Chapter 403: How to own five buildings
Liu Jiayi tilted her head towards [Liu Jiayi], surveying her as if scrutinizing her, "There's something strange in what you just said."
"Even if you didn't get the soul bill, with both of your abilities, especially Mu Sicheng or the movement skill, it's still not hard to run away from Bai Liu, right? Why do you have to have stolen your soul bills to run, that doesn't make sense."
"You're even open to death." Liu Jiayi pressed, "It's not possible to commit a crime here, is it?"
Liu Jiayi's movements gave a slight and unnoticeable lurch, she turned her face away, rested one hand casually on her knee, and suddenly began to play with the poison test tube as if to distract her emotions, slightly opening her mouth.
Her long, curly eyelashes were half-lowered, covering those eyes, which were clear and a little out of place, and her hair swayed gently in the wind around her ears, and she said in a very soft voice, "...... monkeys go stealing not our souls paper money."
Liu Jiayi paused, as if she sensed something, she looked up at her sharply, "Is it my brother's?!"
Liu Jiayi] spins the test tube in his hand, head bowed, expression unreadable, voice so flat that no emotion can be heard:
"...... back when Monkey and I abused him in a rage induced by Bai Liu, I gouged out his eyes and Monkey cut off his hands."
"There were no regrets, only a sense of vengeance, and then emptiness."
Liu Jiayi slowly clenches the test tube in his hand, his voice so soft that it seems to fall apart when the wind blows:
"...... an emptiness and bewilderment so long that it seems to last until we die and don't want to resurrect him, but it always feels as if ......"
Liu Jiayi curls her knees around herself, muttering, "It's as if from now on, I'll never have anyone in the world who can love me."
"We were in this void for years, and then Bai Liu found this copy of the five buildings, and he let it land, and the copy covered the monkey and his college campus back when he was domiciled there ......"
Liu Jiayi slowly raised her head, her face devoid of expression, "So the monkey and I met Liu Huai, a ghost with his eyes gouged out and his hands cut off."
Liu Jiayi pursed her lips as she asked, "And then what did he ...... tell you guys?"
"Monkey and I thought that he would swear, or else he would be so scared that he would run away or something like that, after all, when we killed him in the first place, Monkey and I were both ruthless, and he died quite a horrible death." Liu Jiayi] said here paused for a long time, as if remembered what funny things like a soft humming laugh, out of the spirit said:
"He couldn't see and didn't have hands, and he was bullied by others when he was a ghost; Monkey and I chased away the ghosts that bullied him, and he kept bowing to us and saying thank you."
"He didn't recognize us."
"Then the monkey made a sound first, he said hey Liu Huai, you have lived so la even after you died, I brought your sister to see you, and then he cried out, he cried so extraordinarily, extraordinarily miserably that the whole ghost couldn't stand up, and said how did you all die?"
"Then I said, you're the one who's dead, we're alive and well."
[Liu Jiayi] slowly buried his head into his knees, his voice muffled: "Then he laughed while crying and said that was good."
"It's good that you're alive, it doesn't matter if I die, it's good that you're alive."
"Monkey and I didn't say anything all the way back, and then he suddenly asked me, saying let's resurrect him, and I said that his soul was in Bai Liu's hands, and that there was no way we could resurrect him, and that there was no way Bai Liu would give us Liu Huai's soul."
"Monkey said, I can't stand to see this man as a ghost fucking being ridden like a bum, I'll steal it, big deal, I'll get killed."
Liu Jiayi] spoke for a long time, she looked at Liu Jiayi who looked shocked: "After the monkey was beaten, Bai Liu also approached me, but he didn't beat me, Bai Liu knew that this kind of punishment didn't mean anything to me."
She closed her eyes, "He brought Liu Huai's ghost back and threw him under Daniel's thumb and had Daniel torture him, and I watched through the glass as he was tortured in the torture chamber, screaming the whole time."
Liu Jiayi's voice was a little unsteady: "He didn't even scream like that the day he was killed by me."
"Bai Liu stood right next to me and watched with me and calmly said, Jiayi, I know it was your idea, and it won't happen again."
When she finished, the two of them fell silent together in relative silence.
Liu Jiayi exhaled and suddenly laughed out loud, "A word of advice to my little sister, don't work for Bai Liu I'm not talking about, it's not going to end well."
"But between that and the fact that I sold my soul to him too early in every worldline." [Liu Jiayi] sighed regretfully and shrugged his shoulders, "So it's just a horse's ass to talk to you now, it doesn't seem to be much use."
"That's enough chit-chat, I've touched enough fish for today, so I'll go first."
She said, stood up and patted her butt to leave, just stood up a little, was opposite Liu Jiayi pulled the corner of the clothes, [Liu Jiayi] slightly puzzled turned back: "What are you doing ......"
Liu Jiayi rushed up and hugged her tightly.
Liu Jiayi's pupils contracted slightly, then quickly dilated as she playfully tried to pull away Liu Jiayi's chest, "Hey, hey, little sister, don't just pamper a strange big sister, I'm a very cold killer, killed my own father with my own hands, and gouged out my own brother's eyeballs," she said. ......"
"I have a lot of people who love me now." Liu Jiayi interrupted [Liu Jiayi] and said quickly, "When I was in the orphanage there were a lot of people who called me little blind, no one wanted to adopt me, and my brother was always worried when he saw me, as if he was going to leave me behind at any moment."
"It's like I'm living in an atmosphere where I'm, at all times, going to be abandoned."
"But!" Liu Jiayi exclaimed, "After I met Bai Liu, there were two families who fought to have me as their daughter, there was no Daniel as you say on the team, but there was an extra big goofy guy who would buy me dresses, a goofy monkey, and a very rich young man, and I had an older brother from the regiment, and they all cried when I left the team. "
"They're all very nice to me and they all like me."
Liu Jiayi hugged [Liu Jiayi]'s neck, "So big sister, you're not unloved."
"You just haven't met them yet, live well and you always will."
"Sounds like ......" [Liu Jiayi] slowly hugged her back, letting out a soft chuckle as he lowered his head, "had a really happy life."
"You're the happiest of all the [me] stories I've heard."
She closed her eyes, "Then I'll trust you for a little while, begrudgingly."
District C.
In the midst of the rubble, Bai Liu, whose white shirt has no trace of dust or blood on it, smiles and stands opposite Bai Liu, whose body is covered in scars, the collars and corners of their shirts blown back and forth by the turbulent wind.
The building around them was slowly collapsing downwards, the reinforced concrete walls and canvas falling to the ground, smashing out countless flying dust, creating a visual effect of the ground lifting up, the sky sinking, the end coming, and the world collapsing.
The building where they were staying gave way to a channel for daylight to shine in, and the golden sunlight passed through the fine dust and smoke, striking a beam of light so bright that it was unbelievable around Bai Liu and Bai Liu, and their eyebrows were reflected in such brilliant light that they became unreal.
The mist behind them was broken.
Mu Sicheng and Liu Jiayi appeared behind Bai Liu, one with his pocket to the left and the other rubbing the back of his neck to the right, neither of them reporting on the mission.
Bai Liu didn't seem surprised to see them come back and just smiled and said, "Looks like you all didn't finish the mission."
"Xiao Ke should have gone back under the effect of a get-out-of-jail-free card, hard on him."
[Mu Sicheng] swept Bai Liu a glance, hmmm and did not really care to move away from the line of sight, yawned: "Recently slept too tired, do not have the strength to fight, so did not finish, boss you want to punish it."
Liu Jiayi's excuse was not as perfunctory, she bowed her head and took on an attitude of admitting her fault: "With Shi Qian and Yuan Guang in tow, I couldn't perform my ranged skills well, so the other party ran away, sorry, I only brought back the land certificates."
"Uh-huh." Bai Liu doesn't really care either as he smiles and asks, "Feels good to interact with your well-lived self, doesn't it?"
Both [Mu Sicheng] and [Liu Jiayi]'s faces changed slightly.
"What are you talking about, boss?" [Mu Sicheng] looked sleepily at Bai Liu, "What's going well?"
[Liu Jiayi] spat on [Mu Sicheng]'s poor acting skills in his heart while bowing his head obediently, "There was no exchange on my side, the other party resisted fiercely."
"Is that so?" Bai Liu slowly withdrew his gaze, "I thought you guys would be in a good mood in this world line."
He looked across the table at Bai Liu, the smile in his eyes growing stronger, "At least I'm in a good mood."
"It's been a long time since I've met someone so interesting and so valuable."
[Mu Sicheng]'s face sank completely.
Anyone Bai Liu has ever judged this way has either had their souls purchased by him or been tortured by him to the point of death.
-Or both of them are basically equivalent to a downfall in the eyes of [Mu Sicheng].
Behind Bai Liu slowly came out the other four members of the team, but the style of these four people and the opposite corner of the clothes are not dirty Bai Liu is not quite the same.
Tang Er fought a little better, Liu Jiayi's clothes were blackened by the poisonous mist and his face was dirty, Mu Ke and Mu Sicheng were even more miserable, almost covered in blood.
"All here." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and he hooked his mouth, "The most interesting part of this game is about to begin."
[System alert: Player Bai Liu used player Daniel's panel to use his opponent's personal weapon.]
The whip on Bai Liu's hand disappears and turns into a grass-green sniper/gun.
The moment the gun appeared, the faces of Tang Er, Mu Sicheng, and Liu Jiayi all changed.
--This is Daniel's weapon, the Soul Crusher!
"This is a gun that can shatter the soul, the player who is hit has his soul shattered, and there is no possibility of reviving again in any world line." The smile on Bai Liu's face became more and more indistinct as he raised his hand and made a "bang" gesture, "As long as you get hit like this [bang], you'll never exist again."
"The cooldown on this gun is fifteen minutes."
Bai Liu looks across the room at Bai Liu and the circus members behind him and smiles, "Bai Liu, how about we play a game."
"I have a land certificate here, so you can't end this game of five buildings by collecting all the land certificates, the only way you can end this game is if you regroup, or your opponent regroups."
"Then I'll give you two choices."
Bai Liu signaled [Liu Jiayi] with his eyes, telling her to throw the unconscious Shi Qian and Yuan Guang to the center of the two positions, then raised his gun and pointed it at them, looking at Bai Liu with a smile on his face:
"Every fifteen minutes until the end of the game, my gun will shatter a person's soul, but accordingly, you get to make the choice."
"If you choose to shatter the souls of Yuan Guang and Shi Qian, then I will give you the gun so that you can shoot them yourself, and then the game is over, you win the game, and I get what I want."
Bai Liu's gaze went back and forth between Bai Liu and the tight-faced Tang Er before they fought, "Or, you can choose not to kill them, and then I'll randomly pick one of your team members to shoot every fifteen minutes."
The moment those words fell, Tang Er hit raised the gun to his own head, his eyes red and fierce as he looked at Bai Liu and the gun in his hand.
[System Alert: Player (Rose Hunter) used the skill (Suicide Bullet)]
The silver-colored bullet passed through Tang Er's head and slid through the air in a glittering arc before striking Bai Liu's head.
Bai Liu's head was knocked sideways in the air.
His white shirt was stained with blood for the first time, and then the man squared his head back as if nothing had happened, tapping his finger on the muzzle of the gun on his temple, and after letting [Liu Jiayi] cast a healing skill on him, his smile didn't change in the slightest as he continued, "Alright, your turn is over, the Suicide Bullet's skill is on its cooldown, and it's my turn next. "
Bai Liu raised the gun and pointed it down at Bai Liu, who had no emotion on his face: "Choose."
"The countdown has begun ......5, 4, 3, 1, time's up."
Bai Liu raised his gun to Mu Sicheng and without hesitation was about to pull the trigger.
Mu Sicheng suddenly stepped out, he held the muzzle of his gun and raised his head to look at Bai Liu very, very deeply: "Boss, forget it."
Bai Liu swept him a slanted glance and suddenly laughed softly, "That's funny, it's the first time I've seen you plead for your other self."
"What's the reason?"
[Mu Sicheng] took two deep breaths, "It's not like they have any interests with us, there's no need to go this far."
"Is that the reason?" The smile on Bai Liu's face became playful, his eyes half-closed, "I thought it was, [at least it showed me that there was a world line where I got the friends I wanted] such a reason?"
Mu Sicheng] stood still for two seconds, he slowly raised his bloodshot eyes to Bai Liu: "Even if I think so, what's wrong with that?"
"At least one of the worldlines let them off the hook, Bai Liu, you've got so much already, allow others to have a little too."
Before [Mu Sicheng]'s words fell, his two hands instantly turned into monkey claws, attacking Bai Liu's throat with intense killing intent.
Bai Liu pressed his shoulders to avoid it, he lowered his eyes, as if in pity and as if sadly, he locked eyes with Mu Sicheng: "Once one possesses superfluous feelings, one inevitably turns into a lowly animal with overflowing values."
"There's not a lot of existential value left."
Bai Liu gripped [Mu Sicheng]'s shoulder with one hand, and with one hand, he aimed the Soul Shattering Gun at [Mu Sicheng]'s abdomen, and--
"Bang--"
"Monkey!" [Liu Jiayi]'s pupils shrunk.
Blood splattered on the corner of Bai Liu's eye.
[Mu Sicheng]'s pupils instantly dilated, the part of him that had been hit by the gunshot turned grayish-white in an instant, spreading rapidly around his body as if on fire, and he half-kneeled on the ground, haltingly, convulsively letting out two dry, hoarse hisses.
Bai Liu pulled out a soul bill that had been crushed along with [Mu Sicheng] from his glove, and it featured none other than Mu Sicheng, who was crimson in the corner of his eye.
The banknotes slowly crumbled into ashes along with [Mu Sicheng].
Bai Liu let go of the soulful bill that had dissipated into powder and said flatly, "Good work, Mu Sicheng."
Liu Jiayi] looked at the pile of ashes, her hands and mouth were shaking, her eyes were red to the point where she was about to burst into tears, and on impulse, she took two steps forward with a blank mind.
The sniper/rifle in Bai Liu's hand instantly turned into a dagger and silently affixed itself to her neck.
He raised his eyes and gazed at [Liu Jiayi] without waves or ripples, "Jiayi, I said this would be the last time."
The cold touch of the dagger caused [Liu Jiayi] to come clear for a moment.
--This is Liu Huai's dagger.
Bai Liu was reminding her that Liu Huai was still in his hands.
[Liu Jiayi] clenched his fists and tried his best to control the composure of his expression, then gritted his teeth to stabilize his trembling voice line and lowered his head to respectfully say, "...... Yes."
"Alright." Bai Liu turned his head to look across the room at the team that was almost too quiet to make a single sound, the exact same grin on his face as before, as if the pile of ash in front of him wasn't a member of the team he'd just killed, "My team just bought you another fifteen minutes of thinking time."
"Bai Liu, you have fifteen minutes to choose who to kill."
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Published at: 02/08/2025 11:00