Chapter 423: Challenge

Soon after Bai Liu turned into a portrait, Yuan Guang choked and coughed, and woke up in a daze. He braced himself on the chair and tried to stand up, making two attempts to do so but failing to do so.

Bai Liu walks up to Yuan Guang and extends his hand to him.

Yuan Guang then realized there was someone else in the house, and asked in shock, "Bai Liu, what are you doing here?"

"You don't have to worry about this for now." Bai Liu said faintly, "What did you dream last night?"

Yuan Guang was reminded by Bai Liu, his headache suddenly cracked, he supported his forehead and almost fell back to the ground, he narrowly grabbed Bai Liu's hand and was gently brought to his feet by Bai Liu to stabilize his body.

"Thank you." Yuan Guang holds his chair, he tosses his head, frowns and starts to remember, "A dream? After I watched you go back last night, it seems like I had a dream."

Bai Liu asked, "What was the dream?"

"Dreamed ......" Yuan Guang scratched his head hesitantly, "I dreamt that you woke up and came to play a game with me, then I lost and I was controlled by you, my mental value was reduced to 0 and I became a monster, unable to control myself, I began to use my skills on you ......"

"I don't remember anything after that."

Yuan Guang paused for a moment, he opened his mouth, "Is it true that I ...... was controlled again and summoned Bai Liu?"

"Uh-huh." Bai Liu replied in a flat tone, "I just saw him."

Yuan Guang was quiet for a long time this time, he stood next to Bai Liu bracing his hands on the back of the chair clenching them until his knuckles turned white, he slowly lowered his head and spoke, "...... I believe you can lead Russell Cemetery to victory."

"If Bai Liu comes to you next time with the help of me logging into reality, you will kill me ......".

Before his words fell, Bai Liu's phone suddenly rang, and a slightly anxious Tang Er typed voice came out of the phone, "Bai Liu, it's going to explode, you guys come down quickly."

"I'll take Yuan Guang and go straight into the game, you guys explode." Bai Liu said calmly.

Tang Er paused for a moment, "Okay, take care of yourself."

Before Tang Er hung up the phone, Bai Liu heard Su Yang's furious roar over there, "We can't just explode before the people come down!"

"Leave it to Bai Liu, it'll be fine." Tang Er said in a very fast voice, looking like he wanted to pass the matter off, "He can handle it."

Su Yang's voice was helpless to the extreme: ''You're also indulging him too much! This is a big matter that concerns human life! No, you give me the phone, let me talk to Bai Liu ......"

"Tang Er Fight!!!"

The call was disconnected by Tang Er.

Bai Liu put down his cell phone and looked sideways at Yuan Guang standing next to him : "You heard it too, this building is going to explode, going down?"

"I won't go down." Yuan Guang said, "I'll go straight into the game later, so you go down first, President Bai."

Bai Liu didn't move; he stood at the edge of the opening where the rotten building's walls hadn't yet been sealed, and from where he looked out, he could peer into a corner of the thriving and bustling city.

"Chairman Bai, how did you guess that Bai Liu would look for you here?" Yuan Guang suddenly asked in a very soft voice.

Bai Liu's eyes were downcast, his voice was smooth, "I didn't guess Bai Liu would be here looking for me."

"I just guessed where you killed yourself."

Yuan Guang's pupils shrank, and he froze.

Bai Liu continued without waves, "Bai Liu can only manipulate people's dreams, but the person who climbed up this building alone and awake before the blast then fell on the ground and slumbered through it was yourself, wasn't it?"

"I can't think of a second explanation for this behavior other than suicide."

Yuan Guang was motionless and silent behind Bai Liu.

"You only needed twenty percent of the points I gave you, and supposedly dispersed all of it without keeping it for yourself." Bai Liu's tone was light and calm, "You also refused Mu Ke's help when he came to you to hand it over, and transferred the full amount of compensation for your house to your mother."

"Arrange all your affairs afterward, and come to your death here where it all began."

Bai Liu turned to Yuan Guang: "Everything is getting better, why choose to die now?"

Yuan Guang slowly raised his head, his eyes so red that it seemed as if he could shed tears if he blinked, "These good turns, sacrificing so many people to get ......"

"Why am I the one enjoying it?"

Uncle Wang in the black and white photo on the tabletop behind him smiled brightly and generously, and four sticks of freshly extinguished incense were lit in the incense burner in front of him. Yuan Guang's tears finally fell, and he choked back his sobs and clenched his fists, "I'm just a piece of shit who didn't give a shit about anything!"

"They piled these things up with their lives! Why should I get them!"

"I can't do anything, I killed all my teammates because of my skills the first time I joined the league, and even you, who ended up helping me out, almost died at my hands!"

"Desperately trying but still living such a wimpy life, can't earn money, can't help everyone, damn finally play a game, all have to rival to send me head to win, all my life is hurting others, what is the value of my life in the end!"

Yuan Guang's back was straight, but he was howling loudly, "Why am I the one who has survived until now!"

"If we look at it in terms of worldly values." Bai Liu looked levelly at Yuan Guang who was crying bitterly, "It is indeed pointless for you to live."

Yuan Guang cried even harder.

Bai Liu suddenly laughed very softly, "But the person who chose to let you live is not you."

"It was those who chose you to be president, those who you felt deserved it and were willing to die for it, you took on their desire to live and never ran away from it, so you lived."

"You live to get it all, exactly what those who died wanted."

Bai Liu smiled and said, "To be a vessel for so many desires without breaking down makes you a valuable person in my book."

Yuan Guang looked at Bai Liu with tears in his eyes: "I really want ...... to sell my soul to you."

"But it shouldn't work." Yuan Guang cried out in pain as he raised his arm to whimper and wipe his face, "I've tried so many times before and the shit system says I've sold my soul."

Bai Liu looked toward the offering table behind Yuan Guang, "Have you relocated all the urns?"

"Yes." Yuan Guang sobbed, "but left the offering table and the last photo behind."

Bai Liu asked, "Why?"

Yuan Guang was quiet for a few seconds and said hoarsely, "Because everyone wanted these dead people to see the rotting building get blown up this way."

"They've been waiting for this day for a long, long time."

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow, his face placid as he looked out at the rotting building that was beginning to shake from the blasting, "Then let them see it."

The building that hadn't been repaired yet shook and fell in the huge blast, and the huge smoke and dust soared into the air in the shape of a mushroom, but it was bizarrely confined to a certain area and didn't spread out, and the debris didn't fly around, but instead flew up to a certain point, as if it had hit an invisible wall and was bounced back.

This would be one of the heresies that the Heresy Disposal Bureau brings to the controlled explosion hazard.

The only thing that came through the area of the explosion was the wind.

A huge, gunpowder-scented wind blew strongly against their faces, completely blowing away Bai Liu and Yuan Guang's hair from their foreheads, as well as the huge cloud of smoke that had covered the ground.

The tall building that had blocked the direct sunlight came crashing down, and brilliant daylight pierced through the huge dust of the explosion, linking up in strands to the rotting building in the corner of this sunny development that had not seen the light of day for years.

The sunlight poured into every rotten room that hadn't yet been sealed, shining on the black and white photos on every offering table inside, and on the incense burners that had still just been extinguished, as if the people in these cold, icy, posthumous photographs were starting to warm up and smile under the sunlight.

Yuan Guang squinted his eyes from the blinding light, and tears fell unconsciously as he looked at Bai Liu's back, which was blown by the wind as if it was going to fall in the next second, standing at the edge.

Sunlight, was it originally something so bright?

Finally, the blasting reached this crappy building they were in.

The bottom of the rotting building popped with a loud bang and began to rumble and sway as it fell downward.

Yuan Guang walked next to Bai Liu, he tilted his head and looked at the sunlight shining in, took a deep breath and asked very softly, "President Bai ......"

"Uh-huh." Bai Liu responded without looking back, "What's up?"

Yuan Guang paused, "Our guild, is the work mechanism 996?"

Bai Liu suddenly laughed softly before looking back at him, "No, our guild doesn't use the 996 system."

Yuan Guang was just about to let out a sigh of relief when he heard Bai Liu speak nonchalantly:

"Our guild is 007."

Yuan Guang: "......"

Shed a tear.