Chapter 420: First World Line

The world line continued to wheel forward.

Cen Buming became his lieutenant in the next worldline, a stoic, hard-charging man with an excellent memory and information-processing skillset and a personal skill as an executioner.

With Cen Buming's assistance, the amount of time they lost the game in each timeline began to stretch backward, and the chances of killing Bai Liu increased, and although they still couldn't win the game in the end, they were infinitely closer to winning the game.

But Lu Yizhan has always had a hidden anxiety in his heart.

Cen Buming was always able to quickly get into the state after jumping the world line, and after getting the prophecy given by him, quickly synthesize the information of the whole world line, and then from the information revealed in the prophecy, he caught some heresies that would be spreading that Bai Liu had planted in advance, and dealt with them cleanly in a harsh manner -

--or decimated.

Lu Yizhan, frowning, walked quickly towards the interrogation room.

From a distance, Lu Yizhan could hear hysterical screams from inside the interrogation room, and then a man's weak voice choked out, "I really... don't know anything."

"I didn't do anything, please, leave me alone."

Lu Yizhan pushed his way in.

Cen Buming leaned back in his chair, legs crossed in front of him, his feet in hard, thick-soled, black leather boots on the face of a dying man on his knees, a thorn fork with a little blood on the end in his hand.

Seeing Lu Yizhan arrive, Cen Buming glanced up, gave a faint greeting, and turned his head back, "Captain."

Lu Yizhan, who had been ignored, suddenly had a darkened face, "Cen Buming, you've overdone it! Release this person!"

"Good." Cen Buming withdrew his hand obediently as he gave Lu Yizhan a deep look, "I hope the captain doesn't regret it a week from now."

"This man was the director of the former Worldline Rose perfume factory."

Lu Yizhan looked directly at Cen Buming with unabashed eyes, "But he's not yet."

Cen Buming raises his hands, he lifts his shoes, and with a sarcastic tone, "Okay, whatever Brother."

"Don't come to me to wipe your ass when things go wrong." Cen Buming swept a glance at Lu Yizhan and said coldly, unmoved, "Sometimes I wish the captain would change that ill-timed kindness and maybe we'd win."

Lu Yizhan clenched his fists violently.

This is not the first time that he and Cen Buming erupted into such a quarrel, the further back in the world line, the more Cen Buming can keenly catch the heresy buried by Bai Liu, the more copies of him that are ready to land in reality, the more ruthless his tactics become.

And the more Lu Yizhan disagrees.

Lu Yizhan had once proposed the option of having oversight instead of obliteration, arguing that he could have his team members monitor those who might bring heresy into reality, but was mercilessly mocked by Cen Buming - Captain, how many people do you think there are in the Heresy Disposal Bureau that could oversee the How many people do you think there are in the Heretic Handling Bureau to oversee the thousands of heretics Bai Liu is planning to put on this world?

If the heretics handled the innings with more players than the heretics themselves, we wouldn't have to lose so badly every time.

Cen Buming is indeed right, there is no way their current manpower can handle the heresy that Bai Liu has thrown out.

And there are so many ways, or people too, that a heretic can land in reality that normal surveillance is impossible - no one knows exactly which one will be compelled by a heretic to bring evil to earth.

Lu Yizhan This idea is just that, an idea, with no conditions for implementation.

Cen Buming said coldly, "Captain, your smug, impractical approach is just sacrificing the human lives of the Heresy Handling Bureau team members to fill the black hole that is the endless Heresy."

"Do you know how many team members have to die every time we go out into the field when the heretics do land in reality?"

Cen Buming cast a glance at the silent Lu Yizhan, sarcasm in his voice: "Is this the hypocrisy and cruelty of those in high places?"

[He said ...... I'm taking the lives of the Heresy Bureau's second team members to fill this black hole of heresy that's impossible to fill ......]

[He asked me if I knew how many second teamers had to die each time I went out in the field.]

[He called me a cruel bitch]

Lu Yizhan's pupils constricted as he subconsciously grabbed Cen Buming's wrist and murmured, "...... Don't go down that road."

Cen Buming shakes off Lu Yizhan's grip on his wrist and brushes past Lu Yizhan's shoulder, who is standing still and unable to move, and without another word, drops his eyes and pushes the door open and walks out the door.

A week later, the Rose Factory showed up.

After much trouble, the director of the rose factory was finally captured.

The factory director is really that man, Lu Yizhan later have sent people to supervise each other, but Bai Liu over there put the speed of heresy is too fast, there are all kinds of props to hide, and so on that side of the supervision of the team members said that this man often disappears in the evening, Lu Yizhan reacted to the time, the rose factory this copy has been on the by the man landed in the reality.

Lu Yizhan himself brought back the plant manager, who still cried and fell to his knees as he had done before when he begged for forgiveness from Cen Buming, praying, "I didn't do anything, I don't know anything."

Lu Yizhan was silent for a long time before asking, "Did you know that perfume, when broken, can kill you?"

"When Vice Squad Cen interrogated you earlier, he already told you about the dangers of this perfume, so why do you want to get it when you get out?"

That plant manager's eyes flickered for a moment.

Lu Yizhan's heart suddenly rose with a very absurd thought, and he asked incredulously back, "You originally didn't know what rose perfume was, but when you were in the Heresy Handling Bureau, because you listened to Vice Squad member Cen's description of that perfume, you thought that this perfume was profitable, so as soon as you went out, you immediately started planting roses, wanting to have this rose perfume that Vice Squad member Cen talked about manufactured ?"

That factory director lowered his head, suddenly he hemmed and hawed and laughed twice: "Profitable, is it human nature."

"Besides, it's not like I'm killing anyone, so as long as they keep buying the perfume I make, nothing's going to happen."

"Don't talk about me, you change any person, come and listen to what this perfume does, tell them how profitable it is, and then send them the recipe for this perfume and see if they will be moved to plant roses."

Cen Buming took the man from Lu Yizhan's presence.

Before taking away this prisoner, Cen Buming turned back to Lu Yizhan, who was sitting behind his desk in silence, and looked at him lightly : "Elder brother, knowing that this person will cause great damage, you must still wait until the other party has caused great damage before acting."

"Is this the justice you insist on?"

Lu Yizhan looks up slowly: "Pre-execution is unfair to those who haven't done anything wrong yet."

Cen Buming raised an eyebrow mockingly, "But without pre-execution, it would be just as unfair to those who died in the wrongdoings committed by these men."

Cen Buming was about to turn around and leave when Lu Yizhan suddenly called out to him, "The prophecies that Bai Liu has shown us are not necessarily true."

"The prophecies he gives are always truer than your thoughts, Captain." Cen Buming's voice was cold.

After that, Cen Buming closed the door and left.

Lu Yizhan, left alone in his office, slowly slid down limply from his recliner, stared vacantly at the ceiling, and muttered to himself, "Did I really make the right choice, Fang Dian ......".

He always felt that Bai Liu's prophecies were becoming more and more relevant.

It's as if Cen Buming, who can detect these traps and heresies, was invisibly induced to root them out himself.

And Cen Buming is becoming more and more paranoid, more and more callous, more and more ...... in this process of eradication.

--like the captain of the second team that defected to Bai Liu's camp in the first place.

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes as he moved his hand back and slowly gripped the gun he had pinned to his own backside, taking a deep breath and slowly releasing it as if he had been drained of all strength.

...... If that day does come.

Can he lay a hand on Cen Buming?

Fang Dian, what kind of feeling did you have when you first killed the captain of the second team?

Lu Yizhan was working the second half of the night shift at the Heretic Authority that night. He could have slept the first half of the night, but because he couldn't stop his mind from thinking about things, Lu Yizhan felt that he wouldn't be able to sleep for the most part, so he simply watched the first half of the night, and came out on patrol after dinner.

He finished patrolling the Heretic Shelter and somehow managed to drop into the training grounds.

Lu Yizhan stared blankly at the training ground with a feeling that it was like a lifetime ago, obviously in the setting of this world line, he had just graduated from this place not long ago as well, but he hadn't actually been here for a long time.

Detachment leaders do not serve as training ground instructors; it is the lieutenants who are required to come here and serve in some instructional capacity.

Lu Yizhan had just retracted his eyes to walk away when he saw a group of huffing and puffing trainees running across the training field, and he stopped a little surprised.

It was now almost twelve o'clock at night, well past the time for night training, so why were these trainees still practicing extra hard.

It wasn't long before Lu Yizhan found out why, as the group of trainees who had finished their laps lay on the playground in a heap, panting heavily, resting and puking like crazy:

"What's wrong with Coach Sham? Just came over with a grimace on his face to give us extra night training? Does he know what time it is?"

"Harm, old devil instructor, doesn't Cen teach to move around a lot and add practice?"

"But it's too Damn it outrageous to be practicing extra lately? Is he the one coming?"

Lu Yizhan couldn't help but chuckle a bit as he listened - back in the day, the trainees in his phase used to secretly spit on Dong Chenglong as well.

Now it's Cen Buming's turn.

A gentle boy interrupted another boy's tirade with amusement and helplessness, "Tang Er 打, you've gone too far, Cen Teach is doing it for our own good too."

Tang Er beat a cold snort: "Fart, Su Yang you don't give him a good word, he's just taking it out on us after being pissed off at his master~brother~!"

"I just love it when Team Lu gives him a hard time! Shit! It's best to piss him off!" Tang Er, who has been trained to be angry, hollers and pounds the ground.

Both Su Yang and Lu Yizhan couldn't hold back another laugh.

Su Yang became more and more helpless, "Why do you always like to learn from Cen Cult to call out Senior Brother?"

"Every time he calls out to Lu team senior brother, he is shady." Tang Er hit lying on all fours, panting heavily, chest muscles bulging, the cuffs of the four sleeves are all wet, "Look at me very upset, Lu team people are very good ah, the ability and strong people and good, that surnamed Cen every time a look like wanting to conspire to usurp the throne, look at me ...... "

Cen Buming's voice suddenly appeared calmly, "How's it lookin' for you?"

Tang Er hit was shocked and jumped, "Holy shit!"

Lu Yizhan, who was listening with great interest, was also taken aback: "Holy shit!"

"Are you two having a nice chat." Cen Buming's gaze swept with little emotion over the two men who had screamed out in terror.

Lu Yizhan subconsciously stood next to Tang Er Ta and bowed his head together with Tang Er Ta to admit his mistake.

Cen Buming hugged his chest and said lightly, "Discredit the instructor behind his back and add your own training."

Tang Er gritted his teeth and went for a run on his own, Lu Yizhan consciously trying to follow, Cen Buming's eyelids jumped and he yanked Lu Yizhan back by the back of his collar, almost holding back his anger, "You're not a trainee anymore, Lu team."

Lu Yizhan scratched his head and laughed nervously, "I thought you were talking to me."

Cen Buming: "......"

Sometimes Cen Buming wonders to himself why he's worked with people like this for 300 worldlines.

Cen Buming and Lu Yizhan just watched as the trainees ran laps with their weights.

Lu Yizhan looked at Tang Er Fight, who was running laps through gritted teeth, and suddenly smiled, "You remind me of Teacher Dong."

"I actually didn't like Teacher Dong during my trainee days, but now I feel like having an instructor like that seems to be ......"

Cen Buming picked up the second half of the sentence flatly, "There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"

"If an obnoxious instructor can increase the survival rate for everyone, then it's okay for me to be the obnoxious instructor."

"If an obnoxious co-captain can keep more people alive, then it's okay for me to be the obnoxious co-captain."

Lu Yizhan was stunned.

Cen Buming continued with a light face, "Team Land doesn't have to be so bitter about me, I know what I'm doing."

"In the game of werewolf kill, the seer is supposed to be a card that doesn't get blood and only tests the werewolf; it's always the hunter who shoots and executes."

Cen Buming lowered his eyes slightly, the night wind ruffling the hair that hung by the side of his face, making it difficult to see his expression:

"So I, the hunter, will do everything in my power to keep you, the stupid prophet who wants to protect everyone, alive to the end."

"I won't mess around with the principles of Teacher Dong, Team Yu, and all those who died for us before."

"I didn't torture the plant manager, I just asked him if he'd had any contact with Bai Liu, and he said he hadn't, so I threatened him with a pitchfork, with the blood of the team member who'd used it before, not his."

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a long time.

Since then, he has never been to Cen Buming's torture chamber.

The world line continues to wheel forward.

Lu Yizhan thought that this apparent calm could last for at least a few dozen more worldlines of self-deception, but in worldline 0317, this peace, balanced slimly with only a single spider's thread left to hold it together, was finally shattered for good.

In this world line, Lu Yizhan captured Bai Liu alive for the first time.

Cen Buming immediately wanted to interrogate Bai Liu, but was stopped by Lu Yizhan, who asked to talk to him first.

Cen Buming agreed.

It was the first time Lu Yizhan had talked so closely with Bai Liu's devolved, so-called derivative of himself, a young man of twenty-four, with a clear and handsome face, a gentle smile, and a strange sense of danger and intimacy.

--It's very similar to the feeling that the evil god Bai Liu gave him.

"You're Lu Yizhan, aren't you?" Bai Liu's hands were handcuffed, and he crossed his arms and folded them on the tabletop, leaning forward, obviously sitting in the position of being interrogated, but his posture was relaxed as if he had come to interrogate someone else.

He smiled and said, "I've gotten the rules skills and world line props in the game, and I've also become a follower of the Evil God, and I know about your bet and everything that happened between you."

Lu Yizhan responded almost instantly, "You were captured by us of your own accord."

"Because in what I see." Bai Liu's smile grew more meaningful, "You are truly a man who intrigues me, Captain Lu."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "Captain Lu, I know you have a lot of questions you want to ask me, so how about we play a game."

Lu Yizhan paused, "What game?"

"Truth or Dare." Bai Liu hooked up the corner of her mouth, "If you win, I'll answer one of your questions truthfully, if you lose, or if you're not willing to do what I'm asking, then I won't answer."

Lu Yizhan promised.

"Okay, round one, truth or dare?" Bai Liu tilts his head, lazily leaning against the interrogation table with his jaw propped up.

Lu Yizhan says, "Honestly."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes, he smiled lazily, "This world line, ever go to Fang Dian?"

Lu Yizhan's jaw tightened, and after a long, long interval, he answered hoarsely, "...... looked for it."

He watched from the sidelines for a long time before leaving.

"Your turn." Bai Liu smiled and asked, "Does Captain Lu want me to say truth or dare?"

Lu Yizhan's eyes glazed over, "Why are you so stable in every worldline?"

"Stabilize what?" Bai Liu played idly with the handcuffs hanging from his wrists, "Stabilizing bad, stabilizing something that would hurt the value of most of the human beings in this world line?"

"If that's what you're asking, I can give you a little hint."

Bai Liu smiled at Lu Yizhan : "From the rules of human society, there are key age nodes for people to develop a certain character and tendency, the first is the period of 0-4 years old, the second is the period of 6-8 years old, and then the nodes of 14 years old, 18 years old, and 24 years old."

"And I, as a roughly derived creation, just need to keep my experiences relatively stable throughout these age points of mine, and then my character will be stable."

Lu Yizhan's eyes deepened, "I will not continue to play if you answer inaccurately."

Bai Liu sighed with a regretful show of hands, "Well then, I'll say some more in order for the famous Captain Lu to play another round with me, the poor prisoner."

"For example, Captain Lu you have developed such a kind character because of some of the people and things you experienced at the critical point of 18, then just make sure that these critical things stay the same and that the overall fluctuation of changes in your experiences do not affect the direction of your overall character."

"No matter how much torture you've gone through from me, you've managed to maintain that character."

"Simply put, these people and things are your [anchor], and as long as the [anchor] stays the same, you won't change."

Lu Yizhan almost immediately followed up with, "What's your [anchor]?"

Bai Liu smirked, "That's the next question."

Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he said, "You ask first."

"No, this round is a dare." Bai Liu flicked his eyelids up and the smirk on his face deepened, "Now I want Captain Lu to open the doors to the torture chambers of all the inmates who have been brought here, like me, and are suspected of a crime but not yet convicted."

Lu Yizhan looked steadily at Bai Liu for a moment, then got up and went out to give orders, emphasizing, "Be sure to watch them, but don't hurt them either."

Cen Buming frowned, "Release them all? Most of these people are prophetically linked to majorly harmful heresies."

"What are you doing in conjunction with Bai Liu?" Cen Buming realized what was going on and he quickly stepped in front of Lu Yizhan who wanted to return to the torture room, "Don't go along with his game."

Lu Yizhan just glances at Cen Buming and pushes him away, wanting to get inside.

Cen Buming stopped Lu Yizhan once again, his eyes were deep, "Senior brother, playing games with him will cost you dearly, you should already know that very well."

"I'll pay." Lu Yizhan let out a long breath, "I've possibly found the breaking point."

Cen Buming was quiet for a moment before finally sidling up and letting Lu Yizhan in, "If there is a so-called [pain] price to pay for this game, I will pay it for you."

"Thanks." Lu Yizhan waved her hand, "I still wish I'd done it myself."

As soon as Lu Yizhan walked in and sat down, he immediately asked, "What's your [anchor]?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled lightly, "My [anchor] landed at the age of fourteen, in the body of a person called [Sheta], a creation that was invested by the evil god Bai Liu to determine the direction of my character."

"As soon as he dies, the direction of my character will be largely determined."

Bai Liu looked at Lu Yizhan's expression as he became agitated, he propped his chin on one hand and lowered his eyes, his eyes becoming compassionate, "But unfortunately, Captain Lu will never be able to touch my [anchor]."

Lu Yizhan paused, "Why?"

Bai Liu smiles, "Haven't you guys noticed? The Evil God it won't let you guys land on the Worldline before I'm fourteen."

"As you are logging into the worldline, my [anchor] for that worldline has been destroyed by the Evil One, and the moment the [anchor] is destroyed, I will log into the game and begin to bring the Heretic to reality."

"Well, it's my turn now, and this time it's also a dare."

Lu Yizhan's eyes sank, "What do you want me to do?"

Bai Liu looked at the one-way glass of the interrogation room with a smile on his face, then through the one-way glass, as if he could see through the one-way visible glass and Cen Buming, who was staring at him from outside, he exchanged a glance with Cen Buming, and then he said with a smirk in his voice, "It's not the Lu team this time, oh."

"The one who completed the daredevil mission this time was Lieutenant Sham."