Rose Factory

"You're quick to accept that you're going to be playing in the league with us." Bai Liu looks thoughtfully at Tang Er playing, "I recruited you in the other timeline?"

Tang Er, who was crouching down to rummage for the head in the dead monster's body, hit his back with a violent stiffness, as if he had remembered something extremely unpleasant, and his eyes began to become fierce again.

"Uh-huh." He exhaled with a slight sneer, "But not in the gentle way you're doing it now."

Mild?

Bai Liu doesn't think he's being gentle in the way he recruits Tang Er to fight.

He stuck Tang Erda's weak point, almost completely penetrated Tang Erda's physical and psychological defenses, and verbally induced Tang Erda to reshape his own views and opinions when Tang Erda's reasoning was very weak.

Bai Liu also utilizes Tang Er Ta, a righteous public official who is easy to empathize with, and makes Tang Er Ta watch his own similar painful experience, thus causing the captain, who is essentially a very kind person, to rely on Bai Liu on a psychological level, and to feel a sense of belonging to the group.

People are products of their groups and environments, and being alone all the time can drive a person crazy; it is the instinct of a socially conscious, normal human being to gravitate towards familiar groups that can accept him or her.

And Tang Er fights as a captain who has been suspiciously ostracized and even isolated by his original group, the Heresy Bureau, he has indeed become homeless.

Tang Er is also unable to approach other normal people like him to establish stable group social relationships because his sense of morality does not allow him to spread the doom called "The Game" to other innocent people.

If you choose to establish contact with people in the game, such as the major game guilds, they simply use Tang Er Ta to curry favor with them, but they cannot empathize with Tang Er Ta's idealism, so Tang Er Ta can only accept that he is employed by these people, rather than forming a fixed group and creating an emotional connection.

In the long, endless blackness of time, Tang Er fights and is forced to wander alone.

And he is in need of group contact.

In this case, Tang Er Ta approached the wandering circus without feeling guilty, without being responsible for it, even because of a certain degree of mutual understanding in the long hostility, from Bai Liu's cold, unadulterated thinking without any consideration of Tang Er Ta's private feelings -

--he felt that the wandering circus was really not a bad choice of group for Tang Er to fight.

The problem lies in how to turn Tang Er's hatred of the wandering circus into empathy - the angle Bai Liu chooses to cut through is [like].

[It turns out that there are people in this world who are as miserable and lonely as I am, and we can understand and accept each other.]

[We are all the same kind of people who have been abandoned and kept wandering after being toyed with by fate.]

Such a realization can be a lifesaver for normal people who have been wandering alone for a long time in all timelines and are on the verge of not being able to hold it together.

The whole process of transformation is not gentle enough for Tang Er to fight, but can be described as a death sentence.

But Tang Er hit actually think this is considered gentle? This made Bai Liu really interested.

Tang Er hit the small TV, in order not to attract attention, has always been on the whole mute paid service, that is, Bai Liu and his conversation content will be muted, so before Bai Liu is so generous to talk to him directly, and do not care what.

Bai Liu crouches down and begins searching for Taville among the bodies of the monsters that Tang Er hit with his gun, pretending to mention offhandedly as he does so, "Can I ask what Bai Liu from the other timeline did to you?"

Then Bai Liu quickly added, full of apologies, "Of course it's okay to leave it out if it mentions you're sad - I'm sorry you're going through this because of [me]."

Tang Er paused in his hand movements for a moment, then continued, "You don't have to apologize, those things have nothing to do with you."

"That timeline, Joker's growth wasn't up to your, Bai Liu's expectations, and Bai Liu wanted to find an output rotation for the league." Tang Er hit a pause, "Then Bai Liu saw my little TV and took an instant liking to me ...... In short, he used a lot of ways to try to lasso me over, but my hostile attitude was very tough."

Tang Er hit took a deep breath, "At that time, you had a kind of prop in your hands, Bai Liu used this prop to lure me, and then found out that the most important person in my ...... life was Su Yang."

"Bai Liu originally wanted to use Su Yang to get me on the team, but ...... Bai Liu's act of giving up the Joker angered the Joker, who hated me so much that he felt it was all because of me that Bai Liu had given him up."

"While Su Yang was out in the field overseas, Bai Liu ordered the kidnapping of Su Yang to use her as leverage to negotiate with me again, and I still didn't say yes-and Su Yang wouldn't allow me to join an organization like this just because he agreed to do so. "

"But after two rounds of negotiations, Bai Liu lost patience and simply gave up on having me on the team; he felt that it was too cost-effective to keep wasting time with me and moved on to identify other players."

Tang Er hit closed his eyes, "-- Bai Liu threw the useless Su Yang to the clown."

"You've seen what happens next in the mirror."

Bai Liu was politely silent for a moment, then reached out, ready to pat Tang Er hit's shoulder in a gesture of reassurance - he felt that the Tang captain needed that kind of normal human encouragement at the moment.

Tang Er hit snapped his eyes open, he seemed to be still immersed in some kind of emotion yet to come out, the pupils in his deep blue eyes contracted and stood erect.

The moment before Bai Liu's hand was about to touch his shoulder, Tang Er hit opened Bai Liu's hand fiercely with an almost hideous expression, hissing a threatening low growl from his throat, "Don't touch me!"

For a moment, Bai Liu thought he saw a wolf with teeth bared and leaning down to bite and tear at his throat.

Tang Er hit the chest violent ups and downs, he was quiet before calming his breathing, opened his mouth seems to want to say something, Bai Liu look at that mouth should be a sentence of sorry.

But in the end, Tang Er 打 still did not say anything, but without a word, he turned his head away, and lowered his head in the corpse to continue to search for the head that Bai Liu told him to look for.

Very severe post-traumatic stress.

Bai Liu made a simple judgment in his heart, after getting the information he wanted, Bai Liu withdrew his hand, not feeling awkward at all, but readily accepting good advice, very considerate to change the topic, handing over the steps:

"Captain Don, you could see Taville's head without a scope in the battle just now, why did you give me a scope?"

Tang Er typed quietly for a moment, but still returned Bai Liu's words, "The field of view for attacking and the field of view for looking for something are not the same, when I use my skill gun to speed attack an object, I am not going to deliberately pay attention to the rolling head inside."

"This is the time when I need a bystander to help me position myself." Tang Er hit another pause of a second or two, "That head is to you what Su Yang is to me, and it's much safer to use a scope without getting hurt."

Bai Liu smiled slightly, "Yes, he is very important to me, thank you very much for thinking of me, Captain Tang."

"...... just ......" Tang Er's palm tightened at Bai Liu's thank you, and he gripped it hard, the knot in his throat rolling up and down a bit before exhaling a hot breath, and "...... Sorry."

--It's an apology for just punching Bai Liu.

"It's okay." Bai Liu took it calmly, then raised his hand.

This time Bai Liu's hand that patted it down finally landed on Tang Er's shoulder that was fighting tightness and overstretching, and he arced a shallow smile, "I can understand how Captain Tang feels, it's not your fault you're angry and furious because someone important has been hurt, I'd be the same way."

Tang Er hit the originally straightened like a piece of steel plate back after Bai Liu's hand patted, involuntarily melted down - he was inexplicably relieved.

Bai Liu turns around and continues to rummage through the remains of the head, Tang Er looks at the side of Bai Liu's face with some fascination--

-- Bai Liu said he could understand how he felt.

Bai Liu ...... actually can also be angry angry ......

Tang Er has played so many timelines and never seen Bai Liu angry, he always stays sane and has no weaknesses, that's why he's so invincible.

But just now - Bai Liu's attention was all focused on finding Taville's head, and he didn't pay attention to his surroundings at all, and was almost eaten by the monster.

Then before, this guy ran over smiling and waving and calling him Captain Tang, Tang Er hit now recall Bai Liu that smile, feel a little bit of a child with more powerful people, back to take revenge on the bad guys who bullied his important people naughty feeling.

Tang Er fought and watched in amazement as Bai Liu rummaged through the pile of corpses one by one, his face covered in mud and blood, but he didn't care--

--This is a Bai Liu with feelings and weaknesses, not a complete monster.

Not Bai Liu.

"Found it!" Bai Liu moves very gently to pluck away a messy pile of skulls, and beneath the bones and roses, a sleeping head is buried.

Bai Liu Breaths were beginning to sound lighter as he stepped forward on his knees and very, very gently cupped the head and placed it on his lap, drifting rose crumbs hanging from his drooping eyelashes, and congealed mud on his chin and nose, as he bowed down slightly, bending his body into a supremely cherished arc to protect the head he held in his arms.

"Found you." Bai Liu bends the corners of his eyes, and he lowers his head against his skull in a smile that has absolutely no way of hiding, quite purely, his happiness.

Tang Er hit almost thought he was crazy to see such a smile on Bai Liu's face.

But the smile was so infectious that Tang Er hit look for a moment and couldn't help but relax as he spread his arms wide and leaned back against the rummaged bone pile, tilting his head back to look wearily at the dreary, gray sky of Riworld, and also very softly humming a chuckle out of his nose as he mumbled to himself, "It's good that you've found him."

"In one piece, found him."