only something like [love] can make [God] feel pain."