Chapter 456: The Evil God Festival - The Boathouse

Xiaokui, stopped by her sister's panicked shouts, ran back down the path she had run down the hill without looking back.

The sound of weapons staggering together under the unquenchable fire and the beeping and cracking of burning wood echoed through the hills.

Xiaokui covered her mouth and nose as she looked up at the shrine standing at the top of the hill in the heat and ash.

Inside the Shrine.

With his right hand dragging the bloodstained whip, Bai Liu pushes open the door of the shrine with two fingers of his left hand in a cold manner.

The heavy wooden door of the shrine slowly opens.

Bai six took hold of the whip, smiling as he stabbed the sharp bones of the whip in his right hand at the neck of Tavel, who was heavily entangled in the dense silk thread, forcing him to lean back.

Black bone spikes pierced the pale, thin skin of Tavel's neck, and bright red blood slid down the front of his body, dripping one after the other onto Tavel's bloodstained white tunic.

Tavel's silver-blue eyes were weakly half-closed as he looked up at Bai Liu standing in the doorway, his voice hoarse from the choke of the whip in Bai six's hand, "You're here at last."

"I thought, you wouldn't be here today."

Bai Liu's eyes rested on Xie Ta's neck, which had been pierced with bone spikes and was bleeding out, and he spoke in a calm tone, but the whip was clenched in his hand until his fingertips turned white: "Why did you think I wouldn't come?"

"You spoke to me." Tavel arched his eyes and smiled very, very lightly, "I thought you'd left with your Prince Charming. "

His silver-blue eyes shimmered as he looked intently at Bai Liu, his tone earnest, as if expecting something: "Are you coming to me now, ready to choose me as your prince charming?"

"What a beautiful fairy tale." Bai six smiled at Bai Liu, who was holding the whip around Xie Ta's neck tighter and tighter, "I know how you managed to make Xie Ta suffer for you."

Bai six's playful eyes darted back and forth between Bai Liu and Xie Ta, finally resting on Xie Ta's bloodied side, his eyes dropping to the corners of his mouth.

"You trained it, you went out of your way to make a monster, to fall in love with you."

"What a completely new way of solving the problem."

Bai six smiles, as if exchanging game tips with Bai Liu in a very relaxed scenario: "I'm curious how you do it?"

"-to make such an evil creation, who can remember all the worldline memories and has no human nature or human feelings, fall in love with you?"

"What even God has not been able to do."

Bai six looked up and examined Bai Liu across the table with amusement: "- how did you manage to do that?"

Bai Liu did not answer him, his right hand swung down at Bai six without hesitation, while his left hand reached forward and put its hand between Bai six's whip and Xie Ta's neck, the palm of his hand bent back to protect Xie Ta's neck, and his backhand ripped away Bai six's black bone whip.

Bai six sidestepped the white bone whip Bai Liu swung down at him, a smile on his face but no emotion in his eyes, and he tightened his right hand, gathering the bone whip around Xie Ta's neck that Bai Liu had torn away again, while turning his wrist inwards, the bone spikes flared outwards even more, sinking deeper into Xie Ta's skin.

The white tunic around Xie Ta's neck was all wet with blood, and the bone spur that had pierced deep into his throat made it impossible for him to even make a sound.

"It's not advisable to tug on these barbed bone whips." Bai six smiles and turns his head sideways to Bai Liu, "It'll rip the head right off."

With a cold sweep of the tail of his eyes, a very rare, very outward aggressiveness emerged from Bai Liu's dark eyes, his right hand loosened its grip on the bone whip, and the moment he flipped his hand forward, the bone whip in his hand turned into a sharp short blade, and with a swift movement, it was about to cut off Bai six's head from his neck, which he had narrowly avoided! The whip became a sharp knife.

A strand of black hair was picked off Bai six's temples and swirled lazily to the ground, a few drops of blood hitting the falling strands.

Bai six slowly straightened his head, which was tilted away from him, and then lifted his eyes as he stuck out his tongue and licked the blood dripping down the left side of his face, his eyes gradually becoming excited, "That's what makes it fun, big brother."

"Let me see more, what interesting skills will I have in the future, right?"

Before he could say anything else, Bai Liu didn't stop there, he pulled the black bone whip around Xie Ta's neck with his left hand, and then with the force of his body, he pulled the black bone whip around Xie Ta's neck wide open, and at the same time, with the force of his waist, he rolled over and kicked Bai six hard in the spine.

Bai Liu's shoulder was hard enough to resist the kick, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth with a smile, and instead of protecting himself, he gave a quick tug on the black bone whip he had in control of Xie Ta's neck, sending Xie Ta and his hand around Xie Ta's neck flying.

Bai Liu's right foot was stuck on his shoulder and he pushed back, and the whip came down hard on Bai Liu's blind spot as he rolled backwards.

A large hole has been cut in the wooden floor of the ground by a black bone whip with bone spines at full length, and the wooden floor on either side of the large hole is turned over so that a pond can be seen directly below it.

The goldfish in the pond are swimming around senselessly, the light of the water on the surface of the pond and the glow of the fireworks reflecting in the black night sky, making it seem as if the goldfish are swimming in a summer festival night sky full of brilliant fireworks.

Bai Liu knelt half on one knee next to the large hole, his back straight, his waist less than five centimetres from a sharp bone spike that had been knocked upright behind him, he held the black bone whip in one hand and raised his eyes to look coldly at Bai six standing on the other side of the large hole.

Bai six looked with interest at the black leather gloves that appeared out of thin air on Bai Liu's hand, "Short blade, gloves, so a shifting type of skill weapon that I have?"

"Or-" Bai six grinned, "can I use my own skill weapon and use someone else's?"

Before he could finish his question, Bai Liu threw the knife in his hand and dodged it, Bai six dodged it with a fluid movement and the knife that had grazed the side of Bai six's neck spun into a bottle of poison.

The poison was thrown off the cap during the spin and fell into the pool behind Bai six in a state of poisonous effusion.

The pool was instantly dyed a bubbling black, a thick poisonous mist rose to the sky, and Bai Liu clearly heard his life bar diving downwards, but he didn't care, instead summoning a white bone whip in his right hand the moment the short blade went out and gripping it tightly, then striking it out without any pause at all.

The white bone whip was thrown through the hole Bai Six had just made, sending an entire slat of wood where Bai Six was standing flying into the air.

"Flutter-!!!"

Bai Liu heard a clear sound of falling water and it was clearly Bai six who had fallen into the pond where he had just cast the poisonous mist.

After completing his usual flurry of blows, Bai Liu rose and moved sideways in the direction Xie Ta had just been thrown, while scanning the pond below out of the corner of his eye, the whip in his hand turned into a gun and fired rapidly at every bubbling spot.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang-!!!"

Bai Liu stood in front of Xie Ta, facing the pond with an indifferent expression. Although there was no more movement in the pond, the gun in his hand remained in place, still alert and aimed at the pond.

The plank beneath him shifted slightly and Bai Liu's eyes focussed, firing six swift shots at the plank beneath his own feet, then raising his hand to change the magazine and chamber the gun, then dropping his eyes and aiming the gun in the direction of the water shifting beneath the plank, firing another six shots with cold precision.

Silver cartridges clinked and fell.

This continuous barrage of ranged attacks didn't close in on the hit until the first system beep sounded in Bai Liu's ears.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has hit player Bai six with his skill weapon (Rose Revolver).

There was blood spreading out under the dark waves of water and Bai Liu's eyes instantly positioned themselves in the dark pond where the blood had spread out, a strong aggression in his pure black eyes, like a scaly dragonfish enraged by its prey, leaving no room for the prey ready to fight back or run away, steadily opening his huge mouth full of venomous fangs once again and biting down again on the prey's wound.

Bai Liu raised his left hand, calm and dark-eyed, and aimed the trigger at the spot where the blood had spread.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang-!!!"

Six crisp, clean shots, emptying the snatch gate, raising his hand to change the gate, moving his aiming sight to follow where the blood moves, shifting his shoulder back to ease the recoil, then pulling the trigger for another six shots.

"bang bang bang -!!! BANG BANG BANG BANG--!!!"

Bai Liu A system beep sounded in his ears.

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu has hit player Bai six with his skill weapon (Rose Revolver), player Bai six's life is being reduced ......]

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu hits ...... with skill weapon (Rose Revolver)]

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu ......]

After Bai Liu had chased and emptied an unknown number of mags, stopping any bit of Bai six from potentially climbing up, with silver cartridges under his feet, the system prompt finally changed.

[System Alert: Player Bai six has zero life and is out of the game.

[Congratulations to player Bai Liu for killing player Bai six!

Bai Liu's dark eyes stared for a moment at the still waters of the pond, the gun in his hand flipping and changing back to a whip.

He raised his hand and flung the whip into the pond stirring it from side to side, hitting a certain heavy body with a lurch of the wrist, flipped his wrist and rolled a whip loop, caught the Bai six corpse under the water around the waist with the whip, pulled it up, flung it outwards and dropped it on the board.

Bai six's body, eyes closed, was dropped on the wooden floor like an unresponsive mass of rotting flesh, which shook twice.

Bai Liu walked up to the body and lowered his eyes coldly, observing the corpse as indifferently as if he were looking at a stone.

Bai six is ashen and bloodless, with some areas of skin that have blossomed with very obvious signs of having been corroded by poison.

Bai Liu hooks his toe into the elbow of the body and kicks it up on the ankle, turning it over on its side so that it lies face down and spine up on the ground. Bai Liu's eyes are half closed as he observes the back of the body for a long time, his eyes sliding down the spine of the body and stopping at the centre of the body's waist.

Then, with a calm, stern movement, Bai Liu cracked his whip and opened the clothes on the back of the body, exposing the skin on the back of the body, then reached out and took out another bottle of poison and prepared to pour it into the bone hollow in the centre of the back of Bai six's body.

But at the very second he was about to fall, Bai Liu's sleeve was tugged.

"You're at ......" Xie Ta, who was held by the silk thread and could only crawl on the ground, tugged lightly on Bai Liu's sleeve before slowly raising his head.

Xie Ta's neck was covered in horrific holes of blood from bone spikes that were still leaking out, but he looked at Bai Liu like he didn't care about his injuries at all, he just looked at him wholeheartedly, he blinked his watery eyelashes very lightly and asked in a low voice, "- what for? "

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "I was going to corrode his skin with poison and then draw out his spine."

Xie Ta was quiet for a long time, coughed softly and asked in a mute voice, "Why did you do it?"

" Xie Ta." Bai Liu crouched down, he reached out with his right hand and jammed it into Xie Ta's jaw, lifting the other man's chin and looking at Xie Ta with a cold and calm look in his eyes, "Do you really not know why I'm doing this?"

"You remember the memories of other world lines, that proves you are the Xie Ta of other world lines, and you have had your spine drawn by this [Bai six] at my feet for I don't know how many spines, by I don't know how many [Bai six] that look exactly like me in so many world lines."

Bai Liu gazed into Xie Ta's silvery blue eyes, "Why didn't you say something when I was torturing you?"

"Why didn't you tell me that I was forcing you to develop feelings for someone who looks exactly like the bitch who smoked your warp and skin on you?"

"Why didn't you tell me that you knew you were in a game and not a real world line, that you even knew I was the player and was probably here to rip you off in such a way as to cause you pain to get through the game?"

Xie Ta's breathing paused very softly and his eyes became slightly confused, as if he didn't understand what Bai Liu was saying, "...... Is any of this important?"

"My world is only a game."

Xie Ta's silvery-blue eyes reflect Bai Liu completely: "That's what's real to me."

"You are real to me."

Bai Liu is quiet, his fingers curling as he grips the bottle of poison.

Xie Ta's face was covered in blood and she was wearing a tattered white robe. She slowly sat up, covered in blood and devoutly kneeling on the ground, looking up at Bai Liu who was crouching down with a serious and earnest tone.

"It doesn't matter if it's a game to you, it doesn't matter if it's for a pass."

"Now, can I be your Prince Charming?"

Bai Liu is quiet for a while, his posture shifting from a crouch to a kneeling position like Xie Ta's, and then he looks Xie Ta flat in the eyes.

In this moment, Bai Liu could clearly see the tension in Xie Ta's silver-blue eyes, and a kind of unspeakable anticipation, and he heard his own and Xie Ta's heart beating faster and faster.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The two men's accelerated heartbeats gradually merged in frequency.

"I don't want a Prince Charming who will die." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and he said, "Will you die?"

Xie Ta reacted and he replied quickly, even in some panic, "I'm not going to die, I'm a monster!"

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes as he said, "Then we make a deal."

"You give me your soul, life and love."

"I give you my wish, faith and love."

Xie Ta said, "Good."

He asked earnestly, "Is there anything else I need to do for the deal?"

"I need money as a medium for my deal." Bai Liu looked to Xie Ta, his lips pursed for a moment, his tone lightly demanding, "You close your eyes."

Xie Ta quickly obeys and closes his eyes.

Bai Liu looks at Xie Ta's bloodied face, his eyes slowly falling, his long lashes casting a very light shadow over his face, while his eyes fall on the coin he has hanging over his heart.

--That's Bai Liu entering the game's task manager.

It is also a symbol of these lust-controlled, foolish players ringing their wishes to the evil gods.

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, he took the coin into his mouth and pressed it under his tongue, he licked a cold metallic taste, like rust, like the blood from Xie Ta's body.

"Are you done?" Xie Ta asked very softly, his eyes closed as he turned in Bai Liu's direction.

Before he could finish the question, Bai Liu, who was on his knees, leaned forward, raised his right hand over Xie Ta's eyes and then closed them.

Their lips met.

"What was that?" The blindfolded Xie Ta asks vaguely, licking at the foreign object in his mouth that Bai Liu has ferried to him and asking softly, "Is it a coin? It makes my heart beat so fast."

"No." Bai Liu's voice was soft, "It was a kiss."