Chapter 502: Qiao Mu Private High School
11:45 p.m., outside the big iron gate on the hill.
Bao Kangle's hand shook as he held the key to the door, knowing that the principal had already sent the security guards away, but he couldn't help but look to his right and left as he stabbed the key several times before it pushed through the large lock and pushed out the locking lever.
"Gada."
The moment the lock hit the ground, Bao Kangle jumped in shock, before looking back to Bai Liu, who was following him with a trembling voice: "Hit, it's open."
"Then go in." Bai Liu was very calm, he pushed the iron door open crisply, and went up the steps to the mountain path.
Bao Kangle, who had never been here before, stumbled forward somewhat timidly after Bai Liu.
The hills were extremely green, with dense shade everywhere, and shadows of all sorts saved up, which now and then startled Bao Kangle, and the man's face was white before he could walk to the lake of the high school.
Ignoring Bao Kangle, who was cowering behind him, Bai Liu followed the signs for a while, and soon the view opened up and a calm lake appeared in front of the two men.
The moon reflected brightly on the clean and gentle lake surface, the cool night wind blew by, stirring the dead leaves falling on the lake surface, ripples, the moon halo was so softly blown to pieces, if there is no that horror of the college entrance exams lake legend, this is clearly a quiet and picturesque scenery, the attraction is the couples in groups, rather than one after another obsessive delusional high school seniors.
Bao Kangle gulped at the thought that something terrible might be hiding at the bottom of the lake, and he hid behind Bai Liu, not daring to look directly at the beautiful lake.
Bai Liu's tone is as calm as the surface of this lake, "Here it is."
"What are you going to bet me on?"
"Fight, bet." Bao Kangle's words began to stumble as he looked at the lake that seemed so deep that he couldn't see the bottom, "When the twelve o'clock moon shines in the middle of this lake, bet on which one of us will be able to see and finish this high school paper at the bottom of the lake first."
Bai Liu's face was expressionless, "Good."
Meanwhile, the boys' dormitory building for extraordinarily gifted students.
Lu Yizhan carefully stepped out of his dormitory against the wall, familiarly avoiding several surveillance positions in the corridor, and ran over the wall from the back kitchen on the first floor of the dormitory.
He was going to dive to the bottom of the Gaucho Lake again tonight to see if he could shelter that Gaucho roll prop.
When Lu Yizhan successfully climbed over the wall "jailbreak", escaped from the locked dormitory building landed on the moment, he was just going to be happy to see a long breath, turn his head for a moment, his expression on the face of the frozen.
Under the moonlight, there was a man wearing a Heresy Authority uniform with one eye covered with a bandage walking out slowly, he looked at Lu Yizhan with a frozen expression and laughed before he spoke, "Senior brother, I didn't expect you to really go back the more you live."
"I can't believe they're playing this over the wall on a high school campus."
Lu Yizhan converged all the body front on his face, his tone was grave down, "Cen Buming, the Heresy Authority Captain who came to investigate the heresy of Qiao Mu Private High School's Gao Gao Lake, how come it's you?"
"Why can't it be me?" The smirk on Cen Buming's face grew more pronounced, almost so pronounced that it bordered on false, "Oh, I remember, how could it be me, the captain of the second team, who was the captain of the third team that Elder Brother beat up Tang Er, who had secretly handed the letter of report to?"
"Then of course I found the letter from Shifu halfway through, intercepted it, and sent the second team over to practice and go out into the field."
Cen Buming hugged his chest as he smirked, "After all, there's the biggest heretic in the entire world - Bai Liu - here, and as the Field 2 team that prioritizes heresy hunting, how could we miss it, don't you think so, Senior?"
Lu Yizhan's face sank completely, "Cen Buming, you are no longer a hunter, Bai Liu's game with me is none of your business, you cannot interfere with Bai Liu's path."
"No longer a hunter? Can't interfere with Bai Liu's path?" The look on Cen Buming's face started to become cloudy, he couldn't hide his hatred and stared at Lu Yizhan with that one clear yellow eye, "Lu Yizhan, do you know that this is the last worldline?"
"Do you realize what you're doing to yourself?"
"You secretly landed on this worldline four years ago without my knowledge, without Tang Er fighting, without everyone at the Heresy Handling Bureau, without informing anyone, and you met a Bai Liu who hadn't even gotten into the game yet."
"But you didn't kill him."
"I can't believe you spent four years with him and didn't kill him!"
Cen Buming's expression was almost brutal as he grabbed Lu Yizhan by the collar and disliked him against the back kitchen wall, forcing him to ask, "Do you know what you're doing!"
"You killed Team Dong with this, killed Team Yu, forced everyone in the Cross Judgment Army to enter reincarnation to sell their souls one by one, and forced Team Fang to be trapped in that place and never escape."
"--Forced you to reincarnate 658 world lines, forced me and Tang Er to fight crazy people to raise them!"
"Now you're actually talking to me." Cen Buming sneered almost hideously, "I'm no longer a hunter, he's not my concern, and trying to get a more moderate second generation hunter, Tang Er, to fight over and save this Bai Liu from a crisis of heresy."
"Lu Yizhan, do you have shit in your head?"
"It's probably really shit." Lu Yizhan gripped Cen Buming's wrist, and he moved Cen Buming's hand that was lifting his collar with one hand, hard enough to bruise it, and then lifted his head to look directly at Cen Buming, and there was a fierceness in that gaze as well, "But you can't touch him while I'm around."
All expressions on Cen Buming's face stopped for a second, his temples jumped twice, then Cen Buming closed his eyes, he let go of his hand and leaned against the wall side by side with Lu Yizhan, he drew a pack of cigarettes out of his chest pocket of his uniform, shook it twice, bit one through the opening, then naturally handed it to Lu Yizhan next to him:
"Are you of age enough to smoke from this world line?"
Lu Yizhan paused and took it, but didn't light it, just held it in his mouth, "Quit smoking."
Cen Buming snorted and ordered himself.
The two men smoked noiselessly against the wall, only a scarlet spot burning fiercely in the darkness of the night.
"I've heard you're grooming a third generation hunter for the role of overseeing Bai Liu." Cen Buming snorted through the smoky smoke, "What, Tang Er hit this second generation hunter and you're using it up too? You don't want it?"
"No." Lu Yizhan's head hurt from listening to Cen Buming's clip-clopping words, and he held his forehead, "He has other uses."
"Then it looks like I'm the only useless scrap left in the hunter ranks." Cen Buming trailed off.
Lu Yizhan's teeth cracked through the mouthpiece, a bitter taste of tobacco filling his mouth, and he could almost imagine what Cen Buming's next words would be.
"Then you might as well kill ......"
Lu Yizhan took a deep breath and interrupted Cen Buming, "According to the rules of the game between Bai Liu and I, retired hunters can no longer interfere in matters of the game between the two sides, you can't break the rules of the game."
"That bitch wants me to be an audience, to know everything and not be able to do anything." Cen Buming disliked it nonchalantly, "You want me to be an audience too Lu Yizhan?"
Lu Yizhan felt that whatever he said would pale in Cen Buming's eyes, so he fell painfully silent again.
It's a really hurtful thing to argue with a coworker who has a different point of view than you do.
Cen Buming pinched out the point of his cigarette with two fingers, and he looked back at Lu Yizhan with an obscure look in his eyes, "For the previous world line, I can be forced to be a spectator of your game in order for it to be playable, but not for the last world line."
"Lu Yizhan, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation for raising this little brute Bai Liu to such an age, or I'll shoot him tonight."
Lu Yizhan was silent for a long, long time, "Bai Liu ...... is not like other Bai Liu."
"He's not a bad kid, he doesn't want to get into the game."
"The last Wu Ruishu who thought that way died when you helped him collect his body." Cen Buming coldly interrupted Lu Yizhan, "That doesn't convince me."
"And I found out something very interesting, as I'm sure you have too."
Cen Buming pulled the corner of his mouth in a leathery smile, "There's a portion of the teachers in this school that are players with that principal at the top."
"Do you realize what these idiots have done?"
Cen Buming flicked his eyelids up and gave Lu Yizhan a cold sweeping glance, "They think it's a player to sell their students, and despite the fact that you've made it so obvious, the idiots ruled you out because of your superficial features."
"So they sifted through a list of students suspected of being players among students other than you."
"Do you know who the top ranked suspect player is?"
Cen Buming looked at Lu Yizhan's momentarily frozen expression as he spoke the name with a mocking smile:
"--is Bai Liu."
"Lu Yizhan, people are good and bad not by the kind of things they will do in a smooth environment, but by the kind of things they will do in a bad and extreme environment."
"You're asking this Bai Liu, who grew up in the secure environment you've tried so hard to create, to convince me that he's a good kid by nature, and you think I'm going to believe that?"
"If you truly believe that this Bai Liu is a good kid, then don't you dare let him into the game."
"Do you dare to let this Bai Liu into the game, do you dare to put him on top in that place where he holds supreme power and desire, and then be certain that he won't do anything bad?"
"You wouldn't dare."
Cen Buming's voice went completely cold, "Because we both know that's not possible."
"You cut off all illegal avenues for this Bai Liu to gain status and money, you made him incapable of even fighting back against the so-called schoolyard bullies, and he is now just a weak and fragile mass of unformed bodies, with no growth at all, and no ability at all to do bad things."
"But don't you dare let him take shape?"
Lu Yizhan's hands hanging over his body slowly clenched, tightening until his knuckles turned white.
Cen Buming paused, "I had the second team follow Bai Liu around, and they just informed me that Bai Liu and another student went up to the vicinity of Gaucho Lake, and it looks like they should be getting ready to head into the lake."
"If Bai Liu comes into contact with heretics and shows any signs of entering the game, I will strike immediately."
Lu Yizhan snapped his head up.
Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.
Published at: 05/18/2025 11:00