Chapter 412: First World Line

Lu Yizhan, who had never run so fast before, was panting heavily, breathing in the oxygen Dong Chenglong had hooked him up to, with the unconscious Cen Buming on his back.

Just like that, my mind went blank as I ran wildly through a field of flowers filled with rose-colored smoke.

Until the back of the man carrying the heavy sword was seen once again.

Lu Yizhan's knees weakened and he almost stumbled and fell to his knees in front of Fang Dian, who caught him with one hand.

He gasped, tears rolling unconsciously out of his eyes only now, unable to speak a word.

He heard Fang Dian ordering clearly in his ear, "Lu Yizhan, a member of the Third Detachment, led by Dong Chenglong, a member of the [Crusader Army], has successfully rescued a group of members from the Second Detachment!"

"Next--" Fang Dian looked forward to the Rose Factory with a hardened and determined gaze, she drew her heavy sword and plunged it into the ground, behind her stepped the other members of the Judgment Army, "The mission is handed over! "

"[Army of the Cross Judgment] Clear the battlefield!"

Lu Yizhan had forgotten how he got back to the Heresy Bureau, he seemed to be unconscious, but then again, he didn't, he remembered everything that had happened behind him vividly, just as if he were a stiff shell, unable to move with his soul taken out of his body.

Cen Buming was taken off his back and put on separate stretchers, and Lu Yizhan was only in his hospital bed for half a day before he pulled himself up and went back to the main office.

The entire Heresy Bureau was in a state of disarray, filled with members of the team who had been carried back with roses reflecting in their pupils, wilting and withering in agony.

Every step Lu Yizhan took while holding onto the wall, he felt as if he was stepping on a flower petal that had withered from the flesh and blood, and his ears were filled with heartbreaking wails and cries of pain, as if he were in hell on earth.

The end of the world seems to be coming next.

And Fang Dian is the one who will stop the end of the world.

She was like a lynch pin, calming everyone down upon her return, Fang Dian stood in the center of everyone's line of sight with her bloodstained heavy sword held up, looked up and said, "We took care of the rose factory, and now we've found a way to house the dried leaf rose Wa Si as well."

"Get a couple of mentally competent team members over here who won't be easily driven mad by heresy, we need to pick up the antidote to the dry leaf rose Wa Si quickly."

A dozen players raised their hands to sign up, and Lu Yizhan was the first to do so.

Lu Yizhan followed behind Fang Dian who was striding quickly with his head down, he opened his mouth several times and finally asked the question he had been wanting to know the answer to, "Team Fang, is Team Dong ...... back?"

Dian Fang's grip on her heavy sword tightened violently as she bowed her head, her hair falling over her forehead so that her expression was unreadable, "Back."

It was not long before Lu Yizhan realized in what way Dong Chenglong had returned.

Lu Yizhan's face was devoid of expression, his eyes lax as he looked at the corpse of Dong Chenglong in the heretic's storage room he had just fought through, pierced through the heart by thousands of thorns, his eyes, which had always been angrily open, had turned grayish-white, and his mouth was wide open.

"Heresy 6071, Rose Dried Leaf Wa Si, Internment: the body of [Crusader Judgment Army] member Dong Chenglong."

Fang Dian paused for a moment and continued, "Weakness and how to alleviate it, the weakness is the heart, the alleviation is done by stripping the rose thorn segments that grow from its corpse and letting the team member contaminated by the dried rose leaves Wa Si swallow them."

"The Heresy Handling Bureau has one hundred and twelve members contaminated by rose-scented water, please cut open the body of Captain Dong Chenglong now and strip the thorns from his body to send it to the hospital there for the contaminated members to swallow."

Dian Fang paused again as she said, "Don't tell the team members where this thorn came from, I'll be classifying the Rose Perfume file as a Level 1 secret later."

"Now please move at speed."

Fang Dian said and was about to leave.

Lu Yizhan hung his head and clutched the oxygen mask in his uniform pocket, which Dong Chenglong had held down on his face before he escaped and which was now deformed by his over-exerted fingers.

"Team Fang." He suddenly asked in a muffled voice, "If you had to choose between me and Team Dong to survive, who would you choose?"

Fang Dian's departing back paused, "I have no right to make that choice for you."

"Besides." She said, "Didn't Dallon already make his choice?"

"Don't question his choices in front of his dead body, and watch out for him coming alive with anger later and cursing you for thinking you're worth dying for-"

"--you're just worth it."

Lu Yizhan gritted his teeth to hold back the tears that were about to fall from his eyes, and he raised his reddened eyes as he was the first of a group of team members who were frozen in place to lift his knife to slice through Dong Chenglong's skin and cut off the thorns still writhing inside his body.

"Don't come and cut it yet!" Lu Yizhan turned to hiss out to the players who stayed put, "No spirit!"

Three days later, the Rose Factory matter had subsided.

Lu Yizhan hesitated at the corner for a long time, and when he saw Dian Fang passing by after dinner, he finally gathered the courage to walk up and held out his file flat to her, "Fang, I want to join the first team!"

Fang Dian raised an eyebrow in slight surprise, "But it's past enrollment season this year."

"I'm not going the enrollment route." Lu Yizhan slowly raised his body, "I would like to directly apply to join the [Cross Judgment Army] to fill in for Team Dong's missing position."

"It's really rare, [Cross Judgment Army] couldn't receive a single application report in previous years, but this year they actually received two." Fang Dian waved the other side of the file in her hand and smiled, "And both are highly qualified honor students."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Fang Dian said, "Besides you, Cen Buming from the second team has also submitted an application, even if we want to accept people we will accept at most one this year, do you want to discuss with each other first?"

So Lu Yizhan came to Cen Buming's hospital room.

Before stepping into Cen Buming's ward Lu Yizhan heard the sound of conversation coming from inside, starting with a young male voice with a somewhat dry timbre, "I'm the only one out of the people who went to ...... Team 2 who came back?"

--That's Cen Buming's voice.

The other voice is a bit more mature, it should be a member of the second team, the other party is silent for a while before answering, "...... The others didn't survive the test of the incense paper, and were alienated into monsters and killed by the [Crucifixion Judgement Army] before they lasted until we got there."

After a breathless silence, the other man seemed to tap Cen Buming on the shoulder, "Cheer up." Then pushed open the door and walked out.

Lu Yizhan waited until the man came out, just wanted to go in, he heard an extremely stoic and heart-breaking shouts and cries coming from the ward, like the sound of putting your head into a cup and hissing in a muffled voice while frantically and desperately hammering on the bed to vent your emotions, and then after venting it turned into a very small sobbing sound.

Lu Yizhan waiting outside the door about to knock: "......"

He could understand this process of emotional change, after all, he had just gone through it the other day and cried with a much more spiritual voice than this fellow Cen Buming.

But after twenty minutes, when the voices inside didn't stop, Lu Yizhan began to seriously think whether he had come at a bad time today, and as a result, just as he turned to leave, he stepped on a piece of warped tile, and with a crunching sound, he heard Cen Buming ask alertly, "Who's outside the door? "

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Lu Yizhan pushed Cen Buming's door open pretending that he had just arrived, "Hello, fellow Cen Buming, I'm the other person competing with you for the alternate slot [in the Army of the Cross Judgement], I'm Lu Yizhan from Team 3."

Lu Yizhan kindly extends his hand to Cen Buming.

Cen Buming swept his eyes coldly and did not take Lu Yizhan's hand, "You're the one who scored two points higher than me on the written test."

Lu Yizhan, sensing a hint of gunpowder in the other party's wording, felt that his visit was probably not well-timed, so he sighed inwardly and replied, "Yes, it's just a coincidence."

"That's really quite a coincidence." Cen Buming swept his gaze, his tone cold, "It just so happened that the written test happened to pass me once, and it also happened to score a perfect score, then you are usually not coincidental enough to only score seventy to eighty points--"

Lu Yizhan replied seriously to Cen Buming, "What a coincidence, if not I should be able to pass you in every exam."

Cen Buming: "......"

Seeing that Cen Buming's eyes were already red from crying and tears were about to roll out of his teeth when Lu Yizhan was so angry, Lu Yizhan scratched his head and sincerely consoled, "Eh, I really didn't mean to intentionally push you down, I thought the questions were so simple that you could score full marks as well."

"Don't you usually get full marks? How come it's 98 this time?" Lu Yizhan was genuinely puzzled.

Cen Buming, who happened to have missed two points on this written test, was so angry that his eyes began to redden and he coldly withdrew his gaze, "Get out."

Lu Yizhan also felt that it might not be a good day to talk about things, so he said to Cen Buming that you should get some rest, turned around and was ready to leave.

"Wait." Cen Buming suddenly spoke out and called out to Lu Yizhan, his voice suddenly sinking, "Just now the people from the second detachment told me that you were the first to run out of the factory and left Team Dong behind."

"Team Dong rescued me, it was my incompetent waste of time, I was unconscious at that time and couldn't assist him, but you, you obviously had the ability, why did you run away at that time?"

Cen Buming's eyeballs reddened in death as he stared at Lu Yizhan, his fists clenched tightly, "Ming Ming, if you had stayed, you might have been able to save one more of the Second Detachment's men back."

"Team Dong wouldn't have to spend so much effort protecting me and die in a place like that!"

Lu Yizhan opened his mouth to say something, realizing that Cen Buming thought that Team Dong had rescued him, and that was why he wanted to join the [Cross Trial Team].

But looking at Cen Buming's clenched back teeth, tear-stained face, extremely unwilling, hating his own incompetence to the point of wanting to kill himself, Lu Yizhan ultimately swallowed down those words of explanation - [I was carrying you on my back, I couldn't save anyone else].

"Because I'm a common waste." Lu Yizhan scratched his head and smiled, "More greedy and afraid of death, so he ran away, I guess."

Cen Buming, his eyes completely red, hissed harshly, "Coward! Deserter! Get the hell outta here!!!"

Lu Yizhan quickly closes the door to the hospital room to block Cen Buming's glass of water, pats his heart with palpitations, and walks away.

A long time later, Cen Buming asked Lu Yizhan why you didn't tell me that you carried me out. Lu Yizhan recalled, but just smiled and didn't answer Cen Buming, saying that he couldn't remember why he didn't tell me.

But at that time, after listening to Cen Buming's heartbreaking cries outside the door, Lu Yizhan just thought--

-Looking at you like that, I don't think you're going to make it if you hate yourself any more.

Might as well come hate me then.