Chapter 284: Dense Forest Borderland

Guy on the stage synthesizes the microphone with both hands, laughing and shouting, "Bai Liu!

"This nice young man just borrowed my wedding dress!" Guy laughed so hard tears came out of his eyes, "I didn't borrow it, I just gave him the veil, he looked drunk, and after borrowing the veil he actually tried to rob me of my wedding dress, and almost tore it off of me!"

Alex's head snapped up, and he clutched Guy around the waist in a daze, and swept around in a serious circle: "--Where's the nice young man who's going to rip Guy's wedding dress off!"

Guy's smile grows more joyous as he lowers his head and kisses Alex.

Drunken Alex was quiet again after the kiss, Guy lifted his eyes and looked at Bai Liu with sparkling eyes full of sincere tenderness and blessing.

"Say yes to him, Bai Liu , you are truly in love."

Guy's happy smile hides a very light layer of sadness:

"Don't wait for your lover to die to memorialize him, every moment you're together is as shiny and precious as gold."

Spades was kneeling on the ground, tilting his head and holding up a bouquet of flowers as he waited doggedly for Bai Liu's answer.

The crowd around them jumped and waved meaninglessly, laughing and opening bottle after bottle of champagne, the sweet and intoxicating bubbles of sparkling wine flew all over the room, countless pieces of golden flowers fell from the roof, and the laughter and laughter outside the window echoed through the night sky.

Spades has a few shiny little pieces falling out of his hair.

Bai Liu lowers his eyes as he reaches down and gently removes the pieces, then ruffles Spades' hair from his forehead.

The eyes under Spades' hair are dark and pure, reflecting Bai Liu's shadow cleanly and completely, as if Bai Liu is the only one to be seen in this noisy world.

"Will you marry me?" Spades asked seriously, raising the bouquet almost to Bai Liu's nose.

Bai Liu opened his lips, there was a lot he wanted to say and ask.

Lust for words was a rare to impossible thing for him to do, but in this moment it was happening.

Because the person he wants to ask remembers nothing, understands nothing, and even sometimes Bai Liu isn't sure that this missing memory is the Taville he remembers.

They look so different.

But Spades has always given Bai Liu an ...... unspeakable sense of familiarity, letting him know that Spades is the one.

Edmund, the npc from the last game, tells Bai Liu that people are not containers made of memories and flesh | flesh, and that something above that level exists in everyone, separating them from the monsters they are exactly like.

That kind of thing is love.

So even if a person's flesh | body and memories are completely different, love still exists.

Bai Liu doesn't believe this, but he doesn't understand why the previous Spades could find themselves out of so many [Bai Liu].

I don't understand where his urge to impulsively take the bouquet comes from at this moment.

Obviously it's just a game.

Bai Liu calmly looks down at the kneeling Spades and asks, "Why do you want to marry me?"

Spades said, "I hope you don't hate me."

Bai Liu easily figured out Spades logic, his eyes half-lidded, "...... Why don't you want me to hate you?"

"There are so many players who hate you, are you going to marry every one of them so they don't hate you?"

Spades A pause, he frowned and shook his head, "They've always hated fearing me."

"I don't want to marry them."

Bai Liu calmly asked back, "If you're going to marry someone who hates you, why don't you go pick someone else?"

"They fear you and will easily agree to your requests, and they will not keep working against you, or even hurt you three times, as I have done."

Bai Liu's long eyelashes fell, his voice so soft that it was almost inaudible, "...... I was never your best choice."

"I've been ...... killing you."

"You have not killed me." Spades looked straight at him, "If I ever die, it will be by my own choice."

Bai Liu's breathing slowed, "...... So many choices, why did you have to pick me?"

--Even after dying twice for me, you're still picking me.

Spades' eyes reflected Bai Liu, his tone flat and serious: "Because you're different from everyone else."

Bai Liu asks, "What's different?"

Spades gazed long and hard and gave his answer, "They can hate me, but I don't want you to hate me."

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, he laughed softly, he raised his eyes, "Why can't I hate you?"

Spades was quiet for a moment, "...... I don't know, I just don't want you to hate me."

Bai Liu's face unconsciously softened, "Just as I hate you, for no reason, right?"

Spades seems to lower his voice as if a little depressed, "...... hmmm."

"Promise him! Promise him! Promise him!"

The uproar grew louder and louder, the red-faced soldiers shouting so loudly that it sounded like they were threatening Bai Liu, but they were laughing heartily, waiting for Bai Liu to say something with a look of anticipation and longing to see a second couple.

"Spades, people don't marry people they hate." Bai Liu said softly, "That doesn't follow normal human logic."

Spades knelt motionless, as if he had been thrown into a strange vortex of thought by the destruction of the logic of his proposal.

According to his idea, two people who hated each other could get married and end their hatred for each other by getting married, but Bai Liu's statement that the cause and effect relationship was reversed made Spades stutter in place.

It wasn't quite what he had in mind.

Bai Liu's gaze drops to the bouquet in Spades' hand, and he says, as if to himself, "But you and I are both drunk right now."

"So we can do something illogical."

Bai Liu reaches out and takes the bouquet in Spades' hand, smiling at the unresponsive Spades:

"I do."

Guy shoved his index finger and thumb in his mouth and whistled with an unimaginative, crazy laugh, "-and now the groom can kiss the bridegroom!"

Holding a bouquet, Bai Liu slowly walked into Spades, slightly inclining his head and raising it as if to kiss him, looking intently into Spades' eyes.

Streaks of golden flowers fell from their heads, people from strange lands they didn't know held up empty beer bottles and banged them chaotically against each other, bobbing their heads to the beat of the wedding march, and in the distance, on the dimly lit bar, men in wedding dresses and drunken past grooms kissed passionately.

Bai Liu hadn't fantasized about getting married until the moment he jumped out of the plane.

But at that moment in time, he was thinking about it.

Bai Liu thought that his monster's fantasy wedding scene should be grotesque, weird and unattended, but strangely enough, his fantasy wedding with Taville is just like what all the normal people in the world aspire to.

It's vulgar, hilarious, has a large group of strangers with whom they have only a tenuous connection to witness it, and then they make a thousand promises to each other over a loud background soundtrack - we'll be together forever until death do us part.

Until death do us part.

Bai Liu thought after that, after he found Taville ...... he might maybe ...... try to accept a wedding.

Now he did get it, though it didn't seem quite what he thought it would be.

Every time it's like this, it's as if he has an inexhaustible supply of bad luck in his body, and then that person, that person will always find a way, as if he wants to exploit the entire world, to bring Bai Liu what he wants back to him in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways.

--The storybook that was torn and then pasted back together, the long, skinny ghost doll with the face missing.

Wedding after parting.

The man had been awkwardly comforting him, giving Bai Liu the gifts he most wanted to try to cheer him up.

Even if the cost of that gift is the sacrifice of your own life.

Soothing background music played in the bistro, and people swayed and danced in pairs around each other, the lights dimmed so that only vague glimpses of light could be glimpsed.

Bai Liu circled the back of Spades' neck and pressed it against his jaw, his eyes blinking slightly.

With Bai Liu holding him by the back of the neck, Spades struggled to look back at the moves of Guy and Alex, who were hugging in the center of the dance floor-he hadn't been married, and he'd need a template to learn from afterward.

Guy is swinging around Alex's shoulders, they are kissing non-stop, and Alex's hand is already in the hem of Guy's wedding dress.

Spades' eyes flicked back and forth between Guy and Bai Liu for a moment, then pressed against Bai Liu's ear and hesitantly inquired, "--Am I to kiss you now?"

He remembered the casual kissing of Bai Liu that made this man angry before, so he asked in advance this time.

"One doesn't kiss someone one hates, Spades." Bai Liu answered Spades softly without looking up.

"But we're married." Spades replied with great conviction, "Married people should kiss each other."

Spades felt as if Bai Liu, who was against his shoulder, laughed softly.

Then Bai Liu said, "Didn't you ask me before how long I was going to hate you?"

Spades quickly followed up with, "How long?"

Bai Liu lifted his head, his eyes floating in a layer of watery luster, the smile on his face is pure and clear, with a little bit of mischievousness that is not very well hidden.

"-ever, I'll always hate you."

Spades stops all movement as he tries to argue, "We're married, we're supposed to kiss, and if you hate me, you can't kiss-" lol.

Bai Liu's eyes drooped as he pulled Spades down a bit and closed his eyes for a kiss.

After the kiss, Spades stares at Bai Liu: "You say you hate me, but then you kiss me."

It's so paradoxical that Spades can't understand such a thing, he's confused and depressed: "Why are you doing this?"

"Because I'm drunk." Bai Liu didn't close his eyes this time, and came close to kiss Spades one more time, "--I can marry someone I hate when I'm drunk, and I can kiss someone I hate."

He kissed and calmly closed his eyes.

"I'll stay with the one I hate forever until death separates us again."