Chapter 263: Ice Age

"The other guest with the whip left for the moment, saying he would give me the death I wanted after he found the heart."

Edmund looked at Bai Liu calmly, peacefully, and he smiled as if he had expected everything: "But I know that he won't find it, because it's not the heart that belongs to him, it belongs to you, and you found the place where I hid it, didn't you?"

Bai Liu raised the end of his eyebrow, he turned a wooden stool and sat down with good grace, looking up at Edmund across the table with a little interest, "It seems you're not a simple NPC, how do you know?"

Edmund removed his pendant glasses that hung from his ears, and it looked like endless deep waters lay beneath a pair of eyes that floated with broken ice.

In a trance, he gently touched Bai Liu with his shriveled knuckles: "I have seen you, in someone's dreamlike prophecy."

Bai Liu asked, "In whose prophecy?"

"[Judge Against God], a guy who betrayed God." Edmund murmured softly with a lax gaze, "I could ingest his memories, and so I saw the truth of everything in his memories, the future, and the prophecy about you."

"I was awakened by this, and I could no longer forget what had happened, nor could I go on to death and extinction, for it was not true, and I knew I would live again."

"Ultimately, I have to punish myself over and over again through the hands of you, the players, as a way to keep myself present."

"Only God, only God can completely dissolve my sins, dissolve the existence of this gamey, evil world."

Edmund looked at Bai Liu with his eyes out of focus , his lips quivering, "--I read in the prophecy that you could do all of this."

"It was a prophecy of hope and despair, a destiny that belongs to you, to God."

Edmund repeated the prophecy he had seen in a long, holy tone:

"The evil god boasts that there will be people adrift in his shadow.

The man in the shadow is fourteen years old.

So the evil god gifted the man with a spine, a heart, and a divine emblem.

It boasts that this person will be its only believer.

The man in the shadow is twenty-four years old.

Then the evil gods fell in the snowy plains and the believer undead drifted in the deep sea.

The spine, the heart, the divine emblem is shattered--"

Edmund looked straight at Bai Liu with his eyes : "The evil gods change, the gods die because of you, and because of evil they live forever."

After he finished his recitation, he arched his back as if by some force majeure curse to cough violently, and Edmund hastily drew a long-bloodstained silk scarf from his own front pocket and covered his mouth with a hoarse cackle of blood.

As if he were enduring some kind of pain, Edmund threw back his head as hard as he could, as if he couldn't breathe air, and gasped sharp airy noises from his throat full of pain.

He took Bai Liu's hand in a death grip and looked at him with bloodshot eyes.

"Only the games God steps through are real, only the games God rejects are destructible, only the monsters God kills will never exist again."

"-- Bai Liu, this game is real in all dimensions the moment one enters it."

"If Spades really did completely destroy those corpses, Taville ceased to exist anywhere, at any point in time."

"It will have its weaknesses cracked like all the monsters that existed in all the games you've cleared before, and completely, forever, utterly disappear from all the worlds it can be perceived in, erasing even the traces of having existed."

"It is not a monster without weaknesses, child, and the death you bestow is its only weakness."

Edmund's face turned some kind of over-suffocated sauce color, his voice was so thin that it was almost inaudible, and his eyes were full of tears, as if a big unseen hand had fiercely strangled his throat, preventing him from revealing the prophecy to Bai Liu:

"I know it's important to you, but child, no one escapes fate, not even God."

"The price to be paid for defying fate is more than you can imagine."

The moment Edmund released his grip on Bai Liu's hand, the hand that seemed to be choking him on his throat released as well.

He slid off the wooden bench and stumbled to pick himself up, gasping and coughing weakly, shakily pulling a bottle of vodka in a flat tin can from his own fanny pack and tilting his head back to take a couple quick dunks before he barely managed to catch his breath.

Bai Liu's face was devoid of any emotion, his hands were still resting on the table in Edmund's firm grip, and his pure black eyes looked without a ripple at Edmund, who was sitting across from him:

"Since there is a price for defying fate, it's just a trade."

Edmund looked back at him with his cheeks soundly red, "Indeed it was a trade, but it was too high a price to pay, and the god with whom we traded our destinies was a greedy overgreedy fellow, and there was no way for anyone to ransom their destinies from his hands."

Bai Liu said calmly, "Since we can't trade, let's kill him and make someone else a god."

When he finished, he pushed away from the table as naturally looking as if he hadn't heard anything and got up, Edmund shook his head and waved his hand, "I know what you're here for - the fuel's in the back of the room, take it all."

He took a sip of the spirits and muttered, "-just leave me a barrel, I used to get burned."

"Everything ...... is almost over."

Bai Liu left without a pause.

The group took the fuel and then headed back - Edmund seemed to have known they were coming back, even with the fuel strapped to the sled, there was no need to notify Tang Er to open up the helicopter to pull a load.

Things went incredibly well, but everyone was silent on the way back and the atmosphere was inexplicably heavy.

Mu Sicheng wanted to ask what the prophecy was about, but Liu Jiayi's expression on his face was over the top, curbing his desire to ask.

Bai Liu, with an unusual look, handed over the fuel to Tang Er to fight, returned to the helicopter to record the data, sent the other three men to the tent to warm up, and then made preparations for Tang Er's turn to fight later.

He's got everything organized without a hitch, but instead of going into his tent to warm up, as Bai Liu had hoped, Liu Jiayi climbs into the helicopter.

She was so cold that she was shivering, a circle of red blown out by the wind appeared on the edge of her gray eyes, and her voice was hoarse after she tried her best to hold back, "Bai Liu, what do you want?"

Bai Liu was sitting in the driver's seat and didn't turn around to answer her question - a rare occurrence.

The guy may seem authoritarian, but ever since Liu Jiayi Rose Factory communicated with him, Bai Liu will always ask for everyone's opinion before making a decision.

Bai Liu is not a very authoritarian tactician, but rather one of the rare softer types who never shies away from talking about his players' problems.

To say that Liu Jiayi's hesitation was due to a lack of unity with Bai Liu's style is an inappropriate question.

But Bai Liu's silence confirms Liu Jiayi's nascent suspicions.

Bai Liu ...... is really going to do something out of the ordinary.

Liu Jiayi asked again, "Bai Liu, do you dare to look me in the eye and tell me what was going through your mind just now when Edmund told you that Taville would disappear?"

Bai Liu still didn't turn around, but he spoke this time, "Thinking about how to win against Spades."

"Without destroying Taville's heart, yes?!" Liu Jiayi's voice was almost a little shrill.

She tried to stay calm, "Bai Liu, wake up, Spades has already played out the [TRUE END] line, most of Taville's corpses have already been destroyed by him, you'll have to destroy the heart if you want to pass the game."

"Taking a step back even if you could win against Spades and force him out of the game, but you're going to protect Taville from destruction and can only prevent this game from ending, then you're going to have to be forever-"

"--Stay with this heart in this snowy plain forever." Bai Liu turned his head as he added the second half of the sentence in a flat tone, "As long as there is a player trapped in the game, the game will never end, the game's ending cannot be enshrined in reality, time just stands still, and Taville can always exist even if there is only one heart."

Liu Jiayi cried like rain: "Fuck your father, are you crazy! You'll freeze to death here!"

Her voice was trembling, "Bai Liu, the system stores and warehouses in the game pool are closed, and each game cannot be put into the game pool for reincarnation until the end of the game, so if you stay here, and if we were forced out of the game by you, no one would ever be able to find you again-even if you use soul bills there's no way to make contact with us."

"You'll be all alone, running out of supplies here bit by bit, and then starving and freezing to death alive."

If Bai Liu was going to stay here, Liu Jiayi could totally guess what this guy was going to do next - he was definitely going to force them out!

Bai Liu didn't deny what Liu Jiayi guessed, instead he looked at her with a smile, "Neither will I. I can eat the meat of monsters and turn into a monster, and I'll survive ......"

Before he could finish his sentence, Liu Jiayi stepped forward with his head down and raised his hand to give him a hard slap.

Bai Liu has his head snapped back.

"You're such an animal, Bai Liu." Liu Jiayi lifted her head slightly, her eyes hidden under her goggles gray and hazy, dropping tear after tear, her cheeks bright red from crying, but her voice still vicious, "You had to tell me what the hell was going to happen to you, didn't you? "

--Knowing that Bai Liu was going to do something, knowing that the guy was always this way, bent and unstoppable, knowing that she could guess what he was going to do-

But she couldn't stop it, Bai Liu This motherfucker can always find a thousand and one ways to achieve his purpose, so she could only guess and then watch this guy go to this step that she expected.

Liu Jiayi couldn't hold back her tears any longer, she gritted her teeth and scolded, "Bai Liu, you're really something, I'm blind to be in your team."

Bai Liu drops his eyes, a small five-finger print on his face, "I'm sorry."

Liu Jiayi looked away and sniffled.

Since joining the team, Bai Liu has never said sorry to anyone.

This person is twice sorry is said to her, but said also does not change, all things come or only care about other people can not care about themselves.

Who wants him to care! He just doesn't know, doesn't know...

Liu Jiayi thought of here is another wave of nameless fire, hate to give Bai Liu slap again.

But in the end Liu Jiayi just sat back down wearily, hunkered down in the seat that was too wide for her, winced at the cold, wrapped her arms around herself and shrunk herself into a ball, and asked softly, lost in thought, "Is that wandering NPC named Taville really that important to you?"

Bai Liu looks out of the helicopter.

Outside the window of the wind and snow stopped, Antarctica this season rare daylight pouring on the snow surface refraction, through the glass in Bai Liu's face reflected a layer of hazy dense light-colored white light.

He was actually smiling at this time, reflected in this clear light shining snow, there are a few points of snow melting like tenderness.

"Yes." Bai Liu turned his head to Liu Jiayi, his voice softer than ever.

Bai Liu, with shallow arched eyebrows, repeated, "Yes."

"He's very, very important."