Chapter 422: The Challenge

Drops of water from the sea were blown by the wind and the undulating waves, hitting the decaying shrine on the lonely island.

The dark tide is gusting, the sky is grey and dark, the clouds are gathering and heavy rain is coming.

Sitting on the stone table the evil god looked across at the prophet with his head hanging.

With his jaw propped up in one hand and his body tilted to one side, the evil god dropped his eyes without emotion: "658 world lines are a long dream for humans."

" Lu Yizhan, three times you have modified the memories of everyone, even of my devolved derivatives, to cover up the tragic events that really happened in this world, to whitewash the conflict that was about to erupt with a false peace."

"Do you remember what the truest track line of the world looks like?"

"Or have you too become so immersed in this false reality that you have forgotten everything that originally happened?"

Bai six raised his eyes flatly, "But no matter how much you delay to hide it, you will always have to face it all."

"Wake up."

The seer sitting opposite grew slightly sharper in breath.

Lu Yizhan's fingers flicked very slightly as he lay on the narrow bed, his eyelids fluttering as if he were waking from a troubled dream, his dry mouth opening slightly as he murmured.

"...... don't go down that road."

" Bai Liu ."

Bai Liu was discharged from hospital the day after he woke up.

Of course, this decision was unanimously opposed and everyone felt that he should be kept in hospital for a few more days, but Bai Liu, who has never been one to take anyone's advice on such decisions, had just said tersely the night before that he wanted to be discharged, and the next morning he was already discharged.

By the time Mu Sicheng rushed to the hospital to see Bai Liu after his make-up exams, the bed had already been emptied.

Mu Sicheng strongly condemned Bai Liu for this disobedient patient behaviour.

So Mu Sicheng called and scolded Tang Erda: "How could you let Bai Liu leave the hospital on his own? Why didn't you stop it! Ah! You can't afford to pay if something happens to him! You're still the bedside companion! If it were me, I'd be in bed with you. ......"

Tang Erda interrupted Mu Sicheng with a cold voice: "Given how you spoil Bai Liu, maybe Bai Liu was discharged last night."

Mu Sicheng: "......"

Grass.

"I had to stop Bai Liu before I let him stay another night." Tang Erda also had a headache, "But you know, when this guy wants to do something, you just have to go along with him."

Mu Sicheng tsked, "Why does he have to be discharged today?"

"Today there will be a forced explosion over at the Bureau of Heresy Disposal to demolish some rotten floors of the Sunshine property that have heresy left over." Tang Erda said, "According to the developer's son, he had a magical dream after his dad's death, that if he put part of his dad's ashes together with the property contract and scattered the other part of the ashes on the ground of the Sunnyside development, the land would be attached to his dad's grievance spirit and would then be occupied by the family forever. "

"The contract was burned and the ashes on the ground were excavated and cleaned up by the Heresy Disposal Authority, but some of the ashes were raised onto the floors and could detect a certain amount of heresy values remaining, and just in case, Su Yang, they decided to target-blast the floors."

" Bai Liu is ready to go and watch this demolition process."

"Blasting?!" Mu Sicheng stammered, "What's he doing in this mess? And isn't directional blasting dangerous and cumbersome and takes a long time? Can you trust the Heretics to do this?"

Tang Erda's voice is calm: "In some special moments when we need to deal with an emergency, we will reasonably resort to some heretical abilities to keep people safe."

Mu Sicheng gets it: "Unconventional forces."

"The developer's son had this dream ......" Tang Erda paused for a moment, " Bai Liu thought it might have something to do with Bai six so he wanted to come over and check it out. "

Mu Sicheng frowned: "What's with the Bai six again?"

Tang Erda is quiet for a moment: "You will find out later that the whole world is connected to him."

"The world is just a game for him, and the Sunshine property is just a map for his game."

Sunshine property.

The crowds in the surrounding residential buildings had long since been evacuated by Heretic Authority personnel, and the buildings in the Sunnyside development that were to be blown up were separated by a yellow cordon, with Heretic Authority members patrolling everywhere, on a fairly tight guard, forbidding any ordinary citizen from approaching this side.

Bai Liu was supposed to be stopped outside the cordon, but Tang Erda called Su Yang, who came to pick him up personally.

Su Yang took a deep-eyed look at Bai Liu behind Tang Erda and respectfully extended his hand: "Thank you, Mr. Bai, for your guidance on our work, otherwise we would have only looked into the real estate contract and would not have thought that there were problems with the ashes."

Bai Liu smiled and extended his hand to shake Su Yang's, "You're welcome, Captain Tang has helped me a lot too."

Su Yang withdrew her hand with a smile: " Mr. Bai, what can I do for you this time?"

Bai Liu took his eyes off Su Yang's face, looked at the building behind him and smiled at Su Yang: " Team Su can I go up to this building once before the demolition?"

Su Yang was stunned: "It's not safe for you to go up there in a building that's going to be blown up."

"Don't worry." Bai Liu smiled, " Captain Su you have unconventional forces to quickly target and demolish this building, and I have unconventional means to get out of this building safely."

Su Yang and Tang Erda next to Bai Liu looked at each other, and after seeing Tang Erda's slight nod to make sure Bai Liu was safe, she sidled away cautiously, "I don't recommend Mr. Bai going up, but if Mr. Bai is sure he wants to go up, we only have an hour left before the blast. Mr. Bai can stay for thirty minutes at most."

Bai Liu smiled, "Thank you Captain Su."

Tang Erda escorted Bai Liu to the entrance of the building and he frowned, "Sure you don't want me to come up with you?"

"No." Bai Liu said calmly, "This person I'm going to see shouldn't want you there."

Tang Erda gave a pause: "Go straight into the game if you need anything, I'll be waiting for you in the game."

Bai Liu nodded as he turned, stepped onto the ground floor of the dusty, rotting building and walked upwards.

Su Yang watched tensely as Bai Liu walked into the rotten building and looked disapprovingly at Tang Erda: "You should have stopped him, it really wasn't safe."

Tang Erda let out a breath as he fished a cigarette out of his trouser pocket and lit it, half-smiling his dark blue eyes, "Nothing he does is safe."

"But you are his nominal guardian." Su Yang stressed, "All the more reason why you should not let him go like this."

Tang Erda subtly averted her eyes, "...... He should have his reasons for doing what he does and talk about it when something goes wrong."

Su Yang was helpless and laughed: "You're too spoiled for him! Where are your principles Team Tang!"

"Team Su!" One of the team members came flying over, "The owner of the Sunshine property came over and asked if we had seen their owner's group leader, Yuan Guang, saying that he was coming our way in the morning."

"We checked the surveillance and found that he did come in, but the man didn't go out and now he can't be found anywhere."

The team member looked grave, "Now we suspect that people are most likely in the five buildings that are ready to be blown up."

Su Yang's face flushed, and Tang Erda immediately dialled Bai Liu: "Bai Liu, have you seen in the building-"

"-- Yuan Guang, is it?" Bai Liu held up the phone and looked calmly at Yuan Guang, who was sitting motionless in his chair with his head hanging down as if he was asleep, "I see."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

Bai Liu hung up the phone and he looked faintly across the room, "I'm already here, won't you come out and meet me, Bai six ."

A soft laugh came from Yuan Guang's arms.

"I am keeping my agreement with you, and I would not have come to see you if you had not taken the initiative to seek me out."

Across the room, Yuan Guang, his head bowed, slowly lifts his head, his eyes unconscious and closed, holding a self-portrait in his arms.

The self-portrait shows Bai Liu's Bai six sitting on a chair with his legs folded, propping his jaw up and looking at Bai Liu with amusement. The self-portrait shows Bai six holding a few puppet strings in his black leather gloved hands, which extend from the edge of the frame and are tied to the joints of Yuan Guang's limbs.

The Bai six in the painting looks at Bai Liu with a smile: "Although I knew you would come to me of your own accord, I was surprised to find me so soon."

"How did you know it was me? Or rather, how did you know I would use Yuan Guang to log in to reality to reach you?"

Bai Liu's calm gaze swept past the puppet strings on Bai six's hands, "You used the puppet strings to control Yuan Guang at the end of the last tournament, they won't disappear when you leave the game, which means you've taken full control of Yuan Guang."

"Add to that the fact that you have his soul note in your hands and you can easily use him to land in reality simply by getting his spirit value to clear."

"Wow." Bai six smirked, "Zeroing mental values with ease? I'm sure you already know that I can't just interfere with real world lines, so why would you think I could easily zero someone's spirit level?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes, his tone light, "Haven't you already laid out the standard answer in front of me?"

Bai six smiles and asks, "What's the answer?"

Bai Liu said, "Dreams."

"You can manipulate people's dreams, so that developer's son will dream that dream."

"That is not accurate." Bai six half-closed his eyes, "I can only manipulate the dreams of believers who believe in me."

Bai Liu's gaze swept over Yuan Guang's face, " Yuan Guang doesn't believe in you."

"But he believes in you." The smile on Bai six's face deepened, "It would be difficult for an ordinary man like him to distinguish in his dreams whether it was me, or you, who came to him."

Bai Liu.

"It's not a good feeling to be threatened in every way, is it?" Bai six had a smile in his eyes and a soft tone in his voice, "Not so much if you kill Yuan Guang now."

"If it wasn't Yuan Guang, it would have been someone else." Bai Liu was at peace, "You want to find me, you'll always find a way."

Bai six's fingers curled upwards and she let out a soft laugh against her face, "That's true."

Bai Liu spoke in a calm tone, "What do you want from me? Are you going to play some game again?"

"No." Bai six lifted his eyes and he laughed very softly, "Just been through a very long and uninteresting dream."

"I woke up feeling a bit lonely and just wanted to come and see you."

Unfazed by this seemingly teasing remark, Bai Liu glanced outside at the shaking and vibrating building and asked flatly in return, "In this context of imminent demolition?"

Bai six in the portrait raises his hand to retrieve the puppet strings with which he manipulated Yuan Guang.

The puppet strings wrapped around Yuan Guang loosened and Yuan Guang slid down from his chair, the Bai six in the painting he was holding slowly turning into a motionless coloured painting with a smile on his face.

"The more horrific the background of destruction, the more interesting the game between us, isn't it?"