The Evil God Festival - Boathouse

The moment the quest prompt pops up, Spades' whip whips out without a moment's hesitation, its sharp tip pointing straight at Taville's heart, which is dangling in the water!

Bai Liu spins around in the water, looking sternly in front of Taville, and raises his whip to block Spades' incoming whip.

Spades' whip strikes Bai Liu's whip, and Bai Liu, pushed back by the force of the whip, slumps into Taville's arms behind him, tiny bubbles of air rising between his clenched teeth, billowing up from his long, overflowing hair.

Taville's body was pushed, his long silver hair entwined with Bai Liu's black hair, and Taville, who had been standing still, slowly raised his drooping head.

His silver-blue eyes were blinded by layers of silk, but but still reached out and wrapped his arms around Bai Liu, who fell into his arms.

The light of the reverse cross pendant in Taville's mouth suddenly intensified, and in this dazzling white light, a watery air barrier was created around Bai Liu, allowing him to breathe smoothly underwater.

"Bai Liu?" he whispered in Bai Liu's ear, "is that you?"

Bai Liu said softly, "It's me."

"I'm coming for you."

Bai Liu heard Taville laugh very softly, "You're always such a mess whenever you come to see me."

Spades' whip was thrown over unexpectedly, Bai Liu just raised his hand to block it, Taville pulled him behind him to block it, and with a shallow face he stretched out his right hand and raised it in front of his body, opened his fingers, and the water lines mixed with a white halo spread out from the front of his palm, forming a milky white pus barrier, blocking Spades' thrown down whip.

The ripples of light-filled water spread out in circles, as if there was a gust of wind in the sea that came from nowhere, blowing away the short hair of Spades and the long hair of Taville, who were facing each other on both sides of the barrier, and the two identical faces stared at each other through the barrier, both of them looking calmly with the same face.

"Not conceding?" The blindfolded Taville asked softly.

Spades face was emotionless, "Denied."

His whip lifts, lashes down, and strikes the water barrier with an intensity that almost cuts through space and time, the force of it directed at Taville across the watery wall, but his eyes land squarely on Bai Liu's face, who is being pulled behind Taville.

"I deny it." Spades said word for word, "I want to win Bai Liu."

"I'm going to sacrifice you, and then be his most eligible souvenir."

Cracks appear in the watermarked walls.

Taville's brow didn't move and his voice was calm as he asked back, "Do you know whose souvenir you are?"

Spades looks through the cracked watery wall at the lightly browed Taville, and the moment Taville's watery wall shatters, he sees Bai Liu pulling Taville behind him without hesitation, the whip in his hand turning into a short blade that spins and stabs him behind the watery wall.

The short knife cuts through the side of Spades' face, blood dispersing from the threadbare wound and fainting in the seawater.

Spades has a rare blank expression on his face.

He could have dodged that moment, but for some reason, when he saw Bai Liu staring at him, the bullet wound on the back of Spades' waist suddenly tingled, causing him not to dodge Bai Liu's stabbing knife.

While protecting Taville, Bai Liu's dark eyes stared at him with nothing in them, as if he didn't exist in them.

At the moment Bai Liu swung the knife, the thread wrapped around Taville's right wrist disappeared, and at the same time, a thread was tied around Spades' right wrist.

"The pain between you and me is constant." Taville's voice is muffled and indistinct in the water, ringing only in Spades' ears through the rippling wall of water, "As much happiness as I feel because of Bai Liu's love for me, as much pain as you feel."

"As much happiness you will feel because of Bai Liu's love for you, as much pain I will feel because of it."

"Inevitably, one of us will be God's sacrifice, Bai Liu's [anchor], a sacrifice to be sacrificed."

Bai Liu presses forward, Spades retreats, the color of blood swirls in the water, and with each step Bai Liu takes in front of Taville, there is one less thread in Taville's body and one more in Spades'.

The more these threads called pain are wrapped around, the slower Spades' movements become and the more vulnerable he is to Bai Liu's attacks, and in the end, Spades is almost entirely bound into a chrysalis by the threads and suspended beneath the sea shrine instead of becoming a new ship's anchor.

The other end of these threads is attached to the ship-shaped shrine, which puts the weight of these heavy [pains] and that huge sea shrine on Spades' body at almost the same time.

Spades lifts his head underwater with every ounce of strength he can muster and stares through the silk threads at Taville who completely unbinds them in front of him, embracing Bai Liu and smiling at him.

Taville looked down on him as if he were a god, his eyes full of pity, "Now do you understand?"

"You'll never win me."

"I ...... don't understand." Trapped in [pain] Spades rasped, "But I'm going to win you!"

He opened his hands savagely, the extremely tightly bound threads strangling into his flesh and bone, blood rushing from the wounds, Spades looked into Taville's silver-blue eyes, his consciousness blurring slightly as he couldn't stop falling downward.

It's heavy.

He'd never carried anything so heavy before, and he didn't even carry props in his fights because he was too heavy to move around comfortably.

So is [pain] such a heavy thing.

Spades has never experienced such a thing as [pain] since its birth.

The joys and sorrows of men are not experienced by him; he does not understand the tears of victory, the howls of pain at the loss of a loved one, or the joys of understanding.

Even once clustered in the center of triumph, pain, and desire, he felt like a monster isolated from these emotions, and it was always foreign and strange to reach out and touch them.

His only obsession was that when he was born in the town of Siren, a strange man with a long ponytail and a white shirt smiled against the light with his back to him, the features of his face blurred, and reached out to hand him a black bone whip.

"This is a relic of your predecessor, and I return it to you as is."

Spades looked up at the strange man, he opened his mouth, he couldn't speak at that time, just made some out of tune syllables.

The man smiled, crouching down to look down at Spades, who was sprawled on the ground, "The only purpose I allowed you to be born-"

"-is that you will make people suffer with your own triumph and presence."

"Painful hearts are black." The man laughed softly and placed the black bone whip on the side of his head, "Let's call you Spades."

So that's what the man was going to make him do.

So that's what [pain] is.

Spades slowly drops his eyelids, his body bounding downward as he lets go, countless bubbles gushing across his face.

...... Bai Liu in pain, is it also so difficult?

"Spades."

"Wake up."

"Do not indulge in painful hallucinations."

White bone whip through the sea water, like a bolt of lightning struck, Spades in front of the water wall was broken, he snapped back to his senses, in front of him is no longer the embracing Bai Liu smiling god Taville, but behind the water wall of the sadness and joyless Taville gazing at him.

Taville's silver-blue eyes looked calmly at Spades.

"Your desire for Bai Liu has grown so strong that you would be affected by the [door] on my eyes."

"You've never had a mental value drop before, have you?"

[SYSTEM WARNING: Player Spades' mental value has fallen by 20! Please be careful not to fall prey to hallucinations created in your subconscious!

Instead of answering Taville, Spades raises his hand without a trace of emotion on his face and slams it down hard against the watery wall, his voice taking on an obsessive hoarseness, "I WANT TO WIN!!!"

Bai Liu turned his whip into a sword and stabbed out from behind the wall of water, just as Spades had just hallucinated, and without hesitation, he went straight for Spades' face!

Silk threads dangled instantly from Spades' right hand as his whip and Bai Liu's shortsword crashed into Taville's watery wall, erupting in a great explosion of light and wind, and instead of flinching, both men charged forward relentlessly to add their strength in the moment, their weapons mortgaged against each other, and roars erupted from their faces in a near grimace.

"Lose for me!!!"

"I'm going to - win!!!"

Off the big screen.

The host slowly lowered his microphone and opened his mouth long enough to look dumbfounded that he couldn't even be bothered to commentate.

The crowd was so silent that it was almost impossible to imagine that this was the most crowded game since midseason.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu on the big screen in a trance, almost doubting himself.

This vociferous person ...... is that Bai Liu?

Bai Yi was completely dumbfounded.

He'd never seen Spades put it all together so well, describing the woeful pursuit of victory.

These two men, both cold and self-effacing on the outside, were fighting each other recklessly in the tail end of this game for a victory that led nowhere, and not even fighting very well, punching, kicking, biting at each other's arms and not letting go, kicking each other's knees, smashing each other's backs of the necks, and completely losing it.

--like two little kids tearing each other apart in a game, trying to win over the other.

During the struggle, Bai Liu and Spades' bodies were constantly generating threads that connected them to the shrine, and they were being pulled by these threads as if they were puppets being manipulated by the gods, but this savage look of struggling to attack each other without regard to the threads was like two puppets that had developed their own will and wanted to get out of their control.

The two men back away from each other after striking again.

The surface of Bai Liu's body was covered with a film of air, his chest was rising and falling violently, his face was covered with various wounds from the end of his left eyebrow to the corner of his right lip, some of them were deep enough to be seen by the bone and were seeping blood out, and his shoulders, neck and back were all connected with silk threads.

He raised a hand to wipe the blood from his mouth, his eyes looking straight across the room at Spades.

Spades is breathing hard, he's holding the bone whip he's holding in his backhand, still with that expressionless look on his face, but his face is all bruised and swollen from the beating Bai Liu gave him, and his right hand and left wrist are both connected to the silk threads.

Taville was suspended between the two men.

The two men looked at each other and in unison turned and raised their bone whips, before this viciously charged at Taville in the center!

"I will sacrifice him!!!" Spades chortled in a mute voice as he held the whip aloft, aiming it at Bai Liu's shoulder, his eyes showing a kind of unrelenting obstinacy, "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!"

Bai Liu's shoulder was directly broken by Spades' whip, and the whip he held in his hand fell to the bottom of the sea as he bit Spades' wrist in a rage, his teeth embedded in his skin and his bloodied, muffled voice hissed, "I forbid it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Spades grits his teeth as he lets go of the whip and raises his fist to smash it into Bai Liu's right eye eye, Bai Liu loosens his teeth and ducks sideways while kicking Spades in the knee.

The two men twisted and fell downward.

Spades grimaced and bit Bai Liu on the shoulder.

He felt Bai Liu's shoulders shudder with pain, and he felt the pain of the wound at the back of his waist so intense that his brain felt like it was about to explode.

He felt his eyes start to burn for some reason in the cold water.

So many game wins, probably all because Bai Liu's verdict on his fate at the beginning made him subconsciously chase the victory and choose the ending that made everyone suffer.

Only this one, only this one--

It is he who suffers the pain, it is he who wants to win!

Spades grimaced and bit down hard enough to deform Bai Liu's shoulder and bleed, Bai Liu grunted and heard the sound of his shoulder blade being crushed.

Without giving Bai Liu a moment to recover, Spades slams his right hand into Bai Liu's stomach, almost viciously sending Bai Liu to the bottom of the ocean, a transparent thread quickly sprouting from his right hand, Spades doesn't stop there, he quickly turns around and swims upstream to grab Taville.

[System alert: Player Bai Liu has used player Mu Ke's personal skill (Flash Strike).]

Bai Liu, who had lost one of his hands, suddenly dodged and stepped in front of Taville, raising his long, blood-soaked hair and looking with a sinister gaze at Spades, who had swum up to him.

Time and time again, over and over again, losing to this man in this horrible game.

--and then lose what's most important to you.

[Will you always play games with me from now on?]

[Uh-huh.]

Sheta's serious answer still resonates in Bai Liu's ears.

Liars, lies, not at all.

Wouldn't it have been if I'd beaten you at least once between then and now?

--Isn't it true that the one who becomes an evil god becomes myself?

Bai Liu simply raised his hand and plunged the knife into Spades' heart with furious force, pressed the knife against Spades' heart, gripped the handle and spun it around to pull it out.

Spades' heart instantly erupted in a spray of blood, and Bai Liu's left hand, where he had inserted the knife, was instantly tied with a transparent silk thread.

The two men took a half step back, bruised and battered, but without waiting for the other to catch his breath once more, they quickly approached again, sticking close to each other and raising their whips to fight like beasts of prey that had exploded into a feral frenzy.

The rain on the sea gradually stopped.

Sitting on the small boat, Mikafune couldn't help the joy appearing on her face when she saw the calmed shrine, "Let's go over and take a look, maybe the sacrifice has been successfully offered and we can make a wish."

"Yes." The boatman bowed and began to prop the boat.

The boatman braced himself to the shrine, and the imperial boat jumped up steadily, large fireworks suddenly exploding behind him, brilliant as starry sparks in the night sky.

The servant next to him softly explained, "Lord Gobune, now that the rain has stopped, the delayed fireworks display should have started by now."

"Perfect timing." Mifune shook out his clothes and walked towards a messy shrine with a smugness on his face that he couldn't hide, "Wishing time deserves a lively backdrop like this."

They hadn't taken two steps when the entire shrine shook violently as if something was tugging again underneath.

The servant screamed in fear as Mifune looked shocked and held onto the stone lantern in front of the shrine, "What's going on? The evil god in my dream clearly told me it would be safe to make a wish soon ......"

Before he could finish, the entire maritime shrine in the shape of a ship flipped over!

The imperial ship fell straight into the sea!

He fluttered his limbs in panic, large bubbles of air running from his mouth that had opened in terror.

Under the surface of the sea, Bai Liu and Spades have fought to the point where they can hardly see their human forms, their bodies are covered with silk threads, and blood keeps spilling out from various wounds on their bodies, they are sawing each other, fighting for the Taville in the middle who is once again sealed by the silk threads and sleeping in the past.

Mikabune dropped down on top of Taville, fearfully paddling his hands to try and make his way above the water, realizing with clarity that if he was grazed by these two men fighting, he would surely die.

But it doesn't work out that way, as Bai Liu delivers a bone whip that trembles with precision onto Mikado's ankle, ripping him over like a water balloon and tossing him over to Spades as a means of stopping his opponent from stalling for time.

And Spades did the same thing.

The Imperial Ship was then thrown around like a sandbag by these two men, and soon suffocated, his face turning purple as he choked himself and stomped his legs haphazardly, getting his legs tangled up in the silk threads, and Taville was yanked downward a bit by the force of his stomps, and the over-turned and sunken Ship's Shrine was now completely submerged in the water, and sinking slowly downward, along with Taville.

Bai Liu reaches for Taville and is rudely interrupted by Spades, who misses Taville and only reaches the threads on Taville.

Spades holds down Bai Liu's shoulders, blocks Bai Liu's back, and jams Bai Liu's movement to grab the silk thread in Bai Liu's hand.

Bai Liu suddenly took a deep breath, as if he had waited a long time for the moment when Spades' back was close to him.

In the moment before Spades realized what was going to happen, Bai Liu turned around and he kissed Spades with his eyes closed.

Spades' pupils constricted.

At the same time, Bai Liu yanked Taville upward, holding Taville's hands and restraining Spades in a brutal manner, pushing Taville into Spades' body from behind.

Spades' pupils, who was being kissed by Bai Liu, instantly dilated as he felt his heart pound and something pushed into his mouth by Bai Liu.

Looks like a coin.

[System Alert: Player Spades Soul Fusion]

[System Alert: It is detected that player Bai Liu has traded with player Spades' soul using the Soul Trade skill, now the soul is returned to its place, the trade voucher coin is located on Spades' body, and the trade is effective].

[Player Bai Liu officially possesses the soul of Player Spades and has the right to use the Player Spades system panel.]

[Player Bai Liu, using Spades' Soul Note, cuts into Player Spades' system panel and prepares to hit the game exit button.]

[System warning: Is player Bai Liu sure he wants to click on player Spades' game exit button? Player Spades is currently in the middle of a game, and exiting defaults to a forfeit.

[Player Bai Liu identified.]

[System alert: Player Spades exits the game, game over.]

The fireworks bloomed in large, brilliant splashes on the surface of the sea, dizzying, and beneath the surface of the sea, the silk-bound Mikado's mouth was wide open in death, and his expression was twisted in agony as he lay with the shrine that had sunk to the bottom of the sea, as if he were the one who was being sacrificed this evening.

Xiao Kui in the boathouse looks out at the disappearing shrine on the sea in the distance, and she hears a voice ringing in her ears.

The voice was a calm one, very soft and familiar, like the evil god called Taville, and like Bai Liu's voice.

[God grants your wish.]

[Someone has come to your rescue.

Xiao Kui held the paper door of the boathouse and looked at the sky with dazzling fireworks, tears falling in her eyes.

This game of torturing their sacrifices is, finally, over?

Ornamental Pool.

The moment the big screen went out, both the Wandering Circus and the Killer Sequence sitting on the bench stood up at the same time and rushed to either side of the big screen.

On both sides of the big screen are the player boarding exits, just that kind of life and death battle, both Bai Liu and Spades must have come out in bad condition, needing someone to take over.

As expected, Bai Liu took one step and fell down on the second step, and Spades didn't even take a step and fell straight down at the exit of the boarding gate.

Bai Liu was hit by Tang Er and caught by Mu Sicheng.

He choked and coughed several times with a pale face, his body and hair covered in seawater, and he could smell a strong odor of blood.

Liao Ke and Bai Yi were just about to reach for Spades, but Liao Ke quickly caught something, pulled Bai Yi back a few steps and shouted, "Wait, don't go near Spades!"

Spades, who had fallen to the ground, coughed and staggered, propping himself up on his elbows and rising to his knees.

He raised his head slowly.

A loud alarm sounded throughout the viewing pool.

[SYSTEM WARNING: Please quickly move away from the source of contamination and use mental bleach to maintain your mental value!

[A top tier contaminated npc exodus from the game has been detected!!!]

Spades' face, drenched in wet, broken hair, is a pair of silver-blue eyes.