Chapter 413: First World Line
While Lu Yizhan was about to wait for Cen Buming to calm down and have a peaceful conversation with his opponent, he heard that Cen Buming had requested a [Fair Judgment] duel with Fang Dian.
Fair Adjudication is a method of adjudication within the Heretic Handling Bureau. When two or more people are competing for a certain position or task, the [Crucible Judgment Army] will give the question, and ten randomly selected players from the Heretic Handling Bureau will act as a jury to complete the process of solving the question, avoiding both sides from cheating.
Whoever solves the puzzle first, gets the task or position.
This was basically how the members of the [Army of the Cross] were selected, so Fang Dian approved it with alacrity.
Lu Yizhan got his questions quickly.
We will randomly select one of the red danger level heretics currently in the Heretic Authority's custody to be placed in the grounds, and all you have to do is to collect it alone within half an hour, and whoever completes the collection process first will be granted a seat in the Crusader Army.
Of course, this process will have a certain degree of danger, the trial army will have members on the side of the supervision, such as in the event of an emergency need to ask for help, members will promptly come down to the field to help the helpers, while the helpers do abstain from the treatment.
Lu Yizhan's gaze sank for a moment after he picked up the question - Dry Leaf Rose was nothing more than a red danger level heretic.
This question tests something obvious, is to test their familiarity with the weaknesses of heretics, the ability to adapt to the scene, and perhaps ...... a certain psychological quality.
Cen Buming did not hesitate to submit his consent form on the day the exam questions came out.
The next day Lu Yizhan also filed.
On the third day, the examination was officially launched, the member of the Crusader Army who came to be the safety officer to observe the examination was called Yu Fu, a female member, responsible for the team's medical accidents, the team's healing bit, very good at using the scalpel and surgical thread, very gentle and sweet-looking, long-shouldered hair, always wearing close-fitting white coats, and sometimes wearing a nurse's uniform.
The body is very good, so good that Lu Yizhan, who doesn't care much about this area, has heard about it (meaning he heard his roommate shouting her name in his dreams), is the team flower of the Heretic Management Bureau, and the heterosexual team members who have crushes on her can form a long queue that circles around the General Administration within the Bureau, and she is the dream girl of many, but no one dares to chase after her at the moment.
Although Yu Fu looks at everyone with a holy light and worried look, the first thing he says to people is usually: why are you hurt again, come on let me show you.
But the members of the team who were treated like this by her were usually springing to their feet while shivering and excusing themselves by saying Ms. Yu, no need.
Yu Fu would hold his face and gently smile, saying, "I'm a doctor, isn't it my duty to treat you all, and then drag the screaming team members who are clinging to the floor and don't want to go inside in for treatment.
After an intense healing process, the team member crawls out of Yu Fu's treatment room, cured but dying, and Yu Fu smiles as he removes his blood-stained mask and scrubs and waves to the team member, saying, "Next time, come again~".
Yu Fu has a bizarre habit of treating people and doesn't like to use anesthesia.
A Fang captain, who wished to remain anonymous, once asked Yu Fu why she didn't like anesthesia, as every treatment caused her excruciating pain, and Yu Fu looked at the Fang captain and smiled gently, saying that if it was too easy, people wouldn't remember how to avoid harm.
Only pain, only deep pain, will make one remember not to make the same mistake next time.
Pain doesn't kill, but mistakes do.
The person who came to release the heretics on the day of the trial was Fang Dian, and the venue for the release was the Heresy Handling Bureau's field practicum site.
Lu Yizhan, when he was a trainee, also used to deal with the various heretics released by his instructors to work on them, a field heresy practicum for the trainees of the Heresy Handling Bureau.
The heretics released at that time were all less dangerous, the highest being orange, and the instructor leading them at that time was still Dong Chenglong.
But now everything has changed.
Lu Yizhan puts on his protection and holsters the gun on his belt, and he looks away from Cen Buming, who is also wearing protection, at the other end of the room.
Yu Fu walked over to them and introduced them to their jury members, there were four from Detachment 3, three from Detachment 2, one from Detachment 1, and finally two trainees who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
Lu Yizhan looked over in slight surprise, and the gentle smile on Yu Fu's face became a bit helpless, "The Fang team stuffed them over on a whim, she said that the quality of the trainees in this term is very good, and that they can get in touch with the battlefield a bit earlier, so she chose two of them to come over to watch the show, oh no, to watch the battle."
"Sorry, just slipped my tongue a bit." Yu Fu covered his mouth and laughed softly, "You guys won't mind, right?"
Lu Yizhan: "......"
Cen Buming: "......"
We don't really mind too much, Team Metaphor.
The third team was more cowering, backing away after giving Lu Yizhan a boost, Cen Buming instead kept talking to the second team, one of whom was the same second team that Lu Yizhan had seen visiting him in the ward earlier, telling him that it was the Crusaders of Judgement that had killed his alienated teammate.
The man taps Cen Buming on the shoulder and says something to Cen Buming with a complicated expression.
Lu Yizhan A flicker of alienation passed through his heart when he saw this scene.
...... Normal Heresy Authority Team 2 members would use [Cross Judgment Army] to kill people like this?
Both trainees seemed to realize that they weren't very popular and looked a little rushed and tight, the slightly taller trainee was the first to step forward and introduce himself, "Tang Er fight, sixteen years old, current ambition is team two, I want to kill all the heretics in the world that hurt people."
The other took a deep breath and introduced himself as well, "Su Yang, sixteen years old, current aspirations are for the third team."
As the senior of the third team, Lu Yizhan smiled nicely at Su Yang with a good temper, "The third team is good to enter, go for it, you will be able to."
Su Yang breathed a long sigh of relief and coyly nodded to Lu Yizhan, "Thank you, senior brother."
On the contrary, Cen Buming came back, hugged his chest, sorrowfully glanced at the trainer named Tang Er and sneered, "Team 2 does not welcome over-ambitious fools who open their mouths to save the world."
I vaguely remember when Cen Buming volunteered for the same thing Lu Yizhan : "......"
Tang Er raised an eyebrow and opened her mouth to retort, but Yu Fu stopped her, she smiled at Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming, "Enough of the pleasantries, let's go in."
Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming exchanged glances, Cen Buming turned his face away coldly first and entered the training ground, Lu Yizhan checked his attire and entered as well.
The wild training ground is full of artificial mist, both shrubs and low grass bushes, the whole vision is not open at all, and the field is also buried everywhere in the camera and broadcasting speakers, uninterruptedly broadcasting ear-piercing insects and bird chirping, so that you can not hear the sound of the heretic approaching to scrape the grass and trees, so that it can be said that from the hearing and sight double blocked the observation.
All that could be relied upon at this time was familiarity with the Heretic, and one's own combat reflexes.
Lu Yizhan crouched down on the grass, he lowered his head to sniff the mucus on a blade of grass, it had a distinctive fishy odor, little milky white pathetic lumps that smelled like mucus secreted by human eyes, Lu Yizhan carefully stuck out the tip of his tongue and licked it after a brief test of non-toxicity with his instrument.
Bitter and slightly salty, much like the taste of tears.
There are over a hundred heretics with eyes, and about 32 heretics who shed tears.
Characteristics locked, and judging next by the method of attack, Lu Yizhan drew a forked probe and began cautiously tapping the surrounding grass from below.
Excluding the 6 plant-like heresies that grow from below, then the animal heresies come next.
Yu Fu, who stood indoors looking at the large screen, showed a slightly appreciative smile, "Very skilled in theory, and the detection program was well done."
"But this side ...... " Tang Er hit with a slightly resigned look at the monitor reflecting Cen Buming, "This one called Cen Buming seems to have found it. "
"How can it be so fast ......" Yu Fu turned his head to look over, then his face changed, "How could Cen Buming use this? Who gave this to him?!"
In Cen Buming's hand was a mirror about the size of his hand, and he was using the reflection to find somewhere where a piece of something was writhing and he was about to walk over to investigate.
And as you can see from the surveillance, the back of the mirror has a hidden piece of a positive cross in relief.
But Yu Fu knew that it was because Cen Buming had taken it the other way around, and I don't know what the man who gave it to him said, but the mirror was supposed to have a reverse cross in relief on the front and back.
--This is Bai Liu's thing called the Mo Fei Theoretical Magic Mirror, which allows a man to see his worst fears.
Without hesitation, Yu Fu pressed the alarm bell: "The examination is aborted! Call the Captain of the Army of the Cross!"
A hurried, panicked reply came through the contact's electric current clattering, "The party can't get through for now!"
"The General Directorate is rioting! I don't know what caused all the heretics to flee out at the same time! The Crucified Judgment Army is urgently dealing with the incident, so please ask the metaphorical team to deal with it on their own over there first!"
Yu Fu hung up the contact, she closed her eyes, then opened them and swept a glance at the eight team members and the two trainees behind her whose faces appeared to be in awe, and calmly ordered, "Later I will go into the training ground to take in the heretics, you guys stay here honestly, and don't move easily no matter what happens."
"Especially don't look in the mirror."
She donned her uniform and took off at a brisk run toward the training grounds, talker in hand, "Cen Buming, face down and lower the mirror you're holding-"
Inside the training ground.
All the amplified speakers around Cen Buming turned into ear-piercing current zips in a flash, and after he couldn't hear anything from the control room, Cen Buming gripped the mirror in his hand vigilantly and looked at the heretic with his back turned to him, took two steps back, closed his eyes and hid himself in the grass and stopped moving.
With weeping eyes, copious eye secretions, and a massive entity, Cen Buming judged what this heresy was almost instantly upon seeing it.
Heresy 0573, Eyeball Tun Food.
This heretic's entire body is covered in eyeballs, the reason for their formation is unknown, and as soon as any one of them sees your eyes, your eye sockets will empty in an instant while your eyeballs appear in its body.
But this is not the most dangerous part of this heresy, the most dangerous part of this heresy is that this eyeball is not dead, the eyeball that was taken away by the [eyeball tunnels food] retains its neural connection and body consciousness, that is to say, this eyeball still looks like it's growing on your body, and it can still see the things that you see, and you will still feel the pain if this eyeball that belongs to you that is growing on the [eyeball tunnels food] is attacked. .
And if all the eyeballs on this [Eyeball Tun Food] see your eyes at the same time, then they will parasitize you in an instant.
No one knows what happens to the host after being parasitized, but the screams of agony from the last person who was parasitized still exist in the Heresy Authority's sound archives, Cen Buming It was heard to be an unrelenting agony, and every host who was parasitized didn't live more than an hour before they died in excruciating agony.
The weakness of this heresy is also obvious; when you don't confront it, it naturally can't detect you.
Cen Buming hid in the grass with his eyes tightly shut, he could feel the heretic wriggling his huge massed limbs full of eyeballs closer to him, and seemed to be rotating the tens of thousands of eyes on his body by himself searching for where the eyeballs were on his face.
But it was clear that the other side hadn't found it and was ready to leave again.
Cen Buming's breathing slowly became lighter and he was ready to step back, but suddenly, as if seeing something, the heretic darted closer to him again, Cen Buming's heart tightened, but soon he realized what the problem was -
The ortho-cross mirror in his hand had somehow rotated into an inverse cross, with the mirror just facing [EYE TUNE FOOD], and [EYE TUNE FOOD] saw his own reflection in the mirror, and assumed that it was the eyeballs frantically running over to him!
Cen Buming flings the mirror out of his hand with a split second's notice.
The moment the mirror was out of his hand, it flipped in the air and transformed several times larger to land steadily on the ground, turning into a carved antique mirror the size of a dresser, and where the mirror fell, the direction it was facing was vaguely mapping Lu Yizhan's silhouette, who was running over in the distance.
By the time Lu Yizhan saw the mirror that had eerily appeared in the wrong part of the examination ground, even if he had been sharp enough to dodge it in the next second, he had already been completely illuminated.
Ripples and ripples appeared in the center of the mirror's mercury surface, spreading out in all directions in a circle, and the mirror reflected a person who looked completely different from anyone else on the field.
Wearing leather boots that wrapped up to his calves, a white shirt on the inside that Lu Yizhan had seen that night, and a black whip in his hand, he smiled as he stepped through the mirror into the training arena, and gave Lu Yizhan a grinning greeting, "Thanks for summoning me here with your fear."
Lu Yizhan His pupils shrank as he quickly realized what this mirror could do.
This man used his fear and this mirror to get right inside the Heresy Processing Bureau!
A silver sharp scalpel flew from Bai Liu's back, Bai Liu slightly dipped to avoid it, the scalpel directly penetrated the Mo Fei Magic Mirror, the huge force knocked the mirror to the ground, directly cracked.
Bai Liu smiled back, "The metaphorical examiner is still so good at destroying my personal belongings."
Yu Fu likewise smiled gently and relatably, "Mr. Bai Liu is still so good at using underhanded plots and tricks as well."
"Now even the fears of our trainee team members are being exploited." Yu Fu closed her eyes from looking at everything in the arena, the smile on her face clouded, "You've been setting this up since the time of Daeron's death?"
"If you're talking about the current riots at the Heresy Handling Bureau and the fact that I'm here as a guest now." Bai Liu smiled with an eight winds immovable smile, "Indeed, Team Metaphor."
"It's only interesting when one game closely follows another, isn't it?"
Yu Fu was calm for a long time before he spoke, "What game are you going to play with me?"
"The game between a quality player like Team Metaphor and me is going to be saved for last." Bai Liu sidestepped as he smiled at Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming who were standing not far away, "How about, first, letting your Crusader's reserve players try a game with me, the villainous big bad you've been targeting for a long time?"
"Let me, the big, bad man, make the selection myself-"
Bai Liu smiles, "Let's see who qualifies to play the next round of games with me."
Yu Fu raised his hand and shot out another scalpel, Bai Liu smiled and raised his hand, a fluctuating water wall was erected in front of him, engulfing the scalpel shot by Yu Fu, and allowing Yu Fu to vaguely see the scene on the other side of the wall.
Bai Liu smiles and looks to Yu Fu behind the watery wall : "Best seat in the house for game viewing, Team Yu."
"Since you are new players, let's play a simple game-" Bai Liu clapped his hands and turned his head to look at Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan behind him, chuckling lightly, " This game is called Please Open Your Eyes When It's Dark."
"The rules of the game are I count one, two, three, say it's dark, and then whoever opens their eyes first wins."
"This game will be played by you two rookie players, along with the so-called Heretic [0573], and I'll have it and you both close all eyes and sit down facing each other."
Bai Liu's afterimage glanced at Cen Buming preparing to rush over and attack him, he raised his hand slightly without any change in color, a small water ripple wall appeared in front of his hand, the scalpel that Yu Fu had just shot into the water ripple wall and disappeared now came out from the water ripple wall and went straight through Cen Buming's shoulder blade, nailing him to the ground.
Cen Buming couldn't control his anger and tried to open his eyes when Lu Yizhan's calm voice suddenly came to his ears, "We'll play with you."
"How's that for a win?"
Bai Liu's eyes swept to Lu Yizhan, who also had his eyes closed at the moment, and the smile on his face became amused again, "It's very simple, as long as one of you opens your eyes before the Heretic [0573] the moment I say it's getting dark, you win."
"But it also means that one of you is bound to lose one of your own eyes."
Bai Liu propped up his jaw as if he was pondering thoughtfully, the smile on his face deepening, "The player who lost his eyes won the game and protected another person, which is of course great, but at the same time, that person will never be able to join the [Army of the Cross Judgment] again."
"-and even have to quit the Heresy Handling Bureau for good, becoming a protected, worthless piece of common trash."
Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming's breath caught.
"So-" Bai Liu said with a slight smile, "the game is on, it's dark and time to go to bed, all eyeballs please close your eyes."
The eyeballs on top of Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan's face seem to be hypnotized by Bai Liu's words and close one after another.
"Now on the count of one, two, three, werewolves please open your eyes."
Cen Buming, who was nailed to the ground by the scalpel, opened his crimson eyes with hardly any hesitation, but before he could see that [Eyeball Tun Food], a man darted up and stood in his way, right in front of the monster full of eyeballs.
Cen Buming's mind went blank; all he heard was a "buzzing" sound, like something being dug out, and a steady stream of blood dripped from the left side of Lu Yizhan's face, seeping into the grass around him.
"Now that the game is over, do I count as a winner?" Lu Yizhan asked in a hoarse voice.
Bai Liu looked over to Lu Yizhan, who was blocking Cen Buming's face, and raised an eyebrow slightly as he smiled, "Count yourself as a winner."
Lu Yizhan was breathing heavily, his right eye closed tightly and his left eye open, already gouged out, with only broken blood vessels seeping through the empty socket in a steady stream and dripping down his jaw.
"That was quite a nice warm-up game." Bai Liu snapped his fingers and the wall of water ripples that stood between Yu Fu and him fell away as he turned to Yu Fu and said with a grin, "Now it's the turn of the official game, Team Metaphor."
He snapped his fingers again, and the ten members of the [Jury] who had been watching the battle in the communication room appeared in the training ground.
"Has Team Yu ever played Werewolf Kill?" Bai Liu took a step towards the group, the smile on his face growing friendlier, "It's a game I really like."
"Now let's play a variant version of Werewolf Killing called [Please Open Your Eyes When It's Dark], which again has different rules from the game we just played."
"Since Lu Yizhan and Cen Buming, the two new players, just cleared the first game, let them be the audience for now, and just let us twelve players play the rest of the game."
Bai Liu looked up as he smiled, "One of your twelve players has a heretic, a god card, and that god card is Team Metaphor, the rest of you are villager cards."
"You may choose to sacrifice yourselves and allow the heretics to parasitize you; successfully harbor the heretics and the game is over."
"-Or, you can choose to actively become a werewolf and kill the god card or slaughter all the villagers in the darkness of the night, game over after the slaughter side."
The smile on Bai Liu's lips became mesmerized, "Either way you choose, you don't have to worry about the consequences because the judge, that's me, will erase everyone's memories after dark, and everyone won't remember killing anyone, nor will the rest of the people, and you'll still be able to stay in the Heretic Authority as an innocent survivor of the game. "
"-or, after becoming a werewolf you can choose to leave with me, away from this dangerous Heresy Authority, and become an evil villain who is free and dangerous to others."
"Bai Liu--!!!" Cen Buming braced his wounded shoulder and tried to stand up.
Bai Liu head without looking back gently raised his hand, water ripple wall partitioned in front of them, he said with a light smile, "--This is a wall that can isolate all attacks, the attacks of heretics are also ineffective in the space behind the wall, so you can also look straight at the heretics 0573 behind the wall. "
"Now stay well back as a spectator and watch this."
Lu Yizhan felt himself being pulled downward by something, and sat down forcibly on the ground, tilting his head back to look at what was behind the watery wall, whose blurring made everything unreal, and for a moment he drifted off into a trance, feeling as if he were a viewer looking at a small television.
It's ridiculous.
Tang Er fights a face full of anger and refuses, "Are you fucking shit? I'm not going to play this game with you!"
Yu Fu calmly ordered, "Trainee Tang Er to fight and match his game."
Tang Er hit turned his head violently to look at Yu Fu, and finally clenched his back teeth and lowered his head, obeying the order, "...... Yes, Team Yu."
Bai Liu smiled and said, "So the game begins, it's dark, all eyeballs please close your eyes."
Everyone's eyes closed, including Heretic0573's.
Bai Liu's eyes swept over the three members of the second detachment whose hands were trembling as he spoke with a smirk, "Now, ask the werewolf to open his eyes."
As Cen Buming watched incredulously, the three Second Detachment members opened their eyes one after the other, and hesitantly, slowly, they stood up, gripped the guns behind their waists, and hesitantly walked up to Yu Fu, raising their guns and aiming them at her.
Yu Fu's breathing was rapid for a moment, then quickly calmed down, his voice so light that it was barely audible, but still clear and smooth:
"...... Bai Liu, the riot at the Heresy Disposal Bureau, did you turn the head of the second detachment to get him to release all the heretics?"
"From before the Rose Factory, you turned the people of the Second Detachment, you intentionally let the people of the Second Detachment's First Regiment to go to the Rose Factory to check it out, induced Captain Dong Chenglong to go there and killed him there, and at the same time, you intentionally released Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan, through Lu Yizhan's fear of your planted Then through the second team's people, they gave Cen Buming Mo Fei the magic mirror and successfully landed inside the Heresy Disposal Bureau, didn't they?"
Cen Buming's breathing stopped.
...... Yes, when the people from the second team came to see him before, they gave him a mirror with a positive cross back carving, saying that it was a relic related to the [Positive Cross Judgement Army] left to him by the Dong team, which could be used to detect heretics, and they hoped that he would use it properly.
-Don't let down Team Dong's hard work in rescuing him out.
He never, never thought that everything he had suffered for from the beginning until now was just a game made between this Bai Liu and the people of the second detachment, and he was just an npc in the game.
Bai Liu replied with a smile, "Yes, what a smart metaphorical team, but I followed the rules of the game with the party and did not forcefully land on the Heresy Authority."
"Not everyone has such strong ideals as the people in the [Army of the Cross Judgment], many just want to be ordinary people."
"But there are so many desires in the common man that it is too easy to satisfy and betray them, and I am truly incredulous at the degree of trust you attach to them-"
"-Evil and lust, after all, have a natural attraction for humans."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes to look at Yu Fu and whispered as if sighing, "--Werewolves please kill."
Three members of the second team raised their guns high in the air at Yu Fu, who opened her eyes before she was shot, and before Bai Liu could say [Violate the rules of the game and kill everyone], she slashed at the heretic 0573 with her eyes closed without any hesitation.
Heretic 0573 opened all her eyes to look at Yu Fu, Yu Fu's gentle smiling eyes were empty the moment she met up with Heretic 0573, she fell to her knees to the ground, her originally good to explosive figure began to bulge and deform, and continued to grow strange shaped eyeballs, she still had that gentle and powerful smile on her face, and her tone of voice was light and elegant:
"I'll go with God's brand of self-destruction."
In the next second, Yu Fu was completely parasitized, her beautiful face was completely transformed into a stack of eyeballs, Yu Fu's mind went blank, blood kept spilling out from the side of her mouth, and she remembered Fang Dian in a trance.
The big-headed captain sat down in front of her covered in wounds and asked her, Yu Fu, what's the most annoying way you can die?
Yu Fu smiled gently and said, "Of course it hurts, Captain.
Fang Dian, while having her face twisted and wrinkled by Yu Fu's treatment, grimaced and gave her a thumbs up, revealing her eight teeth in a brilliant smile, saying Yu Fu you will only cause others to die of pain, how can you die of pain yourself!
--You're our team's healer, and I'll always protect you.
Yu Fu slowly closes her empty eyes as she opens her mouth to say something, but ultimately not a word comes out before an eyeball grows violently in her throat.
She'd always thought it was mistakes that killed.
Turns out pain can be deadly.
Bai Liu clapped his hands together as he smiled at everyone, "That was quite a nice comeback."
"A divine card blowing itself up will save everyone, worthy of the Healer Metaphor Team."
"Even the traitors want to save down--" Bai Liu looked sideways at the three Second Detachment members whose expressions were blank, and he hooked the corner of his mouth, "- -Worthy of the style of the [Orthodox Cross Judgment Army]."
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Published at: 02/18/2025 11:00