Chapter 420: First World Line

The world line continued to rotate forward.

Cen Buming became his lieutenant in the next world line, a calm, stern man with an excellent memory and information processing skills, and a personal skill as an executioner.

With Cen Buming's help, the time to lose each timeline began to stretch backwards, and the chances of killing Bai six became more likely, and although they didn't win the game in the end, they were getting infinitely closer to the point where they did.

But Lu Yizhan has always had a deep-seated unease.

Cen Buming was always quick to get into the swing of things after a world-jump, quickly synthesizing the information from the whole world line after being given the prophecy, and then catching some of the heresies that Bai six had planted in advance that would spread from the prophecy and dealing with them in a sharp way -

-or decimated.

Lu Yizhan, with a frown on his face, walks quickly towards the interrogation room.

From a distance, Lu Yizhan could hear hysterical screams coming from inside the torture chamber, and then a man's weak voice choking and coughing, "I really... don't know anything."

"I didn't do anything, please, leave me alone."

Lu Yizhan pushes the door violently in.

Cen Buming leans back in his chair, his legs crossed in front of him, his feet in stiff, thick-soled black leather boots on the face of a dying man on his knees, holding a thorn fork with a little blood on the end.

When Lu Yizhan arrived, Cen Buming glanced up, greeted him lightly and turned back: "Captain."

Lu Yizhan, who was ignored, turned dark and sullen: " Cen Buming, you've gone too far! Let this man go!"

"Good." Cen Buming obediently withdrew his hand and he gave Lu Yizhan a deep look, "I hope the captain won't regret it in a week."

"This man was the factory manager of the former Worldline Rose perfume factory."

Lu Yizhan looks straight at Cen Buming without averting his eyes: "But he's not yet."

Cen Buming raised his hands as he lifted his shoes, with a sarcastic smile, "Yes, whatever, brother."

"Don't come looking for me to wipe your ass when things go wrong." Cen Buming gave Lu Yizhan a cold, unmoved look, "Sometimes I wish the captain would change his untimely benevolence, maybe we'd win."

Lu Yizhan clenched his fists violently.

This isn't the first time such an argument has broken out between him and Cen Buming, and the further back in the world line Cen Buming is able to keenly catch the heresies Bai six has planted, the more copies he prepares to land in reality, the more ruthless his methods become.

And the more Lu Yizhan disagrees, the more he does.

Lu Yizhan had proposed the option of having oversight instead of erasure, thinking that he could have the team monitor those who might bring heretics into reality, but was mercilessly ridiculed by Cen Buming - Captain, how many people do you think are in the Bureau of Heresy Processing that could oversee the Bai six ready to be dropped into the world? Thousands of heretics?

If the heretics had handled the innings with more players than the heretics themselves, we wouldn't have had to lose so badly every time.

Cen Buming is indeed right in saying that there is no way they could have handled the heresy thrown up by Bai six with the current manpower.

And there are so many ways, or people, that a heretic could land in reality that normal surveillance would be impossible - no one knows exactly which person would be compelled by the heretic to bring evil to earth.

Lu Yizhan's idea is just that - an idea - and there are no conditions for its implementation.

Cen Buming said coldly, "Captain, your self-righteous, unrealistic approach is just a sacrifice of the lives of the members of the Bureau of Heresy to fill the black hole of endless heresy."

"Do you know how many of our team members die every time we go out in the field when the Heretics do land in reality?"

Cen Buming glanced at Lu Yizhan, who was silent, and his voice took on a sarcastic tone: "Is this the hypocrisy and cruelty of those in high places?"

[He said ...... I'd take the lives of the second team members of the Heretics Bureau to fill this black hole of heresy that is impossible to fill ......]

[He asked me if I knew how many second team members had to die each time they went out in the field].

[He called me a cruel bitch]

Lu Yizhan's pupils flinched as he subconsciously grabbed Cen Buming's wrist and murmured, "...... don't go down that road."

Cen Buming shook off Lu Yizhan's grip on his wrist and brushed past Lu Yizhan's shoulder, who stood still, unable to move, and without another word, lowered his eyes and pushed out the door.

A week later, the Rose Factory appeared.

After a lot of trouble, the director of the rose factory was finally caught.

Lu Yizhan had sent someone to monitor the other side, but Bai six was too quick to drop heretics and hide them with various props.

Lu Yizhan personally brought back the factory manager, who, as before, pleaded for mercy to Cen Buming, cried and knelt on the ground, praying, "I did nothing, I know nothing."

Lu Yizhan was silent for a long time before asking, "Did you know that perfume, when broken, can kill a person?"

"When Lieutenant Sham interrogated you earlier, he already told you about the dangers of this perfume, so why did you get it after you got out?"

That factory manager's eyes dodged for a moment.

Lu Yizhan's heart suddenly rose with an absurd thought, and he asked incredulously in return, "You didn't know what rose perfume was originally, but when you were at the Heresy Bureau because you heard Deputy Sham's description of that perfume, you felt that this perfume was profitable, so as soon as you got out, you immediately started growing roses and wanted to make this rose perfume that Deputy Sham was talking about ?"

That factory manager bowed his head and suddenly he laughed twice: "Profitable, is it human nature."

"Besides, I don't kill people, so as long as they keep buying the perfume I make, then nothing will happen."

"Don't talk about me, you change any person, come and hear what this perfume does, tell them how profitable it is, and then send them the secret recipe for this perfume and see if they will be impressed and grow roses."

Cen Buming took the man from Lu Yizhan's presence.

Before taking the prisoner away, Cen Buming turned back to Lu Yizhan, who was sitting behind his desk in silence: "Brother, you must wait until the other side has done great damage, knowing that this person will do great damage."

"Is this the justice you insist on?"

Lu Yizhan looks up slowly: "Pre-execution is unfair to those who have not yet done anything wrong."

Cen Buming raised an eyebrow mockingly, "But it would be equally unfair to those who died in the wrongdoing these men committed if they were not pre-executed."

Cen Buming was about to turn and leave when Lu Yizhan abruptly called out to him: "The prophecy that Bai six has shown us is not necessarily true."

"The prophecies he gives are always truer than your ideas, Captain." Cen Buming's voice was cold.

With that, Cen Buming closed the door and left.

Left alone in his office, Lu Yizhan slowly slid limply out of his reclining chair and stared blankly at the ceiling, muttering to himself, "Did I really make the right choice, Fang Dian ......"

He always felt that Bai six's prophecies were becoming more and more relevant.

It is as if Cen Buming, who could have spotted these traps and heresies, was invisibly induced to eradicate them himself.

And Cen Buming becomes more and more paranoid, callous and ...... in this process of eradication

--Like the second team leader who defected to Bai six's camp.

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes as he moved his hand back and slowly took hold of the gun he had pinned to his back, taking a deep breath and slowly releasing it as if all his strength had been drained.

...... if that day does come.

Can he do it to Cen Buming?

Fang Dian, what was it like when you killed the captain of the second team?

Lu Yizhan was working the second half of the night shift at the Heretic's Bureau that night. He could have slept the first half of the night, but he couldn't stop thinking about things and Lu Yizhan thought he wouldn't be able to sleep, so he took the first half of the night off together and went out on patrol after dinner.

He finished patrolling the heresy shelter and somehow made his way to the training ground.

Lu Yizhan stared at the training ground in awe, feeling as if he had just graduated from this place in the setting of this world, but he hadn't been here for a long time.

The detachment leaders do not take on training ground coaching duties, it is the deputy teams who need to come in for some coaching duties.

Lu Yizhan had just withdrawn his eyes and was about to leave when he saw a group of panting trainees running across the training ground and he stopped a little surprised.

It's almost 12pm and it's past the time for night training, why are these trainers still practicing extra.

Lu Yizhan soon found out why, as the group of trainees lay panting on the playground after running laps, resting and griping like crazy.

" Cen Jiao, what's wrong with you? Just came over with a grim face to give us extra night training?! Does he know what time it is?"

"Harm, the old devil instructor, Cen Jiao, isn't it always extra practice?"

"But the extra practice has been nigh on outrageous lately?! Is he the one coming?"

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but chuckle a little at this - his trainers in his first year used to sneak around spitting on Dong Chenglong too.

Now it's Cen Buming's turn.

A gentle boy interrupted another boy's tirade with a mixture of amusement and helplessness, " Tang Erda, you're talking too much, Cen Jiao is doing it for our own good too."

Tang Erda snorted coldly, "Bullshit, Su Yang, don't give him a good word, he's just taking it out on us after being pissed off at his senior brother!"

"I just love it when Team Lu gives him a hard time! Fuck! It's better to piss him off!" Tang Erda, who had been trained to be angry, punched the ground.

Both Su Yang and Lu Yizhan couldn't hold back another laugh.

Su Yang became more and more frustrated: "Why do you always like to call yourself "Brother" like Cen Jiao?"

"He's always yelling at Team Lu every time." Tang Erda was lying on all fours, panting heavily, her chest muscles bulging, the cuffs of her four sleeves all soaked through, "It's very unpleasant to watch me, Team Lu is very nice, capable and nice, that Cen looks like he wants to usurp the throne every time, watch me ...... "

Cen Buming's voice suddenly appeared calmly: "How does it look to you?"

Tang Erda was shocked and jumped: "Holy shit!"

Lu Yizhan, who was listening with great interest, was also taken aback: "Holy shit!"

"Are you two having a nice chat." Cen Buming's gaze swept with little emotion over the two men who had screamed out in terror.

Lu Yizhan sheepishly stood next to Tang Erda, and together with her, bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes.

Cen Buming clutched his chest and said blandly, "Slander the instructor behind his back and add your own training."

Tang Erda gritted her teeth and went off on her own, Lu Yizhan consciously tried to follow, Cen Buming's eyes jumped and he pulled Lu Yizhan back by the back of his collar, almost holding back his anger, "You're not a trainee anymore, Team Lu."

Lu Yizhan scratched his head and smiled nervously, "I thought you were talking to me."

Cen Buming: "......"

Sometimes Cen Buming wonders to himself why he has worked with people like this for 300 world lines?

Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan watched from the sidelines as the group of trainees ran laps with weights.

Lu Yizhan looked at Tang Erda, who was gritting her teeth and running laps, and suddenly smiled: "You remind me of the Dong Cult."

"I actually didn't like teaching Dong as a trainee either, but now I feel like having one of those instructors seems ......"

Cen Buming took the second half of the sentence flatly: "There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"

"If an obnoxious instructor can increase survival rates for everyone, then it's okay for me to be the obnoxious instructor."

"If an annoying lieutenant can keep more people alive, then it's okay for me to be the annoying lieutenant."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Cen Buming continued with a light face, " Team Lu doesn't have to be so bitter about me, I know what I'm doing."

"In the game of werewolf killing, the seer is supposed to be a card that doesn't stain the blood but only tests the werewolf; it's always the hunter who shoots and executes."

Cen Buming's eyes were slightly downcast and the night breeze blew his hair around the side of his face, making it hard to see his expression.

"So I, the hunter, will do everything in my power to keep you, the foolish prophet who wants to protect everyone, alive until the end."

"I will not mess with the principles of the Dong Cult, Team Yu, and all those who have died for us before."

"I didn't torture the plant manager, I just asked him if he'd had any contact with Bai six and he said no, so I threatened him with a thorn fork with the blood of the team member who used it before, not his."

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long time.

Since then, he has not been to Cen Buming's torture chamber.

The world line continues to reincarnate forward.

Lu Yizhan thought that this apparent peace would last for at least a few dozen more world lines, but in world line 0317, this peace, thinly balanced and held together by only a spider's thread, was finally shattered once and for all.

In this world line, Lu Yizhan captures Bai six alive for the first time.

Cen Buming immediately tried to interrogate Bai six, but was stopped by Lu Yizhan, who asked to talk to him first.

Cen Buming agreed.

Lu Yizhan is talking for the first time in such close proximity to Bai six's, supposedly, own derivative, a young man of twenty-four, with a clear, handsome face, a gentle smile and a strange sense of danger and affinity.

--similar to the feeling given to him by the evil god Bai Six.

"You're Lu Yizhan, aren't you?" Bai six, his hands handcuffed, crossed and folded on the table, leaned forward, obviously sitting in the position he was being interrogated, but relaxed in his posture as if he had come to interrogate someone else.

He smiled and said, "I've got the rules skills and worldline props in the game, and have become a believer in the evil gods, and I know about your bet and everything that's happened between you."

Lu Yizhan reacted almost instantly, "You were captured by us on your own initiative."

"Because in what I see." Bai six smiled more and more meaningfully, "You're really a man who intrigues me, Captain Lu."

Bai six smiled and said, " Captain Lu, I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask me so how about we play a game."

Lu Yizhan gave a pause: "What game?"

"Truth or Dare." Bai six hooked the corners of his mouth, "If you win, I'll answer a question truthfully, if you lose, or if you won't do what I ask, then I won't answer."

Lu Yizhan said yes.

"Okay, round one, Truth or Dare?" Bai six cocked his head and leaned lazily against the interrogation table with his jaw propped up.

Lu Yizhan says: "Truly."

Bai six dropped his eyes and he smiled lazily, "This world line, ever been to Fang Dian ?"

Lu Yizhan's jaw tightened, and it was a long, long time before he answered hoarsely, "...... looked."

He watched from the sidelines for a long time before leaving.

"It's your turn." Bai six asked with a smile, " Does Captain Lu want me to be truthful or daring?"

Lu Yizhan's eyes glazed over, "Why are you so stable in every world line?"

"Steady what?" Bai six played absently with the handcuffs hanging from his wrists, "Steady bad, steady to do something that would hurt most human values in this world line?"

"If that's what you're asking, I can give you a little hint."

Bai six smiles at Lu Yizhan: "In terms of the rules of human society, there are key age points at which people develop certain personalities and tendencies, the first being from 0-4 years old, the second being from 6-8 years old, then 14, 18 and 24."

"And I, as a rough derivative creation, just need to keep my experience relatively stable throughout these age points of my life, and then my character will be stable."

Lu Yizhan's eyes deepened: "I won't continue to play if you don't answer exactly."

Bai six sighed with a regretful show of hands, "Well then, let me say some more so that the famous Captain Lu can play another round with me, a poor prisoner."

"For example, Captain Lu you have developed such a kind character because of some of the people and things you experienced at the critical point of 18, then just make sure that these critical things remain the same and that the overall change in your experience fluctuates and does not affect the direction of your overall character."

"You've managed to keep that character no matter how much torture you've gone through from me."

"Simply put, these people and things are your [anchor], and as long as [the anchor] remains the same, you will not change."

Lu Yizhan almost immediately followed up with, "What is your [anchor]?"

Bai six smiled, "That's the next question."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he said, "You ask first."

"No, this round is a dare." Bai six lifted his eyes and the grin on his face deepened, "Now I want Captain Lu to open the doors to the torture chambers of all prisoners who have been brought in like me and are suspected of a crime, but not yet convicted."

Lu Yizhan looked steadily at Bai six for a moment, then got up and went out to give the order, stressing, "Make sure you watch them, but don't hurt them either."

Cen Buming's brow furrowed, "Release them all? Most of these are people who are prophesied to be associated with major harm heretics."

"What are you doing with Bai six?" Cen Buming was acutely aware of what was going on and he quickly stepped in front of Lu Yizhan who was trying to get back into the torture room, "Don't go along with his game."

Lu Yizhan just looked at Cen Buming for a second, pushed him away and tried to enter.

Cen Buming stopped Lu Yizhan again, his eyes deep: "Brother, playing games with him will cost you dearly, as you should already know very well."

"I'll pay for it." Lu Yizhan let out a long breath, "I'm in danger of finding the breaking point."

Cen Buming was quiet for a moment before finally sidling up and letting Lu Yizhan in: "If there is a so-called [pain] price to pay for this game, I will pay it for you."

"Thanks." Lu Yizhan waved his hand, "I still wish I had done it myself."

As soon as Lu Yizhan walked in and sat down, he immediately asked, "What's your [anchor]?"

Bai six raised his eyes and smiled lightly, "My [anchor] landed at fourteen, in the body of someone called [Xie Ta], a creation that was cast in by the evil god Bai six to determine the course of my character."

"As soon as he's dead, the direction of my character will be largely determined."

Bai six watched Lu Yizhan's expression become agitated as he propped his chin on one hand and lowered his eyes, his eyes becoming compassionate, "But alas, Captain Lu will never be able to touch my [anchor]."

Lu Yizhan paused: "Why?"

Bai six smiled, "Haven't you guys noticed? The evil god it won't let you guys land on the world line before I'm fourteen."

"By the time you log on to the world line, my [anchor] in that world line has been destroyed by the evil gods, and the moment the [anchor] is destroyed, I log on to the game and begin to bring the heretics to reality."

"Okay, now it's my turn, and this time it's a dare too."

Lu Yizhan's eyes sank: "What do you want me to do?"

Bai six smirked at the one-way glass of the interrogation room, then looked at Cen Buming through the one-way glass as if he could see through it and outside, staring at him, and then he said with a smile on his face, "Not Team Lu this time. "

"The one who completed the Dare mission this time was Deputy Sham."