Chapter 574: The Drowning Man from the Future

At the same time, Cen Buming finally reached out and took Bai Liu's hand, speaking indifferently, "There is nothing to say between us."

"There doesn't need to be much conversation between the executioner and the person being executed."

Cen Buming withdrew his hand and turned to leave. Bai Liu looked down at Cen Buming's distant back, the sensation of the Death Ring still lingering in his palm.

Bai Liu didn't chastise anyone as he had done before, but rather calmly watched Cen Buming walk away.

--This man is serious.

He had really turned on him.

"Get ready to log into the game." Bai Liu returned to his team, his tone flat, "Do whatever it takes to snipe the Joker."

"Yes!"

Everyone said yes, except for Mu Sicheng who asked, a little confused, " Bai Liu, you only told us the focus of our siege, who is the focus of the other side's siege?"

Bai Liu opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw the eyes of all the players looking straight at him, he stopped: "We're not sure yet, we'll see when we get into the game."

"It's not you, is it?!" Mu Sicheng was a bit nervous, "Shit!"

"No." Tang Erda shook her head with certainty, " Bai Liu will be the safest person in this copy."

"Because there's no way for a clown to shoot him."

"I think so too." Liu Jiayi replied after some serious thought. Liu Jiayi thoughtfully replied, "I asked Phoebe, and she said that Daniel really likes Bai Liu, to the point of being jealous of all the players around Bai Liu."

"- along these lines, it should be more likely that people around Bai Liu were sniped by the Joker."

It was clear that everyone was inexplicably relieved to hear such dangerous news.

"That's good." Muke laughed lightly, a rare genuine smile, "We can go to war without shooting at Bai Liu."

"I have reservations about that, after all, there's not just the Joker on the other side, there's [the Executioner] too." Bai Liu spoke in a calm tone as he walked towards the boarding portal on the other side of the big screen, "Stay alert and get into the game first."

The moment everyone was about to log into the game, their previously playful expressions disappeared and became heavy.

Mu Sicheng had been exhaling and exhaling, the relaxed and loud look he had just given was gone, his hands so stiff with tension that he could hardly move them, Muke clutching his dagger, his eyes downcast, walking with slightly heavier footsteps than usual, Liu Jiayi repeatedly opening the system panel, his face stony as he confirmed his healing skills.

Everyone felt a sense of oppression like never before, coming from the skills of Daniel the clown.

...... Even if it is swallowed by Cen Buming's [Well of Sinners], the worst that can happen is that the exemption will be invalidated and the person will die, but as long as there are enough follow-up points and the soul exists, there is still a chance of resurrection, but if you are hit by the Soul Crushing Gun, there is really no room for maneuvering.

Not even the game, can save a player who has been soul crushed.

Tang Erda could not be clearer on this point.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and slowly unclenched his fists, which had been clenched all the way and were beginning to tingle, trying to calm his muddled brain down.

...... Daniel was actually on the same team as Cen Buming, which simply turned his perceptions upside down, and while each world line had different change points, there had never been such a volatile change.

The change is simply comparable, as he, the hunter, joins Bai Liu's team.

Was it a coincidence? Was it the butterfly effect of him joining Bai Liu's team? Why is Cen Buming on the same team as Daniel and what is he doing?

But it is useless to think about this now, the priority is to win the other side in order to explore the answers to these questions.

Tang Erda's dark blue eyes widened as he stared at the back of Bai Liu, who had walked into the entrance, and tightened his grip on the gun in his hand...

-- This time, he would never let his tactician, in front of his own face, touch that bullet.

[...... is loading the game ......]

[System Alert: Both players have logged into the game "The Drowning Man from the Future"]

[The (Deer Hunters) vs. (Wandering Circus), a five-man team match, officially begins].

Bai Liu opened his eyes and he was suspended in a deep, dark universe, or more precisely, he was wearing a spacesuit, equipped with safety connectors around his waist, suspended not far from a space station, with his side Fang Ke to see a huge spacecraft connected to the station.

And all around him and behind him, this vast and silent space was not the way he had seen the universe before in books or picture books, but was made up of many Earths, orbiting this huge spaceship according to some kind of law, no meteorite belts, no different shapes of stellar spheres, only one thing - the Earth shrouded in a halo of light.

-- exactly the same world line in the shape of a ball of light that Bai six had once shown him.

Behind these "earths" are scattered, broken halos of starlight, all of which glow a slight silvery blue, making one feel dizzy and very uncomfortable when looking directly at them for a long time, making one feel like sinking into some kind of deep sea, giving rise to a feeling of drowning.

Bai Liu soon discovered that looking directly at these silvery-blue halos for long periods of time would bring down one's spirit level, and he squinted - this familiar glow reminded him of a certain god.

[System Alert: You are a player who has jumped the world line and come outside the world line].

[God rejoices in your growth and welcomes you, and He presents you with His supreme masterpiece, the (game system)].

[Activate main quest: Please land the airship, find the key on the airship, control this airship and fly to the place where the world lines meet at the centre - the place where the temple is located].

"...... please return to the hatch." A mechanical announcement came over the internal radio of Bai Liu's spacesuit, "Oxygen is running out, please return to the hatch."

Bai Liu turned his helmet and looked through the transparent face window structure to see the hatch attached to the end of the safety cable moving slowly. He gripped the cable and pulled inwards, floating lightly to the hatch and retracting.

The hatch closed and a mechanical voice came from the top: "Scanning, adjusting environment in progress, activating gravity and air systems, simulating biological survival environment, please do not remove your spacesuit ......"

"Simulation complete, please enter the interior."

A white gas rises from the bottom and the feeling of floating disappears, a gravitational pull on his feet appears and the weightlessness disappears, he lands on the ground and another hatch opens in front of him.

Looking squarely past it, there is a whole metallic webbed corridor, where one can see various types of mechanical arms in operation, which place something contained in a square on another assembly line, and another mechanical arm stamps a stamp on it - [Transport Object: 0616 Worldline Reality].

[Shipment of goods: Dried Leaf Rose Graft (Heresy)]

Bai Liu slowly unscrewed his helmet and hung it aside as he walked towards the inside of this large factory-like spaceship, his eyes downcast as he surveyed what was being produced on each assembly line.

[Shipping to: 0408 World Lines (Game)].

[Transportation object: Flaming Torch (Prop)

[Transportation object: Water bubbles (prop)

" Bai Liu--!" In the distance, came the sound of Mu Sicheng running, panting as if he was afraid Bai Liu would touch something on the assembly line, exclaiming, "Don't touch those things!"

"I won't touch it." Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng who ran up to him and raised an eyebrow, "You've touched it?"

Mu Sicheng, whose face bears the marks of an attack by a robotic arm and abrasions on the sides of his face, grimaces: "I hit it when I was running too fast."

"The mechanical arm here is the one that attacks people, I originally thought it was a monster from the monster book and fought the mechanical arm for a while to trigger the monster book, but it wasn't, it was just a simple mechanical arm."

"This copy doesn't need to trigger the monster book." Bai Liu drew his eyes back from the production items on those assembly lines and spoke in a calm tone, "This whole ship, it's the backend of the system."

"Every box we've seen is a monster."

"The backstage of the system ......?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked, "You mean this place, is the backend of the system?!"

"So why are we logged in?!"

Bai Liu quickly realised that something was wrong and he turned to Mu Sicheng: "Didn't you get the system alert?"

"The background to what's going on here is [the system's back office]."

Mu Sicheng looks at Bai Liu in confusion: "No ......"

"We didn't get any system prompts, we were just told to go along with you to find the key to get to the top level and then for you to get control of this ship."

"It's clear that you're to accompany me to the top, isn't it?" Bai Liu's tone was surprisingly calm, "I'm the only one who can do this, none of you can, can you?"

Mu Sicheng looked over at Bai Liu, who nodded somewhat dazedly, "...... Yes."

"It was made clear that it was to accompany [player Bai Liu] up to the very top and get control of the ship."

He had never seen Bai Liu s face look so ...... ugly before.

"What about you guys?" Bai Liu stared at Mu Sicheng, "What is the identity assigned to you by this game?"

Mu Sicheng also sensed something was wrong in Bai Liu's attitude and he clicked on his system panel and handed it to Bai Liu to see, "It's this."

And the moment Bai Liu saw Mu Sicheng's identity on the panel, his pupils tightened.

[System Alert: Mu Sicheng has been stripped of his player status after jumping out of the world line]

[Re-verify identity.]

[Real Identity: 0658 Worldline Transport Product, Humanoid Heretic, No. 0004--]

[- Mu Sicheng, capuchin thief].

[System ship backstage soul storage location - Level 1.]

Bai Liu's breathing stops.

--This ship, this system, not only produces and transports heretics, monsters and props to all worlds, but also stores the souls of all players who have entered this game.

Liu Jiayi, Mu Sicheng, Tang Erda, Muke, Lu Yizhan ...... The souls of these people, he owns half of them.

This system backend, has the other half.

[System warming note: When you own the ship, you own the system itself].

[Possessing the last pass to become an evil god.

...... This is not a game at all.

Bai Liu turned his head slowly as he looked out the transparent window at the 658 [Earths] that were orbiting this ship, the pupils of his dark eyes reflecting the silvery blue of space - the 658 world line.

-- He landed on the reality that led to the final [future].