Bai Liu simply commented: "This sounds like something I would do in other timelines."

Tang Erda glanced at him and said, "If this is all, then it is just a minor crime among your many crimes."

He paused. "I can't possibly remember it now."

Bai Liu turned his head to look at Tang Erda: "What else happened next?"

"...After Armand's death, Georgia regained consciousness, but Armand's death in revenge for him once again destroyed him. Georgia was heartbroken and wanted to work but couldn't. The Bureau of Heresy had to force him to take a long vacation..."

"After the vacation, Georgia locked himself in Armand's room and sat there for the whole day. I went to see him several times and tried to talk to him and ask him what Bai Liu had done to him, but he just muttered to himself absent-mindedly - it shouldn't be like this, the future I saw was not like this, it should be me who should die, it should be other people in the world, not Armand..."

Tang Er was silent for a moment. He bit the cigarette holder and looked up at the four words "Golden Dawn" on the whiteboard:

"Later I asked his colleagues whether Georgia had ever said what Bai Liu had done to him. His colleagues told me that Georgia said Bai Liu had only let him see the future."

“No one knew what [the future] Georgia saw, but what happened next was beyond my expectations.”

Tang Erda looked at Bai Liu and said, "Bai Liu destroyed six secret bases of the Bureau of Heresy in succession and took away many of the high-risk heretics we had taken in. Although we also successfully killed Xiao Chou who came to destroy the heretics, we still suffered heavy losses."

"But the most terrifying thing about this matter is not the loss, but how Bai Liu knew the secret base of the Heresy Handling Bureau. The specific geographical location of the high-risk base where the special level one red heretics are detained has been encrypted through various tortures. Only Georgia knows it, and she can't tell anyone easily."

"——Unless it is said to someone whom Georgia completely trusts, and in Georgia's heart, this person can only be Armand."

Tang Er sighed: "Although we don't want to believe that Georgia would betray the Heretic Administration and tell Bai Liu the location of the secret base, we still started investigating Georgia out of caution."

"Georgia passed 127 rounds of the scale test. We confirmed that he hated Bai Liu and would never betray the Heretic Administration or abandon peace and justice. However, after weighing the pros and cons of all parties, we decided to temporarily retain Georgia's position and move the investigation of Georgia underground."

"The investigation of Georgia outside the game has reached a bottleneck, but inside the game, I saw that a masked reserve member suddenly appeared in Bailiu's team. He has strong attack power and kills people coldly and decisively, like a killing machine. His appearance, height and other aspects are very similar to Georgia, but what makes me most suspicious is his skills."

Tang Erda stared at Bai Liu for a long time before he turned his head to take a puff of cigarette and said in a low voice, "His skill is a bow and arrow called the Rewind Bow, which can rewind a person's physical body back to three hours ago."

"The time between Armand's death and our discovery of his body was exactly three hours."

Tang Erda took two deep breaths and said, "I found Georgia and asked him if the extra reserve member of the White Sixth Team was him. He admitted it."

"I don't understand why he would choose to join Bai Liu's team. Georgia passed the test of the scale. I am sure that deep down he hates Bai Liu and yearns for peace and justice, but I don't know why he is willing to become an arrow in Bai Liu's hand."

"So I asked him why, and Georgia said that no matter how hard he tried, this would not be a future that led to peace and justice, nor a future where Armand would exist. He had to correct this future, and only Bai Liu could change this future."

"So even though he hates Bai Liu immensely, he is willing to be a bow in Bai Liu's hand stained with the blood of innocent people for the right future. When Armand returns to his future, he will die for his sins. That is the right future."

During the conversation, Tang Erda's cigarette had already burned to the end. Bai Liu handed him an ashtray, opened his eyelids and looked at Tang Erda who had suddenly fallen silent: "What is Georgia's ending in this world line?"

Tang Erda put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray handed to him by Bai Liu without saying a word, then turned around and exhaled the last smoke ring in his throat towards Bai Liu: "He won the league with Bai Liu and got a wish. I don't know what he wished for, but he committed suicide the next day."

"Georgia died in the same place Armand died, and we found his body three hours later."

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"I hope Armand can be resurrected in the right future."

In her dream, Georgia saw herself covered in blood, kneeling in front of an invisible light and making a wish. Beside her was a rusty, silver, streamlined longbow.

He vaguely realized that there was a very extraordinary existence in the light in front of him - a god-like existence.

God asked him, "Don't you need to live in the right future?"

Georgia saw herself shaking her head and said, "I don't deserve such a future. I made an improper choice and I should be responsible for it. Death is the future I should have now."

Then God asked him again: "You are a good winner, don't you want others to exist in the right future as well?"

Georgia shook her head again: "A wrong future is caused by every choice made by everyone in this world. Just as I should be responsible for my own improper choices, so is everyone in this world. They should bear a cruel future for their unbridled desires."

God then said, "It's the same with Armand. You tolerated his mistakes and gave him a correct future after he made the wrong choice."

"This is your selfishness and desire, Georgia, this is your injustice."

Georgia closed his eyes and remained silent for a long time, blood dripping from his long eyelashes to the ground, like tears of pity for himself.

"Yes, this is my selfish desire as a brother. I know he did something wrong and he should be held responsible for it. I just hope that all the sins are on me, not Armand."

“But I know that’s impossible.”

God said, "You and Armand should pay the price for your selfishness and injustice."

"As punishment, you will never have a future with Armand, and Armand will never have a future with you as his brother."

"Except for the moment you are born, you will become a pair of brothers who will always go in opposite directions."

Georgia wanted to wake up from this unsettling dream, but no matter how he struggled, the dream continued, becoming more fragmented and more fragmented.

He saw himself half-kneeling in front of a person hidden in the darkness, with his head lowered and an attitude of respect, and his exposed white neck was covered with criss-cross dark red whip marks.

The man slowly adjusted a long black whip in his hand, and lazily lifted Georgia's chin with the toe of his leather shoes, so that Georgia in the dream finally saw the man's face clearly.

The man sat in a large leather chair. He had a very handsome and harmless Asian face, a very friendly smile on his face, and a casual tone, as if he was chatting with him: "Georgia, I am very satisfied with you."

"I know you didn't mean to submit to me, but your performance is really excellent." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and used the handle of the whip instead of his toes to lift Georgia's chin higher.

Georgia's slender neck was stretched to the extreme as Bai Liu teased her with malicious intent, her Adam's apple slid up and down with restraint, and the whip mark above her collarbone was extremely obvious.

"In a match, you can kill dozens of ordinary players who have nothing to do with you without hesitation. You can also tell me the information of six secret bases. You didn't even blink when the news of hundreds of your former teammates died was placed in front of you."

Bai Liu praised with a sighing tone: "No matter your appearance or execution, you are as perfect as a machine."

"Someone in the game praised you as a beautiful elf without emotions." Bai Liu stroked Georgia's emotionless face with his thumb, "I agree with that. You are no longer the holy and noble Captain Georgia."

"It amazes me how the death of a close person can change you so much."

Bai Liu retracted his hand and held the whip thoughtfully: "I also experienced the same thing, but the only change it brought to me was that when I saw your face that was too similar to your brother's, I could not control my anger a little bit."

His voice was lazy and shallow, and no one would have thought that he would whip Georgia hard while he was speaking.

But Georgia, who was kneeling, seemed to be accustomed to being whipped by Bai Liuhui. He just shuddered forbearance and then lowered his head without moving.

"Let me think about it. When you shot those poor innocent people in the game this time, where did you attack their fatal points?" Bai Liu asked calmly. "I believe our Captain Georgia must remember it, right?"

Georgia's eyelashes trembled very slightly, and he replied softly, "I remember."

Bai Liu half closed his eyes: "You should be punished for your brutal killing. Take off your clothes."

Georgia stood up and took off his clothes. His body was covered with various crisscross whip marks that had not yet disappeared, like poisonous snakes wrapped around his waist, abdomen and thighs, lingering and spitting on his white skin.

Georgia's breathing became rapid in his sleep - he vaguely realized that every whip mark meant that he had killed a person.

The man in front of him was torturing him.

This man knows that he will not feel pain from simple physical beatings, but he will feel extreme pain from his own impurity, incorrectness, and injustice.

So every time they had a match, when Georgia killed someone on the field, this man would ask Georgia to tell him the name of the person he killed and the place where the person was shot by the arrow after the match, and then give Georgia a whip mark at the same location.

Bai Liu was using these scars and pain to constantly remind Georgia of a cruel fact: what I did to you was not even one-tenth as cruel as what you did to those people.

In order to cover up the whip marks, Georgia wore a uniform with a long collar and a zipper that could be pulled all the way to her chin. After enduring Bai Liu's emotional outburst this time, Georgia stood up steadily, put on her clothes, bowed her head respectfully to Bai Liu, and then left Bai Liu's room.

Georgia saw herself walking through the corridors without looking around, and she came to the door of a room, opened it and walked in, then immediately rushed to the toilet and vomited, scratching the painful whip marks on her body in pain while vomiting.

He seemed to want to vomit out something that made him hate himself, but no matter what he did, he could only vomit out water. In the end, the forced vomiting caused Georgia to convulse.

Georgia continued to torture himself in various ways. He even used a knife to mark the whip marks, trying to deepen the marks to punish himself. Georgia gasped silently, tears constantly flowing out.

Finally, Georgia saw himself exhausted on the bed, curled up in a ball holding a pocket watch in a daze. He seemed to want to open the pocket watch to take a look, but in the end he just kissed the pocket watch, closed his tear-filled eyes, and fell into a deep sleep.

Georgia recognized the pocket watch and knew that inside the pocket watch was an old photo of him and Armand.

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Bai Liu escorted Tang Erda out of the room, and they chatted while walking on the street.

"I'm curious. You found out that Georgia betrayed the Heretic Administration. You must have told the Heretic Administration immediately." Bai Liu turned his head to look at Tang Erda. "How did the Heretic Administration deal with him?"

Tang Er shrugged, put on his coat, and turned around: "First, I took away Georgia's position, and then started to investigate the reason for Georgia's betrayal. As a result, Georgia defected just as the investigation began."

"At that time, there were two theories within the Heretic Management Bureau. The first theory was that Georgia was contaminated by Bai Liu with some kind of heresy, and her mind was reduced to a lower dimension, which is why she was controlled by Bai Liu."

"But this statement cannot explain the fact that Georgia told Bai Liu the location of the secret base. Even if Georgia was crazy, Bai Liu would not be able to get the location of the secret base from Georgia if he could not make the crazy Georgia trust him 100%."

"There is another theory that some people speculate..." At this point, Tang Er hesitated strangely, his face became distorted, "Some people speculate that Georgia fell in love with you because of the Stockholm plot, so she was completely controlled by you."

Bai Liu raised an eyebrow: "You guys in this area are quite gossipy."

"...This is not gossip. In order to find the truth, we have to make assumptions from various angles." Tang Er struggled to explain, then glanced at Bai Liu and added subtly, "Another reason why this saying was popular at the time was that there were always some inexplicable whip marks on Georgia's body, and your...Bai Liu's weapon happened to be a long whip."

Bai Liu: “…”

In other timelines, is he playing so aggressively?