Chapter 418: First World Line

Less than a week after Wu Ruishu's death, Lu Yizhan found that the blood reishi circulating from the Love Welfare Institution had spread all over the world at a strange speed. Lu Yizhan, no matter how much he tried to stop them and tell them that they could not plant the blood reishi, which was watered with children's blood, was a very dangerous heresy.

And these people who grow it just lazily look at Lu Yizhan , and say, what, is it watered with children's blood? We thought it was pig's blood, but we really don't know anything.

--I just know it's worth a lot of money.

No one cooperated with Lu Yizhan's investigation, and even if Lu Yizhan had searched for all the Ganoderma lucidum, they would have hidden a lot of spores, and then cultivated the Ganoderma lucidum again.

It is as if the world has been invisibly forged by the Blood Ganoderma into a blood vessel, channeling the young lives of the poor and abandoned children through the bloodstream to the rich investors.

These children will also be grateful to the investors for nurturing them and giving them a good life before they are selected as "blood bags".

And no matter how much Lu Yizhan tries to stop it, to cut the vein, there are countless people who try to keep it running, and most of the time they even despise Lu Yizhan's insensitivity and stupidity, and they look at Lu Yizhan with a kind of haughty look in their eyes, and say -

--Do you have any idea how valuable this stuff is?

Those selected [blood bags] didn't say anything, what do you care about what you love?

Most of the children who are chosen [for the blood bags] get to live a pretty high standard of living, so they're happy most of the time and don't fight back at all, just a little bit of pain every week, and all week they get to eat good food, play with fun toys, and sleep in a very soft bed.

"Mr. Investor is nice." A child with several pinholes in his hands and a thin face looks at Lu Yizhan and smiles sweetly, "He will buy us milk candy."

Lu Yizhan stood alone outside the orphanage in silence, he looked up at the sign of the orphanage for a long time, the daylight almost blinding him a little as he heard a beeping tone in his ear.

[System alert: 0002 Worldline contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

[The Crusaders lost the game.]

Third World Line:

[System alert: Inquisitor Ren Yushin's soul is petrified, confirmed dead and disqualified from the game.]

[Before death Inquisitor Ren Yushin transfers his Rule Skill (Memory Folding) to player Lu Yizhan.]

[System alert: 0003 Worldline contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

......

Fourth World Line:

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

[Before death Inquisitor Sulan transfers his Rule Skill (Worldline Overlap) to player Lu Yizhan].

[System alert: 0004 world line contaminated, game over, archive point generated.]

......

By the time the Fifth World Line failed, the Inquisitors were dead leaving only Lu Yizhan and the other two Inquisitors, and he headed back to the Temple after that tournament.

Bai Liu sat at the card table propping his jaw up and smiling at him, surrounded by five grotesque stone statues that had been completely petrified.

Lu Yizhan calmly sat down opposite Bai Liu: "What is it you want from me?"

"There are only two Inquisitors left." Bai Liu smirked, "The game ended much faster than I thought it would, and your absolute execution of justice, which sometimes resembles stupidity, is really something for people to keep track of."

Lu Yizhan calmly looked up at Bai Liu: "So what are you going to play?"

"Know how to play werewolf kill?" Bai Liu placed a deck of cards on the stone table top as he smiled at Lu Yizhan, "How about we play Identity Setting Werewolf Kill?"

"I'll set to a set of carded characters that have werewolf kill identity settings, set them down to a certain number of people in the next world line, and then see who they'll be attracted to and who they'll actively congregate next to."

"The cards have witches, hunters, thieves, etc." Bai Liu nodded on a card of a little girl in a witch's costume, he smiled and said, "According to my understanding of your tastes, you should favor the kind of fringe characters who have had a miserable life, so in order to ensure your gameplay, I'll try to pick this kind of fringe characters who haven't had a good life, and whose experiences and skills fit the werewolf killing deck's setting. "

"And it stands to reason that such fringe figures would be more attracted to the Light according to the logic of what you believe."

Bai Liu looked up and smiled, "Well, let's see if they're more attracted to your light or my evil."

Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu: "How do you want to play?"

"How about team rivalry?" Bai Liu puts a few cards on the stone table and places them face down, the smile on his face deepening, "Add an in-game team rivalry to the rules of the game already in place."

"If you lose the Worldline match, but win the in-game team match against my derivatives, then I can grant you one wish."

Bai Liu drooped his eyes lazily, "Simply put, it's a team confrontation between the good guys and the bad guys, and I'm hoping that you, as a pillar-type figure for the good guys, are competent enough to hone my team of villains to a point where it's presentable."

"Otherwise this game, it's just boring."

"Boring game, the sooner it's over the better."

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a few seconds before he agreed, "Good."

But Lu Yizhan never imagined that Bai Liu's choice of hunter card would be--

Lu Yizhan's pupils constricted as he looked at Cen Buming standing in front of him, his eyes intact, and he clearly heard a cold, mechanical beep coming from his mind:

[System Note: You have found the (Hunter) deck, please bring him under your command as soon as possible.]

Cen Buming frowned at him, "Lu Yizhan, you're the captain of the first detachment now, don't make me scold you, what are you looking at me like that for?"

Lu Yizhan turned his eyes away hastily, he inclined his head for a moment of silence, squeezed his palms, opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end said nothing: "Nothing ......"

Cen Buming swept him off his feet, "I lost the competition with you for the position of Captain of the first detachment and I won't hold it against you, any position is for those who can do it, and now that I'm the Captain of the second detachment then I'll do what I'm supposed to do."

Cen Buming lowers his head and begins to read from the file, "Recently it has been discovered that students in the high school will suddenly have their eyes gouged out, but after the gouging these students will also yell and scream about their eyes hurting and feeling something, the people over there have reported it to our side, I suspect it's a red level heresy, and we may need a captain to lead the way over there to take in the heretics. "

"Are you going or am I?" Cen Buming asked.

Lu Yizhan immediately said, "I'm coming with you!"

"A red level heretic is all." Cen Buming was starting to get a little annoyed, "One detachment leader is enough, are you insulting me Lu Yizhan?"

Lu Yizhan, who had a hard time talking, wanted to say that this heresy, this message, this shit would have eaten his own eyeballs on the spot if it hadn't been deliberately orchestrated by Bai Liu.

But Cen Buming is a very stubborn person, a donkey, he can't be led, he can be pulled backwards, if Lu Yizhan says anything beyond his identity, he can definitely dig out Lu Yizhan's ancestors' graves.

...... Actually, if we're going to pull Cen Buming in, it wouldn't be a bad idea to tell him all about it.

But Lu Yizhan hasn't figured out whether to bring Cen Buming into the mix yet.

Cen Buming looked at the hesitant and entangled Lu Yizhan, his eyes narrowed, and he pursued the question keenly, "Captain Lu, do you know something but haven't told me?"

Lu Yizhan immediately waved his hands in fear: "No, no, no!"

Cen Buming stared at Lu Yizhan's face for a moment and sneered, "You better."

After saying that, Cen Buming turned around and left, Lu Yizhan behind him let out a long sigh with a complicated heart, Cen Buming's back paused, "I'll deal with the heresy this time, if you want to follow, follow, don't add to the chaos."

Lu Yizhan was stunned for a moment, then said, "Okay, Team Sham."

The next day, Lu Yizhan went to the high school where the incident took place with a group from the second team led by Cen Buming.

Lu Yizhan was sitting in the middle of a pile of second teamers with his knees together in a cold sweat.

...... So many of the people in this group are people who have rebelled in the first world line ah, he stayed here really will not be in trouble?

And ...... Lu Yizhan stole a glance at the three people next to Cen Buming.

Cen Buming was looking down and whispering earnestly to the three men, and Lu Yizhan watched in a kind of trance.

--These three men were the three members of the First World Line who were executed in the court of judgment after being reported by Cen Buming, Cen Buming's senior brother.

Sometimes Lu Yizhan feels that reincarnation isn't all pain, that there are fleeting moments that give him the illusion that nothing has happened, that there is a chance to start all over again.

Like right now.

After arriving at the high school, the rest of the team began to skillfully carpet-check for heretics. It was Sunday, Lu Yizhan and the others had contacted the school earlier and had them clear the field, the teachers and students had all gone home, and the school was empty with no one in it.

The footsteps coming out at this time of year are strange.

Lu Yizhan alertly turned around, footsteps intermittently from different places in the school, listening to the friction of the soles and the ground, should be the same pair of shoes, running sound slightly heavy, slightly larger pace, is a weight of the person, each time the sound of the footsteps are almost the same texture, Lu Yizhan suspected that this is the same person to run out of the sound.

But--

Lu Yizhan heard an ear-splitting sound of footsteps coming from above his head, and in the next moment, the sound appeared on the third floor of the opposite school building. He looked down at the heresy detecting instrument in his hand, and made sure that the value of the instrument was 0! After that, Lu Yizhan's eyes narrowed.

If he was right, the heretic here would be 0573, the Eyeball Tuner Eater, so what's with the footsteps?

The heresy value is 0, which means that the odds are that this guy is not a heretic, but a human being.

A man appeared over his head, ran two steps and then appeared on the opposite side?

Then there's only one possibility.

The moment the footsteps reappeared on the second floor, Lu Yizhan jumped a few times, and with a flip, he climbed up to the second floor, over the fence and landed firmly.

The ground was empty, only a few footprints on the ground, Lu Yizhan swept the rest of his eyes and spoke calmly, "You're a player, aren't you?"

"You log into the game from different locations in this school, and having the coordinates for the different locations gives you the freedom to travel around this school."

"Why disturb us with the sound of footsteps?"

The air in front of Lu Yizhan twisted and a black hole-like gap appeared.

The gap first poked out a head wearing monkey headphones, and then a young man wearing a school uniform came out from inside with his pockets inserted, looking at him and grinning nastily, "Of course it's because the Boss commanded it, and absolutely can't let you guys walk out of here alive ah."

"Do you think I've only put one heretic into the school?"

Lu Yizhan's pupils shrank.

[System alert: You have found the (Thief) deck, and I regret to inform you that (Thief) has been placed in Bai Liu's camp].

There was a loud bombardment in his ears, and Lu Yizhan didn't have time to think, he jumped off the building and ran towards where Cen Buming and the members of the second unit were.

Behind the twisted eyeball tun food, floating a small toy helicopter, the aircraft is slowly rising, the lower end of the aircraft is constantly dropping down miniature toy bombs, bombs in the process of landing in the process of being enlarged, the moment it fell to the ground blast, water and mud and dirt debris flying.

Lu Yizhan could barely contain his expression the moment he saw that toy helicopter - Heresy [0922]!

[Equally scaled down bomber]!

The farther away from the ground this thing is, the bigger the bomb will be amplified in the process of falling down, the more powerful it will be, and if it is far enough away from the ground, the bomb that falls down will be enough to blow the campus they are in to pieces, and the people in it won't even be able to find the broken pieces of that kind of thing.

"Grass!" Even Lu Yizhan couldn't help but burst out in foul language.

This thing should have just been released by the [Thief] card, and the information that the members of the second detachment had investigated before didn't have any news related to Heretic 0922 at all, and they were blown off guard and almost directly killed.

Luckily Cen Buming reacted in time and shielded them, but he himself was nailed to the spot by a piece of rebar that blew up diagonally through his lungs, and was choking and coughing with blood pouring out of his mouth.

At the same time, a bunch of eyes slowly rose up behind Cen Buming, and those eyes did not look at Lu Yizhan, but at Cen Buming.

If all the eyeballs had locked eyes with Cen Buming, he would have been parasitized straight away!

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and yelled, "Cen Buming, close your eyes!!!" After saying that, he closed his own eyes and drew his heavy sword, aiming it high and swinging it down at that those two heretics.

[System Alert: Player Lu Yizhan using Evil God's Judgment.]

[Heretic 0922, 0573 stops behaving and is in a brief state of internment. After using the Evil God's Judgment skill, player Lu Yizhan will be in a state of rigor mortis for seven days.]

Lu Yizhan rushes to Cen Buming's front, his eyes cold, he stabs hard at the heavy sword of the eyeball heretic behind Cen Buming, after both heretics stop moving, Lu Yizhan's mind is empty, he loosens his grip on the heavy sword, and slowly collapses towards the front.

Cen Buming, who was stuck on the steel bars, caught him, blood all around his mouth, sweeping the unconscious Lu Yizhan and the heavy sword beside him with the afterglow of his eyes, as well as the two heretics who had stopped moving, and choking and coughing as he scoffed, "You're really hiding something from me, Captain Lu."

Seven days later.

Lu Yizhan jolted awake and sat up from his hospital bed, next to him a Cen Buming with a bandaged left eye was watching over him, and when he saw that he was awake, he glanced at him with his right eye and said faintly, "Awake, Captain Lu."

Lu Yizhan was about to ask when Cen Buming spoke up as if he were reporting back, "The heretics have all been housed, I called for backup when I realized something was wrong, the backup arrived quickly, that high school student was going to try to sneak up on me after you went down but was chased off by the backup team and didn't get caught."

"What happened to your left eye?" Lu Yizhan asked.

Cen Buming touched the bandage over his left eye and said nonchalantly, "Blind, cement piece went through it when it was blown over."

"You're done asking, my turn?" Cen Buming scrutinizes Lu Yizhan with that hawkish right eye, "I am a hunter, what is a hunter?"

Lu Yizhan's scalp went numb: "How did you know?!"

Cen Buming said flatly, "I kept watch over you for seven days, and you had nightmares at night and cried out for seven days for no hunters."

Lu Yizhan: "......"

Looking at Cen Buming's eyes looking directly at him, Lu Yizhan scratched his head, realizing that it was unlikely that he would be able to keep it hidden any longer, and let out a quiet sigh, "Then it's better to leave the choice up to you, you can decide for yourself whether or not you want to join in after you hear this."

When Lu Yizhan had finished everything, Cen Buming sneered twice sorrowfully, "You said I would call you senior? Why don't you dream something else?"

Lu Yizhan: "......"

This man has such a strange focus.

Cen Buming turned his head to look out the window of Lu Yizhan's hospital room after he had said this, and quietly did not say anything. He waited until Lu Yizhan, who was lying on the bed, was about to fall asleep, and then he slowly opened his mouth:

"You're saying the hunter's license is something that both you and Bai Liu can fight for?"

Lu Yizhan nodded confusedly, "The rules of the game are this."

"If which world line, you didn't win me over to Bai Liu's side." Cen Buming said calmly, "Then you'll kill me."

Lu Yizhan was shocked and completely sober: "Why did you have to be killed?!"

Cen Buming didn't look at Lu Yizhan, he looked out the window, "Because I find it disgusting, very disgusting to be used by people like that, to be in a camp."

"Those who work for the tiger deserve to be tortured as well." Cen Buming said coldly as he stood up, "I'm joining your side, Land Team."

"I'll be a competent card in your hand, a good trapper-hunter."

With that, Cen Buming closed the door and left without looking back.

Lu Yizhan stared blankly at Cen Buming's closed door, then lay back down on the bed, muttering to himself, "Fang Dian ......"

"Am I really right to choose this way?"

Unsurprisingly, the sixth world line continues to fail.

Lu Yizhan was once again called back to the temple.

Bai Liu was still sitting behind the card table, absently playing with the cards on the stone table, and flashed him a smile when he saw Lu Yizhan arrive, "It's been a long time, Prophet."

"Actually, I just met with your derivative three minutes ago." Lu Yizhan said without skipping a beat, "I killed him."

"This is still the first time you've killed one of my derivatives, right?" Bai Liu's eyes curved in a smile, "It really is different with the assistance of a hunter, isn't it?"

Lu Yizhan didn't say anything, and there was an underlying uneasiness in his mind that widened and widened.

Bai Liu nodded at the cards on the stone table with downcast eyes, "Hunters aren't the same as absolute justices like the Inquisitors, and after they know everything, they're bound to intervene aggressively in the worldline."

"But accordingly, absolute justice such as the Inquisitors is difficult for me to interfere with; they will not change their beliefs because of events external to my design, and the Hunters I can interfere with."

"Be protective of your hunter's faith." Bai Liu smiled up slightly, "Never let him fall."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he leveled his eyes at Bai Liu : "I won't bother you with that."

"As a reward for killing my derivative for the first time." Bai Liu stood up from behind the stone table as he smiled at Lu Yizhan, "I'll take you to meet someone you want to see once."

Lu Yizhan trembled as he jerked his head up to look at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu lowered her eyes and smiled a light smile, "I know you listened to her and never tried to check up on her these last few worldlines even though you missed her, but now we're outside the worldlines."

"You can go see her."

Lu Yizhan followed Bai Liu in silence up the steps of the temple.

This was the first time he had ever stepped into this shrine, and there was a shadow-like fear lurking in the shadows as his feet fell with each step.

The unknown, the unknown is the most frightening thing of all.

He was afraid to see the so-called [painful] price to be paid by Fang Dian, when in turn he was afraid to imagine what he would do if he didn't see her--

--What is it, exactly, that can make Fang Dian suffer?

"Are you wondering what could make someone like Team Fang suffer." Bai Liu walked slowly in front of him with a smile in his voice, "I've also wondered what on earth could make a near [God] suffer?"

Bai Liu walked to the darkened, underwater pool in the temple, he raised his hand with downcast eyes, the water in the pool rolled apart, and a wet, marble stairway full of strange green underwater plants appeared, he raised his step and walked downward, Lu Yizhan followed closely behind him.

Everywhere is a dark sea, the sound of surging waves is empty and deep, other than that there is not a single sound, nor is there a single ray of light, just to be shut in here is a difficult torture.

Lu Yizhan's heart lifted little by little.

He finally meets Dian, trapped at the bottom of the ocean, her hands dangling from chains, sitting on the ground with her head hanging down and her hair hanging out.

Bai Liu waved his hand, and the bottom of the sea was instantly illuminated by a strange halo of white light, and in front of Lu Yizhan a wall of water ripples was erected, through which Bai Liu walked.

Dian Fang, in the center of the light, slowly raised her head, her eyes out of focus as she looked at Bai Liu, who had come forward, and opened her dry mouth as if to say something.

But before he could say anything, Bai Liu laughed softly and said, "Team Fang, I regret to inform you that your team has lost another world line."

"As is customary, I will bring your favorite person from this world line to you."

"I remember you this world line fell in love with a construction worker, you were almost smashed when you crossed the road from a construction site, he saved you, you often helped him in return, he soon fell in love with you, but minded that his poverty could not give you a good life, and only dared to like you in silence, you did not mind in the least, and confessed to him first, and went out with him. "

"A week ago, this man got down on his knees at a construction site with a bouquet of roses in his own hat and asked you to marry him, and you said yes."

Bai Liu snapped his fingers, and a man of twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old wearing a work uniform appeared in front of Fang Dian. This man was a bit puzzled that he had appeared here, and when he turned his head and saw Fang Dian chained up on the ground, his face was furious, and he rushed up to her, wanting to tear off the chains that were trapping Fang Dian.

"Dot sister, how did you ......"

"It's such a shame, he loves you so much and you love him so much, you could have been so happy."

Bai Liu smiled, "It's a pity Lu Yizhan lost the game."

"Pah-!"

Bai Liu snapped his fingers.

The man who was tearing at Fang Dian's chains was ablaze with grayish-white flames for an instant, and he howled miserably before Fang Dian's face, then burned to ashes.

Dian Fang's fists clenched in her chained hands clenched dead tight as she slowly, letting the chains tug at her shoulders lowered her head against the pile of ashes in front of her, tears dripping down her face bit by bit.

She cried out.

Lu Yizhan stood motionless, his face an expression of stagnant thought, his eyes completely slack.

"That is the price Fang Dian paid." Bai Liu's eyes lightened as he gazed at this, he hooked the corners of his mouth, "I found out."

"Only something like [love] can make [God] feel pain."