The Drowned Man from the Future
Sinners in the Well.
The old wallet flares up once more, Bai Liu sidles up to get it, and is thrown off with a whip as he steps on Bai Liu's shoulder and pins him against the bottom of the well, peering down at the expression on Bai Liu's face at the moment, raising an eyebrow in amusement:
"Let me guess, on your face, is that water from the bottom of the well, or are those your tears?"
The soulful bills in the old wallet burned to embers, silently extinguished in the shallow water at the bottom of the well. Bai Liu closed his eyes and a tear slipped from his left eye, falling into the water at the bottom of the well along with the ashes.
"The reason why people shed tears is because of their feelings, right?" Bai Liu smiled gently and kindly, "That was the answer you gave me ten years ago."
"With you, feelings seem to be something of value, but at the moment, all I see is that they make you weak, they make you afraid, they make you suffer-"
"You purchased them for only two hundred and ten points, but you paid much more than that."
"- It's already a bad deal, Bai Liu."
Bai Liu draws his hand out of his white bone whip, knocking Bai Liu back, he looks up, his hair spread out from the fight, the ends dripping down along.
Bai Liu tilts his head with a small smile, "A murderous look."
"I'm all for encouraging you to kill me, but before you do-"
Bai Liu also drew out his black bone whip, he let out a light laugh and looked sideways at the white bone whip on Bai Liu's hand, "Relying on that kind of thing and weak feelings, but you can't kill a god."
The white bone whip broke his hand out of his sleeve and rushed straight at Bai Liu's face all the way from the well water like an arrow, Bai Liu side-stepped to avoid it, Bai Liu concentrated and shook his hand back to stab, the white bone whip that rushed past was like a boomerang that wiped back, and the sharp end passed through Bai Liu's side shoulder.
Blood biao came out and Bai Liu was swayed by the blow, but he just stood for a moment and indifferently pulled out the bone whip that had been inserted into his shoulder, smiling with growing satisfaction.
"Has it gotten to the point where even using something like this can hurt me?" Bai Liu laughed softly, his eyebrows arched, "Truly worthy of being my chosen heir."
After Bai Liu pulls out his bone whip, his wound is still oozing blood, but it heals quickly.
"But a friendly reminder is in order, this is the system backstage, and beyond the world line, it's already the realm of the gods."
"Once again, all mortals are as fragile as ants, and can be reduced to ashes with a single word or thought."
Bai Liu looked down at the ashes seeping out of his old wallet:
"You won't be able to kill me, how about the fact that in this place, you're already surprised that you can hurt me with such a rudimentary weapon, how is that in your human parlance?"
"- With mortal strength, comparable to the gods?"
Bai Liu seemed to find this very interesting and read it out with a smile:
"Interesting point of view, but I have to regret to tell you that this set of ideas will not generalize here in the Evil God."
"In this world, the Evil God is the amalgamation of all human desires, no human can overcome their own desires, so no human can overcome the Evil God, so unless you are willing to take over the identity of the new Evil God, you can't get out of here with the power of a human, and then you'll have to watch as they go outside in order to protect you --"
"- one after another died."
Bai Liu's eyes half-lidded and he rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Speaking of which, who's it to now?"
"I think Liu Jiayi and Tang Er fought?"
Liu Jiayi hastily covered Bai Liu's heart as she looked up, "Bai Liu's torso has hardened!"
"He became like a statue!"
Because it's so far away from the soul, the body disconnects from the soul and that's what happens!
Tang Er clenched his teeth as he drew his gun, "I'm going to round up Cen Buming and make him release his soul."
--Can't kill Cen Buming, if the opponent is cleared out of the game outright, something will happen on Bai Liu's side whether Bai Liu's soul in the Sinner's Well is taken out of the game or the Sinner's Well stays in the space on the ship!
"Joker ......" Liu Jiayi pulls Tang Er to fight, her hands and voice shaking but her expression doing its best to remain calm, "We have to lure the Joker away from Cen Buming or else bring the Bai Liu's body over to receive the soul, the outer ring of Bai Liu's gloves will reset the Joker's skills and he'll be able to fire again."
"...... I'll distract the clowns while you bring Cen Buming here."
Seeing Tang Er quickly open his mouth, about to veto the disapproval, Liu Jiayi took a deep breath and calmly explained, "I'm not strong enough to carry Bai Liu around, and I can't do the main attacking mission against Cen Buming, but I can still do the roaming mission of luring away the clowns."
"And now that Bai Liu is unconscious, I'm the second tactician on the team, and you, as the primary attacker, should follow my orders."
Tang Er hits his teeth, "...... but ......"
"No buts!" Liu Jiayi tilted her head up, her gray eyes were glistening with tears, but her expression had calmed down, "Things are urgent, there is no better way now, we have to do this first, the clown has a fifteen minute skill cd, as long as you keep him from getting close to Bai Liu, the clown's skill will not be able to be reset, and nothing will happen to me, and as long as you get Bai Liu's soul from Cen Buming where to take Bai Liu's soul out, everything will be over."
"I'm sure you can do this, Captain Don."
Tang Er Ta was called by Liu Jiayi's name of Captain Tang and his brain buzzed for a moment - Liu Jiayi because of what he did before, has always had a problem with him, as if he hated a relative he didn't like much, never called him uncle or honorifics, and when he was in a good mood, he called him Tang Er Ta, and when he was in a bad mood, he called him stupid big man or big man. When he was in a bad mood, he called him stupid big man or big man.
This was the first time this little girl had called him Captain Tang.
Liu Jiayi's voice began to tremble a little as she held Tang Er's beaten wrist in both hands, her palms cold: "I will believe in you as Bai Liu believes in you!"
"...... And if Daniel gets close to Bai Liu while you're fighting Cen Buming, his skills can't avoid resetting." She takes a shuddering deep breath, then stands up, "I'll have my poison skill ready to kill myself in time to get out of the game, you don't have to worry about me."
"I don't have Mu Sicheng the monkey, and Mu Ke the deadbeat, then, then ......"
Liu Jiayi clenched her fists, she raised her hand and wiped her eyes hard, her voice was vicious, as if she was scolding someone, but there was a sobbing tone, "--so stupid! In order to save Bai Liu, he didn't even leave himself a way out!"
Tang Er fight eventually agreed with Liu Jiayi's tactics, and he silently carried Bai Liu on his back, tying a bandage around his body, lest the increasingly stiff shell fall off.
"As soon as I get out, I'll quickly fire a Poison Swamp move skill to control the Joker, and you'll seize the time to take Cen Buming away." Liu Jiayi explained the tactics with forced composure, "I'll try to delay the Joker's movement as long as possible, but when I can't, I'll use my Poison skill on myself and suicide my way out of the game."
"When the time comes, you'll retreat in time, don't fight for a long time." Liu Jiayi's tone carried a warning, "Because I won't either, and you'll easily get into trouble without me to cover you, so I'll kill myself and you'll have to retreat."
"You have to know how to be smart, you know?"
Tang Er hit a silent nod.
Liu Jiayi closed her eyes as she tried to relax her tense body, "The chance is only this time, but surviving is the most important thing."
"I'm a tactician who hates it when people go out of their way to do things outside of their capabilities and then die in front of me, you know that about me."
"Go!"
They rejoined the first level.
The moment the elevator door opens, Cen Buming seems to be arguing furiously with Daniel about something, but Liu Jiayi's mind goes blank, and she can't listen to what the two men are exchanging.
Even though she is blind, her hearing is always the best, and she can easily hear every word in a conversation at this distance. Bai Liu even joked that when her eyes get better and she takes the English listening test in high school, she will be in a unique position to do so.
The grades will definitely be better than his English scum.
At that time she rightly proudly responded, rather contemptuously - that's natural, the score is at least twice as much as yours, Bai Liu.
Bai Liu would only look at her with a smirk and then say - I only score 40 something in English sometimes, you test twice?
She'd be speechless and say you're just so wasted, were you passed out when you took the English test?
Bai Liu said with a smile, probably.
Now Bai Liu is literally passed out behind her, but she can't laugh at all.
So the sleeping Bai Liu is so scary?
The pupils of Liu Jiayi's eyes were grey and dull as she waved her hand the moment she stepped into the elevator, hoarsely calling to Tang Er behind her, "Go!!!"
[System Alert: Heretic Liu Jiayi using personal skill (Poison Swamp)]
The entire layer of poisonous gas rises up to the sky, the opposite side is instantly plunged into the miasma created by Liu Jiayi, Liu Jiayi's eyes sullenly stare, carefully biting her lips in the midst of the poisonous fog, her pupils shrink when she sees a green sniper rifle, and quickly rolls and leans over, she squints her eyes and manipulates the poisonous fog to rise up, wrapping the other side in it.
"Cough......" came Daniel's choking cough from the poisonous fog, and he yelled in annoyance, "Come out! Little blind man! I know you put the poisonous fog there!"
Liu Jiayi hides behind the ship's load-bearing columns, cool as a precision machine, constantly manipulating the flow of poisonous mist from the swamp that envelops Daniel, separating him from Cen Buming and pushing him towards the elevator.
--As long as we can get this lunatic to the next level, Tang Er's mission to fight over there will be absolutely safe.
But to send it to the next level, the range she put in at the beginning of the Poison Swamp would be a bit out of reach, and that would require another complementary poison skill to cover the range that Daniel is now active in.
Liu Jiayi clicked on the panel, she looked at that antidote and poison skill for a while, the antidote skill had long gone into cd, she pulled out all the antidotes and took them to Tang Er to fight.
--The big move only has one poison skill left.
The skill she used to kill herself.
Liu Jiayi felt that her mind and thoughts had never been so clear and calm.
From the tactician's point of view, there was no need to use up so much of her big move skill for a player who was already unconscious, especially when she had already lost two of her players; in fact, what she hadn't said to Tang Er before was that if this opportunity didn't work out, she'd simply give up on Bai Liu.
It's not worth it.
Even if Bai Liu dies and she loses this tournament, there are guilds that want her and guilds that want Tang Er to fight, to be precise, what Liu Jiayi wants is to win the tournament and resurrect Liu Huai after she gets her wish and points, that's not the same with any guild, Phoebe is even willing to let her be the tactician for the King's guild, to be honest, it's quite possible for her to win the championship next year if she joins forces with Honestly, if she joins forces with Phoebe, she has a very good chance of winning the championship next year.
It's not like we have to follow Bai Liu to win the race, why do we have to save him?
From her personal point of view, Bai Liu is just a big bad guy who is shameless, cheated her soul with two pieces of red bean cakes, and wants her to find the money, this person is a villainous persona any way you look at it, he doesn't have a few truthful words in his mouth, he thinks about screwing around with money all the time, and not to mention the cheekiness, he shouldn't have a few feelings for her either.
Cajoling her to sell her life in the name of a good brother entrusted by Liu Huai, she is not really a fool, not the same as Tang Er fight Mu Sicheng Mu Ke these bad brains, why should she really do this for Bai Liu?
It's not necessary.
[Which family do you choose?
Bai Liu sat next to her hospital bed and calmly asked her, "There are two families that like you very much, go to whichever one you like."
[This braided look kinda suits you.]
Bai Liu laughs and snaps at the messy braid the others have given her, and as she grumbles in frustration with her chin in her hand, Bai Liu walks up, eyes downcast, and gently unwraps it, giving her a new whip that is regular and looks good, "But Jiayi, it still looks better like this."
There's Phoebe on the island. Want to come over and play?
Bai Liu smiled and said, "I don't think you seem to hate Phoebe."
"Want to try and make friends with her? You don't have any playful friends your own age yet, do you?"
Liu Jiayi stood still at the panel for three seconds as she tapped the poison skill and held the poison spray in her hand, not crying, not sad, calm as could be.
She's a fool too.
On the other side, Tang Er fought almost explosively overpowering Cen Buming, fighting with Bai Liu on his back like a wild, bloodthirsty beast, taking out two of the team members who came to stop him in a single breath in just a few minutes, critically injuring a third, and beginning to exchanged blows with Cen Buming.
Tang Er hit by Cen Buming knocked away his gun, Cen Buming was hit by Tang Er and broke his left hand, the two hunters on the verge of madness were fighting on the ground as if they had lost their sanity.
"Why did you have to kill Bai Liu!" Tang Er hit shouted hoarsely as he gave up on using his gun, raised his fist and slammed it down hard on Cen Buming's face, "He didn't do anything bad at all!"
"In his whole life, living up to this point, he hasn't done a single bad thing, he's a good person!"
"The children in the orphanage were saved by him! The people poisoned by dried leaf roses were saved by him! Transporting heretics to the glacier, the Heretic Authority crew on the plane were all saved by him! Everyone in the entire Russell Cemetery was saved by him!"
"He's probably saved more people than you, the second team leader!"
"Who the hell are you to lock him up in a well of sinners!!!" Tang Er's deep blue eyes burned with a furious and desperate light, and there were tears falling along with the blood from his fists, "He's not a sinner!!!"
"Put him out!!!"
Cen Buming's face dented by Tang Er Hit's punch, blood crashing and splattering from fissures and cuts, his hand on the death ring trembled, he clenched it and choked and kicked Tang Er Hit away, "...... Who said I wouldn't let go?"
"Get out of the way, I'll turn on the skills!"
Now even Tang Er hit froze for a moment, puzzled and confused, he loosened his grip on Cen Buming's collar, he didn't expect it to go so well, but Cen Buming really didn't look like a person who would start such a player at such a juncture, and he saw Cen Buming grit his teeth and adjusted his Reaper Ring two or three times.
...... What's going on is that there's no way to open the well of sinners that's been closed since just now.
It's his well, there's no way it wouldn't even open for him, unless ......
--His subconscious mind believes that there really is a sinner in the well, and that this sinner is a sinner who should never be opened and let out.
And this man is, in his clear opinion, an unforgivable sinner.
Cen Buming's eyes sank.
Just now in the elevator, the light was dim and overgrown, he didn't really see very much of what was going on, all he saw was a hand appearing from his well and pulling Bai Liu's soul back, he had previously thought that it was some heretic incarnated by one of the sinners that he had put in the well that had done this, but now that he thought about it, it could only have been one guy.
-- Bai Liu.
Tang Er watched as Cen Buming lowered his hand, his expression turning cold again as he pulled out his gun and aimed it at Cen Buming's head, "Open the well of sinners and let Bai Liu out."
Cen Buming was silent for a while, he looked up, "I ...... can t put Bai Liu."
--for there was another sinner in the well who was highly similar to him.
He can't quite tell the difference between Bai Liu and Bai Liu, and the well of sinners formed by his desires and subconscious mind will only judge them both as sinners, so he can't open the well.
"So ...... you were just teasing me weren't you?" Tang Er hit's expression grimaced as he raised his hand and flung the butt of his rifle into the side of Cen Buming's face, "Your well why can't you open it?!"
"Open up!"
Tang Er hit stared at Cen Buming, then he suddenly realized something and turned his head violently towards the dissipating poisonous fog swamp - Cen Buming was stalling for time!
Jiayi's move skill time is running out!
But Jiayi never signaled him!
From the edge of the fog, Tang Er fights to see a scene that sends him into cardiopulmonary arrest, as Liu Jiayi holds up the bottle of poison spray, hidden in the looming fog, and slowly forces Daniel back into the elevator-and then one of her own feet into the elevator.
It's a different tactic than what Jiayi told him at the beginning!
Jiayi initially said she was going to kill herself with her poison skill, but now that she's used up all her skills to screen back and distract Daniel, Daniel's Soul Crusher skill cooldown is about to expire, and she'll be in an elevator booth with Daniel, with the poison skill not on cooldown, and she'll have absolutely no means of killing herself quickly, and Daniel has a gun.
-- Liu Jiayi must have been hit by a soul-crushing gun!
"Little Blindie, those are the only skills I remember about you." A clown's weird laugh came from the nearly dissipating poisonous fog, "Now it's my turn to show off my skills."
[System alert: Heretic Daniel skill cooldown is over, do you want to use your personal skill (Soul Sniper Rifle)?]
[OK.]
In the dissipating poisonous fog, a gun muzzle with green light appeared, and the direction of this gun muzzle was Liu Jiayi who was walking towards the elevator. Liu Jiayi blocked in front of this gun muzzle, and Tang Er hit and saw that she only paused for a moment, and then slightly sidestepped her head, and pressed the button of the elevator.
The elevator door slowly closed, Tang Er hit expression blankly saw Liu Jiayi, who had the gun pointed at him, turn around and look at him quietly and obediently through the closed elevator door, then suddenly smiled sweetly and waved her hand to him and Bai Liu, her movement was as natural as that of a little girl who was going to school to say goodbye to her own family, and she used her mouth to say --Bye.
Captain Tang, brother Bai Liu.
Tang Er hit violently drew his gun, he aimed at the elevator is about to close the gap Liu Jiayi's back crazy shot, at the same time, Cen Buming also concentrated, quickly turned the death ring into a black pistol, aimed at the gradual closure of the green point of the gun shot.
"Aaaaahhhh-!!!" Tang Er went berserk, equipped with an entire monster book, shooting so fast that he was only stumped with his spirit level down, not caring anymore, his eyes red to the point of dripping blood, "LET HER GO!!!"
Daniel went crazy too, and he still chose to shoot Liu Jiayi under this intense fire coverage, "--You self-righteous tired people!"
His bloodstained face was cruel and grim, his apple-green eyes exploded with a shocking light in the darkness, and there was a heartfelt, delighted smile on his face:
"To hell with all of you!!!"
"It is without you that the Godfather can be my God!!!"
Green guns, silver guns, black guns, all firing at the same time, dense bullets weaving in and out of the dispersing poisonous fog, sliding out rays that wrapped the elevator like an inescapable cage of death.
Cen Buming's bullet sends Daniel's wrist flying, but he still fires the green bullet, a symbol of a shattered soul, which grazes the side of Liu Jiayi's face and instantly ignites a white fire that envelops her gray eyes in flames.
She was shaking with pain, but at the moment, the little girl's hand was still pressed on the elevator's close button.
--She wanted to take the Joker away.
That way ...... the rest of us are safe.
These guys, can be her countless times to pour her best efforts to save ...... family and friends, she as a witch, there is no reason to let them die here.
She's a witch.
The witch said that tonight is a Christmas Eve.
Published at: 08/03/2025 04:00