"Everything above was proven by you, Captain Tang, in front of everyone. There's no reason for you to deny it."

Cen Mingming took a step forward and forcefully tried to enter the room where Bai Liu was imprisoned.

But just as he reached the door where Bai Liu was imprisoned, there was a loud noise above his head. After a moment of shaking, someone with a pale face stumbled in from the exit, looked up at the group of people, and said intermittently:

"Report! ...The factory exploded, it exploded!"

Su Yang was so anxious that he immediately asked, "Have all the people within a five-kilometer radius been evacuated? Not only the citizens, but also the homeless people sleeping on the streets, have they been notified?"

The man swallowed hastily. "We've been notified to sweep the area. Not a single cat is left in this area. The smell is still spreading. We're preparing a second line of defense, but we should be able to limit the contamination to within 28 kilometers of the factory."

"But the first line of defense..." the man said sadly, "all of them were contaminated."

Tang Er closed his eyes. All his long-standing worries and fears relaxed at this moment. Every muscle in his body collapsed. He fell backwards onto a bench, his hands and feet hanging loosely on the edge, and he tilted his head back to stare blankly at the glaring incandescent light on the ceiling.

For a few seconds, Tang Erda couldn't even hear the people around him calling him. Only the long tinnitus mixed with Bai Liu's calm voice - "Captain Tang, leave it to me, I have a way."

——This was the most controllable situation with the least casualties among all the worlds Tang Erda had experienced.

The unreality is like a dream bestowed by the mercy of God.

Tang Er raised his hand and touched his face, and suddenly laughed in the gloomy atmosphere, which scared the players standing in front of him.

They turned back in astonishment to look at Captain Tang, who was sitting on the bench, half covering his face and laughing. For a moment, they even wondered if their captain couldn't bear this bad news and was driven crazy.

Cen Mingming raised his eyebrows and looked at Captain Tang: "If Captain Tang is still drunk, I will take away Heretic 0006 who caused two huge mass accidents first."

Tang Erda put down his hand, stood up, and looked at Cen Mingming solemnly: "You can't take him away."

"I'm using my last [Prophet] privilege." Tang Erda took off his ID card, placed it on the table, and pushed it in front of Cen Mingming with four fingers. "——Using my identity as captain as collateral, I'm extracting the heretic [0006] as my personal identity to bind the heretic."

"If Bai Liu did something wrong, Bai Liu and I will bear the responsibility together." Tang Er raised his head and looked at Cen Mingming across from him. "If you want to torture him or kill him, then you can torture me too."

The scene fell into a long silence.

Su Yang looked at Tang Erda in astonishment: "Captain?!"

Tang Erda looked at Cen Mingming without any hesitation.

Cen Ming was silent for several seconds before he slowly reached down and took Captain Tang Erda's ID card from the table. He raised his eyes and looked at Tang Erda across from him: "Captain Tang, after you have bound the heretic, you will never be able to return to the Heretic Administration, and you will no longer be a glamorous captain."

"--You must be responsible for guarding this heretic for your entire life. If this heretic does anything wrong, you will be guilty of the same crime as it. When you realize that you can no longer control this heretic, you must kill yourself and bring it back--"

"The purpose of your existence is just to allow this heretic to move around in the outside world like humans. You are just a humanoid box or a safety plug that traps this heretic." Cen Mingming asked in a serious tone, "Even so, are you going to release Heretic 0006?"

Tang Erda looked at him directly: "Yes."

"Even if you, like the captain of a team, go crazy and commit suicide because of kidnapping heretic 0001, you won't regret it?" Cen Mingming stared at Tang Erda.

"No regrets." Tang Erda said.

The "Prophet" authority in the Heretic Management Bureau refers to a series of special authorities once possessed by the captain of the First Detachment, and the most special authority among them is the authority to "bind a heretic, release it back to the human world to take care of it, and be fully responsible for everything it does."

This is a very strange authority, and goes against the main mission of the entire Bureau of Heresy.

If arresting heretics and putting them in the [Bureau of Dangerous Heretics] is a process of dehumanizing these dangerous heretics and treating them as dead objects, then what this authority does is like re-granting human rights to these heretics and putting them back into the human world, which is a process of humanizing them.

But this process is obviously dangerous to humans.

So when the captain of the first team proposed this authority, a very sharp question also arose: [Who will be responsible for these heretics who are released back into human society?]

【What if these heretics continue to kill and commit evil and pollute others? Who will be held responsible for the consequences?】

So the captain of the first team proposed the [lifelong responsibility system], also known as [parental responsibility authority].

It is advocated that a team member who releases a heretic into a certain group should take all responsibilities for the heretic, be responsible for the care, protection, and education of the heretic to integrate into human society, and be fully responsible for everything the heretic does. In other words, the team member is equivalent to the heretic's parent.

But as parents, especially parents of such a dangerous "child", they should naturally provide close care around the clock.

Therefore, when this team member becomes the [parent] of a heretic, his main task is basically to monitor this heretic for life, and he no longer needs to exist as a team member in the processing bureau.

At first, no one was willing to have this authority, and no team member was willing to take on such responsibility.

They could not understand why the Prophets had the unrealistic fantasy that these evil and terrible heretics would become human beings, and gave them the compassion and teaching that parents give to their children, hoping that they would grow up to be "humans".

In the eyes of most team members, heretics are heretics, monsters are monsters, there is a clear dividing line between them and humans, they cannot become humans, they are born evil, and should be imprisoned and eradicated.

But the [Prophet] always saw more of the future than them, so in the end this authority was passed, but only the [Prophet] used it.

So the Prophet was relieved of his rights and obligations as the leader of the first team, and the first heretic he tried to release was 0001.

Then he went crazy and committed suicide, destroyed the file of Heretic 0001, and brought it back to the Bureau of Heresy, which was forever sealed in the deepest underground of the Bureau of Heresy, and no one was allowed to peek into the secrets inside.

This was obviously a failed attempt, so no one ever mentioned this ridiculous permission again.

But this authority does exist, and it is wrapped in a bunch of strange authorities and passed to Tang Erda by the [Prophet].

If Tang Erda wants to use this [parental authority] on Bai Liu, he will need to resign from his duties as captain, protect and guard Bai Liu at all times, and be forever responsible for everything Bai Liu does - including the current explosion at the Rose Factory.

Cen Mingming threw the ID card back at Tang Er and said, "There are nearly 2,000 people infected with Dry Rose, half of whom are our team members. How are you responsible for this matter?"

"Bai Liu has a way to solve it." Tang Erda replied quickly.

Cen Mingming sneered: "A bomber, you expect him to solve the problem for you?"

Tang Er calmed down and did not respond to Cen Mingming's words directly. Instead, he turned around and asked, "Can Bai Liu and I go in and talk first?"

"If you insist on tying up this dangerous heretic inside." Cen Mingming, who was blocking the door, stepped back. He glanced at Tang Erda with an ambiguous look and said in a contemptuous tone, "--Of course you have the right to talk to your own [child]."

Tang Erda pushed the door open and walked in.

Bai Liu propped his chin on his hand and glanced at Tang Erda with boredom.

His eyes paused briefly at the empty space on Tang Erda's right chest, the area where the ID card was placed, and then Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Tang Erda with a smile: "Wow, Captain Tang made a great sacrifice to get me out."

Tang Er turned his chair around and sat down. He sat very straight, clasped his hands on the table in a proper manner, lowered his head and remained silent. Compared to Bai Liu's relaxed and comfortable posture, he looked more like the one who made a mistake and accepted the punishment.

"Sorry." Tang Erda said in a deep voice, "Thank you."

This incoherent apology was for everything he had done before, and this thank you was to thank Bai Liu for being willing to do all this after he had done all this.

"It's okay, you're welcome." Bai Liu took it with a smile.

Bai Liu glanced at the glass and asked, "How many people were affected by the explosion?"

"The current number is nearly a thousand, and they are basically all team members." Tang Er let out a long breath, "But the overall trend of spread has been controlled, so the situation is not bad."

"So you came in because someone wants to save these 1,000 members?" Bai Liu put down his hand that was supporting his chin. He put his head on the table and yawned sleepily with his head tilted. "It's not impossible, but I have a condition."

Tang Er followed his words and asked: "What conditions?"

Although Bai Liu was talking to Tang Er, his eyes were fixed on the one-way glass. He chuckled, "I never make deals without vested interests."

"If you want to cooperate with me and let me save people, then you have to show me something that can impress me."

Tang Erda pushed the door open and walked out. He looked at all the team members outside and said, "You all heard Bai Liu's conditions just now."

Everyone had a very complicated expression with mixed feelings on their face, as if they were at a loss as to what to do with Bai Liu's request. Only Cen Mingming had no emotion on his face.

The captain seemed to be somewhat interested, staring at Bai Liu who was sitting behind the glass and seemed to be sleeping on the table.

"It's really interesting. I thought it would ask for money." Cen Mingming curled his lips, "--but it turns out it asked us to open the door of Heresy 0001."