Chapter 283: Dense Forest Borderland

Spades is quiet for a moment, and says, "I don't understand."

Bai Liu hooked his lips in a lazy smile, he seemed to find Spades' look amusing and picked up on his words, "What's not to understand?"

"Don't understand why you only hate me." Spades replied honestly.

Bai Liu withdrew from his arms and sat on the opposite side of the table, lifting her hand to prop up her jaw, her eyes had a kind of drowsy ecstasy, smiling but not laughing: "You dug out my heart, made me lose a very important game, and killed the most important person to me, isn't this enough for me to hate you?"

A drop of liquor dripped from the ends of Spades' hair, and he breathed calmly, "You've had a lot of enemies, and every one of your current teammates has hurt you, and you haven't hated them."

"You don't hate someone for simply winning or losing a game."

"And I didn't kill anyone." Spades looked Bai Liu straight in the eye, "I just killed the monster you were hiding the heart from."

"I'm not the only player who's attempted to destroy this monster, people around you, your teammates, have tried to kill this monster."

Bai Liu turned his face coldly, "But only you succeeded."

"No, I didn't make it." Spades stared at him, "My instincts tell me, that this monster's heart still lives on because of you."

He paused, "I thought you killed it after you got out of the game."

Bai Liu's breathing becomes very light, his eyes spread out for a moment, and the fingers of his drooping right hand twitch slightly.

"No."

"...... it's suicidal."

"So you can't blame me for its death." Spades looked at Bai Liu, "I'm no different from these players around you."

His lips pursed into a straight line, "But you don't hate Tang Er fight, or anyone on your team, or Alex who was hostile to you before."

Spades had a look of real confusion on his face, "Why do you just hate me?"

Bai Liu averted his eyes, "--Don't talk like you know me, we're only meeting for the third time--"

When he finished speaking, he got up to leave, Spades reached out and clutched Bai Liu's wrist, not looking at Bai Liu with an imperceptible depression in his tone:

"--Why are you targeting me so specifically?"

Bai Liu's drooping lashes fluttered, and his index finger rose involuntarily outward, the wine sliding down the back of his hand.

"Answer me, Bai Liu." Spades' eyes felt like a dark bouquet of thorns growing in his eyes, cascading down and holding Bai Liu hostage, making sure he spat out the heartfelt answer that was hidden beneath the clumps of spikes, "- -I have something different for you."

But before Bai Liu could answer Spades, a loud commotion from the doorway of the tavern interrupted the stalemate in this little corner.

Deafening whistles, and some shrill salutes came from the doorway, accompanied now and then by some surprised and incredulous laughter and banter.

Bai Liu quickly drew back his hand, "There's a game event coming, deal with the event first."

"You haven't answered me yet." Spades, with no expression on his face, stubbornly blocked in front of Bai Liu, looking straight at him, "Why?"

Bai Liu took a deep breath and looked up with a cold smile, "I just hate you, there is no reason, you don't need a reason to hate someone, you can understand this, right?"

Spades was silent for about ten seconds or so, and didn't say yes or no or get out of the way, just stood still and oh-so-quietly.

"You got your answer." Bai Liu tilts his head toward Spades, "Can you get out of the way now?"

Spades averted his eyes for the first time in front of Bai Liu, who looked down and raised the whip that hung down by his knees as if he were trying to beat a nonexistent enemy, "...... So how long are you going to hate me?"

The Adversary had told him that any nastiness without a reason had a time limit, so he wanted to ask.

Bai Liu was quiet for a short while, then his shoulders sank downward as if he were relaxing, and he said very softly, "--"

The moment he opened his mouth, the sound of loud champagne crackling open one after another drowned out Bai Liu's voice.

All Spades could see was Bai Liu smiling and looking at him as he said a few words amidst the huge crowd noise and cheers, but couldn't hear what those words were.

Then the colorful wedding flowers came down on their heads.

Spades frowned on Bai Liu and asked, "I didn't hear what you just said."

"Forget it then." Bai Liu smiles and brushes Spades' shoulder as he runs forward.

Spades chased Bai Liu's back and turned back, he saw Guy in the crowd wearing a wedding dress and a snow-white veil and holding a flower, and Alex who stood opposite Guy and was completely dumbfounded.

Surrounding them in a friendly circle of GIs, they held their hands high in the air and hummed an off-key wedding march while beating the beat with their feet.

Guy dropped to his knees amidst the uproar, and he held up his bouquet to Alex, whose expression was blank, and smiled brightly, "Alex, please forgive me for secretly planning this wedding without telling you."

"I hope this is a surprise for you and not a shock." Guy joked humorously, softly, a light layer of tears filling his eyes, "Hey, even though I'm dressed a little weird, you shouldn't have that look on your face, should you?"

As if he had just reacted, Alex stiffened, trembled, and fell to his knees with a red face, hugging Guy in his wedding dress tightly, tears rolling down his face, his voice so hoarse that he could only repeat a few words meaninglessly.

"God, God, God!"

Guy stroked the back of Alex's head, his eyes reddening, and he couldn't help but smile, his tone growing softer, "Perhaps I can interpret this reaction as a willingness to marry me?"

Alex cried almost spasmodically, "Guy! I love you Guy!"

Guy helped a bawling Alex to her feet, and they didn't get a priest to witness the marriage-the current priest was still at the medic camp blessing the dead soldiers-so they took their vows together in full view of everyone.

Besides, their wedding was not blessed by God.

These GIs, who hadn't seen a happy event for too long, were so excited that Guy's wedding dress was almost trampled by the rude GIs.

Even if it was a wedding that was absurd and out of harmony with the world, on the eve of a great war, there could be no more comforting image for the soul than to see two people who loved each other hugging and kissing with tears in their eyes.

It doesn't matter that the protagonists of this image are men and women, what matters is that they are alive and they love each other.

God may not bless them, but God has never blessed anyone here either.

The crowd is in an uproar, and in the corner, Spades stares blankly at Tang Er.

Tang Er typed: "......"

Bai Liu stayed with Guy to take care of those things, then dumped Spades on Tang Er to help look after the half-drunk, top-ranked player.

Actually, although Bai Liu said Spades was drunk, he didn't look very drunk either, but just ......

Spades asked, word for word, "What is marriage?"

Tang Er beat his brains out and answered, "It is a kind of ceremony to introduce each other to other people and comply with the legal procedures that people hold after reaching a certain age in order to be with the person they like forever."

Spades was quiet for a long moment, as if digesting, then asked again, "What is a certain age?"

Tang Er hit his forehead with a headache, he had answered more questions than he knew what to do with Spades - the man didn't cry when he was done drinking, he just had a lot of questions.

And it's particularly persistent; if you don't answer he'll make you answer in every way possible.

Tang Er hits the sigh, "Presumably women are in their twenties and men are in their thirties?"

Spades squinted at him, "How old are you?"

Tang Er struck a chord, "Thirty-five-six."

Spades ohs and asks, "So why don't you get married? Is it because you don't have a date?"

Tang Er, who was shot, played, "...... The situation is a little complicated."

Spades asks, "Does your favorite person not exist?"

Tang Er, who was shot twice, typed, "......"

Spades, seeing that Tang Er fights not to answer, continues, "The person you like is married to someone else?"

Tang Er, who was shot three times, typed, "......"

When Tang Er didn't call back, Spades continued to speculate, "You like people ......"

"Okay." Tang Er hits a long, long sigh, "I'll just talk to you."

Spades will keep guessing if he can't get his own answer, and somehow this man can always guess the most painful answer with a weird intuition, Tang Er has been stabbed so many times by Spades that he is about to be numb.

Tang Er hit a large mouthful of wine, looking at the empty glass gaze a little out of focus: "I like the person ...... he liked me, but he has left."

Spades gets an answer and is quiet again for a moment, then pops the question again, "Would Bai Liu hate the person he married?"

"?!?" Tang Er hit was confused by the jumpiness of Spades' question, but between the fact that Spades questions have always been jumpy, so he thought hard for a moment and gave a tentative answer, "I don't think ...... would?"

"Everyone ...... generally loves the person they are marrying."

Although Tang Er fights it is hard to imagine what Bai Liu will marry.

Tang Er remembered that he had seen Bai Liu in Mo Fei's magic mirror when he was young and liked someone, but that person had been tortured to death in the orphanage long ago, and could only be regarded as an unresolved early love affair of the Great Demon King Bai Liu.

Spades The whip resting on his knee shook, and he sat up straight with a heavy oh and a serious nod.

Tang Er hit confused: "????"

What's with that answer-finding look?

Alex cried on Guy's shoulder, then laughed, and within fifteen minutes the young man who had previously advised Bai Liu and Spades not to drink, who had been drinking passionately from the bottle with all those who came to congratulate him, was only drunkenly saying "I love you" on Guy's shoulder.

The immodest, carnivalesque wedding has finally progressed to the final step - the bride throwing her bouquet.

"The person who receives it will be the next couple to get married!" Guy stood on the dais assisting Alex as he threw the bouquet backward, and he counted down joyfully, "3 - 2 - 1 -! "

A bunch of big old men were rather rare for something like a bouquet and scrambled for it.

But the moment Guy threw the bouquet, a black whip whipped out and hooked the bouquet just like a flash.

The group of GIs who were grabbing the bouquet: "!!!"

There it is again! Mysterious oriental kung fu!

Spades hooked the bouquet back into his arms, demurely holding up his head, still draped in an unknown time stolen, Guy's wedding veil tilted on top of his head, exactly like Guy's proposal scene just after the dress up.

Then Spades kneels down squarely and raises the bouquet to Bai Liu, whom he has forced to come to him.

Bai Liu looked at the man with no emotion on his face and made no move.

Spades, whose proposal script was interrupted by Bai Liu's unilateral lack of cooperation, paused for a moment as he recalled the opening lines of Guy's proposal, "Hey, even though I'm dressed a little weird, you're not supposed to have that look on your face, are you?"

Bai Liu: "......"