Liu Jiayi followed closely, frowning in thought: "If you really smell Bai Liu, then it proves that I am right, but why is Bai Liu not here? I don't think that group of people will let Bai Liu go easily, so what is the situation now?"

As soon as she finished her words, a shrill radio alarm sounded in the base:

"Level 1 alert! Level 1 alert! The base is about to be completely sealed off! More than 80% of the heretics are fleeing! All team members, please prepare for battle!"

"If we encounter foreign invaders and humanoid heretics like Bai Liu, we will not give them priority in sheltering them, but will give them priority in execution!"

"That intruder, the humanoid heretic..." Mu Sicheng pointed at the tip of his nose, "Will it not be us?"

"I think so, but I think there are more important things right now." Mu Ke looked behind Mu Sicheng alertly. He pressed Mu Sicheng's right shoulder to prevent him from turning back. "You'd better not turn back easily now."

Mu Sicheng took a deep breath and felt it, "Is there something behind me holding my shoulder?"

A bride, wearing a bridal skirt from the Ming and Qing dynasties and a thick veil with a "囍" character embroidered on it, stretched out a pale, corpse-spotted hand with dark nails and placed it weakly on Mu Sicheng's shoulder. The lower half of her face, revealed from under the moldy veil, had a weird smile on her stiff mouth.

They had no idea when the bride appeared or when she approached them.

"What should I do now?" Mu Sicheng's tone was still calm.

Liu Jiayi looked at the new bride, then raised her eyebrows: "...I think I should know this monster. I have played the game in which she appears."

"Her monster book is called [New Bride]. In the game, the way to attack you is to marry the groom she chooses, and then she will drag you into the underworld." Liu Jiayi glanced at Mu Sicheng, who had a serious expression, with a playful look. "In short, if she puts her arm around your shoulder, it means she's attracted to you."

Mu Sicheng was about to collapse: "But I don't like her! Can you tell her that we don't have arranged marriages or forced marriages here?!"

Mu Ke keenly perceived the key point from Liu Jiayi's words: "She is a monster in the monster book? Then she has weaknesses. What are her weaknesses?"

Liu Jiayi's tone calmed down: "First, you can't turn your back on her. Second, you'd better not be a man she is old enough to marry. Third-"

Before she finished speaking, Liu Jiayi leaned on Mu Sicheng's shoulders and jumped up. She lifted the veil of the bride with a swift movement and looked fiercely: "Third, she can't leave her veil."

The veil fell to the ground, and the bride, whose face was completely rotten, covered her face and let out a miserable scream. Liu Jiayi threw away her veil, and the bride quickly walked to chase the red color represented by the veil that Liu Jiayi had thrown away.

Liu Jiayi pulled Mu Sicheng up, without even turning her head, and shouted, "Run!"

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Tang Erda walked into the corridor. Opposite him was a bunch of messy and smelly hair that looked like it had been pulled out of the bathtub drain. Several team members were trembling with fear as they prepared to go over to contain it, but Tang Erda raised his hand to stop them.

He looked at the ball of hair and said, "Every heretic, or monster, that has the ability to attack aggressively has its own weaknesses. When you take them in, you must be careful to take advantage of their inherent weaknesses."

Tang Erda took a light breath and approached the ball of hair. "For example, this heretic, number 1402, [Dianthium], looks like a ball of hair, but it is actually a social parasite with strong vitality and reproductive capacity. When you approach it, it's best not to show its characteristics of being able to parasitize other organisms."

"But unfortunately, the human body is the host they inhabit, so we'd better give it a parasite to distract its attention."

A team member came running from behind and handed Tang Er a little white mouse in a cage.

Tang Erda took the cage, opened it, caught the little white mouse out, and threw it towards the hair with incredible precision.

The parasites that had been disguising themselves as hair instantly extended their tentacles and entangled themselves in the body of the little white mouse. The little white mouse lay twitching and squirming on the ground, with countless wriggling threads visible beneath its skin.

"Its only weakness is when it's eating. It won't find another time to attack other creatures." Tang Erda grabbed the little white mouse with leather gloves on and threw it into the glass box very quickly.

The mouse instantly exploded into a bloody mist in the box. The full-fed insects stood up like centipedes and swam around the edge of the glass box, trying to get out.

This scene made the other team members shudder. They couldn't imagine what would happen if this thing escaped.

A team member took a deep breath and raised his communicator to report: "Report, heretic [1402] has been contained."

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A translucent creeping creature slithered past Liu Jiayi's back silently.

Mu Sicheng's nose twitched, and before his brain could react, the strange yet familiar pungent smell made him pull out the gun he had snatched from the patrolman without hesitation, aiming at that location and firing.

The reptile made a hissing sound like a lizard, turned from colorless to a sticky dark black, fell from the wall to the ground, and then slid away on all fours at a very fast speed.

Liu Jiayi looked over with a little surprise. She didn't even hear any movement just now.

"Transparent Chameleon, a monster from a level one game I played. It has low defense, but high concealment." Mu Sicheng rubbed his shoulders and said, "I didn't figure out its weakness until the end, but my attack value was high enough, so I killed it directly."

Mu Sicheng grinned and said, "It seems that these monsters, whether in or outside the game, are still no match for bullets. Fortunately, I have played with guns a few times in the game."

Mu Ke had already taken the gun from his waist. He had learned shooting, but his reaction was not as fast as Mu Sicheng's, and his whole mind was focused on searching for Bai Liu.

Mu Ke looked solemn: "Mu Sicheng, can you smell the scent of Bai Liu?"

"Tsk." Mu Sicheng touched his back irritably. "It's OK at ordinary times, but not here. The smells here are too mixed. The smells of these monsters are too strong."

"It's impossible that they released the monsters here by themselves." Liu Jiayi began to analyze clearly, "Although I don't know where Bai Liu got such great ability, I think it's most likely his doing. Now the question is, what does this person want to do by making such a big fuss?"

Liu Jiayi looked at Mu Sicheng and Mu Ke: "Now all our plans have been overturned. The only thing we can do is to find out Bai Liu's motives for doing this."

"Once we figure this out, we'll know where he's going. You seem to have a close relationship with Bai Liu, and you're willing to risk your life for him. Do you know anything about Bai Liu?"

Mu Ke hesitated and recalled for a while: "...his computer was an alien computer that I compensated him for. He seemed to like this brand of computer very much..."

Mu Sicheng stroked his chin and fell into deep thought: "He had a discounted hot pot last week. Does this count as understanding?"

Liu Jiayi looked numb: "...The understanding I'm talking about is not in this aspect. Are you elementary school students playing together?!"

It turns out that these two people are nothing and know nothing but just followed her here!

But it was not until this moment that Liu Jiayi suddenly realized that Bai Liu had already figured out the psychological conditions, goals and motives, backgrounds, and even their ancestors for three generations.

If they were trapped in this base, Bai Liu's understanding of them was enough for him to guess their behavior patterns, quickly figure out where they would go and their escape route, and then quickly find their location and take them out.

Bai Liu's understanding and mastery of them gave them an illusion, as if they and Bai Liu had known each other for a long time and understood each other deeply.

But it is not.

They knew nothing about Bai Liu, or rather, Bai Liu never let them know what he was thinking.

Who can know what Bai Liu is thinking?

This guy is insidious and cunning. He may be wearing a thousand layers of smiling masks on his face, and everything he does makes people completely confused.

Is there really anyone in this world who can guess Bai Liu's thoughts, know where he will go, and find him?

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Lu Yizhan walked through the corridor with a serious look and headed deeper underground. He was surrounded by people swimming upstream.

Someone stopped him: "Hey! Where are you going? That's where the most dangerous heretics are kept! Only members of the detachment can go down there!"

Lu Yizhan turned a deaf ear to them. He just held the gun tightly in his hand, brushed past those people who were walking out, and walked down with great determination.

There are the most dangerous heretics.

Bai Liu must be there. He knows Bai Liu too well, maybe even better than Bai Liu knows himself. He is born with a yearning for danger and likes games. The more uncontrollable and unknown things are, the more they attract him.

After working at Lu Station for so long, he learned another name that could be used to refer to people like Bai Liu, which was "Born Criminal".

People with low empathy, high IQ, pursuit of excitement and terror, lack of social identity and greater childhood trauma are born to be more likely to go astray than ordinary people.

But Lu Yizhan always believed in Bai Liu. Bai Liu had promised him that he would not commit a crime easily, so he believed him.

These team members said that Bai Liu controlled these heretics, so Lu Yizhan believed that no matter how dangerous these heretics were, they would never kill him, because the person controlling them was Bai Liu.

Because Bai Liu is Lu Yizhan’s only friend in the past ten years.

Lu Yizhan walked alone into the bottomless underground. A dim light passed across his profile. Countless monsters of horrific shapes danced around him and attacked him with their fangs and claws.

He did not dodge, did not run away, and remained unmoved. He just remained silent, gritted his teeth, and moved forward without retreating. Eventually, the monsters that surged in like a tide also receded like a tide. Lu Yizhan staggered out of the darkness, covered in wounds, holding on to the wall.

At the end of the corridor, white light was shining brightly. Bai Liu looked quietly at Lu Yi Station which finally arrived in front of him.

"You shouldn't have come to see me, Lu Yizhan." Bai Liu lowered his eyes.

Lu Yizhan smiled, and he barely stood up by leaning against the wall. As always, he looked at Bai Liu with a gentle, all-embracing gaze: "But you still let me find you, Bai Liu. If you really wanted to hide, I would never be able to find you."

He extended his hand to Bai Liu as usual: "Come out with me."

Bai Liu looked at the bloody, injured, and trembling hand that Lu Yizhan stretched out to him, and did not move.

Lu Yizhan always reached out to him, giving him food, a name and friends.

Although he rejected her coldly every time, Lu Yizhan would still come over, talking to himself, smiling nonchalantly, and rudely and unreasonably pull Bai Liu out of the water that was swallowing everything, and drag him away.

"Lu Yizhang, you should know that I have the nature to do very bad things." Bai Liu looked up at Lu Yizhang, "I have this ability and can benefit from it. I don't care about the life and death of others. I have no reason not to do it."

Bai Liu said calmly: "We can't be friends at all. I just treat you as another person."

Bai Liu looked directly at Lu Yizhan, his eyes and tone were very gentle: "But you are not him."

"Lu Yizhan, you are a human, not a monster. It is impossible for humans and monsters to be friends. You have wrongly forced the two of us to be together for ten years. Don't force yourself any further."

"According to normal development, I will become the kind of criminal you want to shoot, and you will become the kind of police officer who shoots me. I will let you go for the last time. Next time you see me, don't try to touch me. Just pull out your gun."

Lu Yizhan lowered his head slowly. He gasped twice, clenched his hands against the wall into fists, and then without hesitation pulled out the gun from his waist and pointed it at Bai Liu.

The expression on Bai Liu's face was not surprising.

I believe Lu Yizhang has fully understood how dangerous it is to let him go. Killing him here is the best option. Even when Lu Yizhang was pointing a gun at him, his heartbeat and breathing didn't even speed up.

Then Lu Yizhan laughed again. He stumbled towards Bai Liu, dragging his injured leg on the way here. Then he slowly placed the gun in the palm of the stunned Bai Liu's hand. Then he held Bai Liu's hand with his bloody, broad, and trembling hand, and asked Bai Liu to raise the gun and aim it at him.

"I will never draw my gun on you, Bai Liu." Lu Yizhan smiled with his eyes crooked. His face was covered with bloodstains and scratches, so even when he smiled, he looked very ferocious.

Lu Yizhan opened his eyes, looked straight at Bai Liu, and then pulled the safety of his gun: "If you really want to leave this place and start hurting and killing other ordinary people, let me be the first person you kill."

"Because the police can't turn a blind eye to what you are going to do, but I really can't pull a gun on you... From what happened today, you have reached a point where I have no way to stop you."

Lu Yizhan held the gun barrel and pointed it at his forehead. He looked at Bai Liu without dodging: "In this case, please, before you do anything bad, kill this incompetent policeman first. Don't let him see what you are going to do."

Under the muzzle of the gun, Lu Yizhan gently showed Bai Liu that familiar and helpless smile that he had seen countless times: "But in the last moment before this policeman died, as long as you didn't do anything bad, you are still his friend."

[Because the police’s friends must not be bad people. If you do something bad one day, Bai Liu, I will arrest you personally.]

[If I really do something bad, will you kill me, Lu Yizhan? ]

[If you do something that deserves jail time, then go to jail. If jail time cannot make up for it and you must die, then I will try my best to stop you before you actually commit that crime.]

Bai Liu clenched his gun, and Lu Yizhan raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

He closed his eyes calmly without any resistance.