Chapter 266: Reality

Reality.

Liu Jiayi took Tang Er and had him call Su Yang to inquire about the plane as soon as they logged out of the game.

"Lost contact while crossing the sea over the Antarctic." Su Yang's voice tightened, "Captain, you ......[see] it again, don't you?"

This is to ask Tang Er whether he is playing the same [prophetic] general view of this future as before.

"...... Sort of." Tang Er hit rubbing his brow, tone tired, "But this time when I [see] it, it's too late, sorry."

"No need to apologize to me, Captain." Su Yang smiled bitterly, "It's my fault."

Liu Jiayi jumped up and snatched the phone Tang Er was calling from and said into it, "Captain Su, things may not be without a turnaround."

Su Yang's voice suddenly flared, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Liu Jiayi spoke quickly, "Help us find out if there's a Du Sanying in Mirror City, Du as in Du, number three, parrot as in parrot."

"Okay, that's a rare name, so don't hang up guys, I'll get right back to you."

Then there was the sound of Su Yang's footsteps as he hurried away, and soon he came jogging back, gasping, "There's no Du Sanying in Mirror City, should we widen the search?"

Liu Jiayi wrinkled her eyebrows as she realized - Du Sanying this guy actually changed his name in the game.

Now that's a problem, finding a player who doesn't know his original name is like looking for a needle in a haystack in the real world.

Su Yang also understood this, and his voice took on an urgency, "Is there any other special information about this person? We will do our best to help you on our side."

The planes over the South Pole could make an emergency landing at any time, and any amount of time is as precious as five lives at this moment.

But unfortunately - Liu Jiayi pursed her lips, and opened her mouth, "This person does have special points."

Su Yang followed up with, "What's the special point?"

Liu Jiayi: "He was very lucky."

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Bai Liu left the pool, and within a second of getting wet, he quickly logged out of the game and joined Liu Jiayi's group, who were looking for Du Sanying.

The meeting place is at Bai Liu's house.

Bai Liu looked as normal as ever, except for some unkempt creases on the collar and cuffs of his shirt, the best of the group.

Bai Liu swept a glance at Liu Jiayi and then said in a daze, "It's a name change, isn't it? Then it will be troublesome to find someone."

Talking about trouble, but this person didn't have a single expression of being troubled on his face, and remained relaxed and at ease.

And this ease gives Liu Jiayi an indescribable sense of dissonance.

Bai Liu has logged out of the game, that means that heart has been disposed of ......

She knew what that heart meant to Bai Liu, and Bai Liu's state of [ease and comfort] was not normal.

But there was no way for her to ask, because Bai Liu was quick to steer her thoughts in the right direction.

Bai Liu looks to Liu Jiayi: "What's your next idea for finding someone?"

"Find the relevant people around us." Liu Jiayi's face was solemn, "As you said, according to what you know about yourself, that is, [Bai Liu], if there exists a character like [Du Sanying] who is 100% lucky, you will definitely not let him go."

"He's pretty prominent and valuable."

"Yes." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and smiled at Tang Er to fight, "So this is the time for our Captain Tang to patiently reminisce, is there such a lovely lucky character in the wandering circus of other times and places?"

Tang Er hit quickly realized what Bai Liu was going to do, his brows knitted tightly, deep in thought and recollection, and only after a long interval did he slowly say:

"The Wandering Circus, for most of its time and space, has consisted of you and four others, and I've rarely watched anyone other than those four take to the league field or exist around you."

"But ...... does have one if not a wandering circus, but a supernumerary associated with a wandering circus."

Bai Liu signaled Tang Er with his eyes to continue.

Tang Er hit has to think very hard to remember the character who has very little presence:

"He's rarely on the field, but you ...... Bai Liu will carry him a lot, but carry him ......"

-Doing what?

The face of the boy who appeared on the field from time to time and sat on the cold bench with his head scrunched up has been completely blurred in the memory of Tang Er's fight.

It's a bit strange to say that Bai Liu never brings in worthless people, and this boy Tang Er fights not even a little bit impressed - because Bai Liu has never put this boy on the field of play.

It's like Bai Liu seems to be deliberately pampering him ......

But what else is the value of a reserve player if not on the field?

Why Bai Liu carries him every game ......

Tang Er hit with a sharp jolt as he remembered a rather brief moment - the boy standing cowering in front of Bai Liu, helping him draw the hostile cards in the box.

Drawing hostile cards is an important part of the league.

The league is divided into pre-season, mid-season, and post-season sections of the tournament.

The preseason is a mixed tournament, also known as a rookie tournament.

This portion of the tournament features veteran teams that did not place prior to thirty-two in last year's tournament, along with new teams that signed up for the tournament for the first time this year.

In the end, only two teams can emerge, but those two teams can have direct qualification to the Challenge for the playoffs.

Midseason games are also known as star games.

The teams in this part of the tournament are the teams that finished thirty-two places before last year's tournament, they have high ability, strong level, and most of them will have star players, so it can be said that the tournament is the most concentrated round of the tournament.

These teams will go through several rounds of back-and-forth rounds with each other before the final eight with the highest point totals advance to the playoffs.

And the playoffs are divided into a challenge and a main event.

The challenge is for the two winning preseason Nova teams to randomly challenge two of the eight teams that made the playoffs, and if they win, they replace each other in the postseason.

If they lose, then that's the end of the road for these two teams.

The main event, on the other hand, is a single-line final between the final eight teams that remain, with winners advancing and losers being eliminated, with no room for maneuver, and is the most exciting part of the entire league - both for the players and the betting audience.

Usually when a match gets to this point, all the spectators have pretty much gone crazy, and it's not uncommon to see in-game beatings and killings at the end of a match.

And card draws are a big part of the preseason as well as the playoff challenges - because in both of these more randomized schedules, teams rely on drawing cards in boxes to randomly determine their opponents.

If your side is lucky enough to draw an opponent's team with poor form, low ability, or similar skills, it's a pretty lucky thing for your side.

And that kind of luck happens a lot with Bai Liu - but this guy is a player with 0 luck!

Tang Er's statements corroborate Bai Liu's speculation.

Since Du Sanying used to appear around other worldline Bai Liu, there should be some kind of intersection with this worldline's Bai Liu as well.

After all, the One who wanted to change him from Bai Liu back to Bai Liu, or God, would not give up trying to modify any of the points of difference between them.

This God had previously sent Du Sanying to him simply and directly, but Bai Liu did not control Du Sanying, supposedly because of the special nature of Du Sanying.

Lucky 100%, it's so easy for this guy to escape the unfortunate person that is Bai Liu.

But since this is the case, [God] will definitely place Du Sanying in a place within Bai Liu's reach, making it convenient for Bai Liu to [access] this reserve team member that God has long prepared for him at any time.

Over the years, due to work and other reasons, Bai Liu has been living a very mobile life, even changing several rental houses, which can be regarded as a place of no fixed abode.

There is only one place that is relatively fixed for him.

But the place has been knocked down and rebuilt.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes, "Have Su Yang check on the patients, caregivers, and doctors inside that nursing home after my original orphanage was knocked down and rebuilt."

Tang Er dialed the number, and Su Yang asked, "What kind of profile do we need to check inside?"

Bai Liu : "I am very lucky, but the people around me are particularly unfortunate."

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Shrine.

The hooded man across from the prophet snorted in boredom as he propped his palms up to look at the werewolf cards on the tabletop, shaking his head with slight regret, "-Pity, I thought I'd get to see Bai Liu corrode the heart himself."

"After all, it was a game of metamorphosis that I had so carefully prepared for him."

The prophet said, "Bai Liu won't do it."

The man raised his eyes with amusement as he gazed at the seer, "But my purpose was served."

"You see, Bai Liu doesn't reject water now, he'll even dive in voluntarily to take advantage of it to block his opponents, and won't linger too long over a fading heart, and he'll even-"

The seer interrupted him sternly, "That's not what he was meant to do!"

The man added the second half of the sentence without haste, "-and would even take the initiative to use the [Lucky Man] I prepared for him."

He smiled, "What a great metamorphosis, Bai Liu has begun to see no one around him as human in his eyes, his emotions stripped away with the death of that heart, his flesh alienated with those corpses, and his eyes are only for the league and the ultimate desire for money."

"Tome, there's only one win between him and Bai Liu."

"Though the process wasn't quite what I expected, I was going to draw away from the only feelings he had at the age of fourteen with the help of Sheta's death, sadly ......" The man lowered his eyes and brushed the red eyes of the werewolf brand with the tip of his index finger: "- but it doesn't matter, he'll soon be what I want him to be."

The Prophet's petrification was up to his waist, his chest rising and falling weakly, "What you do is not what God does."

The man laughed, "That's right, because I'm an evil god."

"Playing with humans for profit and slaving them is what I love to do."

"Like this idiot card." The man casually flung out a card, "I'm not a big fan of pure good guy cards like this one where the wolves can't even knife to bring the tempo, but it's certainly interesting and valuable to have on Bai Liu's team."

On the face of the card thrown out by the man on the table was a boy in a hospital gown shrinking his head a little as if he were afraid of someone, a little freckle scattered across both cheeks and the base of his nose, and a pair of square-framed flat glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.

The man looked at the card with downcast eyes and folded his hands, "A hundred percent lucky idiot, nice setup, all the Bai Liu's of all the world lines love him, I'm sure the Bai Liu's of this world line do too."

The seer hissed, "Because he saved Bai Liu."

"Salvation?" The man smiled, he shook his head slightly, "I prefer to call this process destiny."

He stretched out a few fingers and casually tapped them on the idiot card, his gaze diffident, "- In reality, when there was a conflict with the Heresy Handling Bureau, he was critically injured when the deranged hunter used a weapon with a targeted skill to attack Bai Liu in a suicide attack. "

"Accidentally injured, a wandering circus ringmaster has the misfortune of hiding in the center of a car accident."

"And at the center of this crash and accident, the only person who survived was the lucky guy, Du Sanying."

"He was too lucky to survive a car accident in which everyone was killed instantly." The man interlaced his fingers absently, "But his luck must be emphasized by the misfortune of others, and must incur the misfortune of those around him."

The man looked up at the prophet with a smile, "For God is fair, and misfortune and fortune should be conserved."

The prophet's voice was muffled beyond words, "...... Du Sanying's father, mother, sister, and older siblings all died in the crash."

"It was a family trip to celebrate the completion of his senior year of high school, but you let them all die, in front of Du Sanying, even letting such a kid who was only a teenager know that these people died because of his good fortune."

The man spread his hands, "People should always realize how high a price they got their luck through or they won't appreciate it."

"It is a blessing from God." He smiled lightly, "--and the price I charge will only be higher."

The seer stared straight at the man, "But he's already paid, you let him save the injured Bai Liu, isn't that enough to pay the price you want?"

"No, no, no." The man shook his head slightly, a smile in his eyes, "I didn't ask him to save it."

"Du Sanying took it upon himself to save it."

"Du Sanying's life was surrounded by people who paid the price for his good fortune, and he lived as if he were incredibly fortunate and happy, with a happy family and close brothers."

"But Du Sanying could not prevent the unfortunate fate of anyone connected with him - even though the misfortune was caused by him."

The seer said coldly, "It was caused by you."

"It can also be put this way." The man lifted his eyes, seemingly smiling, "--and Bai Liu, a person with a lucky value of 0, is the only one whose misfortune was not caused by Du Sanying."

"Bai Liu's misfortune is innate and has nothing to do with Du Sanying, whose existence will instead bring him luck, and thus Bai Liu is the only person in this world whom Du Sanying can use his luck to stop his misfortune."

The man under the hood smiled, "-So Du Sanying will definitely put his life on the line to help Bai Liu, to save Bai Liu, to become the most obedient pawn and puppet under him without even having to trade souls."

"The reason why Du Sanying desperately tries to protect Bai Liu, whom he meets at the center of a car accident, in every world is because he no longer knows the meaning of his existence other than to protect Bai Liu, who is the only one he can protect."

The seer interrupted, "Provided Du Sanying remembers this happening to him."

"He will soon remember." The man lowered his eyes to look at the idiotic card on the table, "-the fate that belongs to him arrives."

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Less than five minutes later, Su Yang returned the call, and his report was fast:

"The person you are looking for we should have found, the original name is Du Ying 吗, the third in the family, there is a brother above, an older sister, there is a younger sister below, their family is an ethnic minority, not limited to family planning, so it is a large family."

"Their family has always been relatively smooth but bizarrely particularly unlucky. For example, Du's father, a lawyer, gets into some very dangerous things from time to time, but whenever Du Ying goes to him, he's bound to get into a major confrontation and then get hurt, and Du Ying, on the other hand, is unharmed."

"Du Ying originally enjoyed going there to wait for his father to get off work, and after realizing the trouble he would cause, he never went there again."

"In elementary school, Du Ying's class was attacked indiscriminately by a vengeful society, and all the children sitting in front of and behind Du Ying's seat in the class were stabbed to death by the assailants, but only Du Ying is still alive."

"After that, no one dared to make friends with Du Ying, and he sat alone and self-consciously in the corner of the class where the garbage cans were kept, with no one in front of or behind him but the garbage cans."

"When he got to middle school, his homeroom teacher, a pedophile/fetishist, had been looking at Du Ying for a long time to make a move on him, but one day Du Ying's younger sister volunteered to pick up her brother from school, and was seen by the homeroom teacher, who then shifted her target."

Su Yang takes a deep breath, "Du Ying's sister was almost sexually assaulted after a period of stalking, but Du Ying found out in time."

"Du Ying got into a heated physical altercation with a teacher and was forced to transfer to another school, but after the transfer Du Ying never had any contact with anyone in his family again, and he felt that there was something wrong with him and moved out on his own when he did."

"But the family felt that this was a falsehood, and felt that Du Ying had saved his sister, and did not want to give up on Du Ying, and always wanted to reconnect with him, even his sister often came to his brother to open up to him."

"She thought her brother was brave and it was that class teacher's fault, and she felt that her dad had already done her justice with the law, so the incident left her unharmed and spared her brother a disaster."

"It was a lucky thing - I looked up that my sister had texted Du Ying like that."

"Then Du Ying gradually came to his senses, and he moved back home during his senior year and decided to study law and become a lawyer like Du Ying's father to put an end to the injustices that these misfortunes incurred."

Su Yang exhaled long and hard, "Du Ying overachieved in his high school exams and scored extremely high, being number one in the city, but he's usually average, so the whole family is happy."

"After filling out the application, the family decided to celebrate Du Ying by preparing a graduation trip."

"But the family's car was caught in a pileup on the highway, and none of them survived except Du Ying, who was unharmed."

"Du Ying after this subsided into a very peculiar mental illness called peripatetic amnesia, where he could only remember things that had happened within the last week, and everything that had happened before that he had forgotten."

"A year ago when he was unable to maintain a normal life due to renewed memory loss, his doctor recommended that he be hospitalized, and Du Ying entered the sanatorium, where he now resides in room 906."

"These are the information from his medical records."

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi look at each other - this is the room in the sanatorium where Bai Liu stayed when he was in the "Love Welfare Center".

Looks like the people behind the scenes have been arranging Du Sanying's position since that time.