Chapter 422: Challenge

Droplets of water from the sea, blown up by the wind with the undulating waves, hit the decaying temple on the lonely island.

The dark tides are sounding, the sky is gray and dark, the clouds are gathering, and heavy rain is coming.

The evil god sitting at the stone table looked across at the prophet with his head hanging down.

The evil god's posture was lazy with one hand propped up on his jaw, his body tilted to the side, he dropped his eyes without much emotion, "For humans, 658 world lines is really a long dream."

"Lu Yizhan, you have thrice altered the memories of everyone, even my devolved derivatives, to cover up the tragic events that really happened in this world, to whitewash an impending conflict with a false peace."

"Do you remember what the world's truest trajectory line looks like?"

"Or have you also become so immersed in this false reality that you have forgotten everything that originally happened?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes flatly, "But no matter how much you delay to cover it up, you always have to face it."

"Wake up."

The prophet sitting across the table became mildly breathless.

Lu Yizhan's fingers flicked very slightly as he lay in the narrow hospital bed, his eyelids fluttered as if he were trying to wake up from an uneasy dream, and his dry mouth opened slightly in a soft murmur:

"...... Don't go down that road."

"Bai Liu."

Bai Liu was discharged from the hospital the day after he woke up.

Of course, this decision was met with total opposition, everyone thought he should stay in the hospital for a few more days for observation, but Bai Liu has never been one to take the opinion of the masses in making such decisions, he had just said lightly that he wanted to be discharged the night before, and the next morning he had already completed the discharge formalities.

By the time Mu Sicheng finished his makeup exam and rushed to the hospital to see Bai Liu, the beds had already been emptied.

Mu Sicheng strongly condemned Bai Liu for this disobedient patient behavior.

So Mu Sicheng called Tang Er and scolded him: "How could you let Bai Liu leave the hospital by himself? Why don't you stop it! I'm not sure if I can afford to pay for it! If something happens to the person you can afford to pay for it! You're still the bedside manner! If I were to accompany the bed ......."

Tang Er interrupted Mu Sicheng with a cold voice: "With the way you spoil Bai Liu, maybe Bai Liu was discharged from the hospital last night."

Mu Sicheng: "......"

Grass.

"I even stopped Bai Liu before letting him stay one more night." Tang Er hit also had a headache, "But you know, when this man wants to do something, you can only go along with him."

Mu Sicheng tsked, "Why did he have to leave the hospital today?"

"Today there will be a forced explosion over at the Heresy Disposal Bureau to demolish some of the rotten floors of the Sunshine property that have heretical residue." Tang Er typed, "According to the developer's son, he had a magical dream after his dad's death, dreaming that as long as he put part of his dad's ashes together with the real estate contract, and sprinkled the other part of the ashes onto the ground of the Sunshine development, that piece of land would be attached by his dad's resentful spirit, and then be occupied by their family forever. "

"The contract was burned, and all the ashes on the floor were excavated and cleaned up by the Heresy Disposal Bureau, but some of the ashes were raised onto the floors, and a certain amount of Heresy values could be detected remaining, and as a precautionary measure, Su Yang and the others decided to directionally blast the floors."

"Bai Liu is ready to go see this blasting process."

"Blasting?!" Mu Sicheng stared in disbelief, "What is he doing in this mess? And isn't directional blasting dangerous and troublesome, taking a long time? Is it reliable for you Heretic Authority to do this?"

Tang Er hit with a steady voice, "In some special moments that require emergency treatment, we will reasonably utilize the abilities of some heretics to ensure the safety of the masses."

Mu Sicheng understood: "Unconventional forces."

"The developer's son had this dream ......" Tang Er paused, "Bai Liu thought it might have something to do with Bai Liu, so he wanted to come over and check it out."

Mu Sicheng frowned, "How is it related to this pussy Bai Liu again?"

Tang Er strikes a quiet note, "You'll realize later that the whole world is connected to him."

"The world is just a game to him, and the Sunnyside property is just a map of his game."

Sunshine Property.

The crowds in the surrounding residential buildings had long been evacuated by the Heretic Authority's personnel, and the buildings in the Sunshine Development that were to be blasted were separated by a yellow cordon, with Heretic Authority members patrolling everywhere, the guard was quite tight, forbidding any ordinary citizens from approaching this side.

Bai Liu was supposed to be stopped outside the cordon, but Tang Er called Su Yang, who came to pick him up in person.

Su Yang gave a deep-eyed glance at Bai Liu behind Tang Er's fight, and respectfully extended his hand, "Thank you, Mr. Bai, for guiding us in our work, otherwise we would have only probed into the layer of real estate contracts, and wouldn't have thought that there was a problem with the ashes as well."

Bai Liu smiled and reached out his hand to shake Su Yang's, "No need to thank me, Captain Tang helped me a lot as well."

Su Yang retracted her hand with a smile, "Mr. Bai came over this time, is there anything I can help you with?"

Bai Liu took his eyes off of Su Yang's face and looked at the building behind him, smiling at Su Yang : "Can Team Su let me go up to this building once before the blast?"

Su Yang was stunned, "It's not safe for you to go up in a building that's going to be blasted."

"Don't worry." Bai Liu smiled, "Captain Su you have unconventional forces to quickly and directionally blast this building, I also have unconventional means to safely leave from this building."

Su Yang exchanged a glance with Tang Er Ta next to Bai Liu, and after seeing Tang Er Ta nodding slightly to make sure nothing would happen to Bai Liu, he sidestepped in a cautious tone, "I don't recommend Mr. Bai to go up there, but if Mr. Bai is sure that he wants to go up there, there's only an hour left before we blast, and Mr. Bai can stay for a maximum of thirty minutes."

Bai Liu smiled, "Thank you Captain Su."

Tang Er beat Bai Liu to the entrance of the building, he frowned, "Sure you don't want me to go up with you?"

"No need." Bai Liu said calmly, "This person I'm going to see shouldn't want you there."

Tang Er beat him up, "If you need anything, go straight into the game, I'll wait for you in the game."

Bai Liu nodded as he turned, stepping onto the first floor of the dusty, rotting building and walking upwards.

Su Yang's expression was tense as he watched Bai Liu walk into the rotten building, he looked disapprovingly at Tang Er hit, "You should have stopped him, it really isn't safe."

Tang Er let out a breath as he fished a cigarette out of his pants pocket and lit it, half squinting his ghostly blue eyes, "Nothing he does is ever safe."

"But you are his nominal guardian." Su Yang emphasized, "All the more reason you shouldn't leave him alone like that."

Tang Er hit subtly averted his eyes, "...... He should have his reasons for doing what he does, and say what happens when something goes wrong."

Su Yang was helpless and crying, "You're too spoiled for him! Where's the principle you've always upheld, Team Tang!"

"Team Su!" A team member flew over, "The owners of the Sunshine development came over to ask if we've seen their owner group leader, Yuan Guang, saying that he was coming our way in the morning."

"We checked the surveillance and found that he did come in, but the person didn't go out, and now he can't be found anywhere."

The team member looked grave, "Now we suspect that the people are most likely in the five buildings that are ready to be blasted."

Su Yang's face was Ling, Tang Er hit immediately dialed Bai Liu's phone: "Bai Liu, have you seen in the building-"

"-- Yuan Guang, is it?" Bai Liu held up the phone and calmly looked toward Yuan Guang, who sat motionless in his chair with his head hanging down, as if he were asleep, "I see."

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it."

Bai Liu hung up the phone, he looked across the room faintly, "I'm already here, won't you come out and meet me, Bai Liu."

A soft laugh came from Yuan Guang's arms.

"But I kept my agreement with you, and I wouldn't have come to see you if you hadn't reached out to me."

Across the room, Yuan Guang, his head bowed, slowly raised his head, his eyes unconscious and closed, holding a self-portrait in his arms.

The man in the self-portrait is Bai Liu, sitting in a chair with his legs folded, looking with amusement at Bai Liu with his jaw propped up. In the self-portrait, Bai Liu's black leather gloved hand is holding several puppet strings, which extend out from the edges of the frame and are tied to the joints of Yuan Guang's limbs.

Bai Liu in the painting looked at Bai Liu with a smile, "Although I knew you would definitely come to me on your own initiative, it was still unexpected that you found me so quickly."

"How did you know it was me? Or rather, how did you know that I would use the Yuan Guang landing reality to reach you?"

Bai Liu's calm gaze swept past the puppet strings on Bai Liu's hands, "You used the puppet strings to manipulate Yuan Guang at the end point of the last tournament, leaving the game the puppet strings won't disappear, which means you've already completely manipulated Yuan Guang."

"Add to that the fact that you have his soul bill in your hand, and all you need to do is get his spirit level to zero, and you can easily use him to land in reality."

"Wow." Bai Liu smirked, "Easily zeroing out spirit values? I'm sure you should already know that I can't just intervene in the world line of reality, so why would you think that I can easily zero out a person's spirit value?"

Bai Liu looked up, his tone light, "Didn't you already put the standard answer in front of me?"

Bai Liu smiled and asked, "What answer?"

Bai Liu said, "Dreams."

"You can manipulate people's dreams, so that developer's son will dream that dream."

"That's not accurate." Bai Liu half-closed his eyes, "I can only manipulate the dreams of believers who believe in me."

Bai Liu's gaze swept past Yuan Guang's face, "Yuan Guang doesn't believe in you."

"But he believes in you." The smirk on Bai Liu's face deepened, "It's hard for an ordinary person like him to tell in the dream world if it's me, or you, who's coming for him."

Bai Liu, quiet.

"It's not a good feeling to be threatened in every way, is it?" Bai Liu's eyes contained a smile and his tone was soft, "If you kill Yuan Guang now, it won't be such a big deal."

"If it wasn't Yuan Guang, it would have been someone else." Bai Liu was calm, "You want to find me, you'll always find a way."

Bai Liu's fingers curled upward, and he let out a soft laugh against his face with downcast eyes, "That's true."

Bai Liu's tone was calm, "What can I do for you? Are you playing any more games?"

"No." Bai Liu lifted his eyelids and he laughed very softly, "Just just had a very long and uninteresting dream."

"I woke up feeling a little lonely and just wanted to see you."

Unmoved by the words as if they were molesting him, Bai Liu raised his eyes to the building outside that was shaking and vibrating, and asked back in a flat tone, "Against the backdrop of this impending demolition?"

Bai Liu in the portrait raises his hand to retrieve the puppet strings he used to manipulate Yuan Guang.

The puppet strings wrapped around Yuan Guang loosened, Yuan Guang slid down from the chair, and Bai Liu in the painting he was holding slowly turned into a motionless colorful oil painting with a smile on his face:

"The more destructive and ghastly the background, the more interesting the game will be between us, no?"