The screen of Luyi Station faded to black, and a new line of subtitles appeared on the small TV:
[Setting up the main plot of the game part 3 - A fragmented and close team]
The picture fades in from a far distance, showing a round sun on the sea and a soft mist. Turning the line of sight inward, a huge and majestic temple appears, looming in the dark blue sea mist and the flaming sun, mysterious and beautiful.
But this temple seemed to have experienced a fierce battle. There were black pits everywhere where flint had fallen, and the melt marks caused by Liu Jiayi's poison corrosion that Bai Liu recognized at a glance, the scratches from Mu Sicheng's claws, the bullet holes from Tang Erda, and the cuts from Mu Ke's dagger.
These people should have just fought here, but I don’t know why Bai Liu is the only one here now. What’s also a bit strange is that Bai Liu didn’t find any traces of his attack.
The marks left by the fishbone whip were easy to identify. Bai Liu searched the screen several times but couldn't find them. However, the marks left by the other four people's attacks were everywhere...
It seemed that in this team battle where everyone was trying their best, Bai Liu did not exist, or his existence had no meaning.
Continuing to walk inside, through the burnt bushes and gray-white stones scattered all over the ground, Bai Liu saw the traces of the four people he had been looking for.
Or maybe the word "traces" isn't quite right, it should be a corpse.
There was a bullet hole on Liu Jiayi's forehead. She lay on her back with her eyes gray. The poison in her hand leaked all over the ground and spread to the ground where Mu Ke was lying sideways.
Mu Ke's eyes were lifeless, and he only held one of the daggers in his hand, while the other one stabbed into Mu Sicheng's chest. Mu Sicheng was nailed to death on the tree by the dagger, leaning against the tree with his head tilted back, the claws on his hands hanging at his sides, blood dripping down.
The owner of this blood - Tang Er, was leaning against a rock with his eyes closed and his head tilted. His throat was bloody and his hands were still in the posture of holding a gun, but the gun was nowhere to be found.
Bai Liu finally understood why there was no trace of his attack - because this was a team civil war to the death in which he did not participate.
At this moment, he heard a faint voice coming from the clouds behind him, carrying an elusive smile, echoing through the mountains and forests:
"The game in this world line is over, Bai Liu."
"You lose."
The picture faded, and the subtitles on the small TV turned black:
[Set up the main game DLC——Game saves for other world lines]
The noisy picture on the small TV became clear, and the screen showed a pure white room exactly like Heretic 0001. In the middle of the room was a long table, and on the table were five khaki file bags lined up in a row.
Sitting behind the table is a man in a Bureau of Heresy uniform. The shot is limited to his chest, so his face cannot be seen, but his ID card clipped to his chest pocket can be seen, which reads "Captain of the First Team."
But the name behind it was blurred and Bai Liu couldn't see it clearly.
The captain of the first team is organizing the file bags on the desk.
The file bag was unfastened and the documents inside were arranged in order. Bai Liu saw that the numbers at the beginning of the documents were [0002], [0004], [0601], [0005], and [0006].
The captain of the first team was picking up these documents one by one and reviewing them, so Bai Liu could also see the specific contents of these documents.
[Heresy 0004: Mu Sicheng]
[The process of mental dimensionality reduction (the process of being downgraded from a normal human to a monster due to abnormal mental values): In the second semester of the second year of high school in 200X, he witnessed his classmate Yuan Qingqing being hit and killed by bus No. 11 due to his negligence. Later, he entered the game due to the influence of his college roommate Liu Huai. Because he was unwilling to join any large guild, he was besieged...]
[… Later, under Bai Liu's instigation, he killed Liu Huai who betrayed him in anger, and his desire to steal got out of control, so he became a member of a wandering circus…]
[The ending of Heretic 0004 saved in World Line 0237: assassinated by the little witch Liu Jiayi]
…
[The ending of Heretic 0004 in World Line 0412: Three years later, he lost his ability to play due to injury and was abandoned by Bai Liu. He was shot to death by Xiao Chou during a manhunt and then thrown to the Heretic Bureau...]
…
[Heretic 0004 was taken in by the Heretic Administration in World Line 0045 and numbered 0004. Under the guarantee of the captain of the First Team (myself), he was released into society in World Line 0047. In that world line, he has completely integrated into society and transformed from a heretic to a normal human being. His spiritual dimension has been successfully upgraded...]
[In the current world line (serial number 0658), he formed a new team with Bai Liu. His mental dimension was stable, and there were no obvious signs of him being degraded into a monster...]
After finishing this document, the captain opened the next one:
[Heresy 0601: Liu Jiayi]
[Spiritual Dimensionality Degradation Experience: Congenitally blind, due to his father's improper behavior, he suffered a long period of abuse before the age of 6. When he was 7 years old, his brother Liu Huai was admitted to university and took him away, but he still could not get rid of his father. Later, he was followed by his father for more than a year...]
[…One day, Liu Jiayi was kidnapped by her father and sold to a middle-aged butcher named Li Gou as his adopted daughter. Later, Liu Huai tried to stop her but failed. However, during the process, Liu Jiayi came into contact with the game player Liu Gou and was severely stimulated. When Liu Huai sent her to an orphanage to protect her from continued harassment by her father, she developed a strong desire and entered the game…]
[Afterwards, with Bai Liu's instigation and help, he killed his father and Li Gou in real life. His desire to kill got out of control, so he joined a wandering circus...]
[The ending of Heretic 0601 saved in World Line 0261: He was arrested by the authorities while torturing and killing a father, and was killed on the spot after a fierce resistance]
…
[Heretic 0601 was taken in by the Heretic Administration in World Line 0068 and was numbered 0601. Under the guarantee of the captain of the First Team (myself), he was released into society in World Line 0071. In that world line, he has completely integrated into society and transformed from a heretic to a normal human being. His spiritual dimension has been successfully upgraded...]
The captain read the file quickly. After finishing one copy, he quickly opened the next one:
[Heresy 0005: Sinchmani Daniel]
[The experience of spiritual dimensionality reduction: Born in the family of an international arms smuggler, due to family tradition, all children were thrown into gangs by their father to grow up, and they did not care about life or death. Only the children who survived were worthy of respect...]
[When Daniel was seven years old, his mother was shot dead on the spot for betraying his father. In order to teach Daniel a lesson, his father asked Daniel to film the scene of his mother being shot, and ordered Daniel to play the video when he prayed to God before going to bed every day, calling it part of family education...]
[…When Daniel was fourteen, he was asked to lead a gang to intercept a batch of smuggled arms. However, the arms were actually the smuggled goods of Bai Liu, a heretic. Daniel failed to intercept them, and after escaping home, he was severely punished. When he was about to be abandoned by his father, Bai Liu intervened in the matter and contacted Daniel's father, giving the smuggled goods to his father for free, and became a partner with his father…]
[Daniel survived because of this, and later his father recognized Bai Liu as Daniel's godfather in order to show his favor to Bai Liu...]
[…Bai Liu took Daniel to his side to teach him, and soon after Daniel entered the game. A year later, Daniel shot his father to death with a gun, smashing his father's limbs and brain, and brought his entire family to surrender to Bai Liu…]
[The ending of Heretic 0005 in World Line 0107: He rushed into the Administration while on a mission, killed 7 of our team members, and released 108 heretics before being killed]
…
[Heretic 0005 was highly domesticated by Bai Liu and is extremely difficult to capture. As of the current world line, it has been successfully killed many times, but failed to be contained...]
When the captain took down another document, he hesitated for a moment. This moment was extremely brief, but was still captured by Bai Liu.
——This means that the document is different for this captain.
Bai Liu's eyes moved to the document on the desk.
[Heresy 0002: Tang Erda]
[The process of mental dimensionality reduction: Former member of the first team, now the captain of the third team. In the initial world line, his mental state was stable. Later, due to the mental dimensionality reduction of the first generation hunter in world line [0317], he began to lose control. In world line [0325], Tang Erda was selected by the captain of the first team (that is, myself) as the second generation hunter to take over the authority of [Prophet], responsible for killing heretics who have already committed crimes, and at the same time, containing and controlling heretics who are about to commit crimes...]
[…In more than 300 world lines, he was repeatedly exploited by Heretic 0006 to maliciously pollute his mind. In world line [0642], his mind began to degrade. After persisting for more than ten world lines, his mind was completely degraded and he disintegrated into a heretic. He voluntarily allowed himself to be contained and voluntarily allowed himself to be killed…]
[Because it is less harmful, it will not be destroyed under the guarantee of the first team leader (myself), and is temporarily under observation...]
[…Formed a team with Heretic 0002 and Heretic 0006 in the current world line (serial number 0658). Currently, their mental state is stable and there are no signs of further dimensionality reduction…]
Then came the last one. Bai Liu looked at the file numbered [0006]. This file was much thicker and older than the previous ones.
The captain of the first team was silent for a while before opening the last document.
[Heresy 0006: Bailiu (White Willow)]
[The process of mental dimensionality reduction: unknown. It seems that the mental dimensionality reduction has been completed since the moment of birth...]
[Except for the current timeline, no other timeline has been found where this heresy is less harmful...]
…
[The ending of Heretic 0006 saving in World Line 0003: Successfully using Heretic to pollute the world line, the game ends]
…
[The ending of Heretic 0006 saving in World Line 0407: Successfully using Heretic to pollute the world line, the game ends]
[Except for the current world line, all discovered world lines have been successfully contaminated by Heresy 0006. The current world line is slightly contaminated. The harmfulness of Heresy 0006 is currently unknown...]
[In world line 0006, Heretic 0006 voluntarily surrendered to the Heretic Management Bureau and was taken in. The reason he gave was that a simple pollution incident was too monotonous and he could not maximize his interests in the struggle, so he needed the Heretic Management to do their best to fight him...]
[Heretic 0006 requests to play a heretic pollution competition with the Heretic Administration, and the victory or failure will be determined by whether the world line is completely polluted.]
[As long as he loses a battle, he will voluntarily accept permanent containment. If he keeps winning, the Heretic Administration will always exist as an objective enemy tool benchmark in every world line, and he cannot stop fighting it.]
[And Hakuroku will use the hostile organization, the Bureau of Heresy, to stimulate the combat capabilities of his team and the productivity of his subordinates...]
[The Heretic Administration agrees to hold their confrontation match...]
[Heretic 0006 was semi-contained in World Line 0006. Under the guarantee of the Captain of the First Team (myself), it was released into society in World Line 0007. The release failed and the world line was contaminated...]
[Released into society in world line 0008, the release failed, and the world line was polluted...]
…
[Released into society in world line 0658 (current world line), the world line is slightly polluted, and no large-scale heresy pollution incidents have occurred yet...]
[…Heretic 0006 is suspected to have completed the spiritual upgrading process and can successfully integrate into society…]
[The ending of this world line is yet to be determined...]
All the images on the small TV faded, Bai Liu's lens was taken down by Cen Mingming, and in front of him was a thick metal door.
Cen Mingming raised his eyebrows and looked at Bai Liu: "The time is up, what have you seen yet?"
"I saw the truth of the world," said Bai Liu.
Cen Mingming looked at him: "This sounds even scarier than [the future]."
Bai Liu smiled: "I agree with you."
"So what is the truth?" Cen Mingming asked.
Bai Liu said softly: "The truth is, our reality is a game that can be restarted over and over again."
The author has something to say:
Let me explain the worldview!
It's like this, the real world is equivalent to a large online game. Whenever a world line is completely contaminated by heresy, this world line is opened up for Bai Liu, who represents the evil side of monsters, and they win.
For the Bureau of Heresy, every time a world line is polluted, it means they have lost this large-scale online game.
Whenever the game ends, both parties can restart the game and reload it. Before loading, they need to save the game in the [Future] location, so the [Future] location is a save point.
Every time the world line is restarted, the sequence number will increase by one. So far, the world line has been restarted 658 times.
The world view is quite extensive and the amount of information is quite large. I will explain it later! You won't be confused! It may seem a bit much now, but you will understand it slowly later!
I don't think the plot is too cruel, it's just scary! The main reason is that the heresy setting of "Future" is used to scare people.
Spades will be here soon!