Dense Forest Borderland

Deep in the jungle.

Spades jumps above the tree trunks with Bai Liu on his back, getting closer and closer to the other side of the lake, with the faint sounds of Tang Er fighting and Liu Jiayi coming from below.

"The corpses are still after us, after you to be exact." Tang Er hit said.

Liu Jiayi asked, "Bai Liu, are you trying to lure these pieces of bodies directly to the bottom of the lake as you cross it, and then score points?"

Bai Liu gave a vague hmmm, Liu Jiayi and Tang Er exchanged glances, they looked toward the lake in front of them, and instantly acted separately.

Behind them, from the ground to the branches of the trees, a dense mass of corpses crawled, mixed with some half-formed corpses, hideous and crazy, with their teeth and claws raised up to Bai Liu above them, snarling.

Spades stepped on the tree trunk with his left foot, and a number of black corpses jumped up immediately behind him, hissing and lunging towards Bai Liu behind Spades.

Spades turned indifferently to protect Bai Liu, and with a whip knocked all those body parts down, steadily kneeling on one knee on another branch.

The branch shook twice, and Spades suddenly asked, "Bai Liu , I think you know why these corpses are chasing you, and you can easily break up this pursuit, why do you deliberately let these corpses keep chasing you?"

Bai Liu smiled, "Just now, didn't Liu Jiayi say that as long as these corpses keep chasing me, I can logically lure them into the bottom of the lake, the point accumulation point, and as long as these corpses are recovered by the bottom of the lake, they will be counted as my points ah, and that's what I'm aiming for ah."

Spades didn't pause for a second: "You're lying, that's not what you're up to."

Bai Liu paused, his hand around Spades' neck loosening slightly as he opened his mouth with a casual smile in his tone, "Spades, your instincts about me aren't always accurate."

"Listen to what I have to say to you once in a while instead of trusting your instincts."

Spades was quiet for a short while, his brow furrowing slightly as if adjusting to this state of not trusting his instincts, before he spoke, "Just lure the corpses to the bottom of the lake, and you'll voluntarily release these corpses from their state of following you, won't you?"

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, "Yes."

Spades pauses for a moment and jumps up on one knee, swinging his whip to knock off the approaching body parts as he gets closer to the lake.

Bai Liu leaned against the side of Spades' shoulder as he glanced at the blue lake that was getting closer to him, his fingers curling in a slight clasp and making a false fist.

With the wind of burning embers blowing through their hair, Spades approached the lake faster and faster.

Bai Liu's head was pressed against the center of Spades' shoulder blade, and after a moment of silence with his eyes half-closed, he suddenly spoke in an idle, flirtatious manner, "Spades, your intuition is really an amazing thing, can you tell me what your intuition is telling you right now?"

"My instincts tell me you're afraid, you're lying." Spades spoke calmly, "You don't like jumping into the water, you hate this burning aftermath, you hate these cauterized body parts, you hate the sight of bodies sinking in the water."

"You didn't jump into the lake for any points at all either, it was for something else, something more dangerous, and you loathed doing that, but you decided to jump in anyway."

Spades' voice paused, "I don't see why you'd want to do something you hate."

"Do you hate denying your instincts?" Bai Liu asked softly.

Spades hmmm'd, "Not a fan."

Bai Liu gave a very soft chuckle, "Then why are you willing to trust me by denying your own instincts for me? You can clearly sense that I'm telling lies to deceive you, and you're doing things you hate."

Spades paused for a moment, "...... Because you asked for it."

"Are you willing to do what is asked of you?" Bai Liu smiles and laughs, "Will you do what is asked of you?"

Spades instantly retorted, "No."

Bai Liu murmured softly, "Then why is it that you're willing if I'm the one asking?"

Spades was quiet for a moment, and when he spoke again there was a note of confusion in his voice, "...... don't know."

Bai Liu opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just smiled and explained, "Spades, has anyone ever taught you that people are sometimes willing to willingly do things they hate for someone?"

Spades shook his head honestly, then asked, "Why?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time, then said, "Because I love this man."

He whispers in a voice so soft it's unbelievable, and then the next second, releases the hands circling Spades' back and falls backward.

Spades was swinging his whip to open the approaching batch of corpses, and immediately turned back after noticing Bai Liu falling off behind him, not caring about the corpses around him, he swung his whip to open the corpses next to Bai Liu and fell down with him, reaching out his hand to try to catch Bai Liu.

Bai Liu fell through the burning trees and the wind, his pure black eyes devoid of any emotion, reflecting like a mirror the Spades that kept coming closer and closer to him.

The body parts around him kept approaching Bai Liu, and even though most of them were opened by Spades waving his whip, there were just too many of them, and a small portion of them still crawled on top of him.

[System alert: Player Bai Liu has been attacked by a monster (Living Dead Corpse) and his mental value is dropping ......]

[System Alert: Player Bai Liu's mental value has fallen below 60 and is about to see hallucinations ......]

Spades stared as he tried several times to loop his whip around Bai Liu's waist to pull him up, stopping the moment he was out of it.

--He's not sure.

Spades uses any weapon to fight monsters without thinking about force, and even though it seems like he has pretty good force control, he's not sure of himself.

Because he never saved anyone with a whip.

He did not know whether this whip down, he will be intact to Bai Liu to circle up, or directly Bai Liu into want to break not broken two sections.

For the first time, Spades found the Adversary and what he said useful.

--Practice your whip, or sooner or later you'll be in a situation where you want to use it but can't handle it.

[At that point, you'll lose to another guy who's good with a whip.]

Spades uses his whip to keep opening up the approaching body parts around him, stares down on the surrounding wooden trunks, and drops down quickly, reaching out and approaching Bai Liu, who's fallen almost close to the surface of the lake.

The moment Spades' hand was about to grab Bai Liu's shoulder, Spades saw Bai Liu slightly turn his head sideways and give him a smile.

That smile is clean and mischievous, eyes full of reflection Spades a person, as if there is water light in the flow of the general, obviously all can not hide the pure joy, but always let a person feel that he is going to fall in tears the next second.

Bai Liu looked at Spades with that smile and whispered, "Sheta, I've missed you."

"Bye."

Spades was stunned, the hand that was about to grab Bai Liu gave a start, Bai Liu slipped out of his palm and fell into the cold lake.

Immediately after that Spades fell as well.

The surrounding corpses were crawling madly towards the lake as if they had gone crazy, and the black mass surged into the bottom of the lake, blackening the blue-green surface of the lake in an instant.

Even the corpses and dry wood corpses from the new evil god's sacrificial ceremony were drawn away, fighting their way to the bottom of the lake.

There were only a few corpses left that had wanted to run, but had been fixed in place by some unknown force while wailing and screaming miserably and carving the New Evil God Wooden Sculpture in a twisted position.

Alex laughed out loud in a trance after seeing all the body parts run away, "Bai Liu finally came over, I can finally be relieved."

The Reverse God's expression changed, "Not good, this reaction, Bai Liu chose to accept the Evil God's gift."

With those words, he disconnected the ropes binding his hands with one raised hand, and the other three members of the team followed suit, disconnecting the ropes binding themselves and jumping off the stake.

Bai Yi was still a bit confused and snorted, "What's the situation? I just fell asleep, now I've collected all the [TRUE END] line information to pass the level?"

Bai Jiamu couldn't help but roll his eyes, "Why are you able to fall asleep in this situation? Are you a pig?"

Bai Yi justified: "Every time the Reverse God pushes the [true end] line I can't understand a single word, why don't you seize the opportunity to have a good rest, I still have to do the housework after logging out of the game, do you think it's easy for me to be a househusband who takes time out of his life to come and train every day?"

Bai Jiamu was speechless, "...... You're the only one who can say you're stupid with such candor."

"Did you just catch what the Reverse God was saying?" Bai Yi gave Bai Jiamu an impish shrug with his shoulder and squinted at him.

Bai Jiamu: "......"

Didn't really get it. Almost fell asleep in the back.

The Inverse God waved his hand helplessly, interrupting these two's bickering, "Alright, go do the main thing first."

Hearing the Reverse God say this, Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi finally became serious as they drew their weapons in unison.

[System Alert: Player Bai Yi used his Personal Skill (Culinary Chef) to select a high-speed egg beater.]

Bai Yi drew out a half-tall whisk and slung it casually over his shoulder.

[System Awareness: Player Bai Jiamu using Personal Skill (Failed Scalpel)]

Bai Jiamu drew several scalpels with a loop at the end from his own heart and slipped them over the roots of his fingers in a fluid motion, turning them several times in an eerie spinning motion that didn't hurt his surrounding fingers in the slightest.

He then lifted his hand to the hilt of his blade and looked to the Adversary God and nodded to show that he was ready.

The Adversary paused, raising his hand to pull something out of his back, but ultimately dropping his hand again, "Let's go."

Bai Yi wondered, "Eh, Revolting God, don't you use your skill weapon? Your skill weapon is the strongest amongst us, and according to that what's-his-name Bai Liu's deviant personality, your skills should have a strange effect on him."

The Reverse God turned his head over to look at him and smiled, his eyebrows arched in complete gentleness, "Right, so save it for the official league to use it on him to maximize its value."

"It's a little big and slightly stupid to take the killer out so easily right now."

Bai Yi and Bai Jiamu, who have easily brought out their "killer" skills: "......"

Each time they couldn't figure out if the Reverse God was deliberately mocking them or if he was seriously analyzing the current situation.

The Adversary went straight forward.

Bai Jiamu followed closely, "Going somewhere?"

"The lake." The Inverse God said without hesitation, "Bai Liu's chosen final battlefield is definitely there."

Bai Jiamu wondered, "Why?"

The Adversary turned his head and replied, "Because he made a deal with us that he was going to take Spades out of the game in a crushing defeat at the Lakes."

"The man is not one to renege on a deal lightly, and he will deliver us the Spades fiasco at the Lakes as promised."

The other end.

After Spades jumped into the lake right after Bai Liu, Tang Er fought and Liu Jiayi also jumped in without hesitation.

The dark, cold lake was murky underneath, and all that could be seen were long, black pieces of corpses swimming vaguely, a steady stream of them crawling into the water, filling the lake from its edges all the way to its near center.

The bottom of the lake was like a boiling surge of asphalt-like mud that engulfed the corpses.

Tang Er Ta stopped in front of Liu Jiayi and kept shooting at the approaching corpses, but still got hung up on a few corpses, and Tang Er Ta's left shoulder and Liu Jiayi's left foot started to be corpsified.

With so little visibility under the water, and bullets hampered in their rate of fire, this is a map that very much limits Tang Er's ability to play this shooter.

Not to mention Liu Jiayi, whose poison is a kill-a-thousand-suicides attack weapon in this water.

In the event that she is unable to provide Bai Liu with a timely antidote when she has yet to locate him, she is likely to accidentally kill him by abusing the poison at will.

Liu Jiayi curls back his cadaverized left foot, frowning in contemplation.

...... I don t know if it is her illusion, she always feels that this copy of Bai Liu always intentionally or unintentionally separates her and Tang Er fight from herself, or brings them to some game scenarios that will limit the play of their weapons.

For example, right off the bat Bai Liu lets Spades take herself, then later dispatches them to the Red Cross and Assault One teams, and then, after a nice rendezvous, fights her and Tang Er to the secret border where they can't perform their skills.

-- And now this muddy lake where she and Tang Er would be limited by their skills if they fought.

Liu Jiayi believes that Bai Liu will not be unable to figure out the design of the game, usually, Bai Liu will utilize some extreme tactics to gamble once, and then end the game.

But ...... he dragged his feet and used the map again and again to limit the skill play of her and Tang Er fight ......

This is not at all the tactical style of this Bai Liu guy, who is good at utilizing everyone's skills to their advantage at the limit, rather than having them clamped down everywhere like this.

...... This gave her a feeling like ...... it was like Bai Liu was waiting for something extremely dangerous, and that something was something that they would definitely prevent Bai Liu from accessing, which was why Bai Liu would use all sorts of ways to isolate them and restrict their skills, preventing her and Tang Er from fighting to stop it.

Liu Jiayi gazed at the black bottom of the lake with a frown on his face, the uneasy premonition in his heart growing stronger and stronger.

Bai Liu, what are you doing counting everyone like this?

The Reverse God and the others rushed to the edge of the lake, where clusters and clusters of black body parts fell into the water, and from afar it looked like a swarm of black ants densely crawling towards a large puddle.

Bai Yi got goosebumps, "Holy shit, what's going on in the lake?"

The Reverse God looked sideways at the lake surging not far away, "The only way to find out is to go down there."

Without hesitation, he was the first to jump, followed by Bai Jiamu and another member of the team. Bai Yi rubbed the goosebumps on his body, pinched his nose bitterly, and followed suit.

At a moment's notice, Tang Er hit Liu Jiayi, and the line of assassin sequences led by the Reverse God all swam towards the bottom of the lake.

The body parts are continuously swallowed by the bottom of the lake, sinking into a maelstrom, the more body parts are swallowed, the thicker the mud on the ground becomes, and Bai Liu is lying right in the middle of the swallowed body parts.

Bai Liu folded his hands together before his abdomen, his face was calm and light, his eyes were half-closed without light, and the white complexion above his neck transmitted a kind of hazy shimmering light at the bottom of the dimly lit lake.

Bai Liu's shoulders, left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot have all been completely necrotic, translucent with an abnormal greenish-white color.

He just lay there peacefully on top of the clustered pieces of corpses that encased him, like a corpse that was about to be buried with those pieces.

Spades, who had a death grip on his shoulders, was trying to pull Bai Liu out, but ended up watching Bai Liu sink deeper and deeper into the body parts.

It's not that he couldn't pull it out, but--

Spades' wrists fired, and he clearly heard the snap and tear of Bai Liu's bones as he let go, bubbles spilling from the corners of his mouth as he looked with indifference at the mass of corpses that lay beneath Bai Liu-

--The body parts have completely grown with Bai Liu.

Unless Bai Liu wants to come out on his own, Spades will have to bloody rip Bai Liu's shoulders off of him instead of plucking Bai Liu's entire body out.

But Bai Liu clearly didn't want to come out, and he lay on top of the corpse as if he were asleep.

The necrosis had filled the heart.

Spades' resistance panel is ridiculously high, these corpse pieces are not very threatening to him, so he doesn't have any parts to be necroticized for the time being, he stared at Bai Liu for a long time, and then suddenly leaned over and hugged Bai Liu to death, using his own body to block the corpse pieces that kept on surging upwards.

Bai Liu finally opened his eyes and he looked at the Spades on him : "You didn't have to go this far for me."

"I'm not doing it for you." Spades' voice was muffled, a lot of bubbles rising up when he opened his mouth, "I just think I just did the wrong thing."

Bai Liu asked, "What did you do wrong?"

Spades' voice was a bit depressed, "I should have trusted my instincts instead of your words, you're really lying to me."

Bai Liu let out a soft laugh, "Yeah, didn't the Reverse God teach you that the smarter you are, the more you like to cheat."

"Uh-huh." Spades answered faintly as he hugged Bai Liu a little tighter, "I know."

Bai Liu was dragged down by the corpses, his body and the corpses seemed to form an impermeable boundary, Spades could protect less and less, and finally Bai Liu only had a pair of exposed eyes and a right hand that hadn't been corpsified.

Spades clutches Bai Liu's only remaining right hand, not daring to exert any force at all, not daring to exert too much force, and stares into Bai Liu's fading eyes with a pair of black eyes that don't look too good.

Bai Liu's voice, tinged with laughter, came out of the corpse, "You know, Spades, I once held a man's hand like that, trying to bring him back to life."

Spades asked, "So did you save it?"

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Saved."

"Now, it's his turn to hold my hand hard enough to come and get me up."

Bai Liu's voice gradually dissipated, "--But I suddenly wondered what the world that belonged to God was like, after he was buried underwater."

"--will I be able to enter that world that belongs to God, find him again, kill whatever is imprisoning him, and then bring out his soul again."

As Bai Liu's words dissipated, the writhing corpses finally stopped, and the bottom of the lake became clear again.

Having been thwarted by Liu Jiayi and Tang Er's fight, the Killer Sequence party finally sees the location of Spades at the bottom of the lake.

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought and rushed to Spades almost instantly.

She looked incredulously at Bai Liu's right hand, which had been swallowed to the point where only one was exposed.

And this right hand is getting corpsified, Liu Jiayi immediately wants to use the antidote.

Spades shakes his head, "It's a psychic monster attack, your healing potion won't work."

Tang Er hit and almost immediately pulled out his gun to hit the huge, writhing mass at the bottom of the lake, but Spades clutched the muzzle of the gun.

He stared at Tang Er without a trace of emotion in his eyes and fought, "Bai Liu is down there, he's grown into one with the corpse, he'll get hurt if you hit the corpse."

Liu Jiayi stared motionlessly at his right hand, which had only two fingers left that had not been corpsified, his complexion close to distorted for a moment.

-Think of something! Do something! There must be some way to stop Bai Liu from alienating!

There is no way.

It was Bai Liu's own desire to alienate, she couldn't stop this Bai Liu guy from doing whatever he wanted to do, and she couldn't even figure out why Bai Liu was doing it!

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought and watched as their right hands were devoured and corpsified, and Spades let go of them one finger at a time.

Eventually, this right hand was completely necrotic as well.

[System Alert (to all players): Player Bai Liu's spirit value is reduced to 0, his body is 100% alienated, exit the game.]