Chapter 471: The Challenge

The whole pool was covered in clouds of white mist and nothing could be seen but the constant choking and coughing of the audience.

"What's the deal? What npc exodus?"

"I'm still waiting for the results! Well, now I can't see anything."

Before Bai Yi knew it, he saw Spades falling to the ground not far from him and reached out to help him, but Liao Ke forced him to stop.

"No!!!" Liao Ke dragged Bai Yi behind him, tapped into his system's props panel, and turned his head away from the battered and bruised Spades, who was struggling to get up, with a deep warning, " Spades is in grave danger."

"If you don't want to leave the game, go crazy and kill yourselves, now behave yourselves!"

"Don't ever see his eyes."

Liao Ke dragged Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi backwards as fast as he could, soon reaching the edge of the inner perimeter of the viewing pool, where they could only see a faint human silhouette of Spades in the white mist.

The silhouette is trying hard to stand up, but seems to be too badly injured to do so on its own, taking a few steps and then collapsing again, but then staggering and staggering to get up again.

Climb up, get down, climb up, get down.

Spades seems to be trying to find someone, moving in a direction in an almost crawling manner, looking like a lizard that has just taken human form and is not yet coordinated enough to walk properly on all fours.

Bai Yi's heart churned as she watched, "Are we just going to leave him alone?"

Liao Ke looked solemn: "We can't afford to control him now."

"We're his teammates! We can't even help him!" Bai Yi's eyes were red and his voice was shaking, "He's hurt like this for our game!"

"He doesn't know anything! We were the ones who forced him onto the field, taught him the game, told him to win these games and banned him from reality."

"We have taught him so many rules that benefit us humans who live in reality, but not once has he had the friendly treatment we give to those in reality, and he lives like a monster even in our presence."

"Everyone fears him."

Bai Yi's eyes watered as he asked back in a mute voice, "If even us teammates who have used him are not willing to help him now, he really has nothing left."

Liao Ke opened his mouth, he clenched his fists and lowered his head, "You are not allowed to help."

"I'll go." He said, looking up.

Bai Yi was anxious: "I didn't mean to force you to go! I'm saying I'll just go!"

"None of you need to go." Out of the mist, a slender man with a slightly bowed back and choking cough with clenched fists came out, a very warm smile on his face, his face a little pale, a uniform with blood still draped over his shoulders, and said softly, "Someone will go."

Liao Ke let out a long breath as he looked across at the man, a small genuine smile finally appearing on his face, "You're finally here."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu stared blankly at the man who had suddenly emerged from the white mist.

Bai Jiamu's tense shoulders relaxed in an instant, while Bai Yi's eyes burst into tears and he jumped over and hugged the other side as if he had found his backbone, "Captain!

"We lost the singles!!!"

Lu Yizhan catches a wailing Bai Yi with a quirked eyebrow: "Really? Looks like I just missed a great game."

"I'm the one who's late."

In the white fog, Spades stumbles along alone, his clothes soaked through, one step down, blood dripping down the ends of his hair and the corners of his coat, no expression on his face, his ears ringing with the piercing warnings of the system loop.

[Please do not approach player Spades! He is now in a dangerous monster book state!

[Please stay away from players Spades!

[Please don't let anyone near the player Spades!

Oh, keep them away from me.

Only now did his mind slowly process the sound message that had reached his ears.

Spades fell to the ground, his knees bent and he braced himself on one knee as he tried to get up again, thinking calmly as he got up.

It's not necessary to give this warning system, it's superfluous.

These people, these players, won't come near me without warning.

They were so scared of me.

-- it's like being scared of a monster in a game.

Spades took a step, his knees folded and he fell heavily to the ground.

Blood and seawater dripped from beside the ends of his hanging hair, and pools of blood misted away from his knees as he knelt, Spades thought somewhat dazedly.

Yeah, I was supposed to be a monster in the game.

No one should ever have come near me in the first place; my vocation is to kill those who come near me, to make them fearful, painful, to let them drown in their own desires.

The only value of my birth and existence is this.

[Not so.]

Spades suddenly remembered what Lu Yizhan had said to him when the strange prophet leaned over the balcony fence of the killer sequence, looked up at him with a smile, reached out and patted his head gently, and told him that

[Not so, we Spades do not exist to cause pain and fear to others, no life in this world was created for that purpose].

[You must have been born because of someone's love for you.]

[And your presence will surely make this person feel happy beyond measure].

And who is this man? Spades asks.

Lu Yizhan replied with a smile: [That person is the one who brings you into reality and turns you into a human being].

Does this person really exist?

Spades looked at the blood under his knees, at his blood-stained hands, at the empty, silent white mist around him, and wondered from the bottom of his heart.

So many humans, why should this one love such an obnoxious monster as him?

" Bai Liu, what are you doing there!" Mu Sicheng's voice rang out urgently, "Shit! That's Spades over there! The system won't let you pass! It's dangerous, don't you hear!"

" Bai Liu, you're so badly injured now, don't mess around!" Tang Erda warned in a slightly serious manner.

"Don't go over there." Muke prayed softly, " Spades has his teammates to take care of things first, you rest first, okay?"

"Bai Liu." The last person to stand in Bai Liu's way was Liu Jiayi, who was quiet for a long, long time before she spoke, "Go if you want to."

"I know you've made your choice."

From the beginning to the end, there was no sound of Bai Liu answering, he just seemed to be silent and determined as he pushed past these people in front of him and pushed through the white mist with shaky steps towards him.

Spades looked up slowly, and before him appeared a similarly wretched figure, a thin, single figure who, like him, had to sway a few steps away from where he was, approaching him with a single step.

No matter how many people stood in the way, not a step back.

The piercing warning grows more shrill: the

[Please don't let anyone near the player Spades!

Why should this man love me, a monster to be feared, when there are so many humans? Spades asked Lu Yizhan, puzzled.

[He's so weird.]

Lu Yizhan smiled: [I thought he was so strange too].

[But you should like him a lot when you meet him].

Spades at the time didn't think twice: [I wouldn't like him].

Lu Yizhan laughs and asks: [Why?

Spades replied bluntly: [Because I Buming white like it].

Bai Liu came up to Spades, who was on his knees, pale, breathing heavily and still oozing blood from the wounds on his ankle and wrist, which were trailing all the way across the floor.

He looked down at Spades, who was looking up at him, and a drop of blood, mixed with seawater, fell from his eyelids.

Bai Liu held out his hand to Spades, the game coin in his hand, and he spoke lightly, "I win."

At that moment, Spades could not hold back his tears.

He did not understand the meaning of the tears, just as he did not understand many things; he did not know that in this moment all the human emotions he had always wondered about, like, hate, hate, love, jealousy, pursuit, pain, resignation, were all experienced by him in this moment.

"I lost." Spades tears unconsciously as he clenches his fists, "I'm an unqualified memento."

Bai Liu pauses, he puts the coin away, kneels on one knee in front of Spades, takes out a roll of bandages and wraps them around Spades' silvery blue eyes, Bai Liu wraps them in circles, carefully and meticulously, the two breathing close together.

"No." Spades heard Bai Liu whisper in his ear with what sounded like a smile in his voice, "You passed."

[System Alert: Player Spades dangerousness has been dealt with and the danger alert is lifted.]

The nozzle of the rotating spray of psycho-bleach stopped spraying.

The moment the white mist cleared, Bai Yi rushed up excitedly, " Spades! The captain is back!"

At the same time, the circus came up to help Bai Liu.

Spades was placed on a stretcher with his eyes wrapped around him, and Liao Ke was there to hold his hands guiltily: "Is there anything wrong? I'll take you back to the killer's office later and show you the wound."

"I'm so sore." Spades said dully, "It's heavy again."

Spades had never heard him cry out in pain once since the game, and now his heart skipped a beat when he heard it, but then he heard the next sentence and wondered, "Heavy, what's heavy?"

"I feel like my body ......" Spades describes word for word, "is so heavy."

"It's normal." Lu Yizhan stepped forward and with a smile he touched Spades' forehead, "Because soul and love, they are heavy things."

"Eh ......" Bai Yi spotted a paper like object clutched in Spades left hand and curiously tried to tug it, " Spades what's in your hand?"

Spades clenched fiercely, "Mine!"

"No robbery no robbery!" Bai Yi instantly let go of his hands in a show of hands in surrender as he cried out, "I thought it was something bad you brought out of the game so I wanted to show it to you."

"No." Spades said, "It was Bai Liu who just gave it to me."

Bai Yi asked carefully, "You are blindfolded now, do you want me to help you see what Bai Liu has given you?"

Spades lay still on the stretcher for a long, long time before slowly releasing the small, crumpled note he had clutched.

Bai Yi's whole body froze when she saw what the note said.

It couldn't be a simpler little note, and what it says is simple, a string of twelve digits.

--That's a realistic coordinate.

Access to Bai Liu's rental house.