Trials (Six)

"Is that the place?" Pei Chanbai asked the two people beside him in the bushes.

Soon after he bandaged Bai's wound, he asked them to lead him to the ambush point of the entire team. Then he found that the downstream of the waterfall was not far away.

The little conch covered his mouth and whispered, "Yes, the large area ahead is full of traps they set up."

The air drifting from that direction carried a faint smell of blood. Pei Chanbai frowned: "Did you see anyone else when you were ambushed?"

Bai thought for a moment and said, "No, I didn't see anyone in the mechanisms or traps at that time."

"Really?" Pei Chanbai reached into his bag and pulled out an empty medicine bottle, tied it to a slingshot and slingshotted it over.

The little snail's eyes lit up and he asked, "Brother, where did you get this slingshot?"

The medicine bottle flew about twenty meters in the air before landing. It rolled forward a short distance due to inertia, and then fell back due to the slope.

With a loud "bang", the medicine bottle was blown away and immediately smashed to pieces by the dense arrows flying around.

Pei Chanbai's words fell at the same time: "There was a little boy about your age in the team I robbed."

The little conch closed its mouth tightly as if frightened, and shrank behind Pei Chanbai.

Bai: "The association's medicine bottle is made of special materials. The fact that it can be shattered means that those arrows must be the product of supernatural powers."

Pei Chanbai hummed, his eyes wandering for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking about.

Bai asked him, "What are you going to do? It's not easy to defeat a larger force with a smaller force in a positional battle."

Pei Chanbai took something out of his bag and shifted his gaze between Bai and Xiao Hailuo: "This requires your cooperation."

...

"It's just ahead." Bai had his arms tied behind his back with restraints, a leash around his neck, and he walked up the slope with his head lowered.

Pei Chanbai was holding the other end of the rope in his hand, following him half a step behind, limping as if his foot was injured.

When the mechanism on the slope was triggered, a group of people who were waiting for the opportunity a hundred meters away just happened to arrive in front of the two of them.

"Hahahaha, you really keep your word." The leader was a burly man. The moment he saw Bai, he burst into laughter. "Alright! Big brother will protect your life. Leave this man to us!"

As they spoke, a group of five people rushed towards the astonished Pei Chanbai.

However, just as they took the initiative to close the distance, they saw Bai Xiaoxiao stretch out his hands forward and make a triangle gesture with his ten fingers touching.

"You!" By the time the five people realized something was wrong, they had already fallen into the trap they had dug.

"You're fucking kidding us!"

The bottom of the pit was covered with short, sharpened bamboos, but perhaps because they were arranged too hastily, they were not dense enough to kill people, but only restricted the movements of those who fell.

To avoid the vital parts, the five men's hands and feet were pierced by the bamboo spikes, and they fell to the bottom of the pit, some crooked and some lying flat on their backs. They looked at the head that popped up from above and cursed angrily, "You kid, you dare to plot against us? Get out and wait and see!"

Bai raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Really? Then I'll be waiting."

Then he turned to Pei Chanbai and said, as if to take credit for it: "Well, now you believe me, don't you? What I said is all true."

At this time, the little conch jumped over to the two of them, glanced at the people in the pit, and stuck out its tongue at them.

Pei Chanbai silently took two steps back, saying, "Well, thank you for your cooperation."

The next second, Bai and the little snail were locked inside a metal cage that came out from the ground.

"!!!" Bai looked at Pei Chanbai in disbelief, "What are you doing? Aren't we allies?" Little Snail was also obviously startled and a little flustered.

Pei Chanbai threw the bag into the forest and looked at the two people in the cage with some confusion: "I just lent you the things. When did you agree to form an alliance?"

"You..." Bai was unable to refute for a moment, so he changed the breakthrough point and said, "Then do you plan to deal with the remaining people by yourself?"

Pei Chanbai squatted down, took off the badge on his shoe, and then conjured up a drilling rig on the ground.

"I took out two teams before I met you. Excluding the ones in the pit now, you're the last two."

As he spoke, he sat at the control console and said, "Besides, you all agreed to come to me. If you want to talk about scheming, you were the ones who schemed against me first."

Seeing that there was no room for maneuver, Bai was about to raise his hand towards Pei Chanbai.

"Swish", before Bai closed his hands, the leash around his neck suddenly came alive, quickly expanding into a strip of cloth, tightly wrapping his arms together, making him unable to move anymore.

Pei Chanbai poked his head out of the control panel and shouted at him, "I know you two are both psychic types. This cage was made of those arrows. You can't break free."

"Don't move around, and you won't get hurt too badly."

After saying that, Pei Chanbai sat back and pointed the operating head at a point on the straight line between the big pit and the cage, preparing to send the brother and sister and the team deeper underground.

Just before he pressed the start button, he was suddenly blinded by a sudden burst of blinding light, causing his position to deviate slightly. The people in the cage did not fall into the same pit.

In the mist, Bai changed his previous nonchalant attitude and asked the little conch seriously, "Didn't you realize his intention?"

The little conch shook his head and said, "He has never thought of this. I have been listening to him the whole time."

Bai: "That means that trapping us was a completely impulsive move on his part, and he did it right away."

Little Conch: "His mobility is too strong, which just restrains my ability."

Bai: "Forget it. I was thinking of using him to get rid of this group and save us some effort, but I didn't expect that after all my scheming, I ended up becoming his pawn." He sighed, "Is this what they call 'natural overcoming everything'?"

"I hope I won't be punished too badly by the leader..."

The light in front of Pei Chanbai's eyes dimmed. He didn't have time to figure out what was going on. He readjusted his position and prepared to start again.

Because of the previous mistake, cracks began to appear on the ground, and one side of the metal cage became obviously misaligned up and down.

Pei Chanbai reacted extremely quickly, jumped off the operating table, and retracted the huge drilling rig.

He just wanted to make Bai and Xiao Hailuo lose their ability to fight, but he didn't want them to die, so when a huge crack appeared in the ground and the metal cage sank downwards -

Bai grabbed Xiao Hailuo's hand, and Pei Chanbai grabbed Bai's hand.

"Hold on tight." The weight of the two people was still a little beyond the limit of endurance. Pei Chanbai's back teeth were bleeding from biting. "Don't move."

Bai's arms were stretched up and down, and even though it was painful, he still teased the man on top: "What? Don't you want to win?"

Pei Chanbai didn't bother to pay attention to his idle thoughts. While pulling the man up with both hands, he controlled the metal fragments to embed into the ground, weaving a metal net under the feet of the two people.

"Wow, so strong~" Bai still had the strength to whistle. Seeing that there was a fixed surface under his feet, he released the hand holding the little conch, then lifted up the arm that was numb from the soreness, and held Pei Chanbai's hand.

"You're a good person, let go."

It was at this moment that Pei Chanbai saw the white mark on the wrist. "It's you!" As soon as he finished speaking, his fingers were pried apart one by one, and he saw the person fall to the ground.

——

"The H Zone qualifiers are over!" Christopher announced with a smile.

As soon as Pei Chanbai came out of the door, he started looking around for something.

Just as he was about to go in a certain direction, Ying Yungui stopped him and said, "Report first."

Meeting Ying Yungui's gaze, Pei Chanbai finally calmed down.

"The other teams don't pose much of a threat. They only have a pair of siblings. They are most likely psychics, but their specific abilities are unknown." He concluded while thinking about Bai's appearance.

Ying Yungui loosened his collar and said, "Go ahead, but be careful." Then Pei Chanbai hurried towards a white-haired old man above.

Bai was also reporting the situation to the team leader. "It's confirmed. It's 'Concrete Molecular Reorganization', and it's already grown to the point where it's broken through the mass limit. I'm afraid 'Creation' isn't far off. If he really awakens 'Creation', it will be very troublesome."

The little snail added: "He's so active that I can't keep up with his thinking."

The white-haired old man nodded: "I see." Then he suddenly looked behind the two of them and said, "Is it him?"

Before Bai could even turn around, he was dragged away. Looking at their departing figures, the little snail seemed to understand something and started laughing secretly.

"Brother is going to have good luck with love."

...

Pei Chanbai pulled the person all the way out of the venue before letting go.

Just as Bai Gang broke free and was about to ask him what he wanted to do, he was pushed against the wall with a bang.

"Although you are very handsome and your hair color is cool, aren't we moving too fast? And ten minutes ago you were planning to cripple me... " Bai's voice stopped the moment his hand was held.

Pei Chanbai raised his hand, which was still trembling slightly from using too much force, and gently lifted a small section of his sleeve. When he saw the mark around his wrist, his voice was extremely distorted in an extremely rare way.

"It's really you..."

Bai looked at his excited expression, then looked at the white scorpion mark on his wrist that even the leader couldn't hide. His pupils suddenly shrank: "You... could it be..."

Pei Chanbai hugged the man immediately, murmuring softly, "Great, you're okay. I've been looking for you for a long time."

Bai's nose felt sore, and his palm stroked the white hair of the person in his arms. The lonely time in the past quickly flashed through his mind. He hugged the person tighter: "Fortunately, fortunately you didn't disappear."

——

For Pei Chanbai, there is nothing in this world that he cares about.

He had always been alone. He grew up alone, lived alone, and worked alone. He didn't know where his family was, and he never thought about looking for them.

"It's good to be alone," Pei Yanbai thought so when he was very young.

So once he likes something, it will become a very important part of his life, and then he will continue to like it. Just like playing single-player games and completing tasks to make money.

Pei Chanbai doesn't like missions, but he likes the moment when he gets rewarded after completing a mission. No matter what the reward is or how much it is, he can feel that his existence is more important and his feet are more grounded.

He had originally planned to get used to this meaningless future until he died, but suddenly one day when he opened his eyes, he found himself deep in a rainforest. His body felt light and weightless, as if only a wisp of soul was left.

He was sure that he had never been to that rainforest, but he felt inexplicably familiar and warm.

"Could it be that I am actually dead, and this is heaven?" I wandered around with this thought in mind for an unknown period of time, but during this time I did not encounter any creature like myself.

"It's like this again... It's worse than the previous world. At least there were game consoles."

The more he wandered, the more bored Pei Chanbai felt, and he even thought about his next death and reincarnation.

Until one day, he met a man by a pond deep in the rainforest.

The man was not scared by his light soul. He gave him a name, explored the map with him like playing a game, told him many stories, and even tried to lead him out of the rainforest, but unfortunately failed.

They spent a long, long time together.

Pei Chanbai could feel that the man was just as lonely as he was, unable to find where he came from or where he was going.

Just when he thought they could stay together like this until the end of the world, one day a force surged out from the bottom of the pool and tried to suck him in. His subconscious felt that once he got in, many things would disappear, so he didn't want that person to be sucked in as well.

"At least he can live."

Unfortunately, his wish was unfulfilled. They were all swept up by the force and arrived in a chaotic space.

"It wouldn't be bad if we could just disappear together."

Just when the space was about to collapse, the man said that there were still many things to do, but it didn't matter, and he also said that he hoped to live well.

"I'm already dead, idiot."

Pei Chanbai still felt extremely regretful, and he wanted that person to get what he wanted.

Then he actually felt his body growing out, and a voice told him, "The stone platform in the center of the space is the key."

"I'm already dead anyway, so dying again doesn't matter. As long as you can survive, that's all that matters."

Then he hugged the stone platform with the determination to be alone forever.

Finally, he opened his eyes in his own bed.

It was the summer of the 177th year of the new calendar. Pei Chanbai broke through the bottleneck and became a level 6 mutant.

Since the day he woke up, he has been looking for the whereabouts of that person, the person who left his white scorpion mark on his wrist. Where is he?

——

Pei Yanbai's skin is really natural, naturally black, and naturally straight.

He Xian had recovered a long time ago, but he was still being held tightly, which he understood. "Okay, I won't disappear again, let me go first?"

Pei Chanbai let go obediently, then looked straight at him and said, "Your name is Bai?"

He Xian: "..." He didn't want to lie to the little guy, but he couldn't tell the truth either, so he could only explain: "It's a pseudonym. I miss you, so I took this pseudonym."

Just when he thought he would be asked why he chose a pseudonym, he unexpectedly heard "I miss you too."

"..." He Xian felt as if all his previous relationships had been in vain. He had always prided himself on being a seasoned lover, but now he was faced with a little white-haired boy, feeling somewhat at a loss. "Have you... been looking for me?"

Pei Chanbai nodded heavily. It was a rare occasion for him to be so sure of something. "I've been looking for you."

He Xian felt a little guilty. After all, he hadn't known "Xiao Bai" was actually a real person, so he hadn't considered looking for him. Furthermore, he wasn't even showing his true face, and this deception and concealment made him feel a little ashamed.

Pei Chanbai noticed his evasive gaze and asked bluntly, "This isn't your true appearance. What mission are you on?"

He Xian opened his mouth to speak, but Pei Chanbai said, "I can help you."

"My leader helped me fuse a stray soul before, so I want to return the favor. Once I help him win the prize for this competition, I'll help you."

Pei Chanbai's red eyes and pure white hair are quite shocking and have scared many people, so there are only a handful of people who are willing to look him in the eye.

But He Xian really thinks his eyes are beautiful.

"But I'm lying to you now." He Xian raised his hand with some pity and gently touched the eyelashes, "Do you mind?"

Pei Chenbai was puzzled: "You didn't lie to me just for the sake of lying to me, why should I mind?"

He Xian laughed: "You really are..."

Pei Chanbai thought for a moment, then removed the badges from his two shoes and transformed them into two bracelets. "I've never given anyone a gift before, so I'm not sure what you'd like. Is this okay?"

"I want to be with you from now on, just like we were in the rain forest before."

"If you are willing, take this. If not..."

He Xian intentionally teased him, retracted his raised hand and asked, "What will you do if I don't want to?"

Pei Chanbai's eyes were firm: "I will try my best to make you willing."

He Xian couldn't help but rubbed the soft white hair and said with a smile: "Our Xiaobai is so cute, how could he not be willing?" Then he lowered his head and whispered something in Pei Chanbai's ear, and saw Pei Chanbai's face gradually approaching the color of his pupils.

"We have a deal, no mercy." He Xian took the bracelet with a wicked smile and put it on his wrist, thinking to himself, "He is indeed a pure and innocent girl", and the helplessness he had just felt had long since disappeared.