Chapter 563: The Lost Land of Gold

"What, what's going on?!" Liao Ke in the audience was stunned, "Did Bai Liu really shoot the gun?!"

"Yes." Lu Yizhan's face clouded as he stared at the golden sculptures in the background of the big screen for a long time before he suddenly stood up, his tone and expression sinking to a frightening level, "I'm going to the third bureau."

"There's a problem with Heretic 0073."

"Wait?!" Liao Ke was shocked, "Now? But Georgia's at the game, there's no one who knows you in the third inning to pick you up, you'd be forcing your way through, something could go wrong!"

"They are very tightly defended!"

"And it's almost time for us to play, so it's not always enough time to log out and come back!"

"I'll find a way to make this quick." Lu Yizhan clenched his teeth and closed his eyes, "I've done something terribly wrong ...... I've taken in the wrong heretic."

Liao Ke was stunned: "The wrong kind of heresy?"

"I shouldn't have taken in heretic 0073," Lu Yizhan breathed deeply, "because it wasn't a heresy at all!"

Liao Ke wonders, "0073 is totally heretical."

"No." Lu Yizhan shook his head slowly, "Bai six, that guy, tricked Georgia, played us all."

"He deliberately induced me to take in the Gloren Kingdom in order to collect the pain of its thousand years of gold, which he had set up long ago in order to collect the pain!"

Liao Ke got up, patted Lu Yizhan on the shoulder and sighed, "...... I'll go with you to the third inning."

"Let's pick the closest point to the Gulo Sea and log out."

By the Sea of Gulo, three innings of heresy treatment.

After Lu Yizhan logged out, he calmly instructed Liao Ke: "Contact Cen Buming and ask him to expedite the approval for me to enter the Third Bureau."

"Yes, Captain." Liao Ke answered dryly, and a few minutes later he handed the phone to Lu Yizhan, " Team Cen's on the phone, he's asking what you want to do?"

"It's a long story, the situation is urgent, so I'll keep it short." Lu Yizhan replied calmly, "Senior, I need this paper approval from you to save the world."

Cen Buming was twistedly silent for two minutes: "...... waits."

He hung up and after almost a minute Cen Buming's call came back, his tone becoming somewhat condensed, "Something's happened to the Third Bureau."

"Two days ago, they received a strange teaser letter which said they were going to steal Heretic 0073, and the entire Bureau of Three is now under martial law, prohibiting any outsiders from entering or leaving, and the temporary approval couldn't come down."

"Sounds familiar, doesn't it? It's that monkey stealing style, but oddly enough ......"

"The Mu Sicheng of this world is playing in a league right now, and cannot possibly come out to steal Heretic 0073." Lu Yizhan took a deep breath, "If this teaser letter is true, it must be a Mu Sicheng from another world line, and to have a Mu Sicheng, that can only mean one thing."

"- the evil god Bai six intervened in the matter, and he wanted to move heretic 0073."

"I got some special channels to give you another approval, using prophet authority, saying you were a special agent here to investigate the matter." Cen Buming spoke in a cold tone, "But it's hard to say if the Third Bureau eats prophet authority, after all, it's a special product of the First Bureau, and the Third Bureau has no such position."

A special product of the game Lu Yizhan: "...... Thank you Sifu."

Cen Buming laughed coldly and ungratefully, and simply hung up the phone.

"Go!" Lu Yizhan trotted, " Cen Buming should have sent the approvals through, let's try and get into the third inning."

"No." The investigating member of Bureau 3 shook his head solemnly, "The approval we have verified is genuine, we can give you access to Bureau 3 for some information, but I am sorry, we do not give you access to Heretic 0073 as a special agent."

Lu Yizhan softened his tone and spoke with supplication: "The documents have been allowed to pass before, why not today?"

The investigating team member hesitated for a moment and looked at Lu Yizhan who looked pleading, but still spoke up to explain, "Because Captain Georgia said he wanted to be on strict guard today, he pulled the alert of the three bureaus to the highest level and gave a deadly order that no one was allowed to touch heretic 0073 until he returned."

--This is what that teaser letter led to.

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "...... From what I know about Captain Georgia, he wouldn't be so easily alerted to a teaser letter from Buming."

Georgia in this world line had no contact with the thief Mu Sicheng at all, and had always been too steady in her work to be so up in arms about a teaser letter before she had even investigated where the other side was coming from, doing a Dora to Red Level 2 alert, not likely the highest.

--Georgia has never used this level of alert in her time as head of the Third Bureau.

The investigator paused, "Since you have the approval of the prophet's authority, you should know that there are people in this world who can dream, or foretell, things in the future."

Lu Yizhan opened his eyes as that sense of foreboding grew in him: "...... you mean?"

" Captain Georgia and Captain Armand both had precognitive dreams a few months back." The investigator looked up at Lu Yizhan, "You should be aware that those of us who watch over the heretics are the most heavily influenced by them, and sometimes we do get some vague revelations from them through this influence, some of which will take the form of dreams."

" Both Captain Georgia and Vice Armand had dreams of such a teaser letter and they thought the person sending it would be a big threat to the three innings, and after we discussed it, we felt it was informative that such a dream was reflected in both captains."

Lu Yizhan's heart sank to the bottom.

...... Dreams, Bai six's favorite way to induce.

It was a seamless set-up that Bai six had been working on for months, unnoticed by the man who had left the Heretic's Bureau.

"One last request, can you ascertain the current status of the crew guarding Heretic 0073?" Lu Yizhan looked up.

"Just contacted, no problem." The investigator nodded, "We'll make another contact now."

Less than a minute later, the investigator returned with a pale face, "The team from ...... guarding Heresy 0073 is lost."

Lu Yizhan exhaled a breath of air from his chest, "You are sending a new team to the island immediately, I can wear the surveillance ring, can I be allowed to follow this new team to the island as an exception?"

...... If the thousand-year gold deal with the Bai six and Gloren nations is not suspended, and [Mu Sicheng] is allowed to actually open 0073 in reality and spread the powder of the gold point stone throughout the world, then all creatures will be turned into gold sculptures in time.

Heresy spreads across the world, the race between the prophets and the evil gods ends in defeat, and Bai six will collect endless pain in this last world line.

And the moment the heresy opens, the Gloren State ......

The hourglass of time must be filled before the transaction can be terminated.

Lu Yizhan looks down at the coin hanging from his heart and holds it tight - new prophet Bai Liu, do you have an idea?

Where do the tears that must be worth a thousand years of gold curdled into pain come from?

In-game.

After Liu Jiayi exited the game, Bai Liu calmly turned his gun around and aimed it at Belloc and Moore, who had trapped Tang Erda, and fired again.

Chrissy gritted her teeth and covered the shield made of non-Newtonian fluids to get in front of Belloc and Moore.

Shortly after Liu Jiayi exited the game and her Poison skill ran out of time, Chrissy's non-Newtonian fluid turned white again without the Poison enchantment, i.e., the [Shield] function was restored.

But Bai Liu continued to fire, unperturbed by the sight of the shield in front of Belloc and Moore, pulling the trigger one after the other and emptying an entire magazine at the flowing solid shield.

Chrissy is confused - her shield is 100% immune to offensive actions such as bullets, so why is Bai Liu wasting skills attacking her shield?

And this guy ...... just killed the most precious member of his team, right?

Even when Bai Liu was doing something to benefit her team, it wasn't just Chrissy who was confused and questioning - what the hell was Bai Liu doing?

Tang Erda, who is trapped in a bird cage, also frowns.

He had hit this [non-Newtonian fluid] shield of Chrissy's and was basically sure that the bullets couldn't get past it, even if they were pulled up to his maximum attack power, and he didn't understand why Bai Liu had to hit it once when he knew that.

Everything Bai Liu had done from earlier to now was incomprehensible to him, but on the field, he, as a main attacker, would never question Bai Liu's actions - even if the opponent had done something as outrageous as killing a healer.

The silver bullets spiral, as if in slow motion, into the milky white liquid shield -

--Then, as if it had hit the air, it sailed through, hitting Belloc and Moore, who were hiding behind their shields and looking stunned.

The bullet entered the chest and splattered a shower of blood that melted into the fluid, creating a bloody red streak.

Chrissy: "?!?!"

Chrissy's mind went blank for a moment as she subconsciously opened her system panel to see if there was a mistake in her skills, and after double-checking, confirmed that her skill description had not changed at all - she had a shield effect against all offensive actions, especially against firearm-based physical attacks.

As long as the act is offensive, or even a normal act with an offensive mentality, her shields are able to provide some protection, and there has never been this weird situation where a bullet goes through and the high thickness of her stacked shields act as if they don't exist.

It was the same as if this guy had just shot past her shield and killed her own healer ...... It was as if the shield she had protected her players from countless times had completely failed in the presence of this man, in the presence of this strange tactician.

Why would a top-notch shield that clearly defends against even psychological aggressiveness fail in the presence of this man?

What would happen to her [shield] if it failed completely ...... in the presence of such a tactician who would brutally and brutally kill even her own team members...

Chrissy shuddered, feeling a twinge of uncontrollable fear.

Moore and Belloc, already bruised and battered from their confrontation with Tang Erda, were also showing signs of the sculpting of their protective gold, moving slowly and stiffly, and were now completely incapacitated by Bai Liu's shots, as they lay on the ground, holding their legs from Bai Liu's blows, screaming at Chrissy at the top of their lungs They screamed at the top of their lungs at Chrissy: "Run! Chrissy! Run away!"

Chrissy gritted her teeth and ripped off the last layer of light shield fluid protecting her body, doing her best to stack the shield to its thickest circle, completely encasing both players.

With blood pouring from the corners of her mouth, the unshielded Chrissy stood in front of her shield, her eyes fixed on Bai Liu high above.

If [Shield] fails, she is the last shield for the team - this is the awareness and duty of the [Shield] position.

Bai Liu slowly and leisurely changed the magazine as he took a step down from the heights of the mine, the shell casing falling with a crisp clatter under his feet, and after replacing it, he raised his hand again and aimed the gun at the two members of his team in the shield.

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

The bullet grazed the side of Chrissy, hit the shield behind Chrissy and then, as before, passed through as smoothly as if it had hit the air, and the Belloc and Moore inside stopped breathing.

Chrissy's pupils fluttered.

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

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

Blood flowed from the underside of the shield and her fluid shield was completely stained red.

"Why ......" Chrissy fell to the ground in a trance, her fingertips and ankles starting to turn gold, tears falling from her eyes with a glittering sheen like gold dust, she looked at her head with a choked sob as she walked up to her and pointed her gun at Bai Liu, "Why is the [shield] not working?"

"[Shield] is for guard, for protection, [Shield] exists to protect those close to it from harm."

"My desire to protect everyone has not changed one iota, so why does my [shield] fail?"

Chrissy's tears turn to scattered gold dust as she cries, " Golden Dawn exists to protect."

"As Golden Dawn's [Shield], my desire to protect is not to be invalidated! Why can you penetrate my [shield] and kill the one I want to protect!"

"Your desire to protect has never failed, or more precisely, it is because your desire to protect has never failed." Bai Liu raised his gun and smiled up, "It was my bullets that penetrated your shield and managed to kill them."

Chrissy looked up in a daze, the goldenness of her torso had spread to her heart, which made her exit words jar and hard: "...... Why?"

"Your desire to protect is very strong, as strong as your captain Georgia's." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, a very light layer of gold dust hanging from them, "Your shield would deter even a person with malicious intent from committing a non-aggressive act, a very powerful shield indeed."

"But accordingly, if a person commits an aggressive act, but he has no intention of harming you, your [shield] cannot stop it."

"Like right here and now." Bai Liu laughed softly and aimed the gun at Chrissy's temple, her lips starting to turn gold, "I'm going to kill you, but what I'm thinking isn't that I'm going to hurt you at all."

"What I'm thinking is that I'm not killing you-"

"-rather in saving you."

"Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang-!!!"

Chrissy collapsed to the ground just before she was about to be transformed into a golden statue.

The birdcage that had trapped Tang Erda disappeared and Bai Liu handed over the gun with a smile: "It was an emergency and I needed a long-range weapon, so I borrowed it for a while, thanks to Captain Tang."

Tang Erda, who had been forcibly borrowed, took over helplessly, "Go on, what have you found out again."

"I can't believe Jiayi was sent out of the game with a sudden shot... that was messed up too ......"

"And what a non-aggressive killing theory." Tang Erda tucked her gun behind her waist, turned and choked out a couple of coughs with clenched fists and sighed, "...... What and what is all this, in all my years of using guns I've never seen anyone kill without being aggressive, how do you kill without being aggressive?"

"You're fooling people again, aren't you?"

"No oh." Bai Liu shrugged innocently, "I'm really not lying this time, I really did kill them to save them."

He smiled a gentle smile, "Just the same reason as killing Jiayi."

"Later I might kill you to save you too, Captain Tang."

Tang Erda paused and looked over with a raised eyebrow, "So White Tactician, what do you know again and can you explain it to a confused attacker?"

Bai Liu was just about to speak when the system alert rang.

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

Bai Liu's eyes narrowed as he pulled out his communication tool and saw the last message Muke had sent him - [Palace, gold dust, tears.

"True enough." Bai Liu stroked his chin thoughtfully, "It agrees with what I deduced."

Tang Erda waved her hand helplessly in front of Bai Liu's face, "Seeing as how you're not surprised, you set Muke up to be cleared from the game now, didn't you?"

"Yes." Bai Liu replied with a small smile, "I told him to clear the brothers Georgia and Armand out of the mine, at all costs."

"One for two, or the two most favourable people on the other side." Tang Erda frowned, "It's remarkable that Muke has managed to drag it out so far."

"You're trying to say Muke isn't the best person for the job, right? Because there's a key thing that only he can do, let him go." Bai Liu smiles and says, "I told Muke to tell Georgia that he had a way to fill the hourglass."

Tang Erda was stunned: "You knew how to fill an hourglass that early?!"

"Of course not." Bai Liu shook his head honestly, "I lied to Georgia."

Tang Erda frowned: " Georgia should have brought lie detector props into the copy, and as a person of three ...... Golden Dawn origins, the lie detector props in his hands should not be something as cheap as scales, how did you fool him? "

"Oh, this." Bai Liu said calmly, "I lied to Muke too."

"I told him I really knew how to fill an hourglass and he believed me, he really thought I knew, so he went ahead and trusted me enough to tow Georgia, and because Muke really believed I did, so that abject belief, I thought it was possible to fool Georgia's lie detector prop and let him go."

"Because out of a few players, if I came into a game and told you guys I knew how to fit an hourglass, you'd all be asking questions and if I didn't tell you, you'd all suspect I was lying, but Muke doesn't do that."

"All I have to do is tell him that I know, but now is not the time to tell you, and he will believe it completely and carry out his mission without asking a word more."

" Muke would be 100 per cent blind to me and blind to me, so he was the only one who could do the job and the best person for the job."

Bai Liu rubbed his chin, "He should have been faithful to believe that I really knew how to fill the hourglass when he was interrogated by both Georgia and Armand until his life level was zero, which is why Georgia chose to spend time with him until now."

"......" Tang Erda sighed from the bottom of her heart, " Bai Liu, you are such a beast."