Chapter 152: Dangerous Heterodoxy Bureau

Liu Jiayi's thoughts followed closely, she frowned deeply in thought, "If you really smelled Bai Liu then that proves that I was indeed right, but why isn't Bai Liu here? I don't think that group of people will let Bai Liu go easily, so what is the situation now?"

As soon as she spoke, a piercing radio siren sounded from the base:

"Level one alert! Level one alert! A complete lockdown of the base is imminent! Over eighty percent of the heretics are on the run! Please prepare for battle!"

"When encountering invaders and humanoid heretics such as Bai Liu, priority is given to death rather than shelter!"

"That what intruder humanoid heretic ......" Mu Sicheng pointed to the tip of his nose, "wouldn't be talking about us?"

"I think so, but I think there are more important things right now." Mu Ke looked alertly behind Mu Sicheng, he held down Mu Sicheng's right shoulder to keep him from turning back, "You'd better not turn back so easily now."

Mu Sicheng took a deep breath, he felt it too, "There's something behind me on my shoulders isn't there?"

A bride wearing a Ming and Qing dynasty bride's jacket, covered with a thick, embroidered cover with the word "Xi", stretched out a pale, corpse-spotted hand with black fingernails, and softly and bonelessly put it on Mu Sicheng's shoulder, and the lower half of her face, which was exposed under the moldy cover, stiffened up with an eerie smile at the corners of her mouth.

They had no idea when this new bride appeared, and when she came near them.

"What should I do now?" Mu Sicheng's tone was still subdued.

Liu Jiayi's eyes go to this new bride, then she raises an eyebrow, "...... I feel like I should recognize this monster, I've played the games she appears in."

"Her monster book name is [New Bride], the way to attack people in the game is to pay your respects to the groom she picks on, and you'll be dragged into the netherworld by her." Liu Jiayi's teasing eyes swept towards Mu Sicheng whose face was stony, "Simply put, she puts her arm around your shoulder, which means she's got her eye on you."

Mu Sicheng was about to break down, "But I don't see her! Can you tell her we don't do arranged marriages here anymore?"

Mu Ke was able to pick up on Liu Jiayi's words, "She's a monster in a monster book? Then she has a weakness, what is her weakness?"

Liu Jiayi's tone calmed down: "First, you can't turn your back on her, second, you'd better not be a male of her marrying age, and third--"

Before the words fell, Liu Jiayi supported on Mu Sicheng's shoulders with an upward leap, and with a stern movement lifted the cover of this new bride, with a stern gaze: "--- Thirdly, she can't leave her cover. "

The cover fell to the ground, and the new bride, whose face was rotting, covered her face and let out a miserable scream. Liu Jiayi threw away her cover, and the new bride took small steps to go after the red color of the cover, which was thrown away by Liu Jiayi.

Liu Jiayi pulled Mu Sicheng up and, without looking back, shouted sternly, "Run!"

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Tang Er Ta walked into the corridor, opposite him was a messy and foul-smelling mass of hair that looked like it had been pulled out of a bathtub drain, several team members tremblingly prepared to go over to take it in, but Tang Er Ta raised his hand to stop them.

He looked to the mass of hair, "Every actively aggressive heretic, or monster, here has its own weaknesses, and you must be careful to take advantage of these their innate weaknesses when you take them in."

Tang Er hit eases his breathing closer to the mass of hair, "For example, this heresy, number 1402, [Ferrocystis Algae], looks very much like a mass of hair, but it is actually a swarming parasite with extreme vitality and reproduction, and it would be best if you don't display any traits of the organisms that it can parasitize as you get close to it."

"But unfortunately, the human body is the subject of their hosting, so we'd better give it a distracting host."

From behind, a team member runs and hands Tang Er a mouse in a cage.

Tang Er hit took over the cage, then opened it and grabbed the mice, tossing them over to the fur with uncanny precision.

Those parasites that had been disguised as hairs instantly extended their tentacles to wrap around and tightly insert themselves into the body of the mouse, which gibbered and spasmed its body on the ground, and countless wriggling threads could be seen under its epidermis.

"When feeding is its only weakness, it won't find another time to attack another creature." Tang Er hit grabbed the mouse with leather gloves and very quickly threw it into a glass box.

The mice instantly exploded into a bloody mist inside the box, and the well-fed bugs stood up like centipedes and swam around the edges of the glass box in an attempt to get out.

The scene made the rest of the team shudder a little, they were completely afraid to imagine what would happen if this thing escaped.

A team member took a deep breath and raised his communicator to report, "Report, Heretic [1402] intake complete."

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A translucent reptile scurries silently past Liu Jiayi's back.

Mu Sicheng's nose twitched, and before his brain could react, the pungent odor, strange and familiar, made him draw the gun he'd stripped from the patrolman without hesitation and aim it at the spot.

The reptile made a bared, lizard-like sound, turning from colorless to a slimy, deep black as it fell from the wall to the ground, then scuttled away again, sliding its limbs to escape.

Liu Jiayi looked over in slight surprise, she hadn't even heard any movement just now.

"[Transparent Chameleon], a monster from a Tier 1 game I've played that has low defense but high stealth." Mu Sicheng said while rubbing his shoulder, "I couldn't figure out what this thing's weakness was until the end, but I had a high enough attack value so I just killed it outright."

Mu Sicheng grimaced and smiled, "It seems that these monsters, both in and out of the game, still can't resist bullets... Luckily, I've played with guns a few times in the game."

Mu Ke already had the gun behind his waist in his hand, he had learned to shoot, but his reaction was not as fast as Mu Sicheng's, and his whole mind was on searching for Bai Liu.

Mu Ke looked pensive, "Mu Sicheng, can you smell Bai Liu?"

"Tsk." Mu Sicheng rubbed his rear end a bit irritably, "Normally it's fine, but not here, the smell is too mixed up in here, and all these monsters smell too strong."

"The monsters here definitely can't have been released by themselves." Liu Jiayi thought clearly and began to analyze, "Although I don't know where Bai Liu got such a great ability, I think it's more than likely that it's him, now the question is, this person has made such a big commotion, what does he want to do?"

Liu Jiayi looked to Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke: "Now that everything we had planned has been overturned, the only thing we can do is to figure out Bai Liu's motives for doing this."

"Figuring that out will give us an idea of where he'll go, you guys seem pretty tight with Bai Liu, you're all willing to die for him, what do you know about Bai Liu?"

Mu Ke hesitantly recalled for a short while, "...... His computer was an Alien that I compensated him for, and he seemed to like that brand of computer quite a bit ......"

Mu Sicheng scratched his chin in deep thought, "He ate a discounted hotpot last week, does that kind of count as understanding?"

Liu Jiayi was numb: "...... I'm not talking about understanding in this area, are you guys elementary school kids playing together?!"

It's a good thing these two are nothing, and they followed her here without knowing anything about it!

But it was not until this moment that Liu Jiayi suddenly realized that Bai Liu had already figured out all three of their psychological conditions, target motives, backgrounds, and even ancestry.

If they were the ones trapped in this base, Bai Liu's knowledge of them was enough for him to surmise their behavioral patterns, quickly project where they would go and the paths they would take to escape, and then quickly and expeditiously locate them and take them out.

Bai Liu's knowledge and mastery of them gave them the illusion that they had known Bai Liu for a long time and understood each other very well.

But it's not really.

They knew nothing about Bai Liu, or rather, Bai Liu never let them know what he was thinking.

Can anyone tell what Bai Liu is thinking?

This guy is devious and cunning, probably wears a thousand smiling masks on his face, and is completely baffling in everything he does.

Can anyone in this world really guess Bai Liu's thoughts, know where he'll go and find out where he is?

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Lu Yizhan's eyes are serious as he walks through the corridors, heading deeper into the earth, surrounded by people who are swimming against the current.

Someone stopped him, "Hey! Where are you going! Over there is the sealing place of the most dangerous heresy! Only Detachment members are allowed to go down there!"

Lu Yizhan ignored it, he just gripped the gun in his hand and rubbed shoulders with these people who were heading out and down the road with unshakable determination.

There are the most dangerous heretics there.

There must be a Bai Liu there, he knows Bai Liu too well, maybe even better than Bai Liu himself, he is naturally inclined to danger, loves games, the more uncontrollable the unknown, the more appealing it is to him.

After working at Lu Yizhan for so long, he knew another name that could be used to refer to people like Bai Liu, and that was [Born Criminals].

Low empathy, high IQ, thrill and horror seeking, no social identity and greater childhood trauma, these people are born to go astray more than normal.

But Lu Yizhan always trusted Bai Liu, Bai Liu promised he wouldn't commit crimes so easily, so he trusted him.

These team members said that Bai Liu controlled these heretics, then Lu Yizhan believed that no matter how dangerous these heretics were, they would definitely not kill him because the person behind the control was Bai Liu.

Because Bai Liu was Lu Yizhan's only friend for ten years.

Lu Yizhan walks alone into the bottomless depths of the earth, dull light streaking across the side of his face as countless monsters in horrific forms dance hideously past him, attacking him with teeth and claws.

He didn't hide, he didn't run, he didn't move, he just remained silent, gritting his teeth and advancing without backing down, and eventually these monsters that had come in like a tidal wave faded away like a tidal wave, and Lu Yizhan stumbled, bruised and battered, holding onto the wall as he stepped out of the darkness.

At the end of the corridor, a white light fell blindingly, and Bai Liu looked quietly at Lu Yizhan, who had finally arrived in front of him.

"You shouldn't have come to me, Lu Yizhan." Bai Liu drops his eyes.

Lu Yizhan smiled, he reluctantly propped himself up against the wall and stood up straight, as always, he looked at Bai Liu with a very gentle, all-encompassing gaze : "But you still let me find you, Bai Liu, if you really wanted to hide, I would never be able to find you."

He held out his hand to Bai Liu, as he always did, "Come out with me."

Bai Liu looked to the bloodied and wounded, trembling hand Lu Yizhan had extended to him without movement.

Lu Yizhan was always reaching out to him like this, giving him food, names and friends.

Though he was coldly rejected every time, Lu Yizhan would still talk himself up and come over with an unconcernedly bright smile, brashly and unreasonably plucking Bai Liu up from underneath the water that engulfed everything and dragging him on the run.

"Lu Yizhan, you should know very well that it's in my nature to do very nasty things." Bai Liu raised his eyes to Lu Yizhan, "I have the power and the ability to profit from it, and I don't care much about other people's deaths, there's no reason for me not to do it."

Bai Liu said calmly, "We can't be friends at all, and I just think of you as another person."

Bai Liu looked directly at Lu Yizhan, his eyes and tone light, "But you're not him."

"Lu Yizhan, you're a human not a monster, humans and monsters can't be friends, you wrongly forced the two of us for ten years, don't continue to do so."

"In the normal course of events, I'm going to be the kind of criminal you're going to shoot, and you're going to be the kind of investigator who shoots me, so I'm going to let you off the hook for the last time, and in the future, when you see me, don't reach out to me, and draw your gun on me."

Lu Yizhan lowered his head slowly, he gasped twice, his hand against the wall clenched into a fist, and then without hesitation he drew his gun from his back and aimed it at Bai Liu.

The expression on Bai Liu's face was not a surprise.

I believe Lu Yizhan has fully understood how harmful it is to release him, and killing him here is the best option, and by Lu Yizhan holding a gun on him, he didn't even make his heartbeat or breathing faster.

Then Lu Yizhan laughed again as he stumbled towards Bai Liu, dragging the leg he had injured on the way over, and slowly placed the gun in the stunned Bai Liu's hand, then took Bai Liu's hand in his bloodied, thick, shaking one and made Bai Liu raise the gun to his own.

"I would never pull a gun on you, Bai Liu." Lu Yizhan bent his eyes and smiled, his face covered in all sorts of bloodstains and abrasions so that even when he smiled, he looked lopsided.

Lu Yizhan opened his eyes and he looked straight at Bai Liu before dialing the safety on his gun, "If you really want to leave this place and start hurting and killing other ordinary people, then let me be the first person you kill."

"Because investigators can't turn a blind eye to what you're trying to do, but there's really no way for me to pull a gun on you ...... From the looks of things today, you've reached an area where there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop you. "

Lu Yizhan gripped the barrel of his gun and aimed it at the center of his forehead, and he didn't dodge at all as he looked over at Bai Liu : "In that case, then please, before you're going to go and do all those bad things, kill this incompetent investigator without letting him see everything you're going to do."

Under the muzzle of the gun, Lu Yizhan softly showed Bai Liu the familiar and helpless smile he had seen so many times, "But in the last moments before this investigator dies, as long as you didn't do anything bad, you're still his friend."

[Because an investigator's friend mustn't be a bad person, if one day Bai Liu you do something bad, I'll arrest you myself]

[Then if I really did something bad, would you kill me, Lu Yizhan?]

[If you do something that deserves to go to jail, then you go to jail, and if jail is no way to make up for it and you have to die to do it, then I'll fight to the death to stop you before you actually commit that kind of crime.]

Bai Liu clutched his gun and Lu Yizhan raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

Without the slightest resistance, he calmly closed his eyes.