Chapter 398: How to own five buildings
Bai Liu looked around the room in a lighthearted manner, his eyes swept over the surroundings and Yuan Guang, who fell behind him, and Shi Qian, who fell behind Bai Liu, and then fixed his eyes back on Bai Liu, and the smile on his face deepened a little bit, "From the looks of the map, it seems that you're going through the five building duplicates, and that they're your enemies, summoning us out with skills?"
"Very interesting." Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu with a smile on his face, his eyes shifted downward to the white shirt that was slightly worn out from Bai Liu's body, "This kind of cheap attire, you shouldn't have completed the first round of points accumulation, playing in the league for the first time?"
"Want me to help you win?" Bai Liu dragged the black whip behind himself and smiled as he took two steps towards Bai Liu, his tail tone rising, "How about we make a deal? I'll help you kill our summoner, your enemy, accordingly-"
Bai Liu calmly added the latter for him, "I sold my soul to you, didn't I?"
Bai Liu raises an eyebrow, "Looks like we're thinking the same thing."
"What a pity, when you were a child your sense of territory and interest was not so strong, you could still work with me." Bai Liu sighed softly, his left elbow propped on the back of his right hand, fingers wrapped in black leather gloves resting against his jaw with a wry smile, "Now that you've formed your own interests and aren't as easy to fool, it looks like we won't be able to work together."
Bai Liu indifferently agrees, "It should be."
"In that case ...... " Bai Liu turned his head to look at Yuan Guang behind him, and he seemed to think for a moment before dropping to one knee and crouching next to Yuan Guang.
Bai Liu leaned over and whispered in the ear of Yuan Guang, who was unable to move, "Your teammate is dying, and you summoned me because you wanted to save him, to kill your opponent, and to win this match, right?"
Yuan Guang nodded with difficulty.
"I fulfill your wish accordingly." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and gently tapped a points bill on Yuan Guang's forehead to cover his eyes, "I'll give you these ten thousand points and you sell me your soul."
Yuan Guang's chest rose and fell violently for a moment, then he took a deep breath and closed his eyes, a tear slipped from the corner of his eye and he nodded with all his strength.
"Then the deal stands." Bai Liu straightened up, he held a slowly generating Yuan Guang's soul bill between his two fingers and shook it, looking up at Bai Liu with a smile in his eyes, "Since we can't work together, I have no choice but to stand against you."
"After all, I play games-"
"Profit is the first priority."
Bai Liu clamped the slender two fingers of the soul bill and folded them inward in his palm, the bill disappeared into thin air while methodically ordering, "Jiayi heal the summoner's injured teammates first, settle the summoner and then go to Area B to get the land certificates while killing your kind."
"Mu Sicheng to Zone A, take Tang Er to fight, clear the battlefield, Mu Ke to Zone D, same mission as Jiayi's, start moving."
--It's the exact same arrangement as before Bai Liu.
The other three responded with a lazy OK and dispersed moments later.
All Bai Liu heard was a mature and diffident cheeky banter in his ear, and his afterglow caught a barely visible flash of a stump beside his ear, and Shi Qian, who had fallen to the ground behind him, was gone.
It was so fast that it was too late to react.
"I'll take the unrelated people first, make sure to accompany the boss to play the game well oh little boss of other worlds."
It's Mu Sicheng's voice.
Bai Liu saw a tall figure in the mist that hadn't dispersed yet, half squatting on a streetlight pole, causing it to creak and shake, and the figure's hands were a pair of huge monkey paws that were longer than his knees, and the tips of the paws were dripping with the blood of whoever it was.
A pair of evil, scarlet eyes through the mist in the darkness of light, he grabbed a person's neck, hanging people completely indifferent to life and death shaking, cracked the corners of the mouth to the ground Bai Liu show a huge smile:
"Don't just die at the hands of the boss, little boss, I still want to come back and play with you after my mission."
After saying that, he disappeared in a few jumps, and a few other silhouettes also disappeared in an instant.
The rest of Bai Liu walks nonchalantly in Bai Liu's direction.
Bai Liu's face, waist, and boots are surrounded by a grayish-white mist that has yet to dissipate, enveloping Bai Liu's entire body in some kind of misty frame, which is vague and disorienting at a glance, as if the figure in a not-yet-finished drawing has become self-aware and is moving out of the frame.
The heel of his boot struck the solid, cold, hard ground, making a one-two, clear echo in the narrow, dark alleyway.
Bai Liu finally stood less than a meter away from Bai Liu, and his entire body finally came out of the fog completely, smiling at Bai Liu standing opposite him, asking rhetorically with amusement, "Not running away?"
Bai Liu looked at him levelly without retreating, "Running away doesn't make sense for either of us, does it? Can't you even guess what I'm thinking?"
"That's right too." Bai Liu nods approvingly, "Like right now you should be wondering why your main attacker, Tang Er hit why he hasn't been moving, right?"
The smile on Bai Liu's face deepened, "I really didn't expect that you'd managed to do what I hadn't been able to do for so long, making the famous Captain Tang, who had always been against me, a member of your team... I'm curious about what happened between you two?"
Bai Liu's tone was calm, "Naturally, something happened that didn't happen between you."
"What a strong hostility." The smile on Bai Liu's face grew more flirtatious, "You're the most hostile I've ever seen Bai Liu."
"In order to get on good terms with Captain Tang, I even showed mercy to his good friend Captain Su, didn't kill him, and even left a videotape on Captain Su to teach Captain Tang how to interrogate bad guys with professional techniques, as a gift." Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu with light eyes and sighed, "But Captain Tang didn't like my gift, what a pity."
Bai Liu's eyes flickered slightly, "Maybe Su Yang would have liked the gift better if you hadn't left the videotape in his stomach."
"Is that so?" Bai Liu asked rhetorically with little concern, the corner of his mouth curling up, "Then I hope Captain Tang enjoys my little gift to him this time."
In the mist.
Tang Er hit clearly felt the ground under his feet start to sink and move, then some sort of thick glassy barrier rose around him and started to move quickly, he instantly tried to approach in Bai Liu's direction, but the thick barrier stopped him, Tang Er hit's eyes glazed over, and two shots were fired at this glassy barrier, penetrating it pointlessly.
His face changed, he recognized the prop, it was a magic space! A prop that restricts people from entering and exiting!
[System Alert: Player Bai Liu used props (Magic Space) on (Rose Hunter) and (Rose Hunter)]
[Limitation: Only one person can get out of the magic space alive]
As the thick white mist inside the magic space slowly dissipated, Tang Er fought to look warily across the room at a certain humanoid silhouette sprawled on the ground, sliding his gun down with both hands raised to cock it, and taking a step sideways against the edge of the magic space.
The gray mist on that humanoid silhouette slowly dissipated, and Tang Er hit his pupils the moment he saw that humanoid silhouette clearly.
He saw a vicissitude, hideous self was handcuffed hands tied back, jaw and shoulders against the ground struggling frantically, mouth was forced to stuff a roll of videotape, propped up the corners of the mouth cracked, blood dripping down the teeth trembling did not dare to bite down.
Tang Er Ta, without saying anything, was ready to go forward and shoot with his gun to break the handcuffs, but the person tied up by the handcuffs struggled fiercely, stopping Tang Er Ta's movement to shoot the handcuffs.
He said, vaguely, with difficulty, and in a single word, "Sue-scrub's handcuffs, don't move!"
Tang Er hit almost shuddered as he jerked his head around to look at the pair of handcuffs, spotting a pattern of roses, guns and tentacles wrapped around each other in the corner of the cuffs.
--This is Su Yang's skill weapon, why is it here!
Tang Er ripped open the videotape stuck in his mouth and immediately asked, "How did you get here? Did Su Yang not die in the worldline you were in? Why do his skill weapons still exist?!"
How can there be a worldline where Su Yang is still alive and has all her skills and weapons when every worldline he's ever experienced Su Yang is dead?
The man choked and coughed violently twice and looked at Tang Er with a cold and gloomy gaze, "Su Yang is dead."
Tang Er hit his brow furrowed, "Then how did these handcuffs ......"
"Su Yang's soul was bought by Bai Liu." The man hardened one hand and crushed the bones of the other, then dragged the fractured deformed palm through the circle of handcuffs, preferring this to harming Su Yang's skill weapon, "This is the skill Bai Liu used Su Yang's panel to use on me."
Tang Er couldn't hide the shock on his face, "Su Yang sold his soul to Bai Liu?!"
The man leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to take a big breath and snorted, "What's so surprising about that?"
"More than half the souls of the entire Heretic Authority are in Bai Liu's hands."
"More than half of them ......" Tang Er hit with a completely sunken face, "I know my players well, there's no way they'd do that!"
Tang Er hit looked at this person's gaze became unkind, he stood up and raised his gun, his expression tightened as he aimed it at this Tang Er hit with a downtrodden description, "And I jumped a long time ago in that world line, it is reasonable to say that that world line won't have me any more, how could you, a person who is running that world line after more than ten years, how could I exist? "
Sitting on the ground this Tang Er Ta tilted his head up slightly, his ghostly blue eyes looked deeply at Tang Er Ta who had raised his gun to aim at him, a sneer on his face, "Remember the wish you wanted to make to the Evil God?"
"The ability to keep going back in time to change events and stop everyone from entering the game, that's all you remember isn't it?"
"Have you forgotten the price you have to pay to get your wish?"
Tang Er Fight on the ground staggered to his feet propped up against the wall, his face covered in blood as he stared across the room at Tang Er Fight dead in the face, "You're going to turn into a constantly jumping timeline monster."
"You're just a memory, a piece of consciousness, and we in each timeline are the real people, you're just a monster that's invaded our consciousness for a while, a heretic that's parasitizing us."
"You're not even human, you're Heretic 0002, [Time Hunter]."
He laughed hoarsely and lowly, "We're the ones who are human, and after you decide to jump to the next worldline when you're ready to escape the failed worldline where you couldn't defeat Bai Liu, it's only natural that we, who were parasitized by you, will regain our consciousness as well."
"The world won't stop working with your escape, time will continue to flow downward, Bai Liu will continue to control everything, and those of us that you have abandoned Tang Er fight will continue to continue to deceive ourselves and others in these world lines that are on the verge of collapse, until eighty percent of the world's population has sold their souls to Bai Liu and the entire world has become a game world line that the Evil God believer Bai Liu's hands into a game world line that can be played at will."
He raised his ghostly blue, ocean-like eyes, which were as deep as the ocean, with no light in them at all, and then laughed nervously, "You're just a filing point designed by the prophets and the evil gods."
"And I'm just a depository for this archive of yours."
Tang Er hit pupils trembling two steps back, he could not pronounce a word for a moment, and only after a long interval did he firmly shake his head, "...... Even if that's the case, I don't think that the Heretic Authority's team members would intentionally sell their souls to Bai Liu. "
"Indeed not on purpose." Across the room, Tang Er hit a mute laugh, leaned against the wall, pulled a cigarette out of his pocket, and then abruptly turned his face sideways as he held out to Tang Er hit the hand with the handcuffs hanging from his wrist and curled both fingers, "Got a light?"
Tang Er played and said, "No."
"Tsk." This Tang Er hit held his cigarette in his mouth, one fractured hand hanging limply at his side, while the other pulled the gun out from behind him, aimed it casually at the ground, and then lifted his hand to dislike the cigarette on the glowing barrel.
The cigarette ignited by the superheated barrel temperature and he squinted and took a sharp drag, then choked and coughed twice before continuing, "Indeed it was not intentional."
"After you left, the Heretic Authority and Bai Liu and the others went to full-scale war when there was a game called Five Buildings that Bai Liu and the others swiped in the game pool."
Tang Er beat him up, then he realized something with a jolt and looked up at the other man, "It can't be ......"
"Yes." This person turned his head to Tang Er hit, his face full of mocking smile, "Bai Liu this kind of psychopath who lives for money, he came out and took control of five buildings to land on the reality, and pushed the full promotion, in the agreement added when Party B's assets are not enough to pay the price of Party A's property, A Fang Ke has the right to reclaim all the fixed and unfixed assets on Party B, including certain deep exclusive assets. Including certain in-depth unique assets, Party A has the sole right to interpret this unique asset."
"This agreement would never have passed under normal circumstances, and no one would have signed it, but after the five buildings landed, many ordinary people who hadn't yet realized that Bai Liu was behind it all signed it."
Across the room, Tang Er hit a deep drag on his cigarette, "And that includes a lot of the Heresy Authority."
"They didn't even realize that they had sold their souls when they signed it, and the further back Bai Liu let the five buildings land, the wider many of the early ones that didn't sign this contract at all were forced to sell their souls to him as well."
"Su Yang was supposed to be dead, and his soul couldn't have fallen into Bai Liu's hands anyway, but five buildings in the neighborhood where Su Yang lived landed behind him ......"
The person across from him was quiet for a split second, not realizing that his cigarette burned his hand as he muttered, "This copy of the five buildings can turn dead people into ghostly states of existence, and as long as there are living conscious souls, they can trade souls with Bai Liu."
"The dead Su Yang was thus, robbed of her soul by Bai Liu."
"Bai Liu's skill can't use the unconscious soul of a dead person, and it's certainly impossible to not be able to use a dead person's system panel, I originally thought that Su Yang was relieved when she died, but I didn't think that ......" his obscure gaze shifted downward to look at the handcuffs that hung from the the cold shackles on his own wrists, "I never dreamed that these handcuffs would be used on me."
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 02/03/2025 11:00