Dense Forest Borderland

Liu Jiayi couldn't catch her breath looking at the black hand, she choked and coughed and was about to drown, Tang Er hit and immediately brought her up to the surface.

Spades lets go of his hand and floats in the water, he looks motionless at the bottom of the lake, then immediately floats up, and on his way up meets the diving Adversary, and together they float to the surface.

Lakeside.

Liu Jiayi, while choking and coughing with a pale face, stared at the surface of the lake as if expecting a Bai Liu to pop out of it.

Tang Er slapped Liu Jiayi's back, his face was close to blank, he didn't seem to understand what had just happened.

-- Bai Liu, the all-powerful Bai Liu, was 100% alienated and died right in front of them?

This sounds almost like a joke.

If it wasn't for the system alert for all players, Tang Er almost thought it was another one of Bai Liu's tricks.

Spades climbed out of the water, followed by Bai Yi and the others, who were full of questions: "What's going on, we just went down to the lake and we got a death notice from Bai Liu?"

"Bai Liu is not dead." Spades doesn't look back, water dripping down the ends of his hair, his tone cold and calm.

Bai Yi more and more confused, he pointed out his system panel, to the bright red system notification above to determine two or three times, muttered: "...... I did not read it wrong ah, is the death exit ...... "

Spades turned his head and stared at Bai Yi without a word. Bai Yi's voice gradually weakened and finally closed his mouth, slightly shivering as he hid behind Bai Jiamu, muttering in a low voice: "Bai Jiamu , I so feel that Spades is looking at me with a murderous aura... ..."

The Reverse God looked at Spades, "Why do you say Bai Liu isn't dead?"

Spades is silent and doesn't answer.

The Reverse God instantly realized, "Another thing your intuition told you?"

Reverse God quickly accepted Spades' intuitive judgment and calmly analyzed, "If Bai Liu didn't die, then he couldn't have exited the game, he must be somewhere in this game, now we have to find him out from this game."

"But this game exists many time loop lines, there exists an external world and an internal world." Bai Jiamu English frowned, "How can you find such a big game map?"

The Adversary smiled, "I have a way to find Bai Liu."

Bai Yi muttered in a small voice, "But ah, Inverse God, this Bai Liu is none of our business either, so why should we help find it."

Liu Jiayi held her own knee and assisted Tang Er to fight her way to her feet, she tilted her head back and stared at the Reverse God dead in the face, "If you guys help me find Bai Liu, I can follow all of your training matches for free and guarantee the safety of your training matches."

The Adversary turned to Liu Jiayi for a second and had an epiphany, "You're the little witch with the healing skill."

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and nodded.

The Adversary smiled, "Quite a weighty bargaining chip, I am indeed heartened."

"But little witch, didn't your tactician teach you that when negotiating with a smart person, no matter how panicked you may be, you shouldn't start out with all your bottom-line chips?"

The Reverse God smiled gently and stroked Liu Jiayi's head, his tone light, "--so that he will shamelessly get an inch based on your chips."

"Bai Liu is very important to you, isn't he?" The Reverse God smiled and casually dropped a bomb, "How about I help you find Bai Liu and you come to my battle team?"

Liu Jiayi's pupils shrank, and Tang Er fought his way forward to knock away the Reverse God's hand that was caressing Liu Jiayi, saying in a cold voice, "Dream on!"

The Reverse God smiled and raised his hands to show that he meant no harm, "Just kidding just kidding, big battle teams like our Killer Sequence usually don't do this kind of robbing other people's team members while they're on fire."

But almost every member of Bai Liu's team was taken from someone else.

This man is insinuating Bai Liu.

A gun appeared in Tang Er's hand, and a fierce look appeared on his face, "That has nothing to do with you either."

The Inverse God opened his browed, smiling eyes and swept them over Liu Jiayi, who had his head hanging, seemingly without meaning to, and then back to Tang Er hitting his face, "But I think, as far as a tactician is concerned, scrambling you all over as if you were objects, and then placing them so casually-- "

"Slightly, not very respectful of your feelings."

The Adversary smiled, "-as if on the strength of the fact that you will follow him forever, clamping down on your emotions and making you fearfully accept all the consequences of his capriciousness and wantonness, which you are not yet able to escape."

"How can I put it, it's a more advanced form of tactician control over the players than absolute control, and you absolutely all trust Bai Liu from the bottom of your hearts."

The Reverse God seemed to smile, "-but the pain that comes with that trust is doubled, for you have deep feelings for him."

"But Bai Liu knew full well that you would be in pain for him, and he could have devised game paths to keep you out of pain, like getting you out of the game in the first place."

"Why did Bai Liu choose this path of allowing himself to be tormented and you to watch and suffer?"

"Evil gods are fond of observing the pain of others."

The Adversary God's tone was so light that it was like a whisper, "--Don't you think that, from the very beginning, Bai Liu was showing the Evil God your suffering, by way of proving his own nature, and then allowing the Evil God to wholeheartedly choose him as the heir, so that he could enter the God's territory --"

"--Your suffering is but his tribute to the Evil One--"

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought almost simultaneously pulling out their weapons and clamping down on the Retrograde God from left to right with a speed unseen to the naked eye, Liu Jiayi landed on the Retrograde God's shoulders with a flying jump, clipped his legs around the Retrograde God's neck, and held the smoking spray bottle of poison squarely to the knot of his throat.

Tang Er hits a one-handed reverse cut on Retro God's hands and aims a gun at Retro God's temple.

Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi picked up their weapons almost instantly, their complexions cold as they aimed them at Tang Er Fight and Liu Jiayi.

"Let go of our tactician."

The atmosphere was touch and go.

The Inverse God's careless and laughing voice interrupted, "Relax, I was just kidding."

"Bai Jiamu, Bai Yi, put down your weapons, they won't kill me."

Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi hesitated for a moment, but lowered their weapons.

The Reverse God looked sideways at Tang Er hit with a gun aimed at his temple, pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "I've investigated you, Tang Er hit, the former third captain of the Heresy Authority, right?"

"I'm a good person in reality who has never done anything bad with any creature, pays my taxes on time, works overtime every day, and hasn't killed any innocent people in the game." The Reverse God laughed frankly, "Are you sure you can kill a normal person like me who doesn't even meet your criteria for a hit?"

Tang Er hit the back teeth clenched, the trigger finger vaguely trembling.

-Can't.

His principles don't allow him to strike down normal people.

Liu Jiayi's eyes reddened, his fingers jammed on the poison spray gun, and his expression had an almost undisguised malevolence, "-- Tang Er can't kill, I can, help us find Bai Liu, or I'll kill you!"

"Wrong causality oh little sister." Unmoved, the Reverse God pinned Liu Jiayi's spray gun away with two fingers and looked back at him with a smirk, "--You want me to help you find Bai Liu, so there's no way for you to kill me at all."

The Adversary gazed gently at Liu Jiayi : "Are you sure you want to kill me now?"

Liu Jiayi clenches the spray bottle vigorously for a moment, then slowly puts it down.

Bai Liu This obvious weakness is in the hands of the other party, she does not have the initiative.

Bai Yi watched dumbfounded as the Adversary God defused a crisis with three simple words.

Bai Jiamu makes the same old turn of the scalpel.

The tactical style of this guy, Reverse God, has always been like this, not very controlling, and the relationship with each member of the team is not good or bad, even if there is a conflict with the enemy, he will try to solve the problem without using force.

After all, Adversary was a tactician who could make his opponent surrender outright without drawing his weapon in a league match, and the name of a low-casualty tactician wasn't for nothing.

Liu Jiayi jumped down from the shoulders of the Adversary, and Tang Er hit the retrieved gun.

"Even if Bai Liu is sacrificing your pain, you will find him, yes?" Adversary asked softly.

Liu Jiayi's back was turned to the Adversary, her shoulders tensed along with her voice, "--Yes."

She clenched her fists and snorted, "A thin-skinned, cargo-like crew like ours that he snatched from us can feel the pain of Bai Liu's self-destruction-"

"- how painful it must have been for Bai Liu himself."

Liu Jiayi took a deep breath:

"If Bai Liu is truly offering pain to the evil god, then the primary tribute would be his own pain, and ours would only serve as an add-on, as a secondary item."

Liu Jiayi turned back to the Adversary God and looked at him calmly and incomparably, "You don't need to expect to rely on this kind of sophistry to sway the bond between Bai Liu and I."

"Bai Liu is the man I chose for myself, I know what kind of person he is better than you do, and in following this guy, I was ready to be used by him until I died."

"Bai Liu is my tactician." Tang Er played solemnly, "He takes all the pain that the main attacker has to and takes with all his might as long as he's trying to win the game."

"I, as a member of his team, will not be easily swayed by this pain."

"Is ...... that determined?" The Reverse God was thoughtful, he smiled, "Rather unexpected, well, I will help you find Bai Liu for free."

Liu Jiayi looked at him warily, "Gratuitous?"

The Inverse God turned his head and looked in a seemingly distressed manner at Spades who was squatting by the lake, his eyes staring straight at the surface of the lake, poking at it with his whip every now and then.

Spades seems to be thinking that Bai Liu has been sunk in this lake and should come out of it as well, and has been crouching next to him holding his knees and keeping watch.

The Adversary God sighed helplessly, "You're not the only ones who have been utilized by Bai Liu to sacrifice their pain, there's also my ace team members."

"Your tactician, Bai Liu, is no slouch; one game and he's hooked the soul of our team's leading scorer."

The Reverse God arched his eyes and smiled as he turned his head to glance at Tang Er Fight and Liu Jiayi : "As a return gift, I would have liked to have the souls of his team members hooked by me as well, but it seems that I'm still not good at my job."

Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought for some reason, being laughed at by the Reverend God, their spines were chilled in unison.

--This tactician called Against the Gods, for some reason, had a smile that made people want to run away.

"How did you find Bai Liu?" Liu Jiayi asked directly.

The Adversary smirked, "Use props."

"What props?" Tang Er asked.

The Reverse God scratched his face, his eyes wandering, "Well, we have to thank our team's main attacker, he gave Bai Liu a very important contact prop within our team, the prop's judgment is very strong, as long as the player is still there, it will automatically pop out of the prop panel when the bell rings."

"If Bai Liu is really still in this game, ringing the bell is the way to find him."

Spades, who was squatting by the lake, slowly straightened up when he heard this, and without saying a word, he pulled the bell out of the system and gave it a vigorous shake, only to have it disintegrate within two rings.

Spades gave a slow ah, "I broke it."

The Reverse God took a deep breath and covered his face, "...... Right, you've messed with this bell before, and it's all because of the quality of this bell that you've been able to hold it up until now."

"I'll do it."

Inevitably, the Adversary took out his own bell, gripped the handle, and gave it two slight shakes, and for a moment, several bells were rung at the same time.

Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi Their bells were ringing, but the Reverse God immediately looked sharply across the lake, "There's no one of us on the other side, but there are bells ringing."

Spades disappeared into thin air almost as soon as the bell rang on the other side of the river, followed by Tang Er hitting and Liu Jiayi.

The Reverse God and Bai Jiamu and Bai Yi next to him exchanged a glance, "Let's go too."

Across the lake, by the wooden statue of the evil god.

The corpses that had just been attracted away by the Bai Liu in the lake were now coming back in droves, dancing wildly around the two wooden statues of the evil gods, their rotting throats chanting songs of the evil gods with strange accents.

"...... Mortal Bodies Have Decayed, Believers Carve New God Vessels to Hold Drifting Souls ......"

Bai Liu on the new god's wood carving is more and more realistic, only the head and shoulders are still attached to the log, the rest of the area has been thoroughly carved, and the head is only left with the hair also uncarved.

The corpses who carved the wooden sculpture moved the old wooden sculpture of the God of Evil next to the new wooden sculpture that resembled Bai Liu, and carefully compared the carving, speaking to Bai Liu's originally short hair carved into a long ponytail that fell to the side of the waist, loosely tied up, just like the old wooden sculpture of the God of Evil.

It seemed that because of this change on the new Evil God Wooden Sculpture, the smile on the old Evil God Wooden Sculpture's face grew more and more satisfied.

The corpses shook their arms and legs around the wooden statue of the evil god, chanting louder and louder:

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

The man in the shadow is fourteen years old.

And so the Evil One gave this man a spine, a heart, and an emblem.

boasted that this man would be its only devotee and would become the next new god

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

Then the evil gods fell, and the believers' undead floated about.

The spine, the heart, the emblem, all broken.

Evil gods change.

......

God dies and he lives, and through evil lives forever."

As the chanting went on, the new wood carving was gradually being completed, and a corpse shakily lifted a large stone and began to pound it into the old Evil God wood carving, which had originally been stitched together and easily broken up.

The corpses flailed about in a frenzy, and a pure white bone whip, and a pendant of a reverse cross slowly appeared in front of the wooden statue of the old evil god.

They trembled and raised themselves high, and the chanting grew louder again:

"...... The Evil God has gifted this man with a spine, a heart, & a divine emblem ......"

"Taking the spine of an old god, the blood of a new god's heart, from the depths of the ages, an evil faith that not even death can extinguish-"

"-The creation of a new evil god who rules the universe."

The corpses trembled as they held up a sharp corpse block, aiming it hard at the heart of the old evil god's wooden statue.

A red liquid that approximated viscous blood flowed from the heart of the wooden statue.

The corpses held up their white bone whips and caught the red liquid with reverence and awe, and little by little, from the handle, the bone whips were strangely dyed a pure black that reflected no light at all.

With the coloring, the bone spikes on it blossomed into a harsh and unparalleled manner.

Alex, tied to a stake, smiles infatuatingly - it's all that red paint.

--These red paints are produced from the evil god's wood carvings.

Just stick a thorn into the heart of that wooden statue, and a steady stream of magical red paint with magical powers that will always help a person fulfill his or her desires will gush out from inside.

At first Alex thought it was just a strange plant sap produced from the wood used for this evil god's wooden sculpture.

Only later did he realize that it had nothing to do with the wood at all, it was the blood from the heart of this wooden sculpture.

Drops of bright red liquid smashed onto the white bone whip, which was halfway through the dyeing process, and the corpse carefully placed the reverse cross pendant on the new wooden carving.

Alex tilted his head in relief as he closed his eyes, a trance-like smile on his face, "...... Finally it's all coming to an end."

The sound of a bell ringing suddenly came out from the new wooden sculpture resembling Bai Liu, and the carefully carved surface of the new wooden sculpture cracked with egg-shell-like thin cracks, which got bigger and bigger with the ringing of the bell, as if the creatures inside were about to break through the sculpture at any time and drill out.

The corpses suspended their chants and rituals in panic:

"...... Bone whips are not yet dyed ......"

"...... New Evil God should not enter the vessel at this moment!"

Alex was stunned as he looked straight at the wooden sculpture.

The half-closed eyes of the new wooden carving blinked slightly as a fierce wind hit, blowing away the smoke that had been building up in the jungle for so long.

The top layer of the wooden shell was all but shattered, and the long, loose, fluttering ponytail pierced through the shell and fluttered in the wind, and the reverse cross pendant was blown by the wind and floated away, glittering in this dank rainforest.

Wood shavings fluttered down as Bai Liu slowly opened her pure black eyes, her ponytail tied loosely behind her head, falling casually over one shoulder and down to the side of her waist.

There was no emotion whatsoever on his face, a windless, cloudless calm, and his eyes seemed to embrace ten thousand human desires and sorrows and joys, and flowed with the stars and laws of the universe that had been unchanging for ages.

The bodies in the rainforest shuddered and crouched to the ground as the miasma that had been covering the rainforest dissipated, and a shimmering light poured down from the illusory sky onto the sacrifices that had been tied to stakes to witness it all.

Alex stared up in awe at the new god that had been born before him, almost stopping to breathe.

--This was the new god that the old evil god had waited so long for.

[System Awareness: Player Bai Liu's body is replaced and his composite panel value is climbing dramatically ...... is being calculated ......]

[...... Climb to 10,000 ...... Unlock Brass False God Achievement ...... Unlock Low Level Belief Value System ...... ]

[...... Climb to 30,000 ...... Unlock Silver False God Achievement ...... Unlock Intermediate Faith Value System ...... ]

[Composite panel values continue to climb, in system calculations ......]

[...... Get the System Crown Level Gift Pack (Gift of the Evil God) ......]

[...... attributes unknown bone whip a, can communicate with the evil gods reverse cross pendant token a ......]

[...... gained a new hidden identity (Heir of the Evil God), based on which the Evil God gifted player Bai Liu with a worldline archive point - Congratulations to player Bai Liu for gaining the rights to design the worldline game of Secret Order Borderlands].

From this moment on, the player Bai Liu is the supreme god of the world line of "The Borderland of Dense Forests", you can rewrite and design all the stories of this world, archive them at any time, extract them at any time, rewrite them at any time, as long as you think it is interesting, which is the right of the god to grant to the heir.

【......Based on the identity of (Heir of the Evil God), player Bai Liu crosses the level to unlock the (Heir of the Evil God's Faith Value) collection system.]

[Player Bai Liu, becoming an evil god is not just about strength, it takes faith.]

If you want to kill the Evil God and become a new god, not only physical strength, but also obtaining the faith of human beings is the most important thing for you, and the moment your faith value exceeds that of the incumbent Evil God, then you will have the right to kill him--]

[How do you get humans to believe in you?

[Friendly advice from the Evil God - only when humans are in enough pain will they come to believe in God, and by creating a sufficient range of pain, humans will sell their souls and fall in desperation to the Evil God, praying to him for wishes and help.]

[In other words, when a human becomes a player in an evil god's game, the evil god gains his soul and faith.]

[For you, Bai Liu, when you have a man's soul bills, you have faith from him, and when your soul bills equal me in quantity and quality, you will see me.]

[I'm sure that day will come soon.]

I'm looking forward to seeing you, Bai Liu (laughs).