Chapter 509: Qiao Mu Private High School

Classroom.

Mu Sicheng was still asleep in the back row, and Bai Liu turned the last page of his sketchbook.

The last page shows a small man sitting alone by a flower bed, holding two ice creams. The small man has his head bowed, looking at the spot where the puppy dog threads appeared, and seems to be waiting for the puppy dog threads to appear again, saying that he wants to eat the ice creams in his hand.

And this time, he'll give it.

Bai Liu closed his sketchbook, his expression still calm.

He had no memory of it, and everything he remembered about Spades seemed to have been deliberately scrubbed by something that had left no trace of it-just like his memories of Sheta.

It's not hard to guess that this memory has also been folded.

Bai Liu, as usual, puts the Anchor down around him to lure him into the game, although in the end, he does get in.

--and went as far as the Challenge.

"Squeak-"

The door of the classroom was pushed open, and Mu Sicheng, who was sleeping in the back row, woke up with a sudden alertness, he looked up at a short figure sneaking in from outside the classroom, and subconsciously was about to throw out his sharp claws.

"Wait." Bai Liu said in a calm tone, "The man who brought us up the mountain is here."

The silhouette walked up to Bai Liu, it was the red-eyed Bao Kangle, he stared at Bai Liu with a sinister look: "Don't you like any horror games? Then do you dare to bet with me?"

Bai Liu obediently picked up, "What's the bet?"

"Jump off the high school lake, do all the questions and come back up." Bao Kangle says, "Whoever finishes first wins."

"The winner gets ......."

Bao Kangle was racking his brain for a reward when he saw Bai Liu stand up gently, "Okay, let's go."

Bao Kangle froze, "You agree?"

"I already agreed once." Bai Liu smiled, "No point in wasting time, let's go."

The hill is next to Gaucho Lake.

Lu Yizhan held his heavy sword in one hand and stuck it in the ground, he stood quietly beside the lake, looking down at himself in the lake.

The water in the lake was rippling, and Lu Yizhan's face was also blurred by the shaking, his face was full of injuries, but his expression was very quiet, as if he had thought about a lot of things, but also as if he had thought about nothing at all.

His thoughts went back six years, to the time Bai Liu disappeared during his senior year of high school.

Lu Yizhan went to see Cen Buming once at that time.

"Lu Yizhan, what do you take me for?" Cen Buming hugged his chest and smiled coldly, "The most I can do about Bai Liu's regression is to stay out of his way in reality, you want me to help him with the Qiao Mu private high school thing, you want me to use my power to help convince this school to keep Bai Liu down to continue his studies- "

He looked cold and sarcastic, "I'm not as magnanimous as you are, and I'm still so heartfelt about Bai Liu's derivatives ......"

Cen Buming's curse words hit the tip of his tongue, he looked at Lu Yizhan, who bowed his head in front of him as if admitting his mistake, the curse words were still swallowed by him, and he coldly said, "I can't do it, you can go now."

"There's no way I can do that exactly." Lu Yizhan, who had his head down, suddenly spoke up, "I wouldn't be able to help but doubt him."

Ready to turn away Cen Buming paused for a moment, he turned back around, his eyes narrowing, "What do you mean?"

"I rationally know that he is an innocent person, but emotionally I can't control the fact that I first put him in ......" Lu Yizhan took a deep breath, he lifted his head, with a helpless and bitter smile on his face, "I'm also quite conflicted."

"I have over-controlled his actions and inhibited his development in order to keep him from harming others, and in doing so I have undoubtedly exploited his freedom and left him with no ability to fight back against other harms in his environment, and I am questioning myself as to whether this is the right choice, whether it is fair."

Lu Yizhan let out a long sigh as he leaned his head back against the wall of the Heretic Authority's corridor, staring up at the ceiling with somewhat vacant eyes:

"If he's an innocent man, I'm sacrificing him by doing this."

"If he isn't, I'm just feeding a tiger by doing this."

"Sometimes I wonder what's the right choice."

Cen Buming frowned and opened his mouth to curse, Lu Yizhan, as if he knew he was going to curse, raised his hands first and surrendered bitterly, "Alright, alright, I know what you're going to say about me, indecisiveness, once I started choosing between the two, I fell into the game that Bai Liu set up for me. "

Lu Yizhan smiled slowly, "I've been thinking for a long time about whether there's a way to do both, and I've finally come up with one."

"I'm ready to let go and let Bai Liu develop on her own."

It was Cen Buming's turn to stare, his brow furrowed, "What are you doing?"

"When I graduate from high school, I won't overly interfere in his life and let him handle his life the way he wants to." Lu Yizhan looked up as he looked straight at Cen Buming, "If he ever crosses the line, I'll be the first to kill him."

"But if he hadn't, he'd be perfectly free to go on living his life as a normal person."

"For this reason, I will relax my supervision over Bai Liu." The look on Lu Yizhan's face became composed, "But at the same time, I will make other backhanded preparations."

"If Bai Liu ever chooses to enter the game on his own, to prevent him from crossing the line in the game, I need a presence in the game that can stop him."

Lu Yizhan looks up, "Cen Buming, I'm joining your guild."

"I'll bet my life that Bai Liu stays within the safety line and doesn't let him win to the end, step into the temple and meet Bai Liu."

"But now." Lu Yizhan suddenly laughed nervously and scratched his head, "In order for Bai Liu to graduate smoothly, senior brother, just help me talk to Qiao Mu Private High School, and tell them to fill in the lake and cancel the mountain in the name of wanting to take in heretics, and check out the principal and those player-teachers in the meantime."

Cen Buming: "......"

Turns out a big detour was still waiting for him here.

Cen Buming eventually agreed, which is why the Qiao Mu private high school thing was handled so easily later on, and the senior high school lake was filled in.

After that, Lu Yizhan didn't think he'd see Gao Kao Lake for a second time.

I didn't expect to meet Bai Liu for the second time here at the lake.

Footsteps came from behind Lu Yizhan, who turned his head with a clear and familiar smile on his face, "You're here."

Bai Liu stood at a distance of three to four meters from Lu Yizhan, and he looked at Lu Yizhan on the opposite side of the room with no expression on his face: "You should have guessed that I would come."

Lu Yizhan glanced behind Bai Liu: "Where is Bao Kangle? He brought you up here, right? Where is he?"

"After opening the door, he was knocked out by Mu Sicheng and placed at the entrance of the big iron gate." Bai Liu's tone is light, "That's all he's good for, after all, aren't you and I the main event today?"

As soon as he spoke, Mu Sicheng rushed out from behind Bai Liu with a single stride, raising his sharp claws and approaching Lu Yizhan with great speed, his sharp claws aiming straight for Lu Yizhan's throat.

Lu Yizhan quickly brought up his heavy sword to block and retreat, and in the next second, Bai Liu appeared behind him with his dagger.

Bai Liu stepped on Lu Yizhan's shoulder with one foot, pulling Lu Yizhan backwards by the back of his neck with his left hand, while the dagger held in his right hand slashed diagonally upwards from Lu Yizhan's neck, pulling out a line of blood.

Ornamental Pool.

The host shouted excitedly, "This is a typical Thief and Assassin's cooperative play style! The Thief attracts attention and the Assassin sneaks in!"

"The coordination is quite good! The Adversary God dropped three points of blood, and he only has twelve points of blood left!"

"Another match! Beautiful! With only ten points of blood left in the Adversary, the situation is quite bad for the Slayer Sequence!"

Liu Jiayi's eyes wavered as he looked at Bai Liu on the big screen - this was the way Mu Sicheng and Liu Huai had best matched up back then.

"Now let's see how the Adversary God will strike back, and the Adversary God strikes back! He lifted his heavy sword and drew a line towards Mu Sicheng's left side, it missed, did a serious injury affect his play?" The host stared at the big screen, and soon his lips turned into a dumbfounded o shape, "Wait, everyone, what skill is this?!"

"The space on Mu Sicheng's lower left foot distorted and a space gap appeared, isn't this a space gap that only Spades' whip can tear out? How did the Reverse God's heavy sword swing out as well!"

Game.

Lu Yizhan's expression was stoic, he didn't even care about the constant attacks on his body, instead he pulled his heavy sword towards the gap, tearing the opening even wider, creating a regular fissure that looked like origami ripped and broken.

[System Alert: Player Against the Gods using Personal Skill (Worldline Overlap)]

[Note: This skill can only be used once per game, so please choose the time to use it carefully].

Lu Yizhan slashed to the left, the rift instantly widened, Mu Sicheng inadvertently stepped into it, Lu Yizhan instantly flipped and pressed down the blade, folding the twisted space above like dough into Mu Sicheng who had a stunned expression, and also vigorously waved his heavy sword twice, and slapped it into place.

[System alert: Player Mu Sicheng has voluntarily migrated out of the game map due to space folding, and is considered to be playing negatively, and is being treated as quitting the game.]

Mu Sicheng, who somehow appeared in the audience, was all: "？？？？"

What's going on here? Why did he quit the game?

After a brief moment of calm in the audience pool, a loud ovation erupted, startling Mu Sicheng, who had exited the game.

The host followed up with an excited narration, "It's a rule skill! In addition to the Prophecy skill, the Adversary God actually has a spatial-level Rule skill hidden in his body!"

"Two rule skills!"

"I swear, from the time Reverse God joined the league until now, I've never seen him use this skill in any of his matches, it's very likely that this skill isn't his original skill, but someone else's that was passed on to him before he died, but we don't know anything about this player who passed the skill on to him."

"This is just bizarre!"

The more the host spoke, the more excited he became, "This skill must have been available to Against the Gods before this season, but from the mid-season tournament to now, Against the Gods has played a round with thirty-one strong teams, and Bai Liu is the only player who forced him to make use of this skill."

"This matchup is getting interesting!"

Inside the big screen, Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan stood on the casting platforms on each side of the lake, the wind blew silently between the two of them, a leaf fell in the center of the lake, haloing the layers of halo light of the moon in the water, and the ground around them was a mess of heavy swords and knives, and the ground was full of interlocking and deep slash marks.

"Is this the reason why you fought tooth and nail to protect Mu Sicheng to stay in the game before?" Lu Yizhan looked at Bai Liu across from him, the wound on his neck was still dripping blood, but his face wore a helpless smile, "I saved you last time so that you would realize that I still have such a killer feature left that can randomly dispatch people from the game."

"Leave a player behind who can use that player to consume this skill of mine."

"You've done quite a bit of setting up against me, though."

Bai Liu replied shallowly, "Pretty much the same as the setup you did against me."

The moon finally turned to the center of the dark blue sky, and Lu Yizhan and Bai Liu simultaneously raised their eyes to look at each other over the lake.

Eighteen year old bruised Lu Yizhan, eighteen year old hurtful Bai Liu, wearing their school uniforms cut to rags by each other, their hems blown by the night wind, stood on either side of the lake of the high school entrance exams, calmly confronting each other.

The bright moon tilted down from the top and fell on the surface of the lake in a dark, silvery blue, like one of the eyes of a god watching with a smile.

Bai Liu impartially locked eyes with Lu Yizhan.

Lu Yizhan was quiet for a moment, and he suddenly smiled very relievedly, his eyebrows curving up as he smiled, "Bai Liu, did I mention that you're pretty different from when you were eighteen."

--even with the same appearance, the same attire, the same standing by the lake.

But Bai Liu is no longer one-dimensional; he gazes calmly at Lu Yizhan, standing clearly alone but as if there are many people standing behind him, with an aggressiveness that never backs down.

"You've grown up." Lu Yizhan took a deep breath as he rested his heavy sword against his side, then lowered his eyes to look at his still young self in the lake and murmured, "...... I've grown old."

--There was no one left behind me.

People grow up because they have something to fall back on, and they age because they have nothing to fall back on.

The deep yellow moon haloed in layers, a set of tables and chairs appeared in the lake, and the final map of Lake Gauntlet opened.

Lu Yizhan and Bai Liu jumped at the same time.

The moment they hit the water, they simultaneously raised their heavy swords and whips in their hands and rushed at each other without hesitation or effort.

Shrine.

Bai Liu spared a glance across the room at Lu Yizhan whose stone had congealed to the point where only a right hand and half of his face remained : "You're really going to do this?"

"Do that and there's no turning back for you."

Lu Yizhan slowly raises his head, a steady stream of stone chips falling from him onto the tabletop as he does so, and he looks straight across the room at Bai Liu, hissing in reply:

"I'm going to do it."

Bai Liu lowered his eyes as he made a loose stroke on the stone table, and a scene of Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan fighting fiercely underwater appeared, the corner of his mouth quirked up with some amusement, "He doesn't look like he's going to hold back on you."

"Are you really going to bet with me this time?"

Bai Liu raised his eyes with a smile, "Are you sure you want to delegate your last god card, the Prophet, which is your own card, to Bai Liu?"

Lu Yizhan pushed a prophet's card, very slowly, very slowly, onto the table with the palm of the still-petrified hand, "I'm sure."

"That's good." Bai Liu folds his hands in his jaws as he smiles, "I'll double-check the bet."

"You said that no matter how much Bai Liu desires to win, he won't be manipulated by his desire to do something illegal and criminal in this copy-"

"-which, in short, means that no matter how much Bai Liu wants to win, he's never going to kill you in this copy without a get-out-of-jail-free card, right?"

Lu Yizhan stared straight at Bai Liu: "Right."

Go back in time to before you started your copy.

Lu Yizhan pulled Zhou Gong aside, removed his own gold medal of immunity from death that was hanging around his neck, and hung it around Zhou Gong's neck, "My gold medal of immunity from death is for you."

Zhou Gong's pupils quake as he holds up the get-out-of-jail-free card with his eyes wide open, "Captain?!"

"Why is your immunity card transferable?!"

Normal exemption medals cannot be handed over, transferred or borrowed, and can only be used by the person to whom they have been issued.

"Because I made a bet with the Evil God." Lu Yizhan's tone is calm, "I told him that Bai Liu wouldn't kill me if I didn't have the Immunity Medal, and he didn't think he would, so he secretly changed the rules for me, allowing's my Immunity Medal to hand over to this one tournament."

"Listen up Zhou Tianhua, when you get on the field you go straight to hold Bai Liu, because Bai Liu doesn't know you have my immunity card, he won't do anything deadly to you at first because he won't kill innocent people in the game, but he'll have many ways to get you out of the game, such as getting your Soul Paper Money. "

Zhou Tianhua shivered, his face instantly turning bitter: "I can't defend against him ah captain, he has too many tricks, Captain Tang has been bought by him, in case he buys my soul bills as well."

"That's what I wanted to talk to you about." Lu Yizhan's tone is steady, "When the time is right, and you show him your immunity directly, Bai Liu will make a direct move to clear you out to save time, rather than choosing to waste time buying your soul bills."

"Your bills are of little value to him."

Zhou Tianhua : "...... Oh QAQ."

It's a good thing, but I can't seem to be happy to hear it.jpg

"But captain, if the gold medal is given to me, won't you have no immunity from death?" Zhou Tianhua got worried.

"Don't tell anyone." Lu Yizhan paused, "And don't let Bai Liu, who started it all, see that your gold medal was handed over from Spades, who dropped out."

Zhou Tianhua was even more worried when he heard this, "Captain, what are you going to do?"

"If you go out there like that, Bai Liu will kill you, Captain!"

Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu will kill you!

Lu Yizhan drifted off for a moment when he heard the words - Cen Buming had done the same, red-eyed and viciously cursing him when he quit the Deer Hunter's Guild over a year ago.

"Lu Yizhan, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Cen Buming was furious like never before, he was practically holding Lu Yizhan down and punching him, the Death Rings were leaving scrape after scrape on the defenseless Lu Yizhan's face, his eyes were bloodshot and his voice was hoarse as if he was a wild animal growling, "Do you know what you just said! "

Lu Yizhan licked away the blood from the corner of his own mouth as he turned his head and repeated his words again with a calm demeanor and tone of voice, "I said that I'm going to decentralize my God Card to Bai Liu."

"I will sell my soul to him."

"I want him to take my place as the next generation of prophets."

Cen Buming's chest rose and fell violently as he looked at Lu Yizhan with almost murderous intent in his gaze, "Lu Yizhan, so you've finally gone crazy have you?"

"What do you take for granted the preparation we've trained day and night in the game all these years to kill Bai Liu!"

"What do you take me for, for every member of the second team of the Deer Hunters who has been loyal to you and charged into battle for you!"

"I'm sorry." Lu Yizhan's tone was still calm, "Prophet access goes to Bai Liu, it's the only option with a chance of winning."

"The prophet handed the werewolves actually the only possible option to win?" Cen Buming's eyes darkened to the point where not a single light could be thrown into them, "You mean the option for the werewolves to win?"

Lu Yizhan calmly explained on, "We can't win against Bai Liu, he's too strong, but Bai Liu is possible, and as long as he's on our side and continues to play against Bai Liu as our prophet, the game will never be won or lost, it won't end."

"And this world line will go on and on."

"That's a win?" Cen Buming let out an almost sneering laugh.

"It doesn't count." Lu Yizhan closes his eyes and he says very softly, "But it doesn't count as a loss."

"That's the only way I can think of."

"Bai Liu's mental state has been fairly stable over the years; he grew up in a peaceful environment, not so extreme in his pursuit of profit and crime, and except for one or two strong fluctuations in his desires, I can't even see him getting into the game anymore."

"I'm sure Bai Liu wouldn't have gotten into the game if he didn't have his anchor in his hand."

Cen Buming slowly releases his hand from Lu Yizhan's collar as Lu Yizhan braces himself against the wall and staggers to his feet, limping out the door.

As he walks past Cen Buming, Lu Yizhan pauses, bows his head and says an apology, then heads outside.

"Senior." Cen Buming behind him suddenly called out to him, "Have you ever thought about how badly Bai Liu would have died if he really was a werewolf, the prophet who sold his soul to the werewolves."

"He's the last of my friends." Lu Yizhan braced himself against the wall, "I'm sure he won't kill me."

"Where the hell do you get this belief from?" Cen Buming asked, almost through gritted teeth.

Lu Yizhan paused for a moment as he bullheadedly replied, "A long time ago, I asked Fang Dian what it takes to win at the game all the time."

"Fang Dian and I are talking about cheating."

"What if I say the other guy is someone I can't win no matter what, someone I can't win even by cheating, how am I going to win him?"

"Fang Dian and I said that it would have to be an off-court cheat, so that he has no way to beat you."

"I asked her what it meant to cheat off the field, and she answered me with a smile and said, I am cheating off the field to you and Bai Liu, and Bai Liu is cheating off the field to you."

"Because you can't bear to see the two of us lose and feel bad about it, so every time every time you will deliberately let us, let us win, and you've let this go for ten years, and if you're going to win against anyone, you just let them become incapable of winning against you - it's kind of a cheating way to utilize emotional trust. "

"I said Bai Liu wouldn't let me win, he's very competitive, and Fang Dian laughed and said no."

"--The day he grows up, he'll know to let you."

Lu Yizhan looks back to Cen Buming, who smiles, "I think that day will come."

In the viewing pool, on the splashing big screen, Bai Liu and Lu Yizhan were fighting fiercely, whips and heavy swords swinging at each other, it was almost impossible to see the silhouettes of both sides, and all you could see was that the life values of the two sides were dropping continuously.

The host looked on in a cold sweat, "Reverse God's life value is only five! It's likely to be cleared out with a single slash!"

"Is the Killers sequence of playoffs going to stop here and have to start all over again next year?!"

Zhou Tianhua's face turned pale as he watched - this was not a matter of stopping here, captains do not have a free pass, dead is really dead, there is no such thing as coming back next year!

Shrine.

Bai Liu smiled as he looked at the scene on the screen, "Having Bai Liu realize that you don't have an immunity medal when there is only one point of life left, then as long as Bai Liu's hands are quicker, you'll be dead, are you really sure you want to bet with me?"

"In all the times you've bet with me, you haven't won a bet yet oh prophet."

Lu Yizhan didn't answer him, he just held down that God card under his hand, looking at Bai Liu whose eyes hadn't wavered in the slightest in attacking him on the screen, his breathing becoming slowly rapid.

What the hell were you thinking, Bai Liu?

What kind of kid are you, Bai Liu?

Will you ...... kill me or not.

Bai Liu.

Lu Yizhan closed his eyes whose lids had turned to stone, and at the same time, on the screen, Bai Liu turned his whip into a knife and stabbed into the heart of Lu Yizhan in the game.

[System Alert: Player Counter God's life value reduced to 1!

[Warning! Warning! No immunity medal to wear, player is about to die!

[Player Against the Gods is about to quit the game.]

In the game, Bai Liu heard the system beep, his pupils contracted slightly, then instantly reacted - he had been set up by Lu Yizhan!

This guy broke the rules and moved the immunity medal out of the way! Zhou Gong's medal with Spades' mark on it is not Spades', but Lu Yizhan's.

Lu Yizhan in the water raised his head violently, he gritted his teeth and gazed at Bai Liu with red eyes, despair, hideousness and sadness mingled in his expression, he raised his heavy sword high, and pushed it with all his strength into Bai Liu's heart, who was briefly lost in thought for a moment.

[System Alert: Player Adversary uses the monster book identity "Adversary's Judge" - using the highest level Judgement skill-

[- Judgment of the Evil God.]

The heavy sword violently erupted with a violent white light, and Bai Liu's life value dropped downwards at an almost throbbing rate.

Lu Yizhan's hand holding his heavy sword pushed into Bai Liu's heart and pierced through, pinning him to the bottom of the water, the two could almost clearly see each other's eyes, so close that Bai Liu still had his dagger in his hand, enough for him to attack once more.

With just one more attack, Lu Yizhan's life value would be zeroed out and he would ...... be dead.

This game is over.

Bai Liu's eyes were slack as he looked at Lu Yizhan who pushed his heavy sword to the bottom, his thoughts scattering uncontrollably.

...... Back in the day, when it seemed to be the same bottom of the lake, Lu Yizhan saved the fourteen year old from trying to grab Sheta's hand.

Helping the eighteen year old off the side of the high school lake.

Pulled the twenty-four year old out of the watery prison of the Heresy Authority.

Only this time, it pushed him into the water.

Am I going to kill him?

Bai Liu's face was emotionless as he looked at Lu Yizhan's face that was so pale that there was not even a trace of blood, and the blood exploded from Bai Liu's heart, instantly filling the entire bottom of the lake.

He never understood why Lu Yizhan saved him.

Don't understand why he was stopped like that now.

Lu Yizhan has been doing things he doesn't understand, teaching him things he doesn't understand, letting him live like a normal person in a world he doesn't understand at all, stopping him from hurting other people, and stopping other people from hurting him.

And why is that?

Why?

Why is it that when it's obvious that you're the one who's coming to kill me, your own hand holding the heavy sword is shaking so badly and your eyes are so red, as if you're killing the person you least want to kill?

Bai Liu let go of the dagger in his hand.

Lu Yizhan opened his eyes as he pushed the God card on the table down next to the Werewolf card and looked up at Bai Liu across the table : "I bet!"

"I bet he'll be the next generation of prophets to win you!"

[System alert: Player Bai Liu's life value is zeroed out and he exits the game.]