At 8pm in the real world, the Heretic Administration.

The uniformed team members methodically loaded the 40cm*40cm boxes onto the transport vehicle. Su Yang stood guard with a gun in hand, not daring to distract himself for even a moment.

They are going to put these top-grade red heretics on a plane tonight and transport them to District 3 for strict security.

This was originally just a routine and dangerous transportation activity, but the existence of a special heretic made the transportation process particularly thrilling.

Su Yang moved his eyes to the end of the transport team.

There, several team members were carefully carrying a few boxes. Compared with the other boxes, the metal used in these boxes was darker in color and looked noticeably heavier. They were pressed firmly on the team members' hands, causing these well-trained team members to bend down involuntarily.

Su Yang stepped forward to help and asked, "Are you sure all the corpses we dug out from the land outside the Rose Factory are here?"

The team member had time to catch his breath and replied, "Team Soviet, we've checked and everything is ready."

Su Yang nodded, not taking it lightly, and warned: "The danger level of these corpses is different from that of other heretics. They cannot be placed on the same vehicle or plane. I have applied to the bureau for a separate transport vehicle, plane, and route for these corpses. They will not be transported with other heretics."

The team member carefully placed the box on the transfer vehicle, turned around and leaned against the vehicle to catch his breath, looking at Su Yang who was walking to the end of the team again: "...Captain Su was very careful this time, and even applied for a special transfer line for this batch of corpses."

A team member who was also resting nearby said, "You don't know how powerful these corpse heretics are. The team members who went to the factory to dig out the corpses that day all went crazy when they came back. They are still receiving mental dimensionality reduction training, and I don't know if they can recover."

The team member rubbed his hands in astonishment: "...Is it so terrible?"

The team member next to him rolled his eyes and said, "Why do you think the Soviets separated the corpse? Put it with other heretics. What if this thing has some bonus effect on other heretics? Boom, the whole plane will be finished!"

"But even if we release him alone, it won't be safe to escort this heretic on the plane, right?" the team member asked worriedly.

"Of course it's not safe, but at least we don't need so many escorts. Besides, how often are we safe in our line of work?" The team member next to him shook his head in self-mockery.

"It was said that Captain Su was going to escort the prisoners himself, but Captain Tang left and the Third Detachment had to have someone in charge, so the bureau detained him forcibly."

When the topic of "Captain Tang is gone" was mentioned, both players fell silent at the same time.

...When Tang Erda was still around, they would never encounter such dangerous things.

Tang Erda would handle everything swiftly and efficiently before the danger occurred and bear all the risks alone. Although the Heretic Management Bureau was a precarious place, with Tang Erda around, they could always hide under this protective umbrella and avoid the wind and rain.

But the umbrella eventually left.

The team member reluctantly changed the subject: "...I can understand that the Soviets applied for a transfer vehicle and plane for this heretic, but why did they arrange a separate route for them?"

It's not like the Heretic Administration had escorted extremely dangerous heretics before, such as Bai Liu, but they had always escorted them alone. This was the first time that they had planned the route alone.

"And this route is not a normal route. I just took a look and the landing point is in Antarctica, right? This..." The team member tried to find a suitable adjective, "...isn't it too much of a fuss? Why transport this heretic to Antarctica?"

The team member next to him looked around to make sure no one was watching them, then he leaned closer to the team member and whispered, "The Soviet team applied for this, saying that we can't keep this heretic in District 3, nor can we keep it near areas with permanent populations, because that would cause problems. This heretic has too much influence, and people could easily die."

"Finally, the bureau reported the Soviet team's application, but it was not approved until yesterday. They said they contacted the polar research station and finally decided to make an ice core of this heretic and sink it under the Antarctic ice sheet for storage. They also sent people from District 3 to guard the storage point 365 days a year."

The team member exclaimed: "This is really... guarded by someone 365 days a year. This is the first time a heretic has such a grand arrangement."

"Who said it was the first time?" The team member next to him pouted, "Have you forgotten Bai Liu? Our captain Tang has quit and is now solely responsible for guarding."

The team member felt upset when he heard that Captain Tang had left, and forced himself to change the subject: "Hey, Antarctica is so big, did they say where to seal off this heretic?"

The team member next to him frowned and recalled for a while: "...I didn't hear it clearly, it seems that there is something like Dome A, the highest point on the Antarctic ice sheet, which is high and thick enough to suppress this heretic..."

At 11:30 pm, we left for the port.

The other batch of heretics went directly to the airport, while the heretic transfer vehicle carrying the corpses went to the seaport and was loaded onto a small cargo ship.

This freighter will first be transferred to another port, where a special plane is waiting to escort these heretics to Antarctica.

There were five escorts in total - this was the minimum number of escorts Su Yang considered after weighing the pros and cons.

Watching the box being wrapped and loaded onto the freighter, the gangway being retracted onto the ship, the sturdy small freighter was towed into the water by a tugboat, and gradually sailed away from the port under the cover of night. The five escorts standing on the cabin saluted Su Yang who was standing on the shore, then waved and walked away.

Su Yang stared blankly at the five team members leaving his sight and waved his hand. The uneasiness in his heart grew thicker as the mist grew heavier.

The moment the ship disappeared from his sight, Su Yang was so panicked that he almost couldn't breathe.

He seemed to see the snow-covered bodies of the five team members just now.

As a sequela of the rose perfume and the excavation of corpses in the factory, Su Yang himself also showed certain signs of mental decline and would see hallucinations from time to time.

Precisely because Su Yang himself had experienced all of this, he understood better than anyone the harmful effects of those corpses.

The moment he saw those corpses for the first time, Su Yang, who was always calm and peaceful, felt his chaotic desires surge to an unprecedented level. If he hadn't used his sanity to collect those corpses, the other team members who dug out the corpses would probably have fought over them.

——These corpses can catalyze people's spiritual dimensionality reduction, or using spiritual dimensionality reduction to describe this process is not quite appropriate. To be more precise, these corpses can catalyze people's negative desires to be infinitely magnified to the point of destroying the bottom line of human nature.

After realizing this, Su Yang firmly demanded to move the conservative location of the corpse - this thing must not be placed in a crowded place, otherwise something terrible would happen, even more terrible than rose perfume.

After careful consideration and discussion among all parties, it was decided that the body would be placed at the bottom of Dome A, the coldest place in Antarctica, known as the Inaccessible Pole, at an altitude of 4,083 meters where no human has ever set foot.

——This is the safest place Su Yang can think of.

But he also knew...

Su Yang's pale eyes reflected the swaying waves on the sea. Heavy emotions pressed on his chest, piling up in his heart layer by layer as the tides hit the harbor. He closed his eyes and felt a long-lost feeling of powerlessness.

...He knew very well that in this world, there was no promised land where one could escape from human desires.

He just hopes that no more innocent people will die in this process.

But how is that possible?

No matter whether human desires are good or bad, when they go to extremes, they are very hurtful.

After Tang Er was beaten away, Su Yang began to understand what Bai Liu had said to him in the interrogation room that day.

The clear-looking young man raised his head, stared at him with his black eyes that seemed to contain everything in the universe, and whispered, "Soviet troops, excessive close protection can be fatal."

Su Yang squeezed the octopus-shaped team badge on his right chest, sighed, and turned away in the cold night wind.

The small cargo ship behind us blew a clear whistle as it set sail, heading into the dark and bottomless night.

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game pool.

Bai Liu and his team watched Hei Tao's team several times and finally figured out some of the team's operating rules - generally speaking, they would form a fixed team to clear a certain dungeon.

But occasionally, Spade would leave the team and go to a certain ice dungeon alone - just like what Bai Liu saw the last time he entered the game pool.

He seemed to have a special feeling for this ice dungeon, just like a person's attachment to his home and bed, returning to this dungeon to stay at a biological rhythm.

——It was as if Spade treated this ice dungeon as his own home.

Bai Liu's target is this ice field copy.

He was not so arrogant as to think that the Wandering Circus could single-handedly take on the entire Killer Sequence Team right from the start.

But if there was no danger to their lives, Bai Liu felt that they could try to form a team and single-handedly defeat a star player.

This is a situation where the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

You can get the intelligence of this star player, polish your own team, and if you are lucky enough to win a star player, you can also make enough topic from this.

It's shameless, but it works.

Out of some strange exploratory psychology, Bai Liu decided to test the waters with Spade first. He stared closely at the players coming in and out of the game pool. When he saw a person who scared away the surrounding players quietly appear, he couldn't help but curled the corners of his mouth.

Spade walked to the pool, holding the discipline whip.

After the players around him realized it was him, they held their breath and backed away, not even daring to enter the game, for fear that they would unfortunately choose the same game as this evil spirit.

But Spade didn't seem to pay much attention to his surroundings. He quietly observed the posters spinning rapidly in the game pool for a while, then simply picked one and jumped in.

At this moment, Bai Liu unhesitatingly whipped Hei Tao's waist and pulled a long line of players behind him into the game.

Hei Tao turned around and glanced at him lightly. That glance was calm and peaceful, as cold as ice water, and was soon swallowed up by the pool.

When the game pool calmed down, the players around were stunned by the scene of the man dragging his family to his death, and they did not dare to go forward to enter the game pool for a long time.

After a long while, someone asked sternly, "…What on earth are you doing?"

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Ice and snow covered the sky and the ground, and the wind was howling.

Bai Liu woke up with a cough. Due to the extremely cold temperature, his body curled up unconsciously, and within just a few minutes his skin was frozen to the point of numbness and loss of consciousness.

It was not until he heard a sound behind him that Bai Liu realized that he was not on the ground, but in someone's arms.

"You shouldn't have entered this game with me." Heitao hugged Bai Liu who fell on him. Bai Liu's skin trembled under his palms, which made him calmly conclude, "You are afraid of the cold."

Bai Liu then turned around.

Hei Tao was very close to him, and Bai Liu could touch the tip of his nose if he turned his head.

This made Bai Liu's breathing pause for a moment, and then he subconsciously distanced himself.

Hei Tao didn't think there was anything wrong with such an intimate distance. He stood up naturally and lifted up Bai Liu who had fallen on him. He skillfully took the combat jacket from the wall, put it on, zipped it up, and handed one to Bai Liu.

After being fully armed, Spade opened the door and was about to walk out.

Bai Liu narrowed his eyes and took the assault jacket: "Aren't you going to ask me why I followed you in?"

He had prepared many excuses to deal with the other party, such as taking advantage of the popularity of the top star player.

Hei Tao pushed open the door and turned around in the strong wind and snow. The wind blew his hair wildly, but his eyes were as pure black as Bai Liu's, without any emotion.

"Didn't you come in with me to play games with me and beat me?"

Bai Liu paused.

Spade pulled down his goggles and walked out of the room. His voice was strangely clear in the snowstorm:

"Don't deceive me or yourself with other reasons. If you want to play games with me, then play well and try your best to beat me, Bai Liu."

The author has something to say:

Dome A was climbed by a Chinese research team in 2004! We are the first country in the world to climb the highest point in the interior of Antarctica!

But in this worldline, Dome A has not been climbed yet. It's not a bug, it's a setting.

Now Bai Liu is sitting on Hei Tao, and Hei Tao is thinking calmly: He is afraid of the cold, so he should stay away from me.

Later, Bai Liu sat on Heitao (whose body temperature was very cold) and wanted to get up: I am afraid of the cold, please stay away from me.

Spade (calmly holding it down): ...If you sit for a while longer, you won't feel cold anymore