"The other guest with the whip left for now, saying he would give me the death I wanted after he found my heart."
Edmund looked at Bai Liu peacefully. He smiled as if he had expected everything. "But I know he can't find it, because it doesn't belong to him, but to you. You found the place where I hid my dirty stuff, didn't you?"
Bai Liu raised his eyebrows, and calmly turned around and sat on a wooden bench. He looked up at Edmund opposite him with some interest: "It seems that you are not a simple NPC. How did you know?"
Edmund took off the glasses hanging from his ears, and under his eyes, which were filled with floating ice, there seemed to be an endless deep ocean.
In a trance, he gently touched Bai Liu with his shrunken knuckles: "I have seen you before, in someone's dream-like prophecy."
Bai Liu asked: "Whose prophecy?"
"The Judge of the Godless, a fellow who betrayed God." Edmund murmured softly with his eyes blurred. "I can capture his memories, so I saw the truth of everything in his memories, saw your future, and the prophecy."
"It woke me up, and I could no longer forget what had happened, and I couldn't go to death and disappear, because it wasn't real, and I knew I would live again."
"Ultimately, I have to punish myself over and over again at the hands of you players in order to keep myself alive."
"Only God can completely eliminate my sins and eliminate the existence of this evil game-like world."
Edmund looked at Bai Liu with a distracted look, his lips trembling: "——I saw it in the prophecy, you can do all this."
"It is a prophecy full of hope and despair, a destiny that belongs to you and to God."
Edmund repeated the prophecy he had seen in a distant, saintly tone:
"The evil god boasts that there will be people wandering in his shadow.
The person in the shadow is fourteen years old.
Then the evil spirit gave this man a spine, a heart, and a divine emblem.
The one who boasts will be its only believer.
The person in the film is twenty-four years old.
Then the evil god fell into the snowy plains, and the souls of his followers drifted in the deep sea.
Spine, heart, divine emblem are all shattered——"
Edmund stared at Bai Liu and said, "The evil gods are even more numerous. God died because of you, and evil will live forever."
After he finished reading, he bent his body and coughed violently as if he was under some irresistible curse. Edmund hastily pulled out a bloodstained silk scarf from his front pocket, covered his mouth with it, and coughed up blood hoarsely.
Edmund seemed to be enduring some kind of pain. He tried his best to raise his head, as if he couldn't breathe. His face was full of pain and he let out sharp gasps from his throat.
He held Bai Liu's hand tightly and looked at him with bloodshot eyes.
"Only games that God has stepped on are real, only games that God has abandoned are destructible, and only monsters that God has killed will never exist again."
"——Bai Liu, the moment you enter this game, this game will truly exist in all dimensions."
"If Spade has completely destroyed those corpses, Tawil no longer exists anywhere, at any point in time."
"It will be like the monsters in all the games you've played before. Its weaknesses will be cracked, and it will completely, forever, and thoroughly disappear from all perceptible worlds. Even the traces of its existence will be erased."
"It is not a monster without weaknesses, child. The death you bestowed upon it is its only weakness."
Edmund's face turned the color of suffocation, his voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible, and his eyes were filled with tears. It was as if an invisible hand had fiercely strangled his throat, preventing him from revealing this prophecy to Bai Liu:
"I know it means a lot to you, but kid, no one can escape fate, not even God."
"The price you pay for defying fate is beyond your imagination."
The moment Edmund loosened his grip on Bai Liu's hand, the hand that was strangling his throat seemed to loosen as well.
He slid off the wooden stool, staggered to his feet, gasped and coughed weakly, tremblingly took out a flat iron can of vodka from his waist bag, tilted his head back and took two quick gulps before he came to his senses.
There was no emotion on Bai Liu's face. His hands were still placed on the table, held tightly by Edmund. His pure black eyes looked calmly at Edmund who was sitting opposite him:
"Since there is a price to pay for defying fate, it's just a deal."
Edmund looked back at him with red cheeks. "It was indeed a trade, but the price was too high. The god who traded fate with us was an overly greedy guy. No one can redeem their fate from him."
Bai Liu said calmly: "Since the deal cannot be concluded, then kill him and let someone else become the god."
After that, he pushed the table away and stood up as if he hadn't heard anything. Edmund shook his head and waved his hand, saying, "I know what you are here for - the fuel is behind the house, you can take it all."
He took a sip of the liquor and muttered to himself: "--Just leave one barrel for me, I'll be burned to death with it."
"Everything... is almost over."
Bai Liu left without any pause.
The group took the fuel and went back - Edmund seemed to have known that they were coming back, and even tied the fuel to the sled, so there was no need to notify Tang Er to start the helicopter to pick up the fuel.
Things went very smoothly, but on the way back everyone was silent and the atmosphere was inexplicably heavy.
Mu Sicheng wanted to ask what the prophecy was about, but the extremely ugly expression on Liu Jiayi's face curbed his desire to ask.
Bai Liu handed the fuel to Tang Erda with a normal expression, returned to the helicopter to record the data, asked the other three people to go to the tent to warm up first, and then prepared to take over Tang Erda's rotation.
He arranged everything in an orderly manner without any flaws, but Liu Jiayi did not go into the tent to warm up as Bai Liu wished, but climbed onto the helicopter.
She was shivering from the cold, and the edges of her gray eyes were red from the wind. When she spoke, her voice was hoarse from trying hard to hold back: "Bai Liu, what do you want to do?"
Bai Liu was sitting in the driver's seat and did not turn around to answer her question - this was rare.
This guy seems to be very dictatorial, but ever since Liu Jiayi and the Rose Factory had communicated with him, Bai Liu would carefully consult and incorporate everyone's opinions before making a decision.
Bai Liu is not a very authoritarian tactician. Instead, he is a rare gentle type who never avoids talking about the problems of his teammates.
If we say that Liu Jiayi's previous hesitation was due to the inconsistency of her style with Bai Liu, it would be an inappropriate questioning.
But Bai Liu's silence confirmed Liu Jiayi's guess.
Bai Liu...is really going to do something out of line.
Liu Jiayi asked again: "Bai Liu, do you dare to look me in the eye and tell me what you were thinking when Edmund told you that Tavel would disappear?"
Bai Liu still didn't look back, but he spoke this time: "I'm thinking about how to beat Spades."
"On the basis of not destroying Tavier's heart, right?!" Liu Jiayi's voice was almost sharp.
She tried to stay calm. "Bai Liu, wake up. Spade has already hit the true end line. Most of the Tavel corpses have been destroyed by him. If you want to pass the game, you must destroy your heart."
"Even if you can beat Spade and force him to quit the game, you have to protect Tavel from being destroyed. You can only prevent the end of this game. Then you will be forever——"
"——Stay in this snowy plain with this heart forever." Bai Liu turned around and added the second half of the sentence in a calm tone, "As long as there is one player trapped in the game, the game will not end, and the ending of the game cannot be loaded into reality. Time will stand still. Even if Tavel only has one heart, he can still exist forever."
Liu Jiayi burst into tears: "Fuck your dad, are you crazy! You will freeze to death here!"
Her voice was trembling. "Bai Liu, the system store and warehouse in the game pool are closed, and each game cannot be put into the game pool for reincarnation before it ends. If you stay here, and if we are forced to quit the game by you, no one will be able to find you anymore - even if you use soul banknotes, you can't contact us."
"You will stay here alone, slowly use up all the supplies here, and then starve or freeze to death."
If Bai Liu wanted to stay here, Liu Jiayi could definitely guess what this guy would do next - he would definitely force them to leave!!
Bai Liu did not deny Liu Jiayi's guess, but smiled at her: "No, I can eat monster meat, turn into a monster, and survive..."
Before he could finish his words, Liu Jiayi lowered her head and walked forward, raising her hand and slapped him hard in the face.
Bai Liu's head was tilted due to the blow.
"You are such a beast, Bai Liu." Liu Jiayi raised her head slightly. Her eyes were dim and blurry behind her goggles. Tears were falling drop by drop. Her cheeks were red from crying. But her voice was still vicious. "You have to tell me what happened to you, right?"
——She knew clearly what Bai Liu was going to do, she knew clearly that this guy was always like this no matter what he did, he was so stubborn and could not be stopped, she knew clearly that she could guess what he was going to do——
But she just couldn't stop it. This bastard Bai Liu always found a million ways to achieve his goals, so she could only guess and then watch helplessly as this guy took the step she had expected.
Liu Jiayi couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She gritted her teeth and cursed: "Bai Liu, you are such a piece of shit. I must have been blind to join your team."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes, with a small five-finger mark on his face: "I'm sorry."
Liu Jiayi looked away and sniffed.
Since joining the team, Bai Liu has never said sorry to anyone.
This person apologized to her twice, but he never changed. When things go wrong, he still only takes care of others but not himself.
Who needs his care? He doesn't know, he doesn't know...
When Liu Jiayi thought of this, she became furious again and wanted to slap Bai Liu again.
But in the end, Liu Jiayi just sat back tiredly, curled up in the chair that was too wide for her, hugged her arms in fear of the cold, curled herself up into a ball, and asked in a lost and soft voice: "Is that wandering NPC named Tavel really that important to you?"
Bai Liu looked out of the helicopter.
The wind and snow outside the window stopped, and the sunlight, which is rare in Antarctica at this season, refracted on the snow surface, and reflected a layer of hazy and misty light on Bai Liu's face through the glass.
He was actually still smiling at this moment, and reflected in the clear light shining on the snow, he looked somewhat gentle, like melting snow.
"Yes." Bai Liu turned his head to look at Liu Jiayi, his voice softer than ever before.
Bai Liu's eyebrows slightly curved, and she repeated: "Yes."
"He is very, very important."
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