Chapter 417: First World Line

Bai Liu stood on the highest step of the temple, Lu Yizhan held Fang Dian in his arms and looked up in a daze, Bai Liu's expression was blurred by the collar of his shirt, which was shaken by his wind-blown long hair.

Lu Yizhan could only be seen grinning and chuckling as he said, "I'll design archive points in each worldline and drop you there."

"Ready?"

Lu Yizhan heard Fang Dian in his arms say very softly, "Ready."

Bai Liu smiled, "Then the game begins."

"Worldline 0002 landing."

Lu Yizhan only felt the temple he was standing on sink downward, everyone fell into the sea water, Fang Dian in his arms and he slowly spread out in the water, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't hold on to her hand, he unwillingly tightened his grip on Fang Dian's hands, and looked at Fang Dian who closed her eyes in the water.

...... always feel that if you let go now, you will never be able to be with her again.

The next moment when Lu Yizhan came to his senses again, he was sitting in the office of the Heresy Handling Bureau.

Lu Yizhan suddenly realized that everything around him was as familiar and unfamiliar as before, his mind was blank, he stood up and staggered two steps, vaguely feeling as if he had something important to do, but couldn't remember anything.

He had team members running by around him and when they saw him, they would nod and bow to him in greeting, "Hello, Lieutenant Lu!"

Lu Yizhan reacted slowly as he looked down at the left breast of his uniform, which had a badge on it-[First Detachment Vice-Captain: Lu Yizhan].

...... Something doesn't seem right ......

It doesn't seem like he should be a co-captain.

The co-captain is ...... who was it again?

Lu Yizhan entered the office of the captain of the first detachment with an expression of bewilderment, and the moment he pushed open the door, he saw Wu Ruishu looking back at him from behind his desk, on which there was a sign: "Captain of the First Detachment: Wu Ruishu".

"Deputy Lu, what's the matter?" Wu Ruishu pushed his eyes and asked him seriously.

Lu Yizhan shook his head in a blank expression and stepped back, hearing a strange electronic tone flash through his head:

[System alert: Desire detected, Congratulations to player Lu Yizhan for logging into the game.]

[Game loading ......]

By the time Lu Yizhan had cleared the first game with his personal skill, Seer, he was sitting in the already crowded hall with a completely stagnant expression, tears sliding down his face unconsciously.

He remembered, all of it, he remembered.

Fang Dian's existence was completely erased by Bai Liu.

The Army of the Cross Judges no longer existed in this world, he didn't even know where the rest of the team had gone, and everyone he met seemed to be enjoying this game with the Evil God who smiled as he wrote in the prophecy he had been given:

[At the 658th world line, all of you Judges will sell your souls to my derivative, Bai Liu.]

[- That will be your last world line.]

Lu Yizhan stands up on his knees, his head bowed, his eyes red--

--He's going to find Bai Liu right now and kill him.

He would never let this prophecy come true!

"Lieutenant Lu." Wu Ruishu turned to Lu Yizhan with a serious look, "Focus, we're going to search for a major heretic with a danger level close to red today, at the orphanage."

Lu Yizhan was playing games all night last night and was now a bit wilted, but nodded his head forcefully, "Yes!"

Wu Ruishu frowned and stared at Lu Yizhan for a moment, "Lu Yizhan, have you ...... been working too hard lately?"

"In one week, one man led a team to uncover 127 high-risk red level heretics, if you're having a bad day, why don't you go back to rest first?"

"No!" Lu Yizhan interrupted Wu Ruishu almost with a kind of anger, "I absolutely cannot rest!"

He's the one who knows the most about Bai Liu's plans, and if he takes a break, every single one of them could be in trouble for it.

Wu Ruishu pushed his glasses in silence, "As your captain, I still hope that you can balance your work and life reasonably, in addition, I have already compiled and sent to you the news related to the name 【Bai Liu 】 that you entrusted me to look up before."

"There's a kid named Bai Liu at the orphanage we went to today, sixteen years old, and I'm not sure it's the one you're looking for."

Lu Yizhan frowned at the sound of it, "Any pictures?"

"There are only group photos, and they're all four or five years old." Wu Ruishu says, "If you're going today, you can check them out in person."

Lu Yizhan nodded with a frown.

Wu Ruishu turned around and prepared to leave, he paused as he pushed the door open, "I sense that you harbor great ill will towards this person called [Bai Liu] that you are looking for, so I want you to properly check if this child is the person you are looking for."

"No matter what this Bai Liu person has done, but I hope that you uphold your duty as the captain of the first detachment and do not spread your hatred and malice to innocent people."

"Never use hate to make yourself look like a heretic, Lu Yizhan."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Wu Ruishu calmly pushed the door away.

Outside the door of the Love Welfare Center.

Wu Ruishu frowned as he and Lu Yizhan, along with three other members of the team, infiltrated through a side door and saw a church in the distance, with a strong odor of blood coming from it.

Lu Yizhan's heart raced as he looked at the reverse cross at the top of the church.

Wu Ruishu and he said that this love orphanage is a private orphanage, and the Heresy Handling Bureau has found out that the orphanage is probably auctioning off children and some items in stages, but what exactly is being auctioned off hasn't been found out yet, and we only know that the auctions are usually held on Wednesdays.

"Lieutenant Lu." Wu Ruishu calmly ordered, "The orphanage auction is at the back of the church, so we'll rush in and save people as our first priority, and postpone the rest."

Lu Yizhan nods.

Even if you are psychologically prepared, when Lu Yizhan rushed into the church to see all of this time are still cardiac arrest, fully dressed, human-like investor sitting down, hands and feet long and thin to unbelievable, obviously has been the appearance of a monster.

All sorts of deformed children in white christening gowns stood on the baptismal platform with candles and all sorts of blood tubes attached to them.

And the biggest source of the smell of blood was the baptismal pool behind them, which was full of blood, and blood curled around a teenager with his wrists slit, obviously dripping blood.

Lu Yizhan threw himself into the battle of the investor monsters without saying a word.

Wu Ruishu, on the other hand, jumped onto the stage, and after letting the other members of the team evacuate the children who were still able to move, he lowered his head, took the child out of the baptismal pool, and darted outside with a face full of anxiety: "Call an ambulance!"

That weak teenager curled up in Wu Ruishu's arms opened one eye, and his voice was so dry and hoarse that he couldn't hear the original voice: "Uncle ......, are you here to save me?"

"It's going to be okay soon." Wu Ruishu's jaw tightened in quick reassurance, "You'll never be okay again."

Lu Yizhan's mind was suddenly empty, and he heard the evil gods raining down prophecies and oracles in his ears:

[The derivative of the evil god pretends to be weak and curls up in the arms of the good judgmental army that has lost its memory, what a righteous soul, he shows a greedy smile-]

[So he stole the other guy's soul.]

Lu Yizhan's pupils narrowed to a tiny dot as he heard the boy say weakly, "This is all the money I have left, I'll give it all to my uncle."

"Thank you uncle for saving me."

Wu Ruishu took the money in order to appease the boy, "You're welcome, it's what I should do."

This bloodied child suddenly hooked his mouth, "Then please uncle take the money."

"Just sell me your soul."

Lu Yizhan turned and drew his gun, pointing it at the boy, hissing, "Wu Ruishu! Let me kill him!"

"He's the Bai Liu I'm looking for!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yizhan fired without hesitation, and Wu Ruishu instantly curled up his body and wrapped it around Bai Liu in his arms, using his own body to shield Bai Liu from the shot.

Blood splatters erupted from his back.

Bai Liu jumped lightly out of Wu Ruishu's arms as he fell to the ground, raising an eyebrow and holding up a soul bill to the slack-eyed Lu Yizhan, then with a light chuckle as if in mockery, he logged into the game and disappeared, leaving behind only one sentence:

"Stupid lord who thinks he can save everything."

Lu Yizhan carried Wu Ruishu on his back and ran outside, he ran very fast, sweat and tears sliding down his forehead together: "Captain Wu, hold on a little longer, the ambulance will be here soon."

"But it's useless, isn't it." Wu Ruishu suddenly smiled very weakly, "I remember Lu Yizhan, I just went to the temple when I made a successful deal with Bai Liu, Bai Liu unsealed my memory and made me remember everything."

"I see my soul beginning to petrify."

Wu Ruishu s voice grew lighter and lighter, "...... Bai Liu is so cunning, it s too unfair for you to be the only one who remembers it all."

"It's been hard on you, Lu Yizhan."

Lu Yizhan grits his teeth, "It's all my fault, I'm sorry, if I had realized earlier that that baby was Bai Liu, it wouldn't have been ......"

Wu Ruishu interrupted Lu Yizhan: "I don't regret saving him."

Lu Yizhan stalled.

"When I was saved by Fang Dian, I was also a bad boy within my family, our whole family gave up on me, they all said that I had no value to save, and that I would surely go to jail in the future, so I might as well use my blood to make Blood Ganoderma to make my father live forever, it's still the only contribution I can make." Lu Yizhan could feel the blood in front of Wu Ruishu's chest behind himself haloing warmly on his back, stopping him with a mute voice: "Stop it!"

Wu Rui was still smiling as he continued, "But the Fang team still saved me."

"She and I said how do you know if someone is a good guy or a bad guy if you haven't gotten them down."

"There is no good or bad in the dead."

"Since that time, I've hoped that I could be like the Fonz, and one day handsomely save those who are judged to be worthless to save."

Wu Ruishu's voice was so light that it sounded like it was going to dissipate in the next second: "...... If I had to do it all over again, I would still save him too."

"What if Bai Liu from this Worldline is a good kid?"

"I'd like to believe he was the good guy until he killed me and was the bad guy."

Wu Ruishu's voice finally stops, and he closes his eyes, slowly sliding off the top of Lu Yizhan's shoulders:

"...... Don't change your beliefs because of hate."

"Good will surely triumph over evil."

Lu Yizhan's expression blanked out as he fell motionless to his knees, next to the fallen Wu Ruishu, as a system beep sounded in his ears.

[System alert: Inquisitor Wu Ruishu's soul is petrified, confirmed dead, disqualified from the game.]

[Pre-Death Inquisitor Wu Ruishu transfers his rule skill (Taiji Bagua) to player Lu Yizhan.]]